Star.
London, England, 1821-11-23 00:00:00

YOUTH AND AGE.

Youth is sweet with many a joy,
That frolics by in artless measure;
And Age is sweet, with less alloy,
In tranquil thought and silent pleasure!
For Ha who rave• the life we share,
With very charm uts gift adorning,
Bade Ewe her Pearly dew-drops wear,
And dress'd in smiles the blush of Morning!

A reverend Clergyman lately sitting in a public-1
home over a pot of beer, from his dress attracted the
notice of a country lad who had sat down in the
same room. After the latter had eyed askance the
Parson for a short time, he, judging his profes-
sion by his habit, begged to have a certain passage
in the Scriptures explained to him. In reply to his
request, the Parson, after a pain his malt, slid—
" Pray, Sir, what business are you?" " A weaver,"
was the reply. " Then, Sir," retorted • the Divine,
you did not come here to weave, neither did 1
to preach t"
In one of the principal towns in Yorkshire, the
leading Clergyman is a Proprietor of the Theatre;
but 'notwithstanding his interest in that concern, he
delegates his assistant Minister, at the commencement
of each theatrical season, to inveigh from the pulpit'
against the immorality of stage exhibitions.. This
answers the double purpose of presenting the cha-,
racter of the worthy Minister of the Gospel in a very
disinterested point of view, and at the same time
of enhancing the value of his property, as it inva-
riably happens that the Theatre becomes the great
scene of attraction, immediately after those who re-
sort to such places of amusement have been anathe-
matised from the pulpit.
SINGULAR INSTANCRS OF CONSANGUINITY. In a
village adjoining to Bath, there are now living, in
one house only, four persons, who are related to each
other in not less than eighteen different degrees of
consanguinity ! viz. one brother, one sister, two mo-
thers, two daughters, one uncle, one great-uncle, one
father, one husband, one wife, two nieces, one grand-
niece, one grandmother, one grand-daughter, one mo-
ther-in-law, one son-in-law, one sister-in-law, one
aunt, and two first cousins. The two eldest members
of the family are brother and sister by the same fa-
ther and mother, who are both dead. The sister has
a daughter, who is married to her uncle, her own
mothers brother, and by her uncle the daughter has
a daughter. The names of the family are John,
Sally, Grace, and Ann. John is both brother and
son-in-law to Sally; husband and uncle to Grace, and
father and great uncle to Ann. Sally is sister and
mother•in-law to Joint, mother and sister-in-law to
Grace, and grandmother and aunt to Ann. Grace is
daughter to Sally, niece and wife to John, and mother
and first cousin to Ann. Ann is daughter to John
and Grace, grand-daughter to Sally, grand-niece to
John, first cousin to Grace, and niece to Sally.
HI DOO WIDOWS.—As an inducement for Hindoo
Widows to burn themselves with the bodies of their
husbands, they are taught by their Pundits to believe,
that there are three millions and a half of hairs upon
the human body, and every woman who burns her-
self with the body of her husband, will reside with
him in Heaven a like number of years !

Several gangs of pickpockets, of two each,.have,
within the last few days, infested the vicinity of the
Exchange and St. Paul's. One of these light-fingered
gentlemen accosts the passenger, and calls away his
attention by offering for sale a gilt watcli-chain,which
lie states is gold, as a bargain; and,whilst he spews the
chain, the companion packs his pockets. One Gentle-
shun, yesterday, coming from Leadenhall-street to
S.. Paul's, wasaccosted by no less than three parties,
and the fist time had his pockets attempted. They
have all the appearance of being noted characters.
Extract of a letter from Tiverton (Devon), dated
Nov, 19 We had one of the heaviest falls of rain
last night ever recollected in the memory of man.—
Many well-informed people here say, such a rain was
never known in this country, but that it was similar
to what is experienced in the West Indies; it extended
about three miles in circumference, and this town
might be taken as the centre; it continued from nine,
till half-past ten last night, and again tram two to
three this morning: About ten o'clock last night, the
elements to the north-east appeared to be one large
£re, and continued in that state for many minutes.—
A bridge which crosses the Lowman, in the meadows
opposite Blundell's school, was washed away during
the night, though a very firm bridge and not of many
years standing. Several stone walls have been washed
down, and, in many parts round the town, the water
came down with such violence that nothing. could
resist it ; the iron-gates at the school-loJge, although
locked and barred, were forced open.about two o'clock
with a tremendous crash."

