Star.
London, England, 1824-06-07 00:00:00

SOL7II.43IPTON, JUNE 5.

This delightful town has assumed something of its summer
gaiety. Each day brings an accession of visitors, and many families
have passed through to the Isle of NVight. Our Water Itas been
enlivened by several of the yachts belonging to die Royal Yacht
Club, and Numerous have been the parties who have enjoyed the
pleasure of a sail during the few past days. air streets and roads
present an equally gay appearance,. graced asthey are by man; a
fair and lovely belle on horseback, with their attendant squires, and
by splendid equipages drawn by four five lag.

The Allgemeine Zrifititz of the '27th of May contain.;
the Art,trian EMPEROR'S notification from Prague on
the 19th, appointing Count NADASDY, President of the
Aulic Chamber, to the provisional direction of the Fi-
nance Department, vacant by Count STADION'S death.
•A•eek, Timithy Forster and John Miller, col-
liers, at Sheriff-nili enliiery, were connnitted to hard
labour it: the House of Correct;Jn at Darharn, for hay.
ing negligently taker, off the tors of their Davy lamps,
and thereby exposed the naked dame of the lam, )F, in
a part of the workings of the colliery which is liable
to be tilled with a-. 1 explosive mixture of fire-damp.—
Similar acts of car elesness are so frequantly committee,
to the imminent ii..k ~f tie lives of the cur tiers, that we
understand the coal-owners are determined to punish
every such art in I an:re with the utmost rigour.
A French Evening P.tper centains a narrative of the
alduction of a Miss :I::(.,ST)N, o an F.:10i.711
living with her parents in l'aris. The young Lady is
:aid to be only abcmt years of age; her violent
Isuitor, one el the fie crwps of i\loro,r vie, whose
initial is D. This Odicer hart asl.ed her in trarriage,
.and his add:csses Lad Lett rejetede. Ile then entered
into a conspi.acy with his mcalio and step-father to
c...: ber off by force. She was carried to Caen, h
Normandy, and la.lged in a house of bad fame. 'the
place of her concealment was ntentioneJ to her di,.
tracted parents by two girls of the town. Iler father
immediately proceeded to Caen, and recovered his
daughter. The young garde du corps, his step-father,
and his mother, have been arrested, and will snort be
put on their trial.
MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION.—At Compton, near
Newbury, to receive the water off the surrounding hills,
opposite the Swan Inn, is a reservoir vs% o feet squat,,
which discharges itself by means of a brick tunnel pass-
ing. under the road thirty yards in length, and only
three feet diameter. Dui ing the late rains, a child, two
years of age,fell into the reservoir, and instantly disap-
peared. The persons who witnessed the accident con-
sidered the death as certain, when, to their asto-
nishment, it was observed to fl.._at oat at the end of the
tunnel, the legs first. It was in,tantly rescued, and by
the attention of Mr. Goswell was soon recovered.

Thursday morning, a carter in the employ of Messrs.
Whitchurch and Co. brewers, Sarum, took a team of
'hotses into the river at Eling to wash them, with their
harness on, and not berng aware of the depth or the
water, or from some other cause, six of the best were
drowned. The loss is estimated at 2001. The carter was
taken up apparently dead, but he afterwards recovered.
Tuesday, at Sudbury, in the parish of All Saints, as
two persons, of the names of Bonny and Fordham, tl:e
first a pensioner, and the other a tailor, were talking to-
gether in the glrden rt. the latter, he stooping to look
at some radishes which-were growing there, was stabbed
with a clasp-knife between the ribs, above four inches
deep, by the former, wi:hont the least pro :r.cation, ar
an angry word being given ; then deliberately walked
some way up the pablic %treet, till he was stopped with I
the bloody knife in his hand.
The Rev. Dr. DUNBAR has, by a series of experiments
in Scotland, ascertained, that when a Queen Bee is
wanting for a hive, her Majesty can be and is produced
from the egg of a working bee. In one experiment,
having removed the Queen, the bees set about con-
structing royal cells, and placing common larva in
them; in seven days two Queens were formed. O::e
of these killed the other, and though wbile in a virgin
state, treated with no distinction whatever, she no sooner
,began to lay, than she became the object of constant
solicitude and respect, to crowds of her admiring sub-
jects, who watched, fed, and waited upon her.
The following account of a murderous rencontre, for
it deserves no other name, is related in an United States
Paper of the 25th March. The affair took place on the
19th of that month :—" Major Kilcrease, of Lawrence
county,Tennessee, with two other Gentlemen, was riding
apparently out of town, when he was met by Col. Lown,
of this vicinity—they were both armed. Colonel Love
had his pistol in his hand—Major Kilcrease had his in his
holsters. Colonel Lowe had approached the Nl•ijor so
nearly before he discovered him, that he had not time
to draw his weapon. To avoid the file, Major Kilcrea,e
threw himself from his horse, and at the same instant
Colonel Lowe's pistol was discharged. No injury was
done—but before Major Kilcrease could return the
shot, who, when he fell, took with him one of his pis-
tols, and on foot pursued the Colonel a short distance,
Colonel Lowe had got into a house, where he I elaaded
his pistol. Major Kilcrease afterwards walked in the
difection of the house in which Colonel Lowe then was,
with his pistols in his hands. Colonel Lowe stepi:ed
out, and at a distance of about twenty yards they levelled
at each other, and Major Kilcrease fell, having received
a shot in his forehead. He lived until the `24d imtant,
when he breathed his last. We make no comments, as
the transaction will be investigated by the pope: tii-
banal. It was a horrible spectacle to be acted in the
face of a civilized community—we wish never again to
witness such another. Major Kilcrease, we understand,
was an active, enterprising, and respectable man, and
has left an amiable wife and keveral children to bewail
his untimely end."
The following singular story appears in the South-
ampton County Chronicle:

