Star. — London, England, 1829-12-19 00:00:00

THE KING. WINDSOR, Dv.c. 18.—The KING, owing to the un favourable state of the weather, has been for several days bock prevented from taking hi s usual exercise. His MA-• J EST Y still continues to reside at the Royal Lodge ; but it is fully expected that he will take up his residence at the Castle for the present season, on Tuesday next, it being., it is now said, the day fixed upon for his MA- J EST v's removal from the Royal Lodge. We have be fore stated that it was expected his MAJESTY would leave the Royal Lodge on the 22d instant. His MA JEsTr's suite of apartments at the Castle are now fully prepared for his reception, every thing being per fectly arranged, agreeable to order, and excellent fires having been for some time back kept in every room. The inhabitants of Windsor are highly elated by his MAJESTY amain taking up his residence at the Castle. It is expected that his MAJESTY will, during the ensuing season of festivity, give some grand entertainments at the Castle. His MAJESTY, we are happy to state, enjoys excellent health and spirits. There has been no visitors to his MAJESTY during the present week, except his Royal Highness the Duke of Cu m BERLAND, who paid a visit to his MAJESTY on Monday last. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir F.DrumMond, But. and family, at Nerot's Hotels and Baths, Clifford-street, from Boulogne; J. Campbell, Esq. and party, at do; Mr. and Mrs. Barnes, at do; J. Piquenot, Esq. and Mrs. Piquenot, at Berner. Hotel, Berner. -street, from Cheltenham ; E. Harvey, Esq. at do, from Cambridge ;;.1 Edwards, Eq. at do, from'do; the Earl and Countess Cowper and Lady E. Cowper, at their house in Little Maddox-street, Hanover-square, from their seat, Pansanger, Hens ; Sir Francis and Miss Drummond, at Fen ton's Hotel, St. James's -street, from a tour ; J. R. Wee, Esq. at do, from Warwickshire; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, in Brook-street, from Cheltenham ; Capt. and Mrs. Elton, at the Bath Hotel, Arlington street, from the North ; the Rev. Mr. Heaton, at ditto, from Bath ; Captain Wilkes, at ditto, from Devonshire ; Wm. Cum. ming, Esq. at ditto, from a tour ; the Earl of Guilford, at his seat, Waldersbane Park, Kent, from Hants; Admiral Sir E. Harvey, M.P. at his seat, Rolls Park, Essex, from a toot; Captain T. B. WaU, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from Dorset; Thomas Duneld, Esq. at ditto, from Berke; the Rev. Mr. Palmer, at ditto, from& tour ; Wm. Pugh, Esq. at ditto, from ditto: —Berens, Esq. at ditto, from ditto; Rev. Dr. Young. at ditto, from Sussex ; J.Kynaaton, Esq. at Morley's Hotel. Cockspur-street, from a tour. DEPARTURES. Prince Lieven, from Asbburnham House, Dover-street, for Richmond; the Marquis of Headfort, from Gould's Hotel, Jermyn street, for his seat in Ireland ; Sir Henry and Lady Tichborne and family, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat, Tick. borne House, Hants; the Dowager Lady Chetwynd, from Porto gal.street, for Brighton ; Mrs. and Miss Hubberd, from the Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, for Suffolk; Mrs. Falwesser and family. from ditto, for Cheltenham ; the Rev. Mr. Howell, from ditto, for Wilts ; C. Blake, Esq. from ditto, for Kent; Mr. and Mrs. Meares, from Symmon's Hotel, StJames's-street, on a tour •IL H. Hale, Esq. from ditto, for his seat in Wilts • Mrs . Baugh , Fladong's Hotel, Oxford -street, for Kent ; R ev. George Price, from ditto, for Oxford; Reverend Mr. AUington, from ditto, on a tour; Cie. meat Wigney, Esq. from ditto, for Sussex; F. J. Watt, Esq. from ditto, for Cambridge; Hail, Esq. from ditto, on a tour ; Creighton, Esq. from ditto, on ditto • Mrs. Suckling, Miss Suckling, and Suckling, Esq. from the ierners Hotel, Berners street, for Sunning-hill, Berko; Charles Crewe, Esq from ditto, for his seat, Repton-park, Derbyshire; the Rev. Frederick Biseoe, from ditto, for Hookwood, Surrey; the Rev. J. Bulwer, from Morley's Hotel, Cockspur.street, for Clifton ; Captain Patenson, from ditto, for Ibornden ; Collins, Esq. from ditto, for Brighton; Captain Bevene, from ditto, on a tour • Col. Mrs. L. P. Jones, and Miss Jones, from Batt's Hotel, D over-street, for Bath; Wm. Rowils, Esq. from ditto, for Kira°. Surrey. