Star.
London, England, 1825-10-20 00:00:00

THE ARMY

The Ist division of the 88th (Ciinatiglat Rangers) Regiment of
Foot, has embarked at Cork, for Corfu.
The 56th (Herefordshire) Regiment of Infantry has received
orders, on being relieved by the 88th Foot, at Corfu, to return to
England.
A Division of the 42d (Royal Highland) Regiment of Foot is
ordered to embark on board the Numa transport, on her arrival at
Cork from Portsmouth, for conveyance to Gibraltar. •
Detachments belonging to the 44th, 58th, 62d, 63d. and 924
Regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday, front Westminster fur
Bristol, on route to Ireland.
Detachments belonging to the 43d and 64th Regiments of Foot,
marched yesterday morning, from Weittninster for Bristol, on
route to Plymouth.
LIMERICK Ocr. 15.—Detachments of the 2d Battilion of the
Rifle Brigade, from Dublin, have been passing through this city
thew few days back, on their way to Cork, front whence they are
to embark for Malta. The grand division arrived yesterday, and
this morning proceeded for the same destination. The Ist Division
of the 25th (or Royal Borderers), consisting, of three Companies,
under Major Woliss.zir, Captains PRIESTLY and STEWART, marched
yesterday from Dublin for Kilkenny ; and the second division,
consisting of two Companies, under Major 111,Dorisst. and Captain
SWENIT, marched this day, the former for Carlow, and the latter
for Athy. The remainder of this distinguished Corps remain in
Dublin, until further orders. The last and principal Division of
the 58th Regiment marched from Waterford on Wednesday, fur
Dublin.

Among the memorabilia of the present times are the
two Opposition Members for Reading having pledged
themselves, in future, to support Administrati ; and
the wealthy Opposition family in the neighbouring
county having promised their support to the Tories.
The 21st ult. a Jury was impannelled, as usual,
to elect Bailiffs for the Borough of lit idgenuith ; but

such was their inability to come to any Agreement,

that they ternained locked up for fifty-six hours.
Hoge» M SSION AKY SOC I ETY.—The Clerkenwell
Auxi:i iry Bi a! ch of the Institution held their S:rh
Annual Meeting in the Countess of Huntingdon's
Chapel, SpatieLls, on Tuesday night. fnr the purpose of
receiving the R: port of last y,ear, electing officers, &c.
The Rev. G. C. of Penzance, in the Chair. The

Retort described the proceedings of the Society for the
Fist year in very favourable terms, both as regards its
operations and funds. The Rev. Mr. DONNE,
SPENSER, and several other Gentlemen, addressed the
Meeting. A number of routine Resolutions were'
passed, and a tolerable subscription being made at the
doors, the Meeting, which was numerous, dispersed.
Sunday afternoon, discourses were made by the
Durham Ranters in the Low College, in consequence of
the foundation stone of their intended new Chapel haw-

ing been laid on the day previous by a Mr. Roairisow, of
Houghton•le•Spring. Amongst the various orators
was a hunchbacked man, facetiously called King iiich-
ard, who spoke very bitterly again. t game ter,. He
declared that the owner of the tacehorse Alderman, and

