Star.
London, England, 1826-01-25 00:00:00

AN UNGRATEFUL ASSAULT.

One Mr. ;Valiant Galles was charged at Bow.
street, yesterday, with having ass inked Michael Bren-
nan. an honest watchman of Ling-acre, who has often
had occasion to complain of people rebelling-against him.
hit affair with Mr. *Galin wa. thus :—Banbury-
court, Long-acre, is in Michael Brennan's beat ; a d
in Banbury-court the pavement had been taken up for
the repair of a vault, belonging to one of the houses
there. Consequently, Michael Brennan determined to
keep his eye upon it, " for fear some pool cratur should
tumble into the twat t ;'' and while he was thus
chati ably employed, in the dead of the night, this
Mr. M'Gillies " came up the coort mighty onsteady
with the drink." Now Mr. being " a des-
perate nice Gentleman to look at," and coming wi.h " a
top-heavy full swing towarts the hole of the wault.'
Michael Brennan told him civilly to " keep out of that ;"
and Mr. M'Gillies, in return for this civil admonition,
very uncivilly pushed Michael Brennan into that! That
was the h abovementioned, at least 10 feet deep, and
" mighty rough at the bottom ;" but luckily for Michael,
his fall w is broken by the lantern which hung at his hip.
So he" reared himself up on end again ; but, finding
it impossible for him to get out of the hole gain without
help, be began twirling his rattle at thObottom of it,
whilst Mr. M' Gillies stood looking down uron him
irrim the top, seem:ngly quite at a loss ghat to make
of it; for, as arore,aid, he was " mighty ons'eady with
drink ;" and in this state they were found by o her
watchmen, who lifted Michael Wennan out of the hole
of the vault, and then consigned Mr. M'Gillies to the
hole of the watch-house.

Mr. M,tiillies had nothing to say in his defence, ex-
cept that being very tipsy on the night in question, he
neither perceived the hole, nor undergood Michael
Brennan% admonition ; and he was quite unconscious
of having pushed him into the hole; hut if he did so,
he was very sorry, and would willingly make him
every reparation.
Michael did not insist that the pu.h was a violent
obe—indeed he rather thought his fall was partly owl 'g
.to his own anxiety to prevent Mr. M.Gill.es from fall-
ing,; and upon this explanation the Nlagibtrate allowed
the matter to be made u 7.

The Brussels Oracle says—l 4 Among the Exchange
rumours all.mt is, that of the Emperor of Austria's
suffering under a chronic complaint, which affects the
lower region of the stomach."
Accounts from Chili state that a new attempt at
commotion had been made in October last at Santiago,
by the Representatives of that place wishing to usurp
the authority of the National Congress, and depose the
Executive Government. The Supreme Director imme.
diately issued a Decree dissolving the Assembly of
Representatives at Santiago, and another, banishing,
at three days' notice, eleven of those ardent spirits whom
he describes as living only for faction and intrigue
By another Decree, dated the 12th Oct., the Supreme
Director appo:nts a Council of State, consist,ng of the
Ministers, the President of the High Court of Justice,
the Chief of the Court of Appeal, &c. to assist him in
discharging the duties of Government.
This morning an Irish labourer, employed to drive
the horses employed in the machinery at Messrs. Lees,
Cottam, and Hallett's iron foundry, Cornwall-road,
Lambeth, got his clothes entangled in the engine, by
which he was drawn in and almost literally torn to pieces.
This morning, at half-passe eight o'clock, a fire broke
out in the upper part of the house of Mr. Long, opti-
cian, Upper Bedford-street, Stepaey, which totally con.
sumed the whole of the upper room•. It is said to
have originated from some linen being hung too near
the fire, which caught the flames, by the hasty closing
of the door, on Mrs. Long quiting the apartment.
A chaise in which were two servants, drove furiously
down Tottenham-court-road, this morning, about eleven
o'clock. and in its course knocked down a G •ntleman
named Rawson, who was so seriously injured, as to
excite great fears for his life. We regret to state that
the fellows escaped. _ _ _

Early on the morning of the 16th inst. a fire broke
out in the dwelling• house of the !ter. Dr. Joynes, at
Frindsbury, near 4.3anterbuty. It was occasioned by
some coals getting under the hearth in the kitchen,
which set fire and destroyed the joists. By great clef-
ti•sns the fire did not extend beyond the kitchen. The
Rev. Doctor and family made •their escape from the
house, and providentially so, as the danger was great,
I particularly from suffocation.
Nsw Comma COINAGL—The Right Worshipful the
11 Mayor, feeling the great inconvenience arising from the
want of a supply of the 'New Copper Coin, very pro-
' perly addressed the Government on the subject, and has
received the following letter from Mr. Gunlburn. The
linter does not go the length of stating when the ,unk ly
may be expected ; but the attention of the Mayor to the
interests of his fellow citizens, will be duly app-eciated:
Dublin Castle, Janus: y i is, 165'6.
Stn—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th
inst. stating that great inconvenience is felt from the want of a se*
ficient Issue of New Copper Coin, ate can only say, that as mons,
a supply can be procured from the Mint in England, It will be die-
trilleted through the several towns in Ireland, and the stains of
Cork will of course receive the earliest consideration.

I am Sir,
Your most obedient bumble Ser►ant,
HKNMY GOULBURN.

CORN EXCHANGE, MARE-LANE, J•wukkT 2S.
The arrivals this morning are tolerably large, and we have again
a good quantity of Floor. 'There is scarcely any superfine Wheat at
inarket : w►at there is obtains last Monday's prices ; hut all ether
sorts are ezcessively dull Other descriptions of Corn have vary
heavy sale at last quotations.—Arrivals: English Wheat, 2.100 qrs.
Barley, 1,260 qrs. Oats, 5.1.50 qrs. Finur, 6,100 sacks. !chili Oat*
2,700 qrs. Foreign Barley, 5,730 qrs. Oats, GOO qrs.

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' MR. TELFORD.

An elegant marble Tablet, executed by Messrs.
Cleland, of Glasgow, k placed at Banavie (otherwise
c idled Neptune% Staircase), on the Caledonian Canal,
an which the 11419,aing lines, by Robert Southey, Esq.
I'oet Laureate, ate inscribed, in h3uour of Thomas Tol.
ford. Eel. civil engineer:
Where these capacious basins, by the laws
Of the subjacent element, receive
The ship, descending or spraised,—eight times
From stage to stage, with unfelt agency,
Translated,—fithest may the ntarble here
ltecord the Architect's immortal name
•
Telford it was, by whose presiding mind
'The whole great week was pleased and perfected !
Telford,—who o'er the vale of Cambrian Dee,
Aloft in air, at giddy height upborne,
Carried his navigable road ; and hung
High o'er blesser' straits the bending bridge;
Structures of mere ambitious enterprise
Than asiastreh, in the age of old romance,
To their own Merlin's magic lure ascribed.
Nor bath he for his native land perform'd
Less, in this proud design; and where his piers.
Around her coast, from many a Osher's creek,
Unibelsered, and many an ample port,
Repel th' assailing storm : and where his roads,
In beautiful and sinuous line far seen,
•
Wind with the yak, and win the long ascent,
Now o'er the deep morass sustain'd,—and now,
Across ravine, or glen, or estuary,
Opening a passage through the wilds subdued !