Star.
London, England, 1826-11-04 00:00:00

TOWN HALL.

Two or • Muss, ate.—Zackariak 3fortrans was summoned by
Mrs. commonly called Madame Rengler, for rioting and
abuse. The parties are both makers of fireworks, living next door
to each other in the Westminster-road, between whom a jealousy
on matters of business, arisiag, they instantly blew each other up,
according to witnesses on both sides, and were both held to bail, to
preserve the peace • as was a young man, named Charles Thomas,
for an assault on peace;
Cannon, in Madame Hensler's employ,
arising out of the former case.

Last night's Gazette contains offers of his Majesty's
pardon, and of 100 pounds reward, to any person en-
gaged (save the principal) in the destruction of a legal
distillery at Corgaff Castle, in Aberdeenshire; or in the
sacrilegious depredations committed in St. George's
Chapel, Kidderminster, who shall reve,l his accomplices.
Commercial letters from St. Peterisburgh of the sth
(17th) October, were yesterday received. They state
4000 casks tallow were bought at 105 roubles fit
yellow candle ; 102 roubles for Siberia. Some barks
of the latter bad arrived. Total quantity of tallow
shipped off to all parts, 89,000 casks; 1,200 tons
hemp shipped, price 90 to 93 roubles ; ship room *was
very scarce. Freight for tallow, 405.; hemp, 725.
Exchange, 10 3.l6ths 1-Bth.
Extract from a commercial letter, dated Palermo,•
Oet. 14.-44 We are beginning to receive the money for
the bills given for the restitution of the Two Tari duty,
and we think there is no doubt of the whole being ulti-.
mately encashed. Barilla and Shumate have• risen ifl
price. Ships are very much wanted, and thq freights
have materially advanced. Exchange 60•11. Commer•
cial letters from Messina to the 12th October, yesterday
received, confirm the accounts from Palermo with
respect to the edvance in produce. Exchange 60."
CAPE or GOOD HOPS.—A volume of papers respect!
ing a British metallic circulation at the Cape of Good
Hope, has been printed, in pursuance of an order of
the House of Commons, dated May 20, 1826. Tlo
Treasury Regulations for reforming the currency of all
the colonies, by the gradual introduction of British sil-
ver money, and the preliminary step to this operation,
by fixing the rate at which the existing currencies, both
metallic and paper, should be exchanged for the coin
to be introduced, gave rise to some strong petitions
from the freeholders and inhabitants of Cape Town,
and from other parties interested in the rate at which
the paper rix-dollar has been made exchangeable at the
Cape, viz. ls. 6d. These petitions having been referred
by. Earl Bathurst to the Lords of the Treasury, Mr.
Herries, in a very able letter to Mr. Horton, of the 13th
May, 1826, in which he stated the principle on which
the measures in question had been founded, and com-
bated the objections which had been brought against
them by the petitioners, communicated the determina-
tion of the Lords of the Treasury not to depart front
the measures which had been adopted.
PHILADELPHIA, Ocr.s.—During the examination at
the Police Office yesterday morning, Mr. Presser, a
master baker, living at the north-east corner of Seventh
and Lombard-streets, brought before the Mayor, and
exhibited a pie, the lower stratum of which was com-
posed of gunpowder, •the filling of middle-siaed pota-
toes, the whole being neatly and tastefully covered with
a crust of wheat flour, so that in all respects it re•ent-
bled a peach pie made on a large tin patty pan. This
foundation of wetted powder was in immediate contact
with the bottom of the tin, it was about half an inch
thick, and may have weighed two pounds. A little
girl, whom the people about the bakehouse thought
they could not again recognize, brought the pie on Sun-
' day morning last, to be baked; it was put into the
oven with a great number of pas and dishes, contain-
ing the Sunday dinners of the neighbourhood, and,
after being baked for an hour and a half, was drawn
out, with the other dishes, but no person came to claim
it, and it remained in the bakehouse till Tuesday night,
when a mouse bored into k, and brought out a pitatoe,
thus disclosing a most diabolical plot, for the destruc-
tion of this poor man, his family, and property—and
which plot, had it succeeded, would have involved the
whole neighbourhood in great danger. The powder
crust had become completely stiff, bet not entirely dry,
the potatoes about half baked, and the upper crust
handsomely browned, and was altogether that of
pie, before it was broken, that would have made the
mouth of a hungry man water.
WARTS.—Rub them with spirits of turpentine, and
they will lessen, gradually decrease, and vanish.

COAL MARKET, Nov. 3.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
11 Newcastle 39& 27s Od to 35 of
34 Sunderland 6 341 Oil to :.5• :l

HIGH-WATERat LONDON-BRIDGE TO SIORROW.
Morning . a minutes attar 111
Afternoon 35 Insnutei alter 6
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