Star.
London, England, 1829-12-26 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mans ASSN= Tans Day.—Dublin I—Waterford I—France a
The Margate, Bret, from London to Rio de Janeiro, was
in Sheerness on Thursday, with damage, and loss of rudder,
being been on the Urr.
The Tobago, Reed, from Gaspe., was on ibore on the Spaniard
Sand on Wednesday, but got off with loss of anchor and cable.
Doom, Dec. &S.—Wind E.—The Ottowai for Quebec, pro-
ceeded to the westward, with loss of anchor and cable.
PORTMOSTM, Die. 24.—Wind N.H.—Arnett! the Robert Ed-
wards, Siterburn, from the Downs, and sailed for New York.—
Arrived the Pomona. Spring, from Denis; and Nautilus,
from Smyrna.
Ptariecorrn, De. 240—Wind E.
Fateotrea. Dec. 23 and 24.—Wind N.Y. to E.N.E.—Arrived
the Andromache Laws. from Calcutta—sailed the lith of August,
Mauritius 24th September, and St. Helena 25th October. Also,
die Sprightly, Newson. fern The Sprightly forced the
blockade into and out of Tercets, and c apt. Newson reports that
be left Count Villa Floe and the Wanders in excellent spirits,
Nobble of continuing a good defence on all sides, and satisfied in
Owe WS Solids that the troops of Don Miguel would never again
attempt a &woe on their shores.
Leman., Dec. 24.—Arrived the Ariadoe, from Smyrna.
CLIME Dar. 25.—Arrived the Unice*, from Veneers.
Dosu:r, Dec. !g.—Arrived the Lady Oentonto, Johnson, from
Qatar.
Lemon, Dec. 12.—• The Jane Robson. late Drown, sailed from
Poet-au-Pence 224 April, to tooth at Cowes for orders, and has
not since been beard of.
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Gasanocz. - -. O.—. . Cygnet, Banos, from New York to near Sheffield, . . Castle, ...
athill"", was "'des" " the ash ukimo, in tat. 31. long. 31. A new Fire-King is said to be on his way from Paris,
Crew saved by the Meta, London, arrived here treat Demerara. eager, no doubt, to share in the fruits of John Bull's
Mrs. Taves, at her audit, held at Glaiston, on the 22d gullibility.
inst. for the receipt of her Michaelmas rents, made a re- - We should like to know what Mr. Fox, the great
turn of 10 per cent. Whig leader, would have said, had he lived to see a
H unit JACKSON, Faq. of Wisbeoh, has returned 10 whole phalanx of his legal followers pitted against one
per cent. to his tenantry at Duddington. p9or solitary Editor of a newspaper, and his nephew, Lord
The Rev. W. POTCHETT has made a return of 10 per HOLLAND, awitness for theprosecution.—Morn.Herald.
Rent. from the amount of his tithes in Harrowby. The magnificent mansion of the late Duke of YONK,
The Rev. E. TuoßoLD' Rector of Morcott, at his in the Green Park, now called Gower-House, once in-
tithe audit, last week, returned 15 per cent. tended for the residence of the late lamented Duke of
. The Rev. T. Bitzvon, Curate of Baruby, distributed YORK, and purchased in its skeleton state for 75,000:.
his usual Christmas donation of blankets, clothing, &c. by the Marquis of STAFFORD., contains ono of the noblest
to the poor of that parish, on Monday last. central staircases of any house hitherto built. It seems
At the audit of Philip Duncombe Paucefort Duncombe, at present not decided where the arms of the Royal Duke
FA. at Bourne, a return of 15 per cent. was made on the are to be placed, but they are careful locked up, and
rents of his tenants. will occupy some conspicuous part of the mansion in its
Colonel PIZZKEPONT, of Ryhall, has returned 15 per buished state. The completion of the interior el the
cent. to his tenants, with a promise to make .a similar building is likely to be postponed for some time, as the
return at his next audit. Noble owner has directed parts only to be papered he
Gamma.: Gazoonv' Esq. at his has rent-day, re- his reception, leaving the remainder to hissuccemouterbe
turned 16 per cent. to his tenants at Hungerton and lathes be enabhdto conipek* On assoustialima in
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Harlaxton. cossomanti wish hie puttioshr Pita. -

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STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

