Star.
London, England, 1825-10-18 00:00:00

Produce Stakes of 50 guineas each, h. ft. Two miles.
Mr. IlaiUle's b. f. Ariadne . . . walked over.
Sweepstakes of 25 soy. each—did not GIL
Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each for all ages. Three miles.
Mr. Farquharson's Figaro . . . . walked over.

HOUSE OF LORDS-StSSJON 1523.

Account of Appeals and Writs of Error remaining undecided
and standing in the Cause List as appointed, and nut appointed
for hearing:

Artur.s.

Heard in former Sessions, but remaining undecided-4 Scotch,
2 English, 1 Irish. Deduct from above, decided in the present
Session-1 Scotch, 2 English, 1 Irish. Remaining undecided,
Scotch.
Remaining on the list of last Session, 1824, after deducting
those not appointed for hearing-113 Scotch, 6 English, t. 7
1 Welch—Total 149.
Presented in the 1825-5 l Scotch, 14 English, 11 Irish
—Total 56 ; total on the list, 205.
Withdrawn-12 Scotch, 1 English, 1 Irish—Total 14.
Dismissed for want of prosecution-2 Scotch.
Struck out on Report from Appeal Committee-5 Scotch.
Ileard-66 Scotch, 11 English, 11 Irish, 1 Weleb—Tot.l 80.
Decided-60 Scotch, 11 Engli.h, 9 Irish—Total 80.
Remaining for Judgment-6 Scotch, 2 Irish, 1 Welch—Total 9.
Remaining for Ilearing-61 Scotch, 10 English, 26 Irish
Total 97.

WRITS OF ERROR.

Recta in former Sessiciets, but remaining undecided-2 F.nglish.
Dcduct front above, decided in present Session-1 English.
Remaining undedtled-3 Scotch.
llvanaining on the list of last Session. 1824, after deducting
tho.e not appointed fur hearing-4 Scotch, 5 English, 3 Irish—
Tt tal 12.
l't eseoted in the Session 1825-19 English.
Withdrawn-2 English.
Nutt Proid-11 English.
Heard-2 Scotch, 6 English, 1 Irish—Total 9.
Decided-5 English, 1 Irish—Total 6.
remaining tor Jadgment-2 Scotch, 1 English—Total 3.
. Remaining fur Hearing-2 Smith, d English, 2 irieh.—Total 9.
Sustautay, 1825.
Total Appeals for Hearing
Total %Vries of Error

Disposed of

Remaining for Hearing

203
31

236
130

106

Note.—The number of days on which the House has sat upon
Appeals and Writs of Error, including those occupied in the von-
sideration of Causes, from the first day of this Session to the 6th
day of July, inclusive, is 89.

WtSLEYAN METIiuDiST NISSIONS.

The Twelfth Anniversary of the Methodist Mis-
sionary Society for the Leeds District, commenced in
Brunswick Chapel, on Monday ferettoon. Mr. James
Musgrave was called to the Chair. The Reverend
Va:entine Ward, one of the Secretaries to the Society,
read the Report, from which it appears that in Ireland,
the Society has 21 Missionaries ; in France, Gibraltar,
and Malta, eight Missionaries and 230 Members ; in
Ceylon and Cuntinen'al India, 27 Missionaries, 511
Members; New South %Vales, Van Diemaii's Land,
New Z.al .iid, and Tongataboo, ten Missionaries, 142
Members; Western and Southern Africa, sixteen Mis-
sion in, SB5 Members; West Indies 49 Missionaries,
26,778 Members ; Canada, eight Missionaries, 1,109
Members; Nova Scotia.and New Brunswick, eighteen
Missionaries, 2,134 Members ; Newfoundland, thirteen
Missionaries, 1,045 Members ; making a total of 161
Missionaries, and 32,334 Members, exclusive of up-
wards of twenty Missionaries, whom the Committee
have resolved to send out as soon as possible. The re-
gular hearers of the Missionaries are two.thirds more
than the Members, and there are 12,000 children edu-
tated in the scboirls. The report goes on to give very
animating views of missionary success, and concludes
by recommending its interests to public support.
Mi. J. S. BA'RLbW read the cash account, from which
it appeared, that the subscriptidns in the Leeds Circuit
amounted. to 929/. 10s. and in the whole district to
2,502/. 15s. Bd. being an increase above the preced-
ing year of 1481. 17s. qd. The whole receipts cf the
Methodist Missionary Society, for the year ending
December, 1b24, were stated to be 38,0161. 9s.
exclusive ut a benetactiou of 1,000/.
Several speakers addressed the Meeting, and gave
very interesting statements of the good effects of blis-
sitmary exertions. At a quarter past three, the Meet-
ing adj. urried to sii o'clock on Tuesday evening, when
the business was resumed. The Rev. Messrs. 'l. Stan-
ley, M. Wilson, J. Walatsley, R. Newstead, and W.
B. Fox, Missionaries from the island of Ceylon; G. C.
Smith, 11. i ptist Minister from Penzance; L W. Eamil-
trio, T. Scales, Dr. Townley,Joeeph Apr ; Mr. -Rayner,
it Missionary from the West Indies; G. -Smith, V.
Ward, J. Hannah, raid 3.Pinder, Mr. Dawson, Stc.
addressed the Meeting.
Sermons were preached in the Methodist. Chapels OA
Sunday, -and on Monday evening. The colleCtions
amotinted to 23W.

