Star.
London, England, 1826-10-09 00:00:00

THE NW CORN ILICHANCIE COMPANY' V• THE

A Jury was on Saturday morning assembled before the Recorder,
to assess the damages due•to the Woolmaiss' Company for the com-
pulsory surrender of their premises, No. 67, Mark-lane, which are
required to be pulled down to form the intended new Corn Ex-
change. The sum demanded for the freehold of this house was 2,5004
the sum offered by the City New Company was 1,5001.
The Jury, after a short deliberation,assessed the damages at 1,8501.

A dinner was on Friday gi►en at Huntingdon, to the
friends of Lord Jour,' RussgLL. Lord JOHN was absent,

being at present in Pais. By Easter, it is expected that
he will return, and then a very splendid festival is to be
got up, at which, it is hoped, he will be sufficiently re-
covered to attend.

The celebrated tragedian, Talma, is in a most clan-
gerous state, and very faint hopes are now entertained
of his recovery.- He is lingering at the village of Eng-
hien, about six leagues from Pettis, whither he sometime
ago repaired for the benefit of the mineral waters.
The liberal benefactor, under the signature of Londi
nensis, who sent seol. to the distressed workmen of
Sheffield, has contributed a further sum of 5001. to the
same benevolent purpose.
The importation of French silks is on the decline,
Isles being less liable is fade.
MANCHESTER.—Our accounts of the state of trade
are again favourable. Tne market on Tuesday was,
upon the whole, decidedly good, and on some articles a
trifling additional advance was established. In one or
two particular descriptions of goods, we believe, there
was not quite so much doing, but it was because the
prices demanded included a greater advance than
buyers were willing to give. There is one feature
which marks a decided change for the better within the
last few weeks. Job lots of goods—sacrificed at under
prices for the sake of raising money, which during the
depression was numerous—are no longer to be met with,
and stocks generally are far from large. In some kinds
of twist a small additional rise has taken place this week.
DREADFUL Fr R 6 AT SH szss.—Friday morn-
ing, about half-past four o'clock, the inhabitants of
Blue Town were alarmed, and thrown into the greatest
confusion by a fire breaking out with a tremendous vio-
lence in the stables belonging to Mr. Clarkson, of the
Fountain Inn. Assistance was promptly rendered, but
the flames had acquired such powerful force, that before
they could-be subdued, no less than 12 dwelling-houses
became the prey of the devouring element, together with
the whole of the stabling and coach-houses, including five
horses, a coach, hearse, post-chaise, gig, and all their har-
ness, which were entirely consumed. The Officers and
Men of his Majesty's ships BRUNE and GLOUCESTER, as
well as those from the Dock-yard, exerted themselves,
and happily succeeded, with the engines belonging to
the Naval Establishments, in arresting the progress o 1
the calamity, or the consequence might have proved
dreadful in the extreme ; as it is, there is evidently too
much to deplore. We have not beard to what extent,
if any, insurances may have been effected on the property
destroyed; but, by the destruction of the dwellings,seve-
ral poor families are deprived of their little all, having
barely bad time to escape with their lives.
FIRE AT KzzattroTost.—Saturday afternoon, a fire
broke out in the workshop of Mr. Cullingham, car-
penter and builder, Wright's-lane, Kensington, which,
from the nature of the materials on the premises, threat-
ened the total destruction of a number of the adjoining
houses. In a little time the fire communicated to Mr.
Cullingham's timber yard, which was soon in a complete
blaze, and defied every exertion to preserve any part of
the valuable property from being reduced to a heap of
ruins. Several engines and firemen belonging to the
several offices in town arrived in time to preserve the
house of Mr.Cullingham(which is detached from bisother
premises) and the adjoining ones from being materially
damaged. The proEerty destroyed was considerable.
BODY -STEALING ESTRA ORDINARY.The inhabitants
of Featherstone-street, City Road, were thrown into a

state of consternation a few days since, by the discovery
that a corpse had been stolen from a dwelling-house, in
their neighbourhood. The following were the circum-
stances attending this ,extraordinary transactions—An
elderly female, named Wiz, who occupied an upper
apartment in a lodging house, in Featherstone-court, had
lately been attached by some distemper, which baffled
the utmost skill of her medical attendant, and she died.
A strong desire was manifested by some members of
the faculty to open and examine the body of the de-
ceased, whose relatives, however, refused their consent
to such a proceeding. An old woman, a purr of St.
Luke's parish, lodged in the same room with the de-
ceased, and the only other lodger in the house at that
time was a young woman who occupied a room under-
neath that in which the corpse was laid out, previously
to interment. On Wednesday evening, between seven
and eight o'clock, a respectable looking man called and
inquired for some person, who had formerly been a
lodger in the house, and in order to make amends for
the trouble he had occasioned, he invited the old lady
sad the young one to a neighbouring public-house, to
tike 'a comfortable drop. By the. interesting conver-
sation of the stranger and his friends, and the introduc-
tion of drop after drop of gin, she was beguiled of a
considerable portion of her time, but at length returned
home, and then, to her utter dismay, discovered that the
fascinating stranger, taking advantage of her absence,
had contrived to carry off the body of her deceased
friend, unobserved by any human being, leaving the
empty coffin and the shroud in the room. The affair
soon became generally known, and excited a great
sensation among the neighbours, some of whom deter-
mined on subscribing, to offer a reward for the disco-
very of the barefaced resurrectionists.

RECOVERY OF THE STOLEN CHILD.
The brother of. Mrs. tonimas, 2 trackman named
Hickson, residing in the Edgeware road, being informed
of the child's abduction, applied to a constable named
Gardner, and they proceeded in the direction which the
chaise-cart was said to have taken, but traced it no
further than Tyburn gate.
Mr. Hitkson and friends were occupied the whole of
Thursday in distributing hand-bills; and on the evening
of that day,.a letter was delivered at Mrs. Lommas'i,
through the post, signed " Anonymous,* as follows:
" MADAN—Your child shall be restored, uninjured, to-night or
in the morning. • It is useless for you to trouble yourself about the
parties who carried the boy off, because they will ever be unknown
to you."
This letter had not the effect of quieting Mrs. Loin-
mas. About eight o'clock on Friday evening the child
came home, and in manner as follows:—One of the
Bayswater coaches drove up to the door, with the child
sitting inside. The coachman stated, that he received
charge of the child in Holborn, from a shabbily dressed
man, of tall and meagre figure, who got upon the coach
and rode as far as the Uxbridge road, near Tyburn gate,
when he alighted, paid his fare and also that of the
child, and desired bim (the driver) to take the child to
its mother, who would be waiting at Union-row.—
Scarcely had the fellow disappeared, when the coach•
man related the charge imparted to him to a passenger,
who immediate', unravelled the mystery.