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THE ARAI t. • Tuesday, the 4th instant, Captain mop of ! ;nc2rs, which had been stationed at Loughbo- 1 r oil7h shice October last, left that town; and a few ho..rs afterwards, Lord GEORGE LENNOX'S troop, of I c same regiment, entered it, and took up its abode, for th present, in the quarters of their confederates. Tuesday, the 4th instant, a squadron of the North ('!,, lwallHusiars, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel tit v vAN, assembled at St. Columb, to be measured for their clothing. This regiment, which is almost complete, and a remarkably fine body of young men, c.)nsists of five troops of 60 privates each, and by the activity and zeal of its Commandant, will be .per lectly equipped and mounted early in the Spring. se'nnight, the 10th Royal Veteran Batta- 1 i!on, :mounting to 1,100, were inspected by Major tie:ieral Coup" at Fermoy, when a selection of PO, being beyond the complement, were put aside be discharged. Colonel HOOPER, late of the 87th commands the Battalion, which it is thought v!i! shortly proceed to England. The Hevusham and Bitton Troop of North Ele: set Yeomanry Cavalry, commanded by Captain 137 VAN, recently made an offer to Government, to e' their services to any part of the kingdom ; 1 -.lt the Lord-Lieutenant of the County has returned for answer, that " the itresent circumstances of the country do not require that any part of the Corps 51iyuld be employLd beyond the usual sphere of their se:vict." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. rAT.MOUTIi, J. 9.—Ariived the Brilliant, FL.st....v, from 'S.:v. - castle for London. l'onvsstourn, JAN. li.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the Dido, Mary, :reel, and Vi.:toria, for Sunderland; and his Majesty's ship on a ctuize. DEAL, JAN. 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Came down from the River :- .. d sai!,:d the Castor, SrEuroN, for the South Seas; and Com mercial, T.‘Lsor, for St. Domingo. Sailed for the River, the 1!*: - 3:1 y, l'Evrinitzw, from Cardiff; and Mary, l'uunicostsz, nn Liv, rpool. 1111.1.. JAN. 10. E--The Isabella, BRADT, which was on shore, t..:s been got off, and is now towing up the 1-lumber by three :-: , oat , : she is full of water, and then; being so much ice M. river, she cannot be got up this tide. She owes her safety to tkc. which was put on when she was fitted out as a D...covciy SETILZRS TAKING ARMS TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. " DOW NI N G-S flt EET, DECErbirirn 3. " Sta—Earl Barnecav has received representations from several of the Settlers proze,2,ling, to the Cspe of Good Hope, setting forth the difficulty and inconvenieace under which they are placed by the existing Laws in respect to the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition; and I have to request that you will state to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, that there exists no objection on his part to allow the Settlers to take with them such proportion of Arms and Ammunition as may appear clearly intended for their ir.dividual use, leaving it to those who may be,desiress to export larger quantities of these articles, to obtain the usual licences for that purpose from the Lords of the Council; and I have therefore to request, that you will move the Lords of the Treasury to cause such directions to be given to the Officers of his Majesty's Revenue-of the Customs, as they may conceive best calculated to facilitate tie embarkment of Arms and Ammunition belonging to the BMWs. si lIENRY COULBURN. (Signed) s' To S. R. Lu.6inaton, Eq." In consequence of the al.)ove letter, the following directions have been givea by the Lords of the Treaury : ii TREASURY-OFFICE, DECEMBER 15. " Gartrinatm—l *in commanded by the Lords Come*. dopers of his Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you for your is that they have seen the copy of a letter front Mr. Geminate, dated 3d December, stating the opinion of Earl LAraVIST as to permitting the Settlers going to the Cape of Good Hope, to take with them Arms and Ammunition; and I am to desire you will give the accessary instructions to your alters to allow the Settlers to take with them such proportions of Arms and Ammunition as may appear clearly intended for their irlavidual use. (Signed) "S. 8.. LUSHINGTON► " To the Commissioner. of Customs." Some Financial Returns, which were moved - for before the adjournment of the House of Commons, have been printed. The Exchequer Bills received in payment of duties, between the Ist July and the 10th October, 1819, amounted to the sum of 050,364. 