the Alderman himself, together with cock.fighters, Ste,
were running a race to hell !-7'yne Mercury.
The following census of the population of a town in
the State of New York, principally on account of the
uncommon minuteness of detail into which it goes,
renders it a statistical curiosity :—" Census for the
town of Sherborne for 1825-1,239 males, 1,265 fe-
males, total 2,504 ; 213 subject to military duty, 472
voters at elections, 297 married females under the age
of 45; 286 unmarried between the ages of 16 and 45 ;
515 do. under 16, 17 marriages in the year past, 45
male births, .10 female do. 23 male deaths, 13 female
do. 40 persons of colour that are not taxed, four ditto
that are taxed, two ditto that are qOalified to vote at
elections, one foreigner, 11 paupers, five idiots, one
lunatic, 15,643 acres of improved land, 3,139 neat
cattle, 736 horses,lo,9o6 sheep; 4,011 hogs, 5,441 yards
of fulled cloth manufactured the past year, 8,702 yards
of flannel ditto ; 15,30 k yards of linen, cotton, and other
thin cloths ; six gristmills, ten sawmills, six fulling-
mills, six carding machines, two woollen factories, two!
distilleries, four asheties."
The idea of a conference between Catholic and Pro-
testant Divines, to discuss points of faith at a person it
interview, and before an umpire, may be new in Ireland;
but we have in modern times an instance of it in Eng-
land,where two Catholic Priests, a Divine of the Church
of England, and two Dissenting Clergymen, met at the
Pope's Head Tavern, Cornbill, and afterwards by ad-
journment, at the Bell, in Nicholas-lane. The meeting,
which after a good deal of controversy ended in nothing.
as such discussions usually do, arose out of the wager
of a Protestant Gentleman, and the particulars of it will
be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for May, June,
and July, 1735.
INCENDIARIES.—Information was yesterday lodged
at the Mary-la-bonne Police Office, by Mr. Hugh Byers,
the Proprietor of the Brick-works at Portland-town, of
a malicious and daring attempt to effect the destruction
of his property, by some villainous incendiary. It ap-
peared, that early on Monday morning,*an immense
quantity of hurdles, wheelbarrows, building materials,
and indeed everything that could add to or promote
a conflagation, were collected in a huge pile close to
the new buildings in Portman Brick-fields, Lisson-
grove North, and set on fire, and very soon became an
extensive conflagration, spreading destruction and ruin
on every side, and illuminating the horizon to a very
considerable extent. Fortunately, however, some
watchmen and a party of Mr. Byers's men, with great
exertion, confined the flames to the burning mass, and
the Sun, Exchange, and Plicenix Fire Engines arriving,
the fire was subdued, having destroyed a variety of
valuable materials, and sundry hurdles, wheelbarrows,
&c. Mr. Byers cannot define the motive of the evil-
disposed persons who caused this malicious act (ro him
probably ruinous, had the flames not been checked),
and as his property once or twice before had been as-
sailed, he was determined upon sparing neither expense
nor trouble to discover the incendiary. In this he has
the co-operation of the Magi.aracy of the Office, and a
large reward is (Skied for any information that ma)
tend to detection.
The Publication by LORD BRAYRROOKR, of the
Mamas of the celebrated SAUCE'. Peers, Esq. the intimate friend
of Evacro, excites considerable interest. The diary embraces an
important and inuch.talked-of period in our history. Among other
great and remarkable events, it treats of the Restoration, of the
Plague, and of the Fire of London. It records with minuteness the
change in public opinion as the period of Charles's return ap-
proached, and it marks decisively the growth of the unpopularity
which at length overwhelmed the Stuarts. In 1658, Mr. Pepyi
became intimately connected with some of the leading public cha-
racters, and held the situation of a clerk in the Exchequer. Shortly
afterwards be was appointed Secretary to the two Generals (as
they were designated) of the Fleet—General Monk, afterwards
Duke of Albemarle, and Sir G. Montagu, afterwards Earl of
Sandwich. By the latter he was treated with the utmost con-
idence, and both on board ship and on shore, was perpetually in
conference with him. The Earl was, in fact, his staunch friend
and true patron, for in 1660 he made him clerk of the acts of the
Navy, and gained him frequent opportunities of receiving emolu-
ment, besides bringing him in contact with the King and the Duke
of York under very favourable circumstances. Mr. Pepys was
also Secretary to the Admiralty, and the offices which he held con-
sequently afforded him an abundant field for observation. He was
far too intelligent to permit it to escape; and a curious picture of
that period is the result of his labours.

PIFRIL""r'r77-7lllirX

f• e' • '" ') • C,'
CORONER'S INQUEST'.
.• , , . , . %I
Yesterday evening an inqnest was held at the Mid;-:
dlesex Hospital, Charles-street, Mary-la-bonne, befoie
Tfloriias Sitnrawki, Eici: Coroner, on viesi.nf the body
of Richard Ruler, a fine youth of about 11 years of
age, late in the employ. of Mr.,Thornas Pettit, la
COmpton-street, Soho, whose death was occasioned in
a singular manner :—He was in the habit, when going
to the privy of an eve fling, of taking in his hand a
piece of lighted candle without any candlestick ;, and
although he had been warned by his mister of the
impropriety of such a practice, he still continued it,
until it produCed the fatal consequenCes which caused
his den' h.
It appeared from the evidence of Mary Rogers, ser-
vant to Mr. Pettit, thit about seven o'clock on Satur-
day evening last, the boy went into the back-yard with
a piece of candle as ab ive described, and went to the
privy : he had been there only a few minutes, when he
came running into the house, crying, Fire! fire!'—
She was in the kitchen, and wen: towards the stairs;
and saw the deceased half-way down the stairs, in
flames ; he then turned, and ran into the parlour, where
Mrs. and Miss Pettit were sitting. She followed him
up stairs into the parlour, and with the assistance of
Mts. Pettit and a neighbour, who came in at the
they rolled the unfortunate youth in the hearth rug,
hich put out the fire. Mr. Stanley, surgeon, of Dean-
street, and other Medical Gentlemen, were sent for,
and they also attended. The clothes of the deceased
were stripped off, his outer garments were but slightly
damaged by the flames, but the whole of his shirt was
consumed, and he was dreadfully burnt from his thighs
upwards to his neck, and on the back. His burns were
carefully dressed, and by the advice of the surgeons,
he was put into a hackney-coach, and taken to the
Middlesex Hospital. After the agitation and alarm
which had been produced by the accident had subsided,
the servant went into the privy, and found on the seat
a piece of lighted candle, stuck up wish tallow, and
still burning.
The house surgeon of the Hospital stated, the de-
csased art ived there about eight o'clock on Saturday
evening, and was severely burnt ; he was not sensible,
but in greit agony.—Every thing was done that could
afford him relief ; but he died from the injuries he had
received, a little after twelve o'cli.ck the same night.
The Coroner and Jury having viewed the body, which pre-
sented a melancholy spectacle, returned a verdict ofAccidentalDerti/i.
As a proof of the security in case of personal danger
by fire, which woollen clothing affords in preference
to linen or cotton, it was remarked, that the whole of
the clothes of this unfortunate youth which were wool-
len, were uninjured, whilst the only article of linen
which he had on caught the fire, and burnt with mo-
mentary rapidity.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING.

