Star.
London, England, 1824-12-06 00:00:00

THE ARMY

Letters, dated the 2d June, have been received from lladrai',
which state, that the 48th (Northamptim) Regiment of Foot, that
had arrived there from New South Wales, had been attacked by
eltbrera,immediately after being stationed in Fort St. George, and
had suffered severely. The Regiment lost ten men a day, and
nearly the whole of ths Light Infantry had been carried off. Vire
are happy, however, to add, that after the removal of the Corps to
the Mount, which is about nine miles from Madras, the disease
ceased. The death of any of the Officers of the Regiment is not
mentioned. The beat was excessive.
The Recruiting Parties, in several districts, have received direc..
doss t 6 recruit, forthwith, for the 31st (Huntingdonshire) itegi.
.ment of Foot, which is under orders for foreign service.
Detachments belonging to the 17th Regiment of Light Dragon"
(Lancers), and the let Battalion of the 60th (the Duke of York',
own Rifle Corps), received orders to march on Saturday, froul
Westminster for Canterbury.
A detachment of Recruits, belonging to the 2LI (1,.1.,
Royal) Regiment of Infantry, was ordered to march on Satiad,,
from Westminster fur Chatham.

A detachment of Recruits, belonging to the 11th Regime. t • I
Light Dragoons, was ordered to march on Saturday, hem West-
minster for the &pot of the Regiment, at Maidstone.
Majors IlerroursoN and Alricustt:s_esimpanies (Royal Artil-
lery) embarked at Woolwich, on the Ist ihstaht, on board the
William Harris transport, fur Ireland. The former company ;; !,,
relieve Major Micmac's, now in Dublin; while the latter ~r,4
Major Mrrouzu.'s will go on to Jamaica, to relieve Majors Ml' al :1,
and NlcnoLt.'s, ordered bonne. The Officers embarked 4:e
Major llercHiSorr, Capt. Brum, Lieutenants A vat s±RONO, Fa A ti),.l{,
R. LUAI/D, BRISCOE, and Dr. Vaitueo, M.D.
The 25th Regiment (Royal Borderers), stationed at Ennis, !ae
seventeen out-detachments in the county of Clare.
'fhe eldest son of Joust Cox, Esq. of Limerick, is appointed a
Captain in the 90th Feet.
Captain Buten, of the 38th, commanded the detachment whi .11
engaged the enemy at Rangoon, on the 16th of May, and in whi:h
Lieutenant KERN was killed. Major BUSTON commands the Artil-
lery in the division.
The 69th Regiment wfil not return to England as expected—
' they are ordered to join at Rangoon.
lieutenant EDWARD KINC, of the 48th Foot, has been appointed
Barrack-Mater at Botany Bay.

[Par ifiliterg Promotims see.ftra page.)

COMMISSION OF LUYiler.

Lad week, in the case of De Million, a supposed
lunatic, an Inquisition was held at the Royal Mortar;
Woolwich. The Etnitic in question is one of the
oldest farmers in Kent, and possessed of property to
the amount of between thirty and 441,000/. Dr. Phil-
limore, Mr. Evans, and Mr. Whitmore, were the Cons
missioners, before a respectable Jury. Mr. Nokes and
Mr. Beames conducted the proceedings. It appealed
, that the lunatic was in his 36th yea:', and had com-
mitted a series of acts which amounted to the imputa-
tion of lunacy. His only daughter had eloped with
Richard Clemints, alabourer on her fithei's farm and
who, in consequence of this union, became his right
hand man. The daughter is about six years older than:
,her brother, the complainant in the present case, and
'labours under the misfortune of personal deformity.
Clements, is these circumstances, became all in all ufaat
the farm, and the complainant was estranged from Ilia
father; it appeared that about five yea's ago Mr. Mill-
son was attacked with apoplexy 9nd paralysis, which;
affected both his speaking and thinking ; and from the
time of chi, vi, it ationielements, the daughter's husband,
assumed the active management of the farM belonAinz
to his father-in-law, till, in fact, he superseded the old
man. Mean chile the son, who rented the farm of
White Hatt from his father, was weighed down (in
1822) by the pressure of agricultural distress, in conse-
quence of which the father took the farm back ag.ti'Y
from the son, allowing him 1/.3 week to maintain him-
self and family. Thus reduced, the son was bbliged to
apply to Mr. Cleaves, one of the Parish Offices, four
relief. Mr. C. endeavoured to obtain an intervie .v with
the father, in order to repiv.eilt the situation of the son,
when i.e i'vas repulsed by Clements ; but by some means
or other the son succeeded in getting a petition before
the Load Chancellor. An examinatiln of witnesses.,
was directed, and the result is, that the management of
the lather's estate has devolved to the son.

The coaches which reached town yesterday from the'
North of England, brought accounts of a heavy fall of
snow having taken place on almost all the different
roads. But in the North-westerly direction the depth
of the snow was almost unprecedented, considering the
shortness of the time it had been falling, and the early
period of the season.

BIRMINGHAM AND LIVERPOOL RAIL-ROAD COW..
pArty.—A Company with this title has been formed to
establish a more direct, expeditious, and cheap commu-
nication between the towns of Bit mingham and Liver-
pool, than at present exists. The country through which.
the proposed line is intended to pass, has been examined
throughout by an eminent engineer, and is found to
present extraordinary facilities, not only as regards the
levels, but the distance, which is less by several mites
than any road now in use. The estimated expense of
forming the main line to connect Birmingham and Li-
verpool, including the locomotive power, amounts to
550,0001. The expenses of the branch lines to Dudley
and Stourbridge, to the iron and coal works in Shrop-
shire, the Staffordshire potteries, and Chester, have net
been estimated, but will be less than that of the main line.
The Company propose to set apart for this purpcse the
sum of 150,0001. and to cover other contingencies, an
additional sum of 100,0001. The capital of the Corn-
pany will, therefore, be 600,0001. divided into 12,000
shares of 501. etch. The propelling power intended to
be employed is that of locomotive and stationary steam-
engines. By means of which, the company expect to
be able to transport the heaviest goods with certainty
and security, by day and night, at all times of the year,
in periods of frost or of drought, at the rate of at least
eight miles an hour. The line of the projected rail-road
is intended to pass from Birmingham, through the
centre of the Staffordshire collieries and iron works,
close to Wolverhampton,—from thence to Newport,—
to Turnhill,—to the West of Nantwich,—uear Chester,
and from thence to Mersey. There will be branch-
roads to Dudley and Stourbridge,—to the Shropshire
coal and iron-works,—to the Staffordshire potteries,
and Chester.

THE FRENCH MONSTER.--Leger, not having ap-
pealed to the Court of Cassation, was executed at e'er•
sailles on Tuesday, at noon. The multitude to witness
the execution of this monster was immense. In his last
moments he betrayed great fear, and it was necessary
almost to carry him to the scaffold.
By the late Census it appears, that in the City of
Dublin, there are 19,471 females more than males, in
Cork City, them are 7.084; in Limerick City, 2,811 ;
in Waterford City, '2,661 ; in Belfast, 2,537 ; in Galway
Town. 1,083; and in Ireland, altogether, there are
117,975 women more than men ! The only counties in
Ireland in which the males out-number the females,
are, Kildare, King's Cr.unty, Meath, Kerry, Galway,
and Rosconunon.

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