Star.
London, England, 1829-12-01 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSA EL'S, Nov. 30.
DREW.
7 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Mummer
40 eel* Mr. Petre's Brunswicker
us to 1 -- Sir M. Wood's Cetus
12 to 1 Lord Exeter's Mahmoud
18 to 1 -- Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt
18 to 1 -- Lord Sefton's Sal. Colt
Is to 1 --- Mr. Thornhiil's Wat Tyler
23 to 1 Mr. Petre's The Major
30 to 1 -- Custard (taken)
7 to 2 -- Sir Mark Wood
oats.
6 to I -- Lord Sefton's Moocher
7 to 1 Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma
EDINBURGH, Nov. 26.
Saouse Swinynto.—The gentlemen who possessed the shooting
over the hills of Richert and Glaschorrie, on this estate of Meanies
in Athol. have bagged during the past season 1,037 grouse, in-
cluding a few black cock and ptarmigan. Sucb a return is, we be-
lieve, unprecedented, not only upon these excellent sporting grounds,
brt upon any in the Highlands of equal extent.
Friday fortnight, as one Mr. Mault's gamekeepers was shoot-
ing on the farm of Mr. Jeha Mill, Hole of Slateford, he beard a
bare, in a neighbouring thicket, scream In the manner th,i gene-
rally do when seised by a dog. None <if his dogs being Its chat
quarter, he approached the spot, and was surprised to observe the
hare start from it, and, instead of proceeding straight forward, run
round him at a short distance. The hare had made the circuit
twice before he fired at it ; and his shot having taken effect, he
found, on picking it up, that he had kWed not only a hare, but also
a small weasel, fastened on it behind the ear, which bad, no doubt,
been the cause of the scream.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY
AT THE EAST INDIA WAREHOUSES.

A most daring and extensive robbery was, on the morning of
yesterday, all but accomplished, at the East India Company's stores
in Cutler-street, Houndsditch. It appears that Cripps (who is
now in custody) had been for some months past in the Company's
employ, 'and thus became acquainted with the localities of the
warehouses, and the spots where the most valuable and portable of
their contents were deposited. Taking advantage of this, he
set about appropriating a portion of them to himself, and with
that view he, as it is supposed, secreted himself in the building,
and commenced his operations in the dead hour of the night.
Though within the walls, the store-rooms were not easy of access,
and before he could reach them considerable difficulties presented
themselves. These, however, he surmounted, and contrived
to secure several bales of China crapes, silks, and valuable shawls
and handkerchiefs, which he flung into the street, in front of
Houndsditch entrance. After he succeeded so far, he prepared to
make his escape, and for this he was provided with a rope, which
he flung from the parapet of the stores towards Petticoat-lane;
but having miscalculated the distance, instead of throwing it
over the external wall, it fell short, and dropped into the yard.
Thinking that it had reached the lane, be descended by it, but,
instead of conveying him to a place of safety, it plunged him into
a teas-pool, in which he was nearly suffocated, when his cries
bringing some persons to his assistance, he was extricated, and
taken into custody. The street into which he had thrown the
property resembled, from its variety, an Oriental bazaar. Over
£4OO-worth was recovered by a Jew named Mendez, and restored
to the Company.
Thy height from which the prisoner descended cannot be less
than 70 feet, mad exhibits the intrepid spirit of the person who at-
tempted it.

PAINTING ON SILK OR COTTON VELVET.--Extend
some tracing paper upon the object to be copied, and trace the de-
sign upon it with a pencil. Rub the contrary side of this paper
all over with fine lee in powder, and apply this reddened surface
upon a smooth piece of parchment. With a pencil go over every
object separately, using as many pieces of parchment as there are
different objects and different colours in the design, so as to trans-
fer every object on a different piece. Afterwards cut out all the
pieces of parchment by the transferred lines, and this done, extend
the piece of velvet intended to be painted upon a table covered
with a green cloth ; place every piece of parchment, one after an-
other, on that part of the velvet where the portion of the drawing
ought to be which has been cut in the piece of parchment; and
with a pencil charged with a colour suited to that part of the
drawing, go over the velvet where it is not covered by the parch-
ment. The same is done for each piece of parchment separately,
till the whole drawing is completed. The execution of this pro-
cess requires a great deal of care and attention, in order to avoid
obliterating the design, for the whole part is performed continnedly,
without waiting for the part which has just been painted to dry,

