Star.
London, England, 1826-06-08 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

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FA LUOUT/1, %TUNE 6.—Wind variable.—Passed by, the Viscount
Exmouth, Iticites, (rim Port au Prince, in 48 days; and Avon,
Tnon, from Grenada. Arrived the Pole Tender, LANonos, from
Libbon.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Sailed bis Majesty'l
ship AURORA ; and the Dispatch naval transport, for Bermuda.
Powrsatouvir, Just 7.—Wind N.&—Passed by, the David

Scott, Titomdmu., from

the 11th niDecember ;

and from Madras the 10th of January. Arrived the Resolution,
Gowan, from Youghall ; Argo, ——, from Dublin ; and Cal-
cutta, Moue's, from Stockholm for Bengal. Sailed the Hope,
Fume, for India; and Harmony, Briquierr, for Newcastle.
DIAL, JUN IL 7.—Wind N.E .—Arrived the Isabella, from
Demerara; Mary, ----, from St. Vincent's; Kezia, RIDDELL,
from Carnpeachy ; and the Lowestoff schooner, from the westward.
Sailed the Integrity. KIND, for St. Lucia; Sandwich, ADLAILD, for
Grenada; and the Xenophon, FiLvainen, for New York.
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Lignite° Jung 6.-Wind N. N. W.—Arrived the Mary, Ro-
am:ton, from Antigua; Fame, SHARP' and Margaret, —, from
Trinidad; Hope, VRRNON, from llarbadoes; John Troughton,
Itovsyr, from Demerara ; Oporto, Maim; from Oporto; and the
Colombia, CHAPMAN, from Calcutta—sailed the 17th of January ;
and from the Cape, the 23d of March. On the 21st of January,
in lat. 14. N. long. 87. E. spoke the Norfolk, of London, for. Ben-
gal; and on the 50th of March, in lat. 22. S. long. 1. B. the Pallas,
of Calcutta, from the isle of France for London, all well.—Also-
arrived, the General Brown, SHARP, from Charleston.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at ate East
India House, when the ship Princes, Amelia, for China
direct, was thus timed, viz. to be afllat the 10th June,
and sail to Gravesend at the expiration cf 30 days from
that period.
Prince CONSTANTINE DE SALst has lately abjured
the errors of Popery, and publicly embraced the Protestant Reli-
gion at Stutgardt.
Lo DoN.— Flom the numerous placards in the City
this morning, it appears that Alderman GARRATT'S friends are
determined to nominate him for the city at the ensuing election.
It appears that it was with great difficulty the pre-
parations for the execution of Balfour, at Dundee, were completed.
Some repairs of the gibbet were necessary ; but all the contractor's
workmen, from superstitious feelings, refused to work at it ; even
his apprentices ran away, willing to pay the penalty in their inden-
tures, rather than assist at a work so hateful to them.
Sunday, the 10th of April, 1811 (says Major CART.
wenn; in his Memoirs, just published by his niece), Earl Svarrunn
informed me that, in conversation with Mr. Fox and a third person,
Mr. Fox said Parliamentary Reform was a fit thing to be made
use of in argument in the House of Commons, but not to be carried
baba execution."
Tuesday evening one of the lads in the service of the
Twopenny Post Office was seriously injured, through the fall of
the horse on which he rode. The poor lad had arrived near the
office, when the wearied beast stumbled, the boy was thrown, and
the beast fell on him. He was carried to the' Westminster Dis-
pensary, where every attention was immediately shewn him.
It appears by the Protest of Mr. Fonags, the Charge
d'Affaires of the United States, resident at Buenos Ayres, against
the blockade of the ports of that State by Don Paseo, that on a
line of coast, extending to 20 degrees of latitude, or almost 1,300
British miles, there has been stationed but one single sloop of war,
called the Maria de Gloria. A blockade so declared, and unsup-
ported by an adequate force to give it effect, be considers to be a
violation of public law, and wholly inadmissible by his Government.
The concert for the benefit of the Greeks, at Brussels,
has surpassed aU expectation. The most distinguished redound'
all classes of that city were eager to participate in this act of huma-
nity : many young Ladies of the first families sang in the &onuses
or performed on the harp. The concert-room was adorned with
military trophies ; and in the back vomit! was a fort, representing
hlissolonghi. A collection was afterwards mad. by the twelve
