Star.
London, England, 1806-08-01 00:00:00

employed as a (emit by the prone...,,
her with linen, to the above amount, to take ti...
to different perfons, on Saturday fortnight ; botalui
(lead of which, Ike converted it to her own ufe, and
let off to Briftol. Inforpation being given at the
Office of the robbery, the officer traced the prifoner
to Briffol, where he recovered nearly the whole of
the property. She was committed for reexamination.
On We•inefday foe Excife•Offieers feixed a pri-
vate hill, in full IRA at a haute in the London-
To. I, together with a large quantity of
.molaffes,
aoo gallons of wall, and a variety of compounds
and utenfilsothich they took to Union Hall, where '
they were cbodemned. A woman who was caught
working the Hill, was ordered to pay a fine of pl.
but, being unable to comply, the was fent to dm
County Goal.
Wednefday fennight, a perfon was brought before
the Police Court, at Edinburgh, charged with fend-
ing a challenge to fight a duel. The chalkeisr and
the chellanged were both Spire: of dm 7 bissbk (journey-
men tailors ) The Judge laid. he had Come inclina-
tion to look upon die whole as a jell; but the evi-
dence (hewed that the challenger was molt ferious.—
The challenge was in writingq and the challenger
Paid deliberately, that he would give Ns ~feel to
haveltis earazowf: Adj. The weapons were to be
piftols ; and the party challenged gave fufficient
evidence of his being in bodily fear. Under theft cir-
cumllances, the Judge hated, that he mull hold that
as a fair cafe of challenge, and that be confidered it
to be his duty to pronoonce the fame fen:ence which
he was determined to pronounce in every cafe of chal-
lenge Lilo' DO duel had aloofly taken place,vie. to coo-
mit the party to jail for a limited period, which mph
vary according to circomllances, and to find bail for
their good behaviour thereafter. If a duel (hould ac-
tually take place, though no injury &mild occur to
the private parties, the punilkment would be Bride-
well.
Tuefday night, about twelve o'clock, the body of
a new born Want was found, nearly naked, at the
bottom of Belton-arca. Long Acre, lying in the
coach way ;it was immediately- taken to the work-
houfe, and by proper care being taken of it, is hill
living. Wednefday morning the jrarifh officers dice°.
vered the inhuman mother, and took her likewife to
the work houfe. An immenfe concourfa of people
followed, who appearsd fo much enraged at her eon.
duct, that it was with difficulty they could be pre-
vented from laying violent hands on her.
Wednefday as a female fervent was drawing two
children in a (mall chaife on Bankfide, in endeavour- il
ing to avoid • coal-waggon that was palling. the
chairs upfet, and threw them both out, when the
waggon wheel went over the head of one of them,
and literally erased it to atoms; the other was with
difficulty timed.
Wednefday afternoon, as Come bricklayers' labour.
ere were repairing the top of a hook in Southampton.
row, Bloomfbury. a hod of bricks fell from the top,
by which accident a man, handing below, had his
back and legs broken, in two places, and was taken
to the Moque!, without hopes of recovery.
In addition to the many accidents arifing from the
late hum, we have learned that a man, plooghing hi
a field near Brentwood, in Effete, having driven the
bodes ender slug. oak, the tterwai truck by the
lightning, and himfelf and both the hones killed.
Nearly at the fame time the out premifes of Mr.
Haydon, of Farnham, in Surrey, were fen on the by
I the lightning : the loft is alienated at 4001.
A fetter from Wellington. dated July 26, contains
the following difaffrona account :—On Friday the
t nth intim:it, as fume colliers were at work in a pit,
15; yards deep, belonging to John Billiton, Efq. and
Co. at Swain ironworks near this town, one, of
their candles came in contaft with a quantity of hy-
drogen gas, wised with annorpherie air. and molted
an explofion, which tensely burnt eight or nine
men ; but fortunately the whole are in a fair way of
recovery. On the Monday following, feveral others
were employed in repairing the airways in the fame
pit, form of whom had &fended again ; fix others
(who had previoufly extinguifhed their candles for
fafety) were in the aft of afcenfion, five in the chains
and one upon the knot of the rope, when, unfor-
tunately, the current of hydrogen from the pit,.
blended with the air of the atmofphere, a.s blown
by a brilk gale of wind in contalt with a fire that bad
been left, inadvertently, burning about three yards
to leeward of the pithead. and castled an explofion
which proceeded down the pit, towards the fource
of the hydrogen, involving the miferable colliers in
a volume of flame. At the moment of the combuf
lion, they had attended upwards of a hundred yards.
and one of the poor fellows, preferring inftant death
to the acutenefs of his paint, made an effort to difen-
g failed
e himfelf from the chains, and precipitate him-1
(elf to the bottom, but in the attempt ; ano-
ther fainted from extreme pato, and was brought up
hanging by his legs in the chains ; four others came
tip in the ufual fitting pofture ; and the man who
ass riding erect upon the knot of the rope, ;Miura-
, bully remind his hold, though his clothes were en-
tirely eonfumed, and his body fcorehed all over, and
reached the furface in that pofition. On being dd.-
enfaged at the pit head by Come perfons, whom the
noife of the explofion had brought to witnefs this
truly affehing fcene, one of them, in a delirium,
aiding from excruciating pain and terror, ruftsed
homewards in flames; the others, more enfeebled,
required to be carried to their abode. Five died loon
after, in the greateft agonies, and the other expired
this day. Two widows and fame children remain
to lament their unfortunate exit. The other four
were unmarried. The explofion blew the caps from
'their heads Forty or fifty feet above the furface, and
reduced a great part of the timber framing of the pit
to a Hate of carbon. Some perfons who were in the
vicinity of the pit at the time, law, previoufly, par-
tial combullions take place between the fire and the
pit head, which proves, that the hydrogen was then
deficient in quantity, or not lufficiently blended with
the oxygen of the aunorpheie, to produce a general
one. Had they removed the fire immediately (and
it is probable there was fufficient time to do it in) the
accident would not have taken place, and the men
who have juft funk into the filent tomb, might have
remained many years longer ufeful members of focie-
ty. The accidlnt is over and irretrievable, hut we
hope its terrible confequences will preclude a fimilat
apt, and that no collier or miner will hereafter be fa
unmindful of his own falety, as to make a fire neat
to a pit containing hydrogen gas, or fir‘ehar, as they
"molly (though wrotagly) Item it.