Star.
London, England, 1825-10-11 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Our readers may recollect, that a few days since the child of a
Mrs. Weller was stolen, and though every search has been made
by the afflicted parents, and the officers of this establishment. no
tidings have been received concerning it. A report was raised,
however, that the child was discovered to have been murdered,
which, though untrue, has tended to bring a murder to light.
When the parents of the child beard it, they gave information to
Glennon of this office, who soon ascertained that the body of a
child had been found in a field at the back of a Gentleman's gar-
den, nearly opposite the Lord Nelson, Old Kent-road, but it was
not the child sought, being of a different sex. An Inquiry was at
once made, and these are all the facts hitherto discovered.
As a man was passing along a field at the back of a Gentleman's
garden, in the Kent-road, he perceived loose grass disposed in such a
manner, as led him to infer there was something concealed under.
neath, and he approached the place with a view of ascertaining
what it was. On removing the grass, which evidently had only
been recently gathered, he was shocked to beheld the naked body
of a full grown female child. He then carried it to a house close
by, where a surgeon examined it, and pronounced that it wat living
when barn, which could be but a few hours before, and that from
some marks of violence on its body, there was every reason to con-
clude the child bad been killed. An Inquest is to be held upon the
body in the course of a day or two.

A party of Englishmen at Rome have lately intro-
duced a new species of hunting, which has quite asto-
nished 64 the natives." They are equipped in red hunting
jackets and caps, and the object of their sport is a poor
mongrel belonging to a butcher in Rome. The animal
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Is carried in a sack a few miles from the city ; when
ai-rived at its destination, on being let loose, and fright-
ened by the hootings and horns of these new huntsmen,
it takes to its heels to regain the shambles, pursued by
all the motley crew, some of whom cut a worse appear-
ance than ever any poor cockney did at the Epping Hunt.,

NEW COME?:

GOSPORT OBSERVATORY, OBSERVATORY, OCT.!.

In the night of the 28th t It a faint appearance of a ix*
comet was observed here, but the lunar light and
passing clouds prevented our taking its position in
heavens, and since that time the weather has been ice),
unfavourable for observations. Last night (Oct 7),
10 o'clo k, the same comet again appeared in the south,
east point, ten degrees ab3ve the hcriaon, in the Uppef
part of the right side of the constellation Cetus. The
nearest star to it was in the upper part of the belly
Cebu. Its train was then nearly perpendicular,
between ten and eleven degrees in length, extending
the star Baten, in the belly. Its nucleus is perceiv.
with the naked eye at intervals, and the size of a stal
the third or fourth magnitude, surrounded by a la.
circular coma fifteen minutes in diameter, or about

;he size of the full mo disk, and of a brilliant
pearance; so that it was distinctly seen through attena.
sited clouds. It is 172 deg. distance from the sun, •
is the first comet %c Wye ever seen at so gie,it a distance
from that luminary. Its motion is antecedentia, or cos.
trary to the order of the signs of the Zodiac. It was,
the meridian at one o'clock, when its altivide

20 deg. Its right ascension then was 3l dlg. n 7n.
and its declination 30 deg. south. If this b ti,c
comet which was seen by 51. B—, on the 19th t.f July
some weeks afterwards by Dr. Olbers, it has pa
through a space of 55i deg. since the 9th of Atir,
when its right ascension was 63 deg. 40 min. and it:
clination 23 deg. 54 min. north.

DESPERATE BANDITTI—The neighbourboas ,
Navan :::id Slane, have, for a month past, been mead.
fully infested by .a gang of depredators, who are
menus and well•armed. A great number of robbed
have been committed by them, and property to a cer!
derable amount has fallen into their haads. IV%
obliged to add, with great regret, the, in the cot;
of the last week, two very atrocious murders have'
committed near Navan, which have created a st;
feeling of horror in the public mind. On the night of
20th ult. Mr. Rixon, cf Navan, a most respectable
harmless young man, was attacked about two ml
from Navan, on the Bective read, and beaten so '
barously, by a party of sanguinary miscreants, that
died on the following day ; and, on Tuesday night
the house of a very honest and respectable far
named Foley, near the same place, was visited
gang, who, under the pretence that they were police,
induced the unfortunate man to come to the doororhea
he was instantly shot through the body. Though,'
wolnd proved mortal on the following day, the victga
of this barbarous act evinced a most determined'
very after it had been inflicted—he repulsed the g.
consisting of four men, and took from them a pistol ;
a hat; which, it is hoped, may lead to the detectbn
some of the parties cunce; ned. The gang robbed
deceased of a pound.—Drogheda Journal.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS TO-NIORROW.
AT TUE COUST OF COMMIUSIONIMSOV RANK IMPTS,AT ItASINGII A LI. S 3

SIFVOND stssennis.
J. Bridgman, Spicer-street, Bethnal-green, tallow-dianiler .
J. Brown, New Crane, Sbadwell, plumber . . .
W. Hill, Arundel-street, Panton square, tailor ; . .
J. Smith, Broad-street, broker
N. Qilbee, Denton, Kent,

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