Star. — London, England, 1822-06-24 00:00:00

I'HE ARMY. The Lone Paovosr of Edinburgh has received a letter from the SI:CRT:T.IIIY of STATIC, conveying his hiaaaarr's permission to jiscolninue the services of tbn! Royal Edininirgh Volunteers for t h e pres..nt. The Regiment was re-embodied in ISI9, and con fists at present of nearly 800 men. - - MILITARY PROMOTIONS. Bevil Regiment of Horse Guards—Cornet George &aveley hill t ., ne Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arnold, who retires; Lloyd Kenyon, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice hill. :,1 liOment of Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant Robert Haworth from the half-pay of the r.d Dragoon Guards, to be li:l:tenant, vice John Addbon, who exchanges, receiving the die:en:nee. 15th llegimert of Light Dragoons— Quince*, from the half-pay of the 18th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Backhouse, whose appointment John has not taken place. tith Ditto—Lieutenant William Hilton to be Adjutant, vice Cureton, who resigns the Adjutantcy only. :it Regiment of Foot—Captain Robert Power, from the 90th Foot, to be Captain, vice Frankland, who exchanges. ';.h Ditto—Ensign Lord William Thynne, from the 78th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Calvert, promoted in the 72d Regiment. ti.b Dino—Ensign Robert Mawdesley to be Lieutenant, by purchasc i vice Lord !Ingham, promoted in the 74th Regiment ; Ensign Hun. Richard Hare, from the 69th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Nlawdesley... I:th Ditto--Lieutenant Stirling Freeman filever, from the 72d _ - . _ . Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Markham, who exchanges. !oth Ditto—Captain Frederick William Frankland, from the ed Foot, to be Captain, vice Power, who exchanges. Ditto—Assistant Surgeon Charles Thomas Ingham, from the half-pay of the Bth Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgtee vice Browne, appointed to the .Icl Dragoon Guards. 23i Ditto—Lieutenant George Fielding to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Wynne, who retires. To be First Licutenants--Second Lieutenant William Gelidity. by purchase, vice Fielding; Lieutenant Charks Beale, from the half-pay of the Slat Regiment,vice Alexander Greig, who exchanges, receiving the difference. To be Second Lieutenant—Dudley Christopher Carey Elwes, Gent. by purchase, vice Gourlay. SOth Ditto--Ensign William Briggs, from the 61 st Regiment, to be Lieutenant, wi bout purchase, vice Deem an, deceased. 69th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Henry William illachford, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hare, appointed to the Bth Foot. Ditto—Lieutenant Harry Calvert, from the 7th Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires ; Lieu tenant Warren Markham, from the 12th Foot, to be Lieute- Lam, vice Glover, who exchanges. 73th Ditto-114wdon John Popham Vassal!, Gent. to be En sign. by cur cbase , vice Lord William Thynne, promoted in .- • _ _ the 7th Regiment. 53J ditto, Lieutenant William Phillips, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Geddes, deceased. 89th ditto, Captain Robert Nicholls; fronithe half-pay of the V.3t11 Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice George Edward Tones, who exchanges. 921 ditto, Lieutenant Charles Rowley, from the 7th Regiment, to he Captain, by purchase, vice Loggan, who retires. _Rifle Brigade, William Sherbrooke Ramsay Noreen, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant,without purchase,viceProbart,deceased. I)6:rict- Surgeon James Brady, from the half-pay, to be Surgeon of a Recruiting District, vice George Robertson Batllie, who exchanges. Commission in the Royal Cheshire Militia. 