Star.
London, England, 1822-10-09 00:00:00

DUBLIN.-NEW CONSTABLES' ACT.

Major Wilcock' has been appointed by his Excel-
lency the Lord Lieutenant supreme head of the Ma-
gistrates and Constables who may be employed under
the new Act in the province of Munster.
In the appointments which will take place under
the Act, the Government has abandoned every idea
of patronage, as nothing but merit alone, certified
through the recommendation of the local Magistrates,
can be admitted as a claim for any situation of a su-
perior or inferior rank. In every instance, therefore,
whether in reference to the higher or lower order of
constables, no person will be appointed who shall not
have obtained the recommendation of seven Magis-
trates of the county.
It is not the inteution of the Government to put
into operation any of the efficacious powqrs of the
new Act in any of the other threeprovinces.

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SPORTING IIfTfLUQVNE.

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MONMOUTH RA CFI.
These Races took place on Wednesday and Thursday last, and
though they had been preceded by the Congress of Bards at Bre.
con, they bad to boast of a numerous company of characters of
distinction, amongst which were—hin Grace the D kite of Beat -
fort and family, Karl Somers, Sir Charles 'Morgan Bart. end
family, Robert Price, Esq. M.P. Sir Robert and lady BrOwn..
rigge and friends, with many other* of landed fortune. The
terraces of the gardens of the different inhabitants were, as.
usual, graced with an assemblage of the most elegant females.
Wednesday the Sweepstakes nf Sgs. each, with scogs. added
from the Fund, 15 Subscribers, was won. at three heats, by
Mr. Willia's b. f. Pastorella, beating Mr. Hall's b. g. Swindon,-
Mr. Fludyer's b. e. Surprise, Marquis of Worcester's b. c. At-
las, Mr. Partridge's b. h. Cardenio, and Lord 0. !oversees
Scarps. PaAarella was decidedly the favourite. The County
Meinbers' Plate of £5O was won at two heats, by Mr. Pryse'e
ch. h. Dr. Lady, beating Mr. Farquharson's Surprise, Mr.
Brathwaite's Cardenio, Mr. Whittaker's b. h. Fonmon, Pd,,
Flintoff's b. g. Hassan, and Mr. Day's c. f. Rosa.
Thursday, the Plate of Al5O, given by the County, was Won •
at three heats, by Mr. Sadler's Pastorella. beating Mr. Can..
ning's bl. h. Gleaner, Mr. Farquharson's b. f. Spinetta, Mr.
Pryse's g. f. Undine, Mr. Jackson's b. f. Minerva, and Mr.
Thornhill's Searpa. The Town Plate of £5O was won at three
heats, by the Duke of Beaufort's b. in. Victorine, beating Mr.
Ptyse'a Dr. Lady, Mr. Taylor's ch. g. Little John, Mr. Flintors
Hassan, Mr. Whittaker's Fonmon, and Mr. Sadler's Atlas.

A meeting was to have taken place yesterday morn.
ning, at six o'clock, in the Hackney-fields, between
Mr. J. C—si, an eminent builder, and Mr. C--LL,
an Irish Gentleman, residing in the neighbourhood
of Hackney. The dispute arose out of some building
transaction. Mr. J. C—st sent a challenge to Mr.
C—LL. The bearer of the message was informed
by.;Mr. C—LL, that he accepted the challenge,
and should be punctual in his attendance, with his
second, at the time and place appointed. Mr. J.
C—st and his friend waited from a little before sir,
till past seven o'clock, and Mr. C—Lt. not making
his appearance, Mr. J. C—at fired his pistol in the air.
MIRACLES.—St. Gregory the Great affirms—and
who will doubt him ?—that a little Monk got into
such a habit of working miracles, that at length the
Prior forbade him to exercise his supernatural talent,
The Monk conformed to the order ; but one day,
seeing an honest bricklayer falling from the roof of a
house, he hesitated between monastical obedience and

