Star.
London, England, 1822-12-02 00:00:00

Friday the planet Alererty attained its greatest
elongation in the south-east.'voltese, since reams is
:withdrawing hem the sphered' observation, it will
appear for a time as the harbinger of the morning.
In the garden of Mr.jaenev Constable, at Arundel,
there is-now a hedge sparrow sitting on a nest of eggs.
Whole,. fields in Moldavia are covered' with wild
sage, which at a certain time of rhe year shuts up its
leaves, so that they form a kind of ball, in which
small insecis lay their eggs. The Turks cut off these
balls, and make a preserve of them, And of the eggs
contained in them,- which is agreeable to the taste.
A coin, date 1560, reign of Elizabeth, in most per.
fect preservation, was found in the stomach of a emir,
slaughtered a few days ago, by Mr. Barber, butcher,
of Birmingham.
There is now a gang of feltows about the country,
in the dress of farmers, Under pretence of making
purchases at maiket towns; they set, up at an inn,
have sumptuous dinners and wines, learn the resin
dencea of the opulent farmers near, what horses they
keep, &c. A: few nights after their stables are
broken open, and their best horses stolen. The
horses are disguised, sent to London, and soon
posed of. Surrey was the first place where this sys-
tem commenced: -The gang pniceoded through Rent,
where they stole many valuable horses, and finally
Cab Essex, where they are now carrying on their de-
predations. A Gentleman residing in Chipwallin
Fat m lost three valuable horses last week, and traced
them up to London, but there lost all trace of theist.
Oct the 23d instant, the stables of Osgood Gee, Esq.
of High Garret, parish of Bricking, were forcibly en-
tered, and' two excellent mares stolen, onelf them:a
blood mare, value 1501. . .
Bow-Staters--Lon Hostas sus Orsocas.—Two Gentlemen
of pretty considerable respectability—one tall and the other
short—were charged with having assaulted the watch ; and no
fewer than five " ancient and quiet watchmen" appeared to teo.
tify against them.
Dennis Mack was first in order. He said he found the two
Gentlemen at the door of the oyster-shop in New-street, Co-
' vent-garden, between one and two o'clock in the morning, kick..
big up &great row, with a hackney-coach and two ladies. Bo
told them to go home to bed, and not be making such a bother
as all that, when the short one laid hold of his staff, and tried
to twist it out of his hind, whereupon he sprung his rattle for
assistance, &c.

Thomas Robinson was the next. He was a smart, upright,
Corporal Dries-like sort of a watchman, and his discourse was
sontewit.t " stuffed with epithets of war." He beard the rattle-
call of his comrade, and advanced to his rely—he made his air.
preaches with caution in,order to reconnoitre the party—havlag
so done, he challenged the offenders to surrender, and received
the point-blank charge of a fist—in his belly. • .
" What are you ?" asked •the Magistrate, struck by the no.
velty of kis phraseology.
" I have been a soldier, your Honour," he replied-6 hue. _
since I was discharged from the army -I have endeavoured to
fulfil the part of a cobbler."
Patrick Donoghue, a sis-foot Emerald islander, with an asto-
nishing perpendicular expansion of countenance, was the third
in order. He heard the hastimboo as he was peaceably walking his
bate, and went, right on end, to tarn the rights of it, and the .
biggest of the two, without saying by your late, took him a
mighty docent stroke over thejaus.
Two other watchmen followed, but, as they said, they only cam*
in at the tail.of the re% and therefore did not see the beginning
of it. However they bore testimony to the extreme repugnance
of the Gentlemen to go to the watchhouse.
The Gentlemen were now called upon for their defence; and
the short one undertook the task of making it. It appeared that
he and his tall friend were out so late because they were eating
oysters, consequently the oysters were entirely to blame, as far as
late hours were conscrntd. Then, as they were coniing out of
' the oystef-shop, they found two Ladies, who also had been up
stairs eating or.ters, sitting in a hackney-coach at the d00r...—.
There was nothing very extraordinary in this, but somehow es
other the coachman had got it into his head that these two un-
lucky Gentlemen had ordered the coach for the use of the Ladies
then comfortably sitting therein, and of course he looked to then
for the fare. The ladies themselves encouraged the coachmen
in this " iniquitous idea," and seemed to. enjoy it very much,
but our oysser-eaters were not ro be had in this way. They re-
sisted the " .bontinable demand," the coachman per-silted, the
Ladies laughed, the watch came up, and they (the oyster-eaters)
were hauled off to durance most unjustly. As to the blow on
the belly, the stroke on the jaws, &c. they denied it in taco.
They were nevertheless bald to bail for their appearance at the
Sessions; and, doubtless, should they ever be taken with ass
oyster fit again, -they will try to get over it earlier.
IRISH POLICE I NTELLIG ENCE—DU !MIN ,NOV.
Tom Walsh charged Tim Doyle with unlawfully appropriatilts
to his own use and benefit, a pair of breeches, the goods and chap.
tels of the aforesaid Tom. It appeared they bOth slept together
in a lodging-house, and that Tim rose some time before Tent.
' nit declared that he slipt into the iateapreseihks visite peonejom.
mak: "at an runts (added he) sure your Worship knows that
archangels no robbery ." The Magistrate however decided agahise
Tim's point, .and ordered him to refund the value of the ankle
forthwith, or throw himself Oil the mercy of twelve good men
and true. He preferred the former alternative, at the same tins
muttering, as he left the Office, that, if he was vied, he could
find a claw in the indictment.
Mary Meagher, a fine buxom-looking damsel from Patrick-
street, chatged Sall Doyle with killing her the night before. The
only vi.ible flaw in her appearance was a small sable spot under
the dearer eptic. •Gentle Sally stated that Mary wis the n.ota
villinest Tory on the face of the earth, and wall always polo& l
stale cods and other members of theinscalory tribe every morning
in Pail-bee, to the great injury of the trade in•genevaii and her.
self in particular; that on lad market-day.she puffed of e hag,
of condo eels to such a high price, just on purpose to vex her, that
she lost her patience,
,and gave herb 'than slapl; that after
returning home, .Vary took a. glass cora, and then came td egg
insaulted her must shamefully, and that in her own defect she
was obliged to make fight; that she threatened Mary witb's
summons, told gut Mary !mowing well she was wroug, got Qv%
a summons before her, jest to have the fuse oath. Mary, whose
high," was now about to speak to eel.
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