6s. 4.d. The amount, payable out of the Consolidated Fund, between the sth July, 1818, and, 10th October, 1819, for interest on Loans raised in 1818 and 1819, distinguishing each Quarter, and se• parating the charge created by each Loan, was as follows: . WAS OF IRIS. Quarter ended au the 10th October, 181$ £269,915 1 Si Ditto en the Sth January, 1819 - - 445,485 6 1 Dine on the sth April, 1519 - - 583,519 16 107 Ditto an the Sth July, 1519 - - 557,122 8 6 Ditto on the 10th October, 1 n 19. - - 426,717 9 34 LOAN OP 1819. Q..3rter ended on 10th October, 1819 1C0,813 5 7 The net amount of Revenue of the United King dom, from the sth ofJanuary, ISI9, to the 10th of October, 1819, distinguishing each Quarter, and se parating Ireland from England, was as follows : On the sth April, 1819, Great Britain, £10,595,727 10s. siid. Ireland, £990,444 3s. 1110.—Ttital, £11,586,171 14s. 2}d. On the sth July, 1819, Great Britain, £11,644,896 6s. Sid. Ireland, £1,131,800 6s. llid.—Total, £15,776,696 13s. 41. d. On the 10th October,lBl9, Great Britain, £11,456,931 56.7 d. Ireland, £1,056,487 18s. Oct.—Total, £12,515,419 3s. 71d. Total, Great Britain, £34,697,555 2s. CO.—Total, Ireland, £3,578,731 9s.—Grand Tctal, £37,876487 lls. 20. The deficiency of the Consolidated Fund, on the 10th October, 1819, amounted to £8,056,009. 125.6), d. Ivhich was made good by the taking out of Exchequer 11111 s to that amount, as directed by the 57th George 111. c. 48. It appears from'an account of all Exche quer Bills issued since the Ist of September last, that 14 total amount is L 791,000. They were all at par : the rate of interest, 2d. per cent. per diem. Flrc AT o:mom—Twenty-four chambers, three !!aircases, the hall, with the valuable pictures, and n!I the musical instruments for the intended Concert, fell a prey to the devouring flames at Magdalen Hall, on Sanday morning. Ail the inmates escaped in t:;e4. shirts ; five Gentlemen bad nearly lost their Eves in making their escape. Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, as Mr. John Vgg was passing down Bethnal-green-road, he was rohhed of his watch and seals by - Three fellows, who cr.i.cked him at the corner of a street leading to Hare- F,7,lds. Mr. Bin pursued the man who had pos te:Am of his watch, when he was knocked down by the other two; but he succeeded in escaping with his ptcket-book : containing EU in swam BIRMINGHAM THEATRii We have received the following Letthr from Mr. BURN, the Manager of this Theatre, respecting the origin of the recent calamity, and feel much pleasure in giving it insertion : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE StAlt. " Sin—ln consequence of the many prevalent re• ports, relative to the destruction of this 'Theatre, that now agitate public opinion, I think it my duty to imprint on the mind of every one, the strong convic tion on my own, that its origin must be entjrely attributed to accident, and not to the intent of any evil disposition ; and I feel the more anxious to make this assertion, that I may be the means of removing such a stigma from a town whose character is among the brightest of her country. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, " Birmingham, January 11, 1320. " A. BUNN." Another letter from Birmingham, dated the 10th instant, describes the destruction of the Theatre in that town, to have been accomplished with a degree of rapidity almost without example in the annals of conflagration. It was about half an hour after the performances finished, that the house was discovered, to be on tire, and, within twenty minutes from that time, the roof fell in. The building was seen in one general blaze almost the same instant that the alarm' was given. From this circumstance it was sus pected that the house had been fired in more places than one, and that not accident, but design, had produced the frightful ruin, which so many merito rious individuals have to deplore. On the first alarm, WRENCH (of the English Opera), who was there, playing with YATES (of Covent-Garden