Star.
London, England, 1815-01-27 00:00:00

The /ate Duke of DEVONSHIRE never once, during
the whole course of his life, visited his noble domains
in Ireland, and from which his Grace derived an in-
come of upwards of £25,000 per annum.
A new establishment for the manufacture of pins
h as been undertaken at Bath, which already laudably
e mploys nearly 90 children, mostly females, from 6
to 14 years of age. and about 20 men and women.
Yesterduy a fair Cyhrian presented at the Bank a
note of £lOOO, for change. Her character being re-
v ignized, some little demur took place, and she was
politely detained, while ,one of the Marshalmen was
botched from the Mansion House ; but.the matter
teas soon satisfactorily explained. What made the
thing a little more extraordinary was, the circum-
stance of the Lady demanding 900 notes as part
..f the change.
A serious accident lately happened at Lord Wode-'
house's, at Kimberley, to the third son of the Ho-
t ourable Colonel WODEHOUSE. The young Gentle.
man had. taken down a powder flask, and was hold-
or shaking it near the fire, when it exploded in
Lis hand, Maid' was so dreadfully shattered, that it
t. vas found necessary to amputate the thumb.
On the 12th inst. M. Amelin, a banker, at Ghent,
observed two or three foreign officers sporting upon
his demesne. He complained of this infraction to
their General, who ordered them into arrest: This
1.0 enraged the officers that they resumed their sport
with additional numbers on M. Amelin's ground ;
kite latter, and his brother, expostulated, when a
hcuffic arose, in which one was killed, and the other'
dangerously wounded.
Fridify evening : s Mr. Colebrooke, of Hackney-
Oelds, was returning home, about six o'clock, owing
to the frost, he unfortunately fell, in Hackney-road,
Mien a ruffian took the advantage of his situation,
and forcibly took from him sundry articles. Mr.
Colebrooke being unable to make resistance, having
ticeiv Id several severe wounds in his face and head,
which bled upteards of four hours ; and he is now in
tt da*ngernus state.
Saturday morning, between seven and eight
o'clock, the lower part of the premises, No. 1, Cop-
pice-row, Clerkenwell, was entered, by means of a
false key, and robbed of every article of wearing ap-
parel, consisting of gowns, sheets, shifts, shawls, &c.
besides money, and copper in a half peck measure ;
the poor woman was gone to markets the villains got
clear off.
One night last week, as a servant girl, belonging to
a cabinet-maker, in North Shields, was going on ad
errand, she was met in the passage leading to the
street by a man, who asked her for a kisi, which she
refused, when the ruffian bit her cheek in a dreadful
Manner. •
FORGED BANK NOTES.—A Prussian Jew, who calls
himself Davis, was apprehended at Chester last week,
for uttering notes purporting to be those of the Bank
of England, knowing them to be forged. Oa search-
ing his person, eleven were found. In the course of
his examination he made some important discoveries:
*in consequence of which another Jew, of the name of
Lazarus, has since been taken into custody at Derby,
eh whom was found 244 of the same description. It
is supposed they have, with the assistance of .a wo-
man named Heald, circulated a considerable number
in Derbyshire, Lancashire, and Cheshire.
Fs iday Benjamin Lambda, the driver of a hackney-
coach, was committed to prison, ty the flackney-
coach Conimissioners, for fourteen dal's, for. having
refused to pay a fine set on bith by the ComMitsienersf
for refusing to carry a Gentleman in his coach from
OXford-street to Hyde Park-corner, on the Bth
attended with rude and contemptuous behaviotir:,
The same day the drivel's of five other hackney-
coaches were convicted, and paid the full penalty, for
being absent from their coaches, in Bridge-street,
Blackfriars.
A dreadful accident happened at Tostock a few
days since : a poor, but honest and industrious little
farmer, of the name of J. Hoiden, in the parish of
Norton, Suffolk, had occasion to go to Tostock that
morning upon business, when he took his gun with
him to frighten the rooks off his turnips ; he called'
at a cottage upon entering Tostock, to leave his gon
until he should return, and upon placing the butt-end
down upon the ground, the muzzle being_under his•
arm-pit, the gun directly went off, penetrating
through his shoulder, near to his neck, and lodged
nearly the whole contents in the balk and cieling of
the room ; notwithstanding the great loss of blood,
he walked home, the distance of a mile, got upon his
horse, and rode down to Mr. Clayton's, surgeon, full
half a mile further, who (after proper diesiing.in O-
der to stop the effusion of blood) instantly attended
hint back again, and we learn great hopes are enter
tamed of his life.
A Coroner's Jury having found a verdict of Muir-i
against Lieutenant David &Kee/4 of the Katy.
Regiment, for having, on Tuesday se'nnight, slot a
uian of the name of J. Sullivan, process-!emir,.whilst in the act of serving him with one of those or-
ders of law—at the instigation of his family, he fled
for the purpose of secreting himself for the
present, which •he probably would have effected,,
had the situation of his• mind enabled- him. to hive'
pursued any rational line of conduit ; hilt labourir
under a digre,. of insanity, Whichniust IlsWe been con-
siderably augmented. by the death of the unfertunar
quip *To he shot, he annelitted a *pilot act '
watch shminelf 'wader meting... 4 . the neighbour-
hood of Tawas, about oweivreetle fess tins Iwo.
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