Star. — London, England, 1826-06-06 00:00:00

NAVAL IN fELLIGENCE. Fat...tot - Tit 'Jens W.N.W. to N.N.W.—Off the ; t.t.r, the :Nlary, PAULIT, from St. Vincent's. in 49 days;. Aspasia, Mastery, from New York, in ?.3 days, for Ilamburgb ; and the Chios Ts ETNA R, from St. Übe's. PLYatot; Hi, June 4.—Wind N. W.—Off the port, the Montreal, :'HO)1, b o utn Tobago; and Isabella, WiLnnoost, from Demerara. Poarsmourn, Juni N.N. W. —Passed by, the Bom bay, CHIII , IIE, trom China and Batavia, with the Governor, Baron VANDIR ext.t.ax, on board. Sailed the Hope,AsreLL, for London. DIAL, J 1:x s s.—Wind N.H.— Arrived and sailed for the River, the Ann, FortniaN ; Demerara Packet, Dzw ; and Melville Wat •on, Puttnr, fruit Jamaica ; Sarah Ward, Moult, from St. Vin- 1 cent's; John Caws, VT iti.mus, from Cape (oast - Castle; Emma, Hero, front Leghorn; and an Austrian ship, under Portuguese colours, from Triestr. Sailed the &deo, Nausea:, and Jamaica, tquaioN, for Antigua. cusTom. HOUSE, JuNt 5. SIMI ENTERED INWA Ra...4hr' Bride, from Trieste; fly, Rom Guernsey ; Mitford, from Mogadore; Four Brothers, front Wells; P r i nce ~; Coburg, from Tobago; Caroline, from Lisbon ; Heros, t, C.l;eliS ; M.-lanai°. from Waterford ; Mary, from Limerick; ::vtrepitl, front Wexford ; and Turtle Dove, front Youghall. Esrtatn OUTWA Abundance, for Guernsey; Cubajor Lucia; Courier, for Zelfast ; and Artuose, fur Newry. Yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock, a meeting of eon* ot the Cabinet Ministers and official Gentlemen was held at the Earl of lavearooes house, in Whitehall.. Among those pre •c nt were—the Duke of WELLINcTorI. the CHANCELLOR of the Ex minutia, Mr. Secretary CANNING, tole. 11USKISSON, Earl BATHTTRST ! Sir cuAaLts LON., Mr. AISETHRWE, &c. The meeting continued in deliberation till about one o'clock. Yeaterday the Duke o ‘VtLi.triolo4 and Mr. Hus- X,W11041 transacted business at the Foreign Ofice. The Duke of Yonz left his residence in 5-ith Atiley street, oo Saturday afternoon, fur the seat of the Process AUGUSTA .tt Fenimore. The Princess AUGUSTA hollowed the Italian Opera mine with her presence on Saturday evening. The Marquis of LANSDOWN is confi:led with a severe fit of the goer, at Lansdawn-house, Berkeley-square. 'said ROLLE arrived at his seat, IJicton, on Thursday, Lnd left on Friday for Stevensrone. Sunday week, the Rev. Dr. JOHN BULL read himself into the Canonry and Prebendal stall of Fenton, in York Cathedral. Ti uisday se'ttnight a meeting took place at Mount Collins, on the borders of this county, not far from Abbeyfeale, between Earwax. G mem and J. Mweexamr, Esqrs. The former attended by C. Cottnis. Esq. and the latter by Rosalie ROCHE, Esq. when, after an exchange of shots, the matter in dispute was happily a ljusted,and the parties left the grbund reconciled.—CorkCortstiturion Hay is now making near Limerick, and upwards of .20 acres of fine meadow are nearly cut down at Mount Shannon, the seat of the Earl of Cr.aaa, in that county. The franking privilege of Peers of Parliament for sending and receiving letters free from postage will recommence in and from the 15th inSt. and that of Members of the House of Commons front the date of their election, subsequent to that period. TIIE New PEERAGE AND IiARONETAGE.—It roust lie acknowledged that a great service has been rendered to the Upper Classes, and all persons connected with them, by the pub lication of House's PEERAGR AND BAROSITAGR DICTIONARY; by a irftrence to which the present state and geneology of any distin guished family may be ascertained at a glance. The Erontiner, in 'peaking of this convenient Manual, says, " The Work which Mr. aturke has just given to the public is equally well planned and well executed. The author justly observes, in his preface, that the Lrand object in a work of reference is the facility afforded to the ader ot finding any information he may want. Mr. Burke's ar angement is excellently adapted to this purpose. Great ability is els° shown in the condensation of all the requisite matter into one :hick volume, which, owing to the clear and beautiful mode of tinting and engraving, is justly entitled to be called a cheap one, ot only in comparison with the tedious and expensive works on he same subject, but in reference to the quantity of reading it .ontains, and the superior style of its execution." Private letters from Lisbon of the 17th of May, state t it at