Star. — London, England, 1826-03-24 00:00:00

THE ARMY: beracliments of recruit. arrived in town on Wednesday from liorwich, for final approval, preparatory to their being ordered to join their respective Corps and Depots. Detachments of recruits also arrived in tarn yesterday from Stamford and Reading, on route to join their repective Depots and Battalions. The Ist Di vision of the 4th (the Kiug s Own) Regiment of Infantry, hay arrived at \Chichester, from Portsmouth. The ;6th (Enniskillen), Regiment of Dragoons is ordered to replatie at Dorchester the 2d (the Queen %) ilegionent of Dragoon Guards, which has been or dered from that station to Manchester and its neighbourhood. The 4th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards, which is to be relieved in I)utilin by the id (Royal North Britain) Regiment of Dragoons:h has received orders, on its arrival in England, to march to Coventry. The 12 th (the Prince of Waks's Royal) Regiment of Lancers, has received orders; on being relieved at Coventry by the 4th 'Regiment of Dragoon Guards, to march to Iloundow, to replace the eth (the Kings Royal Irish) Regiment of Light Dra goons (14ussars) ordered io Brighton. PAYLNIEisIT OF EXCISE DUTIES: ?ROM THE HEREFORD JOURNAL. Our worthy representative, It. Pike, Esq. with his usual attention to the interests of this county and city, has made a successful application to the Lords of the Treasury, for an extension of time in the payment of Excise Duties due in the present week. The.peculiai difficulties attendant on all money transactions since our flanks have been closed, induced Mr. Price, without any solicitation, to submit an appeal, equally honoura ble to himself and beneficial to the parties particularly intereste.i. It was met by the Lords of the Treasury vt ith so obliging an attention, and so prompt a corn ',fiance, as to . superscie the necessity of any further ex lanation ; (COP Y.) " Treasury Chambers, March 111. " Div neat Sia,—l have this day received your letter, upon the very seriuus inconvenience to which many persons It Hereford, and in the neighbourhood, will be exposed, in consequence of the failure of the Hereford Banks, unless some indulgence be shown to. them in the collection of the duties of Excise becoming payable early 14.xt week, and I bare the satisfaction to acquaint you, that the Lords of she 'treasury have given immediate orders to the Board of Excise, to instruct their officers forthwith to afford every facility in the Coilectiim of the duties to those persons who may be suffering under the peculiar circumstances of the times, which may be con sistent with the ultimate safety of the revenue. I ant afraid, how-' ever, that it will not be possible for the Board of Excise to despatch orders by the mail this night, but I trust that circumstance will not ()CC/610U incoareotesce to any of the parries. " I am, my dear Sir, " lours very truly, " T. R. Price, Esq. M.P." J. C. HERRIES. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MARITIME COURTS. The following days are appointed for the Sittings of these Courts during the Faster Term Plan Sr:nu/J.—Court of Arches, Monday, April 10th—Admi ralty, &day, 11 th—Perogative, Wednesday, 12th—Delegates, Thursday, 15th—Consistory, Friday, 14th. St COND SESllol4.—Court of Arches, Saturday, April I.sth—Admi ratty, Tuesday 18th—Prerogasive, Wednesday, 19tk—Delegates, Thursday, 20th—Consistory, Friday, 21st. TLIRD Stsstene.—Courr of Arches, Saturday, April 22d—Admi ralty, Tuesday, tiSth—.Prerogative, Wednesday, 26th—Delegates, Thursday, 47th.—Consistory, Friday, 28th. FOURTH SliSlON—..Court of Arches, Monday, May lst—Admi raky, Tuesday, td—Prerogative, Friday, sth--Delegates,Monday, Bth—Consistury, Tuesday, 9th. Acc 'urns from Augsburgh, of the 15th inst. say, expte,sts despatc.J.ed from Vienna, state, that the pub lic funds have erpeiienced a very great decline; the' Metalliques have fallen to 83i; and Bank Shares to 99.0. This fall had been prepared by the very alarming reports respecting the health of the Emperor Francis, whose situation had become mach wi rse within these few days; but it was immediately produced by the failure of a great j ,bber, M. Apf el, in consequence of which a quantity of stock ha i been thrown on the market. Private letters from Tt irste, of a very late date, speak of a new attack made by lertautst PACRA, with his best troops, on Missolonghi, and declare that the result had been entirely in favour of the defenders of that let oic City. No particulars of the affair, however, had yet heel received. The Plymouth Journal states that the dividend on the estate of Sir WM. ELPORD and Co. Bankers, in that town, will be considerably under 10s. in the pound. it appears by the evidence appended to the Chancery Report, that t'.e property now vested in securities, in the name of the Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery, amounts to upwrds of thirty-nine millions. The Glaszow Chronicle siys, "It is currently reported, t: at one of the persons wirti have volunteered a journey to London, in defence of small bank niter, has sent a letter to Glasgow, stating that he had had an interview With Mr. Huse isson, when he was informed that Minis ters were determined to give the benefit of a metallic currency to every part of the United Kingdom." Yesterday, the Anniversary of the City of London General Pension Society was held at the City of London Tavern. The LORD MAYOR presided, and advocated the interests of the Society, as did Sir RoamtvWusoN; and the company separated, after the routine of toasts had been given. STATE OF MACCLESFIELD.