Star.
London, England, 1827-09-19 00:00:00

NEW LONDON BRIDGE.

the Builders Who have contracted for the New 'Lon-
tan 'Bridge are Mr. WILLIAM JoLIIII4 and Sir ED-
WA= Beats; the original amount of whose contract
was 426,0001. and 80,0001. for making alterations in
the present structure: the whole to be completed in'
six years, from March 2, 1824 ; which contract is now
increased to 506,0001. by the addition of 8,0001. for a
new set of centering for the fourth arch ; and 42,0001.
granted by the Treasury in 182.5, for making the Bridge
nit feet wider, namely, two feet in each foot-path, and
two feet in the carriage way. The exterior of the
edifice will be of three sorts of granite; the eastern
side being of purple Aberdeen; the western, of the light
grey" Devonshire Haytor, and the arch-stones of both,
united with the led-brown of Peterhead; the hafting*
of the piers, being of hard Brambley•Fall,Derby, and
Whitby stone. These materials are roughly shaped at
the quarries; and after having been carefully wrought]
at the Isle of Dugs, are finally dressed and fitted to their
places at the -Bridge. The pier foundations are
armed of piles, chiefly beech, pointed with iron, and
llama about twenty feet km pe blue clay of the,
%Vett, ilibtit tour feet apart, having two rows of salsa
each averaging a foot square, and filled in with large
blocks of stone, upon which is laid a six-inch beech
planking, bearing the first coarse of masonry. The pro.
posed form of the bridge is a very flat segment, the rise
not being more than '7 feet ; and it is to consist of five
ttiliptiial arches, having plain rectangular buttresses,
standing upon plinths and cutwaters; with two straight
flight of stairs, 22 feet Wide, at each end. That on the
western side at the Cis/ end will, howeVer, cut soxlet ply
into Fishmongers' Hell, that it is to be taken down, the
Corporation paying 20,0001. to the Company. The di.
mansions from high-watei line are as follow :
Came arch of the new Loodea Bridge 'span 150 rise
Piers to ditto, s! fat.
&said sod fourth arehp
Riots to ditto, SS feet.
knedimaire:iles . . . 130 IR 6
ts at the bike, 78 feet.
Toed width of the water-way, 690 feet; length of the
bridge. inete ding the abutments, 928 feet • length within
theralnatments, 78, feet ; width of the bridge from out.,
aide to outside of the parapet, 56 feet; width of the car-
..riesM4eny 90 feet, end of each footpath 9 feet ; and.the
'total height of dre bridge on the eastern side, from low
feet.r— (*oxides of Loudon Bridge.

