Star.
London, England, 1826-10-10 00:00:00

ROBBERIES AT LIANIMERSMITII.

Thursday night, the back part of the premises of Mr.
Read, the proprietor of the Circulating Library, Dor-
ville's-row, Hammersmith, were entered and robbed,
amongst other things, of fourteen 10-045, several geese,
&c. the robbers leaving the heads of the fowls behind
they being what could be sworn to if left appended to
the fowls, while the stript bodies are not so easily
cognizable. From the footmarks that were traced, the
same robbers that night also en eyed the premises of Mr.
Dowding, a few doors off, and stole some saddlery;
and they afterwards attacked the back premise; of Mr.
Greenhough's, a tinman. The same robbers, judging
from the footsteps that were subsequently tracked, next
went to Mr. Kramer's, a huge, new, and newly inha-
bited house in Montague-place, fronting Mr. Scott's
park at Hammersmith (Ravenscoort-house), and stripped
the lower premises, carrying .'ff sheets, blankets, &c.
Friday night, Mr. Jessnpp, the Clerk of the Roads,
and occupying one of the Duke of Devonshire's farms
at Little Salton, which' is at the further corner of Turn-
ham-green, and attached to his brace's residence at
Chiswick, was robbed, and five good fat sheep, &c. cat-
ried off. And on the same night, the gardens of Mr.
Mountain, 5, Hammersmith Terrace, a little lower down
from NU. Jessopp's on the banks of the Thames, a pace
celebrated as oace having been the residence of Louthei-
hourg, the painter, were stripped of the grapes, pears,
&c. and in the day-time, somebody got into the boust
of Mr. Bishop, No. 8, on the same terrace, and stole
Mr. B.'s gold watch, value fifty guineas, which lie had
only a short time previously placed in the parlour.
The thieves also broke into one of the houses on Theresa
Terrace, opposite to Mr. Kramer's at Hammersmith. I

Twenty-four large mules have been landed at South-
ampton, from Caen, in Normandy, part of a contract
for the India Company's service.
Snow fell on Bushey Heath, Herts, on Thursday.
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The " Boots" at the Three Tuns Inn, Newcastle, de-
camped a few days ago, robbing the hostler of 125/.
The chillness and fogs of the morning should be care-
fully guarded against by the invalid, as being very un-
wholesom sufficient opportunity being afforded for
exercise during the sunny past of the day.
There will be large crops of late potatoes in the West
of England, but they are generally watery. The best
red kidneys are now selling, near Shaftesbury, at ss. for
the sack of 2 cwt.

