Star.
London, England, 1825-11-19 00:00:00

AN INVITATION TO TEA.

Miss Mary Alen Parrcit, was brought hero, e Mr.
IlAu.s, horn St. Martin's watch house, ye,tero!ay
morning, charged on a violent suspici .n of having felo-
niously secreted a chased gold ring, the property of
Matilda Tennant.

Miss Pdrt ot and Miss Tennant were once peripatetic
associ.ttes in saleable love ; but latterly Miss Parrot has
been the stationary kept mihtress of a stationer, who has
e,tabliAted her in a genteel apa:tment up two pair of
stairs in that very genteel street, called Crown-stteet,
Soho. But though Miss Parrot has been thus elevated,
she has not affected to turn up her nose and look down
upon Miss Tennant, as many ladies would have done ;
but remembering their former co-wanderinr, and " all
the pet ils which they two had passed," she still regarded
her as a friend ; and in that spirit she invited her to her
apartment la-t Thursday evening,

To take a cup of prime bohea,
For auld laug sync.

Miss Tennant accepted the invitation ; the fire shone
brightly ; the kettle sung merrily; the tea was made,
and the muffins were buttered, and everything was
quite comfortably comme it fait, as Miss Tennant said.
At length, after they had discussed many muffins, and'
whil-4 the fourth cup of bollea was yet too warm to be'
pleasantly sipable, Miss Parrot expressed her admira-,
tion of a chased gold ring which adorned the chaste
finger of Miss Tennant, and wished to try whether it
would b. come her hand so well. The bauble was in-
stantly transferred from the finger of Miss Tennant to
that of Miss Parrot; and the talk and the tea-drinking
went on as before, until it became time for Miss Tennant
to depart; and then the ring was not to be found. Miss
Parrot declared that she returned it to Miss Tennant
Miss Tennant declared th.tt she did not ; Miss Pa• rot
affirmed that Miss Tennant was a lying something
which we cannot repeat; and then Miss Tennant called
in the watchman and sent Miss Parrot to the watch-
house for having stolen the ring. Whereupon Miss
Parrot very pachet;cally remarked, "This is a rum sort
of go—for me to invite you to tea, and give you a jolly
good tuck out; and you send me to quod."
The landlady of the house, one Mrs. Olivia Clump,
an elderly anatomic vivant, tooth'd a la chevausrle fine,
assured the Magistrate it was the most mysteriousest
thing im ,ginabre ; for though she had stripped both
Ladies till they had not a single thread upon them; and
though she had searched their clothes stitch by stitch;
and though she searched every chink in the floor, and
every hole, drawer, shelf and coiner in the room, yet
she could not find the ring nowhere.

The ;Magistrate admitted that it was very mysterious: and re.
[erred the futhcr investigation of it to the Court Requests.

HIGII TIDE.—An extraordinary high tide occurred
along the Lincolnshire coast on the day of No-
vember, 1810, the greatest of which any record can be
found. It is a curious coincidence that another extraor-
dinary flow of the tide happened on Thursday se'nnig! t,
the 10th instant, being exactly fifteen years since the for-
mer ; by the last tide, comparatively no injury has been
done either to pet sons or pro;:erty.
CONFLAGRATIONS IN THE ASIKRICA WOODS.—The
American papers last receive) gibe frightful ;epics of
the fires in the woods of the northern provincei of the
United S:ates and the neighbouring British Settlements.
A dense fog, which seriously affected the lungs and
eyes, and prevented nab igation on the river, was si-
mnitaneoutly frit it Noa York, Boston, PhiladeTphia,
13a16more, and Washington ; and so alarming appears
to be the ext.- tit and po er of the corlagration, that
the effects, about the same date, wereespertenced in the
British provinces, particularly at Yorx, Montreal, and
Qucber. i-ccotints in the Cal:ada papers state that
great fears were entettanted, from the dense fog having
continued for several days, that the fire was raging also
on the north of the liver St. Lawrenc .
The storm of Wednesday night and Thursday. la-t
week, blew down a number of elms, apple-trees, &c. in
the South of Devon. A great quantity of snow tell en
the finest of Dartmoor and in its neighbourhood, and
much rain in the warmer pat ts of the di:tt ict.

Between Saturday night and Sunday moriiinz, the
premike• occupied by Mr. Arthur Barclay, mil%ei, in
Lithem Mill, at Waterfoot, parish of :Meares, 'War
Glasgn were burnt to the groun-J. It is n:,t known
how the fi:e originated, as the mill. the kiln, and zwel.
ling-home, were in flames before t',e inmate. awoke.
Not an Article of either furniture or clothing was ,a% ed.
The children were tak-n out naked, and Nlr. and Mts.
Barclay:were gl4d to escape with :,trly a pit tl.e
clvthes they had last put off.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSI.ON-HOUSE.

Mr. J. the Stock Broker, who was charged with obtain-
ing X5OO under false pretences, was ;gam brought up. but the
prosecutor not appearing. the Loan Slavos ordered him to be dis-
charged, on procuring sureties to answer for his appearance at
the ensuing Sessions.
J. Liudo was charged with obtaining from Messrs. Dulin and
Company, several geld end silver watches under false pretences.
The prisoner's Solicitor stated, that since the former examination,
the property had been restored, and consequently the prosecutor
declined proceeding any further ; and, under these circumstances,
the prisoner was discharged.