Star.
London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

escorting her. The above nine men -are lodged in
jail this day, and will be tried at the Comteission.
In our last we mentioned that two men bad been
taken into custady near Charleville. WV hate since
learned that an attempt was made to rescue them, in
which one was so badly wounded, that no hope of
recovery is entertained.—Limerick Chronick, Dec.l2.
Twenty eight muskets of different kinds have been
taken from the labouring classes in the vicinity of
Newport, as a measure of precaution. In the County
of Mayo several persons have been lodged in jail
under the charge of being Ribbonmen and having
prescribed unlawful oaths. A house occupied by a
party of Police, who were absent, was burned on
Saturday night, at Ballinacor, near Castletown-
delvin, Mayo. A man, who lived at Hollyhill, two
miles from Castlebar, was last week stoned to death,
by six or seven of his neighbours. His offence was
attempting to extricate a pig from a dog which had
• been set at it by those charged with the murder.
Sunday night a ruffian threw a stone at the spy
tinel stationed at the Excise Office of Castlebar, by
which the soldier was much injuted, and the offender
. escaped.

shots fired into them, On the night of the sth, nine
houses were assailed in Ballingarry, Glenbroban,
Knocklong, and Cloharto, at which some arms were
had, and all but one contributed money. These are
the recurrences in the east of Costlea, where the Ma-
gistrates have been these six-or seven weeks memo-
rializing for troops or police, there being at this time
I no troops, and only nine policemen in the Barony."
Friday evening last, Mr. J. RYAN, of Pallas Kenry,
having gone from &nee to his farm at Courtbrown, I
near Askeaton, wants his lodging for the night at a
tenant's house, but desired that it should not be made
known that he stopped there, as he was always in the
habit of returning home each day he visited his farm.
He retired to rest, and about twelve o'clock was
dragged from his bed by the neck, and placed on his
knees, by three men, who swore they would instantly
shoot him unless he gave them arms. He declared
he had none. Two muskets were then aimed at him,
one at his back the other at his breast, the muzzles of
which touched his skin, and each moment he ex-
pected to be blown to atoms, when a third struck
him violently over the left eye with a gun, which
knocked him flat on the ground. At this time a per-
son from the outside cried out—" D—n the rascal,
finish him and come away!" upon which Mr. RYAN
was agaia struck, and the three men left the room,
firing one shot. After they departed, Mr. RYAN
dressed himself, and having gone towards the outer-
door, found it open, without any appearance of vio-
lence; upon which he concluded that the owners
must have had a participation hi. the outrage com-
mitted, when be left the place, and passed through
the country till he reached the guard. house at Castle-
town, in a bleeding and mutilated condition.
On account of the continued exertions of E. V.
FITZGERALD, Esq. a most efficient Magistrate, in his
part of the county, notices have been posted, signed
Captain Rock, forbidding any person to work for him.
About three o'clock on Tuesday, as Mr. FITZGERALD'S
son was riding on the high road leading through
Cahireeny, in the parish of Kildimo, he perceived a
man, with his face blackened, inside the road wall,
with a short gun in his hand; the man fired at him,
but fortunately missed him, when he instantly rode off
The police stationed at Pallas made immediate search
for the ruffian, but could get no intelligence of him.
Wednesday night, the houses of Mr. R .EAGAR, of
Ardagh, M. Fox, and two HICKSONS, in the parish
of Knockane, in the county of Kerry; also houses of
men of the name of TALBOT, in the parish of Killor-
glan, were surrounded by a party of men, completely
armed, and who appeared to answer the desCription The Duke of WELLINGTON arrived unexpecteily on
of military, rather than banditti ; they deprived the Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, a: Apsley-house,
inhabitants of their arms and what gunpowder they from Sttathfield-saye. The Marquis WaLtzst.Ev, ac-
had, with the exception of one of the Tataors, who companied by two Gentlemen, left town soon after,
retreated with his arms, which he refused to give up, in his carriage and four, for Ireland, where he is ex-
though they fired three shots at him. pected to arrive on Tuesday morning.
COUNTY OF WESTkIEATH. Hyde Park was yesterday fashionably attended, in
HORRIBLR MURDER.—A letter from Kin d, of consequence of the unusual fine weather. The female
IDecember 4, says:—" This day I saw one of the ekganges displayed their fine forms in the appropriate
most awful sights I ever witnessed, in a small field, dress of the season, the embroidered blue pelisse a-la-
near the road leading from Longwood to Rath name feathers.
and the close cottage bonnet and black
near Mr. THOMAS KINGSTON'S house, on the same feathers.
