Star.
London, England, 1825-09-15 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY-THIS DAY.

These Sessions commenced this day, before Mr. Baron Gsae•'s,
Mr. itietke LITTLEDALE, Mr. Junk! GAMINE, the Loss Maros.
Recesses, Aldermen, Sac. at the Justice Hall to the Old Bailey.
There are now 500 prisoners for trial.

11000LACT.
roan Rippe's, wn. and Irdhens Rippers, jun. ware put to the
bar on an indictment, charging them capitally with burglariously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Jrseph Woolf,
draper, of 18, Bedfordbury, and stealing theeefrom property to
a large amount, on the 23d of July last.
Mr. Woolf stated, that en the night in question he went to bed,
leaving his house safe. About four u'alock in the morning be
found the shop had been broken open and completely rifled.
Mt. Baron GRAHAM summed up the evidence to the Jary, who
found the eider prisoner Nut Guilty, the younger prisoner Guilty.
—Death.

Mr. Secretary CAR/CENG is staying on a visit to the
Duke and Duchess of Poznan>, at their residence at We!beck.
Nottingliamshim:
The following is alist of the passengers by the Albion.
Captain Swainson, from Calcutta. arrived at Liverpool;
Hon. John Adam, late Governor-General of India (died 4th
June); Rev. T. W. Northmore, Mr. Northmore, Mr. T. W
Northntore, Mr. Loch and family, Captain W. D. Mizell. l6tb
Madras Native Infantry, C. P. Thompson, Fasp James Walk's-
shaw, Rso. Miss M. N. Paton, and a number of servants.
Mr. BAILEY, the King's Messenger, has left town
with dispatches from the Seoretary of State's Office fur the lionie
Department, for Ireland.
Sir CHARLES STUART arrived at Rio Janeiro, in the
Wellesley, on the 17th of July.
Mr. DAVIS, of the Ne.w Engl Ind C ,flee-house,
opened this morning his new grand South and North American
Subscription Room. Fur task, elegance, and accommodation, it
surpasses everything of the kind we have hitherto seen.
During the last fortnight pigeons have been in regular training
from the vicinity of Stamford. Lincolnshire, to the lon of a fan-
cier north of St. Giles's Church, and of four which were seat off
from the country on Monday afternoon, one arrived front the dis-
tance, il4 miles (but computed ten miles nearer as a bird would
Sy), in the short space of two hours and, thirteen minutes. Ttie
second bird was at home within three bOars, and the others ar-
rived the next morning. This training is to try an esperinieut wt
which long odds have been taken, that of bringing the news of the
winner of the St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster, on the same even-
ing; other birds being hi training hum the vicinity of Doncaster
to gu to the Lincolnshire loft, which is about 72 miles. The spe-
culation is not expected to succeed, for should the race, which is
second, be over at thret o'clock, there will scarcely be row hunts
of daylight, and the tisk of the weather to be taken 1:to acouitt,

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between twenty and thirty feet of water blew up the
rest; and from its dreadful rush, forced the bridge
round under the water with all the people upon it.
Only a plank of it remained, which was „some way dis-
connected, and on this four or five persons were saved.
You can conceive the rest. The greatest part were
either killed by the fall,or drowned. Of twelve taken
out, five were dead, and seven saved. I saw two of
the latter carried off—the one a young woman, whose
countenance was of a blackish paleness. The terror
this event has occasioned in Portsmouth and Portsea
may easily be imagined. When I got ashore I enquired
for some of my friends, and found they were safe;
having fortunately passed the bridge only ten minutes
before the fatal accident took place.
" A female told me that one of her feet gave way on
the bridge, but she sprung forward, and was saved by
a person catching hold of her gown. A young woman
was bewailing the loss of her father, nor was she
alone in her sorrow or the cause of it. A respectable
Jew was in a state of distraction for the loss of his
son, and I think, his brother, who were missing.—A
medical man was passing the bridge with his wife and
sister ; he saved the former, but the latter perished.—
A mothers with a little babe in long clothes, were saved;
but the poor child's arm was broken. The extent of the
loss will not be known for two hours, at low water.
Some say a hundred persons perished, and by no one
is the number calculated at less than forty. I hope,
however, the calamity is not so extensive. Every
aid that the medical men could give, has been given.
Oae Gentleman made an incision in the windpipe of a
'stout man, but whether he was saved or not remains
to be ascertained.'

•l There was to haveleen a grand ball to-night here,
but I trust that, for decency's sake, it will be put off."
PORTSMOUTH, WXONESDAY A PrilUfOON•

This day has witnessed the launch of the largest
vessel ever built at the Portsmouth Dock, and one of
the most destructive accidents attending such an event
it has ever been the painful duty of an English Journal
to record.
Fur the additional accommodation of the numerous
spectators assembled to behold this truly grand and
imposing spectacle, a temporary bridge or platform
had been erected across one of the docks, which, at the
moment the launch took place, gave way with a tre-
mendous crash, when seventy persons were instantane-
ously precipitated into the water. The strong current
occasioned by the velocity of the course of the ►essel,
rendered the endeavours of the boatmen nearly inef-
fectual, and, lamentable to relate, seven only have
escaped a watery grave. .
The consternation pervading the assembled multi-
tude surpasses all description, for no one knew whe-
ther he had not to lament the untimely death of his
nearest relation.

