Star.
London, England, 1821-08-31 00:00:00

JUVENILE rimrs-rtuANism.

Thursdayse`nnight, a youth,nrmell Rushmore, undertook for a
trifling sum to run sixteen miks in two hours, on the Unicorn
nawficggreen, at Ayisham. lie performed the task with ease.

BOXING.

The battle between Dick Actors, the fighting craftsman, and
.lief E.erte, the brick-maker, took place on Wedneaday, for e 0
gnineas, on the Watford road; although the rain fell in torrents,
the road to the field was thronged with drenched amateurs of all
sorts. Acton is a promising pupil of Hales, and the brick-maker,
who had.fieered all before him, was upon such gani terms with
bimself, that on the eveui::g before fighting he sent a polite mes-
sage to his antagonist to get an undertaker to measure him, and
11:31/P the tmx ready. F.eles and Paddington Jones seconded Ac-
ton; and Tons Oliver and Scroggins seconded Evans, who was
backed at 5 and 6to 4. It was a good fight of three quarters of
au hour: from the rain and dirt, it was hard to tell them apart.
Morro I. Evans, who was rather the heaviest, rushed upon
Ills adversary impetuously, and ran him down.
2. mere was some good, steady, and equal fighting. Several
blows were exchanged us a rally : both went down.
Evans had a slight advantage, and blacked his adversary's
eye, but be received a heavy return upon the jaw, and made
aeme (;:intahn faces. Acton was thrown in a elose.—Eeen
011 Evans.
4. Evans received a doubler-up in the mark ;he broke ground
,s recover himself, but his adversary, awake to his distress, went
rap to his heed pity, and floored him by a muzzier.
6 and 7. There was but little fighting front former exertion,
• strength gave Event something best.
E. A good and equal-fighting round. Acton was thrown.
b. Decidedly in favour of Evans, who met his adversary rush-
ine in by a flush hit upon the nose, which dropped hint cleanly.
It was all in favour r' Acton after this, as Evans had all the
fieht taken out of !rim, and only stood up to become receiver-
vir rut.
its the :sth round Acton was 2,;ping, and Scroggins cried out
to hi: nun. " Gd in." The watchword from &des was, "Be
rectij," and so he was—Evans was met by a flush hit on the
front of the head, which spoiled him, and Acton won the battle
its four rounds aftawards.

EedNomv.—A Gentleman, who had remarked how
magnificently a friend of his lived upon a small in-
come, observed, that with such slender means to make
such a figure, was much to his credit. " Not only to
Lis,' replied another, 44 but to the credit of all his
tr4deatueu:" •