FM/91 Cobbett's Register of this dir:.
DERBY, !Vomit-, DK. ti

Th.- present impres ion upon my mind is (arid I have w-r rye,
Pit miogham to that effect,) that I skaU gnomes Yorkshire first, at
e.noe back by Nottingham, Leicester, ilirreinaliaro, shall
thence to Wolverhampton. It is intposaibk fur me to de ermine
precisely which course I will take till I get to Liverpool, whence
I will immediately write to all friends in Lancashire and
Yorkshire and alto to those of Nottirghem, Leicester;
Birmingham, and Wolverhampton. I wished to take eine*.
bam first, for the Frames at reed in the last /feeder g and I
done all that I could do in order to act upon americium&
t.-nd to qirt Derby on Saturday or Sueday neat, and to be
Liverpool on the Sunday night. at latest. I Intend to deliver
'perch here on Wednesday neat. and another on Saturday. .
not quite cocain which wiU be the days. My friends here s
do Si they like about the matter ; for nay motto is," always ready.
As to the state of the country, it has been min I.ondon
Birmingham feels less of distress than other places. That
Readers of the, Resistor may have some idea of the state of
mingham. I will state a fact or two which I have from inures.
tionable authority. The first is, that the operative gunstock makers.
who used to earn, in ordinary times, front thirty to forty shillings
• week, now earn four shillings and del:slice • wept ! Some.
other trades are somewhat better o(; bat the whole are work.
hag at wages so miserably low, as to afford nothing like
adequate nainten Alec, even for a single man. Another fact,
that the men in the iron works are become lit te better than
set of beings fed from hand to meth, is eacharge for their '
hour. It is said, upon what I deem good authority, that the'
masters have taken to themselves the business of supplying

workmen with vitro as, drink, and other necessaries, in
(or their labour, superseding altogether the dealing with .hop
keepers and victuallers, and suffering no money to pass betwe.l
them and their labourers ; nay, to such a pitch is this carried,
that they have their workmen shaved by contract, and -
the shavers at so mach per doses. The workmen would
themselves, if the masters would give them the penny, ..r
half.penny, or whatever it is they pay; but this they will
not do, it is said, and that no money whateer.r passes be-
tween them. Tbi. is a state of barter in reality ! I was further
informed. that the barber., or some of them, in Birminghini,
thy that the shaving by the dozen so materially leisecvd tlicx
trade, had stuck up bills, notifying that they would there for
*mins ! This is teal baster. Thk shows the great and ptes-ing
want of money. With regard to the minor transactions. the nits.
sure of value is gone; money is banished from a community will. Is
has lung boasted of the endless sources of its wealth. Our el, tier
men of Whitehall and St. 13-epheit'a have found out the way of re.
during a rich country to poverty. and lit bringing down a proud
and powerful nation to a state in which it declares, or as good as
declares, that it cannot go, to war.

I be situation of the greater part of the operative manufacturers,
in this county, in Nottinghamshire, and in Leicestershire, is said
'to be truly deplorable. There are supposed to be thirty thou-
sand stocking-frames ; and the wages of the weavers have declined
to such a point, as to leave the poor creatures scarcely the means
of bare existence. The weaysrs have not at this sort of work,
more than four shillings and dep. nee a week per man, at the
weaving of cotton or worsted. Those that weave silk get, in
some cases, a little more ; and some of them. perhaps. six or witty
shillings ; but even this will not afford half a sufficiency of fool.
One of the consequences of this state of things is, the tamale.
ablaut's* of the coarser parts of butcher's meat.— Formerly , the
richer part of the community purchased the best jeints' while the
working people took the remainder; bat now, though there are
customers enough for the best, there is nobody to buy the coat se:-
parts of the meat ; or, at least. there has been a Latins off here to
a very great degree. Workmen, that used to purchase live or sit
pounds of meat at a time, now take a pounder half a pound, and
some of them none at all; and their dress, their looks thtit
movements, and the sound of their voices, correspond with this
debasement with regard to their food. Potatoes appear lobe the
best of their diet. Some live upoo boiled cabbage end salt, end
others are said to live nn molded brew, which, as most readers know.
is what we call a mash, given to horses when they have colds. As
to the potatoes, the cabbage, and the bran, they are not sufficiently
good food fer even a lean hog, in the winter season.
One thing I have heard of in this county, even more horrible
than that which I mentioned a few days ago in London. I Itsre
allude to the statement which I have read in the Nettileghttes Kr-
stiewrelative to the sale of labourersat Stapleton. That which I base
now beard supposes the people to be treated, not as slaves ; not as
negro slaves; but actually as beasts; whose to nil connexion is.
superintended by their masters, after the same manner that farina-Is
and breeders superintend. for similar purposes, the co .....
amongst their cattle, sheep and pip; or as a deklatedis super-
intends the connexion between canine animals of different bras.
In short (for I must come to it at law.) the plain and horrible
tale is this: that in some places, those who have the emttintinsi
over the poor keep the married women separated from their hti4.
bands ; do not suffer them to see each other but once its ro 1-eg
a time ; then, for only so many minutes, and never out of the Er-u-
senet pf the overseer, or person appointed by him ; and all this t,r
the odious, the shameless, the beastly purpose of preventiog th..l
increase oifamlly which the parsons at the marriage has joint d with
the parties in praying Goo may take place, and which Gun himself
knead shall be considered a blessing !

