Star.
London, England, 1825-10-01 00:00:00

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TOICKSHIRE MUSICAL FESTIVAL.

So great had been the interest excited by the late
Yorkshire Musical Festival, that two Gentlemen from
New York, America, were induced to visit England,
for the sole put pose of being present at the festival, be-
sides numbers from various parts of the Continent. In-
deed it was said by some of the professors of music that
they would walk 500 miles to witness such another
performance. Several lodgings have already been
spoken for in York, in anticipation that another festival
will be held in the Cathedral in the course of a few years.
We have already stated that the receipts from the
Festival of 1823 were £16,174, leaving a surplus to
the Charities of £7,200, and that the receipts from the
present Festival produced upwards of E 20,000. The
account, now that it is made up, stands as follows :
From the sale of Tickets . £20,200
The Duke of Devonshire presented the fund with 100
The Earl of Carlisle, Marquis of Aylesbury, and }
the Earl of Scarborough, with £5O each
Lord Tyrconnel with 25
Lord M'Donald and Robt. Cracroft, Esq. Eh/ each 90
'timothy Hutton, Esq. and the Dean of Rippoo, £3 10

Expensea (the band having cost JE'2,500 more than
in 1843), . .
Surplus for the four Charities .

150

X 12,000

£8,505

Of which £2,500 will be paid in equal proportions
in money, and the new Concert Room, which cost
£6,000, will be invested for the benefit of the charities,
which, if the Festivals should be repeated at stated pe-
riods of three, four, or five years, according to the pre-
sent intention, will more profit than it the money
was invested in the public funds. It is also to be con-
sidered, that the existence of the Concert Room has
rendered the present festival more productive, to the
amount of from 2,0001. to 3,0001. than it would other-
wise have been. The room is to be placed in the trust
of the Archbishop and the Dean of York, and in the
Lard Mayor of that city, for the benefit of the four
chanties. _ _

The number of tickets issued daily for the various
performances at the Festival is row precisely asce: tained,
and stands thus :

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Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday.
Minster 1 Guinea 1,15.3 1,207 1,449 4,199
15 Shillings 1,614 2,500 2,399 2,372
7 Shillings 604 1,990 1,900 1,509
5 Shillings 18 39 154 27

Total . 3,389 5,786 6,102 5107
Concerrs—Tuesday's I,l79—Wednesday's 1894—Thursday's 1,353.
balls—Monday (75.) 734—Friday, Fancy, (155.) 9,262.

It appears by the Boston Gazelle, that a plan is in
agitation to forward live stock from that port to the
London markets, by means of steam-vessels.
&Puma Antooos.—As we were the first to notice
the finding in this neighbourhood of the Sphinx Atro-
pos in its caterpillar state, we take the earliest oppor-
tunity of informing our readers of the taking of a very
fine and perfect insect of this kind, in its winged state,
and in all the plenitude of its beauty. It occurred
about nine o'clock in the evening of the 13th, in a
house at Catdene, near Bill-quay, where it had been at-
tracted, no doubt, by the heat of the fire. It first
alighted on the head of a female, to the no small con-
cern of the worthy dame at the sight of such a mon.
strous loggerhead, and from thence on a white hand-
kerchief which was placed round the shoulders of ano-
ther matron, who was also equally alarmed at the sight
of such a formidable winged visitor. It was ultimately
secured and killed, by a man who was present, without
injuring the brilliancy of its colours, and afterwards
rorchased by Mr. J. Thornhill, jun. of Nether ileworth,
for 2s. Its belly is two inches and two-tenths in length,
and one inch sic-tenths round the t ickest part, and the
went of its wings four inch:.; eight-truths from tip to
tip.—The sphi,rge,, .t Inch are generally known by the
name u; the 11.1 wk Moths, confine their heavy fl ght to
the close of the evening and the dawn of day. They
are then seen hovering about a flower, and, without set-
tling, inserting their long spiral tongue to suck the nec-
tar from the bottom of the cup. When at test, they
fold Omit antennz under their breast. Some of the
small species fly in the day. On Wednesday last, Mr.
John Wilson, of Horsley, presented a very large and,
beautiful specimen of the sphinx atropos, in the cater-
pillar state, to the Literary Society of this town, which
be had found in his garden.—Tyne Mercury.
Some few days ago, as two Gentlemen were pursu-
ing the diversions of the gun, a few miles from
Brighton, on horseback, one of them saw occasion (per-
haps to bag a bird) to dismount, when his pony started
off at full gallop, and being follow-. 1 and overtaken by
the other Gentleman, he, in attempting to stop the
runaway, by catching at his bridle with one hand, ac-
cidentally discharged his gun with the other, and shot
the ill-fated pony dead upon the spot, the whole charge
having entered his head.
South America Js at present but poor prospect
for medical men, against whom there seems to be a
very general prejudice, derived, no doubt, from the low
estimation in which the healing art is held in the mother
country, and kept up by the inability of the inhabitants
to draw the line between a Dr. Sangrado and the en-
lightened followers of a liberal and leartied profession,
such as that of medicine and surgery is esteemed, in
every country except Spain.
A woman residing in a court in Whitecross-street,
yesterday left her infant for about five minutes, when
the poker fell from the fire, and nearly burnt the child
to death.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. .
CUILTMIA Lt.
Sightts Hooke Cathcart, a respectable•tooking middle-aged man,
found bail for an aggravated assault on Mr. Bromley, of Leicester-
',net, Regent-street. Mr. Bromky was passing through Fleet-
street on the preceding evening, with his wife, who is far advanced
in pregnancy, when one of the iispures struck Mrs. 11. on the back,
and in the course of the scus.hble, defendant came up, managed the
escape of the girl, nd struck Mr. Bromley violently, on his de-
manding what he hid to do with the affair?

