Star. — London, England, 1828-06-26 00:00:00

WINDSOR, JUNI 25. -.-...NA,..' Yesterday, at half past two oclock, the KING. ac c-onwanied by the LORD STRWARD, lelt the Royal Log • in his pony phaeton. attended by the Forester, and the usual retinue of ont•riders, and drove through t he New Plantations. His MAJESTY, it is said, welt leave the It yal Lodge on Friday for St. Jame:, Pa. i, c e, where he will give a grand state dinner on Salm day, but will not give any mote balls this season. His MAJESTY. r is said. will return t i tae Royal L edge uu Tuesday of Wednesday next. THE CASTLE. The int , riot of the quadrangle formed by the new buildings is al present lull of iubhish and materials. but all will he de fired away in a few days. The slate apartmeas which look into the quadrangle on one side are completely furnished, and Vie fursiit lie is of the most splendid description. There is mt, perhaps, io the world a suit of moms so magnificently chcorattif as they prese L The paper hangings ate covered with void, and the silk hangings aie wrought in pannels made on purpose. The flowers and hot rs consist of a species t f embroidery never t)eio•e s en in this ci u - try; d ffeient individu.ls %vete employed in inani.f ,c. luring them, so that no one cou!d see the tout ensemble In his Majesty's beditioni there is a bath--in the cringe stands the bed, whose destination is a rccess opposite the fire-place. On the felt of the bed is a huge Gothic window, and the bath is on the right. There are th-ee doors in the room,one of which communicates with the dres•lug Tonal. Another door opens to a private stair rase leading to the 'fen ace, and from throe , ' to a pri vate garden of about an acre in txtet.i. .' raised 'et race surrounds this garden, an•l separate; it hour V‘e lea:k. A fountain (A wa:t:t vim kis to L!ecoi. t the oarden. The ceilings rf all the state apartments are highly ornamented with gold. The windows are of sati.sib plate glass, most of them five or sit feet high, and shout three wide. There are four huge panes to each window, made to lilt up, each pane being framed of itself, slipping in a groove and lifting up separately, so as to form a distinct window. 0.. e room on the private staircase has a glass dome or lant4n, with oinannented stonework of the fine•t texture, resembling fillagiee. There are 300 room., requiting more than 400 set v ants in constaht attendance. The yard of the quadrangle is Banked by two galleries in two uf its sides. • Some of the doors and double doors have five hinges of exquisite workmanship. Prate glasses are fixed in every door throughout the building, except vie bed looms. The flouting is done in oak, in imitation of zrrtiaic. The Royal kitchen is !ivy large, a fire-place at each cod, and arches for chimneys. THE ARMY. This day Lord Hum, as Commander of the Ferrel, held a Levee in his Office is the Horse Guards. The following General and giber Olken paid their respects to his Lordship : General Wharton, Lieutenant General Hon. Thomas Fermor, Near Admiral Page, Major Generals Dana, Watson, Weelff, fir W. Rat Grand, Lord Bollingon, Sir it. Mawbray, Lord Blastyre. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Naos 4111 MID Tons DAY.—Dublin I—Waterford I—Guernsey and Jersey i—Flandrrs I—France 1. 10 ZONN IOIMtCtT, 1341. SECARTARY, LLOYD'S. Russian Consulate-General. 21th June. Set-1 have the pleasure of informing you, that I have received from my Government an official notification, intimating that the Beacom with red lags placed in the Gulf of Finland. along the npnbern . ►ide of the channel from Cronstadt to lioclifand, will be replaced this stammer by landmarks hard on the top of a pule. I beg you wi.l communicate this information to the British Merchants and Captain. trading in those seas. • (Signed) G. BENKHADSEN. ltossian Conn!late- General. The Santeremr, of 28 guns, Captain Me.lie, is fitting at Wool wich for the Mediterranean station. The Royal Sovereign yacht, at Deptford, is fitting for the On. veyance of the Loan Ilion •Aosines to Plymouth, to whfcli port" his Reveal Highness will proceed in the ensuing week. In cense quence of the indisposition of Sir Wisuast Hosts. the Honourable Captain Sreenan, Private Secretary to the Loan Hum Moslem., will command the Royal Sovereign.' 