The number of persons present exceeded all calcula-
tion. In a boat under the Royal Standard, his Royal
Highness Prince CosnaG, and his Excellency Prince
EIITERHARY, honoured this exhibition with their pre-
sence, attended by the Port Admiral, Sir GEORGE MAR.
TIN, Bart. and Commissioner Gary. A salute from
his Majesty's ship the GANGES, announced the arrival
of their Highnesses.
A splendid Ball was announced to be given this
evening, at the Royal Clarence Rooms, Southsea Beach,
under the special patronage of Lady Mmtvist, and it
was expected to be numerously and fashionably attended.

An appeal was heard in the Sessions Court, Cork, on
the 711), on the part of Dr. Wood, who was sued for
keeping a sporting dog. The penalty had not been en-
forced, for want of evidence; and some irregularity ap-
pearing on the face of the recognizance, the defendant
received the benefit of it. It was argued fur the prose-
cution, that a person keeping a sporting dog was bound
to prove that it was not kept for sporting purposes.
An Inquest was held yesterday at the Unicorn,Holy-
well-street, Shoreditch, on the body of Mr. Bell, the
oilman, who was burnt the conflagration of his house
on Tuesday morning, as stated in the STAR of that
day. Skinner, the shopman, deposed, that Mr. and
Mrs. Bell slept together on the second floor, and he on
the "third ; that betwten twelve and one, Mrs. Bell
alarmed him, and they both escaped by the roof; Mr.
Bell, he supposed, went down stairs by mistake; and
he imagiced the fire to have been occasioned by the
boy going into the cellar, about nine o'clock, and by
holding his candle too high, setting -fire to some birch
brooms against the ceiling. The errand-boy said,
he left his master going for the slipper beer a little after
nine; he had been in tie ctllar four times that night:
the fire did not commence in the cellar, nor were the
,brooms burnt. A Juryman thought the file might
arise from Mr. Bell himself going through Lhe shop with
light, after he had got the beer ; and a verdict of
Accidental Death was at length ag•eed to.

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THE ARMY.

The nth Regiment has received of to march frill. Temple-
more, and the out-stations to Fermin.
The four Depot Companies of the 95th Regiment, are ordered to
march for Manchester on the 19th inst.
A Detachment of the 14th Dragoons has been ordered to march
from Mallow to Cork, the head-quarters of the Regiment.
The Southworth transport, Lieutenant &NMI'S, arrived the 9th
instant, at Chatham, with invalids from the different corps in the
Leeward Islands, and sailed the I Ith instant, for Deptford.
The first division of the 53d Regiment marched on Monday morn-
ing from Chatham, for Portsmouth: the remaintbr have followed.
FASHIONABLE 11111.ELLI(iEN('C.

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The Lord Chancellor of Ireland bas arrived at Warren's Hotel,
Regent.atreet, front Belvoir Castle.
Lord Riven left town yesterday, for his seat, Rushmore Lodge,
Dorsetshire.

The Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon have arrived in Saville-
met, from Eastbourne.
Countess Spencer left town yesterday, for the Earl of Essex's
at, Caahlobury.park.
Mr. and Mrs. Nunis and family left town yesterday, for their
at in Hants.

Mr. and Mrs. Hale and family arrived yesterday at Gould's
Hotel, Jermyn-street, from their seat in Bedfordshire.
The Hon. Henry Leeson has arrived at the St. James's Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Berks. The Rev. T. F. Ford Bowes has left
ditto, for Paris. _ ___

Departures from Miller's Hotel, Jermyn.street : —Count Cha-
bot, for Cheltenham; Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher, for Ramsgate; and
J. Hamilton, Esq. for the North.
Departures from the Pulteney Hotel, A'
and Mrs. Johnson, for their residence at Weymouh ; Captain
Pike, for Windsor ; and Mr. and Mrs. Macdonald, for Scotland.
Sir Robert and Lady Wilmot and family have arrived at the
Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street, from their seat in Derby..
shire. Departures from ditto:—Captain and Mrs. Pearson and
family, on a tour; and Mrs. Craufurd and family, for their seat in
Devonshire.
Departures from the British Hotel :—Mr. and Mrs. Kirkland,
for Leamington, Warwickshire; Capt. Noble, R.N. for Chatham;
and William Pereeval. Esq. for Oxford.
Wm. Stewart, Esq. left towsyssterday, for his sett in Berks.

:-Mr.