Star. — London, England, 1829-10-16 00:00:00

DOVER, Oct. 15: His Grace the Duke Of WELLINGTON arrived at Vatour's Hotel, this day, at 12 o'clock, for the purpose of attend ing the Harbour Sessions, at which his Grace, as Lord Warden of the Chigoe Ports, annually presides. After the business of the day had been gone through, his Grace, with the Commissioners oldie Harbour, together with several military and other Gentlemen, dined at Wasosres Hotel, and in the evening returned to Wal mer Castle. , His Euellency the Right Eton. Sir Cumu.ss &oar, Gen. and Mrs. Mean and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lace, Lk& left Watoist's this day for France. His Glace of Wau.utcrrou was most enthusiastically cheered on leaving the Hotel, by hundreds of the assembled inhabitants. ANOTHER LETTER; SANE DATE. His Racelimey the Bight Honourable Sir CHASM Bacon, his Majesty's Ambassador and Minister PienirSendary to the Court of the Netherlands, embarked this morning at 11 am. oa board the Salamander, Post-office Packet. Captain LTN; for Calais ; attended by a guard of honour of the Rifle Brigade. commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel area. of the Royal Artillery, and a salute of fifteen guns from the garrison heights. The Duke of Wat.thesvox arrived from Weisser Castle this day, precisely at noon, and as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, immediately opened the Harbour Court Session. and presided thereat. _ _ . . _ _ After auditing the annual accounts, and inspecting the new works and hnprovements on the pier. his Grace, and Assistant Commissioners, consisting of Ruses: Tasty Jumbo, Esq. Lieutenant-Governor of Dever Castle, Sir EDWARD Ktueremain.s., Sir Hewer Oxicenou, Bart. Sir Joni, Bamoss, WILLIAM Mute. Esq. and Wu. Hammy; Esq. with the Mayor of Dover, Hauer P. Batman, Esq. the several Magistrates retired to Weantres Hotel, at eve o'clock, to partake of a dinner, which was served up iu ezcellent style. To-morrow, the Dona holds a Court of Landman's; for the regulation of the Cinque Ports Pilots. and after the business of the day, will adjourn to the Antwerp Tavern, agreeable to long usage, to dine with the oMcers of this Court. BRIGHTON, Oct. 14. Lord Jon); TOWNSEND left the King's-road yesterday, on a visit to the Earl of ECINZMONT at Petworth. It is under stood that his Lordship will procee d with the Noble Earl to He refordshire. Major and Mrs. Baceer are arrived. Sir B. and Lady Easy are occupying apartments at the New Styns Hotel. The Royal York Hotel continues full of elegant company. inclu sive of the Marchioness of Downsinaz (Baroness Sastrms), and Lady MART HILL, the Countess of ALDBONOIO3II i SIA. Sir W. WILLIAM* and Mr. Wuxuass, Mrs. Notoon, and Mrs. SYMONDS, were included in its departures this morning, all for the splendid Sea House Hotel at Worthing—the last arrival and departures at which Include Lord Ratenas, Lady Is r uxu.st, Sir B. and Lady Campeau, Sir W. %wows, Dr. V , Mr. and Mrs. BOUM; Capt. and Mrs. BAILIT, Capt. araa, Mr. Baxtres, Capt. BOWATIR, Mr. and Mrs. Bums and ftily, General UPTON, Ste. Worthing continues gay in the expected of a visit for a sojourn of some weeks of the Princess AIIONSTA The last of the series of Subscription Balls at the Old Ship Rooms took plate on Monday evening, and was splendidly attonded. The company included the Countess of Rothe', the Ladies Mary aid Elizabeth Leslie, Lady George and Miss Stuart. the Hon. Mrs. Tenant. Lady Parker. the Chevalier Castillo, the Misses De la Torre, Major Wyndham, Mrs. Webb, Miss Wykebam, Sir B. H. Carew, and the Officers of the 15th Hussars generally. Our Theatrical Corps has received an acquisition in the return of Mr. Nona. Lord Lazo joined the Hunt, for the season. with the Subscrip tion Harriers, at Patcham, on Monday. Five bares were found, and fear killed. Lord GRosvENoR, at the Cheshire Whig Club Din ner, in touching upon what he—feelingly, no doubt— called the " delicate subject" of Parliamentary Reform, is stated to have said that " when any borough should become decayed, or the electors be convicted of a corrupt exercise of their franchise, that borough should be extin guished, and the franchise transferred to some large manufacturing town." What would his Lordship say to beginning with the immaculate boroughs of Shaftesbury and Stockbridge The lawyers are hurrying to town in shoals, heartily tired of a long vacation, which, while it has as usual brought no grist to the mill, has not presented the usual alternations of air and exercise, by way of recruiting for the next campaign. - A Paris paper states that a person suspected of having taken part in the robbery of the Princess of Oaa tic e's jewels, has been arrested at Maestricht. THE PRINCE or Moscow.