Star. — 1824-09-29 (London, England)

RAVAGES COMMITTED BY GAME.—It has been calculated that the corn destroyed by game, in the county of Hants alone, would be sufficient to maintain 2000 people for a year, and that the labour of persons imprisoned in the same county for offences against the Game Laws, would be adequate to carry on a manufactory of silk, woollen, or cotton, employing a capital of 100,0001. Yesterday morning, between two and three o'clock, two desperate villains broke into the coach-house of S. Chambers, Esq. one of the Magistrates of Union-hall, in Keppel-street Mews, Russell-square, and broke into an apartment occupied by the coachman's wife, whom they threatened to murder if she made the least noise. They then robbed her of some silver spoons, wearing apparel, and everything they could carry off. The coachman was in the country with the carriage. with Mr. Chamberes family, which was probably known to the thieves.  A few days since a servant girl was walking by the side of the Canal, near Mr. Rawoth's Wharf, at Nottingham, with an infant in her arms, when, looking at the child instead of her path, sae stepped from the road into the water, and she and the child instantly disappeared. A man who saw the accident hastened to the spot, and fortunately caught the girl by the hair of her head; but, on raising her in the water, it appeared that the child was no longer in her arms. The man hastily pulled her out, that he might have a 'chance of saving the infant, when, to his great surprise, he found that the little innocent had instinctively caught hold of the, bottom of the girl's petticoat, which it grasped so firmly, that it was sately drawn out. Ann Brinkworth, charged with the wilful murder of her new-born female infant, and Mary Brinkworth, charged with aiding her in the murder, were last week committed to Gloucester jail for trial. SUDDIOI l)lATU.—Tuesday se'nnight, Mr. Bradley, of the firm of Bradley and Wilde, Manchester, while driving in his gig to his country residence at Pendleton, felt a pain in his chest, which, however, did not prevent him from proceeding homewau ds, accompanied by Mrs. Bradley. But when he reached Windsor Bridge, he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, and speedily became so unwell as to be incapable of directing his horse. He was then taken out of the gig, and carried into the Windsor Castle, and in about fifteen minutes he expired. About the village of Millbrcx)k, a considerable sect named Bryanites or Brianites, has lately sprung up, whose teachers and leading men claim ant only the power of casting out devils, but pretend to possess a still more dangerous power—the power of seeing into the future world, and ascertaining the lot of the inmates thereof. In the application of this power, they of course see all those who think as they think, in Paradise, while all those who do not belong to their persuasion, or who, after having been joined to them, leave their association, are seen amidst hell torments, by which means the simple are gained and the doubting alarmed, and bound to their creed. Some distressing instances of the effects of these anathemas have occurred. In the midst of their religious meetings they are caught in trances, when males and females are all huddled together and thrown into a dark cellar, where they remain till a spirit moves them. One of the fraternity having fallen dangerously ill, his wife, not one of them, sent for the Clergyman of the parish to visit him, and read the prayers for the sick by him. This the Clergyman, a very worthy man, went readily to perform; but, upon his arrival at the house, he was opposed from entrance by a man decent in appearance, judging from his dress, who assured him that he was too late ; that all was over, and the devil dislodged from the sick man. I saw him (the devil) myself, said the Briantte Pastor, come out of the man, pass through this window, fly over the house, and next over the adjoining heights, to his proper abode; and my brother, added he, is now watching at the bedside of the defunct, lest Satan return by stealth and enter him again. The Clergyman, notwithstanding every effort made to get ii.to the house, believing the man to be, a; he really was, still alive, was compelled to give up the attempt, and next day, before he returned, the poor man had actually expired. Fasscis