And this is England! This is the envy of surrounding nationr,
and the admiration of the world ; this is that counts y wEich waa
for so many ages renowned as the land of liberty and good living I
While men are in this situation; while such is the degradation
end misery of the common people, who is to be surprised that they
commit offences again 4 the law ? Who is to be surprised that they
pay no attention to those duties which were held sacred by the
fathers? Who is to be surprised if they he reckless of conse•
quences? Who is to be surprised that they use the means. hots-,
ever dupe rate, to satisfy their hunger? Who is to be surprised at •
the increase of gaol., or at any of those things which at ark the
fearful progrus of crime? Accordingly, to he detected in theft or "
robbery appears now not to be thought a shame amongst the wor k at; '
classes of the people, fur whom the law has no longer any tetrot-.
it being impossible for it to toilet on them auffeagi go ester than
they now enjoy. The gaol is far preferable to the poor-house in
point of living, while the sub deem it no disgrace. }very
death is a deliverance from the infamous regulations regarding the
ttttt sir se of the sexes; and as to trumpet:tattoo. it is a thing ge-
nerally bailed with delight. It is in evidence before the House of
Commons, in printed svideoce, that the labouring people itt Kent ~
declared publicly, that they would be glad to do something to
cause them.eives to be condemned to the hulks; seeing Low much
better off the convicts were then tie poor labouring people, who *,
had committed no crime. This evidence was given before tile
Poor Law Committee of 1621, by a gentleman who was over,. rf
of the poor for the parish of Minster, which Les in the n, ightuo.r 7
hood 01 the hulks. The labouring mete, eyeing how n ugh tjerrrt
cif the convicts were than they themselves were. bad tio iiesitatioo •
to express their desire to be able to commit some crime in orals
that they might share in the enjoyments of the convicts. 'My vita .
gistrates of Berkshire make a greater allowance of food to
felon% in the gads, thee to the honest labouring man workirg
the gelds.

The New Police seem to have effected less than thJ
Parish Beadles did in curing the abominable nuisances .&.t'
slides and other annoyances occurring in the street.,
during the continuance of frost and snow.
JACK IN LOVE.—On the morning of Saturday laht
a jolly Jack Tar attended at the Parish of Stoke Da
marelli for the purpose of being converted into a happy
Benedict, or, in his own more figurative language, to
be spliced to a fair damsel ; after waiting, LowevOr,
upwards of half an hour in vain expectation of the
appearance of the intended bride, it..ck became fid.
gety, and the Minister somewhat impatient, the latter
at length inquired of Jack where the residence of Li.
bride or her parents was ; but this was, as Jack declined,
many points to windward of his knowledge, it eviai
tamed out upon investigatioa that he was not acquainted
with the name of his inamorata or her parents, and had:
not the fair damsel herself luckily made her appearance
about the period at which Jack's and the minister's pa-
tience were nearly exhausted, we know not how flue jolly
tar would have extricated himself from his awkwata
dilemma.

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A gentleman in this town, some days ago, sent to
borrow his neighbour's okaying implements, hot was made lie.
quainted that they could not be spared from home, but the borrowet.
might me them there A day or two after the complaleant gem.
Limas sent to barrow the stber's spade, Ist was Worsted it coslit
at be has frost bane, bat be might maw there and dig as Wog •as
be iplaand.--Atarth Doff* Jblernel.

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