Star. — London, England, 1830-08-23 00:00:00

COURT INTELLIGENCE. The Queen generally takes an airing every afternoon, ra d is usually accompanied by the tw•o young Princes of Cumberland ! ,1 d Cambridge. The Furl of Aberdeen and the Chancellor of the Exche :ccr visited the Duke of Wellington on Saturday, at the Treasury . General Baudrand, sent on a mission by the King of the cinch, arrived in town on Saturday afternoon. The General proceeded t the Foreign Office, and paid a visit to the Earl of Aberdeen, from :II Axe to the residence of the Duke of Wellington in Downing -street, il afterwards to the Colonial Office, where the General had an inter vew with Sir George M urray. _ _ _ Yesterday morning the Queen and the members of the Royal Family walked from Windsor Castle to St. George's Chapel, to a tend divine service. Her Majesty walked with the Duke of Glocester f. Bowed by the Duke of Cambridge. The Royal party were attended b v the principal members of the household. The musical service was 1 ravers in F. and the anthem was, " I was glad." Purcell. The 1 can of the Chapel preached the sermon. The Royal party returned on t rot to the Castle. Saturday being his Majesty's birthday, the King and 2ueen gave a splendid banquet in St. George's Flail, Windsor Castle, t u the different members of the Royal Family and a select party. The superb service of gold plate was displayed on the occasion. The morn. ing was early announced by a discharge of artillery belonging to the .crporation, and the ringing of the Castle and parish church bells. Slat Ales, each 14 yards long, were laid out on the greensward. on the north side of the Long Walk, at one o'clock, when about 3,000 people sat down to dinner. After the repast was ended, the healths of the King and Queen were drunk amidst great cheering. At two o'clock their Majesties, accompanied by the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Cambridge. the Princess Augusta, the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, Prince George of Cumberland, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Leopold, and a numerous suite, occupy ing 12 carriages, each with outriders, came from the Castle, to view the festivities. On arriving at the beginning of the tables, the King alighted, and walked by the side to the end, when he entered his carriage, and the cavalcade proceeded. At one o'clock the Foot Guards fired a jets de joie in the Little Park, and the sth Dragoons did the same at the horse barracks. In the evening the town was generally and splendidly illuminated. There was also a display of fire-works. Saturday night the metropolis, from one end to the other, prescated one of the most splendid scenes we have had for many years, in honour of his:Majesty's birth-day. The Royal standard of England and British ensigns were hoisted at all the public offices, and upon the steeples of the churches throughout town. The bells during the day pealed merrily ; and at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired a double Royal salute. Among the illuminations we noticed in Regent street, at Philips's ornamental glass warehouse, the following novel display :—ln a large frame was contained a transparent painting, ex hibiting John Bull seared, playing " God save the King and Qocen" upon a fiddle ; and before him were placed a quartern loaf marked till. a pot of brown stout at 3itl a piece of surloin marked 4d. and a huge plumb pudding. Above which was the following motto:— " The ship has arrived with a good hearty crew, The King is the helmsman, the colours true blue ; Then each take his bumper, already quite full, And give three loud cheers to honest John Bull; The red casts and blue jackets together will sail, And William the Fourth with their colours they'll hail." On eller side were his Majesty's initials, with a crown at top.—Acker man's Eclipse Sporting Gallery.-.—:l brilliant transparency of the Royal Arms, executed with naval and military trophies, above which were the portraits' of their Majesties William IV. and Queen Ade laide, the whole surmounted with a handsome crown.—Price and Gosnell, perfumers ; Crowther, whip-maker ; Pringles's, up holders ; Jupp and Sons ; Savory, Moore, and Co. Brownley, ironmonger; Schnieder, furrier; Johnson, brazier, Conduit -street, were all splendidly illuminated. Her Majesty's tradesmen in Old and New Bond -street, made similar demonstrations. The Travellers, United Service, Atheneum, and other club-houses were elegantly illuminated. Piccadilly and Coventry-street were equally brilliant. In St. James's street, Fishmonger's-hall had nothing scaly about it, as crowns and stars almost covered the front of the building. The Guards' club-house, White's West India club, Bootle's, Willis's Musical Repository, Ar thur's (Brookes') were also conspicuous. The Strand, Fleet-street, Lud gate-hill, and Cheapsitle; presented many illusttations and ingenious devices, till at length we reached, as a sort of finale, the Royal Pavilion Theatre, the whole front of which was one blaze of light, tastefully dis played, having in the centre a very fine full-length transparency of his Majesty, in naval uniform, (an admirable likeness, painted by Mr. Chambers). bearing a scroll in his left hand, with the following inscrip tion r--" My Pride is to ptomote Merit." The words " England's Sheet Anchor" surmounted the figure of the Imperial Crown ; an anchor, and the letters W. R. were the illuminated devices and let ters. An immense crowd assembled to witness this novel constellation in die East. We understand that Cardinal Weld will hold an authorised station--a sort of Legatine authority—from the Pope, in this country, to act as the Representative of the Roman Church for the three kingdoms. It is expected that Dr. Painsw•ick will be associated with his Eminence.