the arrival of the Newton, which brought dispatches Sir CHARLES STUART to Sir W. A'Couer, has produced an extraordinary activity in the courier de. partment between Lisbon and London. The commer ,ial letters from Bahia affirm that the Emperor intends 10 return to Portugal. The Brazilian Government has liven orders to transmit 60,0001. to England to dis :barge the dividends on the Loan. The execution of this order has been entrusted by the Emperor to the Authorities of the Province of Maragnon, and it is sup posed that the value will be remitted in cotton. We have received from Guatemala a file of papers to the middle of February. The only incident of general !merest which we find in them, is the introduction to the President of Guatemala of Colonel Quartell, Com iniAion,r Irons ihe King cf the Netherlands, for the limp se of establishing commercial relations between the two countries. The Commissioner, in his address to tl,e President, informed him of the desire entertained by his master to form reciprocal relations of friendship and commerce with each of the countries which have lately established their independence in America, and offered to admit the flag of Guatemala into the ports of I folland, on the same ter ms as Dutch vessels should be trJnritted into the ports of the " Republic of Central Ametica." Colonel Quarrel further congratulated the Pesident on the wise and liberal dispositions made by the Government for the internal improvement of the s.ountry, from which he t entertained no doubt that great good wo u ld tesu l t . Colonel Quince' has been etn ',toyed by his Government more than two years in similar missions to the other new states of America, •ind is said to have entered into some very beneficial .titangements for extending the trade of his conntry. Saturday se'nnight, Jokr. IVl.Uraddy, who was con c'.-coned at the last Stirling Circuit, for robbing the manse of Muiravonside, und'erwent tie sentence of the !aw in front of the gaol there. Since Pe received sett. ~..!nce he has displayed a spirit becoming his awful situa .,on ; and at the scaff ill his behaviour was very firm. ;tie person who officiated as executioner wore a crape 'Too dvs face, and appeared not to have been the ordi- I.ar y executioner.—Seattle Peeper. A linen-manufacturer, in Barnsley, has lately been under the necessity of renting an additional warehouse, • or the purpose of storing the goods which he has been inufacturing for some time. L. t!erS from New Yurk, of the 30th April, received • t Havre, contain accounts of a most destructive fire in :re former city. The loss in houses and property is rs:iemited at 250,000 dollars. his stated to have broken out in the Exchange-buildings. A vessel recently arrived in the river from Bengal vas about to sail from Calcutta to China, with a sego of 7,( 00 bags of cotton, but intelligence arriving pi the high price that article had attained here, the ttairse of L.., vessel WAS changed for England. She :eathed the Thames under prices so different of the article that the owners sustain a loss of nearly 01;(1. rtn the single cargo! Pit ICES OF SEATS AT CORONATIONS.—Ed ward I. half fa:-; 'Ong ; Edward 11. a farthing ; Edward 111. a halfpenny; :.ezhard 11. a penny ; Henry IV. ditto ; Henry V. twopence ; 1 loiry I'l. ditto ; Edward 1 V. ditto; Richard l 1 I. ditto; Henry VII. ditto; Henry VIII. fourpence ; EdWard VI. ditto; ..iary, ditto ; Elizabeth, sixpence ; James 1. one shilling ; Charles I. ditto; Charles 11. half a crown ; James 11. ditto; and .wne, ditto; George I. five shillings ; George I I. half a guinea; t wage I 11. in the Abbey, ten guineas ; George 111. in the street, ...:e to ten guineas; George IV. in the street, one to 20 guineas. FRENCH THREE i'eit CENT. STOCK.—TiIe half ..l-1y Dividend of the French Three per ceut. Certificates. falling ..c on the tad June, will be raid on that and every succeeding at the Counting House of Mr. N. Itoenscurno, free in 110N1 URAS KIINT STOCK COMPANY. A fleeting of the Shareholders of this Company took place yes: terday, at llatson's Cuffec-house, Cornhill. Mr. W. CLANK, the' Coatrman, stated, that 8,810 Shares had been issued on the 12th of April, 1825, of which 4.025 had been repurchased by . the Directors be fore the 15th July, at a loss to tha Company of 5.2L01.