Star.
London, England, 1825-04-28 00:00:00

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tbe OfSeers of the Tyke Russet's On si grind din-
der on Satorday last, in honour of his Majesty's Birth-
day. Among the company were Colonel Teasdale and
the other Officers of the Ist Dragoon' Guards. His
Majesty's health was drank with enthusiasm, and four
times four. After Colonel Teasdale's health was drank,
e said, he would give the Lord Chancellor of Eng-
land for three very sufficient reasons ; because that dis-
tinguished Nobleman a most excellent Judge and
Minister—because he' is a Newcastle man—and be-
cause he was a relation to their very worthy President.
The toast was drank with warm and ecstatic applause,
and three times three. Mr. Armstrong proposed the
health rf the Judge of the Court of Admiralty (Lord
Stowell), whose transcendant merits, as a Civilian and
a Statesman, would hand him down to posterity, like
his distinguished brother, as one of the great ornaments
of the age in which he lived—(Drank also with
astounding applause, and three times three). Mr.
Grieveson, the Secretary, on his health being drank,
said he felt proud in being where he was that day to
celebrate with loyalty and respect, the biith-day of
their most excellent Sovereign, one of the best-inten-
tioned Princes that had ever sac upon the British
Throne, and to whose truly paternal sway, in fact,
ought to be ascribed the general happiness of the na-
tiOn. He would say, in the words of a most aCCJM•
plished scholar :

'• Long may our Sovereign live, by Heaven's decree,
•Tn rek a nation loyal, brave, and free I
His People's love, his great, his best reward;
lie our Protector—We his faithful Guard !"—(Arlause.)

ATTAMPTED AND SUCCESSFUL
PRISON ESCAPES.
GLASGOW, APRIL 25.
Sunday (last) night, when Mr. M.Coll, Clerk of the
Prison at Glasgow, and two turnkeys, went into one of
the felons wards to lock up the prisoners, seventeen in
number, they were overpoweted by the prisoners, who
having seized the keys, were in the act of locking them
up, when Mr. Won wrested himself from them, and
gave the alarm to the debtors' turnkeys ; the other
turnkeys were, howeyer, locked up, and before getting
possession of the keys from one of them, Charles .lVat
son, one of the prisoners, bit the back of his hand in
such a manner. as made him drop the keys.
As the prisoners knew that the door which leads from
the prison into the court-yard has a different lock, and
is secured on the outside by another turnkey, whose
duty it is to lock in the turnkeys when they go into
the prison, they did not attempt to go down, but made
for the Chapel, and having tied their blankets together,
were in the' act of letting themselves down into the
court-yard, when Mr. Watson, the Governor of the Pri-
son, presented a blunderbuss, and threatened to shoot
the first man who attempted to come down. This had
the desired effect, and not a man dared present himself.
By this time, Mr. Hardie, the Soperintendant of Po-
lice, was on theApot, with a number of officers, armed
withcutlasses, when the prisoners were all lucked up.
A piquet from the Horse Barracks peraded round the
prison the whole night. The Assizes were to commence
oa Tuesday, and the prison was very full.
ABERDEEN, APRIL
Wednesday morning last, five of the criminals
who had' been brought from the gaol at Bridewell to
that in Aberdeen, to await their trial at the ensuing
Circuit, broke out of the prison. The plan of opera-
tions appears to have been concerted between the prix
toners in two of the cells, and some accomplices from
without, by whom a crow-bar was attached to a -card
let down from the window of one of the rooms, to
which it was thereby drawn sp, and introduced by an
opening.made, part of the iron staunchion being pre-
viously cut through, and a piece of stained wood sub-
stituted. From this the crow-bar was by like means
conveyed to the room above, known from its strength
and s'curity by the name of the Stock-room, then oc-
cupied by three delinquents, one of the name of Coutts,
and two that of Stirling, brothers. Possessed of this,
these depredators set about their herculean task, break-
ing through a thick wall, of the most solid masonry, to
the passage leading to other parts of the prison. From
this they proceeded to liberate their accomplices in the
room below, where three chains of the most massy and
strongest description, by which the door. is secured,
were, by means of spring saws, completely cut through,
and immediate communication had with their associates.
The party had now received an addition of five to-their
numbers, and, thus strengthened, found it practicable
to raise the strong stone arch forming the floor of this
apartment, removing stones which no man could move
from its place. Their work was now comparatively easy,
as after jumping down about six or eight feet, they
came to the ceiling forming the roof of the great lobby
or entrance to the Court-house and jail. This could
not resist them, and having soon made an aperture suf-
ficient to let them down, they attached to the joists
blankets knotted together, by which they descended to
the lobby below, broke two of the large panes in the
window fronting Lodge Walk, and gained the street.
At this moment the keeper of the Court-house being
alarmed by the noise they made in breaking through
the ceiling, panes of glass, &c. hastened to ascer-
tain the cause, when he discovered the five delin-
quents making- their exit by the window, without
the least possibility of his preventing their escape.—
His attention was therefore naturally directed to the
safe custody of three other prisoners, whom he observed
looking out at the aperture above ; but they either saw
they had lost their opportunity, or were not inclined
from the beginning, to hazard the attempt, and were
soon returned to their confinement. lathe meantime,
the alarm spread rapidly, and a considerable_ number of
people being collected around the coaches, which set
off from the New' Inn, at six o'clock, an active pursuit
of two of the fugitives, A. Stirling and Coutts, took
place in the Castle-street/ where they were ultimately
taken, after making great resistance, and one of them
bringing down to the ground Simon Grant, an active
officer, who hastened to assist in securing the fellow.—
The other three, namely, Win. Stirling, Jolla *Laren,
and Jos. M'Donald, ran up the Lodge Walk, where, al-
though seen and pursued by different individuals, they
outran them all, and got clear off, escaping by some of
the back passagis in that neighb'urhood.

Monday morning, about two o'clock, a most de.
structive fire bloke out on the prernises of Messrs.
Hoye and WALazu, an extensive manufactory at It k,
near Dacie-bridge ; such was the inflammable nature
of the contents of the various, buildings, consisting cf
oil, skins, And wool, that before any assistance .;ould
be tendered,-the whole was :educed ►nto one common
mass of rum. The loss sustained is to a very consider.
tole amount, and upwards of 2i.10 persons ate thrown
rut of employ.