Star.
London, England, 1827-06-04 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, Juwg 2.

About ten o'clock on Friday night, in the soap ma•
nufactory of Mr. Lunt, in Edmond-street, the lees pan,
owing to some inattention, was suffered to become
nearly dry, and on pumping some cold lees into
It, the vessel instantly exploded, the steam rising
with such force as to remove the slates from de
'toot of the outbuilding in which it was situated, the
concussion shaking many of the dwellings to their very
foundations, and breaking a number of squares of glass
in the back part of the premises on the south side of
Prussia-street, which face the soapery. - Henry Seddon,
the unfortunate person who attended the boiler, was
bloWn to a short distance, and very much scalded. He
has been in air:re:nest agony ever since the accidest,
and scarcely any booe is entertained of his. recovery.
A wife and firm children. were dependent upon, him.
Considerable notice was attracted on Monday and
Tuesday last, to the exhibition of a species of mill.
Lary punishment, which, upon men not utterly lost to
all sense of shame would seem likely to operate with
good effects, and pros% i salutary 'substitute for
the cruel and brutalising systteat. of flogging: A
private belonging to.the 6th Dragoons, feat ,repeated
intoxication an 4 censequent vintatons of discipline,
velislomPelled to eirrytheAccOutrements belonging to
himielf and'horse, parading with them to and fro in
Castle-street, for a cthisideratile time each day, amidst
the gaze of a crowd of 'specdtlowi. On each occasion he
was attended by a corporal, to ioe that he executed the
required labour, which he performed With no very bp
coming praie or ease to himself.
Honor Toome,..whose father was a poulterer and
purveyor of the Royal Family, whilst at Westmin-
ster and Eton Schools, was, of course, accustomed
to associate occasionally with the sons of people
of distinction ; and being aware of the ridicule
too generally attached to a humble origin, he
found means to. spare himself from all mortification
of this kind, .by -calling in either his wit or invention
to his aid. Once; while a few idle boys, who had formed
themselves-into a circle, were interrogating each other
about the rank and condition of their respective parents;
one said he was the son of Sir Robert A---; the
next, that his father was the Earl of B---; and 0
third, that his grandmother was the Duchess of C---1
when it came to young Horne 's turn. he observed;
" that be could not boast of any titles in his family:
and, on being more • closely pressed, added, with e
well-affected reluctance, that his father was an emioest.
Turkey merchant!" This reply was quite conclusive
and satisfactory, for, at the period alluded to, England
enjoyed a large.share of the Levaint trade, and &Turkey
merchant was but another name for credit and opulence.
When the Kent Indiaman was on fire in the Bay of
lifecey, Col. Macaaooa, of the Slst Regiment, hastily
llf wrote a memorandum of the circumstance, and threw ic
overboard in a well-corked bottle (previously to the
fortunate rescue by the Cambria brig), addressed
to his, father in Scotland. This Officer now belongs to
the 9Sd regiment stationed at Barbadoes, and while
on a visit to a Gentleman's estate on the windward sw tide
of that Island, in October last, the identical bottle, ith
the paper in it, was washed ashore there, having, in 19
months, crossed the Atlantic in a S W. direction.
Mi. LISTON'S TALIACOTIAN OPIRATIONr•The rums
Om success of this remarkable operation, by which a
nose that bad been destroyed by a violent blow, has
been constructed rathei than
beyond-all doubt, and certainly does infinite credit to
the eminent and skilful surgeon by whoin it was Pa"
formed. The process of adbesion is complete, and the sr
paratus which had been employed to facilitate its pro.
tree: as well as to preserve the shape of the organs has
removed. In short, the operation has succedei t!
kt wish'; and though we cannot exactly coenplice,.."`
the young man on possessing a nose fashioned on 117
purest Greek model, it is nevertheless a good. Passab
anfeJ
repaired, is now placed
commonplace affairs which no man need be anll
of. Having Having entertained an idea that the forebear,
would be grievously disfigured by the removal
'so large I portion of skin and muscle, it is Pt°lo
o add, in ju:tice to Mr. LISTON, that fromt
dexterous and skilful treatment or the rtientf 1
she care that has been taken to bring the lips i
.
he wound to cohere, the cicatrix promises to be i
extremely trifling, that in a few weeks it will o°ll,
lisceraible on a close approximation. This is the fir
ime that the Taliacotian method of restoring a ncale
JeCII attempted in Scotland.—Cakdonian Mereaft

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