Star. — London, England, 1826-10-07 00:00:00

THE ARNIY. 'Pw Government of Limerick, vacant by the death of *Generall VAWCZTT, is given to. General KNOLLTII ' and sir Oconee Rasta succeeds General 1(1101:LYS, as Governor of St. John's. The Pensions and Allowakes which will become due to Amert can Loyalists on the . 10th Instant, will be paid on the following days,, between Retro and one o'clock, vik.—Wednesday, the itch of October. Wednesdays the Illth of October, and on the Ant Wed tesday in each succeeding snonilt. A detachment belonging to the S4th Regiment of Infantry is or dered to embark this mording, on board a steam Vessel in the rivelr, for Gravesend, on rote to 'Chatham. DREADFUL CONFLICT AT SEA. 11E0)1 ?DI ABERDEEN JOURNAL, OCTOBER 4. Estract of a letter from Captain —, of the schooner Anna, to his sister in Aberdeen, dated Batavia, May 24th, 1826 I arrived here on the 20th from Singa pore, safe and nearly sound ; and must give yon some , account of my own hand, and of the most treacherous and horrid scenes that I ever witnessed. I trust, Pao- VIDeNCE, which protected me, will steer me clear of suck a sight again. At Singapore, I agreed to take to Batavia Malay Hajis, or Priests. I had also 3 European passen gers. The former behaved very quietly until the night of the 2.1 May (the third from Singapore); we were then 25 mile, oft the east end of Singapore, standing in for the land, with a light breeze, all hands asleep but Myself, the man at the helm ; and, one looking out forward, at half past nine o'clock in the evening, while standing close by the man at the helm, I observed two of the Malays running aft towards me, furiously uttering something in Javanese; instantly suspecting their intention, 1 went for ward to meet them ; ►he chief made a blow at me with a krease, which 1 received on my left wrist, and knocked him down with my right hand. The second one stabbed me in my left hip. In endeavouring to reach the cabin, I fell, when a scuffle ensued, in which 1 received several cuts on my left arm and hand, but got clear of them both, and got down to the cabin, followed by them. I in. stantly armed myself with a cutlass ; a bloody scene now took place, too horrible to describe; wounds on both sides were received. One of the European passengers 'soon came to my assistance. The mate and another of them also got into the cabin, the former wounded in the head and back. In short, in . three or four minutes all five of us were wounded more or less ; hat in possession of the e ibis and arms, and their chief: a corpse beside us. They now commenced throwing down iron bolts. handspokes, and eves ything they. totild get hold of, %%bleb broke our lamp in pieces, and left up,in the dark. The crew took to the rigging, three of them were stabbed. " We were some time in getting our pistols loaded in the confusion ; but, to cut this horrid story alien, four of them were killed, and the other three were driven overboard wounded, after having had possession of the poop two hours and a Half. At the end of this I was completely done up, from the loss of blood; my boy succeeded in stopping the bleeding, hut I was rather in a low state for some days. Thank GOD, my wounds are now near' y ail well ; my left hand may come round, but it is doubtiul, as the s;news are neatly all cut." DOVER, OCT. 5. Yesterday our Races took place, the first that have been here for several years. The day wis rood, arid a vast concourse of people were collected on the ground, Which was particularly well suited for the spectators, as the whole Course was capable of being seen from any part of the hills that completely surround it. The first race started with three horses for the Town Plate, and won easily, in two heats, by Captain Hamilton's gray horse, after a good race. At our Regatta, a dispute occurred about two boats going out of the course, and the first prize was given to the third boat. CONINT•GARDIN THEATRIL-The School for Scan Id was performed here last night, and was-admirably played. Messrs. 'CRIME, FARRIER, FAWCETT, Joan, and BLANCHARD, are so identified with their respective characters in the play, that any present mention of their merits would be superfluous. %Twain was tile Joseph butface,, andlse supported the character with good dis eretiorr intellect. 