Star.
London, England, 1818-07-06 00:00:00

ELECTIONS IN IRELAND.

Dente, Jrtr I.—lt gives us much pleasure in being able to
state, that, in answer to th? numerous inquiries made after Mr.
GRATTAN'S health this morning, his friends were informed, that
he had passed a quirt night, and was so much better In the morn-
ing as to remove any apprehensions for b:s safety.—The contest
at Kilmainham Hustings has this morning assumed a more ac-
tive and animated anseurar cc than it presented either on Mon-
day or yesterday. Colonel WHITE'S plumpers have been telling
against the Coalition Candid rtes all the morning, and at this hour
(one o'clock) the agents of Hammy:4 and Taesov are out in
every direction to collect voters; in fact, they but ill disguise
th:ir fears.—Notwithstanding all that has been said to the con-
trary, there will be a contest for Tipperary. There has been a
numerous meeting of Electors at Clonmel, and they have re-
solved to put Mr. Palms in nomination, and-earry him through
free of expense. We have just learned that Luce Wu ere, Esq.
has been returned by the County of Leitrim.

IRISH MEMBERS RETURNED.
DinniN—Right lion. Henry Grattan and R. Shaw, Esq.
COVNICY Coe .---Lord KingMborough and the Hon. It Ilan.

Kuc'► Couxrv—T. Berna-rd, Est; and J. Parsons, Esq.
Wnrxc►rn+Elon. H. Pakenhain and George Rockford, Esq.
CARLOW—Colonel Bruen and Sir Ulysses Burgh.

WiceLow—Captain Proby and William Parnell, Esq.
CA, N—Nath. Sneyd, Rm. and Right Hon. J. M. Barry.
MoNActrais—Chariesß.. Leslie, Esq. and Host. H. Westerna.
WATERFORD (Borough)—Right Hon. Sir J. Newport, Bart.
::nnday se'anight, Lord CASTLEREAGH landed at
Donaghadee from Portpatrick, and immediately set
off to the seat of his Noble Father, at. Mount Stewart,
where he anived attwo o'clock.

it MURRAY MAXWELL left, and 'it FRANCIS
BURDETT arrived, in town, on aturday morning. In 1
the Fulham road the rival candidates passed, and po-
litely bowed to each other.
The intended Chairing of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT
is fixed for Monday next. The procession will be
altogether on foot, the Baronet only excepted, who
will be elevated on a car now building in the Roman
style. Sir FRANCIS BuarierT will meet the cavalcade
at Hyde Park Corner, whence it will perambulate ,
the principal parts of Westminster, proceeding up the
Strand to the Crown and Anchor, where a dinner
will take place at eight o'clock, at which Sir FRANCIS
BURDLTT will preside. An immense concourse of
persons is expected.
During the election for the county of Somerset a
quantity of ham 3, fillets of veal and beef, was sent
daily, ready dressed to Ilchester, and the contest
terminating sooner than was expected, an immense
weight of provisions was, in consequence, distribated
amongst the prisoners in the county jail, and the
poor of the above town and Bath.
Mr. DUDLEY NORTIT, it is said, will be elected for
the Dunbar District of Burghs.
An altercation %vide]: arose between Lord CnAntrs
TOWNSITEND and Wm. PEEL, Esq. at the Tam-
worth Election, and which had nearly produced a
duel between these two personages, has by the judi-
cious conduct of their respective friends, terminated
amicably—at a moment when the parties were about
adjourning to the borders of a foreign country.
MARRIAGE OP LORD COCHRANE.-011 the 22d ult.
Lord COCIIRANE was married, by license, in the Pa-
rish Church of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge, Kent.
to Miss CATHERINE CORSETT BARNES, late of Bry-
anstone-strcet, a young Lady of small fortune but
good family.
A curious cause was lately decided at Madrid :
An elderly Lady of distinction bad married a singer
from Padua, who speedily dissipated her fortune. The
Lady suedfor a divorce, and appeared in Court, ac-
companied by het Counsel, Physician, and several of
her women, who, nevertheless, could not hinder her
frequently from fainting. The husband also appeared,
and urged the separation, bringing with him a very
fine page, loaded with letters which the Lady had
written befot e marriage, in which she made her future
spouse master of her effects: this page, however,
proved to be a woman with wham the husband in-
trigned.—The divorce was granted.
On the 27th of Mnrch last year, two persons, named
. Cone, husband and wife, were assassinated at Arles,
in France. Their son, a lad, would ha"e shared the
same fate, had he not escaped to the top of the house,
while the villains went to plunder. This murder re-
mained unpunished for a year, till at last two persons,'
of the name of Ramot and Roncard, have been con-
victed of it ; Rcmcard's wife was acquitted of the
' charge, but detained by the Attorney General for
haring poisonedoher first husband.
CORSET AND FAMlLY.—Extract from a letter re-
' ceived, under date the 10th of June, from New York :