—The distress of this town and neighbourhood continues very great, although it has not mailite.ted itself during the last week in any open act of vi-ilence or insubordination. An unfortu nate man, treorgel.otandes, was committed to our Castle from Macclesfield on Wednesday, on a charge of bur glary, to which it is probable he was impelled by ex treme distress. The detachment of the Enniskillen Dragoons lately stationed in the town were replaced en Saturday by a troop of the -B I ys. Two other troops are stationed at Manchester. The Macclesfield Papers say that there is no prospect of any immediate improve ment in the trade of the town, and that the statement in a Manchester Paper (usually well informed on these matters,) that " of the fifteen thousand person now out of emphiyment in Macclesfield, one-third would be put on again in the course of a few days," is wholly with out foundation. On the contrary, the calls upon indi vidual benevolence and public charity are still as urgent RS ever.—Chester Courant. A fire bloke out :rt;b;ker's shop, occupied by Mr. 4 ;legory, in Golden•lane, this morning, at one o'clock : the shop was totally consumed, and two hou i tes adjoining ghtly damaged. A good supply of water and the •e'ertions of the firemen, prevented further devastation. LIVERVOOL, WEDNESDAY.— Our Colton Market is takrably steady, but prices, if any difference, are in favour of the f!.. 1 / 4 y . e . r. About '2,500 to 5,000 bags sold : tiring the week. THE STOCKTON BA 91C.-10 the report of this case in l'eslerZay's l'aper, towards the close of Mr. Heato's speech, it is *aid Isa4”001. was paid out of the Bart in one day, while only 43`00nf. was paid into it. It should have been," while only 4,90 W. was paid iatu k.'' SMI*IIIFIET.D MARKET, Maacn 24. .Jbere variAti tttt of any moment in our market this day, : I ' d, Tutu n, and V ea l r e maining a s on last market-day. There ; 4 . a :414"at? Wray of lamb in the twat ket, which is good sale at ' ,t;"- C.llves, 145. P bt er one.—Bcasts, 322.; Sheep, 5,640; Pap, 70; Beet, 4s. to 4s. r ..one Itatron, 4s 4d. to Ss. Veal, 5.. totls 64. Pork, ,;*. to 1,,, 1 4, 7.. to 7s. 6d...—Hay, per 10,,d, 44' i. t• CZ ins. to £3 .51. Straw, ‘l.llls. to Al. - YASRIONABLE'INTELLIGENCII, The Countess of Essex entertained a party of fashlotialles yes• terday evening, at her house in Hill -street, Berkeley square. The Eal of Westmoreland entertained Captain and Mrs. Arabia and a distinguished party at dinner yesterday, at his house in Grosvenor square. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left town yesterday, for their seat, Hatfield, for the holidays, The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury left town yesterday, for Hatfield. The Earl of Beshorough has left town, for his seat, Roehampton. Earl Stanhope has left town, for his seat in Kent. Lord Arthur Hill.has left town, for Ireland. Lord and Lady Ellenborough have left town, for their seat at Roebampton. Lord Stowell left town yesterday, for his seat, Erleigh Court, near Reading. _Sir George Rose, M. P. has arrived in town, frora his seat in Hampshire. Lady Warren arrived yesterday at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's -street, from a tour. ' The Rev. Thomas Schrieber has left ditto, for his seat in Essex. Colonel and Lady Elizabeth Steel have arrived at their house in Upper Brook -street, from a tour. Colonkl Ws B. Johnson kft town yesterday, for his seat In Lincolnshire; Mrs. Wedderburn kft Holding's Hotel, Hanover square, yesterday, for Brighton. The Rev. Mr. Hume and the Rev. Mr. pule triived , yesterday at Miller's Hotel, Jermyn.street, from a tour. Departure! from ditto : Mr. and Mrs. Macleod, for Scotland ; Captain Morris, fdr Brighton. Departures from the British Hotel ; Captain Tucker. for Bath; J. Wrottesky, Esq. for Oxford; Captain Reeves, for Brighton. Arrivals at the Brunswick Hotel (late Blake's), Jermyn.street ;, Capt. and Mrs. Hancock, from Cheltenham. Departures; Mr. and blrs. Protheru, Mr. Edward Prothere, and the Misses Waterhouse, for Ilerts; Lieut. Ward, It. N. for Bath. BANK OF ENGLAND. A General Court of Proprietors was held yesterday at the Bank of England, to consider of a diviOend. The GOMINOR announced a half-yearly dividend of four per cent. on the interests and profits