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THE ENGLISH AT BOULOGNE.
TO TUE .EDITOIt tiF THE STAR.
Botoocuss Sirs
Such has Want* impression plaidSced by di.gosting
fracas amongst the disreputables that infest the British
society of IlEnlogne, that several of the most respectable
'families have already been induced, and others are pre:
paring, to retire altogether from a place where 'scenes
are so continually octerring to render their residence et
it annoying to, hem. Yet it is but within it Ipace of
about three years, that individuals of present notoriety
I were kept in full check—:and thus a more delightful
or satisfactory place of residence could not exist for any
English desiring to retire abroad to fix at. The petits
were then not only select, but sekded—as decorous and
correct in every respect as the best conducted society
that could be found at home, owing to the inffisenm at
that time existing, of a few leading
.families of distin-
guished character, giving the tone and direction to the
society. It is to this period that the higher class of our
French often look back with regret in remembrance in
particular, of the hospitalities of Sir Thomas Strange,
the amiable late Chief Justice of Madras, who came to
enjoy his a OgiNgi cum diswitate here, with his highly
accomplished and elegant Lady, whose lots eanoot but
be deeply felt as long as good taste, kindly feeling, and
an uncompromising repulsion of every person and habit
disreputable and indecorous, shall be cocisidered the
criteria of cultivated- and correct association.
Of one advantage, however, originating with the
English of these better days their successors are still in
unchanged enjoyment—their excellent church estabish-
swot, formed at firstby the zealous exertions of another
of our departed compatriots, the benevolent Sir John
Head, and kept up with the most earnest zeal by its
present highly respected Minister. The English school
establishments, formed after the peace here, still main-
tain their ground, and are conducted with the most
creditable attention under their very respectable prin.
cipals. They have all appropriated portions of the
galleries of the British chapel, and with the rem of the
young people living with their families in the town,
have enjoyed the benefit of a public confirmation--a
rite, which the present residence of Bi.hop Luscombe.
and as well as the occasional visits of other Bishops ere
always affording the English 'on the continent, the
opportunities of having this important ceremony the
Episcopal Protestant Church administered to
Retaining such advantages, it cannot but be a source
of painful reflection to families, to whom a residence at
Boulogne is so useful from its contiguity, and continued
opportunities of easy and cheap access to England—.
that a few sets of characters, and quarrelsome refugees
from their own country, should have it in their power
to disturb the tranquillity, and destroy the enjoyment of
the worthy, the respectable, and the good. And it is
even perhaps more to be regretted, that the interest of
a few mercenary speculators should stand in the way of
such salutary restrictions of an otherwise active polite,
as might at once cure so banefil and obnoxious an evil,
by ridding this town and its more peaceable residents,
of such pestilential disturbers of its repose.
DUELLING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Sut—Having this day read the account of what
passed before the Magistrates respecting General BAUM,
and Captain Sumer, my Mind became immediately in-
terested in the following report:
A Lieutenant-Colonel,- iliarmanding a celebrated
regiment, seduced the wife of a Gentleman, and she
now lives with the gallant colonel in his regimental
quarters. Unhappily for die cause of morality, the
brother of the Lady is a Captain in the regiment, and
because he did not call out his Commanding Officer he
has been placed in Coventry by his brother Officers,
and must quit the regiment.
This affords two points for consideration—first
the Lady was a married _woman, and consequently
under the guardianship of her husband, and not of
het brother. In the next place, if the Captain is
to be obliged to quit his profession because he did
not think proper to challenge his Commanding
Officer for having violated the laws of morality and
Religion, in thus destroying for ever the domestic
happiness of a husband—what ' ought to be the
punishment of the Lieutenam.COlonel, who could
not only be* guilty of such a crime, but who could
in the most unfeeling manner bring she unfortunate
woman to reside in the same Barrack with her
brother, who could not avoid seeing her, and who could
aot revenge the insult according to what are called the
laws of honour, without running the risk of bidarasbier-
ed by the sentence of a Court-martial? If tiodyuang
Captain should be. obliged to leave the regiment, kit
must retire with a stigma attached to his character,
which will entirely destroy all chance of happiness for
him in any other Corps ; and why ? because his
Commanding Officer, after having ruined his sister, ad-
ded the grossest intuit, to the most afflicting injury, by
bringing her to live ander the same roof with him.
September 17. ARISTIDES

Yesterday a serious accident occurred to a Gentle-
man, who was riding a spirited horse down Cockspur.
street. The animal took fright, and on coming at the
paved crossing, slipped, when both tame down. The
Gentleman, who is a Solicitor, living in one of our Inns
of Court, suffered from the horse rolling over hint, by
which he is severely injured in the left arm—surgical
aid was instantly procured, and the Gentleman is in a
fair way of recovery.
Wednesday morning, about half•past six, Chichester
was visited by a heavy storm of rail, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. The Pillow Church wae struck
by. the electric (kid, which enttftd from the wooden
steeple, tearing the wood into splintersould scattering
slates and tiles in all directions.

