Star.
London, England, 1830-10-13 00:00:00

NA PAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Nimrod, of Liverpool, and the Alexander, Ricbardsor, for
Quebec, were spoken with in long. 46
Drat, Ocr. 12.—Wind E.N E.— Arrived from the River, and
sailed, the Britomart, for the westward.
Forum/vv. Cie?. 11.--Wind E Sit —Arrived the San Juan Ig-
nacia, San Antonio F. Animus, and San Jose Juan Batista, fri m Re-
quljado.
FaLITOCTII OCT. Il.—Wind S.F.. to E fresh breeze.—Sailed
the Lyra packet, for Halifax and Bermuda; and the Hermes eclat-
packet, fur the Mediterranean.
C• 11114 OCT. 10.—Wind E.S.E.—Salled the Nioffatt. Cromarty, for
Gibraltar. Arrived the Arah tratt.port, Lowe; Greve,' ditto, Ni-
clolsoo; and Amity ditto, Gray, from Deptford for Barbadoes.
Moult, Ocr. 9 —Arrived the Salem, Wil!lants, from Cully ;
Crosby, frost Laguna; and Traco de Malo, front St. 1.114'..
Assassin, Ocr.lo.—Arrived off the purr,
the St. Andrew, {teed,
ce and Princess Charlotte, from Davis Strait,.

Psessuseo, OCT. 10.—Arrived off the port, the Gleaner. Shard,
from Davie Steaks.

111 ANSION-HOUSE.-CHARGE OF FORGE K Y ON TII K

EAST.INDIA COMPANY.—(Tius DAY.)

A•young man of respectable appearance was brought before :he
LORD MAYOI4 charged with having presented a forged wanant tee
6141. at the Bank,fee payment, in the name of the East India Comm y.
Mr. Mortimer, treasurer of the Company, produced a check for 614%
Was acquainted with the signatures of Mr. Astell and other directu s.
He could decidedly my that the signatures to the warrant were nut thuve
of Mr. Astell and others. The check could not have been passed
' out witness's signature. The prisoner was employed, but not p..-n a-
nantly,.in the Acoomptants' Generals Office. Witness's signature eat
fogged.
Mr. Evans stated the course adopted by the prisoner on pres,r ;•%,:
the check at the bank. Witness believed the warrant to be incol, .e.,
and prisoner said It was a forgery, and hoped he would not expose in •t.
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was committed fur It

