Star.
London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

PRETENDED ATTACK OF BURGLARS.

The neighbourhood of Winckley-square, Preston, was
the scene of great alarm in the middle of the night
bet wetn Monday and Tuesday last, from circumstances
which there is abundant reason to believe were created
for the purpose of deception. About twelve o'clock,
one of the maid servants of the Rev. Mr. Raven, named
Catherine Rigby, awoke her companioa, saying she
could hear footsteps on the stairs, and was afraid the
house was going to be robbed ; but to ascertain the fact
mote correctly, she. would go down and explore the
premises. She then told her fellow servant to remain
quietly in bed, and if she found any one in the house,
she would call out. The girl, scarcely roused from her
slumbers, soon sunk again to sleep, but she had not re-
mained so long, when. not only she, but Mrs. Raven,
Miss Raven (sister to Mr. Raven), and the family
in the adjoining house, were roused by a t( rrible
crash, and loud cries of " Murder" tram the woman
who had gone down stairs. The girl who had been
left in bed was so dreadfully alarmed that she hid
herself in a cupboard, and there remained, panting
and almost lifeless with terror, until the alarm was
over ; but Miss Raven, %%ha slept in a lower room
to the front, acted with more presence of mind ; she
threw up the sash and called for the watchman, who
happened to be within hearing, and came instai,tly to
the spot. Being let into the house, an investigaion
tlnak place, when it was found that the yard door was
open, and four squares of a window in the back parlour
sma bed, and the frame-work broken. This, it seems,
was done with one of the chairs, for the real or pre-
tended purpose of escape. .
The account which the woman gave of the affair was
as follows. On coming down stairs, she hi ard some-
body in Mr. Raven's study, upon which she turned the
key, and locked them in. She had scarcely done this,
when she was seized by a In in, who made his appear-
ance in the lobby. This man, she said, threw her down
upon the stairs with great force, and beat her vio-
lently. She then called out for help, and heard the
breaking of the window in the parlour, upon which the
roan who, had abused her made his escape by the yard
door. Although there were no strong ex ernal marks
upon the woman, she complained of being much hurt,
and Mr. Lodge, the surgeon, was sent for. Oa his ar-
rival she fe;gned the greatest lassitude and pain, but
could not say exactly where she was injured. Supposing
that the fall might have occasioned so tie internal bruise,
although this was not indicated by any derangement of
the pulse, Mr. Lodge bled her. A few haters afterwards
e was again called, when she pretended to he almost in
.he agonies of death, and to have vomited a large quan-
tity of blood. Still, however, the pulse was not effected.
Mr. Lodge's suspicions being awakened, he examined
the blood which she pretended to have thrown up, and
finding it not at all like anything proceeding from the
ito mach , he looked a: the arm he had bled on his first visit,
and found that the bandage had been disturbed. Mr. Wal-
ton, the constable, was called to examine the premises in
the morning, and his experience soon led him to the con-
elusion that no attempt at robbery had been made by
any practised burglars. It was evident to him that no
thief would have been at the trouble to break a wind rw in
I order to escape, when he might have effected his purpose
by the more easy and less noisy process of lifting up the
sash. The window is several feet from the ground ; and
beneath it is a flower bed of lose soil, upon which there
was the mark of a small shoeless foot, but nothing like
the deep indention that must have been made by a per-
son dropping from a window eight or ten feet above it.
Upon the whole, facts so strongly favoured the conclu-
sion that the woman, for some purpose of her own, was
the sole actor in the affair, that, ore Mr. Raven's arrival
in the course of the day, and being informed of all the
circumstances of the transaction, she was discharged
from,her situation, and may consider herself fortunate in
having escaped so easily ; for if brought before a court
of justice, the affair might have sabjecied her to a
severe punishment.

The Coronation of the Emperor of Hum* will take
place at Moscow on the 6th of August, where all the splendid fetes
consequent on this grand ceremony will be given, and not at &.
Petersburgh, as was originally intended.
The forthcoming new Drama at the English Opera
House is from the Tales of the O'Hara Familj, and is
entitled The Death Fetch, or, the Students of Gottingen.
The Death Fetch is a popular supetstition in the North
of Gei many ;. the inhabitants of the remote parts of Ire-
land are also implicit believefs in the Fetches, where it
is thought that when a person is approaching ditsolu:
tion, his fetch, form, shade, or double, appears to the
nearest relatives anifriends during the evening or night
prior to the decease. Upon this strange supposition a
Drama of extraordinary and novel interest has been
constructed ; and when it is announced that Miss KILLLY
is the heroine of the story, we may anticipate much
gratification.
Thomas Brewer, marine. of his Majesty's ship TAL•
BIT, sentenced to suffer death at Portsmouth, for strik-
ing his serjeanto is ordered to be transported fir life.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, Jos• 13.