'The revived afterpiece, The Castk of Sorrento, followed. Miss Cawsx's singing and act ing gainid; the same favour with the audience as on the former ntgfir. Thursday night an Inquisition was held at the Spotted Horse, Shoreditch, touching the death of James Elmes, a Locker-up at the Custom-house. It appeared that on Wednesday night, the deceased, being in liquor, was going down. Shoreditch, accompanied by a friend, when ' reeling against a waggon, be was thrown down, and the wheel passed over his body. Medical aid was in stantly.obtained, but he expired in a few minutes. Vet diet. Accidental Death. ' M. RoCAPVERTE, Mexican Charge d'Affisi - res, has just received the official intelligence that 500,000 dol lars were lying, all ready packed, at Vera Cruz ; and alms, that his Goverment advise him that a further re mittance was preparing, and a part of which would very probably be in time to catch the frigate; at all events, not less than 500,000 would be sent by the above conveyance. M. CAMACHO will come passenger in.the Hussar. Extract of a private letter from Algiers, dated Sep tember 9 By the time you receive this, you will have heard of the depredations committed by the Al gel Inc cruisers on flags of Powers in amity with the Regency. The first was upon a large Dutch ship, laden with logwood, for English and American account, from Campeachy, bound to Marseilles, and detained for want of a Mediterranean pass. No sooner had this vessel been released, through the united efforts of the Dutch, Ame rican, and British Consuls, than in comes an lonian ship, bound from Zante to Leghorn, with a cargo of Valencia wool, &c. detained for the same cause, thus taking the bull by the horns at once. R. M. THOMAS, Esq. our Pro-consul, sent in a remonstrance to the Government, which was productive of the desired effect, the Dey having not only ordered restoration of the ship and cargo, but indemnity for demurrage, loss of market, and every other damage resulting from the detention. Two Roman prizes have lately come in-:-one a very rich one, laden at Genoa for Civita Vecchia, supposed to be on Genoese account. It has, however, been sold, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the Sardinian Consul. We have beard from Tripoli, that a strong report—nay, almo.t an authenticated ore—had arrived there of poor Major LAING, and all his party, having been murdered by one of the tribes in the desert called Twarnies. What a melancholy catastrophe, if true! He married the Consul's (Colonel WARRINGTON'S) daughter the day before he set off on his expedition." A. PRETTY RIDDLE 1 will consent to all you de sire," said a you'll female to her lover, 44 on condition that you give me what you have not—what you never can have, and yet what you can give me." What did she ask him for ?—A husband. rAs. lONABLE INTELLIGENCE. -;m.-. The Duke and Duchess of Leftist& &rivet in sewn yestehlay, , from Brighton. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbary left town yesterday, for thtgetd. _ _ The Earl and Countess of Hardwicke arrived yesterday at .their house in Sc. James's-square, from their seat, Trtrenhanpr Herts. The Dowager Countess Pouktt has arrived at the Marquis of Northampton's seat, Castle Ashby, from a tour. The Earl of Harrington arrived yesterday at his house in the SM ble Yard, from Brighten. The Earl of Sheffield has arrived at liuckfieW, Sesser, from the isle of Wight. The Earl of &borough has arrived in the Isle of Wight, from a tour. Earl Stan!lope is shoetifkrpected in town, from the Continent. The Hon. George and Lady Georgina Ellis have left the Bari of Carlisle's seat, Castle Howard, Yorkshire, so a tour. The Countess of Aboyne has arrived at the Oaks Bank, Seven Oaks, Kent, from Tunbridge Wells. Mrs. and Miss Vernon have arrived at Brighton, from the Isle of Wight. The Earl of Dartmouth has left his seat, SandweU, Staffordshire, for Woodsome, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Sir Roger and Lady Gresley have left their seat, Drakelow, Der byshire, for the Right Hon. Robert Peel's seat, .Ltilwerth Castle, Dorset. -Arrivals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's•streeti—Colonel Vansivart, from his seat in I3erks ; Robert Wynne, Esq. from Reading. Departures :—Mr. and Mrs. Towers. Departures from Ellis's Hotel, St. Janses's.street Count St. Priest, for Paris; Richard Moore, Esq. for Bath. Mic and Lady Charlotte Lane Fox left ScrieCs Hotel, Lower Brook -street, yesterday, for Brighton. Departures from Jordan's Hotel, St. James's.street :—Sir John and Mr. Shelley, for their seat in Sussex; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walker, for Brighton. Count and Countess Delessart and family arrived yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond -street, freers Paris. Departures fromThomas's Hate, Berkeley-square:—The Ilaw ager Marchioness of Downsbire• ' Lord and Lady Mary Hill, for Itoehampton : Mr. and Mrs. Cave and family, for Hastings ; Mr. and Mrs. Conway Dobbs, for the - Continent. The Hon. Spencer Stanhope arrived in town yesterday, from Brighton. Arrivals at the Brunswick Hotel (late Blake's), Jermyn-street Lord and Lady Kenmare, from Malvern; M. Norris, Esq. and family, from Ramsgate. Departures :—Edward Protheroe, Esq. and family, for Herts ; Donaldson, Esq. for Berks. SONG. Gentle maid! my vows receive, Nor brrath'd in •ain, if you believe: My Love shall be Truth's constant guest, Smile, gentle maid!. and I am blest I Nor shall my captive heart complain, Though fastly bound in Beauty's chain— 'Twere bondage sweet, of thee possess'd, Smile, gentk maid! and I am blest! CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Oceosea 6. Messrs. Thomas Remington, BA. James Amiraux Jeremie, A. and James Challis, B. A. Scholars of Trinity College, were on Sunday last elected Fellows of that Society. • The following Gentlemen were ordained by the Bishop of Lin coln, at Buckden, on Sunday, the 24th of September : DEACONS—David FulfOrd Ilarridge, B.A. Queen's College,. Cambridge; Henry Margett's, M.A. St. John's College, Cam bridge • George Pocock, S.C. L.Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Wool ley Spencer, B.A. Christ College, Cambridge; Richard Whitelock, B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford ; Henry Reginald Yorke, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge ; George Harrison, B.A. Lincoln Col , lege, Oxford ; William Gray, Literate • Henry John Branson, B.A. Caius College, Cambridge—by Le t. Dim. from the Arch bishop of York ; Edward Cox, B.A. Trinity Collegl, Cambridge —by Let. Dim. from the Bishop of Exeter. Paresis—George Atkinson, B.A. Queen's College, Cambridge ; James. Heaven, B.A. St. Edmund's Hall. Oxford; John Peacock Hyde, B.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge; Edmund Miller, NIX Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge; John Fry, RA. Tri nity College, Cambridge; Thomas Harrison, B.A. St. John's C6l - Cambridge; Charles Wm. Hughe., B.A. Corpus atrial - College, Cambri dge; Augustus Davies lons, St. John's College, Cambridge ; John Mandell, B. A. Catharine Hall, Cambridge ; George Morley, Catharine Hall, Cambridge; William Peart, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge; Joseph Place, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge ; Thomas Sanderson, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford ; Thomas Trocke, M.A. Pembroke Hall, Cambridge ; James Taylor Waring, B.A. Herter College, Oxford. At an Ordination held in the Chapel of the Palace at Sarum on Sunday, the 24th ult. the Bishop of Salisbury admitted the follow ing Gentlemen to the Holy Order of— Deacons—W. Powley, 13. A. of Jesus College, Cambridge; H. Browne, B.A. of Queen's College, Oxford; T. Husband, B.A. of Magdalen College, Cambridge; H. W. Cottle, B.A. of Sydney Sum: College, Cambridge; A. L. Lambert, B.A. of Trinity Coll. Oxford; W. Start, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge; T. G. P. Attwood, B.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford; E. Beauchamp St. John, B.A. of St. Alban Hall, Oxford; D. J. Eyre, B.A. of Oriel College, Oxford; C Clifton, B.A. of Worcester College, Oxford; W. Barrett, B.A. of 'Magdalen College, Oxford ; W. Sykes, B.A. of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; C. M. Long, B.A. of Tri nity College, Cambridge (at the request of the Bishop of Chichester). Passarr--G. J. Huddkstnn, B.A. of Merton College, Oxford; J. H. Worgan, M.A. of Pembroke College, Oxford; J. A. G. Culpoys, hl. A. Exeter College , Oxford ; W . Seaton, Queen's Col lege, Cambridge • P. W. Buckham, B.A. St. John's College, Cam bridge; J. Ward, B.A. Christ's College, Cambridge. Rev. Robert Ridsdale, M.A. one of the Senior Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has been instituted, by the Bishop of Chichester, to the Vicarage of Eirdfoid, near Fetworth, Sussex, en the present ation of the Right Hon. the Earl of Egremont. Hey. C. W. Hughes, [ LA. of Corpus Christi College, Cam bridge. has been licensed by the Bishop of Lincoln, to the Perpe tual Curacy of the Chapel of St John the Evangelist, at Lacy Green, Bucks. Rev. J. R. Major, of Thetford, B.A. of Trinity College, Cam bridge, was on Wednesday, the 27th ult. elected by the Town Bailiff and Capital Burgesses of