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE returned to their residence in Bushy Park on Thursday, from a visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. HOPE, at their residence at Deepden, near Dorking, Surrey. The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND came to town yesterday from their residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses remained at their residence in the King's Pa lace, St. James's, till five o'clock in the afternoon, when they left town on their return to Kew. Prince LEOPOLD left ;town on Thursday for the re sidence of the Duke and Duchess of WELLINGTON, at Strathfieldsay, Hants, to spend a few days shooting in company with his Grace. A select prty of the Nobility and Gentry have been invited to meet his Royal Highness. Petters were received in town yesterday from Hanover. At the date of their departure the Duke and Duchess of CAMBRIDGE, together with Prince GEORGE and the Princess AUGUSTA of Cambridge, were in the enjoy ment of excellent health. Lord ELLENBOROUGH transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Foreign Office for Lord BLOOMFIELD, Our Ambassador at Stockholm; and also for Lord STUART DR ROTHSAY, our Ambassador at Paris . lord BATHU EST'S relative, whose baptism we men tioned as having taken place in Dr. Cox's Chapel, Hackney, having preached before the Church Assembly there, and obtained their approval, has received letters dimissory to the Baptist Academy at Bristol, (which is under the superintendence of the celebrated ROBERT HALL,) where he will study the system of divinity pecu liar to this sect, preparatory to his admission as a Minister among them. THE LORD LIEUTENANCY.—Letters from a very high quarter, received in town yesterday, mention, that " LARD JERSEY will be the next, and the last, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland."—Dublin Morning Register. Prince LEOPOLD entertained a distinguished party to dinner on Thursday, at Ashburnham House, Dover street ; among whom were—the' Earl and Countess of MOUNTCHARLES; the Earl, Countess, and Lady EMILY COWPER ; the Earl and Countess of TANRERVILLE ; the Earl of ABERDEEN; the Marquis PALMELLA ; Lord J. RUSSELL; and Count MON TROND. Among the company which attended to hear Mr. CORBETT'S lecture at the Mechanics' Institute last night, were Earl RADNOR ; Mr. RoG Ens, the banker; brother to SAMUEL ROGERS, the poet; and many other vary respectable merchants of the City. A certain celebrated bow window in St. James's-street, so noted for the cutting up of private character, has ac quirad for the apartment which contains it the appellation of the Dissecting Room. The Court of Session rises for the Christmas recess on Saturday, and sits again on the 12th January. Box-day, Tuesday the sth. Viscount Howicx passed through Sheffield on Mon day, from the Hon. Col. Dsmaz's, Sprotbro' Hall, on his way to Manchester. • The Duke of PORTLAND, on Wednesday, on a short visit to Lord WHAIINCLIPIPE, at Wortley Hall. The Earl of Sit Errisr.n, Thursday, from Harewood House, on his way to London. Mr. VESBY FITZGERALD arrived In town yesterday afternoon, from a visit to Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. HOPE, at their residence at Deepdene, near Dorking, Surrey. A unfortunate duel took plea at St. Omer on Tues day, the Bth instant. The parties were a Mr. Bligh and a Mr. Williams At the third fire Mr. Williams was shot dead. The survivor and seconds immediately fled. The seconds were a Mr. Maitland and a Mr. Tolfry. The Times would have its readers believe, that there cannot be any agricultural distress, became there are still foxhound. kept; by will of reasoning, we sup our contemporary will deem the giving p of the mg Hunt, a convincing proof that the Cockaise are ruinell.—AfornMy BEAUTY. Vitra, gemmula, Banque bullala , candid* forma est ; Nix, rosa, ros, augse, ventus et aura, nihil. Bern : Bauhusius. Ep. lib. iv. What is beauty? alas! 'tis a jewel, a glass, A bubble, a plaything, a rose : 'Tis the snow, dew, or air ; 'tis so many things rare, That 'di nothing, one well may suppose. 'Tis a jewel, Love's token ; glass, easily broken ; A bubble that vanisheth soon ; A plaything that boys cast aide when it cloys; A rose quickly faded and its ewn. Like the air, it is felt, like the snow it will melt, ft refresheth the heart like the dew : And as nothing can vie with a brilliant blue eye, 'Ti. like nothing, sweet Lady ! but you. THE THEATRES. DRURY LANE.