Star.
London, England, 1822-01-03 00:00:00

KILDARE

THEATRICAL&
The'erdwd getting into the Adelphi Thetttre last
night, to see Tow and Jerry, luso° great, that it ex-
tended over the pavement into the street. The Piece
altogether exhibits a very animated picture of low
life; and the respective performers do ample justice
to their parts. Mr. fizzvz, as./erty, and Mr.Kazta,
as a cockney, at a horse sale, are quite at home. The
music is very appropriate and lively. During this
week the following Noblemen and families of distinc-
tion have been amongst the company in the boxes:
Priem Reterbazy and fatullj, the Earl of Morley and family,
Count Carantan and family, Lord Cranbourn and family, Lord
Seymour and family, Sir C. AsgiU and family, Sir T. Austin and
family, the Earl of Egremont, Colsoel Thornton and family, the
Marquis of Bute and friends, Sir C. Rees and friends, the Hon.
Captain Dudley, Mr. Angerstein, the Earl of Gleogall. Lord
Yarmouth, Sir James Langbam, Lord Lennox, Colonel Canoe,
and Major Aubre7.
NEWCASTLE THEATRE.—On Wednesday se'nnight
the Newcastle Theatre opened with CHERRY'S Co-
medy of The Soldier's Daughter. Mr. BUTLER, as
Governor Heartall, went through his character in the
respectable manner which he exhibits in the gene-
rality of elderly personages. On the appearance of
Mr. Da Cow, as Young Mortal!, a cry of " Hol-
land, Holland!" from the gallery interrupted the
performance. Mr. DE CAMP stepped forward and
asked what the part of the audience which had
caused the interruption desired ? The cry of " Hol-
land" being repeated, Mr. Ds CAMP asked if he was
to be dictated to in the engagement of performers?
and observed that, as the Manager of the Theatre,
he Would engage what performers he thought best.
At that time theyidisturbance ceased ; but at the
close of the Play"lt recommenced. A paper was
thrown from the gallery, which Mr. De CAMP was
requested to read. He was about to read it, but a
Gentleman in the side-boxes advised him not to read
it if it was not signed. The document being anony-
mous, Mr. DE CAMP tore it to pieces, and observed,
that Mr. HOLLAND had been endeavouring to raise
a cabal in the town, that he was a dissatisfied man,
Who had voluntarily left his Company after each of
the three seasons he had been at Newcastle, and that
he had betrayed a similar discontent in his Company
at Sheffield. Mr. Da CAMP here repeated what he
had before stated, that he would not be commanded
to engage any performer, but that if the people of
Newcastle were not satisfied with him, they had only
to say so, and he would leave them as he had come
to them, " alone, but not dishonoured." This speech
was received with considerable applause, and a song
from Mr. BERRIMAN, and the Farce which succeeded
it, proceeded without further disturbance.

Monday morning an armed party attacked a house,
r7cupied by a person named Feagan, in the parish of
Dnwilings. Barony of Clane. The first intimation of
their approach was a shot Bred into his bed-mom.
They then demanded his fire-arms, and on his re-
fasAl, they immediately cried out—ge Let us set fire
:n his house." Feagan then delivered them a gun,
hut the party, not content, demanded a powder-
korn, which was given to them.

Wednesday night, a party of such deluded per.
sons ransacked several houses in search of fire-arms,
having commenced their outrages neat Digby-bridge,
en the Grand Canal, and thence proceeded in a range
through Millicent, until they approached the resi-
dence of Bryan Molloy, Esq. They took a blun-
derbuss from one of Mr. Molloy's tenants, and a
gun from another.
LIMERICK, DEC. 3o.—(PRIVATE LETTER).

There has never been such a demand for workmen
in the frame-work-knitting branch, as there is at pre-
sent in Mansfield, since the year 1814.
A Gentleman, recently returned from a journey
through Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston, reports,
that the manufactories there are in full work, and
that all bands are employed.
Sunday se'nnight, a number of the Quakers in
Newcastle, visited the habitations of the poor in Sand-
gate, and other parts of the town where poverty and
distress most prevail, and humanely administered to
the wants of the most necessitous, by distributing
various sums of money, proportioned to the indigence
of the different individuals.

