Star.
London, England, 1825-07-12 00:00:00

THAMES 117 NWT. L.

This novel undertaking appears to excite a continu-
ally increasing interest. The visitors are numerous,
and of the higher classes, both for rank and science.
The Visitors' Registry shews the names of very many
foreigners, and among them some eminent for science.
If has, we believe, excited much curiosity, and forms
la frequent topic of conversation on the Continent—a
Tunnel for carriages beneath such a river as the Thames
being regarded as one, at least, of the various wonders
for which England has become such an object of admi-
ration. Amongst the recent visitors have been his
Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester; and on Fri-
day last the Chairman and Directors received on their
works his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and
his amiable Duchess, his Royal Highness Prince Leo-
pold, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Hon. Mr. Secretary
Peel and his brother, Mr. Dawson, M.P. and many
Ladies, were in their party. They came by water in their
barge, and landed at -Church &airs. The engineer,
Mr. Brunel, explained, in the French language. to the
Ladies the mode of operation. The Duke, the Prince
Mr. Peel's brother, and Mr. Dawson, descended to the
bottom of the shaft (now excavated to nearly the lowest
point) by the ladders in common use by the workmen.
They inspected with much attention, and expressed
their approbation of the whole proceeding, and were
shewn some of the masses of shells still found in the
j centre of the thick s•ratum of clay. Some of the Ladies
there lowered down the shaft in a suitable chair, by
which the Duke also p- eferred to ascend. We observed
that against the gable end of a house on the works the
Directors have c fused to be built, in brick, afar simile
of the perforation which will shortly be begun horizon-
tally across the river, in order to shew more strikingly
the proportion of height and breadth for carriages, &c.
The clay, when it is excavated, is conveyed into a
neighbouring field, and is there converting into bricks
of particular make, to be again used, in its new form,
in the construction of this new subaqueous passage.

It may not be generally known, that the original
name of the present President of the Mexican States was Feast&N-
M, and tbat he changed it to Gatoslatmpe Victoria, from his having
obtained a victory over the Spaniards on the festival of our Lady of
Guadalupe. He has thus dressed himself out in one at the titles of
the Virgin, and united to it that of Victory.
The first Concert given by Madame CATALANI, in
Paris, on the Ist instant, was for the sufferers by the
late fire at the Bazaar, and notwithstanding the ex-
cessive heat and the high price of admission (15 francs),
the rooms were completely full. Never did Madame
CATALANI excite more enthusiasm in Paris than on
the present occasion. Each of the five pieces that
she sung was followed by the shouts and bravos of the
audience. Madame PASTA, who was present, in a
transport of admiration, seized the hands of Madame
CATALANI, and expressed in the most fluttering terms
her felicitations. _ _

There is a Society in icrk " for the encouragement
of faithful female servants," which is most respectably
supported, having the Archbishop at its head ; and
during the last year it rewarded nearly seventy servants,
by the donation of N Bibles and 541.
An application bas been made by the Regent'a Canal
Company to the Police, to assist in putting a stop to
indecent bathing on the banks of the Canal, after certain
hours in the morning.
The disease among the horse!, which has been intro.
duced from the frontiers of France, makes great progress
in the Eastern Cantons of Switzerland, but it has not
such a degree of malignity as gives ground for alarm.
and respectable a company as we have ever seen as-
sembled in these Gardens. _ _

A horrible accident happened the beginning of last
week, in Mr. LON/Mine/ park, near Chesham. A bull
had been, for the first time this season, turned into the
park on onday, when a boy who had assisted at the
haystack, removing to take his dinner to some other
part of the field, out of sight of his comrades, the bull
attacked him, and left him dead.
An ox belonging to Mr. Archer, of Castle Eaton, had
the following medicine administered to him during the
first eight days of a recent illness :-10Ib. of Glauber
salts, llb. of nitre, 11b. of cream of tartar, 4 ox. aloes, 2
oz. emetic tartar, 6 pints of oil, 161 b. of hogs' fat or
grease, besides oil, salts, &c. The animal is now doing
well, and at work.
During a heavy shower on Tuesday se'nnight, a man
named Batten, who was at work in a gravel pit at
Bisham, near Great Marlow, crept for shelter, together
with his son (a lad about eight years old), into a cavern
which had been hollowed ont in the pit, when the grain.'
fell in and buried both of them.—The child was dug out
lifeless, and the father very much hurt.
Saturday, an Inquest was held at Liphook, before
Mr. LONGCROPT, Coroner, on view of the body of
John Ferguson, a sailor, who belonged to the Peranga,
and had recently received some pay at Portsmouth.
The deceased. having provided himself with two bottles
of rum, left Portsmouth on Wednesday evening, by
the Nelson night coach, intending to proceed to Lon-
don ; but, from the quantity of rum he drank on the
coach, he became so intoxicated that he fell from his
seat, and was killed on the spot. Verdict—Accidental
Death. Deodand 10s. on the coach and horses.

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Wednesday, an adjourned Inquest was held at use
Spread Eagle, Salford, on the body of Martha Stand-
ring, who was found dead in the area of her residence in
that town, and a verdict of Wilful Murder returned
against her husband, Joseph Standring.
BUTANT.—During the Irish Rebellion, of 1798, the
Glengarry Fencibles were quartered in the South- of
Ireland, where they did good service. A shoemaker
was suspected of being implicated in treasonable prac-
tices, and a party of the regiment was sent to search
his house; nothing, however, was discovered to warrant
the suspicion, except a cocoa nut. A consultation was
held to consider what was the object of this formidable
looking implement. One suggested it was " jest a ball
o' souter's roset." Hoot, ye fool," said the serjeant,
who was a man of considerable sagacity, " its a bomb.
skell." " No, Sir,' said the cobler, trembling for his
nut and his loyal character, "it is only a nut. "Na,*
said the Celt, " na, I'll no believe such a tam'd lie as
tat--a nut indeed—wha to teevil's jaw could crack such
a nut?" and accordingly he sexed it as a bomb-shell.
At the beginning of August there are to be horse-
races at Sr. Petershurgh, which excite considerable at-
tention. Counts Orlow, Denissoff, and Matassenwitsch
have betted 25,000 rubles on the question, whether
Cossack horses or Eaglish race horses a, e the fleetest ?
rile ground chosen for the race is between that city
and Gatsc hi na-

Two Buryinr, Companies were some time since
established, and we observe within the last week or two,
" General Drin: Company" has been set on toot.
If 'hi: Mete not so grrri,c a subject it would furnish
..,atkcr for a pon or two.