before commencing another. At last, the parts which may not
have taken well are corrected and finished with a pencil, or by
means of new pieces of parchment.—Recreations in Science.
GIGANTIC METEOROGICAL IEOLIAN HARP.—Cap-
tain Haas, of Basle, has designated by these an apparatus which
emits of itself a variety of sounds during a change of weather.
Since the year 1787, he had stretched above his garden fifteen iron
wires, three buttered and twenty feet long, and at the distance of
about two inches from sue another : the largest wire was two
lines in diameter, the smallest one line, and those of intermediate
sire one line and a half. They were situated towards the south
and are inclined twenty or thirty degrees to the horizon, being
stretched by means of rollers, properly arranged for the pur-
pose. Whenever the weather changes, these wires sound with such
fondness that it is impossible to go on with a concert in the house.
The sounds sometimes resemble the hissing noise of water rapid in
ebullition, sometimes that of an harmonicon, and sometimes that of
a distant chime, or an organ. The inventor of this curious appa-
ratus is Mr. Ventau, provost at Madill, nut far from Basle. He
sometimes shot at a mark from his window, and in order that he
might not go to the mark at each shot, he attached to it a long iron
wire to draw it to him at pleasure. He remarked more than once
that the wire sounded exactly an octave ; and be found that every
Iron wire, stretched in a direction parallel to the sounds, emitted
this tone at every change of weather.—A brass wire did not pro-
duce any sound, nor did an iron wire when it was stretched from
east to west.—M. Dobereiner, of Jena, conceives that the pheno-
menon now described, is the effect of an electromagnetic action ;
and be proposes to try if the brass wire could not sound when
it communicates at its extremity with an energetic electrometer."
Friday forenoon, a dreadful accident occurred two or
three hundred yards south of Nottingham Trent-bridge. Mr.
Albert Polook, merchant, a native of Brussels, but who has re-
sided at Nottingham a few years, in company with a friend, was
taking a morning's ride, and had arrived at the top of Edwalton-
hill, when his horse suddenly turned about and galloped back down
the bill ; at the foot of which, having, unfortunately, one of his
feet out of the stirrup, he was thrown with great violence to the
ground. He was instantly removed to the Horse Shoes Inn, near
the bridge, where in a few minutes be breathed his last. The de-
ceased was 28 years of age.
Saturday, an inquiry took place at the Sheriffs' Of-
fice, Red Lion-square, under a writ of extent, to ascertain what
property a Mr. Darby was possessed of, who had formerly been a
tax-collector for the Tower Hamlets Division, and who had lately
become a defaulter to the amount of 5e2,600. The defendant had
been a tax-collector for the last 23 years. Sometime since au in-
quiry was instituted into his accounts, when it was ascertained
that he was deficient to the amount above stated. He was con.
sequently suspended from his employment, and his goods were
taken in execution ; but they not producing sufficient to meet the
demand, the present inquiry was instituted, to ascertain what other
property he was possessed of. The defendant was examined, and
gave an account of all his property, among which was a sum of
.61500 to which he was entitled at the death of a lady. The Under-
Sheriff being of opinion that sufficient evidence had not been pro-
duced relative to the last item, a verdict was returned for only
.21000.
A SECRET DISCLOSED.--Till the death of the late
General Money, of Crownpoint, near Norwich, it was never
known by what accident Broughton, the prize-fighter. came by his
death; but a memorandum to the following effect was found
among the General's papers, which sets the matter at rest. Brough-
ton, it appears, with the extravagant habits of men of his caste,
made no provision against adverse days. though patronised by the
first men of the land. He, therefore, when means failed him, took
to the road, and. soon after he commenced the new occupation,
met General Aloney by the wayside. The General knew his man,
demand, r- him to go quietly ahnut his
know you, but I will never
still persisted in having the
the General, " if you will
pistol from his pocket, he shot
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business. °Mervin `• Broughton. 1
mention this." Broughton. however,
General's money. " replied
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Broughton. who reached some p 1 c
died loon after.—Ct rutty Herald.