Wisbech, to the Head Mastership of the Free Grammar School of that Town. Rev. W. A. Alderson, of Everingham, to the Living of Seaton Ross, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Mr. Brown. Rev. J. Baylie, to the Chapelry of Blozwieb, near Walsall. Rev. Richard Jaws, to the Perpetual Curacy of Little Leigh Cheshire. Rev. G. Stage, M.A. has Wei instituted, by the Den or Salis bury, to the Vicarage of Loogburtos, with the Chapel of Ho;nest, in his peculiar deeanel jeariadictles, vacant by the death of the Rev. Robert Corseus. The Bishop of Salisbury has instituted the Rev. C. G. Cotes to the Rectory of Stanton St. Quinton, Wilts, on the presentation of the Earl of Radnor. Rev. Edward . Wilson, B.A. Fellow of St. John's College, Cam bridge, was on Saturday appointed to the Curacy of &. Michael's, Bath, on the nomination of the Rev. Rector of that city. Rev. Courtenay Boyle Bruce, of Sc. Peter's College, Cambridge, was on Wednesday appointed Domestic Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. Monday, the Rev. John Ward, Domestic Chaplain to the Mar quis of Aylesbury, was instituted to the living of Great Bedwin, on the presentation of his Lordship. The Archbishop of York has been pleased to license the Rev. W. Alderson, Rector of Everingham, to the Perpetual Curacy of Seaton Ross, on the resignation of the Rev. Thomas Brown. Rev. J. Hall, M.A. Vicar of Great Bedwin, Wilts, has been presented to the Rectory of Tanheld, in Yorkshire. The Earl of Erroll has a ppointed the Rev. S. B. Pratt, Epis copal Minister of St. James s, in the parish of Cruden, one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. Thunday, the United Associate Congregation of Partick, tse Glasgow, gave an unanimous call to Mr. John Skinner, Preacher of the Gospel, to be their Pastor. ti On the 7th ult. the Rev. Thomas Cannan was placed in the parish of Carsephairn, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Cony, late :Minister there. Neat day, the Rev. James Maitland was ad mitted to the parochial charge of Kells, vacant by the decease of the Rev. William Gillespie, late Minister of that parish. And on the ei sr, the Rev. William Dow was ordained Minister of Tongland parish, vacant by the translation of the Rev. Thomas Brown to the parish of St. John's, in Glasgow. On the 14th uk. the Rev. Jacob Richardson was admitted to the pastoral charge of the parish al I.args, in the county of Ayr. CHELTENHAM'. • —....-- Conieto Cheltenham all you young maidens, with hearts light and purses heavy—for here are Gentlemen single and singular in abundance. H toe to Cheltenham all you unhappy bachelors, with 'bald heads and spare pockets—for here are widows and lasses, East Indians, West Indians, Jewesses, womanhood and girlhood of every shape and colour, with wealth or with the name of it. Who wants a husband? Who wants a wife? Look at that Major of fifty, with a sea (the 'red sea) of face and pine groves of whiskers, reposing in the pump room. Think, you' my willing fair, that he is over par ' ticular, or will quarrel for the difference between the ten and the fifteen thousand ? Look at that young Lady of thirty—tall, thin, and sallow, spelling every eye in the promenade. Think you she is not heartily tired of taking care of her dirty acres ? You Gentlemen of Scot land, subtle and booing, bead your backs this way, if you please, and luck may give you a full lading as you gang away—and oh ! you Gentlemen of Ireland— no, no, we are full of you already, Munster men and Connaught men, and little great men from the Omar' and young Reverends and barristers, and dandi-dis tillers and drapers ; but come all those who can, for now is the time—great bargains on hand, wholesale and retail—this is the day, to-mot row Mr. Jines's bammes knocks us down, and we are gone. Cheltenham is full, very full at this moment, of fun, folly, and family parties. What do the mothers mean by bringing all their daughters this way ? Can five sickly shiers be got off together? There is no prepon derance of rank to put the majority nut of countenance. None of your aristocratic Peers bottling it over the community. None' of your antique Bari tarts, with keep-your-distance looks, like surly mas• id's. We are all quite on an equality—Mr. and Ws. Thompson, Mrs. Frinson and the four Misses Frinson, 'Major Har vey, Captain Henry, Ensign and Adjutant O'DJherty, and such like safe-to-be quoted names. You art ive at Cheltenham in the evening in your own cat riage, or by coach, and, for the honour of the thing, set yourself down at the Plough—smiling and well ringletted bar-maid—smirking waiter, never soiled his sires in his life—tidy chambermaid, with a silk dress, and a place worth 5001. a year, pays 2001. for it, and does up the small things—silver service, down beds, rooms ten feet by ten. Rise late. Call for the bill.