Star.
London, England, 1825-10-06 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN STAGE COACH REGULATIONS.

The King of Prussia has established in his dominions
a very useful regulation with respect to stage coaches,
%%hid, has often been talked of as a desideratum in
England. In the sum which a passenger pays on
taking his place is included everything which is re-
quited for his furtherance to the end of his journey, so
that he is not to be called upon for the frequent and
uncertain disbursements to postillions, coachmen, and
conducteurs (or guards). It is at the option of the
passenger to pay also, at the time of taking his place,
a sum, very reasonable in amount, for fetching his
luggage from his lodgings to the coach-office. In
order to inform the traveller of this and many other
p irticulars. a billet is put into his band, when he has
made his disbursement, which contains a receipt for his
fare. and 14 regularly numbered points of instruction,
the first two of which are as follow :
I. In the above sum everything is comprehended that the tra-
veller has to disburse for his conveyance to the forementioned place.
2. The conductor, the coachmaster, and the postillion, must,
under -nu pretext, demand drink-money from the traveller, or
even courtemisly beg for it. The highest and the lowest receive
this remuneration from the post-treasury.
Theword Jrink-money, which is of constant occur-
rence in (Merman!, is not here to be taken in a narrow
and literal sense, as drink-money means money for
every other purpose of life, and is in fact the whole
payment which postillions and people of that desctip-'
tion receive for their services.

Yesterday his Excellency Baron MALTRAHN, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the
King of Pausal* to his Britannic Massarv, jointly with Mr. N. M.
ROTHSCHILD and accompankd by Mr. Bons r, Notary Public, can-
celled and depositedi in the Bank of England, the amount of 5e43,000d
in Special Bonds of the Prussian Loan negotiated by Mr. N. bl.
ROTHSCHILD in London, being the stun fixed for the fourteenth half-
'early redemption, due so the let inst. and also the saving of the
interest co the £711,650, redeemed to the Ist aril last.
Shoulde certain wealthy widow bestow her hand
upon a Duke, it will be said, without flattery, " Grace is in all
her steps," however inapplicable the rest of the quotation may be.
During the proceedings of the Exeter Common Hall,
on Thursday last, Sir W. CURTIS, Bart. entered the
Guildhall as a spectator ; he was instantly recognized
by the Recorder, Sir W. ELvoan, Bart. and by several,
other Gentlemen, and was requested to take ;a seat
on the Bench..
A Morning Paper, which is always astonishing its
teaders with some extraordinary event, records, among
its memorabilia of Tuesday, that" It is observable that
Augusta (mother to the late Queen Caroline) was horn
the last day of July, the very day two months before
the opening of the Fleet-market." What connection
thete is between the birth of a Princess and the opening
of a market, we leave our readers to guess.: there is, as
Hamlet says, no doubt something in it, " if philosophy
could find it out."
Monday morning, the wile of Mr. Wells, the patrol
of the Foundling Estate, residing at Adam's Cottage,
Adam's Fields, Brunswick-square, having beta afflicted
with a paralytic stroke for a considerable time, being
left alone, she fell against the bars of the grate ; the
flames were issuing between them, when her gown
caught fire, and iustantly she was enveloped in dames.
'ler cries awoke her husband, who was in bed in ao
adjoining room, who ,ran immediately to her assist•
ance, and tore from .ber the butniog fragments of her
clothes, in doing which he burnt his bands in a most
shocking manner. She was conveyed to St. Barthel.
lomew's Hospital in almost a dying state. There is
not the least hope of her recovery.
Saturday night, as the waggon of Mr. Basing,
drawn,by four harsel, was on its way from Newbury to
Loudon, the driver, John Jerronn, was found on the
road under the wheels, quite dead ; he had been seen
by the guard of the Slough waggon, who passed him
at Cranford Bridge ; he was then alive, and quite sober,
and was riding in the front of the waggon ; soon after
the Richmond post boy, on his way to London, came
up to Basing's waggon, which he found with the horses
standing still in the road. There appeared to be no
one with the horses, and he looked into the waggon
and saw a woman and a girl fast asleep; he after-
wards looked for the waggoner, and perceived him
lying in the raid, With the near fore-wheel partly on
him, but it had not gone over him, but rested on his
body, with the whole weight of the waggon, and he
could not be extricated until the waggon had been
backed. A Maidenhead waggoner came up and the
waggoner assisted him, and he was got from under the
'waggon., but was quite dead. There is no doubt but
the poor fellow had fallen asleep, and from a sudden
jerk been thrown under the wheel. The body was put
on the tail-ladder, and carried to the King's {lead at
llarroondsworth, to wait the Coroner's, Itiquest.
MunDsß.—The corner home of, lilourajoy-square,
adjoining Great Charles-siteett Dublin (the family
being in the country), was left in the care of a decent
rid woman. A female acquaintance, who was in the
1' %bit of calling to see liiiriCeirly Sunday, Kent tester-
day morning to pay her tistial visit. After knocking its
vain at the hall door, she madq her, way thenukh the
parlour window, which was open,. gad npcin reaching
the apartment of the old woolen, she found her, dead,
with evident marks of strangulation. It is not easy to
conceive what could have prompted the persons, *he
ranst have entered the house by ,the window, to the
perpetration of the deed, as there was nothing of valet
in the house, or in the prsession of the unfortunate
woman, to excite their cuhiaity..7--/Ablix Morn. Neg.
In the Palace, of the Escnr4l,,thcrei,sisis t},,IIIS, t 1 II
eery curios' description, respecting the mines of the
precious metals in-Spain ; and, thevein appears a stat-
merit, that by in Order 0t.004111, they were closed to
tt:e autumn of tile:year 15354 !'They toffee, ire, the spitit
of enterprise to the zem .1Y0,1411.7

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