Star.
London, England, 1830-06-17 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The emigration mania continues without abatement in
the neighbourhood of Canterbury. Several fanlike,
during last week quitted their native homes, taking u ail
them property to a very considerable amount. Ne•
York is the fancied paradise these people have fixed upon
as a residence. May their expectations be realized , _...
Kentish Chronicle.

Friday morning three families, named Anderson
Parker, and Burton, took their departure from
ningsby, for America: they were 30 in number, and
they went by Mr. Babington's boat to Liverpool. The,
were sent by the parish, which it is supposed will e,,;!
the parish 2001.—Burton Gazette.

The bill relating to Irish bankers provides, that anv
company of bankers, more that six in number, not hav-
ing their establishments less than fifty miles from Dublin.
may pay their notes in Dublin without being liable to axis
penalties for so doing ; but the notes so payable are
to be re-issued in Dublin.

Wednesday last, a woman in Mare was taken up by-
the county police there as one of the convicts who c-
caped from our city gaol. Knowing her innocence, and
having occasion to come to Limerick, she feigned th,
part, and was safely escorted on a car into town, where.
on her arrival, she was immediately liberated, to the
great disappointment of her captors, congratulating her-
self on her safe and easy conveyance.—Limerick Paper.
A warrant was issued on Friday by the magistrates
assembled in Petty Sessions, Cloumel, against William
Griffin, of Killaloan, who stands charged with having
destroyed a civil bill decree, by eating it! which had
issued against his goods, and which had been given to a
man named Bulbard to execute. The crime is, by a late
Act of Parliament, made a transportable offence. The
informations have been returned to the next Clonmel
assizes.--Clonmel Advertizer.

Sunday morning, about nine o'clock, the convict hulk
at Kingstown was perceived to he on fire in three dif-
ferent parts, but all upon the lee-side of the vessel. The
commander of the hulk immediately had the assistance of
the marines and sailors stationed in the harbour, and with
their aid, the tire was in a short time completely extin-
guished. Had the vessel been on fire on the opposite side,
and upon which the wind was blowing, it would have
been impossible for human means to stop the progress of the
flames, and the consequences to many of the inmates in
this prison-ship must have been most fatal. As the vessel
was on fire in three different places, at the same time, it is
considered that the fire could not have been accidental.
and the most strict investigation as to its origin, is now
making. The commander of the hulk, upon first noticing
the fire, immediately sent off a dispatch to the head-office,
and the horse police were upon their way to Kingstown
when they were countermanded by peace-officer Church,
who assured them that the fire had been completely sup-
pressed. The fire broke out close to the water, and near
to where some of the convicts slept.
Eight women were arrested on Saturday morning by
peace-officers Gorman and Payne, on suspicion of being
concerned in the robbery of a gentleman in Sackville-
street, of 1001. a few nights since. Fifty pounds of th.
stolen notes have been found on their persons, and they
have been committed for trial.—Dul'lin Mom my RE.
gistcr.
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His Majesty's pardon was on Wednesday received fill
John Dawson, against whom sentence of death was
recorded at the last Assizes for York, for stealing a horse,
the property of Mr. Greenham, of Blankley, in Lincoln-
shire. He was immediately liberated from gaol, having
undergone an imprisonment of two months.—Hull
Packet.

On Friday, a lady named Da Costa, who has resided
for several years at Bishop'sCleeve, Cheltenham, walked
from her house with a loaded blunderbuss in her hand to
the opposite side of the road, where she applied the
muzzle to her breast, and fired its contents through her
heart.

An ingenious mechanic in the neighbourhood of Hull
has invented a small lamp, which nriy be attached to
spectacles of a particular description, by means of which
and a reflector, any person may read in tht: darkest night
—and the contrivance is such, that the only light visible
is on the part of the book that is read.
A very beautiful gold coin of Richard the Second, in
a high state of perfection, about the size of a half-crown.
weighing 4 dwt. 14 grs. was lately dug up by a labouret
hoeing amongst corn, in a field of Mr. Lindall's, at Ot-
tringham, and is now in the possession of Mr. Little, el
Patrington. The device is a ship, or galley, with bow-
sprit, mast, sail, and rigging, ornamented on the gun-
whale with lions and fleur-de-lis ; a half-length figure of
the King crowned, with a sword in his right hand, and
under his left arm a shield, with the arms of France and
England quartered alternately.

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—LI.
VERPOOL, JUNE 14.—We reached Manchester this
morning, after a most interesting and gratifying journey
of only two hours 23i minutes, of which 15 have been
taken up by two stops to receive water ; and, including
the inclined plane, our load is computed to have been
about 33 tons gross weight; 7 waggons with 3 tons each
of stone blocks, the Bolton coach, and an open carriage.
with about 33 passengers. We returned safe and sound
to this place, and have performed the whole distance in
one hour and 4G4 minutes, including 12 minutes water.
ing and to set down a passenger.

LATE ALLEGED MURDER AT ILIPORD.••—A short
time since a young man, named Green, disappeared in a
very mysterious manner from the neighbourhood of 1.
ford, and it was supposed that he had been murdered
Nothing was heard of him until yesterday, when a gen-
tleman, belonging, as it was understood, to Christ')
Hospital, where Green had been educated, called :It
Lambeth-street Office, and stated that he had a letter
from a gentleman, a friend of his, in the country, in
which it was stated that Green had a few days before
made his appearance among his friends. He accounted
for leaving Ilford in the mysterious manner he had by
saying that he wished to
whom he cohabited, and who used to annoy him very
much. get rid of a female there with

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF LONGEVITY.--When
a tourist of some celebrity passed through Scotland some
years ago, he found the following aged persons in the
small village of Lusa, in the Minister's own family and
that of the Kirk-officer: the Minister himself aged 90 ;
his wife aged 86; Ann Sharp, their house servant, 94 ;
Niel Macnaughtan, Kirk-officer, 86 ; and Christian Gray,
his wife, 94 ; making the united ages of these five per-
sons to be 450.—Elgin Courier.
A living authority, who served on board the " Prince
George," in Rodney's celebrated action of the 12th of
April, assures as that on board that ship, a woman,
named Sarah Picket, previously attiring herself in her
husband's cloths, took up her station, at the beginning
of the battle, at the fourth gun from forward, on the
main deck, and coolly and sytematically worked at the
' side-tackle-fall' till wounded in the wrist at the close
of the engagesent.—Tales of a Tar.

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