Star. — 1825-08-02 (London, England)

COZ&I. Lutz, will shortly pay him a vidt. It is now generally understood in the City, that all loans on stock are refused by the Directors of the Bank, although no public notice to that effect has been given in any form. When de determination wa* adcpted to resort to that mode of employing capital, the intention of the Bank Directors was, we believe, announced at the Stock Exchange; the omission, therefose, of any notice respecting its abandonment has created a degree of doubt, whether it is meant only to exclude particular individuals from that accommodation, or refuse it altogether ? It is certa'n that refusals have been given, and that the reJemption of large pledges of stock, previously made, has been called for. ENGLISH OPERA Honsit.—Last night Mr. Bitztam.t and Miss PATON made their first appearance for the season, in the Opera of Der freischiitz. Their reception was highly flattering. The Opera was succeeded by a new afterpiece, entitled Who's at Home? or, Man and Wife before Marriage. The plot turns upon the mutual embarrassment of two lovers, Captain aarply (Mr. Waimea), and the Widow olace (Miss GHAV;, who are both lodged in the same apartments, by the contrivance of their servants, Schentewell (Mr. CHAPMAN), and Mitten (Miss KELLY), and who consent to marry at last to save the character of the house. Mr: BARTLEY plays the part of a delicate old bachelor, named Scruple, who is shocked at the sight of naked statues, &c. In the struggle which took place when the curtain fell, the ccntents had the best of it.  Sunday morning the inhabitants .of Hammersmit'n were dreadfully alarmed about half past ;is o'clock, by a young female, very respectably dresseJ, apparently about 20 years of age, being discovered by the ostler of the George public-house, lying in the Broadway, near the watch-house, with all her clothes tied over her head. He immediately released her from her situation, when he found her in a dying state, with part of her tongue bit or cut off. She was instantly conveyed t 3 the workhouse, but before she could receive any medical assistance, the poor creature breathed her last. It is supposed that the unfortunate young woman, who is a perfect stranger at Hammersmith, was on her way to Brentford, and was be.et by some ruffians,. who brutally ill-used her, and robbed her of her shawl and other things, as no property was found upon her.. Two persons were seen coming from the Broadway about an hour previous to the discovery taking place. The body lies at the workhouse' to be owned, and await the Coroner's Inquest. An alarming fire broke out last night, between the hours of nine and ten, on the premises of Mr. OLIVER, Tunbridge-place, New Road, when two new hoose,, belonging to Mr. 0. were completely gutted. Several engines soon arrived, but, from the scarcity of water, were unable to save any more than the adjoining housef. We are sorry to say that a poor man was driven over by one of the engines) and seriously injured. .Several individuals, attributing the accident to have arisen front the negligence of a driver belonging to one of them, gave him in charge, and had him conveyed to the watch-house. The fire was subdued by 11 o'clock. Last night, just at nine o'ctock, a fie broke out in the lower part of the house of Mr. Peters, an eminent glass cutter, in Cannon-street Road, Whitechapel, and such was the rapidity ..f the flames, that in less than an hour the house, together with the furniture, &c. were totally consumed. Thursday, Mr. WHITE, the unfortunate Gentleman who was tried before Lord NORSUitY, on a charze et murder, and who was found to have been insane, was seat up by the Sheriff ,:f the Queen's County, attended by four special nto.sergers, to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, by the. dicection of the Lose Liao.