The Sun. — London, England, 1825-10-29 00:00:00

■ THE KING, &c. Lid: l4. , -30 / 1 , OCT. 28. His MAJESTY returned to the Royal li4' 41 st night at a quarter before 11 o'clock, in his travel. cl 'tiage from his Palace at Kew where he dined. This °Brl his Majesty, with his Suite and Attendants, took an It"° is th e G reat Park. At five o'clock this evening her h gt 4 i ghaeas the P r inc es s Augusta left Frogmore Lodge in ravelling carriage, accompanied by her 1,41 y in Waiting, „t.oh;',"Thot Park, on a visit to the Duchess of Gloucester. Her ic Highne ss the Duchess of Gloucester is expected to leave ot I'3 rk, about the 2d or &I of next month, for Brighton. p a3l( in to be occupied by her Royal Highness adjoins 4 2 11 -liotl, which his Maiesty has graciously permitted her du ring her stay. The v r6 -I.N . G arrived in his travelling carriage, with outriders, al at th e day afternoon about three o'clock, in town,andalight. ties ground in St. James's Park, where the building of the *so, r a4le e i 5 proceeding, when his Majesty inspected the 1 / 4 1 ... „,"'d save his commands for other proceedings. The Atoms C umberland accompanied his Majesty to Londin, and l'iOe4 in the King's carriage to his residence in the King's A N Z St. James's. The King's carriage proceeded to his th 444 t Y'l stables, at the back of his Palace in Pall.mall, and Nk e , 63. 11021 es, and then returned to the works for the new 4%2 where t h e King having rema i ned a b out h a lf an h our, tl 4 : l _ his tra.velling carriage, and went to the Palace at Ken. tl it " 4l o +Where after staying some time, the King proceeded to c: alace at Kew, where his Majesty arrived about five Lh Dinner was served up directly after. At eight o'clock 14 8 left Kew on his 'mitt= to his Royal Lodge, Windsor D EPARTURES FROM TOWN, &e. al NR lsts - S ir Wm. Cockburn, Lady and Miss Cockburn, from isi ste -t1 Rouse, near Kington, Herefordshire, for Lansdown ktfolet' Ba th ; Dowager Lady Knatchbull and family, from Si st ' , for B russels ; Gen. Sir Loftus Otway, for Cirencester ; qisZ illa hy, Bart. for Scotland ; Sir W. Heathcote, Bart. for ; Colonel and Mrs. Clive, from Scarborough, for Sir Alexander Campbell, Bart. for Maidstone; Sir 0. l ita s i t , o a rt• for S w i nstea d H a ll, Suffolk; L a dy a nd Miss '3 olel s ' o f reois Lewes, for Brighton ; Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. iCi leonstabl e , Norfolk; Colonel and Mrs. Howard, s i !k a , s . l i s"t°i), for Cheltenham ; Sr Francis Vincent, Bart. t es ttie b il a gate. for Paris and Rome ; the Marquis of Lothian, (es s "ager Lady S u fli e ld' s sea t, Norfolk; Lord Muncas -4:11040,17ti0n Mowbray ; his Excellency Count Lieven, for t Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook-street—Sir L adY Lawless and family, for Florence, Oki Is{ ARRIVALS IN TOWN. 4i'llO ses ,gent, from Surrey; Colonel and Mrs. Mordaunt, Vtist? ‘ , 4 , °r ti ; 11. Davidson, from Scotland ; Sir Edm. 11.7Sgate, frosts Berkshire; Lady and Miss Campbell, from ids. Davies, from Herefordshire ; the Countess of t ko - from Wbnp ' ole, Cambridgeshire ; J Coun , tess Alth eass % oipe. At tbe Royal Hotel, St. ames s-street— k'. _atri, from Ssaffbrdshire. At the London Hotel, etl Clo itl i s - s i s tr eet--I - lenrY Bonar, Esq. from a tour. A , t. the i Ipotel, Bond-street—The Hon. and Rev. Mr. Car e qtstes,i'rs Carleton from Hotel,llafield ; Clarence Pigou, ,ts t s Kirkli;m's Lower Brook-street—Sir T. 4 .);:11 - 00 t t°r l Sheppard, from ' Tunbridge Wells. At Mi . S I C-esi'r t from the West of England ; 'oars w iYs Yh ortley and family. I' / L l. tse 4; 4 SeC ill trvat.s.—Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Digb), tesAirabiarjsenburgh, Bishop of Norwich and family, Right . ts; 1 4 1 . 1 0 Sze J. 'Wallace Lady Denny and family, Lady 1 , or is!ar, Sir G. and Lady Berry, Dean of York and gca deut enant-General Coglan, Lieut-Colonel and Mrs. t s, s is 13 t iti and Mrs. Jones, Captain Baynes, Captain Dick, tlkal ai nt'l, Captain Roberts, Captain Vaughan, Lieute -44, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Barnes, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. ),Is k sr, I t v '' Dr. Butterworth, Rev. Dr. Inglis, Rev. Dr. ittite . ev • Mr. Harding, Rev. Mr. Hagget, Rev. Mr. fir,:llr. Rogers, Rev. Mr: Rudge, Rev. Mr. Smith, s>i Mr. Rey. Mr. Vanburgh. Sy 4 ,t it• - OF lona.—The Committee appointed for ttiessia t° e s 'ect the resolution of the Guild of Merchants, _e01• 1 'a bill length portrait of his Royal Highness the 1 44, 1 :4 011 7:k in their Hall, have, we understand, agreed with t he ss 'on s v a cm, the celebrated artist, to paipt it. Mr. Thomp sArstsal, PSoceed s to London, for the purpose of completing % . 