A few days since a man, dressed as a sailor, presented
himself at the country house of Mr. Alderman Lucas,
in Kent, and stated that he came from Capt. Todd, of the
Indi.t House, to announce the arrival of three cases of
preserves, and a grey parrot, from India, as presents
for the Alderman. The sailor was immediately sheen
into the kitchen, where he fared sumptuously. The
Alderman wrote a note to the Captain, requesting to
know who the present was from, and when he should
send for it. The fellow, as he was about to leave, said
he had been out all night, and expended " all the shot
from his locker ;" would his Honour lend him a few
shillings? The Alderman, now believing him to be an
impostor, sent him before a \tagivrate, where, on search-
ing him, a number of letters were found, which proved
that he had cheated the maj 'rity of the families residing
about• Blackheath, as well as persons in other neigh-
bourhoods, by pretending to be the hearer of such ac-
ceptable intelligence. Tne letters were of thanks for
the information, and promises to send carts, &c. to the
Docks, to take away the presents. He had doubtless
fared well, and got some money at each place as a
reward. He had vert inget►iouJy adapted the presents
to the taste of the parties; to the curious in natural
history he bad given collections of shells, stuffed birds,
&c. to the maiden ladies he had given parrots, and cats
of extreme rarity and value; and, in the present in-
stance, he thought he had lit the taste of the Alderman,
by the present of the Indian preserves, and of his L 'sly
with the grey parrot. He was commided as a rogue
and vagabond.
FLAX.—The largest crop of wheat ever produced on
the lands cf the Rev. Mr. Yeatinan, of Stock-house,
Dorset, (in the memory of an old farmer, who broke it
up some years ago irons an bid pasture,) was grown this
year, after a flax ctop4.and this farmer says he can even
now perceive where the flax was laid last year from the
great quantity of grass.
An instance of words syrulnymous in sound, but dis-
similar in signification, lately came under cognizance:
A person in constant fear of bailiffs, having absconded,
one of his acquaintances was asked the reason of his ab-
sence? to which he replied, " Why, Sir, I apprehend he
is apprehensive of being apprehended."
THEATRICAL RECOLLECTIONS.—The charge to a
performer fur the house on I►is benefit was, in Sir. Gar-
rick's time, 601.; the charge now, at both winter the-
atres, is upwards of 2001. The highest weekly salary
was then twelve pounds, which was the sum the inimi
table Garrick received from the treasury. Actors and
singers, at that period, instead of riding in their own
carriages, walked on foot, and many of them followed
trades and professions. Packer is as a saddler, in Vigo-
lane, near Burlington-gardens ; Parsons and Burton,
landscape painters ; Aicken kept a hosier's shop in York-
street, Covent-garden ; Davis, a bookseller's, in Great
Russell-street; Bransbey, a hatter's, in Shire lane ; Mrs.
Pritchard, the Mrs. Siddons of her day, e masquerade
warehouse; John and Robert Palmer, in the morning,
in the early part of their lives, went sound the town to
paste up the posting bills, and tl.e former was, in the
evening, a favourite performer, and so general an actor,
that he is said to have studied more MS. parts during
his theatrical life, than would have loaded a cart drawn
by two horses; Dibdin was one of the carpenters of the'
house; and the laugh-provoking Tom Weston was, to
the day of his death, one of the turnspits in the Royal
kitchen at St. James's. The theatres at the above pe-
riod were of so moderate a size, that every part of the
audience could distinctly hear and see. Mr. Garrick
frequuitly asked his treasurer, Johnson (who was, by
the by, the best Gibby, in the Wonder, that ever ap-
peared on the stage, and the only character he ever
played), if the receipts of the house amounted to " three
figures," meaning 1001.; yet with such moderate re-
turns the theatres flourished, and the proprietors realised
ample fortunes.
DARING ItOREERY.—Last week, Mr. HUTCHINSON,
a Gentleman residing at No. 6. Hlghbury-park, was rubbed in the
most daring manner, in the public-road leading from Islington, as
early as half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. He was hustled by
several persons, one of whom nude a snatch at his watch. The pull
was so sudden and violent, that a link of the gold chain broke, leaving
the watch safe in the fob, and the villains made off with the chain,
a gold seal, and a key. The whole passed so qaickly, that Air.
liclasnisoat had not time toobserve his assailants, who were in an
instant out of sight.
THEODORE HooK being asked whether the infant
child of a very weak father did not carry a corresponding likeness ?
replied, " I am not so great a physiognomist as to know whether
the father is like the child; but this I !snow, there is &great deal of
' the child in the father."

- POLICE INTELLIGENCE%

GUI I.DIIALL.

Thomas Rayner and Joseph Bishop were charged with stealing a
piece of pills value 101. Charles Herdsfield, the officer, stated that
he saw them in company with a third lad on Saturday, opposite the
Manion-house, and having some suspicion, he followed them
through various streets, until they came to the shop of Mr. Ler-
mott, a mercer, in Aldgate, where they broke a pane of glass, and
drew the silk through the aperture. lie was watching on the op-
posite side of the street, and when he saw them leaving the place,
supposing they had accomplished their object, he crossed between
the line of cal riages, but the third fellow disappeared in the mean
time. In the hope that the prisoneri would lead him to their ac-
complice, he followed them quietly till they entered the house of Iky
Nathan, a noted receiver. He searched the premises, but could
find neither their companion nor thiproperty.--Remanded.