kt...
According to • an omcial report 'from Commodore
WA KUL NdTON, of the. United States' service, to the
Secretat y of the Navy, at Washington, it appears
that the piratical hordes who lately infested the coast of
Ctibalinve been coinpletely'broken up and dispersed.
the great ship,'ll4ron of kenfrew, laden with timber,
en Thursday last passvd.the North Foreland, proceeded
round the Kentish Knock to the Longsand Head, up
the King's Channel ;'she was towed by the James Watt
and Tourist Otani:lin:iris; and, in addition, the City of
Edinburgh steam-I)6# has been dispatched to their
assistance, from this immense vessel (whose magnitude
astonishes all vl ho have seen bet), drawing 36 feet water.
Thursday, we n.,ticed the information cotuntuni-
cated at Bow-street by a Gentleman, who was nearly
robbed on Saturday last, at Hangerford, Berks, by a
person of respectable appearance, with whom he was
wAlking. The Oxford Herald, after giving the Dow-
street report, says, " On Tuesday .mernifig last a per-
son answering the. above deactjptioti, came to the
Wheat Sheaf lan, in this city; dined; drank his tea, and
supped, taking a due proportion of -brandy and water,
&c. Mr; Holland, not MOO likingisis et.tittedn'rs tint
Lim a bill, .which t. hot epahltTaild 'the Gentleman
took his bed thete. In the :moron:4.4e ivent ,Onefin...a
bll6ll w. lk, and Mr. Holland!feßowed him ass farms
13ot1ey Turnpike, when the 'teinillair,linditrg "ite. sins.
s' :itched, ran off. ' Mr.. 1-141inld.,..Oni'sn!icritim .iliisely; ;
the fellow took Ifse riVer,iik'iiiii.. glipo k4sitlicF :k4Oks.-
A man of the name of 11:ins,i,csteT, who was fishingi,
tried to stophirp,lint:lrelpt-e4Ceklsa4el,lcut tpll.
_Va. t i
-erred to shoat him. •Afetrweriis one ei:7llr.Alaa*Aser
men joined in the pursuit, and at length ssvaged:
in Osney Mill. Mr." At'tfaitiricni knowing that- he ha
I
•inesented a pistol. at' Winthester,'And4tivig Skfoitne
. that hie &mice was only tatitnia)jg ;4W-debt,: talk e•ala
~itioney he hid -Abut r'itis; la iltkva' bkil4llgl;4lmiYilli
• tuireredisini to depart. Ott tiseliagaif:diy, a:Gratleman
' tikliti ffarrsan hiin 'While inverlitody atileney:Milll;:t
' %hi eiltei: a ptiblic-hilthe '. at Wdedsteek, ',Where: tie or
' dekitd:l dinner, si?ilsolif 4sasistg ; fait fretestiscottpayiall
t fargEtk'burike Gentlemen ialettrataghelaNdiatir et 4,4
cbarsiger; who tot • verirse*cialtiisrevidlillbyghing fog
bias, sineewhich we Lave heard nothing further of him."

