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LIE ,LaNIY. morning a detachment of the 6th Infantry !eft town Colonelcy of the 40th Foot, and the Governorship irk, have become vacant, by the f;'..ath of Gen. Sir lancer, G.C.B. chments of the East India Company's Artillery and r embarked this morning fur Gravesend, on route ;ham. chmetita from various Depots (stationed at Canter :latham, Dover, &c.) whit, have volunteered their to the 30th, 47th, and 59th Regiments, have been I to aseerrible at Dover and Chatham, the 30th and the former, toad the 59th at the latter place, whence ill be ft)trntrded to their depots. 'ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. hteal Dowager Poulett, at Hrde-park-corner, f i rm enharn ; the Earl of Clanarilliarn, in Piccadilly, from the Lent ; Lord Viscount Barnard in Connaught-place; Mr. Gordon, in Harley-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Langford, ill enor.place ; Major Mackerisie, in Regent-street, trom ; Mr. and Mrs. Trarersin Piecadillv, from the South of ; Mrs. and Miss Townahend, in Baker -street, from Paris; n Johnstone, in Pall.mall, from Maidstone; Mr. and Mrs. !e, in Brook-street, from the I s le of Wi g ht ; C ap t a i n an d Iridium, In Orchard-street, from Paris ; Mr r. and MiFs de in Orchard -street, from Lrine Regis, ie. Dorsetalure ; Ilse n and Mrs. Lilburn, in Sad:vibe-street, from Bath ; Lady Owen, in Piccadilly, from Bath ; Major Ludlow, in tstreet, from Canterbury; Major O'Reilly, in Pall-mall, Xrblin ; Mr. and Colonel Ross, in Albemarle-strect, from Mr. and Mrs. Doting, at their hoxse in Chapel- Groarenor.sqtrare, from their seat in Hertfordshire; Mr. rs. Phillips, in Brook , street, from B a th ; Lord Audley, nt .'a Hotel, St. James's-strect, from a tour; Colonel ?, at ditto, from Brighton; A. F. Nunez, Esq. at ditto, sent in Hanapshire ; Colonel Anderson, at Gould's Jermyn-strect, from a tour; Sir Thomas Burton, Bart at runswitk Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Hastings ; John 'r Esq. and son, at the Britirh Hotel, Jermyn-street, from it in Essex; Colonel and Mrs. A;:stin, at . ,Mirart's Hotel, Brook and Daries.streets, fro their seat in Kent ; a and Mrs. Hope, at ditto, from Sussex ; .1. Datreey, Esq. >. from Kent. Marquis of Hertford, CHANGE from She Month of France, for i Marquis arid Marchioness Wellesley, from St. James's . for Brighton ; M:. and Mrs, Harford, from Brighton, !- 1 ; the Rev. Lord and Lady John Thynne, from Gros square,llxbrid to George Byng, .1 7 ;.Sti. M.P.'s seat, Wrotham Park ; for the r ge and family, from 'Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley- Marquis of Anglesey's seat, Beau Detect, Staf ire ; Henry and Lady Augusta B ar i ng, from ditto, for lor ; Lady Shee, from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), A Ihe street, for Lockley, Betts ; MlB. and Miss Jones, from am's Hotel, Lower Brook street, for Becks ; W. Ricketts, horn ditto, for Cambridge ; Sir Thomas Barker, Bart. 3ould's Hotel, for Brussels ; the 1t..2r. Davenport Brom- Dm Mivart's Hotel, for Cheshire ; Colonel Ord, from f or )lath' '-fir, and Ira, Thornhill, from Regent-street, . _ ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM Captain Fleetwood Pellew, Sir Edwin Stanhope, Colonel eY, Rev. J. Smith, Rev. N. Moore, Rev. Mr. Maxwell, 1 lt. chit, lt.N. Mr. and Mrs. Vincent, Liraley, Ackers, Allen, Thompson Messrs. Honywo . od, H. I)eda "„4 igh and family, Burke, Croft, G. Bowen, G. Park -11, Deane, F. J. Ellis Shone, Arkwright, Vincent, Fulwar Craven, T. Bodwoyn, H. Lce, Wil. Ciallam, L. Thomas, Carter, P. A. Browne, C. F. Al mattnas Thomas, Mistresses St. Paul, Shaw, Hanbury, Wordss; orth, Hope, Goodrich, Robinson, &c. ince the King took up his residence at his e at Windsor his Majesty has experienced a alight at (if the gout in one of his hands, which confined the to his private apartment for several days. The attack, rer, we are happy to state, was of short duration, Lig Majesty was able to join the Russian Ambassador, rinceots Lieren, and a numerous party of time nobility entry to dinner on Wednesday (being the first Hume_ !inner party the King has had since his return to the e after the extensive repair and alteration which it rp„. ) The Ring' s p r i va t e b an d atten d ed i n the - ~r orno and viayed during the evening. Most of time remained at the Palace yesterday, and were joined sera) other distinguished personages, who arrived at tar' to spend New Year's-day with hi s M a j esty. y are expected 'to remain at the Castle fur three Ile Master of the Rolls is ?so much better, the Right Hon. Gentleman bas taken an airing daily 8 carriage for the last three or four days. 711 g Chancellor of the Exchequer had a long view with Mr. Secretary Peel yesterday at his resi tin Privy t lens. le French Ambassador had a conference the Earl of Aberdeen bn ;Wednesday at the office of teretary of State for Foreign Affairs. he Brazilian Minister visited the Duchess .set and the Duche3s of Gloucester on Sunday, at .respective residence . • ;count Melville held a levee on Wcdnes the Admiralty, which was numerously attended by kiesrs. arl Bathurst left his seat at Cirencester on lay morning; his Lordship was expected to arrive at htdens in Mansfield -street last night. le . Marquis Palmellx and the Brazilian had a long conference yesterday. ) rd Farnbor oug h transacte d b us i ness with thanceller of the Exchequer yesterday at the Treasury. `le Lord Chamberlain had a conference Or. Secretary Peel on Wednesday. furniture of the Duke of Clarence has -novel from the house in the Admiralty occupied by Highness ad the head of the Naval Department, new residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. of the domestics of Viscount Melville took possession house yesterday, his Lordship intending to take u iidence there. p Oe Minister who arrived in 'England some inc. as the accredited Ambassador from Don Miguel, -• if Portugal, has lately !rid several interviews with of Aberdeen and the Duke of Wellington. Dean of Chester's lining of Stanhope / Perhaps outweigh all the rewards which have been .''''')feeeedly for scientific discoveries during the pre tentury. he Rev. Rice Rees, professor of Welsh, and r in classical literature at St. David's College; 'ter, has been admitted to the degree of Master of and elected Fellow of Jeans College,. Oxford.