Sunday se'nnight a remarkably fine bet about five
years of age, son of Mr. THOMAS, writer in• Perth, white
taking a walk, under the charge of a servant girl, who
carried a younger child in her arms, fell over a preci-
pice upwards of 20 feet high, adjoining the nursery
grounds, opposite Kinnoull Church. Having in his
t repeatedly struck projecting points of the rock,
by which his skull was fractured in different places, he
was taken up at the bottom a lifejess corpse.
Emestraon, Sarrmssan 17.—Sunday the guard of
the Stirling mail fell from the coach, when at Ktrklis.
ton, and had one of his thigh bones broken, and *as
min: twice much bruised.—Friday a man was killed in
a quarry on Blackford Hill by; the premiture explosion
of a charge.

CORN EXCHANGE, bIARK-LA NH, sirs. 19.
Ths unsling vide is eztrempit heavy this morning, fur. besides
the fall that took place in the price of Flour on Monday, «wasp**
(4,9h0 qrs. of Wheat, WM qrs. of Barley, Saw qrs. of Oats, and
546) mita et Flosup,)ainee Wm day wise huge, and the kw alias
of dos Wheat with dif/jasalty obsaiood Moodaef prim. Batley,
Ikons, Pets, and Oats. were Moo heavy ealestieWil titik K so Poi..
.s done in tither oftliiln.

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PtigtitY.
WI ITR COLOUIL

Colour of Truth I the Nese revises. for ding
The flaunting tulip, and the Dinghies gum
Beauteous their dyes, but, hirer knee no,
The swan's soft plumose, or the Midge anowsl
Babieng of ineocesoce! with thee secure,
Cloyeds threatening lower, and tappets howl Is win f
OW Power's pale eluting, while, with bosom pate,
He braves the deepen and Its genius shale !
Tharapeneed youth, who Wads his breeder lair,
To Hymen's shrine, their praffaved vows to bind,
Sees Sly wreaths entwine her Sowing hair,
And robes of white bespeak her angel *did !
Aed happy who, In life's declining day,
Though hoary Title has silvered o'er his head,
Sees, while the coliors of the world decay,
A cherub offspring, hovering round hie bed( 1.
Sees, when the wintry Hams around him rise,
His Wee hopes and joys renew their bleene,
While Deeth—so ghastly spectre is biettsegi
A wbkarbed guiles lights hiss to his Indio 1-

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. Barr. 18.

