Star. — London, England, 1827-09-11 00:00:00

Tflr•. ARMY. Tke 2d Division of the 76th Regiment of Infantry, arrived on 'the 4th inst. at Cock, from Canada. The List Division of the 23d Regiment of Foot, embarked on the 4th inst. at Cork, for Gibraltar. A Detachment belonging to the 4th Regiment of Light Dra goons, arrived in town yesterday, from Bristol, on route to the Cavalry Depot, at Nia'dstorie. A Detachment belonging to the ZBtb Regiment of infantry, ar. rived in town, yesterday, from Ireland, on route to Canterbury. A Detachment belonging to the 40th Regiment of Foot, strived in town yesterday, from Bristol, on route to Chatham. A Detachment belonging to the 85th Regiment of Infantry, ar. tiveri in town yesterday, from Ireland, on route to Dover. A Detachtnent belonging to the Rest India Company's Service, arrived in town yesterday, from Bristol, on route to Chatham. INDIAN ARMY. FLOGGING AIDOLIIIIIID W 11101*• Head-quarters, Calcutta, March 19, 1827. The Commander-in-Chief Is satisfied, from the quiet and orderly itiabits of the native soldiers, that it call very seldom be necessary to inflict on them the punishment of flogging, while it may be almost entirely abolished, with great advantage to their character and feelings. Nis Excellency is therefore pleased to direct, that no native sol dier shall, in future, be sentenced to corporal punishment, unless for the clime of stealing, marauding, or gross insubordination, w►ere the individuals ate deemed unworthy to continue in the ranks of the Army. Whenever, in such cases, corporal punishment is awarded by a Regimental Detachment or litigade Court Martial, the proceed ings are to be referred, with a descriptive Roll of the prisoner, and a report of his previous character to the General or other Officer Commanding the Division, before the sentence is carried into effect ; and if he confirms it, and does not see cause to remit the punishment, he will, at the same time, direct the man to be dis charged from the Service. This Order is to be clearly explained to every Native Corps. By Order of his Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief, W. L. WATSON, Adjutant-General of the Army. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Gnion, arrived from Trieste, spoke on the Mb of July, is the Gut, the George, front Lytham' to Liverpool, and saw, about the 7th ult. in lat. Su, lung. 14, a squadron o( ten sail of French pendants, steering S.W. with the wind at NN.W. with large quantities of hay lashed round them; hoisted no clours. Mosasia, Auc.usr 18.—Au English brig of war has just taken to Malta a Greek brig, with a quantity of British manufactures on board, which has been claimed by some of the merchants. Fat-mount, Sara. 9.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrived off port the Regent, Shrum, Isom Surinam. Ptrucoutu, San. 9.—Wind &W.—Saila the Sales, Coca, for Sardinia. _ _ _ __ _ —...... Puarsuouro, Sort. 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Baltic tlerchant transport, from Bra Janeiro. His lalajestp,'s ship Tweed har put back.' Dui, Sart. 111.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Coromandel, Bouts, from India ; Mabrina, Booing, from Palermo; Th;mes, Homan); from China; Jamaica, NOITOI4, front Antigua; Merlin, Wuxi, from Jamaica; and Isabella, from the Aleditertanean. • . Gaayssietri, ham 10.—Arrived the Boyne, Poem from China; Scipio, Sesecm.r, Cumber!And, Aeons, and B arrack, Sutra, from St. Peterthursh ; and the Para packet, Porrsa, frem Para. Sailed the Ann, Gamma, for Pernambuco; and the Atalanta, Gassier, for Stettin. Lnwavococ, San. 9.—Arrived the Brother., Btcossacc, from the Adriatic; Caledonia, Butrnoin, and Seaford', hl.Dowocc, from Demerara; Mars, Alrrcuatt, John Marsh, Rani, Braganca, Sow.' vox, Planter, Nasser, and Miles, Lowly'', front New Orleans; Parachute, biscuincs, and Superior, JOWSILY, from Charleston; Balloon, Howavou, from Baltimore; Rose, from Sierra Leone; Arcturus, Cuottnau, from Lisbon; Whitehaven, from Smyrna; Fanny Connell, Jor, from Leghorn ; Amelia, Faacusou, from Oporto; Cleta, from Bilboa ; Nottingham, Sasaar, from Quebec; and Petrel, Halals, front Seville. Sailed the Tagus, W WALTON, for Lisbon. LIVERPOOL - ROIOVAL or QUAILAMTIIIIII lITISTRICTION3.