'Cite Lord Grey, to be Captain, vice Annitstead. resigned. Commis ion in the East Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset—Willot Eastment, Gent. to be Cornet. Tuesday night, a small boat coming to the shore from Mr. JEtvemst's yacht, at anchor off the Sally-port, Portsmouth, in which were Major Llamas, Mr. DURRII.I., Mr. Jetty:ger, and a boy, was upset, when Mr. Jeevotsrt swans to the shore, but Ma jor Hams, Mr. Dosara.r. ' and the boy, were nearly a quarter of an hour struggling with the tide ere their perilous situation was sliscevered, when a boat from Mr. lasiseoettes yacht ar rived at the spot, and happily rescued them, at the moment when the gallant Officer. Major Hams, having become ex hausted, was sinking. He was raised to the surface by the Master of Mr. Lwercasat's yacht, with a scull, to whose exer tions the highest praise is due. he boy was apparently lifeless when taken in. It would have been a matter of deep regret bad the misfortune been attendad with the sacrifice of life to either of the Gentlemen, but particularly to the gallant Officer alluded to, after the long career of honourable services which he has rendered his country us all the great battles of the late war, which he closed at Waterloo, with the less of his right arm, when leading an assault on the enemy, at the head of a squadron of litmus. Since the visit of the Illustrious Foreigners, we have had nothing equal to the display of taste and novelty displayed in . pie Pink and Kensington Gar dens yesterday...-iii fact, it to. k precedence of all other,, in splendour of beauty, and elegance of dress. Vitgiti white i , the favourite colour for dresses, and tl:e small bonnet increases in estimation.—lts the cos tume of the male espial's, the plaits in the petticoat tscre.er. increase. KING':, TacaTar..—The Opera of 11 Barbieri di Setvia was performed on Saturday evening with pea: applause, and was succeeded with no less effect by :he Ballet cf Le Petite Chaperon Rouge. In the brilliant circle were their.Eoyal Highnesses the ?tin ces, Auausra, chess of KIST, Duke of Gun:- l CESTaIt, and a I f e list of first-rate Nobility- HAYMARKET.-- The Play of the Stranger was re peated iin Saturday evenirg, with, if possible in crea,ed success. Mrs. CLIFFORD'S ,i Fs. Haller proves herself an acquisition to the London stage; and Mr. C. Kunst!, as the Stranger, is completely effective. ENGLISH OPRRA-HOUSIL—Mr. MATHEWS closed a most successful season on Saturday, on which occa sion he delivered, with much feeling, the following Address, ‘, inch was warmly applauded: a Lames aim Gzercsatex---My task for the evening being finished, it now only remains for me tta hid you farewel. This is the last time, for many months to come, that I shall have the honour and pleasure of appearing before you. 1 would fain snake you merry at parting, but I feel it impossible to leave Such kind friends, even for a time, without a sensation here— 1 (Layirg his band on his heart, with considerable emmion)—that prohibits an attempt at a mirthful leave taking. That I may . not, therefore, throw the same cloud over you which at this moment overshadows me, I will merely entreat that you will' not forget me in my absence ; and beli ye that, though the Atlantic must part us, it is utterly impossible that I can ever forget how deeply I am indebted to your flattering and unwearied patronage. I trust to be enabled to bring back a new budget for your amusement, and all soy powers of observation shall be roused to their utmost to collect such materials ir. my tra vels as shall prove that I have not absented myself from your smiles in vain." VAUXHALL—These Gardens were very splendid nn Fr iday evening. The following were among the :lumber present : Prince Esterhazy, Marchioneasternwallis, Duke and Duchess of St. Albans and Ladles Beauclerc, Lord Frederick Bettuclerc. lady Caroline Stewart, Earl of Burford, Lord Grey, Sir John Abbott (Chief Justice), Lord Sidmouth and family, Lord and Ludy Nugent, Lady Caroline Wortley, Lady Warwick, &c. &c. Nolan ROAD.—Mr. Texrdito, the celebrated road surveyor, has received orders to survey the road be tween Newcastle and Edinburgh, by Coldstream, Kelso, &c. Should a road be made that way, it will save eleven miles. DUEL.-A duel took place early yesterday morn ing between J. W.