Star.
London, England, 1826-01-11 00:00:00

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FASII lON MILE INTELLIGENCE.

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The Duke of Argyle has arrived in town from* wow.
The Esri and Coess of Basta arrive.' its toys* yesterday,
from their seat, l'ut Beath. . . • •
The 'Dowager Countess Citrisammin has left twit for her wag
Payneolill, Surrey.
Lord Alvanky has We town on a tour.
Lord Sydney arrived in town yesterday, from his *eat, Frognall,
Kent.
Ihe Hon. C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish, have arrived in
town from a tour. _ _ . .

The Marquis of Lansdown entertained a large party of friends
during the holidays, at his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
Departures from the British Hotel :—Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell,
for Bath ; William Gordon' Esq. for Melton Mowbray ; and
Captain Lawrence, IL N. for Portsmouth.
Countess de Grey has arrived at her house in St. James's-square,
from her seat, Putney Heath.
Lady Bloomfield has left town for the Stud House, Kingston.
Departures from Long's Hotel, Bond-street :—Captain Milner,
for Norfolk; J. Richardson, Esq. for Melton Mowbray; C.
Oswald, Esq. for Cambridge; and J. Lucas, Esq. for Bath.
Viscount Althorp bas left Wiseton Hall, Yorkshire, for
Northamptonshire.
Lord Robert Spencer has arrived at his seat, Woolbeding, Sussex,
from a tour.

Sir John Stanley, Bart. has arrived at bis seat, Alderley Park,
Cheshire, from North Wales.

TILE ARMY.

WA It•OFFIC; JAN. 6, 1826.
The following is a Statement of the daily Rates of Allowance to
General and other Staff Officers, and to Field and Staff Officers of
Infantry Regiments, in lieu of Forage for the horses required to
be kept by them for the public service, for the half year ending the
24th December, 1825, agreeably to which the charges for the
Forage of the Horses are to be corrected, if a charge at a different
Rate has been already made in the Paymaster's Accounts.
(Signed) L. SULLIVAN.
In Great Britain the Rates of Allowance are-Berks, 2s. Id.
Cornwall, 2s. 241. Devon, 2s. Dorset, Is. lid. Essex, 2s. 241.
Hants, 2s. Id. Kent, 2s. Id. Lancaster, 2s. Id. Middlesex, Is. 2d,
Norfolk, 21. Id. Northampton, L. 3d. Northumberland, 2s. Id.
Nottingham, 24. 2d. Somerset, 2s. Suffolk, 2s. Surrey, 2.5. 3d.
Sussex, 2s. Warwick, Ss. 3d. York, is. Id. North Britain, ls. 1 Id.
The Counties in which there are no Contracts, 2s. Id.
Jersey, 24. 6d. and Guernsey, Is. 11d.
In Ireland, the Rates of Allowance are-Antrim, 2s. 4d.
Down. 2s. 441. Armagh, Is. 841. Monaghan, Is. Id. Cavan, Is. sd.
Fermanagh, Is. sd. Londonderry, 2s. Id. Tyrone, 24. Id. Dub-
lin, ls.7d. Wicklow, Is. 7d. Kildare, is. ed. Kilkenny. 2s. Car.
low, 2s. Queen's County, 2s. Louth, Is. 6d. 'Meath, is. 641. Wes
ford, is. 941. Galway, Is. sd. Sligo, Is. 7d. Leitrim, is. 7d. illayo,
It. 7d. Roscommon, Is. 3d. Westineath, Is. 3d. Longford, Is. id.
King's County, 2s. Cork, Is. 7d. Waterford. Is. 104, Kerry,
Is. 10d. Clare, Is. 641. Limerick, Is. 641. Tipperary, Is. Bd. The
Counties in which there are no Contracts, is. sal.

The Depot of the Bah Regiment of Foot has arrived at Liver
ml, from Manchester, and embarked fot the Isle of Man.