to the Sth of April next. Mr. Youno said he would trouble the Court with a few observations, before the putting of the question on the dividend. Though, humble individual as he was, he considerecLthat he had a duty to discharge to the country at large, and to the proprietors in particular. The present state of the affairs of the country required that the proceedings of the Bank, with respect to the plans which it intended to adopt in affording relief, should be made known to the Court. The Director , : should seriously consider the present alarming state of the currency before they acted upon any plan which might have for its object the distribution of the Corn pany's property—(Hear). He avowed himself a member of the old school, and as such he candidly acknowledged that he would prefer having the law of Merchant and Factor remain as it was ; but he under stood that it was not to take effect until October next, as he supposed, at the recommendation of some of his Majesty's Ministers. He did not wish to pry too much into the management of their affairs, yet he considered it necessary to ask a few questions on some important matters, and he did not antici?ate any objections to receiving satisfactory answers from the Directors.— The manufacturing part of the community were taken completely unawares by the ruincus failures which had lately taken place, and whe, from no fault on their own parts, were unable to meet their engagements. It would be wise to give them timely assistance. Those engaged in commerce as welt as the labouring classes, were also unprepared for the violent and sudden change which had taken place. It would be important lo ascertain whether advances were intended to be made in the usual, way, or whether any new principle had been adopted. In either case information ought to be given to the Court and the public. He did indeed hope that it was not intended to make advances upon the old system. He hoped that the advances were not intended to keep up prices, or to favour speculation. The state of the cur rency, he,hoped, would be settled one way or the other, fork was his opinion that the circulating medium would be so scarce as to cause every description of goods to be reduced to half their present value, which should induce the Directors to consider well before they made advances to any great amount. The next question of importance was, whether any further advance was in tended upon mortgages, or whether the former system should be continued? He was induced to put another question, respecting the establishment of 'hutch Banks, and whether the Directors had made up their minds upon the subject? He did not put this question from any selfish or improper motives. He believed that Joint-stock Companies could not be successfully carried into effect ; and he did not offer that opinion from the desite of securing profit to the Company. He was sure that the Proprietors would identify themselves with the well beiag of the community at large. The CHAIRMAN said that the Bank had not yet made advances to stny considerable amount. Several com munications were received from different parts of the country, and advances were made on manufactures and produce generally—not for the purpose of upholding prices, or countenancing speculation. Advances were made to some to the amount of two-thirds of the valu ation of the goods. The goods were then handed over . to a Committee, composed of persons unconnected with business, in such a way as was deemed most adviseable. The goods to be redeemed in three months. Various sums were to be applied to different purposes, and it was deemed adviseable to get personal security for the advances in London. The advances were chiefly made to manufacturers. Mr. YOUAg—To what amount ? The Cl/AIRMAN said a quarter of a million was the utmost. Mr. Youngs asked** the mortgages were to be advanced. The CIIAIIIIIAN said it was a subject for future consideration; but no advance was intended for the present. Mr. Youso—What plan does the Bank intend mi pursue with respect to the branch banks? The CNIAIIIKAN said the Directors *ere so much occupied with other business that they had not time to consider the subject suf ficiently, u it was a matter of too mon importance to be decided are hastily. lkir. You,.. said the period for the expiration of the Charter was so near at hand that it was scarcely worth their while to establish branch banks. The Dividend of Four per cent. was then agreed to, and the Climaxes , announced that the warrants would be ready fur deli very on the ith of April. Mr. Blext.v asked whether it was true that 80,0001. had been laid out by the Bonk in experiments to make their noses inimitable ? The Ciutuunen said no such sum had been expended in that way. Mr. Yuma asked whether his plan to prevent Warrants of Attor. ney from being forged bad been approved of by the Directors? The CUAULMAY mid it was not deemed necessary to resort to any such security. The Directors did not warier it of sufficient importance.