TUESDAY MIGHT.

The weather to-day has been extremely unfavourable, the rain
having descended in torrents throughout. Notwithstanding this,
the sport was very fair, and the attendance nearly as numerous as
on Monday.
His Royal Highness arrived on the Course in a close carriage
and four, accompanied by their Graces the Duke and Duchess of
Rutland. There were also present—The Dukes of Portland and
Grafton; Earls Orford, Verulam, and Stradbroke; Lords Low-
ther Dunwich, G. H. Cavendish,J. Fitzroy, Kensington, &c. must
of ;horn were in close carriages.
The following are additional particulars of the running, the re-
sult of which we gave in the Svaa of yesterday:
Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, T.Y.C.—Retreat made severe
running to the ropes, closely looked after by the Haphazard Colt,
and became quite beat off, when the tatter let loose, and won the
ratureleverly by half a length. Rode by the veteran Buckle; Re-
treat by Barnard; and Cooper's by young Buckle.
Alatch 200, h. ft. T.Y.C.—Cramer made his running with great
strength and effect, heading throughout, and winning by a length
with ease. ltode by Buckle; Hogarth by Chifiiiey.
handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, T. Y.C.— Gfrouette made
very fine running to the cords, with Logic, Black Jack, and
Pipylina, close at her heels. When a short distance Cram home,
Logic came out, and wen very easy by several lengths. Rode by
John Day; Girouette by Arisull; Black Jack by G. Edwards;
and Pipylina by Conolly.
Fifty Pounds, for 2 yrs old colts, Bst. 41b. fillies, Su. 21b. T.Y.C.
—Mt. Wyndham's and Mr. Rush's made very severe running,
keeping neck and neck till they made the new ground, Paul Jones
and the others being close behind. Here the betting became 3to 1
on Paul Jones, who now took the front, and there were several
takers, at heavy figures. At the cords, however, be lost the ad.
vantage, the Whalebone cult coming up, and making as pretty and
severely contested a race home as the admirers of true running
could wish, and winning by a head only. The winner was rode by
Arnull ; Paul Jones by Barnard; Mr. Rogers's by Wheatley, 'the
General's by Sans Day; Mr. Goddard's by George Dockeray ;
Mr. Rush's by Robinson ; Mr. Hunter's by CHIC.; and Colonel
Wilson's by Goodison.
• Match 100, b. ft. T.Y.C.—This was a beautiful race, and was
anybody's till the last two or three strides. Each horse took a
slight lead several times, but Shadow eventually won by a head.
James Robinson rode Shadow, and Arnull Lord Anson's.

WFUNF:bDAY.

Mr. Rogers's Flounder, 3st. 121 b. beat Mr.Grevilk's Jerboa filly,
6st. 121 b. T.Y.C. 50. Won easy-7 to 4 apt Flounder.
Duke of Grafton 's Lilian, 6st. 91b. beat Capt. R01A3.11 Witch, 9st.
T. Y.C. 50. Won by halt a length-5 ro I apt Lilian.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each. T. Y. C.
Mr. Nowel's c. by Aladdin, 2 yrs old, 6st. 10th. 1
Sir J. Shelley's Infelix, 3 yrs old, 9st. 2
Lord Stradbrokc's Second Sight, 3 yrs old, sat. Slb. 3
Two paid. Woo by a head-7 to 2 sgst Mr. Nowel's c. by
Aladdin ; 6 to 3 on Infelix.
The October Oatland Stakes, 11. \I. a Subscription of 30 soy. each,
10 ft. if declared by one o'clock on Tuesday ; to be run for by
horses of all ages, 2 yrs old excepted.
Mr. Greville and Mr. Wyndham agreed to divide the stake.
SHOOTIZsTG.