" Another dreadful murder has been committed in
this county. You may have seen from the Irish pa-
pers accounts of nightly attacks made upon the house
of a Mr. CONDON, of Scart, near Rathkeale, several
times in the course of the last six months. He took a
man named Gorman for his tenant, in the room of one
'.vhom he had ejected. This man became obnoxious
n: an intruder. The famed Captain Rock sent him
notice to quit, with which he did not comply. A
party of ruffians attacked his house last night, de-
nouncing terrible vengeance. Gorman and his two
sons, able-bodied young men, resisted their entrance
manfully. Upon this the party attacking commen-1
ced a fire of slugs through the doors and windows,
and one of the young men was shot dead through the
breast, and the father badly wounded in the leg and
arm. Is it not singular that this happened within a
mile of a strong military post, the town of Rathkeale,'
and was not known there until two o'clock the next
day? The fact was, that no one of the country,
people would dare to announce it. There were six
military parties near the place—the nearest half a
the farthest little more than a mile. InforMation
LAI been given to the Commanding Officer a fort-
Light before of the intended attack, and Gorman's
house was guarded far several nights. At length the
information was disregarded, and the guard with-
drawn ; and the very first night after, the murder
was committed. Some arms have been delivered up,
hut, of such a quality,that I verily believe it to be done
either for a stratagem or for a joke, by Captain Rock
—old guns and pistols without locks, fit only to nuke
horse-shoes. 1 need not tell you 4 the boys here (for
..o they call themselves) know the difference in the use
of fire-arms."

Sir Josh and Lady SHILLLEY have left town fur
their seat, Madresfield Park, Sussex.
Enmosarous Contatas.—We have great pleasure
in noticing the great improvement which has taken
place in the condition and morals Of these laborious
people, through the liberality and kindness of their
employer, Mr. LAING ; the benevolence of that Gen-
tleman appears to be unbounded. For some time past
upwards of one hundred boys and girls, who are en-
gaged at his works, have been attending an evening
school, and thirty younger children the day school,
at the sole expense of Mr. LAING, who, in addition
to paying the teacher, has furnished them all with
Bibles and other books adapted to their respective
ages and classes. He has also established and
libe-
rally subscribed to a fund for clothing the children
connected with his works, by which the children of
both sexes have all been new clothed within these few
weeks. These, and many former instances of his be-
nevolence, have called forth the gratitude of his work-
people, who have sent him a letter by a Committee
of their number.
Moen or Mits. BOND.—The following is given as
the authentic history of this Lady : Mrs. SARAH
BOND was one of four children of BOND, a jewel.l
' ler, residing in an alley leading from Wellclose-
square to Ratcliffe-highway ; he died about fifty years
ago, and left his property between Mrs. SARAH BOND
and a sister ; the sister died about twenty years since,
and left her property, £6,000, to her surviving sister,
SARAH BOND, who bought an annuity of 1:750 per
annum. biving in a most parsimonious manner, she
contrived to scrape together about £13,000 Three'
per Cents. £l,OOO Four per Cents. and £l5O per year
in the Long Annuities; and this, at her death, was
the whole of her immense wealth. One of the many
claimants to this property is a Mr. Bouts, a re-
spectable butcher, in Shoreditch, who has traced out
that he is a second cousin to this wealthy spinster, his
grandfather being the only brother of the father of
Mrs. BOND ; and the only obstacle in his way to ad-
minister is, that he has not yet been able to find out
the Church where Mrs. BOND'S father and mother
were married, a most essential thing to prove the le-
gitimacy of Mrs. SARAH Bora). There are eight
caveates thrown in against administering."
}leer Panow.—Tuesday, this prison was the scene
of the most uproarious mirth and jollity. It being.
New Year's Day, early in the morning a number of
prisoners were sworn in as !Niters, and furnished with
staves and a quantity of writs to which seals were at-
tached. As the respective visitors entered the prison,
they were taken into custody and conveyed to what is
called the " Tip." Here a "grave and learned Senior"
was seated in a chair elevated above a table, attended
by his juniors dressed up in wigs. The usual charge
was a .4 plea oftrespass," in having entered without
paying the" College dues" for the present year, and of
coorse the verdict was always in favour of the plain-
tiff. The fine imposed was generally 6d. but in the
event of a refractory spirit being evinced,a threat was
held out that the defendant would be remanded for
two yeats. Females were not excluded, and the fears
really excited in the minds of some of the persons ar-
rested for the money, excited the greatest merriment.
,The money collected was of course spent in drinking,.