—" A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.' CI BBER, in his animated delineation of BEI-I - tames attributes, thus awards to that meat aotor the very high est praise of dramatic excellence :—" The most that a VAN DYKE can arrive at, is to ntake his portraits of great persons seem to think ; a SHAKESPEARE goes farther yet, and tells you what his pictures thought ; a BETTER TON steps beyond them both, and calls them front the grave to breathe, and be themselves again in feature, speech, and motion. When the skilful Actor shows you all these powers at once united, and gratifies at once your eye, your ear, your understanding ;—to conceive the plea sure rising from such harmony, you must have been pre sent at it —'tis not to he told you !"—To us, who live and write in days of a less poetic temperament, this eulogy might, perhaps, appear enthusiastic and extravagant , did not such a triumph of dramatic genius as KEAN'S Sir Giles Overreach, convince us how well such praise may be merited, and with how much sincerity it may be bestowed.—There we behold, indeed, in the outward sem blance of the man—in garb—in mien—in gesture, and in look—such a picture as a Vandyke might paint ;—in the language of a Massinger we are told what such a man might think; and in the identification of KEAN with the thoughts, the passions, and the impulses of the character, we behold" the bold, bad man"—" called," as it were," from the grave to breathe and be himself again, in feature, speech, and motion," with just such a combination of the painter's and the poet's powers—just such a union as " gratifies the eye, the ear, and the understanding" :--- and " to conceive the pleasure arising from such harmony," we must say in the words of Cr BEER, " you must have been present at it—'tis not to be told !" We can conceive of nothing in all the records and memorials of tragic ability, —we can recall nothing within our own recollection of scenic skill—not even in the display of KEAN 's unequalled talents—more perfect, more underi atingly faithful, more terrifically true, to nature, than his personification of Sir Giles In that we have fearfully developed " hope in which there is no cheerfulness ; stedfastness within and immovable resolve, with outward restlessness and whirling activity; violence with guile; teme rity with cunning; and, as the result of all, interminable ness of object, with perfect indifference of means." Fa miliar as his performance of this character must now be to a metropolitan audience, it has lost nothing of its at traction, or of its influence upon the public mind ; and we much question whether, at any period of his extraordinary career, KEAN exhibited more mental vigour, or a more judicious yet brilliant exertion of his physical powers, than in his second representation of Sir Giles Overreach on Friday evening. To recapitulate, or to individualize, the points upon which the transcendant genius of the Actor has set the seal of excellence—to single out the traits of character which are so peculiarly and distinctly delineated by him or to dwell upon the harrowing thoughts, the workings of the mind, forcing their way into light through " the filtering recesses" of deep dissimulation and habitual guile—might now appear a work of super erogation :—but it is impossible to pass over without some notice—however inadequate to its merits—the ter rible effect of the last act; in which the alternations of triumph— rage—hope—despair—hypocrisy, fury, craft— malevolence—and frenzy ;—the scorn of his antagonists —the dishonoring taunts of his nephew and his supposed " new wife"—his greeting of his honorable daughter" changed into horror at the defeat of his long cherished ambition—the dismay with which he contemplates the blank parchment his haughty commands to Mandl, changed by his instant fear into abject suppli cation and wheedling—the contention of his desper ate spirit with the internal throes of agonised re morse—and the " very whirlwind of the soul" under which he sinks at last,—were all depicted with an appalling reality, which such a mind as KEAN'S only could conceive—and which KEAN alone could suc cessfully depict. His performance throughout elicited enthusiastic applause, and the close of his exertions was bailed with repeated cheers. FAitazx's Marall—if not exclusively the best that we have ever seen,—is decidedly and pre-eminently the best at present on the stage.