Star. — London, England, 1822-09-05 00:00:00

TURKISH GALLANTRY. APTER THZ PRZNCH. LADY ••••........ I can't abide you Turkish folk, Who take your wives by twenty; In England one is tbought no joke, And numbers find it pknty / TURKItti A'iIASSADOIM In England, true, this plan may do, And be as good as any, But all the charms we see in you, We only find in weeny! To the handsome donations by his MAJESTY to the Public Institutions of Edinburgh, already mentioned, we are hairy to add the following : To the Society for the support of Gaelic Schools (of which Lis Dlaje‘ty has been pleased to become patron), 100 guineas. To the Royal Public Dispensary for the City and County of Edinburgh, .so guineas. ' To the New Town Dispensary, 50 guineas. To the Destitute Sick Society, 50 guineas. Numbers were of opinion that the great influx of people into Edinburgh would raise the rates of lodg ing, create a temporary scarcity, and at least double the prices of provisions in that City. Acting on this conclusion, among other commodities, large specula- Cons were made in eggs. So far from realising the large profits the too sanguine speculators anticipated, it is probable that not one of them escaped without a loss proportionate to the extent" of their purchases. One man bought 6,000 eggs, at 6s. a hundred, from a Glasgow dealer. On the Thursday preceding his MAJESTYS arrival, he sent a lad to Edinburgh with the cargo in a waggon, and a trusty woman to ma nage the sale. Eight days expired, and only a few dozens were sold at what was considered a fair price, when the owner, having lost all hopes of a ready sale and high prices, sold his eggs to two men at a loss of Is. 6d. per hundred, besides the carriage and other expenses. A higler bought 2,000 of the eggs at 4s. 9d. a hundred, from these two men ; and at the very moment Edinburgh was at the throngest, very eagerly brought them back to Glasgow, and said them in the Bazaar at ss. a hundred. It is said, that during his MAJESTY'S visit to Edin burgh, forty-eight silver and three gold watches were stolen. Among the numerous depredations committed by the light. fingered gantry during the KING'S visit, there is none which excites more sympathy than the loss sustained by Mr. BLAIR, Of Cookston. Tired of the luxuries he enjoyed in Edinburgh, Mr. BLAIR proceeded to the coach-office to take a seat for Dun dee, thinking, " good easy man," that he would pay for his seat out of the sum of £B, being the residue of the money lie had carried with him to pay his expenses. " Is there room for me in the coach ?"—Clerk, " Yes, Sir, there is one place, but whether it will hold a gen tlewan of your size, I cannot say till you try. " What is your charge? " Ten shillings, Sir."— " GCD bless me! my money is gone!" cried the asto nished Justice, as he fumbled in hi, breeches pocket: " My money is gone! My pocket has been picked! D—n cue if ever I come to Edinburgh again!" Mr. J. 11. Sc rr, v. , riter in Dundee, also suffered some loss in the same place where the portly functionary of the Guild Court was deprived of his gold watch. The Hon. Mr. Maims had his coat cut in the crowd in the street, and his pocket-book with 1:25 abstracted. During the procession to the Calton-Hill to lay the foundation-stone of the National Monument, it was remarked that no small sensation was produced by the various emblematical insignia borne by the dif ferent Lodges, and in particular by the Stirling An cient Lodge, whose 'filer, a little man, dressed in the garb of Old Gaul, carried a double-handed sword of great magnitude and length. It will be gratifying to cur Readers to learn, that this ponderous weapon was actually found in the field of Bannockburn about a century ago, and has been . preserved as a precious relic by this very ancient Lodge, whose orignal charter was granted by King DAVID. The present POPE is eighty years of age, and has governed the Church twenty-two years. There are 41 Cardinals, and 23 vacant hats. The number of Patriarchs, Archbishops, and Bishops, dispersed through Christendom, is 550. The reason of the vacant hats is, that the moderate revenues of the E 6 clesiastical State compel the Holy Father to be as sparing as possible in filling up the vacancies, lest the scanty income of the College should be still more subdivided. The present income of a Cardinal isnot nE:xe than £4OO sterling a-year. Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, a young woman about 19 years of age, who lives in the capa city of housemaid with a respectable old Lady re siding near Kennington Common, on being informed of the marriage of a young man, which took place on Saturday last (who had formerly lived as a foot man in the family, and had paid his addresses to her), instantly ran down to the bottom of the garden, and jumped into a large water-butt, kept there for the purpose of watering the garden; but disliking her situation, she soon began to scream out for assistance, and her cries having alarmed the adjoining neigh bours, she, by the assistance of two of the servants, was extricated from her perilous situation, with no other injury than a good ducking. SUMMARY JUSTICE.--A poor itinerant Italian Jew boy, with his board of images, was attacked yester day afternoon in Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars, by a fellow of formidable size and strength, who not only abused him in language he could not understand, but, because the poor fellow did not reply, knocked the board off his head, and demolished Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington ! A stander-by, short and sturdy as his native oak, was too much exasperated to balance the odds against him ; and, on demanding if lie would redress the grievance of the stranger, by paying for the injury he had committed, was replied to by a volley of abuse. Cowardice and insolence are generally concomitant; and so it proved in this in stance : for the bully received the chastisement he deserved, as completely as if he had been regularly served oat by an out-and-outer i n the ring at Moulsey, to the no small gratification of the assembled multi tude ; after which he was followed and hooted, till he took shelter in a neighbouring public-house. The champion of the oppressed set the example, and a penny subscription amply repaid the damage. • a ROYAL ACAbitikt* OF MUSIC. If the British Public is entitled at any time to' a just and honourablpatnnishment , it k when an under taking of nationaVvle Is proposed for their support. Their benevolence, en these occasions, is copious, active, and sincere, and the Institution, into which we are proceeding to make inquiries, affords a splendid proof of the zeal and generosity, which, as English men, we feel proud to notice. As the greatest attend tion has been attracted by this Establishment, we shall lay before our Readers a brief sketch of the Regulations that govern it. These regulations, which are now before us, appear to be drawn up in a spirit of great liberality and dis cernment, and tend, in a most eminent manner, to promote the perfection of the musical art, the inte rests of the Professors, and the welfare ofthe Students. They are assimilated in a considerable degree, to those adopted in the Conservatories of France and Italy ; but from the ability with which they are drawn up, many points, which prevail in these celebrated Schools, and which have proved by experience to be faulty and defective, are modified or avoided. The most rigorous critic will search in vain for opportu nities to exercise his asperity upon these rules; they are marked by firm, acute, and liberal thinking ; and we can assert, without the least fear of contradiction, that the Royal Academy of Music, founded as it is upon these auspicious and correct principles, is wor thy of the exalted patronage it possesses, and not only justifies the confidence of the Public in zeneral, but demands the most strenuous efforts of the Professors for its success. The government of the Institution is vested in a Committee of Directors, amongst whom we notice the Dukes of DEVONSHIRE and WELLINGTON, the Archbishop of YORK, the Marquis of AYLESBURY, and other individuals, conspicuous for their high rank and earnest devotion to those elegant arts by which the character of the country is improved and promoted. The immediate administration and en tire superintendence of the Establishment is con fided to a Sub-Committee, composed of nine dis tinguished Amateurs, selected from the three first classes of subscribers, of whom -Lord Btracutansir is Chairman : one of the most important advantages to be derived from this arrangement, is the security it affords against a certain degree of partiality which has sometimes been remarked, when Professional Directors alone were employed ; and to this most salutary and judicious constitution of the Sub-Com mittee, may be ascribed the prosperity of the whole Establishment, and the realization of those objects it has been projected to secure. Dr. Cacrot, a Gen tleman of known talents and character, is nominated Principal of the Academy, assisted by a Board of four Professors, whose duty it is to superintend the musical education of the students; and to appeal, in all other respects, to the judgment of the Sub-Com mittee for general proceedings. Every Professor en gaged to teach in the Academy is authorised to pur sue his own method of instruction, so that genius of every description is thus enabled to produce itself. In the foreign conservatories a most palpable and pernicious error exists in the distinct branches of tui tion—the several Professors of a particular instru ment are requ'red to concur in fram'ng some system by which each branch may be acquii ; this system is adopted in every case throughout the institutions, and hence it happens that the pupils imbibe a severe and monotonous style, destitute, too often, of that grace, sentiment, and vigour, which nothing but the mutual emulation of the master and the pupil can impart. 