—The serious delay and inconvenience which the numerous shipping trading here front the Mediterranean have so long sustained by being obliged to wait the return of the pest from London (notwithstanding, within the last few years, the principal officers of the Customs at this port have ac cektated the transmission of the quarantine papers, and issued, in each came, the order for the Meats of the respective ships blame direly on the arrival of the post, although at a most convenient hour), we are most happy to say, with the exception of Turkey and Africa, are now entirely removed, by an Order in Council dated on the 27th alt. from all vessels arriving from the dominions of France, Spain, Italy, Austria, or Sardinia ; provided a medical officer, who is to be stationed Isere for that purpose, finds that all the persons on bond are in good health, and that no danger is to be appre hended from any •dlsease of a suspicious nature as to infection having prevailed on board during this voyage ; and provided certain enumerated goods, if any such are od b6ard, are acenm-. panted by a certificate, to show that they are not the produce of Turkey or Africa; nd all vessels from the lazaretto ports of Malta, Ancona, Venice, Merinos, Leghorn, Genoa, Trieste, and klarseilles, are to be treated in the same manner, provided their cargoes were taken from the shore, and they bring clean bills of bealth.—Lawepool Commercial Chronicle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EETTING.ROOM, TATTERSALL'S, San 10. —• The betting, without being very heavy yesterday afternoon, was Of considerable importance, notwithstandiog much time was recce. tardy occupied in comparing books. The mud bag, Reviewer, has astonished the folks by juniping up to 25 to 1 to 1;1 to 1, which rages wore of the books.look rather queer 30. 40, and 50 to 1 having beta kid to several thousand pounds, and against which it will not be the easiest thing in the world to hedge; they say that be ku had a tri a l w i t h J er ry a nd Antiope, b o th of whom be beat easy; considering the character of the beaten hones, we place but little reliance on the trial. It is also reported that Mr. Petre's lot have been tried at two miles, and that Granby and Matilda ac quitted themselves very well Olio filly running an excellent second), labile Nonplus was beat a long way. if these reports be true, it is ▪ doubt whether Antiope and Nonplus will run. Reviewer's Jockey, E. Edwards, having injured his arm by an accident, will net ride kilo twat Tuesday. The odds closed as under— tot apt Mameluke 30 to 1 agst Hartpury (taken) into t agst Granby 50 to j agst Popsy 10 to 1 apt Medoro 53 to 1 apt Bloonshine 11 to 1 agst Matilda 35 to I apt Olivera 13 to 1 agst Reviewer 33 to 1 apt Translation eu to 1 apt Sancho 40 to 1 apt Naming I No 20 to 1 apt L u na r ia 40 to 1 agst Antiope friends to 1 agst Malek 1000 to 10 apt Pedlar 1000 to 500 Medoro eget Reviewer (taken) The races are next week, and are expected to be the most Wil liam ever known. WESTERN MEETING AT AYR, Sm. 6. The Gold Cup, value 100 pi lie. Ilaird's b. c. by Chanspigoon, 3 yrs, 7st. Mb. 1 Dlr. Blair's gr. c. by Viscount. 4 yrs. est. Sib. . So 11. H. ISlair's br. e. Edward, 3 yrs, 7st. 51b. . 3 • A good ;ace. Match, .50 son. Sir 7. Boswell's b. m. lioldsmaid /dr. Arttor's Glasgow - Woa by ball a neck. Fifty Pounds for all ages. NIL Males gr. c. by Viscount Air. M.Donald's b. f. Grecian Queen Dawsun's br. C. by Prime Minister TROTTING MATCH, Captain Fairborn undertook, for a stake of 200 son. to trot his Locaubire horse Tramper nine Miles in 32 minute.. It took place Yerterday, over a mile piece, on the Huntingdon road. Immense *tots Were pending cut it, and each mile was done as follows— tint Newel ..... 555 Eighth 331 Third ...... .......... 330 Ninth ..... 43 35 F0urth....... * 3 31 Fifth Sixth 51 rite niatek was wbo without once broke from the trot. The netting 5 to 4 on dine, with plan 'much labour, and the horse only ground was but think attended. ty of takers. The sate Sir JOHN BARNARD, a most respectable and worthy tinier!, had a son who very little resembled him. This )sung Gentkniati one day told. his father that he was tired of Bitc hed, and earnestly cleared to see the world. " Jack," replied th, father," I should not have the least objection to your travelling , tat, while you are acclig the world, lam attaid tkt tr3rfti we/ tam„ 1 he 4 , is the S tle A gr grr fora iU 1r i Ofr SSP 01 :ad i s le ha' go= : ad ) ing TRIP TO SHEERNESS. Though " a Trip to Sheerness" possesses none of dull fashionable trim which renden a " Trip to Bath" or" Brighton"' so palatable among the listless coteries of high life, yet those who glory in their country's naval greatness, or love to ruminate oiler the changes to which its habitable surface has been sod is now sub. jected, will find, in a trip to Sheerness, all that their most 'angular wishes could desire. A steam-boat, commodiously fitted up, well supplied with every comfort, and in which civility appears as as established rule of office, sails thrice a week from the Tower Wakes and on board of which I was sculled in a wherry for the small matter of three pence. The weighing of the anchoe was but the effort of a few minutes, and through the dwelt wedged and chaotic mass of vessels of all sizes, and of all nations, we cautiously threaded our way, checking the velocity of our movement every now and then, by letting off a jet of steam, when any obstacle to our course presented itself direct a-bead, even stopping the boat skint-cher, wheeling her right or left, or backing her astern, as circumstance. required, and making her yield, in fact, as obidiently to the word of command of the individual who guided her as if she bad been a being endowed with life and reason.