Star.
London, England, 1826-08-31 00:00:00

WENDOVER, Atm. 23.

The song of if Harvest Home" has scarcely ceased in
the land when the cry of pauperism has begun. The
habits of vagrancy become more and more extended--
the industry and capital of the farmer ate mulcted
beyond all reasonable proportion to support the swat ms
of poor who either cannot or will not do anything for
themselves. The employment and wages of the harvest
season having now ceased, it is afflicting to see the crowds
of•able and wretched labourers who flock-to the Magis-
trate and overseers fcr a pittance to keep soul and body
together in themselves and families. I saw several to-
day who received orders from a Magistrate on the over-
seer of a neighbouring. parish, for money to support
them until next Friday, when a select vestry meets to
decide upon their claims. The single men received one
shilling, the men with a wife and child half-a•crown
those with a wife and three children, four shillings.—
The rates in that parish are twelve shillings in the pound,
and the Churchwarden and overseers state their situa-
tions to be so irksome and unpleasant that they hardly
know how to get on.

HUNTINGFIELD, Auousr 28.

At the village where lam sojourning in Suff I
there is Church service only once on the Sabbath, al-
ternately on mornings and afternoons, though the se•
veral bishops in their fi changes" throughout the coun-
try, enjoined service at least twice on Sunday ; but this
•illage is not peculiarly circumstanced, for the like is
the ease, as far as I can learn, in all the villages
around; and I availed myself of the omission of Church
service, to ride over to Heveningham 1-1211. When 1
approached the front of the II .11, at least as close to
it as the road through the park seemed to say we were
per mitted to go, I was sorptised to see a crowd of forty
or fifty agricultural labourers in their smock frocks,,
or red waistcoats with sleeves, straw bats, &c. uncere-
moniously surrounding the windows of the left wing
of the Hall. Such a display in the front of a No-1
bleman's mansion, on a Sunday morning, and during
church time (between eleven and twelve o'clock)
naturally aroused our curiosity; and though we stood
and stared at them for a long time, they remained sta.
tionary, apparently anxiously attending to what some
person was saying or doing in the hall, the windows of
.which were up ; and it was not till we arrived at the
village of Huntingfield that we learnt the meaning of
this display. It was stated that those agricultural la-
bourers had gone up to his Lordship's house to set*
for their harvest work !
We beard persons mention that they were anxiously waiting for
the men to bring home their money, to pay the few shillings and
pounds they owed to shopkeepers, Eke. I mention this to show
bow closely rum the poor agricultssml Mowers appear to be.

NIWCAITLE, AUGUST 29.—Saturday night, about
nine o'clock, a very serious outrage was committed in
the Back-lane, immediately behind Spring Gardens,
near this town. A soldier and a young woman were
going towards the Westgate, when angry words took
place : they had scarcely passed Messrs. Thompson and
Co.'s Colliery, when the soldier drew his biyonet and
stabbed his companion. She shrieked and fell. The
soldier instantly ran of in the direction of the barracks,
and two men came up and led the young woman into
the town. The soldier is at large.
CHURCH PATRONAGC.—AIthough there appear to be
only 9,284 parish Churches in England, there are 11,593 benefices,
1,290 01 which are in the pan-mugs of the diocesans, 1,005 in Dean
and Chapters, 103 in the five collegiate Churches of Manchester,
Ripon, Southwoll, Westminster, and Windsor; 583 in the Univer-
sities and Colleges of Oxford and Cambridge, EMI, and Winches-
ter; 1,015 in the King. Prince of Wales, and Duke of Lancaster,
leaving 7,597 in the patronage of lay impropriators.

