Star.
London, England, 1824-07-19 00:00:00

TIIE LATE STORM Al' PLYMOUTH.

About ten P.M. on Tuesday,l3th instant, wind E.S.E.
light airs and variable; barometer 30.0, thermometer
70, a sudden flux of the tide was observed at this port,
which' rose several feet, and in its reflux, aided by the
ebb, its rapidity was such as to sweep everything be-
fore it. The chain conductor of the Flying Bridge, on
the Lairy, gave way, and for a time rendered the
bridge useless, but by the exertions of the men it was
soon repaired. However, about one o'clock, it being
then nearly low water, the same occurrence again took
place, and the bridge was again torn from its position.
Boats, timber, &c. were swept away by the great flux
and reflux of the tide, which continued at intervals
until four o'clock on Wednesday morning (being about
three-quarters flood), when it began to assume a more
formidable and terrible appearance. The ordinary velo-
city of the tide being not more than two knots per hour,
was now observed to run from seven to eight, at inter-
vals of from thirteen to fifteen minutes, and sometimes
twenty minutes. As the time of high water approached,
the flux and reflux was more powerful and of longer
duration, probably occasioned by the unfinished ends of
the Breakwater being at that time overflowed. From
nine till about twelve o'clock, the river of Catwater
was impassable, excepting by taking. advantage of
going with the current, and the same in reterrning.—
Boats were torn off the shore, and in a few moments
hurled out of sight. The appearance of the elements
now was truly wonderful : distant claps of thunder—
heavy lowering clouds, some rising in different posi-
tions, and others floating in a horizontal direction, oc-
casioned no doubt from the extraordinary variations of
the wind, blowing flesh in puffs from every quarter of
the compass in a short space of time, with intervals of
calm. Some idea of the extraordinary rapidity of the
current may be imagined, when it is asserted, from the
minutest observations, that the flux or fresh of the tide,
at times, was two feet two inches perpendicular in five
minutes, and again actually made a reflux of three feet
six inches in the same short space of time, tearing up
the soil from the bottom of the river, the agitated thick
surface of which resembled the boiling of a pot. The
vessels at the Breakwater one minute were afloat, and
the next lying high and dry on the body of the works,
and but for the great exertions of the workmen and
crews much damage must have been done. Indeed,
had there been a possibility of lifting that stupendous
structure from its position only for an hour, not a ship
could have been safe either in Plymouth Harbour or in
the Pool; and, although it must appear strange, at the
same time the sea in the offing was particularly-smooth.
About half-past two P.M. the tide began to resume its
regular course. No doubt we shall soon hear of some
extraordinary convulsion of nature in some part of the
world. In 1798, a similar occurrence took place about
the time of the dreadful earthquake in Sienna, which
swallowed up many thousands of our fellow-creatures.
Plimoouth Journal.
Cowin, ingot 16.—Wednesday, during the awful storm of thun-
der, lightning, and hail, a lire-ball fell in the roadstead, a short dis-
tance from Lord Yarborough's beautiful yacht, the Falcon, but
fortunately it dropped into the water without doing any damage.

UNIVERSITY mud CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JULY 17.
Thursday, James Oarbett, B.A. of Brasennose College, was
elected Fellow of Queen's College on Mr. Michers Foundation, and
John Atkinson Fulton, Exhibitioner on the same Foundation.

July 10, the last day of Act Term, the Rev. Septimus CoHinson,
D.D. Provost of Queen's College, was unanimously re-elected Lady
Margaret's Professor of Divinity on the expiration of two years.
The same day the following Degrees were conferred:
Omuta ni Drewry—The Rev. James Ingram, President of
Trinity College.
BACHZI.OII2I Mtotcner-.-Charles Joseph Bishop, Sr. Mary Hall.
—ln the same Congregation also a License was granted to enable
him to practice In Medicine.
Manses or Aays—The Rev. William Williams, All Souls' Col-
lege ; Rev. William Lee, Brasenness College; John F.dward Gray,
Oriel College.
BAcaxwas or Aays—The Rev. William Fanning, Magdalen
Hall, incorporated from Dublin; Thomas Mason, Christ Church;
John Sloper, Queen's College; Thomas Noel, Merton College.
The whole number of Degrees in Act Term was D. D. seven ;
D.C. L. incorporated, one ; B.D. eight : B.C.L. one : B. Med. one;
M.A. eighty-three; B. Mus. one; B.A. eighty-nine; Incorporated
B.A. one; Matriculations, eighty-three; Regents for the year, two
hundred and nine.

