Star.
London, England, 1824-08-30 00:00:00

BOXING.

At Holt Hill, near Tranmere, Cheshire, there was a grand dis-
play of the Fancy on Tuesday last. Rumour had spread, " with
her thousand tongues," that a set-to for twenty guineas aside was
decided upon, and all the Hash coves and bits of blood in the neigh-
bourhood were in requisition. Upwards of 8,000 people crossed
the Mersey, from Liverpool, to witness the exhibition.
The fight took place in a forty-feet ring, at lialf-minute time.—
The patties, Boscow, a butcher, and Morrison, a glass-blower, the
former a Wirralite, the latter a Warwickshire lad.

About half-past one the combatants entered the ring and peeled,
and at this time it is computed there were ten or fifteen thousand
spectators present.
After a little sparring, Kill-bull let fly one of his hest whirly pap
at Glassy's head, followed up by a heavy right-bander in his polotoe
trough, which made him blow to some purpose. The first four
rounds let the critics into the secret, and although the fight, if it
might be called one, extended to twenty-nine rounds, it was evident
that Glassy had no chance whatever—he had only three rounds iu
his favour. Boscow felled him as he would a bullock.

From' the commencement of the fight there was nothing but
round hitting, and Kill-bull won easy from his superior strength—
science there was none—it was a mere pully-hauly display. Both
parties are about twenty-one years old ; Boscow, a powerful ama.
teur, nearly six feet high, possessing great muscular strength. Mor-
rison is about five feet eight inches, and was a mere chicken when
compared with his antagonist.

On the whole, a greater hoax on the lovers of pugilism has sel-
dom been played oft:
A second battle took place between an amateur on the wrong
side of fifty, and a very powerful aspirant nearly two yards long,
and whose head had not wintered a score of years. The old one
laid into him right and left—nobbed and chopped him in style, so
that, after having his face elegantly carved, and his claret well
tapped, the veteran was declared con9v.ror.

At a Grand Common Day of the Corporation of
Cambridge, held on Tuesday, BENJAMIN Currcr, Esq. was elected
Mayor of that town for the year ensuing. Messrs. Trrouss WOO.).
WARD, JAMES HARVEY, JOHN CHANDLER, and BERNARD DICERS.
sox, were appointed Bailiffs, and Mr. A. CHEVELL and Mr. JAMES
Baciwy, were re-elected Coroners.

PROLIFIC CHARACTER OF CONTEMPORARY LITEItA•
TURF.—Although• the New CRITICAL GAZETTE notices, in its three
first Numbers, no less than 250 New Works pul,lislicd in the
months immediately preceding; yet the Fourth Nunther, which
will appear on the first of September, will include above Seventy
others that appeared in the month of July. A clierp review of every
new Work without exception, so early as a month after its appear-
ance, has, as might be expected, created an extraordinary interest
in the Literary World. It was the one thing which everybody
wanted,gnd called for.
CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, AUGUST 30.
The quantity of Wheat and Flour that came in lAA week was
very large, but this morning the fresh arrivals ate not considerable,
yet, as the weather has been remarkably fine, and much Wheat
being left on hand unsold, the trade for this article is excessively
dull, and the prices have declined 3). to 4s. per quarter from the
terms of this day se'nnight._ Iu Barley there is scarcely any trade
at present, and the prices of last Monday are hardly maintained.
Beans are not plentiful, but they sell very heavily, at our last
quotations. Boiling Peas meet very few buyers at present, and the
terms of this article are unaltered. Grey l'eas are scarce, and not
any cheaper. Oats are reported ls. per quarter lower than this
day se'rmight, and the trade is more free at this decline. In Flour
there is no alteration.

PRIM ON SWARD SHIP.
Wheat, Red (new), 445. 575. Rye, new, 355. 40s.
- old, 00s. Ms. - old, 001. COs.
White new, 50s. 645. Beans, Small, new, 38s. 40s.
- old, 00s. 00s. - old, 00s. 00s.
Barley, New, 30.. 345. Tick, new, 30s. 345.
Old, 00s. 00s. - old, 00b. 00s.
Peas, Grey, New, 325. 345. Oats, Feed, new, 16s. 205.
Old, 003. 001. - old, Os. Os.
Maple, new, 365. 38s. Poland, new, 17s. 235.
-- old, 00s. 00s. - old, Os. Os.
White, new, 325. 355. Potatoe, new, 20.- 975.
........ old, OS. OS. ............ old, OS.
Boilers, new, 383. 425. - Scotch, t.7s. 2£l.
old, 00s. 00s. Flour, per Sack, .50s. 601.
ARRIVALS LAST WEER.
Peas - 305
Irish Oats - 4110
Foreign Oats - 603
English Hour, sacks 11,811

