Star. — 1826-03-27 (London, England)

FOR SOUTRWARK......A new and commodious Court-house, erected for this coaarnission, in Swan-street, near Trinity Church, Newiugtor, was on Tuesday last opened for the convenience of the very large population included within the jurisdiction cf the Court. The event was celebrated in the evening by a dinner, at Three Tuns Tavern, Southwark. A brutal murder was committed -at Preston, on the night of Saturday se'nnight, on the person ofJobn S:mrrock, a poor labovring man, residing at Radburn, near Chorley. The deceased, who was working in Preston. left a public-house there about ten o'clock on Saturday night, in company with Peter Thorp, a weaver, at New Preston, with the intention of proceeding home; and it seems that when passing down Stanley-street, something occurred to occasion a (panel between them, when Thorp struck the deceased a dreagful blow ca the temple, which brought him to the grosnd, and not coo-tent with this, he gave him several severe kicks; on being remonstrated with by a woman who happened to be present, he said that if he bad not killed him already, he would do so, and thereupon gave the poor man another most violent kick in the bowels. When he was taken up from the ground, the vital spark had &J. On Monday an Lnquest was held upon the body, and ' the Jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against Thorp, who has net been heard of since he committed the dreadful deed. The poor man has left a oife and four small children to deplore his loss.--aockport Ad. ;Valium, illorfee, alias (Jollies, one of the smugglers taken in L'hugene, French lugger, by Lieut. Appleby, of the Scorpion, on the 7th ult. has been recognised as an old offender, having been convicted of a brutal as'souk on Lieut. H. P. Dicken, of the Susses Co Est blockade, whose arm he broke with a bludgeon, and'foc this offence*as sentenced to two years imprisonmeat in Lewes gaol, whence he effected his escape to France. The specimens of Natural History brought Lome ia the BLONDE, collected by a naturalist sent out in that vessel for the purpose, are intended for the Baiisi b Museum, and consist of gellogical specimens, roomed from several places at which the BL',NDE touched, 'together with a few specimens of silver and copper• Ore from Coquimbo, Chili, and a specie en of- tungstat. from New South Shetland; also an interesting sei i, s of volcanic rocks, lava, and sulphur, from the Galapagos, and from the interior of the crater of the volcano Pali, in Owhylree. There are above 100 varieties of birds. chiefly from the Chili, with a few from the Sandwl:ich, and other islands in the Pacific. Insects, shells, and marine subjects from the coast of America and Sandwich Islands, con•titute the remainder of the collection. Two live condors from Chili; the vulture of the Andes, male and female, died on the passage home. _  The expression " As drunk as David's sow," is said to have originated in the following ludicrous circumstance:— One David Lloyd, a Welshman. who kert a public-house at Hereford, had a living sow with sit legs, which was greatly res'rted to by the curious. He had a wile too, somewhat addicted to drunkenness, foe which he used sometimes to give her due correction.—r One day, David's wife having drunk too much, and being Tearful of the consequences, turned out the sow and took. posse,sian of the sty to sleep herself sober. A company corning in the meantime to see the %ler*, David ushered them to the sty, exclaiming " there's a sow for you! did any of you ever see such another r all the time imagini% the sow had really been them ; to which some of the party, seeing the state die woman was in, replied, it was the drunkenest sow they bad ever beheld—whence the woman was ever afterwards called David's sow. A fatal accident happened on the afternoon of the dth instant,at the chain suspension bridge erecting over the Tweed, between Melrose and GattonsiCe. James .Dickson, one of the contractors, when in the act of adjusting. a stone fur laying on one of the piers, lost hes balance and fell to the ground, carrying the stone aloft with him, which falling on hit forehead killed him. In Madrid people do pot enter the shops of the apothecaries; but knock at a glass wicbat. maims their demand, reeeissoabe drug, which is prepared for thaw inside, sod pay for it IbreitS6 the opening.