We briefly noticed on Tuesday, the loss of the
brig Lllen, of Liverpool, WILLIAM BIRD master, off
Dublin, on the 28th ult. It appears that she was
driven on shore on the rocks within four or five bun-
hdred yards of Sandy Coye, near Bullock, the sea
running mountains high, and with all the horrors
that accompany a dark tempestuous night. Lieute-
nant HUTCHISON, the Harbour-master of Dunleery,
volunteered, with fourteen gallant fishermen and
pilots, to embark in the life-boat, its hopes of saving
the crew, as the vessel was every moment expected
to go in pieces. After the greatest exertion, they suc-
ceeded in reaching, the wreck, and when under the
stern of the vessel in the broken water, the life-boat
filled. The crew of the vessel were endeavouring to
get into the boat, when an overwhelming sea washed
Lieut. HurcnisoN and six men out of the li-boat ;
the remaining eight kept their hold, and succeeded
hauling tyko of the men again into the boat.—
J;eutenant IlurcutsoN, after contending with the
waves for some time, was most providentially saved
by catching hold of the lifeboat, which was driven
ou the rocks; the other four brave fellows, unfortu-
nately perished: two of them have left wives and
young children. Notwithstanding the danger and
t atig ue Lieutenant Hu'rcuttioN had undergone, he re-
mained all night on the rocks, to render, with lights,
every assistance to the crew of the vessel, and he for-
tunately succeeded in rescuing them from the wreck
at low water, at four o'clock in the nsorning.—Ano-
th,..T brig would have been lost in the same place, but
for the exertions of Lieutenant HUTCHISON, who, by
*hewing lights and firing shots, warned the crew of
their danger, and enabled them to get out anchors
on time.