.The beaux still sport the Esterhazy brown,
land, a man of the name of Wu. WILEst, who was with full trowsers of the Anglesea mixture ; the Jo-
waylaid, or followed by a party from the fair, knocked life hat appears to be coming into vogue.
down with a shovel, sticks. &c. and with a razor or The last of the Bedfordean premiums, annually
knife, they cut his throat Irons ear to ear, and almost distributed for several years past in Goswell-street,
severed the head from the body, and cut his mouth on for improvement in the breed of cattle, sheep, and
either side in like manner, and other parts of his face ; pigs, was given on Friday last : the Duke of BEDFORD
they took off his coat and waistcoat, leaving both at has a ithdrawn his name from this Club.
sonic distance from the body, with- the waistcoat but- A most alarming and destructive fire was disco-
toned, and not one drop of blood on either ; the hour vered, between the hours of twelve and one, on the
between seven and eight o'clock. The Inquest will morning of Saturday se'nnight, in the large and ex-
be held to-morrow morning, at nine. This is far tensive spinning factory, six stories high, situated at
worse than Mr. CRUISE's murder : he was brother to Houghton Bottoms, near Leeds, and occupied by
the WILEY that prosecuted DUNN." Messrs. BAILEY and LIVUEY. Such was the rapid
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY. progress made by the devouring flames, that the en-
Friday night, some merciless wretches plucked the tire machinery, with the stock, was totally destroyed
wool from the backs of ten sheep belonging to Mr. in the short space of two hours, by which nearly two
RYAN, of Cottage, some of which have since died : hundred individuals will be, at least fot a considerable
it would have been less cruel to have stolen the sheep, time, 'thrown out of employment.
than to treat the poor innocents in this way. -Clow STATE LOTTERY.—T. BIM respectfully reminds
mel Advertiser. his best friends, the Public, that the State Lottery
As early as the hour of ten on Monday night, a finishes Drawing Next Thursday, on which day,
man in the employment of Mr. MICHAEL O'BRIEN, One Prize of £.30,000, Two of £5OOO, One of 1.:2000,
of Scartany, within two miles and a half of Caber, One of £lOOO, and several other Money Capitals,
being then on his way to Mitchelstown, on horseback, must be Drawn. Those adventurers whe purchased
fell in with a very large party of armed men at the between the second and Third Day, with intent to
Cross of Curraghatoher, near Ballylooby. On ques- take advantage of the Contractors offer, must return,
tioning him, they found he was what they considered their Tickets or Shares on or before Wednesday next,
a stranger (though only from the vicinity of Mitchels- for after that day not any will be taken (whether
town), and told him he should immediately quit the drawn or not). In the present Lottery, Blur has al-
country, saying, that they must drive all strangers ready sold Nine Capitals, being exactly One Half of
from it, having something of consequence to manage all that base been drawn!!!
among themselves ; they then escorted him two mites In a recent Lottery, when a plan similar to the
on the Mitchelstown road, when they took the horse present was adopted, by which Purchasers had the
from him, and put him on his oath never to return option of returning their Tickets or Shares, a Gentle-
again to that country ; the horse they kept riding all man purchased, at CARROLL'S Office, the Ticket No.
night. They afterwards went to the house of another
labourer of Mr. O'BRIEN, of the name of Cantwell, 18,775. As it was undrawn, he desired to have his
Money returned; but changing his mind, determined
but he not being at 'home, they left orders with a to keep it, and on the Next Day it was drawn a Grand
neighbour, to tell him to quit the neighbourhood
forth witla.—/bid. Prize of £30,000. This is probably the reason why
so many persons now keep the Numbers they hare
We lament to hear, from respectable authority, purchased at CARROLL'S, as, by returning them, they
that the lives of some Gentlemen have been put in would give up all possibility of gaining any of the
danger by assassins in ambush, whom GOD has pro- Prizes of £30,000, L:5,000, &c. which will be drawn
tected from their wrath ; and we arc also given to
NUT THURSDAY.
understand, that a Roman Catholic Clergyman has
CoNN EICHANGI, MAZZAM A Dec. 17.—A very great goon.
been visited, not many nights ago, in this county, by
City of Wheat remained over from last week's arrivals, in addi-
ax and Kent, but very little off.
which was of fineluality ;
party of these armed ruffians, who cautioned him to don to which we bad a good suppresh ia this morning from
be silent, and to make no comment whatsoever, at his
in consequence, prime samples obtained last Mond..y 5 prices,
Chapel, ou their proceedings.—/bid. but all other sorts were offered full 21. per quarter lower, with-
COUNTY O: KERRY. out being able to effect sales at that abatement. The extremely
heavy sale for Malt has occasioned a decline of from 3s. to 4s.
