Star.
London, England, 1823-07-22 00:00:00

THE ROYAL FORESTS.

(FROM THE CROWN LAND COMMISSIONERS'
FOURTH REPORT).
The whole quantity of Forest Land now belonging to the Crown,
either in Fee, or subject to Rights of Common, is 12,622 acres:
and although the different measures taken with regard to each
Forest, have been noticed in former Report:, we think it will be
convenient here to bring together in one statement, the present
extent and state of all that property ; *hewing what has been ac-
quired for the growth of timber; and what further quantity may
probably be obtained for the same purpose.
The Particulars are as follows, viz. _ _

N
Number of Acres Number of Acres
iu each Forest. inclosed for the
Growth of Timber.
6,000
11,009
1.8R2
1,700
1,417
7;,895
1,121
1,841

New Forest
Dean Forest

86,942
23,015
1,892
5,949
1,417
5,424
1,847
3,709
3,278
4,402
3,847
900

Alice Holt Forest
Woolmer Forest
Bere Forest -
Whittlewood Forest
Sake), Forest .
Whichwood Forest
Waltham Forest
Windsor Forest

Delamere Forest
Parkhurst Forest

4,402
3,847
900

Acres

122,622

38,015

Yesterday morning, a Mn. Brydges, of Great St.
Andrew's-street, Seven Dials, haying occasion to leave
home for a short period, left her child, about six
months old, in the. care of a girl in the house, who,
during the mother's absence, laid the infant nn the

bed, and covered it over with the clothes, while she
went up stairs to do some work. In her absence, a
female, who was in the habit of cleaning Mrs.
Brydges's room, entered it and turned up the bed-
stead, unconscious of the child being in the bed, and
it was not until the return of the unfortunate mother

that the accident was discovered, when the child was
found quite dead.
Yesterday, as a labourer was employed repairing
the front of a house in Bury-street, Piccadilly, the
scaffolding gave way, and he was precipitated, from
the height of the second floor, to the stones, head-
foremost. He received a dreadful fracture on the

skull, and was carried in a state of insensibility to

St. George's Hospital, without any hopes of recovery.

The youth, M. Chechini, who performed the part
of the Prince, in the ballet of Cupid and Psyche, last
week, at Vauxhall, unfortunately lost his life on Sun-
day. Ile was bathing with his brother and Mr. Black-
more, the rope-dancer, when unfortunately he got
out of his depth, and sunk into one of the holes made
by the ballast-heavers in the bed of the river. Mr.
Blackmure gallantly endeavoured to save the life of
his friend at the risk of his own, but the effort was
unhappily vain. The body was soon after dragged
for, and found about two hours afterwards.
Sunday, a boat, with six persons in it, was run
down within sight of Battersea-bridge, and a youth
named Sawyer, of respectable parents, in Silver-street,
St. James's, was drowned. The ethers were picked
up, or swam on shore.
Monday se'nnight, Mr. Doig, a young man from
Errol, was carried off by the current and drowned,
while bathing in the Tay, at Broughty Castle.

Monday sennight, Joseph Orr, joiner, belonging to
the parish of Newburn, William Scott, and Robert
Orkney, fromMontrose, being much intoxicated•, went
out to sea, from Elie, in a small boat, with the inten-
tion of sailing round Kincraig Point : but they had
only proceeded a short way when the boat was upset,
and Orkney and Orr were drowned.

Monday se'nnight, the powder mill of Mr. BAR-1
KER, at Low Wood, near Backbarrow, Westmoreland,
was blown up (supposed to be owing to a man using
an iron hammer to rivet a tuck which was used in a
sieve for sifting the powder) by which two men
were killed. One named Pierce, has left a widow
and twelve children to lament his death; the other,
named Bathrope, has left a widow and two children
—all destitute of support.

Wednesday morning, a shocking accident happened
to a person named Penny, working at Mrs. Moss's
mill, at Brook-street, Chelnisford. This young man
was alone in the mill, and it is supposed was oiling
some part of the machinery, in doing which his clothes
were caught in the cogs-of the large wheel, which
drew his body in also, where he was crushed to atoms.