-1/e -d JorrHal. • suite of apartments is now preparing for eeptio n of his Majesty in that part of the new Royal t which forms the corner of it neat the Green Park. a venerable Episcopal Palace of the Bishop . eh eeter, on the banks of the River at Chelsea, is evened with the ground ; and on its site is to be 41 a range of handsome aquatic residences. he Athenteum Club-house is not likely to for the reception of its members for a year to Would be a great improvement in the ma neat of the fund a of public charities if no one indivi had the sole control of them. is reported that the interest taken in the "O Vice-Admiral Si r Edwar..l Codrington, by hi s fficers, o wing to th e i r owa liability to find them- And er similar eircunsstance, has led them to en qu i re cause of his recall from the Mediterranean corn ; aud that the general opi n i on i s, t h at t h e gallant ral a c t e d in strict conformity with the spirit of the s which he is charged with haying misconceived, al ,h his brother offiFers arid th e p u bli c h a d certa i n l y impressed with a belief that h e had not understood istructions. The disclosure of documents would, it is prove the injustice with which Sir Edward Codring- Be been treated; bat it Seems that ho is keeping out * o vray of giving th em publicity in order to afford Mi- pportnnity of doing what is right, now that liost be fully apprized of all the circumstances touch le lin e of conduct he pursued. Sir Pulteney Mal 'terns to hare found that the beat line of conduct he Pursue was that arlopted by his predecessor, hut titos not appear to be considertd a fault in him,— ' tootle, Journal, Jan. I. here is something in the case of the Portu etAigrantB now at this port with " One foot at sea, ou shore," th a t is difficult to conar of nentraliti is at an end, and yet the n•eh ordead. The er for the l'i"4 of th e Pl ymout h depot although it was grounded )4 that pretext remains in force; and the unfortunate mt.q foreigners are, it seems, to be driven from their liable quarters at the most inclement season, to ecek •I 'lo many thousand miles distant from their proper Te those who are acquainted with State secrets, • 'l'Ppeur very right, bat to us it seems like crooked tad tinnece,sary rigour. Our most gracious King -Q „' i ght proper after long consideration to acknowledge as Quren of Portugal—to receive her at his --""; Pzd to toast her health as such. This is surely a • l ' ti ° : o of her lights sufficient to put neutrality out of t t'oi and to warrant ns in expecting, at least,. that "iful adherents would be- permitted to enjoy the I , lll tY have sought in this kingdom. We are corn "' eud as we began by confessing that we cannot Mi ll t3SQ affitir..-INytuouth Journal. THE 'MAGAZINES. LONDON NI AI; A ZU:E. In their address to the public, append the Editors to the pt c:,ent ninnbcr of this Aiaga vine, svc perceive that they lay great stress on its useful and practical character, and seem anxious to tread in the steps of the Westminster Review. We congratulate them upon their spirited endeavours to render their publication serviceable, but should be sorry to find that in their wish to do so, they had overlooked enter tainment, which, after all, is the first thing ex pected in the light pages of a perishable pe riodical. The Silk Question, in the present number, is a homely argumentative article, from the pen apparently of 11. writer well read in his subject, and who has made it matter for fre quent serious and enlarged reflection. We re commend it to the attention of those who are versed in time details of the subject; to others, it will, we fear, be found obscure and uninterest ing. " Arrivals at a Watering Place" is a lively poem, hitting off in a satirical but tempe rate strain, the follies, the advantages, and the peculiar character of these places of fashionable autumnal resort. We subjoin a specimen : I play a spade :—such strange new flee; Are flocking in from near and far : Such frights—Miss Dobbs holds all the aces,— One can't imagine who they are! The lodgings at enormous prices, New donkeys, and another fly; And Madame Bonbon out of ices, Although we're scarcely in July: M'e're quite as sociable as any, But our• old horse can hardy crawl ; And really where there are so many, We can't tell where we ought to call. Pray who has seen the odd old fellow Who took the Doctor's house last week ? A pretty chariot,—livery yellow, Almost as yellow as his cheek : A widower, sixty-five, and surly, And stiffiT than a poplar-tree; Drinks ruin and water, gets up early To dip his carcass in the sea : He's always in a monstrous hurry, And always talking of Bengal ; They say his cook makes noble curry ; I think, Louisa, we should call. And so Miss Jones, the mantua-maker, Ma let her cottage on the hill ? The drollest man, a sugar-baker,— Last year imported from the till: Prates of his crses and his vary, Is quite in lone with fields and farms; A horrid Vandal,—but his money Will buy a glorious coat of arms : Old Clyster makes him take the waters : Some say he means to give a ball ; And after all, with thirteen daughters, 1 think, Sir Thomas, you might call. That poor young man !—l'm sure and certain Despair is making up his shroud : Ile walks all night beneath the curtain Of the dim sky and mirky cloud : Draws landscapes,—throws such mournful glances!