Star. — London, England, 1828-04-08 00:00:00

characters than the author. Among the scenery most worthy of praise is a Romantic Cave, the abode of the Obi Sorceress, by ItrutEßTs ; the Plantatinn-house and grounds of Edwards, the Planter, by W. Geneva; and the main deck of a Pirate Vessel, by T. GRIMM. Tile sailing in o f t h e King's Ship, and laying her alongside the pirate; the taking fire and sinking of the latter, is one ni the best managed pieces of Stage Machine: y we 'ever witires•ed, and did much to revive the piece, when at the f ont of death. The House was well filled, and the audience much more respectable than is usually s een on an Easter Monday. THE MINOR THEATRES- . _ The Minor, or, as they are commonly termed, the Somme' Theatres, all opened last night with infi..ite eclat. Sadler's Wells presented as much pleasant excel leace as usual; the Royal Amphitheatre exhibited some fi ne and rrre,istible attractive Spectacles; the Surrey presented a vas arty of very entertaining Dtan►as; as did uho the C'ohurg and Olympic '!'hest es. PLYMOUTH THEATRE. A crowded and fashionable audience attended to witness the debut of the amateurs, on SA: urday, in Cot.. uAN . S Comedy of John Bull, and the Farce of The Irishman in London. The parts in John Bull which re quire any particular talent for repiesentation are tho-e ot Dennis Brillgruddery, Peregrine, and th... lion. Torn Shuffle:on. These were a mirably performed by Pay masterGßATTAN,Oithe 18th Royal Irish, Mr.WOßgil AN, of the 94th, and Mr-Caw:Row, of the Ittfle Brigade. The gtnuisie brogue, droll humour, and busy interest of the Irishman, found a choice representative in Mr. GMAT. TAN, who, though he a little caricatured the part, suc ceeded in bringing down thunders of applause. Mr. WORKMAN'S Peregrine was a serious hit of sentimental well ser %id ut, ind relished by the audience. As for Mrs CAXCRoN'S Tons Shlffleton, it is an excellent picture of the insufferable puppy. The easy, polished impertinence of the modern dandy was hit off to a nicety, and told admirably well. Mr. Ganvas. of the Rifle Brigade, appeared as Frank Rochdale. in the same play ; but there not much for him to do, and he was evidently less familiar with the stage than his companions, who seemed quite at home in their as. sumed characters. The other par is of John Bull were played by the Members of the Corps Dramatifue with their usual ability. NEW DIORAMA. Thebeautiful Exhibition ot this description, represent. ing the Interior of St. Peter's at Rome, was also opened yesterday, at that mart ot amusentect, the King-street B.z,ar. The chasteness and grandeur of style, and the splendid embellishments which distinguish that noble Cathedral, ale taithfully presented in the present paint ings, and the solemn tones of the organ,which are beard at, intervals, sounding as it were through the lofty aisles, give to the spectacle a truly impressive character. The e.feci is greatly heightened by the novel and very in genious c , nu tirance for exhibiting rows of lighted tapers about the altar, which is seen at the back of the picture. The small windows of the Cathedral are ex• quisitely managed, and the Painting is altogether worthy of being classed with the most perfect specimens of the Diotamic Art. GREENWICH FAIR. "The morning rises black, the louring pan Drives heavily his sable chariot on."—OrwAr. The pleasing anticipation of Greenwich delights and plebeian joys is often destroyed by that most dreadful of events, rain. Speculators, who have provided provi sions and accommodation for the holiday folks, tremble' at the appearance of a wet day. It brings with it dis.- appointokni„ Icss, and lamentation. Yest,rday the elements were unfavourable to the. sports of Greenwich, and we have no opportunity to de tail the glowing seenes and merry adventures which fine weather sedorn fails to b►ing forth. Drizzling rain and shower, kept tile Greenwich visitors under cover during the eoly part of the day ; but the sun, soon after twelve o'clock. bestowed the beneficent tribute of his rays, and the votaries of pleasure were in motion. The costermongers drew up their equipages at the Rockingham Arms, and resorted to the usual means of procuring passengers. " Now, Say," said one of those elegant drivers, " here's a prime seat, and only eight pence." "I am not going with you. I wait for the Greenwich coach." " Oh I the coaches never go nothing like our We-Incles." " Wary not ?" " Why you see the coaches stop at houses, and we never stop. Come, get in for sixpence.