Star.
London, England, 1830-09-01 00:00:00

PROVI NCLIL INTELLIGENCE.

BRISTOL, Aug. B.—A remarkable change in the usual flowing of the
title to.dc place in our river yesterday. Instead of high water being at ItS
mmutes after 12, which, according to the calculations of the tide-table,
.04 expected to have been the ca.e, the tide flowed only ten minutes be-
tote twelve, and then began to ebbLcaosing a variation of an hour and
eight minutes. About three years ago an irregularity of the same kind
5.),, observed in this port and other places, which wu ultimately traced
.0 an earthquake in the Peninsula. It is not unlikely that the present
variation in the tide has been caused by some disorganization remote from
o.tr shores. _ . .

yesterday morning information being given of [something suspicions
being observed floating on the water, in the neighbourhood of the Powder
Magazine, Alr. Al'Dougal, tidewaiter, proceeded to the place,
and found seven kegs strung to a buoy by a line of thirty or forty fa.
titans long, tile whole being made fast to a thick post. With the help
of three boatmen, by whom he was accompanied, he conveyed the cap-
:use to the King's warehouse, where five of the kegs were found to be
tilled with rum, one with shrub, and one with tamarinds There hail
originally been nine kegs attached to it, but two of them •'ad been pre..
% eddy got away ; and it is probable that the other seven would have
:odowed them, but for the accidental circumstance of parting from their
si corn, by which three of the rum casks came to light, and were seen
floating on the surface.—Greenock itlvertiser.
The fourth and last meeting for the season, of the South Saxon
Archers, was holden on Thursday last, in Coneyborough-pack, when
go, it prizes were contended tor. The first prizes, two of Waiing's
b. st bows, were won by Colonel Goldfinch and Miss Julia Cripps ; the
,econcl, two ornamental quivers, were won by Mr. Cl. H. Borrer and
miss M. l'ampion. The best shots of visitors who did not contend for
the prizes, were those of Colonel Tucker and Mrs. H. Austen.—The
rompany began to assemble at about one o'clock, and the shooting
cemmenced soon afterwards. At a little before four, 128 of the neigh-
i•ouring Nobility and Gentry sat down to dinner, which was served up
e• usual, by Mr. Insoll, of the Star inn. At five o'clock the shooting
a as resumed, and continued until six, when the company enjoyed the
tazy dance until dark. The weather, with the exeeption of a slight
hower or two after dinner, was beautiful, and the whole off with
great eclat. The Earl and Countess of Sheffield, the Ear and srddCountess
of Chichester, Viscount and Viscountess Gage, &c. honoured the meet.
ing with their presence.—Swiss Advertiser.
Lint week, a young lady, the daughter of a respectable Roman Ca.
tnolic gentleman of Axminster, took the veil in the Franciscan Nun.
fiery at Taunton. There may be some excuse for the aged, who have
been struggling with adversity during an active life, to retire into soli-
tude, and, at the close of theft days, to reconcile themselves to the
fir vEn of all good ; but it can never be considered as one of the duties
or nature to immure in solitude and uselessness a young and amiable
woman, qualified to adorn that society of which she is a member. It
is a manifest and gross perversion of the first law of nature and the or-
dinances of Gon.—Bristol Journal.
On the night of Thursday, the 12th instant, six cows (five fat and
one milch,) belonging to Mrs. O'Meara, were poisoned on the lands of
Killoscully, by pouring aquafortis into their ears—two are nearly dead,
and the others wasting rapidly away. An apothecary in a neighbouring
town sold 3oz. of aquafoitis to a man on the same evening, which he
said he wanted to put on sithes, being a young mower.—Limerick
Chronicle.
A respectable young man, named Patrick Magrath, on his return
from the fair of Windgap last Saturday, was waylaid by a party of men,
who beat him with stones in so cruel a manner, that he died of his
wounds on Monday. The deceased was the son of Laurence Alagnth,
a farmer residing at Fourmik Water. Three of the fellow, concerned
in the murder were shortly afterwards arrested by the police.—Tippe-
rary Free Press.
We observe in many both of the Scotch and English newspapers, a
recital of a horrid murder, said to have been perpetrated at a place
called Arnot. near Dundee, the account of which is said to be taken
from our paper. It is rather surprising that we should never have
heard of the murder till we read it in the London Papers of Satur.
day ; and it is more surprising still that we should be reputed the au-
thors of an account of a murder which we never heard of, and which,
moreover, we believe, never happened. If there be another place in
Great Britain called Dundee, and another paper called the Dundee
Courier, all yet may be right and true; but, as we are ignorant of
either, we suspect the whole story is a work of the imagination of some
of the Grub.street Alunchausens.—Dundee Courier.