— Cooraa's Wellborx was spirited and good in many pas.. sages ; but in the last scene, his exultation was not that which a generous or gallant spirit would display, in the presence of a lady, even at the fall of a merciless oppres sor ;—and we w ould suggest to Miss FAUEIT, that " Meg Overreach" might evince a little more solicitude for a father, whose enormities sprang as much from his ambition to advance her fortunes, u from his own bad passions THE WEST I.7OI"rOiFTHEATRE. If there be any' truth in the saying, that there is pleasure in variety, one is sure of being pleased by a visit to this little playhouse. Last night, there were no fewer than four different entertainments, of no incon siderable merit, performed here within the space of four hours. The Farce of " Ragbag the Wind," through the joint efforts . ef Mrs. WAYLETT and Mr. VINING, was performed us a style that would by no means dis grace houses of far higher pretensions. There is a little vulgar fellow of the name of Ross, whose performance is worth mentioning. It is exceedingly curious and laugh able. We shall be happy to find that this place of amusement meets with that encouragement which it deserves. Between die night of Wednesday and morning of l Thursday some daring thieves effected an entrance into the counting-house attached to the works of the Imperial Gas Company, situate in Hackney Fields, and having picked an won box, carried off cash to the amount of be tween five and six hundred pounds. THE ARMY. A detachment belonging to the 50th (Cambridgeshire) Regi ment of Foot, has received orders to march this morning from London for Gosport, to join the regiment stationed there. A detachment belonging to the 55th (Sussex) Regiment of Infantry. has received orders to march this morning, front Lon don, for Portsmouth. on route to join the Reserve Companies in Jersey. A detachment belonging to the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot has received orders to march this morning from London for Portsmouth, on route to join the Regiment in the Isle of Wight. Captain Tempest's Company of the 60th Rifles, with the Hon. Lieut. Dillon, marched on Friday from Limerick, for klinistymon, where they are now stationed. A party of the same Corps, with Lieuts. Cross and Parris pro ceeded to Corolla, County Clare. It is believed that the 62d Regiment, quartered in Limerick, will embark in March for India. The Reserve Companies or the 82d under Major Ilogartb, have moved from Sheetneu to Chatham. INDIAN ARMY. MINERAL ORDERS I.IOID TO HIT 111111 MIT'S FORM IN INDIA. Head Quarters, I'oree, June '2O, 1829. In reference to General Orders of the sth instant, his Excellency the Commander-in• Chief has been pleased to promote the under mentioned Officers of his Majesty's Forces. serving on the establish. meats of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, to be Colonels in India— the Commksions dated June 5 : BENGAL—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels : J. Daniell, 49th Foot ; F. S. Tidy, C.B. 44th Foot ; B. Torten', C.ll. 38th Foot; G. 11. Murray, C.B. 16th Foot; M. Childers. C.B. 11th Dra goons; James Cas►idy, 31st Foot; Hon. J. Finch, C.B. half-pay unattached. Manaas—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels : Sir Ed. Miles, Knt. 89th Foot ; Sir E. K. Williams, K.C.B. 41s1 Foot ; Richard Armstrong, C.B 26th Foot; Archibald Campbell, 46th Foot; Colquhoun Grant, C.B. 54th Foot; S. Boyse, C.B. 13th Dragoons ; Henry Wander, 26th Foot ; W. H. Sewell, 49th Foot ; R. B. Fearon, C.B. 6th Foot. Bousav—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonel.; ; fii. Sullivan, 6th Foot ; T.Willshire, 2d Foot ; 11. Thomas, 20th Foot ; M. Wil son, 4th Dragoons ; H. Rainey, hilf-pay. fly order of the Commander in Chief, R. TORRENS, Adjutant General of his Majesty's Forces in India. The following extract from a general letter from the lion, the Court of Directors in the Military Department, under date the 29th October, 1928, has been published in The Calcutta Govern mast Gazette: " With respect to the recommendation of the Commander-in. Chief. that an interpreter be appointed to each of his Majesty's Regiments serving on your establishment, we have to express our acquiescence in the proposal, upon the salary and establishments recommended by you, namely—Staff allowance per month, 60 rupees; moonshee, 50 rupees onstatiery, 10 rupees—Total, 100 rupera" It has been determined by the Commander-in-Chief in India, that all Officers of his Majesty's service under the rank of Field Officer, arriving from England, either with or without troops, and Medical Officers, shall proceed immediate:y to the Depot of King's troops at Chinsurab, on the strength of which they will be borne, until they