— Writes verses,—has such splendid eyes ; An ugly name,—but Laura fancies He's some great person in disguise ! And since his dress is all the fashion, And since he's very dark and tall, I think that, out of pure compassion, I'll get papa to go and call. " A Visit to the Court of Madagascar" furnishes the reader with some curious details respecting a late trip to that country, and an interview with its Sovereign. These details arc more novel than interesting or important, for the scene of action is so far removed from England, and re gards so comparatively uncivilized a country, that our attention can scarcely be roused. " The DLowncd" is a sensible and impartial review of this last novel by the author of " Pelham,”—a woil; which has much merit, and in some in stances, originality both of conception and exe cution. " Diary for the month of December," the plan of which is already familiar to the pub lic, has much desultory and pertinent observa tion, more especially as regards the Theatres, and the new piece of Charles the Twelfth, to which only bare justice is done when the writer observes of it, " The first act of this piece is admirably conceived, exceedingly well written, and transcendantivacted." " The Editor's Room" is of the usual calibre of Magazine articles. MONTHLY REVIEW. This Review still keeps its ground among the improving periodicals of the month, and pos sesses information, variety, and amusement. The most elaborate article in the number is entitled " . Introductory Lecture of the London Univer sity," and discusses its subject, the nature and fitting style of a Grammatical Lecture, in a very spirited and ingenious manner. The following observations deserve attention : is Th e office of a Professor of English Literature in the University, presents' many difficulties for its proper dis cbtrgwhich it, equir es cons id era b le skill and ability to surmount , A Professorship o f P oetry or of Oratory is a situation, the duties of which may be. easily defined ; but a Professor of the Eisngmliestltwl.i.atinigdsolaugbet,saantditioefoEmtiingelinscheiLneitnetr-; of sobects, eeveral of w hi c h he a h t e n r i e ma i nagyeanreireatly, jects, can treat only in a very superficial manner, and Others not at all.— He must by turns be the antiquary, the philologist, the philosopher, and the divine; and he must not only neces sarily possess the stoat extensive resources of learning him self, but he must impart a vast deal of remotely relative information to his pupils, or his lectures will be totally wicks's. We have great confidence in Mr. Dale's persever ance as well as talent, but there are difficulties which he can only overcome by long experience in his office. From the idea which we are enabled to form of ;his intended plan from the lecture before us, we are inclined to a pretty confident opinion that he will find it necessary greatly to modify the view he has taken of his subjects. We need not tell bins that the history and the philosophy of lan guage and grammar are not branches of study, which, taken eren singly, admit of great haste in the completion : we need not tell him either that they ere not those which can be most easily made intelligible or profitable to unculti vated minds. The history of languages is far more ab struse than that of events, events the most distant, and the study of it meet, in a very great degree, be carried on by investigation, and not by the simple process of reading or hearing facts. A strength or patience of mind are hence necessary, which have hitherto confined the pursuit to a very few hard reading men, whose scholarship, before they commenced it, was of the most superior kind. The philosophy of grammar, again, offers the most subtle and most exercised mind a subject for which ao intellectual weapon can be too keen—a subject on which the mature and experienced metaphysician finds it necessary to exert all his !towers of attention and reasoning, and from which the speculator is very frequently obliged to turn with little other re-payment for his labour, than the gratification of strong mental exercise." "- The Art of Dancing" is a learned but somewhat insipid analysis of i\l. BlaFis's treatise on that subject. Instead . of making it light and readable, as suited the subject, the Reviewer has made his criticism heavy, with a mass of useless learning that confuses and oppresses the reader. Instead .of this it should have been light— sparkling—elastic, like the character of the amusement it discussed. " Present Condition of the Italian States" is a truly able . his torical piece of writing, penned in a calm, comprehensive :spirit, it is full of information, pertinent, and weli-dige:Aed. The readct dQrires great entertainment from its peru sal. " Novels of the Month' is a tame, but pas sable analysis of Zillah. Of the remaining ar ticles we have neither space nor time to say more than that they are severally good of their kind. ACK ERAIANN'S REPOSITORY OF FASIIIONS. Mr. Ackermann is, we believe, the first gen tleman who set afloat the idea of an English Annual, and, indeed, it is chiefly through his spirited exertions that the embellishments to our different lighter orders of literature hale attained their present elegant prc-eminence. The present work, though, as its title imports, of a restricted character, is yet very ingenious in its plan ; it is, in fact, a repository of all the prevailing male and female fashions of the mouth, accompanied by peculiarly tasteful engravings in which these fashions are shown off to the best advantage. It should be called the IVest End Gazeitc. EDWARDS' BOTANICAL REGISTER, OR ORNAMENTAL FLOWF.R GARDEN AND STIRLAMIERT. CONTINUND BY JOHN LINDLEY, 111,g. rnoymson OF BOTANY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, &C. No. 11.