—When we had fairly dived Into the depths of this species of marine labyrinth, a sense of loneli ness came before me, as if I was shut out from all intercourse with the smiling works of nature by which I was so lately surrounded, and I hailed every glimpse of the little unoccupied spaces of water that presented themselves as we proceeded, with ehat sort of pro phetic rapture which a farmer, after a long term of drizzling wee. thee, hails the little patches of blue opening sky through the black curtain that bad enshrouded them, as portending a speedy change of the dismal and unpropitious times that bad preceded. The ships, oo advancing further (Inwards, were generally seen to lie in conti guous rows, according to the country whence they come. After fairly emerging out of the maze of masts, the country on each side Is seen rising into moderately elevated hills, having their green 11l perficiesvariegated with trim pruned hedges and groupes of germed here and there with a picturesque cottage, or mansion of the wealtby,reping out from among the forest clumps that embowered them. W&ks of vast extent have lately been completed at Sheerness, and such others, too, are now in progress, as will render it the most complete and extensive naval depot in the world. Here are three new docks for building or repairing ships of the first-rate class, and two others for vends of entailer dimensions, into one of the former of which the Prince Regent, a three-decker, and the largest ship in the world, was lately taken to be examined, with all her masts and yards, guns and stores fitted, and without the dock being in the slightest degree injured thereby—a thing hitherto unprecedented in naval history, and which could have been effected in no other place on the globe. There Is also a fine building slip here, and three basins, each capable of containing eight ships of the line ; as also two for smaller rates—one of the former having its entrance fitted with a cassoon to detain the water in it, during ebb tide, for keeping the vessels afloat ; all the others admitting the tide to flow freely out and in, leaving thus the greater portion of the ships within them, resting, during low water, upon the soft mud of their bottom. The old houses of the garrison are now also in the course of being pulled down,-to construct works for the puttee ' tion of the whole; and when these are completed Sheerness will be l in a manner a place of new creation. The Isle of Sheppey, in which this depot and the fishing village of Queenborough lie, is about thirteen miles long by ten broad, and contains 11,000 inha bitants. Towards the sea it presents a range of rather high clayey cliffs, declining towards the Kentish side into low, marshy flats, defended from the overflowing of the tides by dykes in the Dutch style, Its soil is a rich alluvial, resting on blue clay, and produces luxuriant crops of wheat, oats, beans, peas, &c. besides caraway and coriander seeds, considerable quantities of the two latter being yearly raised here, though less now than in former times. Barley is found to be unsuited to its soil, and there is not a rock or a sur face spring In the Wand, the whole of the fresh water, which is exceedingly pure, being furnished by wells sunk far below the level of the sea ; those belonging to the inhabitants having the wa ter drawn up from them by means of horses, and the one belong ing to Government by a steam-engine. A pipe from the latter, ' which formerly supplied the residents of Blue Town, having been cut off by the erection of the new wall, was the principal cause of the great destructiveness of the late fire, as otherwise water would have been furnished in sufficient quantity for the supply of the en gines to put it quickly under. The well in the dock-yard is said to be the second in point of depth in Europe, and with such diffi culty is the valuable element above alluded to procured through. out the island, that many individuals earn a comfortable livelihood by collecting the brackish water in the ditches about, mad retailing it through the town for washing and other common purposes. The Isle of Sheppey le fast washing away on the seaward side, and if steps are not hereafter taken to remedy this, possibly in a century or two hence its name may require to be obliterated from the map. Whole acres, with houses upon them, have been carried away in a sinew storm, while clay shallows, sprinkled with sand, which stretch a lull mile beyond the verge of the cliff over which the sea now sweeps, demonstrate the original area of the island. From the blue clay of which these cliffs are composed, may be culled out speci mens of all the fishes, trees, and fruits which abounded in