Star.
London, England, 1825-02-08 00:00:00

DISCOVERY Ot FORGED NOES.

A discovery of a singular nature was made on Mon-
day se'nnight, in a lane of the South Mai*-street, Cork.
A woman, named Betty Coleman, who lodged in a
miserable apartment in the above lane, died, and in her
box were discovered forged notes, to a considerable
amount. The circumstance having been communicated
to the Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Colburn, and Messrs. Rogers
and Hewson, High Constables, proceeded to.the house,
and haring obtained the booty, made further search,
and it is said that, in another small box, placed under
the head of the deceased woman, was found some ad-
ditional notes, two plates, and a machine for taking off
impressions. The woman was an habitual drunkard,
and in the practice of' remaining out at night. There
is Lttle known of her by the persons in the house where
she lodged ; and the opinion entertained is, that she
was connected with a gang of forgers, for whom she
used to vend this spurious paper. The following is a
classification of the forgeries found :
Pike's Notes ,C 3 0 0 Notes £586 0 0
Ditto ditto 10 0 0 550 0 0
Leslie's ditto 1 5 0
126 5 0
Ditto ditto 1 14 1 i 17 1 3
Kink of Ireland 5 0 0 145 0 0
Other Notts 20 5 0

£1,474 11 3

Letters have been received from St. Helena to the
121 h of December. They mention the strange contrast
between the place during the time of NAPOLEON.s
confinement there, and the dull state in which it

now appears.
Letters from Pernambuco, dated the 23d of Dec.
bring an account of the complete termination of
the insurrection in that province. Most of the Chiefs
of the Republican party were in custody, and were
undergoing a trial before a Military Commission, and
it was supposed that their lives would be forfeited. Ac-
cording to the statements in those letters, the indivi-
duals who fomented those insurrections were chiefly
actuated by the love of plunder, and were influenced
by no patriotic motives for effecting a reformation in
the Government. About 700 more of the Insurgents
were in prison at Govana, and vessels were preparing
to convey them to Rio, to await the EMPEROR'S will.
The insurgents from Bahia were also to be sent to the
capital. They were to sail in the first instance from
Bahia to Pernambuco on the 6th of January, and or-
ders had been given to disarm them as soon as they
should come to as anchorage.
A file of the Diario Flu►ninense has brought intelli-
gence from Rio Janeiro to the 15th of December. A
decree issued on the 7th of December, orders that
medals be given to the soldiers of the co-operating
army, for the great services which they had performed,
in restoring order to the province of Pernambuco. Dis-
patches from that province were received at Rio on the
14th, which stated that it enjoyed the greatest. tran-
quillity, and that the Constitution had been generally
sworn to. In the province of Cara, however, some
opposition had been made, but the Chiefs of the Rebels
having " fallen pierced with musket balls, and the
corps which they commanded having been dispersed,"
all opposition had naturally ceased, and the authority
of the EMPEROR had been fully recognized.
Ireland will be the subject of special discussion in
both Houses of Pailiament on Thursday evening; for
Ithe Lords are summoned for that day, en the Earl of
LIVERPOOL'S notice, then to move for the renewal of
the Committee to inquiie into the state of Ireland. In
the Commons, Mr. GOULBURN is to move for leave to
bring in " a Bill to amend certain Acts relating to
unlawful Societies in Ireland." The latter motion was
to have been preceded by Sir JOHN NEWPORT'S, re-
garding the levy of the Church Rates in Ireland ; but it
WAS last night postpoited.
ADVANCE IN IRON.—At a meeting of the Iron-mas-
ten at Merthyr Tydvil, on Monday' se'nnight, a further
advance of 21. per ton upon iron was determined on:
Iron is now double the price it was in December, 1823:
The Grand Jury of the Court of King's Bench have
Found a true bill of indictment for conspiracy against
Elizabeth Virginia Perrot, a French milliner, and Vic-
tor Bertrand, formerly a grocer in the Rue Grenelle
Caiolet, in Paris, who, it will be in the recollection of
our readers, preferred a bill of indictment against Mr.
James Askew, of the firm of Askew and Normanville,
late proprietors of a French millinery establishment in
Oxford-street and Cheltenham, at the last September
Sessions, at the Old Bailey, for an alleged robbery of
money and jewellery to a large amount, when Mr. A.
was acquitted on the evidence far the prosecution.
Saturday, a person named Warren, who keeps a
coffee-shop, in St. Giles's, was fined Bs. 6d. for allowing
a person to drink coffee in his shop on Sunday morning.
The Act says, " No one shall follow any calling from
twelve o'clock on'the Saturday night, until after twelve
o'clock on the Sunday night.
The Middlesex Sessions have declared the late elec-
tion of a District Surveyor void ; and that office for the
parishes of Pancras, Paddington, arid Chelsea, vacant.
There are eighty. one prisoners in Limerick county
jail for trial at the ensuing Assizes, thirty of whom
are for murder, and more than half of the entire charged
with capital offences.
There are now living in Mellor, nine brothers of the
name of Brierley, whose united ages is 552 ; and what
is equally remarkable, that since the death of their
father and mother, a period of 53 years, not a death
has occurred in the family.
A kind of waggon, called an arabat, with latticed
windows at the sides, formed to conceal those who are
within, is almost the only species of carriage in use
among the Turks.
The following is an extract of a letter from an Officer
of the Madras Artillery, serving with the army at Chit-
tagong, dated August 1, 1824 :—" The Burmese have
mustered .50,000 men—they are fifty miles distant—
but in consequence of the country between us being for
the most part inandated, we shall not be able to ad-
vance before the middle of October. Our army will
then amount to about 27,000 men ; 15,000 will ad-
vance towards Ramrno, and , which we have no doubt
will be a sufficient force to teach them a lesson to be-
have better in future ; 12,000 will be left in reserve.—
' Not long ago their whole army fell upon 350 of our
poor fellows, and cut them in pieces : three Officers
only escaped, two of them wounded. The inhabitants
lof this place, upon hearing that the Burmese were ad-
vancing towards them, quitted it immediately, leaving
their furniture behind, which has been a fortunate cir-
cumstance for us, as we have been, able to stow our-
selves away in their forsaken houses. Our living, to
say the least of it, does not consist of a great variety—
ducks and Jowls one. day, and finds aod ducks the next;
and bad water at every meal. Anything 'else we are
.
obliged to get (tom Calcutta, 400 miles distant."