1; Extract of a letter from Honileur.—A curious circumstance
eceurred to a banker in this town, a few nights si:.ce. A person
who had been in the wine and spirit trade failed for a considerable
earn in this banket 'a debt. He received a polite invitation from
him, to say, that if he would come and spend the evening with
him, he would endeavour to arranie matters so as in time to liqui-
date the account. The banker gladly accepted the invitation, :ad,
upon his entering the suing-room, the lady of the house stued tip
and locked the. door; immediately two men aocered from an inner
room with crape over their faces, and laid hold of the visitor
(nearly seventy years of use), and put a gag in his mouth, and with
a pistol to each ear, made him sign draita on.his diff.tr2r.t. corre-
spondents in Paris and lionen, to the amout.t of 800,0:0 (tires;
the bra set of His he signed in a different band from his t.sual
'hand-writing; but on handing the drafts to an accomplice who
stood omi..ide, and wh,e was well acquainted with Ilia sisieeture,
the bills were handed back, and he was utMged to sizo fresh on.e.
This detained him from eight to twelve o'clock, vrltea he was Cu
rated. One of the men was apprehended next day, on hoard eio:
steam-boat that plies between this town and lievre, and has con.
fesstd that the man of the house had a hole dug in bis cellar, ta,
.4:et deep, to bury him, as the intention was to murder him, but fin
the servant-maid ca!;irg several times to know what kept her ill;M•
ter out so late. It is needless to say that the man and his wife ab-
sconded. After six lays' search in all directions, the wife was ap-
pici,,,ka, in a wet and dirty state, hidden in a hetite; but the
man has hitherto eluded his pursuers, though it is not probable be
will finally escape. The banker sent expresses ne a mer Ling to
Paris, &c. to stop payment of any bill of hir that alight be offered.

POLICE I‘TELLIGENCE.

BO W-ST r.r.T.

A party of the diAmountrd patrol, who hat! lr.•en stationed
EpSO.n RACC Course, brought "ati a,sortint•ni cif pickpockets t,. !t,
office on Saturday morning, to be dealt %vim according to liw, ;he
said pickpockets baring been caught exercising craft ev.,4
matteo lieges, at Epsom races assembled._

Chorea liarriron NVA4 detectt,l icy nne of the p -trot nn l'hur, 'ay
morning, in the act of transferring a handktreiiief front a.. p,:ci,t
of aii4:ther man, %vim chose to taint-11.k% all ti;' t and
bandktrel,ief, rather than travel to London to illy':

Tit? pr;t:o::er it the son of an hottest carpenter at ISity;.,,tt:a, and !s
Lirxrlra servant to a store-nunt.n in that tnwth li. t!..e,:be4
himself as hair,; eighteen ye:tri old, and declartd :his to he hts fin:
ntience.-33:. (the t•itting Maghtrate) siirsctesi Lim to be
detained, ttnri his :.a.hcr writien to. _

liiclau•d Warr, a Eboreditch lad, aged fifteen, wis
Lis band in the brtecke4 pocket of a person who
with knocking the raid hand out agiin, and kicking :he !:!t• a;
its owner.—Deithce—" I ant the son of a garl,ner
and i went down to C.,e races to run a few cart's of she
hoses; bt:t I tizver did noting of that th..re what thq
Ordered to be cattaloed, and his !.ather st•sa for.