• It also appeared that a shipment of indigo from Hon duras had cost the concern 12,066/. and was sold in this country for 7,4721. and that of 46,3901. the original capital orthe Company, not more than 5,760/. was now available to the Shareholder!. It Was consequently resolved, that the plan of the Honduras Company was an abortive scheme, and that the parties who promoted it should be held responsible for the whole attriunt of the deposits: and that the Meeting declined to recognise the accounts and pro ceedings of the self-elected Directors and Ts ustees. TASHIuNABLE INTELLIGENCE. ---....w...-- PARTIES. The Duke of Beaufort entertained --- ; distinguished party at din ner yeAerday, at his house in Grosvenor square. The Earl of Aberdeen had a grand dinnerjarty yesterday, at his house in Argyll str ee t. Lord Carrington entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Sunday, at his house, Whitehall, among whom were—The F.arl and Countess of Kenmare ) Lord and Lady G. Sonosset, Sir N. Campbell, R W. Hay, Esq. Mr Le Marchant, &c. The following distinguished personages h-1 dinner parties yes. terday— Lord Saltoun, Cumberland street - Hun. Mr. Koppel, Pall Mall; Right Hon. W. Huskisson, Somerset place. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Rot-ingm terminated their delightful petite soirees lot the season on Wednesday evening, which have been regularly continued every other Wednesday since January. MOVEMENTS. Lord Brudenell arrived yesterday at his seat at Chiswick, from Northamptonshire. Colonel and Mrs. Tynte left town yesterday, for their seat, Hslswell House, Soniersetsbire. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Tynte left town yesterday, for Brighton. Dr. and Mrs. Clarke left the London Hotel, Albemarle street, yesterday, for Windsor. J. Allen, Esq. lyft town yesterday, for his seat, South Wales. Lord and Lady Anson left town yesterday, for Brighton. Lady Bloomfield left town yesterday, for Bromley, Kent. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith left town yesterday, for their father's (Lord Carrington's) seat, Wycombe Abbey, Bucks. Walker Druhunund, Esq. left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn. street, yesterday, for his seat in Scotland. The lion. Mr. Kenyon arrived yesterday at Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, from his seat near Shrewsbury. Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's street—Messrs. R. Harrison, G. A. Pratt, and J. Bourne, from Liverpool; Mr G. Swan; Mr J. Vivian, from Wales; Mr Tupper, from a tour. Departures—Mr A. French, fur Dublin; Colonel Knox, on a tour; and Mr Guest, for Wales. Arrivals at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook street—The Countess of Mansfield, from Richmond; Mrs. Rubinson, from Sussex; Dr. and Mrs. Chatfield, and Pinney, Esq. front Cambridge shire. Departures—J. Heywood, Esq. and bliss Heywood, fur Warwickshire; Sir J. and Lady Sitwell and family, for North amptonshire. _ _ _ Arrivals yesterday at Fenton's New Hotel, St. Janses's•street— Robert N'ansittart, Esq. from his seat in Berks; Messrs Creighton, from a tour. Mr and Mrs James Taylor have arrived at Jordon's Hotel, from their seat near Birmingham. The Bishop of Winchester arrived In town en Saturday, from Farnham Castle. Surrey. Arrivals at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook street—Earl Slain, from Paris; the Rev. Mr and Mrs Cullum and family, froni the Continent ; Miss Townley, from a tour ; Charles Hesketh, Esq. Maddox, Esq. and Thomas Chetwood, Esq. frum a tour. Departures--Sir Thomas and Lady Hanmer, for their seat in Shropshire; Mr and Mrs lisanquet, for their seat in Hens. Mims/rm.—A young Gentleman, C. H. left his house in Fetter-lane yesterday ; he is 16 years of age, of a fair complexion, light hair, and blue eyes, rather slender in person, and about five feet eight inches high. Had, on a puce-coloured coat, black pAntaloons, light marstlla waistcoat, pink and white chequered neckcloth, and Wellington boots. Should this meet his eye, he is requested immediately to return to his disconsolate friends; and any information respecting him sent to N 0.5, Fetter-lane, will be gratefully received. If the person who yesterday took a receipt signed by Hessrs. Gaut - swoon and Co. to E. CHIPPINDALE, Esq. Crane court, will call on that Gentleman, he will confer a par ticular favoor. The late Lord INGISTRIE had been traeellin4 on the Continent for nearly two years; and was, at the time when he met the lamentable accident which terminated his