Star.
London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

INFANTRIN-37th Regiment of Foot, Canada • 52d New Bruns-
wick ; 68:12, Quebec; 70th, Montreal; 71st, Quebec; 74th, Hali-
fax; 76th, Canada; 81st, Halifax ; 26th, Halifax; Royal New-
foundland Veteran Companies, Newfoundland.

AFRICA. •
',ma'am-6th Regiment of Foot, Cape of Good Hope; 49th
Cape of Good Ilope; 55th, Cape of Good slope; sid West India
Regiment, part in Sierra Leone • Royal African Colonial Corps,
Cape Coast Castle; Cape Corps, of Good Hope. •

The late heavy fall of rain has done much damage
in many parts of Manchester and its neighbourhood,
through the swell it has occasioned in the tiver Irwell.
Tea thousand pounds in speck, saved from the Bom-
bay Merchant, has been brought home in the Lord Melville packet,
arrived at Falmouth.
MARRIAGE OF COUSINS.—It is a mistaken notion
that first cousins may mat ry, but second cousins cannot;
the civil law prohibits first cousins from intermarrying,
but the canon law prohibits both.
AN OLD OFFICER WHO HAD A STRONG IDEA 01'
MILITARY PROMOTION.—It was his custom to make
his children reffd a chapter in the Bible every Sunday
afternoon. Upon mention being made of Nebuzaradan,
captain of the guard, coming to Jerusalem (2 Kings,
:iv. 8.), he stopped the reader, and cried out in a tone
of voice that shewed how muQh he was interested in
the matter, " Good GOD! is that man still a captain !
Why he was a captain when I was a little boy. Pro-
motion in his regiment must have been very slow."
Monday, a tradesman of Maidstone, being applied to
by an Irishman for a Chi istmas box, the former said he
never before had so many applications of the sort.—
" All ! your honour !" says Pat, "its all along of the bad
weather." " What has that to do with it?" says the
tradesman. Pat—" Why long life to your honour,"
replied Pat, " who the divel can trot about in the wet all
day without getting dry?"
To successfully oppose the innovations resulting from
inclement weather Ofi the skin, the° Ladies have a powerful friend
in the recently-discovered cosmetic, ROWLAIIII*II KALYDOR j and
where the results mentioned have attained progress or completion,
thiLinfallible specific excludes and resists with set effective and rapid
energy truly astonishing. It also poisesses the most radical and pu-
rifying qualities for excluding and resisting all disorders which di,-
organize the beauty of the female countenance; and as increasing
the fairness and transparency of the skin, exceeds all competition. It
affords soothing relief to Ladies nursing their offspring. To Gen-
tlemen, after shaving, it allays the irritating and smarting pain, and
renders die skin smooth and pleasant. Ito/manes NALitnoa will
ever be found- most efficient in its balsamic effects, and delectable
in its application.

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D ['BIM; DECEMBER 27.
Sir J. C. MORTLOCK. Chairman of the Irish Excise
Board, leaves this for London .on Thursday next, to,
take his place at the General Board. He is to he suc-
ceeded by Mr. TREFUSI3, who is expected over this day.
This interchange ot. Commissioners is one of the results
of the new system.
The Loan LIEUTENANT has appointed Mr. Alder-
man DANLEY, in addition to his situation of first Magi,-
trate of Police, Inspector of the County Dublin I'olice,
under the Constabulary Act, at a salary of 7011. a-year.
Thursday the adjourned meeting of the Magistrates
of the county of Dublin took place under the Consta
bulary Act. A Committee of nine were appointed, who,
with Alderman DARLEY, are empowered to select the
county Constables, which ate to amount to 10.