1 4 eisis s ' 4 t his Majesty, as represented in the grand picture gtt~ttotaltrekcitition at • 'is:st ' own, and for which he . has already with several sittings ; at which period it is his isk-s -to _ . o tt b ovail himself of the permission so graciously s t itt sb il ble2,,s Royal Highness the Duke of York. The list kis' to iV'l ( ins still continues open at the office of the Trea -41)4 m rimittee, and Master of the Guild, Sir Abraham k s ltis so tt !tday e. ," r o e s ei•—(Doblin Evening Moil.) 14 ' h is tr rnilN. about ten o'clock, the DukeofClarence eiris e avelling chariot and outriders, from Bushy Park, 1 40 1 4 51 b ee in Charles-street, Berkeley-square. I,iigottionster Visited the Duke of Cumberland yesterday t i"Se .4l ercis had a long interview of his Royal Highness. Ois sf t, rooming the Duke of Cumberland visited the t t 4t - Zs' s petit and the Princess Sophia at their residence in buk °l ace, Kensington s As fs o „," Richmond has . arrived at his seat, Goodwood, a tour 4 1 : 1 , 'ss..‘r sit t . ll 2 l G- . NUPTI.SLS OF THE LOUT) LIEUTE, t ta s i t t e roll r ,t,t_e:ss.on the of . Irish descent. i.ashin f_rj e an t f i l l f l a ed th , e a r i 4 .10 34 k pence tllti.t l s i7 hi l g n h tliecit of N judicial y office in eanada. Airs. Pat tlto sf hams was Caton. Her late husband was the (s s t lb the ni ` s • throrue Buonaparte. The day . for the celebra. 'es s , re iPtials is not yet appointed ; but it is understood a l.)„ l ,. ° ?hY will not be deferred beyond Saturday next l're Oman 's Journal.) )1' ° N I 4'o at e AI • th aJesty King MAximiLiax JoStpit, a Y, 1 756 succeeded his brother Charles 11., Duke 'it sos " t s (svh f • sister of the King I , Of ose consort saria Amelia, 1; 4 1,, s s , s ` , Ptsi - ;!: 11 11ivin g at Neuburg, on the Danube), on the Af ar ,• 494 l and to the Elector Charles Theodore (whose 11 1 40'. Iseopoldina, Archduchess of Austria. is also i s ) 1„-; r Y, `I,V ,Ft, near Newbury, on the Danube), on the lfith t irst . ss ,''.'• He assumed the Royal dignity in Mt ;ilti t t •rte e 'le Princess Wilholmina Augusta, daughter ;s 4 lis s t. '• I " c rge, of Hsse armstadt . he leaves four p'!lt nasss'lt, his present Louis I. ; 2d, Princess Au -4,11ti154 '• Zidow'of Majestygee ; 3d, the Empress wife,o I,iktyr s 1 , 41 - 6 Prince Charles Theodore. By his second , S t ' s r 'ko Willielmina Carolina, daughter of the here ! ssNs"izsb (-harles Louis of Baden he leaves five children. ss,eth Ludoyica Crown Princess of Prussia ; 2d, 41. 4 ti`,N4 i llg ta, consort' of Prince John of Saxony ; 3d, So 4:its;t'ilass ei • the Archduke Francis Charles ; 4th, Princess e .ses t )• s iiss . e ?Poldin e ; and sth, Princess Mary-Anne. Her o ss alaj e ; s tlseen of Saxony is the only surviving sister. Ma "las• t Y has children, of whom the eldest is the Crown 'oncie:it:lilistsborn the 28th Nov. 1811.—(Nuremberg ' Oct ; . ) b 44;), - 4 ,„11;:111EN T , . r . ZitZei l 1 1 , 11 : 1 ' 3 1-/ANES.—ELECTION OF SURGEON tvettl i po.4 B, o l:7,7 l t the close of the poll yesterday the I N t a. ou ro ,„ iv , : RADNOR, 324—Mr. COSGREAVE, Oat ("ttONING late 11. A. E. J t ille Miss 14 1, 114 4 W e i rl i tB i n historical and Portrait Paint ' NI t 'l f as in fancy subjects, were much ad (-04 he fi ew YPars ago, lh, tt o rie N has been since studying t C ar e !°rlis of the old Masters in Italy, 4 h erei glad to learn that she has resumed f e se o f N., too. . her excellent pencil, and likely 'NI 'Pict] ...o us 4 thi s among the many accomplished Country. ' 1 '' , J ti* - , " ' tAtel '' - 4,, , ..: i ' '''"--- 4 e, 4 41 , ‘ ;.„.._ ..-.-pri .- ' i ,v x5„,• (:; .. - --.4 , 74.w.i... , , , , ,-- z .„,— , vl v, , , s - N, .1 -- -• - •"<-4--,.-n , -.. (-IN i.. -* , - - - . li . ~,,..._,,,, _ ,........v t. ~ ' 6 4 '4:4 7 , , ~. I) '' 44 , A Oh THE THEATRES. DRURY-LANE.—The Comedy of The Hypo crite, in which. DOWTON, WALLA CK, HARLEY, and Ilirs.DAvisost, exerted themselves to the sa , tisfaction of the audience, was last night fol lowed by a musical Farce, entitled The Wedding Present. The story is short. Florival (WAL LACE) has wounded. the nephew of the Count • (MERCER) in a duel, and, fearful of the conse quence, absconds ire assumes a rustic garb to escape from the soldiers, who pursue him. Ro rette (Miss KELLY) has married Martin (HARLEY) whom she does not like, but is resolved to be virtuous, and has been promised 100 ducats on her wedding. As Martin pretends illness, in order to watch her, and as it is necessary for her husband to accompany her to claim the money, in order to assist the escape of Florival she agrees that he shall appear at the castle of the Count (TAYLEURE). After some difficulties and per plexities, the wounded nephew appears, and matters are of course settled to the satisfaction of all parties. This is a light, playful, and amusing Piece. It has the support of good acting in the exertions of WALLAcri, HoasrE, HARLEY, BEDFORD, bliss GRADDON, and more particularly of Miss KELLY. The chief . objection to the piece is that the plot com mences with a song, and as much of it is related in the same manner, it is difficult to follow its pro gress. Singing is seldom distinctly. heard, except in the music, and therefore should be introduced incidentally and not as part of the fable. The music is light and pleasing, and creditable to the composer, Mr. HonNE. Mr. KENNY is under stood to be the author of the farce, and to have presented it to th© theatre without requiring any profit from its success. COVENT•GARDEN.