Star.
London, England, 1822-12-24 00:00:00

SPARRING.

The Eves' Court Was fairly attended yesterday, for the Be-
nefit of 4Yeale, the Streatham Youth. The mutter was select,
and the seta-to were good, as far as they went.
The bat "meeting was between Turner and Cooper, the gypsey.
It was an exquisite piece of workmanship, rather in favour of
Turner ; "bbt the returns and the out-fighting were nearly upon
a par.
and Coder made a good set-to ; and the sports closed
with Ai. Beiatee offering to fight any man in England, of eleven
stone and a half, or to put on the gloves, with Carter, fur a good
belly-full.

A horse, the property of the Company of Pro•
prietors of the Mersey. and Irwell Navigation, was I
lately freed from further labour, and sent to graze
away the remnant of his days. Wednesday. week, ,
this faithful servant died; at an' age which has seldom
been recorded of a horse : he was in his 6'2d year.
In a village near Edinburgh, last season, a pair of
swallows, which had built in the corner of a window,
deserted their young at the period• of migration.--
They had previously brought up a brood, and when
the general body began to collect for their annual
flight, they seemed to be carrying fond for another.
These, however, they deserted; and two days after,
the people of the house took down the nest and found
three young ones in it dead. To the curious in na-
tural history, this circumstance may occasion a
question, whether, in these birds, the migratory in•
stinct is stronger than that of attachment to their
young, so powerful in all animals ?
A circumstance interesting to the curious in na-
tural history occurred in the neighbourhood of New-
castle, on Sunday se'nnight. Some young men, while
skaiting on J. G. CLARK, Esq.'s fish-pond, at Fen-
ham, observed a fish embodied in the ice. It was a
fine pike, and on being cut out recovered, and, when
put into water, dashed through its native element
with all its wonted tile and energy.
A young woman, in the parish of Middlebie, Dum-
fries-shire, has the following relations, all living, with
their faculties entire, and capable of attending to
their several employments, namely, two great grand-
fathers, two great grandmothers, two grandfathers,
two grandmothers, a stepfather and a stepmother,
and a father and mother.

Saws day se'nnight, the corpse of an old woman
was found neaz.4farm-house, in the ,muir, a few miles
from the, village of Dairy, in Ayrshire. The body
being unknown, the circumstance was proclaimed, on
the following Sabbath, in the Parish Churches of
Beith and Dairy, in the hopes of discovering some
trace of the unfortunate individual's connections. A
little boy, the son of a farmer in the neighbourhood,
on coming home from Church, remarked to his father
that the woman's plaid was " unto like his granny's."
The farmer, rather alarmed at this information, hast-
ened to the spot, and, to his utter grief and astonish-
ment, discovered the corpse to be that of his aged
mother. It would appear that she had left Ii vine
with the intention of visiting her son, and that, either
overcome by fatigue or misled by the darkness of the
night, she had lost her way in the muir, and perished
with the cold. When found she was in a sitting
posture on the side of a hillock, and bad an orange,
partly eaten, in her hand.
In consequence of the new Marriage Act, not less
than six happy couples, from Cumberland, were mar-
ried at Annan last week, according to the easy laws of
Scotland.
Wednesday several men and women were appre-
hended in Edinburgh, in the act of uttering forged
• oats of the Bank of Scotland, ninety of which have
already been discovered.
A child belonging to Mr. THOMAS Corn, of Stokes-
• ley, Yorkshire, died lately in consequence of having
received too large a dose ut Godfrey's, cordial.

