Star. — 1826-05-26 (London, England)

PROM THE LEEDS INDEPENDENT. Early on Friday night last an atrocious murder was committed in the neighbourhood of Bedale, on the body of a respectable farmer. The perpetrators of this diabolical act remain as yet undiscovered. It appears that two men, who wore blue coats, passed in the direction of Boroughbridge, through a toll-bar, cal!ed Butcher House. bar, on the Leeming-lane road, about five o'clock on Saturday morning. It has since been ascertained, that on the same day two men with blue coats, and trowsets full at the top, were seen at Boroughbridge, where, at a coach-office, they were inquiring for the earliest conveyance to Leeds. They took no places, bet went by the Pilot coach. One man was taller than his companion. On the Friday, three men of suspicious appearance had been seen together in the vicinity of the place where the foul deed was perpetrated, and had been very insolent to the inhabitants of some farmhouses; it is supposed that if the murder were commined by this party, one of them might have departed for Leeds by one of thecoaches on theLeeming-lane road. It is believed that the unfortunate man, at the time he was murdered. had some money upon his person. Friday he had received at the Leyburn Bank a bill for twenty-six pounds, dated London, March 9, and drawn by Hegar and Co. upon J. and A. Vincent, Little St. Thomas Apoltle, London; and in addition to this, it is thought that he was possessed of some of the notes of either the Richmond or Leyburn Bank of Messrs. Hutton, Other, and Cr.  The e Rev. T. W. Morley, of Kirklington, near Boroughbridge, York, has inert most active in his endeavours to find out the wretches who have been guilty of this murder. The Mayor of this Borough received information of the affair on Sunday, since which time, Mr. Read, our Chief Constable, has been diligent in his search after the villains. It seems that two men did arrive in Leeds on Saturday night by the Pilot Coach, but they departed without exciting any suspicions as to their chiracter.  Livenrool., MA* 24.—Our Cotton market has been very steady in prices, with a good demand ; and about 8,000 hales sold up to the evening. Plantation produce is dull and heavy. The ugenerous Frenchman," mentioned in a former Paper,, as having relieved a poor debtor confined in Lancaster Castle, is believed to be Count MONTHOLON, who, with his lady, passel through Manchester some days ago. The Act for building a New Prison instead of the present Bridewell in Tothill-fields, received the Royal Assent a few days since. Its execution is to be confided to twenty-five Commissioners, fifteen of them Magistrates for Middlesex, and the other ten Justices of Westminster. The Irish Emigrants brought into Plymouth a few weeks since in the Brailsford, bound to New Brunswick, have been supplied with such quantities of provisions as were required to complete the voyage, at the Tole expence of Mr. THOMAS Poe; the owner of the Brailsford, who was not bound by his contract to fur-1 nigh more than fuel and water. Other donations, among which were a contribution of one day's pay from the officers and men of the MI Regiment in Plymouth garrison, and a subscription raised at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Stonehouse, were distributed in medicine and additional comforts for those on board, who are thus by the generosity of Englishmen placed in situation Much More desirable than when they originally left their homes. The Brailsford has sailed fbr her destination. The East India Company's old territory, commonly' known in Europe by the name of Bengal, occupying the space of 162,000 square British Miles, contained MI 1820, thirty-nine millions six hundred and seventy-nine thousand souls, exhibiting a denser population than auyl equal portion of the globe, China not excepted. Walking sticks first began to be a requisite appendage to the gentlemen of fashion aboot the year 1655, at which time they were formed with an indented head, in order to afford a More easy pressure of the hand which they supported. Ingenuity, which in matters of 4stshion is for ever on the alert, now crowned them With the addition of a round and hollow top, which sometimes contained nutmeg or ginger, to warm the stomach of the valetudinarian, and sometimes sugar-candy for the asthmatic; but snuff soon after coming jet° universil use among tie bon ton of society, the cavity was exclusively appropriated to its reception ; and the meeting of two friends was inv4riably marked, alter the first salutation, by the unscrewing of the tops of their walking sticks.