Star.
London, England, 1827-09-04 00:00:00

CRICKET.

The Sheffield Cricket Players, smarting under the defeat they
sustained at Nottingham, last week, have sent a challenge to the
Nottingham Club, to play them for any sum not exceeding "SOO,
on any ground save that upon which they experienced so decided a
discomfiture.

EDITORIIIIP.—To be the Editor of a periodical work,
I had long, in my own ideas, esteemed as the we puns nitro of droll
literary felicity. The many odd papers on odd subjects that an
Editor has the enjoyment of perusing, his power of accepting or
rejecting oi plaisir sundry compositions, and the importance that this
power confers on its possessor, seemed to me a combination of feli-
citous circumstances, which were even increased when criticism was
a feature in the work. Vain imaginings! they were doomed to be
dinipated by a conversation that a short time sbice the very intelli.
'sent Editor of a critical musical work, held with me. " The
labour," said be, " that I undergo, and the little remuneration
I receive for it, is incredible ; day and night am I at work, and
have so much new music to review, that it is sometimes a real
question, whether it, or myself, must turn out of my own house.—
Much enmity and awaits my exertions, and to many persons
lam a positive bug-bear ; for instance, I was lately at a concert
at which, as the bills announced. a Mr. and !Sirs. H—, strangers,
were to sing, and I confess Iw as anxious to hear them. On the
bench before me, sat a Lady and IJesithntan, the former of whom
(elegantly attired In white satin) I observed ever and anon casting
fearful glances at me over her shoulder, and then nudging and
making signs to the Gentleman, whose countenance plainly said,
" Madame,je vous n'enrend pas." " Uaderaand then, you shall,"
thought his fair companion, for in a loud whisper she said," Why,
the Editor of the is just behind us." The gentleman im-
mediately turned, and gazing at me with an air of agony and terror,
put the arm of the Lady in whit, satin under his, and bore her
away ; they entered tile room no more that evening, nor tbe Or-
schemers, fur this poor couple whom I had so unintentionally alarmed,
were the identical Mr. and Mrs. H—, were to have sung, and
to have sung too, a duet."—New London Literary Gazette.
MANAGEMENT OP THE STOMACH. --- Drs. PHILIP,
Pews, Joussos, and others in this country, have found their
account in writing on stomach complaints and management
people fancy that these Gentlemen know more on the subject than
the rest of the faculty, and flack from all parts to consult them.'
M. Lime has likewise published his Reflections on "the Causes isf
ertness im the Stomach. He tells us (what all the world ought to
know already), that this inertness is more frequently the cause them
the consequence of disease. He recommends a plan of living
suited to the age of the individual: that is to say, in infancy.
during the period of increment of the body, when dige.tion Is
rapid, a greater number of meals may be taken than afterwards.—
In the adult state, the process of Increment is stopped ; an¢ all
that is now necessary is to repair the lases; meals should therefore
be less frequent, and the periods of repose longer; the food, at the
same time, of a more select kind. In old age there is hardly any
loss to be repaired; eating then is only necessary to support fife;
digestion is much slower ; so that as we grow elder, we should
abridge the *mores or the duties of the table—an inference which 11
certainly appears founded in facts, and compatible with other Am
nomenen observable in life—but a little at variance, it is to be
feared, with the force of long-confirmed habit. Indeed, it is in
opposition to a well received system of philosophy, which assigns
indulgence in the pleasures of the table as a recompeatce to old age
tor the lost power of other tojoyment% and believes that such in-
dulgeoce may be made with impenity.—Landon 3felical Repository
oast &aim.

BARTHOLOMEW FAIR.
The Fair C mmenced yestetday accorsib g to antual
custom. The arrangements made ►j those who ha e
engaged plots rf g °and for the r vac ous esitibi•ir ft
afforded a 401 treat to the losers of this • pecies or
anni,emen,. The shows are numerous and very ex
tensive, and, judging from, the succes. that has always
crowned t' e efforts of the corps dramatique, there can-
not be a doubt that they will give mime:sal safsfaction.
W.,mbwill's fine selection of beasts stands in the same
situation as last 'ear, i. e. in the front of St. Barthel°
mew's Hospital. In the collection is the celeb•ated lion
Wallace,• who fought at Warwick with son.e mast tf
dogs. In the different shows a:e to be seen every curl',
sit, almost that the world can produce; wonderful
boys, both tat and can, the tapient.pig, was-wot It,
dwarfs, huge giants. a Lcl Indians, and.

" Anthrespophagi,
" And men whose headsain grow beneath their shoulders."

