Star. — London, England, 1829-11-28 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CIIA NOES. The Marquis of Chandos. at his seat. Waco* House, Bucks, from a tour ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, for his seat, Bnwood Park, Wilts ; the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, at Burleigh House, Lincohnhire, from a tour; Earl and Countess Onslow. in Albe marle-street, from their seat, near Guildford, Surrey ; the 1:arl of Gimp% la Lower Grosvenor.street. from Brighton; the Earl of Fortescue. at his seat in Orreashire, from a tour ; Lord Viscount Ebrington, from Waterford, in Ireland, to Castle Bill, South Molton; Viscountess Ashbrook, at Worthing. from the Isle of Wight; Sir Roger and Lady Sophia Greeley, at Edward John Lyttleton, M.P.'s seat in Staffordshire, from the Marquis of Loodontlerry's seat near Durham ; the Misses Forrester, a► the Dowager Duchess of Rutland's, in Sackvilk-street, front Salop ; Mr. Ralph Abercrombie, from Devonshire House, for Surrey ; the Hon William Keppel Barrington, from Harley-street, for a'Becket House, In Berkshire ; Major and Mrs. Law, from South Audiey-street, ,esterday, for Bath; the Hon. Miss Juliana Curzon for her v►lla, at Hayes, in Middlesex ; the Hon. General Dalrymple for Windsor; Captain and Mr.. Tyler, from the Depot in the Isle of Wight, for Brighton; Major and Mrs. Pemberton, from Canterbury, for Bath; Colonel and Mrs. Albany Grant, from Grosvenor-place. yesterday, for Bath ; Major Clinton, from Pic codilly, yesterday, for Exeter; Captain William Wallace, from Waterloo-place, for Brighton ; Lieut.-Colonel Vinare, in Pall mall, from Naples; Baron Walsh, in Clarges-street, on Wednes day, from Vienna ; Captain Garth. R.N. for his seat ne kr Maiden head, Berko ; Captain and Mrs. Higgins, in Brook-street, from Leicestershire; J. Hamilton, Rag at the British Hotel, Jermyn street, from Hens ; William Carbon, at ditto, front Oxford ; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, at Fentoo's Hotel, St. James's-street ; from Paris ; Mr. and Mrs. Thompsonott ditto, from Paris ; Le Chevalier Alfred de Vaudreuil, at ditto, from Paris ; Chevalier de Hahn, from ditto, for Germany ; James Daly. Esq. at the Burlington Hotel, from Brighton ; J. Cholmeley. Esq. at ditto, from Lincolnshire ; Sir J. Laffaor, from ditto. for Dover ; Mr. and Miss Hinckley, from ditto. for Litchfield ; Colonel Page, at Morley's Hotel, .Cockspur-street, from Newbury; W. Roebuck, Esq. at ditto, from !tempt.; C. Stewart. Esq at ditto, from Canterbury ; Capt. Hackett, at ditto, from Maidstone ; Samuel Blakelock, Esq. at ditto, from Maidstone; J. Cormiek Esq. at ditto, from Maidstone; J. Herbert Brown, Esq. from ditto, for Donetshire ; Richard A. Hayley. Esq. from ditto, for Tunbridge Wells; Colonel, Antwyl, from ditto, for Waterford; the Hon. Berkeley Noel at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square; John Fitzgerald, Esq. M. P. Mrs. Fitzgerald, and Peter Fitzge rald, Esq. at ditto; Henry Maxwell, Esq. Joseph Maxwell. Esq. and the Hon. Charles Clifford at ditto; E. W. Head, Esq at do. The Duke Of CUMBERLAND dined with the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, on Thursday, at their residence in Bushy Park. The Marquis of Douao, and several of the Officers of the Royal Horse Guards, and also of the 10th Hussars, were present to meet his Royal Highness. The Royal Duke came to town yesterday morning, from his residence at Kew, and remained at the King's Palace, St. James's, till four o'clock, when his Royal Highness returned to Kew. Prince LEOPOLD left town yesterday for his seat at Claremont. _ _ . The Austrian Ambassador had a long conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday afternoon at the Fo- reign Office. - - The American Minister visited the Noble Earl yester. day afternoon. The Duke of WELLINGTOW, it is expected, will leave the residence of Mr. Secretary PEEL, Stowe Hall, Nor folk, this day, for the seat of Mr. Btwou AM BARING, Buckatham House, Brandon, Norfolk. Previous to his return to town, the Noble Duke, it is expected, will pay a visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The household of the Duke of W zt.t.twOTOW removed on Wednesday night, from his residence in Downing street, to Apsley-house, Piccadilly. The greater part of the furniture had previously been removed to Apsley house, preparatory to its occupation by the Duke, as his town residence. Tuesday, the Bishop of WORCESTER arrived at his Episcopal Palace, near that city, for the winter. The Countess of ABERDEEN was safely delivered of a eon yesterday, at