Star.
London, England, 1818-10-10 00:00:00

PRIVATE LETTER.

A report is current here, which I hope will prove
unfounded, that a shameful ruse was lately practised
by the Owners of many of the Coal Mines in this
vicinity. Previous to the late turn-out, they would
not permit the colliers to wcrk mere than four days
in the week, in order to keep down the stock, that
they might be enabled thereby to raise the price.—
However this may be, they have raised the price 3s.
per ton; and a still further advance is spoken of.—
This cannot fail proving a serious evil, in a mann-
factering district like this--setting aside its calami-
tous effects on the lower orders, should the approach-
ing winter prove a severe one.

Bacon and butchers' meat have experienced a cons.
siderable advance in our markets.

The Cotton market this week wa's extremely dull ;
there %yak not much business doing, and prices were
a shade lower than the preceding week.
Yesterday being the day appointed for the election
of the Civic Officers of this town, for the year ensu-
ing, John Clayton, Esq. was chosen Boroughreeve,
in the room of Samuel Scholes Withington, Esq.—
Mr. Joseph Nadin, after some well-merited enco-
miums on his activity and zeal in the discharge of
the arduous duties of his office, was unanimously re-
elected Deputy Constable.

MURDER OP A WOMAN BY HER ntrstana.—A disas-
trous event took place last night in the neighbour-
hood of Chelsea. A German of the name of Lush,
who it is said has been married between two and
three years, had a quarrel with his wife in the open
street, in which he took •a desert knife and plunged
it into her belly, making an incision of upwards of
six inches, through which the brrwels immediately.
protruded. The man was instantly seized, and the
unfortunate woman conveyed to St. Georges Hospi-
tal, where, notwithstanding every surgical aid, she
died this morning at five o'clock. The deceased was
remarkable for her tall and commanding figure. ti.'he
is said to have been in a state of intoxication at the
time of the atfray,of which a feeling of jealousy is the
imputed cause.

A fine girl, 16 ',Ars of age, was drowned in the
Canal, near Manchester, on Sunday last, opposite
the Rochdale Company's warehouse, while attempt-
ing to.fill a pitcher of water.
These will be an eclipse of the moon on Wednes-
day morning, commencing at about ;It minutes past
four; middle 39 minutes past five; and termination
about 20 Minutes past six. The extent of the eclipse
will be about 1• 54' on the moon's northern limb.

A fishing smack of Hastings was upset in a gale
iff Beachy-head, on Thursday afternoon, by wllich
accident two men were lost. A boy, from good swim-
ming for about in hour, was picked up by a Danish
vessel, andecniveyed in the ship's boat to Last Bourne.
it is in contemplation to make a direct communi-
cation from the county of Norfolk with the county
of Lincoln and the North of England, by means of a
bridge over the river Nene, at the nearest point prac-
ticable to the sea.

THE Silt SenParr.—The Yankees were s:kl, in
out extractsfrom American Papers yesterday, to have
caught, at last, the Monster of the deep, N.. Iticb has
been of late au object of such Marvellous wonder-
ment among them; but we ate told to-day, (see a
preceding column) that the Monster proves only to
be a Mackerel!!!—Who ever expected ar y thing else ?

Lately, two Chiefs of the Cagimawa Indians, with
their cook, going to visit Albany, 'stopped by the way
at the house of an attorney, who treated them freely
with cyder. They had not drank long before they
began to feel their importance ; and lest their enter-
tainer should take them for common people, they
undertook to tell him who tilt.), were you know
me (said Joseph)--I great man —.I Captain—l Gen.
lineman." " 1 greater as his (said the other;—l
Gentleman too—but I Bold Peter." " And what are
you ? (said the attorney to the cook), Are you a Gen.
demon too? " No, Sir, (replied Claus, smiling at
his own inignificance)--I no Gentleman—l n-n-no-
' thing but a Lawyer 1"