Star. — 1831-05-21 (London, England)

THE WEATIIIIIICOCK. Your hint is good—your logic clear Reforming wrong, is right; Convinced though late, I now shall crow Reform with all my might. So Ultra Tories, fare ye well, Good night to Revolution: My dearest Cross, 11l chant with thee The Bing, and Constitution!  We detailed in our last the particulars of a shocking murder, coin. mittcd by William Page, upon his wife, at Mamham-on-Trent.—. The unhappy man had been committed on Friday to Nottingham jail, for trial at the next assizes. On his way thither, from the village where be had perpetrated the dreadful act, he complained of indisposi. tion, and the constable gave him a little warm gin and water, which seemed to revive him. He was received by the governor of the jail, and put to bed about eight o'clock on Friday night. On opening his cell next morning, about a quarter past six o'clock, he was found a corpse. Henry Oltiknow, surgeon, opened the body, and expressed his opinion that death was caused by inflammation of the brain and bowels, but there was no reason to suspect that such inflammation was pro. duced by any unnatural causes. There cannot be the least doubt that the poor man was labouring under an aberration of intellect at the time when he destroyed his wife. The steam carriage now erecting by Mr. J. Chun, coachmaker, Boston. drew a large number of inspectors during the fair, and the principal part of the scientific visitors were much pleased with die simplicity a the steam apparatus, &c. particularly the new method Mr. G. has invented for supplying the steam generator with water, which is effected without the aid of the force pump, or any other pressure; this is a great saving of power, as the engine has nothing to do with getting in the water to feed the boiler. On the new principle, water falls into the boiler as freely as the rain from the clouds, although the steam should be raised to 10.000Ibs. pressure to the inch. We under. stand the inventor intends to have his steam carriage in use on the re. gular coach roads by next September ; the first trip is intended to be from Boston to Lincoln, and thence to Doncaster, &c. A poor fellow went from Boston to Lincoln on Friday sennight, and after seeing his wife at a house of ill fame, he went to a druggist's shop, procured some arsenic, and swallowed a large quantity. He was im. mediately conveyed to the county hospital, where he lingered until two o'clock on Sunday morning, when death put an end to his sufferings. A fossil tree of great magnitude is to be seen in the bottom of a deep ravine, on the north-west extremity of Hareshaw Common, Northumbers land. The strata at that place is covered with about 40 or 50 feet of alluvial, which has been excavated by a small rivulet that runs from the mountains, and the incumbent earth being undermined, slides down, and is washed away by the stream, until it has formed a deep chasm, at the bottom of which is to be seen this huge petrifaction. It is eight feet in circumference, and the different pieces into which it is now broken makes in all eleven feet in length. Several fragments of it may be seen washed down the stream, of smaller dimensions. The bark is rough and uneven, like that of ash-wood, and in some places it has a thin coating of charcoal upon it. The colour is blue, and the texture h fine and very hard. It has been imbeded upon a stratum of friable matter, which has bees washed away by the water of the rivulet, and left the tree exposed to view.  In the Quebec hospital reports we find the following ease :—A man in chopping wood cut off the first phalanx of the middle finger. For two hours after the accident he remained occupied at home. Although the divided portion of his finger then appeared to be dwived of vitality, it was determined to follow the plan of Balfour of Edinburgh, and to attempt to reunite the parts. The tip of the finger was fixed to the stump by adhesive plaster, and in three days union had taken place in two or three parts; and the extremity of the finger which bad been divided has as much sensation as any other part of the body. The dressing was continued, and in three more days the re.union was complete.  Donor,