Star.
London, England, 1825-02-22 00:00:00

ARMY ESTIMATES.

The Army Estimates for the present year have been laid on the
tablets( the House of Commons, and have been printed.
These Estimates cootain two separate accounts : the first for the
troopeitept up from the commencement of the present year to the
25th March ; the second for the troops from the 25th March to
the 24th December; the former amounting to 71,165, the latter to
86,456, and the increase amounting to 15,271.
The numbers we have given above include the °lacers and the
increase is anted by raising the number of each Battalion from
676 to 740 rank and lie, and, including Officers, from 650 to 855.
The above statement Is entirely exclusive of the King's troops
I yed in India at the charge of the Company, the number of
ieh amounts to 25,812, at a charge of £785,971 es. 10d.
The present establishment is thus disposed of—For Great Bri-
tain and reliefs, 18,120 men; for stations abroad, except India,
$2,166 men ; for Ireland, 20,879; total, 71,165.
The sum to be voted for Army Estimates is £6,475,647 12s. 4d.

standing ; and altogether the adjoining country pre-
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in maicien-lane, Covent-arden, which consumed that
house and damaged the Peacock Tavern, also the back Haus, 3,454;
part of the premises of Mr. Ravenscroft, carpenter, ad- &us, 71,165.
1 ' joining. As on such calamitous occasions, many tu-
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MOWS are afloat; the cause is said to have originated by
a lighted candle being left in the window for one of
the lodgers, which set fire to the curtains. Mr. Birnie,
mho has lived in the house forty years, fortunately
escaped
from the flames, though in a state of nudity.
Great praise is due to the firemen for their exert' .
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stopping the progress of the flames, in which they were
assisted by a good supply of water. tine suns to oe votea tor army simulates Is au,: tu,ot7 ims.ici. name.
For the three first months of the year the numbers are u follow : said,
rank and file, 64,546; numbers, including Of-
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EXECUTION.
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This morning, at eight o'clock, the dreadful sentence
of the law was carried into execution in the Old Bailey, Ailey araggea nor CO the pit, ana rums, sue
took out a rope, and proposed to strangle her, and
the was thrown into the water, Harris having previously
saken her money out of her pocket. Only her mouth
was above water; and after she had been in some time,
Harris said, " Curse her, she is done for ;" and the menof ravage and desolation, and gives
prodigious power of the agency
A ploughman, about a mile off, was thrown
plough
went away. For the defence, three of Harris's chil- no -
dren, and several neighbours, were called, and they
upon Edward Harris, aged 40, for a robbery and out. swore he was at home at the time the outrage was.com-
rage in Stepney fields ; Cornelius Wood, aged 29, for a mitted ;but, inconsequence. of .
rape and robbery ; and Henry Durham, aged 21, for evidence, some contradictions in the
the Jury discredited it, and found him guilty.
burglary. Harris, most unceasingly, from the day Durham was a young man of about twenty ears of sents a striking scene
y fearful evidence of the
. which could in a moment produce such terrible effects.
from his
to the distance of nearly 30 yards, but received
injury.
The quantity of gunpowder exploded is estimated at
about 60 barrels, containing each 1121 b. The damage
to the work is estimated not much to exceed 1,0001. as
the buildings are slight.
Such parts of the remains of the unfortunate sufferers - -
• The following letter, communicatin some hasty of conviction until almost the last moment of his age; he recewed a decent education at Westminster, by this accident as could be found were interred yester-
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particulars of another murder committed
in Bucking- existence, declared his innocence of the crime for which, and' was intended; for the counting-house ; his father day. They had both families. Walter Thomson has left
hamshire, is from the County Chronick:— he suffered. The attempt made on his trial to prove an was a master .tailor of respectability, residing sear a widow and family of five children, the youngest only
" AYLESBURY, Fs& 20._1 have to communicate to you one of alibi, coupled with his demeanour and asseverations of Charing-cross, and his unhappy mother is a widow, ten months old, and the oldest only thirteen years. Tie
those horrid deeds which so often stain 4be pages of our bistoryi innocence, had the effect of calling the attention of the living in
--street, Strand, and supports her family. by family of Cornwall, who had been employed about
A murder was committed last night, about 11 o'clock, on the per- Executive, and his case was reserved from the October keeping a family hotel, in great. credit. He bad
!en of a fine these mills for 25 years, are mostly grown up. •
the half way young man, named Morris, at Aston Clinton, about Session. However, the recult of the most unwearied formerly been in prison, but was clischarged, and put A dreadful explosion took place at these mills on the
from hence to Tring, and not above one mile from the • • •
phier where inquiries, made by order of Mr. Secretary Peel and the on board a ship destined for the West Indies: Bch" 30th June, 1803. On that occasion three lives were lost ;
the two old persons, Edward NeidLe and Id. wife,
were murdered about two years ago. /visited the spot thi, am,. Recorder of London, and the strictest examination and it sailed, he contrived to induce the Captain to refund Mr. Hunter, a proprietor, was, killed in his wan garden,
i"t, sad saw the body of the deceased. There is a considerable scrutiny of the evidence, has been the establishment of the money paid for his passage, and he came on shore, by a large stone, which carried away his arm.
I bruise on one of his temples, also on the cheek, and the throat an undoubted conviction of his guilt ; and the circum- and joined an old acquaintance, Liam, and a Jew,
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he. Th stances of atrocity attending the case, rendering a cono. named Abrahams, in robbing the house of Mr-Fraser, in • .
rce men, named Allen (the principal), Reese., and Cbker,
, are in custody here, charged with having comusitted the murder. mutation of punishment impossible,he was left to his fate. Nurfolk-street,Stran , . y
d and the cut off the head of Mr.F.'s. Private *deices from Path state, that the Emperor of
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weapon luPPohed to have been used was a common rail, —Cornelius Wood also pursued a similar line of con- dog. Abrahams was caught in the area of the ouse ~s IA has positively declined interference. in the d. is-
out eight feet long.
f Two of nur Magistrates, (Sir John Dash- duct for a short time, but, finding his dreadful doom this offence Abrahams was convicted the Session befoge cute between
. Spain and her. ca deennt (mimes, roiliest&
. King, Bart. and Robert Brown Esq.) attended at the Ida-
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1171= timairrOwtc:ok the4ePradi could not be averted, he, on its near approach, ceased last; and, in consequence of his
.impeaching Durham standing the urgent ntreties of Ftltnlithillit with an
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'till in private. to protest his innocence, tacitly confessing the justness and Lintot;they were put on their trial.
last Session. offer to cede the California,t' to Russia, mile vast' an.
... . =mow will takeplace ois Wednesday.' • ' ' ma of the law, and his resignation to its Durham was convicted, and. Lintot, whose parents re.. exclusive privilege of trade as' the pun al has assistesee.
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