—, Esq. and Captain Cs—, when, in the second exchange, the former was struck in the vain, and at present lies in so dangerous a emulation that there is no hope of recovery. The dispute is said to have originated in a joke, succeeded by some sati r :cal verses un a Lady. • NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. The %Lions brig, or 10 guns, is commissioned at Ports mouth, by Captain Rosette HAY, for the Jamaica station t Lieu tenants Amoroso* and Kronor, and Mr. Jameson,. Purser, are appointed to her. l'lso Tnitiotas, 19, has beerycommissioned at Chatham, by Capt. J. W, Roxitars, fur foreign service, and Mr. W. Hau.a is appointed I'urser to her. , His Majesty's sloop' Fay, Captain G. 'frtsk, has returned from Jersey, whither she was sent to make an argicable settle ment of a dispute which had arisen between the French and Ritglbb oyster fishermen, as to the tight o. the Fanglish boats to fish Or the banks stretching front Cape Rotel to the rocks called ibeafinquais, between one and three leagues from the French cook, which oyster-beds they discovered in 1797. The right Mos been admitted, by which the fishery will again become open foe the supply of our markets in September next. During months of the year these fisheries occupy 300 fishing smacks, and nearly 2,000 British seamen. four PENZANCE, Julia 22.—Arrived the schooner Union, of Fowey, Captain Couaza, from Leghorn, with a cargo of linseed, for Li verpool, and is now riding at anchor in Gevava's Lake, await ing the arrival of pratique from London ; also the pilot smack Nel- 1 son, of Cowes, Capt. Bu tams, with passengers, from Bengal. Off the Lizard, yesterday, fell in with the ship Tyne, Capt. Joux &toms, from Bengal: sailed the 27th of December, 1821 ; left Madras on the 16th of January, 1822; the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th of March, and Si. Helena, on the 16th of April last. On the 20th instant, off the Land's End, spoke the brig Salty and Esther, of Boston, Captain J. Cou TTTTTT from the Havan nab to Rotterdam, out 41 days.—Arrived the pilot smack Jane, of Cowes, Capt. RANDALL, with passengers, from the West Indies. FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind E.—Arrived off the Port,• the William Lushington, Svottalg, from St. Kitts, in 44 days.— Sailed, the Stammer packet, fur Lisbon. • Jens: 22. Wind E.— Arrived, the Duke of York packet, front Jamaica, in 52 days. Sailed, the Fortitude, CROSBY, for Bilboa. PLY:kit/I:TH, JUNE 22.—Wind E.—Arrived, the Hope, COATH, from Tenenffe, in 30 days. Arrived off the Port, the Venus, Cuamrata, from New York, in 36 days; and tke Fanny trans port, from Portsmouth. • PORTSM3ITT/I, Jinn: 22.—The Taisuez frigate, just arrived, lost about 60 men and Officers in the West Indies, by fever.— Lieutenant MURRAY, Mr. Dust.or, Surgeon, two Assistant- Surgeons, the Rev. J. Lusv, Chaplain, the Gunner and Car penter, died on the Spanish Main; 24 men and Officers only having escaped the contagion of fever out of the whole crew.— She sailed from Jamaica on the 29-t1 of April, and from Ha vannah the 13th of May, and has brought a freight of 600,000 dollars and 200 bates of cochineal, for merchants. She expe rienced strong south-west winds on the passage, until she came within the latitude of the Western Islamic. fly her we learn that the Spanish Royalist troops still maintain themselves in gar rison; in this isolated citadel of Vera Cruz, which fort com prises all that Old Spain now holds of what she once proudly called " The Indies." The remainder of the Royalist troops have concentrated at the Havanna!), in which city and its de pendencies, several thousand European soldiers are in arms ; notwithstanding which force, a daily rising of the Blacks was expected ; Indeed, recently, three large estates had revolted , against their masters, and secretly small bodies of troops were marched Into the interior, with a view of pursuing the runaway negroes, the Spanish Authorities not being willing openly to acknowledge the danger. It was uncertain what Power would be invoked to protect the Island of Cuba in case of a Revolu tion—the Americans and the English were equally