Star.
London, England, 1824-10-01 00:00:00

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MR. &IDLER'S ASCENT .FROM BOLTON.
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having been annotated, that btr.W.W.ftpfter
make his thirty-fine ascent in his balloon• from,'
ten Wednesday afternoon, considerable anxiety
in this town to have a view of it, as the state of thx
was ascertained to be pretty favourable for wafting the
aria' voyager in this direction. About 25 minutes before
the.balloon was seen rising over the hills
on the south-east, and came within about a mile of this'
town., The grandeur of its approach till it was ap-
parently seen to descend, was beyond description.
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• , -Half-put Four
We have just been informed by apemen who was on
the spat, tbat. about 10 minutes before three o'clock, the.
balloon •was :Seen hovering over Holytroyds, in the town-
ship of Church, about three miles from hence ; and in at-
tempting to make a descent, the balloon came in contact
with a chimney, when the aeronaut was thrown. out of
thecar. He held by the grappling -iron for a considerable
time, and is suppOsedin,have been dragged several bun
tiled yards, dtiring whiih time he wits much injured by
the, tops of trees, chimnies, Etc. At last he fell to the•
ground, from a height of about 15 or 16 yarck. Num-
bers tif people immediately ran to his assistance, and he
was taken up, much bruiied, and in a senseless gate.
He was taken to the Holytroyds piblic-house, where
every attention was paid him. The balloon immediately
ascended, and was soon out of sight.

'lag-past Five.
James Barlow, Esq. and Mr. Dugdale, surgeon, have
just been sent for to attend the unfortunate gentleman,
who. we u►►derstand, is not expected to recover.
lialf-past Six o'Clock.
We have' just been informed that Mr. Sadler was
accompanied by a man-servant, and that the balloon
made another di •cent on Mr. Taylor's estate, neat
Whalley, when the servant' was thrown (Art, and had his
arm broke, and was otherwise much bruised. A chaise
wasinomediately proc►►red, and he set off to Bolton.
The balloon again ascended, and has not up to this hour
been secttred.—Blackburn Mail.

CLIILD-S! EALING.

About. three weeks ago, James Thorpe, a Gne boy
neatly five years old, son to Mr. Thomas Thorpe, ship-
carpenter, of Blackwell, suddenly disappeared from
home. As the boy had been =in the habit of following
his father to the river-side, it was at first appiehended
that he had fallen into the water and perished ; search
was made, but no tidings could be had of the poor boy
for two days, when the child's mother happening to
mention the circumstance at a neighbouring public-
house, the bar-maid stated that she had seen young
Thorpe on the evening of his disappearance, in com-
pany with a strange woman, and an itinerant tinker,
who were subsequently traced to London, having taken
a boat for the Tower-stairs, at Blackwell, and bioughe
the boy back with them. The poor father, by dint of
infinity, and the offer of a considerable reward, at length
got some intelligence of the route they had taken;
which was towards Islington, and at a house much fre.
quented by those travelling gentry, he obtained further-
intelligence of the man and woman as described by
'him, but none of ihellboy. The woman was said to have
quarrelled with her companion, itho was then out, dis-
posing of his merchandise, and the former had, in the
intaiim, carried away the. boy somewhere towards
town. However, as the tinker had left a donkey in the
field, it was presunied he would return to take it away,
and Mr. Thorpe was advised to wait his arrival, as it
was most probable he might be compelled to disclose'
the woman's haunts, of at. all events be made to assist'
in the recovery of the child. Agreeable to expectation,
the tinker returned to the usual rendezvous at night, in-
tending to take to the road at an early.hour on the fol-
lowing morning. Mr. Thorpe being apprised of his
arrival, procured the assistance of one of the local con-
stables, and took the fellow into custody at first he
seemed to deny all knowledge either of the woman or
child, but being threatened with pioseCution for abet-
ting is the crimedre confessed everything. The-we-
man's name was Margaret parker; she had been for
some years an active member in the celebrated gipsy
gang that are known tie infest the toad from Hounslow
'to London, but from decrepitude and age, combined
with many external canes, she had latterly abandoned
the fraternity, and become kidnapper,• having carried'
off several, children with the view of inducing the
parents to offer large rewards for their 'restoration, and
when that has.failecl, she generally disposed of them to
her old confederates, wno put them to the torture untg
they acquired:a certain degree of agility in dancing and
tumbling on the_road side, so as to attract the notice of
passengers. From the tinker's statement, it appeared
that he was not at all cannected,in the business, except
occasionally meeting the old harridan in the outlets.
On the following morning he accompanied Mr. Thorpe
to London, and the latter having availed himself of the
assistance of the police, proceeded to a wretched hovel
in Fox's.court, St. Giles s, where this dealer in human
Bash generally resorted. The woman of the house,
who was the very prototype of the one sought for,
denied having any knowledge of such persons, but the
officers being resolved not to take her word for it, pro-
ceeded to search the house, when in one of the upper
apartments they discovered :the princip.al object of
their inquiry—poor little Thorpe, in a state of wretched-
ness that would have melted to compassion the mast
obdurate heart. Worn to a skeleton by hunger, his
little limbs exhibited au alternate shade of red and blue'
stripes, as he lay stretched on a truss of , foul straw,
with the tattered remnants of an old petticoat by way
of covering. When restored to the arms' of his father,
the miserable infant became so frantically overjoyed,
that he was almost instantaneously attacked with con-
vulsions ; and if it had not been for the prompt efforts
of surgical skill, there is little doubt that his sufferings
and his life would have terminated together.
The woman (if we may call her one) to whom this
crime is fully traced, had gone out on one of her pre-
datory excursions, and therefore for the present escaped
apprehension.

