Star.
London, England, 1829-10-14 00:00:00

NA VAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS ARRIVED THIS Dar.—Dublin I—Uaterfurd I—Holland 1.
The Editha, Benson, of Scarbro', ran on share near Helsinberg
on the 6th hut.
The Warkwurth, Dunn, put into Areodalil on the 25th ult.
leaky, and would be obliged to discharge.
DIAL, (cr. W.S.W. squally.—Put back, several
of the outward-bound.
PORTSMOUTH, OCT. W.S.W.—Arrivtd the Eggitigton
tramport, from Quebec—sailed the 18th ult.
PLYMOUTH, OCT. 14.—Wind W.—Arrived the Countess of Li-
verpool, Hill, from Terceira—sailed the 22d ult.
FALMOUTH, OCT. 12.—Wind W.—• Sailed the Eclipse packet, for

the Brazils.
Llv►arooL, Ocr. 12.—Arrived the Isabella, Thompson, front
Savanilia—sailed 24th August ; Dee, Rapier, front Demerara—
sailed the Ist ultimo; St. Felix, Kepler, front Kiel ; Hoop. De
Boer, front Rotterdam ; and Mary and Sally, Adam, from Gijon.
Off the port, the Midas, --, from New South Wales and Rio
de Janeiro. The Unicorn, Tromp, front Quebec to this port, has
been got off the shore at Isle Madame, and towed up to Quebec.
BELFAST, Ocr.ll.—Arrived the Nimrod, Agnew, from Quebec;
Amogoler, Aberdeen, and Sarah, Plane, from Mirantichi.
DOVER, OCT: 13.—The Juno, Mass, from Yarmouth to Bristol.
was brought in here last evening, but has made so much water, and
pumped up so much barley, that she must discharge.
Noans SHIELDS, OCT. Ig.—The Farmer, Porteus, from Sun-
derland to Brougbead, was towed into this harbour yesterday, dis.
masted.
Yaimourn, Oct. 10.—The following vessels have put in here,
with damage :—Oakhampton, Golden, front London ; Liverpool
Packet, Bloom, from Rochester ; and Pleasant Hifi, Saunders,
from Llttleliamptois—all for Newcastle.
Ocr IL—The Prince Regent, Shilling, has put in, dismasted.
OCT. 13.—The Aretbusa, from Newcastle to Rio de Janeiro,
abandoned at sea, came into the Roads this morning, in charge of
the smack which first boarded her. The leak was found under
the counter, and stopped. She must be lightened to come into
harbour.