—Berkshire Chronicle. The Duke of Rutland is at Longshaw, entertaining a dis tinguished party for grouse-shooting. Amongst them are Lord and Lady Southampton, Colonel Fitzroy, Lord Charles Wellesley, Earl Wilton, and Colonel Lee. General Baudraud is intrusted with a special mission to the English Government ; Baron Athalin to the Russian Government ; M. de Saint Aulaire to the Austrian Govern ment ; and General Balliard to the Prussian Government. M. de Chateaubriand has given in his resignation as Minister of State, and has renounced the pension of 12,000 francs, which was allowed him as a Peer of France. Not a single emblem of Royalty has been allowed to re main in Paris ; and in pursuance of the system of expung ing the names given during the reign of the late King, the title of the Academie Royale de Musique, has been changed to Academie Nationale, and the Theatre de Madame has re sumed its former name of Gymnase. We mentioned on Saturday that a report was prevalent of the accession of Mr. Huskisson, Lord Palmerston, and Mr. C. Grant to the ranks of the present Administration; and we have since been assured, on authority on which we can rely, that negotiations on the subject have been going on for some time past. We do not know whether they have, or have not, terminated favourably ; but we can state as a fact, of which no doubt need be entertained, that Mr. Huskisson and the Duke of Wellington drove to Windsor on Saturday last in the same barouche ! The inference is, that they will soon sail in the same boat : but what will the public think of such conduct ?—Advertiser. Mnu►unc n tv thou LIFE.—On the 19th instant, at St. Mary's, Bryanston-square, the Earl of Roscommon, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of John Talbot, Esq. sister to the present Earl of Shrewsbury. After which the happy pair immediately set off for Tonbridge Wells, in an elegant ba rouche and four. The bridesmaids were the Ladies Turner. ELOPEMENT.—A gentleman of the law has eloped with another man's e ife, and about sixteen thousand pounds en trusted to him by his clients. The fugitives have been traced to Liverpool, at which place they are supposed to have em barked for America.—Chelmsford Chronicle. The Constitutiannel states that the Spanish Government have already received numerous couriers—the forerunners of great events. The courier from Andalusia had been stopped on his route ; parties are organising in La Mancha; alencia is not more tranquil ; Catalonia only waits for Mina to incline a plan of attack ; the young men are ani mated with the greatest enthusiasm; they speak, without reserve, of taking arms. The sight of a tri-coloured flag displayed from a French merchant vessel produced great agitation at Barcelona, and it'd to assemblages of the people, which the authorities did not dare to disperse by force. Numerous bands traverse Navarre and the Basque provinces. private letter from Madrid says that the news of the re. , -ent events in Paris was received with festive honours by the people ; no respect was any longer paid to the police or the Government ; every where the constitutional emblems Were distributed ; Proclamations were placarded on the walls of the Palace, and the houses of the Ministers were covered With pasquinades. On the evening of the Bth a quarrel took Place between the citizens and the Royal Guard, in the streets of the Duque d'Alvu, in front of the house of the . Minist er C a l omar d e — two of the Royal Guard were slain. fhe monks are busy in furnishing themselves with arms, in laYtng in provis'ons, and fortifying their positions, as if with the intention to defend themselves to the last extremity. EMBARI►ATION OF CHARLES a•-ARREST OF PRINCE POLIGNAC. (From the Journal du Ravre.) AVRE, Aug. 20. The late King of France, at his departure from Hambouillet, had still a pretty numerous cortege about his person. But when he had got about half-way to Cherbourg, that cortege was reduced one-half. The escort which the Government had thought proper to give him, alone re. mained entire. On arriving at Valogne, it was thought that he would carry with him from seventy to eighty persons on board the American ship ; but now came the pinching point. Out of nearly five hundred persons who entered Cherbourg with Charles X. only eigh teen embarked. The King was dressed in black. He appeared to maintain a certain tranquillity and firmness. The Duke d'Angouleme wept much. The Dauph;ness and the Duchess de Berry appeared confounded. The King gave his hand to be kissed by about a dozen persons, who, after dropping some tears with their farewell, abandoned the white for the tri-coloured cockade. M. Pouyer, the maritime prefect, gave his hand to the Duke of Bordeaux to conduct him on board. The Prin cesses were dressed in the plainest manner. The King, who was on deck while the Great Britain was about getting