— Faint with fright at the sum total. Pay it, and try to keep your temper. Walk into the air, cool your mind, and look for a house or lodgings. Take the former, from five guineas to fifteen a week, according to your establishment ;or the latter, from two five. There you are—now look about you. But stop, you can't afford a house, and hate lodgings. Well, then go to a boarding house. Try Fisher's, dine with sixty, play whist or ecarte, or read novel, in the evening. Try the Welling ton Mansion—all select, stiff, and silent. Or if you be a dry old bachelor, fond of good living, and hates to be annoyed , with ladies, button up at the Imperial. No dogs' allowed in the dining room, nor women either.— Three guineas a week will suit your expenditure. The first thing to be done, is et eight o'clock in the morning, to make yourself look at smooth as you can, and saunter down to -Thomson's well. -There you meet all the, world lounging in the pump room, or walking between rows of fragrant shrubs ; the band playing, the sun shining, and every body happy.. Before you jOili party, address yourself to the portly Quaker who stands so demure within that mahogany bar, and ask for No. 4.. Without Tufting the starch of .her kerchief or the repose of her double chin, sister Deborah will reach you a glass of water. It is warm and grateful to the palate ; in time you will learn all its virtues. Look over your left shoulder, there is the recording angel, with book before him and pen in hand, ready to set down your name, and take your half guinea subscription for a fort night. And how comes it, friend Thomson, that thou art a caterer for the: ungodly, and dealest in balls and dancing, and piping, and fiddle-scraping, and such like abominations? Having taken your glass of water, move about and survey the company. Don't you think the Ladies are re-. markably well dressed, considering they have only left home in a hasty deshabille ? To be sure there are great symptoms of haste is those bunches of rich cads which so become that pretty sylph of sixteen, still more so in the layer of rouge spread thick on her mam ma's cheek. A vast hurry in the set-uff of that lace—the sly cap under the slyer bonnet—the negligent fall of that waif, or its the delicate dress of that anck. Symptoms of indifference to conquest and thoughtlessness of one's self in every look and attitude. Thomson 's Well engrosses all the fashion. How he contrives to retain it traffics calculation. At the old well there are finer walks—at the Sherborne better grounds and better music. The waters are said to be equal in all ; yet, while his rooms are crowded to an over flo", and his book filled with wealth, the others are *ab out a visiter—the books wiaout subscribers—and the Gentlemen of the band abandoned to teach the thrushes. Let me give a word of advice to the Sherborne owners. —Pay any price to Braham, Stephens, or Caradori, to sing in the morning at your rooms for one season. A month, Mr. Thomson cannot stand against Colonel Berkeley tried to break the monopoly, and did not; and the Duke of Wellington patronised the old well, but failed in making it, as a bad punster said,theWell-in-ton. This early promenade renders Cheltenham a healthy and delightful place. Early to bed and early to rise, is the old proverb. Here only is it realised by all parties. Whether we shall become, as the proverb says, more wealthy or more wise, is,out of consideration ; but this I know, and all the men join me in saying, that women never look more beautiful than in the young blush of morning. The palest creature catches a glow from contact with the fresh aiP. Need I say bow much more brilliant the truly lovely appear. Besides, my pretty damsels, you take a man's heart quite unawares, when he Is little dreaming of the sly pursuit. In the ball room, man is on his guard; he is your equal—your superior; but in the morning be is at your mercy. If I dare tell how many I saw shot dead by the first glance of that sparkling dark-eyed beauty—not tea minutes after 8 o'clock this morning—l am certain not one of you would be a moment later for your season. Fall in love, if you like it, but go home and eat your breakfast. Read for an hour or two, or make yourself look amiable afresh. Come to the library at noon.