Fine large fowls were selling last week at Plymouth,
for 1 s. 4d. a couple: butchers' meat upon equall y cheap
terms. Four fat sheep (says a Correspondent) were pur-
chased at Withei idge•frir, on the 7th inst. for 16s.
In consequence of the prodigious export of cattle,
poultry, pigs, &c. from Ireland to Liverpool, the
cattle-market, held every Monday at Kirkdale, has
lately become one of the most considerable in the
three kingdoms. It was calculated that, on one par-
ticular market-day not very long since, the quantity
of cattle sold at Kirkdale equalled the average amount
of the cattle sold in Smithfield-mat ket, London, on
the regular market days.
A letter from Gibraltar, dated October 1, says,
“ A false report having spread at Alcanez, on the
14th of last month,, that the Militia intended to plant
the Tree of Liberty in the principal square, the Town
Council was compelled by the mob to disarm the
twenty-six individuals who composed the obnoxious
corps; which having come to the Civil Governor of
Arragon, his Excellency, on the 17th, informed the
Council that satisfaction must be given to the Militia
for the affront they had received, in order that they
might continue to discharge the important duties laid
upon them by the laws. Seventy individuals have
been carried off by the fever at Mequinenza, by
the latest accounts; 12 continued on the sick list, and
24 were convalescent. At Asco, seven died out of
eight, who had caught the distemper. In Aquilas,
five died from the 11th to the 13th, 14 were returned
sick, and five tonsidered convalescent. The suspicious
cases in the suburb of Seville, on the 16th, amounted
to W. Both the patients and the persons living in the
same houses have beat removed to the Lazarete:

POLICE.

Boer-sTairer-Yesterday, J. Francis was charged
with disorderly conduct is the Adelphi Theatre.—
Needham, a constable, stated that the defendant, on
Wednesday night, placed himself at a fruit-table. in
the pit entrance, where he amused himself by quiz-
zing the company, and at length became so offensive
that it was found necessary to remove him, to which
he leaden violent resistance. He then exclaimed,
that he had been robbed of his stick, 'which was no
seoner given him, than he floored the complainant,
knocked down several of the lamps, and committed
other outrages. At length, by the aid of the street-
keeper of St. Martin's parish, he was taken to the
Swatch-house. In defence, he acknowledged his con-
duct to have been irregular; but said, he had been
Sleeted brutally by the street-keeper, who had cut his
bead desperately, the wound on which he exhibited.
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE said, the conduct of the defend.
ant had been extremely indecorous, and he muse
give bail; but the street-keeper had also behaved
with unnecessary violence, and he wished to know
what business he had in the Theatre at all?—The
street-keeper said, be was employed there by Mr.
Rodwell, the Proprietor.—Sir RICHARD
41 Then Sir, you are a very improper person to be
employed there, or at any other place. You know
I was personally insulted by you the other night;—
and, besides, you are no constable."—The street-
keeper said, he was sworn in as a constable at this
Office.—Sir litettaßD IItIINIE-L." Then your appoint-
ment is now at an end."—The street-keeper begged
very hard; but Sir RICHARD would not retract. The
defendant, Francis, was detained till he found bail.—
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE then related, that he happened
to be with his family at the Adelphi Theatre the
other night ; when coming out, his servant was put-
ting them into a coach, and a waterman offered his
services. The servant said he could do it himself;
upon which the street-keeper, whom he bad just dis-
missed, called out, with a gross expression, " What
do you want to rob the poor waterman of a penny for,
you Johnny Trot—it's always the way with your
mock Gentry thcugh ; so it's no wonder." Upon
hearing this, he (Sir RICHARD BIRNIE), looked from
the winilow, and the street-keeper,' seeing his face,
started back, and muttered nut, " it was quite a mis-
take."—The poor street-keeper, before Sir lticuaitts
had well finished his story, came back, and, with