'lbis emulation, however, is suppressed by the practice to which we allude; and vlteii the bene. fits are weighed that accrue to a course of study from entulotint alone, the advantages Ft-cured by . it change of the castom will be instantly felt. _ _ The ultimate proficiency of the scholars aprears to be most scrupulously considered, and no time is there fore allowed to be lost in the study of more subordi nate instruments than are required for the purposes of a sound musical education. A thorough know ledge of harmony, and of the piano-forte in conjunc tion with it, is indispensably preset ibed, to whatever. branch of music the pupil may apply himself; and were the difficulties generally known to which our best orchestra performers, from their early neglect of the science of harmony, are sometimes reduced, the propriety of attending to this branch of education would not require to be enforced. _ _ To prevent the injury which even talents of the highest order must sustain from a premature display of their proficiency, the Students are not allowed, while members of the Academy, to take part in any public concert or exhibition, or to print, or to cause to be performed. any work whatever, without the previous consent of their respective Masters, and the sanction of the Sub-Committee. In order to give the pupils opportunities of hearing their Masters in public, and of perfecting their mu sical taste, there will be two grand Concerts in the course of each year, the produce of which will be ap plied to the benefit and advancement of tl.e Institu tion. Such of the pupils as have made sufficient pro gress will perform at these Concerts, in the presence of all that rank and taste which can give celebrity to their efforts, and incitement to their ambition. In ad dition to a variety of rehearsals, ex ami nations, etc. there will be an annual distribution of prizes, in which the scholars, according to their respective mei its, will be publicly rewarded. The anxiety of the Directors ex tends itself to the last stage at which the students can receive their assistance, and they have accordingly determined to furnish them, on quitting the Academy, with a certificate of talents and character. They can offer themselves, under the sanction of this document, as Professors in any part of the Empire, without ex periencing that neglect or distrust with which the, abilities of youth are so frequently attende3. In this Institution the elements of a good literary education are coupled with excitement to that musical profi ciency their establishment so proudly offers; and it must afford the guardians of our British youth a high gratification to be able to commit the genius and the virtue they have in charge into the hands of those who have been elected to the head of this establishment. Paoor having been wounded by a musket-ball at the siege of La Rochelle, the surgeon who first dressed the wound declared that it was very dangerous, for he could see the brain. 1 , Can you, in deed ?" said he, 4 , do me the favour then to take out a little of it, and send it in a linen rag to Cardinal RtcHa [.tru,whotellsme it hundsed times a day I havemoue 1" ,•, . • ,- DUBLIN, SEPTEMBER s. Saturday, the Commission of Oyer and Term or general jail delivery, for the city and county. of Dublin, was opened with the usual ceremonies by Lord NORSTIRY. On the Juries being sworn, Lord NORBUItY shortly addressed them, and said, he was sure it would not be considered unbecoming in him at that time to re mark upon the reluctance shewn by Gentlemen in coming forward, when called upon, to serve the high and important office of Grand Juror. It would be a culpable forbearance on his part, were he to let the circumstance pass entirely unnoticed; though, from the great r espectability of the Gentlemen present , he should forbear to animadvert harshly upon their tardiness, lest it might be supposed he had found it necessary to goad or worry them into the perform ance of a duty so essentially necessary to the public peace and welfare, anu to the preservation of that tranquillity which had rendered Dublin so high an example, and such as he heartily wished.) ad been imitated by the remote districts of the kingdom. It was for the promotion and preservation of this state of security and happiness, that the Commissioners for the city and county had been increased to within two of the annual number of those held in London, where the difference of popylation was so considerable.