Star.
London, England, 1828-01-26 00:00:00

THE LATE STORK

The extraordinary course of nature, as tel to the
weather since the year 1824, is worthy of remark t up
to that period, it was ever considered that the changes
of the moon invariably operated (not only in this court.
try but in all parts of the world) in:causing:Omni/es in
the weather and fluctuations in the tides. Destructive
storms usually toak place with stream tides ; brit incite
the memorable storm of 1844, all the gals, in this part
of the country, worthy of notice, have taken place about
the neap of tides, or quarter of the moon. 'this wits
the case in the late hurricane of the 13th of January,
when high water (which rose to fifteen feet six inchel,
was at a quarter before ene o'clock in the morning, the
time of the dead of the neap. The commencerneht of
the hurricane was at one hour after high waters . This
being the case, it is not matter of wonder thAt the re•
flux of the great body of the.tide water aided, by she
extraordinary pressure of land floods, greater than ever
before known, pouring down the rivers and harbours,
directlyagainst a violent wind, caused in an open road.
stead, such an agitated surface, that few vessels could
withataad it. The height of this hurricane appears from
all accounts, to have been at three o'clock is the.morn-
ing, at which time the surface of the water ooght to
have been about thirteen feet above the level of .low
water mark. The lower part of the sea•side of the
breakwater, it is therefore presumed, had never experi-
enced such a trial as in the lase instance; but we are
happy in being able to add, that no impression what..
ever has been made upon the break water by the hurri-
, cane. From an inspection since made, it appears that
not a particle of the work completed on the new plan
has given wav or been in the leata disturbed.a.-t-/y.
month Ant nal.

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But a few posts back we announced the marriage of
s fellow-citizen, Lieutenant, WILLIAM 7%R P.TZ CIS tLD late ?2d
Ittliment and brother to Captain Fria GERALD, of Richmond.
place. lie was married at the British Ambassador'st at P' aris on
the:fok of December, to Fts•sci s, el 'eat daughter of ii late tkli;
Leavitt. Northumberland Militia, a truly amiable, interesting, and
accomplished. young Lady, and possessing in an eminent degree all
those int:sans:Able qualities which could not fail to have renderel
their union a happy one. On New Year's Day, that is, but three
weeks and two days from their bridal one, both bride and bride-
groom were consigned to tfie same watery grave, in the F. troy
packet, which was wrecked in Auhin's Bay, idand.of Jersey, and n.tg
fu from the" haven where they would he "—/sine ice Gronide.
Wednesday Morning a young man in the employ of
Mr. Archer. baker, Upper Thames Street, wok up a
bottle containing nitric acid, and supposing it to be gin,
immediately drank a considerable p,oti.m of it. The
untertunate young man .was alive yesterday evening,
but in so dreadful a state, that his ultimate recovery is
considered to be alniust impossible. .He.had bee:i its
the service of Mr. Atelier for neatly five years, and bole
the most exemplary character.

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About a fortnight, since, some heartless miscreants
entered one of the West Ma, shes at Grimsby, and wan-
tonly cut the sinew, of the hind legs of three sheep, the
property of Mr. Alderman Moody, and left the poor,
animals vreltering in their blcod, in which state then
were found alive n the folksy ing morning. A Aandsmne
reward was offered for the di tove►y of thc•offenders ;
notwithstanding which, a (ew days afterwards, six sheep
~ere cut in a similar manner: the i•ffered teward was
doubled, and other means adopted, none of which had
the desired effect, for, on Monday morning five sheep
were cut in the same way, and subsequently thrown
into a ditch and drowned. To add to this catalogue of
malicious bat barity, two more sheep were on Sunday
morning found maimed in a, similar way. One man is
already in custody on suspicion.—Hal Packet. .

BLANDFORD.—NIonday, the 14th instant, a fellow.
whose conduct proves that he possesses rrinre of the
savage disposition of brutes. than of the generous feel.
ingspf human nature, named John Jenkins, carter' to
W. G.ePrizton, Esq. of HenSury House, was driving
his master's waggon from Poole, loaded with coals, when
one of the horses not proceeding so last as he wisheci,
he took a sharp knife and stabbed it in the belly, with
such violence that a large portion of the bowels pro-
truded through the wound, which the unfeeling monster
immediately cut off. The poor injured animal was still
'urged forwards, and as fast as the Dowel forced itself
out, it was cut off by this merciless brute, until .the en-
fortunate creature fell down, and died almost instantly.
Jenkins, who has thus disgraced the name of,nsait. IA as
t 'ken into custody, and on Thursday cnmmitted to
Dorchester gaol, to take his trial for the offence; and we
trust he will then meet with that reward which such dia-
bolical and wanton cruelty merit!. We understaDel he has
before been guilty of similar conduct.--Dorseit Chronicle.

' Saturday last an inque.t was held at Wembury, n-ar
Plymouth,-on the body of Richard Phillips, a sergeant
of the 18th Regiment, who was stationed on the beach
near Binrisand Bay, to protect the cargo of the Ma y
Ann, West Indiaman, thrown ashore on the rocks there
in the late gale. On the morning of the previous day,
the deceased went on the beach and placed himself oa
a reek to wash his boots, when a wave broke over, and
in at return washed him off into the sea, and to was
drowned. He was picked up about one o'clock in the
afternoon, when the tide had ebbed. Verdict—Acci.
dentally drovrbed.

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