Star. — 1830-06-25 (London, England)

KERRY ELECTION.—We are authorized to state that the Honourable Mr. Browne will certainly offer himself as a candidate for the representation of Kerry, at th.. next election. There will be, we understand, either three or four candidates for the next election, under any circumstances.— Trake Mercury. The woollen trade of Witney, which has been f„. some years past progressively on the increase, has been lately in a state of great activity. The demand for blankets, &c. is unusually great. —G lasgotv Chronicle. Monmouth wool fair was held on Wednesday. Fine long combing wool brought 13s. per stone, which was an advance of 2s. and, indeed, the whole averaged Is. lid more than in 1829. There was a large quantity brough. to market, and very little left unsold.—Bath Chronicle The carpet manufactures are very brisk at present The low price of wool has enabled the makers to brintt them forward so cheap as greatly to increase consump tion.--Glasgow Chronicle. On Saturday last, at Wrotham, a man inhumanly bit off a considerable part of his mother's nose, and attempted to tear out her tongue. He was taken into custody, and yesterday committed to the county prison.-111«idst(0,, Journal.  The Bath court authorities are compelled to refuse executions against the person, the gaol being quite full ; and we understand there are more insolvents confined preparatory to their taking the benefit of the act than were ever before known.—Bristol Mercury. On Sunday last there were thirteen baptisms at our parish church, and it was remarked as a singular circumstens° that twelve of the children were girls.—Blac4buns Gazette.  A young man named Branwood, a tinman, destroyed himself at an earl• hour on Saturday morning by cutting his throat with a razor, in a pig-stye, near the Seven Houses. It is a remarkable fact that a brother and sister of this ill-fated individual have also, within a felt years, ended their lives by suicide, the former by hang. Mg, and the latter by drowning.— Wolverhampton aronick.  " An ingenious mechanic in the neighbourhood of Hull, has invented a small lamp, which may be attashed spectacles of a particular description, by means of which, and a reflector, any person may read in the darkest night ; and the contrivance is such, that the only light visible is on the part of the book that is read."—So says a London paper. If there be such a mechanic in Hull as the party alluded to, we fear he hides his light undet a bushel, at least as far as regards his neighbours.— Han Packet.  The coal works in Scotland are not so much subject to destructive explosions of gas as those in Northumberland; yet they do not wholly escape the dangerous visitation. On Thursday morning, as tho colliers at Drumkavel were preparing to begin to work, one of them lighted a candle at a safety-lamp held by another. He then stuck it in his cap, and was proceeding along the mine, when the inflammable air exploded, and knocked the whole of the men down upon the floor. The individual, whose want of caution had caused the catastrophe. was killed on the spot, another man shared the same fate, and two others were dangerously wounded.— Glasgow Chronicle. On the 10th inst. a field of hay, computed at 250 stones an acre, belonging to Major Baird, of Park, was cut down, and, although the weather has been rather un• propitious for the process of hay-making, it is now in pretty large ricks. With dry weather, the cutting of that crop will be general in the course of eight days. In the Canoes it will be somewhat unequal, some fields averaging 200 stones, others not above half that quantity. In the dry fields it is uniformly good ; upon the whole it will be fully an average crop.—Glasgow Chronicle.