Star.
London, England, 1826-06-01 00:00:00

NEW CORN EXCHANGE.

A General :11eeting of the Subscribers to the new Corn Exchange
too► place on Tuesday.
Mr. T. I. DIUSDALZ, who was called .to the Chair, stated the
object of the Meeting.
Mr. TiLsoN, the Solicitor, read the most important
clauses of the Act of Parliament passed on the sth of
May, for the purpose of establishing a Company to erect
a new Corn Exchange, and the Chairman gave a short
outline of the plans and object of the Company. The
old Corn Exchange, he said, was under the manage-
ment of about 30 corn factors, who monopolised the
trade to such an extent that many individuals, extensively
engaged in the Corn trade, had the utmost difficulty,
atter waiting for years, to procure stalls in the market.
The object of the Company was to remedy this defect,
and to erect abtijiding sufficiently large for the increased
supply. To shew how much this supply had increased
lately, it was only necessary to refer to Returns made
to the House of Commons of the quantity of corn
brought to the London Market. Between the years
1745 and 1750, the number of quarters was 1,700,000,
and last year it was 300.000. An amicable arrange-
ment had been made with the old Company, by which
it was agreed that there should be a communica-
tion between the present and the new Corn Exchange,
and that they should form only one building. The
capital was limited to 90,001. divided into 1,800 shares
at 501. each. All the shares had been filled up, and
there was every probability that the proposed plans
would not only be immediately carried into effect, but
that the dividend on the money laid out would be most
ample. It was the intention of the Company to carry
on the plan in the most economical and advantageous
manner, and he sincerely hoped it would be attended
with success.
In answer to a question from one of the Shareholders, Mr. Dims-
natit said that he and his colleagues with whom the measure had
originated, bad contributed their services gratuitously.
Ten Directors and two Auditors were then chosen, thanks were
Total to the Chairman, and the Meeting dispersed.

Accounts from Vienna state that, the health of the
Emperor FRANCIS was again very precarious, and oc-
casioned much alarm amongst his subjects. He had
been profoundly affected by the fresh resistance mani-
fested by the Diet of Hungary to his wishes, after the
receipt of his last answer. The King of NAPLES was
also seriously indisposed.
Letters have been received from thefrlavannah, later
in date than the departure of the Pynamus, which re-
present the state of affairs there to be tranquil and
settled, in appearance at least ; so that the voyage of
Mr. MORI ER must, it is conceived, relate to some other
object. Nothing has transpired to explain his motives;
but the delay in the arrival of the Pi/Ramos is com-
plained of as a most serious inconvenience, by the
merchants trading with Mexico, who expect not only
remittances of specie by this vessel, but information of
the highest interest respecting various undertakings of
great importance now carrying or. in that country.
The Hampshire Chronicle states, that Sir FRANCIS
BURDETT and his family are expected at Southampton
this week, to take a passage to Havre, occasioned by the
ill health of Lady BURDETT.
Colonel JONES, Aid-de-Camp to the KING, will leave
London immediately for his usual inspectional tour of
the fortresses in the Netherlands. He will be accompa-
nied by an Officer of Engineers, taken from the Colo-
nel's command at Woolwich.

By a recent decision in the Court of King's Bench,
the sale of a horse on a Sunday comes within the sta-
tute of 29th CHARLES 11. " on the observance of the
.Loin's day," and no compensation can be obtained.
The bark harvest is now concluded. The stripping
has not been kind, but the whole has been housed or
stacked in excellent condition. The best sets letched
mulch the same prices as last year.
In the Insolvent Debtors Court, on Tuesday, Francis
Wi ight, a lodging-house keeper at Margate, was re-
manded to amend his schedule, which omitted to state
the particulars of a bequest made to the insolvent.--
John Woodson', on his way to the Court, slipped from
the keeper, and escaped.
Tuesday morning, about seven o'clock, a boy being
entrusted with a gentleman's horse to hold, in America-
square, Minories, imprudently mounted the animal,
who ran away, and taking the direction of Tower hill,
attempted to leap over the bar at Postern row, but,
failing in the attempt, broke one of its fore legs, and
was otherwise much injured. The boy, although thrown
a considerable distance, sustained little injury.
Vu the evening of Tuesday se'nnight, as a party of
journeymen were drinking in the tap room of a public
house in Nottingham, one of them offered for a trifling
wager to kick out a gaslight which was suspended from
the ceiling. No one showing any inclination to accept
the challenge, he got up, anr.ous to prove how much
more clever he was than his neighbours, but in making
a spring to enable him to reach the lamp, his foot slip-
ped. when he fell down, and broke his leg.
Monday week, a recruiting sergeant was knocked
down and robbed, about four miles from Bury, by two
new recruits, whom he had enlisted a short while before.
A person coming up soon alter, found the sergeant
1) ing upon the ground nearly insensible, and having
commenced a search after the tobbers, he took one of
them into custody, but the other made his escape.
Wm. Baddeley, a hatter, but who has for some years
obtained a livelihood by jobbing, went into the Unicorn
public house, Newcastle-under-Lyme, on Thursday, and
called for half a pint of ale, being then inebriated.
Before he had drank his ale, words arose between him
atm Sampson Lea, a man who had brushes to sell tot
Mr. TA) tor, of Hanley. Blows quickly succeeded, and
the second blow by Lea falling close under Baddeley's
ear, he fed, and died without a groan.
MIA, who so much distinguished himself as one of
the Chiefs of the It ish Rebellion of 1798, died last wec k,
•ear Dublin.