The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-20 00:00:00

371

I now cease to entertain impe or anxiety on the subject
for the theatre appears to be every day beconunst de•
servedly unpopular. and its rival chews, by the brilliant
audiences it boasts, how correct is the public apprecisuou
of their comparative merits.

We have already announced to our readers the
arrival of satisfactory intelligence from the Deal
Party of Settlers at the Cape of Good Hope, and
have now the further satisfaction of stating, that
letters, dated " New Deal, 23d of August" last,
have been received confirming in every respect the
previous accounts ; we have been favoured with the
perusal of one of these letters, which states " that
the party were all well, and have no doubt of do•
ing well; they have already on their grasing
grounds 25 bullocks and cows, have sown their
bread corn, have cabbages, planted out, radishes
(of seed carried from Deal) fit to pull, peas and
beans up ; a division of the party attends solely to
fishing, which employment produces them enough
to keep the whole.
The first anniversary meeting of the Seamen's
Friend Society was held on Tuesday at the City of
London Tavern. Lord Gambier took the chair,
and stated the object of the meeting, which was to
disseminate religious sentiments among seamen, and
keep up a stock in different naval stations for the
use of seafaring persons. A number of naval offi-
cers attended, and gave several instances of the
subordination and benefit derived by commanders
of ships from the constant use of prayer among the
crews. A latge subscription was entered into, and
several resolutions adopted to promote the object of
society.
Discovery Ship,.—The Lords of the Admiralty
have printed, lithographically, a chart of the track
of the Heck and Griper, on their north-west ex-
pedition. Some copies of the chart have been dis-
tributed among their friends and men of science.
which convey some information respecting the di.
mensions of Lancaster Sound. Measured by the eye.
without reference to a acale,i;it appears to be about
one hundred and fifty miles long, and from twenty
to twenty-five miles I►road. On leaving the Sound,
the ships proceeded about one hundred miles to the
southward, and then returning to the point from
which they had diverged, proceeded in a direct line
to the west. Notwithstanding the attempts to decry
the value of the discoveries that are accomplished or
contemplated, much commercial benefit has already
resulted from the navigation of these trackless seas.
The confidence acquired by the experience of Cap•
tarn Ross, has this year induced the whalers, who
had been intimidated at the horrors of the higher
regions, to venture, as was suggested, to the mouth
of Lancaster Sound ; and the consequence has bees,
that they have returned with fuller cargoes than
were ever known.

It is a most lamentable fact, that while a strong
military force is kept up in a time of profound peace,
at a monstrous charge to the country, the police is
totally inadequate to contend with the bands of
organised ruffians that infest the streets, to the peril
of our property and lives. The yearly OW if a sin-
gle regiment of cavalry would, applied to the increase
of the police establishment, be more than sufficient
to remedy this evil. There is, however, unhappily,
no more specious pretext fur the intervention of the
military than the inadequacy of the civil power, to
strengthen which would render the calling out of
soldiers unnecessary, and deprive the town of that
display of the pomp and glitter of arms, which is so
admirable and solid a substitute for the old-fashioned
bourgeois security the metropolis once enjoyed.
A Frankfort article states, that news had been
received from Berlin which had caused a great
sensation in that part of Germany. The Emperor
Alexander is said to have withdrawn from the Eng-
lish the privilege which they have hitherto exclu-
sively enjoyed. of supplying Russia with clothing,
and to have confared it on a Company of Prussian
manufacturers. " This decision of the RUSSEIIn
Monarch will (it is said) give new life to the cloth
manufactures of Silosia and the other countries of
Germany. Ik is calculated thst England will lose
by the change several millions." There does not
appear to be sufficient authority for this intelligence
to (nkle it to much attention.

In consequence of Sir W. Scott deciding in favour
of the right to inter in iron coffins, the corpse of
Mrs. Gdhert, which has been kept unburied by the
parish of tit. Andrew, Holb,rn, since March, 1819,
will be buried in a patent wrought-inn coffin at St.
Andrew s burying ground, Gray's Inn-lane.
In York Consistory Court, on Thursday the 2d
inst. a suit of divorce was decided, which had be,.n
instituted by Mrs. Millicent Kiddingly against
husband, both residing sit Nottingham. The plea
of the wile was adultery, and the fact being admitted
by Mr. Nichull, the dctinulant's advocate, the Court.
pronounced for the divorce.
It is rep,rtcd in the purlieus of Carlton House,
that a very extensive list of promotions in the
Peerage, applying to the late aYs even, will ap-
pear inustauttely.