Star.
London, England, 1826-03-31 00:00:00

OLD SOUTH SEA HOUSE.

The fire engines still continue to play on the smoking ruins of this
building, of the destruction of which we gave an account yester-
day. This forenoon, at twenty minutes past eleven o'clock, the
gable end next the Excise Office fell with a tremendous crash, and
shook the whole neighbourhood ; fornanately no person was hurt.
It appears that the fire yesterday morning, had burned some
time before it was discovered by the persons sleeping in the office.
The gentleman who first appeared was Mr. Lutcbers, inhibiting
one of the chambers, who immediately rendered every as•iitance to
his neighbours, at the same time forgettin g his own property.—
Missing his gold watch, which he left in his drawers, and various
papers of value, be returned, and found his bed-room full of smoke,
saflott the ri.k of being suffocated, rescued his watch and most of
the papers. All tie rest of his property has been ennsuused:—
, Iliolortunately, be Is nut insured.

A vast quintity of papers belonging to the Racist ()Mee have
been destroyed ; and several Gentknien, we uedasta••d, have rape•
deuced great losses, as they only escaped with what clothes they
could throw on.
Those 'newly, premises, we understand, had been purchased,hy
Government, with a view of enlarging the &doe Moe.

WINDSOR, NIARCII SO.—There is nothing new to
communicate respecting the Kowa. Ills MAJCWIT continues In the
%stye satisfactory state as he has been for several days put ; but the
weather Is still very unfavourable.
Mr. S,ctetary Pam . has issued cards of invitation for
a grand Dinner Party on the Bth of April.
The notice given by Mr. WiLsou, one of the Lite
Membets of the City, of his intention to withdraw from Parlia-
meotary duty, is regretted by the mercantile world, of whom be
was considered the especial representative.
The Lieur.-Governor of Upper Canada has prorogued
Parliament, thanking them in his speech for the supplies voted, ace.
The lion. Mad Right Rev. Dr. STEWART, Bishop of
Quebec (brother to the Fart of GALLOWAY), has taken his passage on
board the New York packet ship, at Liverpool, on his way to Canada.
Lidy CLARINDON gave a Childr n's Bill, at Wat-
ford, on Wednesday last. Quadrilles and waltzes were only danced ;
the Most favourite sets were the quadrilles of Bunny Brave &Azad.
Mr. WILEB3, after a serene co 'test, was yesterday
elected Vestry Clerk to the Parish of Luke's, by a =laity of 170.
A du :l was fought yeArt day, opposite the Telegraph
on Wimbledon Common between Captain Tot—L—s and IL
Ala —c—v. Esq. The parties arrived on the ground in post-chaises.
In measuring the ground notice was attracted, and there were seve-
ral persons present. A surgeon attended the parties, and three fires
took plaice, when Capt. T. was wounded in the um. The surgeon
dressed the wound, and the parties drove off to Putney-bridge.
TEA-PARTY EXTRAORDINARY —On the evening of
Sunday gestated, At clerk of one of our dissenting places of wor-
Alp 0• gavo.out," that on Good Friday afternoon The Chords would
drink tea in the Chapel..--Drigiums Ceara..
Asouc rtou.—lf any person above the. age of tout teen
years unlawfully shall convey or take away any woman child un-
married within the age of sisimayeers from the possession and against
the will et the father, mother, guardians, or governors, be shall be
imprisoned two years, or lined, at the discretion of the Justices,
—4 and S Phil. and Nary,,. 8.
A southern Judge some years ago (says a New York
Paper). ileitis charge to a Grand Jury, denounced duelling in terms
so severe, that they presented two men, one fur giving and the
other for receiving a challenge. The Magistrate caused boot
the panics to be arrested, and enforced the law so rigidly, that rid h
parties, after the rising of the Court, challenged him. To round
the circle of gbutrdity, the Judge accepted the challenge, fought,
sad wounded them both. •
• At Monmouth an indictment was tried against Mr.
Pawn, a Magistrate of the County, and others, for having dis-
inched a company at a bail given by the Mayer, ho November
1824. The whole affair, even according to the evidence for the
prosecution, appeared t. have been merely' a kind of frolic ; and
the coutradistlons were so vest, that the Jury without' hesitation
pronounced the defeedante" Not Guilty.
lawn FIRST Fitorrs--(ft.nn the Au, $ new Satirical
Work.)—When Sir Jona Newroav was a abort time ago making
his speech and motion *pee tile subject, a raw Sandman, who
had jest catered upon the duty if reporting the wisdom of Perlis-
met, and wee was oregano ignorant ef the forms and tombs.
lary of the house, asked a veteran front the sister kingdom, what
was meat by " seise neat" awl ewe It a clopping
bey beim marelage;" replied the Hiberniaa.
Mrs. WIIICHSELV (mother of the celebrated BILLING-
von) being one day indisposed from a cold, her husband coming'
'into the parlour, where she was practising a mew air fer
`observing a bane Vphgeic err the table smoothed, which she said
she bad taken, dung it et her had with great violence- A gentle-
man is the neighbourhood was inentienlag the cruelty of the dr.
einentmita, sum* sheet time iftentarda, to a friend, who very drily
ebeafeint—s He cbuld not see any great intprop rimy in the affair;
Waisassr.s. go ,Ott sat, and Mr. Wmensni, only as
ealaliladhd bet strith sieL!'
• Dllitaratus of" Qmion would at times retire from
buthilieliaattned 'pa ankh an occasion be away
sectlo46 rui 600, -Qs. corniest. Tint him.,
tbeesurnirouse Lodi rafirillPinit his chamber. Oa eater*, '
Ilbammaire NW, os Sir, the' rival km sow left Me." " Very Ilk., ,
oft," my* Anvesaves, " gestapil Met it at the dom."