Star.
London, England, 1827-07-12 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Tun Baotou Mr. Fagan, of the Mendicity Society.
having engaged an Interpreter, soon (wand, that the man, called
Jacobs, the master of these girls, but whose name is .Tamb Petri,
resided in Trawl-street, Whitcchapel. Petri promised to attend
with the girls on Tuesday, .but did not; in consequence, he was
summoned. Yseterday, he came with an interpreter, but without
the girls; so that nothing could be substantiated against him, ex-
cept what was obtained through his own interpreter, who bad been
I made so well acquainted with the case that he answered some-
' times without putting the question to Part. He said that the girls
came from Frankfort-on-the-Maine;that Petri had them motome io
the opting, and was bound to send them back in autumn • be hired,
them as his servants, at half a florin per week, wldr.k was Labia the
money they could get in their own country, and paid them from
Cie time they took their passage to England; the girls had been
with bins eight weeks, but only one of them was his servant, tad
lived with his wife aolthinnelf; he made the brooms, and the girls
sold them ; he found them victuals ; all ;bey got above what they
sold the brooms for, they kept for themselves.
Mr. Dena, to the interp —I doe't know how they live. I
can only say he would find it difficult to get English girls at seek
wages and in such keep as they stated on Saturday—only bread
and tea in the morning, and the same at night; and when they
get no money he gives them no victuals. You have come here
without the girls to confront you, and have it all your own way.
They had no brooms to sell on Saturday; ask him why be sent
them teat 1u bee ?
The interpreter—He says they had brooms on Saturday ; they
had sold them or thrown them away ; it was all a story about the
victuah—they had plenty.
Mr. Fagan said, the story he told to day was materially at
variance with what he stated on Saturday; all the girls called him
their truster; he owned he brought them over himself three months
ago. The-girls said there were thirty of them, and he owned to
ten;- they !gave him all the money that was given them—the half-
crown 4iven by. the Gentlemen in the office, and the eighteen
pence given 'by Bucklaad, besides Is. 3d. they had collected.
ThiS mohef :was among the three, yet he took the whole. He kept
them all huddled in a very large room, but seemed to have another
place ; for *hen he and Kneller went into the room he was not
there, and. somebody fetched him.

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• By other questions it was drawn from him, that the room was
his, for whien he paid 4s. per week ; but then he only paid 201 for
himself, his wifef.and one girl; it was that one gave him 4s. and
another Ss. 3d.

itir. DTA/ said, as I have not the girls, I can do nothing with
yon; but lam sorry to say, I have a very strong feeling against
qou. YOu ttne purpo-ely kept the girls away, because they are
the principals in the accusation; but you may depend upon it will
use every eaettion to bring you to justice. I believe your conduct
to be scandalous in the extreme. You bring these girls over for
your profit, and scad them tote the streets, regardless of any con-
sequences.

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INDIAN FESTIVAL.
fttOat THE VIADRASGOVIIIIMENT GAZETTE. es. NIB 11
Ist Mash, ISth January.
UITABATANA.—IO addition to our former notice of
this festival, we have received the following particulars
of the bathing at Gunga Saugur, from a Pundit, sill°
visited the plate this season, as well as from a friend,
who has been present on more than one.kcasion.
The Pilgrims who visited Saugur to bathe in the sea,
at the Makrra Sinkranti, this year, amounted to between
forty and fifty thousand, and consisted of individuals of
every age, and both sexes. The men were mostly from
the Upper Provinces, but the females chiefly from Ben.
gal. The greater portion belong to the Saiva and Sikta
sects, and some of the religious members of these
sions of the Hindu faith, came from Nepaul aftd the
Punjab, whilst others were from the south of
They'assembled on or before Thursday, the 11th, and chef
ceremonies began on the 12th; they occupy three days:
The place of assemblage is a Sand 11 .nit, dn the mutt/
coast of Gunga Saugur, immediately to the west of
creek called Pagoda creek, from a small temple sit (la ed
near its opening into the sea. The temple lies in the
same side et* Pagoda creek as the Sand Baak, but is se.
parated from the latter by a smaller creek, running in,
land:south from which to the set share is thick jungles
with a path through it, leading to a tank, whence the
pilgrims are supplied with fresh water. Tigers some.
times lurk in this jungle, and the present year are re.
ported to have carried off several individuals. Along
the sea side, for about a mile, are rows of booths, shops,
and temporary temples, with the travelling gods of the
religious mendicants, who receive the homage and con•
cautions of the pious. Besides the supply of prowl-
• sions, there is a considerable traffic carried en, chiefly
in betelnuts, black pepper, and the red powder, to be
• scattered about at the Hooli.