This day his Excellency the Spanish Ambassador
transacted business with the Earl of ABERDEEN, at the
Foreign-office in Downing-street.
Tits DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—At the time of the
Queen's trial, we took occasion to observe that this per-
son was not in the slightest degree connected with New-
castle upon Tyne. We made the same declaration when
his Grace—his most ungracious, or as Shakspcare would
call it, disgracious Grace—acted so forward a part
against the government. It would seem that circum-
stances rendered it necessary for us to repeat our regret,
that the comparatively modern peerage of Newcastle
under Lyne should take the exclusive name of Newcastle,
as if to assimilate it to the ancient titles of our Earls and
Dukes of Newcastle upon Tyne.— Tyne Mercury.
It appears tolerably certain that the moderation of
Nicholas is precisely such as we have repeatedly antici-
pated. He is to have a sum of money from the Porte
which the Sultan will hardly ever be able to pay ;—he is
to have such occupation of the Turkish empire as will I e
tantamount to its becoming Russian ;—he is to have ex-
clusive privileges in the Black Sea, which will do all tl,e
injury to the rest of the world that we have oftentimes
foretold. As far as we can judge at present, it is such a
treaty of peace as is likely to throw all Europe into
hostility.— Tyne Mercury.
®FROM THE QUEBEC PAPER OF TILE iOTII SEPT.
ST. JOHN'S, NEW BRUNSWICK, AUG. 2.5.—'4We are
enabled to state with certainty that instructions have
been received from home '.)y his Honor the President, to
appoint the Rev. B. Gray to the situation of Archdea-
con of this Province, and it only waits the sanction of
the Bishop of Nova Scotia.
Wo have received the Bombay auricr to the 24th
May. The Courier of the 23d May says, "We have
been warned for two successive evenings of fee near
approach of the S.W. mensoon. Since Wednesday the
weather has been extremely blowy, and on Thursday
evening there was a gust of wind from the N.E. which
swept before it all the dust. Yesterday evening we had
another squall, with thunder and lightning, and a shower
of rain."
We are happy to be able to state that the son of Mr.
Wait-sat of Drury-lane Theatre, who lay at the point of death
from Friday forenoon till Sunday morning, has been pronounced
out of danger, and is likely to do well.
We understand that the practice of repairing British
ships in foreign ports has become very common, and that a
scientific gentleman has recently left Sunderland for Hamburgb. fur
the purpose of superintending the construction of a patent slip-way
for repairing ships at that City.
NATURAL CURIOSITY .—A petrified oak has just been
found in the fire stone quarry at Wideopen. about five miles from
Newcastle, at a depth of forty-two feet from the solace, and six
feet from the bed of the stone. Twenty-four feet of the upper part
of the tree has already been taken out; the extent of the remainder
cannot yet be ascertained, as about nine months will be required to re-
move the stone which covers it. Its horizontal exceeds its vertical
diameter in the proportion of 17 to 10. Its position is nearly
horizontal, the bark, knots, &c. retaining:their original appearance :
it is hollow it the core, and chrystalized ; its longitudinal separa-
dons are precisely those of wood rent by powerful external pres-
sure; and In breaking it stp, its transverse section represents the
fracture of iron stone. This fire-stone rock is known to extend
from Wideopen, which is its western extremity. eastward about
four miles. Its width at Wideopen does not exceed a quarter of
a mile, shaped as if formed in a ravine, which may extend between
Prestwick Car and the German Ocean, as rock is found in the
whole line, though differing in quality.

DESTRUCTION of the MA NC'HESTEL, LI V ER-
POOL and HALIFAX COMPANY'S WAREHOUSES
MANCHESTER, by FIRE.

MANCHESTER, Oct. 12.

