Star.
London, England, 1816-04-13 00:00:00

TRONSHEIM, MARCH to, 1816.

•A'singular occurrence took place here on they
instant: a portion of land, amounting to 120E0
lish acres, and 60 feet deep, slid, with a tremead4;
crash, into the river Nid, about a quarter of a mile
from Store Foss. This happened during a how
frost, (13° Reanmur), without giving any previlos
notice; and from the quality of the ground faint,
clayey, with a moderate ascent from the river, ap,
pears quite unaccountable. Of Tiller church, awei.
ling-house, and bridge, which stood on this spet,fict
a vestige is now ,to be seen—the ruins ate either
bulled, or dispersed. You may form %nme idea
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the :once with which this mass of earth fell, when I
tell Ton, that a considerable portion of it was thrown
several hundred yards distant from the river on ..1
opposite bank, where it destroyed two houses with.
some of the unfortunate inhabitants. The owner of
Tiller Farm perished by returning to the home to
look after one of his children. It is net yet ascer.
tabled how many lives are lost : eighteen are icnowa
to have bzen buried or drowned, and forty horses,
besides cows, Etc. A very tine lad of 17, whu was
to have worked in our wotk, lost his hie. One man
saved himself in a remarkable manner : he was the
foremost of 14. or 15 peasants, who were rennin'
home to Selboe, from bringing timber for the build.
ings attached to our work, and was so near the spot,
that he heard the owner of Tiller cry for help—he
immediately resolved to retrace his steps : the ether
poor wretches endeavoured to reach the shore trough
a deep snow, and perished with their horses: met
of them had two. The man who saved himself had
a very good horse, and by keeping himself full speed,
he escaped on shore by Store Foss, the :iverptirsuint
him close with the rapidity of lightening—Lhit
ings may be better conceived than described doting
this remarkable race. Our work has luckily escaped
uninjured, although threatened with ruin. V. Krou/h
has otherwise suffered considerably, yet mostly it
Store Foss, where a flower-mill has quite disapceared,
the saw-mills almost destroyed, and dams carried
away to the amount of £2(Xt. A summer-houw,
which stood between Great and Little Foss, a short
distance from the river, was carried is an upright
position, as it stood on shore, with two boats chained
to it, and in that manner precipitated down Little
Foss. It is impossible for me to describe the singular
appearance all this had, and still has : the Fiord is
discoloured with muddy water to a great c‘tent, and
will probably continue so for months. We are wit.
ling to think the danger is now over, though this is
uncertain, until the stream cuts itself a proper vssage.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.

SATURDAY, APRIL 13, iSI6.
PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 1 WELVI: O'CLOCK'
ekluetkl .591 61—Crms. mo. COl!—fur rrt. 6'21
4 pre Cent. 74 0-5 per Cent: 901-2.1-..1s li. tli% ru.
Exch. Bi!ls Is. (Its. Ss. pr.

The repe:il of the Property Tax will he productive
of incalculable benefits to tit...! Nation. A reduction
of income renders retrenchment' indispensible, Ind
Ministers have set about it with meth earneaness.—
This is a fact of which the tountry should bz inform-
ed, that due justice may be done to the labours of
the Government. The Xesult will ere long begin to
be developed z in the mean gme we are happy to an-
nounce, that a Committee has been aprinted by the
Cabinet, consisting of Lord BINNING, Mr. SxuacEs
Bounxe, and Mr. Rynra, to enquire into all Offices,
Ilaards, Commissioners, and Appointments made
since the commencement of the war in 1793, and to
report as to the necessity of keeping all or any of
them up. This Committee sits daily at the Treasury
Chambers, and has already examined the Members
of several Boards.
The Funds keep looking up. The hope of a lots
had operated to depress them, as preparatory to the
securing of a large bona: to the lenders. But it is nor
believed that a loan will• not be required, and, of
course, the clock must be wound up again. It it
thought that the Bank Directors mean to div:,;e
among the Proprietors a portion of the profits which
have been accumulating from the suspension et
cash payments (a gift, at the expense of the commit-
nity, which they are to enjoy tor two years more) I
the charges for managing the public monies, of
interest derived from loan: to the /mac, front its own 1:
lance: ix the hands of the Ban,. From the accumtr
tion of property thus derived, they will, it is silk!,
lend to Government six millions, for two yew, lt
.5 per Cent. for which deferred Stock will be granted,
which is to be divided as a bonus among the Proprietom
In plain language the Bank is to be enriched by to
years interest upon six millions, to be divided among
the Proprietors, and whatever they shall thus obtain
must be drawn from the pockets of the rest of t's
community. 1

