Star.
London, England, 1824-10-23 00:00:00

!HAY MARKET THEATRE.

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A new piece, called hide and Seek, was produced •
this House last night. The.plot consists in the adven-
tures of a runaway Page of a Duke in the grounds of a
neighbouring tenant. Having incurred the anger of
his master, here he endeavours to conceal himself, try-
ing, at the same time, to beguile the tedious hours of
banishment, by poaching on the preserves of his uncon-
scious host. This he effectually accomplishes, to the •
discomfiture of the farmer's nephew, LisroN, by secur-
ing the affections of his daughter. During the period
of his concealment the estate is supposed to be infested
by a fox. In order to catch this noxious animal the
Duke is invited on the premises with his hounds and
huntsmen, and the result of his chase is, that be even-
tually runs down his own page. Thus caught in the
toils a confession is made, and the matter cleared up
by the union of the love's. Mr. MELROSE persohates
the Duke, in which character he introduces many,pleas-
ing songs. Miss KELLY is one lover ; Mrs. T. I-fiu.,
who appears in'male attire, the other. They did ample
justice to the parts assigned to them. Mr. WtoLiams
played the Fatter, and with very good effect. Liorow,
as Dibble, did the utmost which his character would
allow. The effects of a severe cold and hoarseness
however were visible throughout the evening. At the
conclusion of the Piece some disapprobation was mani
fested, upon which Mr. LISTON, with much good nature,
came fon% ard and requested a second laming for Mon-
day, when he hoped to be better able to do the author
justice. This proposition received a cordial assent fiom
the audience.

A large quantity of contraband goods is said to have
been lately seized, in the house of a private individual at Stockholm.
Upwards of thirtytbree coaches, on tl.eir way to the
North, were stopped by the overflow of the flood at
Newport Pagnell.
In some parts of Siberia parents sell their children as
slaves for a pound of tobacco, or a glass of spirits.
A recent traveller info: ms us that he eat strawber-
ries attcl cream, standing with one leg in Europe, and
the other in Asia.

Nine Greek boys have just arrived in England to be
educated. They were introduced on Thursday to the
Greek Committee, who were greatly gratified with their
intete.ting appearance, and the intelligence which they
seemed to possess. Captain Blaquiere, on the same oc-
casion, presented to the Committee the Turkish flag
which Marco Bozzaris seized a few moments before he
was killed; with two cannon-balls cut from the marble
of the Parthenon, which the Greeks, in the course of
their struggle, have been obliged to use for want of
other ammunition.

The Catholics in the dominions of the King of NO-
WA seem inspired with a new zeal to support their faith
—by a dashing challenge in the form of a question pro-
posed by the Theological Faculty of the University of
Breslau. It is " Whether there be any other than the
Catholic Church, derived from CHRIST and the Apostles?"
This will once more raia clouds of " learned dust."
The refusal of the Tsual rites to the remains of
PHILIPPE, an actor, is still agitated with great earnest-
ness in Paris. But it does not appear to be brought be-
fore the Government. As to the dogma itself, that all
players are excommunicated, it appears to be a relic of
early bigotry. and barbarism, abandoned in other Ca..
tholic countries, even in the dominions of the Holy
Father himself, and disgraceful to such a country a,
France. The endeavours to revive from the desuetude
into which it had fallen, this bigotted and presumptuous
exclusion will only tend to precipitate the very power
and influence which the Clergy are endeavouring to
recover. A curious fact has come out in the course of
this affair. It is, that actors and actresses are the most
liberal dispensers of public and private charity in Paris.
The plan proposed in Sweden, about two years since,
in a pamphlet, of forming a Society, the object of which
should be to assimilate itself to the ancient simplicity of
manners, has been just put into execution upon the
southern frontiers of the kingdom, where a Colony has
been founded under the title of " Machem," a name
given by the old Poets to Sweden, and which signifies
" Dwelling of Men ;" and it is placed in opposition to
" Gudahem," or " Asahem," which means " Abode of
the Gods." A person employed in the management of
ecclesiastical affairs, and nephew to a Swedish Bishop,
is at the head of the Colony, the members of which,
having renounced the affairs of the world, support them-
selves by the labour of their hands, and live upon milk.
They have but a single silver spoon for those strangers
who go to visit them, and who are received with the
greatest hospitality. The colony consists of ten or eleven
families, many of whom are the possessors of consi-
derable wealth. An officer, the son of one of the most
opulent inhabitants of Stockholm, and distinguished for
his knowledge and the purity of his morals, has, at an
early period of his life, abandoned the military profes-
sion, for the purpose of attaching himself to the Society.
The ground possessed by the members is purchased
for 20 years, and the buildings constructed are com-
pletely in the style of those of the old Goths. Whatever
may be thought of the peculiarity of disposition which
could operate upon the members cf this new sect, so far
as to separate them from their fellows, the purity of
their intentions, and the principles they profess, are
above all criticism.

