Star.
London, England, 1821-10-29 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

Tuesday morning last, soon after the pitmen, con-
nected with the Wall's End Colliery, in the vicinity
of Shields, had gone to work, an explosion took place,
supposed to have been occasioned by the injudicious
use of a naked candle ; when, dreadful to relate, Fifty
Men and Boys were instantaneously killed in the pit,
and four more so seriously injured, that one of them
has since died,.and the other three are yet in a very
dangerous state. As soon as possible, men were sent
down to ascertain the extent of the evil ; and the dead
bodies and lingering sufferers were drawn up in the
cods; and were conveyed away to their disconsolate
widows and families, in ten carts. Some of the bodies
were dreadfully disfigured ; but others had no marks
upon them. The misery thus occasioned is incalcu-
lable, many of them having each left a widow and
five or six children unpravided for. We cannot con-
clude this mournful account, without remarking, that
we hope the frequency of those lamentable occur-
rences will be the occasion of the immediate esta-
blishment of a fund for the relief of the widows and
orphans occasioned by the present calamity, and of
such as may hereafter fall victims to similar dread-
ful accidents.

Saturday se'nnight, J. George, Master of a fishing-
boat, belonging to Ipswich, while at anchor off Har-
borough, was knocked overboard by the fore-yard of
his own vessel, and drowned.
One of the Bardney market packets was returning
from Lincoln market, on Friday last, navigated by a
young man named Dennis, when in pushing the boat
he lost his equilibrium and fell into the river : his
wife was at the helm, his mother upon deck, and the
boat nearly full of passengers, but being dark, it was
out of their power to render the udfortunate man
any assistance, and he perished. The body was found
next morning.
The private letters by the Lisbon Mail state, that
the Portuguese Cortes have passed a Decree imposing
a duty of eighty milreas (about L'2o), per pipe of 110
gallons on all foreign brandy; and ten milreas on
that distilled in Portugal, imported into the island of
Madeira. The previous duty was twenty milreas.—
This Decree, as regards England and France, will
be in force after fifteen days from the date of its pro-
mulgation, and after thirty days in relation to the
ports of the Mediterranean.
It appears to be certain that the King of ENGLAND,
on his return to London, will cOrne to Paris and re-
main a few days. It is repeated that his MAJESTY
will reside at Elytee-Bourbon, and it is said that or-
ders have been issued to prepare at the Louvre in the
saloon, where the Session of the Chambers is to be
opened, a Tribune destined for his Britannic MA-
JESTY, who will be present at this imposing cere.
mony.—Constitutionael. •
HYDE Pan it.—This fashionable place of resort had
to boast yesterday of a display of elegance but little
inferior to that which even the height of the fashion-
able season affords. The extensive ride from North
to South exhibited an uninterrupted double line pf
splendid carriages, whilst numberless pedestrians of
the first order crowded almost every other part of the
Park. Among the most conspicuous were—
Lord Petersham, upon his grey Arabian; the Marquis of
Buckingham, the Hon. Mr. Stanhope, Colonel Murray ;• Lords
Harrington, Spencer, Cholmondelcy, Oxford, Hervey, and
Bathurst.

John Sydenliatn, a recruit in the 9th Lancers, has
been committed to Sussex county prison, he having
been detected in snaring a hereon the manor of Bosham.
At the Old Bailey, on Friday, Edward Horner was
tried, upon the Coroner's warrant, for Manslaughter,
in killing John Wilson, in a pitched battle, a Mill-
batik, Westininstese--Mo was Acrlitted.

SPORIVXG MTELLIGENCE.

HUNTING.

His ?Tziesty's Stag Hour.l3 aiwt on Friday, ak King's Beech
Hill, at itlu. -
The Hampshire Hounds mrtit on Wedties-71-ay,:i Bramdean
Common; Mimi :ay, at Chilton Old Witi.r; Saturday. at 'Med-
steil Green; at tcn each day.
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Sir Bellingham Graham's Hounds meet on Wednesday, at
Hog's Lodge; Friday, at ihttom C..epice; at half-past ten.
Sir Edward Smytle.,'s Fox-hounds m•2,t on Wednesday, at
W!theford Wood; Friday, at Lie Brit:ge Keonel; at ten.
Sir Richard Suttoo's Ilium%ls meet to-morrow, at Cainhy
Hall; Wednesday,.at S.ixilby; Thursday, at Bianston WoOd ;
Saturday, at Fishetion; each thy at eleven.
Lord Yarborough's Hounds meet on WednestLy, at Gozhill
Crow.laties; Friday, at F.lkington Cow-pasture; Saturday, at
Kirmington Vale; each day at eleven.
The E4/1 of Scarborough's Hounds nittet on Wednesiilayy, at
the White Houses; Fridly,at Sam:tech Park ; at half-past ten.
Tate Gillingham Fos-hstintis met; to-morrow, at Mucktoa
Town; Thursday, at Welton Mill; Saturday, at Putney; at
ten each day.
THE GRAND ROYAL BOAR TAUNT.

HANOVER, (k-roses 21.—Friday was the day appointed rot',
this boasted fete, and never was there a scene of more disgust:.
ing butchery than it presented. As early as eve o'clock in the
morning all the people of Hanover were in motion, and every
horse and vehicle that could be precut lA, at ani, price, were put
into requisition. The ground where the slaughtet Vraf to take
place lay at the distance of twenty Fasglish miles from town,
and thither did the whole population of the country repair with
impatient curiosity. The scenery along the way was wild and
romantic. Segregated hills covered with trees of a stunted
growth rose on all sides, anti at length we came to a thick forest
of va,t extent, where poles with dark green flags affited to
them served as so many guides through a region of mud, over
whit& none but Germaus would have the temerity to venture a
carriage. At occasional intervals booths and sheds were con-
structed, as places of entertainment, and the wretched cheer
they supplied was eagerly purchased. After penetrating about
a mile and a half into the forest, we came to a place enclosed
by canvas and net work, within which the stags and wild boars
had for some tune before been collected. At the extremity of
the enclosure a sort of pavilion was placed, for the accommoda-
tiun of the KING had his Manatee attended. It was in his ab-
seuce occupied by the Rayal sp nesmen, with the Duke of Cass.
sarnox at their head. None were allowed to use fire-arms but
his Royal Highness, with the Archduke FERDINAND of Austria,
and the Duke of illtextessueon STRELITL At eleven o'clock
the work of destruction commenced, and a herd of boars came
down to the extremity of the inclosure, where the sportsmen,
if so they could be called, stood ready to attack them, the pea-
santry at the same time raising loud yells through the wood, and
keeping up a kind of wild concert with the sound of the bugle
as they closed in upon the prey. Thirty-five victims fell in the
fatal attack, and they were literally butchered. The poor ani-
mals did not attempt any resistance; and it was shocking to see
the torture in which they were *kept from their assailants not
being adroit enough in the use of the spear to put them promptly
out of existence. I saw a bear running about the ground with
its entrails hanging out, and one of the young Princes of Bruns,
wick thought it a proud exploit to place his spear in the very
part where a mortal wound had already been inflicted. With
the exception of Lord CLANWILLIAM, who acquitted himself like
a true sportsman, there was scarcely an individual who at-
tacked the prey in a fair manner. Sir Eomesn NAGLE, after
having laid four boars dead at his feet, exclaimed in the language
of his profession as a tar—" I)—n me, see what I've done; I
have stove in the gun-rooms of ionr pigs, by G—n !:' There
were ninety boars killed in all, but the number of stags that fell
was not considerable. The day was very wet, and it served to
give a deeper shade of horror to a scene which no Englishman
would ever again desire to witness.