MAIISTONsHotiSE.—DisTunsANCE IN THE NEW
CATHOLIC CHAPEL.—The Beadle of the new Roman
Catholic Chapel, in Moorfields, was summoned be-
fore the LORD MAYOR, Oil the complaint of Mr. Brom-
ley, a respectable citizen, on a charge of having com-
mitted an assault upon him during the performance
of the Service.—Mr. Bromley stated, that on the af-
ternoon of Sunday last he went with a child to see
the new Roman Catholic Chapel, and that on enter-
ing the door, he was beset by persons with plates,
who demanded a contribution in a manner that was
net customary in such places on such occasions, and
he refused to give anything, particularly as he did
not mean to stay, but merely went to see the interior
of the building. On his entering the body of the
Chapel, a person came up to him, and demanded
threepence for his admission there, and intimated, on
the demand not being complied with, that the com-
plainant had the alternative of going out if he did not
choose to pay. The complainant answered, as it was
a place of public worship, that no one had any right
to make such demands; he therefore refused either
to pay or retire until it suited him. The dispute
caused a crowd of the congregation to gather round
them, when the complainant's child expressed that it
should be suffocated by the heat, and the comflainant
unwittingly elevated it in his arms. This circum-
stance appeared to rouse all About him to a most se-
rious ferment. They were mostly of the lower class
of Irish, and spoke sharply in their own language at
the complainant. The organ was stopped, and all
was at a stand. Whilst the complainant was thus
surrounded, the defendant came up to him, and pre-
senting his mace of office, first desired him to pay the
money asked by the seat-keeper, or to go out ; and
on the complainant's refusing to do either, the Beadle
seized him by the collar, shook him, and dragged
him forcibly out of the Chapel, with a degree of out-
rageous violence and savageness of manner, such as
the complainant said lie had never witnessed, even
in cases of desperate resistance. Four other Gentle-
men who were present, and interfered in behalf of
the complainant, were likewise ejected in the same
unceremonious manner. For this assault the com-
plainant claimed the interference of his Lordship, not
as a private but as a public matter, and to shew the
parties that they were not justified either in exacting
money for admission, or in forcibly expelling any one
who conducted himself peaceably in a place of public
worship, which the complainant declared be bad
done : those who knew him would declare he was in-
capable of acting otherwise.
The Beadle admitted that he had turned the com-
plainant out, but it was as much to preserve the peace
as anything else. The fact was, that the founders of
the Chapel had an outstanding debt which they
wished to pay off; and for that purpose they were
under the necessity of raising some money at the
doors. The complainant had certainly been told, that
unless he would pay the customary fee he could not
be allowed to remain there, and on his refusal he had
been put out, with no more force than was actually
necessary. He contended that he was perfectly jus.
tifiable in acting as he had done, particularly as it
was to preserve the peace of the Chapel, which bad
been broken by the conduct of the complainant.
Several of the assistants and of the congregation
came forwar d in support of the conduct of the Beadle.
The LORD MAYOR was decidedly of opinion, that
no one had a right to coact money in a place of public
worship, and considered the conduct of the Beadle
on this occas' highly reprehensible. The way to
preserve the peace was not to turn out persons who
did not choose to submit to exactions, in the unne-
cessary violent manner in which it had been sworn
the Beadle had turned out Mr. Bromley ; but as the
latter had brought the matter forward on public
grounds, and not for the personal assault, he would
probably forego a prosecution if the satisfaction of
an apology was offered.
Mr. Bromley said, he was perfectly ready to ac-
cept a written apology properly worded.
The Beadle positively refused to make any apology.
The LORD MAYOR then ordered him to find bail to
answer for the assault, and the Beadle having no bail
present, was given into custody.
GUILDIIALI..—•RECEIVEUS OP STOLEN GOODS.—
Yesterday, Robert Ray was brought up before Mr.
Alderman C. SMITH, and underwent a second exa-
mination. The prisoner had been remanded in con-
sequence of the scruples of the worthy Alderman to
commit him upon the evidence of two boys, without
some confirmatory testimony, and a more positive
identification of the property stolen than the mere
dirty spot where Mr. Miller's mark was supposed to
be obliterated. Mr. Miller was then examined, and
on producing the half manufactured shoes found in
the prisoners lodgings, the materials of which the
elder Butler had sworn he sold to him, pointed
out a mark on the lining. which he had discovered
by ripping the shoe, and by which he was enabled
to swear positively to them as his property. Sarah
Summerfield, a servant girl residing at N 0.7, Addle-
hill, for whom the prisoner had made the ether pair
of shoes produced, deposed to that fact, Mr. Miller
also swearing that the materials were his property.
The prisoner had procured the assistance of an At-
torney, who under all the circumstances, cautioned
him to say nothing, and consented to his being held
to bail for the misdemeanour. Recognizances were
entered into for the appearance of tire two lads,
Joseph and John Butler, to give evidence at the next
Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the City of London,
where, agreeably to the directions of the Statute, the
prisoner must be tried, and not at the Sessions of
Oyer and Terminer. The prisoner was committed
for want of sureties.
Bow-sTnEET.---Late on Wednesday evening, a
young titan of gen'lemanly appearance, and five
young and interesting females, dressed in the most
fashionable style, were brought to the Office, and'
underwent an examination before WILLIAM BECKETT,
Esq. the presiding Magistrate, on the following most
profound and solemn charge, which was made by
the Constable into whose custody they had been con-
fided, and who seemed overwhelmed by its import-,
ante, namely, that " of tittering and publishing, as
true, to the check-taker of the llaymarket Theatre,
certain false, forged, and counterfeited orders (not
for the payment of money, but) for the admission of
six persons into the boxes of the Theatre" This de-
finition of the charge had considerable effect upon
the risible muscles of the persons present in the
Court, and eveu the fair culprits, sorry of whom,

Mr. Terry being in attendance, his depositions
were taken, and the prisoner Roach was committed
for re-examination.
The parties then left the Office with very different
feelings to those with which they entered it on the
preceding evening.
lIATTOS-GMtoim.—J. Darnley, a law-writer, was
charged by Ann Bull, a laundress, residing in Bishop's-
court, Chancery-lane, with unlawfully pawning a fea-
ther bed, bolster, two blankets, and a sheet, from out
of his reaiy-furnished lodging, and was convicted in
the penalty of 20s. exclusive of the E.'? 2s. 6d. for
which they were pawned; which not being able to
pay, he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment
in the House of Correction.
Elizabeth Par& was committed, charged with
pawning a quantity of child-bed-linen, the property
of a Society in &. Andrew's, Holborn, which were
lent to a poor woman, during her lying-in, and whom
she had engaged to nurse. The Magistrate reprobated
the conduct of the Pawnbroker in taking in the ar-
ticles, which were conspicuously marked ; and ex-
pressed a hope that the Society will prosecute him.
MA RI. /10ROUGII•STRCET.-- William and Mary Ma-
son Tomlinson were brought before G. FAR RANT,
Esq. charged by the parish officers of St. James's
with leaving two children exposed in the street, and
deserting them, on the 20th of June, 18'20. Mr.
Rice, Solicitor and Vestry-clerk, accompanied the
parish officers; and it appeared from their statement
that, on the day named, two infant children of the
defendants, William and Francis, were left by the
unfeeling mother, and another woman, suspended
from the knocker of the door of Mr. Knight, of Great
Marlborough-street, in a basket. The parish took
charge of them, and placed them out at nurse at
Wimbledon, and until within a few days their parents
were not known ; but the natural and endearing ties
of parents to their offspring was not quite extinct in
the mother, whose frequent visits to herchildren as
their aunt, excited suspicion, and on inquiry being
set on foot, she was found out to be the mother. The
children were passed to Lambeth parish, where they
belong, and the defence of the parents was poverty.
They were remanded to St. James's workhouse until
the woman who was with the mother of the children
can be brought forward.
nosey, who stood charged with defrauding
maltster at Earningham, in Kent, of a quantity of
Malt, pretending that he was an agent to Messrs.
Satchel' and Co. brewers, was committed to give 24
hours notice of bail.

