Star.
London, England, 1826-04-07 00:00:00

PAISLEY, Arm 4.

At a meeting for the relief of unemployed weavers,
Provost Farquharson stated, that the subscription al-
ready amounted to 8061. that Lord He'burn had sub-
scribed 100 guineas. Mr. W. Carlisle said, that the
present distress was greater than anything similAr he
ever saw in the town of Paisley. He knew of no place.

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in the United Kingdom where the distress was so,
great, unless it were in Spitalfields. Mr. William Boyd
said, the sources of trade and commerce were cow-,
pletely dried up. Mr. James Carlile saw no reason
why things would not come round again, and, at all
events, we ought to put our trust in PROVIDIDICZ, and,
not make such a lamentation: The Rev. R. Burns read
a document relative to the Savings Bank of the town.
There had been 1801. less lodged than bad been drawn
within the last five months, and he considered that that
establishment bad been the cause of distributing about
110 Cd. within the above period.
Three-boys, residing near Carriage bill (two of them
natives of Glasgow) resolved omit late Bsnday to amuse
themselves in exploring the Hurlet coal-pit. They de-
scended the stair-shank about twelve o'clock in the day,
with a lighted lamp, which accident extinguished after
they had advanced a considerable way into the pit.—
Alarmed, and in darkness, they attempted to retrace
their steps, but aster much laceration of hands and
knees, in place of returning, their confusion led them
farther on. Overarm with fatigue, they sat down in
one of the caverns at midnight, and gave themselves
up far lost. In the meantime, the colliers had been ap-
prised of the affair, and commencing a search, rescued
them- from the perils of their black abode by four in
the morning. The inquisitive youths had advanced
more than a mile in their mineralogical researches.
ANTIQUARIAN Thurschy afternoon, the
workmen employed at the Auchinead Quarry, Innerkip
road, lately Opened, dug out of a petrefaction of wood,
imbedded five feet and a half deep in the body of a
rock, a horse shoe, which, though in a mutilated state,
may yet be deemed in good preservation, considering
the immense time it must have lain deposited in the
sttatum where it was found. It is apparently silver, or
an alloy of precious metal, and appears to have been
well executed. How long it may have remained there
is extremely doubtful, but that it is of great antiquity
is certain.

Letters from Gibraltar of the 16th ult. contain little
more than statements of the general dulness of trade,
and the glutted state of the market from over arrivals
of British goals.
A sharp opposition has arisen in the Senate of the
United States of North America, to the measure proposed by the
Penmans in his message, of mending a Minister to attend the
Spanish American Congress about to be assembled at Panama.—
Mr. Rannocem,long a well•known Member of the House of Repre-
sentatives, and one of the Senate serving for Virginia, moved as a
resolution on the Ist ult.--" That the Pension's of the Unitid
States be requested to lay before the Senate such information as
may be in the possession of the &scuds% teaching the principles
and practice of the Spanish American States, or any of them, late
Colonies et Old Spain, in regard to Negro Slavery." This resolution
Was taken Into consideration on tke ud of March ; and the mover
of it spoke at great length on behalf of his own proposition.—
Front some of the* incidental observation of Mr. Itannoten, we
learn that he Is itritated against the South American States for
!wring abolished Negro Slavery, the continuance of which he, as an
inhabitant of V.:reefs, considers essential to its prosperity.
POLITICAL ECONOKY.—Mr. MeCuu.ocw delivered
his Introductory Lecture at the Royal Institution, on
Wednesday. The attendance was very respectable t se-
veral Ladies were present.
The Wexford Herold states, that a man named E say
has discovered, whilst digging mould, a vessel contain.
ing a very large quantity of ancient coins.
The Rev. NEAL OTLAIIERTY has taken leave of his
old parishioners -at Magilligan, in a farewell address,
preparatcry to crossing the Atlantic, under the orders
of his'superior l—Belfast Chronicle. •
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A WOMAN WHIP/4D TO Daant.---Att inquest was
held in Stafford county, Virginia, lately, on the body cf
a negro woman, and a verdict was returned that she
came to her death by excessive whipping -*-American pa.'
Tuesday, an Inquest was held on the oody of Edward
Hawkins, gardener, at Harleston. It appeared that the
deceased had frequendy hem' in the tap-room, at the
Swan Inn, when he had the means to get half a pint of
beer, and he being by himself on the above-named day,
turned his back to the fire, and the flames caught his
CO4 6 He must have been burning a considerable time,
as.,he was found near the door in a most dreadful state,
almost suffocated with smoke, and -the fl or boards
literally burnt to the joists. The sufferer lingered unel
nine o'clock in the evening. Verdict, Accidental Death.
Sunday morning, soon after'one o'clock, A fire was
discovered upon the premises of Mr. Edward Brown,
soap and candle maker, at the Bell Inn, Clare, which
raged with irresistible fury until the manufactory, sta-
bles, barn, outbuildings, two wains. a waggon, tumbril,
farming implements, a mare and foal, an extensive and
variable stock of utensils, manufactured and unmanu
factored toods,-the property of Mr. Brown, were en-
tirely destroyed, together with seven adjoining cottages,
by which several poor families were deprived nearly of
ail alleirlittle all.—Bury Post.
Mr. PAUL/LIMN, one of the Managers of the York
and HolfTheatres; wire was found drowned on Friday
last, was a widower, hismile having died at Edinburgh
two years ago.. • He was left with five children. two sons
an] three daughters, the youngest of which is but bye
years old. In his desk was !omid the following affectionate

. • IMPROMPTU. •
WS Lena 01 A DEAD 11LOIKIU111 SIAM
My babes lased the leek, dissokedhl teens
. The Iseb, thakaoce mimed the head
•OA their depaythd mother. What fears
Then mat my hurt, lest soon nether
parent, might from my babes be tons,
AM ken t►em here bereft, forlorn,
in this wide world Great Goa behold'.
0! save me tee the daruep I enfold.