Star. — London, England, 1829-10-30 00:00:00

ER- , vindictive - , )iti:a , - measures, by ___ , office have of I • ~ empted to controul the liberty of the Press, betray • 4 ..d:, conscious weakness, but contemptible little r..., , and afford an incontrovertible proof of their total aototance of the very nature of the privilege which they labour—systematically labour—to destroy. In their anxiety to 'iphold their own absolute authority, they fprvt—o• .',;-y would have the world forget—that they Ire ..at-übv,ti with the administration of affairs, not, as rbry vainly imagine, for the advancement of any indivi- . rdual irerest, or the gratification of personal ambition ; ivit frr the welfare of the Nation, and the benefit of the r; .-.1,1) —and as the servants of the State, they are, and ..eo r must h.:, amenable to public opinion. It may be in-taktivr, however, to the Great Men of the present dt3, to cast a retrospective glance upon the conduct of di Pies towards their predecessors, and with that view , i's fallowing passage is e-itracted from The London •- nide& of October 27, 1661:_.- °` :: .re we, for Heaven's sake, but ens honest and able man c ,t. vas' I should be sorry to hear even our enemies say so. --:, failure to say that there is at least one snore, of whom I e.. a better opinion than even of our Great Ma's: the person I u.ean is no other than rue Kuria. He has already manifested the truest. az,..ction (or Fu people: and why should we be alarmed or - • disturbed at the cabals and intrigues of our feilese.sertants, when . • +ware aired of the care and protection of our Monza? He knows toe just limits by which his power is circumscribed, and . desires n'; to enlarge its bounds. In like manner let every Officer :-.: State :tout* perform the dudes of his place, and aim at - nothing ir, or ' While they bawl, in opposition, they complain th•• :, , Yeecr is dangerous in the handset a Minister; but when they g .ato power themselves, they dare to complain of being ma n clad and fettered. The power of the British Constitution is !edged in no woe man, or set, of men, but collectively on the whole 10 people It were to be wished, therefore, by all honest mess, that t. I' tai' ‘rightful chimers of a Prime Minister—Great Mon—or what soever ht• may tab himselt—that his so long stalked between the Throne -.1.4 the People it. this nation, were totally annihilated : and. .;..,:i.. olisete , ', said, t' r at the late Coronation. Ms present Illaj-ok. ....-and uself ob:iged to be his own Bishop, his own He :- A . c. 1 - 1-..sp? woOd it be for Great Britain, if it should glove snows that, Ic. . h.. auspicious reign, he will be found also W p' - '!e its woo Moos.. ea " R TABLE TALK, .rrr. War, POLITICAL, LEARNED, am d EUMOROUS - . THE PRESS AND THE PREMII SIXTY YEARS IGO. FOR THE STAR. • • 4ttltll4 and inquisiturial vigilance—the )1.,1 .1 , " measures, by which men in o& THE STAR. —" 1, -sant withot c -urrility, witty without affection, auda • without impudent% learned without opinion, and strange clout heresy."—S4 e TiOPEDO:N •".DRIAN IV. was the first English titan who tilled th- Papal chair. He was born at Langley in Heretoro•!...ire, and his name WBB NICHOLAS BILKESPERE. He assured his countryman, JOHN OF SALISBtRY, that "all the former hardships of his life were mere amusement to the misfortunes of the Pope dom; that he looked t:pon St. Peter's chair as the most uneasy seat in the world; and that his crown seemed to be clapt burning on his head."—BAßowitts. Anna. tom. zii. An 1154. DIPLOMATIC SINCERITY.---" The seventeenth cen tury, especially towards the bator part of it, may justly be styled an age of intrigue, in which most of the Princes of Europe, and their Ministers of State, carried on their projects and designs with more address and policy than open force and plain downright violence. Those disci ples of MACHLAVEL, RICHLIEU, and MAZARINE, re fined upon 'and improved the maxims of their masters, so far that they had the art, even whilst they were sign ing of treaties, and caressing each other in the most en dearing manner, to carry on, underhand, a scheme of proceedings which looked another way."—Works of the Learned, vol. ii. Who can read this passage without at once discovering the incompetency of a soldier—a gallant and triumphant soldier it is true—but still more versed in the details of the camp and the tented field, than in the affairs of the Cabinet or of the Senate—to enter upon political dis cussion with the proficients of such a school of chicanery and intrigue ?