Star.
London, England, 1821-10-17 00:00:00

CANTERMIRV, ocronrn 16.

Yesterday evening, at air Extraordinary General
I Court of the Guardians of the Po,•r of this city, !fr.
JOSEPII F. 11 AGEI.I. was unanio:ourl v elected b ballot,
i Receiver, in tax room of Mr Join Runic e, ie igned.
At the same Court the poundage to the Collector of
Rates was re.iced frora 3d. to V. making his salary
on six rates £73 10i. per annum.
Thursday, our Annual Michaelmas Fair, formerly
known by he appellation of Jack and Joan's Fair,
commenced, in the Cattle Marker, with all the va. •
rious divertisemnents of Mime, Pantomime, &c. This
fair, formerly a mart for the sale of merchandize,
and a statute for the hiring of servant;, has, of late
years, been observed principally as the saturnalia, or
holiday cf the labouring classes, and has annually
brought together a large conconre of husbandry
servants, of both sexes, from the surrounding coun-
try ; but upon no occasion have vre witnessed so
large an assemblage as that which thronged our
streets on Saturday list, and it was gratifying to ob-
serve the health that lictured their countenances, and
the cleanliness which marked their clothing.
Friday night, Mr. MA THEW. performed his Budgeft
to a select and fashionable, but, from the shortness of
his notice, not a crowded audience, in the Concert
!born, in Orange-street.
The carriage way crossing the Old Ford, at the
tail of the Abbot's Mill, in this city, has been ordered
by the Magistrates to be put into immediate repair,
which order is now carrying into effect, and will be
completed in the course of a fortnight or three weeks,
by a brick arch being thrown across the stream from
the wheel race of the mill, with parapet walls. The
expense of which (E7O), is to be defrayed from the
County Rate.

Tuesday se'nnight, at a County Meeting of Reny
frewshire, some conversation was entered into, upon
the subject of the Corn Laws. The sense of the Gen-
tlemen rresent was generally adverse to the existing
prohibitory, or, we ought to say, half-prohibitory
law—on account of its uncertainty—as a guide to
speculation both in Agriculture and in Commerce
as by that measure the county may one month be half
famished by an insufficient crop, and the next half de•
luged by a torrent of importation.
Saturday last, a most splendid entertainment was
given at Monmouth, on invitativn, by the Gentlemen
of the county, to his Grace the Duke of BEAUFORT,
which was attended by Lords WILLIAM and GRAN..
VILLE SOMERSET, Sirs C. MoataaN and S. FLUDTER,
Messrs. LEWIS, of St. Pierre and Lantillio, and Gen-
tlemen of the fist respce ability of Monmouth, Aber-
gavenny, Newport, Usk, Chepstow, and every part
of the county and neighbourhood, more numerous
than had ever before met in tl-at town, and a most
agreeable day was extended to a late hour.—The fol-
lowing accident forms a very melancholy sequel to
this account :—The Rev. Mr. RANISEY, of Treleclr,
who received the benefices of Lans:nnuidor, in Bre-
conshire, and Chapel Hill, immediately above Tintera
Abbey, from his Grace (and whet e he had established
with success one of the first National Schools in that
neighbourhood), had attended Monmouth Races: he
went to Bristol on Friday ; and on Saturday morning
was returning on horseback to the dinner, and had
just entered the boat at the New Passage, when he
exclaimed, " lam very sick !" and expired instantly.
This sad intelligence was made known in the course
of the evening, on which several of his relations and
friends present immediately withdrew. He was in the
prime of life, highly valued and regarded by every
one, and has left six children to increase their sorrow
in the recent loss of their mother !

A few days ago a Lady of great respectability
in the neighbourhood of Liverpool, who was con-
fined by indisposition, requested the servant to pour
out a quantity of medicine, sufficient for a dose, from
a bottle standing on the chimney-piece of the room.
Most unfortunately the attendant took the prescribed
quantity, above two table spoonfuls, from a bottle
of laudanum standing in the same place, in conse-
quence of which, though prompt assistance.was ad-
ministered, the Lady expired the following morning.
On the night of the 4th instant, as Mr. RICHARDS,
auctioneer, Carmarthen, was riding home from Llan-
dilo, some person who was di iving furiously came in
contact with his horse, near Cothy bridge, by which
he was thrown off, and lay senseless on the road, in
which situation he was left by the person who caused
this misfortune, without rendering him the least as-
sistance!' He was shortly afterwards found dead.
Yesterdaf morning, between the hours of eleven
and twelve, during the absence of the mother, who
was not away above five minutes, the infant daugh-
ter of Mr. MORRIS, of No. 26, Union-street, Lambeth,
aged about six years, approached the fire-place, and
by some means fell into it ; it appears her forehead
struck the bar of the grace, and that she must hare
lain some time senseless on the fire. Mr. C. J. Bus-
SELL and Mr. W. FEARS*, passing at the time, rushed
into the house, sent for a coach, and conveyed the
sufferer to St. Thomas's Hospital, but there are no
holes of the child's recovery.
Friday night, as a barge belonging to BARNARD
and Co. of Stourport, with a cargo of copper and
wool, which she had just taken on board, was coming
up the Severn, from Collow, owing to the extreme
rapidity of the flood-tide, she was driven against
Newnham Crib, with such force as to cause her to
fill and sink instantly. There were four men on
hoard, whose lives were in imminent danger; but they
were providentially saved by a boat which put off to
their assistance. On the ebbing of the tide, about
half the wool was saved, and' hopes were entertained
that the copper might also be secured ; but next
morning's tide ran up with such violence as to cap-
size her, by which means the rest of her cargo may
be considered as totally lost. It is supposed the value,
of the vessel and lading is upwards of £5,000.
FEMALE DUELLING.-Yesterdily; says a French
Paper of Saturday, a duel took place between two
Ladies in the forest of Boulogne. Two shots wets
exchanged. The quarrel terminated, as usual, at a
restaurateur's, near the Porte Maillot. Motives of jea-
lousy were, it is said, the cause of this hostile meeting.
Coax EU:HAMM, MARE-LA:4I, ikr. 17.—We had a good sup.
ply of Wheat fresh in this morning Iron, Suffolk, and a very
large quantity of Monday's arrivals remained on hand, for which
there was but little demand, and only thefinest picked samples
could be disposed of at Monday's prices; all other deseriptiutis
were nominal. The arrivals of Barley were very considerable •
to-day from Suffolk, and having but few buyers the sales were
heavy at an abatement of Es. per quarter. Beans, Paz', and
Oats are dull sale at Monday's prices, the supply of each lar..!as
much larger than the immediate demand can take off.