Star.
London, England, 1824-09-24 00:00:00

VAUXHALL GARDENS,
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LICENSING DAY FOR SURRlCTuesday was the day
appointed for granting. public-house licenses, and the
application of the proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens gave
rise to some conversation of an interesting nature. On
Friday last the Magistrates visited the several houses
for which licenses Were sought, and among them Vaux-
hall Gardens. They did so in consequence of the re-
presentation of a Reverend Gentleman, a Magistrate,
that the walks which were not lighted were liable to be
applied to a very different purpose from that which
might be expected, or was originally intended. The
visiting Magistrates perceived that possibilities pre-
sented themselves in those shady groves, not at all con-
sistent with moral entertainments; and upon inquiry,
they ascertained that there were parties to whom a ge-
neral strong diffusion of light would be extremely in-
convenient. It was suggested, that a complete and im-
partial lighting up would reflect a moral credit upon.
the establishment; that watchmen should be so disposed
as to prevent any offensive conduct; and that any of
them influenced by bribery should be dismissed.
The late hours kept also formed a subject of discus-
sion. It was argued by the Reverend !'Magistrate, that
to set a positive limit to the period of stay in a place to
which 10 or 12,000 persons of all ranks and ages were
admitted, might cause such confusion as would more
than counterbalance the inconvenience arising from the
present system. He, however, argued that visitors
should not be admitted-after a stated hour; as it was a
notorious fact, that those who entered soonest went
away soonest; and the objectionable characters oho is-
sued forth from the theatres at a 12:e hour, were those
who remained immovable until daylight appeared.

It was likewise contended, that there exised i necei •
city for insisting upon a more modest arrangement of
dress amongst the females of a certain description, s horn
it would be next to. impossible altogether to exclude
from the Gardens.

'Die license was granted without any condition, how.
ewer, except, we believe, that of the lighting and watch-
ing. The subject of admitting up to a stated hour, and
other observations, will form topics of discussion when
the license for music is taken nut.

The immense price charged for steam-engiaes in
France has deterred many yersons of limited capital
from employing them. There are not more tha•l three
steam-engine manufactories in France, the largest of
which is in Paris, and belongs to Cassimir Perrier, and
other French and English capitalists. The engines are
there charged double the amount which is paid in Eng-
land. In intrinsic quality they resemble our own; but
although this manufactory is superintended by as
Englishman, the French workmen know so little bow
to handle iron, that the engines are anything rather
than specimens of perfection, as to outward appearance.
Many private Gentlemen in France have had small
steam-engines erected on their grounds for the more
plentiful supply of water. Lafitte has one at an estate
near Paris, which cost him upwards of 50,000 francs.
At Cheltenham, where one of the wells has been
exhausted, some eicavatorsAre employed digging deeper
fora fresh supply. The Londoners, the constant victims
of ennui in the country, amuse themselves with viewing
the progress of the delvers, and when the latter se: the
former approach, they pretend to take something out of
the earth, brought from the hottom of the well, and
secrete it, as if of great value as a curiosity. This
excites .curiosity, and occasions inquiry, when they.sare
told that the workmen, having discovered some curious
' shells, who sell them at half-a-crown or five •shillings,
each, first sbew ing them encrusted witb.earth, and pat t
of them glistening and curiously formed. The pur-
chasers are generally Londoners, and when they take
home the cariosity, they find it •nothing. more than a
metal button, or part of some brass ornament, of no
value whatever. The antiquarians, it appears, have.
been great purchasers of these wooderful things.
The eveniug,of Sunday, about eight o'clock, a most
melancholy accident occurred on the Leeds and Brad-
ford•road, at Whitecote-hill. John Briggs, a dyer, in
Leeds was rettuning from Bradford in a gig, accom-
panied by his brother Joshua Briggs, and his niece, a
little girl about four years of age; when they arrived
near the Acorn Inn, the gig was overturned upon a
heap of stones ; Jahn Briggs was thrown out and
killed upon the spot ; the girl was also thrown out, and
the Defiance coach coming up at the instant, the wheels
passed over her head and killed her; the brother,
Joshua Briggs, was also dangerously. bruised. An In-
quest was held on Monday, by Mr. BARR, the Coroner,
when the Jury found a verdict of Accidental Death.

