Star.
London, England, 1830-06-22 00:00:00

COURT INTELLIGENCE.

Trrs Ktwc.—Yesterday Sir Henry Halford and Sir
Robert Tierney remained in constant attendance on the
Kink. Mr. I3rodie and Mr. Nussey returned to the
Palace last night. The unfavourable tone of the Bulle-
tins has excited considerable anxiety among the public ;
the throng at the King's Palace, St. James's, yesterday,
exceeded that of any former day (Sundays excepted).
The Earl of Chesterfield, for Lord Boden, and Colonel
Armstrong, were the Lord and Groom in Waiting.

WINDSOR, Monday evening.

There has not been any material change la the state of his
Majesty's health since the issuing of the Bulletin this morning; but
during the afternoon the King had some refreshing sleep. No ar.
rivals at the Castle this day, excepting the venerable Earl Cathcart
and Dr. Blomberg, who called to make personal inquiries after the
health of the King.— Both the Physicians remain in immediate at.
tendency on his Majesty, and Mr. Brodie, who left the Castle this
morning, returned again skirt's!.

Prince and Princess Lieven passed through Frankfort
on the II th inst. without stopping, on their way from
London to Warsaw.

M. de Peyronnet, in imitation of Louis XVIII. is
reported to have said lately,—" My Ministry has com-
mitted faults : I will repair them. It is my design in
three months to be the most popular man in France."
Count Guilleminot, it is said, is about to quit Con-
stantinople to go to Egina, as some suppose, for the
purpose of meeting Capo d'lstrjas; but the purposes of
this secret mission are said by the French journalists to
be involved in mystery.
Prince Leopold entertained the Duke and Duchess of
Cumberland and Prince Frederick of Prussia to dinner
yesterday, at his residence at Claremont.

The Earl of Aberdeen, Sir George Murray, and the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, visited the Duke of Wel-
lington yesterday at the Treasury.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence took an airing in
Kew Gardens on Sunday. Their Royal Highnesses
visited the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland at their
residence at Kew, and partook of a dejeune with the
Duke and Duchess. The Princess Augusta also arrived
in the afternoon at Kew, and dined with the Duke and
Duchess of Cumberland.

Sir Thomas Lethbridge having become a resident in
another county, he will, it is supposed, vacate his seat
for Somersetshire.

The present Members for Westminster, it is said,con-
sole themselves with the hope that they will again be
allowed to walk quietly over the course—but we shall see.
Mr. O'Connell, in a letter addressed to Mr. Thomas
Haughton, of Carlow, brings the following charge against
the Parliamentary Reporters of the London Press :—" I
suppose you must have perceived that the London news-
papers are not sufficiently interested in the subjects I bring
forward to give them in any detail. I despise the men who
act thus, but I suffer by it in public estimation."
The Emperor of Russia, and the Empress, are ex-
pected to return to Warsaw speedily. Baron Alexander
de Humboldt had left Warsaw, to join the King of Prus-
sia. Mademoiselle Sontag had also departed from War-
saw, for the Castle of Fishbach, where she was ex-
pected to sing at the musical fetes to be given there
during the residence of the Empress of Russia, and of
the Royal Family of Prussia. This celebrated cantatrice
was to return on the 15th from Warsaw, from whence
she goes to Petursburg and Moscow.
The Bishops of Llandaff and Bristol, the Hon. Agar
Ellis, M.P. and Lady Geurgiana Ellis, and Messrs.
Brougham and Calcraft, were at the rem* Church to
hear Mr. Benson on Sunday last. The church was
crowded to excess. The Rev. Gentleman's text was
from the 49th chapter of Genesis, at the sth and 7th
verses.