existence, riding on horseback 'in what is called the Park, in the neighbourhood of Vienna. Passing under a tree, his Lordship's hat was caught by a bough, and falling upon the spirited animal which carried him ter rified the creature so much as to cause him to start off at full speed, nor did he stop until he had plunged him. self and his noble rider into a pit or quagmire, in which they were both suffocated! His Lordship was in the 24th year of his age. The Wtritehaven Yarn gives a few further particulars respecting the elopement of Miss L—y-11, of the Isle of Man, with L'eut. and Adjutant Edwards, of thefBOth Foot, noticed a few days ago. The Lady's papa was very hostile to the union, and had spared no pains m prevent the elopement ; yet, notwithstanding his vigi lance, the son of Mars out-manaruvred him, and having obtained the attire of a Manx peasant, he completely metamorphosed his intended bride at a cottage near the shore, and succeeded in getting her safe on board an open boat, in which, after encountering a stormy easterly breeze, they landed at Fleswick, near IVhitehaven, very much fatigued with the passage. After they had par taken of some refreshment at Mr. Cragg's, at Tarnflat, they were conveyed to the Black Lion Inn, WhiteSaven, where they dined, and suitable apparel for the Lidy having been procured, they set off for Annan. Patrick Maus, aged 13, late of St. George's-fields, Mantlester, labourer, has been committed to Lancas ter Castle, charged with manslaughter, in feloniously killing and slaying Ann Bryan, aged 11, by striking her with an iron poker. Yesterday, the London Western Literary an.' Scien tific Society held its General Halt-pearly Meeting at the King's Theatre. Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND, the Chairman, after noticing the duties of the Chair, directed the Secretary to read the minutes of all former meetings of the Society up to the present time. The Secretary I then read the Report, which stated the commencement, progress, and transactions of the Society. It appeared from the Report, that a prospectus had been issued for the purposes of establishing a Literary Society in the western parts of the Metropolis, and that each member should pay V. annually. The rooms of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk-street had been let to the Literary Society, and within the five months that it had been established, 826 members had entered. The ac counts of the Society were very favourable; for ai•er an expenditure of 6471. 10s. Bd. tare Mill remained in the banker's hands a balance of 5081 1 ls. 41. The Secretary, after reading a list of donat , ons of money and books, sat down. The deport was agreed to unanimously. Mr. BIITLESTON then moved several amendments in the rules of the Society, a+ hich were 6 4greed to. DE ITH OF CARL M. VON WEBER. M. Von Weber, the distinguished composer Der Freischiitz, Euryanthe, Oberon, and other mirsicAl: works of the first order, died yesterday mormng at she house of Sir George Smart, in Great Portland street, where he has resided since his arrival from the Continent. The event tray be termed sudden, since no immediate danger was r hendtd on Sunday night by his medical at• tendan,s; but it was foreseen that his decease could not be far distant, and all hope of his return to his country had long been abandoned on the part of his friends.— His complaint was a pulmonary affection of long stand ing. His age, we understand, was only g 9; and thus M.VonWeber, who undoubtedly was one of the greatest musicians that has existed since Mozart, hits, like him, been taken from that profession to which he was an ornament before he could be said, in point of age, to have attained the full maturity of his genius. The motoms of his disor!er had not assumed a form in any mater ial degree alarming otml Frid , y last, when M. Von \Veber was compelled to keep his room, but his spirits and his appetite were good, and he enter tained no sense whatever of his approaching danger.