HUSSAR FRiCIATE.—We understand that the cO7panyi
who have been employed for several weeks in aising
the British frigate Hussar, which ran on the rocks in
Mel Gate, and sunk, diming the 'revoluticinari war
have succeede), in raising about forty feet of the, stern
part of the ship. After placing the chains under her,
and moving her from her bed, she broke in two from
the keel up through the, quarter ciecke and the fore
part of the ship slipped from the slingt, and settled down
again on the rocks. The timber of such part of the
ship as was embedded in the mod is perfectly sound.
The remainder is completely worm-eaten and rotten.
A number of cannon and Ain were ibrought up with
the hulls but nothing more valuable that we cap learn.

..Were . _
kDoniasier). 1345; but ilieletting esthese Stakes will net b wort
extensive till after the NeNfmarket Meetings. The (Mewls( rde
the present odds: _•••S:
GRAND Dues Mean batter—S to 4 Cedric apt the SAIL
Nastu.salur• Lisle—The sense as on hlunday.
bum 1345.
10 to 1 agst Rufus 11Y to 1 salt any other

sonann n. Linn.
10 to 1• first Memnon I2oto 1 apt Androgens
12 to 1 apt Cleveland: 20 to 1 agst Philander
20 to 1 apt The Alderman
HA PTO NRACES—Sere. 30.

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The Ferry Cup, value Ave soy. to carry cat:h weights. One mile.
air. itetitv's Sprightly . . 4 0 1 1
. Mr. Duress's ianny . 1 0 2 2
. Mr. Elaine's Newsman . 2 3 3 dr
Mr .1 .
..cob'4 Charcoal . 3• dr •

CHESTERFIELD RACP.S.—Tuesaav, Seer. 2S.
The logs. Stakes did sat 211.—A Handicap Sweepstakes'/aspen-
posed of five soy. each, and 40 added by the Town. Heats, once
round the Course.
Mr. Turner's br. f. Palatine

Lord Fitzwillism's eh. m. Liam& .
A good ram.
A Sweepstakes of one soy. each, with 40 added. One mile huts.
Mr. Snobsorn't ch. m. Maid of AU Week . 1 1
Mr. Siniales eh. h. . - S
Mr. Sybrag's b. V. bp Euphrates
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2 2

Seven mined, but only three were plate&
LINCOLN RACES—Sne. is.
A Macaroni Stakes of logs. each, F.p. for trees d all ages. Five
Subscribers. Twomlle race.

Mr. J. longdest's Giumdalclkch . . ,1 1
Mr. R. Smith's The Doctor . . * *
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Col. Sibthorp's' by Cavendish . S dr
Air. aaohnioy's Sawney and Maier Colegrave's Catch-hiss, (mid.
Ills Majesty's Purse of 100 p. for four or. Ave yrs old mares ; year
yrs old, to carry sat. 41b. Ave, ilst. Two mile heats.
Mr. Hawonh's /lima, 4 yrs old . 1 1
Lard Milton's Nitrogen, 4 yrs old •
Lord Scarborough's Fair Charlotte, S yrs old .
Mr. Chariton's Fair Rosalind, 4 yrs old .
Dr. I. Willis's by Young Waster, 15 yrs old .
Mr. Davey's Shepherdess, 4 yrs Ad I dr
The Champion Stake of 30p. each, 10gs. ft. for three years old
colts, to carry Sit. Sib. Allies, Sat. (4 Subs.) Two miles.
bk. Ho;tkisworth's MWer et Maasidd
Sir John ilyng's f. Hannah

. s dr
I dr
. 4 dr

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Match for 100 soy. 10st. ft&
Mr. Lungdon's Tomblin Lass . . . ~ , 1
Mr. Gilbert's Heaisay . . ' % . 0
A Sweepstakes of 10p. each, p. p. for hunters. (It Subs.) it tulles
Mr. I'. Brooke's h. m. Curia, aged . . 1. • I
Col. Sibthorp's m. Starlight . . . • Stir
Mr. Wright's Catch.ltim . •. • 114,
TROTTING MATCHES.
Mr. Brand's trotting match over thiee miles at Ashford, into the
Staines road, took place yesterday morning. The first was to trot
with saddle and to carry ost. fifteen miles within an hour, with Ms
mire Rebecca, and sbe accomplished the match as follows t
m. s. '

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11 52

First &tee miles 4 . 12 4 Fourth ditto
Second ditto . . 11 56 Fifth ditto . . 11 55
Third ditto . . It 54 I
Winning the match by tine min. 59 set. lie mare broke into a
gallop in the lint mile only, and won cleverly. 'Dm match was (or
100 sovereigns.
The second match, for a like am, was to drive the famous hone
Prodigality, in lumen, fourteen Mies in fifty-du minutes. •It was
done over five miles, on part of the same ground, 'and the match
was Won easy, withat putting the hone to his full speed in the lass
four miles.

