Star.
London, England, 1830-01-12 00:00:00

DEPARTURRS.

Earl Radnor, from Grosvenor-street, for his seat, Longford
Castle, Wilts; Sir Lucas Pcpys, But. from Park street, .for his
seat, near Dorking, Surrey; James Do Pree, Esq. from his house
in Portland-place, for Mama, Wilton Park, Bucks ; John Smith,
Esq. and John A. Smith, Esq. from Grosvenor-square, for Dale
Park, Swam ; Captain and Lady Agnes Byng. from George
Bing, Eaq. M.P.'s seat, Wrotham Park, bliddleset, for Twicken-
ham ; Mr. and Ws Pearce, from the Pultersey Hotel, Albemarle:
street,for their seat in Leicestershire; Henry Roberts, Esq. from
ditto, for Oxford ; Earl Ondow, from the St. George's Hotel,
Albemarle-street, fee his seat in Surrey ; Captain Nixon, from
Regent street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Ripley, from the
British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Bath ; Wm. Spence, Eq. from
ditto, for Cambridge.

Prince LEOPOLD left his residence at Claremont yes-
terday morning, on a visit to the Countess of BRIDGE-
v ATER, at her seat at Asheridge, near Hemel Hemp-
stead, Herts.
The Austrian Ambassador and the Prussian Minister-
had interviews with the Earl of ABTILDLEN yesterday at
the Foreign Office.
Mr. T. P. COURTEN AY, the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade, arrived in town on Saturday evening from
I'aris. The Right lion. Gentleman attended yesterday
at the Office of• the Board of Trade.

Viscount M etvILLE, Mr. Secretary PEEL, and the
Earl of ABERDEEN, had interviews with the Duke of
WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury.
Despatches from Nova Scotia were received yesterday
at the Foreign Office.
The Austrian Ambassador had a conference yesterday
with the Russian Ambassador at Ashburnbam House.

The Earl of ROSSLYN, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, and
Sir GEORGE MURRAY, transacted business yesterday at
the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
The Duke de LAVAL MONTMORENCY had a long
conference with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Sunday af-
ternoon at Argyll House.
The Earl and Countess of JERSEY have arrived in town
from the seat of Earl Cow PER, Pansanger, Herts.
Mr. Secretary PEEL has issued cards for a dinner party
on Saturday next, to which the Cabinet Ministers and the
Foreign Diplomatic Corps are invited.
On Wednesday last a splendid ball and supper were
given by Mr. and Lady MARY LONG, at Preshaw House,
near Winchester, which was attended by upwards of 150
of the neighbouring nobility and gentry.
The Gazette de France states, that the report of
Prince LEOPOLD marrying the eldest daughter of the
Duke of ORLEANS is unfounded, that Princess being
destined to the Duke of CALABRIA, the Crown Prince
of Naples, whom she is to marry next spring, when the
King of NAPLES is expected incognito at Paris, under
the name of Count of SYRACUSE.
It is no longer a question among the holders of Greek
Bonds as to whether a new Sovereign will be appointed.
for Greece, and they consider it as quite certain that:
either Prince LEOPOLD, or some other high personage,
will receive the appointment. Among other rumours,
reMitikable only 'circulated late rstet-'
day afternoon, not only on the Foreign Market, but also
on the Royal Exchange, was one, that the Duke of
WELLINGTON Waste become the new Potentate.

It affords us peculiar pleuure to be able to state, that
the rich in every part of the country are sympathising in
the distresses of the poor, and, by reductions of rents and
tithes, and the distribution of coals, food, and clothing,
in some measnre lightening the load of miseries under
which they are suffering. The details of individual acts
of benevolence as stated by the press would occupy
columns of our paper.
Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE is supposed to have left be-
hind him more works unfinished than any artist either of
ancient or modern times.

Sir W. Bei:cites is name as the successor to Sir T.
LAWREIrCz's chair; but there is much canvassing in
Cavendish-square.
Count EUGENE NET, third son of Marshal NET,
COMM ATHANESE OTRANTO, and Count ARMAND
OTRANTO, sons of FOUCHE, Duke of Otranto, have ar-
rived in Baltimore.