The annual distribution of prize medals at Winchester College,
took place on Thursday, to the undermentioned Gentlemen 1
GOLD MEDAL&

Woanswoant.-44 The vast and unlimited Regions of Learning
should be frequently eontemplated."—English Essay.
Fissza.—" Delpbls oracula cessant.".—Latin Verse.

swig& RUDA LS.
G RANT....." E prima Ciceroni, in Catilinatn oration."
&Limn:mm-0f" From Demosthenes on the Crown."
SCCLISIA MICA L PROMOTIONS.

The Rev. W. Wilson, D. D. Fellow of Queen's College, has been
presented by the Provost and Fellows of that Society to the Rec-
tory of Oakley, Hants, and also to the Vicarage of St. Cross, in
Southampton.
The Rev. H. Donne, Vicar of Cranborne, Dorset, and Rector
of Boscombe, Wilts, to be Domestic Chaplain to the Dowager
Marchioness of Salisbury.
The Bishop of Chester has appointed the Rev. James Blomfield,
of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, one of his Domestic Chaplains.
The Bishop of Ely has appointed his eldest son, the Rev. John
Henry Sparke, Prebendary of Ely, Rector of Cottenbam, !cc. the
Chancellor of Ely, in the room of the late Dr. Compton.
The Honourable and Rev. Mr. King, to the Rectory of Chester.
ford, Essex, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Blomfield to the Sec
of Chester.

The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, co the Perpetual Curacy of West
Derebam, Norfolk.
The Rev. James Holmes, M. A. Rector of Colesborne, is licensed
by the Bishop of Gloucester, to the Perpetual Curacy of Compton
Abdale, Gloucestershire, on the nomination of the Dean and Chap-
ter of Bristol.

The Rev. Mr. Gale is appointed Vicar of Taunton St. James,
vice the Rev. J. Townsend, deceased.
June 24, the Presbytery of Arbroath ordained Mr. John Kirk
Minister of the parish of Barrie, vacant by the death of the Rev.
D. Sim.

During the late thunder storm, a Lady was scorched
in her bed at Chichester, and a labouring lad was struck
to the earth in the neighbourhood of Southampton, bt:t
be is stated to be in a fair way of recoTery.

POLICE INTELLICEN('R.
MA EL BGEOU G H-STREET.
Saturday, lreffass Thserfew, the person in custody on a charge of
robbing Emelie St. Angst, a young French girl, of a
gold watch,
&c. was brought up for final examination. The only additional
evidence was that of Edward Cox the shoeman of Mr. Essex,
pawnbroker, in the &rand,who produced the watch, and identified
the prisoner as the person who pledged it ; and a watchman, who
stated that he went, by direction of the prisoner, when be was
taken, to the house of a Mrs. Campbell, in Thornton-place, Ile-
gent's Park, for the gold chain now produced, which was at first
refused, but afterwards given to him.
Mr. Haulm, and a number of respectable friends attended on
behalf of the prisoner; but in this stage of the case no defence was
offered, and, after the whole of the evidence being read over by the
clerk, the prisoner was fully committed to 'Seagate.
Mr. Simpson, a respectable auctioneer in the City, said that he
bad known the prisoner and his family for twenty years. The pri-
soner is the son of a highly respectable Clergyman and Magistrate
in the county of Essex, and it was to him (Mr. Simpson) quite un-
accountable bow he could have been guilty of such an act, for a
more honest, well conducted, and inoffensive man he never knew ;
and as to any pecuniary distress, that was out of the question; for
he (Mr. Simpson) had, within the last week, sold a property at
Garraway's Coffee-house for the prisoner's father, the proceeds of
which (41,200) were intended for the prisoner's use. so that he
might have applied to him for any sum he wanted, and, indeed, he
had given him money three days ago. The only way in which this
extraordinary conduct of the prisoner could be at all accounted for,
Mr. Simpson said, was, that his mind has been for some time past
greatly harassed by domestic afflictions, which must have unsettled
hint is some degree, he being the person whose name has been so
much before the Public in the divorce cause of Thurlow a. Thur-
low," and in which he has partly succeeded. If this were a case,
Mr. Simpson said, that could be arranged by any pecuniary com-
pensation, no sum should be wanted for that purpose ; but as it was,
the unfortunate man must take his trial.
Mr. Taylor, a respectable Solicitor, who is the Law Agent of
the prisoner's father, also said, that had the prisoner applied to him
he could have had X4OO in a moment, for, in fact, be had that sum
of his in his hands at that very time.
Elisabeth Louise Nods, a female very elegantly dressed, of hand-
some person and genteel address, was charged with robbing Mrs.
Clark, of Blue-cross-street, of a beautiful silk scam a lace veil, &c.
the whole value about five pounds.
Mrs. Clark stated, that the prisoner came to lodge at her house,
and after being there about three days, Mrs. Clark went out to take
a walk, on the 15th of May,leaving no one in the house but her own
daughter and the prisoner, and when she returned she found her
daughter still there, but the prisoner had vanished, and with her the
property described. Ske had been ever since in search of the pri-
soner, and took various long walks to Knightsbridge, where she
understood the prisoner lived, but she could hear or see nothing of
her until that morning, when returning from her usual walk to
Knightsbridge, she met the prisoner in Hyde Park, and seizing her,
she gave her in custody to a constable who was in the Park.
The prisoner, who listened to all this with the greatest possible
composure and indifference, assured Mr. Roe. the Magistrate, that
this " good woman," the complainant, was quite mistaken. She was
•qtdte incapable of doing anything of the sort—that she could easily
prove that she was not at Mrs. Clark's house at all in the month of
May, as she was, during that month, in a very different place.
Mrs. Clark said, that if it was not the 15th of May, it certainly
was the 15th of June.

