Star.
London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

SINGULAR STAG HUNT.

Lord Derby's Stag hounds met at Kerby Common, on Tuesitar
last, when the following singular' circumstance occurred:-4 6 e
stag was turned out at a quarter past ten. (Laing around him to.•
three or four minutes, the hounds being near At hand, got wind or
hint before the usual time allowed for the deer to go away ; a bur •
in view was the consequence, which pressed him over the (7onto
so hard as to run hint into the farm-yard belonging to Mr. Ke...
of Denby, where he leaped on the thatch of the pig-stye, frar
thence on the roof of a very Lute thaLlted barn, ascending to she
very top of a height from the ground of 7.0 feet. One of the 1.. -
nter s men got on the roof with along pole, and attempted to driv
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him off, hut he boldly faced him, and made a rush at the Matt, v be,
had be no: retreated, mutt have been dashed front the roof. 't h..
hounds were laid on the scent, and seven or eight colt* absole ely
gattied,the roof of the barn, gut close to his haunches, and dru.
him from the roof into the fartit-yard, from thenceintolan
ling pond, out of which he made a short turn through the torch: rd
and garden, back to the roof of the barn again, with the hod dy
close at him; and ultimately was taken and housed in the yi.td.
The hounds then went over to Lord Derby's, at the Oaks, at d a
fresh stag was turned out front the home paddock. 'the hiont,
were laid on In ten minutes : the deer was taken after a most es• el.
let.t chase of an hour and a half,. at Ewell. The only check slui.ng
the chace was five minutes.

The Baptist Missionary Society lately recei►ed rronk
a Christian friend, the noble sum of Al,OBO, with a request that At
might be entered as from " An unprofitable Servant."
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. /ROW TUE LONDON SlAGAititi. '
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woke, and she was there—a moment there,
Distinctly ♦isible by that soft light,
Which, beaming faun herself, suffnied her. quite.
Ne'er yet had I beheld her half so fair :
No mournful trace, no shade of earthly care,
Darken'd her countenance. so lovely bright :
Her vestment fell in folds, and it was white
As purest cloud, floating in summer air!
Too soon that vision faded from my view;
Yet did the vision smile, e'en as it faded ;
But Kill I g 'zed through night'Qnvidious hue,
nor the loved face, and an:;el form it shaded :
I only saw the moonbeam glimmer through
The quivering vine, which my dim lattice braided!

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NATIONAL. SOClETY.—Yesterlty the General Com-
mittee of the National Society for the lidocAtion of the
Poor in the Principles of the Established Church held
their Meeting at Sr. Martin's Vestry Room:—
Prim:in—The Archbishop of CAteritusuay, the Bishop of Lox,
Dos, the lion. Mr. justice PARK. the Rev. Dr. 151[1.1, the Rev. Dr
D'Ort.es-,Josous WarsoN, Esq. Treasurer, and other Members of
the Committee.
Several grants of money were made by the Society
towards the establishing of School:, amongst others
2001. in aid of the School at Wigan for 300 boys.
The Universal Gazette says, that M. COUSIN, who has
been implicated only by the depositions of two students,
will be shortly set at liberty. Count BERNSTOAFF is
s• ill in the country. M. COUSIN has been treated with
the greatest attention, and even permitted, to ride out in
a carriage, in Berlin.
A female was indicted at a late term of the Court of
Sessions in Philadelphia, as a common scold. She was
convicted and sentenced to be publicly ducked, and pay
costs of prosecution.
A Correspondent, who regrets the frequency of
forgery, and the little effect that capital punishments
have in preventing it, suggests that a sentence to hard
labour for life, would lessen the commission of such
crimes (if rigidly enforced), by confining theM strictly
to convict's allowance, and not suffering their relations
to afford them any assistance whatever, that can in the
feast lessen their punishment. Such a sentence, it is
presumed, would, in a great measure, prevent the
crinie from being so frequently committed, and IA ould
operate on th 4 minds of such culprits in a more terrific
manner than the punishment of death, as the persons
ebintnitting this crime are in general not inured to
hard. labour.