Mr. Davies, a farmer, at Somerton, having sent his
son with a horse to some part of the farm, and he being
absent nearly three hours, a man was dispatched in
search of him; when, after a diligent search, his hat
was first found, his shoes next, and in various places
different parts of his garments. At length, after ge;ng
nearly a mile, he discovered the horse standing in. a
field, and the boy, dreadfully mangled,. lying. beside
him, with the baker twisted round his thigh. Tire day
previous to the melancholy accident, the boy was seen
leading the horse with a halter tied round his thigh, and
strongly admonished nut to do so; and it is supposed
' that, having again adopted the same dangerous method,
the horse took fright, and dragged him through several
fields, over hedges, &c. for nearly a mile.
Tuesday se'nnight, as a party of seamen belonging to his
Majesty's ship Sams:lune, just ived from the Halifax
station, were walking up Point.atreet, Portsmouth, ra-
titer elated with liquor, a bull, which had escaped from
the King's slaughter-house, came, running towards the
jolly tars, with his tail erect in the air, when all the men
jumped out of his way except one, and he being an im-
mensely sturdy fellow, stood in the street directly in the
way of the bull, and hailed him in the following words:
Bull, ahoyl bull, ahoy ! I cry: drop your peak and
put your helm a-starboard, or you'll run aboard of me."
The bull continuing his course, came in contact with
Jack, and capsized him; but Jack not being intimidated
sprung from the ground, and shaking his -clothes, very
good-naturedly observed to the bull—" Oh, you lub-
berly beast, I told you how it would be!"
SPANIARDS " IN BUCKRAle—General Don Joseph
O'Donnell, in his official report to the Spanish Minister
of War, dated the 26th of last month, says—" In execu-
tion of the orders of his Majesty, hventy-six individuals
were shot on the 23d and 24th instant. Six of them
belonged to the rebel band of Lopez Herrera, and the
other thirty formed part of the party under Valdes."—
Query—ls this a Fair:al-ism or an kishinet.
By a law of the Emperor PRILIP (lib. R. lit. 151),
poets were not admitted to those immunities conferred on other
professors of liberal arts. A similar insult to Poets escaped a
petty Sovereign of Germany. Is. the edict, published at Brfart,
9U March, 1796, for the instruction of the censors or BIXONI2II of
,the press, provisiou Is made, that those who publish poems shall
pay double price per sheet for the writings they submit:

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PUBLIC SALES.
MR FAREBROTHER.
Manor Estate.—The Manor of Little Bedwin, near 'Hugger-
ford, W 1 ts, with its rights and royalties, also Manor Hon*, fon-
taitfing twelve principal rooms, domestic cakes two coach-houses,
stabling; farm-yard, two cottages, laWn, garden, orchard, and
various enclosures of arable, meadow, pasture, and wood land, in-
cluding Slits. la. Or. of the estimated value of £1,400 per annum,
the estate subject to land-tax, £23 16s. 6d. quit rent, 12s. 4d. law
day silver, 4s. 10d. and to the Earl of Aylesbury 14s. yearly; pri-
vilege of two pews in the Church—X32,6oo.

WEIMAR, SEPT. 9.—The disteiban:es at Coburg were
by.no means so important as reports have made them.
The attachment of the citizens to the amiable Duchess

is so great, that, on driving out lately, they overtook
her, unharnessed the horses, and drew the carriage back
to the Palace. M. VON LINDA% Privy Councillor to
the Duke of SAHA GOTHA, has been sent with all speed
to Coburg, in order to arrange • any differences that
may have arisen.—Hamourgh Paper.
Gregoria Iglesias, one of the unfortunate Patriots
wined in arms at Inatira, during the late attempt of the Constitu-
don:ilk's, has been executed at Madrid. He was strangled on the
Homo (the gallows), and after his death his head was cut off, and
his body quartered. Rath of his members was to he suspended in
terms= on oae of the principal roads leading to the capital, and at
a distance of only 400 paces. This horrible and sanguinary exhibi-
tion appeen to be less calculated to inspire terror than to create a
quenchless thirst for revenge.
The following deserves to be recorded among the
wonderful proofs of the industry and posters of bent—At Charles-
town of Aboyne, a hive belonging to Mr. Smith, overseer at House
of Aboyne, cast a swarm on the 4th of June, which swarm was
put into hive, and allowed to work till the 14th of September, when
on the hive being smsaked, sixteen ppitnts of excellent honey were
found to have been accumulated.— Chronicle.

After the Grand Jury for the county of Middlesex
were discharged on Tuesday evening, 173 poisoners,
against whom no bills were found, were brought up and
discharged by proclamation.
Nicholas I4asev, of Billy Row, near Bishop Auck-
land, has-been a shearer eighty-five years, and never
missed a harvest. He started when he was twelve
years of age, so that he is now ninety-seven, and exhi-
bits excellent health.

During the heavy rains on Wednesday, the Bth in-
stant, at the bleach-mill belonging to Mr. THOMAS
PICKERING, Consmondale, near Guisbto', an outhouse
with its contents, a cart, waggon, ploughs, &c. were all
nearly destroyed by the rain communicating with some
unslacked lime contained in the building, which soon
ignited, and the fire bad Made considerable progress
before it could be overcome.