—Coloured Mateo. The figures in the present number are both beautiful and curious, and well worthy the at tention of the Botanist and amateur. We may particularize the fine new Purple Sage from Mexico, which promises to rival the Salvia Splendens of the same country, and a brilliant Crimson Pc - cony* from the Caucasus. The noble establishment of the Duke of Northum berland, at Sien, has supplied a lovely blue flowered shrub called Hosta Gerulca. In speak ing of a fragrant East India shrub, which occu pies two plates, curiously illustrated by numerous dissections, Mr. Lindley takes the opportunity of paying a high but just tribute of acknow ledgment to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, whose splendid liberality is said to have done more for modern science than the united efforts of all the Sovereign Princes of Europe. Possessing the signal advantages of contributions from the establishments of • the highest of our nobility and gentry, as well as from the public gardens, we need not feel sur prised that this work should be held in such estimation by all who pursue Botany as a science, or use it as a medium for ornamenting and en riching their domains. " So named by the Ancientu, in memory of Peon, the physician, whom Homer records as having cured Pluto with this herb, when be was wounded by Hercules. We presume its virtues ale altogether reserved for such august occasions, they having never been made manifest on any other, as far as we kliow. NOVEL MODE OF BLEACHING. When the mansion-house and estate of Mol lance, now the property of John Napier, Esq., were possessed by Mr. Copland, of Colliston, the following curious circumstance occurred—at first to the mortification, but latterly to the great amusement of the family. On a fine morning in tile month of June, the whole estab lishment of hand-maidens rose with the lark, and after finishing a large washing, watched it by the burn side, as was then the custom, accompanied by their respective friends and sweethearts, who, so far from dosing or allowing others to dose, kept joking and romping, and firing off rusty muskets at intervals, more for the purpose of making the lasses' hearts jump to their mouths, than of scaring away the midnight thief. Among other articles exposed, were two or three pieces of Brussels lace, which at that time sold so high as from three to five guineas per yard ; and when the linens came to be lifted—that is after receiving the full benefit of the alternate dews and heats of summer—one of these was unfor tunately missing. An event of this sort naturally excited a strong sensation within the limited circle of the family ; in the eyes of ladies, lace, was supposed, ranks next to jewels; and the sorrowing hand-maidens, after undergo ing a rigorous examination, were not only blamed for gross carelessness, but suspected of some thing a great deal worse. It was in vain that they severally protested their innocence, and even attempted to screen their lads, by modestly in sinuating, that they " were never kent for ony thing wring ;" and perhaps the Procurator Fiscal himself, might have found in the occurrence a profitable job, had not circumstances speedily conspired " to put the saddle on the right horse." But a short period had elapsed from the time the lace was missed, when the far descended family in question, attended " the preachings," at the parish church, and were ac commodated with chairs very near the tent, pitched either in the kirk-yard or the green. A favourite greyhound attended too, and just as the w orthy pastor had commenced reading the first psalm, the animal was observed to be con vulsed with sickness. On attempting to drive it away, it ensconced itself right under the tent, and in a few minutes began to rival the feats of those conjurers who lay claim to the power of manufacturing from some internal loom, ribbons by the ell or even the acre. The ladies stared, as they well might, when they saw their own identical lace ejected piece-meal from the animal's mouth, and exclaimed, loud enough to be heard (high and low at that time spoke broad Scotch), " na, the like like o' that ! an' Fly to be the thief after a'." The maidens gazed with equal interest, and great was their joy, when they dis covered, after the lace had been washed, that it was not only free from injury, hut much better bleached, from the unseen operation of the gas tric juice, than if it had been exposed for a month to the searching effects of sun and wind. And this is the best part of the story, for now that the stomach pump is so well understood, much good may accrue from the knowledge of such a valuable bleaching liquor. Formerly a lady might have lost h er property a l toget h er, even if she had taken a receipt from the canine bleacher ; but in our day she has only to butter her lace as a bribe to the watch-dog, and after the gastric juice has done its duty, ask her friend, the doctor, to pump it up again, or in other words, bring it home from the bleach-field ! Dunfries Courier. THE RULING PASSION.--A certain descend ant of Abraham residing in Hull, and who is more famed for wit than piety, attended the synagogue a few weeks ago, and repeated the prayer for the assembling of the Jews at Jernaalem, with much fervour and marked emphasis.— Some of the brethren congratulated him on the change whick had apparently taken place in his sentiments, when he all at once declared that these were just the rame as ever. On being asked, if such were the case, why he prayed so earnestly for the gathering together of the tribes, he an swered, "Because I wish you all to go, that I may have England to myself, fur /intend to remain.".--Hull Packet. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PINIVIOUTU, JAN. 1.---7Eiis Majesty's sloop "Zchra, 18, Commander Gilbert, which vessel a: rived at Spithead on Friday, from the Mediterranetio, is or dered to Plymouth, to he paid off for re-commission ing, if found in a fit state. PRomoTtoNs.