Star.
London, England, 1824-07-28 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Edward Sabrud, a witclitnanCiiSt:i.a4, and Edward Theek, the
driver of the coach No. 720, were charged with having taken a silk
shawl, value X 4, the property of Miss Emily Gibson. It appeared
that Miss Gibson had engaged the coach on Thursday evening, and
baying left her shawl in ft, went to the coach stand, and inquired
for It of the coachman ; he affected total ignorance ; and it having
been handed by him to the watchman, ft passed from him to another,
and then into the Lady's hands; these circumstances having been
communicated to one of the °Meets, the parties were taken into cus-
tody, when they sent to the prosecutriz, and endeavoured to arrange
the matter. They were fully committed.

Monday, William Ramsden Robinson, whose several
trials at the Old Bailey excited so much interest, and
who was convicted on one indictment, received his Ma-
jesty's free pardon, and was discharged from New ate.
The proposed ship canal for the junction of the Eng-
lish and Bristol Channels is proceeding on the survey and detailed
plans and estimates of the late Mr. Rum, who left behind him an
unqualified recommendation of the measure.
It is in contemplation to employ some engineers to;
make a plan of a direct line of road from 'Hamby Moor. in the
County of Nottingham, to Melton Mowbray, in the County of
Leicester, which will expedite the conveyance of the mail above
two hoots between London and Edinburgh.
The cause between the heirs of the late Count Gene-
ral STACK/V[4 and their opponents, respecting the execution of the
judgments given by the Court of Chancery in Ireland, and In the
House of Lords, in England, was *lda morning (Thursday last)
called on at the First Chamber of the Court Royal. The opponents
of Bicuaats, son of Count Gyms, demanded that the cause" me-
th du role" should be taken out of its place, at least so fat as re-',
girded the provision of 375,000 francs, which had been granted to
them by a decree of the First Instance. The Court held, that the!
ease should be kept on the roll, whence it results that it cannot be
heard till after the vacation.—Pbris Paper.
A thunderbolt fell, on the 10th of this month, on a
house in the commune of Garosse (Landes), and reduced
it, together with 370 sheep which had been shut up
there, to ashes.
A case of considerable interest to butchers and cattle
dealers was decided on the 12th instant, in the Justice
of Peace Court of Lanark. A cow, which was in the
charge of two men, who were driving her to the sham-
bles, gave several indications of danger to the passen-
gers, and at last ran at a man, whom she over-
turned, and broke one of his ribs. The cow had a rope
attaching her head by the horns to one of her fore feet,
but so loosely, that she not only could run, but as one
of the witnesses deposed, " she ran well." A defence
was set up, that the cow was secured exactly according
to the usual mode in cases where they are dangerous,
and a proof to that effect was attempted, by calling
'some butchers servants in evidence. The Court foga
the defendants liable in damages, surgeon's charges
and expenses, to the amount of five guineas; and the
presiding Justice laid it down as a fixed law, that in all
cases where cows sheered the slightest symptom of be-
coming infuriated, the drivers were bound to secure
them so completely as to prevent either danger or alarm
to the passengers on the road, and that the employer
was liable along with his servants; and stated that it
was the determination of the Court to give full effect
to the law in all such cases hereafter.

I Some Indians visiting Philadelphia, which they fre-
quently do to traffic with the Americans, remarked an
extensive building in the town, and asked a native who
accompanied them what was its use? " That," said
the American, "is a prison for the confinement of debtors
—persons who owe money, but have none to pay."
" How stranger said one of the Indians, with surprise,
"In nor country, when a man has the misfortune to
want money, we give him some:'
In an old number of the London Magazine, for Sep-
tember, 1785, is the following ankle, under the head
of aDenestic Occurrence :"

