Star.
London, England, 1824-12-25 00:00:00

NA PAL INTELLIGENCE.

Dummies, Dec. 21.—We are sorry to announce tht total wreck
of the North Sur, of this pert, loaded with oats, and bound from
Westport, in Ireland, to the port of Liverpool. The weather was
so thick that the crew had not seen the land for four days, and on
the tempestuous morning of the 13th current, the schooner struck
on a reef of rocks twelve sidles front the Island of Culinso. Here
she beat violently for about ten minutes, and then passed over the
rocks into smooth water ; hut, by this time her bottom; was so
much damaged, that the crew (four men and a master), had some
difficulty in escaping with their lives. Not au atom of propclty
I was saved, and the vessel, we believe, was not insured.

CHRISTMAS MORN.
BY THE REVEREND GEORGE CROLY.

Tuts is the Morn of Victory,
When the Victor' came to die.
The World was dark, its guilty gaze
Saw not o'er Heaven its splendours blaze.
That told the Shepherds Ile was born ;
It heard not on that breaking Morn
The Angel Harps, the glorious hymn,
Front bunting lips of Cherubim.
That Morn the Roman 'Caesar sate, •
Unconscious that a POTINTATIC
Was come, to whom his laurelled brow
Must stoop—the mighty man of woe.
The Pontiff at his Altar stood,
Unconscious that a nobler blood
Than ever streamed, that hour was given
Pure from the summit Throne of Heaven.
That KINGLY Vicvn Fame, not robed
In gold, with trooping spears englobed ;
Flamed on his brow no Royal gem,
Hz came—the Babe of Bethlehem !
He was all power; the tempest sky
Might have come down, his canopy ;
The rushing of His chariot wheels,
Told by the thunders Herald's peals :
The Bashes of His midnight light'ning,
The Earth through all her chambers brighening ;
Till Mankind, startled from their dumber,
Saw come the numbers without number, .
Rank upon rank, from Heaven's high steep,
The Seraph legion's gorgeous sweep ;
Still more and more the pomp revealing,
The golden trumpet louder pealing,
Till in their centre blazed the Throne
On which He sate—the First Great Owe.
There was no pomp—for on this Morn
A Man of sacrifice was born :
He came to be a stranger here,
R'en in his tribe; a wanderer,
He came to pray, to weep, to die,
And wiu for Man the victory

Yesterday the LORD CH MY Justice finished the busi.
ness of the Sittings after Term, at Westminster, and
the Court was adjourned to the Gth of January, when
Sir C. ,ABBOT will sit at the Court, Guildhall, to try
London causes.

Monday se'nnight a most barbarous act was com-
mitted on the lands of Annaholty, near Castle Connell,
by cutting the tails off two yearling heifers, and hough-
ing them, the property of Mr. James Doadon.
Tuesday evening, about nine o'clock, a bullock in a
very infuriated state, ran through the village of Sturry,
and down to Fordwich ; in its progress it tossed several
persons; among others a young -lad of the name of
HOOKER, who was severely gored in the face. The
evening being dark, several people were thrown before
they were aware of their danger. After many inef-
fectual attempts to secure him, he took to the River,
and kept the people at bay ;-=in this situation several
shots were fired at him without effect, and all attempts
to secure him were unavailing. In this dilemma, Mr.
BBNJAMIN WEBB and Mr. THORPE, butcher of Scurry,
plunged into the river, where it was eight feet deep,
and seized the beast by the nostrils, drove a knife into
its throat, and. killed it. It was then dragged from the
river, and restored to the owner, who had driven k
from Ashford Market the same day.
Between three and four o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing the inhabitants of Fore-street, Limehouse, and, in-
deed, the whole neighbourhood, were thrown into the
utmost confusion and alarm, by the springing-of the
watchmen's rattles, in consequence of the water burst-
ing, into their houses in torrents. Such was the impe-
tuosity of the element, that the oldest inhabitant of the
neighbourhood clnnot recollect such a flood, attended
with such a sacrifice of property. The water, at one
time, was four feet deep in the streets, and the cellars
of the houses were cooplitely deluged. Alter the tide
returned, men were employed in ejecting the water
from the houses, byineans of pumps and buckets, but
some of the cellars were yesterday three or four feet
deep. Persons occupying wharfs and.hluse; along the
banks of the River, from Barking to Wapping, have
sustained considerable mischief. At Barking, a wall
was forced down by the torrent, and, in an instant,
every place was overflowed to a considerable depth.
We are happy to state that no lives were lost.