—a soldier, too, who might exclaim with OTHELLO:•—• " Little of this great world can I speak More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; And therefore Wile gall I grace my caws .4 sPeakin for inreV." He who could hope for success in such an encounter of subtle wit, with inexperienced self-sufficiency, " must be mad" indeed. ROYAL CANDOR.—Few have spoken so severely of others, as FERDINAND OF ARRAGON (styled "the Catholic") has done of himself. His ambassador to the Court of France once told him that Louis XII. com plained of his having deceived him twice. " A lying blockhead !" said FERDINAND, "I have taken him in a dozen times at least !" INDOLENCE.—When the DUKE OF NEWCASTLE left the Ministry, a whole closet of American dispatches was found unopened !—WALPOLE'S 'Reminiscences.' [Of course His Grace, with the liberality and con scientious scrupulosity which distinguishes his house, took no salary for this faithful discharge of his minis terial duties. Such " indolence," to use WALPOLE'S lenient phrase, is a dangerous qualification for place and power ; but from the utter ignorance which some English Ministers of State for Foreign Affairs have betrayed of the affairs of Europe—and the world in general, it would be little surprising if the closets of Downing-street were —one day—to bear fearful testimony to the influence of the Noble Duke's example upon his successors.] THE HEART AND THE FACE.—" My heart," said a Gaston. " is a clock, of which my countenance is the index."--Gasconiana. MODEST MERIT.—BOLINGEROKE, la a letter to Pow LLY, gives the following estimate of his own merit, —which he considerably extends to the talents of two of his friends:—" My dear POUILLY, of all the men I ever knew in my life, there are but three fit to take upon them the task of governing nations,—You, and I and POPE!! !" Linas.—Though some may make light of libels, yet you may see by them how the wind sits : as take a straw and throw it up into the air, you shall see by that which way the wind is, which you shall not do by casting up a stone ; more solid things, do not spew the complexion of the times so well as ballads and libels. , SELDEN. FOR THE STAR. THE SHRINE OF ST. CHADD. " And the diseases departed from them, and the evil spirits went out of them."—Acrs xis. 12. They say there's in Lichfield Cathedral a shrine Long famous for miracles almost divine ; 'Ti. the shrine of a Saint there laid below, It may be twelve centuries past, or so ; And so potent its chains that sick, sore, and sad , Have all been healed at the Shrine of Sr. CHAD!). A cure so strange by the Shrine was once wrought— 'Tis a marvel it has not by millions been viught— For a lunatic lad from his keepers broke, And slept on the Shrine—and at morn awoke No more a maniac or lunatic lad, For bis wits were restored by the Shrine of St. CHADD. 'Twere a blessing if Statesmen who own—like ins Guano— That they must be mad to aspire to mace, Would hie to the Shrine of the Saint, and lay Themselves on his tomb from dusk 'till day, And cured of ambition that drives men How the People would worship the Shrine of Sr. Cilium! PETER SCHLEM I Ht. Oct. 29, 1829. The unformed state of British Music, yet destitute of any distinct original character; the barbarous and vitiated taste of the multitude, and the indifference—nay, we may add the contempt with which this exquisite science considered by people amongst us who yet pretend to possess refined judgment and polite acquire ments,—are all subjects of real regret and homiliation for those who love the arts, and wish devoutly to behold them flourish with us as with the surrounding nations. As there are inatter.of-prose folks who dislike poetry—Beings so unfortunate as to con template a painting by the first master with as little plea sure or feeling as they look upon the sign of a public-house ; living stone-blocks, who can gaze stupidly unmoved upon the finest morsels of sculpture or architecture—gross palates, that prefer goose, and onions, to the ortolan and liochiemar— vulgar noses, more delighted with the smell of mundungus than the sweet odour of frankincense; so there are imperfect creatures, whose ears, botched by nature, only serve the purpose of common use, but convey no delightful inspiration to the sense. The num ber of these siesnished people is as abundattt in this island as the Guolre is in Switzerland—and as much to be pitied;—for all are to be pitied to whom nature, like a stepmother, has denied the full enjoyment of any of the senses; the mere use of them re duces humanity to a thing of instinct ; and the man who has lost his taste,—who has ceased to distinguish colours—or who is insensible to smelling and to touch, may be considered as in a great part defunct or nearer approaching to the brute than his more gifted fellows.