Britain before the birth of Noah ; and the traveller may consequently han dle, though he cannot eat fish which swam, and fruit which grew In the days of the Antediluvians, all now converted into solid stone by the petrifying qualities of the soil in which they arc imbedded. Here are lobsters, crabs, and nautiluses presenting almost the same realty at those we now see crawling and floating about—branches of trees, too, in as perfect order as when lopped from their parent stems, and trunks of them, twelve feet in length, and two or three in diameter, fit, in all appearance, for the operations of the saw, with great varieties of fruits, resembling more those of tropical slimes than of cold latitudes like ours—one species having a large kernel with an adherent stalk, as complete in its parts as when newly plucked from the tree that produced it. Alum, gypsum, calcareous sinter, and iron pyrites are found abundantly on the beaches of the Island, as also the celebrated Sheppey cement stone, which is, collected and shipped to London, foe the purpose of being ground down into a powder and mixed up as a cement. Sheppey is separated from Kean by a sea chaffnel, named the Swale, through which sntaU vessels readily pass, a ferry-boat forming a medium of communication between the two; but when the proposed draw bridge is completed, a distance of five miles will be saved in the land route to lAodon. On the line of the Medway, betwent Sheerness and Chatham, lie 35 sail of the line, 25 frigates, and 15 sloops of war, all in complete order for putting to sea at a few weeks' notice, which filled my mind with pride and wonder at, what our dear little Island is capable of achieving should war again' call forth her Naval energies, although the sallow, onbealday cons. plezions of the inhabitants of Sheppey, and the multitudinous array of new-formed graves in the chureh-yard, made use soon sigh for a more agreeable field to indulge my patriotic thought% upon, and, consequently, as boon as the return of the steam-packet was announced, I hurried on board of her, under even more plea 'tirade feelings than when I first set out on my journey. While rowing past the Dock-yard towards the steamer, my ears were unexpectedly stunned by three as hearty and bois terous cheera as ever the Doot or Mounsiers were regaled with on our jolly tars ranging their gallant barks alongside of them, broadside to broadside ; when casting my eye in the direction whence these proceeded, I perceived a boat pushing out from the shore towards the steam boat also, which I subse quently found contained, in the person of Dr. Hutchison, Surgeon of the Dock-yard Establishment at this place, the subject of these loud and laudatory farewells; a Gentleman who, it appeared, had endeared himself to all classes in the place by the uniform kindness of his deportment, and more particularly to the naval mechanics and labourers, from his gratuitously dispensing his professional ser vice among their families during the period of his stay, and who had thus availed themselves of the opportunity his retirement from alike, by reason of ill-health, afforded of evincing their respect for leis person. and thankfulness for bis past kindnesses in the only way the poor can manifest their feelings of gratitude towards the rich.—, While my spirits were yet pleasurably excited by this manifestation of grateful feeling on the part of the labouring community of Sheer ness, the thoughts called up by the too numerous opportunities af forded to the worthy Doctor of dispensing his professional services, in the place, made me naturally wonder what in the name of folly Could have induced the Noble individual lately at the head of the Admiralty, to construct the finest duck-yard in England, or, per haps, in Europe. in the centre of a pestilent marib, where multi tudes are carried off yearly by the remittent and intermittent fevers arising from its noxious miasma ; diseases which are indeed so fa tally prevakute that few individuals on the island ate above a twelvemonth totally free of their attacks, unless great care be taken of their persons. The narrowness and intricacy of the outward channel also rendering it a most difficult task often for large ships to pass and repass to and from seaward, point out Sheerness as a must ineligible place for a naval station, requiring several changes of wind to carry vessels readily to sea, whereas, from Portsmouth or Plymouth they could get quickly out with almost any wind.— The peat and increasing trade too, carried on by means of the *fhames, imperatively requires that both its waters and those cat its tributaries should not be blocked up by idle war-hulles, but reserved fur the sole use of our commercial marine to pass to and front without " let or hindrauce" upon.