shall he ordered to join their respective regiments. The Goverhor-General in Council has resolved on the reduction of the Arracan Provincial Battalion, in addition to the three Pro ♦incial Corps already ordered to be discharged. LIMERICK, Dec. 16 The 37th Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Smelt, was inspected at Enniskillen on Thursday, by Major-General Thornton. This morning the grenadier company of the 57th Regiment, under Lieutenant ToJd, left Enniskillen, head-quarters, for Sligo. Lieutenant Cross, two serjeants, and thirty-two rank and file of the 60th Riles, with a bugler, marched hence on Monday to Corofin, Cuenty Clare. Francis Bland, Esq. late of the 2d Regiment Ceylon Rifle Corps, is arrived at the residence of his brother, the Rev. T. Bland, at Killarney, from the island of Ceylon. Lieutenant bpi!, 15th, and Ensign Nixon. 66th Regiments, in Canada, accompanied the expedition last August, to explore the country between the St. Maurice and Ottowa rivers. The result has proved the existence of a grand water communication from the Saguenay to the Omuta at Hull, which hereafter may prove useful for military purposes. A reinforcement of a subaltern and twenty-five men of the Royal Marine Artillery, is ordered to be sent to the Island of As-' ernsion. Lieutenant 51' Arthur, of that corps, will take charge of the detachment. We trust ibis is preparatory to the abandonment of that grave of Englishmen, the settlement of Fernando Po. The watchmen appointed to guard the City Gaol have been pro vided by the Board of Superintendence,with handsome uniforms— blue frock coats, grey trousers, oibeloth caps, and great coats. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS AntIVED I—Nate:ford I. The Eleanor, Inch, from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, was driven on shore near Castktown on the 12th instant—crew and materials saved. The Sportsman, from Liverpool to Virginia, was driven on shore at the Isle of Man on the 14th instant, alter being in contact with a brig off the Calf, and abandoned. The Henry, Brodie. from Bengal, was totally lost at the Mau ritius previous to the Sth September—Crew saved. Arrived at St. Helena the Lord Melville, Brown, and Provi dence, Bowera,from Batavia; and Malay, Githes, front Sumatra. DeaL, Dec. 18.—Wind S. to S.W.--Arrived from Londuo the Batavia, Blair, from Singapore; and Blair, Riches, from Malta. POATSWOUTN, Dec. 18.—Arrived off the port the Endeavour, from Quebec. Rumor/Ix, Dec. 18.—Wind variable.—Sided the Duchess of Olouctstrr, for Charente. It is confidently stated by the East India Houses in the City, that orders have been transmitted by the Directors to Calcutta to suspend the contemplated reductions till further orders from England. A Busnos-Ayres paper, of the 12th September, states that M. de MAN nEvILLE, the French Consul in that city, who, it will be recollected, fled from thence during the period of disorder, has addressed a letter from Monte- Video to Don Tuo xAS GUIDO, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in which he announces that he will accelerate his return to Buencs-Ayres to enter as before on the dis charge of his Consular duties. The same paper, on the authority of letters from Corrientes, gives a positive con tradiction to the reported death of FRANCIS, the Dic tator of Paraguay. Letters from Bahia to the 20th of October state that such articles of import as draperies, silks, &c. were selling currently, when the quality was good, at moderate prices. Ordinary qualities of coffees were at 2,600 reis, white sugars at 2,100, and browns at 1,400. The crop was abutlant, particularly of white sugars. The exchange on London was at 32. We are happy to stilt. (says the KeLso Mail) that En sign James Pringle, 'a ho was wounded in the late duel here, is doing well, and is now considered out of danger ; but be has not et been able to be conveyed to Stitchel House. Mr. Baillie and Captain Noel, the seconds, have been admitted to bail, and it is expected that Cap tain Stewart will forthwith be liberated, under the usual forms of the law in similar eases. It seems generally thought that the Branch Banks in the country will be directed to afford the same accommo dation* in making advances on Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, approved Bills of Exchange, &c. as is now af forded by the Bank of England. Ma. &mina Itzee.