Star.
London, England, 1827-11-28 00:00:00

HORSE STICALIN9-SINGULAR

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*ROM tab TJPPLUAIT vase ress3.
This crime hat recently becosee au prevalent in the
kingdom, and has so frequently been committed with
impunity, that nothing less than a sell-organi.ed sys- I
tern of robbery could have encouraged its practice,,
while it enabled the too-often successful depredator to
dude detection. The loss of valuable hots., •ustait,ed
ty gentlemen and farmers in widow. parts of the coun•
try, and the exertions made to recover them proving in
most cases ineffectual, have awakened an anzions desire
that some clue to the discovery of this system of rob
bery might be obtained. On this subject, moth saleable
information has been lately communicated to the km
F. Brennan, It C.C. of this town, by three convicts (two,
Collins and Murphy), in the gaol of this country, by
which means several horses have been restored to the
rightful owners, as well as rune' light thrown upon
the Mysterious system to %thief% we have already al-
luded. It appears that there it a gang of bor:e stealers
in each of the provinces of 'retold, and that she horses
stolen.in one province are either sold or exchanged in
another. Cars or carts are also stolen, either at the
same time with the horses, or as soma after as the ow
portunity occurs, and the person:ficat on of a carman or
pedlar has sometimes served to evade discovety. Up-
wards of one hundred cars, so stolen, have, we under-
stand, been sold in our streets, within a few years. This
circumstance is worthy the attention of onr Magistracy
and Police. 7he tinkers—a well known class of per.
sons—ate, we are informed, able coadjutors in the ne
farious traffic ; end there ate receivers, who, when tie.
cessity urges, become ready esporietsrf valuable stolen
horses. As it may be sati%iactuty to the pul.l!c, we
annex a betel sketch of the manner in which some GI
the horses Isere recovered—thee ugh chi inforntation of
the convicts already
.alluded to. _ .

A mare was stolen six years ago, from a poor widow,
living in Feathard, County Wexford, and exchanged
for ant ther in Newport, in the lower part of this county.
The nephew of the poor woman proceeded there a; di-
rected, and, through the exertioi:s of the fiev. Mr. Cos-
tello and the Rev. J. rennelaihei, a Magistrate, who
kindly supporteo and protected the poor man, the stolen
property was recovered.
Pato ick Hayden, a farmer residing near Baltinglass,
acting on the same formation, recovered a mare
which had been stolen from him, and disposed of near
Youghall.
Wright and Donovan, farmers on the Kinsale-road,
recovered their horses ; the former at 'follow, the latter
a; the Royal Oak, County Carlow..
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A poor man, named Swo:ds, living near Athy, re-
covered his horse in the parish of Ardfinan.

On the 21 inst. four valuable cart-horses were stolen
from the parishes of Clifford and Doistone, Hereford-
shire, out of grounds lying immediately on the road
between Hardwick and Peterchurch. Early next morn-
ing, Mr. Thomas Dowell, a respectable farmer of Dor
atone, mounted his spirited steed, and went in pursuit
of the marauders, accompanied by Mr. Davies, of West-
brook, the owner of one of the horses stolen. The fist
intimation they had of the horses was at the Bacho- hill,
which led them to proceed directly to Ross, ss here they
arrived in less than an hour and a half from the time
11 they let home, a distance of nearly 30 miles. Here
they obtained intelligence that they were on the tight
scent, which caused them to hasten with all 'possible
speed towards the Fr amilode-passage over the Severn,
where the were again informed that horses of the de-
scription lost had passed over about six hours before.
They were now in the greatest embarrassment, their
horses having been knocked up, and not able to
pri.cure another at any pace, and at a loss which road
to take, there being so many bye-ways in those parts.
However, their determination and ardour were not to
he repressed, even under these trying difficulties. They
resolutely followed on frot, sometimes running and
sometimes walking, and not unf,equently obliged to
retrace their steps, on finding that they had taken the
wrong road ; and in this manner they travelled the
wt ole of Saturday night, over hedges and ditches, oc-
casionally by chance meeting with a guide over a de-
solate and wild country, without any turnpikes ; and
after poet ding more than sixty miles, at length they
were rewarded for this wonderful exertion and deter-
mined resolution, by finding the lour animals, with two
others that had been stolen, grazing in a field about ,1
tour miles from Bradlord, Wilts, belonging to a farmer
who had long been in the practice of taking in horses
lot the night, but unfo,tunately the thieves contrived to
escape.—County Chronicle.
The King's pardon has been received at L-eds for 11
the 15 stuff weavers convicted as the General Quarter'.
Sessions for that Borough, held in April last, of a con-
spiracy, riot, and assault, on condition of their severally
entering into recognizances for their good behaviour
for 12 months.

THE CIIIMPANSA.—This enormous monkey inhabits
t! e coast of the gulf of Guinea. Its height is sometimes
greater than that of a man; it has a small beard and
mustachios; and is exceedingly pognacioin. It lives,
in some measure, in society ; at least, numerous indi-
vidusds of the species congregate together, to plunder
the negro., and carry off their wives. • It builds itsrlf
a hut, makes love to the negresses, and drives away
those who approach his dwelling, by pelting them with
stones. Several young ones have been tamed, and found
to possess great imitative talents.
CHSWICAL ExPERIMENT.•—• The follow-
ipg chemical expetiment.may easily be per-
tot bye lady* to,Che great astonishment of the cir-
cle of her tea pron. Take two or three blades of red
cabbage ; cut or tear them into small bits, put them in-
to a basin, and pour a pipe of boiling water on them;
let it stand an hour, then *ant the liquid into a crys-
tßl bottle; it will be of a he violet blue colour. Then
take four wire glasses; into Co. put two or three drops
of sulphuric acts], or five or six draps of strong vinegar,
into anothet put fives or six drops of 3 solution of soda,
into a thisd put as'asach pin strong solution of alum,
and let the fourth glass remain empty. The glasses
may be prepared some time before. Fill up the glasses
from the crystal bottle, and the liquid poured into the
glass containing the acid will quickly change colour,
and become a beautiful red, that into the glass contain-
ing the soda a tine green, and that into the glass con.
taming the'alum a fine purple, whilst that poured into
the empty one will, of course, remain unchanged. By
adding a lit:le vinegar tirthe green, it will immediately
change so a ltd;_ and on adding a litde of the solution
of soda to the rid. it will assume a line green ; thus
showing the action of acids and alkalies on vegetable
blues.