— There again all the world are met. How bold a woman looks marching through the outworks of a shop, and taking her seat and a newspaper at the same table with a dozen men. How graceless in an old woman, but how cruelly unbecoming in a young Lady I Still everybody does it here. Though blushing is not my forte, I co loured yesterday to the eyes at seeing a young and in nocent girl of eighteen take up the Morning Paper, which I had jest laid down, containing a police case unfit for modest ears. The next thing to be done is to step into the auction room ; this is the regular lounge or kill time, unless you are a whist player, and have the vice of cards upon you in the morning. There is a club where honorary members are admitted. That will suit your purpose. At one time you might have found more than one knave of that suit in the pack, but now we have corrected all that. 'oat have disposed of the time until three o'clock— :tow for the High-street. The family who have an open carets* are slowly moving from end to end, tin loung people, every now and then, popping amen to shew their feet and give trouble to the sboponen • the single men, who have tilburies or cabriolets, cats rattling along the stones, merely to display their driving. Those who have horses pace them up and down ; and those who are without horse or carriage, are walking listlessly along the flagging, or lounging on green seats ranged in front of the leading shops. This is the grand market for matrimony and mischief. Many a fair for tune here has fallen into the man-trap of a fake masts. chio. Many a fickle wife has here first learned to forget her husband. Gaze away and gape away, for nothing more worth looking at is to be teen at Cheltenham If your friend chews not in the High-street between three and six, he is dead or departed for London. By this hour, my simple visiter, you begin to find that which I could have told thee at first, that Cheltenham is in reality a very stupid place. How the deuce it got its good name no one can tell. If people do as I now do, and as you will shortly, it will get a bad one, as it well h:serves. At six o'clock the dinner-bell rings. I will leave you in quiet till your fruit and wine and coffee be dispatched. It is not for want of good matter for ob. ;ervation that I do so. &range things have occurred at the Cheltenham dinner tables; but as I am a friend to rest and good digestion, I will not distract the health or repose of those who, unfortunately for themselves, are unv.ise at these hours. You have three modes of passing the evening offered to you. There is the play, with Colonel Berkeley enacting Shakspeare fiery like a Gen demon, but most unlike an actor; and his brother playing second to him with more of first-rate prem.. sions—or you have the concert and the undress ball at Thomson's Rooms, where the Ladies are desired. to appe it in, promenade costume, and the Gentlemen in more appropriate dancing habiliments. H +d you had the good fortune to have been here last Monday, there was another way of spending the evening. Not being in so much luck, you must wait for another season. Then you shall rejoice in the va riety afforded by the Master of the Ceremonies' Ball. To be sure, there are people enough at Cheltenham willing to pay homage to the master of the maids, and marriageable young women enough to save the credit of him who rules their destinies for the night. Mr. Marshall has excellent materials for his all-perplexing situation. His bow is the right school, and he carries decision in his look. None but a tyrant could wield his sceptre. He does it well in " King Cambyses vein r On Mon day the season nominally ended, by Mr. Marshall's Ball. Soon after nine the ceremonies opened by a country set s but as this is a culinary dance, none of the supreme would condescend to notice it. Quadrilles followed, in which everybody joined. Five parties, containing twelve persons each, inclosed in parterres, secured from the contact of the idle by crimson silken ropes, were set in motion together. The effect was enchanting—the gay dresses of the youthful dancers, the blaze of lights, the murmur of the music, delighted the eye and grati fied the ear. What a pity it is that one cannot be satis fied with those first pleasing impressions. As I went through and examined every set, I soon found that neither eye nor eat can be depended on. Not that all was barren—for instance, in the first quadrille, three bouncing country girls, bluff and