under weigh, went down to the cabin to be out of the way of the men who were working the vessel. The following details respecting the arrest of M. de Polignac are extracted from a letter, dated Granville, Aug. 16: " On Sunday, the 15th, a lady who was recognised to be the Mar-i chioness de Saint Fargeau, arrived towards the evening at Granville, to embark on board a sloop which was to convey her to Jersey. A set., vain who followed this lady, asked the master of the vessel to let him go on board in his boat, while his papers were examining at the Cus tomhouse, telling him that he was greatly fatigued by his journey. The master refused. Madame de Saint Fargeau and her pretended domestic went into a tavern in the port, whither they were followed by some young men, who thought they perceived something sus picious in the air of the servant. The young men asked the two travellers to show the papers they had brought with them. The Marchioness exhibited a passport which had been given her at Caen on the 10th of August, authorising her to go with her ser vant to Jersey. Notwithstanding this document, the young men thought proper to oppose the embarkation of the two tra. yellers. The people assembled, and insisted that the Marchioness should be conveyed to the Mayoralty, and that her servant should be taken to the prison. The National Guard undertook to watch the latter during the night. Next day the Mayor examined the lady and her pre. tended valet separately. Their embarrassment, changes of colour, and awkward answers, confirmed the suspicions which had been raised, and some acknowledgments which escaped from the servant left no doubt respecting him. He was Prince Poligrat-. lie requested to be con veyed to Saint-ho by the Mayor and the President of the Tribunal of Commerce. 4)n the morning of the 1:; h , the ex-31inister and the Mar chioness were sent off in the diligence. A detachment of the 6th Light and of the National Guards escorted them from the Mayoralty to the carriage, to prot,:ct diem from any accident which might have occurred in consequence of the exasperation of the people." SPIRIT OF TRW JOURNALS. CHRONICLE.—The Duke of Wellington may have approved of the overthrow of the French Constitution, and yet not approved of such a, hazardous attempt as that which has so signally failed. The duke is a cool as well as a crafty man ; and his habit is not to place his all on the turn of one die. And the sentiments expressed by the duke, as they were reported to us, when the news of the issuing of the ordonnances reached this country, certainly led to the inference that he bad his mis givings as to the prudence of the attempt. His language could not easily be construed into anything like reprobation of the attempt, though it cer tainly was expressive of a fear least the coup d'etat might be unsuccessful. But the opinion, as to the participation of 31inisters in she attempt, so far from losing ground, seems, on the contrary, to gain fresh strength. Whether the documents discovered at Paris have anything to do with this we know not. A Sunday Contemporary (The £ramiuer) goes almost the length of direct accusation ; and as the language is re- 1 1 markable, we shall here quote it :—" With regard to the question in dim- putt (between The Times and Mr. Brougham) we do not hesitate to de clare our conviction that Ministers, and persons connected with the Government of the country, have, throughout, had a guilty sympathy with the traitors of France, and that they have been so true in attach. ment to the bad cause, so faithful in attachment to the worst treachery, that even disaster, the touchstone of constancy, has not shaken their friendship, though policy has prescribed concealment. lire do not write this unadvisedly. The wi,prision of crime has been sig nificantly indicated, and enough will be known before any very dis. (ant day." As to some of the Members of tile Cabinet, they are cu.- tainly better adapted for Vienna than London. We have never heard Lord Aberdeen spoken of favourably by any human being. Part of the dislike to him may, perhaps, be caused by his arrogance and super. ciliousness ; but as he does not atone for these qualities by the posses sion of talent, the inference naturally is, that his Metternich principles are his great recommendation to the Duke of Wellington. The readi ness of the public to mix up his Grace with the Polignac Ministry, may have partly been caused by the known hostility of Lord Aberdeen to popular Governments in every part of the world. HERALD—The reception which the proposition of M. De Tracy for abolishing the punishment of death met with in the Chamber of Depu. ties, proves, beyond all dispute, that the present race of French legis lators are not deficient in feelings of humanity. In supporting that proposition the venerable Lafayette said, " I shall ask for the abolition of death, until I have the infallibility Of human judgment demonstrated to me. The punishment of death has always inspired me with feelings of horror since the execral,:e use made of it duel's ! ' the former revolu tion." In our own House of Commons Sir Hubert Peel perpetuates the punishment of death for forging a one-pound promissory -note, not because that punishment is propo7tiiinate to the moral guilt of the offender, but because— hear it, humane legislators of France !