BLACKFRIAR'S 131t1PGL
The Report presented to tit+ COMI denunstin
Council last week, from the general PorpOisiCoiMitittee,
relative to Blackfriars•bridge, stated, that Aft* Sur-
veyor having declared Mr. M'Adailh. had eci'Mpleted
his contract for Macadamizing the same, the Committee
had subs •quently employed him to keep the bridge in
repair, and that he had since delivered in a bill to them
for no less than 4731. odd, for such repair's during a
period of only eighteen weeks ! The Coihrhittee further
stated that they had advertised for tenders to keep the
sa;d bridge in repair 1. r twelve months, and Seiehil often
had been made them—one offering to do the lathe at
between 3001. and 4001. while a second tender was so
high as 9001. In fact it appears that the traffic along
this bridge, which has greatly increased since it has
been Macadamized, is now to that amazing extent, that
the new granite is ground to powder almost as:quickly
as it is laid down. It being thus evident that to keep
it in a proper state the bridge would cost nearly loft.
per annum, and the City having no separate funds for
that purpose, the Committee recommended that it
should be repaved on its present surface, on an e,ti-
mated cost of 1,5001. the expense of keeping 'which ih
repair used to average under 1201. The llepott fur-
ther stated, that Mr. M'Adam offered, at the time of
the alteration being effected, to keep the bridge in re-
pair for 1301. per annum, but he had not abided by it.
The Report, in consequence of some incongruity,
has been sent back to the Committee for reconsidera-
tion ; but an opportunity is to be afforded Mr. M, Adam
for explanation.

A test of the extent of internal trade in die United
States is fultii,hed by the produce of auction sales.—
This, in the single city of New York, amounted in the
months I f April, May, and June, to the immense sum
of 6 960,000 dollars.
Thursday night three horses were stolen from a field
adjoining the town of St. Alban's, the property of Mr.
William Bowen.

Seventeen Zebras, taken in the interior of the Cape
of Good Hope, arrived at Bristol in the brig Milo; they
more resemble the horse than any before seen here.
The pure ,ases of Stock by the Commissioners of the
Sinking Fund have been considerably reduced, not
amounting to more than 10,0001. daily, which, as they
only purchase on lour days of the week, makes the
annual amount of the Sinking Fund little more than
2.000,000/. The surplus is to be applied, we under-
stand, to the redemption of a portion of the Exchequer
Bills deposited at the Bank, representing the excess of
the payments for the dividends over the receipts from
the Exchequer.
Great exertions have been made to procure an order
for the release of the two ships stopped in the Downs,
freighted with arms, under the late Proclamation, on
the grounds that having made the clearance from the
River before the Proclamation was issued, they ought
to beexempted from its operation, but without effect.
Wednesday or Thursday night, a very valuable
hunter (a bright bay gelding), the property of his MA-
JESTY, was stolen from the Little Park. The horse had
been turned out to grass in June last, and was missed
on Thursday morning all efforts to trace the thieves
have hitherto proved fruitless.
Sunday se'nnight, between nine ana ten o'clock, Mr.
HOPE, Midshipman of his Majesty's ship GLKNOOW (son
of Sir Jolty Holm) accidentally fell overboard from
that ship, lying at Spithead, when the viind was blew-1
ing fresh, and the tide running strong; Lieutenant A.
SINCLAIR instantly jumped overboard, to rescue the
young Gentleman from his threatening fate, and hap-
pily succeeded in his benevolent purpose, though it was
quite dark, and they were in the water a quarter of an
hour before a boat could reach them.
Mondat, a Regimental Court-Martial was held upon
three privates of the Worcestershire Militia; two for
absenting themselves from the Regiment without leave,
and one for extreme insolence to the non-commissioned
Officers in the execution of their duty the two former
were sentenced to ten, and the latter to 14 days' solitary.
confinement in the county gaol. •
COACH ACCIDENT.-WO regret to state that theuel-
dent which occurred last week, by the overturning oft
the Duke of Norfolk coach, between Manchester. and
Ashton-under-Dyne, has caused the death of one of.the
passengers, Mr. Jahn Okey, a very respectable trades-
man in London, and well known in Manchester.