* 41 I told you I was waiting for the conch." " Come, I vont be hard ; get up for a groat —don't you see there's a nice young woman sitting on she front seat. You may talk to her all the vay, and that's worth sixpence.“—The road was soon thronged with pedestrians and conveyances of every description, from the coal waggon to the cab. The shops, as usual, were furnished with ham and beet, and all the ingredients required to satisfy the keenest appetite. On our arrival at Deptford, the shops were placarded with the intended ascent of Mr. Green in his balloon. Crossing Deptford Bridge, the way to Greene:eh was one busy, noisy scene of preparation. The fair is held in the road leading to the Creek Bridge, and seems to possess unusual attraction. The principal feature is the immense booth named the Crown and Anchor. The expense must have been great, as the dimensions exceed the size of any booth we ever beheld at a :air. It was lighted with no less than seventeen thousand variegated lamps, numerous lustres, and brilliant devices. The initials G. R. the 4th, with Hell crowns and trophies, produced a blaze of light equal, in the opinion of some, to the splendour of Vauxhall. The part called the Ball room was pie- Pared for 2.000 couples, and the business was regulated by Masters of the Ceremonies, rep3rted to be equal to tuose who preside at Almack's. The musical bands were numerous, and the company dancedquadr dies and national dances in the first style. To convey a concise idea of this extensive enclosure, filled with pleasure and good things, we have only to add the dimensions : Length from end to end 700 feet; width 75 feet. The Fives Court, for the exhibition of Gymnastics, and the Fives Court Tavern, formed another prominent object. The great Battle of Navarin, and the fall of the Brunswick Theatre, were objects of deep interest. Those events were presented in Diorama. The magnificent Theatre belonging to Richardson sears its ample front. His band of musicians kept the people alive by a very effective performance of "Hurrah! for the Bonnets of Blue r Among the wonders were observed a pig-faced Lady 0%0. an American Giantess, seven feet high, the racing Mare Pincushion, with seven legs, and a Child with two Heads. The novelties attracted a vast number of persons, and at three o'clock the Fair was crowded to excess. Greenwich Park was thrown open to the public, and the heights were soon crowned by lads and lasses. One tree Hill displayed an admiring crowd, whilst Flans. stead Honse was closely invested. Upon the whole, the Park did not possess the attraction which it derives from fine weather. The ground was damp and slippery,..— Few ventured to run down the Hill, and the interesting scenes of " coley pole;" did not occur. In the course r - ^ - 7 of the evening the houses along the road were filled by merry company. After partaking of all the enjoyment singing, dancing, and drinking could impart, the vota ries of gaiety reached ton n, but not without a few of those contests which generAlly happen on the way home. - Z. THE EASTER HUNT IN EPPING FOREST. Yesterday—Easter Mm — l i rty.....was the day on which, according to annual custom and immemorial usage, the great London Hunt took place on Epping Forest ; and m at unquestionably nothing could be like it —or, as the poet says— " Nought but itself could be its parallel." The day opened rather inauspiciously for hunting. Instead O. " a souti.erly wind," what wind there was, was n rth-west; and thingh there was—" a cloudy . sky"—cloudy enough of all conscience—yet it was damp, dreary, and drizzling ; insomuch that the landlords on the Fores old Tom Rounding, and he of the Boldfaced Stag. especially began to look rather lackadaysicaby at their larders, in a aell-grounded fear that no Cockneys would come to. consume the many fair rounds of beef, and portly hams, coked purposely for Cockney