The following singular narration was intended for last week's Paper,
but came to hand too late for insertion. The correspondent who sends
it vouches for its truth s—An old man who resided with his wife, a
woman also far advanced in years, in a sequestered spot not twenty
miles from Callender, and who had spent the whole course of his life
in active employinent, died lately in consequence of an accident which
he had some time ago met with. When he died there was no one in
the house with him but his wife; and she was not a little surprised
to behold him Strew minutes prior to his dissolution; start from his pil.
low; and, after stripping himself of his night-clothes, deposit them at
the foot of the bed. Having done this, he remarked to het that she had
no skill in dressing the bodies of the dead ; after which he laid himself
down with great composure, and stretched out his arms and limbs in
the usual form in which a corpse is laid out; and, in this position,
having taken farewell of his wife, he calmly breathed his WO—Stir-
ling Journal.
About eight o'cloek on Sunday morning a disgraceful riot took
place in front of the Catholic chapel. It appears that the Rev. John
Smith, the former Alinister, having been suspended by his Bishop,
the latter (the Rev. Dr. Painswkk) attended for the purpose of celebra-
ting Divine worship, when a patty of Irish labourers, who had been
Induced to espouse the cause of their late Pastor, and 'had obtained pos.
session of the chapel. not only refused him admission, but threatened
him with personal violence, and insailed him with the most opprobrious
language.' Mr. Pearson Fox, the chief constable, interfered to prevent
a breach of the peen, and was roughly treated. The rioters ultimately
retired within the chapel, in which no service was performed during the
day. Two of the ringleaders, named Daniel O'Neil and Peter Davison,
were subsequently apprehended.—Hull Advertiser.
On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a party of 12 was /coming
up the Tyne in a boat, and, when opposite St. Peter's quay, one of
them seized a rope belonging to a Scotch vessel then being towed up the
river, but, suddenly quitting his hold, the boat was upset by the im-
snake, and 10 of the party (including three females) thrown into the
water. Two of the men, wiip leaped into the ship's boat when they saw
the danger of their own, succeeded in saving the remelts ; another clung
to the keel of the swamped boat ; and prompt measures having been
taken to assist the remainder, they were ultimately got out with difficulty.
Newcastle Courant.
One day last week two young men belonging to the !leutk *rap, at
If urstperpoint, undertook, for a trifling wager, to eats large drumhead
cabbage, weighing 17elb. with a proportionate quantum of fat pork and
bard pudding, in a given time, which they completed in excellent style.
The " Knights of the Thimble," in the village are not a little discon-
certed at this gormandising propensity of the "Knights of the lAst,"
who have beat them out and out in the way of cabbage....SlUSet
Advertiser.
A short time ago we gave publicity to a very extraordinary and
ling statement, descriptive of the waste of human life, occasioned
by the unwholesome nature of the occupation of the Sheffield grinders.
An intelligent correspondent, whose attention has been directed to the
article in question, infortns us that the same information has been made
respecting stone-hewers, whose lungs being equally exposed to the un.
palpable powder arising from their operations, are no less in danger of
premature death. To obviate this hazard, our correspondent suggests a
plan, so abundantly simple, that it almost assumes an appearance of
abstirdity ; but it is recommended by the sensible remark, that "though
it may fail, it may be the mesas of setting wiseacres to devise a better."
—ln short, it is merely to provide the grinders with a mask with (lass
eyes, and a long flexible leather pipe for a month-piece, which the
grinder or stone-hewer, as the case may be, could throw over his shad.
'dere while at work—thus supplying his lungs constantly with a pure and
uncontaminated atmosphere. This proboscis the grinder, who works
within doors, might project through the orifices in the walls of his
den, into the external att.—Edinburgh Observer.