Saturday's W *Ole contains his Majesty's pardon to
any person, not an accomplice, who caused the death,i
by throwing him overboard from a boat atFotitestone,oP
John Howlihan, a seaman of his Majesty's sittp'Rtiatit..)
LIES, employed on the coast of Kent in the prevention
of smuggling, on the evening of Sunday, the Oth inn;
Two hundred pounds reward is further offered try the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.
CONJUGAL ATTACHMENT:A remarkable funeral
took place in the cemetery of St. John's Church, at
Brecknock, on Thursday, the 18th of October. Atm,
the wife of RICHARD BLAIR, -Esq. aged 34, died in
March last, near Halifax, irrNova Scotia, where she
was then buried. Her husband had the body exhumed,
and arrived with it at Brecknock, the-Octet:if the de
ceased's nativity, on the eve of the second funeral. The
teason assigned for this dxtraordiaary transaction, is
thiftilfiltrent of a protnise 'made .by Mr. BLAIR to his
wife in her* last illness, to bury her at Brecknock. 'We
understand Mr. BLAIR is a native of 'Dudley or its
neighbous hood. The singularity of the occurrence at-
tracted a most nutnefous'aisemblage of Oeridns to wit•
ness the solemn ceremony, and all aMtied deeply
affected by the scene.
DISTRESSING Acctostrr.—Sunday siennight, at
place called Waterhead, in the wild.and dreary district
of Stirlingshire, which lies behind the Campsie* Hills; to-
wards* Ftntry, and where tlie militia of several-Mountain
rills forms the source of the river Carron, the storm
in-
volved the fate of an unhappy family. It had raised
incessantly on the hillsosathM a few hours the numerous
'Anti ritulticeleSieutied in roaring torrents to the Vale
held*. Abiinetltitaii'crotkon Monday morning, James
a stoat and Wasik:WO s :conn4y nun, accompanied
by
.his -and two • chiiiirestk stetted ;with a cwt, load
of whisky to retail ,at.Saikisk ZEryst. his house stood
It tin stft4-Yardsif wrivatlet,, thien -Mich OW leaf and
tit ioilgh 'tibia hit id. id* fOrd'biforiteaching the road.
other of his obilditit Wiiiire'Maided *at liollae,*ivith
tears in 'their eyes, earnestly intreated their father Int IO
:ftrectopt m turd the river in"its.lthett ntoilite state ; .but
heedless -Of :their .'adrift, iierklOssly dfol4g into .010
raging good, WhiCli stud
wnole tour persons were smfoitunattely-Allowsed. •Th
bodies of the pastors and tbaidrewasttolounsktaseciayi
and the horse Was;xtittnvertid '4l6Ver'sMr-kurt)ivitl
it's ad xlititie Ole Witii;ty 'clingivg to the bank' Wit
its fore feet.

Ptiflite SALES.

Mr. SAMUEL CLOSE

Freehold.-An Fixate► situate in the parish of Llardlhangel
Yeroth, on the banks of ;the river Tivy, county of Carmarthen;
South Wales, including a Residence, known as Do*Dan, with de-
tached oflidesoiairy, yard,tarden, lawn, and forty acres of wood
land ; also* farm, cfilled Parke, containing dwelling-Weise, barns,
stabling, Wins, sheds, and 240 acres of meadow, arable, and Wood
land. Pere:lase to be convicted by November 14th nett; in
event of delay purchaser to pay interest at four per cent. 6n balance.
Timber to be taken at a valuation.--. Knocked down at X 9,670.

Messrs. WISSTANLEY.

Preeholds.—Chirt Lodge, Ryegate, Surrey ; containing eleven
room•, domestic apartments, stabUng, carriage shed, barn, gardeni,
bailiff's cottage, and iodinates, in the whole thirty-two acre►;
quarry.of sting, and vein of fuller's earth on the estate. nut:our
included in the purchase.-2,980 gurneSs.

THE COMET.

GOSPORT OBSERVATORY. OCT. 14.—Last night the
Comet was again seen here, in the constellation OE&
cina Sculptor ia. It was on the meridan about a quarter
past eleven o'clock, six degrees above the horizon, and
150 degrees from the sun, when its right ascension was
sixteen degrees, and declination 33 deg. 30 min. South.
It has moved through a space of nineteen degrees since
the night of the 7th inst. equal to 3 deg.lo min. a day.
It was not so bright as in the night of the 7th, nor was
its luminous train so long by four degrees, at ising, er-
haps, from the effect of a thick haze in that part of the
horizon. From the direct south-west motion, and the
present position of this comet, in comparison of former
observations made on it, u e have no hesitation in saying
it is the same that has been so erroneously described in
several of the London newspapers, and taken f.r dif-
ferent comets: for it would be an uncommon pheno-
mena to see several comets in the same hemisphere. The
mistakes, however, no doubt arose from the inequality
of its motion. Since the 10th of last July (a day that
will be long remembered from the circumstance of the
oppressive heat) when this comet was said by M. Biela
(see Phil. Mag and Jour. for August) to have been two
or three dew ees above the right ear of the constellation
Taurus, it has passed through a space in the heavens of
seventy-five degrees, but its motion has been extremely
irregular, varying at intervals from half to upwards of
three degrees a day. Its south declination is now so
great, and its motion so vety quick, that it will not be I
seen iu this latitude after the 16th instant ; but to the
inhabitants of southern latitudes, this celestial vii for
will be an object of admiration, as it is evidently de-
scending nearer to the earth.—At five o'clock in the
morning of the 12th instant, Mars and Jupiter were in
conjunction—viz. within half a degree of each other.
By the side of Jupiter, Mars did not appear larger
than a star of the first magnitude. In the following
night, when Mars passed the Northern side of Jupiter,
they were some minutes closer together.