'Dam., Jute 25.—Wind S.W e --Arrived the Camden, TATI. *DUI Trinidad ; John Sham!, Isere, front Jamaica ; C•dumbia, .Dimaisn, from New York; George, Minna', from the West in• dies; tinnier, Pssnu., front Genoa ; Salthotike, from Havannah and Wallace, W x., from Jamaica. Arrived from London the Bohon.Csaaxeme, for Bombay • and Veal. HOLLAND, for Naples. Poseamouetr, Jose 25.—Pa ssed the Vibelia, &revamp)+, from 140 days. Sailed the Upton Casale, TILICSIII, for Bombay ; and Integrity, Knot, for St. Lucia. PLTNIORITN, Juan 24.—Wind S. W,—Arrived the Salamanca, ft om Sicily, with loss of bulwarks. • timentes, Joan 25.Arrivid off port the Marabou, Dues, front she River Gambia. ' • • • ilianiar e , June 2.s.—Arrived the John, Mueilb, &Om Gibraltar; mid Francis, Sum, from Sicily. Hos.vngeie, Juts 24.—Arrived the Eclipse, kimrson, from Ja make ;' Sippbfre, Wooneaaav, and Unity. Jelinsox. from New Odom; Aug, Barnum. from Savannah; Liverpool, Ilowls, treat Roston; and Levant Star, from Leghors. .1•0 1 211 , 00 1 , JUNII 24.—Arrived the William Thompson, MAR limp., (spat Mien Yolk ; George Canning, from Stettin; Idris, larva", ban Monte Video; Mariner, SUITSON, from Palermo; and Matikle. COMM, from Gallipoli: Oanience, Jose VS.—Arrived the Calypso, 11PICm.xas, and Robert. Kneaarsox, from Trinidad; Venus, Minor, ftom Barba dem ; Widiang, Laassoua. from Charleston; Hiram, Balms, and Wheaton, Mecums, front Marseilles; and Newlan4, Wisuams, from Oporto. Becraer. June 23.—Arrived the *van. 31rioss, from Trtridiao. We ham mentioned the loss of the county ships Byraingore and .tsia ; the former on a than unknown reef off the Laccadive Islands. The following deseription of that reef we have copied honk a Letter to the Fatitur of the Binisimy Gturtie of January 10i " Stop—We visited the wreck of the late ship Shah Beraingsere. svbereveittly to the Honourable Compsnyi endive Amber.t. and , we are of opinion, that the information we can afford relative to Cue coral reef upon which that Vessel wreck may be useful t. mu. • Ilea( men and the public st large ; since At att.sunt publielsed by . the Amherst in the (leaeue of last Saturday , . does not derail any essential particulars as to the extent or situating': of that danger... The wreck of the Byranigore lies on the southern side of an extra . tile (oral reef, which by tneri.lian observatiuns and by chroon. meter (who:e rate was previously determined on quitting Goa) we found to be in Lit. 11 deg. 50 min. N. and hing. 72 deg. 00 R. The reef extends in a N.N. W. and S. S. Risterly direction (as far as we count discern) about &is or seven miles. At high water, the extent of the reet um:covered may be about a mile, and it rises very little j above the surface. On quitting the reef on the 25th of December, we stood to the Nortilwatd tor the purpose of ascertaining the existence of the • f:iterisaniant Paoli, described in Hortburgh's Directory, which we suds at 10 a.m. the following moinks. It consists of coral rocks, elevated in acme parts perhaps 20 or 30 feet. Asa apparently extending between five and six miles. . The de.criptiou given by Ilorsburgo may be assumed as nearly ew•rect. " Our reckoning, and which we think may be relied on, places the Southern extreme in lat. 12 deg. 22 min. N. knd by sigh a tak en when the highest part bore North, in lung. 72 deg 14 It A deficiency of water on board straitened us is time. and prevented u. from more closely t xami 111 l ig it. Front this discovery. we inter that the passage between the Clierli.iithor Dank and the Ilytmigere reef, is batwee,., six and *eve': i...goes brim!, arid may be aopted, in our opinion, with 'vac or in n.:.. are, Sir, your i•bedient Servants. s' Joins HOSZN6.