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The Depot of the 57th Regiment of Infantry is now on its route
to Weedon Barracks.
Detachments belonging to the lOth, 64th, and 65th Regiments
of Foot, marched yesterday, from Westminster for Bristol, on
route to Ireland.

The loth Regiment of Infantry has completed it augmentation
Establishment.

A Detachment belonging to the 2d Battalion of the Rifle Brigade
embarked on the 22d ult. at Dublin, fur England, on the Recruiting
Service.—Detachments belonging to the 33d, 421, 56th, and 79th
Regiments of Infantry, embarked, on the 22d ult. at Dublin, for
England —Detachments belonging to the 2d, 3d, 6th, 13th, 14th,
19th, 21st,27tb, 28th. 30th, 31st, 35th, 36th, 38th, 40th, 41st,44th,
45th, 48th, 53d. 54th, 59th, 60th (2d Bat.), 64th, 67th, 82d, 97th,
119th, 94th, and 98th Regiments of Infantry, embarked, on the 24th
ult. at Dublin, for England.—Detachments belonging to the 6th
Regiment of ight Dragoons, the 55th, 60th (lat. Bat.), 69th, 97th,
and 99th Regiments of Foot, embarked on the 29th ult. at Dublin,
for England.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.

The Serpentine River, the Bason in the Green Park,
and the Canal in Snlames's Park, were yesterday com-
pletely frozen over, and in most parts the ice was of
sufficient strength to admit of` the healthful diversion
of skating. Though a great number of persons con-
tinued on the Serpentine River during a greater part of
the day, no accident happened; but this unhappily was
not the case in St.James's Park, where many lives were
endangered, and two were lost.
The ice having given way, no fewer than nine per-
sons fell in. Four or five of them clung to one
strong man, who was endeavouring to get away by
' swimm ng, and brought him down, and the whole sunk
together, but immediately rose to the surface, .and
separated. The bystanders by this time had procured
ropes, which were cast to the struggling persons, and
six st ere drawn out ; but the ropes breaking, the fate of
the others seemed inevitable. One of them, raising his
arms, shrieked out, " 0 Goa, save me! my poor mot-her !
my mother!" and sunk below the ice. Several persons
ran to the brink of the broken ice, and grasped at the
drowning men, but the ice again breaking, they were
immersed, and with difficulty escaped. However, ropes
being fastened round three young men, they plunged
in, seized the straggling persons, and rescued one
youth, who was taken ashore in a state of insensibility.
The attention of the throng was, at this instant attracted
to an elderly Gentleman, dressed in a blue coat, light
buckskin pantaloons, and Ire.sian boots,who, at great per-
sonal risk, saved the lives of two, but in his third effort
the ice gave way, and he sunk beneath it, but almost
immediately he extricated self and called for assist-
ance. Ropes were thrown to tut the danger was
so great, that none would approach filif rescue, and
the venerable Gentleman appeared likely to share the
fate of the remaining two, but the ice being broken to
the bank, several versons locked their hands, and ad-
vancing into the water, dragged him to the side, to the
great delight of the assembled multitude. But it was
checked instantaneously by the convulsive cry of the
two young men, who had gt asped a firm hold of each
other as they sere drowning. Some watermen, in a few
minute., came up with a boat and the drags. and in'
about twenty -minutes, succeeded in bringing from tie
bottom the two bodies. The means recommended by
the Humane Society were in vain • resorted to both in
:he Park and at a public-house. One of the dead was
attired in a sailor's dress, and his right arm is marked
with a blue compass and squat e. The other was very
genteellyattired in a blue coat and dark trowsers. They
were both fine young men, apparently not aged more
than twenty-one.
Last week, a young Gentleman, of Dover, attempted
to skait on a pond in the vicinity, before it was suffici-
ently frozen, and having reached the middle, the ice
gave way, and he sank until his hands caught hold of
the sutrounding ice, when, by great caution and deli-
beration, he extricated himself from his perilous situa-
tion by crawling fro.o the hole..