A fire broke out at Watlington, Oxfordshire, on Mon-
day night last, which destroyed eight cottages.
COMBINATION or CoLuzas.—lt gives us pleasure
to mention, that the new hands taken in at the Calder
Coal Works, in the room of the combined colliers dis-
carded, are succeeding even beyond expectation. Owing
to the judicious arrangements made by the proprietors,
they have proceeded without the least molestation. So
little difficulty was there in getting the new hands, that
one hundred more than enough offered themselves on
Monday, and numbers from various parts of the coun-
try have since applied for work. There is little doubt
that a few weeks' experience will make the new hands
as dextrous workmen as those who foolishly lost the cal-
lploy:rent—Glasgow Chronick.
"In our Paper of Tuesday," says the Glasgow Courier,
,g we alluded to the late discoveries made in the interior
lof Northern Africa, and the journey of discovery un-
dertaken by Major LAING. Since then we have perused
letters from that enterprising traveller, dated Bennebed,
28th July, or as it is named in some maps, Bel:nicked,
,itnate in 31 deg. 47 min. N. lat. and 13 deg. 58 min.
E. long. He was at that time, we may say, merely in
.the outset of hisjourney. He was preparing to set out
!for Gadames. Fahrenheit's thermometer, on the day
he wrote, stood at 104 des. Our traveller was in ex-
•cellent health, and writes in high spirits. He expresses
'the mast confident hopes of early and complete success
in the important object which his journey has in view.
He had just.learned that a ship of war would be off the
Bight of Benin in March and April next, in the hopes
of meeting him, and bringing him to England, after
'basing descended the Niger to the Atlantic Ocean;
and he adds, he expects lo meet his friends in Britain
labout the same. period (July) next year."
The 'returns of the Customs from the ports in Scot-
land are extremely favourable, and prove that our coin-
twercial prosperity is general. The amount of duties
received at the Custom-house, Leith, for the Quarter
ending the 10th instant, is 205,5771. 9s. 11d. This is
the largest sum which has ever been collected during
an equal period, at any port In Scotland. It is to be
observed, however, that a proportion of this sum must
he. put to.the aocount of duties transferred from the
Excise to the Customs. Even at Grangemouth thiCus-
tom-house duties for the Quarter ending the 10th of
October, 1825, amounted, to 34,3281. ISs. lid. being
nearly 20,0001. increase above the same Quarter last
year. The same remaik as to the transferred duties ap-
plies bete, as well as to the receipts at the Custom-
house at Leith.
PoAcHaas.—Joseph Day, the gamekeeper of Lord
CARTWRIGHT, being out on his Lordship's estate at
Houghton, near Bedford, fell in with three young fel-
lows, labourers, named Jeffs, Taylor, and Smith—two
of them had guns. Day either demanded their guns, or
-attempted to take them away. when he was struck and
beaten with such violence, that one of his Irma was
broken. Jeffs and Smi:h have been taken and committed
to De.iford gaol to take their trial.
Joseph Cole has been committed to the Old Britlewell,
Devizes, charged with stealing two gallons of pig's
victuals, value sixpence the property of 'Thomas Ha-
therill, of Breemhill.
Alreiford Michaelmas Fair, on Thursday, was very
fully attended, and the sgpply of sheep and lambs was
consid4rable, but being. so immediately after Weyhill
Lair, only a ;ew dealer s were present. Upon the whole,
however, the sale may be regarded as brisk, at quite as
_good prices as were obtained at Appleshaw and Wey-
bill. were not numerous, and sold high.
PALLINASLOE Fetn.—Wedneaday the horse fair
,cantmenced, aid those of a good quality were par-
, chased at high prices. The black cattle fair was on
Friday. and upwards of seven thousand were sold, and
.abeut•twenty thousand remained unsold. The prices
were ezceilent. aud the average received was fourteen
guineas.tor eith,.and ftitef.n guineas and a half in some
.11Stalltel.