—lt is with the most sin cere pleasure that we publish the following trait of gene rosity in a young man, who bears a name celebrated in the annals of our military glory. On Saturday last, an English pleasure yacht anchored in our roads, and the owners came to spend the day at Boulogne. During their stay the wind, which was blowing right in shore, had in creased, and the sea had become very rough at the en trance of the port. That, however, did not prevent the young men from attempting to regain the vessel at night fall in a small boat. The danger to which they exposed themselves was so evident, that no one suspected it was their intention to clear the breakers. All who were on the end of the jetty expected to see them perish. Among the spec tators was the Prince de Moscow, who sent to the Captain of the port a 500-franc note for those who should succeed in saving them. One of the pilots, assisted by some sailors, and inspired as much by humanity as the allurement of the promised reward, attempted to go to their succour ; but the sea was terrible and he was obliged to return into port. The Prince then sent 40 francs to these honest fellows, as a recompense for their exertions. Every one believed that the young Englishmen had fallen -victims to their own imprudence. Fortunately, however, it was ascertained, on the following day, that, after having run through the greatest dangers and difficulties in com batting the waves, the little bark and crew were thrown back on the coast of Dannes, near three leagues to the south of Boulogne.—L'Annotateur Boulonnais, Sept. 24. The Countess of Montholon brought an action in the Court of the First Instance at Paris, on the Bth October, to recover part of her property which had been seized by a person of the name of Saunders. It appeared from the statement of the Lady's Counsel, that in consequence of misfortunes into which Count Montholon fell, his wife found herself under the necessity of separating from him. She therefore demanded and received from her husband some property, amounting in the whole to 550,000 francs value, a sum which she brought him as a portion at her, marriage. Among this property were 2,500 books,' which the defendant Sanders, a creditor of the Count's, seized at the residence of Madame Montholon, as pro perty belonging to her husband. The Counsel for the defendant contended, that as the house where the books were seized was the domicile of M. de Montholon, as well as Madame de Montholon , the legal presumption was, that the property there belonged to the husband. The Court annulled the seizure, and condemned the de fendant Sanders to pay the costs. FRENCH CENSORSHIP.•••••TO give one instance of the the Star Chamber' Proceedings of the oligarchical cen sorship, the following fact will suffice:—in the MS. of a play (where the stage-director ordered the scenic repre sentation of a' Village market-place') the following note was inserted in red ink—" Granted, provided there be no church painted therein I" NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS Altlllll2 Tons Day.—Deblin I—Mem:l'llrd i—Flaa den I—France I—Holland 1. The Alliance, Holmes, from London to Newcastle, was driven on shore at Yarmouth on Wednesday, and bilged. The Mat Leeds, from London ; Providence, from London to Spaldin and Lively Increase, from Hull to London. were delved on s near Mundesley on Wednesday. The Elizabeth and Margaret, Reid, from l)antzic to Newcastle, was abandoned near the Dogger Bank on the 9th init. The Mary. from Newfoundland to Bristol, has been found at sea abandoned, and towed into the Bristol Channel. The William Lannour, from Uverpool to Charleston, was on shore near Westaide on Wednesday. The Thomas Fenwiek, and Adriatic, of Leeds ; Margaret, Sur to. Blydon, and Caledonia, or Sunderland , were totally wrecked on ' Wednesday. The following vessels were driven on shore : Barton. Spence; Vine, Hunter; Syron, Cure; Friar, Cooper; Navas, Patterson; Thomas, Gale; Hunter, Dodd; and James, Vim. of Sunderland ; Isis of Newhaven ; and the Phenix, of Shields. Dear., Ocr. N.W.—The Clio, Hopper. front Sierra Leone, bas put back, with loss of anchor and cable. and windlass damaged. The Thomas King has proceeded, and the Isabella — the latter reported to have anchor and cable. Arrived from Lon don, the Jane Young, Cleland. for Honduras. Poonatourn, OCT. 15. Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the Lady Hol land. Snell. for Madras and Calcutta; Duke of Norfolk, Man ning, for St. Kites ; John, Wilkinson. and Elizabeth, Phillips, for Jamaica; Marshal Bennett transport, for Barbadoes; Henry Porcine transport, for Cork ; Bee, Duckpin, for Madeira and the Mauritius; and his Majesty's ship Algerine, for South America. PLTKOUTII, OTT. 14.—Wind N.—Sailed the Seppings. Loader, for Ceylon, and John, Munro, for Berbice. I 'FALMOUTH, Ocr. 14.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—There is a packet off the port, working in. supposed the Marquis of Quernabury, from the Mediterranean. Doves. Ocr, 15.—Arrived the Anlaby, Oriston, from Oporto. Ltvzaronz, Oct. 14.—Arrived the Algonquin, West, from Philadelphia. ScuLv, Oct. 13.—Off the port, the Octavia, Atkin, from Cuba. Baumann, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Muodi, Hawkins, from Bengal. Bummer, Ocr. 15. Arrived the Vora, from Quebec. W ZZZZZZZZ Z OCT. 13.1.1.11Ved the George the Fourth, May, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Om 18. The Hyacinth. 18, is ordered to be commissioned at this port, for foreign service. The Vigilant ketch. Lieut. R. Loney, returned from Ports mouth on Monday afternoon. The Sparrowhawk,lB, Commander T. Gill, on her way to the West Indies, will call at Fernando Po. In Hantoaze—St. Vincent. Kent, Orestes, Pylades, Leveret Royalist, Meteor, steam-vessel. In Baroppol—Undaunted. At the Island—Britomart. Vigilant. Arreurraterrrs.—Captain C. J. Austen. Commander Hon. G. Cavendish, Lieutenants J. T. Warren, G. T. M. Purvis, J. J. kl‘Donnald, R. W. Pilkington W. H. Jervis; Mr. John Camp bell (b) &rams ; Messrs. Benjamin M'Avoy and C. Dickson. Asslstant-Surgeons, to the Winchester; Capt. Lord Colchester, Lieut. Clue. and Mr. Joshua Taylor, Master, to the Vobge ; Lt. J. B. Cragg. to the Semiramis ; Lt. A. 11. Cape!, to the Tal . Paomoirorrs.—Mr. Robert Puny, to be Lieutenant of the Pan dora ; Second Lieutenant Hamilton, of the Royal Marines, to be First Lieutenant of the Chatham Division. Mr. John Runciman is appointed Supernumerary Surgeon , of the Ramillies ; Mr. T. Thompson to be Surgeon of the Pylades ; Mr. W. Mould to be Assistant Surgeon of the St. Vincent ; Mr. Wm. Munro, from Plymouth Hospital, to be Assistant Surgeon of the Pylad es. Mr. Alex. Knox, Autstant-Surgeon of the St. Vincent, is ap pointed to the Kent, vice Mr. J. M'Donald, who is ordered to Fernando Po. His Majesty's ship Dartmouth arrived at .Gibraltar from Tan gier Sept. 17. The Victor was at Isle Verde Aug. 16. The Emulous arrived at Vera Crus from Falmouth Aug. 13, and sailed for Tampico. The Sapphire arrived at Lima 9th April, from Islay, and sailed 6th June. The Mutine arrived at Bowes Ayres from Falmouth 224 July. The Espirgle arrived at Trini dad from Barbadoes Aug. In. The Briton arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Falmouth Aug. I. The brig Rosin'. Weeks, from this Fort for Sunderland, and the galUot Princess, &la, got entangled near Dunkirk, on the Bth inst. and sustained so much damage that the Rosins sunk within the entrance of Dunkirk, and the galilee •to the east of the harbour. Both crews saved. The Mary, Wills, sailed from Newfoundland for Flgueirs. itSth Aug. The William, Broad, arrived at Almeira from this port 12th Sept. The Cygnet. Russell, of this port, arrived at St. Pe tersburgb from Dundee, 224 Sept. The Hope, Howell, from this port, arrived at Memel 21st Sept. The Priscilla, Mitchell, from this port, arrived at Limerick from Quebec 9th inst. The Kers well, Armstrong, of this poet, arrived at Mauritius from the Cape of Good Hope previous to the 3d of June. The New Bideford, Mathewson, and New London. Itadmore, of and from this port, for Prince Edward's Island. were spoken with the 27th of Sept. in Lat. 43 N. Long. 19 W. The Eliza, Edwards, of and from this port, arrived at Faro ISth Sept. The Active, Hayman, of this port, sailed from Denla for Liverpool, 224 Sept. A Liberal Journal, published at Niort, and called La Sentinelle des Deux Sevres, attracted the hostility of the French Ministry, and has at last been suppressed by a threat against its printer, the only one in the town, who has refused to print it for the future. The editor has two Government prosecutions against him. This mode, if it be pursued, will enable M. de la Bourdonnaye to get rid of many of the provincial Journals. PHILOSOPHY OF THE WEATHER.