Star.
London, England, 1824-05-06 00:00:00

MOUNT ETNA.

A NEW PYROPLIORUS.

While occupied with some experiments on tartiwe
of lead, Dr. Friedman Gabel, of Jena, otaset ►e.! that (hi •
salt, when heated in a glass tube, formed an exceArnz
pyroplior us. When a portion of tile deep brown mas)
is pi ojected from the tube, it in,tantly take, fife, .ind
brilliant globule, of lead appear on the surface of the
burning substance. The effect continues for.a culisider-
able time.— 7hc eltgatist.

The Sheriffs of lifiStrol, .1011 X SAVAGE and CDARLES
Poistor, &qrs. proceeded to Oath, on Saturday, the 24:h ult. as a
delacatioll from the Corporation, to Melte the Earl of Lirgarom.
and Mr. Secretary Casottao.to a dinner at the Mansion-Howie,—
The Noble Lord felt himself -compelled to decline the honour of
the invitation, on account of ill health, and the l lonoursble &cre.
tail, in consequence of his bring obliged immediately to retina to
Dodos. They both expressed themselves blibly gratifices

By th:s means we can at once take a warrant against
the poacher, who, if a shrewd fellow, and master of his
business, would clear off half the game in a small
manor, before he might be detected in the very act of
poaching. All seizures, bloodshed, and danger, might
thus he alm.st wholly avoided : only see him, even V 4 Ith
a spyglass, at any time on the forbidden ground, and
have a warrant for him as a wilful trespasser. By this
IMAM also, the poor farmer, who has no money to go to
Inn., has some protection against infringement on his
I rights by the man o ho tramples on him, from this very
circumstance. But having no share in, and, therefore,
m profit in the penalty, he has no temptation to take
any advantage merely for the sake of getting the a 10s.
himself. Any person -thinking himself aggrieved should
therefore have the law open to him ; and the risk of an
extra 1.:5 in such a case could be no object. For the second,
and all future wilful trespasses, on that same person
to whom the offender had before been made to pay
the E 5, to be not less than £5, nor more than A:5O, at
the option of AlaAistrates ; who should have a very
great extent of discretional power to mitigate the pe-
nalty, as this law, l;ke all others, must of course be
open to the abrie of tyrannical persons, and there might
occur some extraordinary instances where it would
become desirable to mitigate the punishment as much
as possible.
All Gurne.shoaring (except Black Game, Muir Game, and Ptar-
migan) to begin oil the Ist of October.
By such an arrangement thousands of very young
partridges, that are not fair game, would escape being
massacred by the gentleman-poacher, and falling a prey,
when in hedges and hassocks, to the dogs of the pot-
hurter. There would be avoided many disputes be-
tween farmers and eager young sportsmen (perhaps.the
sons of their landlords), who sometimes cannot resist fol-
lowing their game into the corn. There would be an
end of destroying a whole nide of young pheasants in
standing barley, which is so frequently, and so very
easily done in September.
The hot weather of September was never meant for
hard fagging. September is a month that the agricul-
turist should devote to his harvest, and the man of
pleasure to sailing, sea-bathing, fishing, and other stim-
mer pursuits. But when October arrives, the farmer has
leisure to enjoy a little sport after all his bard labour,
without neglecting his business; and the Gentleman, by
a day's shooting, at that time, becomes refreshed and
invigorated, instead of wearing out himself and his
dogs by slaving after partridges under a broiling sun
in September. The evenings begin to close, and he
then enjoys his party and his fire-side, after a day's
shooting of just sufficient duration to brace his nerves,
and make everything agreeable.

Penalty for killing G;ineout of season to be not less than £5,
nor more than £5O, at the option of Magistrates.
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One regular penalty is not fair. There should rest
with the Magistrates the power of making a very great
distinction between one who could prove that he had
killed a head of game for a longing Ludy or a sick pct-
son, and another who wantonly destroyed it in open
violation of the law.
The Act for refusing to give names.
The periods for killing Game (with the mere alteration of de-
ferring partridge-shooting till October; and a proper time fixed for
killing hares, which has nerer yet been done !)
The Act for killing Pigeons.
The Duty on Dogs, &c. may remain as they now stand; except
that these, and what few other laws it may be necessary to extract
from the old Statutes, should be taken from the chaos in which they
are at present immured, made as clear as possible, and compressed
into one Act in the present reign. But let all the contradictory non-
sense about Henry, James, Anne, &e. be thrown into the fire, m
being so complex as often to confuse even lawyers themselves, and
therefore calculated only to ensnare the unwary, and be a subject
of ridicule to every man of common sense.
N.B. I one day happened to be for mate time in conversation
with one of the shrewdest fellows, and most finished poachers, that
ever lived, who, after defying all his pursuers, has left off the trade
and retired to a lawful business. He laughed at the Game Laws. I
then named to him the new Laws, as lately proposed. He smiled,
and said " that won't do." I next named what I before, as well as
wha is here suggested, as if another Act contemplated by Parlia-
ment. Ile then put on a very serious face, and said—" Upon my
soul, Sir, that's the only plan : that would properly do them. No
one would trust a man for 4100 ; but ES is no object to either a
buyer or even a poor man, if he has got plenty of friends under his
thumb !—A man, too, must be a poor hand to let people see him at
work; but if a Gentleman could mark him for a mere treqw.ss, be
could not go to his ground beforefeeding time."
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N.B. It absolutely requires a very old sportsman, who has disco-
vered all the secrets of poachers to strike at the roots of this evil,
and not Legislators, who are worthy of a better office.