BOW-STREET.
Yesterday a man, named Antes Rogers, a coach-maker, in the
employment or Messrs. R. George and Co. In Long Acre., was
brought op charged with having left his employment contrary to
the contract existing between them. The case was proved by Mr.
George, who stated that the defendant was employed at his house
for sie or seven years, some time ago, and was discharged only in
consequence of there not being work.. As soon at 11 r. George
bad occasion for his services he was again employed, he brit g a
clever workman, and generally a very well behaved man. The rule
of the trade is, that a fortnight's notice shall be given by the master
before he can discharge the man, or by the latter before he
can leave the service (tithe former. A short time ago Mr. George
had occasion to go to Scotland, and be had left town but a few
days, when the defendant, without notice, quitted his service, and
did him great injury by leaving his work unfinished.
The defendant, in answer to the charge, acknowledged that Mr.
George was an excellent flatter, and that he would sooner work
for him than for any man in England, and said that he should not
have left him hot for the evil persuasions of others. Ile should
have given notice if his master had been at home.
Mr. HA have often before had occasion to observe upon
the extremely foolish conduct of journeymen in acting as they h.ve
too often done, to their masters. 'We have often, I fear, acted
too leniently to men in your (the defendant's) situation, but the
time is come when it is absolutely necessary that the law should be
strictly acted upon. As I bare said upon many other occasions, I
have a reluctance, which I feel it extremely difficult to conquer, to
commit a man lake you to the tread-mill; you belong to a highly
useful, and indeed invaluable set of men, the Mechanics of Great
Britain, and I can, with great difficulty, make up my mind to dis-
grace one of that body, by committing bim• to gaol, where he will
be clothed in the dress common to all who are sent there, and be
always after liable to be taunted by every one who knows him. If,
however, journeymen will not do their duty, I, and the other Ma-
gistrates must do our's; and let it be known, that there is a determi-
nation amongst us, in future, to do our duty inflexibly under this
Act of Parliament. You are liable to be committed fog three
months to hard labour; but I will give you of opportunity (if
your master consents) of returning to your work, and atoning fur
your misconduct by your future good behaviour—let it be under-
stood, however, that this is the last time that I will overlook a
charge of this kind, and even now I can tell you that I convict you
of the offence, and the conviction shall be entered upon our books,
and if you do not behave in a perfectly exemplary manner, I will,
upon the complaint of your master, commit you for the full term of
three months. Let it be understood, I repeat once more, that all
future cases will be dealt by with the utmost severity.
Mr. George humanely consented to withdraw the charge, upon
the conditions mentioned by the worthy Magistrate, and the
defendant humbly apologised, and promised to do his duty to
'his master.
M A RL BOROU G H-ST RE ET.

A young man, named Jai* Wert Bell, a waiter at one of the
Club-homes in St. James's-street, was brought from St. James's
Watch-house, charged with practising some of his drunken freaks in
the house of Mr. Watson, aho keeps the Fox public-bouse, in
Sberrard.street, Golden-square.
It appeared that the prisoner came. the night before, into the
public-house in question, where he bad never been seen before that
time; and having, by means of various potations of potent liquors,
worked his fancy up to an extraordinary taste for mischief, he
commenced an attack, not upon the people of the house, but upon
the house itself, or at least its fixtures; and first he assailed a win-
dow, through which he forwarded one arm up to the shoulder; the
next ardcie that encountered his destructive rage was an iron pipe;
this in an instant was torn from its station, broken in pieces, and
the company treated to a large supply of anti-vital alt,which quickly
left the prisoner almost alone in the possession of the premises.
His strength and frenzy were now directed to the spirit engine,
and powerful as both the engibe and its contents were, they soon
I gave way to the attack of this modern Quizotte, for he tire the
engine out of its position in the bar, and scattered the spirits before
the winds. lie was for these exploits locked up in the watch-house.
The prisoner bad nothing to say more, in his defence, than that
be bad drank rather too freely, and did not exactly know what be
was about at the time.

The Magistrate (Mr. Comarr) asked Mrs. Watson' who preferred
the charge, what the amount of the damage was ? She said about I Si.
The Magictrate said, that unless it was paid before office hours
were over, he should be committed to the House of Correction for
une month.

Mr. Chadwell, one of the Overseers of &. James's Parish,
now stepped forward, and said, that he had for some time been
looking alter the prisoner, on a charge of leaving his wife, who is
now in the Workhouse, chargeable to the parish, but until he heard
of his being in custody for these pranks of his at the public-house,
he could never catch bim ; there was a considerable arrest now due
by him to the parish for his wife's support and for that he (Mr.
Ciaadwell) wished to lay a detainer against him, if discharged from
the other affair.

The prisoner said, that one misfortune seldom comes alone, he
Lad got into a pretty Mess now, but the reason, be said, he left the
woman was, that. he had discovered that she was not his lawful
wife, Amu& as she had another husband living when she under-
went the marriage ceremony in his company.
The wife, who was present. denied this, and the prisoner was
ordered to be detained on Mr. Chadwell's account, should he settle
the transaction with Mr. Watson.