Star.
London, England, 1826-05-25 00:00:00

NAVAL INIgLLIGENCE.

The John, of and for London, frOm Jamaica, out eight Welts,
was spoken with on the 17th of May, in lat. 57. 6. N. long. 29. So
W. with both bilge pumps chnaked, and said to be in distress, by
the Unicorn, from Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH' MAT 25.—. Wind S.—Arrived the Mary, Dovemas,
from Memel.
PORTSMOUTH, MAT 24.—Wind N. Ri—Arrived the Minstrel.
Asicirr, from Batavia—sailed the ith of January; and the Mary,
1141.5. from Sierra Leone, and is gone to Southampton. Sailed
his Majesty's ship HERALD, to the eastward ; Hosea, Rouses, and
New Speedwell. Cousins, for London. The Maria, I'muted, le
released from quarantine. and come into harbour.
DEAL, ILIAT i4—Wind N.E.—Sailed, with the rest of the
homeward bound, for the River, the Cyrene, DA aaArr. from Gre-
nada ; integrity, KING' from St. Lucia j Julius, Jackson, from St.
Kitts; and Charles, 51ILNE, from Tobago. Arrived the Kate,
WATT, from London for St. Helena; Odessa, Cote, from do: for
Trieste; and the Woodburn, CARDWELL, from do. for the Cade.—
Passed by, the Shakspeare, from die South Seas; Mirablesa
Horne, for St. Vincent's; and the Prince Regent, Dime, for
Sierra Leone.

braaroot., MAT t3.—Sailed the Richard, Moots, for Rif. de
Janeiro ; and Albion, CLIM[I4; for Oporto.

CUSTOM HOUSE, Mar 24.
Sums ESTRUM) Inwasos—The Percy. from St. Vincent's; Po,
from Calais; Woodlark, from Manilla ; Brilliant, from Charehte;
Mona, from Dantzic ; Flying Fish, from Osten t; Arend, Rom
Ghent ; Neptunus, from Rostock ; Visserg, from Worcunt ; and
John Tedder, from Galway.
&mast) OUTWARDS—The Belle Alliance, for Brussels; Black
!liver Packet, for Jamaica; Nymph, for llilboa ; Charles Brook•,
for St. Vincent's; Milo, for Manilla; Furst Hardenburg, fur Stria
tin; Fame, for Waterford; and Albion, for Wexford.

THE DERBY.
EPSOM RACE COURSES

THU DAY •z Tusks o'cLoca:
The Derby Stakes of 50 sou. each, h. ft. for three-ye 4
old colts, Bst. 71b. allies, Bst. Mb. The last mile and
a half. The owner of the second to receive 100 sou.
out of the Stakes.
Mr. Wyndham', brother to Twatty • a
Mr. West's Shakespeare •

