Star. — 1822-11-15 (London, England)

OCTOBER 24.  While we are writing the sky is extremely obscure, and the shower of ashes continues.  P. S. We learn, on official authority, that the mountain no longer throws out either bitumen, fire, or ashes ; that Portici, Resina, and Torre del Greco, are delivered. On the side of Somma only, the obscurity is still considerable, and the ashes fall in great abundance.—Gazetta di Napoli.  The Duke of RUTLAND expects a large party of Noblemen in a few days at 13elvoir Castle, on a shooting excursion. Lady Nuover is nearly recovered from her late severe indisposition. Arrivals at the Grosvenor Hotel, Bond-street—Sir William Robinson, from his seat near Bath; Lieutenant-Colonel Malley, from Cheltenh:an ; R. W. Jackson, Esq. from ditto; William Tredlie, Esq. Captain Vale, and T. Gerrard, Esq. Arrivals at Marshal 'fhompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square— Sir Evan Blaegregor' Bart. Wm. Leigh, Esq. Captain Hamel, Colonel Dashwood, Mrs. Dashwood, and Bliss Barlow. Departures from ditto—Sir George Shee, Bart. and Lady Shee, Wm. Ward, Esq. and W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq. Elisabeth Tomlinson, of Banton, near Stafford, has been committed to jail, 'charged with the murder of her husband. Yesterday William Tucker, about eighteen years of age, in the employ of Mr.Trumper, of Heston, near Hounslow, was brought to the Public-Office, in Bow-street, charged with maliciously shooting William Becket, eleven years of age, on the 17th of I July. The case had been before the Country Magistrates, but 11 they, through Colonel CLIIHEROW, bad decided that no malice was proved, and the complainant had better be satisfied with the payment of the Doctor's bill—upon which a warrant was applied for at the above Office, and immediately granted. The boy, it appeared, was minding some cows in a lane near Heston, when the prisoner came up with a gun in hii hand, and desired the former to throw up his cap, that he might shoot at it. The boy refused, but the prisoner snatched it away, threw it into the air: and shot two holes in it. He then reloaded, and said he would be d—d if he would net have a shoot at his and immediately fired. The contents dreadfully mangled the head and face of the poor boy. Sir RICHARD Blame said, Ibis appeared to him a serious offence, and he should adjourn the examination, that Colonel Clitherow might attend, not wishing to interfere with other. Magistrates. The poor boy's appearance excited much commiseration. His cheeks and the front put of his head is full of hollow wounds. It came out in the evidence that he is an orphan in the fullest sense of the word: he is an illegitimate child, and his mother, a Mrs. Becket, put him to nurse to a woman of the name of Bell, who received as. a week, till Mrs. Becket died. Being informed that the father was a man of considerable consequence, she applied to Mr. Dyne, an attorney, who for some time procured her a remittance but now no payment could be got, and the Parish refused assistance, because the mother's settlementcould not be ascertained. The boy, therefore, is now humanely kept by John Bell, themes's's husband, a beeper of one of the locks on the Paddington Canal, scar liestoo, ellhoush he has , 'sot eight children of his own.  1 014