consumption. But, as old Tom Rounding piously observed, " Poo vioiNcs was very good to 'em," for at one o'clock the rain blew off, the sun broke out, and the Cockneys came flocking down the road by hundred—nay by thousands; and old Tom Rounding's rounds of beef. were speeJily converted into Cockney's chyle. Old Tom, be it remembered, is the Master of the Hunt ; and many a gallon of Old 'ham does he get rid of, at a pretty con siderable profit, in consequence thereof. Consequently 6. the Hunt" did not begin till two o'clock in the after-. noon; for Old Torn is decidedly of opinion that it is' bad to hunt up..n an empty stomach. " Hunting," qtoilt "is a sport—sport is a joke, and there is no joking with an empty stomach." - A: twoo'clock in the afternoon, then, the hunt began; at which time there was as pretty a fi:ld of sportsmen assembled at the top of Fair Me.cl Bottom as a body would wish to see on an Easter Monday. None of your Melton Mowbray concerns four-and-twenty scarlet coats all in a row; but two or three thous-ad regular bred Cockneys; some oss horseback, same on assback, some in drags, some in rattlers, some in cabs, and some in nothing at all, and all mixed higgledy piggledy together, so that no man amongst them could say es Here am 1," with any chance of being owned by anybody else. Indeed we heard one Gentleman call out 6- Where the d-1 are you, Jack?"—to which Jack re plied, " Cam me if 1 know ;" and no doubt there were a vast many others in the same predicament. At two o'clock, as aforesaid, a fallow-deer (of the softer sex) was brought from old To n Rounding's stable its a cart, after having been shown at three pence a peep, as long as any body could be found to pay three pence for peeping at it. There were at least nine couple of hounds brought with it; but, somehow or other, they got lost among the carts, cabs, and coaches. Whether they were not used to London hunting, or whether they thought it was all a hum, we don't know ; but all the flogging of the huntsmen and all the shouting of the Cockneys could not keep them together. However, nobody seemed to consider the hounds of much consequence, because everyboiy depended on his own individual prowess at deer catch ing; and so a ring was formed round the cart, and II e lady deer was pushed out of it, vi et emit, into the middle of the ring. And such a shout was set up at the sight of her, as might well have quail'd the heart of the proudest in the forest; but she •• Soon as she felt herself enlarged, Through thickest of her foes she charged. And made way through the amazed crew— Some she o'er-ran, and some o'erthrew. In haste she led, and so did they— Each, and his fear, a several way." But they soon rallied, and beset her to such a degree that she did not know which way to sun; bat went wan- dering in and out among the coaches and things seem ingly quite bewildered, until a very valiant Cockney, on a horse at least eleven hands high, gave her such a cut across the note, with his hunting whip, as sent her off right an end into a fold yard hard-by, and there they crowded upon her so fast that in the scuffle they suc ceeded in breaking her leg. Of course she was put . completely hors deconibat, as the French say, and no doubt she was speedily converted into venison, for they took her away in the cart more dead than alive. It was now after three o'clock, and, as the sportsmen had not had sport enough, the managers gave notice that they would bring them another deer. Accordingly they went back to old Tom Rounding's, and about four o'clock they brought down another—a more sprightly one than the first, and one that seemed to have been * 6 trained up in the way he should go ;" for he was no sooner out of the cart than away he went with a bit of a circumbendibus towards old Torn Round ing's stable again. Every body—except the hounds —followed him at the top of their speed, but he 14 ould have got safe into the stable nevertheless, if some two or three hundred of them had not faced him, by a short cut ; which he perceiving, he very unfairly ran up to. his knees in a horse-pond. Though some two or three of the foremost tumbled in after him, he did not take the least notice of them. A consulta tion was then