—After a season in which Spring and Autumn can hardly be said to have been separated by the intervention of Summer, Winter appears to hurry on with accelerated strides, and pre pare his icy campaign, long before the time at which we have been accustomed to look for his arrival. Snow fell in France as early as in the month of September ; and letters from Dover inform us that the seventh of the present month exhibited all the appearance of the veriest depth of winter. The morning was dry, but piercingly cold—the wind, towards noon, veered round to the North-east, with heavy rain ; the wind by two P. H. had increased almost to a gale, with sleet, which ended in a confirmed fall of snow. The snow was some inches deep in the keep-yard of Dover Castle, upon Folk stone hill, and in other elevated situations ; and the London coaches, as they came, exhibited the hoary livery of winter, amid the gloom of what, in better years, was rega rded as an autumnal evening. In Ply mouth, on the same day, a flock of starlings was ob served, an occurrence very unusual at so early a period, and one which may be regarded as a sure prog nostic of a severe and early winter. Thursday, the Bth, was cold and boisterous, with the wind veering between N.W. and N. b. E. and blowing quite a gale during the squalls, which were frequent and (about noon) at short intervals. During the squalls hail and sleet fell mingled with the rain, and lay for some time undissolved upon the surrounding heights. In the evening the weather improved, and the wind be came more steady in the N.W. Upon referring to a table of Lunar periods of nineteen years (or the lunar cycle, at the expiration of which the lunar phases return nearly to the same order as at its commence ment, and which Toshio and others conjecture to be accompanied with a recurrence of similar sea sons), we find that the complexion of the present year ought to correspond with that of 1810 ; and that the recurrence of a precisely corresponding year, is not to be expected again before 1848—although an in different year answering in character to 1822, may be looked for in 1841, or twelve years hence. Next year we may expect it to be cold and dry-1831 variable and moist—and 1832 and 1833 warm and dry. Two years more of variable weather, will bring back the seasons cor responding to those fine warm and dry years 1817,1818, and 1819 ; and in the year 1839 we may expect to enter afresh upon a dreary suoccession of years, progressively declining till they attain the full developement of their severity in 1848, the 19th year from the present time, and corresponding with it in its ungenial and disastrous character.—Plystouth Paper. 4 THE MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM• No. I. " Lotd. I beseech you. let me go through Gloucestenhire &Limnos w.g.—Heary IV. p. 2. a. 4. s. 3. As I purpose, touring my sojourn, in this delightful neighbool bond, to devote the little intervals of accidental solitude to the com position of a series of Essays descriptive of the scenes through which I range, and thus endeavour not only to give " a local habitation and a name" to the " airy nothings" of my imagination, but to contribute my humble portion to the intellectual entertainment of the community in which I mingle—au unobserved observer ; it is but -fair that those to whose gratification I desire to minister, and whom I am thus about to make the Weal compa nions of my " petty progresses," should be enabled to form some notion of their dfsmedean associate. I think Demosthenes betrayed the very weakness not of ambitioa, but of vanity, when he 'ma rmot.' that he had taken great pleasure in hearing one of the rabble say. as he past, " That is Demosthenes;" and although there is nothing more ridiculous to me than the " digitor issonstree," yet in a case like the present. I hold it fitting at once to present to my readers a faithful " likeness it, little" of The Mess of Leisnre,.. that should they meet such a personage in their walks they may be Satisfied of my identity,—and extend to me and to my lueu• brations, that courteous and considerate attention which it has been the good fortune of other writers to experience at their bands. Had I been naturally of a melancholy temperament, it is more than probable. ilia I should long since have slept the quiet sleep " and been numbered with the dodo of the valley ; for, what with the ourtows which clouded the morn ing. of my life,—tbe disasters which ruined all the hopes, and laid waste the honorable prospects, of my manhood,—and a certain disappointment of too tender a nature to be that pasoingly referred to, were it not to hint that it consigned me to aWe of • single blessedness'—l could never have endured the buffeting, of Time and Fate,—or ' heard the chimes at midnight,' as they tolled out the fifty-ninth, and welcomed in the sixtieth year of my existence—bad I not been blessed with an