Star.
London, England, 1831-03-28 00:00:00

FRANCISCO VALDEZ.

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Psrls, Rue Louis le Grand, Hotel
de la Manche, March 21, 1831.

The Sehoubnas.ter Abroad is vgain claiming public atten-
ti•rn, l.e deserves it and will receive it. No little books
ever printed, are calculated to produce more expanded intel-
ligence than BLA I les WI,?, end Because, and we have given
our readers some imitations of its manner on other subjects.
To such books, all by the some indefatigable writer, we are
Ito dottht greatly indebted for that pure flame of public intei-
ligenc4• which now so generally prevails.
The celebrated Oriental philosopher R A MOHAN Roy is
daily expected in London. lie is the first of the Brahmin
Caste that et er visited England, and independently of the
interest thereby excited, he is much esteemed even among
the Brahmins for his very extensive erudition, Oriental and
European. Such a visit to Europe from one of the N-
il intim of Primitive Science, the instructors of the Egyp-
ii:ses and Greeks, will excite no small attention among the
British and Continental Literati. His arrival is expect: t; ity
the Albion at Liverpool, and his object relates to questions
between the Hindoos and the Company.
A letter of Valdez explains some differences among
the Spanish refugees. We believe that all of them equally
meditate the rescue of their country ; but there is uo doubt
that the journals have attached an undue importance to the
name of Mina, who is not the famous Guerilla Chief that op-
posed the French at Saragossa and in other places, but a
nephew of that hero, and engaged in trade till after his
uncle's death. Nevertheless, the present Mina deserved well
for his exertions in Catalonia.

That scene of iniquity, the Bankrupts' Court, will be de-
stroyed, M e trust, in spite of all manceuvres of certain Law
Lords to serve it. Lord Brougham should be supported.

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PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH
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ESSEX STANDARD, MARCH 25.

At a meeting ef the freeholders and inhabitants of the county of
Essex, held at Chelmsford. the High Sheriff in the chair, it was unani-
mously resolved,—That this meeting, impressed with a strong sense of
the necessity of an efficient reform in the representation of the people,
views, with infinite satisfaction, the introduction of a measure by his
Majesty's ministers, admirably adapted to restore the Commons House
of Parliament to its just and constitutional character.—That this meet-
ing feels the deepest sense of gratitude and affection to our beloved and
gracious Sovereign, for sanctioning his Ministers in bringing forward a
plan so fully in accordance with the wishes of the people, and the just
principles of the constitution.—That this meeting pledge themselves to
support, to the utmost of their power, the Bill which his Majesty's
ministers have introduced, and to exert every constitutional means to
obtain its adoption by both Houses of Parliament.
During the meeting, tifr. Sparrow, the respectable banker at Chelma•
ford, fell from one of the waggons. and was severely hurt.
THE EHENTIELD GANG.—The ample confession of Eve (who is
reprieved) has explained the mystery of the outrage at Mr. Buxton's
premises. In addition to the perjured miscreant, Phlllpot, a man
named Mead, who was convicted at the January Session for stealing a
gander from Mr. Trot, of South Weald, was of the party, and is des-
cribed as the most desperate ruffian of the three.
At the Norwich Assizes, a dealer at Wymondham, recovered of a
farmer at bwardeaton, 2501. being the price of 197 sheep sold on war-
ranty, but which turned out to be unsound.
COLCHESTER AMATEUR MUSICAL SOCIETY.This Society
gave their first Subscription Concert for the present year, on Monday
evening week, at the Assembly Room, Cups Hotel, to a very numerous
and highly respectable audience, and we are happy to state that the
performance gave great satisfaction.
BURT ST. ED3IONDS.—A melancholy occurrence took place here
laps Thursday. A young man named Pawsey, a tradesman, was called
upon by a commercial traveller for 601. He could not pay it, and went
to a friend, who advised him to go to an attorney, whom he named.
The young man left his friend, and In a very short time afterwards was
discovered dead in a piece of water not two feet deep.
Mr. Mayhew, whose perseverance ejected the King's printer, is the
new candidate for Colchester.

MELANCHOLY' EVINT.—The May Flower, fishing-boat, belonging
to Colchester, was last week upset in a gale of wind, off the Isle of
Wight, and out of six men who formed her crew, five were drowned.
The sixth succeeded in boarding the skiff, and was picked up by a brig,
after being tossed about for several hours.
COLCHESTER MARKET, Savuanar.—Wheat, per quarter, 31 17s
4(1; Barley, 214 s &I ; Oats, 11 7s &I ; Beans, 11 17s 10d; Peas,
11 18s Cod.