" Smote= 4.--On Thursday a considerable wager,on a circum-
stance novel as extraordinary, was determined between two
Gentlemen in the City; the bet was in proportion of five to three,
that 5.000 persons on foot, on horseback, and in carriages of every
description, did not pass and repass L.udpto.bill, between the boles
of two and three that afternoon. Six tenon were appointed, and
on casting up the numbers, the odds bad clearly lost, It appearing
that 5,755 persons had gone over the abovementioned spot within
the time given."
As this bet took place nearly forty years ago it
would be a curious subject of another bet at this period,
when the population of London, its commerce, and con-'
sequently its foot-passengers, hackney-coaches, stages,
carts, carriages, and vehicles of every description, have
in the interval increased to such a erodigious extent.—
The decision of such a wager at this day, would be a
subject of considerable interest as well as curiosity.
An incautious youth discharged a fowling-piece a
few days ago, through a hedge adjoining the Sedgefield-
road, and nearly shot a Gentleman who was passing.
The latter, who is remarkable for saying good things,
exclaimed 4. halloo l take care," and the youth imme-
diately apologised, adding, he was not aware of any
person being near, and that he had fired at a Jay.—
A Jay," replied the other (whose christian name is
John), " why, you had nearly killed a Jack ! "
Bointoaloxa's Otaaa.--.A the bailad.singers in chief re-
pute during the time of Swift, e, Gay, Steele, Ike. there
was a young creature, now known to the world by no other title
than Clara, who drew muck attention at this tient by the sweet-
ness and pathos of her tones. Sim was she original singer of
" Black-eyed Senn," and one or two songs which were afterwards
introduced into then Beggar's Opera." But her recommendation
to particular notice was the circumstance of her having for many
years been the object of Lord Boliagbroke's enthusiastic affection.
The poor girl strayed for some time, during which his Lordship
had not seen her; and it was after that interval, that, having met
her, be addressed to her the tender lines, beginning—
* Dear thoughtless Clara, to my verse attend,
Believe for once the lover and the friend."
And concludes thus—

, a To virtue thus and to thysdf restored,
By all admlr'd, by one alone adored ;
Be to thy Harry kind and true,
And live for hint who more than died for you."
A series of miantides totally ruined her vocal powers' and she
afterwards subsisted by the sale of oraoges, at the Coto of Requests.

INCREASE OF ROMAN CATIIOLIC9.
0.41111111 Mm.
PROM TIM COTTAGE MACIAZINE.
According to returns laid before Parliament, about
shirtrfloe pears ago, the then number of Roman Catho.
lies was 69,876; but, according to the statements of
certain Roman Catholic writers, the number of person/
belonging to their communion amounted, about six or
score years ago, to 500,000. In the year 1781, there
were only three Roman Catholic schools of any note in
England; but at present, upwards of fifty; most of
the Roman Catholic chapels, the number of which is
actually no less than .erne hundred, were built within
the last thirty-five years ; in the collegiate establishment
at Stonyhurst there are accommodations for 500 pupils,
besides professors, manages, and domestics; before the
arrival of the Jesuits, there were not more than ten or
a dozen Roman Catholics in the immediate neighbour-
hood of Stonyhurst, but now several thousands ; within
a few years, there have been erected near that place two
spacious chapels', each capable of containing 2,000, and
yet insufficient for the accommodation of the new con-
verts to Popery; 3,000 Roman Catholic children were
confirmed in the year 1815, in Liverpool, Manchester,
and Preston ; the Roman Catholic chapels in Lanca-
shire and parts of the adjacent counties are nearly as
numerous as-the Protestant churches, Jesuits officiate in
all of them. The Jesuits of Stonyhurst are lords of
that manor, of which they reserve, for the use of their
establishment; 1,000 acres ; they invariably dispossess
their unconvertible Protestant tenants, as soon as their
term expires, and substitute Roman Catholics in their
places; they find means to restrain many Protestaat
booksellers from selling any books against Popery, while
there is a Popish bookseller in aiarge town whose shop
is abundantly supplied with publications hostile to the
cause of Protestanism ; their ablest orators regularly
preach against the doctrines of the Reformation and the
Established Church ; they frequently dispatch agents to
Ireland, and appear to be deeply interested in the reli-
gious and political concerns of that distracted country.
Monday morning, itTeTsitrig—ck, the Right Honourable
the. LORD MAYOR held a Court of Conservancy at the
Swan Tavern, near Westminster-bridge, for the purpose
of receiving the report of the Conservatory Jury for the
county of Middlesex, appointed to inspect the state of
the river Thames within the boundaries of that county.
Mr. BARRON, of the Strand, the foreman, made his re-
port accordingly, in which various nuisances and obstruc-
tions were pointed out as necessary to be removed ; and,
after his Lordship had thanked the Jury for the atten-
tion they had paid to their ditty, the Court broke up.
Four troops of the Bth Hussars arrived at Dorchester,
from Hammersmith, on Monday. Ten unfortunate
women who followed the regiment were taken into cus-
tody, four of whom have since escaped, and the other
six have bean committed to Dorchester Jail under the
Vagrant Act.
Yesterday morning some daring thieves broke into
the Black Horse public-house, High-street, Mary la-
bonne, by raising the flap of the cellar: they succeeded
in entering the wine and spirit cellar, and carried away
a considerable quantity of wine, brandy, and rum. A
bladder was found filled with spirits in the cellar, which
the thieves in their hurry left behind. A man is in cus-
tody, on 'suspicion of being one of the gang.—A short
time since, the house of Mg
r. Kerridge, of the Bedford
Arms, South-street, was entered in a similar manner,
when they succeeded in taking away, unmolested, nearly
forty gallons of brandy.
EXTRAORDINARY WANDIRRR.—The Gazette of Min-
an, in Prods, mentions the death of an extraordinary man, who,
without country or fortunemavelled over different parts of Europe
far the last forty years, and had oontmunication with the learned,
and particularly with the antiquaries, on account of the researches
In which be was engaged on the ancient Images of Scandinavia.
On his return, a year ago, from a journey which he made on foot
through France, Spain, Italy, Hungary, and Austria, he remained
some time la Meeklenburgh, after which he went by the South of
Germany to Naples; there be was imprisoned, being suspected of
Carbonation. On being released he set out to return to Germany,
and died at a small village two leagues from Venice, in a state of
great destitution. It is not known what has become of his manu-
scripts, and of some remarkable antiquities which he always earned
with him. He was endowed with a prodigious memory, and knew
a multitude of things. He carried, as it were, whole libraries in
his bead, and he transported with considerable labour, doting his
long journeys, whole alphabets and characters of the i...iciinavian
and tongues. His name was Martin Frederick Arendt, and
he was born in Holstein.
VULGAR Eaaoaa.--Amongst the vulgar errors pre-
valent with the lower classes are the following :—That when a man
marries a woman who is in debt, and takes her from the hands of
the Clergyman clothed only In her under garment, he is not liable
to her Mm....-That there was no land tax in existence previous to
the reign of William 111.--That if a criminal hangs an hour, and
afterwards recovers, he cannot agate be executed.—That a hus-
band has the power of divorcing his wife by selling her in open
market, with a halter round her neck.—That second cousins can-
not marry, though first cousins may.—That it is neeeuary, in some
legal process against the King, to go through the fiction of arrest
ing him • which is done by piecing a ribbon across the road as if to
impede ids arriaqp....That pounds of butter may be of any num-
ber of ounces...-That leases are never made for a longer term than
099 years, because a leave for 1000 years constitutes a freehold.—
That deeds executed on a Sunday are void.-,And that, in order to
disinherit an heir-at-law it is necessary to give him a shilling by the
will, for that otherwise he would be entitled to the wit* property.