imperturbable equani mity, and an alacrity and cheerfulness of spirit, which bore me, if if nut unscathed, at least—' o'er all the ills of life victorious.' I have thus unreservedly contested that I have been in this breathing world upwards of half a century—filling a place, per haps, that might have been much better occupied. And yet, my best years have been spent in active pursuits,—although it has happened with me, as with too many others, that the season of action has left behind it no harvest of profit. I grew old—and I grow grey—(fleaven save the mark! fur it is a mark of rev,- ratter, and a motive unto respect): and were it not that I may safely " thank the Gods they have not made me poetical," I might give some notion of my pers-nal greatness, by adding that I ■m in very truth " fatter than bard beseem•." Fallen as I am into " the sere—the yellow leaf," I now indulge in a sort of autumnal re pose, which, though suited to my years, is still more suited to my temperament. I have long forsworn companionship with the great world ; and I derive my principal source of pleasure from a tranquil contemplation of mankind, and a specula'ive habit of husbanding the resources of my faculties, that I may turn them to account by and by. Alas ! for man—this "by and by" is a species of ion:intuits, a very Will-'o'-th'. Wisp, luring us through the wilds of youth, till we sink into the " slough of despond ;" and then its meteor-gleam is extinguished, and all our gay visions, and our long cherished hopes fade away, and are forgotten in the gloom of age. Poets, indeed, may tell us of " a youth of folly, an old age of Cane—but a sterner reality reminds us that a youth of espectatian is but the prelude to an age of disappoint ment and regret. For my own part, I speak not on this matter from experieuce—witb me the delusion subsided long before it had become familiar to my thoughts ; and as I bad never sapped the foundation of bodily health by riotous ex cesses, nor corrupted the integrity of my mind by seeking lolace under my afflictions In any means of merely temporary alle viation, so do I now find myseU—tbougb treading the down-hill path of life—robust in constitution, my mental vigour unabated, and the whole man in a better condition than many of my fellow travellers to hold on the" even tenor of my way." Thee, then,if my readers should, in their rambles, chance to encounter " a good portly man, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and—bis age some fifty, or, by y'r lady, inclining to three score ✓ ' why, even so, in Falstaff's qualified portrait of himself,—lackey'd by no menial, but followed by a faithful spaniel, the companion of many a long day's pilgrimage—they can have little difficulty in re cognising The Mon ofLenore•—Having so far " dischatged the custom of request," I proceed to a brief detail of the circumstances which recalled my steps after long time and travel, to this must pleasant haunt of early days. In the year 1828, I returned to England after a residence dooms twenty years in a tropic clime, and I had safely set foot on my native shore, when I found that of all whose smile of welcome should have gladdened the wanderer's heart, not one remained to greet my coming. I returned in weahb—l found myself in desola tion; and of what value was the competency I had acquired—and for which I bad forgone the endearments of friendship, and the enjoyments of domestic happiness? Alas! so intimately interwoven are the good and the evil, the joy and the sorrow, the comforts and the miseries of this life, and so baneful are its brightest allurements. that we may exclaim with the poet of the East- 0 In the sandal. trees are serpents; in the waters, lotus-flowers, but crocodiles also ; in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.' I lingered for months and months round " the dwelling of my fathers," and revisited every spot which the recollections of boy hood bad invested with a sacred charm ; but my thoughts were thoughts of sadness—and bittern's' was in my heart. My spirits became depressed by the recurrence of feelings " which do lie too deep for tears," and remembering that there is no better physic for a melancholy man than change of air and variety of place, I resolved " If not to travel and see fashion," at least to traverse the kingdom, and see all that was worth seeing in my native land. I bad for some time, however, been warned by certain unerring symptoms, tbit I had not escaped the debilitating consequences, which, not withstanding their most ♦igilant precautions, all travellers " from thO * White Islands of the West," must he content