Young KEAN has been playing at Dover with great
success. He played on Saturday at Chichester, and
from thence goes to Boston, Derby, dec.
T. P. Cooua has just returned to town from an excur-
uion to Portsmouth, where he netted 1001. by eight
nights' acting.
The " Garza Lsdra," Anglice " Maid and Magpie"
was read on Thursday in Covent-garden green-room, pre-
paratory to Miss PATON'S appearance, which will, we
hear, be on the first of next month.
Miss PATON ii at Bath, and we now anticipate her
approach with pleasure. She is singing a ballad of C.
Ho a x 'a, called " Helen Trevor ;" and all who-have beard
her know the impressive style of her pathetic ballads.,
The Dublin lessee, who has been quartered for a week
or two in town, seems not have been idle, for be has
engaged, we 1;1E, ME: DOWTOR, Mr, MACILIAir; MT.
T. P. COONS, 111<rottlit ELLAR, PAIR/ios:
and. Pantaloon Sitalistlequinside; Miss Haszv,%.lllr.
YATzs, and Mist Dalitie(lbeelephant), and the chaemipi
Miss FANNY Mr. C. Minims and..4llPr.
A aeon. If tide will not satisfy Paddy the peril's 10.:
It is calculatid that IflionFsnwir Kneels will> It
£2OOO by her trip to Dibrut.
BALL HUGRM wasallied the other day if be
it a good plan in, the Drury-lane managers to retaratilt
old price of adinission; and he gave it as hie opialles
that it would be a much better plan to get rid of "ad
Pairs" altogether.
In the case of " Dos on the demise of Lord TIERRA*
v. TYLER," in the Court. of Common Pleas yestardw;
an application was made to postpone the trial, on
.6,
ground of the absence of the Arroarzy Gzsizznift
confined by illness to his bed, and Mr.. Sergeant Jowls,
who was on the same side, not being prepared to AO
the case. There was also a third Counsel for the plaintid4
but the Court refused the application, and the trial pa
seeded.—At the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, in the'
case of a General. Pest-awe prosecution, three Counsel
Were employed, via. Mr. 00111EY, Mr.BIIEPPAILD,and
Mr. SCA RLiTT, . jun. and an application having been
made to postpone it on account of the absence of Mr.
Gunnar, then engaged ill a cause at Wutinineler, limas
granted, and the trig wa ssco!dislll42retAe
delay must *we .beets in both also
with incenveniseee to the Mesdames, bee the
exercised by the :Court. ill AO "01 14011.1910110146

APPROACHING SESSION of PARLIAMENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.
Edinburgh. Jan. 6, 11130.

SIR Your judicious reflections upon the tons which
you anticipate the next Session of Parliament is likely to
give to public feeling and public acts, are so animating,
and so full of hope and confidence, that you will perhaps
pardon this intrusion of an old stager, almost worn out in
aspirations for happier days to Old England, while he'
thanks you in his own blunt manner for the honest prin-
ciples you announced on New Year's Day, and declared
to be those on which your long-established and now more
than ever respectable Paper is to lay claim to the patron-
age of the public.
Shortly before the Session of the first Parliament after
the Duke of WELLINGTON became Prime Minister, I
was struck in a similar manner with the independent
principles announced in the prospectus of a new Paper,
then on the point of being started in this place, called the
Edinburgh Examiner, and, without any knowledge what-
ever of the parties concerned in that undertaking, I was
so pleased with their prospectus that I sent them a paper,
entitled " Anticipations of the Parliament of 1828."
I saw then—as you see now—that there were no hopes
for the country, and no good to be expected from any
measure that it watt in the power of any Minister to carry
into execution, " save and except," as my old friend
Lord Etnox used often to say, by a Reform in the Re-
presentation of the Commons House of Parliament.—
I did not think it possible that so great a General as the
Duke of WELLINGTON—so loaded with wealth and ho-
nours—would put all to stake unless he had made up his
mind to save his KING and COUNTRY by the only mea-
sure, which could afford him any chance of success.
How greatly I was—and must havo been—disap-
pointed, you may well imagine, if you do me the honour
to read my " Anticipation, which I now enclose. Ido
so, first—because it can be but little known front the
limited circulation of a new Paper; and secondly—be-
cause, as upon your own avowed sentiment it is not
inapplicable to the approaching Session, you may per-
haps think it worthy—when nothing better offers—to be
recorded in and reflected by that, which I trust is now to
be considered as the " Evening Star" of the Reformers.
In your declaration above alluded to, you have touched
one string which vibrates through my heart. It is, Sir,
the justice you are pleased to do to tho motives, talents,
and integrity of that " virgin patriot," as you call him—
the Marquis of BL AN DFOR D—in taking up in the manner
he has done, the great subject of REFORM, when it was
lying in the dust, and abandoned by many of its former
friends. For this question has been destined to share
the fate of NAPOLEON, as described in his own lines
written at Elba :

Qpand mon aisle tenok la faults,
J'avals cent milk adoratenrs—
Or. man aisle est dans.la
Et Tai cent milk seeusatenrs."

Upon these topics, as I have the inclination, so I may
probably find the opportunity, of addressing you again,
if your Paper should be in ne danger of suffering by the
common-place matter and phraseology of the
OLD LAWYER.