Dinner parties were given on Saturday by Lord llrid-
port, Wimpole-street ; Archer Houblon, Esq. Cavendish-
square ; Sir Thomas Lennard, Bart. Bryanston-square
Lady Hampden, Green-street, Grosvenor-square ; on
Sunday by the Marquis of Lansdowne, Berkeley-square ;
and yesterday by the Duke of Beaufort, Grosvenor-
square ; the Earl of Aberdeen, Argyll-street ; Lord Brid-
port, Wimpole-street ; Lord Dynevor, Dover-street.
Dr. Chalmers last week paid a visit to Exeter, and ex-
pressed himself delighted with the natural beauties which
its neighbourhood presents ; of the Cathedral also he
spoke in the most enraptured terms.
LEAMINGTON SPA, JUNE 19.—Although the wea-
ther, during the greater part of the past week, has been
wet and ungenial, we have had a considerable accession
of company ; and on Monday evening the fine military
band, which during the Summer Season enlivens the pro-
menade at the Royal Pump Rooms, commenced playing
for the first time. On Thursday evening, the weather hav-
ing become more favourable, the Mall displayed a consi-
derable number of fashionable promenades,—evincing
that, in spite of the unsettled weather, Leamington is the
favoured resort of a distinguished assemblage of the
haut-ton. The excavation of the ground, preparatory to
the erection of the new Town Hall, has already com-
menced.—Leamington Courier.
Do v E tt, JUNE 29.—An ivied his Majesty's packet
Crusader, Captain Hamilton, from Calais, with the
carriage of Lord Southwell and family, and a French
Messenger. Arrived yesterday his Majesty's packet
Salamander, with four carriages belonging to the Earl
of Lonsdale, Mr. Bodington, Mr. Heathcote and Sons,
Mr. Morgan, with a number of passengers. Amongst
the latest arrivals from France were Lady Aldborough,
Lady Puweracourt, Rev. Mr. Baring, Major and Captain
Southwell, Mr. Medleycot, Sir R. Kenny, Mr. Vivian,
M. Charittie, Colonel Hamilton, &o.
We regret to say that Col. O'Donoughue, of the 47th
Regiment, in Portsmouth garrison, met with an accident
on Tuesday, when returning on horseback to his house, in
Bellevue-terrace, when his horse took fright near the
Lsndport-gate, and ran at full speed until he arrived half
way down King :terrace. Workmen were here employed
carting rubbish, and in endeavouring to avoid the cart, the
horse stepped on the pavement and fell, throwing the
rider with great violence nearly under the cart. The
Colonel immediately freed himself from the stirrups and
sprang on his legs, and was carried home, being too much
shaken to be able to walk. We have great pleasure in
adding, that in reply to our latest inquiries we learn
Colonel O'Donoughue, although still in considerable pain,
is likely to do well.—Portsmouth Herald.
The genius of jobbing, or favouritism, or of both,
seems to have taken possession of both extremities of the
area of Carlton-place. At the one end a house is ac-
tually pulling down to make—as we are informed—s
laundry to the house of one of the Ministers, besides a
large space which is laying out as a private garden, for
the same person ; while at the other end stables are
erecting for an ex-Minister, on the very spot which, of
all others, should not be encroached upon by such a de-
formity. We should not wonder if both these places
were to become indictable nuisances. They, clearly,
neither cf them formed any part of the original plan, and
are of a nature to diminish the comfort of the inhabi-
tants, besides destroying the elegance and ornament of
the whole place.

PROVINCIAL IWTELLIGENCR.
Du Buw, JUNE 19.—The arrival of Miss Paton ani
Mr. Wood, and their expected appearance this evening
at the theatre, are the all-engrossing subject of conver-
sation through the town. Miss Paton arrive,' on Thurs.
day, and took up her temporary abode at Greshatn's
Hotel ; Mr. Wood came to town last night, and stays in
private lodgings near the theatre. This was a very, ju-
dicious arrangement : if they came together, and, by
residing in the same house, proved the accuracy of di;
statements in some of the London journals, they would
have experienced a very disagreeable reception. As it is,
their refraining from contradicting those statements has
excited a strong feeling against them, and it is supposed
there will be " a row " at the theatre to-night. Every
place is secured.