Theatre), hastened to offer every assistance in his power. His zeal and courage had nearly cost him his life. He was in imminent danger of perishing in the flames; but, restrained by the prudence of others, he fortu uately escaped unhurt in person, though severely injured in another way--.by the loss of the greater part of his wardrobe, as well public as private. YATEs is also said to be a loser, as well as several of the provincial actors who were there. COVEN T 4 GARDEN THEATRE, A young Lady, named WENSLEY, made a very suc cessful, and still more promising, debut, at this Theatre, last night, in the part of Rosalind. It was announced, and we believe truly, as her first appear. ante on any Stage. There was observable, during her whole performance, a conflict between timid in experience, and a very judicious preparation of the character. She had the rare merit of shewing an equal aptitude in the plaintive and lively situations. Where she failed of touching the audience forcibly, she evinced conception, of which the agitation and unsteadiness of a first appearance prevented the per fect execution. Her voice seemed feeble; but we .should ascribe this to her apprehensions. She spoke chiefly in thejidsctto, which embarrassment and ems.. tion are apt to produce. When she becomes more familiar with the audience, and has practically as certained the force of organ requisite for the great concave which she has to fill, this deficiency will no longer exist. In the cuckoo song she was pecu liarly successful—so far as to be encored twice. She sang it with admirable taste. Her singing voice is pleasigg and cultivated, and her style delightfully expressive. Miss WiNSLEfiI person is ample and well formed, and her deportment graceful, though obviously somewhat constrained by her fears. The audience applauded her even to prodigality. Mr. MAcazany appeared, for the first time, in the Art of Jaques. He performed it without adding to, or detracting from i his reputation. Mr. C. K EMILa played Orlando with his usual talent, and Mr. FAIY.• CM' and Mrs. Glass were excellent in Touchstone and Audrey. Mr. TERRY displayed much feeling in old Adam. The Play was given out for repetition on Thursday, amidst lively and universal expressions of applause. Mr. C. Kemal.; in announcing it, used a new formula of expression —" In consequence of the great applause with which you have honoured Miss WENSLEY'S first effort," kc. and the innovation seemed to be in unison with the feeling throughout the House. A number of young Gentlemen of Mid Calder, near Edinburgh, actuated by the most humane and benevolent motives, lately performed, for three nights, the pastoral Comedy of The Gentle Shepherd, in Kip pen's Inn, for the benefit of the parochial poor. So great was the interest excited by the performance of this Comedy, that many were unable to gain adm:it tance the first night. Some of the plain and rustic characters, peculiar to the Scottish peasantry, were admirably sustained, and elicited the most thunderous applause. A very liberal sum was collected, which was afterwards distributed by a Committee of these Gentlemen among several poor and indigent families. . Thursday night, as two young men, who resided at Twyning, were returning ft om Tewkesbury, they imprudently attempted to walk home upon the ice on the river Avon ; but when they got within a short distance of Twyning Fleet Inn, the ice broke, and they both sunk. One of them, with great difficulty, extricated himself, and lan with as much expedition as his frozen condition would permit, to the nearest house, to obtain assistance for his companion; and though the poor fellow's head was above water when his neighbours an ived, his chin resting upon the ice, he sunk to rise no more before they could get him out. The name of this unfortunate sufferer was Weaver, and he had been married only a short time previous. Yesterday morning, Mr. PHILLIPS, jeweller, of North -street, Oxford-street, was sitting in the parlour, talking to his daughters, when he was alarmed by a noise in the shop ; he instantly went out, and disco vered two men plundering it, and a third outside,' With his arm protruding through a pane of glass, taking thistrinkets ; on seeing hem, they rushed out, and were pursued by Mr. Putu.sss and another, who succeeded in taking two of the villains, but