Ladies who had performed on their harps the Chorus of the Birds.
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—!he following •wager
was laid on Friday night, between two Gentlemen °thigh spotting
celebrity :—One Gentleman betted another that he would run
across Waterloo Bridge, and hop fifteen yards, within two minutes
and a half, which was invnediately taken, and heavy betting com-
menced at three to two off time. Six o'clOck on Saturday morning
was appointed for the decision of the bet, when the Pedestrian and
his honourable friend, accompanied by two umpires, having ar-
ranged the affair of-starting, the signal was given, but contrary to
the expectations of those present, he deliberately 'stalked from one
side of the bridge to the other, thus crossing it, and bopped the
fifteen yards, within one minute and a quarter. on demanding the
payment of his wager, (which was for 100 guineas) and the bets he
had laid, they were resisted, and we think most justly, on the
ground of his not having performed the undertaking according to
the terms agreed upon—namely, by not naming across. We un-
derstand that the affair will be referred to the Jockey Club, and
until their decision is made known the bets will not be paid, and
the stakes will remain in the hands of the holder.
On the 15th and 17th of May, the ancient and :Olen-
did city of Grenada, in the South of Spain, was visited by repeated
and severe shocks of earthquakes, attended with tremendous sub-
terraneous rumblings; but few casualties occurred, however,
though numbers of private houses and public buildings were
seriously damaged.
The Susquehanna steam-boat in ascending the river
of that name, lately, met with a disastrous accident. The Engineer
assured the owners there was as much steam on as the boiler could
bear, but they insisted on more being raised. This was done, and
the explosiou was instantaneous. The unfortunateand too obedient
engineer was literally completely skinned. lie is not expected to
survive. He has a wife and seven children. While they were
carrying hint up to the' town of Berwick, he said he bad done his
duty, Std he hoped the public would do theirs to his family. Mr.
Robst, of Cattiwissa, a member of the General Assembly, is so
dreadfully scalded that he le not expected to live. One other person
is supposed to be too shockingly scalded to recover. Nine other
persons were severely scalded, and three missing, who are supposed
to have been killed. Immediately after the explosion the boat took
fire, but was soon extinguished.—Pkiladerphis Paper.
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A most unfortunate accident occurred last night,
about five o'clock, to the heavy coach, called the
" Lion," which runs between Glasgow and Carlisle,
taking Dumfries in its way. The coach was proceeding
at the usual pace, when the fore-iron•aile unfortunately
snapped as the vehicle was passing Holywood Village,
and from its great weight it was soon laid on its broad-
, side. There were eight outside and four inside pas-
sengers, and though most of the former slid softly
down, Mrs. Edgar, midwife, was thrown in some
degree under the coach, and one of her legs was so
severely shattered that amputation was performed
on it the same evening. The driver, who sat imme-
diately before. her, was pitched to the ground in the
same direction, but he escaped without a single bruise,
and the same thing may be said of all the other pas-
sengers. • The guard and all those near him were " let
easily down ;" ind though the inside travellers tont:led
the one above the other, they escaped without a single
scratch. The coach itself is a complete wreck, and is
scarcely worth bringing into Dumfries, units; it be for
the value of the iron work attached te it.—Dual fries
Courier, June 6.

•
This is the anniversary of the Seten Bishops being
sent to the Tower; and deaths of the Dauphin, son of Louis the
Sazteenth of France, 1795 ; and Thomas Paine, at New York, 1109.

A short time since, in a church•yard in Hertford•
shire, were written on a grave rail the following
" Remember me as you pass by.
As you are now so once was I;
As I am now so you must be,
Therefore, prepare to follow me."
Underneath these hors, some one wrote ist blue paint—
To follow you I'm not content,
Unless I knew which way you went."