MATCH AT CHESS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
SCOTLAND.

We stated, some time ago, that the Chess Club at Paris, called
Le Cercle de Philido., challenged the London Chess Club, to play a
match at Chess, for any sum which the latter Club might name,
the moves to be transmitted either by post, or by extraordinary
couriers. The London Chess Club accepted the challenge, ap•
pointed a committee of its own members to conduct the moves,
and proposed that the stake should be fifty guineas a game. An
answer was returned by M. Labourdonnaye, the first chess-player
in Paris, who sent the challenge on the part of the French Club,
declining the match, on the ground that the Cercle. de P/d/idnr was
on the point of dissolution. Some time after, the Edinburgh Chess
Club challenged the London Chess Club, to play a match of three
games, The London Chess Club accepted the challenge; the chess-
players of the North, with a characteristic firmness of purpose,
adhered to their own proposition, and the match has actually com-
menced. Two games are played at the same time ; Edinburgh
having the move in one, and London in the other; the second
move was transmitted. from London to Edinburgh yesterday. The
stake, atlhe suggestion of the Edinburgh Club, is a Silver Cup, of
the value of twenty.five guineas. The moves, for obvious reasons,
will not be allowed to transpire until the match is concluded. The
following are the names "of the London Committee, which com-
prehend the most distinguished players in England : Mt. 13rande,
Mr. Cochrane, Mr. Frazer, Mr. Keen, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Mercier,
Mr. Parkinson, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Samuda, Mr. Tonialin, Mr. Wilt-
shire, Mr. Wood.

Sunday evening, as a Gentleman was driving his
gigs the horse took fright at a cart coming in the opposite direction, ,
near the Highgate Archway, and plunging from the main-road
61,serthe gig. The gemiemait, in endeavouring to save himself,
threw his whip arm across some paling, but was caught by the
hooks at the top, and in trying to extricate Unwell; be was caught
under the cheek, *ben the hooks penetrated -his tongue. In this
dreadful state he hung above three minutes ere he was extricated,
when surgical aid was procured, and after the necessary dressing, he
was remove) to town in a state of great exhaustion.

The Duke of San Carlos, it appears, is well received
at the Court of the Tuileries, because he gives the French
Cabinet no trouble; and be displeases to the same ex
tent the Court of Madrid, because he remains inactive.
A successor was therefore resolved on ; but it was ne•
cessary at first to involve the design in mystery, lest'
San Carlos and the French Ministry should defeat it.'
A Senor (wi:h a strange name)—a Senor Revillayegido
accordingly received orders to prepare himself for a
mission to Paris, where, if possible, he was to appear in
the hotel of the Spanish Embassy as unexpectedly and
as suddenly as Asmodens from the glass bottle. He
could not, however, travel through the air like this
spirit. It was necessary that he should keep the high
toad, and have cash to pay for his dinner and post
horses: it was necessary to be able to lull the French
spies, or to bribe the French police. But where was
this money to he found ? In looking about for expe-
dients, the affair got wind, and M. Talaru, the French
Ambassador at Madrid, telegraphed it to:Paris. it was
too late for M. de Chateaubriand to revent the depar-
ture of Revillayegido ; but it was nor too late to prevent
his coming to tlistuib San Carlos in his hotel. An orrler
was accordingly immediately despatched to Bayonne to
refuse him post-horses. Before the order arrived, he
had got to Bordeaux, and bad nearly altogether escaped
the vigilance of the Government agents, by the modesty
of his equipage, the smallness of his suite, and his eco-
nomical mode of travelling. Probably no Ambassador
was ever so self-denied before. We remember a boy at
school giving the following classical translation of these
words—Caesar venit in Galli= sunana diligentia—
" Cesar came into Gaul on the top of the diligence."
Now, Senor Rivellayegido took nearly this mode of
travelling. He came to Gaul, not "on the top," but
in the interior of the Diligence. He was, however,
found out, and was placed under arrest at Bordeaux till
further orders. He is even kept confined in his cham-
ber at the small inn where this said Diligence deposited
its passengers, lest he should get out into the U:tra
coteries and excite scandal. There is no doubt enter-
tained at Paris that this envoy of his Catholic Majesty
will be again packed up in the same vehicle, and re-
imported into Spain.

