Star. — 1825-01-24 (London, England)

ETTA N.  The turnout amongst the spinners and others employed in the cotton-factories at Hyde and the neighbourhood, begins to assume a somewhat series appearance. A general parade of the hands now out was made on Monday last through Hyde, and with those who aie expected to leave their w ork at the expiration of their present °notice, the number will, it is conjectured, be augmented to 10,000. Such a step, we are sorry to remark, is too sure to bring with it distress and misery on the whale neighbourhood, for we are credibly assured that the payment of wages to the various hands there employed cannot be less than 50001. weekly.— Stochport Advertiser. In the Sheriffs' Court, on Saturday, the case of " Skinner v. Knight and another" was disposed of. It was an inquiry to assess the damages sustained by the plaintiff, by the publication of a libel by the defendants. The plaintiff was a man-midwife ; the defendants, Knight and Lacey, were b•sok :tilers. The action was brought to recover a compensation in damages for a libel on the plaintiff, published by the delendants in a periodical work called The iiiedical Adviser. The Jury, after a short consultation, assessed the damages at 501. A Meeting was held on Saturday under the Commission against MARSH, STRA'CIIY, and Co. at which a dividend was declared of four shillings in the pound. The total amaunt proved and claimed is about 800,0001. Of this sum, about '2509001. is claimed by the Bank, and 80,0001: by private persona. The dividend will, therefore, be on 470.0001. but it is supposed that the Bank will petition the LORD CHANCELLOR that payment be deferred, 'until their claim is definitively admitted or rejecte.:l. INQUEST ON TWENTY•ONE OF THE MINERS, KILLED BY THE LATE EXPLOSlON.—Wednesday, at eleven o'clock in the morning, an Inquest was held at the Brandling's Arms, Belle Isle, near Middleton, before Mr. Jawtsos, Coroner for the Honor of Pontefract, on the following men, who were killed by the late explosion in Gosforth Pitt, viz. Peter Hamill, Ben)'. Broadhead, William "Wood, John Proctor, Joshua Liversedge, Benjamin Wood, sem George Wright, James Drury, William Heald, John Ramsden, Luke Kormanton, Sanderson Handforth, James Wood, Jos. Dixon, Kalita Ramsden, James Heald, Benjamin Wood, jun. John Ambler, Samuel Cromack, James Foster, and Samuel Ramsden. The Jury, after hearing witnesses, theta returned the following 'verdict.:—" Actidental Death, occasioned by the sudden explosion of a quantity of hydrogen gas, commonly called fire damp, in Gosforth coal pit.' Saturday last, Dr. Willis was at Aylesbury, for the purpose of ascertaining the mental sanity of Lynn. By an order of one of the Magistrates, the doctor obtained two interviews with the prisoner, and remained with him about an hour each times Dr. Willis's opinion of the case, •of course, did not transpire. The visit, we understand, was undertaken at the instance of the prisoner's friends. Lynn himself was not aware of the object of the interviews, 'or of the character of his visitor..—Buckingharreshire Chronicle. A letter to a Gentleman in Exeter states, that four of the banditti who robbed and murdered Mr. and Mrs. Hurt, on'lheir way between Rome and Naples, have been taken, and were about to be immediately executed,, the stolen property being found upon them.