—Mr. T. B. Maynard, of the Onyx, (twelve years a passtd Midshipman) to the rank of Lieutenant ; Mr. Rogers and Mr. Duct, Mates, to be Lieutenants of the Wolf, vice Eyton and Drake, invalided ; Mr. Fitzmanrice, Mate, to be Lieutenant of the Weazle, vice Hawes, promoted ; Mr. Hub bert, Mate, to be Lieutenant of the Rattlesnake, vice Sawbridge, invalided. Assistant Surgeon Joseph Chartress, to be Surgeon of the Camelion, vice Borland, invalided ; Assistant Surgeon Peter Leonard, to be Surgeon of the Alacrity, vice Jones, invalided. APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Wyvill, of the Ca melion, to be Commander of the Asia ; Com mander Gilbert, of the Infernal (bomb), to the Zebra, vice Popham (exchanged) ; Lieut. Ricketts, to be Flag Lieutenant of the Asia, vice Maxwell to the Isis; Lieutenants De Saumarez, and R. G. Jeffcreys, Dr. Browning, Surgeon, Mr. Honiman, Purser, and Assistant Surgeon Bothwell, to the ; Mr. Dodd, from the Dartmouth, to be Chaplain of the Asia, vice Morton exchitaged ; Mr. Hooper, Purser of the Jasper, to the Wasp ; Mr. A. Knox, to be Assistant Surgeon of the Dryad ; and Mr. D. Geddes, to be Assistant Surgeon of the Asia. Lord Delmore, the new Governor of Jamaica, being evdected to arrive at Plymouth immediately, the Herald, in which vessel his Lordship and General Sir James Lyon proceeded, will sail as soon as pos sible after their embarkation for the West Indies. His Majesty's sloop Procris, Commander Paget, is non• ordered to be paid off at Portsmouth. His Majesty ship Aurora has been surveyed and found unfit for service. The Pyramus has in conse quence been ordered to be fitted out in her room. His Majesty's ship Volagc arrived at Valparaiso July 10, from Lima, and has taken in the freight of treasure irate tiled for the Doris, Sir John Sinclair having found the Doris in so bad a state of repair as to render it necessary to leave her down at Val paraiso; she will however, be ready to bring honle the next freight, and will leave the South Sea on the 25th January next. The Doris, we believe, is an East India built ship; she has had no repairs of any consequence these twelve years. All was well on board the Wasp, lion. Wm. Wellesley, at Smyrna, on the 28th Oct. His Majesty's ship Britomart arrived at Gibraltar from a cruise Ist December, and Meteor from Tan gier 2d December. The Thetis for a cruise, and Tribune for the River Plate, sailed from Rio de Janeiro 23d October. The Alert arrived at Valpa raiso from Coquimbo 2d June, and sailed on the 11th for Intermedios. The Adventure arrived at Rio de Janeiro from Monte Video on the 26th Oct. The Columbine arrived at St. John's, N. 8., from Halifax 14th November. The Undaunted arrived at the Cape of Good Hope from Calcutta 20th Oct. The Pandora sailed from Madras for Penang on the 21A July. The Sybille sailed from St. Eder% for Ascension 2d November. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR JANUARY. (From Achermann's Repgsitory of Arts, Manufac tures, 4-c. 4-e.) IVALKING DRESS.—Gros de Naples pelisse of Byron brown, wadded and lined with white sarsnet, and fastened in front. The body is made extremely full, with long shoulder-straps, and nearly two inches in width ; they are corded on each side. The collar is stiffened, and falls back, admitting an embroi dered cambric ruff. The sleeves are large to the gauntlet cuffs, which are very broad, and the button close to the wrists; they are corded, and the upper part pointed. The skirt is very full, and terminated with a plain deep bias trimming of the same mate rial as the pelisse, and turned under so as not to give any inclination of a hem : it is headed by three rouleaux. hat of Byron brown terry velvet, lined' with rosc•coAonred satin, and a deep curtain veil of black blond- The crown is rounded at the top, and or narneated in front with large spreading bows of rose-colour satin riband, edged with black, and se veral large velvet leaves. The strings arc long, and of rose-colour satin. Squirrel muff and long tippet ; primrose-colour gloves, and black shoes. EVENING PREss.—Dress of white satin, the bodice made rather low, and the front formed into longitudinal drapery, and confined in the centre by a gold-colour satin corded band ; the remainder of the bodice is quite plain, and close to the shape. The sleeves are short and full, and set in a gold-colour satin corded band ; the extreme fullness is regulated by a band passing throug:t tl,►e centre round the arm. A circular cape emanates from the front of the shoulder, and is ornamented wi►h a wreath'of leaves formed of gold-coleur gauze' riband. The skirt is plaited in full round the waist, and has a border of white tulle of double-reversed plaiting's, nearly half a yard deep, headed by a wreath of gold riband leaves, similar to .those or► the cape. Sash to correspond.. Toque of cherry-colour blonde tulle; the frame open, and of gold-colour satin, pointed all round the head, with bailds crossing the crown, and admitting the hair, which is dressed in bows, between, and in large curls in front. The blond tulle is in several plaits on one side of the centre point, and plain on the other ; it spreads very wide, and is supported by broad gold riband hoops, commencing with gold acorns, and is terminated on the left side by two bows and an end ; on the right, the gold loop ex tends over the tulle to the crown, and is inserted by a gold acorn, with which every point is ornamented ; long strings of gold gauze riband. Necklace, an entwined chain of gold and ornamented locket. Long gold car-rings terminating in the form of a coronet. White kid gloves; cherry•colour satin shoes and sandals. We recommend to the attention of all those engaged in the Education of Youth, Dr. Jamieson's edition of AINSWORTH'S LATIN DICTIONARY, in octavo. We have found it very correct, and as it contains all the words of the quarto editions, will save much trouble both to masters