— What an infatuation is it not then, in those destitute of musical faculties, to despise an art they can no more appreciate than a blind man can judge of colours?—and this, instead of de ploring their own defective faculties, and admitting the excellence of a thing so rapturously admired by the most elegant and intellectual of society—the common argument of those enemies to music is ever conveyed in trite questions, such as—" Of what we is it ?" and so they might l ask, cf what we are delightful colours—fair proportions—sweet essences--and exquisite gustos ? The use of music is to enchant, to exalt, to cheer, to melt ; and, above all, to console. In the temple of Goa it raises us from earth ;at the tomb it soothes us in the dirge; it rouses us in the march, exhilerates at our fire-sides ; and in the dance inspires pleasure and happiness. If it effects all this, it is sacrilege to call it a frivolous art; or, if we admit its importance, it is still more heinous that we permit it to languish amongst us in neglected uncultured Infancy. It is a fact " that bad music generates bad music." From corrupt custom the Spaniards find melody in a prolonged nasal cadence ; the Ty. rolean in a double intonation of voice; the Pules in a sudden jerking whoop at the commencement of every bar; and the Scotch and Irish delight in a certain lilt and drone to which no other ears can be reconciled. Just so, the pedantic Alma has left English music as monotonous as be found it; and the " Cease rude Dorcas," * Richmond Hill," and all the family Of fal-de-ral choruses, destitute of variety, smoothness, and counter-point, still fascinate the English taste in spite of the superiority of foreign science and example. With a dawn of improving intelligence, however, the English Musicians—or rather let us name them the English Musicals //—have discovered the necessity of deviating from the insipid character of their old boisterous wooden music. But destitute of genius, and shackled by early perversion of taste, they—incapable of forming an original national school—bave mixed up a kind of emnions gatheessas of styles, by Italianising. Germanising, and Galicising native com position, till false finery more conspicuously exposes the wretched ness they would cover—like gaudy ornaments selected with bad taste awkwardly to adorn the squslour of a ragged beggar. But all de fective and inferior as we are in this sublime art,wa must still be con strained to hear slip-slop music poured out to timber tympanums,until a proper field of encouragement is opened to our native genius. The effort, we are proud to say, is snaking ; and we, at last, may hope ere long to assist at English opera without a feeling of humiliation and disgust. The formation of a "British Musical Academy" was the first step to be taken ; the taste of the young students being there carefully directed—their minds made familiar with the high walks of dramatic composition—their style formed on the bea models, and accustomed to execute and emulate with each other—all lead us to expect, that native talent will spring front this hot-bed, equal to compete with all that is best in the Art in Italy, Germany, and France ; that we also shall have our Paesiellos, our Cimerosas, and Rossini's; our Mozarts, Haydona,— our Clucks and Gretrys ; and, instead of the small-price physic of our present Musicals, become familiar with a music of a higher range--capable, classical, and pure. To exercise their pupils, and inure them to the business of the Drama, the Directors of the Academy, it would seem, intend to get up, for this season, a succession of Operas at the Italian House. This attempt is one of the greatest importance to British arts. If suc cessful, it will fix an epoch in our Musical and Literary History ; for, with the establishment of a pure English Opera, the lyric poet, the snusician,—nay, the painter and dancer, will find more scope to exercise their talents, than that upon which they have hitherto exerted themselves amongst us. If such now depends on the incipient merits of the young Academy, much also will rest upon the public—for the fullest encouragement will be required to secure for posterity a music worthy of the nation, and an Opera they can be proud to own. . • • • • • The following decree was issued at Bogota Besot*, JUNI 3. 