Star.
London, England, 1826-11-16 00:00:00

DOVER, Nov. 14.

Last misfit we experienced here an almost nnpre-
cedesseed storm of wind and rain. At one part of the
town, Iliggin-street, at. the outskirts on the London road,
dining the night the water came down from the hills
behind, and collected in the small hollows. and at
length burst through every restraint, and rushed in a
torrent through the street; the grates of the common
sewer soon became choked, and the watchman failing
to alarm the neighbourhood, or to procure assistance,
most dr the cellars were inundated to the ceilings. The
*hole of to-day has been spent in pumpingrut the wa-
ter, and baling the cellars with buckets. The inconve-
nience suffered by many families is immense, but the
real damage done is comparatively trifling to what
might be excected. As tste wind blew right on shore,
it was feared,inteligence from sea would be of a me-
lancholy tendency ; the only accidents which have
reached us ar yt.t are. that Nit of a trenching boat,
wrecked, has beeniwashed ashore on the coast, and two ofl
the sante description of vessels were this morning on
the rocks at Calais, in a very precarious situation. On
Sunday last, when the Duke of Devonshire arrived, the
Collector of Customs waited on his Grace, in his official
capacity, to inspelt the luggage ; and the domestic to
whom was intrusted the shewing of the packages, instead
of declaring what each contained, presented the keys,
which were accordingly all made use of, and the usual
search was gone through, when about 16001. worth of
contraband goods were seized in the King's name.—
More goods were amongst the luggage, for which duty
was paid, the duty on which amounted to 201.

No less than 26,593 slaves were embarked in Bra-
zilian vessels on the African coast, between the Ist of
July, 1825, and Ist of July, 1826 ; of whom 1,540 are
sea:ed to have died on their passage to Rio de Janeiro.
A bear attached to one of the caravans at Blandford
fa't last week, caught a sheep while passing near, and
hugged the poor animal to death.
•.‘ P 'bell which is on board of the steam boat Stave-
reigp,plying upon the river Clyde, belonged to the Old
Church of Port Glasgow. It is a very elegant piece of
workmanship, for the period in which it was cast. It
bears this inscription—" Soli Deo Gloria, A.D. 1723."
E,I4IOIRATION.—A General Meeting, to the number
of nearly one thousand, of the Members of the Emigra-
tion Societies belonging to Glasgow, was held in the
Lyceum Rooms, on Thursday evening, the 26th ult.
obert Craig, weaver, in the Chair. The purport of
the Meeting was to learn the result of certain conic-
fences held by Mr. Northhouse, on the part of the
weavers, with his Majesty's Ministers, on the distress of
the working classes in the West of Scittland; and what
mode of relief was likely to be adopted by the Legisla-
ture, particularly whether or not a scheme of emigra-
tion to a considerable extent would be encout aged?—
Mr. Northhouse, on his arrival from London, had been
solicited to attend. He did so, and was received by a
general burst of .applause. The information which he
ftprished was, upon the whole, highly satisfactory, as,
Isom the letters he read, and the information he gave. it
appeared that certain influential members of his Ma-
jesty's Government were friendly to a plan of emigra-
tion, and that it was probable transports would be
fit•ed out next Spring, provided the emigrants or their
Asked: would furnish what else the.y might want,
either from the assistance of the landed or commercial
Gentlemen around them, or otherwise. On his retiring,
certain resolutions were passed, the substance of which
a to follow up the petitions to his Majesty, by peti-
tioning Parliament, representing their truly miserable
condition, and praying for the means of emigration on
a scale to meet their circumstances. It was also re-
solved that an address of thanks should be delivered to
the Gentlemen whose unremitted exertions had been so
.useful to them. Upon this occasion, it was observed,
that however debased in their worldly circumstances
the working classes in this city were, they had happily
sufficient virtue left to be grateful (or services rendered.
An interesting and singular case of murder is re-
potted in the French Papers to have been lately tried
by the Court-of Assizes of the Ardennes. Jean Bap-
tiste Sergeot, formerly in the army, bad been con-
demned, in 1820, to five years hard labour, for in-
subordination to his Officers. His time of imprison-
ment having expired, he was liberated, and engaged
himself as a labourer in the wool-manufacture at Sedan.
Ile there conceived a violent passion for a young wo-
man named Mary Maim, likewise employed in the
wool-manufacture. He offered her his hand, which he
pretends she at first accepted, though she herself
denied the statement. Certain it is that she after-
wards terulsed him. In his despair, Sergent formed
the criminal resolution to avenge his sufferings on the
object of his passion. He appears for sonic time to
have struggled against this atrocious idea, and to have
left Sedan. that i.e might not be tempted by the daily
opportunity of being aNle to carry it into execution.
He tom, however, returned to the same place, drawn
by what be described an irresistible necessity ; and on
the 22d of Jane, having purchased a table-knife, which
he pointed and aliarpened, proceeded to the house of
the young woman. l3eing denied admittance, he wen:
to the house of one of her friends, where he fotaid her
at.supccr. Coming in behind her, lie plunged the
knife into her side. The alarm was given, but the
assassin made no attempt to escape. He deliiered him.
self up to the gendarmes, avowing that le had tom.
wined the murder, hoping that he had done the work
effectually, And only regretting that be had not bad a
pair of pistol:--rune for himself and another for her.—
Before the Judge of Instruction, he made no attempt
to ceteact his former confession, or to bring forward
circumstances to palliate the enormity of his crime.
He shewed the same. demeanour, and made the same
avowals, on his wills The Jury returned an unanimous
verdict of guilty. He refused to appeal to the Court of
Cassation tiU Ou last moment, though the Jury had re-
commended bins to. mercy. He did, I owever, ac last
allow an appeal, which has not yet been disposed of.
The phrase " to stumble at the threshold," originated
in the circumstance that the old thresholds or steps un-
der the door, were, like the hearths, raiseal a. little, so
that a person might stumble over Ult.lll, uuluss proper
care were taken. A very whimsical reason for this
practice is given in a curious little tract by Sir BAL.
TuAzAat (iguana, entitled," Council cod Advice to all
chillers. 1663," itt.trie,e words:—' A good surveyor
shwa also the ordering el domes with dairablim,g thresh-
olds, though our forefathers asffect.al perchance
to perpetuate the ancient cu,tonse of bridegroomes,
whoa t• rasely at their return horn Church they did
are to litt up their bride, and to knock her head against
that of Ara .Jo re, for a. remembrance, that she w.-s m
to pass the thresh-1J of her house without their leave."

' CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.

The intere-tine ce•emony of opening the General
Convocation of the Cle:gy, which is consequrr t *upon
the Meeting of a New Parliament, toik place yesterday.
At an early hour the Judges, Civilians, and Proctors
of the Ecclesiastical Court, proceeded from their Hall
at Doctors' Commons, to the Chapterhonse, St. Paul's
Church-yard, where his Grace the Archbishop of CAN-
TiRsuKT, the Lord Bishop of Losonos, and a considera-
ble number of the Ciergy had already assembled.
About eleven o'clock the procession proceeded to Sr.
Paul's in the following order :

Marshal.
Mice Ream&
Two Gentlemen of the Archbishop of (teat tarp's Hossebell,

in Court dresses.
Ills Grace the Lord Primate, weeded by a Tvels.bearen
Four of the Lord Primate's Chajhine.
Vergers.
The Bishop of London.
The Bishop of London's Chaplains.
The Clergy of the Diocese.
Purutivant.
The Judge of the Coosistory Court (Sir J. Nieholl).
The King's Advocate (Sir C. Robinson), and Dr. Arnold.
The Advocates of the Ecclesiastical Courts, two and two.
Proctors and other Dithers of the EeclesiasticalCourts, two tate two.
Screams of the Ecclesiastical Court.