—The lively musical farce No Song no Supper, which, from its intrinsic merit, and the amusing variety of its characters, as well as its appropriate and beautiful music, will always remain a stock piece on the stage, last night introduced Miss GOWARD in the part of Margaretta. bliss GOWARD was deservedly ad mired at the English Opera House for her musi cal powers, and the spirit of her acting. Sha fully supported her reputation last eight by her lovely representation of the character, and was loudly encored in 4 ‘ With lowly suit and plain tive ditty." She will doubtless prove a valuable addition to this Theatre, RAMSGATE, OCT. 9-8. OPENING OF THE NEW THEATRE. This improving Watering Place may he corni4 dered now as in the very zenith of its season, having, from the healthiness of its situation, retained Its attractions much later than anterior seasons, particularly since the increase of a public amusement long wanted here, and which only opened on Mon day last—a handsome new Theatre, built by Mr. Paucur SAvim., Proprietor also of the Margate Theatre, who has evinced much liberality and taste in the construction. The builders are Messrs. (ln:it ?Mr, Citavxw, and Wrrmrs rt, who have evinced much skill in its completion. On the opening of the doors, the lobbies were soon filled ; and the first prominent feature on which the eye rests is the painted curtain, or act drop scene, comprising architecture, drapery, and landscape, so ap propriately blended as to produce a beautiful effect. The front of both tiers of boxes is a salmon ground, with broad gold headings, which inclose a running pattern of the Rose, the Thistle, and Shamrock, executed by Mr. Connor, of The Rath Theatre. On the rising of the curtain, the whole Corps Den ?antique were discovered in two semicircles, the whole flanked by the Margate Military Band in full uniform, who attended to assist in the National Anthem of " God save the King." As soon a,s the repeated peals of welcome had been given to the Manager and his Company, Mr. Savill stepped forward and de livered the following Opening Address : " Oar present structure, though the work of Art, We dedicate to Nature and the Heart, Wherein we ask those social hours to pass O'er which Reflection may suspend her glass, The Stage should " hold the mirror up to view," Where men and manners pass in the review ; Shew us life's journey, varied in its scenes, Such as it real, and is—as Nature gleans— Depict the mind, the passions—master-strings Which move to action, and the issue brings Of man's eventful life—which mirror veers To distant climates and anterior years : The manners, polities, and forms display, Of other countries—of another day; The page of History unfolds again, Portraying " olden times" and olden men ; Revives the gothic and the classic age, Embodying the philosopher and sage; Or, with a glance, recedes from Greece and Rome, And brings imagination nearer home, Where, in domestic scenes, Nie oft may trace Our own epitome brought face to face. Such is the Stage, whose study is mankind— The traits and portray of the human mind. Nature's wide canvass Time can amply fill ; Lift tempts with every tint the Artist's skill • And, shou'd our picture e'er exceed the troth, In drawing Vice—portraying Virtue's worth, Too are the judges of the Light and Shade, Oar efforts to approve or to degrade. The Public, who support the Public Stage, Should be the censors of each living age. Our gl-tss reflects the world, and, if not true, Reflection, and Correction, come from you. Our motto this—such may it ever be,.. Amusement, blended with Morality." INPAMOUS DECEPTION.—It appears fromTrew man's Exeter paper, that false statements of the death of Lord and Lady ROLLE have been for warded at different times to various Newspapers. The Exeter Journalist says, " The author of these paragraphs is perfectly well known in this county, therefore here they fall harmless, whilst the writer is held in contempt by all persons and parties,—but to the relatives and friends of those noble persons residing at a distance it must inevitably cause great pain and anxiety before the truth can be ascertained ; we are happy to say that both those persons are in good health, and within these few days have done an act of beneficence. which, if we were al lowed to relate, would,if possible, raise them still higher in the general estimation." So far our provincial contemporary. For our own part, we can only say, if the scoundrel who has been guilty of this infamous deception is known, he ought to be brought to justice, and visited by the severest and most degrading penalties of the law. To harrow up private feelings and