Star.
London, England, 1825-11-15 00:00:00

AN OLD STORY NEW REVIVED.

The Dutch Papers received this morrlng t.nr.tain a
narrative from Bantam, derived through Batavia, ofa
singular rencontre between an alligator and A titer,
for the authenticity of which the Batavian writes ;,ClO
forgive him) says he can answer. The story rel
a man, fishing on the banks of the river Tyelirne,
heard something splash into the water, and perceived*
tiger at no great di.aance, swimming front de other
side of the river. How the said fisherman the It
should best provide for his safety by climbing a high
tree, and how, when he had scarcely effected tie
tiger reaching a tree that hung over the water, at.
tempted to get upon it. The narrator then rex?, hoe,
at that moment, an alligator of the largest siz: (of the
largest size, mark !) darted out of the water, ceized the
tiger, and dragged him back: This gave the fisherman
courage to look at this strange sight, and be witness of
a combat between the two most rapacious anievis rf
these countries—far surpassing the lion fight at War'
wick. Six times, the narrator declares, the two com
!wants appeared above the surface of the wmer, er•
erring their utmost efforts, until the water was dyti
with blood, and the tiger, which was seized by the
alligator across the back, became at length the prey of
the latter !

Our Readers, in perusing this very intereF.tiq narra•
Live, will, we doubt nor, recollect a very old.acquairl•
Ince, and certainly not with a new face, ff.or zll;act
is, that it is an old story which has appeared in 1:1 the
collections of the wild and the wonderful that have to
peared within these few years in England. TLe 13navila
Editor has, we suspect, met with a volume
Wonderful Alagarine, cr the Cabinet Oil
marvellous tales of which he is Path: ring with a .4-]"/
Longbow-like declaration, " Upon my life it hl:Lt•
What will you lay it is a lie ?"

A Chinese ship, navigated by Chinese sean-..7r.."
recently arrived at Antwerp, and crowds ti c.no
persons from all parts of the Netherlands day fur'
board, to admire the dexterity with which these eon'
rice manage their chop-sticks.
Buckingham House, which at present makes
deplorable an appearance, was built in 1703, and boor'
for the residence of Queen CHARLOTTE for ‘21,0001..
1760, who first occupied it May 19, 1762.
Sr. Jam:`
Park was drained by HENRY VIII. 1537 plinteJ
made a public throughfare by CHARLES 11. MO:.,
the decoy was removed, and the drainsitfiiled up in 17.-.
since it has undermine little or no improv.
SILK TRADE.--(17I Om the Ifacdeffidd Berallkr"
We publish a Second Edition for the purrie.ol as'
trouncing to our Readers the answer received tense
ing from the Lords of Committee of Privy Connvirf
Trade, to the Memorial pre,ented to them by
manufacturers and throwsters of this town, LI t'
ject ject of the importation foreign silk goods:
" Office of Committee of Privy Council for TR"'
November 11, 182.5.
" Sue—The Lords of Committee of Privy Council for.l4l' •
having had un:ler their consideration the Memorial transr.:•i, ;2.
your letter of the Bth ult. stating, on behalf of the
silk
toners and sil-throwsters of :%lacclegfieltl, than their Were,"
only be sustained by an indefinite continuance of the Pi esetff
bibition of foreign wrought silk, I am directed to acquaintl7,
the information of the Petitioners, Olio. their Lordship! 41,
sufficient grounds to induce them to recommend cr
any proposal t 3 Parliament, having for its object to l'''stetir,
period at which foreign wrought silks are to be adniiitc,! roof
suniption in the United Kingdom, or to alter the conii.tias
admission.—l am, Sir, your t.iost obedient humble
see Lei
"To Mr. S. Mt:slaw:ham, Macclesfackl." " TIIpS

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

s the new weights and measures come into use on
A
,e I,t of January, it is of importance to make the
iniiiiar with the nature of the changes which
be necessary. These changes, generally
.e,king, are not gild; indeed, we think it wolild
iwen wise to carry them a little farther, and to
rcede les, to existing practices and customs th.sn the
• mmis,iorers who framed the Act have done. One
eiror, we think, has been committed—the re•
ithinz tan standard pounds—the pound troy and the
01„,i Avoirdupois. The former is used solely by
.):,!,m;th,, apothecaries, and philosophers, classes of
%hose education and habits would have rendered
t,e a taption of a d iferent standard extremely easy. It
the rund avoirdupois will be the one in gene.
01 o,e, hut the very circunistance that another pound
I::; ..h;;.h is used in some cases, creates no small
d.:!ee of that cunfusion and uncertainty which it was
. express ohject of the Act to remedy.
..Dr standard inch, foot, yard, acre, and mile, remain the same

