Star.
London, England, 1824-01-26 00:00:00

WALKING AGAINST TIME.

Saturday se'nnight, an elderly Gentleman of Wingham, backed
hini‘elf again time, for a considerable wager, to walk from Wing-
ham church to the gates of the Canterbury I lopistal, a distance of
six mile;, which he completed in the space of one hour and 17 min.
winning the wager by a few seconds only.

It is said, that the man Jones, on whom Sir ASTLEY
COOPER performed the operation on Friday se'nnight,
of taking off the thigh-bone at the hip joint, is in a
rapid state of recovery, and that the greate,t hopes exist
of his being finally restored to health, the wound gra-
nulating very fast, and the adhesions of the upper parts
being perfect.
At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on the
19th inst. Margaret Boag was arraigned on the charges
of having murdered an old woman named Elizabeth
Low, or Al.Laren, at Dunning, Perthshire, in the month
of February, 1818 ; or of theft and reset of theft, in steal-
ing from the house of the deceased a quantity of linen
in webs and sheeting, and various other articles, the
property of the late Elizabeth Low, and having the
same unlawfully in her possession.—After a long trial,
the Jury returned a verdict of murder non proven, but
guilty of theft.—Lord PITNILLY said he could have no
doubt as to the sentence which should be pronounced.!
She had been acquitted of the murder, and consequently
of all accession to it; but no one could doubt that the
theft was of the most dreadful nature, aggravated by
being perpetrated after as fail and atrocious a murder,
as ever was known, and committed in the abode of a mur-
dered woman, whose corpse still lay upon the ground.
It amounted almost to a capital offence, and the Court
would ill discharge their duty to pass a milder sentence
than transportatign for life.

WATERI.OO.—The Government of the Nellie!landi
is about to erect a magnificent monument on the
plains of Waterier), in commemoration of the great t ic-
tory obtained there by the Allied Army, under the con -
mand of the Dake of WELLINGTON, in 1815. The cost
will he between eleven and 12,000/. sterling. A colossal
lion of ca,t metal will weigh upwards of ItYJ,ooolbs.
'A Gentleman of Southampton, who is just arrived
from Newfoundland, in the brig Brothers, of Port de
Grave, Newfoundland, bound to Dartmouth, has fur-
nished us with the farming information :
AN :tenacious Wilai.e.—On the Bth of December, 184.3, when
about a hundred miles from the coast of Newfoundland, at three
P.m. the men on the deck observed a large whale near the vessel,
who presently attracted the attention of all persons on board, and
who very soon gave us some cause for alarm as well as admiration,
for he passed directly under the after part of the ship, rubbing the
bottom 23 he west with such force as to shake the vessel, and to be
heard very distinctly in the cabin. Shortly after his cooling, ulla
passing under the vessel, as he rose up close to her quarter, he re-
sented a most monstrous and terrific appearance, which we were
at first unable to account for, not knowing whether it was the same
fish, or another huge monster of the deep, (71 which we had neither
seen nor heard any. description ; however, tits further observation,
We discovered that the whale was on his side, with his two white.
fins (each about ten or twelve feet long, and partially covered with
barnacles), stretched out, and reaching within a yard of the vessel,
and raised above the surface of the water several feet; while half
his tail was elevated to the height of six or 'even feet. We-were ap-
prehensive lie was about to strike the vessel with his tail and fins,
but were relieved by his quietly turning again on his belly. lie con-
tinued about the vessel closely for six hours, passing and repassing
under the utter part of her bottom, and sometimes rubbing very
hard; his boldness surpassed everything of the kind we bad ever
heard. of, for he frequently came so close to the vessel, and raised
his head out of the water so high, that a man in the chains might
have touched it with his hands; indeed, on one occasion, he rubbed
the quarter-piece of the vessel with his nose, and when he blew the
water from his nostrils (with. a noise like the roaring of a bull), it
sometimes fell like small rain upon us as we stood on the quarter-
deck. lle occasionally swain astern of the vessel, with !US DON
close to the rudder, and seemed very desirous of seizing one of fin,
quarters of beef which hung over the stern ; lie raised his head about
three feet above the water, and afforded us an opportunity of plainly
seeing his eyes and upper jaws- At length, about nine o'clock at
night he disappeared, leaving us very well satisfied with a disconti-
nuance of his very particular attentions. The weather was mode-
rate, and the vessel going only about two miles and a half pee hour
during the time of the whale. stay alongside of her.

BIRTH.
At Gillingham, the wife of Lieut. G. Ricketts, R.N. of a son.

I%IARRIIiD.

Jan. 20, the Rev. Jas. L. M. Scott, to Elizabeth, second daughter
of the late Rev. Edw. Lucas, of Cootehill, in the County of Cavan.
In George's Church, Dublin, on the 20th instant, the 11ev. Gco.
Scott, to Elizabeth, third daughter of the late John Richardson, of
Summer.hill, Esq. in the County of Fermanagh.
On the 22d instant, at Lymington, the Rev. Henry Allen, of
Trinity College, Oxford, to Aune Augustine, eldest daughter of
William Archer, Esq. of that place.
Tuesday, at Winchester, the Nev. T. Westeornb, to Mitt Lucy
15everalle, daughter of S. Deveralle. Esq. of Winchester.
January 21, at Staines, Middlesex, the Rev. Alfred Dawson, of
Grantham, Lincolnshire, to Sarah, daughter of the late Rev. J.
Yockticy, of the former place.
Atllullesby, Norfilk, on the 19th instant, the Rev. Richard Ear-
tescue Purvis, of Vicar's-hill House Hunts, to Elizabeth Ellea,
eldest daughter of the Rev. Thomas liaker, Rector of the Parish.
Tuesday last, Mr. H. W. James, M.A. of Peinbroke College, and
of the Classical Acaderny,Jersey-place, Cheltenham, to Miss Bar-
nard of that town.