— The calendar, though heavy, he was happy in being enabled to inform them jwith the exception of one case), exhibited no particular features of atrocity, or variation from the ordinary course of delinquency which might be attributed, in a great measure, to the vigilance of the police and the zeal of the Magis tracy. Here his Lordship took occasion to compli ment the Lord Mayor, whose services, he said, " would be ever remembered by the citizens of Dub lin." The duties of the Grand Jury were of the most serious nature, and he should therefore request of them to be punctual in their attendance, that every case might have that solemn and due deliberation it was entitled to, as well from a principle of humanity as from the sacred obligation of their oath. The crime in the calendar to which he had alluded as an excep tion, was the offspring of iniquitous proceeding', with which, unhappily, the inmates of those haunts of vice and infamy where it was perpetrated were too fami liar. Those vile receptacles were a disgrace to a city, with whose order and regularity their late Royal visitor expressed himself so much pleased and grati fied. He hoped that before they should again have the 11.tpiness of enjoying the Royal presence amongst them, they would contrive to get rid of such dan gerous and scandalous nuisances. In the perform ance of their duty, if any doubts arose to interrupt their progress, the Court would afford them every assistance; but, said his Lordship in conclusion, You cannot have more difficulty in finding Bills than the Court had in finding Jurors." ARRESTS FOR HIGU TREASON. After sonic routine business had been gone through, Mr. HAMILTON addressed the Court, and said he appeared on behalf of six persons who, as they stated in their petition, were arrested in Dublin for high treason on the 25th of June, and kept in the Head Police Office until the sth of July, when they were committed to Kilmainham Jail,where they have since remained in close confinement, and they prayed the Court would order them to be brought to trial during the present Commission. Lord NORIIVRY—Your application is not or the purpose of obtaining an immediate discharge ? Mr. Haxtivros—The present application is founded upon the sixth section of the Habeas Corpus Act, which provides that, if during the next Assizes or Commission of Oyer and Terminer, after the prisoners have been committed for high treason, they should not be brought to trial (having made an application for that purpose on the first or opening day of the Commission or Assizes), they shall be discharged on giving Lail. I therefore make the present applica tion as a preceding matter, that the prisoners may be entitled to apply ior their discharge cn the last day of the Commission, if they should not before that time be brought to trial. - Lord Nostamtv--Have you served notice on the A ttorney•General ? Mr. HAMILTON—My Lord, we shall do so, if your Lordship orders it. Mr. SEALY Toll/mum> (who appeared on the part of the Crown)—My Lord, the Crown Solicitor is in Court, and that is quite sufficient. The following are the names of the petitioners— Michael Keenan, Michael Carr, Nathaniel Redmond, John Conway, Michael Quinn, and William Mason. ARRESTS AT ARMAGH. Mr. HAMILTON then made a similar application (with a like result) on behalf of fourteen persons,who, as their petition stated, were arrested for high treason in Armagh, on the 13th of June, brought up to Dub lin, from whence, on the 6th of July, they were trans mitted to Kilmainham, where they now remain dose prisoners. Their names tvere—Thomas Byrne, John Rice, Bernard Dougan, Peter Reilly, Henry Coogan, James M'Grogan, Denis Hamilton, Edward Clafferty, Peterßou rke, John Kell y,Thomas Lamb, Joh n Bradly, Thomas Hughes, and Henry Blake. MURDER OF MAJOR GOING. LIMERICK, Auousr 31.