.j. •.11e pound, ounce, and pennyweight troy, and the
.004 l'unce, and dram avoirdupois, remain also the
As at present. The pound troy is declared to be
irons ss Welt all others are to be desired. It
c 5760 grains; and the ounce troy contains 480
trains, The pound avoirdupois contains 7000 troy
;Nies, and the ounce avoirdupois 4371. Thus we
re still two different pound and two inherent ounce
,:ioits! As a means of restoring the wiights, if they
be lo.t. the cubic inch of distilled water is de-
cia:cd to be equal in weight to 252.458 grains—the ba-
:-neter being at 30 inches, and thermometer at 62°.
The sole diff-rence between the new system and
eld lies in the gallon, and the measures tleiluced
*7ra it. The new cr impetial gallon is d- elated to,
it.in ten pounds avoirdupois of distilled water—the
;:averature and pressure being as above. Mace we
that it contains 277 k, or, more corsectlis 517.27
Ibic inches. Now the present wire gallon contains
"...)1, and the present ale gallon 282 cubic inches. •
Billows that the new Imperial gallon in to the old wine gallon
as it to five, and to the old ale gallon as 47 to 48, neglecting very
minute fractions.
Tadeture, to convert wine gallons into imperial gal'ons, de-
4uct oue.iisti; to convert impetial gallons into wine gallons, add
ace-filth.
1.4 cistern gallons into imperial gallons, add 1 47th part ;to
convert irvi,.; i,I gallons into ale gallons, deduct 1-48th part.
The new ow and quart being declared to bt respectively the Bth
ad 4th pa,' of the new gallon, bear the sante proportion to the old
Int and quart as the new gallon does to the old gallon.
Two stations ale declare" to be a peck, and eight
gsl!ens a bushel, as at present. But the proportions here
ye tea the same as in the cast of the pint and quart,
becau e the old gallon for dry. measure is neither the
sot nor the ale gallon, but a gallon of 268.8 cubic
inches. The imperial peck and bushel are therefore to
the old Winchester peck and bushel as 268.8 to '277.27.
Hence, to convert Winchester in:o imperial bushels,
d,duct one 3fla part; and to convert imperi..l into Win-
thester aid one 32d part. This is sufficiently near for
pract'cal purposes; the sum to be added is correctly
1-31.78. The old Winchester bushel contains 2150.1'2
rabic inches; the new contains '2218.16. The new or
imperial quarter has the same ratio to the old quarter,as
De new bushel has to the old bushel.
Toe standard measure of capacity for coals, cultn,
Isle, fish, potatoes, or fruit, and all other goods and
commonly sold by heap measure, shall be the
z:tesaid bushel, containing 80 pounds avoirdupois of
va! et, the same being made round, with a plain and
tNtl bottom, and being 19 inches and a half from out-
t'detonutside, the goods in such measure to be heaped
oi. to the form o a cone. sue% cone to be of the height of
ilst sit, inches, and the outside of the bushel to be the
rventity of the base of such cooe,and that three bushels
sack, and 12 such sacks shall be a chaldron. It
farther provided by the Act of the 6thGeo.lV.cap.l2.
1. That all such measures shall be made cylindrical. and
t!Lit the diameter of such measure shall be, at the least,

double the depth tl.oreof, and the height of the cone or
help sh.ll be equal to three-fourths of the depth of the
ine isure, the outside aloe measure being the extremity
Or hale Of such cone.''
It is not obligatory on persons to buy and sell by
those measures ; they may use the old measures, but
when this is done, the ratio winch the measures used to
leo to the new standard measure must be specified,
..thetwite the cont:act of agreement is null and void.
This wiil render it necessary to refer to the new mea•
slues in all written bargains. All bargains made w 'th-
an a speeal reference to some other measure, are held
to be made according to the new measure.
Tie exi,ting weights and measures may be used if marked,
SO 'A, to shew the proportion they base to the standard measures
and weighty but not otherwise. All weights and measures made
atter the Ist of January, 1826, are to be conformable to the new
starlard.

General RCCHE, Envoy from the Greek Committee
a: l'zris, who protested against the Protectorate of England, has
arrived in Paris.

An official notice has been published of the intention
o!. the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to apply for
a Bill, in the ensuing Session of Parliament, empower-
ing them to follow up their original plan for the western
imptovements, by continuing the street called Pell-,
snail Lw to St. Martin's Cottrell ; also to widen the
communication between Craven-street, in the Strand,
a:.d Cock:pur-street.
The Inverness-shire Farming Society, last week, had
I:,e honour of entertaining Sir JOHN SINCLAIR, on his
way from Caithness to Edinburgh. Dr. Moot. was in
t: Chair, and Captain SHAW acted as croupier. The
was most agreeably spent, and a great deal of
;•.tErtsting conversation passed on the subject of agri-
cultme. Sir JOHN read to the Meeting a very sensible
paper on the contemplated alteration in the Corn Laws,
*hich the Society ordered to be ptinted.
The Manchester (guardian says—" We regret to state
t.:at there is, at present, every appearance of a general
tut,i-out on the part of the persons engaged in cutting
ftiszians in this town."
Yesterday evening, a Meeting of the Master Shoe-
makers was held, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, for
the purpose of forming a Society of Masters to restrain
...''hat they conceived to be the unjust demands of the
_our neymen of their tract:. Mr. SKINNER, in the Chair,
4.2.dre‘sed the Meeting at some length, and concluded
by proposing several Resolutions indicative of the ob-
ject of the Meeting, which were carried nem. con. After
a few remarks from some other individuals, the as-
sembly broke up.
Tae Tt ibu nal of Correctional Police of Paris, decided
(in F iday, the case of Madame de CAIRON, accused by
er husband of crime. con. with a Law Student of
the name of Soustitoutau. Two children were the
issue of this criminalintercourse. The facts charged were
proved by sttEficieb-t evidence, and the Court condemned
frac guilty patties to two years' imprisonment.