Star. — 1825-04-06 (London, England)

INCIVEST AT MANCHESTER.—Friday evening, the 25th ult. a woman at Redbalik administered some oil of vitriol to an infant, aged nine weeks, instead of sirup opoppies, which caused i s death the next day. It appeared that the father of the infant had used some vi. tr iol for staining the wood of a bird-cage, and had placei the phial in a cupboard. On the same Friday afternoon, the man and his wife working qut, an old woman cleaned the room and the cupb-ard, and unfo►tunately left both bottles in the window, and the wife got hold of the vitriol bottle, instead of the one she had purchased some days previous, containing the syrup, with9t any label upon the bottle. Verdict—" Died by tamp' being administered to it by mistake, without any intention of harm." INFAMOUS INIPOSTORE -For some lime past two wretched vagrants, exhibiting the.appearance of being badly affected with cancer in the face, have been in the habit of attending the markets and fairs in this ne:ghbourhood. They sometimes, where allowed, begged through the streets ; but usually took their seats at the outlets of the towns, and from the sympathy excited by their aspect, levied large contributions, the face seemingly eaten off, and covered with a tarred rag. On Thursday last, Mr. Leonard, the apothecary attending the Hospital of this town, attracted by the wretched appearance of one ►-f those disgusting objects, manifested a des.recf seeing her face, intending to give her some lint and salve to chess it. The woman seemed .unwilling to shew her face, or allow him to touch it, which, however, be was induced to do somewhat against her inclination, when lo! he pulled off a mask from a Trish young face. It was composed of linen covered with soft leather, very artfully made, and padded on each side of the nose to give the face a flat appearance, and over this was fastrned a dirty rag, as before described. Being told that a second person of this description was stationed at anothir.of the outlets, Mr. Leonard, accompanied by a constable, repaired to the spot, and without much ceremony, stripped her of her visor. These two impostors proved to be young women, one of them not more than seventeen years of age, the other somewhat above twenty.—Erne Pocket. Wednesday, at the moment when M. OUVRARIN exContractor-General for the army in Spain, was ceasing a door to be opened for the embellishment of his apart• pent at St. Pelagie, he was removed from that prison to the Conciergerie, accompanied by a strong escort of gendarmes.—Galignarsis Messenger. A Gentleman who was on board the Kent when she took fire, states, that a Sesjeant of colour who was in 'the vessel, abandoned his wife, who was ill below, with four children, and jumped into the sea to swim to the Cambria. The poor woman was fouild suffocated at the bottom of the hatchway, with her four children' Boating round her, dead. The first thing that his Colonel did, on order being restored, was to strip this man of the badges of merit he had acquired, and to reduce him to the ranks.—Chester Chronicle. Ten men were tried at Naples last month, for a horrid murder committed in 1821. Two were condemned to death, and the others to thirty years' imprisonment. One of them confessed that, since the year. 'lBl9, he had committed 17 murders. " No man," said a wealthy but weak-headed Barrister, should be admitted to the Bar, who has not an independent landed property." " May I ask, Sir," said Mr. Curran, " how many acres make a wise-acre r Some adroit arithmeticians have calculated that, a a yearly consumption of 40,000 tons, the mine of the Lehigh Coal Company would last nearly 7,000 years.   Pala 216ZEOCENCL