certain their assistance would be required. The Island of Cuba had been very healthy ; but Jamaica had been sickly during the winter ; the 33d Regiment suffered much immediately on its arrival front England. The first division of this Regiment, in the Ocean transport, had been detained at Antigua, to repair the damage that vessel had sustained. The Seattte, TAMAR, and ARGUS were at Port Royal. Arrived, the Hornhy, CORKINnAL, from Rio. Sailed, the Jane, Beare', for London. His Majesty's ship REVOLUTIONNAIRE, 11011. Captain Priam, was released from quarantine on Tuesday, and sailed the todowing day for Ply mouths to be p. id off and laid up in ordinary. She left Malta stad April, at which time the LARNE was the only vessel of war at that Wand. Vice-Admiral Sir G. Moons, K.C.B. in the Rocueroer, 80 guns, Captain SCHOMBERO, with the Ruse slaop of war In company, sailed the day before for Corfu.— The rest of the squadron were at Corfu and Smyrna; there was also a neves squadron stationed off Smyrna. The Revoau- TIONNAIRIL arrived at Gibraltar on the 30th April, and was de tained there by contrary winds till the lath ultimo. Several in valids came home in her front the squadron in the Mediterra nean, among whom were—Major JoNas, R. M. late of the Rom-IMR/ ; Lieutenant Vassar, and Mr. G. %Var.a.cit, Purser, late of the Disaarcn; and Lieutenant COLVIN', of the CUANTI• cam. His Majesty's sloops BANN and DRIVER sailed from Gibraltar, to proceed to the coast of Africa, on the Ist of May. The reductions made by the Commissioners of the Navy in the Dock-yard Establishment at Portsmouth, as well as other arrangements connected with the mode in which the duties therein shall be performed, have been received t the new regu lations are to be acted upon on the Ist of July. The reductions consist of the abolition of the offices of the Clerk of the Survey and Clerk of the Rope-yard—the duties hitherto performed by whom are w be transferred to the Clerk of the Cheque and the Storekeeper. Fourteen Clerks, the whole of the Ginartermen and Foremen, with the Master blastmaker, Master Boat builder, Master Carpenter, and Joiner, are to be discharged.— I The alaster Sailmaker, Master Ropernaker, Master Rigger, Master Blacksmith, and Master Bricklayer, are to be retained. The arrangements arising out of this reduction are these:—Sts foremen are to be appointed to conduct the general business of the yard, under the ivatructions of the Master Shipwright ; the angs of workmen, consisting hitherto of 30 , are to be subdivided either into 10 or 15 men, as the measure may require, from which one man of such gang is to be selected to superintend as well as work, who will receive for such superintendence, in ad dition to his earnings, 2s. 6d. per week. The Clerks to be re tained in the various offices (44) are to be separated into three classes, and paid according to servitude. The number of the first class is to consi-t of five, vizaone in the Commissioner's Office, two in the C.erk of the Cheque's Office, and two in the Storekeeper's Glace:—the minimum of the salary of this class is £3OO, salary to be increased 410 annually until it shall amount to £450, which is to be the maximum. That of the second class is to be comprised of ten Clerks, the minimum of which will be £l5O, and the maximum £3OO- .the salary to be increased upon the same principle as observed in the first class ; so also with the third class, which is to be composed of the remainder of the Clerks, viz. 28 ; the minimum of the salary of which being £BO, and the maximum £l5O. None of the salaries enjoyed at present by any individual retained will be reduced, except by the ope ration of the Superannuation Act. The Commissioner of the Dock-yard is to have a Secretary. JUN:: 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived, the Imperial, Humes, front New Orleans. Sailed, the Commodore 'lase, for London; and the Hornhy, for liamburgh. DEAL, Jests 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived .this morning his Majesty's ship Owen Gaemenven, from Copenhagen, and will proceed this evening fur Portsmouth; also arrived an d ailed for the River, the Juno, PRITCHARD, from Jamaica; Alliance, Amer, from Demerara; Salus, CRICEMAY. front Carthagena; Hermes, Rosiesoo, from Malta; Ridley, llirmev, from the Mediterra nean ; Velocity, Tuatoox, front Gibraltar. Came down from the River, and sailed last night, the Dryad, Feat., for Demerara. Sailed yesterday morning for the River, the Laing, CLARE, from St. Vincent's. Arrived at half-past six yesterday evening, the Milford, HARWOOD, from Bombay. Wetruourn, Jests 22.