Erasipclas, known in.Scotla id by the name of "rote,"
and in Englund by " St. Anthony% fire." has been
prevailing much of late
..sinong the lower orders
of society 'n Montrose and its neighboulhooJ, particu-
larly in dirty and il-ventdard twines; and has been in
several instances f.tt 1.

Mr. HUM F., M.P. has ordered.4oo batrels of coals to
be distributed arrior.g the pour of Alvatto.e. Mr. Man
has also scut ht, u.ual donation of coals to the poor ol
iL cch:n.

lc AVA t INTELLIGENCV.

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FALMOUTH, JAN. 9. —Wind L—SJile4l the llinallo packet, for
Jamaica ; and Francis Freeling do. fur America.
Piratourit, JAN. 9.—Wind E.—Arrived the Caroline, Sammy,
from Lisbon;, Atlas, Anams, from Richmond; Ebriune, Alum,
from Lisbon ;*and spoke the John Shand, fin Jamaica, 18th ult. in
lat. 40. long. 11. Sailed the Erin. 111'Caasur, for liourileaux.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 10.—Wind \.W.—Arrived the Iletsey,
Hownot front Cadig. Sailed the Sarah% Samtau, for Londor-
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DIAL. JAN. 10.—Wind N. light breeze.—kassed through from
the River, the Viscountess Exmouth, Oxxeir, for St. l)..mingo.
The Ann, and the Cadmus, are reported to have paxsed.througb
this morning. The Admiral Cockburn remains.
RA lISCATIC, JAN. 7.—Arrived his Majesty's stram.packet African,
from London to Sierra Leone, where she was procetding,,
we hear, with dispatches. Encountering a very heavy gale, she
unshipped her rudder, and was brought in here by three boats. A
Deal boat in attendance unfortunately came in Contact with the
African's anchor, which stove her, but luckily not to create any
serious apprehensions fur the brave hoatnicies lives.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, JANUARY 10.
&tin Bream. hawk aus—The A una, from Jacubstedt ; Aerefitr
from DAIitZIC • and Hera, from GrieswAld.
Erman) 01;twaitos—The Merton, for Gibraltar; Mary, for St.
Michael's; Vrow Elizabeth, for Ghent; Union, for Smyrna;
Industrie, for Hamhurgh ; and Africanus, for St. Mary's..

CLEARING OUTIEARDR-,—The Dispatch, for 1.34h0tt ; Ils.ibella, for
Lima ; Bervekkahire, for China; Regalia, for New South Wale,;
William, fur Oporto; and lktty, for. Buurdeauz.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, i
_AKUART 10.
TONIKINS V. BASKERVILLE.

This was an action brought by M. Tomkins against
Mr. Baskervill-, to recover a compensati n in damages
for a loss sustained by a misrepresetitestion of thepmti s
of the Cambrian
,Hotel, Russell-street, lta,sell-squate.
The plaintiff in his declaration coirplaineJ that be being
a publican purchased the lease and goodwill of a pub-
lic-house in which the cletend,nt carried on business,
and that the defendant deceitfully avid fraudulently re.
presented that the returns were 2001. a month, v z 601.
or 701. in foreign spirits, the same sum in British srtiri.,
and the rest in beer and other articles. In conseq fence
of that representation the plaintiff consented to give 43
the purchase-money of the said lease and goodwill the
sum of 1,1501. The plaintiff then alleged that the
rrepresentation was not true: that after he took pos.
session of the house, he fount the return. nv•: 2001. a.
month, but considerably less—namely, 1061. The first
enquiry was, whether the above represetratiun was
made by the defendant, and, secondly, whether it was
made fairly or dishonestly ?

The witnesses caned for the pl.tintiff preyed his case. and under
an the circumstances the Jury found'a verdict of 200/. damages.