—Was. LtaGARD. " riorr.b:iy,j4n• 14, 1E28." TrI,YOHD. CI" engt"r , on his recent lour 01 P , sprcOnli ot the I figldand roads and bridges, examined the cour.. new line of ruad irom Inverness to l'erth, a, tar roniain, and seemed to approve rit it by directing a survey v. Lr eif“ , k. The alteration ut this 'notion of the Gtear " .11 'lave eLeven mile* in a distance of at present forty-live. Artsr liul'havir lb; blJVity of the fliglilatitis, 3.fr. TsLrono pro reed. d rnl Thuradiy taw to Aberdeen, to invtet the harfimir rear bil4l6r now erecting trus the rifts' Poo. Ate MX/ COsint.r. EVSMON-ABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. • The Make and Dactsrss of Leinster and family, for Ireland; the Earl and Couoite.s 1)e La Warr, for their seat in Cambrldgeallitet the ti.,rl and Counters of Cavan, tram Bryaristone.square. for their seat in linram.hire; Samuel I rado,,Esq. and Wilily, for Malvern lls ; _ Rai and Countess of Warwick, Lord Monson. and Lord Brooke, far a tour on the Continent ; J. Round, Esq. for lirt hum ; Lord and Lady klarylmrom t h, at their house in tid• ville .treat, limn their seat, Fern Hi'l, perks; G. B. &run, E i q. and tautly, at the Royal Hotel, Sr. Jarnes's.strret, from their seat in Derbyshire ; Colonel and Mrs. Parker, at Cooke's Hotel, Al. hentarle-btr. et; from their seat in Cheshire; Lord Blantyre, at Thomas's Hotel. Berkeley-square, from his seat in Scotland; Cap tain and Mrs. Hughes, in Brook-street. tram the Continent; Earl of Ennis!;illen, from Miller's Hotel, Jernayn.street, for his seat in Leland ; Gen, ral and Airs. Archdall and family, from Gould's Huteli Jermymatreet, fur their sear to Ireland. BAZkAIt. BAKER-STREIiT, YOU f NIAN-SQUARE. This establishment for the sale of horses and carriages, including a repot ►ry or miscellaneous and fancy ar. 'ides, is rendered more than usually attractive, by a pretty collection of views now exhibiting there. The Panorama of Navarin has been very successful, and, though on a small scale, it deserves commendation for the Accurate manner in which the ship•, with their guns 4nd rigging, are delineated, and the spirited sketch it gives 01 A naval action. There is a series of Dioramas also, so numerous as to satisfy the most anxi• u• wishes for variety ; they comprise the interior of St. Peter's, and London from Greenwich Park ; a View of Itoine overlooking the City, commanding the Appennines and including the niaje,tic Coliseum ; of Naples from ►Mount Pais ilirpo; and of lair Florence, with the Arno ghci n 4 arnang er Churches and Palaces. T..e Italian sky au! scenery in these pictures are weil executed.) Vesuvius in an eruption is a glaring affair, and has perh ips warmed some of the juvenile visitors. We pre. ourseives, the two mo•nrlight views of Melrose Ablscy, and Rott relam. The former is an excellent dace, t on, and the light well thrown ; and the later will be pronounced a gaol sketch by any traveller who has happened to land from t►e steam boat at moonlight. On the whole, the public sa ill be gratified by an inspec• tion of this Baz aar, DUBLIN. JuNg 21. We stated in our last that the county of Clare would be contested with Mr. V Fitzgerald, and we mentioned that Majoi Macnain rra w otri be the candidate put for ward. ThisGent.enian h lying det lined,liossever,ive have now to state upon author ity,th.et the county will be con tested notwitosianding, and that Mr. O'Connell will offer himself to the Con t tuency of Clare. as a candi. &I s e for the represetit you. Ttu.. tinquesti , nably, will 'be a most extiaordinary scene. Mr. 0 Connell has all the qualifications necessat y—and there is no law which prevents him offering himself to the county—there heti law whet► prevents his election. Iu short, it he should have the majority of vo . es. tle She' iff must pat him in the return. Again, there i. on law which will compel Mr. O'Connell to take his seat. ' , there be not a call of the - House, he may hold the rept esentation during the present Parliament, without entering the House of. Commons, or wait the passing of an Emancipation Bill. In case of a petition against him, in the event of his return, it cannot possibly be