Yesterday morning Mr. BASSETT, the Mel
=ginger, arrived in Downing.stre't, with thspatche
from the Duke of WELLINGTON at Piris.
ft was Count Lewis and Count WILLIA4
mem, whom Prince Emanazr, the Aa-ffi A
ba.ssador, presented to the PRINCE REGENT a
Thursday.
Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR and Lisrd C
TLEREAWI had audiences o the PRINCE ItayE.l
Carlton Huse. wd
The Dukes of Volts( sad CUMEERLAN v;sited
PRINCE REGENT yesterday.-

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Sirntiient to be respected by the people. He NIL •
admonished them, that unexampled rigour woul2
every where displayed to subdue the factious,
that if rebellion broke out in any fresh town, he shy
not hesitate to propose to his Majesty the measure
dispersing the inhabitants of that town, howei,4
merous, and of razing it to the ground ; still y/444
same view repeated, of exhibiting to his Mai"
Allies tile force and power of the Monarchy."
NORWA r.

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Mondaynight last a number of ruffians surrounded
and entered the house of Captain Srunnan, at UM*
nakil, near Racirdowny, Queen's County. On enter:
ing they placed sentinels on the doors, and on tbs.
Captain and his Lady. They ti en regaled themselves,
and continued. carousing for several hours; after
which. having yoked one of Mr. s.'s horses to a cart,
they plundered the house, and carried off every article
of value the horse and cart could carry. Information
of the above having reached that active and useful
Magistrate, Gaonoz &rens, of Kyle, Esq. be appre-
hended five of the villains, abritt four o'clock on
Wednesday morning, in Burris, in Ossory, and trans.
mated them to Kiryborough gaol. On their persons
several of the stolen articles were found.
At the Assizes of Sligo, Thomas and Jan Antos,
Esqrs. were tried before Justice FLUTCHER, for the
murder of John Hillis, Esq. who was shot in a duel
by the former—they were Acquitted.

At the A%sizes of Tralee, which ended on S.atur.
day, Rowan Casha. Esq. was tried for the murder
of fienry Arthur O'Connor, Esq. in a duel, apd
Acquitted

At the Assizes for the City of Cork, Patric' Lynch.
Owen Areal, and Michael Lynch, three very young lads,
were tried for stealing four gold rings and other trio•
kets, ow of the shop of Misses Webb and Sandwiche,
and upon the• cl.-arest evidence w r•-• convicted. Miss
Webb identifi,d •hree of the rings as h ving been
taken from her - Mr. HOWARD, who acted proles.

sionally for the prisoners, stated his doubts as to the
possibility of Froving the identity of the rings, and
alleged that one which he wore was so like them. that
he engaged she could not distinguish it from the
others.—"' Sir, (said she) I have lust four, and as
that which you have is probably mine, I shall thank
you to return it." The answer, of course, produced
much laughter in the Court.

At the Assizes of Mullingar, a poor old man was
prosecuted for stealing a caw under very afflicting
circumstances :—An order had been granted against
his sister, a very old woman, for the payment of a debt
alledged to be due by her, of 2s. Sid. by FitANCIS
'smut, Esq. a Magistrate of the county of West-
meath ; inconsequence of her inability to discharge