the third escaped ith some articles of gold, and other property, consisting of lace. They were taken before !R. BAK Esc;: the Magistrate, where they gave I their names as Thomas Casttile and John Attamay. They were committed fur trial. LAMBETH BIBLE 80CiETY. The Anniversary Meeting of the above Associa tion was held on Monday evening, at Lambeth Cha pel, EDVVARD NORTON Tnciallroet, Esq. in the Chair, pu pported by several eniirki.nt Divines and other .Ged tiemen. The Report tw•hich was read, detailed the labours of the Society during the last year, and stated that they had at the present time 366 stibicri hers ; and that 1073 Bibles, and 183 Teitaments had been distributed since the formation of the Society. The'Report concluded by calling on the friends of the Association for aid to resist the attempts now making by the infidel to corrupt the minds of the young and unwary. The Rev. W. C. KIDD, and other Gentlemen, in the course of the evening, made elo quent speeches on behalf of the Society. CHARITABLE DONATION& Josem Hums, Esq. M. P. has given a most sea sonable relief to the poor of Montrose, by ordering 400 barrels of Newcastle coals to be distributed amongst the poor; and he has orderei the same quantity to be distributed to the poor of the towns of Arbroath and Brechin. Several Ladies in Carlisle have associated for the purpose of superintending the making and distribu tion of soup, gratuitously, among the necessitous. The Earl of CARLISLE has distributed 150 catt loads of coals amongst the poor householders in Brampton.—The Rev. THOMAS RAMSHAY, Vicar of Brampton, has made a handsome donation of oat meal to the poor housekeepers of the parish under his care. The inhabitants of Penrith, commiserating the disc tressed state of many of the necessitous in that town, have entered into a very liberal subscription, with which they purchase coals, and distribute them weekly. The Rev. TOVICY JOLIFFE, Rector of Skelton, has, during the present inclement season, distributed among the poorer class of his parishioners 36 loads of coals. He has also made presents of a number of Bibles, Prayer-books, &c. to the young of both sexes; and at Christmas distributed upwards of 20 stone of excellent beef, besides a weekly supply of soup. The Trustees appointed by the will of the late Mrs. SCOTT, of Workington, met on New Yeats Day, in the Vestry-room of the Church there, and paid, ac cording to the will, an annuity of forty shillings to each of sixteen poor women, residents in that town. The day Lefore Christmas-Day, the Earl of MOUNT EDQECUMBE made his usual yearly donation of 1,500 weight of bc-21; 800 loaves of bread, and several pounds in silver, amongst 200 or SOO persons. The Earl of Botszot, has sent orders from the South of France, where his Lordship now is, for gifts of bread, potatoes, and coals, to the poor of Putney and Roehampton, which are now under distribution. The Countess of GUILFORD, although absent from her villa, has also sent a considerable sum of money for the same purpose; while the exertions of the Mi nister, the Rev. R. S. B. SANDILANDS, the Hon. W. LYTTLETON, M.P. Mrs. ALcock, and other humane individuals, by personally visiting the abodes of the distressed, and supplying their more pressing wants with blankets, articles of warm clothing, and coals, greatly contribute to alleviate the misfortunes of their fellow-parishioners during this ♦ery severe winter ; but, perhaps, in no instance have the acts of any in dividual been more extensively useful than those of the Dowager Lady CRAMBERS, who has appro priated her own coppers, three times a week, from the commencement of the cold weather (and princi , pally from her own resources, although aided by the pecuniary contributions of her female friends and neighbours), to the making of a large supply of bar ley broth, which has been sold to the poor, at a pro per place in the town, at one penny per quart. The remains of the Lite Countess TALBor lay in ttate in the Chapel of Dublin Castle, on Friday last, and the following morning they were removed to the water-side in the following order : Dragoon Guards; The Hearse; Carriages of the Household; The Lord Mayor ; Great Officers of State; Peers and Peeresses; Privy Councillors; And other carriages in succession, Tuesday se'nnight, CHARLES M. RICRErtS, tsq. was