Star.
London, England, 1824-02-13 00:00:00

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

We have seldom had to record a more miraculnut
escape than on the present occasion. About twelve
o'clock this day, part of the house of Mr. Braggs, baker,
of Drury-litre, and part of an adjoining one, tell with
most dreadful crash. The houses were inhabited In
lodgers, all or whom had families, but strange to sal-,
with the excepti.r of one person, none of them were
hurt. Several men employed in removing the rubilisi
from the vacuity made by the pulling down of tw,,
houses next door, jest at the moment the accident to„•k
place, had gone on the street, and they also escaped--
The anxiety of the crowds of persons who wele
difficulty kept from approaching the re maining totterirg
fabric, may be better felt than described ; hundreds sacra
watching the gradual opening of the a pc! tures. u•••;I
at length means were adopted to prevent further miscii

Wednesday night, Mr. WILLI.% Nts, the Ring's N1....,-
senger, left town with dispatches from Earl BAT/1151tST, as S.:eroary
for the Colonial Department, for Corfu, in reply to those received
a few days ago. announcing the melancholy tidings of the suil.les
death of the Right Hon. Sir THOMAS Mammas, his Majesty's Le:d
High Commissioner of the lonian Islands.
RICHARD FRANKLIN POUSSETT, Esq. his M AJESTIS
Vice-Consul for Buenos Ayres, sailed on Monday fr orn
Falmouth, in the Chichester packet, for his destination.
We have received Gibraltar Papers to the 26th of
Januat y, from which we cony the following article of
intelligence respecting the adjacent parts of Spain :
DIALAOA, JANUARY 2.—OUr Governor, M. de Zambrona, has is-
sued a Proclamation, in 13 Articles, enacting all we could wish for,
under existing circumstances. The object of this Proclamation is to
prevent the recommencement of the infamous scenes which we have
so often witnessed ; and the occasion of its being issued, is the info:-
mation obtained here that several of the Constitutional Revolutionists
in Gibraltar, intended to creep into this and other parts of the pro-
vince, with a view to sow the seeds of discord and anarchy. Oae
of these goes by the name of Lancha, and is hut too well known by
the tears he has caused to he shed. The thirteen Articles contaia
excellent Police regulations; and by the second, every person is
authorized to arrest Lancha and Muchonchini, for which purpose
the military are to give the requisite assistance. The 6th directs
the permanent Court Martial to assemble, in order that any one at-
tempting to disturb the public or private tranquillity may he tried
in a few hours ; and the last states that the examination of the mea-
sures detailed in the Proclamation will not be recurred to again, a
the Government will take care they are enforced.
Letters from Rome contain the gratifying intelligence
that Christianity is making rapid progress in the Eastern
kingdom of Tonquin. The Mandarins of the Ist
and 2d class favoured the labours of the Missionaties,
land protected them in the exercise of their religion, the
disturbers of which were severely punished. The
learned melt in particular, it is said, were easily in-
structed and broke their idols in pieces after a few con-
ferences. In June, 1821, a wholedistt iet had sent deputies
to request instructors in the Christian Faith. The fact
of the learned men being the first to embrace Christii-
nity is at once an additional proof of its being the Reli-
gion most suited to enlightened minJs, and a promising
circumstance, as the pride of fancied knowledge and
the dread of losing the importance which it conferred,
have frequently been found the chief obstacles to the
adoption of the pure and vivifying doctrines of the
Christian Faith.

It has been decided that the Magistrates attending
Special Sessions are exempt front arrest for debt. At
the last Sessions under the Insurrection Act, an appli-
cation was made on behalf of a Magistrate of the county
of Limerick, to be discharged from the custody of the
City Sheriffs. The application was opposed by the
plaintiff in the writ, and by Connsel on the part of the
Sheriffs. The hearing occupied part of two days, when
Mr. BLACKBURNE, in pronouncing the judgment of the
Court, ordered that the defendant should forthwith be
discharged from the custody of the Sheriffs, on the
ground that all persons bona fide engaged in the ad-
ministration of the justice of the country, were exempted
in their persons from the execution of civil process, in a:-
tending at, and in going to or returning from the Cour t.
ELOPEMENT.—The Nobility and Gentry in the neigh-
bourhood of Grosvenor-square have for ten days pa,t
been considerably agitated in mind and conversation is
consequence of the elopement of a young Lady of con-
siderable fortune, and not less beauty and accomplish-
ments. It appears that for some years last a Lieute-
nant L—, belonging to one of the EASE India Este-
blishmentc, and Miss N—, resident in a street not far
from North Audley-street, have been attached to
each other. About three weeks ago the Lieutenant
came home from his regiment, and declared his pretea,
sions to the friends of the Lady, but was repulsed. .% leans
however, were devised to bring about a meeting, by the
lovers, and List Sunday they met in the Par k, but the
Lady's father surprised them, and after addressing some
hostile language to the young soldier, took his daugl''er
home. Still the lovers were determined not to be baffled,
and a plan was arranged accordingly. The young lady,
while walking with her father in Bloomsbury-srvare,
entered a house close hy, passed through a small lawn
or garden behind, out into the street ar,ain, where the
Lieutenant aas in waitir.g, and both entered a coach
and drove oil. The father, on hearing these tiiingF,
surpoed naturally they had taken the North road ;
therefore, witi,out returning, posted that way, but cord
obtain no chi.: to the fititives, who, on his return, he
by some st;a:agem ascertained were about to start
om the neighbourhood of Golden-square, whither, at
an early hour, he repaired yesterday morning, and sur-
ixis:ed the parties. ‘Ve are told, that a con- est to :ix
place bet‘Neeti the father and the Lieutenant; but the
result was, the lady was conveyed to her father's mansion.
FlltE.—At halt-past nine this morning, a fire broke
out in the workshop of a cabinet-maker, nyder's-ceurt,
Leicester-fields, the whole of which, with a large stock,
were consumed. Much damage was done to the
back of the dwelling-house before it was extinguished.
;MINING hartaacANcr:.--Col.per Ore* for sale at Redtutlt.—Wh.
Ahr-ham, 232. Crenver,l27. NVh. ('trance, 108. Oatfield, 83. Wh.
Sarah, 22. NN'h. Bul/tr, 347. Wh. Wauchamp, 106. Fowey Cone
cols, 233. Wh. Speedwell, ::02. liinner Bosom, 67. Levant, 65.
• Botal:ack, 62. Trannack, 62. Penbvrthy Crofts, 59. Wh. Bolton,
28. Wh. iklward Wh. IL:mory, 120.—Tota1, 1378 ton*.