TILE QUARTERLY DIVIDENDS.—This morning the d'-
vidends on the several portions of the Public Debt which became
on the sth instant, commenced paying at the Bank of England. The
London Bankers signed foe the dividends on Stock tit( y geld yesterday.
The amount tithe dividends to be paid to the public, is between six and
seven millions sterling. The dividends are payable on Reduced Aneu;-
ties, the 31 per Cents. of 1818, the 31 per Cents. Reduced, the 4 :ler
Cents. of 1828, Long Annuities for 30 years, and Bank Stock. Juddons
from the full attendance of the holders of Stock at the Bank this awry.
ing, it wouldSP money oney is rather in discount.
DARINGrROLASY.--Infortration was this moruin
given at the various Police Offices, of the house of Wm. (heeler,
of Upper Woburn-place Tashi:at-square, having been broken
, about two o'clock • Tuesday morning, and plundered of various por.a-
, ble articles of value. The thieves effected an entrance from the back of
the house into the basement, whence they proceeded to the floor shove.
Among other articles taken by them were, a valuable watch s ith
two seals appended, one engraved with Mr. rider's coat of arms, and
the other bearing his initials; also, a silver cruet stand, several tea ar d
other spoons, and a pair of miniature statues, one of Napoleon. and the
other of Frederick the Great, executed in Berlin iron, and tidily
bronzed. The plate-chest was fortunately placed in a part of the house
to which they did not venture to proceed. They finally made their es.
cape by the street-doer.
NEW PoLICE.—No small share of laughter was created
on Monday night, at the west end of the town, about 15 flash yowl
men, with cloaks and cigars, parading up Whitehall, Pall-nail...
James's-street, and other populous parts of that end of the merscipel:s.
in police order—one by one. These self.constituted gua.ilians of the
night cause no little surprise to the regular police, wow, howev.a, be-
haved perfectly quiet on the occasion, and took no notice whatever of
the jocular imitation played upon them.
Another expedition will shortly sail from Poi tBILCU.)). 'o
complete the survey of the western coast of Africa, which the unfortunate
termination of that under the late Captain Botcher left unfinished. Tree
command is intrusted to Captain Belcher, a scientific officer who •ecc .1
with Captain Beechey in exploring the shores of the Pacific. Ills .tla-
jesty's sloop Etna has been appropriated thr this service, and n (re t. a-i
ordinary attention and liberality have been bestowed upon all her equip..
mews. Her commander and offing% lave been selected ty the Lords of
the Admiralty in cons, quence of their superior III:11111111.11/A aid every
measure has been taken on the part of Discernment to render this arduous
expedition effective. The Etna will prt cad in the first instance to
Sierra Leone, and thence to survey various parte of the Dad Cost, sod
to ascertain the meridiem distances of different points which are
eessary for the completion of the charts of that neighbourhcoil.—L :e-
-ntry Gesell/.
There was a great deal of animation evinced Ncoteri!ay
evening at the isles of Spanish Australian and other wools. the
sties of the manufacturers and whets from Yorkshire and the West of
England was very numerous, and the wools sent off very briskly._
Within the last two days about 700 bales of Australian wools have bees
purchased at prices flout lid. to 2d. per lb. advance. Yesterday even-
ing about Whales of Spanish wools were brough: forward aid sold a 1..1
great spirit. About 270 bales of inferior qualitl a realised front lett. to
to Hid. per lb. The other wools were better quaiities, and realised r o
2W. to 231 per lb. Some fine wools fetched from 2*. 4d. to 2,2 e
per lb. The stock of wools continues low, and the den.and tear n
Leturing purposes is still very anise.
Dls I' AHED SHEEP.—The qt entity of sheep Act teil
the rot in the west of Roglar.d is tug eralkled. In t4rotiami, teo.
disease has become very prevalent Formerly the nasum trout the
Highlands was probably the best in the world; all that is fed 01. the
cultivated lands now is diseased. In order to prove the coerce nem. of
the opinion that the Book and poisonous be rbage was really the cause f
the disorder, a gentleman who has an estate a short disticher nom Claw.
gow, who sent the worst mutton that canat to 01.i.gow market se ,en
years ago, tit the butchers would nut buy his slurp, he set to AtOZIC,
and underdra tied the fields, (allowed, pared, and burned, arceedirir as
the soil would admit of it ; used various coati outs of lime aim salt, a: it
sowed pure clover and grass seed. His sheep are now the best that t 0.% •
to Glasgow market, which enhances the value of his pr,,peeiy at h a,e
two.thirds—a noble example for the kingdom at large.—
COTTON WEA V ERs.—The situation of this unfortunate
class of mechanics is at present most di.tressing. From returns s hid)
we have seen, and statements made to us, it appears that there are, at
this moment, upwards of 700 heads of families. whose earnings do rot,
on an average, exceed 4e. per week, and nearly 3,000 fellow.beirgs (de.
pendent on them for subsistence) art in a state closely bordering on star.
radon. Disease, and all the enfeebling atteadams of poverty, are busy
amongst them; winter and its min:ries are approaching, and without
adequate food, raiment, ere covering, their eiteusemaneen present a pie.
ture at which humanity shedders. We 'rust that this appeal may attract
the eye of some ripen puesssed of influence sufficient to effect nowa
remedy for ate Mimes an evil, and that public means will be exerted to
avert the berries at present impending over this bumble and lave.
vows.. d class.— Belfast Guardian.

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- 7YREADT,LIc,I VENT AT WOOLWICH BARRACKS.