An Inquisition was taken on Saturday evening at
the Half-moon, Portpool-lane, Gray's Inn-lane, on
the body of Mr. James Hall, aged 28, an engineer at
Messrs. Reid and Co.'s brewhouse, Liquorpond-street.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. French, one of
the Gentlemen of the firm, Mr. Brown, the head en-
gineer, and others, that on Thursday night the de-
ceased
sat up to attend the engine, it being his turn;
at eight o'clock on Friday morning, Mr. Brown, the
other engineer, went to relieve him, but not seeing
him, he went to his lodging, in the same street, to
inquire after him, but learnt he had not been home
all the morning. Between eleven and twelve Mr.
French was sliming a party of Ladies over the brew-
house, and on coming to shew them the engine,
which was then at work, he perceived the body of
the deceased lying in a pit, 14 feet deep, under the
engine. The alarm was immediately given, and the
body was taken out, with the head smashed to pieces,
apparently front a blow by one of the arms of the
engine. Verdict—" Accidental Death."
SUDDEN DEATH.—Mr. Bott, one of the Inspectors
of the Borough Skin-market, in Suffolk-street, by
trade a butcher, has for some time been in the habit
of attending Newgate-market early in the morning.
previously to the commencement of his official duties
in the Borough. It is the practice, if the Skin In-
spectors are absent at six o'clock in the morning, when
their business should commence, to fine them 2s. and
on Saturday morning Mr. Bott, from his exertions in
runnin:; from Newgate-market to arrive at his post
in time, sank down and expired. He had twice be-
fore fainted from a similar cause.
IMPROVEMENTS IN MANUFACTURE. The New
Flaxen Linens, and the Imperial Patent Cloth (with the East
India goods), are among thaprincipal articles sold by the Piece,
&c. at M MLA ILDe, Importers of Foreign Linens and Cambric.,
at theit Foreign and BrkishWarehoese, Cheapside. The former
claiming the attention of every Family as a perfect and unfailing
durable Linen, manufactured effectually to avoid unequal wear
and dividing, on the same principle as their Double Warp Table
Linen, Diaper', and Huckabacks. The latter, as the first dis-
covery for wearing either tad :r linen, or as an ccoflomical sub-
stitute for it, and equally beneficial without being so reducing as
Satiric!, and especially in the warm as well as in the coil climates,
where the regular state of the circulating exhalation caused by
excessive heat or exercise, is so essential to protect. It is quite
' equal to the Madras Cloth of India, and now at nearly half
the price.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 19.
BURNING OF CASTLETOWN-ROCIIE MILLS.
NINZ MEN CONVICTED.
_

The following is an extract of a letter from Cork,
received by this evening's Mail: •
" Cork, Friday, Half-past Four o'Clock, LTC
" I have just witnessed a most affecting sight—
nine persons sentenced to execution in the .County
Court, for burning the mills at Castletown-roche.
The men are of the better description, and heard their
fate without a murmur. One of them, a most re-
spectable looking man (named ,Sullivan, I am in-
formed), addressed the Court, arid requested, inas-
much as their characters had been heietofore good,
it would grant them a long day, in order that they
might prepare themselves for their dreadful fate.
" Judge Burros, evidently overpowered, said he
should consider on it, and grant such time as the law
would allow under the circumstances.

" The prisoner said, thank you, my Lord, and
bowed. The sentence was most impressively deli-
vered, and while the Judge addressed the prisoners,
some of them wept in the dock." _ _

" Quarter past Five &Clock.
" A troop of the mounted police have now arrived
to take them in charge to the county gaol. No hopes
of mercy have been held out to them. The convicted
prisoners are—the two Hennessys, Sullivan, Leahy,
Murphy, Sheehan, Magner, Flyn, and Finn. The
approver was Dunden, who swore to eleven of them,
Fouloo and Brien in addition to the others. Charles
Hennessy was the prosecutor, who swore to five of
them. Ir was at Ballygoggin, in this county, they
burned two mills, a house, and a stable:'

At nine o'clock on the morning of July the 16th,
several ruffians attacked the Dripsey Paper Mills,
belonging to James and John Magnay, Esqrs. sons
of Mr. Alderman Magnay, of London. Twelve
armed men entered the premises, tied two persons
who were in charge of the place, smashed to fritters
a patent paper-machine, valued at 1,2001. broke two
large doors, and having demolished other articles,
rejoined their outside accomplices, with whom they
retreated. The Proprietors of the Dripsey Mills are
respectable inoffensive Gentlemen, who employed a
great number of poor people in the concern. This
act of miscreancy which we have recited, has wan-
tonly deprived the poor workmen of subsistence.with-
out any provocation of which we are aware, and will
confirm the apprehensions which, greatly to the in-
jury of this country, are entertained is England of
embarking capital in Ireland.
The Dublin Correspondent observes on this out-
rage, that • " Those mills belonged to an English
Company, Gentlemen of the first respectability—who
were about to expend a capital of 30,0001. which
would have given employment to upwards of two
hundred persons! The Messrs. Magnays are not
Irish Landlords, Magistrates, or Tithe-owners—they
came to lay out money, establish manufactures, and
give employment—and their property was destroyed
in the dead of night ! We could write a serious com-
mentary upon this fact—but it would not be liberal
—and we have not room."

Monday night a horse was stabbed,, and five cows
were houghed, on the lands of Glaunminane, in the
parish of Glauntane, the property of a man named
Kelcher.—Cork Chronicle.