0 By the ship VllO6ll, for London, goes passengers, Cobbett's
wife, three daughters, and two sons; Mr. Conant remains
titre a few months knger--generally supposed until Ike time
esrircs that any action can be brought aosinst him by the•litansp
Office, When it Is Ms intention to leave this land of liberty;
funiNg also the people here not so essay gulled with his with.
as they of* with you."

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NAVAL INTELLIGPNCE.
I?Ani6UtH, JULY 3..
Wind North, fine weather.—No arrivals. ailed,
the Duke of Kent packet, with a Mail for Lisbon;
and the Sidniouth packet, with a Mail for Gibraltar
! and Malta:
PORTIfitoLTH, JULY 5.
Wind We:st.-,Arrived yesterday his Majesty's shit'
Toi,Aze, from Plymouth, and, with his Majesty's ship
LvEnroot., remains at Spithead; the former it bound
for Calcutta, and will take out a large quantity of
SpcCie. WM. JEN xisow, Third Mate of the American
ship Superior, Captain SWAIN, was unfortunately
drowned on the 3d instant. He fell overboard while
assisting to get the anchor.
DEAL, JULY 5.
Wind N. W.—Arrived and sailed for the River the
Minerva, SHARP, from St. Domingo; and the Traub y,
Ixsacs, from Jamaica. Came down from the River
the Lavinia, FRAMPTON, for New York. Ilis Majes-
ty's ship SEVERN and the ROYAL SOVEREIGN yacht
remain in the Downs.
DOVER, JULY 4.
Arrived last evening the Susanna, Captain Monc,
with the servants an& earriaps of her Serene High-
ness the Princess of &tza blzmtisrospr. Sailed ibis
day the Lord Duncan packet for Ostend, with a mail
and passengers ; also the Lord Sichnouth, Captain
' Pxmcit, with a mail for Calais. Arrived this day
the Chichester, Captain RUTTER ; and Defence, Cap-
tain ADAMS, fro rri Calais, with passengers.
JULY .s.—Sailed this morning the Dover, CapERiA
DAVISON, for Calais, with passengers. Arrived this
afterno NI the Princess Charlotte packet, Captain
lles-
LANDS, from Ostend, with a mail and passengers.
lIAR*ICII, JULY 5.
Sailel the Henry Freeling packet, for Cuxhaven ;
Nelson packet, for Holland ; and the Charlotte pac-
ket, for Guttenburgh, all with Mails.
WATERFORD. JULY S.
Sailed his Majesty's ship ERNE, on a cruize.
DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE-MONEY.
Tlw Severn, fur the Alan, July 14, on board.
The Heron, for the Nostra Senora de Men, on the Sth lust.
at No. 13, tim.it George-street, Westminster, and recalled fur
four numbs.
The Unicorn, for the Duck Justicla, and Ellen Margaretha,
on the Bth inst. at No. 11, A.delphi-to:racc, and recalled every
Wednexlay and Thursday for three months.
The Nereus, fur the liopt, ou the ilth instant, at No. 1,
Jams-street, Adtlphi.