tears in his eyes, begged him to retract the order he
had given, for he had an ailing wife and five chil-
dren, and his dismissal would be the ruin of him.—Sir
Mena tt u Bt tee t E—" Well, Sir, I will reinstate you;
but it is upon this principle—the insult was offered
to me, and I ought not, perhaps, to take upon my-
self to inflict the punishment which you certainly de-
serve. Had any other person made a similar com-
plaint, no entreaty should have saved you." Here
the matter ended.
MaNstos-Housz.—Yesterday J. Thompson was
charged with stealing a pair of boots, the property of
a labourer. The complainant stated that he was
cleansing the sewers in America-square, with his
mud-boots lying near him, when the prisotier snatched
up the boots, gave one of them to his companion.
and both ran off. He (the complainant) pursued
them and overtook the prisoner, whom he secured,
but the other made off with his part of the booty.
The prisoner raid he bad for some time been in the
greatest distress for want of employment ; he was at
last so reduced that there was nothing left but steal-
ing or starving. It was observed to him, that if he
were in the state he described, he would rather have
robbed a baker's shop than steal a mud-boot! The
prisoner replied—" My Lord, I can prove that I
have robbed a number of bakers' shops—l have kept
myself alive by it for upwards of a week—l was
watching for a long time before I took the boot, but
could not get an opportunity." Being asked whe-
ther his companion was in the same state as himself?
he replied that he did not know him, but knew by
his looks he 'was hungry, and he agreed to take the
boots the moment it was proposed to him. The com-
plainant said, he could not afford to lose his time by
prosecuting.—The LORD Mayoa, under these cir-
cumstances, committed the prisoner as a common
pilferer, to the House of Correction for two months,
to be kept to hard labour and well whipped.
HATTON•GARDEN.—J. Dumpy, a patrol on the
Foundling estate, was suspended, charged by two
Gentlemen with giving them abusive language, and
threatening to take them to the watch-house for
merely knocking at their own door about six o'clock
the preceding evening.
QUERN•SQUAne.—Yesterday,John Loader, belong-
ing to the establishment of Lord Carrington, was
charged with assaulting T. White, a watchman, in
Privy-gardens, and J. Non, a sentry at Whitehall.—
White stated, that while crying the hour on Tuesday
night, the defendant and his daughter passed, when
complainant's dog barked at him. Loader then kicked
the dog, and threatened witness, who told him to go
about his business; but he refused to move, on which
he gave him in charge of the sentinel, when he as-
saulted them both. He then fetched some troops
from the guard-house, who conducted him to the
watch-house; but Mr. Stanley, the constable, refused
to take the charge. Loader, in defence, stated, that
in passing the watchman, the dog seized his daugh-
ter's clothes, when he kicked at it; on which the
watchman seized him by the collar, and he knocked
him down ; after which he was again seized and
'taken to the sentinel, who, on his attempting to lay
lbold of him, he pushed rom him, as he could not
recognise the right of the Military Power to interfere.
The Magistrate said, the watchman ought to have
obtained the aid of other watchmen, and Rot have,
applied to the sentry. He however understood a
charge was pending against the Night Constable,
which he wished to hear before he decided in the case.
Serjeant Armstrong, of the Coldstream Guards, then
said, he, with a file of men, conducted Loader to the
watch-house, when the constable said it was a very
trivial charge; that the watchman was the aggressor;
and that if he (the serjeant) was not satisfied,-Ifemight
take the accused to the guard-room. This, however,
he declined, as he did not feel himself justified.—
Magistrate : " Certainly not; you did very right."
The constable said, he was young in office, and if be
had erred it was unintentional. - He thought he hadi
the power. to dismiss a charge that appeared frivolous,
or where the accuser was the aggressor. The Magis-
trate said, it was the bounden duty of a constable to
take every charge that is brought, and not to assume
the ace of the Magistrate to deciding upon its