A shooting match for 200 sovereigns took place on Tuesday last.
between T. W. Coke, jun. Esq. and Captain Russ. The conditions
were to shoot partridges two days, to toes up for choice of ground
the first day, and to exchange ground on the second day, to load
their own guns, pick up their g.sme, and to have no other beaters
than their dogs. Captain Greville and Mr. Osbaldestone were the
umpires. Early in the morning the sportsmen took the field.
birds were plentiful, but wild, and the weather favourable, though
hot for the season. The parties continued their sport till the close
of the day, when Captain Ross appeared much fatigued. The
umpires, on their return to the Hall, declared the numbers to
Mr. Coke 54 brace, and Captain Ross 40 brace. Amongst the
company at the Hall are his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex
and suite, blarquis of Hastings and family, Lord and Lady Staf-
ford, Lady Harvey, Hon. B Keppel, Dr. Lushington and family.
A. Hudson, Esq. T. W. Coke, Esq. Capt. Ross, E. Osbaldsstone, &c
SPARRING.
Tea MINIS Couay.—The day after a fight is considered very
favourable for a good attendance, and Shelton, a first-rate boxer,
had a strung muster yesterday, notwithstanding the elements were
so much against his interest ; but the great attraction was the ap-
pearance of Brown, who defeated Shelton in combat a few months
since. Amongst the best sets-to were the following :
.lem Ward, the Champion, and Oliver, afforded a treat ; and
Oliver, although nearly used up in the service, made a manly stand
against the finished master of arts. But Ward, as usual, astonished
by his tactics-
Brown and Shelton closed the sports in a manly and fine set-to.
The former was hailed enthusiastically on mounting the stage. He
is a farmer of more than six feet high, and a well proportioned,
thekn esithroat, was much
, aas dm
in ire
real combat,aleitea
good visaged young man. He set-to with hands well up, in mis-
chievous
a goodievousatti tbindet
or, antwdo,hiasboquuitc
Brown's strength when in, overpowered him.

SUCHET and TALLEYRAND are expected at Mar-
'silks. They travel together.

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OdTTuAi MANUFACTUiILS IINT GREAT

BRIT.gIP.

FROM MR• RAINS'S HISTORY AND DI RECTORY 01
LA PiCASH IR E.

It is impossible to ascerthin with precision the actual
arrivtint t.f any of tie great manufactures of the kind-
cb.m ; bat of Cottoh it may be safely asserted, that the
value is from thirty to forty millions of popnds sterling
per annum. The average annual amount if cotton wool
impo!te.l dtt ing the last seven years wa574.5,000,000:h5.
froni which d ducting fi teen millions tor exports, and
ten millions for cotton wool used at home in an un-
mailutactuied state, HO millions remain. Taking the
price of this wool at Ts. per pound, and the incrka.:e of
value tsy manulactute at five times the cost of the raw,
material, the amount will stand thus:

120.000,0001b5. of cotton at ls. per lb. . X 6,000,000
lucre:Weil value by manufacture . . . 30,000,000

(hoop amount
Average ♦alue of cotton mane

. £36,000,000
:tures exported . . 16,560_,379

nome consumption . . . .C 19.439,821
This resat is not very disi'thifar to thse statement made'
by the Piii..lent of the B'oOrd of Tiaje in the House of
Coroophni; onthe8:11 of March, 1821, when the cheers
of the Ww-e so cordially Wiled die annunciatin that
Or annual valtie of cotton goo's rranutactured had
rheil to
.the incredible amount or 33,357,0001.
EVety paii Of the cotton trade, flora the importation
ot die taw ikaterial to its couplet:on by the weaver,
the bieieliet, the dyer, add the calico printer, is carried
on in ;liiitoirn ithd pa;ish, but the branch for which
Illii.theAer it particularly distinguished is the spinning.
In this department of the trade %heti are at present
(August, 182 i) iO4 spinning factories in the townships
of Manchester, Ch Ilton-row; Ardwick, Salford, Pen-
dleton, and Milne, Worked b 110 steam engines, of
the aggregate power cf 3,598 horses. Its the year
1787, the ustaihr of spinning factories in the county of
Lancaster, amounted only to forty-two, and those were
in general r f a magnitude very inferior to the mills
which at reierit exist in this place.
Ftom 'a calculation made in 1817 by Mr. John Ken-
nedy, one of the Yalu con,idet able cotton-spinners in
Manchester, it appears that the number of persons then
employed in the spinning Of 'Cotton in this country was
I 10,70, that the aid they deriire.lfiom steam was equal
to the Irtitrtier.. 4 24768 bogies; and that the number of
spindles . rntotitil /Is '6 43853. By chi, immense
process pr,tixkooo hanks of cotton yarn were pr 0-
duc d yearly, taking the average at 40 hanks to the
p: pod; and the quitotity of coal consumed in theis Imo.
cl.:ct on is stated at 5,006 tons.

