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

VAUXHALL GARDENS.

This delightful place of public amusement assumed
yesterday its wonted appearance and attraction. The
evening was most auspicious, and presented a cheering
contrast to the chilling influence and gloom of the
nights preceding ; the visitors were, therefore, very
numerous, and apparently received the greatest enjoy-
ment from the novel treat prepared for them by the Pro-
prietors, whose good taste and enterprising spirit de-
serve, and we have no doubt will receive, a proportionate
rewar.t. The favourable state of the weather enabled
them to add many thousand lamps, and to decorate
some of those walks that had been previously left in
darkness. The change in the atmosphere had also its
effect upon the vocal performers, who sung with greater
energy, and seemed to feel that they were delighting
a fitting audience. Mr. BRANAM, Miss STEPHENS,
Madame VesTass, Mr. SINCLAIR, and Ha BIKINIS were
rest nt, and several of our most popular airs were given
in the happiest style. Mr. Rooms again, in the absence
of Signor SPAONOLITTI, presided in the Orchestra.
There were at least two thousand persons in the gardens.

INEOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JUNE 5.

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Joseph Hector Norris came up to be heard on his pe-
tition to be discharged. TIICI e was no opposition on the
part of any of the creditors.—The Insolvent stated that
he had lately been door-keeper at the Stamp Office,
Somerset-house, and that during the time he had been
contracting the debts contained in the schedule, several
accommodation bills were accepted by him, he became
liable for the payment of them, and to diat cause was
his insolvency principally to be attributed.
Mr. Commissioner HARRIS asked the petitioner if he still retain-
ed his situation at the Stanip.Officc.
The Insolvent said he had been dismissed from that
establishment, and as a proof }:rod iced the discharge,
which is to the following effect : " The Commissioners
of the Stamp Office cannot retain in their employment
persons whose necessities render them subject to impii-
sonment for debt, and the consequent hinderaece to
I public bu:.iness. You will thei efore receive your salary
up to the present day, and then consider yourself as
I discharged."
Mr. Cornniis.ioner lIARRsa said be was glaJ that the
Commissioners of the Stamp office had ad pled such a
measure, and he thought the public ttion of This cir-
cumstance would be productive of considerable gold,
as it 'might act as a caution against improviJent and
unnecessary contracts.
The Insolvent was ordered to be discharged.

Trinidad Papers to the 13th April state, that between
the £d and sth April, inclusive, twb French vessels, one from Mar-
tinkre, and another from hlwasztLtas, with assorted cargoes, entered
at lrinidad.

Mr. WESTERN, the Member for Essex, continues ill.
Mr. CROTCH, the King's Messenger, arrived at the
Foreign Office on Friday evening, with dispatches from the Hon.
F. Lasts, our Ambassador at biadrid, to Mr. Secretary Gums°.
It is not generally known that game of every descrip-
tion abounds in the Regent's Park; hares, pheasants, and partridges
may be seen there every day.
FATAL Accrozwr.—Yesterday, at nearly five o'clock
in the afternoon, a melancholy scene occurred at Mr.
Myer's, a fishmonger, Princes-street, Westminster.—
Mr. Middleton, a master bricklayer and plaisterer, of
Charles-street, was repairing Mr. Myers's roof, assisted
by his son John, when the father was preverved from
falling by his son, and the latter was then warned by
bis parent to be cautious of himself. The caution had
scarcely been Oven, when John Middleton, who was
finishing, by cleaning t! e giitt-r in front of the house,
fell precipitately from the roof into the open street.—
During the fall, which he st-uggled to prevent, he un-
fortunately came in contact ssith some Bower pots, on
the leading over the shop window, which cut him se.
verely. Blood soon gushed from his forehead and neck.
IHaving been placed on a shut er, he was conveyed to
the Hospital, in York-street, but the vital spark was
found to be extinguished.
A discovery has lately been made of the chd'iceuore
of the celebrated Tompion, which has been so long lost
It was made for "The Society for Philosophical Trans.
actions," and is a year-going clock. It is a singular
circumstance that a record exists, which stares that
Tompion was at work on this clock when the great
plague broke out in London ; and, on the day he
finished it, he himself was attacked with the pestilei.ce.
His filmic's removed him t.) the Continent, where he
died. On the dial there is this inscription—" Sir James
Moore caused this movement to be male with great
care, anno Domini 1676, by Thomas Tompion." Tom-
pion was paid 100 guineas, and the clock was removed
to the Society's house. and there, in the confusion of the
moment, it was placed in the lumber-room, where it
lay, without a case, exactly a century and a hrlf. One
thing wonderful attends this discovery—all the steel
pins, on being cleared from dust, were found to be as
brilliant as ever.

Mr. ROGERS, in a facetious mood, lately said, that
" Every sheep must have as legs; because if you deprive him of
hisfese legs, he still has tee kkind."—The As&
it is the etiquette at Cambridge and Oxford that no
gentleman speaks to another unless he has been formally introduced
to him; and a story is told of a student refusing to assist another
wk. had been upset in a boat upon the Cam, and struggling to
reach the bank, because ho had set the litmus et being acluainted
' with him.