Star.
London, England, 1825-04-05 00:00:00

NAVAL IATELLIoENCR.

Artived off Falmouth, the Lady Mary Pelham packet, from the
Leeward Islands.

The Steel, .1014 s, front Cork to 13erbiee, foundered about 17
days after sailing. The Master is arrived at St. Kitt's.
The Hawkesbury, Htccs, from London to Quebec, got on shore
in a fog about three miles West of Newhaven, but gut of again,
and proceeikd.
Fm.mourti, Aran. 3.—Wind variable, light aim—Sailed the
Joseph and Fanny, Cossrrr ; Fanny, Alot.t.oas; Zino, Tsustse;
Pole Tender, BLaccatolte ; Abeona, LLOYD; and Ftieniship, Fir,
all for London.

PORTiMiNUTH, APRIL 4.—Wind variable, light airs.—Sailed the
Superb, GEORGE, for Rotterdam; and Falmouth, LIVILLOGS, for
London, in tow of the Mountaineer steamer.
Dr.al., Aram 4.—Wind E. and variable.—‘Passed through for
the River, the Hudson, Cuamer.or, from New York.
LIVERPOOL, Aram 3.—Light airs.—Arrived the Bahia packet,
blivenstz, from Paraiba; Paulina, Marian: from Mobile;
Dolphin, ATWELL, from New Orleans; Caroline, Jonas,. from
Boston; and Trident, CLASLSTOII, from Trieste.
Arivrouat, FEB. 14.—Tbe Horace, MEWiCRN, from Kennebunk,
has been towed into St. Barthohnew's,waterlogged and abandoned.
The Liberty, Enter, from the same Fusee, arrived here on the 7th
inst. leaky, and in distress.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 4. • •
SHIPS PETERED INWARDS Vrow Vetitze, from Lisbon;
Georgina, from Dunkirk; Vrow Alberdina, from Antwerp; Ann,
from Standgate Creek; and Fermosa, from Newcastle.
ENTERED Ourvsaans--Salsis, for Cadiz; Edinburgh packet, for
Rotterdam ; and Lusitania, for Oporto.
CLLA INO Outwata us—Thetis, and St.Lavrrence, for l limbo rgit ;
St. Lawrence and Percy, for Quebec; Africa, for Ceylon; Jane,
for Malta; Minstrel, for New South Wales; and Kitty, for St.
Petersburgb.

There are now in France 1800 establishments de-
pendent on female religious congregations, though the
law of 1817 authorized no more than 1500.
From a lemon tree in the Orangerie of Sir• .10111 C
NEWPORT, Bart. near Waterford, 762 full grown lemons •
were last week gathered. Upwards of 150 were gathered
in September and October, and more than 100 are left.
aad now growing nu the same tree.
Throughout Europe more than nine-tenths of the
steam boats now in use are the property of Englishmen.
The steam boats at Venice and Naples are English pro-
perty; and an English Company has proposed to esta-
blish others upon the Lakes of Switzerland.
Mr. Hathway, a respectable farmer of Tockenhanz.
who attended at Malmesbury fair, had in the afternoon
been drinking with some strangers in an upper r4orn of
an inn at Malmesbury; and shortly afterwards, we are
informed, one of the strangers told the servant that Mr.
Hathway was taken ill, requested that he might be •
to bed, and se that he would soon be better." This
quest was attended to, and within a few minutes .
strangers left the house. At about eight o'clock, some
one entered the room to see how Mr. Hathway was:
when he was discovered a corpse! Strong suspicious
are entertained as to the cause of his death, as only
was found in his pocket. A correspondent informs
that when Mr. Hathway sat down to dinner. he had
considerable amount of cash in his pocket, and that
respectable-looking individuals, who were at the ordi-
nary, retired with him after dinner into a private room.
and it was observed, that when the waiter brcught
glasses, one of them rose, and took them in at
door. and it is suspected infused a poison into
liquor. The unfortunate man has left a widow and
children.—Bath Journal.
A Capitalist being asked what he thought of the .
numerable new speculations now afloat? replied, " they'
are like a cold bath ; to derive any benefit from which,
it is necessary to be very quick be and very soon out."
Maausonossan-Stiuurr.—The driver of the hackney chariot
455, summoned Mr. Gurney, M.P. for refusing to pay him
full fare.
The continua said that Mr. Gurney hired bins on the coach.
stand in great Quebec-meet, New road; took him from theses
his (Mr. Gurney's) house, in Park-street, Regent's Park, and from
thence to Regent•street, Piccadilly; and for this distance the Geer
denim refused to pay him more than 2.6. although the regular
was se. He (the coachman) was obliged to senunon Mr.
Mr. Gurney himself did not appear, but his servant
and said, that Mr. Gurney bad directed him to say that he had
several times gam the same distance, and'had never paid merethen
2s. inasmuch as the distance did not 'peed two dies.
Mr. Boa, the Magistrate, upon looking ever the map, eadtradog
out the line spoken of. said that he was strongly inclined to think
that the distance was ever two miles, and that the driver was right •
but that if Mr. Gurney persisted, the most satisfactory way w,
be to have the ground measured by the proper eater. But to
1 this dome, each party must deposit ss. the party in the eight to
his money returned.
The coachman immediately put down his So. ludeed with ends
alacrity that the other party might have calculated pretty closely
front it that be had no chance.
Mr. Gurney's servant, however, said, that on the pest of his man.
ter be would not be backward. and be also derided Ss.
Mace, the messenger. proceeded with the ammo* instrument
to ascertain the ma distance, and. on his roma, bdog swo nob-
dared that It was SOO yard over the two miles.
" I thought so" (said machee, smiling archly).
The coasequenee was, that instead of 3s. the original fine
Gurney had is pay not only that sans, but 0. fid. mew, its. for
' coachman's loss of time, besides the forfeiture d his apilasil
so that, In the whole, this two miles' ride cost 10s.