According to the Pundit, an impost is levied by the
officers of Government, stationed here, of tour annas
peer oar, besides a fee of one anna to the establishment;
but the chair, if we are not misinformed, is unautho.
rim!. except as made by the Byragees or Sanyasis,
*so had assumed the right of levying four anus per
mr, and from eight anoas to one or two-rupees for each
shop. This claim has been so far authorised, that the
sight to levy any charge a as withdrawn from the Sau.
gur Society, upon the petition of the religious mend.
cants, and the latter thus confirmed in the power they
'exercised. The amount was inconsiderable, having been
farmed, in-the first year, for 1,200 tupees, and, in the
`:second year, for 2,000.
Theefirst, or preparatory ceremony. is the propitiation
of the sea, by casting into it suitable offerings. Ile
most appropriate is that termed the Punchu Rutnu, or
five gems, consisting of a pearl, a diamond, and ran
emerald, a topaz, and a piece of coral, with a cocoa
not, and thread worn by Brahmans. These are wrapped
in a piece of cloth, and cast into the river below Khels
Gaccbiya, which is called Dhola Samudra, a-d also at
the conflux. The gems are, in general, of the smallest,
' not worth above a rupeeor two, but those whose means
do not admit of such a costly donation, offer a coon
nut, a betel nut, or a plantain.
On the first day, the essential rite is bathing in the
sea, which takes place in the morning, and is by some
repeated at noon. Some also perform the Sqadilhoot
obsequial rite, to deceased ancestors, and some underga
the operation of shaving the head. After bathing, they
repair to the temple above-mentioned, which is dedi•
cated to Kapila Muni. This sage was an incarnation of
Vishnu, to destroy the sixty thousand sons of King Sa•
gara. He took up his station at this place, which au
then on the brink of a chasm leading to the infernal le-
gions, and when the sons of the King, in search of a
steed intended for a solemn sacrifice, broke in upon his
-meditations, he reduced them all to ashes by the light-
ning of his eye. In order to purify their remains, and
secure paradise for their spirits, the great grandson of
Sagan brought the Ganges from the heavens to the
place, where the waters filling up the chasm which now
constitutes the bed of the sea, thus formed the ocean.
The Ganges is named Bhagirathi, after King Bhagirath,
and the sea is called Saugur, after the name of his
great grandsire.
The temple of Kapila is under thealternate charge
of Bairagi and Sanyasi. The latter presides at Melt,
in the month of Kartik, the former in Magh, or Jane.
ary. They levy a tax of four annas on each persoa
who visits the temple, the amount of which is divided
amongst five different establishments of Ramanand
Bairagis, in the vicinity of Calcutta. In front of tin
temple is a bur tree, and on either side stands an image
of Rams and Hanuman ; within the temple is an image
of Kapila, nearly as large as life. The pilgrims very
commonly write their names on the wall, with a short
prayer m Kapila, whilst some suspend a piece of earth
or brick to a bough of the bur tree, accompanying
the act with some solicitation, as for health, or ufil
or posterity, and a promise, in that case, to make a gilt
to some divinity.
Behind the temple is a small excavation, termed
S to-kund, filled with fresh water, which the pilgrims
sip, paying
.a small fee to the Alahant of the tempk.
This reservoir is probably filled from the tank, shortly
before the Mela occurs; but the attendant mendicant
endeavours to persuade the people that it is a perpetwit
miracle, and is kept always lull for the use of the tem-
kle. •a the second and third days, bathing in theses,
eel the worship of the Ganges, are practised; after
which the meeting breaks up. Daring the whose time
the pilgrims sleep on the sand, it Wog held hetetod,4
to repose on board their boats.

MARRIED.
Rey. J. Coming, Master of the Grammar School, Cbudtelgh, to
Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the late J. Al. Sepplott,
At Warcop, Mr. Wm. Maas, to Miss Ellen Richardson, and st
the same time and place, Mr. Thomas Barnes, to Miss Mary Yst•
tersoa; the latter couple stood at the ceremony as hridenuid and
brideman to the former, nobody having the least idea that the sw
cond couple were about to tie the Gordian knot until the first are•
many was performed, when Mr. Barnes called out, " It is uow our
turn," and producing a license, immediately sealetl his troth to Mui
Patterson at the altar of

DIED.
At Springfield, near Gretna Green, on the 3d inst. David Lairfi
aged 72, who had for thirty-five years officiated as High Priest it
Gretna Green. He-caught cold on his way to Lancaster, to lit*
evidence on the trial of the Wakefield., from the effects of which
he never recovered.

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