Star.
London, England, 1825-06-22 00:00:00

NAVAL INfELLIGENCE.

The William Shand, £m, arrived at &. Jago. Cape de Verdi,
the 4th April, and was to sail on the nth for Van Dienwe's Land.
Var.atenx, Jose 20.—Wied N.-01T the port,' the Timm,
----, from the South Seas, for London. Sailed the Dove
packet, for the Brasile; and Lord Gambier, Biwa:, for Jersey.
Posersuouvui Juan 21.—Wind variable.—Arrived the Conk
Warr, from Lmiden, fuj Madras and Bengal. Sailed the Susan.
nab, Warr, for Tunis ; and Borodino transport, for Corfu.
Deal., Joan 111:—Wind IL—Passed through for the River, the
Honourable Company's ship Astell, from India; Hope, Reams
from the South Seas ; and the transport No. 3, from the westward:
Passed through from the River, the Chrisdan, Game, for Tens.
rife; Clio, Hamm, for lifiralichi; &Jannis, Camino, for St.
Lucia; and Funchal, 1114Pamasoo, for Madeira.
Limaroor., Jean 20.—Wind N. N. R.--,Arrived the Plato,
%emu, from New York ; Albion, Ilwrunr, front Leghorn ; and
the Ogietherp, from Savannah.

POOR TAX.
Extract from the Report of the Select Committee at tad to
consider of the several Returns nude in England and Wales.
The Poor Rates levied in the year ended on the 25th
March 1824, was 6,835,6301. In comparison with the
year 1817-18, as the year of highest amount, there has
been a decrease of 2,486,8101. but, compared with
1822-5, exhibit a declension of no more than 64,5231.
The Expenditure upon the Poor in 1523-4 falls short of the
amount 018814 by ,1511,742 only
The average of throe Ivan, ending
In March I $ll (the esswisdiag period of war) was "119,844
March 1818
MarchlB2l
And lathe three years ending in March, ....... 11,11111,1111 S
The expenditure in the year 1825-24 being "754,218, is Wow
than that of any year since 1815-141, and only exceeds that of
181.5-18 by £9,710.
The counties in which the Poor. Rates have increased,
are Bedford, Berk:, Cambridge, Dorset, Essex, Lincoln,
Norfolk, Oxford, Southampton, Suffolk, Warwick,
Wilts, Cardigan, Carmarthen, Carnarvon, Denbigh,
Flint, Merioneth, Pembroke, and Radnor. The rate of
increase varies • it is eight per cent. in Wilts ; seven in
llerks and Suffolk ; six in Southampton ; five in Nor-
folk ; four in Essex ; three in Bedford and Carmarthen,
and less than three in the other counties named.

The only two counties (Anglesey and Brecon), in
which, in 1822-3. the expenditure was larger than in
1821.2, now exhibit a decrease. In these, and in
Buckingham,. Cornwall, Devon, Durham, Hereford
Hertford, Huntingdon, Rent, Middlesex, Monmouth,
Northumberland, Nottingham, Salop, Somerset, Staf-
ford, Surrey, Sussex, Worcester, York, Glamorgan, and
Montgomery, it is less than five per cant. it is five per
cent. in Chair, Cumberland, Derby, and Westmor-
land ; six in Gloucester; seven in Lancaster and North-
ampton • eight in Rutland ; and eleven in Leicester.
Sussex ;tin appears as the county in which the expenditure upon
the poor hears the highest proportion to the number of the people ;
and Lancaster continues at the other extremity of the male.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. r
Pigeon Snoomsto.—The Red House Club met yesterday fix a
day's shouting, when the following Sweepstakes were decided :
A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each at nine birds, between Messrs.
Budd, Dickson, and Osbaldestone, was won by Mr. Budd.
A match for IS sovs. was won by Mr. Budd, Ming six sus of
seven, beating Captain Ross.
A match for 20 son. at seven birds, between Messrs. Yank and
Budd, was won by the former.
A sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, at Lye birds, was won by Mr.
Dickson, beating Messrs. Hudson and Anderson.
A sweepstakes of 10 sows. each, between Messrs. Ross, Odra.
destone, Budd, Maule, and Dickson, was won by Captain Ross,
who kiled all his birds.
A sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, between Messrs. Shoebridge,
Ross, and Osbakiestone' and another between Messrs. Dickson.
Budd, and Manic, each at seven birds, were respectively woo by
Messrs. Shoebridge and Dickson, who killed all their birds
There was some brisk betting on this day's match, between
Messrs. Ross and Osbaidestone, for 100 OWL at even.

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