held as to what should be done with him; and at last, by general agreement, it was settled that he should have another start. So the managers got him out of the horse-pond at last, and be ran about in the wood a good deal, until every body was very hot, and then he was lost. However, just then, a nice cooling shower came on very providentially to cool the beat into which every body had got himself, and so they all, as usual on this occasion, betook themselves to their heels—or the heels of their horses and asses, with all convenient speed --- and glorious he, beyond Ills daring peers! who gets the ugliest fall Prom top of horseback: he is loudest beard When at Tom Rounding's or the Baldfaced Stag, Cockneys conglomerate, to rehearse their deeds, And slake their thirst with gin and /wavy wet." A young girl, in the parish of Wendroa, who had loved "not wisely, but too well," was last week de livered of three children—one of them is since dead, the others, with the mother, are likely to do well. James Golding and Michael Fair, noted resume tionisu, were fully committed on Saturday for trial, charged with stealing two bodies from Hamworth and Farnham churchyards. The following affair happened last week at Fulham. A Gentleman took a house there, and accidentally found a key of an uncommon construction. Deter mined to find out the place it belonged to, after searching for come time, he discovered a small door in a dark corner of one of the garrets, which he opened with the key, and found a place reseal• bliag a well. It proved to be a winding staircase, twelve feet deep, and no othe r way of descending but by going backward. On coming to the bottom, he discovered a complete set of implements for coining. By the dyes, it seems, were counterfeited the old broad pieces; and as near as can be conjectured, it is now about 200 years since this curious place was first made. .~_ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWSIARRET CRAVEN MEETING.. • Nte•nsaaarr. Mori Evearatt. The following are some of the most distinguished visitors now Oil the course— • The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and Lord March, Duke of Grafton. Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Cleveland, Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock. Marquis of Clanricarde, Marquis Gra ham, Lord and Lady Southampton, Lord and Lady Sefton and the Ladies Molyneuz, Lords Jersey, Orford, Cavendish, Wbarncliffe, Anson, G. Bentinck, J. Fitzroy, Lowther, C. Manners, C. Somet sets Verulam, Brudenell, Sir John Shelley, Hon. Mr. Howard, T. Houldsworth, Esq. M.P. Colonels Russell, Udny, and Wilson, Captains Grant, Millard, Macnaznara, Broadhead, Dowbiggin, Haffenden. and Kennedy, Hon. Colonel Anson, Messrs. C. and R. Wilson, Vansittart, Hulyoake, Payne, Sowerby, Stanley, Stone. ', hewer, Wigram, Newton, Waddington, Mills, ltush, Perrott, &c. The weather continues very unfavourable, notwithstanding which the course is numerously and fashionably attended. A little before five o'clock the races terminated as follows— The Craven Stakes, for two yr olds ' Est; three, est 41b; four, Est 13lb ; five , 9st slb ; six, and aged, 9st 91b. A. F. Colonel Wilson's ise Lamplighter, 4 yrs Lord Wharncliffe's b m Pastime, 5 yrs Mr. Ridsdale's ch c Sharpies, 2 yrs ••• Mr. Wyndham's br h Chateau Margaux, 5 yrs blr. Payne's Belzoni, 4 yts ... General Grosvenor's gr e by Skim. 2 yrs ... 1 ... ... 2 ... ... 3 ... ... 4 .. 5 ... 0 A good race. - FOur paid. Dlatelt-200 soy.. fist 41b each. D.M. Colonel Udnfsimplionr;Cei;etaiso;;. from Lord Wham°. eliffe's Carthusian. Match-2CO. D.M. Colonel Udny's LisetieireWi;ed 413 soys. from Mr. Petrels Stapleton. Handicap Sweepstakes for horses of all ages. Ab. M. Mr. Pettit's Robed'lla, 2 yrs, 6st 101 b ... ... I Colonel Yates's Sharpshooter, 3 yrs, Ist 41b ... ... 2 An amazing number started for this rpce. The Fourteenth Riddlesworth Stakes of 400 sots. cub i ts ft ; colts, est 7tb; fillies, Est 41b. Ab. M. Mr. Udny's e by Oreille — Emil y ... Mr. 'rhombill's Magnet (SlitiveUer) ... Lord Rzeter's e by Fdho— Advance .. Mr. Rush's iby Merlin—Rhoda ... Duke of Grafton's Grisette ... ... 1 ... 