Tunday. being the usual commencement day, the Grace for the
following degrees wu publicly granted:
DOCTO IL or Dinner—Rev. William Phelan. _ _

Docros or Laws—Rev.Stew;r7S..-garTrench, Lees Giffard,
George Grierson, Rev. Dionysius Lardner, Rev. William B..iley,
Rev. John Seymour.
BASSI/LOS or MEDWINE—John Elliott, Edward Stack, John
Davidson MacCready, Perceval Hunt, Henry Coulson Beau-
champ, Shewbridge Connor, James Donovan, William Corbett,
Claudius Henry Auchinleck, William Richard Vincent Lane,
Thomas Fox, William Cummins, Matthew Esmonde White,
George Burnley, Robert Plunket, Wm. Connor, Howard Cooke.
Memo or A/TS—John Elliott, Perceval Hunt, Shewbridge
Connor, William Corbett, Thomas Fox, Matthew Esmonde White,
George Rumley, William Connor, H. Cooke, Rev. William Le
Pier Trench, Rev. Travers Jones,. Rev. William Burkett Moor.
bead, John Glendenning, Rev. Thomas Jervis White, Hilary
L'Estrange, John Browne, Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan, Edward
Grogan, Alexander Read, William Brereton, Rev. James Stewart
Blacker, George Harkness, Alexander Donovan, Rev. J. Darley,
John Creeri Ferguson, Rev. Edward Herbert, William Morris
Holt Williams, Rev. Robert Hume.
At the same time seventy Students obtained the Grace for the
Degree of BACHRLOR or ARTS.

Wednesday, the Rev. Mr. Wrench was elected to the Chapelry
of Blakeney, in the county of Gloucester, by the Worshipful
Company of Haberdashers, of London, vacant by the death of
Archdeacon Sandiford.

Rev. W. Ihff is instituted Minister of St. Julian's Church,
SLtewsbury.
Rev. W. S. Marvin is instituted to the Vicarage of Shawbury,
Salop.
Rev. T. Bonney, ILA. of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has been
elected Master sof ftugeley Free Grammar School.
Rev. W. Hick et to the Rectory of Kilcormuck, vacant by tke
death of the Rev. J. Conan.

Rev. H. Newland, late Curate of Wexford, to the Rectory and
Vicarage of ICl!kens and Vicarage of Bannow, vacant by the re-
signation of the Rev. W. Hickey.
The sane day, his Lordship appointed the Rev. George Bonner
Dawson to the Curacy of Tullow, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. Charles William I)otne ; and the Rev. Charles William Cuth-
bert Fenwick, to the Curacy o 4 Wexford, vacant by the resigna-
tion of the Rev. H. Newland.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Three young men, named Ban:foot, Grady, and Clarke, were
charged with attempting to pick the pockets of several Gentlemen
on the Royal Exchange.

In consequence of the numerous complaints recently made, by
Gentlemen attending the Exchange, of the number of pickpockets
lurking about there, the Police have been very active in their en-
deavours to apprehend them. The above three prisoners were, on
Friday af!ernoon, observed 'rein: Gentlemen's• pockets, and at
length were taken into custody.
The Loan 31avoit said, he was determined to do all in his power
to put a stop to their nefarious practices, and committed them to
the House of Correction for three months.

The LORD MAYOR received the following letter, containing a small
sum of money, from the debtors confined in Whitecru,s-street

Prison:

" Mr Loan—The debtors confined on the London and Ludgate
aide, Including the female prisoners, in Whitecross.street prison,
observing with unfelgred sorrow the lamentable situation in which
the widow of the late Lord Chancellor Erskine is left (the particu-
lan of which apprated In the Times Newspaper, through the noble
interference of your Lordship), cannot retrain from offering their
humble mite towards het relief ; and whilst they forget their own
sorrows in contemplating the griefs which she has endured most
undeservedly, regret that their present finances will not enable them
to comibute more essentially towards the relief of the widow of a
man who, as a public character, will ever hold an exalted station in
the history of surrounding nations, as well as in that of his own
country, marked as his career bas been by a constant and successful
struggle in defence of the rights of mankind.
In making the small collection accompanied herewith, it occur-
red to the contributors that this day was the anniversary of the
destruction of that detestable place of confinement the Basile,
which had been so long a reproach to Fiance and the civilized
world, and when they consider that this glorious achievement was
effected by the march of those principles to which the life and talents
of the husband of this unfortunate Lady havebeen uniformly devoted,
their hearts are overflowirg with a hope that there is yei a sufficient
feeling of sympathy left in the British public to arouse their gene-
rosity in aid of such unparalleled misfonunes.
" They transmit to your Lordship this small sum, which they beg
may be added to the subscriptions already received, accompanied
with their best feelings and viishes, and in the anxious hope that
those in more affluent circumstances will complete the good work,
and rescue from want a Lady who, in the evening of her life, might
well have looked forward to better fortune."
GUILDHALL.