Wheat, English, qrs. 12,532
Barley - 281
Malt . 2,368
tits . - 1,393
Beans - 780
STdITUFIELD MAAKET, AUGUST 30.
There was a very fall Market this morning of all description/ of
Cattle, hut more particularly of Oxen, in consequence of which she
ptice of the former is much lower, and it is expected that a farther
till will take place. Mutton maintains a high price. The trade
seems more to isk than on former Mondays.
Beet, per stone of tabs. 2s. Bd. to 3s. Sd. Mutton 2s. Sd. to
39 6cl. Lamb 41. 6d. to ss. 6d. Veal 4s. 4J. to ss. 4d.
Hay, per load, 41. 10s. to 51. 10% Clover,44 ss. to 51. is,
Straw, V. 81. to 2/. 15s.

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THE PASSION-FLOWER.

IIY DR. CAUTIVRIGHT.

Yon styvtle flower, with gold and azure bright,
Whose stem luxuriant speaks a ♦igorous root,
Unfold+ her blossoms to the morn's salute,
That close and die in the embrace of night !
No luscious fruits the cheated taste invite—
lier bh or t I i v'd blossoms, 'ere they lead to fruit,
Demand a penial clime, acid suns that shoot
Their rays direct, with untliminish'd light !
This Hope, the passion-flower of human life,
Whose wild luxuriance mocks the pruner's knife,
Profuse in proini4e, makes a like display
01 evanescent blooms—that last a day !
To cheer the mental* eye, no more is given :
The ►aver is oily-to be-found-1n litavia!

BELMNI.

The following is an extract of a letter from Mr.
Ilout,on, sent to Messrs. 13:iggs, Brothers, And Co.
Gould-square, LOnJon.

