Star.
London, England, 1829-09-10 00:00:00

THAMES POLICE.

An inquiry of a very singular nature took place yesterday.—
Three men, named Cusack, John Raft, and Janes Roll, were
charged with stealing a large quantity of silks upon the river.
It appeared that Messrs. Redhead and Spires, the brokers, pur-
chased seven bales of India handkerchiefs under a mercantile
order, which were duly examined at the East India Company's
warehouses, packed and sealed, and delivered at the wharf of
Messrs. Toppen and Co. Ughtermen, Galley-quay, Thames-street,
who were instructed to transmit them to the London Dock, and
ship them on board a Dutch vessel, called the Underlain, bound
to Ostend. The prisoners, James and John Holt, received the
seven bales, to convey them on board the Underivin, and, in the
evening of the same day, reported that they bad been safely de
posited in the London Deck. On the neat day, the prisoner
Cusack borrowed a boat belonging to the Underivin to bring from
the lighter the bales of goods intended to be shipped on board her,
and in a short time after he delivered seven bales, which were
packed in the Undcrivin's hold, beneath some cases of indigo.—
Upon the arrival of the Underivin at Ostend, the bales were landed
and opened at the Custom-house, and two of them were found to
contain nothing but rubbish, amongst which was a piece of canvas,
with Mr. Toppin's name upon it. Some of the witnesses proved
that the seven bales contained silk only when they were landed
upon the Galley Quay ; and Mr. Toppin's clerk proved that they
were put into the charge of the prisoners In precisely the same state
they arrived.
The prisoners declared that they knew nothing whatever of the
robbery. They were remanded.

UNION-HALL.

.7ohn Tries, a youth who was recently tried at the Old Bailey for
a felony, was again fully committed to take his trial, charged with
obtaining some iron by means of a forged order,' purporting to be
in the hand-writing of an ironmonger named Keaniand, with
whom he bad lived some years.
The prisoner is connected with a gang Who have succeeded in a
similar manner in obtaining iron at different dealers warehouses.
There are some of the parties in custody, and others are expared
to be apprehended.

A curious marriage took place at St. Chad's Church,
Shrewsbury, on Tuesday. The bridegroom is a manufacturer of
matches; the bride lithe sister to a chimney-sweep, who, with his
wife, violently opposed the " perpetration of the nuptial cere-
mony, while the lover and his intended (in company with their
friends) were walking in procession to the place appointed. On
the other band, the mother of the sweep and of the bride stre-
nuously beaded a noisy party, who insisted that the ceremony
should be performed. On their arrival at the church porch the
Clergyman expostulated with the hostile party, but the sable
opponent rallied his troops and disdained to retreat.—
After the ceremony was over, a general skirmish commenced.
accompanied by sharp firing of oaths, and of threats u to bele-
bnucing the.booes of the lovers at night. The beadle *as at length
sent to protect the new-married pair through the streets. This
battle of Brimstone versus Soot reminds us of a simile—

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So,. when a chimney-sweep and barber fight,
The barber beats the chiruney-sweeper white;
The chimney-sweeper lilts his ponderous sack,
And, full of vengeance, beats the barber black :
In comes the brick-dust man with grime o'erspread,
And beats the barber and the sweeper reds
White, red; and black, in various cloud: are ton, .
Till, in the dint they raise, the combatants are lost !
—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
Since the change of the moon on Saturday the *ti-
ther hue become more favourable, and the "Friskily; al Me hireest
are now rapidly proceeding. We rejoice to State that the damage
which the 'crops Mae sustained in this nelghrionthodd Is'inconsider-
able. and that every prospect now exists of the'hartest being very
soon completed.—Sheillehl Colorant.
In the evening of Thurmlay rze. nntglit, :is a yowl,: man
named Poring, a farmer lo the neighbourhood of Aintinstm, was
about to return home from shooting, the trigger of his gun caught
in a bramble, and the charge lodging in his heart, bedieti instantly.
MARRIED.
St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden, Lieutenant Robert
ilurdo, of the lion. the F.,:ot India Company's service, tr
Sarah Ann, wily daughter of the late Henry Ihibert Whitcombe.
IN. a! the Hon. Company's civil service at Bombay.
At Verreville, ou the to eurramt. Archibald Glen, &q. met-
, ti.nt.. Glasgow, to. Christina Robertson, eldest d.ughter Joim
iirskies, Sup of. Verntville.

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At Hull, da Mutts lay Simnel Martin, Esq. solicitor, aged 67
At WhWel Park; near North Shields, on Tuesday sennigbt.
e wife of onto, Wright; Req.
At lipwey, Dorkt, aged 15, Ludo nary, eldest dauilver of
o.;ll.tanset C. 11.

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