Star.
London, England, 1826-10-20 00:00:00

OLDHAM, Oct. 16.

Thursday, a meeting of Master Spinners was held at
a house at Greenacres Moor. At this meeting, which was
assembled for the purpose of cetcerting measures in
aid of the Operatives who are standing out for wages,
it was determined not to support thar system of out
rage and intimidation which has recently been acted
upon in this neighbourhood. Three mills have corn-
menced working upon their old wages. It is said that
the subscription in aid of the turn-outs increases rapidly,
and that the men now receive ten shillings per week,
and the other hands in proportion. The society of
Master Spinners have agreed to pay, in aid of the turn'
outs, five shillings per week each for every carding,
engine which they work. Some of the master hatters,
several publicans, and many shopkeepers and respect-
able householders, have contributed to this fund. Mean-
while the condition of those who are working at under-
price must be unpleasant, since they are confinedisithin
the walls of the factory—they are fed and lodged inside,
and are never suffered to come out except at a week's
end, when they steal away as they can to their families,
and wo be to him, that is caught going or returning.
Soldiers still guard several of the mills, but I have not;
heard of any further damage being done.

The Noblemen and Gentlemen of the Royal Caledn-
dian, Hunt, on leaving Perth, sent a liberal donation of Fifty
Pounds, to be distributed by the Provost and Magistrates, amongst
such charitable institutions as they should judge proper.
The Earl of BatnowArstst, whose eccentric character
the French Journals are from time to time so fond of ■potting with,
lives in a Grand Hotel, in the Rue St. Honore, in Paris. His
wealth, before enormous, received a vast accession by the death of
his brother. He is likewise a Clergyman, and holds one of this Pre-
bends of Durham.

There is new at Allensheads one of the richest lead
ore mines In Europe, belotiging to Colonel and Mrs. Bummer.
It Is all fresh ground for some miles, and is supposed will continue
so for many years.
The design for the new United Service Club House,
which is to be erected on a part of the site of the Palace
in Pall Mall, is understood to be very elegant.
Mr. BENET?, the Member for Wiltshire, presides at
a Petty Sessions ,at Iliadon, and has politely invited
Reporters. to attend them ; expressing it as his decided
opinion, that the public are entitled to the same free
admissi•,n to them as to other Courts of Justice.

Tile tasteful :one bridge which is throwing over the
Serpentine river, near Kensington Gardens, when
finished will open a delightful promenade and drive en-
tirely round Hyde Par k—k will consist of five arches,
and two land ones.

An alarming epidemy has broken out at Dunkirk.—
The mortality is dreadful, and all the inhabitants that
can afford it are removing. The fatality is attributed
to the unwholesome state of the water, and the effluvia
from the stagnant pools, arising flow the long continu-
ance of hot and dry weather.
RUBENB.—The Crucifision of St. Peter, with his head
downwards, was the last of this great artist's works, and
that which he admired the most; he gaie it to a Church
in his native town of Cologne.
A new Farce is announced at Drury-lane Theatre, in
which will be introduced a number of Welsh Melodies.
The Scotch and the Irish have been given to us in a va-
ritty of forms, but we never recollect the beautiful airs
of Cambria in any regular drama.
Wednesday evening some impudent thief entered the
shop of Mr. James Joyce, of Lisson•st:eet, dining Ole
temporary absence of the person having charge of it,
and deliberAtely leaning across the counter, emptied the
money-till of its contents, about 41. I7s. and rushing out
of the shop, escaped.
Early yesterday morning the premises of Mr. Grove,
boot-maker, in Barking church-yard, Tower-street, were
broken into, and stripped of many dozens of boots and
shoes, and leather to a considerable amount. The thieves
escaped unobserved by the watchman near the horse.
The millions of money spent by absentee Englishmen
and their families on the Continent, but more pai ticu-
lady in France, have enriched the latter, while the con-
stant drain from home his impoverished their own'
country. The prosperous state of the French Revenue,
might in a great d.gree be attributed to the diffusion of
an immense quantity of British money throughout the
kingdom, to which the money spent here by foreigners,
is nothing more than a drop compared to the ocean.
The money that should be spent in our manufactures,
is employed in the purchase of French and other foreign
fabrics, to the great injury of our own manufacturers,
who are starving for want of work. In addition to this,
a great number cf English servants, both males and
females, have been thrown out of employment, and add
to the multitude of indigent poor, who now fill the
workhouses or receive parish relief. Neither the morals
nor the habits of the English are improved by residing
in either France or Italy, and it would be highly bene-
ficial probably to-the future welfare of our countrymen,
if something were done to, repress the prevailing dispo-
sition fur residing in foreign countries, where they are
neither beloved nor esteemed.