— Tare only change remarked in him wilsin the last few days was an increasing anxiety to return to hi • own country. His friends, of course, studied to diver. him from an idea they foresaw could never be realized, but all direct opposition only tended to create in him great uneasin es s, an d hi s m i n d grew ' cheerful in proportion as he conceived the various 4bstacles that presented themselves were capable of being surmounted. A friend and countryman who ,Isaid him constant attention, supped wiih him, and left im at .tleven o'cluck on the night before his death, apparently cheerful, and in 140 immediate danger. He was found in a lifeless state at seven o'clock yesterday molting; and though medical aid was promptly resorted to, it was toe late, the vital spark being quite extinct. M. Von Weber gave a concert so recently as the 16th ult. at the Argyli Rooms, at which he presided, and gratified the audience by several new compositions of extraordinary merit. One of the mast remarkable among them was a song from Latta Rooktr, composed expressly for Miss Stephens, and which was accompa nied by M. Von Weber himself on the pianoforte.— The following are the words to which this composition was adapted : From Chindara's warbling fount I come, Cali'd by that moon.light garland's spell; From Chindara's fount, my fairy home, Where in music, morn and night, I dwell. Where lutes in the air are heard about, And voices are singing the whole day long, And every sigh the heart breathes out Is turn'd, as it leaves the lips, to song I Hither I come From my fait y home, And if there's a magic in Music's strain, I swear by the breath Of that moonlight wreath, Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly ! And the paasiunate strain that, deeply going, Defines the bosom it trembles through, • As the musk-wind over the waters blowing, Runts the waves, but sweetens it too! So, hither I come From my fairy home, Alai if there's a magic in Music s strain, I swear by the breath Of that moon-light wreath, • Thy tom shall sigh at thy feet again. Only the melody of this song, we understand, has yet been committed to paper. The composer when it was performed supplied the accompaniments from recollec tion of what had been his own design; but the short in terval allowed him previous to the concert has prevented their being preserved in any shape; and it may perhaps become a problem among the great musicians of the present day how that can be best filled up which M. Von Weber has left unfinished. His anxiety to do justice to any subject on which he was engaged may be evident by the fact, that before he would engage in the composition of the song above quoted, he insisted on reading the whole.poem, which be had not seen before. He was impressed by its perusal with the highest admi ration of Mr. Moore, and expressed a very strong desire to be introduced to him. The opera of Der Freischar, with all the original music, was to have been performed yesterday evening at Covent• Garden Theatre, lot the benefit and under the superintendence of the composer, bit his increasing indisposition, which prevented his attendance, caused the postponement of the performance. His family will not of course lose the advantage, but father, by the increased sympathy of the public with their misfortune, lave it MCUC than doubled to them on the first occasion the managers of the Theatre may offer. -81.'Von Weber, previous to his arrival in this coun try, resided at Dresden, where he occupied the post of Maestro di Cappella to the King of Saxony, in whose Court lie was heW in the greatest estimation. Indeed, in all parts of Germany he is spoken of with enthu siasm, as a musical genius of the first order. His opera of Der Freischutz, though not superior to many others of his composition, has attr acted the most univer sal attention, and its popularity in this counts y first led to the idea of an invit ttion to M. Von Weber to visit Eng tand, and to compose an opera for the English stage. This lengagement he fulfilled by the pioduction of Oberon, Iwhicni he has only survived a few weeks, and which, as it has been the last, will probably be ranked hereifter as the finest of his dramatic compositions. The state of M. Von Weber's health, which tendered him peculiarly sus ceptible of the variations in the weather of an English spring, has prevented his being a very frequent visitor in the fashionable circles; and he possessed, perhaps, too powerful a consciousness of real merit to descend to those little arts by which popularity is to be secured within th. 3 range. We' understand that several seem bets of the musical profession have already intimated fa desire to pay every possible zespect to the remains off a man who may be truly said to have advanced and done honour to the art ; and when the loss it has now sustained