tried until February next, and Mr. O'Connell, in the mean time, will be Gazetted, and exercise' all the privileges of a Member of Parlia ment, by franking letters, by communicating with Mi nisters. &c. But we imagii.e. in the event of his return, he pure orts going f whet than this. He will present himse r to the House t f Commons, with a view• of tak ing his seal—and by this means open the question of Catholic Emancipation on an entirely new giound. It is impossible adequately to describe the sensation that this announcement caused in Dublin yesterday. We suppose that the :Astonishment it will ctea e in London will be equal. The eyes of the Empire will, therefore, be very spe dily turned to the county of Ciare.—Lublin Advertiser. The Doke of Witt. Li NUTtiti, e are happy to state, has experienced no bad effects trim his late accident. Tuesday se'nnight tie large lion crane, lately erected at the'Broomiolaw, Glasgow, for lilting heavy loads, broke through. the middle when raising a boiler from a steam boat. Luckily rte person was injured by it. This was cunsidered a machine of mime strength; and fit. to bear almost any load. Frid iy and S.turday, the days following Trinity Moir cattle market, 496 head of cattle, and 108 horses, were ferried across the Tay. The MASTER. of the ROLLS entertained a large patty to dinner yesterday, at his residence in Chancery-lane. 'I he Countess of ANTRIM. entertained a distinguished part to dinner yesterday at her house in Cavendish-square. Tile Gairerrior ♦Ol Trinidad, Sir RALPH WOODFORD, died on the 17th of May, on his passage (rim; Jamaica io Fal , mouth. • Lieut.-Colonel Sir CRAMS F. Sum*, of the Itoyat'En &lacers, had been appointed Governor of Trinidad, ad interim. Rant:crtou OF kaar.—Friday se'nnight the tenants at Col. BITHONS, of Balfour, wto possess the acted land around Kennoway, having met at Windygates Inn to pay their rents, were agreeably surprised to learn that ti-air generous landlord had or dared his factor to give them 191 per cent. of a reduction on their Ise year's rent, which was further enhanced by the comfort of a pod dinner. Tile Marquis of STAFFORD has instructed his factor. SFr. GUMNi of the Sutherland estates, to pay to the Treasurer of the Northern infirmary 1401. bring a subscription of £Ol. per an num for the last seven years. His Lordship has given further directions that the same I•urn, 201. shall be annually paid by his factor to the funds of that highly useful Institution. Abenezer Anderson, tot merty cashier of the Fife Bank, Cupar, and who was outlawed at the last Circuit Court of Jus titi .ry at Perth, is now residing in the United States of America. We-learn that he sailed from Dundee roadstead, for New York, en the 31st March last.—Daudet Adoerther. John Stewart, grazier, Uenlieati, lias been apprehended Rd lodged in Cupar gaol, accused of issuing forged notes. ALA proof in the increase of trade in Dundee, it may be mentioned, that in 181 C-11 the custom duties anu'unted to 50141. only, while in 1825-26 they antounted to 64,5641. At the Omer period the excise duties amounted to 10,0001. now they may be stated at 18,0001. annually. There is a tradition of Quin, one night nn his way 10 dies, for Othello, looking t.tiough the curtail., and seeing a very thin pit, exclaiming," Hang'em, they are not worth Islckening one lace for ; I think I shall play it white." Tit- Princes. Charlotte was struck by lightning in the East India Dock during the •torm of Sunday ; her mainmast was completely shatteeed. Ye,terday evening, bet .‘ een seven a'•.d eig' t o'clock, as one of the Bristoon stage-enaches was cri sung from West-areet to Moot-szteet. Soho, it came in contact with a hackney•eciacn ; the violence Id the concussion Vireo/ the coachman from off the box, and stn: of the teare whet is passed over his area.', which was es ushed in Ea most dreadful manner. was instantly taken up l an d conveyed to a surgeon iii Moor -street, who pin nonticed the skull to he dreadfully fractured, and the jaw also Woken: a ter having bandaged up the heal, which presented a most appaling appearance. b e was nve)ed to the Middlesex Hospital, withigit any hopes recrivei y. • The Chancellor Aouesstati, finding • that his wife a ways kept 1 waiting a quartet of an hour after the ur her beet had rang, resolved ti dew: t• this time to wilting a wink on jurisprudence. Ile pe a t this project in execution, and in The course of time roduced a .1u rev work to lour voluoua. LITERAtURE. Miss MITIORD, already well known as the at+thou.