Wednesday, the 28th ult. a banditti of armed men per quarter on fine Harley, and the stained and inferior qualities
attacked the lodge of EDWARD HARNETT, of Sand- are as. per quarter lower. New Leans are 25. per quarter lower.
ville, Esq. at Knucknaboul,in this county, and having The Oat trade was heavy at last week's priansces.—Current pric3's
es%
forced an entrance, swore the herdsman to be the excuse. Smolt Be ~.....285
'lick ditto 035 26,
bearer of the message to his master, purporting, that Wheats
Kent
unless he (Mr. HARNETT) sent, on or before the fol. x en and
405 Old 545 Oats, Potatoe ... ...... 24s 2111
Suffolk' ..... New 405 Old 525 .-- Poland *Os 24s
lowing Saturday night, to a certain place in the , Norfolk .........•-... 405 46s -- Feed ... ......... i6s 20s
265 285 Flour, per Sack 50s $5O
county of Cork, two guns and a case of pistols, they Rye
165 285 Rapeseed, per Last .C2B .C 34
would burn all his houses, and destroy the entire of BarkY
Malt ... ........ ..... 485 36s Tom o".
his stock, then grazing on the above lands. White Peas 245 26s Wheat, Dantsic .Os
COUNTY OF LIMERICK. .....------, Bailers •..30s 320 Baltic Red, Hambro' or
Grey Peas , 1:35 ass Brabant red .. ...... Os
Monday night, the police stationed at Newcastle, sorronno g
apprehended,
C hiefM a 1; ist under Magistrate, thpeastvaßrrrantu
of
fTlajor s‘‘L'irce, Mor-IE bloat Dec. 17.—There never was lawn a
; lest
tensodedfull off
way
ytil as w
owse as that of this morning thotopMar..
maintain last week's quotation,. and the infest n sorts welt
ritt Cregan, George,Darcy, Patrick Enright, Thomas
Keefe? Daiel Keefe, John Finn, and Patrick Cregan, nominal_ in 1)1.'7-to—Culler pprtircesstoni e
of
orm;
mutton,
21.
63.
charged on oath with having committed a riot under Ito 3t.t'64. Veal. 3s. 0.1. to 4s. ed. Pork, 2s. Od. to 45.0 d.
the Whiteboy Act, and with having assaulted CB-ICattleat Market: Bouts, 4850; Calves, 200; Sheep and lambs,
TIMELINE HAMMY, a Crown prosecutrix, on her re-1111,100; Pip, 300.—Hay and Straw per load, Hay, St. 10e. to
tura from last Assizes, and the police who were jilt 4s. Clover, 4 "59 51.05. Straw, IA es. to 11. ins.

BOXING.

Monday, a match took place half-way near Colerne and Bath-
radon, Somersetshire, between two young men, one from each
place, when, after a severe battle, which lasted an hour, they
were both so well towelled, that the umpires could not decide
which was the victor. The fathers of the combatants acted as
seconds.
RANDALL AND MARTIN.
TO TUB =MR Or TOR STAR.
Weymouth Arms, Saturday, Dec. IS.
Sin—After Randall bad defeated Martin in their last battle,
the latter challenged Randall to fight him again for £3OO a-side
—to which Randall consented—but when Martin and a Gentle-
man called upon Randall to make a deposit, Randall refused.
A short time elapsed, when Randall inserted in your Paper (see
STAR, Dec. 4), that he would fight Martin for X3OO a-side, in
case his friends would bet £lOOO eves. Sir, I now wish yois
to state, that the friends of Martin have agreed to Randall's pro-
position, namely, " Martin to fight Randall for £3OO a-side, and
bet £lOOO even.". A deposit will be made at any time in &tout
of Martin. If Mr. Randall should again refuse to make a de.
posit, I will leave the Sporting World to judge for themselves.
I am, &c. T. W. SPRING,
RARE SPORT FOR TO-MORROW !
The following fights are to take place within sixteen mike
• from London :
The Birmingham Youth and .Abbot, for £5O a-side.
Lenny and Brown (the Sprig of Myrtle), fur £3O a-side ;
And a wind-up between Massa Kendrick, the Black, and Acton,
a known good one.