SURREY SESSIONS, AUGUST SO. •

Join Swish and ffismak (sn, were in 'icted for
feloniously stealing from the person of James Grigg, a
watch, money, and other articles, to the value of six
pounds, his property, and James Coleman, as an ac-
cessary of the fact.
James Grigg, the prosecutor, stated, that, on the 20th
day of this month (August), he .had occasion to go
down the rent-road, where he met with some friends
who invited him to take something to drink. He got
intoxicated, indeed 4, he was quite drunk." He recol-
lected, however, going into Church-street, and there
he got robbed.
The evidence was conclusive against the principals, but derived
some interest from the rather singular situation of the accessary,
the brother of Clan, who, it appears, bad attempted to compound
the felony, by getting the prosecutor out of the way.
The prisoners being called upon for their defence,
Coleman, with great artlessness of appearance, said, he
had bur recently returned from Ireland, and the first
tidings which reached his ear, on his arrival in this
country, was the unhappy situation of his sister, and
without giving himself time to consider whether she
was really guilty or not, he had strained every nerve
to save her from an ignominious punishment. If, in
so doing, he had violated the laws of his country, he
declared, most solemnly, that he had done so ignorantly.
He relied, he said, with firmness, on the well-known
justice of an English Court, in sincere and anxious
hope, that it would not visit an act of and
almost uncontroullable brotherly affection, with the
punishment of a felon.
The Jury returned a verdict of OW* against the three prisoners.
Smith and Cain were sentenced to 14 years' transportation, and
Coleman to twelve months' imprisonment and bard labour.—The
Calendar having been gone through, the Court closed until October.

Tuesday, four persons in the employ of Messrs.
Broadwood, piano-forte manufacturers, named Murray,
Waite, Zyeder, and Conolly, returning from Deptford
in a boat, about nine o'clock at night, attempted to pass
through the centre arch of London Bridge, when the
boat was upset, and Murray and Waite met a watery
grave; the former was recently married, the ether has
left a widow and three children. Zyeder, being a good
swimmer, saved the life of Conolly, by suffering him to
cling round him till they were taken up by two water-
men neat Southwark Bridge.
A most inhuman murder was perpetrated on the night
of Saturday, or early on Sunday morning, at Coc,luck,
in the county of Dublin, by a man named Robert Long.
The victim of this savage deed was his own wile, whom
he assaulted with the batrel of a gun, until he beat her
head to pieces. Long is a bricklayer by trade, and a
native of Swords, but has latterly resided at Feltrim,
near Malahide; he had three children by his wife, the
eldest of whom is or.ly ten years old. Fur the present
he has eluded the pursuits of justice-.
A few days ago, a little Alarm prevailed in the neigh-
bourhood of Grove-street, Bath, underneath which is
the icehouse of Mr. J. Tulley, of Nlrlsom-street. An
old woman, who had observed some smoke issue from
the ice-house door, gravely reported that " the people
had been there wi' a lighted candle a'ter ice, and they
dropped a spark, and set, fire to't.'' The former part
of the report appears to have been correct ; and it would
seem that " the people" had dropped the candle on the
straw by which the ice is surrounded, for the purpose of
preserving it ; but there having been in the house only
two cwt. of straw, and about ten tons of ice, which, on
every approach of its rival element, assumed its original
state, the odds of water against fire were too considera-
ble to allow of the latter making much progress- TW3
or three hundred weight of ice were lost ; when, with
the assistance of some engines, the flue was extinguirhed.
At St. Catherine-Cree Church, in Leadenhall-street,
London, provision is made, under the will of Sir John
Gager, who was Lord Mayor in the year 164.6, for a
sermon to be preached annually on the 16th of Nov. in
commemoration of his happy deliverance from a lion
which he met in a desert as he was travelling in the
Turkish dominions, which suffered him to pass unmo-
lested. The Minister is to receive 20s. for the sermon ;
the clerk 2 . 6d. and the sexton Is. The sum of 81. 16s.
6d. is likewise to be distributed among the poor inhabi-
tants, pursuant to the will of Sir John.
Among the Dismals, at the Edinburgh police-Office,
on Saturday, a most woe.begone wight, a son of F.:calf:-
pins, whose head, from the eff:cts of shame, was all but
sunk between his shoulders, was brought up from the
shades beneath, and placed at the bar. From the gog-
gling of his eyes, they seea•ed to be very much discom-
posed by the sun's effulgence—and no g'eat wonder,
for he had been several days in durance upon a charge
of trespass of a most extraordinary nature. One evening,
about the beginning of the week, the lady of a house in
the New Town, when about to retire to bed, and in
passing the kitchen door, observed the shadow of a man
reflected upon the fluor, which excited in her some un-
easy suspicions; so, without saying a word, she locked
the outer door, and gave the key to her husband, who
had retired to rest. In the morning she came to the
kitchen to reconnoitre, when she observed a stout
strapping wench sitting at the fire, dressed in a print-
ed gown and apron, and a la•ge mutch which half
concealed her comely face. The servant maid assured
her mistress that the stranger was a country cousin of
hers, who had come to town the previous night, and
whom she could not but invite to teke a share of her bed.
The mistress advanced to this interesting personage,
and, drawing aside tl e breast of her gown. observed a
man's coat of honest broad cloth beneath it The stranger
was no other than the prisoner. Instantly the alarm
was given to the husband, who, after locking the door
outside, hurried for some policemen. They soon arrived,
and invited the prisoner to accompany them to the
watch-house. He intplored for mercy, and protested
that he would rather be stuffed like an alligator, and
exhibited as such in a glass bottle, than submit to suet
degradation. His prayers, however, were of no avail ;
and after being strapped by the wrist to one of the
pol semen, he was marched off in his female habili-
ments to the watch-house—a sad and striking example
of the truth of the poet's remark, that " the course of
true love never did run smooth." He had nothing to
say in defence of his conduct, which really, bad as it
was, was not worth making a fuss about ; and he was,
therefore, ordained to find caution fur his good beha-
viour tinder the penalty of 101.
The insects known by the name of ephemera, and
which live only for a few hours, or at most for a day
or two, have hitherto been supposed to be destitute of
all the parts of the digestive canal. This supposition
has lately been proved to be wholly Without foundation.
It has also been found that during their brief existence
their skin is twice entirely changed.
SMALL Pox.—The first who introduced inoculation
into Europe was busarsuat. Tzuoms, a Greek physician at Con-
stantinople, who voluntarily communicated the art to the Univec-
sides of Oxford and Padua, of which he was member.