—because it is in his opinion the most effeerve punishment. When morality is left out of the penal code, the question of inflicting death for the most venial as well as the most heinous legal or political offences, be comes a mere question of expediency. Hanlon, Murat, and Robes. pierre, at whose crimes the Home Secretary, no doubt, would shudder, thought i: expedient that all who resisted their political supremacy should suffer the same punishment which certain Directors of the Bank of England thought it expedient should be inflicted on those who counterfeited their one pound notes! In the one case 'nor silty and a regard for human We were dispensed with for the sake of ambition--in the other for the Rake of mammon. Hecatombs of human victims have been offered up on the altars of both. The day is coming when sanguinary legielato:s anti sanguinary politicians will be equally execrated. It will he seen, from our Frerch news to day, that the King of the French has been addressed on the subject of NI. de Tracy's motion by the Advocate Lucas, at the head of a deputa tion from St. Brieux, who expressed a noN that the country would owe him the boon of the abolition of the punishment of death, to whom France owed the extinction of civil war. The King replied that he de sired the abolition from a conviction which lie had entertained throughout life, and added, " I will do all in my power to realise your wish, which Is also mine."—A press of matter prevents us proceeding further with this subject at present ; but we shall take an early opportunity to re turn to it. Times—The situation of Spain has for some time past excited an in. terest at onoe powerful and general tnr.iughout Rurope.—We have no hesitation in affirming it to be unquestionable, that un entire overthrow of the tyranny of" Ferdinand the perfidious" is now on the point of taking place.—Those who are not accurately informed with regard to the Spaniards, seem disposed to found their anticipation of this great and happy occurrence on the recent establishment of constitutional li berty on the other side of the Pyrenees. They arc altogether deceived. The destruction of that horrible system under which Spain has groaned ever since (with one short interval) the restoration of the Bourbons to the Sovereignty of France, was actually prepared, and would, in a very few months, perhaps a few weeks. hove been accomplished. although Charles X. had still kept possession of his throne. Spain in ' 1822-23 was torn to pieces by faction, overrun by a French army of 100,000 men, di , ,couraged by the menaces of Russia, and we must add, though with shame and self-reproach, was betrayed by the paltry and unmanly policy of the British Government of that period. There is no form of hatred, persecution, or barbarous vengeance, to which the , friends of liberty in Spain have not been subjected from that day to the present. Powers more odious and intolerable than those of the lnqui. sitlon have been abused with worse than Inquisitorial crueltyby the civil functionaries of the Court : all the most respectable men who were per mitted or compelled to remain in their country were trampled on ; the most fortunate of the Spaniards— those considered the most formida. ble—were proscribed and banished. But Mr. Canning never made a mistake so deplorable, as in believing that freedom could be more highly appreciated by the Portuguese than by the Spanish nation. Had the constitutional Spaniards found only Spaniards to contend with, they would have made a somewhat different stand from war which was dis played by the patriots of Portugal on the Douro. It was heartless, as well as inconsistent, to taunt the people of Spain with indifference to the rights of freemen, when their earnestness in the cause had been alleged by the Holy Alliance as a sufficient motive for commanding an enormous French army to attack their territory,: and reduce them to bondage. The nation, however, was not annihilated. From the hour at which the last French division marched homewards —we suspect be. fore it—an active and well-managed correspondence has been carried on through all the provinces of the Peninsula; and the brave and distin guished exiles in foreign lands have willingly answered the invitations of their countrymen to join them in striking one more blow for freedom. The consequence was painted without exaggeration, as we are in formed, in a letter from une of our Paris correspondents on Wednes day last, where the writer asserts, on the authority of Fenntwown himself, that the people were against him, the army devoted to the constitutional chiefs, even the bulk of the tyrant's own Guards disaffected towards him, and no chance of safety left for the estimable race of Syanish Bourbons, but the Ronk of asakerFreneA army to their support. It cannot, therefore, be alleged with any jus tice to the constitutional Spaniards, that they took their cue from France, or that their enterprise for the redemption of their noble coun try, was but an offshoot from the victory of the French people. The fact is, that Spain was already ripe. The Polignac Government, however well inclined, durst not form another cordon sanitaire, or despatch ago• cher army to destroy the Spaniards. The constitutional leaders resident in Spain, assisted or directed by the more distinguished of the exiles, were waiting but the signal to begin. The Ambassadors of Ferdinand in England and elsewhere, were driven to desperation by the proofs which reached them of the magnitude of the enterprise, and of the saga city and energy with which it had been planned and prosecuted under tremendous embarrassments; and the most atrocious measures were pressed upon certain Governments by these minions of the Cama rillo, for the unlawful treatment of many noble-minded men, on whom Ferdinand, while he refused them admission to Spain, inviked severe punishments for their endeavours to reach it through some channel independent of his pleasure.