Argyll-house. Her Ladyship is consi dered to be in as favourable a state as could be expected. Among the recent contributors to the funds of the Na tional Benevolent Institution are his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, and his Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER, (the latter of whom has graciously ho noured the Charity for the third time with a flattering testimony of his approbation,) the Marquis and Mar chioness of STAFFORD the Earl of SURREY, and many other distinguished individuals among the Nobility, by whom thiaCharity has been long anddeservedly patronised. Sir G. W. BAMPFYLDE, Bart. with his two distin guished guests, Colonel HANBERRY and the Rev. Mr. HANBERAY, have shot 130 woodcocks on the worthy Baronet's manor of Northmolton within the last fortnight. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has granted to Madame JEANNE DE WEISRENTHURII, actress of the theatre of the Imperial and Royal Court at Vienna, the great golden medal of civil honour, with the ring and riband, in testimony of his gratidude for the great services she has rendered to the theatre as author and as actress, during forty years that she has been engaged there. Cow Es, Nov. 26.---On the night of the 22d inst. as the Scotia was laying up Channel, the Julius, of Granville, from Havre to St. Martin's, came in contact with her. The crew of the French brig, 17 in number, finding their vessel in a sinking state, got on board the Scotia, and were all saved ; but the captain was crushed between the two vessels. It is supposed the Julius sunk, from the water rushing in so fast before she was aban doned, and her almost immediate disappearance. The Scotia arrived here last night, with damage. We have no doubt that an entrance to St. James's Park from Carlton Place will be found so essential to Members of Parliament and official people, that it will, in the end, be conceded to horses and carriages as well as to foot passengers. Scarcely a day passes but robberies are committed by swell pickpockets (as they are termed by the police) who infest the different Law Courts. On Monday last G. T. Bircx E, Esq. of Hadlow-street, Burton-crescent, had his pocket picked of a valuable silver snuff-box in the Court of King's Bench. We learn from Calcutta, that M. CHRISTENSON has been appointed Governor of the Danish possessions in India, and that he has recently arrived at Tranquebar, and assumed the Government. His Danish Majesty, it is understood, has expressed his anxiety to see the Danish trade to India revived, and the new Governor has received instructions to promote that object by every means in his power. Several Meetings have already been held in different parts of the country, where petitions to Parliament have been agreed to, praying for a total repeal of the Malt and Beer Duty. They are likely to be general throughout the country. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen have been added by a cold seal to the Commission of the Peace for Worcestershire. Those marked with an asterisk are Catholics : • The Kight Hen. John Earl of Shrewsbury—• Viscount South end-0 Er Edward Blount, Bart.—Sir Chula Throckmence, Bart —John Edmund Dowdeiwell. Esq. M.P. Pull Ccert—•Robt. Berkeley, sea. Est Spetchley—• William Wakeman, Esq. Beck feed—• Thomas Charles Hornyhold, Esq. Blackmer* Park— • • Charles Edward Handfeed, Eaq.Weellerskill—EdwardWbease, = a merced, Tenbnry—Edward Sanderson, Ewa. Raw Place Thomas James Haling, R.N. the Elms, Abberley-L John Brown, Esq. Lea Castle—• William Aston, Esq. Wolverton —The Rev. George Boodle Clue, Wolverley. THE RETROSPECT. 0 Oh, that I could again return to the ardes4s, innocent, blessed simplicity of my early days !" 1411 PATER. My thought is o're you steep hill. My thought is o'er the main. My thought is in that once loved land I neer may see again. I think upon the green vale Where first the light of life Shone o'er me, and my boyhood With bliss alone was rife. 1 thiuk upon the mountains O'er which my footsteps stray'd, And the cold and crystal fountains That oft my thirst allayed. I think upon the wild wood Through which at dawn I roved— And every haunt and gravy glade, And every sport I loved. I think upon the swift stream That bounds my early home, Until its plashing echoes seen The sound of joys to come. I think upon the dear smile Of eyes now dimmed for aye ; And the fond and fervent sigh of lips New mouldered in decay. I think upon the bright cheeks. Long faded 'mongst the dead : And the throb of loving hurts on which The worm bath rioted. I think—until my thought is A very pain to me : I think on all that once bath been, On al that yet may be. And I do wish—perhaps the more For that I wish in vain, To have—with all its vanished joys— My childhood back spin! And in that sweet and pleasant prime, In life's delicious May. Pass from the yet untroubled world In quietness• away! is FACTS AND FANCIES. MINISTERIAL WARNING.