The booths are very numeiim., mending from the be
ginning of Giltspur-street comple ely round the market.
The Court • I Pie P.rudre, althotigh growing out of use,
is held this f ear. It is a Cn.irt incident to every fair
4nd mai ke., fur contracts and injuries dime therein. I
Justice is thus (lane as speedily a% the dust can fall
from the fr ot. T. 'e cause of action (for contrast, slan-
der, or inks; y) must arise in pre fair or near kei, and no:
before, nnr in a tor titer fair or Market. It must be for
some matter concerning the same fair ; and do e, com-
plained. heard, and determined the same day, and the
plaintiff must take an oath according to the Act•
Edward IV. chap. 2. Ist Richard 111. chap. 6. that the
contract, &c. was made during the time at the fair o:
market, and within the jurischigi n. A writ of error.
however, lies upon e rroreou• judgment.

BOXING.

FIGHT IZTWRIN FRANK CDWARDS AND NNTIIi, ALIAS

SAMSIT SLOP, VON £ao.—T IS TIRDA Y.
This match arose from a challenge issued by Ekin to Edwards,
purely (or the thirst a fame. Edwards has fought Harry Junes
twee, by whom be was defeated, but not till after a contest of an
hour and • half; this occurred about three years ago. Ekin bas
been successful in a few turn-ups with commoners. They are two
Jarvies et differs nt stands—among the fellows of their own pro-
fession. a vast bustle was excited, which was very apparent from
the number of hackney drags that were paraded on the occasion.
A report was circulated that the scene of action was fixed in a
very different direction from where its was really intended, and
Old Oak Common was again named as the favoured spot, but the
trap. were, either' born information or well grounded suspicion. OD
the alert, and were at the Common before any preparation could be
made ; it was of no use to attempt it under the nose of the Bow-
street authorities, and it was given up as no go there ; so the signal
was given for a move towards the Welsh Harp on the Edgware-
road ; and in a meadow not more than a mile from the Harp, the
stakes were fixed by Commissary Joe Fishewicke.
Ekin threw up his castor under the auspices of Jem Williams
and Charley Blenheim. Edwards soon replied in kind, with whom
Harry Jones and Paddy Flinn went in. Edwards was taller and
somewhat heavier than Ekin—ht was about nine stone and a half,
and on stripping it was evident that in his toggery be showed to
disadvantage. Edwards won the toss for the sun.
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At twenty-five minutes to three, they testified their mutual
friendship in the usual form, and proceeded to business-

TH 2 FIGHT.
Rousts 1. Edwards was confident, and Ekin nothing daunted—
and a fait show of science was displayed on each side, and a decent
proportion of ceremony. Edwards made the attack, and got In
two left handers at the body and one at the head. Ekin, who had
failed in stopping, now countered. and it told. " That's it, Sammy
—don't loot time—go it, my boy." Sammy plucked up, and went
in to do it, but he was out of distance. Here Edwards. in the
accidency of fighting, turned his face full to the view of Kkin's
friend, who woo descried a little claret—then came the shout—
:Mere! look there! Sammy lass drawn the first blood. lain felt
the friendly emitter's*, and let fly eagerly, but Edwards made two
good stops, and returned two smart jobs. He followed a hard left-
handed facer with closing, weaved, and threw Sammy.
2. On coining up, Sammy's right eye showed slight effects. Ed-
wards sent in his left hand. Sammy missed the return—Edwards
repeated it—Sammy again was short—Edwards closed, and in the
bustle Sammy was under.
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3. Sammy went in and trkd to escape Edward's job by drooping
his head, but Edwards still kept him out by virtue of his long arm,'
planted them on his frontispiece—closed, and threw Win with ease.
1. Edwards got his left-hand in as before—had the best of a
weave—and had the fall—Sammy received a slight cut on the
smelling organ.
5. A weave—Sammy thrown a burster.
6 to 16. " Go it, Sammy, you see be can't hit to knock a Ay
off." During these rounds Sammy earned himself much, and not
without judgment and evident courage, but the balance was rather
In favour of Edwards, who had the fall in every round, and he
only showed a small scratch on the cheek, while Sammy's face be
gan to be queer. •
17. In the struggle Sammy shifted his kg and got the fall. The
two patted each other very lovingly when on the ground, "as much
as to say I wish you well, my boy, but don't win the fight."
18 to 26. There was not much change in the fighting, but Sammy
displayed much cleverness andability in baffling Edwards in throw-
ing—Sammy either disappointed him, and halved the crush, or had
it all to himself.

27. Sammy, who now fagged with his exertinn against the odds
of weight and length, was under in an awkward position, and
seemed to feel the effects of the fall.
28 to 40. Sammy occasionally resumed his address In a struggle,
but he received several heavy falls, and his flight was all up-bill, or
rather downhill. A few rounds previous, Edwards was somewhat
piping, but Sammy had now become light cm his bands, end was
tailing a gradual and an easy conquest.
41. Sammy thrown heavily, and in which Edwards kept his bold
of his (Sammy's) head under his arm iud went down upon it, while
Sammy's heels performed a circuit in the air, and alighted with a
smash—" There now, all liartlemy fair can't anew a better somerset
than that there tag, now." .

