Star.
London, England, 1824-12-24 00:00:00

NAVAL IN I ELLIGENCE.

The Briton, Witsmr, from Port Medway, was driven on shore
on Foreness, Margate, on Wednesday night, and sunk.
The Providence, Goonnu.t., from London to Leeds, was driven
on shore near Mundesley, on Wednesday—feared will go to pieces.
The Friendship, of Hull, from London ; and Spring, of York,
for Hull, were driven on shore at Winterton en Wednesday night.
The Ann, of Jersey, was lost on Scroby Sand on Wednesday night.
The Sylph, BROWN, from Prince Edward's Island to Bristol, is
on shore in the Bristol Channel, but expected to be got off.'
The Harmony, Barsvow, is totally wrecked in Bigbury Bay. -
The Fortuna, Winos., was totally lost the 19th inst. off Portland.
The Sandeca Connica is lost in Swansea Bay.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 22.—1 t has blown a tremendous gale frees
W.& W. from yesterday, four, P.M. to this time, two, e.in.—Arrived
the Lord Melville packet, from the Brazils.
PORTSMOUTH, Dic. 23.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the City of Ge-
noa, CRAWFORD, from St. Domingo, with loss of anchor and cable;
Fanny Voase, LUTLN, front Oporto ; Eliza, ---, from Petersburgh ;
and Brunswick, GRAHAM, from St. Domingo. Arrived front the
Downs the Catherine Green transport, for Sierra Leone; and
Urania, LIYHON—the latter saw a ship on fire last Sunday, off Cape
La Hogue. Put back the Leander, Farm, and Alknomack, FAMUID.
Dear, Dec. 23,—Wied N.W. by W.—Arrived the Canada;
Reneavn, from Quebec. Passed through front the River, the
Mersey, fur Barbadoes.—The Venus, Bramley, Essex, William
Bryan, and London, made their numbers at noon, all well.
Lryzaroot, Dec. 21—Wind W.—Arrived,the Integrity, han-
som from Jamaica—sailed 30th October ; and Hero, --- from
Oporto. The Leander, Flume, from New Orleans to this port,
struck on the rocks in Denlough Bay, sear Mixon Head, on the
19th instant ; crew and passengers saved—the vessel will be totally
lost. Also arrived the Camilla, Paowsz, from Newfoundland.—,
The Corsair, Prrate, of this port, arrived yesterday from Charles.
ton, after an extraordinary quiet passage of 17 days and a half.
SWUM, Dec. 22.—The Lord Nelson, Coos, trom Hamhurgh,
has been seized by the Customs, for having contrabmd goods on
board. The Zephyr transport, bound to Leith, has put in here,
wind bound.

The New York Commercial Advertiser contains the
following interesting extract from a Jamaica Paper:-
0 At St. Jago de la Vega, William Lee, a blacksmith and farrier,
was convicted of branding his slave on the shoulder with an iron
used for marking hones. The slave, a girl of thirteen years of age,
was brought into Court, and the marks exhibited. The Judge pro-
nounced it a most atrocious ease ; declared the girl to be free and
sentenced Lee to pay a fine of £luO, and to be imprisoned
months and ordered £lO per annum for life to be paid to the girl
out of the parish funds."
We yesterday gave an account of the robbery of the
Stirling mail, and stated that .one of the robbers had
been apprehended. The amount of the notes stolen
is said to have been 13,000/. of which 2,4001.
were of the Bank of Scotland. The robbery was
effected in the following manner. A man took his seat
at Stirling as an outside passenger. The mail was fol-
lowed closely from Stirling by a gig, in which there
were two men. When the mail arrived at Yirkliston,
the guard stopped to take out the customary bags to
leave there. The gig also stopped, and the two men in
it stepped into the house. The guard had unfortunately
left the mail-box open,where the parcels were deposited.
The outside passenger easily accomplished his object in
abstracting the whole, and left the coach, not intending
as he said to proceed any farther in the Edinburgh
road. The coach drove off conceiving all was right.
The gig, with the two men, were observed to take the
Queensferry road. The parcels were not missed till the
mail reached Edinburgh. On the Queensferry road the
two men in the gig had been joined by their accom-,
plice, the outside passenger. In their progress the gig 11
broke down, or, what is more probable, was broken by,
them, to appear as an excuse for leaving it on the road,
.where it has been found; and the three men took a post-
chaise for Edinburgh. They discharged the chaise
when they came near the city, and gave the post-boy
who drove them 31.
Letters from Para, dated October 24, state that Lord
COCHRANE was hourly expected at Maranham, and that
his presence would, in all probability, restore tranquillity
to the province.
RUSSIAN POETRT.—The young poet Putman; has
completed a new production, which, though of no great
extent, surpasses, in the unanimous opinion of the cri-
tics, all his formes productions. The title is, The Foun-
tain Baktchissaria ; and M. PON AM A REU, a booksellerof
Moscow, has given him 3000 roubles for the copyright.'
The poem contains about 600 lines, so that five roubles
per line have been paid for it, a thing unknown before
in Russia.—Literary Chronicle.