Star.
London, England, 1830-06-11 00:00:00

'ROVINCIAL NEWS.

The brig Albion, A. Isaacs, master, belonging to Dui,
lin, which sailed from Cove on the 30th of March, wit'
passengers for St. John's, New Brunswick, arrived ow
in fifteen days, all well. This is one of the shortest
passages ever made to British America.
TRINITY COLLEGE.—Messrs. North and Lefroy were
actively engaged, last week, in canvassing the nets
scholars for their votes at the approaching election.--
Freeman's Journal.

Tan New JUDGE.--II is understood that Mr. Leslie
Foster will take his seat on the Exchequer Bench thy:
first sitting day of term (Friday, the 11th inst.) If his
commission has not yet arrived, it is hourly expected
His robes are finished.—Dublin Morning Register.
A shocking accident occurred on the 31st ult. at
Cambray, in a corn mill impelled by a steam engine of
twenty horse power. One of the cylinders burst, and
dreadfully wounded two brothers, who were both in an
instant covered with the boiling water. One of then;
had sufficient strength and resolution to fly to the hos.
pital for relief ; but, after twelve hours' sufferings, he
expired. His brother is considered in a hopeless state.
Another brother, who was also employed at the mil',
flew to their aid, and was severely injured, but his life is
not in danger.
On Saturday last, a man brought a box to the Flying
Horse Inn, Manchester, addressed to Mr. Heginbottom,
cotton-spinner, Ashton-under-Line, which he seemed
very anxious to have forwarded immediately by one of the
market-coaches. He paid the booking and carriage, and
again giving strict injunctions about its delivery, went
away. The box was forwarded to Ashton, and there given
to a boy to be taken to Mr. Heginbottom's factory. Tliv
boy, when near the factory, asked two men who were
lounging about, if that was the factory before him ? The
men said it was, and said, " Hast thou gotten a box
for him ?" When the boy got to the factory, he was di-
rected to take the box to Mr. Heginbottom's house.
and there, the gentleman not being in, Mrs. Heginbot-
tom, in the presence of some of the family, prepared
to open it. Having raised up the lid a little, she found
something hold within, and fearing that the box contained
something that might break, shook it a little to loose',
the obstruction. She then tried the lid again, and i
loud snap was heard within. On lifting off the lid, a
pistol was found firmly fastened in the box with a string
so connecting the trigger and the lid, that the box could
not be opened without firing off the pistol. Commu-
nicating with the upper part of the box, was a coinpvt-
ment containing several pounds of the best gunpowder.
This matter has of course created a great sensation in
Ashton and its neighbourhood. Mr. Heginbottom has
had a dispute with his spinners of some duration, and in
the absence of other reasonable grounds of suspicion, it
is thought that this attempt to destroy his family must
be the work of some incendiary amongst them.
Monday evening week an afflicting accident happened
to a boy named Walker, son of Mr. Walker, the master of
the band of the '2d West York Militia, who, as our readers
may recollect, had the misfortune to brez.k his leg at Chester,
when attending there at the late festival, and which occa-
sioned the subsequent amputation of the limb. The boy was
standing on the flags, with his back to the street, when the
Leeds waggon, belonging to Messrs. Hartley and Hobson,
was leaving York, and was making the turn at the corner of
All-Saints-church pavement. The dog which accompanied
the waggon, and which, we understand, was running
loose at the head of the horses, seized Walker by the
calf of the leg, and pulled him down under the horses'
feet, by which his left arm was broken close below the
elbow. The poor little fellow was taken up in a most
deplorable condition, and continued in a state of the
most acute suffering for three or four days. We are
happy, however, to add, that he is, though sloe ly, re-
covering. In addition to the injuries sustained from the
trampling of the horses, the laceration of the leg is very
serious, the fangs of the dog being deeply indented on
both sides of the wound.— York Herald.
The fatal termination of the prize-fight in Bucking-
hamshire has awakened the indignation of the public.
and the consequent alarm of the parties implicated in the
murder, to a degree which seems likely to issue in the,
final and authoritative suppression of such disg,racefu,
exhibitions. It is said that there was a magistrate of
the county of Bucks peculiarly prominent in the scene.
It is at all events to be hoped, that whatever fate may
await him in a court of justice, the Lord Lieutenant of
the county, and in his default his Majesty's Government,
will not suffer that individual any longer to disgrace the
bench. At all events, the men of rank and fortune who
assisted in the brutal expedition ought not to be allowed
to escape. The claims of justice, the blood of the mur-
dered, and the well-being of the country, alike call
aloud for an example.—The Record.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—A deliberate act of self-
destruction was committed by a young female in the
river Eden, near this city, on Monday morning last,
under somewhat mysterious circumstances. About five
o'clock in the morning, as a man named Branon, who
leads sand and coals, was proceeding along the Brampton
road beyond Stanwix, be observed a female walking near
the river on the opposite side, and from her manner he
suspected that she meditated suicide. The man went to
a situation where be could better observe her, but before
he had well time to look again towards her, she bad
plunged into the river and was drowned.—Carlisle
Patriot.