and stndents. It has the advantage also of being • stereotyped, and i 3 never ont of print. The first No. of the LITERARY GAZETTE fur :829 (the commencement of the thirteenth year), will contain several interesting novelties :—Portraits, from Pri- • vate Pictures (as well engraved as can be done in a work of this description) of the lamented African Travellers, Denham, Laing, and Clapperton, illustrate a Paper giving many curious particulars of recent Expeditions in Africa, South America, and Van Diemen's Land ; the entire Plan of the King's College, as finally settled by the Committee ; Poems, by L. E.L. ; Reviews of Lord John Russell's His tory of Europc, vol. 11. ; Sailors and Saints; Memoirs of Josephine, with many Anecdotes; M'Gregor on the liri tish North American Colonies, with Sketches of Society there ; Letters from the Egean, &c. &c. Foreign Cor respondence, the Fine Arts, Scientific Intelligence, Dra matic Criticisms, all the Literary News of the Day, Varie ties, as usual.—Published every SATURDAY, by W. A. Scums, 7, Wellington -street, strand, and 7, South Moulton-street, price Sd. ; or stamped (fur country cir culation by post), Is. There are said to be 2,000 English in Romne, and 20,000 in France, besides thole on other parti of this Continent. As a proof of the indisposition of the Catho lics to bury their question " in oblivion" it is worth re marking, that on Sunday last there were three " agitating" deputations from the Association—the first to Swords, the second to Clontarf, and the third to Dunlavin, a village on the borders of the counties of Carlow and Wicklow. Mr. O'Connell attended at Clontarf, accompanied by several other gentlemen; Mr. Steele at Swords ; and Messrs. Curran, Maurice O'Connell, and Murphy, at Dunlavin. This must convince the Duke of Wellington that the Ca tholics have no idea of relaxing the constitutional exertions to which they are indebted for the firm ground upon which they now stand. And we stite the fact, without the most remote suspicion that the letter of his Grace in anywise re ferred to what has been, and must continue to be, the policy of the Catholic body.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. DREADFUL CALAMITY-EIGHT PER- SONS DROWNED ! (Frem the E'f.t.oll , l Edition of !Le Hall Packet, Tuesday.) If is v, h most sincere and heartfelt feelings of regret we have in stilt!, that, since our first impres tn p re ,s, i t ovfli tz ence has been received of the occurrence, in the vicinity of Spurn, on Sunday last, of a most afflicting calamity, by which eight in dividuals have perished ! The particulars of this lamentable affair are but imperfectly known at pre sent ; we have, however, made what inquiry was in our power, in the limited space that has elapsed, and the following, we believe, is a correct outline of the circumstances connected with this truly melan choly catastrophe. On Sunday morning three trading vessels, the Phebe, of Goole, the Helmsley, of Selby, and the Nelly, of this port, were lying off Spurn, when the three masters, Captain Sales, Sa muel illealas, and George B ggs, agreed amongst themselves to spend the day with the family of Mrs. Richardson, who resides at the Spurn Light House. They left their respective vessels at half past eleven on Sunday morning, in the boat of one of them, accompanied by three men and a boy, all belonging to tke Phely, and a man belonging to one of the other vessels. Having spent some time at Mrs. Richardson's, it appears the unfortunate men got into their boat to return to their vessels, but were heard, previously to leaving the house, to express a determination to procure some cockles. After this, nothing was heard or seen of them ; they, however, never returned to their vessels. Considerable alarm consequently prevailed, and the most melancholy forebodings were indulged in, which were, alas' converted into certainty by the finding of one of the bodies yester day morning, washed up by the tide at Cleethorps, on the Lincolnshire coast, and the subsequent dis covery of the remainder in the same vicinity. The boat has not hitherto been met with, but a bag of cockles was found near the spot where the bodies were washed ashore. The immediate cause of this dreadful event thus remains unknown, as every per son on board the boat has perished, but it is sup posed that they had got on Cleethorps sand for the purpose of collecting cockles, and hail returned in their boat, when, by some accident or other, the boat was upset. The whole of the bodies now lie at the inn at Cleethorps, but the coroner's inquest has not yet been held. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. There has not been a single bet made to-day worth no tice, and the attendance at the room was extremely small, consequently the odds remain as last quoted. DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Mr. Pettit's Posthurnecolt 13 to 1 agst Mr. Hunter's Canvas colt 16 to 1 aget Duke of Rutland's Brother to Moses 16 to 1 agst His Majesty's Electress colt 16 to 1 agst Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle c. 16 to I agst Lord Sligo's Prince Eugene 17 to 1 agst Lord Jereey's Will-o'-the-wisp 17 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer 18 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Loss filly 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's colt (taken) OAKS. 7 to 1 agst Lord 'Exeter's Green Mantle S to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna 11 to 1 apt Mr. Batson's Luss filly 11 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Clotilde 15 to l any other. ST. LEGER. 