DOOMSDAY BOOK.—This invaluable record, so often
quoted, and referred to for facts of ancient times, is
sell in perfect preservation, every word being as legi•
ble at this time as when written, seven hundred and
forty years ago. It is comprised in two volumes, one a
large folio, the other a quarto. The first begins with
the county of Kent, and concludes with Lincolnshire,
and is written in one and the same hand, in small but
clear characters, on three hundred and eighty double
pages of vellum, each page having a double column,
and contains thirty-one counties. The quarto volume
is on four hundred and fifty double pages of vellum,
but in single columns, in a large distinct handwriting,
and contains the counties of Esser, Norfolk, and Suffolk.

ACTIMEM.-It was not till after the Restoration that
women were licensed to act in public theatres. The
following is a clause in the patent granted to Sir W.
Davenant 4d That, whereas the aromeris parts in plays
have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women,
at which some have taken offence, we do permit, and
give leave, for the time to come, that all women's parts
be acted by women." The same was the case in the
theatres of antiquity. Lucian, in an answer to a person
who objects to the effemin icy of male dancers, imitating
the actions of females, replies that if this were an ob-
jection, it would evally -hold against tragedies and
comedies. Perhaps the French were the first who ven-
tured to bring women on the stage. From them we had it.
A short time since a country Curate, while reading
the Second Lesson, espied a dog of his in fierce combat
with another at the west end of the Church—out rushed
the enraged Pried from his desk to part the unruly
curs, which having accomplished, he returned ; when,
being in doubt where he left off, he enquired of his
Clerk—" Roger, where was I just now ?"—“Why,down
in the aisle, parting the dogs, Mister," said Roger.
The reason why so few marriages are happy, is be-
cause young Ladles spend their time in making nets, not in making
cases.—amit-

POLICE INTELIGENCE.,
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MANSION-HOUSE.

The Lotto MA Yon has been neat ly the whole of the week annoyed
by applications for relief and assistance by. Spanish Refugee,. Yes-
terday four of them presented themselves, and severally gave
miserable accounts of their state, ix consequence of the weekly al-
lowance from the Committee being discontinued. They expressed
their willingness to do any thing in their power to obtain a living;
and as, on Wednesday, the Rev. Dr. Rudge had applied to the
Lord Mayor, stating his willingness to assist in procuring them
situations as teachers in some of our seminaries - such of them as
liked that course of life, were furnished with the Rev. Doctor's
address. Such of them as could not speak English, were desired to'
wait until Saturday, when a meeting of the Subscription Committee
Would be held.

The Lou) Maims expressed his regret at the distressed state of
these applicants; but added, that their habits were of so indolent a
nature, that they were ill calculated for this country ; and yet it
was a melancholy thing that they dare not return back to their own
country. Hard labour they were not fit for, and he really knew
not what could be done for them; but he hoped that some farther
assistance might be raised, so as to relieve their necessities until
things might assume a different aspect: they certainly required but
little to support them, because they were as abstemious in their
living as they were indolent in their manners—their only extrava.
puce was their cigars, and which, from their long habit, they
could not do without.

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. Several fellows have recently been brought before the Loan
MAYOII, charged with begging, and in case of being refused threat-
ening the parties whom they had accosted.
The Loao Mavoa observed, that these sort of offences amounted
to little less than highway robbery, and he in consequence com-
mitted two individuals brought before him on Wednesday, and one
yesterday, to Bridewell.