— It is only fair to acknowledge, nevertheless, that if the Spaniards had prepared themselves to act, without waiting for any impulse from Paris, the glorious example which has been set them in that capital must in. finitely Meditate and expedite the success of their own national project. There is now in France a Government front which liberty, at home or abtoad, has nothing, we trust, of which to be apprehensive. Vainly will the tyrant appeal to the " Citizen-King;' who occupies the Palais Royal, for support. A single regiment ordered to the Pyrenees os sus picion merely of such a purpose, would hod Louis Philip from his yet unsteady eminence. But there is a colour, we find, given to the cause of the Spanish Constitutionalist*, which is not merely false, but full of danger. It has been said, that instead of Spain being henceforth, as formerly, dragged along at the chariot wheels of whoever may be reign. ing King of France, she will be guided by her sympathies with the French "people." We believe no such thing. We are satisfied that the sympathy of Spaniards is with Spain, and with Spain only,—that the genuine and sole aim of the movers of Spanish liberty, is to make their country independ ent — t h oroug hl y independent—of }ranee, of Austria, Russia, England, or any other power ; and as there is nothing servile in the plans of the Constitutionalists, (we speak from good authority), so is there nothing extravagant or wild. They are oneand all convinced of the manifold errors exhibited in the constitution of the (tortes. Their first wish is to shun such errors. The constitution of England, so far as may be practicable for Spain, is, we understand, the model which they liope to imitate. They must have a King so checked and controlled, that he cannot, if he would, betray the interests of his subjects. Ferdinand, they are insane if they suffer again to deceive them. But whoever may be their Sovereign, his nails must be pared. The constitutional Spaniards arc well aware of the blunder that was formerly committed, in the creation of a single legislative as sembly. There arc in Spain a large body of noblemen possessed of great landed and other property, 19-20ths of dem warmly attached to the principles of a free constitutional monarchy ; this distinguished and most useful class of men was absurdly thrown aside by the constitution of 1812 and 1820, and therefore wantonly exasperated : they form the legiti mate, natural, and powerful materials of a House of Lords for Spain, and we may be assured that when law and order succeed to the pre sent more than Turkish anarchy of licentious despotism, an Upper Chamber will be constituted simultaneously with King and Cortes.— This body, more analogous to the English nobility than any other class of noblemen in Europe, sent repeated deputations to Sir Henry Welles ley, requesting him to lay before Ferdinand their desire that he would be content to govern as constitutional King of Spain, in which case they would support his authority with all their power. The memorable answer of the autocrat was this—" 1 will be nothing but absolute King." We pray to Heaven, then, that lie may be " nothing,"— obsolute King he will not be, in all human probability, for another month. As for the other measures of' the constitutional party in Spain, we have been told that their intention is to establish as a prin. ciple the " freedom of commerce ;" and, as the exception to that prin. ciple, only such imposts as may be requisite for the purposes of reve. l nue ;—that immediate care will be taken to repair the injustice done to individuals oy the outrages on property perpetrated at the instigation of the monks, in whose favour the national domains were re-annexed to the monasteries, and all purchases made under the laws of the Cones an nulled. It is likewise decided to proclaim an immediate recognition of the debts contracted by the C•ortes, and to re-appropriate, as security to the public creditors, the national domains of which they were pillaged when Ferdinand thought proper to commit the unexampled iniquity of disclaiming the national debt. It is further the feeling, as we have been informed, of the Spanish patriots, to refer to the ancient laws of Spain, (as much trampled on by Ferdinand as any other public securities,) in all cases where provision can be discovered in them for the maintenance of the subject's right, whether civil or politicaL This, we are lid to believe on high authority, is the spirit, equally circunt. spect and honest, in which the Spanish re-founders of their country's liberty have pledged themselves to each other and to their fellow citizens to proceed. If they act, as we trust they will, on such principles, every