to incur in their search after affluence in those regions " Where the gorgeous East with rich: at band ' Show'rs oa her kings barbaric pearls and gold." And a medical friend, to whose skill I immediately commended myself, advised me to proceed at once to Cheltenham. As be did so, he spoke with all that confidence which only experience can bestow, or justify, of the surpassing efficacy with which the cele brated mineral waters had been resorted to in many similar eases that had come under his own observation; and he dwelt with almost enthusiastic admiration upon the local beauties of the scenery surrounding the town. " There." said be, "as Johnson has said— "There every bush with Nature's music rings. There every breeze bears health upon its wings; On all thy hours serenity shall smile, A Ed bless thy evening walk and morning toil." And, as be concluded, he laid, I knew not why, a peculiar and somewhat whimsical emphasis upon the closing words—as thongb he intended them to convey " something more than met the ear." —To the consciousness of this temporary malady—fa such I per suade myself it will prove—was superadded the melancholy which in despite of all my philosophy still oppressed me, from the day in which I saw myself alone in the world, and a stranger in the place of my birth ; and feeling with old Burton, that " vuietie of actions, objects, sire, places, are excellent in this infirmitle and all others"—to Cheltenham I came; To see the pleasant fields, the crystal fountains, And take the pleasant air amongst the mountains. To walk, as I pictured in my fancy, amongst gardens, bowers, mouton, skoves, artificial wildernesses, green thickets, arches, ~~i groves, lawns, and such like pleasant places; and to drink, at the clear spring of water, which, like that in Bacon's " New Atlantis," should be called " the water of Paradise. being very sovereigne for health and prolongation of life." had known Cheltenham, as it was, many many years before. —say in very early life—when it appeared like Tonbridge in Ike days of Grammont, " that place of all Europe the most rural and simple, and yet at the same time the mut entertaining and agree able." I had known it, when it was also for the first and only time the residence of the Court—when it was the summer village of all that was fashionable, and aU that was dignified :—and now that every other Watering Place of the kingdom seems to have outlived its own attractions—l found Cheltenham maintaining that popularity, which was first acquired by the healing virtues of its waters, and justifying the remark of a modern traveller,• that " salubrity conduces more to the support of a place than any real advantage."—With re.pect to society, the great characteristics of Tonbridge in that day " When Grammont graced its hagpy springs," are now the distinguishing traits of CHELTINKAII. It is "at the season, the general rendezvous of all the gay and handsome of both sexes. The company though numerous is always select, and the number of those who repair thither for diversion, ever exceeds the number of those who go thither for health. Every thing there breathes mirth and pleasure : constraint is banished ; familiarity is established upon the first acquaintance, and joy and pleasure are thrsole sovereign's:of the place. o "—l have observed, that nothing has a more instantaneous effect upon the melancholy mind. than the sudden development of a grand and picturesque prospect; — and here we have but to ascend the heights which form a VIM amphitheaatre, of which Cheltenham seems the centre. to enjoy—" in rich variety and change of sweetness—fur all change is sweet"—the most luxuriant scenery that imagination c in conceive. From every point of view which the long range art " 111111 l main barrier" presents, the loveliest landscapes may be coutrmpLited— glowing in the brightness of hues which the pencil of Clau :e might imitate, but the pen of the poet would inadequately describe , whilst the fertile charms of the valley are finely contraeted with the majestic boldness of the towering heights which Nature seems t have chosen for the display of her most inagnificent auJ nuts: ten: pored varieties. Such is the tract esf country through which I am about to watt dn, and of which I mean to point out the beauties, to all wit s will deign to accompany me in my peregrinations, or ro peruse the descriptive sketchy of The Mora of Lyre.—Chatenham Jraarnot. Cheltenham. Oetuber sth, 1829. 