-BIRTHS.
July 20, at Bakarres, the Lady of Captain Head, Commander
of the Hon. Company's ship Canning, of a daughter.
July 17, at Hope Cottage, near Cowes, the Lady of Captain
French, of the 47th Regiment, of a son.

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July 22, at admen* eini-rie; Bader fitemseen, R.q. late of
the soots Greys, to Harriet Ann Graham, daughter of the
bte James Graham, Seq. of way, Cumberland.
July 20, at Ratho, the Rec. J. J. Macfarlane, aktdestme,
Glasgow, to Elisabeth, West daughter of Mr. John Adders's&
July IS, at Orehardmains, the Err. Thomas Struthers, Hareil.
ton, to Isabella, eldest daughter of A. Brydon, Req. Oreharthosise.
July 7, at Edinburgh, James Nalsmith, Seq. writer, Hasidim,
to Janet, eldest daughter of the Rev. James Smith.

DIED.
June 29, at Burghead, the Rev. Lewis Gordan, D.D. we of
the Ministers of Bight, in the 76th year of his age, and the Sake
kb Ministry.
July at Kielburn, parish of Laurencekirk, after ten yews'
confinement by rheumatism, Elizabeth, wife of Lieutenant
half-pay of 62d Regiment.
July 44, at Cheltenham, aged ad, Catherine Mary Richards.
youngest daughter of the late Lord Chief Baron.
July 11, at 'Denary, Major-General Dupld Campbell.
July 14, at Edinburgh, Mrs. Margaret Macdonald, wife of Cap-
tain John Macdonald, Barrack-master, Edinburgh.
Wednesday se'nnight, In the 25th year of her age, at her house
In Paradise-row, Dear Worcester, Mrs. Man. fitiMngdeet, the third
and only remainng daughter of the Rev. Edward Stildoglseet, for-
merly Prebendary of Worcester, and Rector of Hartlebury.

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