44 To THE PREFECTS.—A delay having occurred in the receipt at the office under my charge of the decree issued by the Liberator at Quito, on the Bth May last, relative to the duties on importations, which was pub lished in the Gazette of Colombia, and its circulation and, publication having from this cause been delayed, in consequence of which the term within which its opera-* lions was to commence, is too short, as regards produce imported in vessels coming from the United States and Europe, the Government has determined that the pro visions contained in the said decree, shall not take effect with respect to the former, until the Ist Jan. 1830. (Signed) " NICHOLAS TANEO." Two Scotchmen, having occasion to go into a public boast, asked for a certain quantity of whisky, which was, of course, readily granted. In the plenitude of her politeneu the landlady inquired whether they should like a little water to mix with it. " 'Deed, my good woman," replied one of them, after whiskey, " I think they would be very ill to please that could as' tak' it wt' what It has get." SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY DAYS. From the puffs preliminary in the Journals, we were I kept in hopes of a delicious treat in the new piece cf last night, entitled " Shakespeare's Early Days." The subject is a bold one ; and the associations it naturally awakens would, by mighty comparisons, prove peri lous even fur patent talent how much more prejialicial to the most beggarly unequivocal me diocrity. Good Heavens ! and is it come to. this ? Not content with murdering the Teat' Dramatist in his works, they at last libel his Chit- - racter and genius, by making him a walking.stick and a caricature aiding, without one grain of humour or in spiration. In the face of our contemporaries, we assert that the whole is a fo.tras of the most flimsy mummery and platitude, without one redeeming merit—destitute of interest, probability, coincidence, sally, or situation ; and that no other audience in Europe could have stomachs for such weak tea at the head of THALIA. We chal lenge the critics to point out any scene which could be palateable to any taste superior to what might be expected from the first vapid attempt of an unskilled school-boy. On this point, we appeal to the stage-writers, and to the actors themselves. We are prevented by our engagementi tc-day from entering into an exposure of all it: wretched ness. But we shallreserve our migrateful task for env night of its representation ; when, if it can b_ swaliow,al by an unprejudiced and is audience, wo di*icet it minutely in all its pmts. We were assured by me or more Journals that Sit.i Kspeare's early days—for such has become the pronunciation of that immortal name at Covent Garden—yes, " SHAKspeare's early days," we were told, was sent by the W arrta anonymously to a friend of Mr. KEMBLE—perhaps to " Doctor On onox" M o 'CFOS !—in consequence, the enor mous pains and expense bestowed upon the piece ; the best actors made to play the most con temptible characters ; KEELV himself scarcely more than a . figurant ; every scene magnificently got up ; the dresses all new and many of them gorgeous—alto gether evince the high value the READER of Covent- Garden attached to the stuff; for partiality towards the Author—or even knowledge of him (credal Jamas) is disclaimed by 6 ' Doctor ORTUODO X" MORTON, who, it appears, appraised this precious morsel by its intrinsic worth alone ! Then, let the piece stand as a Criterion of that wise man's judgment. Let us bring him to the bar to substantiate the merits of this favoured play of his selection ; and justify himself from the heinous charge of poisoning the public with nauseous stage rhubarb, through capricious, incapable, or