Star.
London, England, 1826-10-10 00:00:00

NEW YORK, Starrnisu 6.

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We arrived at New York; on the 14th ultimo, after a
passage of twenty-six days across the Atlantic, and met
with a very kind reception from the Inhabitants of thi
rich and populous city, in which altogether there
was nothing in the general aspect of the scene to indi-
cate that the sea-port at which we had arrived, be-
longed to a different people from Liverpool, the port
we had left. The same bustle of commerce crowding
the streets and quays ; houses built in the same taste,
and merchants with the same complexions and dresses
met our view. Nor did we, on entering the society of 1
the upper classes of inhabitants, discover any thing in
their manners' different from their equals in rank and
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property in E land. The interiors of their public
rooms are finish d in a rather gayer style of ornament
than is usual in ngland, and less crowded with furni.
me ; and the m ;en of the men do not suffer much
on comparison. e women, it is tree, seem to me to
fall short, and to 'want the ;mexpreisible grace and
truly feminine delicacy,witich render the English
females superior to the rest of the human race. It must
be remembered, however, that this is testimony of a
partial witness. It is amongst the shopkeepers and
husbandmen that the originals of the portraits of the
American national character drawn by late travellers
must be looked for, and we certainly recognised many
originals that seemed to have sat for the sketches; but
the pictures have been finished more as caricatures that!
real likenesses. There is nothing liki a Republican
equality in the United States, the distinction of ranks
arising from birth and connexions is pertinaciously
kept up, and here, as in other quarters of the world,
wealth has its full influence. •

Sr. PATRICK ASSURANCE COMPANY OF IRELAND.
A call of 41. 10s. on each Share has been made, for the purpose of
paying the claims against this Company.
POOR RATES.—On a large farm, of 1,1001. rental, in
Wiltshire, the poor rates have been reduced, by being confined to
their honest uses, to 601. a year.
The first set of shiverers have already taken their de-
parture from the Ilea coast; and water-proof cloaks, great coats, and
flannel, in all its varieties, are much in demand by the remainder. '
Last night a Meeting of the Electors of Sudbury was
held at the Angel and Crown, Whitechapel, to take into
further consideration the fitness of Mr. Wilk: to repre-
sent them in Parliament ; when, after a conversation of
considerable length, it was agreed to petition Parliament'
against his return.
Thursday, as Lord GLINORCHY was driving his
tandem along George-street, Perth, the leader fell on
the iron plates at its junction with the High-street. The
following horse run oil above, and the former passing
through below his belly, rose at the other side, and
twisted the harness about his legs. The vehicle having
four wheels, kept its equipoise, and fortunately neither
his Lordship, nor Captain STEWART' of Murthly, who
accompanied him, received any injury.
FANCY BALL AT NORTHLAND Howls, DUNOANNON•
—Friday sennight Viscountess NORTHLAND gave a
most splendid Fancy Ball to the Nobility and Gentry
of the province of Ulster. seven rooms and the con-
servatory en suite were thrown open for the reception
of the company, all of which were beautifully deco-
rated, and lighted in the most brilliant manner. At
half past two o'clock upwards of 500 guests sat down
to a superb supper, after which dancing recommenced,
which was kept up with the greatest spirit till six o'clock.
Among the company were the following distinguished
personages, viz.
Duke de Montebello, Marquis and Marebloneu of Donegall,
Earl and Countess of Caledon, Earl and Countess of Behnore,
Count de Vergia, Baron Thayer, Baron E. Thayer, Lord and Lely
Blaney, Lady E. Alexander, Lord and Lady E. Chichester, Lord
Castlereagh, Lord Corry, Lady Isabella Douglas, Sir J. and Lady
Scrooge, Sir S. and Lady May, Sir Charles and Lady Morgan, Sir
H. and Lady Stewart, Hon. Mrs. and Miss Calvert, Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Caulfeild, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. A. Stuart, Hon. Mr. James
Caulfeild, Hon. Miss Blaney, Charles Brownlow, Req. CoLVerner,
J. Y. Burgess, Esq. &c.
Saturday as the clerk of Messrs. Brace and Selby, of
Surry-street, attorneys, was going into the City about
the hour of one o'clock, to take up some bills a man
of respectable appearance wilfully ran against him with
considerable violence, and pierced his thigh with some
sharp instrument which was poisoned, and the part was
cut out by surgeon in the course of the day.
During the passage of the Sarah Ward West India-
man, from Jamaica, her crew felt a smart shock, as if
the ;hip had struck on a rock, and it was expected that
she would leak. No leak, however, occurred ; and on
her arrival in the West India Docks, a short time back,
when her cargo was taken out, it was found that she
had been snuck, by a sword-fish near the keel. Such
was the force'of the animal, that its spike had penetrated
through the copper, through the plank, and had gone
three inches into a hogshead of sugar lying at the bot-
tom of the vessel: The Sarah Ward has been obliged,
in consequence, to go into a dry dock for repair.
The idle shipwrights of Bristol have at length gives
a taste of their quality in thf execution of mob law. One
of them having returned to his work at the wages of
245. a weak, on Saturday morning early they waylaid
and beat him, then tortured him by placing him astride
a spar, blackening his face, and carrying him through
the city and about the ship yard for more than six hour..
In thd evening, however, a body of peace officers picked
out the ringleaders from their haunts, and lodged
them in Bridewell, to be dealt with according to law.
HORRID OCCURRENCE.—Friday afternoon, a mast,
named William Timpson, residing in Park-street, Bit-
mingham, presented himself at the prison, and stated,
that he Lad murdered his wife. From his decisive
manner, and upon further inquiries, the officers were
induced to proceed to his residence, where, on opening
the door, they found the report but toq strictly verified,
as the poor woman lay in the kitchen, with her head
nearly severed from her body. A large clasp knife,
with which Timpson stated he had committed the act,
lay in the room. Upon being questioned on the sub-
ject, he said that he had no enmity towards his wife,
and could not account. for his having been actuated to
commit so dreadful a crime.
SHERIDAN used to say, that the life of a Manager
was like the lite of the Ordinary of Newgate, a constant
superintendent of executions. The number of authors
whom he was forced to extinguish was, he said, a per-
petual literary massacre, that made St. Bartholomew's
altogether shrink in comparison. Play-writing, singly,
accounted for the employment of that immense multi
tude who drain away obscure years beside the inkstand,
and haunt the streets with iron moulded visages, and
study-coloured clothes. It singly accounted for the rise
of paper, which had exhausted the rags of England and
Scotland, and had almost stripped off the last covering
of Ireland. He had counted plays until calculation
sank under the number; and every rejected play of
them all seemed, like the clothes of a Spanish beggar,
to turn into a • living, restless, merciless, indefatigable
progeny,