The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-13 00:00:00

A Clergyman in Scotland, who has for some years officiated as Chaplain to a corps of yeomanry in his neighbourhood, was recently placed antler military arrest for pronouncing, in ohe of his prayers, when he was performing duty before the corps, " BLESS THIS QUitEN." We have confident hope that the Scotch Presbyterian Clergy, in General Assetnbly, will notice this attempt to interfere with the in dependence of their Church, which MU guaranteed to .them especially by the Act of Union. There has been some disturbance at Ipswich, in consequence of some of the men of the 10th regi ment of dragoom, stationed in that place, having drank the health of the Queen. They were almost immediately secured and lodged in the guard-house, but were afterwards released by some of their com rades. The new Theatre at Birmingham is built upon the site of that which was burnt down last year. The interior is in the form of a Lyre united to the stage by an eliptic cove, which forms the prosce nium. The ceiling is a stellated dome, supported by Grecian pillars ; the dome is divided into com ps tmcnts, with a fine head of Apollo in the centre. —The decorations are gilded relievoes on a pink ground ; the compartments pannelled with gold mouldings. The decorations of the three tier of boxes are from the antique; on the lower circle, a bold Etruscan scroll is fixed ; the pannels of the other circles are divided by pilasters, ornamented alternately with antique lyres, cadacii, and oak wreaths. The columns which support the boxes are white and gold ; over each a burnished gold bracket forms a capital, supporting a lustre glass chandelier. The Lords of the Treasury issued warrants to the Commissioners of Customs to allow the masters and seamen of vessels belonging to Denmark, Swe den, Norway, and Finland, to take from the ports of London, Boston, Hull,.Stockton, and Newcatle ar ticles of British manufacture for the use of their families, viz :—masters to the amount of 201. and seamen to the amount of 51. each, without subjecting either the goods or the vessel to any duty on that account. ' ' A foreign gentleman, decorated with the insignia ,cf several Orders, arrived at the Queen's late resi dence in Portman Street, on Tuesday morning.— •Information of his arrival was sent off to her Majesty instantly, when one of. her Majesty'y car riages, with the servants in the . royal livery, came to town directly, and conveyed him to Brandenburgh house. M. Denman had also a long interview with her Majesty on the same day. Sir Thomas Gresham, who built the Royal Ex chabge, was the son of a poor woman, who left him in a field when an intent; bnt the chirping of a grasshopper leading a boy to the place where he lay, his life was preserved. From this circumstance the future merchant tool• the grasshopper for his crest ; and hence the cause of that insect being placed over the Royal Exchange. Tux GREAT Ecursz.—Apprehensious, not ill founded, as to the darkness which may be occasioned by the Eclipse of the Sun, on the 7th of next month, have determined several of the Ecclesiastical Coun sellors of Switzerland to move that the annual solemnity of prayers may be transferred from that day to the Bth. The Deputies of the Protestant religion at the Diet have agreed to this proposal, and the Bth is fixed for the day of prayers. A letter from Glasgow, dated August 5, says— " A young clergyman a short time since visited one of the neighbouring parishes, and performed the duty of the church, with the view of gaining the suffrages of the parishioners to be appointed us the successor of the incumbent, who is far advanced in years, and meant to resign. Unfortunately fbr him, however, he omitted the prayer for the Queen, which gave so much offence to the females of the parish that they all interposed to prevent his election, and, it is scarcely necessary to add, suc ceeded." We are happy to learn from Sheffield, that the trade of that place has materilify revived, and. that there is every prospect of a future amendment Many able hands in the different mechanical branches of the place, who have been fur these nine or twclve months past supported by parochial support, are now in full work , and there is a fair prospect that many hundred others, now unemployed, will be taken on in the course of a few weeks. A meeting of the inhabitants of GrcenwiLh took place at the National School room, at eight o'clock on Thursday night, when an Address to the Queen was agreed upon, and a deputation appointed to present the same. A letter from Dover sitys,-.." The number of passengers passing from this port for Calais, Ostend, and Boulogne, have for the lust fortnight been us considerable as ever known, and from the Continent nearly the same number re►urning; raefsengers and dispatches ecastiaual)y crossing." --_ , .