In this order the procession moved from the Chapter
House to the great western entrance of the Cathedral,
when it was joined by the Bishop of Llandaff, the Ca-
nons residentiary of St. Paul's, the choristers and the
officers and servants of the Cathedral.
Having arrived in the chancel, the Lead Primate, the Bishop of
London, and the other Dignitaries, took t►eir places, and the service
of the Church was read in Latin by the Bishop of Liandalf. The
service having been concluded, a very excellent Latin sermon was,
preached by Dr. Monck, the Very Rev. Dean of Peterborough.
Of this discourse, which was composed with great
elegance and purity of style, the Catholic claims,
formed, as might have been expected, the prominent
feature. In allusipn to 'ate Parliamentary inquiry,
which took place in both Houses, the preacher in-,
sisted sttongly on the proofs derived from the evidence,
of the claimants themselves, that the tenets of the
Roman Catholic Church were not, as has been alleged,
ameliorated and softened down by time, but that their
nature was unchanged and unchangeable. With respect
to the Irish Catholics more especially, he maintained
that in pressing their remonstrances they were urged on'
by their priests, whom he characterized as a class of men,
guibus xunquans languet industria, tongue* rkteit,
solertia' and who,:masking their real designs under the
pretence of consulting the common good, were princi-
pally actuated by the desire of aggrandizing the Church
of Rome. In conclusion, he called upon his Reverend
Brethren not to relax their vigilance, but to continue to
deprecate any measures which might operate to produce
a change in the religion which their predecessors had
suffered so much to establish, and to continue instant
with Parliament. "Ne in cursum tonere ruaxt uxde
n:411u: reditus detur."
On the conclusion of the sermon, his Grace the Primate pro-
nounced the benediction (the usual anthem being from some cause
omitted.) and the procession returned in the aim order as it had
wired.

Saturday the whole of the silver spoons placei on the
market table at the Crown Inn, Sudbury, were stolen by
some yet undiscovered thief.
It has been determined, we understand, by the Manu-
facturers' Relief Committee, not to make any further
appeal to the public at present.
Tuesday an eagle was shot by a man of the name of
Osborn. of North Somercoates, near the sea, the length
of which, from the tip of each wing, was seven feet and
a half, from the beak to the tail three feet, and weigh-
ing nine pounds.
The state of the ground allotted for the present hack-
ney coach stand, near the King's Mews, is quite deplo-
rable. The poor horses stand fetlock deep in mud.
' The provincial papers contain numerous accounts of
accidents, many fatal, and all more or less serious, an.
sing from the silly and mischievous mode still persevered
in, of celebrating the fifth of November.
Two portmanteaus, belonging to a family of disthic-
tion, were some time age lest from among their lug-
gage, in a steam-boat, between Prance and D over, for
the recovery of which every active measure was threat-
ened to be adopted, and the loss estimated at 1501. two
shawls alone being valued at 801.; en Monday, how-
ever, the portmanteaus were discovered in a part of the
vessel which had hitherto escaped search. • On being
opened, the duty on the two shawls being refused to be
paid as valued at,601. they were submitted to the usual
mode of valuation, when they were declared to be worth
forty-six shillings !
Wednesday se'nnight, a youth, Charles Blake, accom-
plished the foolish and dangerous feat of clambering
outside the spire of All Saint. Church, Stamford, to its
Himont, when, having fastened his neckerchief to the
weather vane as a token of his prowess, he descended.
The crew of the Albion, Graham, of Leith, which
was picked up at sea, abandoned, last week. are on
board the Eiina, also from Rotterdam to Leith, and
belonging to the same Company. The two vessels bad
come in contact, and the Albion received such damage
by the collision, that the crew were taken on board the
Edina. The latter vessel also sustained damage, and
has been assisted into Harwich. The cargo of the
Albion. has been landed at. Yarmouth.
When Santeuil was at Dijon, in 1697, previous to the
opening of the States General, whither he accompanied
the Duke de Bourbon, he Made a journey to Citeaux.
After having examined, with the most lively satisfac.
tion, that celebrated monastery, he turned to his con•
ductors and said, in the bantering tone which was fami-
liar to him, " Let me see, I pray you, the Hall of In-
dolence, which Boileau describes in his Liitrin."—
" Indolence used to lodge here formerly," replied one
of the Monks, 46 but to-day Folly has taken her place."
Santeuil died at Dijon the same year.
The Emperor Aurelian having arrived before the
City of Tyanus, and having found its gates closed,
snore in his, anger, that he would not leave even a dog
alive in this rebellious city. This soldiers rejoiced be-
forehand in the hope of making great booty, The city
was taken ; and Aurelian said to his troops, (who were
entreating him to keep his oatl.) 11 I have sworn not
to leave a single dog in this.city—quick then, kill every
one, but, on pain of death, huit not the inhabitants."