It has blown a tremendous gale from the West, the
greater part of last night and to-day, almost equal to the
late hurricanes that caused so much danger on our coasts.
LIMERICK, DEC. 21.—The haggard of a farmer
nanieJ William fla)es, residing at Ballyscanlan, Ba•
rony of Upper Connelloe, in this county, was set fire
to on Mon•lay bight, by some malicious incendiaries,
and all the hay and oats contained therein consumed.
The perpetrators have not yet been discovered, although
the police made every search.
About five o'clock on Monday morning, as John
Wild, a carter to Mr. Lawler of Sancerstown, was
going ro Dublin, he was attacked near Alderman Win-
ders s gase, on the Glasnevi n road, by three men,
armed, one with a pistol, the other two with sticks.
They dragged him off the cart and beat him severely ;
he resisted tor a considerable time, and knocked one of
them down—but he was ultimately overpowered, and
robbed of his great coat and other art+c'•es. Inforniation
of the robbery was sent to Jame.'s -street office about
ten o'clock, and in a few hours Peace Offi.:ers Campaigne
and Abbott succeeded in apprehending two of-the cer-
sons described ; their names are Owen Daffy. and
Richard Carrot—they were fully identified, and com-
mitted for trial at the Commission.

LONDONDERRY ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHUTTING OF THE

OATES.

Saturday se'nnight being the annual return of this
memorable day, it was observed at Londonderry with
the usual demonstrations of joy. At the dawn of day,
the apprentice boys, according to ancient custom,
ushered in the morning by several rounds from the
ancient 18-pounder presented to the city by the Wor-
shipful Company of Fishmongers, which the night
before had resumed the very useful station it occupied
on the city walls at the siege of Derry, 136 years ago.
The sound recalled the recollection of the inhabitants
to that momentous period when everything was at
stake, and when their gallant forefathers nobly deter-
mined to perish or conquer in defence of the Protestant
religion. The favourite motto of the ancient defenders
of Derry, No Surrender," was placed on each of the
gates, amidst the thunder of the old eighteen-pounder,
during which the bells of the Cathedral added their
joyful peal. At twelve o'clock the apprentice boys
and Londonderry Yeomanry assembled on the Mall-
wall, and proceeded to the gates of the city, where
they fii rt.', and afterwards gave three rounds in King
William's Square ; there were fol:owed by three
cheers, in which they were heartily joined by the
surrounding multitude, in honour of the day. In
the square were two effigies, suspended from gibbets,
one representing the treacherous Governor Lundy, who
fled from the garrison, with a bundle of faggots on his
back ; and the other designating the cruel and merci-
less Rosen, who, with relentless fury, commanded all
the Protestants of the surrounding country, men, wo-
men, and children, to be driven under the walls, in or-
der to force the garrison, by their sufferings, to surren-
der to his rebel army. Nearly 100 associated apprentice
boys spent the evening together at Mr. Alexander's,l
outside Bishop's-gate ; upwards of sixty of the junior
apprentices met at the Freemasons' Tavern, nearly op-
posite the Court-house, where were exhibited some
beautiful transparencies; and there was a large a,sem-
bly of our citizens at the City Arms Hotel, in Ship
Quay-street. About six o'clock the traitor Lundy and
the sanguinary Rosen were blown up, amidst the shouts
of the multitude.

A public dinner was given at the King's Arms, at
which Sir George Hill, the Member, presided. He was
supported by Alderman Dysart, Mr. Sheriff Gillespie,
and the Chamberlain of the City.
" The King's health, and long may a member of
the House of Brunswick fill the Protestant Throne of
Great Britain and Ireland,' was drank with four times
four, and shouts of applause. The usual loyal toasts
having been given, with the accustomed honours,
•r The occasion of our meeting this day—the memory
of the Apprentice Buys of Derry who shut the gates
in 1688," followed, and the favourite motto, "No sur•
render," which was drank with nine times nine.
A number of other toasts, introduced with appro-
priate remarks, were drank in the course of the evening.
On the health of the Right Honourable Chairman
being drank, with three times three,
Sir GEORGE HILL returned thanks in a very able
speech. Towards the close of it, he recalled to their
minds, with much an maion, the achievements of the
Derry men in 1688—to encourage them to stand to-
gether at the present moment. He also called their at•
tention to the commencement of the ltoman Catholic.
Board, in 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814—their progress
since—the insurrectionary state of many of the Roman
Catholic districts of Ireland for the last five years—the
undisguised doctrines and avowed projects and am-
bition of the present Popish Parliament, dictating and
enforcing their law of politics, religion, and finance, to
what they estimate seven millions of his Majesty's sub-
jects—and by atrocious menace endeavouring to reduce
the remainder of the population of this land within the
operation of their authority. Against the tremendous
events threatened and prophesied, Derry men should be
prepared. He begged leave to allude to one of the signs
of the times, as affording some prospect that the threat-
ened danger was not so imminent or near at hand, for
it had been authentically announced that a select band'
of chosen heroes, too gallant not to stay, head, and
lead, if the field was to be taken, were about to emi-
grate on a peaceful mission to the sister country. They
had, howeve!, appealed to, and called for foreign aid,
both in 1814 and 1824. They acknowledged the sove-
reignty of a Foreign Power. This of itself sufficiently
warned Derry men to stand together. Ile proceeded to'
expose the fallacies of the Popith Parliament, their in-
tended mischief, and unfounded calumnies against the
Protestants of Ireland, in a manner which came home
to every understanding, and called forth repeate,l accla-
mations. Other eloquent appeals were marls to the
meeting. The utmost unanimity prevailed, and the
day passed oft with the most perfect harmony.