elected Member for the Borough of Dartmouth, without opposition. The severe frosts and heavy falls of snow, whic'h have taken place all over the kingdom,. have com pletely suspended the sports of the field. Tuesday night, the Swansea mail was overset near Pile, owing to the severe frost, by which accident Mr. Baowri, jun. of Bristol, who was an outside pas senger, had both his legs broken. He was conveyed to the lodge of Sir JOHN NICHOL, where he was hu manely received, and every aid administered which his truly deplorable situation required. At the General Quarter Sessions for the City ofl Exeter, which commenced on Monday, before WIL LIAM COURTENAY, Esq. M.P. Recorder, the Mayor, and a Bench of Magistrates, Janws Tusher was found guilty, on two indictments, for vending blas phemous publications. The Ticket, No. 8448, drawn at Eleven o'Clock this Morning, a Prise of £20,000 Consols, was Sold by WEBB, in One Quarter, Two Eighths, and Eigbt Sixteenth Shires—at his Fortunate Offices, 9, Corn hill, and 17, Ludgate-street, where the First-drawn P r ize of £20,000, in - the Last Lottery, was also Sold in ShAtes.--.This is keeping it up ! OR the night of Tuesday se'nnight, James Sharp Ind John Hedderwick, when riding home from Crieff market, proposed a race, and having accord ingly set off at full speed, left the rest of their corm; panions behind. When they came to Bishop-bridge, where there is a quick turn in the road, Hedder wick and his horse went over the precipice, nearly thirty feet in height. The horse was killed by the fall, and Hedderwick was so much bruised, that he is not expected to live. Thc horse of Sharp kept the road, but the rider was thrown over the precipice, and killed on the spots Conti-•ExcirANolt, 1 P ARK-LANE, JAINTII ART 12. The continuance of the frost has caused a complete stagnation to all kinds of business, in our market not even a single sample can you perceive on the stands, so that prices must he quoted.sominally as 6 on MouJay mania • • The ancient Britops, the Satott; is le ai t English, duder the Normani and the Ilant3gerets; were an uneducated people. The art of Printing, vented. in the reign of Harry the Sixth, by serving td increase the number, and diminish the Vaitle of Bucks; conferred a new character on. the subjects of the Ti dors and Stuarts; and foundations of learning weie then laid, which have matured under the Guelphs, and have attained ultimate perfection in the age Lf George 111. whose ambition it It said to have been, that every man in his dominions should be able to read the Bible, and the History of his Country. The art of communicating knok% ledge; or training the young mind, like all other arts, has had its age of infancy, of growth, and maturity ; and next in importance a the admission of the principle that education is useful, is the determination of the most efficacious mode by which it may be practised. Thii is a question which concerns, not merely all precep.; tors of youth, but every parent who is anxious to combine the improvement of his children with their happiness. The paths of learning ought not merely to conduct its votaries to the temple of wisdom, but they ought to constitute the shortest road, and to be pleasant as well as certain. It is only within tae present gederation, that the practice of Education has been analysed and reduced to a system. It may nut have obtained its full peifec Lion ; yet enough has been done to command serious consideration, and lead to reforms in the practice of established Seminaries. We may pass many theorists and speculators, and proceed at once to notice these systems which have attained a standing, and which more or less prevail. Among the theorists, we class MILTON, LOCKS, ROUSSEAU, SHERIDAN, and some others ; and among practical improvers, we class ASCHAM, WATTS, MARTIN, PHILLIPS, LANCASTER, BELL, and PESTALOZZI. The latter alone claim tl.e attention of practical philosophers and political. ecu nornistsa It WAS ASCHAM, WOLSET, CRAMMER, and their contemporalies, w ho . al ranged the plan of those en dowed schools which are aid to be found in every part of the kingdom. Unhappily, the statutes of these establishments assumed the knowledge of the day as the limit of human attainments; and they en joined, as the acme of wisdom, the study of those Languages in which the rites of