— the important changes that bass at various times taken place, too, ,n the sand•banks at the mouth of the Thames, render it probable. that before another century expires, the channels through then, will be impassable fur first-rate ships of war, demanding thus possibly a canal to be cut to cat r y them Out against the enemy. W. IL 1 1 3 2 2 dr 31 37 ENGLISH THEATRE AT IJARIS• F R OM THE TRENCH JOURNALS OF SATURDAY. TM§ RIVALS—FORTUNE'S FROLIC. The perlormance of these English pieces, which it was inlended, in the first instance, should take place at the Favatt, and in which, in consequence of some low intrigues, has been transferred to the Odeon, has me: with complete success, although neither of the *asks at the head of this article enj ty the greatest reputation. The Manager of the English actors will, no doubt, soon feel the neces icy of presenting our public with produc tions whose subjects are better known to us; those, for example, which have been imitated and translated for the French stage, such as Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, the School for Scandal (the Tartuffe of manners). or some of the shewy pieces, as the Tempest, or Midsummer nights Dream, where magic and supernatural appari tions will compensate those who do not at all understand the language of our neighbours. Nevertheless, the two pieces in which the English actors last night made their debut, were listened to with greater attentio t than might have been expected. The first piece is SHERIDAN'S, and contains some exceedingly comic situations, with strongly drawn characters. Sir Anthony Absolute, the restless Falkland. the coward Acres, and the hectoring Lucius U'Trigger, are drawn with great skill. Mrs. 'Malaprop is a silly old woman, whose pretensions to wit and learning are depicted with ease and spirit.— Lydia Languish, a romantic and languishing girl, as her name implies, is singularly fond of adventures. She cannot put up with the common every-day manner is which affairs are managed, but must be married at Gretna Green; but the most delightful character in the piece is that of Julia, st: young girl full of gritte, candour, and simplicity. The second piece, Fortnnis Frolic, did not go off quite so well. According to the play-bill, the company consists of the principal Actors of the Royal Theatres of London. Did we not make great allowance for the style of a play bill, the capital of England would be worthy of pity. With the exception of LISTON, ABBOTT, CHIPPENDALE, and POWER, not one of the list hut have had modesty enough to silence the fame which might, no doubt, have preceded them to France. If the Manager really wishes to give the Parisian public an idea of the English stage, and to ensure succes to his undertaking, he must have some of the really principal actors of London to begin with. Of the best actors, the following is the best judgment we can venture to come to upon so short an acquaintance. Power', in Sir Lucius, sheaved himself perfectly at home; he possesses great intelligence, with invaluable coolness. Ltarots (Robert dcres) did not completely realise the idea w hich, from the manner in which we had heard him praised, we had been induced to form. LISTON is a consum mate actor, of imperturbable sang froid, with a perfect command over the muscles of his face ; but he is a decided mannerist, his voice is sluggish, and his jerking pronunciation degenerates too often into huskiness.— These defects are the more to be regretted, as LISTON appears to have passed the age when they could have been remedied. Altogether, this actor, although inferior to Porten, to whom he has been compared, is very amusing, and will be a useful member of the company. Ansorr, the manager, has a noble appearance, and wears the military costume with great advantage; his utterance is exact, although rather cold. The overture had been prepared for the orchestra with great tact. The national air of" Vive Heory IV." was first played ; afterwards that of " God save the Bing." Both were received with great applause.— Abbott then advanced, and pronounced the following address, in French, in the course of which bis English accent made itself felt. The address is said to be written by a member of the French Academy, and it certainly bears marks of the grace and delicacy with which al his works are impressed ; epos as we are to represent the master. pieces of our gransatk Merkur!re before an enlightened people, whose stage possesses so large a number of excellent works, we cannot help feeling a degree of uorasineis. The English Poets have not obeyed the laws established and acknowledged by the authors whom sou revere as the arbiters of taste; but ought a difference of system and dieser to give us real ground for alarm ? No, Gentle men, to encourage us we have only to call to mind that we are in France. Under the pacific influence of the fine arts national Pr" indices are every day disappearing. A long rivalry will KM bees. left in superior minds no other sentiment than one of a generous emulation. When French actors obtain in London the no cepdon which is due to their incontestable merit, let us hope, Gentlemen, that you will receive English actors with Indulgence.