Star.
London, England, 1827-09-14 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

The Magistrates of this Clic; having ITad repeated complaints of
the nightly scenes of riot and disorder constantly going forward in
hones" of the worst kind in the neighboorhood of Kent•street,
Southwark, granted their warrant for a privy search, which was
put into execution on Wednesday night, and yesterday morning
about sixty individuals, male and female, the greater number t►ieves
and prostitutes, were brought before the presiding Magistrates,
War. Sweaty, J. T. Ilona, and D. Kure, &qrs. for the purpose
of examination.
The prisoners, It appeared, were all apprehended in brothels and
low lodging-houses, the receptacles for the most profligate and
abandoned of both sexes, who resort to that part of the town.
The officers who performed the duty described the scenesln some
of the lodging houses as of the most revolting nature, moat of them
being very small houses, notwithstanding some of the rooms con-
tained upwards of sixteen or seventeen persons, male and female
who were all of them huddled together without any distinction of
sex. Those of the prisoners who were Identified as having been
previously convicted as reputed thieves were held to bail to appear
at the next Sessions, and the remainder were discharged, after hav-
ing been admonished to keep away (tom the abominable hewn ie
which they were fouhd.

During the investigation, two young females, the abler not mere
than 15 years of age, were descrihed as hiving been discoveted in
bed aeons with two men in ooe of the brothels in White Bear Gars
dens, that lead out of Kent-street. rtlaisey. the constable of. St.
George's, who apprehended theM, stated that ,it house oet of
which he took them was of the most infamous kind; scarcely a

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Mr. Swain asked whether the two young creatures Wore
him were known to any of the officers or coostahks
o.ower was in the expellee. Maisey stated that he was cortvineut
they bad only just commenced to lead a wretched are of pen
lotion. Thi Magistrate took every pains In eliciting the Mut
of their unfortunate histories, and having ascertained they wee,
both InZiolle to reclaim and go into eti attylum, he immediately
wrote to the Governors at the Magdakn in their behalf, rt eft.
mending them as fit objects fir the Institution.
Mr. Sweiewr then spoke to one of the parish officers as
—" The Magistrates arc most anxious to put down s,l the ide
houses of the above description in the district; bet witholw to
paridt oaken do their duty, It will be impossible to 4.
press as isotrible a noises= is disgraces the metropolis; and
it behoves the parish authorities to indict the keepers of• theta
at the Sessions. The Magistrate added, that It was filht kla
wish to ramjets the unfortunate girls who frequented these beissesZz
it was the keepers of them that tidy deserved the severest punish:
nrem that the law allowed:*
The Parish °dicer intimated his determination to comply wit&
the recommendation of the Magietrate.

LATIN AND LABODR.—The following anecdote vat
related by the late John Adams, even to the lan days of his ilk
m
with all that goad home* a which was so abstamedstia el Mt
kis presumed has not passed away from the Weis e( Iv
have beard ft from his own Ups ; a few only of his ,t s;
premien. are remembered t..-" When I was a boy I bad to mak
the Latin grammar, but k was dull, and I bated it. Aly father
was anxious to send me to College, and therefore I studied tie
grammar till I could bear with it no longer; and, going to txy
father, I told him. I did not like study, and asked fur some other
employment. It was opposing his whiles, and he was quirk it
his answer. • Well, John,' said he, 'if Latin grammar dews mit
suit you' you may try ditching, perhaps that will; my kinks!
yonder needs a ditch, and you may put by Latin and it)* that:
This seemed a delightful change, and to the meadow I went; ;let
I soon found ditching harder than Latin, and the first fig*
noon was the longest I ever experienced. That day I ate the
bread of labour, sod glad was I when night enure as, That al*
I made some comparison between Latin grammar and QS big.
bat Mid not a word about It. I chit the next forenooni and snail
to return to Latin at dinner, but k was himihatiag,as4 14 mu
not do it. At night toil conquered pride, and I told my fe dim
(doe of the severest trials of my life), that, if be chose, 1 web] ges
back to Latin gransmar. lie was glad of It ; and if I have s dike
gained any distinction, it has been owing to the two days' labi Er la
that abominable ditch."—Sefees Omen&
It is, perhaps. not generally known, :hat the sill on
which the Boar's Head Tavern—the scene of EALST.afs
jollity,

and where the wits and wags of a former age
once assembled, and which by tradition was the: te.
vourite tavern of SHAKEPILAR., BURBAGE (the pia yet),
Ind Bow &meow, who usually returned along it.on.
don Bridge from the Globe Theatre to this houet• of
ainment--is still pointed out to the traveller, l.'s
Boar's Head, rudely chisselled in stone in front of the
second story °Ca house in East Cheap, on the right hod
from St. Paul's, and a short way from Fish•street ElilL
The original tavern was burnt at the Ste of London.
Yesterday while a man cleaning a window on tie
second floor. Borough, Hixh.street, he fell on the pant•
and was so desperately hurt, that he died in abott
an hour.

A few evenings ago some desperate villains broke into
the Anabaptist Chapel at Lewisham, in Kent. They
contrived to gain an entrance by climbing up to and
of the upper windows which had been left partially
epee for the benefit of the air. livery thing valuable
,was stolen, all the brats chandeliers were broken of, sat
every piece of bran that it was possible to remove! sat
• carried away.
The following instance of what we may term pride
conceit in lately came under the observation
this neighbourhood. The fair
re refers. carries her notions of
admiration of her own person is
condescend to nourish and
if they happen to be tinted
what adorn her own pretty