• of several publications which have beet► favourably re ceived, has lately published a third v. it me of her ligbi and amusing sketches, called Our I ithrze. It is a pleasing series of little tale, illuttrarive ► f village ha bits and manners, told in an easy style, and with man) happy touches of humour, and not a little quaintors- Most certainly it will be a favourite in massy a social circle, it it is not already. which can neither fathom ihr de l Os of _the graver publications of the day, nor art retitled enough to relish the prurient and licentio► . stuff with which v.() many of our modern novel, abound. Many of the stogies in the present volume me highly interesting, and show that the fair ,ar►tter has been an accurate observer of the habits of li.e and pe culiarities ofvharacter which are to be found, even still notwith►tanding the match of intellect and gradual wear of prejudice (using the word in its honest sense), in the precincts of an English village. ROME. Horace Walpole nays of Rome and its environs, " our memory sees More than our eyes ;" and Gray adds (vide his "..Letters" " this is eattemely true; since, for realiiies,Windsor or Ilichninti. Hill is infinitely prefeiable to Albano or Freskati." Can thi be trot? ORIGIN OF THE TERM pOUN • DREAD. The fanatics in the reign of Charles I. ignorantly applying tit. text of Scripture, " Ye know that it is a shame for men to bay long hair,a cut theirs very phort. It issali that the Queen o ne' I seeing Pym thus cropped inquired who th.t round headed mast tuts! and that-front this incident. the di.tinction became general, am the party were called " Roundheads." • TIU ATAI.A4ITdS. Tkoicambur..or, rather auchore4 7 , o this licentious work, was a Mrs. Manley, daughter of Sir Roger Alanley. The printer was apprehended. on its publication ; whim she came forward and acknowledged herself. After several exantioations beim.: the Privy Comicil, she was left unmolested; those in power probably tun wishing to bring a woman to trial for what were then considered only " a few amorous trifles." • COOPER'S HILL. Swift always maintained that Denham was not the real authot of this poem ; but Never mentioned the name of any person to whom he attributed it. CHARLES HENRY WILSON, ESQ. This Gentleman died June 1, 1808, aged liftrthree. He was of the Middle Temple ; was several years Editor of the Gazetteer. and wrote occasionally in almost all the periodical publications of his time. lie was the author of the Wandering Islarukr, Po/pant/tea, Brookeossa, Bandies of Burke, and many other original productions, 1 compilations; and translations, to none of which *oold he ever suffer his name to be prefixed. He was a' man of great humour I and wit, a native of the North of Ireland, and migrated to • London about twenty years before his death. ADMIRAL BYNG. In the vault belonging to the Torrington family, in the Church of Southill, in Bedfordshire, is the following epitaph upott the monument of Admiral Byngt To the Perpetual Disgrace Of Public Justice, The Honourable JOHN Unto, Admiral of the Blue, Fell a Martyr to Political Persecution, March 14, in the year 1757, • When Bravery and Loyalty • Were insufficient securities For the Life and Honour of A Naval Officer. A LLI fERATION. Their is somewhere hoe in which a poetaster, mentioning the violet, says " Where blue it blooms with balmy breath." He thought he had h.mmered nut au immensely sne vase, though in fact it is to the ear nu whit more agreeable than— s Three blue beans in one blue bladder. • POETRY AN I) PROSE. Dr. Darwin draws the following . just distinctioo between poetry and pewit, in foie of Bit Inlet-tatles of the Suable Garden : • " Next to the measure of the language, the principal distinction between poetry and prose appears to consist in this—that poetry admits of but few words expressive of. very abstracted ideas, wbeteas prose abounds with them. And, as our ideas derived from visible objects are more distinct thin those derived front the objects of our other leases ; the words expressive of these ideas 'belonging to vision, make up the principal part of poetical lan grge. Pope has written a bad verse in the Windsor Forest : And Kesinet swift, for silver eels ainitivasen.' " the word renowned doe's not present the idea of a visible ob ject to the tnthd, and is thence prosaic. But change this line thee— • And Kennet swift, where Aver graylings play*— " It becomes poetry, because the scenery is then brought before the eye." • • How elaborately Dr. Darwin Aimed his own poetry upon this principle is known to every reader of the Botanic Garden and the Temple qf Natuni. Nothing Is there abstracted—but every thing is placed before the eye it. the full luxuriance of particular imagery. Yet It sometimes betrayed him into ludicrous personification. nen, LS surely somethmg asinine, fur example, hi the following description— ' 46 Then, on soft' tiptoe, Wiens - approaching near Hung o'er the timeless lyre hit sable ear : Gemm'd with bright stars the still ethereal plain, And bade his nightingales repeat the strain!" These lints close the Botanic Garden: but what a violent image is that of night! Who would not suppose it was a donkey bangiug his luirg cars over the "tuneless lyre?" • ' When this great man was endeavouring to retrieve the war in Aide. against Casar, and to unite with the other Chiefs of the I Republic, it was necessary to pass the burning deserts of Barca. 'lists hail been before deemed impracticable. The sage Roman began the'march on foot, at • the bead of his trtops, clothed with his tumour, in the same-manner as the lowest soldier, and carrying the pile in his hands. The army, animated by his example, passed those arid plains in thirty days. kt was during this march that, in a dreadful scarcity of water, a soldier pressed forward to bring to Cato its his helmet the little stater 'which accident led 'hint to dis eoter : when this - brave and wise General, turning up the helmet, thus found mean-, with this small supply of muddy water, to allay the thirst of his whole army : Buena galeam; midis et sufficit ends. Ile threw out the water--which thus proved sufficiens to satisfy them all' • Emery action of a great man must of course proceed front _ motives—ot else, one might so pp we that. half a pint of muddy water at ihe bottom of a sweaty Min et, was no very tempting draught. In 1817 a Poem. consisting of twenty eight pages, was published in quarto, entitled " Waterloo—a Ballad." The writer was serious in his lyrics. and believed be was immortalizing the Marquis of Angleaey ie the following stanza: • When valour's cup was in its dregs. The battle nearly spent, A ball Sew—oneePagers legs, But nor its owner, went. A sad mishap, seiihost a doubt, Butstothing more to do, A :MARQUIS now he stumps G&W, A Chief of Waterloo! When Wriothsley, Duke of Bedford. was at Bath one season, a conspiracy was fronted against his Grace, by several first rate black legs, among whom was the then manager of a Theatre, and .Heat Nash, the Master of the Ceremonies. A patty at hazard had ;greatly deprived the Duke of upwards of seventy thousand pound's, when his Grace gut up in a passion and put the dice in his pocket. 