—Monday arrived the Countess of Li verpool Post-office packet, R. Worn Master, with Mails and passengers, front the Islands of Guernsey and Jersey. The Tide i Surveyor and his boat's crew, in searching the above vessel, 1 fouud concealed in the cable tier 40Ibs. of tobacco, in conse -1 quo= of which the pa .ket is detained, to the injury of its Com mander ; and the mate, steward, and six of the crew besides, are committed to Dorchester Jail. Datarstourg Joys 22.—Arrived off the port the An n and Hope, }WALT : from Canton to Harnburgh, out 115 days. Hero, Jun 22.—A letter front one of the crew states that the Hope, Hams, front this port to Ptctou, was lost off St. John's, on the 4th May, or March, crew with difficelty saved. Asateso--At Liverpool, the Dart, Prowse, front Newfound land. At Dublin, Mary Aon, front London. At the Havannah. Havannah Packet, Eastun. from Liverpool ; Peter Elia, Pearson, from Havre; Duke of Wellington; Bourne; and Gelick, Manuel, front Jamaica. At Malta, Mountaineer, f rom the Clyde. At St. Helena, kllisa, from Madras. At Havre, Alfred, Bayley, from Loadan ; Atbs, Estight, from Cork. • DRURYLANE THEATAE. • . WI STEAD houtiL • &tee& y, pursuant toadvertisement,*Pablic Meet- The fate of this mansion reminds us of that which in gof the Proprietors of this Theatre took place in the befell the hiagnifieent seat of the late. Sir Gitecont Saloon, for the purpo-e of receiving a statement o f t h e PAGE, at Wrinkleinanla on the westeni side of Black affairs of the Theatre. Mr. CA LCRArT, having been heath. 'Phis Colonnade, ands o ik f l ac e unites v en ‘ tre an : tead to House, two was wings called to th e Ch a i r , state d to t h e M eet i ng t h e o bj ect by a c for which they had been called together. He held in adorned with paintings, hangings, marbles; a n d alto his hand, he said, a statement of the accounts, drawn relievos. Sir GREGORY died in 1775, and• left thii up by their Auditor, Mr. Oakley, which he' had no (seat to his nephew, the late Sir GREGORY PAGE Tun doubt would prove satisfactory. It had already re-' Nen, who took the name and arms Of PAGE. Sir ceived the approbation of the General Committee.— Gitecasay PAGE TURNER disposed of the noble col lie had the pleasure of being able to inform them, lection of paintings by auction, and by virtue of an that the income of the Theatre had been regularly Act of Parliament, the house and grounds were sad paid by Mr. Elliston, whom he begged to metition to by auction to JOHN CATOR, Esq. of Reckersharn, for them with great commendation. He begged to state, £32,550. This Gentleman sold it again by aaction that Mr. Elliston had not only paid t h e i r ren t o f in 1787, in a very different way ; all the materials, £10,200, but, in consequente of the extra nights on with its costly decorations, having been disposed of which the Theatre had been opened, they had now in in separate lots. Such also was the fate of Canona s the hands of their Bankers the sum of £l,lOO, for the near Edgeware, the once princely Palace of the free renters; so that he had actually paid, during the princely Chandos, which rose and disappeared in lesi last season, £11,300. When they came to reflect upon titan half a century ! And-similar too was the fate • the previous circumstances of the concern, they could of Eastbury, in Dorsetshire, a splendid seat which um but consider this as an extraordinary change in cost £lOO,OOO. It was built by the famous GEORGE theatrical matters. They had, in addition to this, ,Busa DODDINGTON, whose