good man in England, and from north to south of Europe, will be friend them. If,—which Gun forbid, and which we at least cannot an. ticipate—those who direct the councils of Great Britain should attempt to damp or discountenance this virtuous effort on the part of the Spa- 1 nisi* nation, to shake off a yoke which never could have been imposed, hail England done her duty, the immediate effect will be, to throw Spain into the arms of the liberal Government, now esta blished in a neighbouring country, and to forMit all title to Spanish confidence for ever. The family compact, now broken by the hand of PROVIDENCE, will thus have been revived in another and more terrible form—that of a national compact between the people of two countries, each, in that case, animated by excusable hostility to Great Britain. But we hope for better things. England and Spain are in that condition which renders them natural allies. The commer cial interests of both nations—we say nothing of what general policy would dictate—prescribe to them the most unrestricted intercourse. Abounding in raw materials of every kind for which there is no demand on earth so constant as that afforded by the British capitalist, how could Spain, in her turn, dispose of them to such advantage as by procuring I for herself an equivalent in our unrivalled manufactures ? The wants of 13,000,000 of people at our own doors would soon supply a vent for British industry more ample than that to which the expectations of our merchants bad for so many years been directed in the great South Ame rican Continent, and would entitle us to treat with good-humoured in difference the restless tariffs of the United States, no matter how dex terously constructed. [We have had the communication by us for some days on which the preceding article is founded, but think there is lOW no risk in publish ing it.] FRENCH REVOLUTION-EDINBURGH PUBLIC MEETING. Friday a meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh, called by the Lord Provost, on the requisition of upwards of a hundred respectable inha bitants, was held in the great room of the Waterloo Tavern, " to con. shier the propriety of expressing their admiration of the energy and promptitude with which the French people have lately resisted the vie. lation of their public rights, aid the moderation with which they have hitherto used the sudeen and unexampled triumph by which their patriotism has been rewarded." Mr. Jeffrey concluded a splendid speech, by moving " That the people of France having, with unexampled efforts of courage, and under every disadvantage of preparation, baffl,d the profligate attempt of their late Monarch to violate the sacred compact by which he held his crown, and to support that aggression by the most atrocious abuse of his military au. thority ; and having in the very moment of their sudden triumph, and while yet excited by the sanguinary struggle through which it had been obtained, made no other use of the power with which it invested them, than to exclude from the throne the tyrant and his Cescend. ants, and to make such alterations only in the charter of their liber. ties as were calculated to prevent the recurrence of s' 'lse calamities, and give security and permanence to their free institutions ; have, by thus uniting wisdom with heroism, and moderation with victory, not only vindicated their own right in a manner the most glorious, but done all that in them lay to maintain the peace of Europe, and have consequently entitled themselves to the high admiration and gratitude of all the friends of good order, and especially of the people of Britain, who wrought out and established their awn freedom by kindred measures, and have, of all nations, most cause to rejoice in the liberty and happintss of France." The meeting, says the Mercury, was in all respects worthy of the memorable occasion which it was intended to celebrate. In point of numbers, it was perhaps the fullest inee,ing ever rosembled ; reckoning by the shillings received at the door, there were about 900 persons in the room, but as a great many more were admitted without payment, between one thousand and 1,100 persons, including several ladies, were present. On the platform, iii the centre, there were, beedes the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, the Dean of Faculty, J. Hume, Esq. M.P. Mr. Cockburn, Mr. J. A. Murray, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. Allan, Mr. Jas. Simpson, Dr. Nlaclagan, and :several other gentlemen. The opening speech of the Lord Provost was exceedingly neat and well expressed, and the sentitnents, which evidently flowed from the heart, did him great honour. It is not saying too much to affirm, that the whole of the large audience seemed to be actuated but by one sentiment, and it was really gratifying to hear the bursts of applause which, broke forth Omelet invo. luntarily, rind of one accord, whenever any remarkable point of the do. quent speeches of the Dean of Faculty and of Mr. Cockburn struck a chord to which their bosoms responded. THE Moons.