Two countrymen, leaiding at the village of Brandon,
were, at the meeting of Nlagistrates at Durham on
&tut day, bound by tecognizatice CO am:war at the neu
General Quarter Stssions of the Peace, to take their trial
for committing an assault on a ranter preacher. It ap.
peals the rustics had been indulging in their cups in
cclebratipn of the gunpowder plot, the sth November,
when they enci.untered the preacher on. tin it toad, oho
took occasion to rate them on the wickedness of their
wag s, and te.eivesta striking answer for his 44 good

TOLICE I NTLNI,LIGENCE. •

HATTON. GA RDEN—(Tnis DAY).
A recpectsble-looking man, named Ride, *as brought up from
the watchhouw, charged with a most wanton assault. committed by
Mm an the person of a married woman, named Burns, List night,
In Holborn.

It appears that about half-past seven o'clock last evening, the
complainant and her husband, and several other friends, were pro-
ceeding along Holborn ; Mrs. Burns was walking rather ahead of
her husband, and while thus unprotected, the defendant came up to
her, and accosted her in a very ungentlemanly manner, and pro-
ceeded to insult her most grossly. She desired him to desist, or
she should call her husband ; whereupon he struck her a dreadful
blow with his fist between the eyes, which nearly closed them up.
The husband and his friends immediately ran to her assistance, and
seized the defendant, who fought desperately, and it was not till
several watchmen came up that he could he overpowered and taken
to the watchhouse. Mrs. Burns, who is a native of the Sitter
Kingdom, drew her pocket handkerchief from her face, and her
eyes presented a dreadful man of discelouration, and her nose also
was bruised, and very much swollen.
Several persons who saw the assault committed stepped forward,
and said that they never saw a man so violent in all their lives as
the defendant. He was very much in liquor indeed.
The defendant denied having struck the plaintiff at all, and said
that she received the injuries to her face in the general scuffle; he
himself had received a black eye front her patty.
The Magistrate said that it was a mast unmanly assault, and
ordered the defendant to find bail, to answer the charge at the
Sessions.— We understand the matter was afterwards compromised.

Information was given at this office of a daring burgfary, that
was committed on the premises of Mr. Richard Wilson, the snuff
manufacturer, N.. 212, Strand, on Sunday evening last. The
thieves, it appears, entered by means of skeleton keys, and carried
off a quantity of Meerchaunt pipes mounted with green tassels; a
quantity of Scotch snuff.bozes manufactured at Cumnock ; a quart.
Sky Of painted Brunswick boxes, by Stobwasser; a quantity of
painted Fsnglish boxes, by Raven ; and a quantity of wearing ap.
parel, ate. to a large amount. The officers were ordered to be on the
alert for the burglars.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday, Captain Sinclair was brought up again, when two
Medical Gentlemen attended, and declared the invalid was going on
tavouraMy. One of them, the Gentleman who gave his evidence on
the first examination, said it was very improbable that fatal conse-
quences would ensue.
The Loan Maros admitted the Captain to bail in the common
sums, two of ,C2O, and himself in ,C4O.

The Captain pi oduced a legal document, giving him notice from
the invalid of an action to recover damages for the injury he bad
sustained. The Captain said, that front the first be believed the
whole to be an attack upon his pocket. This last proceeding con-
vinced him of it.
A poor wretched looking woman complained of the conduct of tbe
parish oaken of Bishopsgare.street. She said she had four children,
for whom she generally gitt a livelihood by winding silk; she was
now, however, out of work, and two of her children being sick and
helpless, she applied to the parish officers for relief. 'fhey had
given her relief before, but they now positively refused to give her
anything.
The Overseer said, they had given this woman six shillings per
week : but when she last came for relief, instead of begging as she
ought, she positively demanded it in such an insolent manner, that
they thought themselves bound to reject the application.
The LORD MAYOR••••I beg distinctly to be understood by parish
officers, and all persons, when I say, that the poor are not bound to
beg for relief ; they have as much right to it assay of 'shave to the
property which we may enjoy.
The Overseer—Yes, my Lord; but they should ask foe it in a
proper manner.
The Loas hteiroa—Certainly they ought; but considerable al-
lowances must be made for their ignorance, and they must not be
expected at all times to act with the same decorum as persons of
education. In what 1 have said, Ido not wish to be moldered
as making any harsh observations on the Overseers of this parish.
—lt is very large, and the poor, I know, are numerous and un-
fortunate.