2 Three paid. Sweepstakes of 100 so's. each, 60 ft, for colts out of untried mares; Sst 11b. R. rd. Mr. Rogen's ch e Bugle Duke of Graftoo's gr e Archer ... ... ... 1 ... s One paid. Sweepstakes of 200 wars. each, h ft, for fillies, Sst 51b. D. M. Lord G. Cavendish's by Godolphin—Barrosa Mr. Grevilles Elinor Duke of Portland's by Teasdale.—Zora One paid. Sweepstakes of SOO sacs. eackh ft; colts, Sit Tlb; fillies, list 41b. ... 1 ... 2 Am: ... 5 Mr. Wyndham's Urgaoda ... Two paid. Match-200 sows. h ft, Bst 71b each. R.M. Mr. Payne's Oppidan ... ... ... Duke of Grafton's Lancastrian .. ... Match-200 sees. h ft. First three miles of B.C. walked over .. 1 ... 2 Marquis of TavistoeVa Leeway, 8a lib Mr. Payne's Babel, Sst 7lb ... TATTERSALL'S. ... 1 .. ... 2 Nothing worth recording was done here yesterday, all the men of business being absent at the Newmarket Craven Meeting. At the Club-houses some few bets have been made; but as they were entirely influenced by the accounts from Newmarket, we must refer to them for the odds. BEDFORD SPRING MEETING, Aram 4. _ _ The O.kley Stakes of 5 sows. each (24 Subscribers) was won by Lord Tavistuck's b h Freeholder, beating Lord Ongky's Little John, Mr. Stuart's Magic, and seven others. Match 50 sovs.--Captain Delme Radcliffe's Guardsman beat Captain Lord C.• Russell's The Terrier. Match 50 sovs.—Captain Polhill's Medea beat Mr. Littledale's Jason. A Plate of 250 was won in three beats by Mr. Purser's Make shift, beating Mr. Gibbing's Jujube, Mr. Bolton's Grasshopper, and three others. Maicb 50 soar.—Tbe Hon. Captain Onsley's Mercury beat Capt. D. Radcliffe's Selim. Match 50 soya.—Capt. Polhirs eh m beat Mr. Palmer's b b. A Hunter's Stakes of 5 soy,. each (I 0 Subscribers) was won in three beats by Mr. Benton's eh It Wititestockings, beating Mr. Pol hill's kitties, and several others. FLORENCE SPRING RACES, Maxen 17. Match for 40 Louis d'or—T. Y.C. Mr. Xerrick'sch h 'Goldfinch, lOst 101 b Mr. Let's b 1. Trim Awe, 9st t Ilb Won easy. Arno Stakes (Second Year), Subscription of 10 auchins each ; the second horse to receive one-third of the Stakes. for all horses.— Horses not thorough-bred to carry 9st 101 b ; thorough-bred horses that have not run in England, lost Slb; and thorough-bred hones that have run is England, 11st.—One round.—(Eighteen Subscribed) Mr. Thellusaon's b in Beauty Mr. Baring's c m Conviction Sir H. Williamson's g m Riber Mr. Strangway's bl it Othello Mr. Smirnoff's e m Malvina Mr. Jones. b m Matilda ••• Mr. Kerrick's e It Rob Roy .. Mr. Demidors b b True Blue Mr. Gasperinies c m Fornarina Two started. .. 1 ... se ••• •• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• • • ••• ... 1 ... 0 Lord Burgbenh, Lord Normindy, Captain Cadopn, Mr. P. Bartole, Mr. Bruce, Count Hokersowa, Marquis Spinola, Marquis Lucchessini, and Mr. Perry did not name. Match for SO Louis d'or, T.Y.C. lost Ilb each. Mr. Narichkin's g h Viaier Mr. Geislers b h Coro Complaint being made of a jostle, it was agreed to run over again neat day. Handicap Stakes for all Horses was thorough-bred.—Subscription of 10 suchins each, T.Y.C.—(Eight Subscribers). Mr. Thellusson'ib m Beauty, lOst 71b Mr. Jones's b m Miss Molly, 10st Lord liurghersh's b h Malmantine, lost 21b Captain Cadogan's b b Squirrel', lOst 2lb Marquis Luccheulni's b m daa, lOst Sir H. Williamson's b M Judith, 9st 91b Mr. Baring's c It Rob Roy, 10st 111 b Lord Normandy did not name.—Ouly two started. Match for 10 Louis d'or, Y.C. 10st each. belted ... o ... ... o ... o ... 1- ... ... V Mr. Gasperiui's b h Signs •• Mr. P. Bangle's b h Dandy ..:t Won daily. Match for 10 Louis d'or, T.Y.C. catch weights. Mr. Smith's br h Zephyr ••• ... ... Benin d'Anutein's g 11 Pangarog • .. Won easy. Chianti Stakes, 10 Louis d'or each; for all horses that never ran in Italy, three yr olds to carry Ist Ill; four, 9st 21b ; See, 104 ; six, and aged, lost 41b. Once round. (Tea Subscribers). Sir 11. Willaimson's g h Riber, 5 yrs ... Mr. Baring's b h Othello, 6 7n •CO Mr. Demidors b m Tippitywltchett, 3 in Mr. Jones's b m Matilda, 4 yrs .. .... Three *until—Won cleverly. Lord Normandy, Mr. Multiunit, Mr. Perry, Marquis Luc • cheulni, Mr. Smirnoff, and Mr. S. Bruce subscribed, but did not name. Match for 10 Louis d'or, T.Y.C. llst 101 b each. Mr. Gasperini's b h •• Marquis Banoline's g h Bergansi Won easy. ... 