..11 lIRIED.—At Yarmouth, William Davis, aged 89, to Hannah
Crowfoot, aged 84—At Hastings, George Beale Brown Esq. of New
Broad-street, to Ellen, third daughter of Benjamin Newton, Esq. of
Charlton, Kent—At Weathersfield, Mr. Isaac Adams, jun. of Rotten.
end, to Catherine, youngest (laughter of Alr. Aletson.
DlED—Aged GO, Jemima, the wife of Wm. Jones, Esq. of Wood.
hall, Sudbury, Suffolk-82, the Rev. George Belgrave, D.D. rector of
Cockfield, Suffolk, and vicar of Stebbing-88,31r5. Grace Spurgin, of
Hatfield PevereL—Joseph Nuno, Esq. surgeon, of Holbrook, Suffolk.

FELIX FARLEY'S BRISTOL JOURNAL.
CLIFTON SUSPiNSION BAIDGIL—We are happy to be enabled to
state, that after a long and mature consideration of the several plans
submitted to the Clifton Bridge Trustees, in which they have received
the able assistance of Mr. Davies Gilbert,' who has kindly devoted
much of his valuable time for that purpose. Mr. Brunel, jun. has
been unanimously appointed Civil Engineer for the erection of the
bridge. His design, we understand, will be very shortly submitted to
the public, when we trust, for the honour of the city, there will be no
difficulty in filling up the subscriptions requisite for enabling the true.
tees to carry this grand object into execution.
Twa EAST INDIA QUESTION..—The Committee of' the House of
Commons have renewed their labours, and are prosecuting their in-
quiries with zeal. The witnesses in favour of opening the trade arc
numerous and efficient, and we understand that the feat; adduced before
the Committee are of such a nature as to make it highly probable that
the East India Company's charter will either not be renewed at all, or
renewed under such modifications as to render the trade both to China
and India accessible to British capital and to British enterprise.
DIED.—At Wotton-under-Ednr, 26, Mary, wife of .Mr. Charles
Gillard.—Kempsey, Worcestershire, James Allies, Esq. of Hill House,
near Worcester.—Benjamin Board, of this city, a member of the So.
ciety of Friends—Sarah, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Richard-
son,:Somerset-street.—Mr. Beard, jeweller, St. John-street—Sarah, the '
wife of Mr. Thomas Harris, of Somerset-square.
SHEFFIELD MERCURY.
On Tuesday evening, Mr. Montgomery delivered a lecture at the
Music Hall, before the members of the Sheffield Mechanics' Library,
embracing strictures on the lives and writings of four poets lit humble
life. The lecturer chose the following as the ground of his observa-
tions, viz. T. Dermody, Robert !Moorefield, Kirk White, and Robert
Burns.

Waoz THE PROPHET.—The high priest of the believing Israelites
has been obliged to decamp from Ashton, In consequence of his infs.
mowproceedings with some female members of the church, and he has
it is said, become domiciled in Sheffield. We hope this statement Is
not correct.

On blonday a reform meeting was held in Chesterfield, the mayor in
the chair. Among the speakers were Joshua Jebb, Esq. the Reverend
C. H. R. Rhodes, of Balbro W. B. Thomas, Esq. Mr. Malkin, Mr.
Cronipton, E. G. Maynard, &sq. the Reverend T. Hill, &c. &c. On
Tuesday a similar meeting was convened at Doncaster, when a series of
resolutions were passed, and an address and petition greed upon.
A school to afford a religious and classical education on easy terms
to the sons of ministers exclusively of the independent denomination,
residing in Yorkshire and Lancashire, will shortly be opened.
SINOULAL EFFECT OF HEAT ON METALS.-A discovery of a
very curious nature, has recently been made by Mr. Trevelyan. If a
bar of iron or brass, a common poker for instance, be heated in the
fire, and then laid down on the floor or on a table, with the heated ex.
tremity resting on the edge of a block of lead two or three inches
square and one inch thick, the round knob of the handle resting on
the tablet if it be then lifted up and laid down again several times, to
try the effect of different positions, and rocked a little, so as to set it
a-going, it continues a long time vibrating and emitting a sound, vary.
ing in tone and intensity, with the table, or mass, on which it
stands.