11i • Sir N. W. Waezet.L. f Memoirs of GILA/MONT, .01. ii. p iti. It should seem that law is not much more cheap " abroad" than it is "at home." It appears from a re port in a foreign journal that the authorities of the city of Strasbourg have just expended the sum of 3,765 francs to recover an original sum of 42 francs. On Friday afternooa, a child El tying with a pioce of lighted paper, at Na. 24, Lisson-place, set its dress on fire, and the flames were communicated to the clothes of two others and an old woman, who ran to its assistance ; in consequence of which they were all seriously injured, and one of the children dangerously so; however, some of the new po:icemen, who were near the spot, conveyed two of the children and the old woman to the Western Hospital, Mitford-place, Bryanston-square, where they were promptly attended to by the surgeons of that institution. On the 31st of March last, a case of libel was tried before the Supreme Court of Calcutta. The plaintiff was the Rev. James Boyce, D.D. and the alleged libel was published in the Bengal Chronicle and Harkaru, of which the defendant was proprietor. It was contained in one of a series of letters, and formed part of a criticism on a volume of sermons published by the plaintiff in 1818. The article in question, among other imputations, charged Dr. Boyce with neglect of his clerical duties, and with being • a hypocrite. Evidence was offered to prove that the defendant had been actuated by ma lice in publishing the criticism alluded to ; and the Court, after some consideration, awarded 800 rupees as damages to the plaintiff. SMALL NOTES.—When the proposition for suppres sing small local bank notes was under consideration, we felt opposed to the measure from a conviction that evil and not good must be the consequence of carrying into effect any legislative enactment which should annihilate the one and two pound notes. We stated at the time our reasons for the opinion which we held on the subject, and we listened attentively to all that was said on the other side, without being convinced thereby ; and we are sorry that subsequent observations on the state of the country since small notes were abolished has influenced our opinions in a manner quite the reverse of proving that the judgment we had formed was erroneous. If the country had been flourishing—if tradesmen's bills had been paid with wonted punctuality—if the working classes had met with full employment at remunerating price:--then we must have acknowledged the in correctness of our former opinions. But when tie reverse has been the case---when almost all descrip tions of persons are crying out---thousands even for bread---what arc we to think ? We seriously believe, the abolishing of small notes has been a chief cause of our present suffering and embarrassment. The suppression bill had every thing about it to render its policy doubtful. It was the act of a timid wavering Minister—it W;;:t passed during the panic, and in a hurried indiseree manner—it was unfair and partial, affecting England and leaving out Scotland. Every advantage to the public, viz. security, might have been obtained more Alec 'Mildly by adopting other means, and leaving the issuing of small notes alone. But the men were bent upon the plea sure, and in an unguarded moment they were allowed to have their way. The worst enemy England ever had could not have devised a more successful plan for check, ing her energies and ruining her prosperity.—SheflieN Iris. 1 CORN-EXCHANGE, MARS-LANE, OCT. Ir. Our market was in a lifeless state th;s morning ; but the few sales effected in fine Wheat were at Alunday's currency. lie supply of Barley b.s been large during the week ; but as the greater part of it is stained. no buyers enuld be found, and the trade was exceedingly dull. Oats were also in nearly the same sloe, yet llonday's prices must be quoted. IMPORTATION* SIMI MONDAT. 7! - J0 4,100 500 Wheat, English (qrs.) . 4,6. A fluky. Foreign Irish • . 70 Oats, English . Foreign . 3.430 Foreign Barley, Fa . 6,630 Irish Irish . . Flour (seeks) • SMITHFIELD MARKET, Orr. 16. CATTLE AT MARKET. Beasts I Sheep and Lambs Beef Ss 44 to 4. 04 Veal Ss Bd to 4.1 84 Mutton Ss lid 4. 44 Pork 4s Od 5s • 0.1 Lamb ........Gs Od Os 04 Hay per load, 4:3 0.. to £50.. Clover £4 lOs to £3 12. Straw E 3 Os. to £2 Ss. 6 ;UV • 9,1:0 COAL MARKET—Tins Day. Flaur-rase One.--The supply of Coal at market to-day, both from Sunderland and Newcastle. was better than on Wednesday last; 59 new ships were at market, making a total on the wetles arrival of 114 ships. The Coal Exchange was well attended by merchants, and Coals caninee to be in very pod demand. Ships arrived during the moot Hest Walbeod Cask .... 595. 6d. 40s. Od Other sorts ... sos Col. 565. od. Sips at Market 1 I r