Gibraltar Papers have arrived to the 9th of September,
but, their contents ate without interest. The private
letters of that date continue to complain of a stagnation
of trade, and se regret to and that some failures have
taken place amonJ the Spanish merchants there. Nu
political news was stirring when these advices left.

The Pi ussian Government isined a decree on the 18th
inst. forbidding the matriculation of any student in the
Universities of Prussia, coming frail' any other Univer-
sity, until such student shall completely prove that he
belonged to no secret association, and was connected
.with no revolutionary proceedings.
A communication Isom the West-end of the town to
the Noah road will, in a short time, be opened by a
.new road, which is -making from the Regent's Park
across the Hampsteaddroad, near-the Red-caps, at Cam-
den-town, front thence, taking an oblique direction
across the fields, to the back road, Kentish-town, and
again on in the same direction to the North road, eom-
Ing in near the Crown at the bottom of Highgate-hill,
lin the Holloway-road. - Another road is also said to be
lin contemplation, front the West to the North road, by
ISt.. John's Wood, taking a line to the left of Han"-
eteid, avoiding the hill, and joining the North road,
Ewer Finchley.
-.PoisoNotie NATURE OF AFRICAN TEAK WOOD
the course of the last fortnight seven shipwrights and twe
sawyers of Plymouth-yard have died. All these men
had received cuts or bruises while employed on African
teak wood I and though some have attributed the deaths
to atmospheric influence, there are not a few who assign
them to the reception of the poisonous juices of the -
abovenamed timber. Of these men, a shipwright,
Gregory Nichols, a remarkably powerful and active
man, scratched his leg against a piece of the wood,
and mortification ensued almost immediately. A para-
graph which lately appeared in the papers, attributed
the deaths of several men near London to the cause
mentioned here ; and if on examination the wood should
be found to possess deleterious qualities, we trust that
the use of it will be discontinued. Since writing the
above, it is said that Rawlins, a shipwright, living at
New Passage, and who had slightly scratched himself,
is dead, and that another, residing at Terpoint, is at the
point of death from a similar cause.—Fiindelfs Wes-
tern Litiiiinftrg.
As Mr. and Mrs. Baowtis, of Nottonilall, wetos~oing
int
to visit Some Mends at WigSt a few days anon no a mss the,
grounds Mr. Bows' joined a party of Gentlemen walking, leaving
Mrs.lhowne to drive up to the house. On reaching it, she expected
the servant had taken hold of the horse, and quitted the reisu,when
kite anima!, a Ste hunt*, late the property of Sir JACOB Amer,
Bari. set off, and Mil. Baowitz jumped out, but fortunately
rekeived no injury. The nest minute the horse was seen suspended
over a wall full xis feet high, with the gig on the other side. He
was, however, extricated from this situation, and the beautiful ani.
alai Viceived uo material injury.
COEN EXCHANGE; MAEIGBANE, OCT. 1.
The quantities of alt sorts of English Corn this week are mode-
rate, but the arrival of foreign Oats is again very large. Prime dry
Wheat fully support* Monday's terms, but in other sorts there is
very little doing. Balky for malting is much inquired after, and
again rather dearer. Beans and Peu sell freely, at Monday's prices.
Oats are held on the same terms as Monday, with a good detnapd
for the best 'pircels —Anivalv—English Wheat .5800 qrs. Barley
,660 qrs. Oats 4100 qrs. Irish Oats11:50 qrs. Foreign Oats 47,700qr5.
Flour 6600 sacks.
London Averages fur the week ended Sept. 45..-Wheat, 7,529
qrs. at 59x. 3d. Barley, 382 qrs. at 355. 14. Oats, USW qrs. it
235. 4d. Rye. 70 qrs. at 325. 1 Ids Evans, 999 411116 at Us. 3d.—
Peas, 761 qrs. at 400.64.
SMITHFIELD MARKET, OCT. 1.
There was a moderate supply this morning of all desetiptiens of
Cattle, and owing to the weather, and a berry markat,the pekes
may be quoted somewhat lower than en last reecho day.
Beef, per stone of Sibs. 9s. 104. to 3e. 50d. Morton os. od. to
4s. 4d. Lamb, 41.0 d. to ds. Od. Veal 4s. Od. to Sulk&

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