12 to 44. All against Sammy. who dropped his head to save his
face, but hi could not get away from Edwards; who peppered his
twinkler, and sent him grazing every round. Eking began to low
light, and his seconds gave In for him, alter a fight of 65 minutes.
RINAILKS.—Ibis fight, which "ref ►rought out from the Fancy
of t►e Coleolum Tap. in Portland-road, was " respectably" eon.
tended. Edwards had all natural advantages in his favour, but
Sammy chewed as much as to promise that be would be no" slop"
to a man of his own weight and inches. The plan of dropping his
head, to which he resorted from a desperate necessity, was
much against him, for he lost sight of his man entirely, but although
at the end he was forced away against kis inclination, be ought, in
prudence, to have given in lung heroic, as he had no chance, At
times he had a flash of good luck, and dealt some fair jobs op the
nob of Edwards ; hut they were too few. and apparently not heavy
enough, to do the trick. Edwards's reach was difficult to over-
come, but he Is not a hard hitter; he had scarcely a scratch. S.m-
my's eyes were both puffed, and his body showed something like
corporal punishment. A goodly number of people were on the
ground, and a more than ordinary quantum of vehicles; one of
w►ich, a one-horse chaise, in entering the field at a fourin-hand
pace, came in content with the gate-post, shivered the shafts, and
the passengers were scientifically spilt, but fortunately without in-
jury to themselves.
Thursday a match for fifty sovereigns a-dde was decided in a
field on the estate of Duchal, near the village of Kilinacolm. The
combatants were Simon Byrne, an Irishman, and Robert Avery,
an Englishnian, both well-known amateurs of the prise ring. A
goodly number of the admirers and professors of the fistic art, from
Glasgow and neighbourhood, followed them to the ►cene of action.
It was a gallant fight of thirty-six rounds, and lasted one hour and
forty-six minutes. From the beginning, Byrnei: tactics were su-
perior to Avery's, who was at last taken die oi the room in a
dreadful state of stupor—his punishment wacteirrifig. Brae re-
tired from the sing without a mark.

Saturday evening, while the two men in charge of a
dray were employed in delivering a small barrel of beet
to a chandler's shop in the neighbourhood of Eaton-
street, Blackftiar's Hord, the horse and dray were dri-
ven off by some person or persons unknown ; and not-
withstanding every search was made at the Green yard,
and ether likely places, no tidings of them could be,
, heard.

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• .........—ter - A LIMMIIi OM- SI Kalb ..t
—iv...—.
Srutday ni,ht brween n ne and ten o'clock, are t
of the ix ensive premisei .col. Messrs. CoLLOPe and Co.
cloth-dyers, at Old Ford, were discovered to be of
fire: an alarm was ids t ediately vireo, when a poweriLl
gine belonging to the proprietors, which was :defy.
kept in the concerns, together with those belonging to
-the palish, was put into r quisition, and by a plentiful
ply of water, the devouring element was eonfi..eui so
that wing of ti e building in whicts it orig fluted, audio
which there was a considerable quantity of cloths,
*Web were en. irely c. noon e 4.
I Yestel day morning, about half past two o'clock, it •
atetchmas sta'ioned at the corner of Chapel.stieer,
lgtl,!ware-road, obv reed flames issuing from a ham aid
'eel house in .hat strt et, kept by a man nam-d Fai .
brothe% He instantly run to the house, and by re, cut.
edly knocking, •ucceeded in awaking the inmates. Me.
, Fait brotherosho with his wife slept in the first r a;t room,
at emPted to go down stairs,but when he opened the do r
for the. purpe•se, the volume of fire and smoke that bur t
into the in m pi evented him from putting his intent in.o
execution. The screams of Mrs. F.and he S datighters at
this moment were quite appalling. They were seen
sunning about the room in a state of distraction. T, e
1 ersosis in the sit eet called on them to leap from the
window, which they did, fox t una. el y without receiving
41. y injury. Mr Fantairsther also escaped in the same
way. About this time the door was burst open, when
the son of Mr. Faittip other, a lad between 17 and is
years if age, was found enveloped its fl met, and dread-
fully burnt. He was immediately conveyed to St.
G. o ge's hospital. Scat cely had the basil been delivered
trim their perilous situation, when the floois, roof, and
ba k wall stye way, and in less than three quarters of
an hour frogs the dtscoveting of the file the house was
a complete ruin. A number of engines *Flitted on the
spot; but their attention was directed entirely to the
saving of the adjoining houses, as, from the commence
m -nt, all hope at benefiting the one where thetas. 13,41
broken out was conceived to be u.eless. • ,:,%-;,'.'s 4