COURT OF CONIMISSIONERS OF BANKRUPTS,

BASINGHALL-STREST—TuzsDAY.

111 II MOTIIB,_A

A second meeting of the creditors of James Moyes, who has
been lately carrying on business in Bouverie•stre.!t, Fiert-streer, as
a printer, took place to-day. A great part of the bankrupt's debts
seemed to arise (sons expenses incurred in the building of the large
prioting-ollice in the neighbourhood of the Temple. Amongst the
debts deposed to, and recognised by the bankrupt, were
Henry Caslen, type-founder, partnership and separate
debts £2955
Thomas Morgan, of Great Trinity-lane, builder 575
Mr. Arding, carpenter, of Dorset-street, Fleet-street 400
Messrs. Key, &c.
The major part of the creditors concurred in the appointment of
Messrs. Callon and Morgan, as assignees of the bankrupt's estate.
His other debts consist of he claims of lead smelters, Boor-cloth
assinufacturer, coal-merchant, tallow-chandler, &c.
The case was beard by Messrs. Newland., !Nance, and Swan-
ston, of the tenth list.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION. HOUSE

THE Nov Comm House—Mr. Alderman LUCAS as Alderman
of the ward in which the edifice is situated, applied to the Loan
Maroa to request that he would allow the whole of the edifice to
be pinned up, or supported at once from the foundation. His Lord-
ship had given leave for one part of it to be done at one time, in
order to prevent public inconvenience, having too much of the pas-
sage narrowed at once, by the ervction of scaffolds, &c. Now the
inhabitants, and those who were interested, and whose opinions he
had taken, declared that it would be the least inconvenience to re.
pair the whole at once. The builders also declared it would be the
greatest convenience to be allowed to repair the whole.
The LORD MAYOR went and took a view of the edifice. He de-
clared himself highly gratified with the manner in which the work
was carried on, and granted the permission requested.
wo decent middle-aged men, who stated that they were clerks
to respectable merchants in the City, were charged with going into
the newly-set-up-oyster-rooms in Cornhill, kept by a person named
Evans, and there eating a quantity of oysters without paying for
them, and afterwards assaulting Mr. Evans and the watchman, and
threatening to pull the place to pit ces.
The defendants were now very contrite, and pleaded Intoxication
as an excuse; whereupon they were ordered to pay ss. a-piece for
being drunk, and to settle with the watchman, and they were then
discharged.
Elizabeth Turner, a middle-aged woman, was charged with
robbing her master, Higham Michaels, of some silver spoons and
sundry other articles. The duplicates of the articles ss ere found
on the prisoner, and she was proved to he the person who pledged
them. She was fully committed for trial.
The Lorna MAYOR, on ordering her committal, observed, that
up to Tuesday night there were no less than 460 ptisoners in New-
gate, all committed for trial since the last Sessions.