--. The Court was then adjourned. We Judge an author by bii worst works while living. and by Mika when dead : the same may be said of skits/et and there are but few persons who will not regret when Lotteries have passed away; for, after all that can be urged against them, there is no other mode by which any one may gain, in a few days, Twenty Thousand Guineas, for the,risk of a niere trifle; and yet, by Act of Parliament, this Door of Hope is now to he closed for ever, as the present Lottery, to be drawn Wednesday, Third of May, is the int but one that can take place in this Kingdom. SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. • The splendid and admirably-constructed galleries of the Society of British Artists were yesterday thrown open to a priitate mew, and notwithstanding the wea• Cher was extremely unfavourable, a great number of fashionable visitors were presen. It has been well observed by a contemporary writer, that if an Englishman were asic d where the Fine Arts were in his country previous to the reign of George 111. he would find a difficulty in giving an answer ; indeed from the decline of the seventeenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, was one continued night of dark ness so far as regarded the Fine Ars. • It was to the patronage of a young and munificent Monarch, his late Majesty, that painting and all its accessories rose into active life, and through the fostering care of his present Majesty and his ever-venerated Sire, the Fine Arts have risen to a lofty—we had almost said—jhe highest eminence. The establishment of the Royal Academy in 1768, under the immediate auspices of his late Majesty, was the first step to the promotion of the Fine Arts. Of late years, a new Society—the British Institution, was established, and it has been of signal service. Excel lent; however,- as both these establishments are, they were not found sufficient to meet the vast increase of works of Art and Artists—the Royal Academy was too small, mid besides it is not a place for the sale of pictures, and to this the Artisits must, in a great mea sure, look. The object of the British Institution is for the sale as well as the exhibitioa of works of are, but the time that it is devoted to the interests of native talent is too limited. On these grounds a third Institution was formed, not in opposition to those already existing (though some persons have erroneously thought so) but to aid the same cause—the advancement of the arts and the encourage ment .1 artists. • Such are the objects of the . Society of BritiskArtists, who erected an extensive range of GA. leries for:" the ♦nnual Exhibition and Sale of the Works of Living Artists of the United Kingdom." ,These galleries were first opened in 1824., and ii the season of that year and 1825, the receipts at the doors exceeded all demands of the expence, while in pur chases and commissions the two exhibitions produced nearly 8,000/. The third exhibition, of which we were yesterday favoured with a private view, displays a most marked improvement and superiority over the two exhibitions that preceded it. In Landscape it is peculiarly rich ; and Glover, Holland, and Linton, never were seen to more glvantage. Noble, who is a promising young artist, has two or three clever pictures in this line. We were particularly pleased with Hofland's Halstead, near Ullswater (No. 14); A Moonlight View (in which he is always very hippy) of Kirkstall Abbey, and also two Views of OrOeld, which are admirible. Glover has several most excellent pictures, In No. 331, a• Sunset, in 238, Valle Crucis Abbey, and in many others, he has shewn how - much real beauty a painter who ballast° and feeling may extract from the commonest scenes. His No. 381, The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, a beautiful compgsition,. is, however, a proof that his talents are by no means confined to l merely familiar subjects. Mattock High Tor, So. 17, by Liston, is in the chaste correct style of that artist, whose greatest effort is in No. 330, 4, City of Ancient Greece—the Return of a victorious Armament. This, picture attracted much notice.. The conception is highly imaginative, and the execution displays consclerable power over all that is requisite in order to excel in this species of composition. The efEct of light and shade is managed in the happiest manner ; the buildings are elegant, and the , colouring perfectly correct. In Marine painting, J. Wilson has a picture (No. 182) reresenting the Morning after a Storm, which is remark ably bold and spirited in its conception and execution; and Cartwright has one picture, No. 170, the Burning of Adiniral Britey's Ship, L'Ursent, at the battle of the ' nrk which will enhance his reputation. The veteran Northcote has a good historical picture, No. 59, the Burial of the Children in the 'Tower; and Richter, Stanfield, Roberts, and