—The brig Mary Anne, of this port, arrived here in twenty-four days from Quebec, she brings an account of the apprehension at that place of Oliver Fitzgerald of this county, who was charged with the murder of Major Going, and other outrages. He was identified by a palatine, who was on board, and who on the arrival of the vessel at Quebec, gave information to Lieutenant MASSY, of the 37th Regiment quartered there,who immediately made the arrest. At the time the vessel was about to leave this port, she was searched by the police, but Fitzgerald was not on board. He was however re ceived off the Heads, and no doubt thought himself safe, but the finger of PROVIDENCE pointed him out, and he was arrested in the manner above described. He will be sent to Europe in one of his Majesty's ships. The Captain of the vessel which took out the prisoner, was fined seventy pounds by the Gover nor, of Quebec- Friday morning, about one o'clock, the capital con victs confined in York Castle, thirteen in number, made a most daring attempt to escape from their con finemenr, but fortunately were overheard by the watchman, by whom an alaTra was given. They were afterwards, by proper assurance ; pal)? secured. auxilifistareasa Yesterditylotratiitir iiiwyes* arks inctstia fa iv , sauking Bareh Stuart, a young girl about 14 years of age, with intent to commit a rape upon her: 'rhe facts of the case were proved by five wit nesses, one of them being the wife if the prisoner at the bar. On the evening of the 18 th of August the prisoner assaulted the girl, and in the attempt tore her clothes, and lacerated her bands with his nail% The prisoner bad previously been sitting with lie wife in a public-house, and had left her to follow the. girl upon whom he afterwards committed the assault. . The wife, thinking her husband's absence rather strange, went in search of him, and found him in t he back-parlodr of her house with the girl. Mrs New man seized hold of her husband by the collar, and then shook the girl violently by the shoulders, :till turned her out of doors. Sarah Stuart underwent a long examination, ar.4 cross-examination, in which she related the whole par ticulars, after a good deal of difficulty and hesitatiorz Sarah Blozam, and two other neighbours, he.trd the screams of the girl, and received an account from her of the whole transaction. This the witnesses re: capitulated to the Court. The Counsel who was employed on behalf of the prisoner addressed the Jury, bait no witnesses were called for the defence, either to fact or chatoctdt. The Jury, after a short consideration, found a Ter. diet—Guihy. The CHAIRMAN, accompanied with a suitable al. monition, passed the sentence of the Conic upon the prisoner—that he be imprisoned twelve calendar months in Brixton House of Correction. Santud Davis was indicted for assaulting Phoebe Bell, a very young girl, with intent to commit a rape. Inc case, as proved against the prisoner, WAS of a more : , ggravated nature than the last. From motives of delicacy we forbear to enter into the particulars. The Jury, without he.itation, found a verclia Guilty ; and The Ctiainsrme sentenced the prisoner to eighteen months' imprisonment in the House of Correction at Brixton. Joseph Haynes was indicted for receiving a guar. tity of harness, it to have been stolen bf some person or persons not yet in custody. It was proved that a considerable time befo:e the harness was traced to the possession of the ,iisoner, it had been stolen from a coach-house Bexley-heath, in the county of Keil:. fi:o :•.srness had been sold by the prisoner to a per-oi ! r and had been again sold by that individual The officer, Read, who apprel“ni-ed I:.:oner dealer in marine stoles) at his own house in Suifilk street, Blackiriars-road, stated that he a,1; , .L1 the pr;- soner where he had bought the hari.e.,,? liarn?; answered, thzt he had bought it of a ::;an in a greet: coat, whom he frequently saw, and thought he should see again. lie had given 13s. for it. The Jury found a ye:diet—Not Guilty. • The prisoner was net, howet er, ge,!. liocause he was unable to pay ti-,e foes either of theju:y the Court. I-Ic had a wife and seven young chit lies, and had no means of paying the fees. The last case which occupied tile attenti. , n of the Court for this Session, was a disp:.te between two Irish women. Mrs. Sullivan accused Mrs. LeiVi of beating her while standing at her stall in Illacthiars road, and produced a witness to prove the fact. The witness stated that she saw Mrs. Leigh knock Mr,. Sullivan down, and break twelve panes of glass is Mrs. Sul:ivan's window. The prisoner, in her defence, vocifcr4:ed most loudly that sl:e had no: hurt the woman, and ceull not have done it, because she had a baby only sevea months old in her arms at the time. She confessed she was rather angry with Mrs. Sullivan for keeping her dear husband from her. The Jury found the pri , €oner Guilt j, and the Court sentenced her to 14 days' imprisonm:nt. Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, a fellow had the audacity to carry off from the door of a bock seller, opposite the New Church in the Strand, a glass case, containing some valuable portraits, be longing to an artist. CERTI FICATF.S.—Sarr. .24. P. Quirk, jun. Liverpool, corn-mercbant. N. Lißey, lated Leeds, linen-manufacturer. E. 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