1 .. 2 ... ... 1 ... 2 ... ... 3 ••• ••• 1 SID • ••• •••• 2 MONUMENT TO MR. Canutwoo—The subscription to the fund for the erection of a Monument to Mr.. Can ning,in Liverpool, now amounts to SAM, The Finance Committee adjourned on Wednesday last until Tuesday the 15th lost, They have examined into the principal branches of the ;Navy, Army, and Ordnance, of what may be called the effective force, with the view of being able to report to the House soon after the recess. • . In consequence of the propostdi-extension of the elective franchise to the hundred of Bassetlaw, in which Retford is situate, several candidates are already named as likely to offer themselves, and some canvassing has actually commenced. Lord NEWARK (eldest son of Earl MASTERS)/ GEORGE SAVILZ FOLJAMEE. Esq. of (Merton. GRANVILLE V. VERNON. Esq. of Grove, and H. G. KNIGHT. Esq. of Firbeck, are all confidently mentioned as candidates. The number of freeholders in the hundred is 2,000,..fia1i Packet. . r ~ ~ _. •~ TRAY;LS rx RUSSIA, POLAND, AND FINLAND. EY WILLIAM RAE WILSON, ESQ. F.A.S. This Work, which comes forward it the present period, when so mush speculation is afloat with legard to the movements of Russia towards Turkey, and in- volves such important considerations Wails country, contains many remarks which are of importance to Government. Our limits at present only permit us to give the concluding observatit ns of the Author on his journey " Although wl;at had fallen under our view in the various countries we passed through had rarely eacited any comparisons to the prejudice of our own, I should pay a very suspicious compliment to my native land —a. oue favouring rather of narrow•minded prejudice than liberal patriotism—were I to assert that I had met with nothing worthy of approbation or imitation elsevihere. If, in some instances, the observations on Russia and its inhabitants may appear harsh, and if I have un sparingly censured that superstition, in which the minds of the people are sunk, and degrades the doctrines of the Greek Church, as laid down by its theologians, almost to tie level of Catholicism, let it be remembered that Russia is yet young in point of civilization. She may be semi barbarous—so is Portugal, and also is Spain : yet with this difference, the glory of the latter is passed, theie energies extinct—theirs is not the debility of childhood, but of exhausted age —not, I say, the ignorance of, in-. expereace, but the dotage of decay ; while Russia, strong in her physical, may become as great in her in. rellectual, powers. Still, so long as despotism shall continue to be the spirit of her Government anctits Institutions, so long must her destinies depend on the individual character of her Sovereigns: These have brilliant examples before them-.for instance, Peter, Catherine, and Alexander; land; with virtuous energy, disintere tedly pointed to the happiness of his peo ple, a Russian Monarch would not want the means of raising them to an elevat;on in the scale of nations,of which h cory presents few examples. Enlightened and civilized, generous and brave, Russia. may yet become to the world a second Britain; and narrow-minded indeed must be that man, and gra• veiling must be that policy, which could view with a jealous elte the moral improvement of an empire com plising so large a portion of the habitable globe.—. If the advancement of the human race be a subject of congratulation to the philanthropist—if a generous con test in the arts of civilization 'and national happiness tend to mutual benefit—to gain a competitor in such it career is a greater subject for exultation, than to have vanquished a thousand enemies. " In estimating national, as well as individual charac ter, we are too apt to compare, not the merits of others with our own, but to contrast their impetfections with those points wherein we ourselves excel. It is possible that I myself may have more than once been betrayed into partiality by such a weakness, and without making the allowance for differences of national culture and habits, and forgetting that Russia is not England, may hive dwelt on her more obvious defects.' If so, I must