charity, in saving the poor man's life; and only or-
dering him to remain in the air, he ran to acquaint
the Prior with the case. The Prior gave him abso-
lution for the sin of beginning a miracle without his
leave, and allowed him to go through with it, but
never to do the like again !
AMERICAN CRUELTY.—C. Stephens was arraigned
before Joshua T. Chase and Isaac Lyman, Esqrs. at
Kittery Point, charged with the murder of his son,
C. Henry Copely Stephens, aged nine years. It ap-
peared in evicence before the Magistrates, that Sit-
phens, recently an intelligent ship-master, was in the
frequent habit of abusing his wife and children. On
Sunday morning, the 21st of July, he was heard by
a neighbour, at the distance of sixty rods, to whip
his wife severely ; her shrieks were very loud ; and
his son Charles was heard to say," I shall die ! I shall
die r On Sunday, the 11th of August, the same
person heard him beat his son severely, who, after be-
seeching his father in vain for mercy, said, he wished
GOD would take him out of the world that moment.
On Tuesday, the 6th inst. Stephens and his wife re-
turned from Boston; at tea-table a quarrel :nose be-
tween them, and he beat her severely. She disap-
peared soon after, and had not been found at the
period of the examination.—Eft has since been ascer-
tained that she effected her escape to this town, dread-
fully. mangled, and now lies secreted in the house of
one of her triends.]-0n Wednesday, the 13th inst. he
gave his son several severe whippings with a rope. In
the evening of that day a lad called on Stephens, on
an errand ; his son went to the door, and appeared
to be much exhausted from the severe chastisement
he had received. He has not since been seen.—

The day following the dwelling•house of Stephen's
was closed, the windows and doors la,,tened, and all
attempts to gain admittance were ineffectual, though
his little daughters were heard to cry, and beg for
the admission of their aunt, who was knocking at the
aeor. On Friday four persons only gained admit-
tance, but they saw nothing of the missing child.—
From the circumstance of the mysterious absence of
Mrs. Stephens, and Charles not having been seen
since Wednesday, a suspicion :nose that the latter had
been murdered. Several persims accordingly watched
,near the house on Friday evening. Between eight
and nine o'clock a man was seen in a boat, making
from a neighbouring wharf to the cove in front of Ste-
phenes house: having gained the shore, he went up to
the house, and soon returned, bearing in his arms a
burden, which he deposited in the boat, and sculled
round the point out to sea, at first moderately, but
afterwards very fast. The boat was on Saturday
taken up, eight miles horn land, and the painter,
which was a chain, gone. On Friday morning, Ste-
phens sent his little girl to the house of Mrs. Jane Sea-
vey, the distance of a mile and a half, to inquire if she
knew where Charles was. Mrs. Seavey observing
that the child looked ill, asked what ailed her? The
child was unable to tell, and Mrs. Seavey examined
her body. Language is inadequate to describe the
shocking:spectacle which presented itself: the little vic-
tim was so discoloured from her neck to her heels, that
the stoutest heart could not look upon her unappalled.
On her back and arms were several wounds, and on
the abdomen a contusion, which it was then feired
would prove mortal. She was so much swol:en and
bruised, that Mrs. Seavey wasobliged to cut the linen
from her back. The child is an unusually delicate
girl of about seven years. She testified that her father
whipped her on Wednesday with a rope, at tl e s to e
time he whipped Charles, whom he also beat with the
tongs, saying, "he would fix him." The little girl
was immediately put under the Cale of two respectable
Physicians, and is likely to recover. On Sunday even-
ing Stephens came to this town, and entered a ficti-
tious name on the stage-book for Boston, but was ap-
prehended next morning. He has been committed.
to York jail, to take his trial at the term of the Su-
preme Court to be holden at Alfred on Tuesday
uext.—New York Paper, Sept. 1.
CORN EXCHANGE, ILIARK-LANS,_ OCT. 9.

There vas but a small supply of all descriptions of fresh
Grain in this morning, owing to the boisterous uato of lb* wea-
ther. Fine samples of Wheat maintain last lillussilay's prises,
and but little is doing in auy other sorts. Barley reaming with-
out alteration. kkims and Peas fully support our last quotation%
and remain without any variation, the quantity ira. ehe market
being but small. tlour is
niarktt is rather slack.

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