—A number of the citizens of Limerick have already entered into a subscription to erect a testimonial initionour of Mr. Spring Rice. In answer to a communication on this subject from the Guild of Coopers of Limerick, Mr. Spring Rice says—" Let your testimonial be erected to perpetuate the enfranchise ment of our city, and the successful assertion of our rights. Let it not be dedicated to an individual, but to a cause in which all the independent citizens were fellow labourers. Lit it word the names of those excellent men who were your friends and mine—the venerable and emptied John Howley—the benevolent Edward Ryan--the indefatigable and publie-spirited Michael Egan. Ido not presume to praise the living, but it is not adulation to offer the tribute of respect to those who are no more." BONDED GOODS AND MERCHANDISE. Important for the consideration of liar:alters, l'ur. chasers, and Brokers of Goods Warehousod. As our Journal is so generally referred to, en com mercial matters, we deem it our duty to call the attention of our numerous readers to the following(the 82d) Section of the 4th of Geo. IV. cap. '24.—lathled An Act to make more effectual Ft °vision for permitting goods imported to be secured in warehouses, or other places, without payment of duty on the first entry thereof. " And be it further enacted, that from and after the commence ment of this Act, upon every sale, fairly and bow fide made by the importer or importers, or proprietors, of any goods or merchandise which shall have been secured under the provisions of this Act, in any warehouse in the actual occupation of such importer or importers, or proprietor or proprietors, of such goods and ,tner ' etandise ; and the possession thereof shall by such sale be trans. terred to, and shall be vested in the purchases or purchasers thereof, to all intents and purposes whatever, ali bough such goods and merchandise shall remain, and continue in such warehouse • And such good' and merchandise on sold, or the posse s sion thereof or any title thereto, shall not pass to or be vesttd in, any assigned or llNNifne.s of such importer to importers, or proprietor or proprie. tots, under .o .y commission of bankrupt which may issue against such imps rter or importers, or proprietor or proprietor.. before such goods or merchardize shall have bean removed by the put. e Ita‘er or put chatieri, or their assigns, out of or from such ware house ; and every such sale shall be valid against such as• goer or assignees under any such commissicn of bankrupt, any law, cua tom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. "Provided that upon every such sale there shall have been a written agreement signed by the patties, or a written Contract of sale, made, executed, and delivered by a broker or brokers, or other person or persons legally authorized for, and on behalf of, the parties resrectively ; and the amout.t of the price stipulated its the said contract or agreement, shall have been actually paid, or secured en be paid, by the purchaser or purchasers of such goods or merchandise; and that a transfer shall have been en. tered in a boa to be kept for that purpose by his Majesty's Officer of Itevenue having charge of such warehouse, which book the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs and Excise, both or either, as the cal may he, are hereby directed to cause to he kept by such officer, and produce upon demaad : and the said officer is hereby required to make such entry of transfer. specifying the dab: of such entry, upon the application of the owners of the said good, or me•chancPse. Provided also, that no such as:dgnment shall affect the bond given to his Majesty on the warehousing of the goads or merchindize, for securing the payment o- the duties thereon'" We invite the attention of our commercial readers to this important clause, which we have reason to a.y e hend has not generally received the attention which we feel assured that it demands, and we solicit their ems munications on its various bearings, and among other things— - - Whether if, after the importer in bond has sold at bond-price, in bond to a purchaser, and the first pui chaser, again to a second, still in bond, and the goods be destroyed on the first premises by fire or otherwise; the importer would be still liable for the operation of t!,o bond given to his Majesty, should such bond from any circumstances be put in suit, although he had sold the goods for which he gave that bond ? Whether a bona fide purchaser in bond not basins made the entry in the Revenue officer's book, is secure in his purchase against the claim of a consignor abroad, or against assignees of the vendor at home ? Whether an advance on such goods in bond, and a transfer in the warehouseman's books, and his acknow ledgment of such transfer be safe, without such entry in the Revenue officer's bOoks ? Whether a warehouseman of goods in bond, be safe in the delivery of such goods, without such entry ? Or, whether the assignee of a bankrupt might not come upon such warehouse-keeper for having transferred such goods without such entry ? There are other cases in which this clause may be of important consequences, and on which we shall be glad to receive communications.