"Schooner Providence, off Benin river, 23d Dec. 1843.
" Gentlemen—lt is with feelings of the deepest dis-
tress that 1 aunonnce to you the death of your distin-
guished friend, Mr. G. Belzoni, who departed this life
on the 3d instant, at Gato, in the dominions of the
King of Benin, on his way to Houssa and Timbuctoo.
It was his dying tegnest that I should write to you the
particulars of his illness and death. I therefore pro-
ceed to relate them as circumstantially as my memory
serves me. Oa the 3(hlr of October, his Majesty's gun
brig Swinger arrived off the bar of this river ; her boats
orsrs,ed the bar to the schooner P:ovidence, belonging
to we, having Mi. Belzoni on board, with only one ser-
vant and a Housra man. Mr. Belzoni brought letters
from my fliend Mr. Robertson, of Cape Coast Castle,
requesting my set vices to Mr. Belzoni with the King of
Benin, in petting, his protection to the interior towards
Iloussa. Oa Mr. Wlzoni's arrival I was engaged in
dispatching the London. brig Frances Anne, and there-
fore was obliged to request him to wait a few days
until she sailed. In the meantime he went up to see the
King of Warra, who has the command of the rivers and
creeks through which we pass to Benin. On his return
I had settled with the Fiances Anne, and we left Bobee
(where the vessels lay) on the 234:1 of November.
" We reached Gato on the 24th, a distance of sixty-
five miles—the 2Stls Mt. Belzoni employed in reducing
and repacking his trunks and apparel,preparatory to his
long journey. He seemed in good spirits, although
rather weakly in consequence of a slight bilious attack
lie experienced at Bobee—we departed for Benin,distant
forty-live miler, on the morning of the 26th, and arrived
there the same evening. The mode of travelling is in
a hammock slung to a long pole, and carried on men's
shoulders at the tate of four miles an hour. During
the journey, Mr. Belzoni complained of a troublesome
diarrhea—on our arrival at Benin, I advised him to send
for his medicine chest to Gato, and in the meanwhile
to drink a decoction of the bark of the guava tree,
which is regarded by the natives as an infallible cure
for the bloody flux or dysentery, but be preferred wait-
ing for his own medicines. On Cbsk morning of the
27th he seemed still in good spit its. 1 waited on the
King, and explained to him the objects of Mr. Belzoni's
journey. I represented hint as an Indiaman, or Malay,
who had resided long in England, and was now on his
way to his own country, but that he had friends at
Iloussa, and therefore begged his Majesty for his mes-
sengers and protection as far as Houssa.
" Though much jealousy was exhibited on the part of
the King.and his Nobles, regarding the objects of a
white man travelling so far into the Bush, I at last suc-
ceeded in removing their objections, and arranged with
the King that his messenger, with the boatswain of my
factory, and one of my boys, should accompany Mr.
Belzoni as far as llnussa, and wait there until Mr. Bel-
zoni's return from Timbuctoo, and bring letters from
him to me, and to his friends in Europe, on the receipt
of which I gave my written engagement to make the
King a handsome present, and pay his messenger ac-
cording to the report the letters should give of his con-
duct. This was the plan I recommended to Mr. Bel-
zoni when he first explained to me the general object of
his journey ; and he now seemed quite glad that I had
succeeded so well, when 1 informed him of the result of
my negociation w ith the King. His Majesty sent for
him the same evening, but he was too unwell to see'
him. On the mut mug of the 28th, the flux had as-
sumed every appearance of dysentery ; he had lost his
natal spirits, and told n:e the hand of death was on
him. In the evening, the medicines arrived, and he
immediately took castor oil, and some laudanum as
ft equenti y as the oil operated in the night.
" On the 29th I advised a course of calomel, cons•
tined with opium and rhubarb, until a slight salivation
should be effected ; but he declined it as too hazardous
in his then weakly state. Ile continued much the sante
until the morning of the 2J of December, when he
begged of me, as a last request, that I would send him
down to Gato, and thence on board one of the vessels
at Bobee, in the hope of the sea breeze having a bene-
ficial effect ; to which, though reluctantly, I at last con-
seated. I had then, indeed, but little hopes. I accord-
ingly got the people ready, and sent him off at eight
o'clock, accompanied by Mr. Smith, intending to fol-
low myself the moment the hammock-boys should re-
turn hum Gato. They reached that place late at night.
On the toad the flux abated, and on his arrival, Mr.
Belzoni, although much fatigued, considered himself
better, and appealed in good spirits. Ile ate some
bread, and drank a cup of weak tea. lle slept until
four o'clock, %%hen he awoke with a dizziness in the bead
and a coldness in the extremities. lie did not speak,
but his eyes she‘, ed deliiium ; he drank some arrow-root
gruel, and continued in a weak state, suffering but little
pain apparently, until a quarter befote three, r.m. when
lie breathed his last.

" On the morning of his leaving Benin he called me,
and desired that, in the event of his death, 1 Orould send
the who!e of his trunks and package-, with the excep-
tion of his medicine chest, which he wished me to accept,
on board of the Liverpool brig Caster, and then jointly
with Mr. W. Fell, supercargo of that ves,.el, look over
the Various articles which he had brought out for pay-
ment of his travelling expenses, and sell such as we
might conceive would cause too much expen•.e and
trouble in returning home, and that the remainder of
what could not be sold, together, with his weating ap-
pate', books, papers, &c. should be shipped on board
the Caster, and forwarded to your address in London.
lie then, with much difficulty, wrote a few lines to your
house, which 1 sealed up with his memorandum•book.
w as .ttiout to write to Mrs. Belzoni, but his strength
Lot rd flokkevel., he desired me to bear witness
that hewed in the fullest and most affectionate rearm