ingenuously plead guilty, and express a hope that the reader will as candidly impute it, not to wilful misre presentation, but rather to the briefness of my stay in that country, which prevented me from studying more accurately the character of this people. With respect, however, to the vigilant and' ealous cauti( ri with which the Government of a vast empire assumes to itself the character of a police, with regard to its petty tyranny over the conduct M individuals, and the uniform sup• pression of the publication of -every sentiment at all at variance with its own views, theie-is, and-I do maintain there can be, but one opinion. Short sighted, cowardly policy ! more debasing to those. who enforce, than to those who submit to it. Such, alas lis the re-action of - despotism, that it renders the Sovereign himself a slave. But—and may that auspicious hour soon arrive—con• scious of hit power, and confiding-in the attachment of tis subjects, may the Autocrat of all the Russia: de. cla e the PRESS TO Be FRER. That single m ,ndate, I • entertain no doubt, will obtain for him as much renown as all that has been accomplished by-the greatest of his predecessors, and would, under the blessing of Provi••• dence, give to the world another empire, the worthy rival of our own in that glorious cause—the cause of Freedom, and of the moral advancement of the ha.- man race." Government has given its consent to the removal of the Fleet Prison to a plot of ground in St. George's Fields, situate on the west side of: the new road from the Westminster-road to Bethlem Hospital. This plot of ground belongs to the City, and it is to be given to the Crown in exchange for the fee-simple of the ground on which the Fleet Prison now stands. Lord CLANBRCCK completed his majority on Tues. day. His Lordship invited all his tenantry to a public dinner given on the occasion, at his splendid seat in the county of Galway, Clanbrock House. There were drank by the tenantry 50 tierces of strong beer and porter, and six puncheons of whiskey. His Lordship presided at the dinner, and in the evening led off the ball with the daughter of one of his principal tenants. There was a splendid exhibition of fireworks on the lawn before the house. Preparations for the new improvements near Charing C ass have commenced, as some of the buildings ate now taking down, and the miserable dwellings known by the name of Porridge Island, near St. Martin's Church, will in the course of the summer disappear._ St. Martin's Church will soon be insulated, and the whole of that beautiful edifice will be/exposed to rib. lie view. , Friday afternoon a baker, named Hewitt, residing at Chelsea, was defrauded of by a man who sent him a note, purporting to come from a lady named Johnson, requesting the loan of the above sutra • The Lady being a customer, Mr. Hewitt instantly sent the money. Saturday night, as Mr. Justice Buattouou was pro ceeding to town in his carriage from Kingston, after finishing the Home Circuit, the portmanteau which was fixed behind, and which contained, besides several docu. • meets and papers•of importance, his Lordship's gown and wig, •was cut from its fastenings by some of the 's dragsmen" who lurk about the roads in the environs of London, for the purpose of cutting away trunks and portmanteaus from Gentlemen's carriages. The above . robbery was not discovered until the arrival of the • Learned Judge's carriage in town. The following morning, the road between the Baldfaced Stag and the Plough, near Wandsworth, was strewed with the frig- • • meats of his Lordship's gown, which the thieves cut op into small pieces, and dropped at intervals on the road. The wig shared a similar fate, some portion of which • was studs on spikes by the road side. The empty port manteau was discovered in a field near the spot where the thieves are supposed to have cut it from the canine. Letters from Rio Janeiro arrived yesterday ; they come down to theist of February. The Exchange on England had fallen to SI ; the premium op gold was 125 per cent. A small loan had bee* .obtaieed by Government of 126,0001. but a great scarcity of MOOT was still felt. The loan was to bo paid by instalments at V I 40,60, and 80 days. I '