Star. — 1826-04-15 (London, England)

OOO. Thursday evening, Mrs. Colonel Wtutzs gave a moat splendid Fancy Ball, at her residence in Portland place. The muster exceeded three hundred of the first distinction.  Sr. Martin's Church in the Fields presents now a grand termination of the view from Pall-mall, as all the obstructions that prevented it from being seen from that point, are now removed. The Papers are all mistaken which state that Sir Josuutt Vs.uaautt was the architect by whom it was erected. They should have known that Grass was thelarchitect,according to whose plan it was built about a century ago. The Mixott of Lyons, it is said, would not allow' Mademoiselle Gator:is to perform the tragedy of Leonidas in that City, for the benefit of the Greeks. The name of Sir Gamma STAUNTaIe was inserted by mistake in the majority for the vote of 50001. to the President of the 13osrd of Trade.  Dr. BARRINGTON, late Bishop of Durham, was promoted to that See about the time that Barrington, the celebrated pickpocket, was transported. A Gentleman of distinction penned the following lines at that period en the occasion : Two namesakes of late, in a diVrent way, Such wit, and such zeal, did bestir 'em, That one was transported to Botany Kay, And the other translated to Durham ! A Renchman finds something to congratulate his country upon in every thing, as the following ingenious explanation of the reason why there are no foot pavements in Paris will show:, " The streets of London," says M. L. Ile Rocoaroaa, "are very i spacious ; in one of them, among others, twelve carriages can drive' abreast, and there are very broad foot-paths besides. These are td be found every where. Paris appears to have been astute far peoplein carriages and London for people afoot.' Cocci/ie.—The grand main of cocks between Lord Kennedy and Captain Ross, for 1000 sovereigns, and 501. a battle, fought in the new pit at Melton Mowbray, was decided in favour of the latter by II battles. Immense sums were won and lost during the light, width continued (or four days. It was numerously attended, most of the principal sporting characters in the country being present. P 'DIST mutant.— Blonclay, a Gentleman in Edinburgh,underteoli, for a wager of twenty sovereigns, that be would run from the General Post Office, to the first mile stone on the Haddington road, in five minutes, which he accomplished in four minutes and a half with great ease. Considerable bets were pending. Thursd Ay se'tinight, in the evening, a barbarous mot. der was committed near Falkirk. As a man of the name of Boyd, along with another man and two women, were going home from the fair, four yowl men' came up and insisted on the girls going with them, at the same time using them very roughly, when Boyd interfered, telling them it was a shame to behave in such a manner, when they desisted. After proceeding a little farther. they sepaparated, Boyd's home being in a different direction from the ethers, be was followed by the young men, who knocked hint down and stabbed him, nay even ripped hint up in a manner too horrible for description. He was carried to the nearest house, and medical assistance got from Falkirk, but in vain, as he lingered iu great agony till next morning, when he expired. He has left a wife and two children. Three of the murderers were next day apprehended and sent to Stirling Castle. Their names are Armstrong, a butcher, if•Naii and MUstren, labourers; the fourth, who has at present escaped, is a shoemaker of the name of Adis. They are all front 16 to 18 years of age. PrivAte letters of a late date from Rio de Janeiro stato, that all the olßcers of his Imperial Majesty's ships Piranga, whose arrival. i* .England gave occasion for so much speculation.. bayg Ikeenconfitmed in the rat* to which Lor4;ct,citiptliit had .apppiated them r. the EN,PLKOR testifying,. : illy .- his ..ansohatiun of their erv,iccs, ;lIJ his tt 1.9 f the nominations of his late !High A.insitat. ' - 1 61:ft,