brance of her, and begged I would writ! to her and
•end her the ring which he then wore. He was per-
cey collected, and spoke with calm fortitude of his
approaching death as au event certain, and &dated,
when he had finished, that he was satisfied, and corn.
mitted his life and spirit to the will of GOD.
I arrived at Gato the afternoon of the 4th. Mi.
Smith had already prepared the body for intetrnent,
anti I went and arranged with the Governor for the
ground roupd a large plane-tree, under whose wide-
spreading branches we dug the grave siz feet deep; it
was finished at nine o'clock, when we committed his ie•
mains to the earth, paying every respect the situation
and time permitted. I read the Church of England
service (burial) at the grave, and at the conclusion my
eighteen canoe-men, with Mr. Smith and myself, fired
three vollies of musketry over the grave. The follow-
ing morning I sent his trunks and packages down to
Bobee, under the care of Mr. Smith, to the Caster brig,
and requested Mr. Fell to allow his carpenter to make
tne a headboard with the following inscription. He
kindly sent it up by return of the canoe, and I placed
it over •the grave. I ought also to mention, that the
brig Caster, the schooner Providence, and the American
brig Curlew, fired each several minute-guns out of re-
spect to the memory of him who had so lately been their
distinguished guest:--
•` Here lie the remains of G. Belzoni, Eiq. who was attacked
with a dysentery at Benin, on the 26th of November, nu his way
to Hama and Timbuctoo, and died at Gate on the 3d December,
182.1. The Gentleman who placed this inscription over the grave
of this intrepid and enterprising traveller hopes that every European
visiting the spot will cause the ground to be cleared, and the fence
around it put in repair, if necessary."

SOUTH AMPTON, Auo. 28.—Thomas Find, a grocer of
this town, who had been sentenced to twelve months
imprisonment, under the Insolvent Act, for fraudulent
conduct, has made his escape from prison. About five
o'clock on Wednesday morning last, a person to whom
the insolvent had made over a large part of his property
by an assignment, having dogged the keei:er of the
Debtor's Prison out of the jail, went to his wife, and pre-
senting a paper, told her that he was the only detain-
ing creditor, and there was a release for him. The
woman, who knew the person speaking to her had some
connexion with the prisoner, hesitated a little, when she
was told, that if she dared to keep the man a prisoner's
any longer, she and her husband would be severely'
punished. Alarmed at this, and not knowing the differ•
ence between the prisoner's situation and a common im-
prisonment for debt, she unbarred the door, and in five
minutes he was out of the reach of pursuit.
At the Assizes of Kilkenny, on Monday, six wretched
men were convicted of the murder of Mr. Marurn, which
excited so great a sensation when it occurred. The
trial lasted fifteen hours, three and a half of which the
LORD CHIRP JUSTICE' who presided, was occupied in
charging the Jury, and recapitulating the evidence from
1113 pages of notes. His Lordship was upwards of six-
teen hours on the Bench. The verdict was returned,
and sentence of death passed at eight o'clock on Tues-
day morning. The scene was awful beyond anything
that has occurred in that county for many years.
Mr. W. Cobbett, jun. has applied to Mr. Hanson, the
Magistrate, at Hammersmith, for summonses against
the following Noblemen, &c. for not having their chris-
tian and surnames on their carts, &c. in pursuance of
the recent Act of Parliament : his Glace the Duke of
Devonshire, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Viscount Sid-
mouth, Lord Duncannon, Bishop of Londan, Lady
Bankes, Countess of Berkeley, Viscount Cliffderi, Costa;
Antonio. To this Mr. Hanson replied—" It is neces-
sary that those persons should be summoned in their
Christian and surnames. I have enclosed the sum-
monses left with me for that purpose ; when they are
returned I will fix the time that may be convenient,
giving the parties sufficient notice to appear before me
or such other Justices as may be sitting at my house."
The following is an extract of a letter, dated Deal,
Friday afternoon, half-past four o'clock : " The body
of the unfortunate Gentleman who was wa,hed over-
board from the steam-packet nine days ago, has just
been brought ashore by a boat's crew, from one of the
men-of-war lying in the Downs : it appears much
swollen ; one of the shoes and part of the stockings was
washed away—the foot bare; the white trowseis are
likewise apparently torn or chafed from the knees, as
i$ caused by struggling against some rough substance.
The blue coat, and the watch in his fob, with a riband
nearly new, but no seals, appeared perfect. His head
was nearly bald, and the little hair which I saw was
black. It was but a momentary sight, for as soon as he
was dragged ashore, Mr. Curling, agent to Lloyd's,
with a laudable anxiety, stripped off his coat, covered
the corpse, and had him conveyed to the dock-yard
upon a truck.

Thursday, a seizure of nearly fourteen hundred weight
of drugs was made at a country brewery ; the mitigated
penalties upon which are expected to amount to more
than 40001. The information is supposed to have been
laid by some person well acquainted with the premises,
as the officers proceeded immediately to the depot of
the forbidden articles.