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WEST LONDON THEATRE.
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• Although the act4e ireitloni of .the Manager ei
thisseat little Theatre have not commanded complete
'Nieces', it cannot be denied that he has. strenuously
endeavonredto deserve it. Entertainments ofevery
description.from Tragedy to Pantomime, have been
produced in the course of the season, and much ta-
lent, particularly. in the Comic department of the
Drama, has been eonsta.ntly displayed. Friday elm.;
ing a Piece founded on the Tragedy of Venice Pre.
served was peformed, the part of After by Cobbs&
Baticautv—a Gentleman whose theatrical abilities .
are well known, especially at Cheltenham. * flieNts- • •
tained the character in a very respectable
Though not calculated to tnNntain a lofty rait‘E'
amongst the regular troops of Melpomene, he dieserceit
to hold rather a high station in the *volunteer pw
which occasionally march under her banner.
BRUNTON was by no means an inefficient Pierre; and
Belvidere was personated with a good deal of eff:. et
by Miss NORTON. In the Afterpiece of The Wedding
Day, Mr. DA WICI NS, another gentleman amateur, who
also occasionally plays at' the Cheltenham Theatre,
appeared as Sir Advil Contest. He is really a clever
performer, well acquainted with the business of the
Stage, and possessing no inconsiderable portion of
dry comic humour. Miss BRUNTON played the part .
of. 'Ads Contest excellently. The same Play and Farce
were repeated on Saturday evening ; but, in conse-
quence of illness, Cirl. BerticeLest did not perform.

By a singular, coincidence the two Gentlemen who
collect the Poor's Rates at Aylesbury are named Lcck
and Kcy

Aw uswsr.costs Visrroa.—Yesterday a boy in. the service of
Mr. Hawkins, a farrier, returning home with a horse io Man-
sell-street, Goodman's-fields, the animal took fright at a table on
a man's bead, ran down the street with great speed,•itimped
through the tap-roam window of the George public-house, the
corner of Goodman's-yard, and broke in the whole front win..
dow, destroying the bench and settle in the tap-room, &c. The
boy, stiU on his back, was much cut with the glass.
Tna Seamen:4v Itivaa.— A sudden thaw came on yesterday
morning. Soon after noon the ice became unsafe, and the men
belonging to the Humane Society having secured additional as-
sistance, promptly took most effective steps to prevent persons
venturing thereon. At two o'clock the whole sheet of ice wal
covered with water.

Conger, the young man who is under sentence of execution for
burglary, in Chelmsford gaol, was on Saturday taken, under a
proper escort, to a place where he had said he could discover a
large part of the booty ; but, on his arrival there, he was wat
able. lie then implicated his father and two others, who were
apprehended the same evening.
Bow-Ssarre.—Sunday information was received at this Office
of the following atrocious attempt at robber? and murder. About
three o'clock on that morning an attack was made upon the house
of James Smith, Esq. near Dartmouth-row, Blackheath, by a
gang of burglars, one of whom had already bored round three-
fourths of one of the square pannels of the door, in order to en-
able him to loosen the fastenings inside, when Mr. Smith, who
is upwards of 70 years of age, was awoke by the noise. lie got
out of bed, and throwing up his chamber window, called out
" Who's there? what are you about ?" He had scarcely uttered
these words when a ruffian at some distance from the door fired
a pistol at him, the shot from which passed through the fleshy
part of his arm, entered his breast and lodged between the ribs
on the opposite side ; the villains made off immediately. The re-
port of the pistol and the fall of Mr. Smith upon the floor of his
room alarmed the family, and he was found weltering in his
blood. Medical aid was procured, but he now lies in a state of
extreme danger, and, as the surgeons think, there are no hopes
of recovery.
Ruthven, one of the principal officers, was sent off immeiji-
ately, and was engaged the whole of the day and night endeavour-
ing to trace theiuffians, but without success.
Gutumat.t..—Sunday morning Fishman, the watchman, ob-
served a man loitering near the poulterer's shop at the end of
Fleet-market, fronting Bridge-street, and when about to tell him
to go on, he heard the creaking of a door, and saw another man
standing at Mr. Richardson's, f‘the butcher) shop, adjoining to
the linen-draper's, Mr. Morri. s, which forms the south east
corner, and Mr. Richardson's door open. The two fellows im-
mediately ran down the middle of the market, Fishman pur.
sued, but one of them escaped, leaving the skirt of his coat in
the watchman's hands, and the other was stopped near Harp.:
alley. The watchman who took the latter had no charge to pre-
fer, other than that he was running when the rattle was sprung ;
but, being unable to give a good account of himself, he was sent
to the Compter, as disorderly,.before the news of the robbery
reached the watch-house. I: turned out that the linen-draper's
shop had been broke open, a patent padlock had been forced off;
the thieves admitted, and another padlock substituted by, a con-
federate on the outside; that property, to the amount of from
3 to £4OO bad beewremoved to the butcher's shop, next door,
which was opened by a skeleton key ; and that when the thieves
were disturbed the job was complete, and they were only wait-
ing for a hackney coach to carry away their booty. When the
" disorderly" prisoner was brought up yesterday. be was recog-
nized by Fishman as the man who was loitering near the pool-
terer's door. Remanded.