Mr. Jkonedy's Statement for the Year 1817 :
Raw cotton converted into yarn in the
United Kingdom . . 110,000,0001b5.
Loss in s g estimated at 11 oz.
per pound . 10,312,500

711 E FASTIxG WOMAN OF sAPOY.
•=621C.--

Ann Moore, the celebrateil iiirostor at Tutbary, had
an equal in an impostor iii Savoy, whose d4tisiinis ter-
mutated at the same period. aftei having•bsen carried
on during the space of fourteen years. 'Ffiis• female
impostor, whose name was Josette Petrolaz, died in
1808, in the village of Maghlans, i_f4e birod
the town of Close. Josette Petrolaz. the dAnieiter of a
.small &tinier or peatant, about theage of twenty,' having
been obliged' by sickness to keel% her bed for sante tithe,.
during which she had little inclitiatiOn fcir friba. her
tasting beean to be regaided as siiniething extra-
ordinary, and Josette was soon considere d a peat fa-
vonrite of the' Holy Virgin. Het' parents anti pef-
ctived the advantage they Might deri've from het nit:
merous visitors, and they gave out that she hid ceased
from food altogether, and was favoured with visions
And spiritual trances, in' which she held eCtiferenceiwitli
the saints and with soup in pbigifoil: Minn's' froth
all parts of SAiroy now resorted to her, to ohtain lies
prayers and intercessions for the sick, or for their de-
parted relatives, to hasten their escape from their state
of painful purgation. The ben fits of her intercession
were to be obtained by bOuntifid amts, given to' her fin'
the poor, of which we may be assured the grea:est part
was pocketted by the family i f J.)sette. The fre-
quency of let trance=, and the length of het devotons,
were pleaded as reasons why she should cnly be visited
at certain urs. The Cute, or palish priest of Magh-
fans, and his Curate, had the folly to be themselves de-
ceived, and added to the deception of others by their
own faith in the miraculous powers of Josette. This
contemptible fame was carried on fourteen years, dur-
ing which period it was asserted she had never tasted
food of any kind, or risen from her bed. At length
another Curate was appointed to assist in the parish,who,
b. log a sensible honest nian,was determined to detect and
expose the imposture. For this put pose he availed him-
self of the privilege of a priest to visit J9sette when he
pleased ; his design tY AS discovered, and an attempt was
made to poison him ; he did not, however. desist from
his endeavours to discover the cheat. One summer
morning he entered the house at five o'clock, and heard
the noise of feet upon the floor; he rushed into the
chamber, and beheld everything in great confusion,
and perceived a strong smell of roasted meat in the
room; the print of her feet was also visible in the dust
on the floor. He charged her with having meat in htr
bed, which she solemnly denied. On this he seized her
by her shoulders and drew her out of bed. Her
screams brought in two women, to whose care he com-
mitted her; and in the bed he found a supply of meat
and wine, as he had expected. The cheat was thus fully
exposed, and the miserable Jcseve Perrolaz disgraced.