~; THE NATIONAL REGISTrIt The election, by ballot, of fourteen trustees fhr Whitehaven harbour has terminated most triumph antly for the independent interest. The fourteen elected were all proposed by the independent inte rest. Of the defeated candidates, nine, including Lord Lowther, were proposed by the Lowther in terest. The popular nominees have been elected by a majority of four to one over the other nominees, in the teeth of the whole influence of the House of Lowther. The Queen is to receive the address of the Free holders of Middlesex at Brandenburgh-house, on Tuesday next, at one o'clock ; that of the Artisans at two; and that of the Inhabitants of Hammer smith at three. A handsome carriage is building for her Majesty, which will be ready by the nth, with elegant brass hi raess for six horses. New carriages are also pre pLring for her Majesty's servants. Advices from Buenos Ayres to the Ist of June have arrived, but nothing material had occurred in that city since the accounts which were dated the Sth of May. Don Ramos Mexio continued to exercise the functions of Governor, and Don Manuel Obli gado that of President of the Junks. The comma. nicttion with Chili was again open, and a free intercourse once more established between the two Governments. Tire dates front Valparaiso were the t?-ith April. The expedition against Peru, under Lord Cochrane and Gen. San Martin, was nearly ready to sail fur its destination. Seventy sail of transports were collected, and San Martin's rrgi ment of horse grenadiers, with a considerable body of infantry, forming the advanced guard of the army, were about to embark. Tire rest of the troops were on the march for Valparaiso. An embargo was laid on all shipping in the harbour till the sailing of th expedition. It was certain that Sun Martin was in a state of communication with Bolivar, and this first operation would probably be an attack on Guye aquil by the combined troops of Venezuela and Chili. Important dispatches have been received from the Court of Vienna by Government. It is said the Ent. peror of Austria intends to march an army into Italy. If it is his Imperial Majesty's intention to oppose the Revolution in Italy, we hope that our Government will not co-operate in any such project directly or indirectly, by sending a squadron into the Bay of Naples. Caution to Hackney Coachmen.—lt is a trick fre quently practised by hackney coachmen, to the great annoyance of the public, even in the widest streets, when the stand is full, to place their coaches abreast with those on the stand,.in order to cut in wherever there may be a move by one being hired; by which means not only is a double rank formed, but, even when they succeed in the object, the coaches are placed so near each other as to cause much inconve nience, the statutedirecting that coaches on the stand should be placed eight feet, at Me least, from each other, to allow space for foot passengers to cross.—. The drivers of the hackney chariots No. 1,141, No 1,127, and No. 241, were severally fined 103. each for this offence on Friday, on the complaint of Shepperd, the street-keeper of Cheapside. A person employed to cut down an ash-tree, the property of Mr. W. Holliday of Woodplumpton, near Preston, having observed an excrescence on the trunk, proceeded to cut it off with an axe, when he was surprised to find a quantity of moss in the centre, which had every appearance of having been the nest of a wren. Several other men were present at the time, and on taking out the moss from the hollow of the tree, a large toad crawled from the midst of it. The reptile seemed very lively at first, but in a few minutes became sickly and powerless, • though our informant believes it did riot die. The excrescence was 12 feet from the ground when the tree was growing, and on examining the timber, there appeared to be 20 years growth round the hol low part." CoNsTABLES AND JURORS.---The experience of Mr. llama Garrow in our Law, particularly tit our Criminal Courts, entitles his ot)sereutions to be rec.Averl with at tention; but some Recut observations CIA have lallcu Iroin hint merit the must general mime. At tile ditkrent Assizes on the Midhind Circuit, Mr. Baron Garrote iie gtlelltly took occasion to deprecate odic practice of brin ing Constables as witnesses merely fur the purpose of pioducili g stolen property which had heeit delivered into their custody; it was (mile an almirdity to suppose that' the property might nut be retained by the person from Munn it was sto.en, and who might produce it tit e% deuce at the trial. HtllllJlll itigenuih, his Lordship oh. sertcd, could suggest no reasons for such a pract:ce, ruin those of increasing the charge of the prosecution, and tlicreby adding to tile expellees or the county; 01 iitine , essatily tier:inning the time of the Grind Jury ind of the C ou rt; and of runiiii4 a tick of losMir, the uleunly ill the property. His Lordship al3o adverted to the tit actit e M Freeholders (who had been summoned to serse oil the Juries, and who were l.revented attend ing by illness), sending a written certilicate of a surceon that they were so prevented; these could not be attended to I.y the Court ; the proper method to be ptitstsecl was iltbile ally neighbour w I t o might be acquainted with the tact, and who would be attending the assiz%s, to make atlide-it of each being the caiie of non-attiorl ane. 281 1 DILATII Or TIM DUC HESS Or Y0nn.....