N. Harnett, the lover of the young woman who was committed to
the House of Correk don for introducing spirits into the Debtors'
Prison fur London and Middlesex, was brought up, charged with
breaking the windows of the ward in which be was confined. It
seems, on learning that his intended spouse had been so severely
dealt with, he became outrageous, and had demolished nine squares
of glass, with a tea-board, when his arm was arrested. He also
struck the Officers, but that offence was nor pressed against him,
and Mr. Spencer, under the circumstances, estimated the damages
at only 15s. which he paid, and apologized for his violence.
COOPIM v. Ilurrox AND Wirx.—Mr. and Mrs. Hutton were
charged with having violently assaulted a Mr. Cooper. Mr. Hutton
bad two black eyes, Mrs. Hutton had one ditto, and a scratched
chin ; and Mr. Cooper bad a broken nose, and his arm in a sling.
" May it please your Worship," said Mr. Cooper, " these good
people live in my bottom place, and are shouting murder from
morning till night—"
" No, Sir, it does not please me," said the Alderman—" neither
do I think they can be good people'
Mr. Cooper stared, and proceeded—" Last Sunday morning as
ever was, I takes a walk, may it please your Worship—"
" Ng, Sir, it does not please me," said his Worship, again—A for
I think you had much better have gone to church."
Mr. Cooper stared again, but went on—" And when I came
back from taking my walk, which was about twelve o'clock in
the day ; my wife says to me, says she, ' Cooper, says she, them
Huttons are at it again. I wish you'd go down and see what's the
matter with them, for they've been calling ten thousand murders,'
says she to me, just so. W:11, With that I goes down, and, Mr.
Hutton,' says I, 'what is all this 'ere row about?' Go, look !'
says Mr. Hutton. ' Now I'll tell you what it is, Mr. Hutton; says
if you and your wife can't agree better than what you do, I
shall thank you to look for another lodging, for I won't have such
rumpusaes in my house any longer,' says I. 'Go and hang yourself,
Mr. Cooper; says be. No, I shall not go and hang myself, Mr.
Hutton,' says I; ' but I desire you to take notice to quit. Then
if I take notice to quit, do you take that; says he ; and- with that he
took and hove the coal scuttle at me, whereby it took me right in
the pit of my stomach, and knocked me clean through the back
door into the yard, may it please your Worship."
" Indeed it does not," said his Worship, " but go en, Mr. Cooper,
and be as concise as possible."
Mr. Cooper, apparently quite in the dark as to the cause of these
repeated interruptions, stared round him for a minute or so, in the
ope that somebody would explain to him • but nobody being kind
enough so to do, he proceeded : " Then, Please your Worship, be-
fore I could gather up my senses to see what was the matter, he
took and let fly at me right and left ; and his wife, what stands here,
took and broke my head with a pitcher—a new blue and white
wash hand pitcher, what my Minis had give two and ninepence for
only three-days before!"
This was the climax of Mr. Cooper's complaint ; and he seemed
to think it impossible for any thing to be more atrocious than the
breaking a man a head with his own two and nine-penny blue and
white pitcher.
" Well, Mr. Hutton," said the Alderman," what have you to say
in excuse for this outrage?"

" Look at my wife;please your Worship," said Mr. Hutton ;
giving his superannuated slacks a hitch upwards, and sticking one
hand in his jacket pocket, while with the thumb his other hand
over his shoulder, he pointed his Worship's attention towards his
wife's face—" Look at my wife, please your Worship."
" I see her," said the Alderman ; " what then ?"
" Does she look like a woman to be putting a pitcher against any
man's head?" asked Mr. Hutton, with his little crooked bard-
worked thumb almost touching the-Lady's nose.
" I care nothing about her looks," replied the Alderman; " the
complainant has sworn that she did. But tell me why yen; your-
self, attacked him ?"

"Why, your Worship, the matter is u this," replied the unper-
turbable Mr. Hutton, " me and my wife bas a too words tegtther

now and theta—. man and wife Manias tha saying is, a d t!
nothing to nobody but we'reselves; foe weave been married eleven
years come Bart'lemy fair, and its cruel Jailed we can't talow one
another up a bit in a place we pays rent for, without other
folks meddling and making with vs. Rut this Mr. Cooper,
°or landlord here, he's a meddlesome sort of a customer, and
I was told as he should say, if he ever catched us blowing up again
he'd kick my bottom, saving your Worship's presence..—
So when I saw him coming along the passage last Sunday morning,
I sings oat, I wonder whether Mr. Cooper will kick my bottom
ts.day ?' and, rfecks ! the word was hardly out of My mouth before
he did !—he kicked me a cruel hard kick, which it wasn't likely I
was going to stand quietly so we tussled into the back yatd, and
there weft, and he get rother the worst of it ; but I got two black
eyes, and my wife got one, and there was no pitcher put against
his head, I'll swear, hard and fast."
Mrs. Hutton declared that every sinsable her husband had said
wat sackly true; and that instead of Mr. Cooper palling them, 'belt
ought, by rights, to bare pulled Mr. Cooper.
The Alderman was of a different opinion; and ordered that Mr.
Hutron should be locked up, whilst his wife went to loot fur b.