—Public Ledger It was a remark of Lord Chatham's, and equally so of Mr. Burke's, that the occasional use of low words _does not detract from the dignity of true eloquener.. Mr. Canning and some of his successors have, however. ven tured to differ from these two great men.—Mirror. FRENCH DRAIDA.--Voltaire, as a dramatic wrior, studied only to complete what is called stage eject ; and with him, moreover, originated the contemptible practi:e, now so prevalent in France, and once so much in thii country, (and which the Irish triumvirate justly cell ' blarneying John Bull,') of flattering the passions, and pouring incense on the high altar of popular vanity.— Foreign Review.—Nearly all Colman's comedies have this glaring weakness, although some allowance should ha made for the strong excitement amidst which they were first produced on our stage.—Mirror. STANDARD OF ME JANIBSARIES.—Odd as it may seem, a soup-kettle is the standard of the Janissaries, an emblem rather more appropriate for a Coart of Aldermen. Dr. \Valsh says that he saw in the streets of Constanti nople, an extraordinary greasy-looking tellow dressed in • a leathern jacket, covered over with ornaments of tin, bearing in his hand a lash of several leather thongs ; hu was followed by two men, also fantastically dressed, sup porting a pole on their shoulders, from which hung a large copper kettle. They walked through the main streets with an air of great antharity, and all the people hastily got out of the way. This he found on inquiry was the soup-kettle of a corps of Janista:ies, and always held in high respect ; indeed, so disting,:ishing a charac teristic of this body is their soup, that their colonel is called Tchorbad6, or the distributor of soap. Their kettle, therefore, is in fact, their standard, and whenever that is brought forward, it is the signal of some desperate enterprize, and in a short time 20,050 :nen have been I known to rally round their odd insi g ni a o f war . Apro pos, have they not something to do with kettle-drums A French Paper of Sunday reports the proceedinxe of a meeting of the Paris Geographical Society, to which the ex-Minister of Marine, M. Hyde de Nea. vine, presided. The President introduced the business ' of the day by an eloquent speech on the objects of the Society, of which the late M. Matte Brun was eithe► the founder or the most distinguished original sub. scriber. It offers prizes of considerable value, amount ing to from 12,000 to 20,000 francs, to travellers who explore unknown countries. Two of its late premiums have been awarded to M. Pacho, for his travels in the Cyrenais ; and to M. Caine, for his journey to Tutu.' bonctou. The only novelty which occurred at the meeting of the 12th inzt. was the reading of a memoir on the discovery of the traces of La Peyrouse's expe dition, by Captain Durville, of the corvette Astrolabe. The ingenious navigator tells us Oat he was &beet to return to France from his voyage round the workl 4 when he received, in the Indian Seas, new induc tions pointing hie march to the Phcres of Manicolo for traces of this ill-fated expeiAiticn. It is a pity that thi gallant Captain should have forgotten, in alluding to this subject, all mention of cur countryman, Captain Dijon, who had preceded him in this voyage, and 114 akettiiiietl facts which he did little else but confirm. NEW FARRINGDON MIA REIT—TEM DAY. There wee a Ong display of swot at Me isarlier 10-41e7. Beef was particularly One. In egarespienge of the great demo& foe. Christmas. nest is a panty per lb. dearer this it was lest week. Bur—riset rinsedap, sid. sad /id. per b. Bean, U. La. qui questlty of each. W..aN so. lietsea—Welber Irp Wt , end qa. Ilasseb;sid. tibeelder.4l4. sad sae Reck et. 'remote sed. Vear.-711. gad . Pena—sµ sad 70 : Tie war. was respectably by buyers.