torture an af fectionate heart with false alarms is a cruel, unmanly act of wickedness ; to do this through the medium of the press, which ought to be de voted to the circulation of truth alone, is a gross insult to the public ; and to make an unconscious Editor the agent in this detestable fraud, proves an utter destitution of every feeling of honour. Altogether the act is that of an assassin ; and it is idle to talk of punishing its perpetrator with mere contempt : his sensibilities can be reached by nothing short of a cat o'nine tails. POETRY. THE MAID OF HERNE CLIFF. The soft summer breeze scarcely ripples the sea, And the waves on the shore die murmuringly, The sun hath lain down on his broad ocean bed, He draws round his curtains of wide dusky red, And quenching in slumber each bright golden ray, Hath cover'd his couch, with a mantle of grey— Say, who is now wand'ring alone on the strand, With her cheek resting thoughtfully on her white hand ? That soft dimpled cheek is bereft of its bloom, And her plight youthful form hath an aspect of gloom ; Her cleativory brow is imprinted with care, Dishevell'd her tresses of pale amber hair. Her eye through a tear, shines more blue and more bright, The sand chews no track or her footstep so light. Unheeding, regardless, she passes me by, While her fair bosom heaves with a deep lengthen'd sigh. As though her heart strove in that effort to throw, And reject from its bearing, a pressure of woe Whence this sailor youth advancing, Pleasure on each feature dancing, He comes this way, he hastens near, He flies, he calls his MARION dear— " Joy MARION, joy, Pin not to go, " What, not to leave me ?"—" No, Isive, no"— " I can't believe—come tell me -how ?" " The order's chang'd, arrived just now. - I flew to tell thee—dare not stay, When shall we meet again, Love, sty ?"._ " What. only met to part so soon,"— " Quick promise,"—" Here to-morrow noon."--. A moment on her lip he hung, A moment round his neck she clung, A brief farewell then hurried O'er, The Lover leaves her on the shore.— Now she hath gained the fearful height, She turns to look once more---grnd night, Till dizzy, as she views his flight, She falls—she dies, th' unconscious wave Clos'd o'er poor Al ARlox's itrre-wroug4t grave. r, GERTRUDE. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCK. OXFORD, OcT. 2/I.—On Thursday last the folloWing De green were conferred .—.. MASTERS Or ARTS. Rev. ~j'illiam Wailinger,l University. Rev. Charles liotham, f Rev. William D. Thring, Wadlitun BACHELORS OF ARTS.- Rev. Richard Edmunds, Magdalen hail, Grand Compounder. William Mu lton Blencowe, • William Churchill, Worcester. Stewart Evelyn Forster. University. Grorge Moberly, Balliol. John Hill, 1 Brasenose. Richard John Price, Joseph Neate Walsh, St. John's. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. John Jones, M.A.Precentor of Christ Church, and Perpetual Curate of St. Thomas's, in this City, has been appointed a Surrogate for granting Marriage Licences, and performing other official duties in the Bishop's Court at Oxford. The Lord Chamberlain has appointed the Rev. Thos. Ran dolph Rector of Handam, and a Prebendary of St. Paul's, Chaplain in Ordinary to the King, vice Dr. James Hook, pro moted. Tice Rev. Rerett Sheppard, 31. A. of Cains Collage, Cam,. bridge, to the Rectory of Thwaite, Suffolk, on the presentation of John Wilson Sheppard, Esq. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. lAA METON MEETING, 182.5.— WEDNESDAY. Gold Cup, value 100 soy., given by a Member of the Lasobton Racing Club, and added to a Sweepstakes of 10 soy. each, for horses not thorough-bred. T. Y.C. Mr. White's br. e. Plutarch, 4 yrs old, 9st 41b Mr. Payne's b. b. Gossoon, aged, I2st alb - 2 The Judge plac,od only two. Lord Wilton's Mystic, Ilst, beat Lord Ncrmanby's Chro nicle, lOst alb. D.C. .50 soy. Second Class of the Normanby Stakes of 5 soy. each, for horses not thorough bred. D.C. (11 subscribers.) Mr. Lambton's b. c. Macdonald, by .51acorville, 4 yrs. Lord Normanhy's hr. h. Newburgh, ti yrs. Ilst 101 b 2 Mr. Darnell's b. c. Carbon, 4 yrs, est. 71b. - - 3 Captain Ilassard's h. in. Sarsaparella, aged 9st 101 b 4 The Palatine Stakes of 50 soy. each, 10 ft. for all ages (two-yr olds excepted.) W.C. (5 subscribers.) Mr. Hudson's b. f. Isekilo, 3.yvtold,..tbst 71b . 1 Lord .Wilton's br. c. Hottentot, 4 yrs; lOst711) . 2 HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. MEITINGSI OF HOUNDS IN THE ENSUING WEEF. His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at Salt Hill; Friday, at Bedford Lane ; if prevented by the weather, they will meet at the same place the following day. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, at Patchant; Wednes day, at the Race-course ; Friday, at the Devil's Dyke. The Brookside Harriers, on lkfonday, at Newmarket Hill ; Wednesday, at Lewes Race Course ; Friday, at Telleacombe Tye. The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Pilt Down. The Cottesmore Hounds, on Monday, at Castle Butham ; Tuesday, at Laund Wood ; Tuesday, at Manthorpe ; Friday, at Leethorpe. