Star.
London, England, 1810-08-17 00:00:00

CARLISLE, AUGUST 4.

Wednesday, a foot race took place at Annan, be-
tween James Anderson, aged 64., well known by the
name of Yorkshire Jemmy, and a young man of the ,
name of John Glass, which excited a great deal of mer-
riment in that town. Anderson laid a wager of £1 Cs.
that he would go one mile on the turnpike road, tied
in a sack, before his adversary ran three miles. The
Ycrkshire man won by half a mile.
In the course of this week, the Pawnbrokers in this
city have been handsomely scourged by a Mr. STOLE.
WELL, from London. He is a man of great notoriety
in the metropolis, and has waged open war against
the impositions of the Pawnbrokers in all parts of
the kingdom. There are no less than 3000 informa-
dons pending at this time before the Magistrates in
Manchester, and having received intimation that in,
Carlisle pledges were not redeemable according to the
prescribed allowance of the Act of Parliament, he
sent a detachment of his scouts down, who have pledg-
ed and redeemed a' variety of articles within the last
fortnight, and the Pawnbrokers unfortunately charged
more per tentage than is allowed by law. Informa-
dons were accordingly made before the Mayor, and
fines inflicted on the several offenders to the amount
of 882. Mr. Stolewell produced a letter from Mr.
Colquhoun, the Police Magistrate, stating that he had
been of infinite service in representing the shameful
exactions of Pawnbrokers in London, and that by his
vigilance and activity he had exhausted the Pawn-
brokers' capital of £lO,OOO, which they had exclu-
sively set apart to defend themselves against all law-
suits and informations.

Thursday se'nnight, at Wigton, a son of Mr. Gra-
ham, smith, was run over by a cart, and killed on
the spot.

KIL WINNING, AUGUST 4.

This fbrenoon was uncommonly sultry. The wind
blew from the East till about three o'clock, P. M.
when the lightning and thunder began here, the wind
then veered into the south and west, in the short space
of five minutes, rather followed than accompanied by
the dark clouds • in the west it was some time sta-
tionary ; where the clouds seemed black, the light-
ning sheared itself near the earth. After ten or a
dozen flashes, followed almost immediately by loud
lolling thunder, it changed its place into the north-
east, being heard at intervals. In about half an hour
after three, the horizon cleared up. During the storm
the higher clouds carried from east to-west, and very
little rain fell at this place. The lightning struck
two houses at the west end of this town, the roofs of
both houses were struck near the party-wall, and a
number of slates on the north-west side of both were
torn off, and the chimney-top injured the lightning
entered a chimney of the northmost house, passing
through an upper room to the door, which was open
—at that moment, two ladies were standing in the
lobby, on the stair head, who observed distinctly the
lightning turn the angle of the side of the door-way,
and force its way oat of an outer back-door at the
head of the first flight of the stairs, the door being
thereby completely torn, and the adjoining wall per-
forated. A hen, in the roost, in the court behind the
house, near the hack-door, was killed.' The ladies
on the stair-head felt considerably affected, but soon
recovered.
In the other or southmost house, besides the slates
being torn off as before-mentioned, the lightning
forced in a piece of the wood or sarking, struck and
shattered the opposite side of the woof, thence passed
into a room immediately below, entering a shelved
press in the wall, malting apertures in each shelf, till
it reached the bottom, crushing to very small pieces
a great number of china bowls, cups, crystal, and
other empty bottles, fusing different pieces of silver
plate ; it then threw the press door to the floor, shat-
tering it to pieces ; after which it forced its way to a
room immediately below, broke some panes of glass
in the window, and escaped. It is worthy of remark
that the bottles in the press mentioned, which were
filled with wine and spirits, were not broken. A por-
tion of the electric flujd also entered a chimney on the
opposite gable of this house, and passing into a bed-
room, shattered the bed posts to pieces. Another por-
tion entered the kitchen chimney in the gable last-
mentioned, laid the maid-servant insensible on the
hearth, without injuring any other of the family, seve-
ral of whom were at the moment in the kitchen. The ! A _ _
servant is now quite recovered. Thus providentially I named therein.
none of either of the two families have been materially Immediately on the receipt of the warrant, he pro-
Injured, though all in imminent danger, by being ceeded, with proper assistance, to apprehend the per-
more or less in the way of the all-destructive element. sons named in it, and succeeded in arresting two of
The steeple in this place has also suffered by the them, since which further search has been made, and
electric matter on this occasion; a small door about the the corpse of M•Clure has been found buried in a field
centre of the building on the south side, was shattered belonging to Underwood.
to pieces; and an oak beam towards the top of the buil- i The following is a description of John Underwood
ding had a large piece splintered off it; and the wall on —he is about five feet eight inches high, swarthy,
the east side towards the bottom bears visible marks of pale and emaciated face, dark-coloured straight hair,
loose about his cars, a little stoop shouldered, dark
its effects, some of the stones being broken and a rent
made in the wall of a' considerable length. brown eyes.