* happy, if it hackbeen our fortune to have joined, to your approba tion that of the great tragedian you have lost, and who also, byhis studies belonged to us? It cannot be that his tomb should be des tined to receive the expression of our regrets. It is not by the pieces of an author altogether unknown to France that we propose to open the course of our English performances. Sheridan has cast too bright a lustre over his political and literary career for his fame to be confined within narrow limits. May your goodness make us forget that we have quitted our beloved country, whilst our words will occasion a sweet illusion in the senses of our country men, drawn. in crowds to the bosom of this capital by the chasms ,of a beautiful country and your hospitable urbanity." Assort' concluded these preliminaries by reciting the following •erses composed by Mr. LAKE With ariiicius hopes, and hearts that keenly feel, To you, this night, we make our first appeal; From fertile England, to your smiling shore, We came as stranpers—attangere now no more, Since you have deign'd,•with welcome, warm, and bland, To make us free of France's fairy land; Since beauty here has made her magic bower, And bright eyes guard us with their peerless power ; And lovely lips to plead the actor's cause, Qiire sweet assures:ft of your kind applause: Two noble Nations; fairest, first, and best The Ocean Isle—stbe Garden of the West, In genius, science, arts, and arms tenown'd, With valour's and the Muses' laurels crowned, *here Chivalry 'neath her own Lily glows, And high-souled honour 'neath the rich red Rase,—. Emblems of Bourbon's, and of Brunswick's sway, To whom all hearts their willing homage pay,— Form'd to be friends in glory and in fame, In all that elevates the human name • To spread the mutual intercourse of num', To be the glorious beacons to mankind, By generous deeds reciprocal to prove, The god-like rivalry of peace and love Two t edge Nations, where such virtues &fell, United both, are both invincible I Fain would our hearts prolong the grateful theme, 'Ti, yours to realise so fair a dream, • 'Tis ours to please—we wish not to Intrude— Yet, one word more—that word is gratitude. To English friends—we feel their kindness lave,* And generous France receive our thanks sincere—. To both we turn, as :the young Eaglet's eye Turns to the Sen—to learn our &Willi The curtain ruse at eight o'clock, and did not fall until half-past eleven in the evening, which is much too late.. The money received at the doors on the Writ [light was very considerable, the Odeon being literally crammed from top to bottom. • Pointing to the Mart. Dt:DLIN, Sirr. D. NEW CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION—Ton Din Mr; RONAYNE in the Chkir. Mr. CowwAT rose upon his motion, postponed freed last Saturday, of an Address to the People of Ireland, , on the present posture of their affairs: He said that at the time he gave notice of that motion, he was not without apprehensions that a change unfavourable to the Catholics was likely to occur in the Government since then, however,. he had the satisfaction to find that the change which, in common with every Gentleman who heard him, and he might add, to the whole popu lation, had not taken place. He congratulated the Meeting that the Marquis of Lansdown still held the Seals of the Home Office, and his superintending care would still be extended to Ireland.—(Cheers), — Under these circumstances, the Gentleman to whom the care of drawing up an address hid been delegated agreed with him, that ft was not expedient or called fot at present to putolish such an address. He would there fore, in pursuance, in fact, with the terms of his notices by permission of the meeting, withdraw it—( Hear.) But although it was not happily at present to persist in the original intention of the Committee, he felt that it was necessary that the Catholics of Ireland should come to a strong resolution, as to the necessity of press ing their claims. lie did not place an undervalue upon what appeared in the public prints, though recent cit. cumstances might have taught him to receive with confidence the statements relative to the last arrange ments concerning the Ministry, which appeared in some of the public Journals. These statements were found to he generally correct. Now arguing from the facts we know to have been properly set forth in those journals, to the claims which they have in general, as shadowing out the opinions and the wishes of the Administration, be owned that he was not a little alarmed to see. in a Ministerial Paper, he understood, of high authority, though not in eonnec lion with the Whig party of the Minists y.an adviCe to the Catholics to abstain not only from agitation now, but