—The morning of the 12th of August did not dawn very auspiciously this year. It was dull and drizzling, and altogether little calculated to excite the hopes or animation of the sportsman. We are glad, however, to find that some parties were pretty successful. Alajor Towers killed fifty brace and a bare in Bade. noch ; and on the second day fifty-two brace. In Stratherrick, Lovat, Lord Mexborough and party had good sport in the Nlonna Leadh Lord Saltoun and brother, Culduthel and brother, and the Captains Vernon bagged about one hundred brace. Sir Francis blacken:lr and Mr. Halket killed seventy brace in Ross-shire. OLnerally speakir g, the grouse here, as in the Yorkshire moors, are small and scarce, in consequence of the wet weather. Hence, several sportsmen have post -7:giilnzerations for a fortnight, of which number are Messrs Dilke and , with their friends at Strathgarve.—lnverness Courier. THE ARM Y. LIMERICK, Auo. 18. This day the troop of the Queen s Bays, that scut to Ennis to tend the the Clare Election, returned to bead.quarters in this City. 'I morrow Major Norman's and Captain Arthur's co.npanies of the Regiment, will return from the saute district. Captain Bray's troop, King'■ Dragoon Guards, marched hem.:e Cahir this morning. Major 31‘Nainars has given 2001. to the pour of Ennis, a sum 1, tt. disposed than in the pageantry of chair:Mg. A party of the 32d Regiment, under Major Swinburne, are a Carl; on-Shannon during the Leitrim Election. The Bth or King's have arrived safe at Halifax. Friday a very splendid review took place in the Phonic Park, lin, before his Grace the Duke of Northumberlat.d. The troops in the. field were the Royal Horse Artillery, Battery of Royal Artillery, fi "i (Enniskillen) Dragoons, 12th (P. W.) Royal Lancets, 4th (King', wn) Regiment, 76th Regiment, 69th Regiment. Alonday, the first division of the 1:3kl Regiment of Four, which hes been stationed for a year in the infantry barracks at Glasgow, left tin • place in two steam packets for Belfast, to proceed front thence to Enr.i - killen ; and on Tuesday they were followed by the second division, u der their commanding officer, Colonel Bond's. Since the arrival of tI • Regiment in Glasgow, there have been married 497 privates, four re - jeants, and seven corporals. NAVAL INTELLIGENcE. The following arrivals are posted at Lloyd's :—The Kitig, Joi•u. son, from Archangel, at Shoreham; Elizabeth, Webster, Iron. r.,•• teuburgh, at Topsham ; George, Wake, from Archangel, at Sundt.' I Hylton, Lowes, horn ditto, in Yarmouth Roads; and iiivals, . from Sicily, off the Lizard. The Thomas, Naylor, bound to Ilavannah, grnund.•d on Tue .1. in the Rock Channel, Liverpool, and has put back with consider • damage, leaky, and must discharge. The Aurora, from New Orleans to Liverpool, was on the 11. r v .•' y last month, with three feet water in her hold, and would be obliged . return to discharge. DEAL, Atm 22.—Arrived the Solway, Head, from St. Lucia. PLYMOUTH. AUG. 21.—Arrived the Erin, Carleton, from St. Svb.... Bail. OQ• the port, the Duke of Kent, Hall, from Valparaiso. FALMOUTH, AUGUST 21.—Arrived the Wiwi, packet, from wo L.! r Janeiro—sailed 13th June, Bahia 3J tilt. and Pernambuco 9th. LavEnroor., Aro. 21.—Arrived the Eugene, Thazter, front Nt.: Orleans; Mary, Taggar, front Quebec; Fairy, Anderson, front V.— - tigouch; and Emerald, Tuck, from Archangel. CLYDE, Atm. 21. Arrived the lona, Smith, from Quebec ; Supp , y. Scott, and Aimwell, —., front St. Petersburgh. LvEtr, Auo. 22.—Arrived the George IV. front Quebec; from St. I'eteraburgh; and Glory, Brown. from Memel. Huta., Auo. 21.—Arrived the St. Mary, Gill, from Quebec; tannic. Stewart; Trunden, lamb; Cane Grove, Hammond; (barred , , Hotter; and Acorn, Wardell, front Archangel ; James, Hogg; C,'u, Harrison ; Abbotsford, Garbutt; Mary, Campbell ; and Margar••!. Wilkinson, front Archangel. Also, the Jessie Eason, Banks , Cupid, Hunter ; Anaday, Nl`Taggart ; and Milton, Meggett, front Riga ; d Olivia, Harrison, from Meaty]. FUNERAL OF LONG, THE MURDERED POLICE OFFIOEU. Yesterday, at two o'clock, the remains of Ling, the police ofiietr, who was, on last Wednesday night, brutally ruurtier,tl in Gray's Inn-lane, whilst in the discharge of the most imptott.tot duty,— namely, that of prfroating crisis,--lucre removed ft-mu, Int., residence in Cooper's -court, Seward-street, St. Luke's, or tll.r ground in St. James's, Clerkenwell. It arpeared that the Moners of the New Police had on Saturday issued their ord.- that the murdered man should be buried, with all due respc.t, to that part of their directions were officially communicated to Mt Fair, the Superintendent of the division " G." and he, with the prompt ness and seal which characterizes the discharge of his public duty, gave directions that each officer of the division not on duty should attn.!. Accordingly, about half-past one o'clock, the Inspectors, Messrs. Green ing, Rodgers, Thompson, and Busein, with about 300 men, were a,. aembled in Seward-street. The arrangement made by Mr. Fair were that eight of the deceased's companions should carry him to the grave ; and, ut a little after two o'clock, the procession commenced in the fol lowing order : 1. The fumes ; 2. The coffin, supported by four companions of the deceased ; 3. On each side the sergeants of the division, while, at the same time, tour officers, who were particularly attached to the tle ceaud, were the pall!bearer►. The widow of the deceased and her five orphans, accompanied by other friends, were the chief mount ers. On the procession getting into Seward-street, they afterwards moved with a slow and solemn