MARRIED.—At Sandal, near Wakefield, Mr. Matthias Weddale
Wass, to /denim, third daughter of Mr. J. Dufton.
DIED.—At the Rectory House, Eckington, Elizabeth, wife of the
Rev. A. Crawford Brotnehead.—Mrs. Williamson, of Norfolk-street,
69.—Miss Cresawick, of Paternoster-row, 47.—Jane, the wife of J.
Greenwood, Esq. surgeon, of Dewsbury, 58.—Ur. Thomas Cropp,
editor and proprietor of the Bolton Chronicle.
LEICESTER CHRONICLE.
It gives us great pleasure to state that in no part of the kingdom has
the Dliniaterial Reform Bill been received with greater unanimity and
satisfaction, than throughout the County of Leicester. In consequence
of the power intrusted by the public meeting held in this town on Wed-
, ncsday the 4th inst. to a committee of gentlemen, petitions were pre-
pared to both Houses of the Legislature in favour of the bill, and put
into a course of signature. In less than two days, they were signed by
upwards of seven thousand individuals. and that to the Commons was
forwarded by Wednesday's mail, to William Evans, Esq for presen-
tation before the second reading on Monday next. At Market liarbo..
rough, a public meeting has been held and a petition of a like kind
unanimously agreed to; the same at Lutterworth and Loughborough.
At Melton Blowbray, where political meetings have never before
been beard of, the Town was assembled Iby an excellent handbill.—
Thomas Fowler, Esq. presided in a most able manner in the chair—a
petition was moved, seconded, and carried, without a single dissentient
voice, and has been numerously and most respectably signed. The
village of Sileby has forwarded a petition, signed by upwards of 600
persons. The corporation of Leicester stand alone within this county
as opponents of the measure : but even in this select body, we under-
stand, unanimity does not prevail. A meeting of the body corporate
took place, to consider of the propriety of petitioning against the bill;
but so many were found opposed to such a step, and some even in favour
of the bill, that the anti.peti.ion was very wisely dropped.
Dir. Dell's bank, of U.toxetet, stopped payment on Monday se'onight.
The Staffordshire Advertiser says payment was suspended in conse-
quence of a heavy debt (we believe ten thousand pounds) due to Mr.
Bell, and which, for the present, is unavailable.
NOTTINGHA3I ASITZT.4,-BROWN v. Tevions.--This most
important cum, important to the public as well as to the parties, on
Wednesday occupied the nisi prius court, at Nottingham, tot between
nine and ten hours, when a most respectable jury returned a verdict in
favour of the defendants, who are great corn dealers, madmen, and
bresers, at Ncwingtou, near Bawtry. By this verdict is established
the right of the detendants. and the public at large, to haul boats, with
horses, on the bank of the river Idle, from the river Treat, up to the
wharfs of Bawtry, though the plaintiff contended that die defendants
could only exercise that sort of labour by men.
LINCOLN Assizes.—John Greenwood, aged twenty-nine, marine:,
was charged with breaking into the dwelling-house 01 John Weather.
hog, of Theddlethorpe, Al Saints, on the night of the 9th of February
last. The prosecutor, an old man, more than seventy years of age,
stated, that he was alarmed about eight o'clock, by somebody br
the window with a piece of fir plank. Immediately after a man latiti
the room, fired a pistol at his breast, which' set fire to his clothes, and
knocked him down with the end of the pistol. After striking the pro.
secutor several times with a poker, the man demanded his money, and
forced him to go up stairs and give him 71. Lis. Gd. He likewise took
'a silver tea-spoon, a stock-buckle, a small pen-knife, and an ounce
weight. Next morning prosecutor also missed part of a chine of bacon,
a bread loaf, and some other articles. lie did not see the man s face, the
night being dark, he thought be spoke in a disguised tone of voice. The
prisoner is his son-in-law, and he and 66 wife came to proseastee's
house about a month ago. The constable of Theddlethorpe deposed to

finding a powder-ilask, and some shot, which the prisoner attempted to
conceal in a spitting-box, together with several of the articles of which
the prosecutor had been robbed, upon his person. The Jury returned
a verdict of Guilty, and the Judge, in a very impressive manner,
passed sentence of execution upon him. Therho= seemed
much affected, and said it was the first depredation be had ever
committed.
Michael Lundy, aged 25, was charged with the wilful murder of
Thomas Stewards, at Rdenharn, on the 26th of July. Deceased was
the father.in.law of prisoner, they were two Irish labourers, travelling
for employment, and worked one day for Mr. Wilson, of Rdenham :
they were to sleep together in a barn, and were left together there, but
about half-past nine o'clock the prisoner went to Mr. Wilson's house
and gave an alarm of murder, saying that an Englishman dressed in
black had come into the barn nd threatened to murder him. Several
persons accompanied the prisoner to the barn, the door was locked, but
was ultimately broken open, when it was found that the deceased had
his skull fractured by a blow from the square end of an axe, and the
instrument bad afterwards been struck in the face. There were marks
of blood on the prisoner's dress when be was taken into custody,
and several suspicious appearances in his conduct.—Guilty, Death.—
Since executed. _ _ _ _ _ _