religion w ere, or had recently been, performed, and which intermingled themselves with the practice of the haws, and were rendered necessary by the scantiness of books, in the pursuit of what then were called the liberal sciences The difficulty of enlarging the sphere of study in these Seminaries, has led to their neglect ; and, in n:any - places, the buildings are dilapidated, and the masters hive become sinecurists. As the English language, however, under ADDI SON, began to advance towards perfection, and philo.4 sophy, under NEWTON and Locucs, the taste of the people became national and independent. The an,,r able Dr. WATTs emancipated learning from the tram mels of the schools, by publishing English works on the intellectual sciences. He was followed by.a popu lar compiler of the name of Dir.wouru, whose taste less works are not yet entirely excluded from our se mii.uries, and by a more able writer, Mr. BENJAMIN MARTIN, who excited a passion for mathematical and philosophical learning, which gave rise to nume rous establishments. In our own days, we have seen a more exact cha racter conferred on the books of WATTS ) DILWORTH, and MARTIN, by the numerous publications directed or supervised by Sir RICHARD PHILLIPS, who has superadded, to various elementary works, a system o f exercises by interrogatories, without answers, whereby the student is compelled to think for himself, and ac , 'quire knowledge, in spite of indolence, and often of incapacity. This system, which has been deno urinated the Interrogative, or Intellectual, has been rendered applicable to all the liberal sciences, and has produced a greater change in the actual routine of school business, than has arisen from any other cause. It does not consist of questions to which answers are appended, nor of questions arranged in the order of the text, neither of which plans involve the slightest intellectual exertion, or in any degree approximate this system ; but the questions relate in the first instance to whole chapters, and afterwards embrace the entire science; so that the student, in forming his replies, is obliged to study the subject, This system has been introduced into most seminaries of education, where the statutes do not restrict the course of study, and is, perhaps, universally adopted in private and family tuition. The next great improvement has been the system of Dr. BELL And Mr. LANCASTER, and consists of an arrangement of school bush - Less, by which the pupils teach one another, and acquire perfection by simul taneous public exercises. The benefits of these plans nave been happily extended over the British empire, and have been the tneans of copferring the first `elemetrts of education on hundreds of thousands of poor children, who, at the same time, have been trained to regular habits of virtue. By means of the British and Foreign School Society, and the apostolic labours of Mr. WILLIAM ALLEN, the same system is now in course of introduction through every part of the civilized world. The last system which has claimed public atten , tion, it at present confined to Switzerland, and to a single seminary. It is that of M. PzsraLozzi, a venerable philanthropist, who, instead of exer cising his pupils by printed interrogatories, accord ing to the modern English mode, puts his questions to the several classes orally, and, instead of written, receives verbal, answers. In certain points of view s this may be advantageous ; but, in other respects, it is evident that it can only be adopted by tutors ac tuated by the zeal of a PBSTALOZEI, who are imbued with his accurate intelligence, and who can obtain rewards from their patrons commensurate with such incessant labour. In truth, the systems of PESTA- Lozzl and of PHILLIPS differ only in their mode of applying the same important principle & one suits the single establishment of its inventor, but the other adapts itself to every seminary, and to every object of study. By thus rev iewing what has been done, and is doing, in the interesting science of Education, we lay the best foundation for future improvements and discoveries, To-morrow the Lean CHANCELLOR will commence his Sittings in Lincoln'l4nn Hall, and on Saturday he will hold the first Seal before Term. The . Vica- CHANCELLOR will also sit on Saturday. )er of to lm he lur r'il th. lat , 1,1 .)