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RIOT IN CATO-STREET. ."-.!!!
Saturday night, between 11 and 12 o'clr•ck, a very
sudden and fearful riot aro e in this street, which is
situated at the extremi,y of Mary-1.-bonne, and whi:'2,
it will he recollected was the scene whereupon Th stle-
wood and his companions concreted and deliberated upon
their treason, and finally murdered Smithers, the police
officer. The riot arose among the Irish residen's of Cato-
siren, who, as usual, quarrelled with each rthcr
urn the old grottad of being natives of different pm-
vine's. which always in their moments of intemper-
ance furni.hea good ground for throwing down rte
gauntlet of defiance arid of battle. At this dead hour
of the night, and among this description of combatanti.
did the battle wage with unceasing and de•perate
fury, the local authorities, who first ende. Toured to
quell the disturbance, heirs either completely routed,
or put at defiance. Some of the furious ruffi..ns fol-
lowed some who bad taken refum in the houses,
and, dragging them forth, beat thffin unmercifully.
The upro.r that for two hours disturbed the neigh.
bourhood defies any attempt at description. Ti e
combatants b: 'lowed like a set of mad bulls, as the con-
test had alternate advantage for either party. In this
manner, and armed with every kind of weapon, did,
about 700 ruffians arouse the affrighted inhabitants
with their appalling uproar, and wantonly smash the
windows, furniture, &c. in tl e houses of the more
peaceably inclined, during the intervals when not
employed in breaking the heads of their opp..nents.—
Suddenly, when the uproar swelled b.gb, a brisk and
close charge was made in a moot determined. manner
by a party of the police. The quickness of the move-
ments of the civil power disconcerted the ruffians,
and they pittially rallied, and the offi-ets were com-
pelled to retreat under a shower of -heavy missiles:-
1n this retreat, several of the police rfficert vete
desperately maltreated, two of them are now in tle
Hospital from cuts on the head. The civil power,
however, by a succession of determined attacks upon
the mob, frightened the furious and senseless ruffians,
and they finding their body become stao!,ering and ir-
resolute, retreated, and con ealed themselves in *the
fastnesses of the vicinity. The officeis, however. se-
cured some, and they were yesterday committed from
the Mary-'a &note office. Such was the disorder which
the tumult occasioned, that it atone time was in con-
templation to send for the military. Riots of this ue-
scription are not of unfrequent occurrence,•and are
always attended with bloodshed.
Sunday evening a disgraceful Tilt took l lace in
buck.lat.e, Orchard-street, Westminster. It a'pp.ears
that latterly the Missionary Society have been getting
rooms licensed in some of the most d prayed pl.cei in
the metrovlis, to preach the Gosrel to the inhabitants;
amongst the number, No. 9, Dick 'ane, fa, been H-
ewed by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster ; but
the ,eongteLation which assemble are of a most wrOuly
ascription, and do nettling but laugh and talk daiing
the set mon. make a c nsic.ierable I °lse, on purpose, by
stamping with their feet la going up and divan stairs,
and also sweariv. Sunday night the 'lint disturbance
took place, the Pastor was interrupted, when some of
the party was taken into custody, ind constables sent
for; a rescue was called, when a scene of 'confusion
to. k place, one man was imme2i,.tely rescued. the win-
dows of the house were smash' d, and the tonstahles
were cove eJ with mud (tom he dto foot. It is n. edits,
say the :et vice was so H firi hed.

Further particulars lace transpired :electing the late
baud at the Custom-Ouse—the shipping of pipeclay
for opium, and receiv g back 9;. per lb. of the import
du; y. The Custom bou,e Officers have now a ceriarned
that the revenue has been defrailded to the amount of
fi teen thousand pounds. An Officer was dispatched
by the steam boat to Hamburgh, to wait the arrival of
some merchant vessels, with the fraudulent Funds on
board ; which, t n in,pection, turned cut to be a r puti.
mat minute of pipeclay, sand, eti.t, &c.
A little girl, named Siyets, elete, es years old, was
burns to death on Wedneiday, at Great WAtham, by hri clothe*
accidentally catching fire.
Last week, Peter Smith, whose imprisonment in
Dundee jail, for fraud, perpetrated under the assumed
character of clerk to Mr. Jeffrey, had just terminated,
was lent to Aberdeen jail, to await the result of several
criminal charges against him in that minty.
It is said that the vacant office of Judge of the She-
riff's Court in London will be filled up by the election
of one of the Common Pleaders of the Corr•oration.
For the vacancy which will thus be caused in the Cilts-
mon ?leadership, Mr. Ryland, Mr. F,dwa►d Quin, Mr.
Barnaby, and other gentlemen, arc already !multi aril
as Candidates:

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