In a recent Inumtier we had the pleasure of announc-
ing to our readers the gratifying intellgence which we
received from every part of the country of an abundant
harvest. We have now to congratnlate the public upon
an event of scarcely less importance—that of a most
favourable seed time ; the importance of which is duly
appreciated by all agriculturists. In consequence of
the genial rains of August, and the continued fine
weather, the potato sips have improved in every part
of the country, and te-nips will prove more plentiful
than was anticipated: the -fields still exhibit a most
luxirriant appearance, and the cattle 'may be said lite-
rally to " live in clover." We cannot better describe
this signally fine autumn. than in the.hornely language
of a countryman, who called it a Michaelmas Summer.
An iinpOrtation into the United States from Africa
has recently taken place, of a number of the broid-
tailed breed of sheep procured from the interior of
Africa, at considerable expense and trouble, by Captain
Creighton, of the United States ship Cyane. This spe-
cies is said to be extremely valuable, not only for the
wool, but the flesh; and the tail in particular, which is
eight or ten inches in breadth, is esteemed a great de-
licacy. This is the first attempt in North America.
ADULTERATIONS.—A journeyman baker, who had
frequently purchased large quantities of alum at a che-
mist's shop in Holbbrn, called there one Saturday night
in a jovial and communicative mood, and having ob-
tained his usual supply, he explained fully the purposes
for which it was employed. He menti.ned, that when
the flour was good, 20 grains of aluin was the dose con-
tained in a 41b. loaf, but that when bad 24 grains were
necessary to produce the desired effect. A Gentleman
. .
Tuesday the subject of additional Church accommo- calling upon a drysalter at his place of business, heard
dation in populous parishes came before the Synod of an inquiry made for a quantity of damaged salt. The
Glasgow and Ayr, and a letter from Mr. Secretary drysalter observed, he -knew of a few bags.for sale,
Ai," to the late Moderator, stating, in reply to a com- which had been damaged in a vessel by the bursting of
munication from the Synod, that it was the intention nt some casks of oil. A bargain for the bags was con-
Government to apply to Parliament for a grant for this eluded, and the Gentleman learnt from the drysalter,
purpose. This litter was dated in April last. It was that his customer was a baker in extensive business.
them stated that the grant had passed the Commons, The New York Paper s gave an account a short time
but it had failed in the Lords, in consequence of some since, of the plunder of a party returning from New
informality, which the late period of the Session did Mexico, and the carrying off of a number of mules by
not allow time to remedy. the usage Indians. It is now ascertained that the party
it appears by the Washington papers, that the eccen- attacked consisted of 17 Americans and 23 Mexicans.
sric visionary Capt. Symmes, who stated some years ago Among the latter was a MeMber of the Mexican Con-
the theory, and offered to prove it practically, that the gress. The number of the Oiages was about seven
interior (if the globe is inhabited, had set out on a visit hundred. About one hundred and forty mules and
to the Eastern States, with the view of propagating his horses were taken, and the Mexicans were severely
opinions, and also of beating up for recruits for an ex- handled. At seventy Miles distance from the Missouri
ploring party to the northern cavity. He was accom- fruitier, on arriving at the first settlements, the Mezi.!l
panted by an o assistant" lecturer. cans stopped to refresh themselves and horses ; after
The horses employed in conveying the twopenny which, the principal individual among them. the Mem-
post are now keit in a stable under one of the arches ber of Congress, Was to come to the city of Wasr.ington,
of the Southwark ; and tins ragged regiment for the purpose of becoming personally acquainted with
is therefore no longer paraded through Cbeapside and the people and institutions of North America.
the Poultry as hesetofore. A farmer at Whitchureh, Southampti n, whose fa-
Ai the Spring Assizes in Aylesbury in the year 1735, mily consisted of threegiris and three boys, lost each
Philip,'l4annas,, a, hiihviayaiau, was hPnged, lle.Was of the boys under following singular circumstances :
quite popular among the fair sex, and wai at his own —the first, about four years old, bit Ws tongue in a
uesire, conveyed •w the place of execution on horse- fall, and bled to death, all 'attempts to stop the fly-
back, cfresied
•'a pair of oehite morrhage proving ineffectual. The second, about two
giortet; p critpe:hailiend, aied Wkth a alifte 'favour, years old, cut his thumb, and also bled to death in a
and a Long in his hand.,. He was carried to the few days. The thirst, an infant, scratched his arm,
grave by six 1 oung min, and his 011 supplied by six and 'bled to death. The patents -and three surviving•
young women &Olen 'by Min ilatighters hkve klivayi Wen in the .enjbythrht r.l excel-
tor the purpose..... lent health.
Srituix ATnoras.—Kiire Of, 'be titiful : and Wednesday se'unight,sonse evilsdisposed persons broke
superb moths mitered Are' ;hop of Mr. tio'brits.,iiocer, 41a the llninan Catholic Chapel, ru Mulberry-streetil
Cairch•stieet, Hereford, a few. evenings since," and is Xlitithester, And ittileihirrifitivi a' large And handsome
now in the pi,' pesitoi 'of H. BitAirati; Erq. •It it about silVer:cheditv, and ai,lsci a *Vex plate. TO 'of the rob:
two inches 1 410011 ildifsheaiires bers; viz!*George Pickering and 'fiennah,.have
nearly iota . inches and. gall' %gip_ the iroYnts of its been apprehended,' with' part of the stolen property,
wings when they are elitended. The eau legated. and which' hasilien identified; rrl their'paisif lem.
brilliant co:cors of its body and. wings ate beautiful, Am Elr.•111./ThisNait. ipe;ling
and entitle it. to the diaricina: regarded somewhere in Leland last week,. Madi.the following
by naturalists. • rettratk on the old Penal Laws, o That Code held out
Tv o ruffians, in the garb, .irebet, irest of the 4 pfeminits to the son to betray fiisfatiteitury.,•to' the
rank of gentlemen,' lately cut acid destroyed a beautiful to betray his aiiar!"
' and valuable patAtil,'S . .
ot, the IthAIT 'ieteliVated' Warr., publicans of Appleby "sell their ale at eight
by FLamixo, a native arkist,,imilicliliu'irg tip -in"the 'panee.peripart; timed:it of Malt 'liquor (18 gallons)
roiam heke.tl4..iiocieay iiiki,heiralleetrags-...the,James Whith ems them lit'enry-two' stiillitts, they 'tell for
M&ct Tavern, in Vs'illiani-arcet.— Glasgow tree finly"iiiht I