MURDER.—Wednesday last, Mr. William Wood, of
Eyam, Derbyshire, was discovered murdered by the
road-side, between Disley and Whaley-bridge. This
atrocious murder, there is reason to suppose, was com-
mitted by three men in sailor's clothes, who followed
him through Disley, b-all parties having previously
met by accident at a public-house in How-lane. Mr.
Wood (being on foot), left the house, and was fol-
lowed in about tea minutes by the three men, who
came up with him within a short distance of Whaley,
where he was found, his pockets turned inside out,
and his bead beaten in the most dreadful manner
possible. Mr. Wood was 30 years of age, and has
left three children ; and there is reason to fear the
murderers have had a considerable booty, as he te-
ceived a large sum in Manchester, though he paid
several accounts on the day of the murder. The
villains proceeded to Macclesfield, where they got
each a new suit of clothes, and went directly to Man-
chester, where they were taken into custody.
ASTONISHING PRESERVATION..—Mr. JAS. TEAGUE,
of Davidson County, residing on the waters of Ab-
bott's Creek, was struck by lightning while walking
in his corn-fields, on Wednesday, the sth June. He
was but a few hundred yards from his house"; his sons
saw him fall, ran to him, found him apparently dead,
and brought him to the house. They sent immedi-
ately for their next neighbour, Captain ORAL, a Gen-
tleman of improved mind and much medical reading,
though not a physician. The most convenient and
ordinary resuscitating remedies were applied, parti-
cularly the warm bath and friction. In perhaps forty
minutes he shewed symptoms of returning life, and
gradually mended, so that when Dr. SHUMAN arrived
there from Salem, there was nothing to be done but
give general directions. Now to the phenomenon ;
the electric fluid struck him near the top of the head,
on the left side, and took a range down behind his
ear, singeing all the hair, and burning the skin in its
passage, about the breadth of half an inch ; when it
came in contact with the shoulder, it inclined to the
' front, making down the centre of his bosom, taking the
hair off, and scorching the skin ; on coming .to the
abdomen, it inclined to the left, and made the deepest
burn on the left of the navel ; it then took a conrse
downwards, and separated into two columns, the
largest one continued down his thigh and leg, and the
lesser took down his tight, burning off all the hair in
its passage; and where the skin was not actually
cauterized it was changed to a livid colour. The
fluid, in passing from him, entered the ground, making
a hole of about an inch and a half in diameter.
After it had penetrated the earth, six or eight inches,
it was opposed by a small stone, which divided it,
whence it descended by two apertures; and so far as
they have been examined, the passages widen as they
descend. Mr. TEacox's hat was torn to fragments,
and some of them propelled to every side, to the dis-
tance of thirty feet. Twenty-five of the fragments
have been collected. His left shoe was torn into three
pieces, one of which was found forty feet from where
he lay. His shirt was on fire at the point of the
deepest burn, when his sons got to him. The aper-
tures
.smelt like the washing of a gun-barrel, and so
did Mr. T. until lte as washed.--Afraericaie Papef.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S, JULY 21.

Notwithstanding the're are several County Races of great re-
spectability at issue, Tattersall's to-day was very well attend d
by Gentlemen of the highest respectability on the Turf, as well
as by the adventurers of every description. The Doncaster St.
Leger now drawing neer, induces every sporting man to inquire
into the changes on the different horses in the great stakes, which
are daily taking place. There was a good deal of betting, and
to very high figures, but nearly all the engagements were made
on the Leger. Tinker keeps his station ; Sherwood has crept up
a point, a 0 no doubt will become quickly again the first fa-
vourite. Tancred has moved a point, and Miss Fanny getting
again into favour. Claude Lorraine has got up two points, and
Palais Royal is much thought of. The other horses were not
much noticed, and stood nearly as before stated. In the Dt:rby
Stakes Vourneen stands at two points better than on .111onday
last. Agnes and Pantina nearly as before, and the other horses
are slightly gone back.

4 to 1 agst Tinker
45 to 1 agst Sherwood (taken)
6 to 1 agst 'Fancied
9 to 1 agst Miss Fanny
14 to 1 agst Claude Corinne
DE

DONCASTER ST. LTGER..
1.7 CO 1 agst Palais Royal
25 to 1 agst Abron
25 to 1 apt Columbus
50 to 1 agst Huffiest John
30 to 1 agst 3lercandotti
REV.
IS to 1 agst Corinne
tS to 1 agst Swiss
20 to 1 agst Cressida
20 to 1 agst Brown Bess
NS.

8 to 1 agst Vourneen
5 to 1 agst Pantina colt
5 to 1 agst Agnes colt
8 to 1 agst Reserve colt

6 to 1 agst Prudence
9 tn 1 apt Briceis

Nigh odds• against any other