We have authority to state that there is no foundation
whatever in the report that Captain Smith, the principal
in the late unfortunate duel with the lamented Mr.
O'Grady, is likely to be tried by a military tribunal, the
civil laws of this country being paramount to any other ;
nor has he resigned his commission. And we are further
authorised to state that Captain Smith is ready to sur.
render himself for trial the moment it is deemed neces-
sary. His state of mind since the melancholy catastrophe
has been, we arc assured, most desponding.—Dublin
Mail.

On Saturday morning, at five o'clock, a hostile meet-
ing took place at Merlin Park, about two miles from
Galway, between Mr. D— D--- and Mr. J---
C--, both of that town. Mr. D—L was attended be
Captain P—, h. p. and Mr. C— by Mr. T—
M—. After the preliminary arrangements bad been
made, when the friends found it impossible to have the
affair amicably settled, the parties fired, but, we are
happy to say, without effect, although the balls passed
close to the principals. It was remarked that neither
gentlemen changed a muscle on the ground, but retained
his natural colour. The gentlemen then on the ground
interfered, and the parties shook hands. The affair ori-
ginated in an argument respecting the qullifications of a
patriot. Mr. D— has become very popular in Gal-
way, in consequence of his opposition to the Vestry
Laws, and for his assiduity as one of the Catholic
Churchwardens during the last years of agitation. It is
remarkable that he was attended by a Protestant gentle-
man, and Mr. C— by a Catholic. It is gratifying to
learn that both parties have since become very warm
friends.—Limerick Erening Post.
A Jew was baptized by the Rev. Archibald Nisbett, in
the Chapel of Ease, Albion-street. On the occasion an
excellent sermon was preached from Ezekiel xxxvii.
It appears that this Jew has been brought to a knowledge
of the Christian faith, through the instrumentality of a
Clergyman of the Secession Church of Kirkaldy.—
Glasgow Chronicle.

The hay harvest has partially commenced in this
neighbourhood. The crops are exceeding heavy, and
ready for the scythe : we only want tine weather.—
Sheffield Courant.
The scythe was last week npplied to several meadows
in the neighbourhood of Lewes, and the grass fell heavily
over it, but the weather proved the re.erse of favourable
to hay-making.—Sussex Advertiser.
We have still cold equinoxial weather; but for the
last two days there has been but little rain, and the
farmers are preparing to cut their grass, which, in fa-
vourable situations, will prove a heavy crop, clover in
particular. The spring corns, as well as the wheats,
on low damp soils, aro considerably, though not ir-
reparably, injured, for want of summer weather. More
than double the usual quantity of rain has fallen during
the last month.—Leeds Mercury.
The poor haymakers who came up from the coun-
try to obtain work in the neighbourhood of the me-
tropolis, have suffered the most dreadful distress, owing
to the state of the weather. In the neighbourhood of
Acton, in Middlesex, two of the poor follows were
found dead in a ditch. In the parish of Wilsilen, not
far distant, two more were discovered in the same
situation, and a fifth was found dead also somewhere
about Hampstead. Upon opening the bodies, no sus-
tenance whatever was found in the stomachs, except-
ing some sorrel, upon which ptint the poor creatures
had subsisted until death put a period to their suffer-
ings. The patience with which they endure their pri-
vations has increased the interest in their favour, and
subscriptions have ken liberally entered into for their
temporary relief. It is hoped, however, that a con-
tinuation of fine weather will bring them sufficient
employment.
CnteelNG BA RN ET, JUN r. 20.—Owing to the wet-
ness of the season, raid having continued fur three
weeks almost without intermission, the farmers in this
neighbourhood have not commenced cutting grass. The
consequence has Leon that great numbers of people
who come to this part, for the purpose of hay-making,
have been in the greatest distress. A public sub-
scription has been entered into for their relief; and
on Thursday bread and bacon was distributed to `,3sti
individuals in the following proportions :—men (English
and Irish) 1,933 ; women and children, 331; and to
men, women, and children indiscriminately, 100. The
bacon was given by J. Trotter, Esq. of Durham Park,
weighing 73211b5. and cut into 2,411 pieces. The
number of half-quartern loaves was 2,276. The wea-
ther having changed for the better, we are in hopes of
immediately commencing operations.—County Chron.
The fine chapel near Bedminster Bridge, erected and
fitted up at the sole expense of John Hare, Esq. was
opened for divine worship on Tuesday morning. The
service commenced with singing, and after a psalm
and a chapter from the scriptures had been read, a
fervent prayer was offered up by the Rev. John Leif-
child. The Rev. Dr. Chalmers, of Glasgow, then de-
livered one of the most impressive and energetic dis-
courses that ever rivetted the attention of an audience,
from Romans x. 4. " For Christ is the end of the law of
righteousness to every one that believeth."
A case of importance to housekeepers lately occurred
at Taunton. The head of a family had died, and the
servants were all presented with appropriate mourning.
About a month after, one of the servants gave notice of
her intended departure from the service of her mistress,
and, on being requested to give up her mourning, she
refused. She was summoned before the magistrates,
and compelled to deliver them up, on the ground that
servants, unless they remain in the family for twelve
months after mourning has been given them, are not
entitled to claim it as their own property.
Sunday the Independent coach, while passing through
Leek from London, with a full load of passengers and
luggage, was overturned, owing to the coachman's rapuf
driving. One gentleman (the editor of the Bolton
Chronicle) had his thigh broken : he was taken to the
Swan inn, where he became delirious. Skilful medical
assistance was immediately rendered, and be is now
doing well. Another person had his three ribs broken,
and the back part of his head dreadfully lacerated. The
coachman had his shoulder dislocated. All the outside
passengers were more or less bruised, excepting a sailor,
who leaped off the coach to the roof of a small building,
and escaped unhurt.—Staffordshire Advertiser.

