Star.
London, England, 1830-06-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

An active canvass is now going on, in at lealt tit„
counties of the north of Ireland. It is very probable tlrit
several of them will be the scenes of a severe struggle :it
the ensuing election ; but Down and Derry are at CI,
time marshalling themselves for a fierce and determined
contest.

KERRY ELECTION.—We are authorized to state that
the Honourable Mr. Browne will certainly offer himself
as a candidate for the representation of Kerry, at th..
next election. There will be, we understand, either three
or four candidates for the next election, under any cir-
cumstances.— Trake Mercury.
The woollen trade of Witney, which has been f„.
some years past progressively on the increase, has been
lately in a state of great activity. The demand for blan-
kets, &c. is unusually great. —G lasgotv Chronicle.
Monmouth wool fair was held on Wednesday. Fine
long combing wool brought 13s. per stone, which was an
advance of 2s. and, indeed, the whole averaged Is. lid
more than in 1829. There was a large quantity brough.
to market, and very little left unsold.—Bath Chronicle
The carpet manufactures are very brisk at present
The low price of wool has enabled the makers to brintt
them forward so cheap as greatly to increase consump
tion.--Glasgow Chronicle.
On Saturday last, at Wrotham, a man inhumanly bit
off a considerable part of his mother's nose, and attempted
to tear out her tongue. He was taken into custody, and
yesterday committed to the county prison.-111«idst(0,,
Journal.

The Bath court authorities are compelled to refuse ex-
ecutions against the person, the gaol being quite full ;
and we understand there are more insolvents confined
preparatory to their taking the benefit of the act than
were ever before known.—Bristol Mercury.
On Sunday last there were thirteen baptisms at our
parish church, and it was remarked as a singular circum-
stens° that twelve of the children were girls.—Blac4-
buns Gazette.

A young man named Branwood, a tinman, destroyed
himself at an earl• hour on Saturday morning by cutting
his throat with a razor, in a pig-stye, near the Seven
Houses. It is a remarkable fact that a brother and sis-
ter of this ill-fated individual have also, within a felt
years, ended their lives by suicide, the former by hang.
Mg, and the latter by drowning.— Wolverhampton aro-
nick.

" An ingenious mechanic in the neighbourhood of
Hull, has invented a small lamp, which may be attashed
spectacles of a particular description, by means of which,
and a reflector, any person may read in the darkest
night ; and the contrivance is such, that the only light
visible is on the part of the book that is read."—So says
a London paper. If there be such a mechanic in Hull
as the party alluded to, we fear he hides his light undet
a bushel, at least as far as regards his neighbours.—
Han Packet.

The coal works in Scotland are not so much subject to
destructive explosions of gas as those in Northumber-
land; yet they do not wholly escape the dangerous visi-
tation. On Thursday morning, as tho colliers at Drum-
kavel were preparing to begin to work, one of them
lighted a candle at a safety-lamp held by another. He
then stuck it in his cap, and was proceeding along the
mine, when the inflammable air exploded, and knocked
the whole of the men down upon the floor. The indivi-
dual, whose want of caution had caused the catastrophe.
was killed on the spot, another man shared the same
fate, and two others were dangerously wounded.—
Glasgow Chronicle.
On the 10th inst. a field of hay, computed at 250
stones an acre, belonging to Major Baird, of Park, was
cut down, and, although the weather has been rather un•
propitious for the process of hay-making, it is now in
pretty large ricks. With dry weather, the cutting of
that crop will be general in the course of eight days. In
the Canoes it will be somewhat unequal, some fields
averaging 200 stones, others not above half that quantity.
In the dry fields it is uniformly good ; upon the whole it
will be fully an average crop.—Glasgow Chronicle.
PRESBYTERY OF DUMBABION:ROW HFREST.—A
meeting of this Presbytery was held on Tuesday, when,
as it was understood that the case of the Rev. Mr. Camp-
bell, of Row, was to come under the consideration of the
Reverend Court, the audience was numerous, numbers
being present from both sides of the Gareloch. The Mo-
derator' Mr. Carr, of Lusa, was in the chair. After thi
from the parish of Row had been called on.
and they bad been asked if they wished to convert their
memorial into a libel, they replied in the affinuative ;
when a desultory discussion took place, and it was lat-
terly unanimously agreed that a presbyterial visitation of
the parish of Row should take place on Thursday, the Bth
of July, when the Minister of the parish should preach
on his usual subject, and that the Moderator be appointed
to preach there on the 27th instant, and intimate the
same from the pulpit.—Edinburgh Observer.
We understand that it has been determined at the meet-
ingof Directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
that it shall be opened on the 15th of September, along the
whole line. It is stated, on good authority, that the Duke
of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the FArl of llarrowbv, Mr.
Huskisson, and several other persons of distinguishea rank
and talent, intend to be present at the opening. It is pro-
bable that the opportunity presented by this visit will not
be allowed to pass without some expression of respect and
admiration towards the conqueror of Waterloo, the pacifi-
cator of Ireland, and the successful assertor of religious
liberty.—Liverpool Times.
On Saturday the unmereantile demand for gold rather
increased at our banks. The increase may have Fra-
ceeded solely from the circumstance of Saturday being
our principal market-day. The demand is universally
supposed to have tended to keep prices down. It seems
entirely confined to this neighbourhood, and to the infe-
rior class of farmers. We do not recollect to have ever
before witnessed a demand of the kind that had not
some connection with anxiety respecting the solvency of
the quarter from which gold was required. Upon this
occasion we do not perceive a trace of the slightest shade
of that sort of uneasiness. The more intelligent portion
of the community appear to look upon the policy of the
measure as distant and extremely doubtful, while they
consider its disadvantages to be certain and immediate,
particularly to the farmers themselves.— Waterferd
Mirror.
Some gentleman, a member of the Independent Cha-
pel of this town, wrote to Mr. Serjeant Wilde, pointing
out to him the state of the funds of the chapel ; to which
he promptly replied, with an inclosure of ten pima;
also, with a most just feeling, and without application,
inclosed the same amount to the Methodist Society, in
consequence of which the members and friends held a
meeting on Monday last in the Vestry, Balderton-mil
and most cordially and unanimously passed a vote of
thanks to Mr. Serjeant Wilde for his liberal donation.
Mr. Berjeant Wilde has remitted to the treasurer of the
Benevolent Society his annual donation of three guineas.
Mr. Serjeant Wilde, with one exception, we believe, has
been engaged in every calms in the Court of 'Common
Pleas during the Term; and we are happy to hear his
health is unmspaired.-.Newark