Star.
London, England, 1811-12-10 00:00:00

;'of all the unfortunate sufferer:were beaten in, •ani
miserably
the throat
as tchnife was also used in
cutting the throat of the child, and a third instru-
ment, a ripping Shine', was also found on the pre.
Mises, it is obtribus that there was more thatt one per-
son concerned in these foul and atrocious murders.—
It would appear, however, that there were only two ;
and that they entered at the street door, and made
their escape at the rear, is manifest, from the print of
some feet in the yard. There are in it the prints of
two men's feet of different sizes, with the heel tur-
ned to the rear of the house, as going away from it.
The footsteps are marked with blood and sawdust,
which is accounted for by there being some carpen-
ters
at work in the shop on the same day, and the saw-
dust mixing with the bloor4 it is supposed, stuck to
the shoes of the murderers. A woman, who resides
in one of the houses in Pennington-street, in the rear
of Mr. Mares house, states, that while the watchmen
were giving the alarm, by springing their rattles, on
the first discovery of the murder, she heard a rum-
bling noise in the uninhabited house adjoining, which
she concludes was'occasioned by the murderers forcing
the doors, and making their escape. _ It is imagined
that they must have been perfectly acquainted with
the premises, as the route by which they escaped, was
not only difficult, as they had to throw down some
palings, but the only one by which they could have
got off ; and they had to pass a narrow path between
two fosses made for privies. Had the servant maid
been in the house, it is supposed she would have
shared the same fate, and that it was the intention of
the robbers, having dispatched the whole family, to I,
remain in possession of the house, and snip the pre-
mises at their leisure. The whole of the property is
estimated at £3OOO, part of the stock had been laid
in within these few days.
The servant maid is kept in custody until the In-
quest takes place. This is only a measure to preserve
her evidence pure and free from the imputation of
undue influence, to which it might possibly be liable
were she at large, and people w.re allowed indiscri-
minately to converse with her. Every attention is
paid to her comforts.
Mr. Mart- was only 25 years of age, Mrs. Marr
was three mruths younger, and had been married
near two years.

INDIAN INCEsuffr.

[EXTRACT FROM THE ORITISII REVIEW, NO. IV.]

lire know of water-mills, both with over and un-
dershot wheels, in China, but do not recollect a de-
scription of any such machines for the abridgement
of hum in labour in India ; and we wish some fur-
ther notice had been taken of their extensive existence
in Nepaul, and that the:r construction was more par-
ticularly described. Religion travelled rapidly from
India to China, and machinery seems creeping through
Nepaul in a contrary direction. Few objects of con-
templation can be more singnlar than the compari-
son of the products of Hindu industry with their
total neglect of machinery, and their awkward im-
plements of labour. Let any one examine their ivory
toys, their muslins, or that chef d'ceuvre of useless
ingenuity, the succession of carved ivory balls con-
tained one within the other, yet without any suture
to betray the mode of their insertion, and he would
suppose them the products of the most delicate and
finished machinery. Yet are they in fact nothing
more than the effect of patient manipulation, ope-
rating with the clumsiest instruments. The Hindus'
seem to have completely inverted the ordinary pro.
gress of ingenuity, fron; the agent to the subject
acted upon. Instead of the regular gradations
through the coarse muscular energy and obtuse ex-
tremities of the hand, to the refined and delicate in-
strument of art, their genius works upwards As it
were through the gross and clumsy tool to the elegant
and effeminate hand :—at least the progress of per-
fection would stop at the hand, were it not intense
enough t'o infuse a portion. of its excellence through
an implement otherwise inert and useless. The finest
European lady would look with envy on the beauti-
ful symmetry and dainty littleness of the coarsest
hand of India. We have seen rather a small handed
European attempt to grasp the sword of the late
Tippno Sultan, which was by ne means a childish
implement as to weight—he could barely insert his
three fingers into the handle ; yet upon casing him-
self in the helmet and coat of mail of that usurper,
the weight would have prevented him from walking
an hundred yards.

A curious printing-press has been constructed at
Philadelphia by a Mr. Wait. The distribution of the
ink over the types, as well as the printing, is performed '
by cylinders, which, with the tympan and frisket, are
all operated by machinery, to which motion may be
given by a horse, steam, or water. The same power
can work severn presses. The only attention neces-
sary is, that of a lad to each press to place and re-
move the sheets.