—It would seem as if the very elements conspired " to read a great moral lesson" to his Majesty's Ministers, and, by marring the recrea tion in which these faithful servants designed to while away that time which some of their predecessors in official station and Royal confidence were wont to devote to the affairs of the nation, remind them of the serious and much more becoming employment by which their " mighty minds" should condescend to be occupied in the present calamitous state of the Empire. Considering, however, the deplorable, and—in their hands—irretriev able condition to which their vain-glorious-self-sufficiency has reduced the " OCEAN QUEEN," it must be owned that it is scarcely matter of surprise that they should en deavour to protract the evil day by every expedient :—but " come it will that day decreed by fate"—though the snow should no longer interrupt their field sports, and they " cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war"—amongist the peaceable pheasants and partridges. They must, ere long, give " an account of their stewardship," and if the representatives of the people do their duty, an awful reckoning it will be. But what can they think of them selves—what can the people of England think, of a Mi nistry so regardless of its grave responsibilities, and of its public duties, as to need the reiterated remonstrances of the Press—of that honest portion of the Press at least, which is not to be pensioned into silence—or bribed into the betrayal of its constitutional integrity? What must the people of England think of Ministers who, in times of dif ficulty and distress like the present, require such remon strances to " call them back to reason and the shop"--and have cause to be grateful for the lenity with which they are reproached—as the Morning Herald has good-naturedly reproached them, by a gentle hint that the " Ministerial party assembled•at Mr. Peel's mansion in Norfolk, must, it is apprehended, betake themselves to the affairs of the State, for want of something else to employ themselves about ?" THE PRINCE or GRELea.—As the French politicians assure us —andwith some show of probability- -that Greece is speedily to be rendered an independent state, and to be governed by a Prince, who is not to have the title of King, it were well if " TnE limn Pow rits"—(monstrous profanation !)—between whom this arrangement is said to have been decided upon, would but avail themselves of such an opportunity for displaying their eternal grati tude to England, and their just value for " Europe's deliverer," by conferring the government of the classic Principality upon His Highness Tun PRINCE ot• WA TERLOO: thus bestowing the last reward of earthly greatness upon " THE GREAT CAPTAIN OF THE AGE;" relieving him from the ungracious necessity of a gracious dismissal from his " high office," and the country from the calamitous consequences of his continued misrule. With His HIGHNESS in Greece, and " ()Vox NELL," Number One, in Ireland, the balance of Power would be effectually adjusted and preserved. TILE LIBERTY Or TILE SUBJECT.—II is now stated, — and, of course, upon authority—that MECK FORD, the collector of taxes of Eastbourne, who was accused of absconding from that place, and instantly pursued to London and thence to Dover, where he was apprehended on a charge of felony, has been " released from custody, on satisfactory grounds." This reads well, and sounds well too; but there seems, in the denouement of the affair, something more than meets the eye or ear. It is evident that MEcKPOILD, who has been so ignominiously treated, has a right to know upon what " satisfactory grounds," be, a freeman, a subject of the King of a free people, was pursued as a felon—his name advertised as a felon—he himself deprived of his liberty as a felon —held up to the opprobrium of the world as a felon—and his character subjected for ever after to suspicion. And the people have a right to know upon what " satisfactory grounds" an individual taken into custody, under such circumstances of strong suspicion, has been released from that custody. It is a dangerous precedent to suffer the conduct of the accused, or the conduct of those who are entrusted with the ad ministration of the laws, even in a magisterial capacity, to