from petitioning during the next Sessions. He did not like to see this ; he did not like that any organ of the present Cabinet, and particularly a Journal which, he believed, was not, on the abstract, unfavourable to the Catholic claims, throw cold water upon their exertions. But it was right thus early to tell the Cabinet, to assure the people of England, that they deceived themselves most lamentably, if they supposed that such advice would be listened to. They owed it to Lord Lansdown, they owed it to the Whigs, they owed it to the liberal To• ries in the Cabinet to tell them, that persevere the Catho lics of Ireland would, under any possible combination of circumstances. The petition, the numberless petitions would be pressed from every quarter—(vehement cries of bear). He concluded by giving notice of a motion to this effect for nest Saturday. r _ Mr. U•DwTau proceeded on his motion for printing the speech delivered by the Rev. Mr. Montgomery, at the Synod of Ulster, and urged the advantage likely to result from the measure. After some observations from Mr. CONWAY, the mo.. 'ion was finally withdrawn. The Meeting then ad journed—Dublin Evening Post, Sept. 8. DRIADVUL Ftaa.--Aletween two and three o'clock this wining, the horitort was illuminated by an exten sive Tice which broke out upon the premises of Mr. Jack son, grocer, John-street, Pimlico. The flames were first discovered in the lower part of the house ' but spread with such fearful rapidity, that before any means to check them could be adopted, the house was almost en tirely on fire. Mrs. Jackso• jumped from the second floor window into the street, and fell upon the heads of the people, and only received a few severe contusions. Mr. Jackson was from home, but arrived . just at the moment his house was in one blase. The servant woman, and two or three other persons escaped by the roof. The house on the left hand adjoining, occupied by Mr. Pierce, was soon included in the games, and was nearly gutted. The fire raged with tremendous fury for above two hours, when it was overcome, and the roofs and walls falling in partially smothered it, and before six o'clock it was entirely subdued. No lives were lost, and the escape of Mrs. Jackson is considered miraculous. DARING OUTRAGR—Last night between ten and eleven o'clock, a formidable and organised gang of thieves stationed themselves at the end of St. Martin `- court, St. Martin's-lane, and indiscriminately attacked every respictable individual that happened to pass in that direction, and even 'females did not escape the violence of the gang, which consisted of some of the well known thieves in London. One old Gentleman was knocked down by a .violent blow, when he was beaten dreadfully by the ruffians, until information having reached the police, a party of officers arrived on the spot. Groom and Ashley, two of the officers, rushed through the crowd to apprehend one fellow who was the leader, when they were surrounded by nearly 20 desperadoes, who kicked and beat them in a most in hurcan manner, and literally tore their garments to pieces, and they narrowly escaped with their lives. They were, however, soon assisted by an extra party of police, and Ise populace, who were excessively incensed at the daringly outrageous proceeding, and one only of the party was apprehended and taken to the watehhouse after a desperate resistance and an attempt at rescue. He was this morning brought to Bow-street, where he gave his name John Brookes. He was identified as a notorious character ' and was committed for one month to the tread-mill. The gang has been committing de predations of this kind in the above neighbourhood for some days past. Friday last, a Gentleman alighted at the corner of the Edgware and Harrow-road, and gave his horse to a boy to take care of till his re urn. A few minutes after a man stepped op 'with an apron on, and ordered the boy to bring the horse to him, as he had been ordered to put fresh holes in the stirrup riathers. The thief took off the saddle and marched off, and on tbe Gen tleman's return he inquired for his saddle, when the boy told him what had happened. Saturday night, Webber, the boatswain'smate of the Royal Sovereign yacht, and a sailor, belonging to the same vessel, were drowned off the lower water-gate at Deptford. Webber had been on shore during the day, and wishing to return on board, he hailed the boat, which was rowed ashore by Key more. Webber, his wife, and another female got into the boat, but scarcely had they been seated when Webber's wife made some obser vation which displeased him, and Fe raised his arm to strike her, but Keyrnore arrested the blow; Webber fiercely grappled him, and they both fell over board.— The screams of the women brought suistance from shore, and they were saved. Keymore's body was found `some time after, but the body of Webber bas not been discovered. 4, , 1, • 1 1 I [ yet:Aiiiiii