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Ravendale ; Wednesday, at Chace Hill ; Friday, at Nettleton Village ; Saturday, at Great Lumber Cover. The South Wold Subscription Hounds, on Tuesday, at the Tower on the Moor; Thursday, at the Kennel ; Saturday, at Thath well. Sir IC Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Stapleford Moor; Tuesday, at Dunham Village; Wednesday, at Hungram Gorse; 'Thursday, at Coleoy ; Saturday, at Little Corringham. The Badswerth Hounds, on Tuesday, at Marr Village ; Thursday, at Croxton Village ; Friday, at Owston. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Churchill ; Friday, at Worcester Perry Wood. The Vale Harriers, on Titesday, at Godulanstone ; Saturday, at Coronton Pauncefoot Lodge. Mr. bewing's Mounds, on Monday, at Dereham Town ; Wednesday, at Hampton Green ; Friday, at Lenwade Bridge. Mr. Muster's Hounds, on Monday, at Pipwell Hall ; Tues, day, at Fanning Woods ; WednCday, at Laxton Woods ; Thursday, at Shapes ; Saturday, at Broughton Turnpike. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds, pn Monday, at Nash Com, mon ; Wednesday, at Haversham Wood ; Saturday, at Sal cey Green. The Quorndon Mounds, on Monday, at Kirby Gate; Tues day, at Kettleby ; Wednesday, at Thrumpton; Thursday, at Barkby Hall ; Friday, at Widmerpool ; Saturday, at Cotes Turnpike. The Chester Harriers, on Monday, at Robin Hood ; Thurs day, at Huntingdon. Mr. Wickstead's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Wybunbury ; Friday, at Stapleford Bridge, MtLynA.— , -Every householder is now required to make a return, within two days from the de livery of notices by constables, of the number of persons residing iu his h►use liable to serve in the militia. All persons claiming exemptions, from any cause whatever, should not only make a return to that effect (stating the particular ground of exemption), but must also attend the Deputy Lieutenants on the day of appeal, and prove their exemption by producing a certificate from a medical man ; and if not, they may be billotted, and in that event are punishable by fine fur not attending the appeal. The various grounds of exemption are now stated on the back of the return furnished by the War-office. SUDDEN DEATU.— On Wednesdy morning, about eight o'clock, as Thos. Dorker, a job coachman, between 40 and 50 years of age, in the employ of Mr. Rudland, of Bulstrode Mews, Marylebone, was walking up the mews, he was suddenly take?' ill ; he caught hold of the handle of a coach-door which was being cleaned by , John Heath in the mews. He could not speak, but emitted a large quantity of blood from his mouth. Ile dropped on his knees, and Heath took him up and placed him in the coach-house, and a surgeon was sent for, but before the arrival of the latter he died. Mr. R. Macdonald, of Thayer•strect, surgeon, attended the instant he was called upon, but when he arrived the vital spark had fled, and all attempts to restore him were useless. He was of opinion that he died of an effusion of blood on the chest, which might have been produced by a violentfit of coughing. An in quest was held on the body on Thursday evening, and a verdict given, Died by the visitation of God." The poor man has left a wife and fire children. ANECDOTES, &c. REMARKABI,E DAY.—This day is remarkable as the anniversary of Sir WALTER ItALErcit [wing beheaded in Old Palace-yard in 1618; of Lima'and Callao, in Peru, being swidlov%ed up by an, earthquake in 1746 ; and of Wilmington, North Carolina, being destroyed by fire in 1798. The Beautiful M. DE CHATEAUBRTAND had been the beloved mistress of Francis 1. When this Prince .was taken prisoner at Pavia, dreading the anger of the Queen, the Countess implored permission of her husband to return. It was granted, but far from pardoning a woman he had so clearly loved, he confined her in a room hung with black, and resolutely refused to see her. No sooner had Francis recovered his liberty than her husband, fearing the King would recall her to his arrns, resolved to put her to death ; he entered her room accompanied by six men wear ing masks, and furiously said to his devoted vic tim, " die to expiate thy infamy and mine." She mildly replied that she was ready to submit, and turning away her lovely eyes, delivered herself up to the ministers of his cruel vengeance. Four of then► held her fast, whilst the remaining two opened the veins of her legs and arms. Her cruel husband stood over whilst the blood flowed, and neither the sight of her beauty nor her resig nation with which she bore her hard fate, could move him to compassion. This tragical story is related by Varillas ; but the truth of it is denied by other authors. Pernikactr.