becomes more generally known, it cannot be' doub:ed that the same disposition will manifest itself more extensively. M. Von Weber, we hear, has left a wife and two children, but who did not accompany turn on his journey t s England. Carl Maria Von Weber was born in 1786, at Eutin, a small town in Holstein. Ilis father gave him a liberal education, and in thi. he was assisted by his sin's very early predilection for the fine arts, particularly paint ing and music. The first regular instruction he received on the piano forte, the in.tiumcnt on which he ga;ned such a high Le e utation a, a player, was from Heuschkel, at Hild burgnaJsen, in 1796, and it iv to this learned master that Weber owed his ennigy, distinctness, and execu tion. The mote his father perceived the giadeal de- Lirelopment taltots, the more . anzleas i lso was to I - sacrifice evirrthing to their cuitivntion; be therefore took his son to the Michael Haydn, at S•lenrig. Owing to the austere manners of this master, young Weber profited hut little by his instructi ins, though he made great exertions to learn. . In 1798, be published his fi , st wog k, S . x Fußsset, in four pails, which are remarkable-for their pinny and correctness, and received the praise of the Altfsikalische %tilting. At the end of that year, Weber went to . Monich, whete hew as taught singing by Valesi, and comp,si [ion, as well as tie piano, by Katcher. To him he was indebted for a full knowledge of the theory of music, and for a skilful and ready ust all the means it f ut nishes to the compmer. Weber was'now more inde fatigable in his studies than ever, and began to apply himself to one particular branch of the art, id prefer-t.ce to the rest—to operatic music. Under the eves of his master, he wrote an opera, Die ilfacht.der tie& and des Weins (the Power of Love and Wine), a Mass, and teve tal other pieces; but all these were judiciously corn. milted to the Haines. • In 1803 be went to Vienna, where he fini hed his musical education, under Vogler. He was tubrquentle called to Bre s lau, in the character of Maestro di Capella. As he had to form here an ent rely n.:w oich,stta, and co•ps c.f singers, he was furnish:d with.a v.ry favour able opportunity ti improve himself in the knowledge of effect. The only work of c tnsequence doling his 9.ltsian visit, was the opera of ituitezahli i. e, Number Nip, of which the ill-tamed mountain ghost has fur nished the subject. From 1813 to 1816, Weber was Director of the Opera at Prague, which he organized quite ac ew, and a rJ:e here his great Cant eta, Kanyfund Sieg, a rno.t imposing comno.ition. Atter the object of his visit to Fugue was fulfilled, he once more ['aliened, without any permanent appointment. Though he received the most handsome offers horn all flans of Germany, he did not accept of any, until he was called to Dresden, for the purpose of forming there a German lipera. Such an invitation he could not resist, and it is to thi. o, , era that he for six years devoted, con arnve, his whole attention and activity. It is pleasing to observe, that his labours in this de. pat talent were not only crowned with complete success, but received the most fiatteting acknowledgment. It would, indeed, have been difficult to find a man mote fit for such an undertaking than Weber, who united so many splendid talents ! He was a eery migiaal and learned composer, one of the greatest pi.srrofot to players of the present day, and an extremely spirited director of the orchestra. To these he added a thorough know ledge of the whole theory of music, of dramatic and operatic effect, and the greatest skill in blending the vatiJus instruments. Besides which, he was pethaio not excelled by any artist, except by Beethoven, as a man of general knowledge and polite literature. His Freischutx has elevated him, as an opera comp ser, above all bis German contemporaries : since Muz ot'S Zaubeulote, no other German opera has become so po pular, or received such universal applause. The circumstances attendant upon Von Weber's vi it to this country, the performance of his (Amu, and his reception by all classes in the musical world, ate so re cent in the recollection of our readers, that it is mine rcessary to derail them in thin memoir; but the sincere welcome he experienced in this melt °polls, during his short residence here, can only be equalled by the :vet that his premature death has occasios SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM TATTERSALL'S, Jeer & The Room and Yard exhibited the usual throng, the sale of horses being very heavy. The attendance of the Nobility and ether supporters of the Turf was strong; but, on the whole, the bus.i.eso was rather nat. Before entering upon the business of the day, it may not be amiss to notice, that an account *as stuck tap, that neither Monarch for the MO sot. Stakes for colts, nor Pasta fur the ISO *iv. lily Stakes, would start to-morrow (this day) at Ascot. This plan is highly commendable; and if it bad beam adopted before the Derby had been run for, muck confusion i might have been pre vented. We hope it may be persevered in. The affair of the General was slightly touched on, and it seemed to be the current opinion, that the decision of the Jockey Club Committee entirely exonerated all those who had been supposed to be implicated, the accusing party having railed to substantiate the reports so industriously circulated. Te General has again changed his master, having been pur chased by a sporting Gentleman, who, it was said, was determined to start him to-morrow at Ascot, in the £O5 ores. Stakes for colts, and he was backed at even against the field ; but just before closing the doors 5t04,p. p. was offered against him. It is now asserted, that be is sure to start for the St. Leger, and 15 to 1 was taken. The following is a correct statement of the odds upon the Ascot Stakes and the St. Leger :-205 sous. Stakes, Ascot.—Even as The Gtneral against the field, p. p. no takers. 'The Oatlands—Ascot.-6 to 4 apt Stumps; 2 to I apt Lee way; to 1 apt Mortgige. The Gold Cup—Ascot.--Even on Chateau Alargaex (Addy,. DOKCASI3II Sr. lanai 4 to 1 agst Belzoni I 23 to 1 wit Fanny S co 1 agst Bedlamite 20 to 1 agst Pirate 11 to 1 apt The Dragon 1 25t0 1 agst blacAdam 14 to 1 agit Crusader 30 to 1 apt l'retnier 1$ to 1 agst The General PIGEON S LOOTING. GRAND MAUD NOR 690 Soeramoms.--The first day of the inter. eating match for the above sum, at 200 birds each, or 50 per day, between Lord Kennedy and Mr. Arrowsmith, took place yester. day, at the enclosure near the Red House, Battersea, in the pre. sence of a great number of sporting Gentlemen. 'The betting was 5 to 4 at starting, on Arrowsmith, and 5 to 2 and 3 to 1 on tho gun, throughout. In the first 25 birds, Mr. A. ►illed 20, and Lord K. 11; in the second 25, Mr. A. killed 20, and Lord K. 19; total, 40 and 37, Arrowsmith being three a•bead on the day. Lord Kennedy's-shooting was remarkably line, and attracted the admi. ration of all the amateurs present, who also approved more of bis Lordship's mode of shooting than Mr. Arrowsmith's, the litter shouldering before the string was pulled (according to agreement) and his Lordship not till after the bird was out of the trap, giving a decisive advantage to Mr. Arruwsmith. Two of his Lordship's missed birds fell within a foot or two of the netting. The match is to be concluded this day. A match of seven double shots each, between Dlr. Shoobridge and another Gentleman, ended in a tie, each killing both birds in 4 of the shots, and 1 in the other three ; and each killing the two lag birds by the discharge of a single barrel only. Two persons were executed in March last at the HA. vannah who bad landed in that Island, and endeavouici to raise a party there in favour of the Colombians. Thomas Monk, driver of the Usti .n stage-conb, to and from Brighton and London, was taken into cus toiy from the box of his carriage, at Crawley-gate, on Tuesda k y, and subsequently g o otreyed to the gaol at Horsham, charged with having violieed the let son of a el entrusted to his protection a few days the Russian sloop of war Enterprizt, Captain KOT• ZEBLIE, has been spoken with in the Indian sex,, a:1 well, ifter being out two _years and nine months, on a voyage of discovery. The recent popular Novels, " Btanibletye and" Woodstock," the scenes of which are laid during the times .of the Commonwealth and the Restoration, exhibit, cutiouly enough, the effect which party opinion has had Gil the respective writers. Sir WALTRa enlists the sympathies of the reader in the lofty cause of the Royalists, and seizes every opportunity to gird at ' the " crop-eared fanatics;" while, on the other hand, Mr. flimsy' SMITH exposes the debaucheries of COMILkS and his Court, and inverts cßostwsz.i. and the &Toldleans in all the dignity of ries r mounts,.