Star.
London, England, 1829-01-28 00:00:00

BREAD STRICET WAI D.

The Court proceeded to he..r the Petition of Mr.
Shoubridge against the election r•f Mr. C. Hooper as
Common Councilman for B e.id..tiret Word.

Mr. BOLI.AND appeared on behalf of the Petitioner.
was beaid, and examined witnesses to prose that Mr.
Ibropet'.o premises were witch, u:es,anJ not Assessed to
the inhibited house duty.
Mr. llooPan was heard in reply, and examined one
of his set emit-, who proved he haJ constantly stop Fed
on the premises.

The teaml patties then withdrew, and the Coon
&elated that M. H•mper'r election w..s *A', and
therespnn dismiss-dthe Petitilin.

The Gaol Committee presented a Repoli op having,
consid red Mr. Srcretaiy Peel's letter le.pecting the)
Gaol of Newgate, recommending A conference on .undry
questi n. comiee ei with that prison. which Mai agreed
to, and the ltemernbrancer iristructed to apply for is
Appointment for the same.
The CHAMBERLAIN reprinted the Frrodoce
‘pf the
Orphans' Fußd f)s- the 144 quarter, And the Will of
510,8001. w is directed to he discharged.

•EDINBUI{GII. JANUARY 26.

Early on Saturday mottling snow began tot II thick,
and continued with little intermission till a late hour in
the evening. The country around is, in consrqiiruce, -
covered to the average depth of about a foot. •The snails
!lase. notwithstanding. kept pretty ne rly u.ual
periods of arrival. Those Isom London, illi•le, and
Stirling, were last night about an hour too la e; tut
the Dum s es mail arrived about it, usual time, t ere
not being winch snow in that line of road. Ti.e irmt
continued i tense al yesterday.
kti.ough Saturday was as wintry !irking a day as
could well bexonceisted, the snow falling in such quan-
tities as to sender even toe streets of the c ty strati) im-
passable, yet great nirmbers of curlers arid bkaiter,
re-
paired to Duddingstone Loch to indu )..e in theft L..
vourite amusententi, despite of the ih.ck coating • 11ilow
which ci,vriel the tirfacc t,i ilk ice. 'Pie code s, how -
ever, set to walk, and ?lion cleared a liece c,t ice
ciently las gefor their play; but the skai;e:s had a ninth
more laborious task to perform. inasmuch as they re-
quired a much wider field to operate upon. To it, boa.-
ever, they went, and what by dint of great ezerti as,
and pres-ing into their assistance a few regular men of
the broom, they soon succeeded in clearing of snow a
large angle of the ice, upon which they continuesf.for
some time enniole t d to enjoy their elegant exerci e.
&unday evening a melancholy and fatal accident
happened in Leith, from the dangerous practice of
throwing snow balk. A young woman who was walk-
ing along the street there, was struck by one of these
balls (by whom thrown has not been dicoveiel, with
such violence on the stomach that she died inconsequence
a few minutes afterwards. She was abli , after ut:esissg
a loud sbsit k, to run into a ship, from whence a sur-
geon was instantly sent for; but the poor girl was dead
before he atiived. It was the o,iinian of Dr. Coinbe,
who examined the body In xt men niog, that bet death
had been occasioned as much by fright as by the i *jury
she bad sustained from the blow.

h is said that Sir W. Coitus bad insured his life in
different Offi,es for 100.0001.

Frid.sy morning, a young boy apprentice to a
neysweeper, fell from the top of a chimney So. 111h11
Place, to the street, and was killed on the spot.
The only memorial of the death of VILLIEII3, Duke
of Buckingham, remaining at Kirby Muorside (where
he died ite obscurity and distress) is an entry in an old
register of Burials, which runs thus—" 1687, Apia 17.
Gorges Villas- Lord do k of bookingham."
A British Cabinet courier, who passed through Elms-
:els on the lots instant, on his way from S . Pe:ess•
burgh to London-, with dispatche-, stated th rt. ss hen he
left the Russian capital the c.ld was at 28 degrees.
'This would seem to be almost incredible, s.hen.it is
considered that at 10 degrees the Seine becomes frozen
over.— Paris Paper..
We are informed that an overland dispatch has ar-
rived from India, bringing accounts of the death of
two Ju.les.
There is now in tbe.garden of. Mr. James Saltmarsh,
of Moulsham, Esse/. apples, the produce of last yesa's
growth, which hie hung on the branches up to the
present time. Tl.ey are of the kind called .I.Ernrnenes -
Long Keeper," sod are now in a sound and perfect state.

CORN-EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE. Jam. SS.
Though we have bad no arrivals of any description of Grain since
Monday, very little badness has been transacted in oar market this
morning: the few sales effected were at Monday's prices.