-The Duchess of York has long been in a declining state. An express on Saturday evening announced a great change for the worse, and on Sunday morning be tween eight and nine o'clock she expired. The ceremonies on such occasions, such as tolling St. Paul's great bell, &c. &c. were of course gone through. It might be deemed indelicate, from the obvious contrast, to point at the respect which was• raid by the illustrious couple to decorum ; but it cannot fail to occur to every observer of pissing events, that the nation would not be in the present convulsed state if the same deference to public feel. ing had guided the conduct of others in the most exalted station. THE QUEEN.--Her Majesty, the Queen, though not officially informed of the deatk of her Royal Highness the Duchess of York, was not only allied to her as a sister-in-law, but also by blood, as her cousin, has, at the suggestion of her own feelings, in consequence of that melancholy event, postponed for the present receiving several addresses which were to have been presented to her. Among them is the address from Norwich, (Edward Taylor. Esq. the Sheriff of which City, has been in town•for the purpose of waiting upon her her Majesty ;) and also the address of the mechanics and artisans of the Me tropolis, who were to have assembled on Monday is Hyde Park, in order to proceed to Brandenburzh House. The Algemine Zeitung contains accounts froth Naples of the 14th, in which it is said, "The Cheva lier Tocco is going to Paris and London, on a mis sion similar to that of Prince Cariati to Vienna.— General Nugent is not gone to Rome, as was re ported, but to Malta. This brave General, one of the best Generals in the Austrian service, nearly became the victim of their fury; it was the English Ambassador who saved his life. His Excellency claimed him as being born an English subject, and• obtained his release, and conveyed him in his own: • carriage to his hotel, through crowds of a tumul tuous populace." Advices from Margarita of the 17th of June state, that General D'Evereux reached that island on the 12th, where he was received in the most distin guished manner by General Arismendi, and the other authorities of the Republic of Columbia.-- The commission of General of Division was con: (erred upon him, and he was also presented with , • the order of Liberator. He was to sail immediately to take the command of the lrish Legion at Rio de. la Hache, but the defection of that part of the le gion under Montillo, of which he would be soon apprized, would probably produce a change in his intended plan of operations. The Address of the Married Ladies of the Metro. polis and its vicinity will be received by her Majesty on Wednesday next, at two o'clock, at the house of Lady Fr.ineis, St. James's-square. A vast number of most respectable ladies have signed this address. The following is from. Hanover :—We are assured that the Coronation of his Majesty in his quality of King of Hanover, will be postponed to the month of June in the ensuing year. Police. UNto:r HALL—In consequence of information re ceived at this Office, a warrant was issued on Thursday night to search the house of a person, named Barnett, near the Surrey Theatre, who was accused with keeping a gambling house, under colour of keepitm a spruce beer shoo. At the appointed hoor the whole of the passe rornharur Froccedcd to the relldriVoll9, where they touted admission aler IDUCiI difficulty. Their first ob ject was to secure the stioinao at the 1»r, with as little noise as pos.ibl.., and this being accomplished, they pro ceeded to the back parlour, where they heard a rattling, as if of dice, and the echo or inany voices and f a g. steps; but the door was lu.•ke.l. A council was held as to whit wjs 1110 it (Ap:dlelll to he done. and it was at length agiecd to farce the door, by a simultaneous effort; this was speedily put iu execution, and the offi cers rushed in in a body, to the great discomfiture of about 2u persons, who were ithrotniffing a hasard table, vry cintent upon the gaine. The officers made a scram ble for the dice and betting money, the result of winch was that Collingbourne got eight dice and I3s. 6.1. in . silver, Hall, 11. 6s. in money, and a dice box, and the other various partsor the paraphernalia of the gambliog table; but money to a great anitini,t, which laki on the table was seized by the players, before the officers could approach. The greatest et/Illusion then ensued, the onidow was forced out, and many escaped ; but the activity of the Police, no less than 'ln persons (litchi& in 4 five women) were secured, and lodged in various places of confinement. A table upon which they played was brought to the Office; it was of very curious con striction, in the middle was a circle, marked with an ivory inlay, within whieh the dice svrrecast ; round that was another circle six or eight inches broad, appropti ated solely for the stakes and betting money; the rest of the table was allowed to be for the ,tlasses and bottles. The parties together with the keeper of the house, were brought to this Office on Friday, and underwent an examination before H. J. Chamben and D. King, Emir). inc presiding Magistrates. hey were all held to bait. •