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SPIRIT OP FHB JOURNALS. -•

Cnaoxicxx.—We observed the other night, in noticing the
bringing in of Mr. Brougham's Local Jurisdiction Bill, that we
conceived the plan had been somewhat modified since it was first
communicated to the House. M'e find that we were mistaken in
this—that it has undergone no modification.—lt is wise in Mr.
Brougham to disarm prejudice and interested opposition, by first
trying the effect of his plan on a small scale. Few men will have
the hardihood to oppose an experiment, though they might oppose
the final establishment of Local Jurisdictions throughout the King-
dom ; and though we have no doubt every unfair artifice will be re-
sorted to by those who arc at the top of the profession, with a view
to frustrate the first attempt to bring justice to the door of every
man, yet we confidently anticipate success to the good cause; and,
swotted by public approbation, Mr. Brougham will have little
to fear from open or secret enemies to his measure.

CitnotercLE.—An end must be put to the system which pre-
vents the existence of a middle class in Ireland. A country inha-
bited merely by 'Squires anti paupers is necessarily in an unsound
state. In England or Scotland, when any branch of industry is at
a stand, the people of property are forced to contribute to the relief
or the sufferers ; and there are always means In abundance. But in
Ireland we have a Squirearchy, to pay whose excessive rents the
most valuable agricultural produce is exported, and an excessive
peasant• population, condemned to the lowest description of food,
nimble in eases of deficiency, from their poverty, to obtain any sub.
sutute. Thus we perpetually hear of the population of a whole
province being in a state of starvation. Last night Mr. O'Connell
.tared " that the people in Munster were alnwsl all in a sires of
starvation. The last year's crop of potatoes was exhausted, and
there were no hopes of a speedy supply, owing to the wet weather.
The people were also, in some places, in a state of insubordination.°
Mr. ti. Grattan " confirmed the view given by the Hon. Member
for Clare, of the distress in Ireland, which he described as very great
in different parts of that country. The Hon. Member read extracts
from various letters, to show that distress and poverty were very se-
vere at present. The distress had not been so great since the unfor.
tunatc year of 1822." We suppose the Irish Members will deem
it proper that another subscription should be set on foot, in Eng-
land, to relieve their starving tenantry and cottien.
Sihthorp is this evening to bring forward a teso.
lution " for the repeal of the sessional order of the House of Com.
mons relative to the non-admission of strangers into the gallery,"
and particularly " ns regards accommodation for the reporters" of
the public press. To the propriety of the first part of this reso.
lotion, there can be little or no objection, for it will be in point of
fact a withdrawal of the prohibition which prevents any thing which
passes in the House of Commons from being published, except
upon sufferance. The latter part of this resolution is, however, in
oar opinion, superfluous, and is certainly not required by the indi-
viduals for whose benefit it professes to be Intended. Owing to the
kindness and liberality of the late and still more of the present
Speaker, who has afforded the reporters the means of entering and
leaving the gallery as their avocations demand, there is little, daub
farther accommodation which can be extended to them, as the House
is at present constructed. Besides, we have been given to under-
stand,—and the language which Colonel Sibthorp used on a
late occasion in the House, induces us to give credit to
our information,—that the accommodation which the gallant
Colonel proposes to extend to our coadjutors in the gallery, is
only to be given upon the express condition that the system of sup.
pression, as Mr. Edward Davenport has been pleased, in his wisdom,
to call the abridged condensation of the debate, is to be abandoned,
and that the reporters. instead of being prevented from publishing
any thing, are compelled to publish erery thing which passes