be glossed over with such indefinite phraseology. The " grounds" of MECKVORD'S apprehension have been made public enough ; and the circumstances which war _ _ ranted - his discharge should obtain equal publicity. No thing short of positive criminality on his part could justify the extreme measures resorted to : nothing short of his complete vindication could justify his release from cus tody. Where the liberty and chanicter of the subject, or the interests of the people, are concerned—" Fiat Justitia!" THE ARMY. The right wing of the 3d battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards. has received orders to march, on Monday neat, from Brighton for Windsor. A detachment belonging to the 4Sd (Royal Highland) Regi ment of Fuot, arrived in town on Thursday, from t hatbam, oa route to Paisley. A detachment belonging to the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Infantry. arrived in town on Thursday, from Chatham, on route to the I,le of Wight. A detachment belonging to the 77th (East Sliddlesex) Regi ment of Foot, arrived in town on Thursday, from Chatham tor liri,tol, on route to Clonmell. GRAFI 1111,111 W OF THI ZIGHTT4IVEITIC On Saturday afternoon, at three o'clock, the 117th Regiment or vAI Irish Fusileers, was inspected in review order in the squat* of the Barracks, Regent Road, by the Commander of the District, Major Gen. S:r W. E. Bouverie, K.CB. who had been occupied several days previously in a minute examination of the books, ffic: of the Regiment, assisted by Mr. Anderson, of the War Office, and the officers of his staff. On the arrival of the General in front of the line, which was strikingly imposing, he was received with the usual salute by the Regiment, which afterwards marched by him in close and quick time. There was no firing, and a part only of the nsu tl marauvres were executed by the battalion—such as advancing in echellon, in companies from the right, forming close column in the rear, of the right and centre subdivisions advancing in close column, deploying into line, retreating in fine, severed by skirmishes, &c. The movements w. re directed successively by the 'Commander, and fisid utfi as. by a Captain and junior subaltern af the regiment, for the purpose, we pre.ume, of proving the compe tency of officers of all grades for command. The whole of the move ments were executed with the rapidity and accuracy 4.1 veterans. and . effected much credit hods on the men and their offizers, who have brought these young soldiers to rbe state of perf.-ct on le they appeared. The General seemed highly gratified wi h the whole pros. edings, and looked extremely well. Many years have elapsed since the writer of this grit saw General liouverie; it was on " Roocesvalle's height," when the gnglith flag waved on the summit of the Pyrenees. The saline and experienced Officer (then Colonel Bouverie,) held at that time the situation of Adju tant-General to the-second division of the Army of the Peniosula. The frost of 16 winters since h.s bleached his hair, but though, in the language of the poet, Years steal Fire from the eye, and vigour from the limb," they have nut bent the (rant:, or quenched the lustre of Ma eye.— Few Officers have seen inure active service than be, and very few of his rank are wont to eserciur the politeness and affihility which characterise Sir W. E. !Univ.-de. Use abilities di:played in the various important duties connected with the situation above re ferred to. gained him the entire confidence of the chief of the division, 11111, and his urbanity and gentlemanly dvportment to the I Accra of the dividon of every service requiring hh advice or assioance, won for him " Golden opinions from all ranks." The General was attended on Saturday by Lieut.-Colonal Shaw, the resident Adjutant-General. and Lieutenant Colonel Thorn of the same department, his faithful and well tried friend and assistant ou many occa:ions of difficulty and peril. It Is gratifying to per crier officers like these enjoying the reward of their long and faith tul services. _ _ The Regiment having lattly received the honour of being ap pointed one of the " Royal" Regiments, their uniform is about to be altered so as to resemble that of the uniform of the other " Royal" Regiments, which is turned up with blue. Two of the Mtn appeared on the ground in the new uniform of the Regiment. for the purpose of exhibiting its effect to she General. It is ex pected that the new inform will be adopted by the whole of the Regiment about the beginning of the year.