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_Peters Mr. Ando. Banner and Mr. Baran Taunus
repiis
Magma Cavanagh, aged 43, and Ann Lynch: ' tas
- efilasenr, aget,llo, were eepitelly indicted:for p g
coeuterfeit shillings, so as to 'resemble ilia currese
• of the realm.. ; a-,
Mr. BoLLAiD add Mr. LAW conducted the prelim,
Lion, and Mr. C. Pffit.t.les the defence.
Limbrick, the officer, stated, that he employed Mat!
thew Kelly to fierchase of the prisoners counterfeit coiii.
Kelly stated, that he applied to the prisoners, who
prepared in his presence, and sold him, some cattalo's-
felt shillings.
This witness underwent a close cross-examination. •
The Jury found both prisoners Guilty.
Edward Lowe, aged 40, was capitally convicted of a
similar offence.
John &Aril, aged 38, a person of good exterior and
manners. his complexion dark, and his accent slightly
foreign, stood indicted for stealing a diamond brooch,
• some diamond rings and pins, with other jewellery. va-
lue 501. from the dwelling house of John Maiawaring.
Charles Brown, clerk to the prosecutor, whq is a
jeweller in Chichester-rents, Chancery-lane, stated that
on the 15th of August the prisoner, accompanied by a
foreigner, for whom he acted as interpreter, same to
his master's shop, and asked to look at varioes diamond
and gold articles, which were shewn to him. The pri-
soner then produced a letter, which he said contained
an order tor a large quantity of gold seals, diamond
rings, and other articles of a similar kind. He said that
Mr. Manwairing's name had been given to him by a
Mr. Hathaway. He Made an appointment to call again
on the ensuing Monday, when the witness promised to
"hew him a better assortment. Having no suspicion
of the parties, the witness pot the articles away without
noticing whether any were missing,; but ae•the prisoner •
never came on the Mooday, the diamond stick was em
- amioed, and the following articles were missed s--. 4 '
diamond brooch, a diamond ring, a dile:load clasp, a
single stone diamond ring, and two gold seals, the
wbolevalue about 501. ' ' •
Ma Howell, a pawnbroker in Princes-street pro-
dosed .a diamond pia. which the prisoner bad pledged
for 31. is the name of John Johnson : it 'was identified
by Mr... Brown es part of the stolen propegy.
Tbe prisoner, on being Called on fur his deign* stated
that he was the victim of a ruffian, to secure whoa sp.
'prehension was the object for which he bad vainly ap-
plirato the Court to postpone his trial. lie starathat '
he was a British subject, but had been oat of England
for 30 years;oresiding on the Peninsula, where his family •
mite iris .He then called the attention of the Court
d an-Jury to a paper, which he read, wherein be • ;
that upon his passage from France' to Brighton iss a
straes7packet, he • had formed an acqualatarice• with
a -Frenchman, who said he was • a jeweller. 'He its•
tredireed the• prisoner to a hotel, and wished him to
act as. his interpreter. He accompanied him In
various Jewellers, desiring him to ask. for articles in
his (the prisoner's) name, as a Frenchman might be
finposed upon. He requested him to pawn some articles
for him, as he had received no.remitiance from France.
Upon attempting to pawn a ring, the Frenchman ran
away od hearing that they were to be detained; the
prisoner, though he might have escaped, chose to re-
main. He had been a dupe, not an accomplice.
'A respectable female, who bad been the keeper of an
hotel, had long known a forelner, named Perrin, who
introduced the prisoner to her as his interpreter. Perrin ,
could not speak English. and had, on a fojmer occm
siun, ettiployed the wipiess's son as interpreter, who had
accompanied him. to jeweller's shops. Witness had seen
Jewellery in Perrin 'a possession, but not in she prisoner's
Mr. Justice Gem's summed or: at great length.—
The Jury retired, and on their return, die Recorder
having succeeded the Judges, pronounced a verdict of
Not Gad* . _ ,

' (Before the Recoaam and a Leedom Jury).
Gene Sanderson was found guilty of stealing from
his employers. Messrs. Green, tea merchants, of (irate-
church-street, in July last, 12 quires of paper.
• The Recoarian immediately pronounced sentence of
transportation beyond the seas for 14 years, premising.
eimlt the froppiancy of cases of mercantile servants rob• 1
ambers had rendered it ascosearriolutpre,
elialbros upon convicted parties the fullest penalty of,
*pig.
...kw.. indicted for receiving and baying
dip Opee psimr, knowing it to be stolen ; but from aq
gore 41e6ciaagy of legal proof, we:acquitted.
Merles Smith was indicted for assault and, higivref

robbery on Francis Jones, in the neighbourhoods &VIA
aide. The prosecutor was returning late st nigbi ACM
the bact of Honey-lane market, when die SiesSir
knocked him down senseless, leaving hills only Wm to
ig Step thief." The watchman heard de sri, and
seeing the prisoner running towards him, Milks door
way, and ran oat and seized him. Prisoner threw some-
clang out into the road; which thowatchntan found to
be-a watch, afterwards owned by the prosecutor at the
madhouse. The facts were so directly proved. that
the Joey without hesitation, found the velocity Glary.
Itscoasaa immediately pronounced. sentence of
00.101 C- NEW COURT.
Stu: SitepßittOK applied to the Court on Inkk,of
Aim. mass wijr.of Ike; Solomons, for the portpooneieut
.thir trial of as indictment which has been found
iest her for haring in her possession a quantity of
W itsde• goods. knowing them to be stolen. The appli-
callow was founded on an affidavit, in which she swore