Friday ie-'rnight,:about four o'clock, two men named
Maurice and Michael Fitzgerald, were attacked at their
house on the lands of Itobertstown, near Shanagolden,
in the County of Limerick, by a party of insurgents
who had their faces blackened, consisting of about
thirty, several of whom had fire arms. On approach.
ing the honse, the party fired a shot at one of the in.
mates of it, when rushing in the door from them ; they
then went in, knocked down, and dreadfully cut both
of the Fitzgeralds, and shortly after their departure
fired several shots. Someof the same party also searched
the house rf a man nalted O'Donnel, who has a si-
milar contract for a pan of the road for the same pur-
pose, but he fortunately was absent. A man who ap-
peared to be the leader, cart ied a cocked pistol in his
hand while searching for O'Donnel, the c'mtents of
which he said he intended for him.

Towards the end of October, an Algerine squadron
of four sail was seen cruizing between Durazzo and
Vallona. This citcumitance-greatly alarmed the mer-
chants, but their fears proved to be unfounded; for the
'quadron, though it sent aimed boats. to visit the ships
that it met, did not iitinder them. It Was afterwards.
learnt that it went tti Pintas, to convey maur to the•
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UNIVERSIT Yard CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, DECEMBER. 25.
Sunday, the Hon. and Right Rev. the liiihop of this Diocese
held an Ordination in All Souls College Chapel, when the follow-
ing Gentlemen of this University weir ordained:
Deacons—Stanley Miller, B. A. Citrate 'of Ssialcliffe ; John
Alington, 13.A,,Demy of Mgdalen College; James Thomas Dou-
boulay, B A. Fellow of Hiker College ; James Thompson, B.A.
Fellow of Lincoln College; Edward Hay, M.A. Student of Christ-
Church ; Charles Kevern Williams, B.A. Scholar of Pembroke
College; George Augustus Legge, B.A. George Henry Webber,
B.A. and William Archibald Home, B.A. Students of Christ
Church ; John Samuel Smalley, B.A. Scholar of Jesus College;
Edward George Simcox, B.A. Scholar of Wadham College ; John
James, B. A. Scholar of Jesus College; William James Butler,
B.A. Demy of Magdalen Colltge ; and Richard Tawney, B.A. Pro-
bationer Fellow of Magdalen College.
Parears—Charles John Meredith, B.A. Chaplain of Magdalen
College ; Joseph West, B.A. Chaplain of New College ; William
Manley, M.A. Curate of Hampton; James Linton, A. Demy
of Magdalen College; Richard William Tell; M.A. Fellow of
Oriel College; Henry Duncombe, B.A. Fellow of All Soule Col-
lege ; JamerEdwards, B.A. Demy of Magdalen College ; William
Whalley, B.A. Curate of Swerford ; James Lupton, B.A. Chap-
lain of Christ Church ; John Besley, B.A. Fellow of Balliol Col-
lege; William Spencer Phillips, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College ;
Joseph T. James Hewlett, B.A. Curate of Rotkerfield Peppard;
Charles John Ileathcote, ALACurate of Henley.
Sunday, the Bishop of Gloucester held an Ordination in that Ca-
thedral, when the followli3g Gentlemen were admitted into Holy
Orders:

Dzacous—John Eddy, B.A. Trinity College, Oxford; Thomas
Phillipps, B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge; Dawson Masters, M.A.
Trinity College, Cambridge; John Graham, a literate person.
PRIESTS—John Edwards, B.A. Worcester College, Oxford;
Robert Hepworth, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; Edward
Hawkins, B.A. I'embr•ke College, Oxford ; James Hayes Sadler,
B.A. Jesus College, Cambridge ; George Dooley, Pembroke Hall,
Cambridge.
The following Gentlemen were otdainca on Sunday, by the
Bishop of Peterbermigh.
DRAMS,—Charles Candy, M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford ; Ed-
ward Gardiner, M.A. Balliol College, Oxford; Sohn Edward
Gray, M.A. Oriel College, Oxford ; Henry 'Fbursby, DI. A. Oriel
College, Oxford.
Panurrs.—Charles Collins, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge;
Francis Ffolliotr, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge; James We-
ston Harding. B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford; Plumpton Wilson,
SC L. Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. •
The Rev. W. Walker, of Slingsby, has been presented to the
perpetual Curacies of Sleights and Ugglebarnby ; the latter Living
is in the gift of the Archbishop of York.
The Rev. J. Proctor, D. D. Master of Catherine Hall, Cam-
bridge, has been presented to the Rectory of Conington, in the
county of Huntingdon.
The Rev. H. P. Beloe, M. A. to the Rectory of the United Pa-
rishes of the Holy Trinity and the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Guild-
ford, void by the resignation of the Rev. J. Weller, D.D. who had
been Rector upwards of 51 years.
Rev. R. Milne, to the Vicarage of Swine, in Holderness.
The 9th inst. Mr. George Somerville was ordained, by the United
Associate Presbytery of Glasgow,. Minister of the Congregation at
Airdrie, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Mr. Nichol.