Mr. Browne, the Chief Constable of Police, has been
removed from Wexford, by order of the Lord Lieute-
nant, and is not to return to that county. All further
proceedings in the case are under the LORD LIRLITE•
N ANT'S consideration.

Monday, Lorenzo Ckrigetti, a foreigner, who had
absconded from Burnley, in Lancashire, with the pro-
perty of his employer, and for whom a reward was of-
fered, was apprehended on board the Monarch steam-
vessel, just as she was about to proceed for Calais, and
was lodged in Dover Jail for safe custody, until an of-
ficer can come from Lancashire.

Thursday evening, an Inquest was held at Hounslow,
on the body of Robert Balfour. The deceased was
driving his waggon through Hounslow on Tuesday,
when the horses that were placed outside the Inn-yard
for the Sttoudwater coach, becoming alarmed by the
sound of the post-boy's whip, started off, and ran down
the deceased : the injury he sustained thereby caused
his death.—The Jury, after some consultation, returned
a verdict—" That the deceased was accidentally killed
by a horse belonging to Mr. Benjamin Robinson, and
that the Jury find the horse a deodand, and that the
same is of the value of 101."
The body of a man was found drowned on Thurs-
day, at 13ankside, in the Clink Liberty. The neck and
one of the legs were broken. The dress was a blue coat,
blue trowsers, dark waistcoat, and a white neckerchief.
In the pockets were found a few pieces of copper coin,
a brass ring, and a card addressed to a hatter in Mid-
dle•row, Holborn.

Saturday, Mr. Robert Tustin, bricklayer, Evesham,
went to bed apparently as well as usoal ; his wife waking
in the night, thought he seemed cold, and on farther
examination found him a corpse !

POPULATION OF THE WORLD.

••-•..1ib..-..-

The following calculation has been made of the pre-
sent population of the world. We believe that if there
be any error, it is in the number of Jews, which i>
greater than it is here stated to be. When Bonaparte
held a grand Sanhedrin in Paris, inlBo7, an estimate
was made by the Rabbis themselves, when the number
of Israelites scattered throughout the •world was corn
puted at between five an.lsis millions. .

CENSUS OF Tlllt Wlt )L8 WORLD.
Jevil - 4 000,000 Christians -
Pagans - . 456,000,000
Total -
Tehended,

200,000,000
800,000,000

rhometlans - 140,000,000
Deists and Atheists are eomprehm, but not distinguished in
either of these enumerations, as they do not avow themselves by any
formation into bodies, but are anomalies in each class.
It is worthy of notice, that the must ancient congregation, viz.
Pagans, still subs! .t through the globe, and comprise more than one
half its general population ; that the second in orel,r of time, viz.
Jews, have, since the destruction of their Temple and City in A.D.
70, fallen so nearly to decay as to comprise only a 200th part of the
whole; and the third denomination, viz. Christians, now include
I.4th part of the whole ; and that the itlahornedans, who sprang up
sia centuries after the Christians, and threatened to annihilate them,
occupy the space of one-siz.h part of the whole. It is also observ-
able, that when an estimate of this kind was made about SO years
since, it was supposed that the Christians amounted to one•aizth
part, and now they have incteased to one-fourth.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

UNION-11AM.

Mr. Ralphe, the butcher of WA!worth, in whose shop a Gentle-
man complained he had dropped a £5 note, an account of which
appeared in the STAR of Thursday last, attended at this Office on
Saturday. He stated, that in consequence of the publicity given to
the statement in the newspapers, several of his best customers came
to his shop, and declared that they wouki not purchase another
ounce of meat front him, if he did not produce a receipt from the
Gentleman, acknowledging his basing received back the £5. Mr.
italphe stated, that he now attended with his wife, whb came for-
ward to declare positively that she was unable to account bow the
£5 note belonging to the Gentleman came into her possession.—
Notwithstanding, he said, in consequence of the threats of his cus-
tomers, he would give the Gentleman £5, upon getting a receipt
for that sum.—Mrs.Ralphe said, the £5 note had been given to her,
she was confident, by a customer in the way of business.
Mr. Axtrar said, if the £5 note was not refunded, be would
commit Mr. Ralpbe for trial. Mr. Ralph. immediately put down
the £5, and requested to have a receipt, or he said he should lose
all his custom.—Mr. Au.as took occasion to remark on the very
important benefits produced by the exposure of cases heard before
Magistrates, and considered the above case one of the description.