Star.
London, England, 1825-07-26 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, JULY 22.

The Rev. Joseph Cook, M.A. Fellow of Christ Col.
lege, who expired on the 3d of March last, between
Mount Sinai and Tor, on the Red Sea. After spending
some years in the,University with the highest credit
and honour to himself, he went to the Continent in 1820.
Having visited Holland, France, Germany, and Swit-
zerland, and resided four years in Italy, devoting his
time to the public performance of his clerical duties at
the English chapel at Rome, and that of the Ambassa-
dor at Naples, and to the study and contemplation of
the interesting objects with which those classical shores
abound ; and having qualified himself for a full and
minute examination of those regions, doubly interesting
as being the sources of both sacred and profane history,
he set out from Malta in August last, on a tour to
Egypt and the Holy Land, accompanied by Dr. Drum-
head, of this University, and Mr. Lewis, of the Navy.
Having penetrated beyond the second cataract of the
Nile, the party returned to Cairo, from whence they
proceeded to Mount Sinai. The fatigues of this journey,
the inclemency of the weather, and the privations inse-
parable from travelling in those countries, so weakened
him (although he left Cairo apparently in perfect heilth),
that after stopping a few days at Mount Sinai to recruit
his strength, he was unable to reach Tor, and, under
circumstances fraught with the most deep and awful
interest, expired on his camel in the Pass Wady Hebram,
near Mount Serbal, to the inexpressible regret of his fa-
mily and friends. His remains were deposited in the
burying-ground of a Greek church, near the wells of
Eliza, a spot which he had expressed his most anxious
wish to visit, and which, to use the words of his Iriend,
De. Bromhead, " Could he have foreseen his fate, he
would probably have selected as his last earthly abode."

On account of the increasing trade between Bona
deaux and the Havannah, a line of packets has been
established between those two places. The first of these
has already returned, and is said to have brought back
on board General MORALES, Governor of Cuba.
A letter from Dordrecht, written on the 19th inst.
says, 16 At this moment there is a fire within half a
league ; eighty houses are already destroyed, and the
fire is still raging. People ate hastening from all quar-
ters to assist the sufferers."
The boats belonging to a small squadron, under the
c:mmand of the Hon.. Captain Mayne, of the DART..
mount frigate, captured on the coast of Cuba, in May
last, a piratical schooner with two long six-pounder
guns, four swivels, several small arms, and a crew of
forty men, nineteen of whom were taken, and two
killed. The crew were at their quarters, and about
to fire their long guns, loaded up to the muzzles,
upon our men, who had landed to protect Mr.
LYALL (Mate) with his small crew of twelve men, when
they were gallantly boarded sword in hand: if the
guns had been fired, not a man could have escaped
alive—only one of our crew was wounded. The DART.
mount's crew has been remarkably healthy off the
coast of Cuba, and not a man has been lost by the
disease of the climate; Mr. WALSH (Mate) and RIDER
(Carpenter's Mate) died at Port Royal. Many seamen
volunteered from merchant vessels into the Daar-
mourn, at the Havannah.
The Spanish breed of sheep has been introdeced into
North Jutland. Professor Krairup, at Veirum, intro-
duced the breed on his estate some years ago, and has
been so successful in his management, that he lately
sold 63 stone (14.1 b. to the stone) of Spanish, at above
10 dollars banco per stone, to the woollen manufactory
of Guldberg. His flock amounts to 400 sheep. Other
similar instances are given.
The 9th instant, a man in the dress of a farmer's
labourer, presented himself to Mr. Fowler, and to
Messrs. Fox, respectable spirit dealers at Melksham,
professing to have been sent by a resident in that neigh-
bourhood, for a gallon Of rum ; but these Gentlemen,l
from one gallon only being ordered, and other circum-
stances, suspecting tome trick, had him taken into
custody ; ashen, after a short imprisonment in the blind
house, he was taken handcuffed before J. Fouuza, Esq.
at Neston, when he proved to be an Excise Officer,
from Bradford ! After a severe reprimand from the
worthy Magistrate, he was discharged.
Inon.—On the Shropshire and -Staffordshire quar-
ter days last week, the price of pig iron fell 10s. per
ton. Manufactured iron continued at the same prices
as the previous quarter. The demand has been, and
still is, nearly equally great. The small decrease in.
the price of pigs is referable chiefly, or perhaps
wholly, to the confident expectation that the new fur-
?laces building, and the additional mines of stone open.
irg, will, by increased supply, have the usual effect
on prices. Not only are the old and wealthy iron-
nasters extending their works, but new capital is daily
being transferred from less profitable employment into_
a trade which is now, undoubtedly, the most lucrative
tt.e empire.—Bradford Courier.
The person who was discovered lying
•dead on the
road near Linlithgow -(es formerly mentiened),.proveu
to be Mr. Thomas Alain, who had long travelled for
the Gilcomstone Brewify it Aberdeen and latterly foie
the firm of M,Call and Douglas, Linlithgow. •
A CLERK'S Brananatt.—A-Parson trading the first
line or so of a chapter in the 'Bible, the'Clert, by some
mistake or other, read it after him. The Clereinairr
read as follows Moses was an austere man, and
made atonement for the sins Of his peoplc." Thelncrki
who could not exactry 'catch 'the stntenee.lttp atcd it
tlitle : Moses Wall• aft oysterman, and made Gin/meet
for tl.e Orbs: of his people.

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