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.;;-.i.ltpshie excitement has for the last few days prevailed at Wool.
seich ley :s.very.general rumour that Lieutenant Edward John Jones, of
the Royal Horse Artillery, had been killed in a duel by a brother
officer.• on Woolwich-common, and that the body had been privately
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removed,- Meathe dad of night, to his apa.tments in the barracks,
a that It was the intention of his friends to conceal the circum-
etas. ce from tht. public, :.rd to bury the corpse without an inns-
tipttion of the circumstances leading to his death. This report was
so ci:teent that every person believed it. and the affair became the
macrai topic of conversation. The beadle of the parish lost
no licit, in makiug the mcessary inquiries, and succeeded in
ascertaining that the report of the unfortunate gentleman having fell in
a duel was without foundation, although he had died from the effect of
• a etstol-shot under circumstances of the most singular and truly af-
ting nature. Notice was immediately forwarded to the Coroner, and
a Jury, consisting of the most respectable inhabitants of the neighbour.
hoot, was summoned on the inquiry, which took place at the King's
Arens Tavern, before Mr. Canter, jun. when the following evidence
riven in elucidation of the melancholy affair:--.
`.Vtlii..m Sinclair examined—The witness stated that he lived as groom
to :he late Lieut. Jones, of the Royal Horse Artillery, and be lived in
ls e quarters at Woolwich barracks. He (witness) occupied the room
iso.;.etliately under that of his master. On Tuesday night last, the
Sil. instant, about nine o'clock, he saw him going into his &part-
ite:3 for the purpose of dressing, to attend a party of his bro-
tl.er officers. Witness heard him go out in about an hour after and
hr (witness) went to bed ; in a short time his master returned and again
wcht into his room, but did not remain long before he left.—
W,tatset went to sleep, and heard no more of him during the night. At
about seven o'clock next morning he went into his room, as was his
usual custom, to call the deceased, when, upon entering the room, he
was astonished at finding two candles burning in the sockets of the can.
dlesticks, and his muter not in bed, nor had he been, from the undis-
turbed state of the clothes. Upon looking behind the screen which di.
vided the room, he discovered the deceased sitting on the sofa, with his
head reclining over the side, weltering in blood, which appeared to have
come from his mouth, although the lips were closed, and quite dead.
He made an immediate alarm, and Captain Brydges came into the
roots instantly, while he procured the attendance of the surgeon, who
declared him to have been dead some hours. The deceased was undressed,
with the exception of his drawers and stockings. Witness afterwards
found the puttol.now produced in his drawers, which were hanging about
his legs.
(The pistol was here produced; it was one of a pair of duelling
pistols.)
Coroner—What time do you think your master came home from
she party ?
%Vitness.--I cannot precisely say, but I think about one o'clock.
Juror.—Did you at any time during the night hear any report of a
pistol 1
Witness.—No, Sir, I did not.
Coroner.—)have you noticed any thing singular in the manner of the
deceased lately that would induce you to say he was of unsound mind ?
Witness.—Oh no, Sir; on the contrary, he was always particularly
cheerful, and very high spirited.
Captain Edward Jacob Brydges was next examined. He stated that
he was well acquainted with the unfortunate gentleman. who was only
20 years of age, and was very highly connected. When the alarm
was made by the last witness that -his master was dead, he ran into his
room, and was horror-struck at beholding him deluged in blood,without
the remotest wound or mark of violence; his lips were closed, and when
the surgeons arrived, they were at a loss to conjecture from whence the
blood had flowed. However, search being made, the pistol now produced
was found, which had recently been discharged ; and upon opening the
lip of the deceased, the upper jaw was found to be completely shattered,
and the ball had lodged in the back of the heed, and which was subse.
quently extracasd. Witness was confident that the deceased never in.
tended suicide, but that his death was caused in some way or other by
accident. He was a particularly high-spirited young man, and the last
in the world that would commit self.murder.
In answer to a question from a juror, Captain Brydges said, he felt
confident that the death of the unfortunate deceased was accidental, and
he was strengthened in that opinion from the examination he had made
of the pistol.:Upon looking at the ramrod, he found it was very dif.
ti:olt to remove, and he verily believed that the deceased was about to
craw the charge of the pistol, and finding he could not shift the ramrod
w; :It his hand, lie had applied the teeth of his bottom jaw to a small
led,:e near the top of it, and in doing so, the jerk must have caused the
p;stol to go off, and produce the dreadful event.
The pistol was closely inspected by the Coroner and jury, and the
m:nrod certainly was difficult to remove without the aid of the teeth.
Captain Brydges further said, that he never bad seen any thing in
the conduct or general manner of the deceased indicating insanity. He
could state that in all his experience he had never seen a man more
careless of fire-arni4 than the deceased ; he was continually trying expo-
ri-vents with them, and he had no doubt whatever but that his death
was occasioned in the manner he had described.

Lieut. Benn stated, that he was at the patty with the deceased, who
was in high spirits during the evening, which was with much
conviviality. He left him at about one o'clock on Wednesday morning,
to go to his quarters; lie was thenin full spirits and perfectly sober.
The deceased had been out upon a shooting excursion the day before.
and had missed killing a pheasant he had aimed at, and expressed his
determination to attempt again on the following morning, and be invited
his brother to breakfast, and to accompany him. and he accepted the
offer. Witness was quite sure he never contemplated suicide.
Coroner.—Were cards or any other game introduced during the eve-
ning at which the deceased lost any money
Witness.—No, Sir, none whatever.
Cow-cr.—Did the deceased drink much wine
Wit',ess answered in the negative, there was very little drank amongst
L -want :Luca that he was also at the party, and noticed
low particularly elevenl the deceased was during the evening. Wit-
ness lent him a pint of pistols some time ago, and the one then produced
ass on? of them. In the course of the evening lie requested the deceased
to return them, as he wanted to take them with him to Barbadoes; he
said he would send them home next morning. Witness was sure his
melancholy death was caused by accident, as he was notoriously ha-
zardous and careless with fire-srms.
Mr. Mahon and Mr. Durk, assistant-surgeons of the regiment, proved
extracting the ball from the head of the deceased ; and after much deli-
beration, the Jury returned a verdict that the deceased was " accidentally
shot."