A journeyman weaver was charged with deserting his wife and
four children, and leaving them chargeable to the parish, whilst he
was at the same dine keeping another woman.
The parish officers appeared anxious that the prisoner should be
discharged, on his undertaking to make his wife a weekly allow-
ance; but _ _ _

The Lola 111avoa observed, that as the prisoner had been there
before, he should go to the tread-mill for seven days, in order that
be might know what It was; and if ever charged there again, he
would be sent for three months.

GUILDHALL.
George iNiersors, a lad about 15 years old, was charged with
being a common beggar and vagabond.
The charge was preferred by Mr. Burdon, of Norfolk-street,
&rand, who stated, that in the course of last winter he called in at
the Amicable Assurance Office, in Serjeants' Inn, Fleet.street, and
he found the prisoner there, relating his unfortunate situation to
Mr. Pensam, the Secretary. He was moved with the tale, and gave
Mr. Pensam a sum of money to be given to him' in portions. The
prisoner represented that be had neither father nor mother, that be
had been sent for by his uncle, from the Highlands,' that his uncle
had paid the debt of nature about sit weeks before, and that be was
destitute and friendless. He said, be had been a shepherd boy in
Scotland, and wished to get back. Soon after the prisoner called
upon Mr. Pensam, and stating that •he had obtained a situation on
board ship, and he was in want of some necessaries, and that he
(Mr. Burdon) had bid him mention his name, to induce Mr. P. to
contribute a trifle towards purchasing what be required. Mr. Pen.
sant gave him ss. and be then came to witness with the same story.
stating that Mr. Pensam had authorised him to mention his name.
He said Mr. Pensam bad given him Si. but he wanted Bs. more to
purchase a hammock. " Well, my poor boy," said Mr. Burdon,
"although thou art friendless, thou shalt not want a hammock,"
and so saying, he gave him the eight shillings. In a few days more
the prisoner called again, in a handsome Highland dress. He had
then joined the ship, as be said, and discovered his companions there
were" unto' wicked blades," but he was determined to " keep his
sel to his sel," and would follow the good path "amang a' tempta-
tions." He said his prayers night and morning, and possesses! a
Bible and Psahn Book iu the Celtic language. Witness was de-
lighted with his pious and virtuous resolutions, and impressed upon
his mind that, If he was a good boy, good would surely come of it.
Several weeks after that, he was met in the streets by one of the
Clerks in the Amicable 011 ice, rind yesterday witness himself met
him in Fleet-street. " Ha, my boy ! what have you some back
again ?" said Mr. Burden. " Yas, Sir," said the prisoner. " When
did you arrive?" inquired the former. '" But last week," said the
boy, " from America." Mr. Burdon then seized him by the collar,
when he confessed he had never been on board ship in his life, and
begged for mercy. Mr. Burdon, however, gave him into custody,
and had him brought at once before the Alderman.
In the Justice room he was immediately recognised. One re
cowered be was before Alderman Waithman, in his mayoralty,
and received ample assistance; another, that he had obtained a suit
of clothes from Mr. Alexander Fraser, of Lincoln's Inn ; another,
that he had played of the farce of wanting necessaries to go to sea,
and calling to express his gratitude forpast favours, on the eve of
sailing, upon the respectable house of Borradaile and Cape, in
Catraton-street ; another, that he had been a footboy to a Gentle-
man at Clapton, and the Alderman himself admitted he had been
his dupe. He•caUed upon him in his Highland dress, and said he
could not wear the breeks for the life re him ; his fattier had never
worn anything but the philibeg, and be wad na consent to put on the
Week& upon ony account. He (Sir P. Laurie) assured him that in
that lath he would never he able to earn his bread in London. He
gave him some assistance to take him back to Scotland, and he bad
expected he bad arrived there long since. You remember all this,
said Sir Peter, I dare say?
Yes, Alderman, replied the prisoner, bowing his bead, and be-
ginning to blubber.

Sir lifers—Did not you tell me you would go back to Scotland?
Prisoner—But it was a' lees, Alderman.—(Laughter}
Sir Pirrra—ls it true you were in service at Clapton, and if so,
how came you to lose your place ?
Prisoner—Becaute I tald lees.—(Laughter).
Sir Pirras said, he could not suffer such a determined young im-
postor to go unpunished; committed him to Bridewell for 14 days.