Star.
London, England, 1825-10-19 00:00:00

NAMES OF STREETS, 4v.

A Correspondent has called our attention to the pre-
sent practice of street-naming ; which is, to be sure,
Absurd enough ; and should it continue unchecked, is
likely to lead to a kind of Babel, which is, and will be
every day, ',vie and more incongruous and incon-
s,nient. Ile remember hearing of an Irishman in
uhn a.ked a Gentleman if he knew " Mr.
io London ?" and were the Post-office to have
a Itier addressed to " Mr. S-nitb, Charles-street,"
i: would be long, we suspect, even with the ad-
ra:table atrangenientt of that establishment, lefose
could reach its destination, if it ever did. It would
tot be any exaggeration to say that Christian names in
most common use have furnished the titles of one-tenth
o: the :vases, streets, coasts, lanes, and alleys of the
surunpoiiss There are above fifty John•sttacts, and
ion Charles-streets; Charlotte, the name of her late
.31..je,ty, is given to upwards of thirty; and George,
which is quadruply dear to the country, is actually
given to no less than seventy-five places in London; so
tint the loyalty of the motive, praiseworthy as it iF,
will hArdly excuse the confusion it creates. And to
crown all, because we had not George-streets enough
beore, the wiseacres of St. Giles's.have lately dignified
that sink of filth and iniquity, Dyutt-street, with this
Royal appellation. Next to the King comes the Church,
%Inch occurs upwards of fifty times ; and the four
y 111,1.0.411 Brown; Bull, Broad, and Castle, are to be
found in eves)? parish ; while new and old have been
linkneyed till the (miner has become the latter over
and over agaia. The following list will shew to what
n event this inconvenient practice in the metropolis
b canted;
lh King-streets, &c. there are 99; George-streets, kc. 76 ; John-
meets, &c. 53; Union-streets, &c. 72; Charles-streets, &c. 41 ;
ts, &c. 32; Church-streets, &c. 57; Castle-streets, 50;
0464,k-streets, &c. 30; Crown-courts, he. 44; Rose-streets,
Hose and Crown, 9; Queen-squares, &c. 75 ; Prince's.
&c. 46 ; White-horse, 14 ; White Lion, 19; Cross-streets,
:;3; Iligh-streets, 12;' Adam and Eve, 20; Angel-alleys, 22 ; Ar.-
,;el-6treets, 11 ; Angel-courts, 24 ; James-streets, &c. 26 ; Paradise-
&c. 20; Russell, 18; Robinhoods, 9 ; Devonshire, 19;
Oske-streets, &c. 54; Fountain-courts, Etc. 12; Plicenizotreets,
.kc. II; Black Boy-alleys, 7; Black Horse-courts, /cc. 17; Black
Liim,7; Black Spread Eagle-alleys, 4 ; Blue Anchors, 16 ; Brood-
streets, &c. 28; Brown-streets, &c. 30; Baker-streets, &c. 51 ;
nick-yards, 26 ; Back-alleys, 22 ; Back-streets, 31 ; Upper and
Lower, 83; Great and Little, 208; New and ld, 180. Besides
wally others too numerous to mention.

Accounts from Buenos Ayres, of August 9, state,
th.tt in consequence of representations made in Lima, it
Littamon.i that the decree of the 17th of April, rela-
tore to the c.:lfiscation of Spanish property, will not be
ill force until eight months after its date.
S,,tiurday, a boy went into the shop of Mr. Baldock,
a 'uaker, in Li,son Grove, with a note, purporting to
c.,me from a Miss Garrett, of Lisson Grove, enclosing
A check on DIIMINIONDS' bank for 251. and requesting
Range for it. They gave cash for it, but when they
msented it at the Bank for payment, they discovered
(':at they had been cheated, for no Miss Garrett kttpt
an account ili re.

At Frodsharn Bridge, on Friday last, Mrs. Waite, a
l‘idow lady, had occasion to send her servant on an
*timid about half-past seven o'clock in the evening, and
gul, when going along a wooden bridge, thrown
over a rapid stream of water that supplies the large
ccrn mills, was precipitated into the water, owing to
iirne persons having some short time before maliciously
taken up several boards in the middle of the bridge,
to the extent of about six feet.—Miss E. Waite, daugh-
Itr ut the above widow lady, finding the servant stop-
ping longer than she thought was necessary, went in
*each of her, and she too, unfortunately, nd sooner
e'rr'ed at the trap in the bridge, than she fell into the
wrier, which was about five or six feet deep.—Her
shrieks brought cut her sitter, who, running to the place
%%hence the noise proceeded, was herself precipitated
into the same aperture; but fortunately escaped falling
i Ito the water by alghting on a beam, part of the
s'imit'4lf-ibcb:idge.- -In a moment all the neighbour.
--- was rendered in
ir girl who
. the other
Miss Waite,
it, said that
ir I's mother
,ce amongst
tes, Scc. %%ere
' 11 o'clock.

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PuGlus3l.

Three fights were announced for yesterday, and it,
was to be a << prime day's sport ;"—Reuben Martin and
Yung Gas were to "open the ball ;" Young Dutch
Sam and Harry Jones were to "form the second
eourse ;" and Savage and Kirkman were to come in
" as a wind up;" a tempting bill of fare—and lots of
claret were anticipated but, tempting as it was, there
was nobody to partake of it, and " keep up the national
character," except some moor three score of operative
knackers, dog-dealers, jarveymen, gin-spinners, and
prigs. The ground named for this prime day's sport
was Harpenden-heath, about five miles from St.
Alban's, upon the borders of Bedfordshire; and be-
tween town and St. Alban's. We counted three
gigs, seventeen cotter mongers drags, one post-chaise,
and Jack Randall's barouche, all toddling thither.—
But long before they reached St. Alban's it was ascer-
tained that the 46 day's sport" was to be sadly dimi-
nished—that the old cross game was a-foot, and that
Reuben Martin, who was to, have " opened the ball"
with Young Gas, for SO% a-side, had sold out—sold
himself,and the national character to boot—for a
me,s of pottage. The parties now moved about half a
mile further on, just within the county of Bedf..rd,
at a place called :bear Mere—the same spot on which
the Brummagem Youth took the pugilisticalness out
of Uncle Ben's 11eoy some tttle time ago. But
Reuben did not follow—he knew a click worth two of
it; and then fore the aatio; al character was left to
Messrs. Young Dutch Sam and Harry Junes, and
Messrs. Savage and Kit kinan.
The stakes and ropes having been duly set forth by
the Ex P. C. Commksary-General (now plain Bill
Gibbons); the juvenile Gas threw his hat into the ring,
and followed it in his own proper person, wrapped up
in a white poodle bessimint in order that he might be
entitled to claim forfeit ; and, no Reubeft'appearing,
the stakeholder (Mr. Tom Belcher) declared his inten-
tion of handing over in due course.

, u:ioge.--in a moment du iiic
• ir°' P:4S alarm, and. assistance was rendered in
tme to save the two sisters ; but not the poor girl who
had fir,t fallen in ; nor was it known until the other
two sve,e out that she had fallen a victim.—MissWaite,
as soon as she had recovered from her fright, said that
the poor girl must be in the water. The girl's mother
vas one sk ho heard the distressing
the sur intelligence amongst
neighbours.--Nets, grapples, &c. acre
l.r..cuieJ immediately, but it was not until 11 o'clock:
that the bo,iy was found.--Chesler Paper.
A beaothol woman said to lientral Officer, " How
is it Owh, havin;r obtained so roych glory, you should
!ail seek miTe Ah, Madam," he replied, 6, ho*
it that you, who have so n.uch beauty, should still
Put on rouice