This morning, between the hours of five and six o'ci.irt ,
this town, and more particularly the neighbourhood of Pi:citlilly
and Dale-street, was thrown iota the utmost state of consternation,
in consequence of a report having been spread, that the exten-
sive range of warehouses belonging to the Company of Merchants
trading to and from Liverpool, Leeds, York, and Halifax,
had taken fire. In a short period after the alarm being
given, the streets in the vicinity of the warehouses were crowded
to excess by the inhabitants, anxious to learn the truth or falsity of
the report, but unhappily it turned out to he too well founded, the
immense warehouses being enveloped in flames, which were rising
and spreading to a terrific height. The fire-engines of the Royal
Exchange Assurance Offite,the Norwich, the Manchester, and the
various other Offices who have stations in the town, were immedi-
ately upon the spot,and commenced playing upon the building ; but,
notwithstauding the plentiful supply of water, (the. Rochdale Canal
adjoining the premises,) the destructive element had proceeded too
far to entertain any hopes of checking its progress until the demo-
lition of the premises had been the consequence. The firemen
therefore directed their labours to those warehouses adjoining, be
lunging to private individuals, which appeared every instant to be
in danger of taking fire, from their having a communication with the
Company's warehouses. The engines played incessantly upon the
buildings in the neighbourhood, but, unfortunately, the warehouses
of Messrs. Barnsley and Faulkner, carriers to and from Manchester
and Hull, being in the immediate vicinity of the Company's ware-
houses, fell a prey to the devouring fury of the flames. About half-past
six the fire appeared to assume a most formidable and terrific aspect ;
the gond, in the warehouses had ignited, and although persons had
been employed since the commencement of the fire, in endeavour
ing to rescue the property, all hope of saving the remainder was lost .
The landing-places were in flames, which ascended to the roof, utd
that in a very short verioil fame down with a tremendnus ;
four barrels of gunpowder, which were on the premiers, brlongi :I to
Messrs. Holland and Curtie, ertiptitqs. exploded, and el k the
timbers like an tarthqu.ke, and coned them to fall insrmvat ~.oily
down, which brought wnli it a part of the brick k . The
buildings at this time seemed like the burning of au eitorm us
furnace, the Company's watehaults being fun of hales of c 1N• n •
which burnt with a violence that easily may be imagined ; the
firemen endeavoured amoego the burning reins ta rescue saat
property which was in the rut alter end attar premises, and he
very great value they had played upon it with the engines it r
length of time; sixteen or seventeen of them, howeve., proeee.'e
to venture their lives in endeavouring to preserve it from the it sr! el'
but just as they had reached the spot a part or the wall save
way upon them, and buried several beneath the ft 11114;
however, they all were most tuiracolously preserv.d, with the ex-
ception of one pone fellow, named Th ..... aa Taylor, a fireman of
the Royal Exchange Asourance Office, who was picked is in
a dreadfully mutilated state, and carried to the alai:cheater fin
firmary, where he expired a lew minutes alter his arrival. Several
other, are materially injured, though not as effects their lives. The
unfortunate man who has lost his lite was about thirty-two year; of
age ; he has been some time in the employment of the Royal Ex-
change Assurance Company, nod was much respected. lie h left
a wife and three children to deplore his lose. How the fire ori-
ginated it is impos-ilile at present to divine. It appears that the
persons employed by the Company during the whole of Saturday
and Sunday had been engaged in shipping goods, and recommences
their labours at half-past twelve on Moirlay morning. A Hach.
smith :lamed Eaton was the first to discover the fire ; and :t is re-
ported that the origin was, that one of the workmen of the Com-
pany fell asleep upon a quantity of fin with a lighted candle by his
bide. If that as the emu, the pour fellow has must likely perished,
though, as there is no cenfirmetion of the fact, it is merely given as
rumour. The extent of damage sustained cannot as yet be esti-
mated. Seven hundred bales of cotton in the Company's ware-
houses, belonging to various perrotie in Manchester, and the
towns lu the neighbourhood, together with eight Izmir. d
loads of malt, the property of a Mr. Taylor, malster, ci
Carlton-upon-Trent, near Newark, in Notunghamehire, were
amongst the property destroyed. 'Flue warehouses, we un-
derstand, though not the goods, were insured in the Norwich and
Royal Exchange Assurance Offices ; the good% it i. premised, will
be the loss of the individual owners, a, the warehouses were, as it
seems, public propetty ; any vessel that chose might discharge its
cargo, and deposit it there, by paying the warehouse dues. The
warehouse of Messrs. Hamby and Faulkner, as well as those of
the Liverpool and Halifax Company, were reduced, by ten o'clock
in the forenoon, to a heap of rubbish ; fortunately, the only loss in
property sustained by the former, was the destruction of four hairs
of twist. Had the fire happened on the Saturday, twist to the
amount in value of 30,00e1. would most likely have been destroyed,
it having only been loaded in the vessels on the Sunday night.
At four o'clock on Monday afternoon, the fire was still raging,
though now it is not probable it will ex:end further. The Canal,
which runs alongside the warehouses, apt eared like a lake
of liquid fire, the surface for a considerable distance
being covered with burning cotton ; the branches of the
Canal, which lead to the interior of the destroyed were -
houaes, are wholly blocked ep with burnin; rubbish, end the
Canal itself has the appearance, from the smoke, of boiling watt r.
The brick-work of this immense pile of building now stand, in a
very insecure state, and is expected to tall every hour. There is
an immense range of building immediately opposite to the de-
stroyed warehouses belonging to the Rochdale Canal Company ;
but happily the Canal divides them, otherwise they, in common
with Messrs. Ilartiaby and Faulkner'o, might have shared the
same fate. It is scpposed that the destruction of these watehoune
will be a great loss to the mercantile part of Manchest r.

