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

BRIGHTON, DECEMBER 23.

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The Duke of Sr. Ausares and the Ladies BeaUCLERK, rettirt,td
to Garton Park on Monday.
The Duchess of BEAUTOILT, left us on Tuesday, for sootha„,,
ton. Her Grace's fair daughter, Lady S. Sougasirr, rentaisis vri
Lady CALTHORTIL
The Earl and Countess Cowrza, we bear, purpose leaving 11, in
a day or two.
Lord Gunman Lsantoz,who returned to the Royal York Hovel
on Tuesday, left us for his brother's seat at Goodwood, this rnot%:!•ii;.

Mr. FINESSIY, the King's Messenger; arrived yes.
terday at the Foreign Office, with dispatches from Lord GRAN.
VILLIR, at Paris. .. •
At a fashionable little ,watering-place, not more than
fifty miles 'from the city of York, Mr. W. sent a chaiknee t,, Mr.
P. who holds a commission in the Army, but a Magistrate .t-t;
the business, by binding the parties over to keep the peat, f„.l.
six months.

Captain WARD, of Shirley Common, Southarnr,:nn
is the fortunate holder of a sixteenth of a 20,0001. prize in the
tery just drawn. Ile went casually into a shop, and wa. privaittd
on to buy the ticket, it being the last the shopkeeper had, and Az;
just going to be returned to London.

The arrivals at Melton Mowbray of Noblemen and
Gentlemen for the pleasures of fox-hunting, are far more numerNi
than bare been witnessed for many years. Not less than ion v:.
luahle huntete now occupy the stables of that town.
The Grand Ball for the Black-rock Ladies' Assnci.i.
tion, took place on Friday se'nnight, at the Commercial Building:,
Cork, and there has seldom been seen in that city an assembly mut:
numerously and btilliantly attended. Quadrilles and waltzes wtr.
played by the band of the city of Cork Militia, assisted by that n:
the 15th Hussars. It was attended by upwards of two hundred
and fifty fashionable. of the city. of Curk and its neighbourhow,
among whom we distinguished the following :—Admiral Lord and
Lady Colville, Sir John and Lady Lambert, the Ile•tiourahle Mrs,
Beamish, Sir William and Lady Chatterton, the Dowager Lady
and Miss Chatterton, Sir Anthony and Lady Perrier, is; Petrie::
Mesdaines T. St. Lawrence, Travers, Newenham, of Coulmori,
Dunsterville, Crawford, Lewis, Pitcairn, Forster, Stc. three \live,
Cuthbert, three Hodders, &milord, Pitcairn, Lewis, Smithwid,
Stubbeman, Nagle, two Roches Dunstersille, Culthur't, tn..
Pennefathers, Meade, Read, De Courcey, three Sealy', twa
Douglasses ; Captain 13eresford, M.P. Lieutenant-. Colonel r,
Doctor Pitcairn, Lieutenant Frankland, R.N. Messrs. Bere,foi:,
Hodder, Altidge, Townshend, J. Leahy, Travers, and a great ma-
jority of the Officers of the garrison.
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The annual Festivities at the noble mansion of
&mw Four, Esq. at Stoke Edith, commenced on Thursd::y,•ri
the usual scale of splendid hospitality and social enjoyment. Pnve:e
theatricals and other recreations to which the neighbouring terantr•
are kindly invited, enliven the scene, and whilst the affluent d7l.
amused, the poor are not forgotten, the charitable donations of th:.
benevolent owner being extended to all who ate in want o;
assistance.

LISTON, the Comic Actor, is returned to town, hay.
ing concluded a most successful engagement with his friend Aim:,
at the Dublin Theatre, where he is succeeded by CHARLES .Ms-
rums. When Mamma has, in succession, performed his popular
characters in the regular drama, he intends to be " At Home" for
few evenings to bis Irish friends, in his popular Trip to Amerk-a."

There are now upwards of 200 sail of •essels in Rams.
gate Harbour, many of them having been detained several nlnr,;!..,
by contrary winds. The loss sustained already this winter in mt.
sequence of the Southerly winds, independently of shipwreck, &c.
must be enormous.