11 to 1 agst M. Step!lei:3oll'a Voltaire (taken) 12 to 1 agst Mr. Petro, Rowton 15 to 1 apt Major Yarburgh's Pilgrim ' THE FANCY. The Battle-money of the match between Curtis and Pell:ins was last night given up, Both men were present, and an immense crowd of visitors. A vast number of bets were discharged on the spot, and all things went off cool said comfortable on that score. Nut exactly so was it with Jones and Iteiiiie's battle-money. A little bicker iug too': place on that suit, hut it was ultimately resigned to Harry. Tom declared (whop taxed with something " worry pekooliar" in his conduct in the battle,) that Jones had beaten him against his will. A little go will take place to-day, within four miles of town, between the Sprig of Shamrock and Gillan for 3/. a-side, the latter has about four inches of advantage in height ; but the Sprig's friends are very sweet on hint. SPARRING AT THE TENNIS COURT. Yestetday Jem Ward took his benefit at the Tennis Court, and the esteem in which he is held may best be estimated by the fact that the house was crowded to in convenience. To his friends this must bc as gratifing as to himself it will be profitable; for poor Jem, with less noise, has, perhaps, inure deservance than some tcho have been fortunate enough to so. we their trumpeters. His unassuming quiet disposition has been a greater hindrance to him in tl:e "March of prosperity " than any other cir cumstance; and to compare consequences, would almost persuade thinking persons to pray to be endowed with a stock inexhaustible of unblushing impudent—; for Modest merit is but a poor recommendation " as times go." CHAFF OF THE DAY. Dick Curtis appeared on the stage, but his face did not show much proof of dreadful punishment. He expressed much sorrow for having lost the fight on Tuesday, and particularly on account of one gentleman who had backed him to a considerable amount. Ile said he was again ready to tight any man in England, and give half a stone, fur from 2001, to 5001. or he would fight any man of his weight 3001. to 200/., or 600/. to 4001. Bishop Sharpe challenged Perkins fur from 100/. to 200/. and said that his weight would not exceed ten stone four pounds. Alit, Reed said he would fight any of the winners of Tuesday last, and confine his weight to ten stone four pounds. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WFMIESDAT, DECEMYER 31.-Wind S.S.W.—High water 32 minutes past six.--Arrived the Ann, Williams, from Seville ; Hector, , from St. John's, N. B. ; Driver, , from Gallipoli ; Prince Eu gene, , from ditto ; Commerce, , from Newfoundland. Sailed—The W. Wilberforce, White, for St. Domingo ; Mary and Harriett, , fur New York ; Eliza Plum mer, Style€, for Madeira ; Royal 'George, Grant, for Calcutta. The managers of the two principal Theatres would confer a kindness on some of the younger part of their audience if they would manage once or twice a week to perform the panto►Hime as the first piece. We have to mentio❑ a fact which is not gene rally known, and has never before, we believe, been in print. The part of Virginius was originally written for Mr. Kean ; but owing to sows difficulty that arose with the management, the play was brought out at another house, and Macready became through its means the in heritor of a fame which it is easy to pronounce, from the success of his present attempt, that Kean would else hare enjoyed. This it probably is which has induced him to study the part.—Briglibm Gazette. The hawks of the Duke of St. Albans made some excellent sport on the Race-hill on Monday, where, though no public notice had been given, a considerable number of spectators had assembled. Several pigeons were killed in the finest style imaginable. One which tali taken a flight over the Royal Pleasure Grounds, nearly escaped, by the hawk which pursued it having lost sight of it, and then prntncing upon another pigeon which had just been wounded by one -of the persons engaged at the time in pigeon shooting in the grounds. The hawk, however, alarmed by the cries of these persons, relinquished its prey, and resumed its pursuit of the former pigeon, which it suc ceeded in securing. Several guns were at one time pointed at the hawk in its flight, but its bells protected him from violence, no person wishing to injure a licensed hawker.— Brighton Gazette. At the present time there arc 24 licensed coaches running between Blackwall and Leadenhall-street every ten minutes, from nine in the morning till midnight. On the average each coach runs four turns, the mile duty and turnpike amounting to 2s. 9d. each time, yielding a yearly revenue of upwards of 5,0001, When full, the daily earnings exceed 1001. Making, however, allowances for light loads, perhaps it is not much beyond the mark to set don-a the money paid by the public on this short stage, at 25,0001. annually.—Sporting Magazin°. SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. Having some days ago capressed an opinion that it would be essential to the safeguard of in dividual life and property to introduce the " pre ventive principle" into the system of our muni cipal police, we are favoured . with a very lona letter, the writer of which seems to have run himself out of breath in declaiming against the horrors of the " State Police . ' which exists in France and throughout the Continent. Now there is no objection to a foreigner, as we per ceive our correspondent to be, stuffing up a straw figure of his own manufacture, and then pummelling and thrashing it until it falls to pieces ; but we must assure this gentleman, that the " State Police"—that grim destroyer, against which he rails with so much passion, and possibly wL!I so much justice--against which he, at least, if we may guess from his sig nature of " Proseriptus; may be at this moment in open war—was not the sort of engine which we contemplated when we talked of " preventive" measures for assisting the municipal officers of London, and other great cities, in the security of the citizen against mur derers and robbers. Although the bulk of fo reign residents in England are not remarkable for precise or discriminating views with regard to our