Star.
London, England, 1823-07-26 00:00:00

" MARRIAGES.

" Ist. Fifty widows, with front 2te ✓O,OOO francs of income.
" 2d. One and fifty damsels, with from 10,000 to 600,000
francs of dowry.
" 3d. Four hundred young ladies and widows, with a small
fortune.—Apply to M. Force, &e."
Another marriage-broker advertises as at his disposal,
" 1. Two young ladies, of between 15 and 18 years of age,
with between 30 and 60,000 francs of portion.
" 2. Two others, between 30 and 36 years, with 35,000 francs ;
and several damsels of all ages, with between 4,000 and 6,000
francs of income ; with lots of widoi►s, of incomes from 1,000
to 6,000 francs."

Surely such an assortment cannot fail to be inter-
esting to prudent middle-aged bachelors ; but, if
money is not the object, M. Porn tells us that he has
at his disposal " several young ladies of ancient fa-
milies, with little fortune, but with all the qualities
which should accompany fortune."

According to the latest accounts from the Ukraine,
the heat hiss risen to SO degrees of Reaumur-99i of
Fahrenheit.

The University of Dorpat has now 30 Professors
and 400 Students.

It appears from the Budget laid before the Diet of
Sweden, that the Committee has proposed to increase
the expenses for the King's Household from 320,000
to 420,000 rix-dollars; that of the CROWN PRINCE,
from 100,000 to '150,000 rix-dollars, besides 20,000
ri x-dollars per annum as pin-money for the PRINCESS;
the estimate for the furniture of the Royal' Palace,
from 5,000 to 8,000 per annum; the expense for
keeping in order the Palace at Haga, from 2,000 to
3,000 r ix-dollars.
Yesterday. morning, as the servant-maid of Mr.
Smith, No. 7, St. Jarnes's-place, was cleaning the par-
lour windows of the house, she being placed on a
pair of high steps, they by some accident gave way,
and she was precipitated, head foremost, on the pave.
ment. She was carried into the parlour, and but
faint hopes remain of her recovery. Her back was
much hurt by the curb-stone, at the time of falling.

Friday se(tinight two persons in a garden—at
Snenton, near Nottingham, heard some dreadful cries,
as from a man in distress, apparently near Long-
hedge-lane; and proceeded that way to ascertain the
cause. They found a man of the name of Wild
dreadfully mutilated, his thumb being bit off, his
nose bitten, his arm broken, and he had sustained
other injuries. After some time, they ascertained,
that a male ass, in the close, belonging to Wild, had
attacked him in so furious a manner, as to knock
him down, mutilate him as above described, and
leave him apparently dead upon the ground.
ExPenirtow.—The Dublin papers of Saturday last,
which were published at seven o'clock in the evening,
were circulating in the News Rooms, in Liverpool,
before ten o'clock on Sunday morning; an instance
of expedition wholly unprecedented.
A NEST OF COINEIILBIRAIINOPIAM, JULY 24.
Monday se'nnight, a man of the name of Whitehouse,
a labourer, gave information at our Police Office, that
as he was digging in a garden belonging to one
' Theodore Moore, residing near Vauxhall, in this
town, he felt his spade repeatedly come in contact
with a hard substance, when, on a further examina-
tion, he discovered that the soil where he was dig-
'ging, and on which cabbages bad been plantecl,l
was not of any considerable depth, and that it was
supported by a boarded floor, composed of a quantity
of planks. His curiosity led him to examine farther,
and, on removing one of the planks, he discovered a I
large cave, about seven feet deep, and 12 feet wide.
The man, to corroborate his tale, produced some base
money, consisting of shillings and half-crowns, which
he said he had ricked up near the spot. The officers,
bn receiving this information, lost no time in proceed-
ing to the place, but, unhappily for the ends ofjus-
tice, they arrived too late. The parties suspected, it
appears, what was plotting against them, and were'
found busily engaged in filling up the hole. On
searching, however, the officers discovered a stamp-
ing-block, which had evidently the appearance of a
press having been recently fixed thereon ; but this
latter article bad been timely secreted. The family
of the Moores, consisting of two men and a woman,
were taken intocustody, and on Monday were brought
up for examination at our Police Office ; when no'
evidence appealing against them (Whitehouse having
absconded), and nothing having been found on their
premises sufficient to criminate them, they were dis-
charged. It is suspected that Whitehouse was equally
minimal with the others, but that he had been led to
give the information in consequence of a quafiel
having arisen betweenthem ; and his absconding arose
probably from the influence of a bribe, or from a
suspicion, that while endangering the lives of his as-
' sociates, he might beunconsciously bringing his own
in somewhat of peril.
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LORD NORBURY'S CHARGE.