—At his death in 1374, PETR lICH bequeathed his library to the city of Venice, upon condition that it should be oper.ed to tl►e public. This was the foundation of the library of St. Marc, the first public establishment of this kind in Europe. o.r.ystrus was formerly the appellation given to any lofty eminence, and was common to many celebrated mountains ; to one in Pieria, the fabu lous seat of the gods ; to another in Bithynia ; to a third in Mysia; a fourth in Cyprus ; a fifth in Creta ; a sixth in Elis ; and a seventh in Ar cadia.. THEATRKAL A NECDOTE.—" Would yon believe it ?" said one of the Managers of the Theatre to LasToN the other day, " Lord - tells me he fias written a comedy, but I suppose he was joking." " By no means," replied Liston, " I assure you I have seen it, and there is no joke in it." LtsToN, it seems, resumes his engagement at the Haymarket Theatre on the seventh of next month. his Paul Pry is certainly one of the most ludicrous specimens of genuine comic hu mour that the stage has ever exhibited. In fact,' he made the whole town as curious as himself, and anxious to pry into the merits of an actor, whose hutncur is really original, as well as irre sistably diverting. Tire NEW LAW CQURTL—Yesterday, the workmen began to pull down the fencing, which has so long inclosed the buildings by the side of Westminster hall, intended for the new Law Courts, preparatory to the pavements and road in Palace-yard and Saint Margaret street being finished, as the Courts are to be ready by the next Term, which commences 1 Nov. 6. The doorways in the new buildings, ex pressly for the several Judges, and which front St. Margaret's church, are also finishing ; but whether these several works (which have been only two or three years in progress) will be ready so that the Judges may sit in the several Courts, with satisfactiou to their olfactory nerves, is exceedingly doubtful. — The Courts have already been described in general terms. If numerous passages, retir ing rooms, closets, &c. merit praise, there are ample reasons for applauding the new Courts ; but as for accommodation for the public, inde pendently of what is required for the Judges, Counsel, &c. it is to be feared that there will be very little room for praising the arrange ments of the new buildings. The workmen yesterday also began to raise poles and fenc ings at the middle of St. Margaret's-street leading alongside the new Courts and to the House of Commons, in furtherance of labours about to commence forthwith to Macadamize such street, by the House of Commons, &c. One half of the street-way is to be done at a time, so as not to block up the thoroughfare, as was the plan in Cl Macadamizing" in front of the Ad miralty ; that being done, the other is to be corn menced.—(Morning Paper.) It is said that it has been positively resolved by the Cabinet, with the concurrence of his Ma jesty, that the Parliament shall not be dissolved until another session. It will meet in February for the dispatch of business, which will be so arranged that the session may terminate in time for the dissolution to take place, and the election to be over, before the middle of June, in order that it may not interfere with the labours of the harvest. The Catholic Question will, it is understood, be again brought forward during the ensuing Session, the leading Members of the Irish party feeling a confidence in their strength, whilst the Protestant party ear nestly desire the discussion, under an impression that many of the members who are friendly to Catholic emancipation will abstain from voting, lest they should risk their re-election, it being supposet4 that the feeling of the electors is rather against than for emancipation.--( Dublin Evening Post.) WARWICK, OCT. 27.—Sometime in the night of Tuesday last, a woman who was in custody at the Red Lion Inn, in this place, on a chsrge of felony, rose from her bed, and by the aid of the blankets and sheets, which she had tied together, descended into the street, from a height of nearly fifty feet ; leaving two men, placed in the same apartment to watch her, fast locked in the arms of sleep, while she effected her escape in the arms of her lover, who, it is supposed, was anxiously waiting to receive her beneath the window. It appears that the lady performed her hel te nation of the two officers of taken ch from mise ' her previous to her e r retiring the-remainder of h p n r ac t undertaking a krriha ving n h g e icno been se e justice when they found their bird had flown, may be more easily imagined than d e scribed. An instan t search was made —the inmates of the h ouse were roused fro m their slumbers , wPeearrilii°)ug sa t to u ' and the whoie police of the borough was set soon in motion ; but to no effect ; for from that time to this, no tidings of the lady has been obtained. The cry of a female was heard by some of the neighbours in the course of the night. NORTH POLE EXPEDITION. Yesterday a steam-boat was dispatched to. Northfleet, for the purpose of towing up the Heeler, which had anchored there on the previous day. It was intend- . en yesterday to have brought her up to Deptford, but as Capt. Panne- had not at four o'clock in the afternoon returned on. board from a visit to the Admiral at Chatham, to whom he had gone on business the night before, it was understood that the Hecin would not leave Northfleet until this day.