vanity at the age of f oar reit ized the other part of their income from houses score, when he had no heir to inherit his honours( and offices. i here was a law charge of 1:280 ; but induced him to accept the title of Lord Melcombe this, from the peculiar ci:curnstances under which Regis. This seat, on his death, devolved. on the late it had been incurred, must be considered rather as a Earl TEMPLE, who lent it to his brother, Mr. HENRY gain than a loss. During the three years that the GRENVILLE, on who edeath the Earl offered to give Committee had held the management of their affairs, £2OO a-year to any Gentleman who would occupy they were engaged only in one law suit, and in that and keep it in repair ; but the proposal not being ac- they were successful. Though it cost money, as ever y cepted, he determined to pull it down, arxt th e ma law suit must, still the result was advantageous.— terials produced little more than the prime cost of Having thus stated the income and espenditure, he the plumber's and glazier's work.—The sale proceeds rid not know that there was anything more 7 ta he with great spirit. The plate, which is of the most said,on that subject, except that the utmost expectta massive description; produced 15s. an ounce. It is tions of the Committee hod been fulfilled. They had settled that the House shill be pulled down. got tid of debt much more rapidly than they calcu tilted on, and there was every prospect that they would ultimately realize the whole of their property. He thought it right to state, that Mr. Elliston in tended to make great alterations, and introduce fur ther embellishments in the Theatre, during the recess, which, added to the industrious efforts he was making to irnprbve the company, would render it as attrac tive as it ever had been in the annals of theatrical his- Wry: As far as such property was concerned, nothing could be mare promising or more cheering. They would recollect, that so short a tinie back as three years, the House was filled with executions, and la hoisted Limier embarrassments of every kind: Since twat period, they had repaid £75 per cent. instal merits on their debts ; and if they had not realized all that they owed, they had the most favourable prospects before them. But in order to shew more clearly the situation of their affairs,he would state how .he concern stood in 1819, and at the present time.— When the Committee undertook the affairs of the Company, in the year 1819, they found a debt upon the concern of £92,404, which debt was in July last reduced to £45,939; since which period the sum of El 1,973 had been discharged, reducing the present imoutic of debt to £33.965. They had therefore paid off, during this) ear, £ll.976—much beyond what they expected. They had been called upon to pay £2OOO for a lieu upon the Theatre, which they did not anticipate; but which, upon looking into the terms of the engagement, was found pe. fectly just. Oa this account, the balance in the banker's hands ,lid not appear so great as it would other wise have been; but as it was so much debt paid off, it might be fairly added to the amount of their profits. Agree. ably to the stipulations held out to the subscribers to the loan, the sum of £4351 was to be paid to them in the course of the next year. The Committee having already paid three instalments of £25 per cent. each with interest, up to January last, they had therefore fuifilled their engagement in a great ii,easure, so that no more than £3400 remained due. The next past of the plan, that of setting aside the nightly receipts for the new renters, had been fully acted upon. The only incurnbrance, therefore, that remained, was £24,416 due to the bondholders, and £5200 to claim ants, which, in all probability, would not be called fur, and which, if it should, they would be pelfectly ready to pay. The Committee confidently calculated that they would be able to discharge the whale of the debt within the time mentioned in the several Reports made to the Proprietors. From these circumstances the Meeting would pet ceive