Star.
London, England, 1824-11-24 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Thomas Skinner alias l'unasz Crib, a nickname which he is knew,
by in St. George's fields, in consequence of his pugilistic fame, „...h
brought before the sitting Magiatrate, charged with haying cam.
mined a robbery in the house of Mrs. Pritch6rd, Portland-o,i.
New Kent-road. lie was seen to jump over the railings of
house, with a bundle, which she identified as her property.
The prisoner, who strongly protested his innocence, wr•as vim.
mined tor trial.

M LBOROUG 11-STRE ET.
Hotute-yrrAmc.— Yesterday, 7'. Vearney, as good a judge Oa
4. bit n' blond" as ever attended the Smithfield market, WAS
to this office on a warrant, charged with stealing a dark datrle
grey hackney gelding, the property of Mr. Froggart, of Shout;:p.
hill, Hampstead, a farmer. The prisoner admitted that he had bed:
tried once at Newgate, for horse-stealing, and some pawnbroke:.
duplicates which the officer found in his house, he confeFsed
been given to him by a person who was a prisoner in Newt ,e.
The prisoner was set at liberty on undertakirg to appear
on Tuesday.

Sheehan, one of the str pposed murderers of the FRANK:
family, has been apprehended and lodged in Mallow
Bridewell. Sheehan, it will be recollected, was in cus-
tody before, charged with this horrid crime, but ce;l-
- to escape from the Bridewell in Do;ieraile.

Beta Acr.—lt is perhaps not generally known, that
by a late Act of Parliament, in full force from the 10Ci
of October last, it is made lawful for wholesale brewers
of strong Leer to retail such beer from their breweries
to the public in any quan•ity down to a gill.
Saturday, at sun-rise, says the Glasgow Courier, the
Heavens, fora few minutes, presented a most remark.
able and even fearful appearance, as if illumined by the
flames of a tremendous volcano, or city in frames. So
strong. was the lurid reflection, that it cast a very deep
flaming colour upon the buildings of this city, whicii,
when looked at through the windows, the glass ap-
peared as if it had been stained red, or the utiildinzs
reflecting light from the lurid flames of a wide-spread
conflagration. The morning was calm, and deep clouds
shrouded the whole Heavens, except a small pace on
the south-east horizon, where the sun was about to
make his appearance. The phenomenon is not unusual
at this season of the year, but we never saw it to tuclr
a great extent. It is a sure sign of unsettled, wet, aid
stormy weather.

COMBINATION OF IRON-FODNDERS.--For some months
past, a strange sort of combination has ezissed amongst
the journeymen iron•founders in Manchester and its
neighbourhood, for the purpose of preventing persons
not brought up to the business from having foundries t,t•
supplying themselves with castings. This combination
was first put in force against a house in the neighbour.
hood of Ashton, and was afterwards directed against
houses in Manchester, who adopted a similar measure.
To such an extent has it been carried, that the moul-
ders refused to cart from the patterns of Messrs. F. and
L. millwrights, of that town, because they persisted in
putting up a train of shafts for Messrs. H. of Stayley-
buidge, who had rendered themselves obnoxious by
erecting a foundry, which shafts were contracted for
before the foundry was built. Messrs. F. aml L. were
unable to procure any castings in the town, and have
been compelled to erect a foundry for themselves:
THE TREAD-MILL—The Exeter Gazette of Saturday
last, contains the following statement relative to the
effect of the Tread-Mill :

" So much has been said in dispraise of this instrument of punish-
ment, that we feel ourselves bound to mention an instance which
has come under our immediate notice, where a dissipated and in-
dolent youth has been reclaimed by it from the paths of vice. A
most respectable tradesman of Exeter, hail his forbearance lor:
put to the test by a disorderly apprentice, and finding reform .o
difficult as to requite magisterial interference, he made application
about two years since to the Bench, and the offender wa, sent to'
the tread-mill fer a month. So effectually did this means succeed,
that the young man has since repeatedly expressed his gratitude to.
his master for the course he adopted, and the latter has the saris.
faction to find himself enabled to place him in a responsible situatum
in an extensive manufactory."

The system of horse•stealing has lately increased te,
an alarming extent in South Wales, and the Magistrates
have determined, if possible, to bring the offenders to
justice. A Magisti ate, residing at P►esteigne•grove,
the county of Radnor, wrote, a few days ago, to Union -
hall, giving an account of several cases of ltorse-ste4-
ing in Radnor, and the adjoining counties, enclosing ►he
description of a man named Thomas Sheen, of Br; -
Melis, in the parish of Glascomb, who has absconded,
and who is suspected of having been engaged in step l-
ing eleven ponies.
Monday, the house of Mr. Thompson, of Falk, near
Sevenoaks, was broken open, and considerable proper►y
in plate and other articles was stolen.

At Inierness on the 15th instant, Donald 11I4Queen, Esq. fit
Corrybrough, Giptain in the Madras Cavalry, to Margaret, dauja-
ter of James Grant, Eq. of Might.
The 15th Inst. at Edinburgh, John Taylor, Esq. Attorney in
chequer, to Dorothea Judith, fourth daughter of the late Lieutemet•
Camel Lewis Hay, of the Royal Engineers.
At Stirling, on the 17th instant, the Rev. John Jaffray, Minket
of lhmbar, to Isabella, second taughter of the late Thomas I.uca-,
Esq. surgeon, Stirling.
Nov. 16, at Montrose, Campbell Locke, Esq. It. N. to Wen,
daughter of Andrew Knox, Esq. Montrose.
Nov. 15, at Arbroath, James Goodall, Esq. Provost, to .11,n7
eldest daughter of Bailie David Cargill.

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At Edinburgh, on the 13th current, Min Mary RAJ, third
daughter of the late Rev. James Reid, of Kinglassie._

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