—Moisthesier Mercury. LIMERICK, N0v.23 Ensign Stuart of the 95th, and a party of invalids from the Me diterranean, have arrived at Cork. The Regiments in garrison at Gibraltar were particularly healthy, and not a single case of fever, up to the Ist November. to which date we have received letters front the 42d Itoyal Islanders. The Henry Wellesley transport from London is arrived at Cork, to convey militaty detachments to Jamaica. The Raines transport, with the last division of the 68th Light Infantry, arrived at Cork from Quebec, on Sunday last. A detachment of the 10th Infantry has embarked at Cork, in she Delaford transport for Corfu, to join the service companies. A Company of the Royal Artillery, from Woolwich, has landed at Cork, on route to Ballincollig. MONTSZAL, ()CT. 10.—The light division of the 24th Regiment arrived here yesterday morning. and was marched up to the bar• racks by the band of the 68th. Only one of the Regiment was in it that was here the last time the Regiment was in Canada; it is 27 years ago. Since the departure of the Governor, Sir Peregrin Maitland, the command of the troops in Nova Scotia has devolved on Col. Norcott, Rifle Brigade. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cockburn, brother to the Admiral has been appointed Deputy Quartermaster-General in Montreal r and Superintendent of the Settlement of Honduras, under the Governor of Jamaica. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS ARanso nits UArrllublci I—Franc. I—Malta 1. The Shellott, Mason, from Shields to Odessa, was totally lost at the entrance of the Humber on Wedneolay morning, and two of the crew saved. MAL, Nov. 27.—Wind E. moderate.—Off the port. the Frau, Tongratt, from Messina. Arrived from London, the Evenhorre. Thomas, for Jamaica, and Borneo, Whichelo, for the westward, bound to Antwerp. Pownrsoirru, Nov. r, 27.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the (`sure Watt, for Madras. Famous*, Nov. 26.—Wind R. to R.S.R. fresh gales.—Arrived the Pigeon packet, from the Idediterranean—sailed front Corfu Bth alt. Make 13th, Gibraltar Sth inst. and Cadiz 11th ; spoke on the 6th inst. off Gibraltar. his Majesty's ship Dartmouth. Also ar rived, the Lester, Rests, from Leghorn. HILL, Nov. 26.—Arrived the Milton, Meggett ; Marys, Fain ; Joseph and Mary, Stratford ; William Pitt, Wildridge ; Nancy, Giles; Chace, Thompson; Urania, Headley; Wilberforce, Clark; and Bellona, Ritchie, all from St. Petershirgh. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 26.—Arrived the Staindrop, Harrison, from St. Pcter►burgh. Scaaaortouon, Nov. 26.—Arrived the Sarah and Margaret, Hornby, from Riga. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 26. His Majesty's ship Zebra arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from this port. previous to the sth Sept. The Heron arrived at Lima from Chilue 6th July, and sailed 16th for Islay. The Forte arrived at Lima from Chiloe 14th July, and Alert 12th, the former sailed again for Coquimbo 19th. The Sapphire sailed from Lima for Guayaquil July 19. The Medina arrived at St. Helena ,from the Coast of Africa 18th Sept. and remained there with the Sybille on the 29th. The Renard, from Falmouth and Cadiz. arrived at Gibraltar Oct. 13, and the Dartmouth from Tangier 24th. The James, Peake, of and from this port, arrived at Prince Ed ward's Island 14th September. She fell in with, Aug. 24, in lat. 46. long. 29, the Monarch, of Sunderland, from Liverpool for Quebec. on her beam-ends, and abandoned by the crew, who were picked up in thtir boats by the James, and afterwards put on board a ship bound to London. the Monarch was seen to go down. BAREFACED PI. AC .I A RISIL-It would afford US much satisfaction to find that the poetical contributions which occasionally appear in " TII F. STAR" afforded aliment to all the ungraced muses of Grub-street :—nay,we should even wink at their petty pilferings— provided the objects of our benevolence had but common gratitude to acknow•- lege from whose "alms-basket of words" they had "stolen the scraps." In "THE STAR " of November 16, the following Epigram appeared : THE DUEL. How did that duel end at Staines? They fired three shots aideee, they say ; Bat—aiming at each other s' brains. The balls met nothing in their way ! The X-poetaster, who " does the doggrel" for the Public Ledger has, this day, with all the easy impudence imaginable, hoaxed the Editor of that Paper by the fol lowing barefaced plagiarism:— THE SCOTCH DUEL. Two Northern scribes in merry mood, CaU'd names—no law could hind 'eni ' • They met—each sought the o th er's brains — They Bred—but could not find then ! X. Captain Stuart, of the 12th, or Royal