that the Committee had fully realized the scheme held out three years back to the Public. The new renters might have the £llOO paid for extra nights whenever they pleased to call for it. He would not trespass longer on their attention, but merely to repeat that their prospects were much better than any pet son a short time back could venture to hope:From the punctuality and grew attention of Mr. Elliston, lie formed the most sanguine expectations that they would be able to realize every thing held out to the Proprietors. After appointing the Auditor and Committee, and doing some other business, the Meeting broke up. HRBDOMADARY. MONDAY, Jtms 24.—Nativity of John Baptist. Midsummer Day. Holiday at the &ink, Exchequer, and India and South Sea Houses. The Sun rises at seventeen minutes b:•fore four, and sets at seventeen minutes after eight. Conjunction of the Moon and Mars in Virgo, at half-past two in the morning. Tucsnmr.—The days are increased eight hours and fifty minutes. Clocks about two minutes before the Sun. Wennesnsy.:—Trinity Term ends. The Moon enters her first quarter at twenty-eight minutes after seven in the morning. Tuunins:.—.-Opposition of the Sun and the Georgium Sidus, at a quarter before four in the afternoon. FRIDAY.—Venus, a morning star, rises about ball-past one in the morning. SATURDAY.—St. Peter. Holiday at the B.:nk, Exchequer, and India and South Sea Houses. Conunctioa of Jupiter and Venus in Taurus; Venus ninety minutes south of Jupiter. Sutton, the pedestrian, still contimies his arduous undertaking at Milton.—Bets are nearly equal. The Weir, a vessel of 300 tons, chartered by a London Con fecrioner, for ice, was lost on the 28th of April, by the pressure of the ice-bergs. She went down almost instantaneously, and nothing was saved. Captain Tilo3l . l , tiGN, and part of the crew, existed on the ice for a month, living on seals. The bark of the % , illow-tree burnt to ashes ar.d mixed with strong vinegar, forms a lixiviunt which effectually eradicates, by repeated applications, warts, corns, and other cutaneous excrescences. So general an interest, in the literary world, has not been excited by any Work, sincc the pals . lication of Ossian, as by O'Ccotua's Clovrisles Eri. In all respects they must be regarded as aniohg the most extraordinary historical recorch that have appeared since the Pentateuch, with which they pro fess to be coeval. The Hsstory of the aboriginal Irish People, fioni MS.S. a theuund years old, and which were composed three thousand years ago, are features of a work sufficient to sti mulate general curiosity, and to excite the pens of hundreds of critics and commentator?. THE Museum, No. IX. (a new Week;y Journal devoted to LITERATURE the FINE ARTS, SCIENCE, ANTIQCITIES. the URANIA. &c.) published 22d June (price Bd..in London and it• Environs, brine by post, is.) rontal::s : I. Letters from Paris, No. 4.—t. Anniversary of the Roe burghe club. -5. First Shakspeare Reprint.-4. Notices of the less known Italian Writers.-3. Vulgarity of Slang.-6. llrigi nal Poetry.-7. Fine Arts: Itaiinbach's . Engraving fa: . Wale', ltlindman•s Buff; Exhibition of Drawings in Soho-sq.-8. The Drama : Opening of the Haymarket Tneatre—Miss Tree's Imogen.-9. Reviews of Dibdin's /f.des Grave of the last Saxon—Gwilt's Origiu of the Caryatides-- Bracebridge H.R.—With Varieties, Pacetix, &c. in Prose and Verse.—Published by JOHN AIILLuit, 69, heet-areer, every Sa turday ; sold also by all Booksellers, Newsmen, Postmasters, &c. The new satirical Poem The AltilanukA," is most humorously written in the Beppo style, promises to ob tain as much celebrity as that produced some years since by a Noble Lord. The objects of the two are somewhat similar. The author of " The 'Alohawks" has boldly undertaken the cause of literature axd literary men against the tnisrepreseilers of books and calumniators of persons—those stabbeis in the dark arid provokers of duels, the Quarterly, Monthly, and Daily as sassins, whose deeds foim so new and disgusting a feature of the age in which We live. Two hundred