Star. — 1818-10-10 (London, England)

PRIVATE LETTER.  A report is current here, which I hope will prove unfounded, that a shameful ruse was lately practised by the Owners of many of the Coal Mines in this vicinity. Previous to the late turn-out, they would not permit the colliers to wcrk mere than four days in the week, in order to keep down the stock, that they might be enabled thereby to raise the price.— However this may be, they have raised the price 3s. per ton; and a still further advance is spoken of.— This cannot fail proving a serious evil, in a mannfactering district like this--setting aside its calamitous effects on the lower orders, should the approaching winter prove a severe one.  Bacon and butchers' meat have experienced a cons. siderable advance in our markets.  The Cotton market this week wa's extremely dull ; there %yak not much business doing, and prices were a shade lower than the preceding week. Yesterday being the day appointed for the election of the Civic Officers of this town, for the year ensuing, John Clayton, Esq. was chosen Boroughreeve, in the room of Samuel Scholes Withington, Esq.— Mr. Joseph Nadin, after some well-merited encomiums on his activity and zeal in the discharge of the arduous duties of his office, was unanimously reelected Deputy Constable.  MURDER OP A WOMAN BY HER ntrstana.—A disastrous event took place last night in the neighbourhood of Chelsea. A German of the name of Lush, who it is said has been married between two and three years, had a quarrel with his wife in the open street, in which he took •a desert knife and plunged it into her belly, making an incision of upwards of six inches, through which the brrwels immediately. protruded. The man was instantly seized, and the unfortunate woman conveyed to St. Georges Hospital, where, notwithstanding every surgical aid, she died this morning at five o'clock. The deceased was remarkable for her tall and commanding figure. ti.'he is said to have been in a state of intoxication at the time of the atfray,of which a feeling of jealousy is the imputed cause.  A fine girl, 16 ',Ars of age, was drowned in the Canal, near Manchester, on Sunday last, opposite the Rochdale Company's warehouse, while attempting to.fill a pitcher of water. These will be an eclipse of the moon on Wednesday morning, commencing at about ;It minutes past four; middle 39 minutes past five; and termination about 20 Minutes past six. The extent of the eclipse will be about 1• 54' on the moon's northern limb.  A fishing smack of Hastings was upset in a gale iff Beachy-head, on Thursday afternoon, by wllich accident two men were lost. A boy, from good swimming for about in hour, was picked up by a Danish vessel, andecniveyed in the ship's boat to Last Bourne. it is in contemplation to make a direct communication from the county of Norfolk with the county of Lincoln and the North of England, by means of a bridge over the river Nene, at the nearest point practicable to the sea.  THE Silt SenParr.—The Yankees were s:kl, in out extractsfrom American Papers yesterday, to have caught, at last, the Monster of the deep, N.. Iticb has been of late au object of such Marvellous wonderment among them; but we ate told to-day, (see a preceding column) that the Monster proves only to be a Mackerel!!!—Who ever expected ar y thing else ?  Lately, two Chiefs of the Cagimawa Indians, with their cook, going to visit Albany, 'stopped by the way at the house of an attorney, who treated them freely with cyder. They had not drank long before they began to feel their importance ; and lest their entertainer should take them for common people, they undertook to tell him who tilt.), were you know me (said Joseph)--I great man —.I Captain—l Gen. lineman." " 1 greater as his (said the other;—l Gentleman too—but I Bold Peter." " And what are you ? (said the attorney to the cook), Are you a Gen. demon too? " No, Sir, (replied Claus, smiling at his own inignificance)--I no Gentleman—l n-n-no' thing but a Lawyer 1"