'fhe gamesters were all terilfied, as they knew they were loaded. and as he communicated his suspicions, intimating his resolution of inspecting them. His Grace then retired into another room, and, flinging himself upon a sofa, tell asleep The only step that appeared practicable to the winners, to Avoid disgrace, and get their money, was to pick his pocket of the loaded dice and to supply their place with a pair of fair ones. They ac cordingly cast luta who slioUld execute this dangerous service, and it fell upon the manager. He' performed the operation without being discovered; atter which his Grace, batting closely inspected the slice pat into ,his pocket by the manager, and • finding them just, rejultst•d the party, and lost nearly thirty thousand more. The gam es ters had only received 5,13001. of the motley, - yet tiny could not divide this sum without q thug 1 and Nast, thinking binned ill-used, divaigesi the whole wore to his Groee, whereby be saved the ietwiiituer of his money. e"..r.ic made Nash a h :mistime prescso, And ever after gave hint his protecttoo, the 'Duke thinking the strict was 'revealed through l .• Thefollawittg .. Ie CANAL • • s th s e h o ip utlines of the Report submit ed n the Speci Nieetina of the S'iarelfol.fes sin the English ati•tol Chan " ; Canal on the 23.1 Instant. :): T e.nr h v e ami se t:t v iro e t r i e sei s mp hot a.:t k i ntgei everypo utlii:eace,orlitcrekti:dianesinuicentw(htaeliccshoworwccpcieriried.nte :liaracter, are well known. The result. as affecting ilie thin Caoal. is ni•infestiv this, th•rt so largo a capital as, 1,750,0001. cannot NeOSO be raised for Ike. work. Unoer this tate of things, the atte• iron ot the Minds the undertaking has been applied to the practicabibir it reducing the scale, sod to the pecuniary advantages . , o arise Irom such 1r i b:colon; not losing sight, however, .1 the leading le4tute if a transit for skips trt.m s ea , tu ea, altl.migh or a smaller size. The average tonnage of vessels in the several Ports it liteat B,ita,n does 1.4 t exceed 90 t ins; and excluding those engaged in Foreign falls .h.low 60 tons ; 41,d although the line selected by Mr. T. Hord and Mr. Greets may he the best for a Canal of the size originally cantemplaie.l, yet tor a reduced stale it will be cape I ent.to adopt a li'.e gie. ter advantages as. an 1.14nd conimunicat on, and with tenet engineering The size if the Canal now proposed, is to accommo. late vessels undet SO tons iis direst on to be frOm Beer, in tie, same line with that laid down by Mr. Tel ord, and Mr. Gr e , to a little not if Chard ; wlre , e it diverges to-the eastwate, and jons the river Partett, i t r near Langport.. By impioving the navivation ot that river fom Langport to e wirer, it will serve ...• cowrie. e the corn.. urns t• n f •ea to Sea. By his plan the . expeie e.. f a ti .room at the rim then a trennity nil, tie ait.,ideit.. The hat hour at B.er may be constructed for the purposes of the reduced scale at 4 far less expense. The purchase of the Bridgewater and Taunton Boat Canal, which was 'leers ary to effect the object, of the niginal plan, will be saved. 'lire actual dis.ance 4.1 canal to he. cut will be lessened by nearly one third ; and the increased length of the whole communication, from sea to sea,.will te only about five miles. The es pense 1.1 forming a canal on this scale from Beer to the river Partett, , of the improvements necessary to :ender that river navigable, and ot the fat matinn •of tie harbour. at, Beer, has been calculated at about 600 0001.Tbe r. t ins on thiscapitvlitnunded principally on those substattiated by Captain Nicholls, in his exa mination before the parliamentary Committees, has been estimated at 78,5001. It may be added, that the'present line is not a new project. So long since as the year 1762, a line for a boat canal, nearly similar, was laid down by Mr. Whitworth. Mr. Rennie's plan t in 1811, varied very slightly from it, except that it. did tint em brace the adoption ot the river Parrett as a part.ot the communication. 