and Eeventy quarters if foreign wheat, in bond, have been sold in Newcastle since our last, at four shillings and one penny per quarter, or one shilling and a farthing per nob ! It is 'lamentable to reflect that tile poor Irish are starving s bile abundance elcorn, tt hich could be pm chased tor a mete t:ifle, is spoiling in our lofts! Might not Minister, with great propriety bring in a Bill enabling them to buy up sound foreign corn at a certain price, considerabiy higher, of course, than the price %ye have named, and to ex port such corn for gratuitous distribution in Ireland ? Such a measure would afford great relief to the Irish peasantry, as well a, the holders of foreign corn, and could do no harm to the agriculturist, as it' would be delivered to such persons only as could not afford to purchase the produce of the land.—Dur ham Advertiser. CORN EEC:BENGT, MARE-LANE, JUNK 24.—We had but a mo• derate supply of Wheat fresh in this morning, but the quantity left over from previous arrivals is large ; and the demand being slack, even the finest samples met ready sale at last Monday s prices; the ordinary descriptions were offered at a reduction of 21. per quarter. Owing to the continuance of hot weather, and the Injury which it has occasioned to the crops of spring corn, an advance has taken place in the prices of Barley, Beans, and Peas, of As. per quarter; and the Oat trade was brisk at an amendment of I. although the arrivals have been very con siderable.—Current prices as under: ENGLISH. Small Beans 26s 30S Wheat, Kent and Tick ditto 245 27s Essex .... 30s 52s Oats, Potatoe 23. 26s Suffolk 3os SOs Poland 20s 24s Norfolk - Feed 155 22$ Rye.. l6s 9.0 s Flour, per Sack 43. 50. Barley .................18s 243 llspetieed, per I.ast £3O 4 . 52 Malt 42s 46s FOREIGN. White Peas 24s 263 \Vheat, Dantzic...A. . Os SMITH FIELD MARERT, J UNs 24.—Our market coLtinutt to b e abundantly supplied with All descriptions of Meat. notwithstand ing the greatness of former arrivals; and the butchers not being digitised to purchase, every article is lower and rather heavy.—. Current prices t Beef,2 vial. ;34. to 43.03. Pork, 2s. Od. to 3s. 44.3. Od; to as. 4 d. per stone of Al b s. ; Mutton, Is. oda, to 55.04 38.6d.t0 4 s.6d—Cattle at Marker : Re.asts,249o ; Calves,46o; . Sheep and Lambs,l3l,9*; Pigs, 260.—Hay and Straw per NA: I H ay , 3/. Os. go . U. 30s. (lover, 41. 4s. se 44 101. StraW s 14. 75. I to IL les. A general issue of half-sovereigns is expected to take place immediately from the Bank, to the amount of D2OOO, if required, to each banker. The Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of the Police of the Metropolis has been printed. Among . , other suggestions it recommends that the Secretary of State be authorised to sanction an additional pay ment of any officer who may be severely wounded in the performance of his duty, and to grant a retiring allowance when any officer may be completely dis abled by bodily injury, or worn out by length of service ; and also to attach to each office one head constable, at a salary of three guineas per week with lout emoluments ; such officer to be selected from the most deserving of those at present employed. With respect to fairs held in London and its vicinity, and Ithe prackice of bullock-hunting, it prop ses to em power any two Magistrates, who shalt have reason to think a fair entirely illegal, or continued beyond its legal duration, to summon the owner or occupier of the ground whereon it is held, to appear at a Petty Session of the Magistrates of the division, and chew his title to hold such fair ; and in case he shall not satisfy them, they shall be enabled to declare such fair illegal, and require the peace-officers to remove all articles from the ground, and take all ersons in custody concerned therein who still continue such fair after notice given of its illegality. On the sub ject of bullock-hunting, the Committee recommend that the penalty, now 20s. be increased to 40h . for a first offence, and .1.:5 for a second acute. A •e' • I I i ! 1 . k ! i I t " 4