Star.
London, England, 1818-04-01 00:00:00

JERSEY, MARCH 24.

Last week, Sir Htuonovit and Lady TriINFR ar- 1
rived from Weymouth, at their seat at Goury, near
Orgueil Castle.
The States were assembled on the 16th inst. to take
into consideration the Public Accounts of the Island.
—lt was proposed to augment the dusty on all sorts
of Foreign Cider imported into the Island, l 2 livres
a barrel, when brought in foreign, and nine livres
when imported in English vessels ; and also on apples
and pears, in the same proportion.
As this is the season determined by the States, for
the spring cutting of the Sraic, the whole of the in-
habitants almost are employed in this essential work ;
the coasts on every part of the island are covered
with carts and horses carrying it away. There can-
not be a more picturesque sight, the men in their red
flannel jackets, and blue trowsers—the women in
their brown petticoats, with gay shawls and laced
caps, all with hooks in their hands, and more than
knee-deep in water cutting this precious weed from
the rocks. It forms manure for their lands, and the
fuel for their houses. Old and young are employed
in thissfishin4, as it is called ; cold and wet are held
in equal dehauce while this material business lasts.
Ten days is the time allowed for each house to ga-
ther its share.

A Monument, it is said, is about to be erected at
Edinburgh, to the memory of the late Lord Min.-
VILLE. The funds may be easily raised, if every one
of his countrymen who owed promotion to that No.
bleman subscribes only a bawbee !

A Corporation in the West of England (with which
one of the principal Officers of the PstiNce 11EogtsT
is closely connected) are advertising for sale the next
Presentation to their principal Church, in order to
pall ?fira debt on their Theatre !
Sir J. E. SMITH, President of the Linnzan Society,
is, we are told, to read the Botanical Lectures at
Cambridge, in the room of Dr. NI Alt rvit, the present
Professor, now superannuated; and no wonder—he
was elected to that office in 1761, when he succeeded
his father, who gave his first course of lectures in
the year 1727. Such instances of learned longevity
rarely occur.

Admiral Sir JOHN GORE is appointed to the com-
mand at Sheerness and Chatham, in the room of Sir
CUA R LES ROWLEY.

Saturday, the first stone of a New Dock in Chat-
ham Yard was laid by MiS, BARLOW, attended by
her father, Sir ROBERT BARLOW, the Commissioner,
who made a very suitable speech on the occasion.

Saturday a shipwright named Denton, was com
mitted to Maidstone jail, on suspicion of embezzling
copper bolts from Chatham Dock-Yard.

The stone vessels are at present busily employed in
throwing over masses on the western end of the Break-
water, Plymouth. The grant for the service of the
Breakwater this year is 65,0001. being 25,0001. more
than the sum voted last year. The sum yet wanted
for its completion is considerably above 700,0001.—
In dock repairing, the Foudroyant, of 80 guns ; Stir-
, ling Castle and Mulgrave, of 74 guns each ; Dart-
mouth and Topaze frigates. Building, the Britannia
of 120 guns. The London is to be laid down on
the slip of the Kent, repairing. Two brigs of war
and three cutters: two of these, the Fancy and Kite,
will be launched this month the other not yet
named. The Resistance frigate will also be launched
in about a month. The frigates to be built on the
plan of the American frigates were named two years
since, but are in a very backward state: one only is
yet on the slip, and she has only timbers up ; the
other is not yet laid down.
Last week, the numerous Greenland sailors atVl'l:itby
having refused to accept the wages offered them by
the owners of the tiifferent fishery ships, and their own
demands, which considerably exceeded the wages
given at Hull and other ports to the like description
of seamen, being deemed wholly inadmissible, the
latter came to the determination to send their ships
to sea with such of the officers only as had agreed to
the terms proposed, though by so doing they might
possibly hazard the loss of the bounty. In pursuance
of this resolution the William and Ann, Captain Sri •
PHENS, went to sea on Saturday, and immediately
proceeded to the Orkneys, or Shetland, to complete
her complement of men ; a measure which the sailors
were taught to believe the owners would not venture
to adopt, on account of an alleged scarcity of men at
those places. This decisive measure had the effect of
disposing the men to listen to the proposals made to
them, and on Monday morning they repaired on
board their respective ships. In the afternoon the
Mars and Valiant proceeded to sea, and on the fol-
lowing day were followed by the Esk, Resolution,
Phoenix, Volunteer, Aimwell, Lively, and Henrietta.
The above ships, with the James, which sailed last
month for Davis' Straits, comprise all the Whitby
fishing ships this season. In justice to the sailors, it
must be admitted, that in general they conducted
themselves peaceably during the misunderstanding
with the owners.

A melanclio!y catastrophe happened in the Mersey
on Monday se'nnight, about two o'clock. A boat was
conveying some passengers on hoard the Magnet, the
boatmen of which, when it came alongside the vessel,
missed grappling her chains : the persons in the boat
instantly rushed forward to get hold of them, to pre-
vent it being drifted down by the tide, which was
then running with great rapidity, when it partly fill-
ed with water, and was in imminent danger of sink-
ing. The boat, by some means or other, Was then
pushed from the ship's side, leaving a passenger,
named lloaissoN, clinging to the chains, who im-
mediately fell into the water. An alarm being given
on board, a boat with two seamen in it was lowered
from the stern, which was unfortunately overset by
the velocity and agitation of the tide. The men were
precipitated into the water, but regained the boat, to
the bottom of which they clung, and were swept
along by the rapid current as tar as the beach near
to Seaforth, where the boat grounded. The poor
fellows were completely exhausted by their sufferings,
so much so that one of them died while his compa-
nion was humanely endeavouring to convey him to
a place of safety. Mr. ROBINSON, we are sorry to
say, was drowned. _

The young woman, lately noticed in this Paper as
lost from West Bromwich, Warwickshire, was tumid
drowned in die Old ltiver, near that place. The young
man who was last in her computy has been taken
into custody.