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_` •which was seen by many petioni, triactly coincide,'
The late plea hairdproved peculiarly fatal td the , witt.the best attested descriptiobs of water-trouts;
shipping of Whitehairen. Eight vessels have been for though there shay be lomii .light .variations in
totally wrecked; and *hat adds to the melancholy the accounts of those who witnessed it, yet the gene;
recital is, that out of the crews of six of them; Only ' talky agree in describing_ it Vis ti dark column, ex-
one individual survives I and the men escaped froth tending to a considerable height, and having a vio:.
the other two without even siring any pert of their lent whirling motion.
clothes. Eleven wictows and tiventy-six orphans have CUElutnt CASK or Thstazils.--rThe follbwing re:.
by these disasters been deprived of support; reark,able scene of distress was disislayed during the
. In consequence of the extraotdihary quantitt of late food iti Chelsea. Two neighbouring families
rain which has lately fallen, the seeeral coal-pits in agreed to speed the day together. One consisted of
the neighbourhood of Sheffield were inundated on the husband and wife and two children, and the
Monday night last 'to a greater extent than any other of husband and wife end five children: The
former period, and from which very serious inconve- parents met in one house, and the seven children were
,nience has arisen. left to amuse themselves in the other. While the
' The lands contiguous to the River Stour, in Kent, two parties were severally enjoying themselves, the
havft,-for several days past, been inundated to a con- water tote So suddenly and so hi h as to cut off in
1 siderable extent, but we do not hear that any serious communication between the two °uses: .The lowa
injury or inconvenience has been sustained thereby. parts of both were flooded, and t e old in the one
GtoucaarEft, Dec. 31.—The Birmingham Mail to and the young in the other, flew to the . upper
this City, on Monday night was placed in a most floors for safety. The good chier was all in thehouse
critical situation. Having arrived at Tewkesbury, of the parents, and the young ones soon began to
two additional horses were procured, and in order to cry out for foods In this extremity one of the men
guard against accident, a post-boy well acquainted found in the house an iron rod, which he spiked to
with the road, was selected for their .guidance. On a b'roomstick, and having tied a bag with foOd to
reaching Norton Mill, about four miles from hence, the end of it, he contrived to pass it to the window
the water in the road was found to be upwards of of the adjoining house, where the little ones were
four feet deep, and the current running fearfully anxiously stretching out their little hands to. receive
rapid. Harding, the coachman, however, placing con- it. The manna did not fall more gratefully Upon
fidence in his pilot, resolved upon proceeding, and the children in the Wilderness. In a little time, hews
the passage would, doubtless, havebeen accomplished ever, the water subsided, and the parents were %inked
in safety, but, when nearly in the middle of the with their children.
stream, the post-boy's horses beginning. to plunge, Thou Tina IN Duatin.—During the entire of Fri-
and becoming unmanageable, he proceeded to dis- day last, and the night preceding, there was constant
mount, in doing which one of his spurs got entangled rain, with a strong gale blowing from the S. E: One
in the flap of the saddle, and he was thrown into the o'clock, P. u. was the hour of high water, yet the tide
water. Fearful, it is supposed, of being run over, he continued to rise until past two, and reached a height,
now quitted his horses, and swimming back to terra perhaps, unprecedented. The qoays at both sides of
firma, left his charge at the mercy of the element. the river, as far as Carlisle-bridge, were overflown,
The coachman, it may be conceived, was thus placed and, in many places, wholly covered with watere=
in a most awkward dilemma, and the passengers and The tide reached nearly to the top of the Quay walls.
horses in a truly perilous situation : the water was Several houses were flooded : at the Carlisle Tavern,
I nearly up to the backs of the animals, and the posters a fire engine was used to clear out the waters All the
became refractory, and separating, one of them fell ships' planks were floated, and cars and carriages tra.
into a ditch. At this juncture, the guard and au out- versed the Quays with the horses knee deer,
side passenger jumped into the water, and extricating
the struggling animal, detached both from the coach.
Thus far all had been well, but other reverses were
yet to follow. On proceeding, the leaders made a
start at a dead hone, belonging to Gabb's waggon
(which had been drowned a short time before), and
upon the coachman whipping his wheelers to keep
them in the road, the harness suddenly broke, and by
the jerk he was precipitated from his box into the
water. Some few seconds elapsed before he recovered
himself, and his companions became alarmed for his
safety. Their fears, however, were dispelled by his
summoning them to assist him in repairing the harness,
and which they were proceeding to do, when, that the
measure of mishap might be lull, a sudden gust of
wind extinguished the lamps, and being thus placed
in total darkness, they were compelled to desist. It
was now impossible that the mail could proceed
further during that night; 'the inside passengers,
therefore, waded through the water, and got into the
Mill House, ohne they were hospitaWy received, and
made as comfortable as circumstances would admit.
The coachman, guard, and outside passenger re.
mained in their wet and exhausted condition until'
light dawned—a period of nearly seven hours, when
the guard secured his bags, and mounting one of his
horses, proceeded with them to their destination.—
The coach was not brought to this city till Tuesday
evening. In the midst of such a complication of
disasters, it gives us great satisfaction to observe,
that no serious injury was sustained by the passen-
gers, coachman, guard, or horses. The mail bags
for several subsequent nights were conveyed to and
fro by indirect and irregular routes, but as the waters
are abated, no farther interruption is likely to ensue.
ALRESFORD, DEC. 20.—0 n Thursday last this
town and its vicinity experienced a smart storm of
thunder and lightning, accompanied by torrents of
hail and rain, and at intervals by gusts of wind ;
during which, at half-past two, P.M. a water-spout
was seen, a phenomenon of very rare occurrence on
land. It was first observed to the S. E. in the direc-
tion of Old Park, emerging from a heavy cloud,
when its appearance resembled a funnel, the large
end being next to the cloud, and tapering gradually'
as it approached the earth. It moved with consi-
derable velocity, and was much curved in the direc-
tion of the wind, which was then S.W. It was not
visible for more than two minutes, during which time
it was distinct and well defined, being of a darker
hue than the cloud to which it was attached ; it
seemed to be let down towards the earth, and drawn
up again at intervals, until its final disappearance,
which was gradual, beginning from the bottom up-
wards. For the distance of a mile, its route was clearly
marked out by the havoc which it occasioned to fences,
trees, buildings, &c. and in fact to.whatever impeded
its progress, which was, generally speaking, in the di-
rection of the London road, with occasional deviation
to the right and left ; for its course does not appear
to have been direct, but serpentine. Nothing seems
to have been' able to resist the fury of the whirlwind
with which it was attended : an oak tree, of a foot
and a halt in diameter, was broken short off, and car-
ried upwards of forty yards into an adjoining field.—
Several strong fences and flights of rails were blown
down, and removed to a- distance of many feet en
erasse; but its principal fury seems to have been ex-
pended upon a farm-house and some hovels in the vil-
lage of Ropley, the first of which was partly unroofed
and otherwise injured, the others were beaten into
the road, and completely demolished. Besides which,
a fine walnut tree was broken in half, and some large
elms, standing together in a clump, were torn up by
the roots; these, together with the wrecks of the
buildings, made so effectual a blockade, that the coach
which arrived shortly afterwards at the spot, was
compelled to make a considerable circuit through by
lanes, before it could regain the road. A singular cir•
cumstance attending this phenomenon is, that through-
out its whole progress, its effects were confined to t
very inconsiderable breadth, rarely exceeding twenty
yards ; in many places the fences and hedge-rows
were as completely cleared away for the above-men.
timed space, as if it had been the work of a bill.—
Several outhouses were also blown down and crushed
by the wind, whilst adjoining sheds, equally or even
more slightly put together, remained untouched. This
spout, it seems, was unattended with any discharge of
water, which some deem esseptial to the haute of a