within its walls. Now with the most sincere deference to the
bou‘e, we cannot receive upon such conditions the boon which Col.
Sihthorp is pleased to tender us. To say nothing of the increased
labour and expense to which the performance of such conditions
would necessarily give rise, it would be quite impossible for any
newspaper to publish the reports in such details ; and for this plain
reason—that whilst the house sits for 10 or 12 hours every night,
the:whole of our paper would not contain one-half of the speeches
delivered.

TIMES.--Thc French enterprise has been crowned with what we
may consider a decided success in the first instance. The fleet
reached the coast of Algiers on the 13th instant, and by ten o'clock
on the morning of the 14th, all the troops had disembarked. This
arrival, without the average of disasters to be apprehended in a na-
val expedition to the coast of Africa, and without any of that re-
sistance whichimay be expected on a:hostile shore, is equivalent to a
separate victory. The failure of the several great armaments hi-
therto directed against this Barbary Power, has been more attri.
hutable to the difficulty of landing the invading force,—to their
ignorance of the ground when they had landed,—to their losses at
sea, or by tempests.—and to the consequent want of due support
from the convoying fleet, than to the strength of the Algeria(
fortifications, or the resistance of the Algerine troops. This
clement of uncertainty the French expedition has happily sur-
mounted. Though its passage has been tedious, there is no
ground for believing that it has been disastrous= and the dis-
embarkation of the largest and best disciplined force that ever in
modern times has reached the coast of Africa, may be expected to
form a new era in the history of African invasions. The naval and
military commanders of the expedition, acting no doubt on the best
information with respect to the state of the enemy's defences, and
the nature of the coast, effected a landing of the troops in a small
bay or roadstead called Sidi-Ferruch, about ten or twelve miles to
the west of Algiers, on the other side of a promontory or cape, the
eastern exposure of which forms one side of the large semicir-
cular bay in which the capital is built. The fleet is said to
have found safe anchorage in the road of Sidi Ferruch, and
the army to have occupied the heights in front of the penin-
sula of which we have spoken. From Turreta Chia, the
headquarters cf General Bourmont, there are two roads
to 'Algiers, one leading; directly across the peninsula, and
the other going round by the coast. It will require some I
time to get the artillery, the camp-equipage, the provisions, and
equipments for the troops, on shore, but after that the march to
Algiers cannot occupy above a day or two; so that, by the next
arrival, we may hear of a battle, a surrender, or the commence-
ment of a siege. Whatever may be the result of this celebrated
expedition, its rapid preparation, its complete equipment, and great
fore:, must give Europe a high idea of the naval and military re-
s,,tirces of France, anti of the activity of the French warlike de.
prtments. In I.roking again at the accounts given of the
armament when on the eve of sailing, we find that it con.
ti;sted of 68 ships of war, (including 12 sail of the line, and 20
frigates,) and that its land force amounted to 37,577 men and 4.0110
horse. The first division left Toulon on the 25th of Slay : on the
29th it reached the coast of Africa. On the 311th and the follow-
lug day it was driven back to Palma, in the island of Majorca,
whets the whole fleet had rendezvoused by the 7th instant.
and on the 14.11 the whole army had disembarked within a few
leagues of the nest of pirates which it was sent to destroy. The
French Ministry tried to make as much of their success as possible,
by having it announced at the Opera, like victories in the time of
Napoleon ; but the intelligence seems to have produced no erect on
mock Exchange, and probably will be equally powerless In the
e:retoral colleges.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
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EXPEDITION TO AFRICA.—LANDING.
From the Ales:oiler des Chandtres—Second Edition.