----Mt.lll4asieti tie—prisoner if abe bad lodged with Mrs. Clark at
any time ? She replied that she had, and went away because she
did not like the apartments.
Mr. Rot said, it kloked very odd, her going away in that sudden
manner in the absence of Mrs. Clark, and nut returning ever since.
Where had she been since that time ? She replied, that she had
been in various places.
Mr. Rot asked her where she lived, and what she was? because
she must give some better account of herself.—The prisoner then
said, that at present she resides in Dean-street, Suho, but she bad
lived in Charing-cross. She then said, that she was the person who
about three months ago was committed from Bow-street Office by
Mr. HALLS to Clerkenwell Prison, together with a Mrs. Dexter,
who at that time lived with her as servant; but when the trial came
on, it turned out to be a mere nothing, and since that she was so
pestered about a few trifling debts, that she became a bankrupt.
Mr. Roe asked Mrs. Clark if she bad no further evidence as to
the prisoner's having taken the property P—Mrs.Clark said she bad;
she could bring forward a person who saw Mm. Eady dressed In
her scarf and veil, if the Magistrate would put it off to another day.
Mr. Roe accordingly remanded the prisoner.

PRICES OF SHARES OF JOINT STOCK
COMPANIES.
Onto( NESSE& EDMONDS AND CO: 11 LIST OE JULY 17.)

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Ashby-de-la-Zouch do. 25 ...- 1442 113 0 0
Do. Bonds ... 103 5 0 0 ",245 32 100 0 0
Ashton and Oldham ••• 190 5 0 0 1760 97 18 0
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Basingstoke
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Bolton and Bury 2501. 150 5 0 0 477
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Cltelmer & Blackwat.lool. 100 5 400 100
Chesterfield de. l!0 610 1500 100
Coventry do. 1200 44 500
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Derby do. 150 6
Dudley do. 63
Ellesmere & Cbester 1331. 85 3
Erewash 1001. 1000 58
Forth and Clyde do. 500 20
Glamorganshire do. 13 12 8
Glouc. & Berky O.S. do.
Do. optional Loan 601.
Grand Junction 1001. 346 10&10s.b 11,650
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Hereford & Glo'ster 1001. 60
Huddersfield do. 47
lvel and Ouse do. 100
Kennet and Avon do. 29 15
Lancaster do. 42
Leeds and Liverpool do. 600
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Leicester
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460
4546
411,310
600
2060
3575
231
1297
600
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Loughborough .. 5000
Melton Mowbray 1001. 255
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Monmouthshire 1001.2'5
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Nottingham 150/. 240
Nutbrook 100/.105
Oakham 130/. 50
Oxford 1001. 850
Peak Forest do. 120
Porten. and Arundel 501. 21
Regent's 100/. 59
Rochdale 100% 150
Shrewsbury 1251. 190
Shropshire do. 140
Somerset Coal 501. 150
Do. Lock Fund 121. 10sh. 57
Staff. and Worcester 1401.800
Stourhridge 1451. 230
Stratford on Avon ... 45
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Stroudwater 1501. 550
Swansea t:2O
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2409
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247
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