On the 6th ult. the great Military Orphan House of
Berlin celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its
foundation. The children,- 629 in number, assembled
at'seven o'clock in the morning to breakfast. • They
were then taken to the garrison Church, where the KING
and the Royal Family -also attended Divi6e Service.
At their dinner, the KING came, with all the Princes and
Princesses, tasted some of the dishes, and drank to the
prosperity of the lnstitutio'n, after which his MAJESTY
gave to each child a crown-piece of this year's coinage,
in memory of the festival.
In the judgment delivered in the Court of Common
Pleas, in the case of 4' Davis v. the Bank of England,"
an important circumstance was referred to by Chief
Justice BEST ; namely, that khould a person (as in the
case of Fauntleroy) obtain possession of Stock by a
forged power of attorney, and continue for six years to
pay tjie dividends, and the owner shodld never, during
the six years, apply to the Bank, his claim upon the
Bank would come under the Statute of Limitations.
Accounts from Martinique have been received at Sa.
vannah, informing that two Clench Government
schooners were lost in the gale at Guadaloupe, and that
all their crews had perished,
Private Letters from Paris mention another in-
stance of the denial of the rite of sepulture by the
Roman Catholic Clergy of France. In the case of the
actor PHILLIPPE, the ecclesiastical ceremony was re-
fused becatr,e the deceased belonged to a profession
obnoxious to the clergy ; but in the case to which we
now refer, the rite was denied to an old and respectable
Magistrate, M. LA LOBE, fOI welly the Mayor of Troyes,
simply because he tuns a Jansenist ! This venerable man,
who, at the period of his decease, was 8e years of age;
WAS refused the Sacrament mile.:s he would abjure his
errors as a Jansenist ; and while this indecent violation
of the sanctity of the hour of death was perpetrating,
M. LaUrne expired, the last effort of nature only just
enabling him to make a sign to the priest expressive of
his anxiety for the last offices of his religion.
At the cotton-manufactory of the late C. STANTON,
Esq. at Mansfield, on Saturday last, a young woman, of
the na•ne of KNIGHT, took with her a younger sister,
about nine yeats of age, with an intention of procus ing
her employment at the same place, when about nine
o'clock the n•ill was thrown into the utmost consterna-
tion and alarm, on discovering that the child, by ap-
proaching too near one of the shafts, and her clothes
getting entangled therein, was carried round with the
utmost rapidity, every round her head dashing against
the wall, and her legs against a pair of steps which
stood near, with 'such force as to break the steps. 'l'he
wanks were stopped with the utmost promptitude, but
it was found that the skull was fractured, the thigh
bones broken, and the bowels protruded through the
skin. In this dreadful situation she lingered till four
o'clock the following morning, in the greatest agony,
when death put an end to her stain ings.
Everybody recollects the mal-address of Dr. SHERI-
DA N, who, preactaino a Sermon on the anniversary of
King WILLIAM'S landie g, wok for his text, " Sufficient
unto the day is the evil thereof :" hut we should not
have expectc4 to find a similar ganch?rie in a French-
man, in aidiessing CHA Imes X.—yet such is the case.
The KING visited the Eichange, one day last week,
when a Mr. Fossoito made a spetch, in which he said,
" Site, the organization of the Company of Stock-
ihokers is a benefit of the Monarch whom all France
;tool ns, w ith)our AIAJESTY. Alas ! we could not tes-
Ally to him, /oo'g enough, the tribute of ion- gratitude."
A pretty conii,lunent, matched °lily by aoother On the
occasion, " Site, to icioind your MAJFSTY that
the Comtnisoary of the. Exchange is the ileohew of Nl'.
,ie inctittrouno, Secretary (if the Holy King,
Louts XVI. is to tell your MAJESTY, that this is the
fineo at;ti hacpie,t day 01 my life." This teminds us
of the story lit an [Aim' ioce, who asked a person
Mho r.e was? Your Highness, I am the tom of your
serval.; oho had the honour of breaking his neck, by
falling downyour staircase:" or. that ne the Sco:chman,
who, meeting laud Katrns. told Isis L..rdship be had
the honour of brink tried below him for sheep-stealing.
A ,vessel :sit!) 150 for WO, has sai7ed from
'New .YN•rk. hfitiai4 the I liitiaa"Agiit iatated twelve vessels
at rbitattelptais and Bahituote, atihis eiw rants.