Star.
London, England, 1821-01-06 00:00:00

HUNTING.

Lord Arson's Fax-hounds will meet on Monday, at Fisher's
Mill; on Tuesday, at Netherseal; on Friday, at Oldbury; on
Saturday, at Black Brook; and on Monday, 15th, at Sibson.
Mr. Mitinszi.i.'s fox hounds will meet on Monday, at Eton
Wood ; Thursday, at Catton; and Saturday, at Holly Bush.
The Wexford Club hounds, kept by W. Bouvrow, Esq. bad a
remarkable fine run on the 22d ult. They drew the cover at
Harriot-lodge, the seat of Arrant Cnscuzirrza, Esq. The
hounds never came to a moment's check during the whole hunt,
and the sportsmen rode fairly up to them, and were in at the
death of the fox, with the exception of one or two, who were
lost in a thick fog which covered the top of Slievekeiher.

A few days since, the hounds of P. TILLERY, F.sq. ran a hare
so hard, near Ridway, Devon, that she mounted the low roof
of one of the houses adjoining the field, ran along the neighbour-
ing buildings, and at last jumped into the court-yard of a house
belonging to bliss Cummins, from whence puss made her way
into the parlour, followed by the whole pack, to the no small
consternation of the peaceable inhabitants! Being taken alive,
the hare was again let loose for a second run, and finally escaped.

Tuesday morning last, Mr. ENGLISH, woollen-
draper, in New-street, Birmingham, met with a se-
rious accident, from incautiously neglecting to se-
cure the trigger of a spring-gun he had set in his
shop before lie had released the wire connected with
it; consegnently the piece discharged its contents,
and his right arm was so shattered as to render am-
putation necessary, the operation was performed, and
he is doing well.
Yesterday morning the son of Mr. BARKER, a
butcher, in Islington, swinging on a rope in the
wash•house, fell off backwards, and broke his back.
Last Tuesday night, a labouring man named Ad-
cock, living in the Borough, was enticed by a pros-
titute into a coffee-shop in Dover-street.. Before he
had been there long, the lady contrived to rob him
of what little money he had, and then decamped ;
finding himself without money, and confident of
being locked out of his lodgings, he laid his head
down on the table (as he saw others do), and pre-
sently fell asleep. About three o'clock in the morn-
ing he awoke, and found that dining his sleep, his
company had managed to take off his half-boots,
which fitted him rather tight, which, together with
a pair of new white stockings he wore, they had
stolen fairly off his legs! He became outrageous at
his loss, on which the landlord turned him out, and
he:was doomed to walk about the streets barefooted for
four hours, before he could get into his lodgings.
Thursday night, between six and seven o'clock,
Mr. CLARKE, of Elliott's-row, Lambeth, was attacked
near the Obelisk, by two men who rushed violently
against him, one of whom snatched his watch. By
a sudden effort, Mr. CLARKE managed to snatch it
from the main who held it ; but was almost imme-
diately knocked down by his companion, and the
property forced from him ; he, however, contrived to
catch the thief by the heel, which brought him down,
and Mr. CLARKE a second time had his watch ; but
before he could conceal it, and having no strength in
such a position to defend himself, the villains got it
from him again, and they both escaped;