this trifle, her cow ( which was •peoved to be worth
AM) was seised under a warrant, signed by the
above Magistrate, and sold on the road to a soldier
for 275. the soldier sold it to the prosecutor, whose
MUM we have not learned, for four guineas. The
brother of the old woman (the prisoner) on bearing
that the cow bad been forcibly taken from her, re.
paired to where he knew she was, and drove her back
again to his sister's cabin, for which he was indicted
as a thief. The manner the old woman gave her
testimony on this transaction, created the utmost
sympathy throughout the Court ; she said that she
bad been rearing her cow for 34 years; that its mo-
ther and grandmother had been calved with her, and
she would almost as soon have p sued with one of •
her children, or apple of her eye, as with her poor
Bretoiwy.— he prisoner was acquitted.
FROM 71111 CORK ADVZRTRAIB.3
The following carious dialogue took place in Skib-
beaten Chapel, between a Mr. O'Driscol and the
Rev. Michael Collins. The Priest was preaching a
sermon, when he was addressed by Mr. O'Driscol
great animosities subsist between the panics in con-
sequence of the question about the Pao:
“ While I was speaking, a voice from the oppo-
site gallery said something about the Pope ; it was
Mr. O'Driscol's It struck me that he said the Pope
bad sanctioned the Feta I denied the fact, and beg.
god not to be interrupted."—Mr: O'D. 611 will in-
t you as often as you allude to me or to my
11Ner7s."—Mr. C. " I have disclaimed personal altu-
sions."—Mr. O'D. " You are deluding the blind
multitude, the poor creatures; a thousand millions
have declared for the Veto."—Mr. C. " A thousand
millions l pooh I"—Mr. O'D. " Here is Lord Trim-
bleston's Petition ; read it."—Mr. C. •' Sir, I shall
use my own discret'oa, and choose my own topics ;
dn not interrupt me. lam here in the discharge of
my lawful duties ; no man has a /ego/ right to ob-
struct me. If any man disapproves of what I say,
let him withdraw ; but let him not interrupt me."—
Mr. O'D. " You have no right to introduce polities
here."—Mr. C. " You are a Magistrate ?"—Mr.
O'D. " Yes."—Mr. C. " If I say any thing illegal,
prosecute me according to law."—Mr, O'D. " If I
saw you acting against the law, I would wink at it."
Mr. C. 4, I don't want your winking, nor would
I trust to it ;. but now I warn you, that in thus per-
sisting to interrupt me, you are acting against law,
and breaking the peace. The Catholic Clergy have
been charged with a design to subvert the Constitu-
tion."—Mr.O'D. " I did not charge them with that,
I said, that in meddling with politics, they must have
other intentions."—Mr. C.." This is not a political
question—l have not discussed it as stick. I have
treated it as it regards religion ; [ have a right to treat
it in that view."—Mr. O'D. " You have no right to
talk fielitier."—Mr. C. " Sir, I must tell you that
you are very presumptuous."—Mr. ‘4 I am not
presumptuous in any other place I would say some-
thing else."—Mr. C. I would tell you so here or
elsewhere. Strange doctrines have bpen introduced
by persons retaining the name of Catholics, and re.
flouncing the principles of that religion. It has been
said that Lords Fingal and Trimbk.ston are as cons.
peon judges of ecclesiastical subjects as the Bishops
or the Pope. According to the principles of the Ca-
tholic Church, no individual has a right to interpret
the Scriptures, save in the sense of- that Church. nor
to act or decide in matter of rIIIIIOOIIICOSCOM other-
wise than according to ecclesiastical laws and disci-
pline; This is the doctrine of the Church ; any in-
dividual denying this doctiine ceases to be a Catho.
lic."—Mr. 0'1). " I differ with you-,.it is no such
thing,"—Mr. C. ,4 Sir, I have taken some pains to
acquire a 'Competent knowledge of the religion which,
as a Pastor, lam bound to teach; I have taken more
pains in that way than you have, and. I believe I am
not over-rating my slender powers by saying, .that I
am as capable of acquiring knoniledge as you are....
You will therefore allow me to state those principles.
If you dissent from the tenets of the Catholic Church,
you have a right to separate from her communion.
But you have no right to impugn those tenets in the
face of a Catholic coniregatioo. and to the obstruc-
tion of their Pastor."--.liete
.dam *is extraordinary
dialogue ceased.

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