Saturday a melancholy Accident happened at Chapel-
hill, near Margate :—As a *Gentleman's carriage was
travelling upon the road near the above place, with A
Lady and her family of young females, and a youth
about 11 years of age, the latter sitting on the box, the
coachman had occasion to get down to adjust some OF
the harness; the horses being very spirited, became
unmanageable, and running. the carriage upon an ele-
vated foot-path, overturned at, and falling upon the un-
fortunate youth killed him on the spot. The other
branches of the family received some severe contusions,
but not of a serious nature.
A few days ago, a Wlk Mercer in Dewsbury, received
the following letter, inclosing sit one-pound notes :
" Sept. 1824, Sir—This is sent to make restitution for
having defrauded you."
Friday sennight, au interesting funeral tdok place at Wittering,
a village three miles south of Stamford. The individual whose re-
mains were consigned to the earth, swat in life no less a personage
than Henry Boswell, weU known ai the Father, or King of the
Gypsies resorting to that part of the country. The old man Was
encamped on Southorpe Heath, with several of his family and sub-
jects, on Sunday sennight, *lien death put an end to his reign and
earthly wanderings. He had been ill for a few days, ►ut his com-
plaint was really a detay of nature, for the patriarch was nearly a
hundred years of age. The corpse continued in the camp on the
heath for five days. On the Wednesday the gypsey camp broke
up from Southorpe, on which occasion those who had composed it'
went to the church-yard to pay the last tribute of affection at the
grave of Boswell, and a very impressive scene of silent unaffected
grief was witnessed. The old man is said to have died in very af-
fluent circumstances, and to have possessedrestates in various pacts
of England.

NAPAL INTFILLIGENCE.

Nai► Eitiursi Conn•Uovss.

Ltvaaroot, Ocz. 21. The packet ship Nestor, from New
York (of the 16:1 ult.) is no doubt driven to the southward, by
the late gales from the N. E.

His Majesty's ship. Hastams, 18, Captain Omuta, with the Ps.
macs, 18, Captain liaanev, in company, discovered, at daylight
on the 9th inst. about four leagues from Cork, to windward of the
latter named ship, the Phcenis smuggling lugger, which they
dased until eight o'clock, when she gave up, and was captured.
The ship and cargo (tobacco) are said to he worth front ,C 7,05
to £B,OOO.
Mitts, Ocr. 17.*--The Swedish gal!int Merman, flocs, from
Palms and Alicata to Mar3eilles, is totally lost off Cape Coutonnes.
Crew saved.

FAUSII"Ifs Oct. 21.—Wind S.—Arrived the Duke of York
packet. from America, last from Halifax in thirty-eight days, twelve
of which she was laying-to in a heavy gale from SAL. on the Batiks
of Newfoundland.
Foam:Orin, Oct. 22.—Wind KR—Sailed the Aurora, EARL.
for Madras and Bengal; and Shipley. CARTER, for Valparaiso.
DeAL, Ocr.23.—Wind S.—Arrived and remains for orders, the
Sylph, MASON, from Zante—sailed sth September ; left loading
there the Alert, SCHOLES; and the Progress, PARKEN. An Ameri-
can ship, with the letters" V P" on her fore-topsail, passed front
the Westward this afternoon. The Glaphyra, Resolution, and the
rest of the outward bound sailed this afternoon.

Liveneoot., Oct. 21.—Arrived the Isabella, Hos Ace, from Ma
Janeiro; and tLe Ilumanite, --, from Bourdeaux.

Woodcock; have already made their appearance in 1
Devonshire. Several couple were sold in Eieter market on Thurs.'
day, at 7s. each.
As a proof of the fineness of Crediton spinning, it is
related that one hundred and forty *threads of woollen
yarn, spun in that town, .were drawn together through
the eye of a tailor's needle; which needle and threads
were to he seen many years in Watliag-street, London,
in the shop of one Dimscombe, at the sign of the Golden
Bottle. The discoveries, however, of Watt and Ark-

aright have enabled the manufacturers of the present
day far to excel ancient Crrditon in the fineness of spin.

ning.—Plymouth Journal.
The workmen who have been employed during the

last ten days in altering Blackfriars Bridge have com-
menced levelling the ground peparatory to making a
road of it. They have dug a yard deep upon the centre
of the bridge, and gradually shallower to the extremities.
The ascent on each side will be considerably lessened,
and as the ground is to be raised several feet in Bridge.
street and Great Surrey-street, the difficulties and dan-
gers attending the passage of carriages at the foot of
the bridge, especially in the winter season, will be very
much reduced. _ _