internal regulations, it might have been ex pected that the broad and obvious difference be tween a " political" and a " municipal" institu tion would have made itself visible to the under standing of most men who ventured to write for the public. A State Police can never be forced upon this country while the Parliament and the press are in existence. A State Police would, in truth, be without an object here, where con spiracy against the State itself would be the wildest of all chimeras. But for the prevention of crime, under due, and as it appears to us easily practicable, regulations, we do not see that any more solid objection could be made to it than there now is to many of those processes which arc every day recurred to for the detection and punishment of crimes already perpetrated. Rea sonable ground of suspicion, that robbery, mur der, or some illegal outrage was in preparation, ought in all cases to be not merely . entertained, but established and recorded on oath, before the least attempt on the personal liberty of the im puted culprits received the sanction of a police magistrate. What is this worse than, or indeed is it so bad as, the imprisonment of an indivi dual in default of bail on the oath of a party who swears the peace against him ? The grand defect of our existing practice is, that it tends to the consummation of crime, for the sake of punishing the offender, instead of its prevention, for the sake of protecting the innocent. We really cannot see what connection subsists be tween a bona fide remedy for this deplorable evil, and the establishment of a " State Police," which is a defensive or aggressive (which you please) instrument, between the political ad'ini nistration and the subject.—Times. No man who is not exceedingly prejudiced will refuse to allow that the inhabitants of this empire are not, compared with even the most favoured nation of Europe, as far as the majo rity of the inhabitants are concerned, in what may be called an enviable situation. As far as we have been able to discover, a great number of individuals in England, compared to the po pulation, enjoyed the advantage of nutritive and stimulating food, good clothes, and protection against cold, titan in even the most favoured country of Europe. The increased average du ration of life sufficiently proves, that though large classes—as the weavers for instance—may suffer, yet that, upon the whole, the means of comfortable living have not diminished. It is true, that in many parts of the country the means are not always obtained in the most creditable way. Poaching, sheetastealing, and plundering of various kinds arc so common among the peasantry of many parts, that they are almost considered as legitimate means of subsistence. The people say to them selves, we are willing to work—there is food, and we ought to have it by one way or another ; and such deep rout have the practices generated by this way of thinking struck, that in many trades, there are conventional modes of pillage, the not submitting to practice which would ex communicate a workman, and if a labourer on a farm were to refuse to pilfer like his fellows, he would be treated as a spy. There is a sort of conventional dishonesty which seems to run through all business and occupations in this country, the reality differing as much from the pretension, as the corrupt practice necessary to the working of the English Constitution does from the theory. If you ask the dealers in coals, for instance, how it happens that fraud has been so general among the most respectable of the body, they tell you that they arc obliged to cheat in self-defence--that where, by ceitain tricks of trade, certain men can afford to take contracts at such a price, if they did not contrive to sell at the same price, they could do no bu siness. In the same manner, if you ask a tradesman—not only in the Metropolis, but all around—why he charges at such an enormous rate to gentlemen, he will tell you, that so firmly rooted is the system of bribing the domestics at a high rate, that were he to reuse acquiescence, he would be without business. The gentleman or nobleman whom he befriended by his honesty might thank him, but the servants would all conspire against him, by spoiling the articles sent from his shop in some way or other, that the gentleman would be obliged to consent to sacri fice hint. Some years ago, an attempt was made to break through the monopoly of fish in the metropolis; but the old dealers and the servants understood one another, and the attempt neces sarily failed. The noblemen and gentlemen set the example of preying upon the rest of the society, and they prey upon them in return ; and thus the frauds balance each other with less in convenience than might be supposed. There is seldom much flagrant wrong—nothing of the titter want of principle exhibited in Russia, for instance, or the grasping extortion so common in Italy. But still the people of this country have generally a moral law of their own, which they do not find in the Decalogue. In the Memoirs of Scipio Ricci, Bishop of Pistoia, there is, among the Pieces justificativcs, a Letter from a Friend who had been travelling in England with Bishop Gregoire, who " describes his having been much struck with the cor ruption of the inhabitants of Great Bri tain, covered over with a decent and hypocritical exterior." What we do in this country, we ge nerally do well, and canting is done admirably. The keepers of correction-houses tell you that the appearance of profound piety is so well kept up by the thieves under their care, that the most penetrating would be deceived by them. The evidence of the very intelligent keeper of the principal correction-house in the county of Suf folk goes to this, that in the course of his long experience, an instance in which a game of de ception has not been practised by the men under