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A brutal Murder, itccompaniad by robbery, wit
committed on the person of a man named Timothy
Niven, a few evenings since', by a gang of ruffians in
Rosemary-lane, at so Carly an hour as nine o'clock in
the evening. The unfortunate man was a native of
Ireland, and resided at No. 14, Brook'scourt, Vine-
yard, Herslydown. On Tuesday morning, about
eleven o'clock, he left his lodging for the purpose (at
was understood) of receiving a sum of money from
his:Club, in Rosemary-lane ; he did not return again,
nor was anything heard of him till between aline
and ten o'clock at night, when the people of the
house were alarmed by some one Moaning on the
stairs ; they listened, and presently heard a voice,
which they knew to be the deiea,ed's, exclaim " 011!
Gon, will no one help me!" The landlord was the
first alarmed, and he immediately left the room, and
found Niven on the stairs, endeavouring to trawl up
to his room ; he appeared very weak, and his head
was bloody, but the landlord thinking that he had
been drinking, and had only got into some affray,
did not ask him any questions till he took him to his
bed. In this room also slept a Captain Mg-lowan,
belonging to a country trader, whom the deceased
awoke, and then requested to have some water to
drink. A glass of water 'was accordingly brought,
which he drank greedily, and then vomited large
quantities of blood. Captain M'Gowan and the
landlord judging, from his appearance, that he had
received some deadly injury, they questioned him as
to the cause of his being in such a situation, and the
following was the explanation which he gave :
After leaving home he crossed the water to Bill
lingsgate, and after partaking of some refreshment
there, proceeded to the Minories, and from thence to
Rosemary-lane, where he met with a number of ac-
quaintances, with whom he spent the remainder of
the day till about six o'clock; he then parted from
them, and went to the Anchor and Hope, public.;
house, where he had some beer in the tap-room, and
remained till about nine o'clock. He then thought it
time to return home, and left the Anchor and Hope
for that purpose, but he had not proceeded far before
he remarked that some men of suspicious appearance .
were following him, however, as they did not molest
him just then, he did not pay any particular atten-
tion to them. Just as he reached the corner of art
alley which was very dark and lonely, they rushed
upon him, and one of them, presenting a pistol, der
manded his money, accompanying his demand with
a menace, that if he refused, or made any noise, he
would blow his brains out 1 The-deceased refused
to obey this mandate, and.watitistantly felled to the
ground by a blow of .the. butviend of tbe.pistol, and. •
whilst down he received a. great many_ kicks and
blows; he roared out for help,.but no watchman or
other person came .to his assistance' and the thieves ..
continued their brutal violence till he. fainted away .
from repeated blows 'on the head and loss of blood:
'ln about a quarter of an hour he recovered his senses
and found himself lying in a corner, his clothes dirty
and bloody; he got up, and with great difficulty
dragged himself home without meeting any further
interruption.
At this stage of his narrative, the unfortunate de. •
ceased got very weak and his speech failed him, so
that it was deemed dangerous to ask him any ques-
tions with respect to what he had been robbed
He earnestly entreated to be left carefully in bed,
observing, " I shall be better to-morrow mornings
when I wake!" He did not groan nor make any
noise during the night. At six o'clock in the morn•
ing the landlord of the house came up stairs to see
if he wanted anythiag, but finding him (as he con-
ceived) in a sound sleep, he did not disturb
Captain M•Gowan got up in half an hour afterwards,
and went to his bed for a similar purpose. At first,
like the landlord, he thought him asleep; but after
listening some time, and not hearing him breathe, he
felt his forehead, which was quite cold, and he then
concluded he was dead, and alarmed the people of
the house. A surgeon was sent for, and he confirmed
the suspicion most unequivocally.
Information of the circumstance was given to the
Parish o&cers, who communicated it to the Coroners
and an Inquest was accordingly held on the body in
the Vestry-room of Horselydown Church, before Mr.
SHELTON and a Jury of the principal inhabitants.-.—;
Captain M'Gowan and the landlord were both fully
examined as to the foregoing particulars, and they
added, that the deceased was a perfectly peaceable
and inoffensive man.

The landlord of the Anchor and Hope public=
house in Rosemary-lane, was summoned before the
Inquest, and fully examined, in hopes that his evia
dence would throw some light on the affair ; but all
he knew was, that he saw the deceased in his house
about nine o'clock on the night of the murder ; that
he left it perfectly sober, and that he bad not seen
him since that time.
Two watchmen, whose beats are in the street
where the man was assaulted, underwent a long exa-
mination, but they professed to be perfectly ignorant•
of the matter. One of them had got drunk and kept
from duty, so that it seems there was no one in hi,
place, and the other's station being at some distance
from the spot, he did not hear the alarm, or, if he
did, paid no attention to it.
Mr. Ainsley, the Parish Surgeon, stated, that he
had minutely examined the body of the deceased,
and found the skull fractured at the back, and the
brains much injured; there was extravasated blood
upon their surface. Other parts of the body were
much bruised and swollen, as if the man had been
kicked, or struck with sticks; the neck was particu.
larly black, seemingly from an endeavour to strangle
the deceased. He did not think a man could have
inflicted such injuries on himself* if he had been so
inclined. The fractures in the head might have been
inflicted by the butt-end of a heavy pistol.
A good deal of other evidence of the like nature •
was heard, but none of it afforded any clue that
would be likely to forward the ends of justice, by
bringing the perpetrators of the bloody act to light.
The Coroner observed to the Jury; that it was his
opinion the deceased had met his death by the hand
of robbers. It did not seem that he could have cam.
mined suicide) from the nature of the wounds:
After a momentary consultation, the Jury returned
a verdict of—" Wilful Murder against some person
or persons at present unknown."
The deceased was a single man, of about thirty.
sii years of Ages