The character of an informer is one which has been, and we trust
ever will be, held in detestation by the population of Scotland. But
this antipathy, however laudable in itself, should be always kept within
just bounds, otherwise, when wantonly indulged io, the lines may not
chance to get off' so tinily, es we trust that certain of the fair Inhabi.
tank of Kincardine will do, in consequence of having been inadvertently
hurried into a commission of the bleach of the peace on the afternoon of
Thursday last. by forgetting the nit to which we have alluded. It ap-
pears that a deserter from the artillery had been apprehended on the
supposed information of his own father-in-law, and lodged in the Sailors
Hall, in order to be conveyed to Leith by the steam-boat which was
expected to pass Kincardine about five o'clock. As the hour approached
the sympathy excited by the poor fellow's case attracted a great crowd
around the place of his .4enflnement. The women in particular turned
outs and, from some cause or other, they became more eloquent than
wise in tittle anitradvasiona on the conduct of the deserter's father-in-
law. While this wee going on several individuals contrived to gain ad-
mission into the halionder'the pretence of taking farewell of the de-
serter ; and when the officers proceeded to secure the prisoner, by chain-
ing him to one of their number, it is stated that some person took advan-
tage of the encitilleeling of the spectators to call for a rescue. The
women on the 4tside, actuated by the impulse of the moment, rushed
into the leall,• surrounded the principal officer (who is poke in the
town, and no great favourite, we understand, with the inhabitants,) they
prevented him fliom discharging his duty, while the prisoner got out and
made off with sll'possibk speed. So high did the popular reeling run
in favour of the deserter, that the crowd, instead of arresting his pro-
gress, literally escorted him out of town, cheering him on his way; and
when they took leave of him, he got to an eminence, and vociferated
" Goo bless the Kincardine lasses, for this day I owe my life and
li-
berty to than." On the return of the crowd the gaoler was released ;
and, not being able to find the supposed informer in his house, the
multitude dispersed. Having stated the facts of the ease, in so far as
We hese been able to ascertain thaw, we are at no lass to account for the
epthosiaiiit of the populace, though we are rather surprised at the
height to which it has been carded. One thing, however, appears to be
certain, that, however unjustifiable the riot may be in itself, it pro-

ceeded from no premeditated plan on the part of the inhabitants, whose
general respect for the laws, and peaceable demeanour, are equal to
those of the inhabitants of any town in the kingdom.—Sarling Journal.
The execution of the unfortunate girl, Margaret Cleland, for the mur-
der of her sister-in-law, took place in Downytattick on Tuesday, at one
o'clock. Otte was attended by the Rev. Arthur Nelson, who, notwith-
standing all that was said to her, from the time of her sentence, could
not get her to acknowledge a particle of her guilt. She persisted, till
the last moment, in asserting her innocence, and occasionally burst into
fits of indignation against the boy (Mathew) declaring that he had got
money for giving his testimony against her. The prevailing opinion in
Downpatrick is, that the woman was insane, at least from the moment
she received her sentence. From that time, sbe, for the most part,
drank, and slept well; and on Tuesday morning ahz wa.ked up the
steps leading to the execution-room, as firmly as if nothing was the
matter. As soon as she got on the trap she requested the Rev. Mr.
Nelson to make a short prayer, which be did, she repeating it after
him word for word. She then expressed her fears that the rope was too
thick, and besought the executioner to make it long enough, in order
that, front the length of the fall, the might be sooner out of pain. The
clergyman having shaken hands with her, and retired, site had just time
to clasp her hands and say, " Clow have mercy on my, soul," when she
was launched into eternity. She (11,4 apparently without !tittering
much. Having remained suspended the usual time, she'fas taken down
and placed in a coffin, which her rather had brought there for the put- I
pose of carrying her home in ; the coffin was then placett on four men's
shoulder'', and carried out of the town, followed by 20 or 30 people.
There was a vast concourse of people ylpiniipg the execution, among
whom was a number or well-dressed females. The unfortunate girl
was only 22 years of age. She was stoutly made, and rather well look-
ing.—Belfast News Layer, August 28.
11loarrrn, Aun. 28,1830.—As the elephant was pas-
ting through Morpeth last. Tuesday night, it stopped at the New Phe-
nix, where, early on Wednesday morning, It suddenly manifested an
angry disposition, and seized one of its attendants, named Baptiste, with
its trunk, round the middle of his body, and threw him with such vio-
lence as nearly to deprive him of life. He bad his ribs broken, and his
chest horribly mutilated, and he lingered in great agony till Thursday
morning, when he expired. Verdict of the coroner's inquest, Accidental
death—deodand ss. It has been stated, with what truth we know not,
that this shocking proceeding of the elephant is attributable to some
ill treatment it experienced from the deceased three years ago.