Star.
London, England, 1829-01-06 00:00:00

was reduced to IL II s. 3d. it appearing that the listd
mentioned sultscovered the tray/ Iligg imposes and lunch.'
of the dinner party who had gone to Norwood upon.
soo►e trifling occasion.
'Mr. Roaches bill for Jaw espenses was reduced from
361.45. to 81. 61.

After some further discussion, the remainder of the
accounts stare passed by Mr. Muumuu. and Mr. IPS-.
HINSON. Mr. HALLs having retained his opinion, d%..
dined to act.

YORK, jams ik

Last Monday evening, between eight and nine o"clock,
three men, habited as sailors. called at the shop of Mrs.
Whitehead, a huckster, in Walnsgate, and inquired if
►he could inform them where they could procure locip:
jogs ? She pointed them to a house op the opprhi,e
side of the stiett ; but they told her thiy had already •
been t►:ere, and had not succeeded. She then mentioned'
to them another house in Paver's-lane, in Walingate,,
the way to which they affected not to know. Wishful
to tender them all the assistance that civility could
suggest, she offered her son, a hoe child, ten years of
age, to accompany them and show them the way.'
Whether it was tfiat some gloomy apprehension had
arisen in the mind if the child, or there was something
repulsive in the appearance of the strangers, we can-
not say, but the lad objected to undertake the mission,
and it was not nail the peremt tory command rf his pa-
rent had been issued that he left the protection of her
home for the company of these unknown wanderers.
When they had ar, ived in the lane, which is a retired
and lonesome spot, one of the villains suddenly seized
the youth, and exclaimed, Al Is this the door 7' whilst
he applied a large platter, seemingly a composition of
pitch and tar, to the mouth of their astonished guide.
In endeavouring to avoid the violence that was offered
him. he averted his head from his assailant, and thi,
act caused the grea:er part of the Plaster to fasten upon
his cheek, thus preserving one h tlf of his mouth tier
for respir •tion; and as it. Providence had kindly inter.
feted to prevent the completion of some foul deed rf
dark ieas, a girl happened to be standing on some s-airs,'
is an opposite, passage, and was witness of the horrid
transaction. She called out to them to know what
they were going to do with the lad? And this bold
and prudent measure infused fear through their guilty'
minds, and hastily tearing off the plan, r, they all three,
ran away. The child was severely hurt by the violence
of this operation, and so strongly adhesive had the
composite• n been, that some I,f it ternained on his cheek
three Jay s aftr this occurrence.

What the ultimate intentions of these miscreants
might be, we do not pretend to say, but it is evident,
that had the plaster taked the effect they intended,
suffocation must very shortly have been the result, and
under these circumstances, suspicion—strong suspicion
—points to the monstrous. attockies of Westpint, and
tremble'. I).e dark mystery of the transaction is fur-
ther lit ightened from the fact having since been ascer•
tained, that these men had actually engaged lodgings
prior to their application to Mrs. Whitehead, *lire
they had gone with the infamous preparation in their
possession, aiter a long inspection of her residence from
the opposite side of the street.
On Tuesday morning the same three wretches had
the effrontery. though in a different dress, to exhibit
them: elves in Walmgate, singing in the middle of the
street, as disties!ed seamen. The child, Whitehead,
saw them, and immediately pointed them out as the
men who had injured him the.preceding night. They
soon sasv that they were noticed, and that fear which
ever accompanies, conscious, guilt, induced them to
make a peed, flight on the Hull toad.—York Herald.

The iron trade has considerably advanced within the
114 three month.. Several continental orders for ma-
chinery. have been Icely 6ni►hed, and others are com-
pleting.
Last weak, at a merry mak'ng in Durfermline, a
very melancholy event happened. Two of the com-
pany having quarrelled, in the midst of the contest the
wife of one f the combatants interfered, and to pie
vent her husband from receiving a blow went between
them, when, awful to lelate, the woman's husband,
aiming a blow at his opponent, struck his own child,
at the time in its mother's arm,, so severely as to occa-
sion its death in thecourse of a few minutes!

A lew days ago, a porter in Leith met his death by
a bag if grain falling from a considerable height, and
striking him on the head, which killed him on the spot.
On Wednesday, about two o'clockya female, betwi do
seventy and eighty pests of are, of the name of Myth,
*eliding in Wis....street, Edinborgh, while engaged in
hanging out linen to dry at a window f •ur stories high,
lost her baiance and fell t ver. She alighted urn the
roof of a smi h's shop, and was so much injuted that
she eiej rally in the evening.
.About seven myrrh,
ago a woman fell in.o:the same place from a window
one story lower, while engaged in the same dangerous
occupation. _ _

Tim Lasunaum.—lt not generally known that.
I the leaves and balk of the laburnum are poisonous;
but a case has lately (named in the neighbourhood of
Cupar, front whtch..it appears that they possess deice-
riousqu lities rf a very active nature. A small quasi
tity of the bark being chewed, caused first giddiness
and tremor, which by ioptoms were succeeded by sick-
ness, cold sweats, and excessite vomiting ; medical as-
sistance was in this case luckily at hand, and by the
application of proper remedies, farther ill effects were
prevented. In another case of which we bare heard,
a laiget quantity having teen swallowed, and medical
aid not at bawd, it caused vomiting, and evacuations
eve,' of bh.o.; : the person, however, recovered, alter a
ipso iod if I 1Ce6•1% e. exhaustion. From the powerful
effeit• of the plant, it appears that some use might be
made of it in the Materia medica; and at any rate, as
it is now so ger:et ally employed in ornamental shrub.
beries, it is desitab!e th..t its properties. should be as
generally known as possible ; more especially as, from
Its being eaten greedily by hares, rabbits, ate. young
people are apt from curiosity to taste of it. Bees are
observed to avoid this plant; and notwithstanding the
rich clu ters r f blossoin which give the laburnum such
a nrabn:ficent apt earance on the edge of a summer
walk, its blanches ate always as silent as those of the
)ess., while many of less promising appearance (the lime
for instance) are humming like a bee-hive. The la-
tsunmi is (originally a native nI the Alps, whence it
was brou,,ht to this country in 1.596..—Fife Herald.
CiREENOCK, Dec. 29.—Friday morning, while the
American ship Il.ibeit Fult n was lying in the stream
off the Custom house Quay, ready for sea, V,e co:,k,
wishing to get away from her before she sailed, and not
having other wise it is supposed an opportunity of do.ng
so, unknown. to the Captain tied some clothes round
his hotly and dropped from t! e side (f the ship into the
'inn, with the intention of swimming 4-bore. He had
not left the vessel la• when he wit observed by some
}arsons .the quay stuggliug in the water, who im-
mediately procured a boat and put off to render •him
assistance, but before they could reach him.he had sunk
to rise no more. His body has not yet been found.

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