The Captain of a vessel :mired at Cadiz reports,
that on the YStli of May, lie saw the convoy escorted
'by the Maria Isabella frigate, consisting of 21 sail,
at about 20 leagues from Cape Cantin, and 100 from
Teneriffe. This is the expedition which sailed from
Cadiz on the .fist of May, with troops for America.
Letters from Lima say, that the mercantile frigate
Minerva, has been taken by a bark, manned whh 30
or 40 pirates. The prisoners were landed at the dis-
tance of four or five leagues on the shore. The whole
coast of Peru presents the same dangers, and no
place appears secure.
The Duke of Marlborough, Hou.arr, from the
Cape of Good Hope, passed up Channel on Monday.
She touched at St. Helena, and learnt that BO:M.
PARTE was in good health, but continued out of
humour. The story of the sailor having visited 80..
14APARTE.S domestics, at Longwood, is quite correct.
but no apprehension was entertained that he had any
motive beyond the renewal of his friendship
ti m. The circumstance had naturally been the
subject of much conversation at the island. The
Duke of Marlborough left the Cape on the 3d of
April, and St. Helena on the 12th of May.
Monday 2.50 convicts were removed from the Le-
viathan and Laurel hulks, at Portsmouth, to the ship
General Stewart, Captain GRANGER, lying at Spit-
head, bound to New South Wales.

Aratcw.—Another enterprize to explore the ter-
mination of the Niger is undertaken, and, as in all
former ones, with sanguine hopes of success. Captain
GRAY, of the Royal African Corps, is intrusted with
the immediate charge of the expedition. He is repre-
sented as every way qualified for solving this geo-
graphical enigma ; he has been seven years in Africa,
and is well acquainted with the Jaloff language.—
The route is to be that of the Gambia river, which
he bad already entered. By letters which have been
received from this Officer, it appears that his arrange-
ments were nearly completed, and what was of much
consequence, his people all well, and in high spirits,'
nofwithstanding the failure of former attempts. A
transport had been dispatched to the Cape de Vert!
Islands, to procure horses and mules, the return of
which was soon expected, when Captain GRAY would
directly commence his journey into the interior.—
The rainy season had terminated, and the weather
was considered as favourable. Mr. RixcitrE, late
Private Secretary to Sir CHARLES STUART, at Pam is,
and Captain MA ItItYAT, of the Royal Navy, arc to
attempt a journey towards Tombuctoo. The former
Gentleman is appointed Vice-Consul at Muurzonk,
in the interior, the capital of Fezzan, a dependency
of Tripoli, whose Gos &nor is son of the Bey of that
kingdom.. These Cien:lemen are also sanguine of
success, as the protection of his Highness the liny is
guaranteed to them, and the journey not so perilous
from that cause es by other routes, although they
have the great Zaharrah to pass, and must be eight
days without meeting with water.

Several accidents of a more or less serious nature!
which have lately occurred in the different establish-
ments at Paris, known by the appellation of Mon.-
' Serge:, have occasioned the interference of the Public
Authorities, by whose directions such of these places cf
public amusement as were considered dangerous have
been shut. A most deplorable accident occurred on
Tuesday at the Montagne: Beaujon:—M. punters;
mho had but lately arrived at Paris, went in the mor-
ning, accompanied by his sister and nephew, the lat-
ter aged seven years, to the garden Beaujon. The
party got into one of the cars, when, in its descent, it
unfortunately upset, and the child was thrown out
with such violence that he died the same evening ;
the uncle died the following day, leaving a widow
and thirteen children. What will be with difficulty
believed is, that though thousands of persons had
witnessed the accident, yet such was their anxiety to
enjoy this amusement, that the different other vehicles
which descend the Montagnes were immediately filled
with Ladies, and in several instances by fathers of
families, regardless of the awful lesson which they
had just learned in witnessing the fate of M. Du-!
ISSSNe and his nephew.