Marren-Gasaen.—Yesterday four girls, aged from 14 to 16,
of respectable parents, were brought up. An old woman, who
lived in Tuniatill-street, bas for some time made her house a
rendezvous for juvenile thieves and prostitutes, and by having
dances, &c. young females of another description have been fre-
quently ensnared. The old woman (above NI) was sent to the
Workhouse, and the girls delivered to their parents.
Ma ar.socoucu-sTkarr.—Mary Meredith was fully committed,
charged with robbing her master, Mr. Bray, of James's-place,
Hampstead, of various articles. The prisoner had been three
mouths is Mr. Bray's employment, during which a great Wain.
her of articles had been missed; and on her attempting to go
out a few days since, a waistcoat belonging to him was found
upon her; and ou 'farther search, 83 duplicates of articles
pawned, many of s4hich were his property, were discovered
about her person.
A Lore Wirs.-7William Steel applied to the Magistrate for
'advice as to the best means of recovering a wife he bad lost. He
is an Oxfordshire man, and said, that abut two months ago,
being in London, he married a young woman, named Mary
Stevenson ; that they went into Oxfordshire to spend the honey-
moon, but, after a fortnight's sojourn. the lady disappeared. He
traced- and came up with her on the Bristol road, where helound
her is a waggon, but by some means that did not appear he let
her slip again, and only a few days ago succeeded in discovering
her In Cleveland-street; but . she refused to live with him, and •
he found she had drawn some money of ber's (tut of the Bank.—
The Magistrate asked what money this was? lie said about
£25 which she had of her own when he married her, and which
she gave him; but he was too gallant to keep it, and returned it
to her, which he seemed not to repent a little.—The Magistrate
told him, that any property she was possessed of at the time of
the marriage belonged ntiw to him, and would advise him to go
to the Bank and lay claim to any that remained; but fusilier he
coulll not interfere.
Quent-Souwar.-e-7`. Hilton, a yrivate in the Coldstream
Guards, was remanded, charged with tobbint a gentleman,
whom he met at a public-house in tho Almonry, and who, after
treating him, the prisoner engaged to see home ; but on their
way he snatched his hat from his head, and ran af, but was se-
cured by the watchman. who witnewed.the transoct ion.
Lasuarrit-staxer.—Yesterday E. Lew and 7'. W 66 were fully
committed, charged with stealing thirteen fowls and eight geese,
the property of Mr. Paine, market-gardener, residing at Barking
Side. Law accounted for his possession of the property by say.
ing that he placed it on his cart, near the Green Map, Layton-
stone, to oblige Webb and another man, both of whom were
strangers to him. He was a farmer's servant, -and was coming
to London at The time. There were three. others, viz. Poltartl,
Allen, and Hiller, examined on suspicion of being accomplices In
the robbery ; but there was no evidence to connect them with
the felony. Miller was consequently discharged; but another
case was preferred against Pollard and Allen, by Air. Millet, the
jailer of Barking House of Correction, who charged them with
having molest deer from Haineult Forest, the property, pf me
Maje4sA and they were sent, in custody, to Barbing.