corrupt criticism ; and enable us to decide whether this" Doctor ORTHODOX" MORTON is in his dotage or his Lures; or has been only carried away by an inordinate devotion for the clap trap tame of Su lispeare!! ! THE ARMY. The half-yearly inspections of the depots of the several regiments stationed at Plymouth, took place within the last ten days, as the state of the weather would permit, with the exception of the 96th depot, which is to he inspected (weather permitting) at 11 o'clock this morning, in front of the Government House at Mount Wise— where all the others were inspected at the same hour. The company of Royal Artillery stationed at Devonport, is to hold itself in readiness to embark for Barbadoes as soon as reeved by a company daily expected from Woolwich. Detachments of the 12th, 25d. 45d, and 94th regiments are or dered to hold themselves in readiness for embarkation on the ar rival of the Body mion troop-ship, for Gibraltar. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. \Lams Amman Tnts Day.—Dublin i—Waterford I—Ham burgh I—France I—Holland 1. DIAL, OCT. 29.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the Meek, --', from Zante. Arrived from London, the Isabella, Swan, for Havre. POILTAMOUTH. Orr. 29.—Sailed his Majesty's ship Sparrow. hawk, for the Coast of Africa. Ps.eatouTo, OCT. 27.—Wind N. N.E. FALMOUTH, OcT. 28.—Wind N.N. W. Livaarorn., Orr. 28.—Arrived the Industry. Moore, from De merara, and Miter, Vollans, from St. Petersburgh. The John, Wells, from Virginia, is supposed to be arrived off Holyhead. The Industry, Moore, arrived from De , sailed from thence on the 9th ult. and on the 17th. in lat. 44. long. 26. experienced a very heavy gale, which, coming from the South, veered round the compass, and continued to blow hard until the 21st. Omni, Orr. 27.—Arrived the Elisabeth and Ann, Wright, from Quebec, and Brighton, Pearson, from Pictou. LIMIRACK, OCT. 27.—Arrived the Husiisson, Congreve, from Newfoundland, and Coquette, Cousin, from Quebec. Scum, Orr. 28.—Off the port, the Antelope, Emery, from Rio Janeiro, and Peggy, Godfrey. from Labrador. Anomie, Oct, 27.—Arrived the Dee, and Zephyr, from Davis' Straits. Hum., OCT. 28.—Arrived the Cambrian, Dumont!), Gilder, Mary Frances. and Alrsm, from Davis' Straits. Stumm. ()cr. 28.—Arrived the Grenville Bay, and Core, from Davis' Straits. The Duke of WELLINGTON returned to town yester day morning, from Hatfield, Herts. We hope it is not true that Lord BYRON'S first love has made money of his first poem. Accounts from Alexandria in Egypt, state that all tha Members of the Council which received orders to as semble there to examine a project for a general change in the commercial administration of the country, have been there during three weeks, holding their meetings almost daily ; and the general opinion was, that some affairs of greater importance than the commerce of the country occupied their attention. The Viceroy has in agitation two principle objects—to augment considerably his forces by sea and land ; the second, to increase his revenue to cover his expences. The frontiers are forti fied. and his fleet is becoming daily more numerous. Accounts horn Constantinople, of the same date as last received, state that the Capital remains tranquil, and executions less frequent. Commerce begins to revive. The occupation of EllOB by the Russians has caused fre quent conferences between the English and French Am bassadors, who require its immediate evacuation by the Russians. The Danish Minister in the above Capital has freighted seven Austrian vessels, to take on board 1081 Russian prisoners, for Siziboli. STATUE OP PITT. CII A NTREY has just CORl pleted his colossal statue of PITT, for London. It is full twelve feet high, and in modern costume, over which is thrown an ample robe, fastened round one shoul der, leaving the right arm free and reaching down to the pedestal. By the skilful disposition of the robe, much that is beautiful in the proportions of the figure is shown, and much that is ungraceful in the dress concealed— were it placed at a great distance from the eye, still the looks of PITT would be recognised, for the natural out line of the man is preserved. It is equal at least to any other work from the same hand, and its chief excellen cies are, unaffected ease and manly dignity. It is of bronze, a fine, clear, solid cast—the second work of the sculptor in that material. His third work is the colos sal statute of his MAJESTY for Scotland. TILE FARQUIIAR PROPERTY.