Star.
London, England, 1826-10-30 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

Saturday, a lad named .M* Wilkins, under 16 years of age, W$
,brnoght before the sitting Magistrate, charged with bating been
concerned in breaking into the house of John Walter, a hairdresser,
Melding in Penton Platt, Kennington Lane.
Tuesday night the hairdresser and his wife went to bed, after
having secured the doors and windows. About two o'clock in the
Morning his wife awakened him, saying that she was certain thieves
were in the house. The Miss of the housebreakers was heard dia•
tinctly enough, and Walter ran towards the Are-place, and seised up
the poker, with which he was about to descend, when his wife
bounced up out of bed after him, and, Catching him declared that
he should not endanger Ms life. The barber was gripped so tightly
by his spouse, that he was tumble m proceed to the rescue of
his property ; and daring the contention between than, the thieves
bad plenty of time to carry off part of the stock. Although the loss
they sustained in the above description cif property was not very
great, still the hairdresser was exceedingly annoyed by his mistress's
very improper inter ferente, particularly when, on throwing up the
bed.roont window, he saff the thieves walking deliberately off with
Ibis commodities.

The 'whetter and his associate pulled off their hats, and exhibited
to thrni the insides filled with false fronts and bottles of scented oil:
they had their pockets also filled with combs and other articles, chat
appeared to have tome out of a barber's shop.
The prisoner was rtmandet until his compauion shall have been
taken into custody.
Mr. Edward G.ls__laott at_C__k h C__ passed through Stocks
port last week, on his way to Manchester.
There are now living at I)eeping, in Lincolnshire, a
mother and daughter, whine united ages amount to and
bandied and seventy-two years.
Accounts have been received from Sierra Leone to
the 16th ult. The place continued Very unhealthy:
among the deaths we find his Excellency John Tasksr
Williams, his Majesty's Commissary Judge, and One of
the Members of the Council. The ne* Governor, Sit
Neil Campbell, had arrived in the Lively frigate:
Fine.—Yesterday morning a the broke out in the
premises of Mr. Jay, a plumbel• and glazier, residinas
in Ely-place, Mule-end New Town. An immediate
'alarm was given to the inmates, who ward toon roused •
to a sense 01 their awful situation, and, With the excep
tion of a young man sleeping in one of the attic 4
effected a safe retreat by the front door. The flames
were rapidly increasing, and fears wereeatertained fi r
the safety of the yet apparently sleeping inhabitant ; but
his appearance on the parapet, in a state of nudi'y, ba-
nished all apprehensions on that score, and he found ati
asylum in an adjoining house, but not without being
severely scorched, as the front attic, through which he
had to force a passage, was in flames. The arrival of
some engines, and a good supply of water, sopped the
progress of the devouring element, and the damage was
confined so!ely to the premises in which it commenced.
Monday, a very fine partridge flew ivto the passage.
of the Rose Inn, Canterbury. The poor bird was doubt-
less driven to seek refuge by some enemy; and Mr.
Clements very properly disdained to take advantage of
the circumstance, and restored the feathered stranget
to its liberty.
WHITE Gante.—Tnesday, Mr. Plritßi farmer of
Hornchurch, near Rumford, Essex, was on a shooting party. He
shot a bare and a brace of partridges—ali three were as white as
snow ; a circumstance never before known In that county.
The proprietors and pensioners of the Theatre Fran-
cais have voted a sum of 12,000 francs towards the erection of a

is honour of TALY*.

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Early on Monday se'nnight, a mire worth 1911. the
property of Mr. TIMOTHY INGHAM, of Bradford, was poisoned
whilit in a stable, at Hall Ings, in that town, , some ill-disposed
person unundiscovered.la
A GUINEA DEARLY EARNED.—The parish clerk of
Winkleigh has a salary of one Guinea per anomaly for winding up
the Church clock daily; and it has been caleatated, that to earn
this sum he has to travel 10'2 miles, ascend and descend 49,000 steps,
and bawl up &tons weight 3,600 yards.
In the small village of Jacobstow, near Hatherleigh,
Plymouth, lately, \three men named Westlake, who had been ism.
calmed with the small pox in their younger days, took the disease
again, and aU three, in the space of a fortnight, were carried to
the grave.