Star.
London, England, 1818-01-31 00:00:00

INNET,

PRAYER ox ENTERING CHUM!.
As 1, 0 Oen, draw near thy holy place,
• Whki■ whose precincts by thy sock is heard,
Etch Sabbath Day, the preaching of thy Weed,
Upon my heart let fall thy Issavealy prase
Let no intraday earthly thoughts debase
The yarn I oiler up ; but may my salad
Be pure, wad, far as carnal dross permits, riled
As those blest Deluge who behold thy face;
Let not my eye seek objects for its gam,
But fix a pious and attentive took,
Or on the Pastor, or thy Holy Book ;
Whilst my glad tongue responds the words of praise:
So shall my soul from this world's follies soar,
.And, in the spirit that thou lov'st, adore?

Mr. BAILEY, who fell in the late duel' near Lou-
don, was son of SEXTON BAILEY, of the North Strand,
1-,imerick, Esq.
Monday se nnight, Mr. STEPIIEN WALTER, a brick-
layer, of Marden, while employed in repairing the
foundation of a vault belonging to the poor-house
there, the whole building suddenly fell down, which
caused his death in a few hours afterwards. _ _

Tuesday se'nnight, a large boat, laden with slates,
proceeding from Killaloe to Limerick, was precipi-
tated aga►nst one of the peers of O'Brien's Bridge
by the violence of the great flood thee. in the Shan-
non ; the boat went to pieces, and two of the crew
were unfortunately drowned.
A letter from Basle, dated January I,7th, says,
" We Lave received from Cairo, the melancholy news
that Mr. Louis Burkhard, the youngest son of Colonel
Gideon Burkhard, had died there of a dysentery, un-
der the assumed name of Sheik Ibrahim. Mr. Louis

Burkhard, who was ardent, enterprising, and animat-
ed with the desire of acquiring knowledge being in
Elgland, offered his services to the English Associa-
tion for making discoveries in the interior of Africa.
After, having learned the languages, and acquired
knowledge necessary for a journey of this kind, he
set off some years ago, and repaired to Cairo to join
the Caravan, which comes very year from Tarnbuc-

t o, and to penetrate into that country, which his
hitherto been inaccessible to Europeans, but some
• tr 4, ibles which broke out in that part of the world
hindered the arrival of this caravan far a whole year.
Aided by his musselman costume, and his perfect
know.' Age of the Arabic and Turkish language, Mr.
13u-I:hLrd had made a great number of new and im-
portant discoveries, which the English Association
will probably publish. At length this caravan, which
had been so long and impatiently expected, arrived ;
but before he could depart with it, Mr. Burkhard
sink %nyder the disorder, and his death has destroyed
the most flattering hopes. The distance from his own
cJintly had not lessened Lis attachment to it. In the
course of last winter he sent a bill of exchange for a
considerable sum for the relief of the poor."
The Hon. H. GREY BENNETT has exerted, himself
very laudably in exposing, of late, the abuses of
N.!-Tate, and we hope much good will result from
Cie inquiry. But there is another subject eclually
worthy of investigation with the prisons for felons,
n....nely, those for Lunlfics: many oldie Mad•honses
i,. this country being little better than dismal cells,
c ilculated evidently to make a sound man mad, but
quite inadequate to make a madman sane. We are
i uformed, by Gentlemen who have made it their bu-
siness to visit them, that notwithstanding the late Re
ports before the House of Commons, there are abuses
ia these Insiwtions, at the very recital of which hu-
nianity and common sense must shudder.
The Parish of Leyton, in Essex, have adopted the
following novel mode of employing the poor, namely,
that of drawing carts. A considerable opposition
having been made to the measure by the liberal in-

habitants of Leyton, it gave rise to' the following
epigram :
" Thla cart is drawn by .?s-es ;
Wlrat, do you mean ./a4-asses?
No, no, I mean Thant-afttes,
Nei, Peters, and Nit V-aars.
0, all ye Lads and Lass-t,
Throw forth your doleful .!!as-es!
England come to a f tic pass
When carts are draw by such Asres !"
11.ursday moraing an Excise Officer, from Alfri-
ston, laid several informations against persons, at
Briglaon, keeping liquor shops, and retailing spirits
without licences. They were heard before the Ma-
gistrates, at the Town Hall, and fines were levied ttpon
some of the parties.—During the examinations, a nu-
merous party of boys and women had collected
a'iout the Town Hall, and as the officer was retiring,
be was assailed with eggs, mud, and other missiles.
The cry of a general informer became so prevalent, that
few persons sympathised in the hunt that took place
round the Steyne, after the Exciseman, which was
continued for upwards of an hour, during which time
he was assailed in the most violent manner. At
length a Gentleman rescued the officer from the fury
of the populace, and with the assistance of the High
Constable, he was conveyed to the workhouse in a
very dangerous state.
Mr. CONYSites crack fox-hounds had one of the
finest runs on Saturday last ever witnessed in Essex.
They rt I the fox from scent to view, for 35 minutes,'
without a single check, and killed in the highest stile
between Canfield Mount and Dunmow Highwood.
As partridge shooting ends the Ist of February,
whoever has them in their possession after that day
will be liable to a penalty of 51. per bird.

Brazier, the Kent man, who ran the Chicken Butcher
on the 20th of this month, one mile, and was beat, is
n-Av matched to run him again, one mile and a guar-
tle, for 100 guineas, to take place on Monday next,
the 2d February, at the Three Pigeons, on the Rom-
ford (toad-5 to 4 in favour of the Chicken Butcher.
A few nights since, the house of Mr. Humus, an
oilman, in King-street, Seven Dials, was broke open
by robbers, who were- prevented from carrying off
the property they had packed up in readiness for that
p.;..pose by an extraordinary circumstance :—A son
and daughter, who sleep in the attics, and whose'
rooms are only separeued by a thin partition,, were'
awakened by a noise, but ti:ey did not know the'
cause. However, tie' son was completely awoke, by
one of the robbers lifting an article of his dress off a
hook in his bed-room, and a sword hanging on the
same hook fell off in consequence.. The youth, who
is only seventeen years or age, then jumped up, at-
ucked the robber with it, and it entered some part
of his body upwards of five inches, by the stain of
blood. The robber escaped out of. the window..

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