Star.
London, England, 1819-01-21 00:00:00

kANcy DRESS Y.4iL AT LiltliPC4l;

The Grind Fancy Dress Ball given by the hand='
In-hand Society at Liverpool took place on Wednew;
day sennight, in the Wellington Iteorr.S. Oh the
arrival of the Company, they were greeted by the
Band of the 52d Regiment; Rationed near the en-
trance, and welcomed in the Refectory by the Mem-
bers of the Club, who were designated ay each wear:
ing asil vcr vbse. Beyond the Refectory a tempo,:
racy Green-house was erected, filled with shrubs and
plants, which led iwo the Ssloon for tea and refresh,
ments, and from thence to the Ball-room, which wai
tastefully -decorate.i. The walls displayed appro-
priate emblematic devices. The floor was chalked in
a masterly manner ; iii the centre a hand grasping a
hand, surrounded by hovering Cupids.
Dancing commenced soon :titer ten o'ckclt, stn&
continued ruti. the sapper•rYnns were thrown open.
The tahl"s were proilis.ely co-mred with every deli-
cacy Of tile seitsr.u, the ;Imes: fruits and the clioict
wine'-. After suil er d :tieing was resumed, and kept
up with great spirit until live o'clock in the morn,
ing, when the delighted visitors began to depart.
The Fancy Characters were particularly deserving
of notice: There were Turks, Spaniards, Courtiers,
Shepherds at,d Shepherdesses, Old Ladies and Gentle-
men. The following were arnvng the most prominent I
La xc Tor appeared as the Munn! du Beet.
Mr. llAtuctAt; r.tata, wore the very dress in 'Oink Panne
' LsorgLa was Skis pres.:nted at Court.
AlJerman %Valour, the identical dress of Gvoaan li.•

Mr. Jusr.rn AS►t`'ALL M0V4.11 along with great dignity in tte
robes 4if i Lord Cionee;h.r.

Irg.l,,Awn.:ier richly hAbiwd as a cf Orel. a 'a.
Gituasos wore th: dra of an Pfnee, nod on tie
head the'Tery turbau once worn by 'faro° •
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Ala eim.l;:te w %u admirable. Alurre .21` C vit.

Many lovely women appe.tre,.l In costumes which
added to their native charms. The As.hole were s. a;.
perhaps as varied, and the several charactzrs as wed
supported, as at any sin:ilar assemblage ever given.

EXTR AO R DINA RY C I RC t7N! ST Aym,--Tuesday last,
Mrs. Lees, who resided in the Nursety-grounds, Ear-
rey-road, went front her house to purchase some :sr-
ticks at a shop in Lliackfriurs-road, and left her
child, Lliza Lees, a girl about ten years of ve, alone
in the house ; a short time after her ole_ence the
neighfunsillood was alarmed by the cries of "
and the daughter of Mrs. Lees was seen running cut
of her mouser's !rouse enveloped 'in flames ; the
neighbours rendered every assistam• in their power
to extinguish the fire, and afterwards carried her to
Guy's Hospital, v.isete she expirel. The injury she
reeeived was too exteesive and severe to lain:it of
description. While some of the eeighLoars were
carrying the child to the Ilospital, went tis
look for the mother ; at the end Gf Blackfr'ars- oad
they met several watchmen carrying a woman upon
a- shutter ; one of the neighbours exclaimed, " Good
GOD, it is Mrs. Lees 1- a!;.I upon examining the
person suds was the extraordinary fact. Mrs. Lees,
it appeared, was crossing 13;,ackfr:ars-road, when
same fellow, with liale prudence, and less humatky,
rode full gall)p up the street, his Lsnse knot ked
Mrs. Lees (Town and trampled upset her, and he rode
ou as it nothing had happened, although loudif
called after to stop. The watchmen, who were
going to convey Mrs. Lees to an lloslical, carried
her to her house, when a surgeon was sent for, who
said there was not the most remote chance of her re-
covery, and in the evening she expired. An Lem st
was held yesterday at Guy's. i lospital upon the child;
siutt=seierdiersesrs veturned by the Jury—Acciden-
tally burned to death
Tuesday morning, as one of the Mel:wall •t a;;;-.-
coaches was on its way thither, near Limelsonst•-ct.t,
goi -at a nioderate rate, one of the hinder wheels
came.olf, and overturned the coach, which was at
the time laden with passengers. Thomas 13agster,
the driver, was precipitated from his seat and sje-
red in a dreadful manner, but fostunately none of
the passengers were matcri.llly hurt. The coachman
was taken up in a state of insensibility and carried to
the London Hospital, where every assistance was af-
forded him ; but all efforts tailed, he died shortly af-
ter the accident happened in much pin. One of his
legs was broken.

Several-young men of Birmingham, who were edu-
cated at the Blue-coat School of that town, have
formed themselves into a Society, and agreed to de-
posit a per tentage of their respective earnings to fit
a fund, to make an annual gift to the Instituric rt
which fostered them in their e4fly youth.
The first prisoner put to the bar, at the West Kent
Quarter Sessions, on Monday morning.last, was a
female of the name of .Jane Majnard, charged with
bigamy.—John Thomas produced 4,fopy of the re-
gistcr of the prisoner's first marriage, at Valding, on
the 10th of January, 1809, .in the name c:f Jane
Crouch, to Thomas Maynard.—Joseph Palrner pro.
dnced the copy of register of the prisoner's marriage
on the 10th of Ang List, 1818, at Limberhurst, by the
name of Jane Maynard, to Joseph Waters. Both
marriages were fully proved.—T. Jarrett proved
that the first husband was new living at Cranbrook,
and had lived there a year and a half. Before that
he had lived in the pari.h of Brenchley. Witness
saw him oSWednesday st'i night—The prisoner, in her
defence, said she thought her former husband was
dead.—His Lordship in pasting seauence, told the
prisoner she could not even have the excuse of be.
lieviug her first busbind was dead. per's was a
case &sea ving of severe punishment, and the Court,
therefore, adjudged she should be transported for
seven years.

At the late East Riding Sessions, held at Beverley,
iu Yorkshire, an unusual number of :atrocious crin.i-
nals were brought up for trial, and sentence ct trat.s-
portation passed upon the greatest part of them.—
Among them was the mother of Showden
whose gang wls for many years the terror cif the
East Riding, and who owed the greatest part of
their crimes to her instruction—her first husbard
'having been hanged and her second transported. At
,the bar, she presented something of the 'grotesque
figure of Meg Merrilies, and after sentence was
passed on her by the Chairman, she threw up her
hands towards heaven, and hoped " the ALM.IGUTY
would sink the whole Bench to perdition ! ! In this
Profligate state she was taken back collie jail to un-
dergo her further punishment, should her advanced
age allow a continuance in life to undergo it.—At
this Sessions Colonel-Cervaz mired the Chair,
which he had filled for some years with great ability,
'and 14r. BEtIIBL, Of Rise, was elected Chairman to
his room.

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