Star.
London, England, 1831-07-15 00:00:00

STEAM BOAT DISASTER.

Front the several details furnished by the New York pa-
pers, of the late explosion of the steam boat, Gen. Jackson,
we gather that nine persons of a cer ainty, while names
have been ascertained, have already died of the wounds and
burns received by the explosion; and it is believed that two
others, at least, went down in the cabin of the boat, but
whose names cannot be discovered, in consequence of the
loss of the books and papers. In addition to this, four of
the survivors remain iu such a dangerous state that their
recovery is doubtful. Thus it is known, that there has been
a sacrifice of eleven human lives, at the least, on this sin-
gle occasion ; and it is still doubted whether this may com-
plete the melancholy catalogue, and that more are not to be
enumerated in the event of the passenger-roll being found.
The New York Journals are loud and deep in their corn-
plaints that all was not right in the management—that hu-
man life has been sported with; and the' Albany Evening
Journal' adds, that this deplorable accident was said to be
the result of culpable neglect. That an incompetent boy
had charge of the engine, and neglected to blow off the
steam, or supply the boiler with water. When shall there
be an end to this ? In connexion with this subject, the N.Y.
Gazette has the following paragraph :

A correspondent suggests, what he thinks a
simple, cheap and effectual remedy against accu-
mulation of steam during the delay of boats at the
landings. Let the movement, he says, which
stops the boat, be connected permanently, by a
chain or otherwise, with the safety valve, so that
the stoppage of the boat necessarily opens the
safety valve, and all will be safe. It is true, he
adds, this will prove (when the delay is consider-
able) a great loss of steam ; but what comparison
is there, between the loss of steam and loss of
lives?
The Garder fror

in of Fromont, six leagues )m Paris,
according to Silliman's Journal, contains 130 acres,
and more than six thousand species and varieties of
vegetables, many of them still new in France. Some
of the green-houses are 2,000 feet in length, with
glazed roofs, possessing all varieties of exposure.
Many of the noble forest trees of the United States
have furnished contributions to the nursery of this
garden.—American Paper.
In England and Ireland the people are starving
for want of employment, or sustaining themselves
by lawless depredations ; whilst in our country the
labouring classes find enough to do, and good
wages. In New York, the journeymen masons
have demanded an increase of their pay to Bd. 63c.
per day. The journeymen carpenters have also
struck for higher wages, they demand Bd. 50c. per
day.— Nantucket Eng.
In the Pampas of South America, the country is
in some parts, for leagues around, covered with
thistles, which are of the prodigious height of
eight, and even ten feet ; cattle which go in among
them to seek a shade from the sun, and to feed
upon the grass beneath, are completely concealed.
These thistles form almost the only fuel for the few
inhabitants who are scattered over this vast wilder-
ness : not a tree is to be seen, except a few peach
trees, which have been planted in the immediate
neighbourhood of the huts.