'twits. A recent Act of Parliament empower: bins
to take the bail of two respectable housekeepers, but
here his power ends. As the constable was young in
office, and expressed regret for his conduct, he should
fine him only in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings.
Several respectable persons spoke of the watchman
as a very turbulent character; on which the Magis-
trate read him a severe lecture, and Mr. Loader was

discharged.
MARY-LA-BONN! OFFICE. Monsieur Henri and
Mademoiselle de Ville, accused by Mrs. Worledge,
corset-maker, of Mortimer-street, Cavendish-square,
with surreptitiously decoying her female apprentice
from her, attended voluntarily to explain their con-
duct.
onsieur Henri assured the Magistrate that
he was totally unconnected with causing the deser-
tion of the girl in question. He certainly had en-
gaged her as servant for Madame de Vile, who ex-
pressed a with that he should do so, and he had as
often told her of the impossibility of taking the girl
from her mistress to Paris, and advised her to en-
gage with some other, but Madame persisted in
engaging the girl in question, and requested him to
write to leer for that purpose. He declared he had
no knowledge at the time that she was an apprentice,
or he most certainly would have refrained from so
doing. The moment he heard he had done wrong,
be proceeded to Madame deVille's lodgings, in Greek-
street, Soho, and placing the girl in a coach, con-
veyed her back to her mistress. Madame de Vile
said, that she was totally ignorant that she was doing
1 wrong in taking the girl away with her, but she
-having frequently complained of ill-usage limn her
master and mistress, she had acted as much from
motives of humanity as for her own accommodation.
She, however, was extremely sorry for having so done.
The Magistrate said, the blame was certainly attri-
butable to Madame de Ville, but, as the gill had
been restored to her mistress, and the parties having
acted in ignorance, he did not feel inclined to proceed
further in the business, and they were dismissed. •
Wednesday, this Office was crowded to excess by
a number of shoemakers, who appeared to be much
interested in the progress of a case before the sitting
Magistrates, Messrs. RAWLINSON and GRIFFITHS.
A man, named Isaac Homier, was charged by Mr.
Skinuer, a respectable master shoemaker, of Oxford-
street, with encouraging a number of persons to
stand round his house, and also with attempting to
excite a number of journeymen in his employ to quip
'that employment. Mr. Skinner stated, that he had
employed a number of men, to whom he paid wages
considerably beyond the regulated prices of journey-
men. Lately, finding it necessary to lower his wages,
he at once reduced the wages to the usual standard.
Some of the workmen objected to this, and some
others refused to work ; the prisoner was never em-
ployed by him ; but since the period when the men
struck, he occasionally made his appearance about
his door, brandishing a clasp-knife, and threatening,
by gesture, Mr. Skinner. On Tuesday he stopped a
woman who was carrying home work, and repri-
manded her for carrying home any work, or for work-
ing, when the men had declared themselves " struck"
for wages. The woman answered, that the regular
wages were paid, and she world not declare off. On
Tuesday evening the prisoner, and several others,
made their appearance, and commenced their usual
practice of walking about the door, threatening every
person who went into the shop of Mr. Skinner, who
at length seized the prisoner as the ringleaders and
handed him over to a watchman, who lodged him
in the watch-house. Several other witnesses proved
these facts, and added, that the wages paid by Mr.
Skinner were much beyond the usual rate, and those
he now paid were the regulated prices. The wit-
nesses underwent a cross-examination by Mr. HAR-
MER, but nothing material was elicited. The pri-
soner, by his advice, declined saying anything, and
the Magistrates were about to commit him for two
months to the House of Correction, under the nth
Gen. 111. for preventing combinations among jour-
neymen, when Mr. HARKER observed, that as the
Act admitted of an appeal, he conceived his client
was entitled to bail until the Sessions. Mr. RAW..
tassos said, if the prisoner wished to appeal, the'
Magistrates would admit him to bail until the Ses-
sions. The prisoner was ordered to find two sureties,
which he soon did, and was liberated.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET--James Rhodes, a boy, was
fully committed, charged with picking the pocket of
the Rev. Henry Boucher, of a handkerchief, the pre-
ceding evening, in King-street, Covent-Garden.
UN lON- HALz.—Henry Angel, a boy about 16 years
of age, was brought up charged with having beaten
and kicked his mother in a most desperate manner.
Mrs. Chapman, sister to the boy, stated that he had
been a long time in the habit of beating and other-
wise abusing his mother, so often and so violently
that the whole neighbourhood in which they lived
attributed every noise they heard to the filial atten-
tions of the prisoner. The witness was absent from
home four or five days ago, and had left her mother
and brother in care of it. Upon her return she
found her mother in a deplorable state, the poor old
woman having been beaten and kicked from head to
foot by this inhuman villain. Notwithstanding this
treatment the mother would never have appeared to
complain, had not the neighbours joined with the
witness to prevail upon her to attend. The boy spoke
not a word, but smiled during the examination, and
appeared quite indifferent to everything, until roused
by the decision of the Magistrate, who said, when
the mother was sworn to the fact that her son had
beaten her that very morning, " Lock up the scoun-
drel in a solitary cell in the House of Correction, at
Brixton, for three months, and let him be well
flogged." The prisoner then changed countenance,
and the unfortunate mother supplicated in tears to
have the " flogging" remitted. In this entreaty she
was joined by the daughter.--The Magistrate (Mr.
Cumuli/as) strongly censured both mother and sis-
ter for making so absurd a request, and observed,
that if the unfeeling son had received such punish-
meat as he was about to undergo, some years ago,
there would probably be no necessity now for making
any complaint.—The boy was then taken to prison.
LAMBRTu-sTazET.—Yesterday Israel Alexander,
driver of Mr. Moss's Bishop Stortford stage-coach, to
and from the New Inn, Old Bailey, appeared to an
information at the suit of George Martin, wherein he
was charged with driving his employer's coach at a
furious rate, so as to endanger the lives of his Ma-
jesty's' subjects. This was another ease of coach-
racing.—The Magistrate convicted the defeztant its
the penalty of £5 and 10s. CDR&