'A CONCIiEI4 ATION. PROM THR SENCIAL CHItuNICLg, FES. 5, 1828: CALCI A Elindocr woman, the widow of a Siren, wits burned -at two o'clock on Friday, on the batila of the Gauge!, at Cossyposet a- sight of more revoking na ture was never beheld, nor one more disgraceful to the society • amongst which it exists. or those Isis which permit such practices in a country under is British Government. At eleven o'clock the young in man arrived, attended,by a number of persons. and 11004 after a funeral pile, composed of the most combustible fuel, was erected: she beheld there preparations with the most unmoved apathy, and when the police ofri:rr proceeded to take her •deposituns, she declared that it w as with her own will and omen', and not by compul sion, that she was about to offer herself for that,* pi . i.e. of her husband, and for the purpose of . saving' bins and herself innumerable *years of misery hereaftet While she spoke, she appeared to beriu a state.ut sue• briatinn, without the least con•cionsneas of the drfadful fate that awaited her, and onlrttr utter such 41pre . sions as she *had previously been instructed to m.ke use of. or are- generally given as answers on such occasions ; after the ,usual ceremony of luthin:i.' had been gone through, the unfortunate victim was tined to the pile, on which the remiins it het hu'stssin'd had been previously laid, but as she was lltiithl." from weakness and intoxication to go through the;i4Oal ceremonies, she was borne seven tistes round it,' sc... tering rice as she went. which was eagerly devoured by the surrounding multitude; this over, . she was laid down by. the putrid and emaciated form of .her de ceased husband, which she was obliged or embitter ; in an instal t a cord 'and two bamboos fixed . to po., as levers were drawn over her ; in this helpless state reeds, pieces of wood, and (Islet fuel weresplxced over•heri• so-as to render any effort she might Make to extrickte herself hopeless. In this helpless and . 'dis tressing situation, fire was set to the pile, and ;in an instant all was in a blaze: though the scene was-one of the most horrid nature, yet the surrounding multitude beheld it without the least pity or compassionate sym pathy for the sufferings of unhappy fellow creature; sit far from a feeling of that native exiting in their bosoms, the younger 'seemed ti think it quire a hols day entertainment, and to behold it ia ith the same !,• froid as an Englishman woiild at a horse race or bud t. while the elderfait 0. the community gazed upon it with cold-bloody...asiathr ant indiffe mice. Dins a young and int sresting female, of about 16 years of age, was (almost) convened to moont the funeral pile, and there, mipitied, offer he, self a sacrifice to the disgrace ' ful rites of a debasing and itiolistious religion. great Scarcely 'a 'day passes . tidal complait t, are made ;.t the different Police Officrsiof fellows, genet aly di - guised in such a manner as tet•;pi event recognition, hav - ing cut in the evening the dresses of Umale, who are un protected. On Tuesday evening, as a Lady named Tally, who resides in Hammersmith, was passing through Manchester-squat e, she felt a sudden pull at her peb,,e, and, on turning round, perceived it completely torn, and a.ruffian running away. She immediately raised as alarm, but the fellow escaped. Sunday afternoon, dui ing the severe thunder storm, aht , rse, the property of the West Indra.oDotliers ckCoat pa y, while hi a field near Porlar, with fie struck with lightning, and killed on the Tot. ALa y who witnessed the occurrence from her window, s'e scribes that she saw a small ball of tile first strike the animal in the neck, which caused him to lean back on his haunches. In this position he remained in the greatest apparent agony for about a minute, when, just receding a. violent clap of thunder, he was struck/ a s•cond time, on the head, with the lightning, which killed him without a struggle. Ni t the slightest al - pearancenf'injury was visible, with the exceptiol of a few drops of blood in the nosttils. Tv o other horse', belonging to differes t pe-aims, were killed on the saute attersonn, and by the same cause, while grazing in the marshes at West Ham. _ ", • Monday as wok- sintkmetv were employed cutting a sewer across the road fronting Onslow 'retrace, Ken . .ington, tbey - dibcvvered..a coffin, abiii.t it or feet from tho.rurraer, which contained the skeleton of a man in a wet state of rebus aim I tr . , b A 10° 01 n tnd ied bit