Star.
London, England, 1826-01-05 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

N. Aaron was called to account for the possession of sit prayer
and hymn books, stolen from the shop of Mr. Wilson, of Poptar,
and which Mrs. W. saw exposed for sale in the shop of Mr. Goul-
die, who produced Aaron as the person from whom be purchased
them. Aaron told the Magistrate he received them in exchange
for some hardware from au Irishman, at a country fair, hat of
whose name and residence he was ignorant. The Magistrate said
his conduct seemed suspicious, ordered the books to be returned to
Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Gouldia might sue him (Aaron) for the value.

Monday the opening of the Newcastle Fish Nfarket
was celebrated by a grand procession of the dealer', and
atteaded by a band of music, and a dinner was given
to them on the occasion.

Ic is understood, that formerly a great_ part of
Mount's Bay was covered with wood, which was gra-
dually over whelmed by the encroachments of the ocean.
At low water, during sping tides, roots of trees base
been discovered, and pulled up. During the severe
gale that occurred on the 20th ult. and which was ac-
companied by a heavy ground sea, pieces of soil, from
two to three feet square, full of roots of trees, were
thrown on the beach between Penzance and Newlyn.
Several pieces of lignum-vita: and to wood, part of the
cogs of a vessel that was lost in the bay about fifty
yeats since, were also cast ashore at the same time.
During the prevalence of the panic respecting
country banks, a respectable farmer, at Ridgmount,
having a IW. and two 51. notes of the Bedford bank,
happening to meet with a person who was going to
Bedford on business, asked a favour of him to get them
exchanged for Bank of England notes ; he, always
willing to oblige, got them exchanged ; but on re-
turning, he a sys, he was robbed by two trt-n in a lane
near Ampthill.
According to Pliny, the art of making glass was dis-
covered by some mariners, who were boiling a kettle
upon the sand upon the river Bela:. It continued for
ages to supply not only the manufactories of Sidon, but
most other places, with materials for that purpose; and
vessels from Italy cuninued to remove it for the glass.
'houses of Venice and Genoa se late as the middle of the
seventeenth century.
HUMANITY.—The late Mrs. General LASCELLer,
when more celebrated as Miss CATLITp the singer, was
once entreated to contribute to the relief of a widow,
whose husband had left her in a very distressed situa-
tion. She gave her a guinea, but desired to know the
poor woman's address ; and in three days called upon
her with nearly .501. which she had in the interim col-
!coed at a masquerade, as a beggiog nun.
The import of cotton into Glasgow in the present
year is 15,700 bags larger than that of last year; of
which upwards of 10,000 bags were imported from
London. The stock on hand at present amounts to
7,100 bags, bring 1450 bags larger than at the same
time last year. The apparent consumption in 1325 is
about 1,100 bags, or nearly 50 bags more than that of
last year. The prices, after prodigious fifictuatias, ate
now from 7 to 12 per cent. lower than at theend of
11824.

BI RTH.
Saturday, at ber house in Albemarle-street, Lady Frauds Le-
veson Gower, of.a sort.

MARRIED.
Friday, the Rev. Rickard Hervey, jun. M.A. Fellow of St.
John's College, Oxford. to Louisa, eldest daiighter of John Ry
croft Best, Esq. of the Island of flarbadoes.
Thursday, at Benenden Much, the Rey. Win. Marriott Shith
Marriott, Rector of Horsemonden, in Kent, to Julia Elizabeth,
fourth daughter of Thomas L. Hodges, Esq. of Hempstead, is
the same county.

DIED.
Dec. SO, at the Deanery Haase, Clasher, the Very Rev. Dean
Bagwell.
Dec. 66, at his father's house, Riltyloo, near Laplander'',
Captain James Boyle Babb:gum, R.N.
Dec. 16, Mr. James Watt, the original publisher of the Me-
irate Resit*, oa his passage to London, in the Eagle, Mimes( to
Montrose, fell overboard in Yarmouth Roads, and was drowsed.
Jan. t, the Rev. Richard Michell, D.D. Rector of Perraing,
and Vicar of Eastwood, in Essex.
Jan. 1, in London, the Hon. Wm. &cheer Coltman. We
Chairman of the Board of Audit at Qaebee, and a Mentbrr (..
the Executive and Legislative Councils of Lower Canada.

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