step until they arrived in Ayks. bury-street, where the men who carried the corpse were relieved : and on their arrival at St. James's, Clerkenwell, the Rev. Mr. D015•.:,,:n read the burial service. It is said the deceased was a gun-maker, het, afar the peace of 1815, business becoming bad, he wrought in the dot I t. and afterwards got on the watch establishment of St. Luke's, and was by the parochial authorities strongly recommended to the new police. It is also said that Mr. Fair has already received 8L for the widow an d orphans, and it is to be reasonably expected the example will ht followed. YORK, August 21. Never, we believe, has it before been the painful duty of a pubhe journalist to narrate so afflicting an event connected with this city, .ts one which occurred in the afternoon of Thursday lut—one by which seven individuals, in the bloom of health, and in the height of enjoy ment, were in a moment numbered with the dead, by the upsetting of a pleasure-boat in the river Ouse, near the Marquee. The names and ages of the sufferers belonging to Mr. Rigg's family, are as follow : Ana Guthrie Rigg, the eldest daughter, in her 20th year. Thomas Gorwood Rigg, the eldest eon, aged 18 years. John it igg, the second son. aged 16 yang. Eliza Rigg, the second daughter, in her 16th year. James Smith Rigg, aged 7 years. Charles Rigg, aged 6 years. The other unfortunate sufferer, Miss Grace Robinson, of Ayton, near Scarborough, who was on a visit at Mr. Rigg's, was about 18, and cou sin to Mr. Robinson, of the firm of Simpson and Robinson, tea-dealers, of this city. The following particulars have been communicated tour; and their recital may perhaps add to the melancholy interest of this alKeting event. Mrs. Rigg has had 14 children, six of whom did in their infancy, and, we believe, three of them were interred within a very short time of each other. Two girls arc now theonly survivors of this numerous family. The grandfather of the sufferers has at t-lined the advanced age of 34. at.,l is very ill, from the effects of a paralytic seizure with which he was at tacked a short time ago. The dreadful news, through prudential motive', was not communicated to him until the following day. Mrs. R.'s Nall', front her attentions to Mr. Rigg, sen. hu been much impaired, and it was consequently found necessary to prevent her seeing her decease.' family till after they were laid out, which, by great exertion, was accem,_ plislied by three o clock yesterday morning. Then followed a PC(l,l' which no writer can fully describe. Miss Robinson was a young lady of very amiable disposition, and of considerable acquirements and ex pectations. The two elder sons of Mr. Rigg had only returned on Tuesday from an tight weeks' journey, which they had gone in constquence of their grandfather's illness ; and it was their intention to have set out again un business yesterday morning. They availed themselves of the interval of relaxation to enjoy this social and domestic excursion of pleasure, which, alas ! has proved so fatal, and still more forcibly impvessev upon the tutnscience the mysterious and ell-disposing power of that PROVIDENCE, which shapes our tads, Rough-beer them how we will. Mr. Ellison, the Coroner, was on the spot very soon after the acci dent occurred, and caused a Jury to be summontd tiom Holdgate, Acorn!), and Pm - at:ton, who assembled at Mr. Benson's, the Bisch Swat., in Acomb, shortly after eight, and having proceeded to the b at '''. and inspected the bodies, tl.ey returned to the inn, and the inquest w a s adjourned to Friday morning. We are glad to learn that the result of our election e LI not exclude Dr. Lusitington from the ensuing Parliament: he will -;t fora borough, the property of au influential Whig Nobleman. Te., great Council of the Nation should not be deprived of the commandinr talents of a man qualified like the learned Civilian.—Berkshire Caron: I M !to% E); E N rs.—The intended new street from Wa teflon-bridge to Charles.street, Covtnt-garden, and from thence to Pluuttree-street, Bloomsbury, is, at length, decided up on , an d w ill b e commecced Mimed:act ly, the warrant for that purpose having been is. sued to the Commissioners of %Yoe& and Forests on Thursday last.- The houses of Ilc/i.e.:4. IVebbtr, wine -merchants, Davis, hatter, and lleadcn, booksel:er, in York-s.reet, facing Charles-stteet, will come down, whilst those of Messrs. Kesteven, clothiers, and Black at.d Young, booksellers, will, with the necessary alterations, form the cor ners of the new street. The upper end of the east side of Bow-street, facing Covent-garden Theatre, will be formed into a handsome crescent, for which deigns have been submitted and approved, and by these mews the width of the opening into Long-sera will be increased, which has long been desirable. Immediately facing a new street will be erected by the Alcmene Company from Long-acre to Plumtrce.street, of which Houlditeh's, the coat maker, will form the corner. One sideof Plum. tree-street is to be taken down to increase its width; and the London University, It Is said, will forego, for public convenien ce , its r i g h t of private way; and thus what has so lung been considered a desideratum by many Persons will be aceomplishtd—a spacious and convenient tho roughfare from the Great Northern Road to Waterloo-bridge. ,- ,1 .. (;