The house of CUARLES MORTON, Esq. of the Kent-
road, was broken into on Tuesday night, between
eleven and twelve o'clock, by means of picklock
keys, and robbed of forty sovereigns, two silver
watches, and fifteen pieces of plate, with which the
thieves got clear off.
About four o'clock on Wednesday morning the
house of the lion. Mr. M'DoNALD, in Connaught-
place, was attacked by two fellows, who had bored a
hole in the shutters sufficient to admit a hand to un-
loose the fastenings, which alarmed the butler. One
of the thieves instantly fled ; and the butler, with a
pistol in his hand, ordered the other not to stir, or he
would shoot him. The robber drew a pistol from his
pocket and shot at the butler, the balls from which
made two perforations in his shirt. He then dis-
charged his pistol at the thief, but without effect, and,
the fellow escaped.
The cotton manufacturers of Carlisle have ad-
vanced the wages of their weavers Gd. per cut on
most descriptions of work.
The spirited Corporation of Liverpool have ex-
pended, within the last two years, upwards of El 50,000
in the purchase and taking down of old and useless
buildings, for the improvement cf the town.
The workmen employed in repairing and beautify-
I ing Trinity Church, Hull, discovered behind a part
lof the south wall, on Tuesday se'nnight, a beautiful
IGothic arch, at the bottom of which lay an admirable
sculptured female figure, particularly the drapery,
but no inscription has yet been found. A handsome
; Gothic window has also been discovered neat the east
I door, which had been plastered up.

•
—All these donations, though merely mentioned in 2
letter written two years ago, the legal heirs of Mr.
NPLErsit have in the most disinterested mariner paid,
without even the deduction of the legacy duty.
Last week, as two of the studerns of the FAA In-
dia College, near llertford, were bathing the
river Lea, one of them, Mr. JAMES GRANT; :30St
amiable and promising yiung man, wanderc,! of
his depth and sunk. His companion, who 11.1.1 left
the water, plunged in again to his relicf, but in vain.
Assistance was procured, courageous and persevering
efforts were made, and the body was at length fl,an,!;
but, as it had lain four hours in the water, the exer-
tions of the medical men who had been called to the
spot were unavailing to restore animation.
The new harbour at Peterhead, in Scotland, is now
drawing to a dose; the harbour consists of about 32
acres, protected by a spacious pier, about 300 feet
from the land, with a returning head of 100 feet.—
From the base of the pier the new wharf wall will
extend nearly 1003 feet, and at a right angle with it
an extensive dry dock for repairing ships, cut out of
the solid'rock.
The new road cut under the windcliff, from Tin-
torn Abbey to St. Aryans, a di,tance of three miles,
is now completed, and affords an additional pleasure
to the numerous aquatic parties who pass down the
Wye from Ross.

The Sunderland Association for the destruction of
beasts and birds of prey, and the consequent protec-
tion of sheep, lambs, domestic animals, game, Etc.
have paid, since May, 1819, to March last, for the
destruction of 112 full grown eagles, 18 young
eagles, 211 foxes, 317 wild cats, martins, and pole-
catl, 516 ravens, 281 hawks, 1483 carrion crows and
magpies, and 570 rooks and jackdaws.
An instance of the predilection of rats for strong
ale occurred to an innkeeper of this place. He had,
about six weeks ago, placed on the floor of an old malt
kiln a 30 pint cask of ale, to bring it to a fit state
for bottling. To his astonishment, on going to the
cask a few days since, he found it nearly empty,
and was at no loss to discover the depredators, for
the cork was nibbled away to a small shell, which
only remained in the cask. The innkeeper, on
going into an adjoining granary, had frequently
seen the rats in merry groups, frisk►ng and gambol-
ling about, but never dreamt that they had made
themselves groggy with his nappy ale. They had
the sagacity to make a small hole at first, and to en-
large it as required, for it did not appear as if any of
the ale had dropped on the floor.—Stirling Journal.