Star.
London, England, 1824-08-26 00:00:00

BOGWOR, AUGUST 24

This delightful little place is filling very fast, nor do we wonder
at its increasing popularity, when we consider the improvements
that are daily making for the comfort and convenience of its visitors.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The following petitions from two convicts at New.
castle, in New South Wales, to a Gentleman command.
ing a station in that Colony, vie, in ingenious allitera.
tion, with the most ambitious efforts of Irish oratory.
What can be better than " sympathetic segasity," or
the " predominant potions of ebriety ?"
The Petition of --, a Crown Prisoner, most humbly sheweth,
" Your Petitioner was committed to jail on the I ttth of April
last, by your Hon. Order, on the eledged charge of selling wine to
they milletasy ; secondly, brought before your Honour, together
with Mr. Close, I. C. and received the sentence of corporal punish.
ment, which was severely inflicted, together with placing me in
the jail gang up to the presant.
" From which I dismiss the most humble submission, impinreing
your Honour's humane consideration on part of the sircunt-
stance, whereas I your Petitioner was a Government Servant,
consigned to Mr. Pennington, and was I to give a clear expk-
nation of the sale of the said wine, it would incur my :Master
and Mistress's displeasure, so far as would prove my future
unhappinesst
" Through this consideration, I sincerely beg your Honour wilt
be pleased to dismiss from your sympathetic segasity the henioustun
of my imputed crime, and once more reface me from the mistrrpuf
a close restraint, where your Honour was pleased to place me fur
the first offence imputed from my arrival on this Settlement.
" And I shall always discharge a zealous propencity to assiduity,
and remain in duty bound to your Honour untill my last breath.
" Dated Sept. 9th, 1823. " J. M. D."

" Honours= Sic —I submissively beg lave to address your
Honour on part of my late misconduct.
" Whereas lam so long on this Settebuent, and never incured
the displeasure of my superior., nor ever being guilty of arretatious
conduct until the present, which was displayed by the preduniimut
potions of thrifty.
" And front the salatary state of sobriety I forward my sincere
ejaculation, belying my ardent requisition will meet with your spun-
Simians impulse of humanity—and humbly imploreing your Honour
will participate with my present disaster, and dismiss from your view
the irretatiousuess of the imputation—and be graciously pleased :rupee
me from this distitute situation to my former.
" And I shall remain in duty bound to your Honour.
" H. Sir, your obedient Servant,
" Sept. 20, 18113.

" J. H."

Thursday, at the New Bailey Court House, Manches-
ter, Glover, who keeps what is termed a Tom and
Jerry shop, in :ford-road, was convicted in the fine
of £2OO, for having drugs in his house of a deleterious
nature. Upon the discovery taking place, he exclaimed
—4' 0 Lord, 0 Lord, forgive me this time, and I'll do
so no more, for I am ruined 1" _ _

Wednesday se'nnight, between six and seven o'clock,
as two flats belonging to the Earl of Bridgewater, the
Ranger and Memel, were tacking down the river from
Runcorn, they ran fcul of each other opposite Garston,
when the Memel sunk. Of four men on board, two met
with a watery grave—the other two were saved. One
of the men who thus perished was a fisherman from
Runcorn, the other belonged to the flat.
Tuesday evening an overdrove ox made his appearance
in Theobald's-road. He was preceded by two avant•cou-
riers,in the shape of bull-dogs, which every now and then
gave him assurance of their presence. He gored a pony
which was standing in Theobald's•road, in a chaise-cart,
in which were two infant children, whose perilous situa-
tion excited instant courage in the minds of those
around, who extricated the poor innocents from their
situation, regardless of the attacks of the enraged ani-
mal upon the same pony, which was attached to the
cart. He also tossed and gored a helpless old woman,
and has, it is feared, so seriously injured her, that she
is in much danger. At length, after having put the
whole neighbourhood in dismay and disorder, he was
secured by means of a few dustmen, and an experienced
butcher, who, mounting one of the high-shelved dust-
carts, approached the place where he stood pawing the
mud and roaring, and, throwing a slip noose over his
horns, dragged him to a post and slaughtered him. A
few lessons in fortification might have been learned in the
streets on this occasion, where trucks, wheelbarrows,
&c. formed a moveable defence against his encroaches
but he happily committed no further mischief than
what is above stated.

In the canton of the Vallais a singular species of
ostracism was formerly practised, when it was intended
to drive away any powerful and obnoxious member of
the State. A large club was provided, the end of which
was rudely carved into the shape of a man's head, the
supposed representation of the obnoxious party. Every
one who wished his expulsion drove a nail into this club,
and when the number of nails was thought to be suffi-
ciently great, this emblem was carried in procession be-
fore the house of the offender, who was summoned to
justify his conduct; but he was already condemned
without being heard in his defence, and ordered to emi-
grate in a certain time. If he refused to obey the Sen"
tence, his house was attacked and pillaged. Tbis pry"
cess of dra-law has been long obsolete.

THE ARMS.

•
Fria* Capin Ibises Company ef the lila Ileslink inked
in Limerick from the County of Mayo, and on Saturday the Band
na gram! &vision under Lieut. Colonel Miura, arrived from Bel-
; a, in the new Barracks; Limerick, in do airy.
/°The oScers of the Royals, on their ratite from Lithetick to Cas-
doer, were most hospitably entertained at Ennis by the °Seers of
the oth Regiment, at Gort by Lord Goss, and at Galway by the
(Owes of the Ist Royal Veteran Battalion.
General Lord Comerastral, Commander of the Forces, is ex-
pected in Limerick about the 10th September, to inspect the troops
in that district.

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