ruddy as dairy maids, were happily relieved by the timid motion and quiet 'graces of a gentle creature of seventeen 1 In another, a Scotch lassie flung her feet about, indifferent of bee partner's ankles, but vis-a-vis to her, was a beautiful French maiden, who glided like a fairy form holding sweet cadence with the music. In the next, a Somerset shepherdess, all white but her elbows and ringlets, which glowed in red, or colour thereunto approaching, did all .to combine affectation and vulgarity ; but a stately damsel, of high birth, who endeavoured to frown her neighbour into quiet, qualified the character of their quadrille. A pair of die-away sisters attracted much attention. They looked-and moved as if existence gave them too much trouble. The elder had a stout Hibernian soldier for her partner—the awful flourish of his legs, and the jolly shake of his wrist, seemed quite to disconcert her refinement. The younger was better paired—exquisite was the youth she condescended to smile upon; had she pressed his hand he must have fainted. There were a few Ladies of rank milted up with the dancers, and a few stately swains of quality overlooking their daughters from benches elevated above the quadrilles. How I pitied all their pride—of birth, of education, and of dress—when I noticed, and I saw the approving eyes of aU confirm my judgment, that the palm of beauty and of graceful carriage was due to the daughter of a country inn keeper. In apartments above the hall-room, card tables were set out, and wise heads pondered over the game of whist, while stand.. artily, betters on the point, trembled at the touch of the wrung card about being drawn by the unskilful. The melancholy face of a large backer of a difficult game was irresistibly ludicrous, when he saw the revoke coming from a hand in which every trick was pre viously secured. A group of Laudon Ladies, threescore and up wards, were collected at a 100 table. Their violence attracted every body's notice.—Who takes, Miss?—Not I, indeed, Ma'am.—l have not one pool for the night.-oh, Ma'am, you always win.—Do you play ?=1 play my own hand.—Four player..—You are looet Not I, indeed.—Palm and two aces.—l leo the table—you are all cooed. " Loan save us !" said I, descending to the ball-room, " sob. t will the old Lady say next ?" Soon after twelve, the rooms begau to thin ; and at one, the last fiddler had departed. I have now conducted you, my kind reader, from your Instill% at the Plough to your finish at the Ball, through all that Cliches hani can afford. II you are disappointed, it is not my fault—many is the gay spirit that has been so before you. Blame the scenery writers—the puffers, and the paragraph makers. This I can say in truth, and your experience will confirm it, that In all proper cases the Cheltenham waters will not disappoint the patient. The Earl of ENNISKILLEN is at present confined to his room at Florence Court, by lumbago. Mr. GERARD O'CALLAGHAN, a Gentleman who has lately 44 renounced the errors of the Church of Rome," has come forward as a candidate for the representation of Cork, declaring his determination to support the Con stitution of the realm in Church and State. The Ladies of Bradford have established a Society for providing clothing for the destitute poor durini xtel th t e winter, and a committee and proper officers have appointed for carrying this humane object. into effect. It appears that upwards of 900 families are in extreme wait of clothing. An interesting meeting took place on the 30th ult.at Grebeck, the birth-place of the late James Watt, upon the occasion of appropriating the sum subscribed for a monument to his memory. At this meeting, Mr. James Watt, of Soho, the son of the distinguished individual in question, and Sir Humphrey Davy, were present, and were complimented in very handsome terms by the Chairman, Sr J. Shaw Stewart: they severally ad. dressed the assembled subscribers; and on its being re solved that the fund (1,70314 should be upended on a statue of the deceased by Chantry, Mr. Watt made a present of 2,0001. to build a library for its reception. Monday, a gardener, of Wisbech, for a wager, walked ten miles, with a bushel of potatoes on his back, which he undertook to carry the whole distance without rest ing. He accomplished it in two hours forty minutes. A barber, who is in the habit of stunning his ctn. touters' ears by the rapidity of his teem, asked au individual, the other day. how he wished his boat to he cut? Without saying a sinsie word," repot be. 4 rf ■ ;