Wednesday evening, the 15th inst. about five o'clock,
a small balloon, nine feet in length, descended in a bar-
ley-field, in the parish of Easthach Turville, Glouces-
tershire. This balloon was inflated with hydrogen gas ;
and must hay.e travelled with very great rapidity, as it
left the neighbourhood of Bristol, distant from the
place of its descent between forty and fifty miles, about
four o'clock the same evening.
Mr. W. SADLER ascended with his balloon on Wed-
nesday last, from the great yard of the gas works in
the town of Wigan. The hour appointed was two
o'clock, at which time the machine was perfectly in-
flated. Shortly after three o'clock, Mr. SADLER entered
the car, gave the signalcwhen the balloon was released
and mounted with extreme rapidity, 1.0 was quickly
out of sight. Finding himself apiaoacliiii- the sea, with
t;
a strong breeze, Mr. SADLER, in abbot half an hour
from the time of hii ascent, determined on descending,
which he effected with safety within three miles of Li-
verpool, having gone, in a direct line, A distance of,
nineteen miles.
MELAtiCHPLY CATAtTROPHIL*--Miss AlifiLl• HEN
°Eason, of Melton Range, near Colubrook, was burnt
to death, at the house of Mrs. FORBES, her aunt, on
Wednesday night. She had spent the evening with a
juvenile party in the neighbourhood, and on her return
higne, her cliches caught fire when alone in the parlour.
Her. shrieks aia: rued the maid-servant, and on entering
the loom, the unfortunate female was a blaze of fire.
She lingered two hours in the frost excruciating tor-
ment, when death put an end to her suffer ings. The
deceased was eighteen years of age.
An Inquest was held at the Lord Nehon public-house,
Trafalgar-street, Walworth, on Tuesday evening, en
the body of a child two years and a half old, the son of
a labouring Man, named Kelwey. It appeared by the
evidence, that the child, after dinner, went into the yar d
with a potatne in his hand ; in less than a quarter of an
hour alter, his father having gone into the yard, saw
him lying motionless, with his head in a small pool of
Water. On taking him up, it was found he had a piece
of the poratoe sticking in his throat, which was sup-
posed to have caused such a degree of suffocation, as tos
occasion his filling with his head in the water, from
which he was unable to raise himself. Surgical as-
sistance was immediately procured, but every endea-
vour to restore animation was ineffectual. Verdict—
Accidental Death.

SuPattsTlTloN.—(Flom the Norfolk Beacon, an Ame-
rican paper, August 19.)—" A MODERN MI RACLE.—A
singular display of the goodness and power of AL-
MIGHTY GOD, at a camp meeting, held at Tangier Is-
land, August 15,1824. Miss Narcissa Crippin, a highly
respectable young Lady, nineteen years of age, and a
zealous Christian, was, on the evening of the 15th in-
stint, say about eight o'clock, so operated on by the
spirit of GoD, that her face became too bright and
shining for mortal eyes to gaze upon, without pro-
dociog the most awful feelings to the beholders. It
resembled the reflection of the sun upon a bright cloud.
The appearance of her face for the space of forty mi-'
nutes was truly angelic, dining which time she was
silent; atter which she spoke, and expressed her happy
and heavenly feelings, when her dazzling countenance
gradually faded, and her faceretumed its natural ap-
pearance. The writer of this:paragraph was an eye-
witness of the circumstance above stated : such a sight
he never expected to behold with mortal eyes; and to
give a true description of which would be beyond the
ability of mortal man. While she remained in the
situation above described, she was seen by more than
two hundred persons, a few of whom have subscribed
their names hereto. W/A. Lee (Rev.), Wm. E. WISE,
JOHN BAYLY.

MMES.—The following is the estimated produce of
the different gold and silver mines in modern times:
Of gold, the mines of Europe produce, in sterling, only X 185,020;
Northern Asia, 478,770 America, the rest of the total of
41444760, in the following proportions:—New Spain, X 229,830;
New Grenada, X 879,500; Pen', X 111,530; Potobl, and provinces
east of Buenos Ayres, X 75,180; Chili, £400,550; and Brazil,
X 900,870. Of silver, the total amount of which is X 7,314,670,
Europe produces X 484,580, and Northern Asia, X 199,650 ; Ame-
rica furnishes the rest ; New Spain, X 4,945,340; Peru, X 1,292,440;
Potosi, Ike. £1,019.070; and Chili, X 82,820.
QUIN thought angling a very barbarous diversion ;
and on being asked why ? gave this reason—" Suppose
some superior being should bait a hook with venison,
mid go a Quinsy/Bg, I should certainly bite, and what a
sight and a sufferer sbould I be dangling in the air !"

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
M ANS I ON-HOUSL
Bate Nom.—;-11r. Brown, the City Marshal, states! to the Loan
Maaroa, that it was necessary to put the tradesmen of the Metro .
pons on their guard, by a public statement, against a set of fellows
who bad pasted a Brea, nutnber of hie acid one pound country bank
notes, no longer of any use: They were the old notes from the
4 Weald of Kent" bank, which bad tailed seieral years ago; they
were dated Cranbrook, 1811, but the dates were altered to 18'2:: ;
they were drawn by Messrs. Men, Bishop, Brenebley, and Whop,
As they are made payable on a very respectablehouse in town, they
were passed with great facility in vast numbers,