Star.
London, England, 1825-06-21 00:00:00

FOX U. CA RR.

Both the plaintiff and defendant in this case were
operative wielders of the steel-bar, or in plain English,
tailors, and Fox's claim was for the enormous sum of
2s. 4d. due and owing to him by his brother of the
shop-board, Carr. The Commissioners presidi3g la-
mented that so trifling a debt, the recovery.of which
would subject the parties to an amount for costs greater
than the debt itself, could not have been settled without
coming before them; but it appeared that a quarrel
between the patties had occurred, or it would never
have been heard of. Carr having denied the debt,
Fox explained how it became due, and the facts were
as follows t—On a certain Monday, w hen, owing to his
having more money than wit, Carr, whose nose bore
evident testimony against him, glowing like Bardolph's,
sought a public-house, to solace himself with a pot of
half-and-half after the labours of the previous week ;
here he an till having spent all his money, and being
very much more than half seas over, he got into a
glorious row with all about him, and was final.ly kicked
into the street—his red nose made redder than usual by
the streams of blood which flota ed from divers unseemly
wounds in the upper part of his fact; in this dilemma, too
tipsy to walk, and thinking himself bleeding to death,
he sent for his hiend Fox, who attended his bidding,
and went with him to the nearest surgeon, where it
was soon discovered that his abrasions of the integu-
ment waffled little more than a good washing ; this fact
revived the tailor's courage, and he at once turned his
thoughts from dying to drinking, determining to treat
his friend Fox at the nearest liquor-shop, provided Fox
would lend him the money, or pay the score. Fox now
declared that he had paid 2s. 4d. for what had been
swallowed on this 9scasion ; Carr, otherwi,e Bardolph,
stoutly insisting he did no such thing ; at the same time
producing a thit al tailor as his witness ; but this witness
failed him materially, for it appeated that he had been
as drunk as his friend, and he could scarcely recollect
whether he had been his friend or his enemy in the
skruntniage which h id taken place; he could only re-
member that they had been all drinking together; in-
deed it seemed to have been an tio4lottunale day, then
there was " the Devil among the tailors."
The CommtsstoNEas, all things coin.i.leretl, tot k it
to be a mutual score between Fox and Carr, and ordered
:he latter to pry half of it, being Is. 2d. advising hiru to
ty and keep saber in future on a Monday.

WIIITEHA LL, JUNE 18, 1825.—The Kix° lims granted
unto the Rev. CH•nus Clerk. Master of Arts, the plice
and dignity of a Canon or Prebendary of the Metropolitical Church
of Canterbury, void by the cess'on of the Hon. and Rev. 111.G14
PERCY.—The KING has also granted unto the Rev. THOMAS G•ts-
Toao, M.A. Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, the
place and dignity of a Canon or Prebendary of the Cathedral
Church of Worcester, void by the resignation of the Rev.
CH•IM'S RICH•an

A man named Craighill, of Cambridge, has been
fined 54. for cruelty towards a donkey, his own pro-
perty, by beating it most violently, and afterwards
stabbing the poor animal in the neck !
A Jewess duffer named Solomons was last week
brought to Union-hall, charged with hawking contra-
band goods, and palming off Glasgow goods for teal
French." Her basket contained several bottles of Riga
Bale-am and Dutch D-ops, which she confesses were
her own manufacture, and a bottle of tthite brandy,
which consigned her to the officers of the Excise.
The number of 201. freeholders in the county of
Galway, is 127 ; 501. freeholders, 693 ; and 40s. free-
holders, 15,586. In Sligo, the 201. freeholders are in
number 288; those of 501. and upwards, 358; and the
40s. freeholders, 5,936. _ _ _

About five o'clock (la Monday evening se'nnight, as
the Earl of GLENUAL-L'S gamekeeper, a Scotchman, be-
tween sixty and seventy years of age, was going from
the pheasantry to the Cottage, two ruins, armed with
blunderbusses rushed on, anJ after wresting his gun
from him, one of them tired his blunderbuss, when a
bullet, in its par.age actcss the hreas!, went through the
waistcoat, and another wounded Lin, a I ttle below the
chest. As soon as this most darns outrage and attempt
at assassination was known, t! c ruffians v.ere pursued,
in.the direction in which they departed, by the Military
and the P.dice, but with'tut any r !fret. The object of
this murderous attack, who has been tesideil in the place
only for the last year, and therefore considered a stranger
by the Rockites, is in a fair way of recovery.
The Rep esentarives of the Austrian and Danish Go.
vcinments, at Washington, have communicated to the
Secretary of State a clescriction of the fl igs which will
hereafter be used as signals fot pilots. That of the
former will contain three stripes, red, white, and red,
surrounded by a yellow border; arms in.the centre;
crown cn the upper red s ripe—to be displayed on the
foremast. That of the latter Government is a red fi ig,
quartered on a white field—to be displayed an either
mast where it may be best seen.

Sunday night, the sth inst. as some country men
who had shamelessly spent the evening in one of the
public houses of Tralee, were on their way home,
a misunderstanding occurred on the road between them,
when a ruffian, named Dowling, struck another of the
patty, named George Neagle, a very heavy blo.v of
a stick on the head, which knocked him down and ins.
mediately caused his death. Dowling effected his escape
A verrlarge piece of dry honeycomb (about the size
of a water•can), was found in the inner old wall of
Catlisle.Castle, on Thursday, by some masons, who
were repairing it. This, by its appearance, seems to
have lain there for some ages ; but bees are now triaw
•goently sernin considerable numbers in the crevices.
which the hand of time has opened to them.