Star.
London, England, 1818-07-15 00:00:00

RMIN OF ST. WITHIN.

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Sertince, idAA:Pizzo% Sickliest:received We clerical tonsure,
and put on - the monastic habit, in the old tuota4tery at Irn..
chewer. lie was of noble panntege, and passed his youth in Owl
study of grammar; philosophy, and the seriptimes. Swlthin was
promoted to holy orders by licit:titan, Bishop of Winchester,
at whose death, in 959, King Rhelwolf granted him tho See.—
Iss this he continued 'clown yatrs, rid died hi Swithin
desired that he might be burled in the open ahurc Tar I, and
not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual vritla other
Bishops; and his revest was complied with hut the Monks
on his being canonized, coradderir,g it disgraceful fur the Saint
to Se In a zublie cent:eery, resolved to remove his body Into the
chige,,whie,h w as to beys bean done with sdiemn procession, on
the 15th of July. It rained, however, so violently for 40 days
eueeecdiug, that the design was abandoned as heretical and
blasphemous, and they honoured his memory by erecting a cha-
pel over his grave, at which many miraculous cures of all kinds
are said to have been wrought. To the above cenimstance
may be traced the origin cf the old saying, " that if it rains on
St. SWithin's, it vviil rain forty days following !"
lb Poor llobir:s Almanack for 1697, are the following lines:
In this month is St. Swithin's dal;
On whi:h, if that it rain, they say
Full forty days after it will,
Or more o: less, some rain distiL
This Swi:hin was a Saint, I von-,
And Winchester's Bishop also,
'Who in his time did many a feot,
As Pcpish legends do repeat:
A woman having broke her eggs
By stumbling at another's legs,
For which she made a woeful cry,
Sr. Solemn chanced for to come by,
Who made them all as sound; or wore
Than ever that they were before.
But whether this were so or so,
'Tis more than you or I do know.
Better it is to rise betimc,
A.nd to make hay while sun doth shine,
;bin tc Isslieve in tales and lies
Which evil Monks and Friars devise !

A very distressing case presented ittelf in the City
on Monday.—An industrious and honest man, with a
wile, and eight children, recently occupied a :mall
farm at Tonbridge, which had fora:cid,/ been tenanted
by a person who had quitted it, leaving an arrear of
rent due to the landlord. Just when this honest and
industrious m.m, the subject of our commiseration,
with his family, had established himself on the pre-
mises, an execution was sent into the house, and the
*hole of his property, consisting of stock, cattle, and
oods, to the value of £7OO, was distrained for rent,
due by the previous occupier. The poor'man, With
his family, destitute of a home, wandered up to Lon-
don, and on Monday presented himself at the door of
the Stock Exchange. Their story being told, had
such an effect on the Members of ine House, that, tol
their honour, in a few minutes, they subscribed £5O,
in.order to place the unfortunate man in a situation
to gain a livelihood fur himself and family ; and it
is understood a butcher's shop, in the neighbourhood
of Greenwich,. ha; been taken for him, as the corn-
niencement of a business under more favourable au-
Sikes, and, we hope, under a more compassion,
landlord 1
.I.llibout one o'clock on Saturday
tikid a '• and
East

as Mr.

morning,
Mrs. ALDER, of the Cock Lion public-house,
Smithfield, were returning home from a party
of pleasure, in company with about 1G or 18 male
and female friends, ia an open caravan, on their ar-
4viag near the Rising San, at Ilford, in Essex, they
oue wantonly attacked by four or five ill looking
Allows, dressed as labourers, who knocked Mr. Az.-
ion down while in the act of adjusting the horse's
rpin at his head, and beat him most unmercifully ;
Mr. Atom's friends hastened to his assistance, and a
general engagement took place ; when the villains
Ending it likely that they should be overpowered,
made a signal, and they were in an instant joined by
about forty more of their party, who attacked Mr.
Avoca and his party, so that they left some of them
Eris, dead, and not one escaped without being dread-
fully beaten ; at length the cries and screams of the
females alarmed the neighbourhood, on which the
villains effected their es:ape, leaving the whole party
in a deplorable situation ; with the assistance of some
neighbours the wounds were dressed, and they were
conveyed home. Some of the females are still not
out of dangtr. Mrs. ALDER in consequence of the
barbarous treatment she received in a state of preg-
nancy, has since miscarried, and lies now at her house,
With little Lopes of recovery.
YestereLly as the Magistrates at Union Ilan were
busily and seriously engaged in the investigation of
a case of felony, their proceedings were snddenly in-
terrupted by a shrill cry from a female of " Ah ! you
villain, I will never leave you." A young man then
eutered the Court, followed b 7 a female of genteel
appearance. The man stated that his name was
Lowden: and that he was a tradesman at Bei mondsey;
the female by whom he was followed was, unfiirta-
'lately for him, his wife, from whom he was com-
pelled to separate himself on account of her violent
temper ; he allowed her a handsome annuity, but not
satisfied with that, she continually followed him and
insisted on having more; his life had become a bur-
den to him in consequence of her unceasing persecu-
tions. The Magistrate declined taking any part inl
the dispate, and the amiable lady withdrew, uttering,
the same exclamation as when she cinema, " Ala
you villain, I will never leave you."
Olivia Stevenson and Elizeleth Barnet, two very llt•
spectable looking girls, the Litter of whom was only
11 years old, were charged at Marlborough-street
Office, by Capt. BPICTIIAM, with robbing hire to a collH
!deferable extent while in his service, during a few
days absence of himself and wife in the country.—'
Fart of the property was traced, and the prisoners
were fully committed for trial.
"Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman
was knocked down and robbed, in a field near his
residence, at Camden Town.
During the procession to the Crown and Anchor,
on Monday, a Gentleman's chariot, with two ladies
and some children in it, which had stopped there
for a view, was jammed against the houses by a coal
vraggon backing, and the pannels were com-
pletely crushed in. One of the ladies was :o.much
injured that fears are entertained for he, recovery.
One of the children was also severely hurt ;they were
conveyed home to Dear.-street.

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