Star.
London, England, 1825-08-27 00:00:00

COMBINATIONS.

At the last Rotherham Sessions, G. latnsall, C. Mus-
gnaw, S. Lakron, S. Goodison, T. Wilson, H. Shaw,
and W. Nicholson, were charged with a riot, and as-
saulting J. Whitaker and R. Barrowclough, on the 6th
of June last. There had been a turn-out of the shoe-
makers of Barnsley,
-and the prosecutors were in the
habit of going from Wakefield to work at Barnsley, for
Mr. Dadsworth, who had a shop at•either town, every
Monday morning, and returning on the Saturday even-
ing. On the morning in question the prosecutors, in
company with a man named Fordham, were met by
the defendant and a number of others, at the Ship Inn,
about a mile from Barnsley, on which the mob set up
a shout, calling them Black Sheep and Scabs.
Whitaker ran off, but was followed by the mob, who
on overtaking him, beat him severely with a.bludgeon,
broke his head, .gave him a black eye, and kicked him
dreadfully on the body, threatening to kill him and
pull his liver out ; and made him promise never to go
to Barnsley again during the turn-ont, without a card
from the Turn.out Society; at the same time observing,
that they had set watches at every entrance to the town,
so that they could not go in without being detected.
The prosecutors, Barrowelough and Fardham, met
4vith .sirstilletteptrnput. The prlsonerklsaid' the. attpck
was timely. i 4 (WC Own defence. l'he Jury, withal/1-
retiring, found the prisoners Ouilty. Wilson, Nichol-
son, and Shaw, the three pt rsons who tactually corn-
witted the offence, were sentenced to Moe months'
imprisonment in Wakefield House .of Correction.
Elmsall did not take his trial along with the prisoners,
but was excused on a surgeon's •certificate. He is to
be tried at the next Sheffield Sessions.

A young couple were married at the parish church,
Huddersfield, last week, but the honey-moon had
hardly commenced, when his partner forsook him, and
returning to hrr friends, averred her attachment to a
'life of single blessedness, to his infinite mortificstion
and disappointment.
A Gentleman of the name of HAIIRISON, lately re-
siding in London, has made a bequest to our Infirmary
of the sum of 5001.; to the Sheffield Infirmary 5001.;
and 1,0001. to the Wakefield Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
This Gentleman has a sister residing at Wakefield,
upon a comparatively small ..pittance, to whom he
offered to leave 20 or 50,0001. which she refused to

accept.—Leeds Intelligencer.
WITCNCRAM—Ia Exeter the belief in 'witchcraft
prevails—and that too in one of its principal streets,
and almost in the very centre of the city—where, at
the threshold of the door of a tradesman, who is ill and
under the supposed influence of. witchcraft, has been
exhibited for several days a horse-shoe, firmly naile3, to
prevent the foul hag from gaining access to the interior
of the house.—Exeter Plying Post.
A few days since, Messrs. RANSOM and Co. bankers,
of Pall-mall East, enclosed country notes to the amount
of between one and two hundred pounds, for the pur-
pose of their being returned to the Taunton Bank;
but from some accidental cause not as yet known, they
did not reach their intended destination in the regular
way of business, and upon an inquiry being male, it
was discovered that the person or persons who obtained
possession of them lost no time in applying In their
value at the Bank at Taunton ; diligent seat ch has been
madein order to obtain some clue to the delinquents,
bat hitherto without success.
RIOINT's PAWL—The vast increase of building in
this quarter, has suggested the necessity of construct-
ing a reservoir for the supply of water to the new
neighbourhood. A work of this kind has been going
on for some months, and, being now near its comple-
tion, attracts a good deal of curios*. It is advan-
tageously situated on Little Primrose-hill, from which
lelevation, being 175 feet above the level of the Thames,
the liquid body will flow from a point higher than any
building
,in Mary-la-Bonne, and be enabled, conse-
quently, to invade the topmost chamber in the !wish
with ease. The basin will be twenty feet deep, and
cover an area of two acres, and when finished will be
enclosed by a wall with an ornamental palisade, .so as
to render it an object of embellishment to the Park.—
wil contain 113,000 tuns of water, considered to be
adequate to the supply of as many houses ; and the
fluid will be brought from the Thames above Ham-
mersmith, a distance not less than seven miles. The
increase of houses in the parish of Mary-la-Boone has
been from 9000 to 14,000 within the last two years—
The cost of the work has been computed at 25,0001.
A duty of 3d. .a pouted is now payable on all stone-
blue imported from Ireland to GreAt Britain, and a
like drawback on stone-blue sent from Great Britain to
Ireland.