Star.
London, England, 1825-08-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

The weather, from Saturday until Monday afternoon,
was unusually stormy for the season of the year.—
Throughout the whole of Saturday night a violent
gale b!ew from the north-west. Betweci seven
and eight o'clock in the evening several brigs ar-
rived off the port ; and one of them, in a:tempting to
run in, got on West Hoyle sand-bank. She was from
some port in Ireland, with a cargo of cattle ; the crew
and drovers amounted to seven persons. As soon as the
brig struck on the bank she boat was lowered, and
part of the people got into it; but it immediately
filled, and was nearly swamped among the breakers.
The peopteltartunately regained the vessel's deck.—
Afterwards, having succeeded in baling oat the water
from the boat, three of the men again embarked ; and
after being in imminent peril among the breaker>,
succeeded in landing near West Kirby, in Cheshire.
The brig went to pieces shortly after, and the four
men. perished in the deep. The Otter, a small
vessel of not more than twenty-eight tons, sailed on
Thursday for Africa, and was lost off Southport.--
The Captain and crew were fortunately saved. A num-
ber of vessels were at anchor in Bootle Bay, all of
which rode out the gale. Sunday afternoon, how-
ever, the gale not abating, most of them ran up the
Slyne for greater security. Mon 'ay afternoon, the
gale moderated ; but the wind continued to blow fresh
throughout the day. The vessels which sailed o'i
Thursday and Friday mornings could not, from the
direction of the wind, have made %ni considerable way;
three of them, indeed, put back o.) Sunday fdrenoon,
and three others put into Beaumarii. Of those which
kept out at sea, several were seea on Saturday, off
Point Lynas. The wind, during ,Monday night, was
moderate from the northward, so hat they wou!sl be
enabled to prosecute their voyages.
Monday, the Bth instant, great consternation wa;
experienced in ltedmund Place, Circus Street, ecc.
by the bursting of the sewer, occasioned by the heavy
fall of rain which bad preceded it. A rumbling noise
under ground was heard on the Thursday preceding,.
and on the Monday morn:ng, about three o'clock, the -
sough burst where it crosses Relmund Place ; im-
mense pieces of the arch falling inwards choked up
the passage, and caused an overflow into all the neigh-
bouring cellars. The inhabitants were obliged to leave
their beds and seek shelter from their more fortunate
neighbours. The water was at length cleared away,
but on Wednesday morning, during the heavy fall of
rain, the streets and cellars were again inundated.—
The houses have since been examined, and they appear
in a very dangerous state, several of them having al-
ready cracked, and many of them are rAiliged to be
propped up.

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ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSR—The new Opera is now
performed nightly to houses overflowing with excellent company-
BlumAu, Potturs, Miss PATON, and the whole of the principal
singers were last night in fine voice. After the Opera, It he
Jenlutes was performed for the first time this season, and Miss
KILLS' and Wavisma kept the audience in great inirth by the exer-
cise of their comic talent in their two well-known parts. Amongst
reshionables who have visited this Theatre during the week,
we have noticed—The Count and Countess St. Antonio, Lady
Londonderry, Lady Charleville, Lady Ponsunby, Lady Fitzroy
Somerset,„l,ird Borghersh, Prince Esterhazy, Countess of Stan-
hope, the
.Marchloness of Salisbury, Lord Chesterfield, Lord
Howard de Walden, Lord Glengall, Lord 'William Lennox, Coun-
tess Paulet, &c. Ste.
A most daring forgery has been attempted lit Lloyd's.
Coffee-houst. Mr. Bennett, the Secretary, retcheda
the
communication, purporting to be from the Russian Con-
sul, stating, that after the Ist of September ail iiiitish
1 vessels should be admitted into the Russian ports on the
same terms as ships under the Russian flag. The letter
turns out to be a forgery.
A poor lunatic, named Walker, formerly in s-rvice
in some part of the King's household, and dressed in .
rags, made a pompous entre into Bow-street Office yes-
terday, and demanded satisfaction for an assault, &c. of
his landlord, a publican; but the case was dismissr-d,
after a magnificent flourish front Mr. Walker, at which.
the Court laughed heat tily.
SURGERY —When the surgeons of Tripoli take off
a limb, they dip the stump into a bowl of hot pitch, . -.
which settles the b.leeding without the trouble of tying
up the arteries._

l'oeutAtt Music.—There are two parrots in the
neighbourhood of Walwnrth that whistle the bunting
chorus and the waltz in Der Freischutz.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, AUGUST 19.
SHIPS ESTRUM INWARDS—The Earl Claticarty, from Rotterd.!m;
Waterloo, from Jamaica; May, Providence, Nicholas, Ossiay,.
Hope, Harrier, Economy, and Aid, from St. Petersburgh ;
jos, from Husum, Magdalena, from Hatithurgh ; Hero, from
llarlingrn; Suffolk, from Konisberg ; Mayflower and Cumber-
land, from Memel; Ellie, from Dantzic ; Emperor Alex-alder,
from St. John's; Hudson, from New York ; Sophia, from Sierra '
Leone ; Atlas, from Dublin; Perseverance,. from- Calais;. and the
Louisa, from Jamaica.

Kursiteo ()Irma nu:—Ocean, for Yucatan ; Kingston, for .Ha-
lifax; Thalia, for 13t.tnos Ayres; Jaue Joanna, for .13r.tsstio;
Prince of Waterloo, ter Ostend; and Harmony, ;or Palermo.

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