—SOree letters, in the hand-writing of the late Mr. FARQUHAR, of Foothill, have come to light, upon which, it is said, measures will be taken to reverse the decision of the Prerogative Court against the existence of• a will, and in favour of the FASHIONABLE INTELLIGE:VCE CHA NGES. Prince and Princess Ueven on a visit to the Rail and Cduntues Cowper, at their seat. Pansenger, Hens; Earl Spencer On a mu to Mr. Coke, at his seat in Norfolk, from Althorpe, Northamptn shire ; the arl and Countess of Wilton for Newmarket; Viscount Sydney, in New Burlington-street, from his neat, Frognal, Kent Lord and Lady Howard de Walden on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Bristol, from the Duke of Portland's, at Ws lbeck ; Lord Gardiner and the Hon. Rob.. Smith, from Beigrave-square, on a tour ; Lord. Lady, and the Hon. Misses King on a visit.to the Marquis and Marchianess of Lansdown, at liowood Park, in Wiltdpre ; Sir Contra and Lady Trotter, from Grosvenor-square, on a tour; Lady Jones, from the of Wight, for Worting House, near Basingstoke; Sir Edward Katchbull, Bart. front Ramsgate, for Mersham Hatch, Kent; Captain Mansfield, for Brighton; Captain Edward Walmsley, for Manchester; Major Brodie, for Dstblin ; Baran Fernandez, in Jermyn-street, front Madrid ; Captain and Mrs. Gordon, in Rcgent-street, front Paris; Mn. Morris and family, at their house in Baker-street, from Re gency-square, Brighton; the Hon. G. J. Vernon and family, from the Continent, at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-nreet ; the Countess of Onslow, from St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-.treet, for her seat, Claud= ; Mr. Mrs. and the Misses Farrant, from ditto, to Bath; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Alexander, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle -street, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. Shatter), at Hawkina's Hotel, Dover-street, from India ; Mr. and Mrs. Cock raine and Sons, from ditto, for the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Hudson, from ditto, to Titsworth House, Surrey ; William Stevens F.sq. from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, fur Paris ; James Wallace, Esq. from ditto, for Oxford ; Colonel a. d Lady Harriet Forde, at the Burlington Hotel, front Brighton; H. D. Grady. Esq. at ditto, from Dublin ; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, front ditto, for the Continent ; J. Oliver, Esq. front ditto, fur the Con ti, ent ; J. Homage, Esq. from ditto, for the Continent; Mr. and Mrs. Adeane, front the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Kent; Mr. and Mrs. Pease, from ditto, for Harrow ; Mrs. Erskine and the Misses White, from ditto. for Bromley, iu Kent ; Mr. Ix War ner, from ditto, for Kent; Mr. Trevannion, from ditto, for Corn wall ; the Rev. B. Layard, fr.,nt ditto, for Lincolnshire; I ord Bayning, at Nlivires Hotel, Lower Brook and Davie. Stores, from Kent ; John Fielder, Esq. and the Nlissts Fielder, at dot., front Nltillotreet Hall, Chester ; Mrs. and the Misses Hughes. .0. the liert:er4 Hotel, Berners-street, from Andover; H Seal, FA. Mrs. mud Miss Seal, at dittiw, from Coleshill,' Warwickshire. The Princess AUGUSTA, attended by Miss W v,t It 11, left her reAdence,Troginoro Lodge, about nine - o'clo .k v-sterday morning, in her carriage and four. (in a to the Earl anal Countess of ARRAN at B The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE gays a granri yesterday evening, at their residence in dully Park. to some of the Members of the Royal Family and a select party of the Nobility and Gentry. Moasieur de Ntr.maxx, of the Austrian and the PrusAan Miaister, visited the Earl of ARE:I-- DEES VCSIQDI ay , at the office of the Secretary of State far Foreign Affairs. Yesterday the Bislicp of London, accompanied by Bne ral of the Clergy of his tlioc:,se, proceeded to the school-house of Wbitechapel park!), and held the annual examination of the children. A great number of the in habitants attended ; these were admitted :iv tickets. H., Lordship paid particular attention to the answers retirnel by the children to the questions put to them. and fro quently departed from the routine of the questions, vary ing the phraseology evidently with a view t t ascerta:it what real and practical benefit they bud reaped by thst mode of education adopted; iu almost every instaia.,. s - tisfactory answers were given. The examination was (7117:- fined to the fundamental parts of the Christian reading, spelling, arithmetic, and such like. His Lird ship expressed himself highly satisfied with the examina tion, and the healthy and cleanly appearance of the chil dren. Leaving them a donation he took his leave. AFFAIR OF H0N0UR....