A MARAUDING PARTY.-On the...
The Times, 1824-09-24T00:00:00

A MARAVDING PAIRTY.-On the evenin:f of Fri(lay se'nnighlt, about nine o'clock, a paity o fi ie toen, in a gig or chlaise. cart, driving curriele fasition (by a hiorre beside th.t in tite shafts, with a bar across), aligltcdI at the Red Cow public-house, at he en- trance of Aylesbury froml the Buckingiham road, and inquired for supper and bedIs. As the party appeared, from the liberality utO leir calls, disposed to make their quarters goodl, preparations were madc fbr them accordinglj; and a'ter regalingtitenmscives With beet-steaks I andi ale,, and treatinig other Persons in the house, thev retired to their chanmbers, requesting to be called early the next imiorning. Some time after miidnight, ilhe landlady, Airs. Wailis., who hail accomnio- 2.ated a portion of thein witlt a room in witich she haPd been acCUs- tometLI to sleep, adjoining that occupied by tihe others, thought shie heard a noise, and toid lier husbanti she fattcied the men vcre hreak~ ing open one of the ctlhfrs. In tacl, a ligiht, whicih they must have procured by secret means, was seen tn tieir rooms by a passenger -whose business called himn up early in the niorning; and wlets they were gone, it was discoyered that they liad ratisacked everv place in tilcir chainbers, and contrived to secrete a quantity of womlell'S Caps, and handkerchiefs, and a mall's new hat. They manageul their de- parture ir? the mornhig witl muchl dexterity; the leaditiz man hav- I ilg mnade re2dy the vehlicle antl horses, and was prepared to start the moment the otiers, whom lie pretended tolhasten, came down stairs. Among the articles in their possession was a vortmnanieau-trunk, about whiich they seemeti particularlycatreful. 2 hey are sutpposct to be a partv o (I-tesperate characters, on their retur n from Warwick r acs 0oitook tire roa(d by Uxbridge to Loidlon, amil were ob. served, as thley were leaving Aylesbury, to look very stcadfastly at the Town-hall antl UaoLl.B chks C/ironick, Joust lTaylor had thie mnerit of intermupting tlie servile etiquette o, knceling to the King. " I nlyself (says the W-ater P.eL) ave a book to Kitig James once, in the (reat Citamber. at Wh itehall, as his mlajesty came fromt the Chapel. The Duke of Richimond said merrily to nic, ' Taylor. whiere did you learn the manners to give the King a book, and aot kneel i" ly Lord,' said 1, 'it it please your Grace, I doe give now; but when I beg any thing1 then I wriil kneele.' "I-'vin,tgn9 paper. Our cotemporary is llot aware that the ctiquette of Ineeliing widilt presenting a book, &c., still exists. AbouL iive o'clock oii Wednesday evening, the isth in- stant, a small balloon, nine fcet in length, descended in a barley field, its lie parish of Eastleach Turvi.le, (ilocestersisire. This balloon was inflated with hydrogen gas; and rontnst b_ve travelled witli very great rapidity, as it let; the neighbourhoodl of Bristol, dis. tant froitm tite place of its descent between ibrty and fifty mniles, abeut four o'aock the same evening. ANs EYFECTIVE AND SAFE METI1OD Or DESTROYI1cG FLtEs.-(Froin.a correspondent.)-Place intheroom one orniore beer rlasses, filled witliin an inOch of the brim witil strong soap wa- ter; Lly over the glass a slice of bread (br&Wn bread is best), with a smali, ile in the ecuxue tsage. lxrough to essd.it the point of the little finger, first having rubbed the unnderneath side witith a little beer and sugar : the flies soon assetesble and find iheir w 'y through the hole anti fasl into the water. af'ected by vthe effluvia Of the soap, atid perish. Kitchens anldctlier apartnents are titus ea.dily treed of a nuisanceseften suffered to retnaitl a great part of the wiln. 'er for wanit ok' a litde pains at the fall of the year. lhe followinr is' another suceessful tnethoda s also practisedon the Continent:-Simmt'a pint of milk far an hour, with four ounces of sugar, and two oun es Of pepper: place it about in saucers. Tic flies, after sipping awhile, slji up perpendicularly, mnd fall down dead.