Lancers, is about to start as Candidate for the County of Waterford. This officer is brother of the late member, Mr. Villiers Stuart. The Powers and Barron. are Roman Catholic families of great influence in Waterford, but hostile as the Montague. and Capulets in local politics. The agents of Viscount Anson have made known to his Lordship's tenantry, that in consequence of the pressure of the times, it is his Lordship's intention to postpone his rent days two months, and also to return 20 per cent. on the amount of the rents. POLITICAL COMPROMISES From the Norniug Chroqick. It is an exceaingiy meth.r in this country to question the mode it. which any one finds his way into Parliament. If a man hi England svishe. that his conduct should be irreproach able he must in general consent to be placed on the shelf. A dis cussion was some time ago opened as to a compromise bet wren Lord Geo. Beresford and Mr. Barron, respecting the repee-eiltation - for the county and city of Waterford, his Lordship being to rtceive the support of Mr. Barron for the county,on Mr. Baryon's o'staining his Lordship's interest in the city. Lord Geo. disclosed the nego tiation when Mr. Barron started for the county. On the mention Mr Barron at once pled guilty, and expressed his contrition ; but a correspondent of the Waterford Chronicle takes the matter up where Mr. Barron leaves it ; and says, in substance, this sort of crimi nation and recrimination, in the present state of things, is very silly, when it is well known that no seats are obtained in Parka 'went by any other than crooked ways; the Duke of Devonshire. for instance, coalesces with the Beresfords for the scke of Hunger van ; and even the respectable Sir John Newport has his seat for the city of Waterford on the condition of delivering up hip interest. at his demise, to Mr. Alcock. When a crew of pirates are taken it is always allowed to any of them to plead, in justification. that he could not commit the cir cumstances under which he was placed among his comrades ; ant! that be availed himself of his situation to prevent the commi.sion of crime. When a man like Sir John Newport is caught in the House of Commons, the good he bas uniformly knight to do should be a valid apology for his being in bad company. A man may be perfectly honest without much merit ; while another, without being altogether honest, may have great merit, in the difficulties he sur mounts, in order to be as little dishonest as possible: The following is the extract above alluded to : " And I find, in the report of a speech delivered by Nit. Wyse, at the Meeting held at Dutigarvaii, on Wednesday. tk•oher 7th. that he labours, with equal earnestness, in "hewing the neer-si. y of torget.ing all the cause's of p tat national differences. It is no , as. tonishing, then, that Mr. Barron should have been hurried on, even beyond his depth, by the conciliatory system ; and that, under a wrong inipr-s ion as to the length to which it would justify bins in going, be made the tauter of his interest in the County as a quid fur his Lordship's interest in the City. " But it will be asked, whet claim had he upon the City, and why should he entertain the idea of disturbing its pat triarch il re presentative, Sir John Newport ? To these two question. I answer, first, that some influential members of the Corporation solicited him cto become a candidate for its representation . and. secondly, that it was very genera ly reports d at the time that ST John Newport, fielding himself .inking beneath the pressure of years and infirmi ties, had resolved upon r. turning into the bands of the electors of Waterford that tru.t which they had s.r often Celifi , ird tun,. And moreover. let me add, that it was the express de-ire of the Corpor 'tors above alluded to hr made the proposal of a coalition to Lord George reieshird. " Co.lirious, as I sad before, are detestable in my sight, be cause they generally neutralise altogether the public voice. But public men—men who a•pire to a station of houourabk ambition, as the cant goes, are not usually so squeamish in the choice of those means by which they expect to gratify their aspirations after fic tional confidence. In the year 1807, we had a coalition in this county, to which must of its Catholic, Gentry were parties ; and this coalition gave us a Claudius lkiesford, with Mr. itis.h.ird Power, as our representatives. •• There is, and always has been, an implied coalition between the House of Devonshire sod the House of Curraghniore, in rho. county, the object of which is to secure the undisturbed possession of the borough of