-Mr. R. H. SHEEHAN, of the Dublin Evening Mail, having felt himself personally aggrieved by an article which appeared in the Evenitiff Packet of Saturday last, sent a friend to Mr. MuRR A Y MANSFIELD, the proprietor of that journal, to demand gentlemanly satisfaction. Mr. MANSFIELD, it Kerns, declined the invitation, and accordingly every vacant spot to which a notice could be posted, all over Dublin, exhi bited a placard, in which Mr. SHEED AN had applied t.' him the epithets usual on those occasions.—Thibi Freeman's Journal. Orders and honours have been lately flying about in all directions in Europe. General de MUFFLING, tlio Prussian Special Envoy to Constantinople, has received the Order of St. Vladimir, of the first class; the KING of Spain has decorated all his Ministers, and those of tint KINO of the Two Sicilles also, his father-in-law ; and we find, by the Danish Papers, that the KING of Denmatk, having sent the Order of the Elephant to the KING Of the Two Sicilles, the PRINCE ROYAL, his son, and M. DE MEDICI the Prime Minister, the compliment has been returned by sending the Kix° of Denmark the In signiee of the Order of FER DI NAN wind MERIT. We regret to find that sonic misunderstanding bus taken place with the Directors of the Royal Academy, relative to the approaching performance of Italian operas in this town, the consequence of which is that four of the names at first announced are withdrawn from the list.— Miss CIIILDE will be replaced by Miss GRANT, Miss BROMLEY by Miss NOVELLO, M. BRIZZI by Signor BEGREZ, and M. SEGUIN by Sem; NoLETTI and Proz z t.—Briyhton Gazette. It must Ee in the recollection of our readers that a Mrs. Wyse (the daughter of LvciEs BUONAPARITI attempted some time back to drown herself in the Green Park. This lady has, we should think, lived to congra tulate herself upon the failure of her experiment; for she is now the bosom friend of a Noble Duke, at present sojourning on the Continent, who, in company with his fair guide, a short time since, attempted the ascent of Mont Blanc. We are not apprised of the success of this undertaking, as our correspondent left them at Chamouni when in a forward state of preparation for the journey. —Brighton Gazette. It is said that POOLE, in his farce of Simpson and Co. took the character of Peter Simpson f:om a respectable man of the name of Tv.ttal' (uncle of the late Mr. TERRY, the comedian) who carries on business in Lon don ; and the portrait is said to be a very faithful one. The nephew, it will be recollected, was the original re presentative of the character. CORN-EXCHANGE. MARK-LANK, Oct. ZO. The Nesting Trade was extremely heavy this morning . but the few sales that were effected in Bee Wheat were at last Monday's prices. Fine Malting Barley was Is. per quarter d • , the quantity of this kind at market being very limited. Oats supported Monday's currency. IMPORTATION' lINCR lIONDAT. Wheat, English (qrs.) . 3,600 Barley, Foreign Irish . . Oats, English . Foreign . 1,950 Foreign . Barley, English . 3,400 Trish . . Irish . . Flour (sacks) . SMITHFIELD MARKET, Oer. 30. cams AT MA RKET. . 1,990 . 6,40t0 70u . 7,300 Beasts Sheep and Lambs Beef 5l 4d to 4* 041 Mutton 54 8d 44 24 Lamb ----Os Od 0, 01 Calves 221 Pigs .. ..... Veal . ...... 84 to 41 64 Purk 33 ad 5s 0.1 • Hay per load, £4104. to £4 154 Clover £3 104. to 1:4 154. Straw £1 161. to Zu 54. COAL MARKET—Tuts Day. HALY-PArt Onr.—The Coal Exchange was very nunwrously attended by merchants to-day, but the supply of Coal was con - siderably over the demand, this day's supply, both of Sunderland and Newcastle, being abundant; 116 new ships were at market, making a total on the weekly arrival of 276 ships. Skips arrived during.the month 714 Best Walhend Coals .... 575. 6d. Us. Od. Other sorts ttas. 04. 365. Od. Ships at Market 145.