Star.
London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

GLASGOW, SEpr. 23.

Yesterday morning, a little after three o'clock, a fire
broke out in the extensive premises in Park-lane, Duke-
street, belonging to John and Robert Tennent, brewery.
The fire was first discovered by the watchman of the
brewery. Before the arrival of the fire engines the fire
had made such progress in the interior uf the building
where it originated, that the granary, which lay to the
north of the brewery, was entirely consumed, with above
a thousand boils of grain: The counting-house uas
fortunately preserved, and the vaulted cellars under the
granary have not suffered. Three adjoining thatched
houses, occupied by eight poor families, who escaped
with little more than their lives, were also burned to
the ground. We understand that the brewery was insured.
Thursday, about mid-day, as a master mason and
two workmen, were engaged in repairing a house in
Saltmarket, the Kaffold on which they were standing
gave way, and. they were precipitated from a height of
nearly five stories. Their lives were singularly pro-
served. The master was severely bruised. One of the
workmen bad his leg and thigh bone broken, and was
carried to the Infirmary, and the other was less injured.

Thursday afternoon, a girl, about twelve years of
age, fell into the Clyde at the New Quay, Brownielaw,
and would inevitably have been drowned, had it not
been for the exertions of John Wilson, ship carpenter,
who plunged into the water with his clothes on, and suc-
ceeded in bringing her safe to land. This young man
was the carpenter on board the Francis and Mary, from
John's, N B. for Liverpool, who was picked off the
wreck, with six others, on the 7th March last (after sub-
sistiog on the bodies of -th_ir companions for 18 clsys),
of the banks of Newfoundland, by his Majesty's ship
Blonde, commanded by Lord. Byron.

The Quotidienne, and other French Papers, have long
details of the Coronation of the Emperor NICHOLAS ;
but all that is intrresting in diem, we have anticipated.
The natural effect of that revival of trade which we
have witnessed and recorded during the last month with
heartfelt gratification, stiil continues, and is manifesting
itself daily in the improved condition of the labouring
classes.—Leeds Mercury.
Among legal objections as to forms, there is one on
the subject of which many of the legal fraternity ap-
tear to be uninstructed. Not long since an attempt was
!bade to invalidate an indenture ; because, though per-
fect in all its parts, the paper on which it was written
was not cut in at the top. Jndge Buzzouou desired
to look at the deed, and taking the scissars from his
pocket, he quietly Sig zagged it, and returned it to the
profound lawyer—by whom the quibble bad been
started—as a valid instrument.

AM A GISTRATI &con ED I—A singular circumstance
took place at Mar ket•Bosworth, in Leicestershire, on
the Btlf inst. The magistrates were assembled to renew
the publicans licences, and from some cause they re-
fused to renew Michael Messenge's, of the George inn,
at that place ; on hearing which his wife, Elizabeth,
aimed a blow at T. C. Fell, Esq. the senior magistrate,
and knocked him off the bench, and when down laid on
him most lustily ; after this she gate a constable a
couple of _black eyes and a bloody nose. A number of
men were nos called in to secure her, which they did
after a hard struggle. The nest morning she was sent
off to Leicester gaol, but on the Monday following was
"liber.ited on bail.

The confidential deputy of the •estryclerk of one of
the large paishes immediately adjoining the City, has
rely absconded with parish money, supposed to be to
the amount of about 30001. The vestry•clerk, who is
an eminent solicitor, near.Finsbury-square, will have to
make good the loss. On a former similar occasion, it
is said he had to pay 6001.
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A MOD2IIII leonissom• Causes.—The '1 Delis trans-
port, Lieut. Hopkins, which arrived here a few days
since from the Pacific Ocean, had occasion to touch at
the Island. of Mocho, for water, the only inhabitant on
which was an English seaman, of the name of Joseph
Eichardsoo, a native of Aldington, near Ashford, in
Kent, who, like another Robinson Crusite, or Alexan-
der Selkirk, had made choice of such a solitary house-
less spot, upwards of three years since, for a residence,
when he was landed, at his own urgent desire, from a
Patriot ship of war, commanded by Captain Robertson.
The hland is about sixty miles in circumference, and
about sixty miles from the Coast of Chili, in lat. 39 S.
It is very seldom visited by ships, as it does not afford
necessary supplies of wood, but it does of water, in
abundance.. It is remarkably fertile, and abounds with
hogs and horses. Richardson has cultivated two gar-
dens, on the vegetable produce of which, with pork,
young horse flesh, and wild pigeons, he lives. lie hunts
Abe former animals with dogs, a fine breed of which he
has broken in ; the pigeons are so numerous, that he
has little difficulty in obtaining them, and a few other
kinds of birds, though the only fire-arms he possesses
is an old musket, with a broken lock, which he dis-
charges by means of a match ; but by patient watching
under the trees, he contrives, with such defective means,
to vary his dirt as often as he wishes. About nine
months since, the Indians, hearing of his desolate atria-
yen, though not at all disposed to join in community,
Laded two of their native girls on the island. Richard-
son instantly made choice of one of them as his console,
and proclaimed her Queen of the Island, and the other
be calls his cook. The distinction between these two
individuals was quite perceptible on the present visit.
Richardson having so means of amusement beside the
necessary employment of obtaining subsistence, it his
own request, brut. Hopkins supplied him with a bible,
and prayer Wok. Lieut. H. offered to take him off the
Island, but he refused to leave it, declaring his determi.
nation ul pa.sini his life in hit own toirernment. He
had coitrarenci d erecting a fort, to protect himself from
the Indians. Their aso no present appearance of anj
increase ofiliis subjtetsej-fiairrjeshery Tektre/4".. •
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