As a Mr. Wilkins, one of the performers in the or-
chestra at Covent-garden, was returning from the
Theatre on Tuesday night, between twelve and one
o'clock, he heard loud groans proceeding foot') an unin-
habited house in the Oval, at Kennington. lie instantly
ran to his father's, who is a Beadle of Lambeth, and ac-
quainted him of the circumstance. They proceeded to-
gether to the house, which was open, and there found a
poor woman, named Ann Weston, lying on bare boards,
apparently in great suffering. The Beadle immediately
conveyed her off to his house, in Bowling-green•lane,
where the poor creature had only arrived about two
minutes before she was delivered of a female child. The
mother and her infant are still at the Beadles house, and
both doing well.
SMUGGLER SHOT.—Stocks, one of the Preventive
Guard from Southsea Castle; came op svith a party of
smugglers about midnight, on the 20th inst. near the
Royal Clarence P. omenade Room. They immediately
gave a signal to their associates, and Stocks ran along
the beach to give alarm at the Castle, but in Iris way
stumbled over some tubs that had just been landed.
In a moment the body of smugglers appeared, and
began carrying oft the casks. Stocks fired a pistol to
alarm the guard at the Castle, and threatened to shoot
the next man who touched the seizure. The Captain of
the Smugglers now cried out, " D— your cowardly
eyes, will you allow one man to capture my tubs ?" and
Stocks fired two more signals of alarm. The smugglers,
however, hearing some soldiers advancing, became fu-
rious, and endeavoured to close upon him with blud-
geons ; he fired, and one Harris, a bricklayer, fell; and
the soldiers just came up in time to save Stocks' life.
IThey seized one of the gang ; but, they having no am-
sttnition, were overpowered, and the man rescued.—
Harris is not expected to survive. Thirty-five tubs of
gin were secured.—A party of Custom-house Officers,
pon the look-out inland, met with the retreating smug-
glers, and; upon going up to challenge them, one of
them made a chop at the officer, which, had it taken
effect, would have probed fatal. The officers, hoivever,
suhceeded in taking him; with two tubs which were near
him. His name is Burnett; he is a gardener, lately in
theemploy of Mr. Parish ; he is aow on board the Fen et.
Some of the Morning Papers contain a paragraph,
stating, that" the return of iron ore smelted at the works
bf a worthy Alderman, is estimated at 5,000 tons weekly,
and that he has thereby derived an addition of the im-
rhense sum of £90,000 to hii annual income from this
Cause." The worthy Alderman alluded to is Alderman
THoMisoN ; and anybody who knows anything about
the iron trade also knows that the story is altogether
a fabrication. _ .

The additional profit to the iron mines, in conseqUence of the rise
la price from 47 to £l2 per ton, is full £4 per ton ; so that, if the
Alderman's mines produce 5,000 tons weekly, the profits woulJ be
£20,000 a week, or 41,040,010 per annum.
The &Bowing account of the produce of the five largest firms in
England *ill explain :
William Crawshay, Esq. of Cyfathfar Mines
(supposed to be all his own) . . 23,000 tons per ann.
J. and C. Bailey, of Nanty.Glo . . 16,000 do.
Guest, Lewis, and Co. of Dowlair . 15,000 do.
Thompson and Co. Peoydervoa . . 14,000 do.
Hill and Co. Plymouth Forge . . 12,000 do.
Alderman Tflomilow, it is said ,lias rather better than
one-third of the concern of which he stands at the head,
but not a half.
The night of Friday, the Bth instant, between the
hours of nine and twelve o'clock, some incendiary set
fire to the corn-mill of Carrickmannon, in the parish
of Killinchy, by which the whole of the premises, with a
considerable quantity of grain, were consumed. Though
the alarm was immediately given on the circumstance
being observed, yet no exertions could atreit the pro-
gress of the flames until the whole of the property vi as
destroyed, No cause can be aSigned for this diaboli-
cal act, as the present occupant is a most industrious
and inoffensive man.
At the fair of Roscrea, on Saturday se'nnight, two
parties of the names of Cummins and Mailers, met in
battle array, and with stones and other missiles began
a regular fight. The circumstance reaching Mr. Nash,
the Chief Constable of that town, he, with that promp-
titude which has characterised his conduct whilst there,
at the head of the Police and part of the army quar-
tered in that town, succeeded (after a most dreadful re-
sistance made by both parties, who formed their forces
together) in taking fifty-three of the rioters, and lodging
them in jail.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
HUN NO.
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Arrisastinorss roa snit ansonsa went.
114, JoUiffe's fox-hounds meet on Monday, 25, at Nuffield Marsh ;
Wednesday, 27, at Chaldon ; Saturday, SO, at Old Warren.
The Surrey fox-hounds meet on Monday, 2S, at Half Moos,
Godutone-road ; Thursday, 28, at Pratt's Bottom ; Saturday, 30, at
Batley Hill.
The second Chumleigh Meeting will take place at Byeott Brake
on Monday, Nov. IS a ten.
The Somerset Subscription Fox Hounds meet on Tuesday, at
I lawklnidge Brake; Friday, at St. Audries.
Sir B. Graham's Fox Hounds, Monday, at the Fox, Albrightaa ;
Wednesday, at Act4ti Burnell; Thursday, at Battlefield; Satur-
day, at liawkstone
The Cheshire Hounds, Monday, at Bceston Hall; Wednesday,
at Norton; Thursday, at Aston Grange; and Saturday, at the
Fox and Barrel.