Dungarvan to the former. And, to come nearer is the point at issue, is there not a most extraordinary cotopctt between the present representative of the city of Waterford, as bead of one portion of the Corporation, and Mr. Alcoa, as bead of another portion of that most immaculate ho.iy, which compact gives the city to Sir John Newport during his own life, whilst a post übitum bout! .of the Right Honourable Baronet assigns the • urea intact& to Mr. Alcock during his natural existence, or giunsialiss abbe placuerit l From this, you will perceive, Mr. Editor, that however coalitions may be odious hi the abstract, honourable men are not ashamed of them, when they promise, by entering into them, any practkal advantages. If Mr. Barron did then, what so many did before him, without rebuke or imputation upon their general honesty, I know not why so much acrimony should be manifested towards him now by the public Press." A gradual thaw commenced ou Wednesday night, and in the course of Thursday nearly the whole of the let, vious heavy fall of snow disappeared in most parts of the country. A WELSH VV.GETABLIt IN THE BAY OF BISCAY.— All the world knows Sir Watkins Williams Wynne, as the Welshman—all the world likewise knows a Welsh man's partiality for a certain vegetable : indeed, such is his ardent love for this esculent, that on the Is' of March he actually decorates his beaver with it; and if the na tural gem be non eat incentis, he will mount an artifici..l one, and, like Flucllin, make any man eat it that date but smile at it. Sir W. W. Wynne, on his health seeking voyage to the milder climate of Lisbon (the • welther was stormy, and the vessel strained,) lay in his cabin, exhausted by sea-sickness, and nauseating every thing in the shape of ship food, and indulging in tender reminiscences of his beloved national vegetable, when a dreadful commotion was heard, and hoarse voices front the lower regions shouting, "A leak ! a leak ! we've sprung a leak!" •‘ What ! sprung a leak ! (and tip sprung the now excited head of a family, whose great ancestor knew Adam before he was b:eeched,) sprung a leak ! how lucky ! now I can eat snmething. But who would have thought that our beloved vegetable could spring up in such a horrid place as the Bay of BL:cay ? St. David must be at the bottom of it." SsvER 11 STO It .—The wind blew with great violence on Tue.d'ty night, and during yesterday the force of the gale was little abated. About nine o'clock on Tuesday night the Manchester steam-packet, with goods and passengers, bound for Cork, passed the Light House, but in consequence of some accident to the machinery, the pad dles could not act, and an endeavour was made to return. It was, however, found impracticable to weather the Light House; and as the vessel was placed in a very dangerous situation, the ' crew and passengers get into a beat, and succeeded in reaching the shore. The Manchester has, we have learned, sustained considerable injury.--- Early Wednesday morning the brig Louisa, of White haven, William M'Adant, master, laden with coals, was driven on shore on the South Bull, and was totally wrecked. The crew were landed safely at Sandymount. A party of the horse police was sent yesterday to protect whatever might be saved from the vessel. A boat, sup posed to belong to her, was drivers on shore, and slashed to pieces on the rocks near Merrion. Such was tire fury of the gale yesterday morning, that the waves beat over the Martell° tower at Williamstown.—Dublin Morning Register. The female elephant, which has just arrived from Calais under the auspices of the proprietors of the Adelphi Theatre, was pet on board the Belfast steam boat on Wednesday evening last, about 11 o'clock. She was walked from the shore into the cage prepared fur her . . on board the deck of the boat without difficulty. The passage was an exceedingly rough one, but the elephant did not appear in the least degree discomposed, and was very playful with her keepers, the hat of one of whom she threw into the sea for some slight affront passed on her. The expense incurred in bringing over this new performer is very great. Her freight was 451. and she was insured at Lloyd's for 4,t'►Utrl. On arriving at Blackwall, where she was to be landed, some impediment arose, and the vessel proceeded to the Custom-house, but here again the elephant could not be landed, and was compelled to be carried back again to Blackwall. The animal is about twenty years old, and extremely docile. She is expected to prove a star of the first mag nitude at the Adelphi. Mr. Yates came over with the elephant. 4 ,r i i