Star.
London, England, 1831-05-26 00:00:00

BIRTH-DAY OF THE PRINCESS VICTORIA.

Their Majesties gave a ball to the juvenile branches of the Nobility
and Gentry on Tuesday evening, in honour of the birth.day of the
Princess Victoria.

The ball-room and adjoining drawing-room were prepared for dancing.
At one end of the room an orchestra was raised, supported by columns
fluted with white damask, finished with crimson. A platform was
extended round the other sides of the ball-room, with seats of crimson
cloth and gold. The band was under the direction of Mr. John
Weippert.
The juvenile visitors began to arrive at the Palace about half-past
seven.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Rent and the Princess Vic-
toria, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, attended by the Duchess
of Northumberland, Lady Charlotte St. Maur, Baroness Lebzen, and
Sir John Conroy, arrived at twenty minutes past eight o'clock.
Their MAJZSTIKS accompanied by the Princess Victoria and all
the Members of the Royal Family, entered the ball.room at half-past
eight o'clock, when the band struck up " GOD save the King." His
Majesty wm habited in a Field-Marshall's uniform. The dress of the
Queen was of white lace and silver, over white satin ; head.drees, a
wreath of roses, with a small tiara of diamonds.
The Bing and Queen having placed themselves on the platform at
the east end of the room, the youthful visitors passed before them a le
Pokosaise. The party were formed into sets for quadrilles by Madame
Bourdin and Mr. Henry Kendon, the professors of dancing to the Prin-
cess Victoria and Prince George of Cumberland. A new set, by Weip.
w Prins t, was first danced, in which the Princess Victoria danced with
George of Cumberland. Their Royal Highnesses' dancing was
much admired. The Princess afterwards danced with the Prince of
Cambridge. Prince George Ueven, Prince Paul &tering, and the
Marquis of Granby.
Quadrilles, varied occasionally by waltzes and gallopedes, were danced
throughout the night.
The King promenaded through the State rooms, accompanied by the
Queen and his Royal Slaters, convening with the parents of his juvenile
The dresses
noticing many of the children.
The dresses of the ladles were very simple and elegant; great num-
hers of the young gentlemen appeared in fancy dresses—most of them
of velvet.

At eleven o'clock dancing ceased, and supper was served in the ban.
questing esesa, which was laid out for 260. A double table was placed
In the .Mille of the room, a table down each aide of the room, and a
cross table at the end, in the middle of which eat the Princess Vie.
twia, koing the Prince of Cumberland on one side, and the Prince of
Cambdilp IS the other. Beyond the croft table a sideboard was placed,
on which the State plate was displayed with great taste and elqpnoe.
Their Majesties and the Royal Family supped in the Queen's room.
After supper the party returned to the bail room, when the Duchess
of Kent and the Princess Victoria retired, the band playing " GOD save
the King." The company took their leave soon after.

The letters by the Dutch steam-boat are of the 10th from
St. Petersburgh : the ice has disappeared, and tho naviga-
tion is completely open. 1.50 sail of merchant vessels bad
arrived at St. Petersburgh. The cholera morbus has ap-
peared at Stettin and Breslau.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East In-
dia House, when Captain Charles Shea, of the ship Thomas
Grenville, took leave of the Court previous to departing for
Bengal direct.
It is understood that Parliament will certainly meet on the
day fixed by royal proclamation for the return of the writs--
Tuesday, the 14th of June. The form of electing a Speaker
of the House of Commons, and swearing in the members,
will occupy the remainder of the week ; and on Monday,
the 20th, the King will probably go in state to open the
session for the dispatch of business. The session is not
I expected to terminate before the middle of September.
The Gas Light and Coke Company, in consideration ofl
the reduced price of coals, have voluntarily proposed to make
a reduction of 251. per cent. in the prices at present charged
by them.
Yesterday a communication was made from the Secretary
for Foreign Affairs to the merchants and ship-owners wbo
bad required compensation from the Portuguese govern-
ment for the detention of their vessels, stating that our
government has received the amount demanded by them from
Portugal ; and that, upon proper application to him, such
demands shall be paid.
A letter was yesterday posted at Lloyd's, from the Che-
valier Abreu a Lima, stating, that on behalf of the Govern-
ment of Donna Maria at Terceira, he will make any rea-
sonable compensation to the owners of the Coquette, which
is reported to have been detained at Terceira against the will
of the Commander, should such reports prove correct, but
of which, up to the present time, he has not received any
account.

Some strange reports are in eirculation respecting the
sudden departure from town of a Noble Duke for the north.
His Grace travelled strictly incog. and was accompanied by
a distinguished officer. The party at N— House was
postponed in consequence.
BARRISTERS ON CIRCUIT.—II is computed that there
are no fewer than 439 gentlemen of the " long robe," who
travel tho respective circuits : viz. Northern Circuit 116,
Western Circuit 92, Home Circuit 77, Midland Circuit 41,
Norfolk Circuit 31, and Oxford Circuit 82—independent of
those who now go the New Welsh Circuits.
On Tuesday, a clergyman gave a valuable horse and
chaise into the care of the porter at the Diorama, Regent's
Park, and shortly afterwards a man of respectable appear-
ance, accompanied by a female, got into the chaise and
drove away with it, to the no small surprise of the Rev.
Gentleman, who, on receiving information of his loss, ap-
plied at Bow-street office for assistance to recover his pro-
perty. Stevens, one of the principal officers, having received
a description of the parties, is in pursuit of them.

SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURACIERIENT OF ARTS.
Yesterday, the rewards adjudg by above Society. daring the
presett stearin, were tom nted to the respective candidates, at Exeter
Hall,ln the Strand, in the presence of a numerous ano highly respect.
able asset' blage of the ',strong of the Society, and several bulked.
f elegantly tireased ladies, who graced the meeting by their a •
tendency.

J. Hula, Esq M.P. presided in the absence of his Royal High.
ness the Duke of Sussex, the President of the Society, who sent a letter
regretting his inability to attend the meeting.
After the CHAIIIMAN had enumerated some of the benefits derived
from the Bocie y, a list of the rewards adjudged by the Society to the
respective candidates was then read : and as the candidates appeared, the
Chairman complimented them on their ingenuity and talent.
Among the candidates moat worthy of umice, from the utility of
their inventions, we may include the following :
To E. S. Orate, Esq. for his apparatus to enable a woman who has
lost a hand to wort at her needle, the large silver medal.
To Sir James Jamieson, New South Wales. tor hi. method of cam-
ps:Mg the stumps a trees, the large gold medal.
To James Henderson, Esq. St. John • Wood, for his conanunication
or Piloga bark, the gold Isis tnedal.
To 11r. D. Lockhart, of the We of Trinidad. for titnnt.gs and mace,
grown in a British West Indian colony, the large gold nuclei.
In the class of design, or polite art,, reveral candidates were pre-
rented with medals. Among them was one to whow the Chairman
called the particular attention of the meeting,
Muter J. Pasir.ote, York•strect, C,ovent-gatden, for an original com-
position of still life, the silver Isis medal.
The Cw mislay observed that this lad, although not wore than
eleven years of age, had already received two meuals from the Society ;
and his brother, who was but a few yeau older, had received, he be.
lieved, no less than wean.

The budness of the day having concluded, the Chaim:as cougrs.
tulated the company on the highly gratifying spectacle they had
witnessed.

METROPOLITAN N 11,4;

[UNARY SOCIETY.

This Society held its Anniversary meeting at Exeter Hall on Tues-
day evening lasts HEwnx Dausealonn, Esq. in the chair. The re-
port, which was very long, stated numerous cases where happy results
I ad followed the troves of their different missions ; but in consequence
of the failure of their funds, and to prevent an accumulation of debt,
they would be obliged, in a small degree, to limit their number.
J. H. Case:usl., Esq moved the teceiviug of the report. hi which
he was i.cconecti by the Ilea. J. EDWARDS, who attdressed the meeting
at great length. He stated the great utility of the society ; the deficiency
of the accommodalon in places of public worship. in proportion to the
extent of the population; anti the necessity of trying to obviate this by
tl:e system adopted by this society.
He was followed by the lieV. JAMES ELLARRY.
Mr. JOHN BROADDEAT ltutrd circumstances as tbey had occurred
in the share he had taken as an agent of this Society. His range of
du:ies lay in the lanes and alleys, amongst the dustmen, chimney.
sweeps, and seaseneers, in the conversion of whom to a knowledge of
their GOD. however apparently disagreeable the task, he had felt more
pleasure than they could well conceive.
Mr. DRUMMOND said few, who were strangers, could believe the
ignorance which really existed, on religious matters, amongst a large
portion of the population of this vest metropolis, and brought forward
two or three strong cases in support of his observations.
Alfred flanbory, Esq. said it was with sincere pleasure that he rose,
ate, hearing the report before them. He had attended many societies
during the past week, and he could say there was no report which
bore the mark of Canis,: on it more plainly than that which he had
heard read that night. Charity ought to begin at home ; and he
thou,the that, whilst we had been sending our Missionaries to the north
and to the south, we had neglected those who live in our courts and
alleys.
Mr. GEOSGE Arigsmasts, a converted Jew, and who preaches to a
small congregation of about seventeen converted Jews, in a small
chapel in the City-road, created great interest by the feeling and earnest
manner in which he spoke of his own conversion, and also of that of an
elderly Jew, of near seventy, who was converted by his means. He
showed a knowledge of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity which
would have done credit to some of our more experienced Divines.
Mr. Dayarxows made some further remarks, and was followed by
Mr. Tare, when the meeting broke up between nine and ten. It was
not very numerous.