Quantity of yarn produced 99,6117,30011t5.
Number of hauki, taking the average at 40 per lb. 3,987,500,00011;s.
Number of spindles employed, each spindle bring
supposed/it produce two hanks per day, at 300
workilig days in the year
Number of .persops employed In spinning, sup-
posing each to produce 120 banks per day . 110,763
Morse, ower employed, equal in number to . 20.768
Four ounces and a.half of coal estimateti to produce one hank. of
No. '4O ; and 1801hs. of coal per day, equal to one horse power.
The increase of -iiianuf.ieture.; tiiiee 1817 has been
cntittErablt', i-erlitiitly not than twenty ter cent. as
N ill aplear ht.= the increased average annual quainity
of cotton wool imi;oited.

. 6,645,853

. kkitit Ratir•fittats of the whole amount of the -cotton
ffide of thi kingdom, centres in the county of Landis-
tev ;.and it is calculated that the capital employed. in
Lancashite in this trade alone, in buildings and machi-
nery, amounts to £8,000,000. Steam, it has been al-
ready Ob;erved, is now applied tO'a considerable extent
in the weaving as well as in the spinning, and we have
a,certairted, that there are at present (July, 1825) in the
palish of slatichester alone, upwards of 20,000 steam
looms in motion. In the first volume of this work,
quoting from Mr. Guest's Book on "The Cotton Ma-
nu'actures," the number of steam or power looms in
Great Britain waz estimated at la,ooo ; that estimate
was even toolow, and the probability is that there are
now, in England and Scotland, not fewer than 40,000
power looms employed in the weaving of cotton alone,
8,000 of which ate in Scotland.

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INSOLE.C.NT DEBTORS' COURT...retiLLMSIIOIID.

"-.1111--.

