The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-30 00:00:00

PICADI

The White Horse Cellar, Smith, the fruiterer, Flight and Barr,
chinamen, corner of Coventry-street and Prince's-street, and Hamlet,
the sword-cutler, corner of Sidney's-alley, all displayed various de-
vices in honour of the occasion. Hamlet's was superior in beauty
to either of his neighbours.
iTRAND.

Mr. Ackerman was the only house that attracted our notice.
Messrs. Clementi and Co.'s, of L'heapaide, displayed a brilliant
Crown &Ed O. IV. It.
In the City, the illuminations were not very general.
Mr. CuDuals. of Clare-street, Clare-market, cheesanonger, dis-
played his loyalty on this occasion.
In Holborn, several of his Majesty's tradespeople displayed illu-
minations of very brilliant and *plastid appearance. Among the
grandest were those of M r.Scheneider, Mr. Marhall, Mr. Li ncoln,lllr.
Long, and Mr. Mott, the latter of whom exhibited a curious trans-
parency, of which the following is a description :—Britannia seated
in a earr drawn by ten hones, holding in her right hand a medalion of
her favourite ; while Fame, in a lofty situation, is proclaiming to
the world the escellenciea of our Monarch ; with one or two well.
conceived attendants ; on one aide of this spacious transparency G.
on the other R. in variegated lamps. This was altogether a splen-
did display of loyalty.
Barfield. ►'ardour-street, Soho, printer to his Majestr.—ln the
centre a brilliant Star, on each side laurel branches and (s. It.; the
whole surmounted with a magnificent Crown.

The King's Birth-day was yesterday partially celebrated
in the metropolis : the bells in the churches rung merry
peals in the morning and during the day ; the Standard of
England was hoisted upon the church steeples and the
public buildings ; and at one o'clock the cannon in the
Park and at the Tower tired a double royal salute..

After Phillips's Lecture on Cheniistry, at the Lon-
don I,
Mechanic's lustitution, on Wednesday evening, Dr.
Birkbeck, the President, az:minced that Sir Francis Bur
deft had made this useful es....blishinent a donation of one
hundred gui.:eas. Ile also announced several donations of
books; and that the Royal Society of Arts had presented
the Institution kith copies of the whole of their works,
consisting of fifty volumes. An eligible spot, in a central
situation, for the erection of a suitable building, is the only
thing now wanting to complete the objects of the In-
stitution. _ . .

It is already rumoured, that a case of intrigue between a
distinguished performer and the wife of a civic dignitary,
the denouement of which we lately noticed, has already
been handed over to the gentlemen of the long robe. It is
said that " the celebrated Irish banister" has been already
engaged to state the case on the part of the afflicted
husband. - _ _ -

The gentlemen interested in the Long Wool Trade in
Bradford, Leeds, and other places, gave a public dinner to
Mr. Wortley, on Monday, at Mulford, u a token of the
grateful approbation with which they have viewed his
praiseworthy exertions in behalf of their interests.—Hall
Packet.

A commercial company in this city, engaged in building
speculations, lately employed an individual to ascertain the
number of Swelling-beuses to be let at the ensuing term in
this city, and its suburbs ; and the result of bis research,
upon Saturday selinight, was, that there were not fewer
than 3,500 dwelling houses ticketed to be let. It does not
follow, from this, that building has outstripped the increase
of population. It appears rather that tenants are lying
off; in the expntutiou that their present landlords will re-
duce their rents, or that nuts, generally, will suffer a
material reduction as the term arproaches.—Cidedenian
Itlrnmiry. - - - -

Letters by the Hamburah mail, received yesterday,
&tell 23d instant, state there had hen a sudden and great
fall in the Exchange with England ; the cause is ascribed
to some extensive Legoeiations in stocks. _ _

Letttrs from Gibraltar, yesterday, state that the French
have bought up all the grain in that place, for the troops
in Spain. It Low seems certain, therefore, that they have
made uptheirlitlab to a Jonk.-, occupation.
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THL OUTVASTS.—Such has b::ett the influence of the
popular Scotch Novel", that not merely their style has been
tated by Foreign liontazce Writers, but the history of out own
country has been ransacked by them, in order to find a period that
has not already bcei seized on, tUr the display of their genius. Thus
we find the Ilansness de la Matte Funque lien constructed an fate.
resting Tale, called " The Outcasts," out of some stnizing events
that happened in the early part of the reign Li Elizabeth, and in
which the hapless Lady Jane Grey figures as a principal chi:me:cr.
i The subject is well chosen, and, ELS the tran:lation is spirited and
elegant, there lager'. rzzion tc expect it 1;111 be nearly as popular as
its prototypes.