Quomdon, 62, Elisabeth, wife of Mr. Robert Freer, of
this town.—Mrs. Ann Burt, of Stamford-street, 58.—Mrs. Orion, of
the Sou►hgate-street, 67.—At Orooby, 74, Mrs. Thompson, late of
Glenlield.—At Woodford, Northamptonshire, 71, Mr. Hennesy,

NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, MARIt 26.

Newport Pagnel Races take place under high patronage on the lath
of August.
W. Swabey, Esq. of Clifton Hall, has by advertisement addressed
some severe strictures to the Rev. R. Cautley, Chairman of the Re-
form Meeting at Newport Pagnel.
At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Borough and Parish of Buck-
ingham, convened by the churchwardens, for the purpose of petitioning
the House of Commons In favour of the bill fur Parliamentary Reform,
and also for the purpose of representing that the census of 1821 is er-
roneous in regard to the population of the borough and parish, and that
the inhabitants thereof are entitled, by the provisions of the said bill, to
have one representative. Mr. Thomas Hearn Chairman.
On the motion of Mr. I. W. Cowley, seconded by Mr. P. A. Box,
it was resolved unanimously, That this meeting lament the inadequacy
of the present mode of election to secure the return of Members of Par-
liament sympathising with the interests of the nation, and hail the
" 13111 to amend the Representation of the People," with heartfelt gra-
titude and approbation ; but nevertheless regret, that an erroneous
statement in the Census of 1821, should (in the present state of the
second schedule to the Bill) exclude this town from the return of one
representative.
"That this meeting view with great regret the refusal of the worship-
ful the bailiff of this borough and parish to accede to the requisition
made to him by many of the most independent and loyal inhabitants to
call a meeting for the present purpose, and indignantly consider the cor.
potation to have been over-ruled in the functions of a body corporate,
by an influence unknown to the Constitution, and affording a glaring
proof of the necessity of reform in the mode of electing the representatives
of the reople."
Friday se'nnight the Corporation of Leicester held a Common Hall,
and passed unanimously, certain resolutions, In honour of Mr. Baron
Vaughan, and in expression of their feelings on his first visit to that
place, in his Judicial capacity.
R. H. Gunning, Esq. has addressed the electors of Northampton in a
letter beginning thus :—" Gentlemen, the difficulty of obtaining a hear-
ing in the House of Commons during the recent discussions was so
great, in consequence of the number of members endeavouring to deliver
their sentiments, that I, in common with a great many others, found it
a fruitless attempt. On this account, and considering the more than
ordinary importance of the question then debated, 1 shall be excused for
adopting this mode of informing you, that I have most unhesitatingly
opposed the reform bill."
NEWPORT, MARCH 19.—The beautiful church and steeple of
Godshill, In this island, were on Sunday evening last struck by
lightning. It entered at the belfrey window, which it forced in, pro-
ceeded through the ceiling to the clock, the bands of which it struck off,
as also part of the weather vane staff, and from thence to the top of the
tower the leads of which it in part melted. In the hotly of the church
considerable damage was also done, where the lightning tore off the
plastering from a great part of the walls, and absolutely turned up
part of the flagging of the aisles.
SOUTHADIPTON' SATURDAY.—Wheat, 74s to 804; Barley, 30s to
44s ; Oats, 241 to 28s ; Bans, 36s to 40s.
MARKET' HARBOROUGH, TURSDATWIICit, 72s to 80s; Barley,
38, to 44s • Oats, 25s to 31 ; Beans, 38s to 465; Fine Elour, 645;
Thirds, 595; ; Malt, 76s ; Butter, 15th to 16d per pound ; Eggs, 22 for
one shilling.
DIED. Mr. W. France, of Sywell Mill—At Stony Stratford, Mr.
It. T. Lyons—At Irshlingborough, Mrs. Sarah Curtis—Mr. Wm.
Merrill, of Yardley Hastings—At Cottesbraoke Rectory, the Lady of
the lion. and Rev. P. A. Irby.