WELCII Tit EATRIC LS.—" W TER."— it
would seem that an 'a overitowiste house is not always a decide
raturn. A provincial journal maw, that "it will be iatposs:ble to
open the Cardiff Theatre this sealant, the late rains having Ilion.
dated it to the depth of nearly as feet, and the water being at
present above the stage."
SKETCH OF IltlBlll SOC: ET Y.—The following extra( t
of a letter front a lady on a visit to her friends in Ireland gives
a forcible and characteristic picture of the character, manners, a. 1.1
society of the inhabitants of the sister kingdom No descr.p-
tions of Irish kindness and bospitaLty come up to the truth, -ad
it really has such a charm as to make one forgive, if one cannot
forget, the other es. agreeable !rids :qualifier' ehch accompas y it.
There seems such a general good-orb kiwaids all their (chow-
mortals, and which extends on to a:limits, as becomes quite in.
(retinue, and one seems to grow as kind, as idle, as noisy, and
as merry, as the population by which one is surrounded. TT.,
family where we are to partake so strongly of all the best of the
Irish character, and are so much and so deservedly loved and re-
spected by a very numerous set of neighbours an.i Wends, that
all have been anxious to pay every attention to their niece aut.'.
also to her friend, by giving evening parties to es, which ate
very amusing from the frank and natural manners of the people,
and front the entire difference there is in every thing between
them ; rid those of the same rank in Eneaud which is so
marked, one has some difficulty to believe one is in any part of
what is properly our °wit country. Yet no description in
writing would give you a just idea of this difference. '!he parr!,
meets about eight o'clock ; conversation, music, and sometimes
dancing, are the anniserneths till ten, whet, there is either a sup-
per or refreshment. and we are generally at home by eleven o'clock
or a little after. In these meetings there is more hilarity, if I
may so term it. then in ours; and the strung brogue, the loud
tones and peculiar modes of expression, are very entertaining to
strangers like eurselves. Indeed the Irish in all ranks are such
a sociable people, that, from our congregating at breakfast till
we separate at night. no one is ever :dune. or even doing any
thing, that I can find nut, when we are together ; then there is is
every rank arid degree such an udd wan: of order or regularity
throughout. such a huntarg after all things that ought to he in the
way, and such a contusion of things which ought not. such a cent.
slant movement after no one knows what, that I really think
when we return we shall think you all very eluil and half asleep,
and give you a good rouse by exclaiming in a tone we biol have
to perfection,' Agh now and you are all asleep, ,:ears t ai:d sure
now where will I get arty thing to make me laugh The sho;.,
are in the same state, nothing where it ought to be is looked for.
and when found it is a chance whether the man serving you know,
either the price or quality."

CORN—EXCHANGE, MARK—LAN OCT. 14.
Our market was in nearly a stagnant state this tuornis g--set
little business was done, and that to needy purchasers tut Mot.-
day's prices were obtained for fine samples of Wheat, Barred.
and Oats.

IMPUNTATIONS SINCE MONDAY.
Wheat, English (qrs.) . 3,03 U Barley, Foreign
Irish . . Oars, F.ng:ish
Foreign . 3.450 Foreign
Barley, English . 4,230 Irish
Irish • . I Flour (sacks)
COAL. MARKET—Tuts Dar.

. 7• ‘.
. 2,9; '
.

4.7L0
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The Coal Exchange was fully attended by merchants to-day, a:.,:
Coals condnue to be in very good demand. This day's supply of
Sunderland and Newcastle Coals was but moderate; 49 new ship.
were at market. making on the week's arrival a total of 65 ships.
Ships arrived during the month ... • . 267
Best Wallsend Coals 4os. Od. fls. Od.
Other sorts £9e. Od. 381. 6d.
Ships at Market