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WOLVERHAMPTON:
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Wednesday the 22d instant, a most barbarous mar-
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der was c,,mmitted in ;he broad light of day, on Ann
Spencer, a poor old woman, at the caorse.House, a cot-
tage, h the parish ofßy•hbury, situated on..the turn-
pike road leading to Cannoch, and about four miles.from
Wolverhambton. She %\ as the wife of Edward Spencer,
labourer. About three o'clock on that day, one of
Colonel Vernon Graham's servants called at the cot-
rage with a peck 91 malt, as a,Christmis present for
Spencer and his !wife : the door, being open he went
iii and perceived some blood on the kitchen floors—
Thii exci4d his alarm, and receiving no answer to his
call for ihe inmates, he proceeded up stairs, where ti e
dreadful spectacle presented itself of the murdered
body of the poor old creature, still warm, lying on the
chainbei floor. Iler long hair uas turned over tier
face so as to cover it; her head was dreadfully maa-
gled, and there was a violent wound under her right
ear, and a severe bruise on the back of her hand, which
.he is supposed to have received in warding off the
blows of her inhuman murderer. The horrid deed ap-
pears to have been perpetrated with a hammer or some
heavy instrument. It is thought that she was mur-
dered in the kitchen, where there was a great quantity
of blood, and canied up stairs. The unfortunate victim
had been at a neighbour's house at a short distance for
some time, and had only left it about half an hour be-
foie she was found murdered 4 it is therefore certain,
that her own dwelling had been entered during her
Absence, and on her return the murderous attack made.
The door had been forced with a potatoe fork, and several
articles of wearing apparel were missing, which have
since been found at a pawnbroker's and identified.—
Thon:as Powell, who had pawned them, was appre-
hended ; he stated that they were given to him by Wil-
liam Edwards, better known by the name of " Codsall
Will," who has since been apprehended, but he denies
the transaction altogether. The deceased was upwards
of seventy years of age, and was the mother of several
children, all in creditable situations. Powell and E!-
wards are both in custody, the former is about thirty
years of age, rather stout and shortly made. He isalio
charged with a robbery, for which he has been corn-
mitted.—A Coroner's Jury was summoned on Friday,
but after viewing the body, the inquiry was adjourned
until to-morrow (Friday).
~Saturday the 18th inst. a pit company, consisting of
thirty men, who worked. at the Moat Colliery, Tipton,
assembled at the hovel, at six o'clock in the evening, to
drink. After remaining till twelve o'clock, two of them,
named Hunt and Bowater, proceeded homewards, and
began wrangling. Hunt was heard to say, 14 If you
don't be quiet cursing and blackguarding me, I'll strike
you ;" and .4 Bill, 1 am not able to stand against you."
Shortly after, Bowater was found lying on the ground,
the blood flowing copiously from his left thigh; and
being asked what sus the matter ? replied, " Oh, good
Loma! he has stab Ted me." Hunt was standing by,
crying and tearing his hair. Bowater was taken to a
neighbouring house, where, in about twenty Minutes,
he expired. Hunt appeared to be in a state of great
anxiety and distress, and repeatedly called to Bowater,
" Do, GOD bless you, Billy, do speak to me," but lie was
so faint, he could not reply: On Monday; a Coronet's
Inquest was held on the body, when a verdict of Wilful
Murder was returned against James Hunt, who has
absconded.

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