Star.
London, England, 1826-03-30 00:00:00

TWO O'CLOCK.

Although the fire at the Old South Sea House bas been com-
pletely got under, yet the engines continue to play on the
still-
burning ruins, which present a wide scene of dev.istation ; indeed
so destructive a fire has not occurred in the City for some rinse.
Happily, however, nu lives have been lost ; but Mr. Courts, brother
to the worthy Baronet, bad a narrow escape, as be had icarcely
time to put on his clothes, sn rapidly was the devouring element
approaching his chambers. The fire is said to have broken out in
the counting house of Messrs. WATERS, Merchants.

SITTINDS APPOINTED IN MIDDLESEX AND LONDON.-
Before the Hight Hon. Sir W. D. Burr, Knight, Lord Chief Justice
of his hlajesty's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and
after Easter Term, 1816.
IN TERM.

Thursday . . April n Friday .
Wednesday . • . . 19 Thursday •
Wednesday . . --- 26 I Thursday .
Tuesday . . May 2 I Wednesday
AFTER TERM.

. April 14
. -20

. May 3

Tuesday .

May 9 I NVednesday

May
_llO

N. 8.. The Court will sit at twelve o'clock, on April 15, 14, 19,
90,26, and 27 ; at balf.past nine, on May 2, and 3 ; and at ten in the
forenoon precisely, at the Sittings and Adjournments after Term.
The Petition against West Indian Slavery from Dim-
dee, measures sixty-three feet in length, and the signatures are fire
columns deep.
The Viceroy of Egypt, MOB/68181E0 Am, has ordered
to be constructed for him, in London, an apparatus for lighting
with gas his palace at Cairo, and the square in which it is situated.
A few years ago a country Gentleman wrote a letter
to a Lady of rank in town, and sent it through the General Piht
with the following address: " To the 25th of March, Fuley.place,
London." The postman duly delivered the letter at the house of
Dods Day, for whom it was intended.
The death of the venerable Bishop of D 11911691 will
occasion a great sensation amongst the coal owners in
this district, ps they will have beavy'fiues to pay on the
renewal of their leases.—Tyae Mercury.
By virtue of an ordonnance of the 10tb of February,
1824, signed by Fitoontaion I. King of Naples, and confirmed by
Flatus 11. the present King, which authorises the nobles who
possess entailed estates to divide them among their creditors who
have legally proved themselves such, the Princess COUMIN• of Sr-
clay has just distributed among her creditors all her feudal posses-
sions. The Journal 4' the Two Sicilia adds, that aU the Sici;ians
were rejoiced at the Royal benefit, which will restore to commerce
fertile lands which the ancient feudal system had withdrawn from it.
There are seven or eight and tweuty thousand irs-
habited houses in the city of Dublin alone, to say nothing of the
suburbs, or the part of the country that is called the city. Yet we
have seen a printed list of " Freeholders who have registered from
the Ist of January, 1825, to the Ist of January, 1826," mid it con-
tains only 480 names. Of this number the 40s. Freeholders m..ke
758 ; 201. ditto, 52; 501, ditto, 60.—Total, Mom Reg.
The following is au Extract of a Letter from Poto.r,
dated sth November 3••••
" Half a dozen of individuals have contracted with the Govern-
ment of Peru for mines to the amount of two millions five Motor, d
thousand pounds. The whole of the mines in Adtu• Pei eve.'
those flooded and deserted, are in possession of the Goverain.eir,
but they are disposed of quickly to parties front England."
It appears that the poor-rates in•the county bf Suf-
folk, for the last tell years, have exceeded the prey; 13
ten years five hundred per cent.; and the ccunty t Ales
for the like period have increased upwards ut eig !tun-
drcd per cent.