Thursday, an Inquest was held by Mr. Th,-)mas
Patten, Coroner for Rochester, on the body of Thomas
Williams, slater, who was drowned in the Thames a. id
Medway Canal, on the evening nt the day preceding.
Verdict, " accidentally drowned."
The LORD MAYOR has given striet orders to the
City Officers to see that this day's festival is strictly
observed, by the suspension of all business ; and that
no tippling be allowed in ale-houses.
The LORD MAYOR, with great humanity to the pri-
soners confined in the City Pi isons, has ordered every
prisoner this day to have a pound of baked beef a twn..
pound loaf, and a pint of porter, in addition to their
usual allowance.
This morning, at seven o'clock, theßevAli .FLETcnett,
late of Albion Chapel, commenced his religious du-
ties at the City Chapel, Grub-street, Whitecross-streer,
near Cripplegate Church, (a few years since the pro•
perty of the Rev. Mr. CANNON') by a Lecture to young
persons, but very few werepresent. At ten he resumed
the pulpit, when the chapel, which is very spacious,
was filled by a respectable congregation.

Various rumours, says the Glasgow Courier of Tues-
day, were circulated yesterday of disturbances aboil
some of the mills in our neighbourto )d, but, upon tii-
quiry, we learned that they were entirely without foot
dation. Crowds were assembled round some of them,
but offered no violence that we have heard of.

The small island of Heligoland, at the mouth of the
Elbe, has been visited lately with A very malignant
disease—a diarrhea, which has proved fatal to a grea:
many persons. For one period, says g letter dated the
24th ult. the mortality was. from sixteen to eighteen
weekly, out of a population of a few hundreds ! Dr.
Lehmann, of Hamburgh, however, has succeeded in
putting a stop to its dreadful ravages. At the above
date"the malignity of the disease was greatly abated,
and those who had been afflicted were all in a state of
convalescence. •

Yesterday morning, a young man went into the shop
of Mr. TURNER, baker, the corner of Crain-street, flat-
ton-garden, and asked fur two rolls, and while the b
went into the bakehouse to get them, the thief ran off
with a time-piece, value 81.
An apothecary reproached an attorney tv'th the num-
ber of strange words which the law indulged in,
among others, asked what was meant by the wr: Js
" Docking an entail ?" 46 Why, doctors" replied tile
lawyer, " it is doing 'what you will not do with your
patients—it is suffering a recovery 1'
• AN tease aur.—Mrs. Biddy Murphy, a resident on Saffrei:-
hill, was brought up by Thiielton, the Officer, to Hatton- airde:!,
charged under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that one
Dennis O'Callaghan departed this life a few days ago, which pro-
duced a very animated scene among his relations, as will be beg
understood by the tale of Mrs. Norry O'Brien—" Plase your Ho-
nour," said she, " we were all sitting very comfortable round pot.r
Dennis, and as pleasant as you plase, and to give everybody their
due, Mrs. O'Callaghan made everything genteel, and gave "
plenty of good whiskey. In truth, she saw us so happy, that she
burst out crying, and said, " Oh ! if my poor Dennii (Gen rest Les
soul) could open his eyes, how it would glad his heart to ree us all
so snug !" when in tomes Mrs. `Murphy, and she goes to i‘t
poor Danis. "Oh! says she, he's the handsomest corpse I tver
in my life r say s I," I crave your pardon, Ma'am, my tart itusW;;;l
was as handsome a Corpse as ever be was." Upon which she to
no more to do but goes to the fire-place and pulls out a hot brie:•
bat and clapped it to my face.—The appearance et Ilk r face ait•-
pensed with the necessity of any human testimony ; her nose had
lost much of its prominence, and there was a mark on her foren: ail
that proved that Mrs. Murphy was determined to- be enahkil
recognise her friend in future.—Mrs. Murphy was attended :la
tail of the most respectable neighbours, who bad all pledged don-
s:lyea to give testimony in her favour, but becoming suddville pace
struck, they withdrew, and poor Mrs. Murphy, unassisted l'Y
Courisel or witnesses, made a brief defence :—" Plase lour llo•
Hour, when I went in to the Wake the devil a drop of the whiikty
was left, which so aggravated me, that I could nut drink' Gnp
with poor Dennis,' and I certainly lost my senses."—The
g.strate not conceiving that this tender regard for the dead w:1-
santed such conduct, as it was likely to add to the number of :!.,'
departed, ordered the defendant to find bail—On returoing, to
tba
outer Office, Mrs. Murphy proceeded to upbraid her " fa''e
friends" fist nut" standing to her,"•in such violent language, '"'t
caps and hair so speedily exchanged owners, it is probable that
drake of poor Dennis will be a memorable event in the arms' of
Saffron hill.