Star. — 1825-09-20 (London, England)

VISITATION.—The following calamity recently occurred in the family of Captain WILKINS, o! the Tower Hamlets Militia, at llead.quarters, adjoining the Blind Beggar, on Bethnal-green :—Mrs. WILKINS, his wife, was brought to bed the last week in August ; the maid-servant died in two days after; the infant on the Sunday following ; Mrs. W. the next day, Monday; and the Captain himself on the Friday ensuing—all in the space of ten days. DEATH !ROM LIGHTNING:-Tuesday, James Dennes, a servant in the employ of Mr. Body, of Ottham Quay. te: Farm, in the parish of Hailsham, being at plough, with a team of oxen, in the field, was struck by a column of electric fluid fain* perpendicularly upon him, and the first part- with which it came in contact appeared to have been the inner side of the right leg ; and both the power and burning force of this electric shock was so great, that his spatterdashes and stockings were burnt into rags, and the skin was stripped off the leg; it entered his half-boot, which was not laced din- e, and shattered it in pieces from his foot. How far his watch chain, which was of steel, produced a power of reattraction, is not known; but by re-ascending it took an oblique 'direction over his body, -scorching the left side of the chest and the face, stripping off the skin the same as from the leg, and entered his hat, which was burnt aad torn into fragments; on examining the divided portions, they were found to be remarkably stiffened, as if strongly impregnated with lava. According to the best account his master could give, who was but a very short distance from him at the instant it happened, the duration of the attack, in point of time, could not have exceeded three seconds before he saw his man a lifeless corpse on the ground, and the above-. mentioned portions of his dress on fire. Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was taken at the Five Bells public-house, Lintehouse, on view of; the body of a male infants whose name is at present unknown, and who had on the preceding day been taken out of the water, tied up in a bundle. The circumstance of the child having been wrapped up in bundle, seemed to have its due weight with-the Juryeand they returned a 6 verdict of Wilful-Murder against some person unknown.  t 44E" • " ; • ...111 • • 1 # • • ! Thelloth Regiment of Foot had been ordered to mum from Penney; to occupy the various stations lately occupied by tba Thirty-Rite recruits have joined the 34th Regiment at DrionpaA; dying the last, week. . Sunday the transporta with the two remaining -Divining, anti Head (platters of the 32ii Regim:tlt, arrieed at Deg olpott. • • mutts belonging to the Id.. i 4thi .zo,ts, 40th, 44th, *Bth; and 66d Regiments of Infantry, marched yesterday morning, front • Westminster for Chathain. • • • Detachments of the 4dt and 11th Regiments of ,Light Dragooni marched yesterday morning, from Westminster for the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone. • , A detachment of the 24 Regiment of Foot, marched yesterday morning, from Westminster for Canterbury. • DetachMents belonging to the 96th and 70th Reginients of Foot, marched yesterday morning, from Westminstea. for Winchester. Detachments of the 53d and 90th Regiments of Infantry, 'marched yesterday morning, from Westminster for Portsmouth. A detachMent of the 35th Regiment of Foot, marched yesterday morning, from Westminster for the Isle of Wight. A detachment of the 68th Regiment of Infantry, marched. Yes: terday morning, from Westminster for Chichester. Detachments belonging to the 16tk and 83d ftegimerts of Infantry, marched yesterday, from Westminster for Harwich. Detachments belonging to the 50th, 59t12, 45th, 62d, 14th, 41st; and 3d Regiments of Foot, arrived on the 17th inst. in Westminster from Bristol, and marched yesterday,• on route to Chatham. A detachment belonging to the 7th Fasileers marched *artist 'morning, from Westminster for Dover.  CATASTROPHE Al'