Star.
London, England, 1822-08-01 00:00:00

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WINDSOR, JULY SO.

Saturday being the election day of the young Gen-
tlemen of Eton College, great numbers of Ladies and
Gentlemen attended, to see them break up for the
Holidays. In the evening they had their usual Re-
gatta on the Thames, and the spectators were nume-
rous to see them proceed on their aquatic excursion.
We had a numerous company of Nobility, Gentry,
and inspectable persons assembled on the Terrace on
Sunday evening, to hear the Ist Life Guards' Band
play some charming pieces. The neighbouring No-
bility in general attend the Tet face to hear this ex•
cellent Band, whose days of performing are Sundays
and Thursdays. •

It is said in the fashionable circles that a treaty of
marriage is on the tapir between Lord JOHN Rtissa
LL
(son of the Duke of BEDFORD) and Miss CoussMAKER,
niece of Lord and Lady Da CLIFFORD.
The Dowager Duchess of RUTLAND left town yes-
terday for Lord Fontanelles seat, in Salop.
The Marquis of Slaw left the Clarendon Hotel,
Bond-street, yesterday evening for Paris. •
The Earl of BRADFORD has arrived.in town from
his seat in Salop.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE left Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street, yesterday, for his seat in Scotland.
The Countess of HARDWICKE left town yesterday
Car Ramsgate.
Lord RANCLIFF arrived yesterday at the Sc James's
Hotel, Jermyn-street, from a tour.
Lord MaLsotraNE entertained a distinguished party
at dinner yesterday, at his house, Whitehall. •
Lord and Lady DR 10wrsratwvILLR and family left
town yesterday, for their seat, Thedy Park, Cornwall.
Sir Lorrus and Lady OTwAY have left town for
Tunbridge Wells.
Sir GEORGE WOMBWELL, Bart. and family left town
yesterday for their seat in Suffolk.
The Hon. C. E. PELHAM has left town for the Isle
of Wight.
Monsieur and Madame ZEA are arrived at Blake's
Hotel, Jermyn,street, from Rickmansworth.
W. E. Lock HART, Esq. M. P. left town yesterday
for his seat in Scotland.
HENRY FARLEY, Esq. and his bride are arrived in
St. James's-street, from Bath.
The Right Hon. the SPEAKER of the House of
Commons has taken one of the houses on the Great
Terrace,• Worthing, and Lord OssuLsrox another.
Lord BAGOT has ordered all arrears of rent to be
struck off his Steward's books.

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Words cannot do justice to the extraordinary eor►
tions which we find are hourly making in the lament.
able case of Mrs. EMERY and her distressed family.
Every day's subscription evinces how much the Public
appreciate the merits of the generous and liberal-
hearted Joux EMERY; and how much real sympathy
they feel for the appalling distresses into which his
sudden death has plunged his amiable wife and seven
young children. A number of new subscriptions were
received yesterday. Mrs. Covers, with her usual li-
berality, has sent £lOO. This tribute, we understand,
is intended by the amiable benefactress as merely to
covet the funeral expenses, mourning, &c. but that
her humanity is to be still farther extended towards
a future provision for the family. The Box-book for
the Benefit, which is to take place on Monday, begins
to wear a very flourishing aspect. His Royal High-
ness the Duke of Yoax is to be present on the occasion.
Monday last the following melancholy occurrence
took place near the village of Lancing, in the vici-
nity of Worthing :—Three youths of the names of
Gomery, Harwood, and Kimber, about sixteen and
eighteen years of age, and a boy Of the same of Tate,
who were employed, some at plough and others reap-
ing, in the Millfield, left their respective occupations
in consequence of a heavy shower, and took-shelter
under a shelving pan of a neighbouring chalk-pit,
when the torrent is supposed to have entered a fissure
above, which detached a large portion of, chalk, and.
they were in an instant buried in the mass. On dig-
ging out the bodies the vital spark was extinct in
three of them, viz. Gomcry, Harwood, and Tate, and
the other apparently hastening very fast to dissolu-
tion, but who, contrary to expectation, rallied, and is
still alive, with fractures of the leg and thigh, and
considerable internal injwy. On hearing of the ac-
cident, Mrs. COUTTS, with that promptitude and hu-
manity which mark her character, hastened to the
families of the sufferers, and is extending her bene-
volent aid to mitigate as much as possible the feelings
of their wretched parents and relatives.
Tuesday an Inquest was held on the body of J.
Ruff, aged 18 months. The mother of the deceased
resides at No. 5, Mitcham-street, Edgeware-road.—
On Saturday morning at breakfast, she turned up.the
bedstead, the deceased was missed, and on pulling
down the bedstead, was discovered dead. At the

time the mother turned it up she never thought of
her baby, who was lying in bed asleep, being in a
♦iolent rage at the moment, having bad a 'quarrel.
with one of her lodgers about some rent. The bed
was turned up about an hour before she Missed the
child.—The Jury in strong terms, animadverted on
the conduct of the mother, and returned a verdict—
That the deceased was accidentally smpthered by its
own mothers

A deplorable event lately plunged in grief a respeCt-
able family at Montelamer (department of Drome),
in France. Four Ladies had been to bathe in the
river Rubion, and one of them slipping into a deep
hole, disappeared. Two sisters, one of whom was
four months gone with child, also disappeared in their
endeavours to save the first. The fourth screamed
for assistance, and the soldiers. of the gall ison, hearing
her cries, rescued her. They then brought. up the
three sisters, bet they woman dead.

An Indian Chief being asked his opinion-of a cask
of Madeira wine, presented to him by an Officer of,
the East India Comfrany's service, said le Thong*
its ')nice extracted from weivea's tongues and lions',
heart's, " for after drinking a bottle of it, I can talk
for ever, and fight the devil.' •

A bair-drelier at Halifax informed one of-his cus-
tomers, ,the other morning, that he had just been
finishing Or an attorney in that- place, who bad de
parted soon after to York, to attend his professional'
.:sl4ties at the Attigist. 'On which the Gentleman in-
quired Whi;the'liOlier; bad any cause to try there?
No," replied Thé 14iittatoir, “ I bad much rather
shave a lawyer than let a lawyer shave me."