MEDICAL OPINIONS OF TII E CHIN ESE.
Vital heat, and radical moisture, the seat of which
last they place in the heart, the lungs, the liver,
and the reins, constitute in the opinion of the phy-
sicians of the Celestial Empire, the two natural
principles of life, of which the blood and spirits are
only the vehicles, They place vital heat, on the
contrary, in the intestines, which they suppose to
he six in number. They believe also, according to
Du Halde, that the body, with its nerves, muscles,
veins, and arteries, resembles a stringed instru-
ment, whose various parts emit various sounds, or
rather have a temperament proper for each, and
suited to their figure, situation, and particular
uses ; in the same manner as a string emits a
different sound according to the place where it is
touched, or the strength or gentleness employed,
discovering whether it be too much stretched, or
too much relaxed. In short the basis of their
practice rests upon the hypothesis of a general
consent or sympathy subsisting between all the
pits of the body.—From Dr. Hamilton's His-
tory of Medicine.
:11r. Roscoe's funeral took place at Liverpool
on 'Tuesday, and was marked by all the imposing
solemnity which departed excellence can command,
and honoured by the attendance of the many friends
whom respect for his worth or admiration of his
conciliating disposition had drawn around him in
life. Alittle before 11 o'clock the procession set
out from the house of the deceased. It consisted
of one carriage, in which were the Minister and
the medical attendants, and nine other private,
carriages, containing. gentlemen with silk scarfs.
and hatbands, preceding the hearse, and then came
two mourning coaches with Mr. Roscoe's family, as
mourners, followed by a gentleman's carriage, with
closed blinds. The procession then moved onwards
in the ratite of Lodge-lane, Saiithdown-lane,
Botanic-garden, Oxford-street, Mount-pleasant,
and Renshaw-street, to the north gate of the
chapel. At the Botanic-garden it was joined by,
Dr. Rutter and Dr. Briggs, in their respective'
carriages, which took the lead, and were succeeded
by the Rev. Jonathan Brooks, Chas. Turner, Esq.
and nearly 100 gentlemen on loot, two abreast.
The Rev. J. B. Monk, the Rev. W. Blundell, and
the Rev. A. Dawson, were present, and also the
Committee of the Royal Institution, the members
of the Philosophical Society, and those of the
Athenaeum. The Rev. NV. Shepherd officiated
upon the occasion, and performed the sorrowful
en•ice in an affecting manner.

