Star. — 1821-02-27 (London, England)

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. The Navy Estimates, under the three great heads of the Service, amount to £6,382,789 lis. sd. The ordi ry Estimates are divided into three parts: the first contains the Salaries and contingent 'Expenses of the Admiralty, the Navy Pay, Navy, and Victualling Offices, the Home and Foreign Yards, Ortfi. nary Repairs of Ships in Harbour, &c. This part amounts to £1,225,629 Is. W. The second part contains the Estimate of Half--pay, Superannuation., and Pensions, granted to Officers of his Majesty's Navy, Widows, and Bounties to Chaplains, &c. This amounts to £1,152,996 las. 3d. The third pan contains an Estimate of the Superannuation and Pensions granted to Commissioners, Secretaries, Clerks, &c. amounting to the sum of £105,973 16s. 6d. The total amount of these three branches is £2,484,599 Ils. Sd. This Account is exclusive of the Estimates for the Building and Repairs of Ships, and of the Esti. matei of the Wages, Victuals, and Ordnance for 22,000 men, the total active force to which our Navy has been reduced. The Estimates for the Building, Repairs. etc. amount to £02,032,036. and of the Wages, Victuals, die. to £1,866,150; making a total amount of the Etimates for the service of the current year, £6,582,789 II a. Sd. From this is to be deducted, amount of old Stores, A 113,400. Leaving to be provided, .C 6,219020 Its. 54.  Mr. J. Cairn, a respectable firmer, who resided at Charwell-House, Northamptonshire, was shot at last week, between three and four o'clock in the afternoon, whilst cutting hay from a rick : the shot shattered his arm in such a manner that amputation became necessary, and he is since dead. A man of the name of Phillip Haynes has been committed to the County Gaol, charged with the murder. Discovery/ a Murder after the tepee of si.dent rears.—Tuesday last, a man named James Matthews, who resides at St. Agnes, Cornwall, was apprehended on the information of a person named Symms Pryor, who resides at Redruth, and who charges Matthews with the murder of a man named John Ja nes, who was his (Matthews's) brother-in-law, sixteen years since. The following circumstances have been stated by Pryor on oath, be. fore the Rev. Hucu Rooms, one of the County Magistrates In 1804, Pryor was employed as an assistant labourer, by Matthews and James, at a mine called Crown Due Mille, near Tavistoek, in Devonshire. One night, Pryor and James deseended by a windlass into a shaft of the mine, which was about twenty-two-fathoms in depth. Whilst there, they bond a hole for blasting, and Pryor was drawn up, by Nlattheviq. James then laid the match to the train, and called oat to hie comrades to pull him up, as la usual. with miners on such occasions. Matthews ,and Prycr wound up about live fathoms of the rope, when Mittistrshrt go the'wht&na and desired Pivot. to do the Num. Pryor refused," which Matthews threatened to hooch his brains out if he did not. Pryor Spin leaned, when Matthee) strut* bide oa the ht arm with a pick-hilt; which timid him to-quit his bold, and James was precipitated to the bostant, and bad his skull so dreadfully fractured that he died in two days dim; Pryor told the facts to his brother, who was a smith on thaminu, and to time other mat, but thief contrived to keep him In a %man' room behind the smith's-shop until a Coroner's Airy had returned a vettliet of ikeldittal heath. Ifr was then induced to conceal the affair, on the ground that Matthews bad a large family. Pryor had never seen Matthews from that time to the present, bat itesaid that he was ab distrewd on neco.int of to concealnwatv.that be could amprem the eir:utormice ao tante Uatthews ins been committed to Baden J.il.  s.