Monday, Mr. Collard's harriers met near the Old Park, and
had an excellent run. In the course of the (jay they killed a leash
of keres. In leaping a Ledge, with a ditch beyond, the horse of
Lieutenant Robbins, of the 17th Lancers, fell and threw that Gen-
tleman a severe fall, which materially injured his arm. He was
conveyed to a neighbouring farm-house, where he received imme-
diate attention, and is not likely to experience any very ill effects.
Another horse fell in attempting the same leap, but the rider
escaped unhurt.
NEWMARKET SF.COND OCTOBER BIEETI NG, 1824.

rasa's, aI:7VMM 22.
Renewal of the Prendergast Stakes of 50 soy. each, h. R. for two
yr.. old colts, Bat. Sib. and fillies, Bst. 31b. T. Y. C.
Lord Eseter's c. Redgauntlet . 1
. . .
1). of Rutland's b. 1. by Phantom 3
. . .
Mr. Roger's h. 1. Scandal 2
. • . .
1). of Grafton's ch f. Gavotte . 4
. . .
Mr. Wortley's 1. by Comus . . 6
Seven paid.-7 to 4 apt Redgauntlet ;10to 1 apt b. f. by
Phantom; 5 to 1 apt Scandal; 7 to 4 apt Gavotte; 8 to 1 apt f.
by Comic
Mr. Petit's Bravura, 7st. 41b. beat 14. Dunwich's Dandizette,
Bst. 71b. D. 11.50.-2 to 1 apt Bravura.
141. Dunwich's Dandizotte, List. 13th. east Mr. Molony's Scbah-
riar, iat. 13'b. D.M. 100, h. ft —Off by consent. .
11r. Williamson's br. c. by Haphazard, Bst. 21b. apt Mr. Osbal.
deston's b. f. by Caton, Bst. T. Y. C.lOO soy. h. ft. Off by consent
HOLY WELL lIUNT—Ocv. 19.
The Taffy Stakes of 25 r., v. each, three years old colts and fillies.
A mile and three-quartets.
Sir 'l'. Stanley's b. c. by Filho da Puta . . 1
IA Grosvettor's ch. f. Ilybla . 2
Sir 'l'. Most yn's b. f. Archduchess 5
Produce Stakes of 50gs each, h. ft. for the pro luce of mares
covered in 1820. Two milts.
Mr. E. Stanley's e. by Camillus . walked over
The Chieftain Stakes of 50 soy, each, was walked over for by
IA Stamford's b. c. Portrait.
A Sweepstakes of 85 sov. each, for two years old colts and fillies.
The last half mile.

Mr. Mytton's b. c. by Manfred . . 1
Sir W. Wynn's ch. 1. by Blucher . . 2
The Mostyn Stakes of 10 sow. each.
Mr. Myttou's br. e. Oswestry, 3 yrs old . . 1
Mr. Tomes's b. h. Sir Grey, 3 yrs old . 2
Several others started, but were not placed.
A Handicap Stakes of 20 sov. each, h. ft. with 20 added by the
Club. Three miles.
Sir T. Alostyn's Princess Royal, 6 yrs old, 94. 21b. . 1
IA Grosvenor's Etiquette, 4 yrs old, list. Sib. . 2
Mr. Mytton's Comte d'Artois, 4 yrs old. est. 71h. . 5
Sir T. Stanley's br. c. by Milo, 3 yrs old, 6st. 121 b. . 4
TWENTY-SIX MILES MATCH FOR 50 SOy. _

Mr. G. West started from Hyde Park, at six o'clock yesterday
morning, to go 26 miles on the Maidenhead.road, in two hours and
three-quarters, for ‘5O. He reached the nineteenth mile-stone in
two hours, and did the other seven miles faster than any other part
of the ground in 42 minutes, winning the match by three minutes.