THE LATE BISHOP OF DERRY AND THE
IRISII BISHOPRICKS.—The bishoprick of Deny,
which has become vacant by the death of the Hon.
and Right Rev. W. Knox, D.D. in the 71st year of
his age, is one of the richest dioceses amongst the
Irish ecclesiastical endowments. His lordship,
who was brother to Viscount Northland, was flan-
' slated to the see of Derry in 1803, having been
advanced to the Irish episcopal bench in 1794.
The Knox family possess considerable borough pa-
tronage in Ireland, and it was owing to his lordship
being a scion of this influential house, that his
elevation to the rich diocese of Derry may be
ascribed. According to the parliamentary returns,
the yearly income of the Bishop of Derry is
10,0001. late currency. The Bishop of Ferns,
however, in the course of his celebrated corres-
pondence with the Earl of Mountcashel, allows the
see of Derry, which is here rated at 10,0001. a
year, to be worth little less than 15,0001. Al-
though the population of Ireland is the poorest, her
church is the wealthiest in Europe ; the revenues of
the Irish bench, from lands alone, exclusive of every
other source of emolument, being estimated at up-
wards of 130,0001. The average income, therefore
of each Irish Bishop may be stated at 6,0001. per an-
num. It would appear, limn the teport containing an
account of the Irish ecclesiastical promotions made
since 1812, that in the appointments to benefices
in the See of Derry, the deceased Prelate made the
aggrandisement of his family his chief solicitude.
His Lordship's second son, the Rev. William Knox,
appears five times. Altogether the name of Knox
appears ten times, and it seems that since 1812 the
beneficed clergymen of this family have got 5,2311.
per annum, and 3,555 acres of land. The late
Bishop, by his lady, a daughter of the late James
Spencer, Esq. has left a family of four sons and
eight daughters, viz.—The Rev. James Spencer
Knox, Rev. William Knox, and Messrs. George
and Charles Henry Knox ; Mrs. Octavius Wigram,
Mrs. William Ponsonby, and Misses Jane, Anne-
Elizabeth, Frances, Modena, Emily, and Helen
Knox, unmarried. His Lot dship's successor, is, of
course, not yet named, the venerable prelate hav-
ing only expired on Saturday. It is said that, ex-
cept the single appointment of Dr. Brinkley to the
See of Cloyne, there has not been of late years a
single instance in which ability alone has led to pro-
motion—parliamentary interest, instead of gospel
principles, having too frequently succeeded in pro-
curing mitres.
MR. AND LADY CAROLINE NEELD.—These
distinguished parties, whose union has not tut ned
out as happy as was expected, were united on the Ist
of Jan. of the present year, at Warwick Castle, in
the presence of the nearest connections of the
noble bride. The auspicious ceremony, however,
as it is usually termed, had not long been cele-
brated ere it was publicly rumoured that, if a se-
paration had not already taken place between a
wealthy Commons' Member for a western borough
and the female member of a noble family to whom
the honourable gentleman had recently united
himself, it was on the eve of being effected. It
now appears that the splendid mansion, No. 6,
Grosvenor-square, belonging to Mr. Neeld, and
which was ordered to be fitted up for the reception
of that gentleman and his Noble cogiort, remains
in an incomplete state, never having Wen tenanted.
Indeed, upon Lady Caroline's arrival in town a few
weeks since, from Grittleton Park, near Chippen-
ham, the seat of her opulent husband, her lady-
ship sojourned at the Pulteney Hotel, in Albemarle-
street. Lady Caroline is at present about thirty-
three years of age, and of course has been recog-
nised as a member of the fashionable world for a
considerable period. She is the eldest daughter of
the Earl of Shaftesbury by his Countess, Lady
Anne Spencer, fourth daughter of the late and sis-
ter to the present Duke of Marlborough, and Lord
Churchill. Her ladyship's sisters, Lady Barbara
Ashley Cooper, and Lady Harriett Ashley Cooper,
are married to Henry Lyster and the Hon. Henry
William Corry, son of Earl Belmore. Lord Ashley,
her ladyship's elder brother, was recently united to
Lady Emily Cowper. Lady Caroline is thus allied
to several highly influential and noble families.—
Mr. Neeld is one of the sitting Members for Chip-
penham. He was, we believe, intended for the
legal profession, and is well known to inherit a
large proportion of the immense wealth of the late
Mr. Rundell.
TILE LATE MR. ELLISTON.—The deceased
directed that his funeral be quite unostentatious,
and his executors strictly abide by his instructions.
He has been very minute in his directions, even to
the colour of the nails on his coffin, and the inscrip-
tion which is to be placed on its lid, which is to be
a Latin one. They deposit his remains in the
vault under St. John's church, Waterloo-road, to-
day. The funeral, a u alking one, attended by the
relatives of the deceased in London. and a very few
only of his oldest and most intimate friends. Mr.!
Elliston's acquirement:, unconnected with his act-
ing, were of a very superior order; he was a most
excellent companion, and possessed many other
good qualities, which the public will shortly be
made acquainted with in his Memoirs, which he
was on the point of arranging, in conjunction with
a very old friend, from their joint materials. They
will necessarily embrace much correspondence with
and anecdotes of his contemporaries, and it is
thought that they will place the subject of them is
a most advantageous point of view. By his will,
Mr. Elliston has made an equal distribution of his
propel ty alsongst his eight children. Two of his
sons are at Hobart Town; and one of his youngest
children, a daughter, has died since his will was
made.

It appears considerable reductionr in the expen-
diture of the country will take place in the customs
and excise departments, and that those reductions
will be amongs the higher offices, beginning with
commissioners ; this is as it ought to be —hitherto
any saving that has been made has been by the dis-
missal of those whose salaries were not an object to
the country, and by reducing the salaries of clerks
and officers who were insufficiently paid.
A new sect of Anabaptists having made its ap-
pearance in Germany, the fol.owing decree against
it has been issued by the Prince Regent of Schwe-
rin :—" As a sect of Anabaptists, dissenting from
the Evangelical Church, has appeared in the coun-
try for come time, a sect which seems to have
sprung up at Beitzenburg, all magistrates are en-
joined to arrest, without distinction of persons,
such sectaries found in their districts as shall dare
to exercise their worship publicly, and administer
the communion or baptism. A report is to be sent
to our Chancery, which is charged with the exami-
nation of the case." From this measure it appears
that the tolerance of the Evangeli...sl Church at
Schwerin is very limited."— Gutiicani's Mess.