James Polley, formerly a miller ,ar- Great Tatham,
*as opposed' by Mr. Dow-Lodi, on the part of the
detaining creditor, Mr. Royce,: of ToHesitant Darcey,
baker. The insolveit was put in gaol for the d. 11112205
'and costs in an actioa tried at the March Assizes, 18235)
for the seduction of pits Royce, then ate.ut seienteen
Or eighteen years of age. The Jury in that case' gave
damages 1001. and' the tax-d costs :disowned to 644.105.
the payment of which the insolvent evaded by his ab-
rence until about three months since, when he was
ii'ked in execution. Mr. Dowling, liter alang examina-
tion, sat down with full confideece the Court would be
ins-pressed with the heinousness of the insolvent's first
offence; the manner in which he had wasted hib sub-
stance in living in idleness, and travelling from plate
to place to evade payment of the costs and the damages
'which had been awarded to his client for the irreparable
'injury done to his daughter; the suspicions manner in
which he had disposed of his property to his sister and
to his brother ; that t:•' these circumstances would in•
duce the Court t' visit the insolvent with such a punish..
Ment as would be a useful lesson to society.
Mr. Kr:ox adAressed the Court on the part of the
nsolvenr, and in allt•ion to the action for seditcain,
insinuated pretty broadly, that in the opinion of the
insolvent there was not so much Chastity on the pan
of the Lady, or so much nice feelings on the part of the
father in the transaction alluded to, as there we: anxiety
to 01-.tain the kind of satisfaction which he sought in a
Court of Law, and which the insolvent had declared he
would never willingly pay. Mr. Knox was heard at
some length, until, as he observed, he had removed the
effects of the sting inflicted Fry his Learned Brother.
Mr. CommissioNntt, in decidintr the case, explained
two omissions, one in the form of the notice, and an•
other in the absence of a paper which the insolvent had
said was in the possessi of his mother. The endea-
vour to avoid payment of the damages and costs in the
action alluded to, was no offence against the Act; and
he thought from the schedule, that the petitioner was
not insolvent at the time. In the absence of other
causes, his euty would have compelled him to hare
remanded the insolvent under the 18th clause of the
Act, as relates to the seduction. The insolvent was
ultimately sent back, to be brought up for judgment at
the next sitting.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Information was yesterday given to the LORD MAYOR, of a new
way of raising the wind, and we take the opportunity of, as speedily
as possible, announcing it, as the charitable institutions of the me-
tropolis may be imposed upon by similar means.—The Superin-
tendents of the Royal Infirmary for Children, in Waterloo-road,
were waited upon by a person who said his name wis Newton, and
that he bad been commissioned bt a Mn. Bailey, to pay into their
Mandl, the amount of a legacy left to that Institution by the late
Mrs. Barnard, of Ipswich. Ile shelved the letter, which he said
communicated this instruction, to the Secretary, who was gratified
at hearing of so kirid and liberal a contribution to the funds. It
eias is folloirs: " Ipswich, October 13, 1825.
" Ma. /4Attirrem—You left home for town before I had fully told
you all I wanted you to do. Yon ought to have come up to me
before you started. You know I am executor for the late Mrs.
Frances Barnard, formerly of this place, who died at filitcham.
She has left, by her will, £25 to a charitable institution called the
Royal Infirmary for Children, Waterloo-road (I understand near
Waterloo-bridge). As this legacy is ordered to be paid imme-
diately, I wish you to go and pay it, and inclose you a bill accepted
by bankers in London for that purpose. The legacy is directed to
be paid free of duty,so you must ask the Gentleman Secretary or
Treasurer to take the trouble to pay the duty forme at the Legacy-
Office, and he can send me the formal receipt when that is done.
(Mr. Hammond informs me that can't be done yet, as I have not
got the probate). You must, therefore, pay to the Institution £25,
and .V 2. 10s. and get the Secretary to acknowledge it to you in one
of their printed forms.—Your's, obediently, "J. BAILEY."
There were two or three, lines which were partially erased, but
they were intended to favour the imposition, and treated of com-
mercial transactions, viz. the sale of a cargo of wine, which the
writer's brother had for sale. The letter coptained a bill of ex-
change, for £29 4s. which was dated Ipswich, 11th, eighth month,
1825, and drawn upon the house of Fry and Chapman, Bankers,
Mildred-court, Poultry, by William Knox, and the words " Ac-
cepted, Fry and Co." were written across the face. There was not
the slightest suspicion of the genuineness of the bill, and the differ-
ence heti:vein the amount Of the pretended legacy, including the
duty, was banded over with the most sincere and hearty thanks to
the welcome visitor, who pocketed no more than £1 14s. by his
hazardous enterprise, and who certainly might have as safely specu-
lated upon treble that sum. The bill was, we believe, passed into
oilier hands, when it was found iha: the seellptance was a forgery.
-Every inquiry via. niade into the circumstances mentioned in the
letter which contained the bill, but it was ascertained that the detail
was in feety particular a fabricatftin. 'At the Bull Inn, Akkate, to
which this letter was directed; the landlord knew nothing of the
terstm nailed Holley, and it is conjectured thlr them= who com-
Milled forgery had witched kboUt the door, and taken it from
the postman.
The LOas•MOvoa, *holm treasurer to the abovementioned Insti-
tution, his apprehension that other institution, -had been
imposed on is this Tecious manner.
+641
BOW-STREET.

The Earl of Damell (late Lord Eanismore) appeared by his So.
licitor, to the summons of the notorious Johnson, on account of
one of his servants having nude use of a cart in his service with
his Lordship's name chalked on it. The Solicher pleaded, in ex-
tenuation, that it was totally without the k.owledge of the Sari.
Mr. Mats lined him in the lowest penalty of 401. and costs.
Walk* Thyfor was brought before Mr. 14.u.sa, charged with
robbing the strop of aft. Hose, a jeweller, in the Strand, of a gold
watch. On Tuesday, the prisoner went into the shop, and re-
quested to look at a mouthing ring. The one he was shewn proving
toy large, he was about to leave the Shop, When he was detained
by a person named Tokely. The latter, knowing the prisoner to
be a suspicious character, followed him into the shop, and observed
him take a gold watch. This, on being seised, he let fill. It was
picked up, and he was taken into custody. The prisoner denied
baying taken the watch.—He was committed for trial.