Geurge I%lmidl,, a t•earlet-gyartered bumpkin, in a vAveteen :0'•
was Seen to niAte SCVQII t nSUCCeL I.'ll dips lilt° 1,0/01
and, lest he =!;n Id succeed will% the pi rt 4 to,k k•H,
Lan custody. The Int:inner gave htntself an exceaeo, character, z,
denied that be had dipped. at all. He said further, that h.•
distressed agricultural labourer, from i\le:lisha..l, in \Vat,. a.l
having got acquainted ',ids a fiddler, on the road up tie cote..iry
see for v.iork, f•e went with him ,-) Rp-ons (laces, I•r
!tote been E7ueescd tip tight against r.lany Gentlemen
bolt to say he put hand to the p.:c'tet of our of thetas vr4s
non-comprei;risiv::.
Mr. iiintsout.t. r.tlced Mtn if he knew the name of the Clergyarin
at Al, _ _ _

" Know ! re?had he. " ayc, I knows him as as ILrlcr;
fry own cawnt Until( of his vaatite just now. ;•,•.4
uainr ! wiiat it ?"--',Scratchine; his a-al:into). !
—Oiik Philip Andrew+; anti a better Sanas Fitter atete
iu all Wiltslere, Ict ;11.. 'tother be whica he may r

" Aye, I thought I should find yuu out,' Snit o:s Worship-4 tlei
mines t f th.: (I,l%,:intati at 'IL lkslthtn happens tli
"()tiau~it I Mr. Smith be the poosurt 1. jo:red the
Melkshatilite—`• I th out you'd meaot hat th y cairn the
eark—the saute-singer, like. Mr. Ssiiilh be t ; —hr be a
/run/diet sort of a chap beast he ; and he lthee go. a -.0.1 r pintos,
haven't he? Sure I knows 'rill well Cliobah :Le I AL. in
Melkshain lttiuws me as well as I knows f.:r I burn,
bred, and reared i'th' place?'
The Magistrate told him it was a pity he did not r:tnsai where
he was so well known ; and ordered that he should be C.c.ai!lea
until some further inquiry could be mude tespectti:;;
13,!1in And /Alma Alien, a couvle of iv,ll known Whitt..
chapelers. were charged on suspicion of having been concerned in
bustling a Mr. Rougemont on the liacescohise, and robhiug hint
• of his gold watch; and Join Vestryty w::s char; •d t n -u.pic:on of
having stolen a p::c:ret-b 13k, vett.titi:.,l two 101. tiatei .17,1 fade
verei;os, from th.: person of Mr. S. Potter (a int rchant to th.: cry;,
whilst he was enjoying th:: contest lot the 1) :by. tit,re xt:tt
no very conclusive evidence Pgai::it :hem. VLstr.,y t, lend:tea
for further examination, and llatkin au.l A.:,11 were liberate,: tip
giving bail for their appearance at tire Quarter &satins.
.13t:orscaut.—A country fellow, named Thomas Richardson, bl:t
better known among his acquaintance by the t.....mihar ,ttt, cf
Twangy Donkey, w.,s also brought up front t!le ft.:kr-rars?,
among the others, charged with b living ::,,occrtu-d in hreakny
open the premises ut Mr. Campb.ll, at Leit:l, ia the county c:
Kent. lie was given in charge to the p:rol an the Race-cants:by
another countryman, wh!rs...• hrutht.-r is i.i ,:usio,:y on suspicion cf
having had a hand in t':e s hurglary ; a:11 this witness hav:ng
him, Mr. Alissittmn directed that he should be Lana
down to Leith, to ne ex .t ta before, the 11;:ti :t :AO:* recess

Levers from Buenos .ivies, state t'at M. CASTAN
the D:Ttity appointed to Englan..l :o ne,mciate a loan,
&e. was s•xpected to sai! is a lex d,:ys, in the Lin isays,
for London. Mr. ALVEA rt, the Dizputy t the United
States, •.vas to s.a:l in the same vessel.
Mr. Graham mentions a curilus inctanee which oc-
curred 2.1.7ria; ha 'lat.! aerial aqcent. Mrs. G. threw oil.
an empty hag, which, iftor descending son.e. ,h,tance,
becani; asceozled to the level of tire car, and
remained with then till they descenOed. It at one time
reached as high as the curie of the balloon.
By an account laid before Parliament rf the Jar
paid for Stamps on Marine Pl/4.licies durinL.i, the last four-
teen years, it appears that in the year ending Jaattary
5, 1142-1., the total amount of dots- so paid, wa,