Nasmyth, have some very clever pictures in their respective styles. In still life there are some charming pictures ; and the whole exhibition is one which cannot fail of proving highly attractive. Among the Orders of the Day in the Rouse of Com mons, yesterday, was she consideration of the new Insolvent Debtors' Bill, which has passed through a Committee with several amendments. It vill be re membered th 4t the Court Jo? Relief.! Insolvent Debtors was first constituted in 1820; a Court-house was directed to be built in Portugal -street, Lincoln's Inn fields, by the Act of 1822, and the Commissioners were appointed to go Circuits by that of 1824. This Court, having been found of signal utili y, is continued by the' present Act, with some salutary additions to its former functions. Persons confined for contempts by non payment of money, may, like other debtors, petition for their discharge. The Court is not absolutely restrained Erse receiving petitions from persons i not within the walls of a prison, but may, in caw of ill health, or for other specified causes, dispense with the previous con finement. A discretionary power is very properly Oren to the Court to authorise the raising tf money on certain kinds of property by way of mortgage, where an im mediate sale might be prejudicial. The Court also has power to make an equitable order in case of a lease which the assignee declines to accept. The powers of the assignees are more clearly set forth than heretofore; they may make composition for debts, and submit dif ferences to arbitration, with the consent of the majority in value of the creditors, who are to vote according to the balance due to them on an account fairly stated.— Where the insolvent is a beneficed Clergyman, the assignee may obtain a sequestration of the living ; and where he is a naval, military, or civil officer of Govern ment, the Court, on communication with the proper department of Government, may order a part of his. pay or salary to be applied to the use of hit creditors The Act against secret Warrants of Attorne y , is de clared to extend to assignees under this Act : and, on the other hand, the assignees are held strictly to the rendering an early account, and if they wilfully retain money, may be charged twenty per cent. interest on it by the Court. Annuity Creditois are admissible as for sums actually due; and the discharge of a prisoner operates upon these as well as other debts. In the matter' ' or costs, the Court has an equitable power to order them in certain cases to be paid out of the insolvent's estate, and in certain other cases to be paid by a creditor, frivo rowdy and v. xatiously opposing a discharge. These are a few of the most prominent features in an Act, which cannot tail greatly to interest many classes, but more especially the trading part of the community. •NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, UNICE 4:50.-41W BLOND& 4G, Capt. Lord BYRON shrived yesterday from Portsmouth, and cam e i n t o harbour, to be docked and refitted. The Nightingale cutter, Lieut. lErrcurnt, cams, in on Saturday from a cruise, and sailed agate on Tuesday. Ix Hsstoasa—Britannia, Genoa, Windsor Castle, Java, Forte, Success, Came Hon, and Bernard tender. Ix iris Stomp—Galatea and Th►tis. Captain .loins Mmuntam., C.B. is appointed Superintendent of the Quarantine Service at Milford ; and Lieutenants R. Itacret and A. %.'Dosatas are appointed Joint Deputies. HENRY J. Lases, R►y Commander of the HinsaLn yacht. is pro :noted to the rank of Captain; and Lieut. limas' Hors Joust- STOMP, of the RA lemurs, to that of CommanJer. The Fortitude, BERCHAY, fromPlymOuth for Batavia and Penang, arrayed at the Cape of Good Hope £7th December. MAUNDY THURSDAY. Yesterday being Maundy Thursday, it was observed at the King's Chapel Royal, - St. James's Palace, where about 100 of the juvenile branches of the Nobility and Gentry were confirmed by the Bishop of London, as Dean of this Chapel. assisted by the Sub Dean, and the Rev. Mr. Oaxley, his Lordship's Chaplain ; on which occasion his Lordship delivered a suitable address.— The Chapel was extremely crowd-d. The Churcb Ser vice was read by the Rev. Mr. Pack. At his Majesty's Chapel, Whitehall, the ugal annual Royal donations were distributed yesterdayto as many poor men and women as the King is years old, viz. 64 of each. A temporary building had been consituttet at the back of Whitehall chapel for the i.ccasion, which was divided into two compartments, the larger for the re ception of the Maundy men and women. At the ends, seats were prepared for the accommodation of the visi tors, who were admitted by tickets; the smaller room was fitted up with ahelvis, as a store larder, on which were arranged the salt fish, loaves of bread, &c. to be distributed. About eleven o'clock the Maundy people arrived, and were arranged by the attendants, the men at one table, and the women at the other. MORNING SERVICE. The Maundy