Star. — 1820-11-21 (London, England)

NACSS.TO COM&  . loaaar. .14 to 1 apt 411;statts 18 p I apt Charm • 16 to 1 apt Patna 10 to I apt Duke of 'T'ask's 16 to-f apt bro. lo Azithiovi black colt. ban. • • I 10 $Ol ipt Breeze. to 6 apt Sellma.  -. • • • .7 ••to 1 art )(y Lady.  sit NT IN G. Mr. Hanbury's llounds,(Herts), meet to-morrow,. at Fore Bridge, at eleven; Saturday,. at cations, tgn. The Pytchlef Hounds-meet on Thursday, at Great Harrewden ; Friday, at Brampton Woo 'at hStrypit ten. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet to-morrowr at Whistley Wood; Friday, at Haversbam Wood at half-past ten. The Oakley Hounds nice; on Thursday, at Itorton ;' Saturday, at Kempton Wood, at half-past ten. " The Earl of ilirewond's foi-hounds meet-on Wednesday at Alwoodley Oates, and on Friday at Stock eld Lodge. The Badsworth foxhounds meet on .Thursday At Noswell Park, and on Saturday. at Skelbrook. The Quorndon Hounds meet to-morrow, at- Vidnierpool ; Thursday, at Great Dalby ; Saturday, at Clifton, at'. half-past ten.  A few days ago, a woodman, engaged in splitting timber for rail-posts, in the woods close by the lake at Haining, a seat-of Mr. PRINGLE'S, in Selkirkshirc, discovered in the centre of a large wild cherry-tree, a living bat, of a bright scarlet colour, which he foolishly suffered to escape, from tear, being fully persuaded it was (with the characteristic superstition of the inhabitants of that part of the country) a " being -not of this world." The tree presents small cavity in the centre, where the bat was inclosed, but is perfectly sound and solid on each side. Saturday sennight; as three brothers, of the name of White were collecting their father's flocks in Glenmark, in the upper part of the Parish of Lochlee, in Forfarshire, one of them attempting to pass, or leap over, a brook, swelled to a-mountain torrent by the late rains, fell in and was carried' down by the current ; another, in endeavouring to save him, was also swept away, and both were tlrowned, the third being unable to render them any assistance.. About five o'clock on Saturday-evening, Colonel SLADE, of Walcot-place, Kennington, whilst ringing at his own door-bell, was surrounded by three thieves, who pushed him about, and -contrived to snatch his watch from his fob. The Colonel immediately gave an alarm, but the villains being favoured by the fog, escaped across the fields at the back of the garden. Friday night, or early on Saturday morning, the' kitchen of the Westminster School was-entered by thieves, who stole everything portables dud escaped undetected. —*  Some thieves broke into the larder of thi Earl o. ()snow, at Clandon, in Siirrey, of Monday night, and plundered it of a great qurantity of provisioniof all kinds. Four thieves elfected an einiaticeliab the house of R. PAISLEY, Esq. Mobmouth-place, near the...new burying ground', in Mary-la-bonne-Eclat, Or* Thuisday, but they were put to flight -1:4 Ihellarirof a terrier dog as soon as theyhad staledlle Valli.fiher passed a huge yard-dog unmolested; and gorlito.l the parlour passage, when-therweie distinctls,-i6eir by a servant, who set the alartn-6ell .rirtgin:g,.• and. they retreated with a pistol shtit after theit. One of the numerous pickpockets, Who- daringly infest the streets, not only. by night but by-day, schen apprehended, a'few evenings ago, had no less than thirty-tuv) pocket-handkerchiefs concealed, like in the Beggar's Opera, about his person'. Judith Pearce, a poor woman inhabiting a cottage near Sutton-bridge, Wilti, was found murdered ca Tuesday last. A gypsey, name Buckland, has been committed to jail, charged, on the Coroners Inquest, with being the murderer. Last night, twenty-five finale convicts, amongst whom were several boys, under sentence of transportation in Newgate, were sent off in the jail-car, in pursuance of their sentences. Bow-srattar.—Saturday, ildward Green, styling himself a clerk, in Norfolk-street, was committed on a charge of embezzling a bill of exchange value £154 Bs. the property of Dr. Bullman, of Sloanestreet. The Doctor had deposited the bill with the defendant for the purpose of getting it discounted ; but instead of receiving the value, was offered a £5O note, and a quantity of silver plate, of not above half the value at which it was estimated. He-refused to accept this offer, and demanded hisbill back again, but he could neither get the bill nor. the value of it. He had, however, learned that the bill, after passing through several hands, had been paid by the acceptor.  !,