Ronnra SUOT. The morning of Tuesday, April
27th, an attempt was made to rob the shop of Mr.
William Crandall, grocer and linen draper, at Leigh,
near Tunbridge. About three o'clock, Mrs. Crairdail
was awakened by a noise at the back of the house. She
called to her son Richard, informing him of-the circnm-
stance, and he immediately went to his father and
mother's bedchamber, from %thence he took a gun
loaded with small shot; and u idiom dressing himself,
he went quietly out at the trent door. On arriving at
the back of the braise lie saw three men, two on one
side of sonic palings*, and one on the other side. They
were enraged in getting over the palings a large pack-
age, which was atterwards found to consist of grocery
taken from the warehouse. Mr. Crandall told the men
chit if either of them stirred be would fire at them; but
notwithstanding that threat, one of them attempted to
run off. Mr. Crandall again cautioned him, but in vain:
he then fired, and the robber fell. Mr. Crandall then
turned to the second man, and assuring him that his
gnu had two barrels, threatened to shoot him also jibe
stirred. The man who had been shot having in some
measure recovered hirmelf, rose and attempted to get
away. Mr. Crandall raised his gun with intent to strike
him with the butt end of it, but while so engaged ;lie
other came behind, and struck hiju a violent blow which
knocked him into the ditch. Oa rising be saw only one
man, and he was making hi; escape. Mr. Crandall
pursued him, but in vain. It appears that the man who
was outside of the palings got away after the firing of
the gin. Friday, Mr. Martin, of flartfield, Sussex, in-
formed Mr. Crandall that a man had applied to the
workhouse of that place badly wounded in the back,
which he said had been occasioned by the patrol of a
neighbouring village having fired at him.. Mr. Crandall
went to llartfield, and on being closely questioned, the
wounded man confessed that he was the person shot by
Mr. Crandall. Saturday he was taken before R. Mi-
nna, Esq. at Penshurst, and fully committed for trial
at the Assizes, anal on Saturday he was taken in a
cart to the county jail, Maidstone. The name of the
prisoner is Pet.:ecost. Ills wounds are not dan-
gerous, but severe, no less than 127 shots havlnr, en-
tered the small of his back. The gun had only half a
charge in it, or the wretched man would have been
killed on the s'or, as he received its contents at a dis-
tance of not more than a rod and a half. •

Mr. A rt.tv submitted th,-,t nothing had been stated on the rat 41.
Colonel Curry which carried hit, demand beyond a mere ileht. 31r.
Pellard, he added, had come to London purposely took::: the chair.
Mr. under all the circumstance?, held Air. Poitird
bail, and deferred the further consideration of the ccs.• to Seturday.
STEALING A LEYTE:IL—WINO/A Waller, a letter-..:iii• r it :he roe
Office, whom we stated on a former day to have been ch..rzed witi
stealing a letter iconiainirg a 51. Bank of Et•gl.mil note, which had
been entrusted to him to deliver, was brought el) for a second az.
mination, and the evidence licirg complete, he wa. fully COCTlllittre..
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY SERVA!4:TS.—A young woman of very re.
spectable appearance, named Miss Sarah Hare, was brought up in
custody, cliarged with receiving property to a very cun,iderable
arnamit, the goode of Mrs. Lre, of Tavistock-street, Covent.z.irden.
Ns:lluse entploy she was as confidentiel servant, well knowin;
the same to have been stolen by oilier pissonsinMrs. Lee's servi.x.

Mr. CIiAIII.IS Nut6:l.s conatictcd the case for the prosecution,
and "Mr. Az.t.r.y the Jerk-nee.

Mrs. Lee. stated, tort in consequence of information of w received
from a pct son mimed Pigging, who %vas in lier service, ';ne at.
petted Miss Hare, and, on her box being opened, a quantity of
crape, Lice, Ste. w.i> foon.l. Hiss Hare had beed confidentially
employed tur four yeArs, 41mi:it; wliieb time sin: had been rulf.ied
of property to between 7nt,i. and tiont.

Considerable argument a►ose as to the propriety of rrosectitin:
Emily Higgins as well as Miss I It beiog contendsd on
one side, that as she W 43 supposed to he the principal thief, rh
ought also to Le prosecuted; and on thy (Ant r, that t, tvas necessaty
she should be a witness, in order to bang the receiver to j•lstice.
Mr. Xi iNsout.i. said he was unwilling :u coil the evidence of llns
Higgins on the present occasion ; hut as rs;iss I Ire was wider rt.
cognizatices to appear at the Sessions, he should let the c, se rLst
:here, and bound over the witness ts. :;tve evidence against her.