PARIS, JUNE 18 (1400w).—Thu uneasiness which was spread
during the course of yesterday has been happily dissipated. The
landing was announced last night, by command, on the stage of the
Opera. The Monileur eohtains the two telegraphic despatches,
which ae gare, and which were transmitted from Toulon yesterday,
the 18th of June.

Totmosr, JUNE 14.—(Priviec Correspondence.)—We have re-
ceived accounts front the squadron. A merchantman arrived yes.
*Way at Marseilles, and announces :hat the squadron wait still
at Palma on the 10:11. The a hole o; the convoy was at anchor in
the Gulf, and the ships of war were under sail. A thick fog, which
enveloped our shim' in such a manner that all signals became use.
leis. prevented Admiral Ihiperrei from sailing immediately fot
Algiers. Apprehending, therefore, some coufusion taking place at
the moment of the disembarkation, the Admiral preferred to delay
the departure of the convoy a few days, that he might not commit
himself. Nothing can retain him now, when an opportunity shall
11,..sent itself, to show himself to the enemy. We have numerous
pr,,,ds of his courage and activity ; and all the reports that might
Itirow any doubts upon his high capacity are only the effects of the
most decided malice.
Commercial letters from Algiers have been received at Leghorn.
They state that, as the blockade cf the port intercepts all communl.
cations with the sea-shore, the munitions of war of every description
continue to arrive by land. It is said there were some hundreds of
Loxes full of Congreve rockets to be distributed on all the points of
the coast that might be threatened. All the herds of cattle have
Leto driven away from the sea-coast, and in general all moveable
property that might be useful to an atmy landing. All the males,
from the age of seventeen to fifty, capable of bearing arms, are
called to the standard of the Dey, wherever his authority is respect.
For want of firearms, pikes, hatchets, &c. are distributed.
The bey is on his legs at break of day, to inspect in person the
camps formed in the vicinity of the capital, to review and exercise
tip- troops. Under existing circumstances, he spares neither pre.
stnts nor promises. Finally, he himself examines every evening
the batteries erected on the coast, u well as the principal works of
die fortress.
(From Le Pour and Le ronlre—A new Paris Paper.)
JI*NE 13.—(Private Correspondence).—A seizure of
!.1.4 gold Yortuguesas (or jots of 11. les. each) has been lately made
They had arrived from abroad, and were destined to se.
dries the troops. A landing of itefugees from Terceira was to
taken place on the coast of Galicia. This desperate plot has


been completely discovered by letters seised at the Pear-oilice.
A woman who keeps an inn was commissioned to supply meat and
drink to every soldier provided with a ticket in ciphers. In con-
sequence of this discovery numerous arrests have taken place.
Our Government is besieged with Awe from foreign bankers and
capitalists proposing to contract a loan. Several of them have been
so persevering as to bring their proposals in person—amongst others
Mr. Goldsmith, who is now at Lisbon. Others are likely to be
preferred. Parisian capitalists have offered to take our paper at
75 per cent. But the Government dam not yet scorn satisfied with
this rate; it is even uncertain whether it will determine to borrow
at all. We have no debts; the current service is more than se-
cured, and the arrears occasioned by the disastrous revolutions we
have experienced are paying off by degrees, though slowly.