Star. — 1825-07-05 (London, England)

ELECTION OF SIDCRIFTS.—••YesterdaT a Common Hail was held for the final declaration of the numbers, after the votes had been duly examined. The return was exactly the same as that made on Friday, and Alderman CnowDaa and Mr. KELLY were declared to be duly elected.—They both returned thanks. Thanks were vo•ed to the present Sheriffs, for their conduct during the election. in returning thanks, they congratulated the Livery on the choke they had made. A few days ago, the four Canadian Chiefs breakfasted with the LORD MAYOR, and having expressiacl a wish to visit the coffer dam, in which the LORD MAYOR land Company were received on the occasion of laying the first stone of the New London W idge, the Rev. Mr. WRRNCII, tl.e LORD MAYOR'S Chaplain, accompanied them to the spot and over the works: they expressed the most lively astonishment at the enormous fabric. The LORD MAYOR presented them with a medal, upon which was engraved a brief staiemeht of what took place on the day the ceremony was per formed. Yesterday, a mad dog ran • into the shop of Mr. Baker, oilman, of Newcastle-stieet, Strand ; Nesbit, the street•keeper of St. Clement's, was sent for, who immed:ately shot the animal. Sunday, the 19th ult. a woman of the name 'of Robison, from Stonykirk, was lodged in the gaol of Stranraer, accused of having murdi red her own infant iMmediat,ly after its birth, and consuming the greater cart of its body in the fire. A young man, 22 years of age, named Ch stirs Green, a writing-clerk in an attorney's office in Manchester, has been apprehended and lodged in the New Bailey; on a charge of killing his own .rnother. It seems he was muer intoxicated ; and in a scuffle which took pl..ce in his father's house on Thursday evening, he inflicted such severe injuries upon his mother that she died soon afterwards. An Inquest has been held on the body ; but no person was examined but a surgeon, and the further proceedings were airjourced. Wednesday night, a most barbarous murder was committed op the body of Michael Duggan, near Talbert, in the county of Dublin. The deceased was a steward or care-taker, in the employment of Mr. Daniel, who lately took a lease of the Commons of Saggard. The body was discovered about six o'clock, by a girl going to milk cows, In a field on the lands of White'stown. upwards of three miles from Duggan's residence. It was is a %blocking state; time balls or slugs were lodged in the breast ; the back of the skull was fractured in two places, and the front of the head, down to the teeth, was completely beaten in. A ball had passed through the right hand, and the lets was dreadfully mangied with some sharp instrument. Part of a ramrod, the hank of a gun, and a scythe freshly sharpened, were found, ne..r the spot ; near which three cows and a rah were fuund much injured, their tails bring cut off, and one of them having a cut in the kg. Mr. Al•Caavirr held an Inquest on the body tut Thursday, ton ad'minted it to yesterday forfurther evidence. Two new Comedies are in preparation at the. Littk Theatre, is the Haymarket, one written by limieri and the other by Posse. Laois has prominent characters in each of them..  k.4* Rrliont