—Upon her casting anchor on Thursday, Mr. Barlow, the inventor of the. ingenious plan for neutralizing the local attraction of the ship on the compass, repaired on board, and with Captain Parry, the Astronomer who sailed with him, and one or two other scientific gentlemen, proved the utility of Iris invention (which. had, we understand, already been found most use ful during the voyage), by the action of the compass, dur ing the swinging of the vessel upon her moorings seve ral successive times. If the benefit, be demonstrated in the manner we have heard, the plan deserves to be sfJl further recommended on account of the extreme simplicity of its con struction : for it consists merely in placing two thin plates of iron, a little exceeding the compass in diameter, with an inter vening slip of wood at the same, (all fastened together), in a vertical position, within two feet of the compass ; to the lower wood-work or supporter of which these plates are attached by small iron clasps or springs, capable of being regulated by a screw, according to the ordinary mechanical process. This, it is said, so preserves the due hearings of the compass as to pre vent altogether, or nearly so, the needle being diverted by the local attraction of the ship.—The Heats is in eery good condi tion, considering the severe service to which she has been ex posed, and the crew, who are all in excellent health, and only suffered the casualties we have already mentioned, display the wonted characteristic of British seamen, for they are ready to repeat the experirnena of the voyage, notwithstanding all the. very discouraging circumstances which from first to last at tended it, and are still suite full of a North-west passage. The expedition, it will be recollected, sailed in 3:ay, 1824, and very soon encountered the mortifying obstacle of being embayed within mountains of ice crossing Baffin's-hay : they were 80 days encircled within this icy barrier, and the occur. renece took place during our summer months of June, July, and August. They were only 12 days extricated from this . petition, when the state of the weather, and frozen obstruction of every object around them, rendered it absolutely necessary they should seek winter-quarters, which they did, as we have al-, ready mentioned. in a small inlet called Port Bowen, on the Ist of Sept. 1824.—1 n this situation the crews of the Ilecla and Fury remained nearly ten months, during which time they were left entirely upon their own resources, fmottot a single na e tive visited thern in their winter-quarters, nor was the shore which they occupied stocked with the same quantity of game, or indeed animals, of any description in the same numbers as in that where the fernier expedition had wintered. The specimens brought home by the sailors arc merely of the common sea-fowl —they had only two of the arctic fixes ; they saw none of the native dogs; the white bears, however, abounded, tad afforded occasional sport on the ice. ft was quite impossible to penetrate the shore any distance in land, the surface being entirely com e posed of conical heaps of ice, with deep ravines intervening ; and the short expeditions which were made by Captain Hoppner and Lieutenant Sherer, were made by coasting on the ice, and skirting the land to the southward and north. ward. With the exception of these little excursions, in which the ships' crews were indulged as far as was, consistent with their safety, the time was spent in gymnastic exercises, in dramatic representations, anti in masquerades in each ship on .alternate fortnights, in which it would seem a good deal of spirit and character was infused. The ordinary dress of the seamen, wrapped up as they were during the win ter in their fleecy clothing, as a protection from the nipping severity of the weather, was in itself sufficiently grotesque; but when to this was superadded the more fantastic and gayer variations of costume of the officers, a very decent set of masks appear to have been got up. The business, however, at length got monotonous and tiresome, notwithstanding the praise-. worthy and considerate attention of the officers, and the con e stant supply of every thing w hi c h c o u ld administer to the health and comfort Qt their crews and the return of summer in the present year, which detaches the blockading masses of ice, was hailed with the most lively satisfaction by all hands. The ships got under weigh or. the 'morning of the 29th of last July ; but two days after were driven back to Lancaster Sound by adverse weather, which drifted immense icebergs against their track. At this time it blew very fresh, but on the 24th they