people being seated, Mr. Hanby, Secre tary to the Lord High Almoner, and Mr. James, Groom, of the Almonry, attended by the Yeomen Guards, with an Usher, ordered the tables to be covered with damask cloths, and supplied eirety man and wo man, with a loaf weighing one pound and a half. .The attendants then placed on both tables a number of wooden dishes, on which were pieces of fine beef, weigh ing three and - three-quarter poonds a piece. At twelve o'clock, the Sub-Almoner, the Rev. Dr. Goodenough. entered the room in bis robes, attended by the Secre tary, and, having inspected the tickets of admittance of the Maundy people, pronounced the following Grace before Meat:— • " peas, ()Loath this Royal Maundy to the use of these thy servants, and dispose their hearts to the praise of thy Holy Name, with gratitude to their Royal benefactor, through Jaws Cyan; our Lord. Amen." The Doctor then inspected the quality of the meat, and, having seen that all were supplied with a piece of beef, said the Grace after Meat— " Graft, 0 Loan, in the hearts of these people, grateful obedience 'to the Royal dispenser of these thy bleisings, and calm them to look up to thee as the Supreme Aothee of every good, through Jesus Camas, our Loss." • The cloths were then removed, and a woolen plater, ae-rich were four loaves, tv o . salt salmon, two salt eodpeighteen salt liVitings, and eighteen red do. was plater before each persbn, which the Sab-Alfnoner in. specte'd. The distributors then produced several leather flagons filled with ale, and a quantity of woo-fen ale. cups, out of which the Sub-Almoner drank to the health of King George the Fourth, which was also drank by the recipients, who shortly afterwards deparfed with their load of provision!.—At two o'clock the recipients reassembled in the interior of the Ch ipel, to receive the remainder of the King's Mauady. AFTERNOON SERVICE. • At three o'clock the Yeoman Usher, followed by 11 Yeomen, in their state dresses, and oae bearing a large gold dish, on which were 128 purses, each purse con taining a sovereign, and small silver pennies as many as the King is years old ; Mr. House, the King's Sergeant of the Vestries; the Sub-Almoner, followed by two girls and two boys from the Westminster National School, selected for their good conduct; the Secretary, and the groom of the Almonry, dc. icc. all wearing white scarfs, and carrying nosegays.—Mr. Cooper played a solemn piece on the procession entering the Chapel. The procession advanced up the aisle; tie Sub-Almoner and two Yeomen took their station w ithin the altar, the Officers and children on seats in front of the organ, and others along the aisle, arc. The appropriate church service for the day was then read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian the Rev. Messrs. Knapp, Barham, and Pack.—Th Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal were Messrs. Gore e Goulden, Melyneaux, and the young gentlemen of the, Chapel Royal. The first Anthem was, Elide not thou thy fate. The Sub-Almoner then distributed to the men shoes and stockings. After which, the second Anthem was sung, Call to remembrance; when woollen and linen cloths were distributed. - The third Anthem, ri Lord, grant the King a long 141.1 Purses of qi9oo, wogs given by the Sub. Almoner to the Maundy men and women. After they had returned to their seats, the Church service was resumed till the fourth "Amiens, Who is this that cometh from Eden? when two prayers, composed for the occasion, were offered. • Then followed the prayer for the King, &c. to the end of the service ; when the o ffi cers of the wine -cellar, Mr. Handy, the secretary, and Mt. Jones, the groom. approached Dr. Goodenough with a very capacious gold cup, containing wine, which they poured into a smaller cup, and presented it to the Doctor, who drank the King's health, which was afterwards drank by the. Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal, and the Almonry Officers. The organist then played tied save the King; after which the Maundy people were supplied with wine to drink the health of his Majesty, out of o.fooden cups, which they were permitted to retain. Sr. BAlllllOl.OlllW's HOSPITAL.—The House Com mittee, pursuant to an order of the General Court of Governors, assembled yesterday in the grand room, to investigate into the charge of Alcock, who had complained that his wife, who lately died in the Hos pital, had been maltreated by the students, af stated in :ome of the Papers. Mr. Viscativ, the principal Sur geon, and Mr. JOSE"H, the Kouse Surgeon, were ex amined, and the Committee, after hearing them, gave their unAnimous opinion that every possible care was 'taken of the deceased, that nothing improper was done in her treatment, and that the charge was utterly groundless. i it 1 II I i a 1 1 a ) , ' 4 f : p 1 • i!ii I 1 I 1 it 1 • , i1 il i '• 1 I • I I . -. I 4 I r. • I I • . 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