Star.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

THE DISCuI'EIIY SHIPS.

The Discovery Ships at Deptford are getting fast
ready to.ptoceed on their destination ; and Goveinment
seem to have skated no expense to render them in every
restect fit for the service they are going upon, and to
them as conifortab:e to the Officers and crews as
uc nature of circtimstences will admit. We have,
among the immemse crowds which are daily at Dept-
fol.d for that purpose, visited the ships, and tt ere par-
ticularly struck with the excellent arrangement of
et et ything. The acc3rnmodations for the Office's, con-
lidtting the s'ze of the ships, are exceedingly good,
and exhibit a degree of great comfort and neatness.
The crews ate as comfortable as can well be ima-
gined: the men tllis voyage sleep in hammocks, in place
of standing bed places. The ships are warmed with
flues in an admirable manner ; and there appears to be
no want of excellent libraries on board. It is calculated,
upon an average, that within these few la,t fine days
not less than between six and seven hundred people
hive visited the Discovery Ships ; and Deptford Dock
Yard presents an appearance truly singular, flout tilt
crowd of carriages that are daily in .attendance, and the
number of elegantly dtessed femalei, all anxious to get
a view of the ship,.

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Some anxiety having been felt in the Brazil trade
respectioz the security of British prope!ty. in Para, after
the expuision of the owners, we feel it satiffactory to be
enabled to state, that immediately on the arrival of the
fugitives at Barbadoes, their case was represented by
the Consul frtem Para to the Governor, who forthwith
ordered his Majesty's ships Scout and Eden to proceed
thither. One or the sloops was instructed to remain, for
the pri)tcctioa of Bri:ish interests, the other to return
rep-It the gate of the province ; and as it is known
th:lt his :Nl.,jety's ship Brazen left Rio on the 15th of
I:ebrliary for ill:: same destination, there was every rea-
son to expect the restoration of tranquillity in that guar-
ter. The British Consul for Para,' and ri,ost of the
British tc,i,!ents, sailed for that place from Barbadoes
in the Sct t:t ;IA Eden.

A Gentleman has arrived intown who left Tampico,
in Mexico, on the '2sth of February. He had travelled
to that port direct from Mexico, after a residence of
some duration in the capital of New Spain. He states
that no insurrection existed in any part of the country;
and, what is of still greater coasequence, no partisans of
the mother cuuntry felt strong enough to declare them-
selves. The Executive was in great straits for want of
money, a state of things which would soon cease by
the-arrival of the remittances from the contractors for
the loan negociated in this country. Their chief error
-appears to be extreme clemency to the old Spanish re-
sidents, who were suffered to remain in the face of the
public proclamations for their expulsion.
An. Inquest was held at Rilston, on the 20th instant,
before HPARY SMITH, Esq. Coroner, upon the body of '
Thomas Turley. It appeared that Turley, who was a
oudltv, had been drinking at the Big Coal public-house
on the preceding Saturday night, and got up in a state
of intoxication to go out at the back door, again
which- the landlord cautioned him, as there was au open
well near it. lie, however, did go out, and his wife,
who was waiting in the house, followed him; almost
`4lNLitntaileously Turley staggered and fell backwards
into the well, and his wife, who caught hold of the ho:-
tom of his ttowsen, was, in endeavouring to save hin-1
purl ied in alter him, but fortunately with her feet fore-
t. The well was six yards deep, and two and a half
Icet-of water in it, and they remained in the situation
vlescribed a guar ter of an hour before any
person came
to their assistance, when the woman was taken out,
Inn little hint; and in ab. tit half au hoar afterwards
the body of Turley was got out lifeless, his head and
stalniders having been tender water during the time.-
Wolverhampton t hennide.
t'ort-ria ITS or QUKEN ELIZAPETII.—Vertue, the en-
graver, 'had a pecker-book in his possession, of Isaac
01:sei, in which the latter had made a memorandum,
that the glee.' his mistress would not let him give any
I,icle to her fratutes,-telling him that shade was an ac-
ciJent, and r.ot naturally existing in the face. The por-
t ,airs JI 14:11ZAbeth are ttrereforeusually without shadow.