succeeded in working down the western shore, which they were exploring, when they ageia encountered heavy floating masses of ice, and the Hecla was thrown very nearly on her beam-ends. —These impadiments enntillneti with morn nr loer &lona*, until the Ist August, when the fury was driven on skore with great force by the impulse of the ice, and in such a situation that a bold perpendicular craggy clifeout-topped her mast-head more than sor 600 feet. She was, however, with great difficulty, by the united exertions of both crews, remo'ed a little fermi her situation of imminent peril, and hove dpwn for repair in a more convenient spot ; but on the 19th August the situation of the Hecla herself became so critical, that it was absolutely necessary to change her position, or else she must h a ve likewise drifted ashore ; and the only alternative was to abandon the Fury to her fate, after removing her crew, stores, &c. At this time the sea was getting tolerably clear, but Captain Parry, under the circumstances of the shipwreck of the Fury, and the consequent alteration in the condition of the means of prosecuting his ori ginal object, determined upon steering northward, and return ing to England without further delay. On the Ist of Septem ber the homeward voyage began, and the necessity of this was the regretted, because for a day or two before the ice was get ting more detached, and there was in the distance, and between icebergs, a very clear prospect of comparatively safe sea-room, with (as the sailors say) a perceptible current setting in, which in their judgment denoted the proximity of an open ocean. The distant view in this direction was studded with small islands, the position and shape of which exactly resembled that given by Captain Franklin of the sea view he obtained, in die extreme point of his severe land journey front Ilud son's Bay. Though there were no natives seen by our seamen during this expedition, there were abundant tracks to show that the inlet at Port Bowen was occasionally the resort or - human beings, for the remains of artificial caverns were found lin the snow and fragments of culinary veseels of rude construe : dom. Places were - also explored which they conjectured were cemeteries, from their shape, and the decayed bones that were thinly scattered on the spot. We have not, however, been able to learn that either in the scientific or nautical pursuits of the expedition any new discoveries have been made. The speci mens of natural history brought over, we have already said, are quite of an ordinary character, and without the variety, such as it was, of those brpught by the preceding Polar Navigators.—, (Timer.) MERCANTILE SHIPPING. DEAL, OCT. 28.--Wincl W.N.W.—Arrived and remain, the Garland, Maxworthy, from Cadiz ; and the Smyrna Packet, Bailey, from Smyrna. The following vessels were left at Smyrna when the latter vessel sailed, but the date is omitted, viz. :—Arab, Summetry, Dove, Eblancy, Helen, Nimble, Alice, Bee, New Albion, Albion, Elizabeth, Briton, Union, Magdaline, Puget, Tagus, Helen, Clare Helen, Jenkinson, Princess Elizabeth, Little Sally, Liyely, Orpheus, and Odessa, and spoke the Harlequin, from Smyrna, two clays' since.— Sailed the George, Clark, for India ; Hive, Slader, and Llan runmev, for Jamaica; Rambler, Knight, and Pyren nees, Whitwell, for Malta; Express Wells, for the Meditcr 7 ranean ; and the Rhoda, Bully, for Barcelona, PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 28.—Wind N.\%..-The Castle Forbes, Ord, for India, is coming into harbour, and must be lightened to ascertain where the leak is. Passed by the Marshal Bennett . , WArthur, from the Downs for lincatan. Put back the &mouth, Owen, for Bengal, and the Charles Brock, Bell, for St. Vincent's. i 3 1.1:31OUTII, OCT. 27.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Ma tilda, Cummings, from Anquila (coast of Mexico) in 61 days_ at Laguna the Cambrian, Cook, the vessel that saved the crew of the Kent East Indiaman ; also the Thomas Booch, Booch ; Pretty Lass, Eales : and James, Hoppen. - FALMOUTH, OCT. 27.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrived the Leader, Richmond, from London for the Mauritius. The American ship Clarissa, Mansfield, which put in here the 25th instant, has commenced dis Charging her cargo (iron). COWEg, OCT. 28.—Arrived the Hector, Carron, from Santos (Brazil), LIVXIIPOOL, OCT. 27.,-Wind N.—Arrived the Mary, Ro binson, from Barbadoes ; and Norval, Leslie, from Quebec. Off the port the Cognac packet, from Bahia ; and the Marquitt Wellington, —, from Miramichi. His Majesty's ship Romnry, with the new Governor on board, arrived at Newfoundland previous to the Bth instant. Arrived off the Wight the Harlequin, -, from Surinam ; Aurora, Henley, and Fortitude, ---, from Quebec. Miss F. H. KELL-T.—We are happy to state that the above interesting actress was not on board the Comet steam-packet, whose loss has lately caused so much distress :