A good Race, won by a length—nineteen started=
only two placed. The General and Panic did not start.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT MR. MAUDSLAY'S
FACTORY.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Mr. Mandalay, the well-known engineer, has been lot
some time employed in erecting an iron rn"f over one
of his manufactories or workshops, in the Westminster-
road, opposite the Asylum for Female Orphans& This
roof having been completed, a set of carpenters and
bricklayers were, yesterday, employed tiling it ovate,
when, about half-past eleven o'clock, the whole fell ate
with a dreadful crash, and carpenters and bricklayeri
were all precipitated amidst the ruins. There were at
this time from eighty to one hundred men at works
within and without the building; and it was feared that
the greater part must have been crushed to death& of
dreadfully mangled, by the immense weight of the roof.
—.Every exertion was immediately made; and, in a
short time, several wounded men were extricated, and
taken off upon shutters to St. Thomas's and Guy's Hos-
pitals. We understand that some were also taken to
Westminster Infirmary. The appearance of the unfor-
tunate men was most appalling, many of whom were
se dreadfully bruised And lacerated as totally to oblib
terare every trace of the human countenance. In a
shore time, :he alarm had reached the friends of some
of the unfortunate men, and the cries and lamentations
of mothers, wives, and sisters, were most heart-rending.
On making strict inquiry at Sr. Thomas's and Guy's
Hospitals, we find, that nine persons (of whom& one
died almost immediately, of wounds in the head) were
received at the former, and five persons at the latter
establishment, all of whom are in a dangerous state.
In addition to these, several have been taken home
by their friends, who exhibited a deplorable spectacle:
We have to add the death of a young man, a servant te
Mr. Field, who lived on the west side of the prenii.es.
The man was cleaning knives in the house-yard, when
the western wall of the factory was forced in with a part
of the iron roof, and killed him on the spot. His body
was taken from under a vast weight of iron and rubbish,
which had shockingly mutilated him in ever part; but
he appeared to have sustained the principal injury about
the head, which was dreadfully disfigured. In an office
near where the unfortunate young man was found, five
of Mr. Maudslay's assistants were engaged in drawing
plans at the moment the fatal catastrophe happened,
all of whom miraculously escaped ; but one of them, in
particular, who was threatened with instant destruction
by the falling of an immense body of iron, bricks, and
tiles, was saved by the iron resting just above his head
upon some of ruins, and he received no other injury
than a few slight bruises. In the workshop, immediatelr
the roof had sunk, the piercing cries of the unhappy
sufferers were distinctly beard.
Mr. Trott, the master bricklayer, was precipitated
from the roof, and his leg is fractured in two pl.rces. In
the morning eat ly Mr. Maudslay had been on the roof of
the building, giving directions to the workmen ; and. at
that time every thing was perfectly secure ; an.i on Mr.
Maudslay's leaving home, for he was absent when the
accident happened, he had not the slightest reason for
suspecting a failure in any part of the work. As to
the cause of the accident, there can, we think, be but
one opinion—namely, that the walls were much ton
slight ti sust&in the weight of the immense mass of
iron which constituted the roof. The building was bur
recently erected, and was not quite finished. It was
about 152 feet in length, SO in width, and about 20 feet
high (to the e Ives.)
The cast iron roof is described as being fifty tons
weight ; the rafters were iron, and it was covered, or
nearly covered, with tiling ; and as the whole fell in at
once, it is surprising, considering the number of men
employed under it, that the loss of life has not been 'even
still greater than it unfortunately is.
Within a very short time after the melaachtly event
had taken place, a detachment of the Guards arrived
on the ground, to keep off the multitude that were
assembled, as, a great part of the wall in Francis-street
was left still standing in a very tottering condition.
increased by the pressure of the iron work which rested
against it. S;nce writing the above, one of the men
taken to the Hospitil has died, and others still remain
in great danger there. In the after part of the day, the
alarm having subsided, the military were removed, and
the walls still remaining propped up in such a fnallilei )0
as not to endanger lives.

On the 19th instant the PaINCE of ORANGE repre-
sented the Kwo of Jlot.L‘xD, to *wading sponNor tor the child et
the English Ambaseador, who was baptized at the Hague that tar•

LINNAAN SOCIETY.

?he Thirty-ninth Anniversary of this scientific and truly nsetul
itody was yesterday held at the Freemasons' Tavern. Sir James
Smith, Beet. (the President of the Society) in the Chair. Sir
Stamford RaMes' Dr. Meaton. Mr. Greenough, and other distin-
guished scientific Gentlemen were present. The dinner was served
in Mr. Calrs hest style.
The cloth having been removed, the usual loyal and patriotic
toasts were given from the Chair; after which Dr. Meaton rose,
sad proposed the health of the President—he might rather to have
said, the founder of the Unman Society.
Drank with applause.

Sir Ivan Ssiviii rose to return thanks. That was the 39th arca.
lion, on which, in a similar manner, he had been called upon to
'- Muria his grateful obligations to the Linmean Society. Nothing
• •liew presented itself to him on which to dwell ; for he was happy
...to find that the progress of the Society continued to be rtfctessful
' ensimaimpeded. He trusted, however, that he might be allowed
11.-revase the health of the Treasurfr, an officer to whom the
, &elm was much indebted.

The healths or the Treasurer (Mr. Foment') and of M. Riema-
n, the Secretary of the Linnaan Society were drank, and they
thanks.
The CMAIAKAIN next proposed the health of " Sir Stamford
Raffles, and the eological Society."
Sir S. Rarrtes returned thanks.
" The Geological Society, and )Ir. Greenough," was the next
least.
Mr. GRitS64lll returned thanks.
Several other 'ointilar toasts were drank, and the company sepa-
'rated at an early hour, highly delighted with the entertainment.