A further reduction takes place this week in the
Bank Establishment. A number of the senior clerks,
having made up their accounts, will retire upon the
superannuated list, with half-pay. The junior clerks .
will be continued in full pay at present.
CORONER'S Ixiauesx.—An Inquisition was held
yesterday before Mr. Htoos, Coroner for Westinin-
ster, in the Board-room of St. James's Workhouse, on
the body of Mr. JOHN R. M‘Gazooft, the celebrated
Scotch Piper. The deceased, on New Year's Night,
went to the residence of JOHNWEDDERBURNE, Esq. in
the Albany, and gave great delight to the company
by his performance. The footman of Mr. %Vedder-
burne deposed, that after the company broke up, did
deceased brought his pipes to the front door to go
home, and on putting his hand into his pocket for a
pinch of snuff, having asked a person present to take
a pinch, he found the box missing ; he laid down his
pipes to go back for it, went up stairs and knocked
at one of the servant's chamber doors, who told him
he would search for the box if he (the deceased) went
down stairs. The deceased, instead of going down
the stairs by which he ascended, took another direc-
tion down another flight of stairs. Witness heard a
very heavy fall, and immediately afterwards a deep
groan : he immediately went to the spot, and found
the deceased, who was a very heavy man, had fallen
down the stairs, and that his head was dreadfully
fraCtured ; he was in a few minutes a lifeless corpse.
Verdict—Accidental Death.

SODDEN DNAYII.—Mr. flllLLS,OfParliaMent-Street,
Westminster, had, on New Year's Day, a large party
of his own family and friends to dinner, and spent the
day with cheerful hilarity. Yesterday morning, his
servant, as customary at breakfast time, taking up the
Newspaper,,found his master had suddenly expired.
Medical aid was immediately procured, but too late.
The Doctors were of opinion, that the cause of his
death was an enlargement of the heart.
MELANCHOLY Acc Destr.—Tnesday afternoon as
Mrs. DUFFER, an elderly Lady, living at Mrs. Moat-
RIS.S, Wentworth-street, City-road, was sitting in her
room, ber clothes caught fire by accident. The cries
of this unfortuntie woman brought her son to her
assistance, who with great presence of mind, strippe/
off his coat, and covering his mother with it, extin-
guished the flames; but the poor Lady was so se.-
verely scorched that, after languishing in great misery
until yesterday morning, she expired.
ROBBERY or THE SKIPTON AND BURNLEY FLAIL
POST.—About half-past four o'clock on Saturday
morning, the horse-post, which conveys the letters
from Burnley to Skipton, was stopped at a place
called Snaygill, about three quarters of a mile from
Skipton, on the Burniey-road, by two men. One
seized the horse's bridle, the other struck the rider
some tremendous blows with a bludgeon over the
arms, which disabled him from holding the horse,
or making any resistance. They also struck him
over the head, which stunned and much injured him,
but did not succeed in dismounting him. They tore
the left side of his coat quite down, and took from
his left pocket a parcel, as under, from the Craven
Bank, addressed to C. Tattersall and Sons, of Burn-
ley,",containing £lBO in one guinea notes, and 2'20
one pound ditto, all of the Craven Bank, and about
£5 value in bank-stamps, upon Barnard, Dimsdale,
and Co. They attempted to seize the mail hairs,
and had cut three straps, but did not succeed in at-
taining them, as the horse, by some means, escaped
from them, and, with his rider, returned flick, to the
Skipton post-office. The alarm was soon given, and,
the same day, a man was taken up on suospicion of
being concerned, but none of the property was found
upon his person.'
Saturday evening, about six o'clock, a Gentleman
passing up Holborn, when within a dozen yards of
the Bell and Crown Inn,, observed a man running
obliquely across the pavement from the road, who,
coming in contact, seized his watch appendages,.
The Gentleman, encumbered with carrying an um-
brella. resisted with his left hand, and in the struggle
the ring of the watch-chain broke, and the •ia*
ran up a passage leading to the Horse and Groom
public-house, closely pursued by the Gentleman, until
he found himself at the extremity of a dark avenue
which he found had a communication with Leather-
lane, through which the robber escaped. Had this
passage been lighted, it is most likely the man would
Jaye been taken : the robber was genteelly dtesseds

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