Miss SOPHIA W. BonwELL, of Methuen, Massachu-
setts, has recovered 1400 dollars of the Hon. lilawastim Osoooo,
for slander. _ _

According to letters of a recent date from St. Peters-
burgh, above eleven millions of rubles hid been sub-
scribed in a few days for the relief of those persons
who had suffered by the inundations.
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The Gaceta de Colombia of the 10th of October, an-
nounces, that on the 3d of that month there had been
concluded in Bogota a general treaty of peace, friend-
ship, navigation, and commerce, between the Republic
of Colombia and the United States. The Commissioners
were Don Pedro Guali Minister fur Foreign Affairs,
on the part of Colombia, and Mr. Anderson, Minister
Plenipotentiary from the United States, on the part of
that Government.

Such is the state, of the arts in Colombia, that a
Gentleman of Caraccas was recently obliged to send to
Philadelphia for a humble stone, with an inscription
on it, to place over. the grave of a deceased connection.
Neither La Guyra nor Caraccas could produce this hum-
ble effort of mechanism.
Advices have been received from the Cape of Good
Hope to the'l7th of October. By these we learn that
the Bengal Government were using every eaertien to
form a very formidable army on the Sylhet frontier, for
the purpose of attacking theßurmesecapital on that side.
—The money subscribed in London (5,0001.) for the
distressed emigrants at the Cape, had been received;
the amount appears to be given to them in blankets, in
household furniture, and various articles of husbandry.
It appears to have been distributed with great care, and
with reference to their immediate wants. It had created
great rejoicings among the poor settlers, who are re-
presented to have suffered greatly from the disappoint-
ment of their hopes as to the crops, &c.
The Earl Wellington has arrived off Dover from
Lima, in HO days, having left Callao on the 2d of
September. She brings dispatches from Mr. Rowcroft
to the. Secretary of State fOr Foreign Affairs. Before
she left the Bay of Callao, advices had been received,
that after the skirmishes between the outposts, Bolivar
at length brought the Spanish General Cantarac to a
general battle the latter end of August, near a place
called Iscuchaca, and completely defeated him, killing
6,000 of his best troop. There no longer existed any
doubt of the secession of the Spanish General Olaneta
from the Royal cause: he was situated in th* province
of Potosi. Late advices from A, equipa state, an action
was fought between him and Valdes, who was left. by
Cant arac as a check upon him. Olaneta was defeated,
though he had taken prisoner the Spanish General
Caratela. It was the general opinion there must soon
be an end to the war, or, in fact, that it was finished.
The Asia and corvette had not arrived at Lima on the
2d of September, and it was stated they *ere lying at
Chiloe still, with sick crews.
It is understood, that in future the Public will not be
' allowed admission to the 'Chapel of Nesvgate, for the
purpose of healing what is termed the " condemned
sermon," usually preached on the Sundays preceding
an execution. It is said that the Court of Aldermen
have thought proper to come tor this determination,
with the view of sparing the wretched persons who may
be doomed to die, the additional aggravation of their '
sufferings, in being made a spectacle of in a place
which it is thought should be resorted to from motives
more sacred than those of curiosity. Other reasons
have also been assigned for the propriety of excluding
strangers on the occasions referred to,
The. Ticket, No. 5 301, drawn Thursday, December
16th, a Prize of L:20,000, was sold in One Half and
Eight Sixteenth Shares, by RICH A RDSON, GOODLUCK,
and Co. Stock-brokers, at their Office, 104, Bank-
, buildings, Cornhill. The Holders of the Shares may
receive their Money on demand.

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SPORTING. INTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING.
His Manures Stag Hounds meet on Monday next, at Taplow,
and on Friday, at the Dolphin, near Slough.
The Shropshire Hounds had a dashing run on Monday. Sip
Bellingham Graham, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. Lloyd, of Aston,
Mr. Mytton, and a large field of staunch sportsmen, found a fox fn
Halston covers. At an unprecedented and astonishing pace Rey-
nard led forward to New Marton, and Old Marton, near Elles-
mere, thence making his point to St. Martin's, and j.ord Dungan-
non's woods, at Brynkinnalt, he was headed back by a peasant in
a field towards the mountains, and was pursued to Llanarmon
Mountain, whence be doubled to the Glyn, near Llansillin, Den.
bighsbire. At this period of the Chace all were thrown out for
three or four miles, except the huntsman. The gallant fox dou-
bled again towards Oswestry Race Course, and skirted towards
Chirk Castle Park, where he was at last killed, after an extraordi-
nary run in point of swiftness, and which continued two hours and
forty.five minutes. Two horses died the sans; night, in conse-
quence of extreme exertion; a mare expired the next morning, and
many ethers are not yet recovered.
The Suffolk and &sex Fox. Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Box-
ford, Suffolk; and Friday, at Ardkigh-street, Essex.