At the nuptials of the Hon. Robe: Grosvenor, who was
lately married to the Hon. Miss Wellesley, the guests partook of a
wedding cake made at Chester, which weighed no less than 300 e cwt.
The gallant Lothario in the painful case, which has been
brought before the public by the proceedings In the Irish Courts of Law,
is second son of the late Sir John Trollope, Bart. of Casewick, Lincoln.
shire. The gay Lieutenant commenced his military comer in the 70th
(or Surrey Regiment of Foot), which, we believe, he joined shout the
year 1824. In the month of October, 1826, he obtained his Lieu-
tenancy in the 38th (or Herefordshire) Regiment, then commanded
by Lieutenant-Colenel Charles Wyndham (the son of the Earl of
Egrmont, and brother to the Countess of Munster), and he
was serving in this corps when the discovery of those indiscretions with
Lady 'Carden rendered it imperative on the husband to adopt legal pro-
ceedings against the Gallant Officer. Sir Henry Carden is now in his
43d year, and succeeded his father, the late Sir John Craven Carden, of
Templemore, county of Tipperary, in the title and estates, in 1822. In
1819, when Sir Henry entered into "the connubial bond" with his un-
happy lady, he was aoout 30 years of age, and her ladyship, then Miss
Louisa Thompson, was in her 20th.
THE CATCH CLUB.—The members of the Noblemens'
Catch Club, gave their annual prise of twenty guineas for the beet
glee on Tuesday. After the votes had been taken to reduce the num-
ber to two pieces, the competitors were Mr. T. Cooke and Mr. Wolms-
ley ; on the second division the majority were in favour of Mr. T.
Cooke, being seven to five. The Duke of Cumberland, who honoured
the Club with his company, paid a high compliment both to the coin.
as well as the singers; the latter were Mesas. Sale, Vaughan,
posses Hobby and Terrell. Mr. S. Arnold, President, Hem Archibald Mae.
donald, Vice-President. Lord Selman and Sir George Warreode were
among the members Esient.
POU DRE DE 0101(A.—(From a Correspondent of the
Scientific Casette).—" Sir, I cannot refrain calling your attention to
a vile imposition (recently Imported, I believe, from France), of
what is called Porde* de dfoka, or Chicores,' for addingefavour to
the coffee 11 as if any thing could add flavour to coffee but the sun
of Arabia! The fact is, that this substance is nothing but the root
of endive or succor', burned and powdered. It is now, instead of
being used, almost in total disuse on the Continent, eicept bilovoz.
poor people. It was brought into use in consequence of
parte's decrees against colonial produce, which rendered coffee very
scarce and dear. I have long resided on the Cot tinent, sad no greater
affront can be offered in a coffee-house than to ask if there it chicoree
in the coffee. I hate the humbug of nostrums and substitutes. John
Bull, it seems, for the hundredth time, is now to be gulled by some ad-
venturer; and, because coffee is so scarce, he is to have his Mocha
spoiled by a rascally weed. English coffee-houses are alreedy renowned
for bad coffee, and what will it be when flavoured with chicory mot ?
Grocers will soon find their costumers give up the use of wife', if once
they mix-this drug with it."
In religion, China, ancient, literate, and worldly-wise,
is not one whit more intelligent than the lowest barbarians atilt human
specks. And there is no probability that for thousands of years to
come, if she continue to reject the Christian Scripteues, she will eman-
cipate herself from her present idolatry, so uegradieg to a rational
being, and so offensive to the Ces.avoa of the Universe. The real
Heist might despair of seeing Theism in China, had not the word
which commanded into existence the vast Univcree. declared " that
the gods which have not made the heavens and the ear h, shall pe i
from the earh and from under these heavens." " The Loan will be
terrible to the graven images and will fattish all the gods of the earth,
and men shall worship him, every one from his place, eveo a 1 the
isles of the heathen "—Cantors Reg. Sept. 6.
POLITICAL REFUGEES IN TANG I EL—Tangier, from its
vicinity to Spain, forms a ready asylum to those who are so frequently
obl'ged to seek their safety front tyranny and oppression by self.
banishment. Many of these unfortunate exiles take refuge here, and
linger out their existence, in the hope of better times, in sight ef their
native shores. it is only just to say that the Sultan of Mom co. in
their regard, has acted with a humanity worthy of a more civilised
State ; and, when pressed, as be has been at different times by the Spa-
nish Government, to give up these unhappy persons, backed by an aril.
the most tempting in the present crippled state of the Moorish navy.—
namely, the present of a frigate—he has uniformly refused to deliver
them up, and, rejecting the proffered bribe, has observed that be would
not sell their blood.—Skreettes in Spain awl Morocco.
A STUPID FitoLic.—On Monday night, in Old Fry-
street, Horton, a family who reside there had a few friends to see
them, amongst whom were two gentlemen of the navy, who, to amuse
tie children, brought with them some fire.works. The person of the
house rents a piece of ground in front, which he ha. converted into a
garden, on one side of which runs a ditch. A:ter letting off the nu-
merous fireworks, one of the young men, in sport, ran after the females
with a li‘hted squib, when one of them, the daughter or the gentleman
of the house, unfortunately fell into the ditch, which contained about
three feet of mud and water. At the time she fell she gave a most
dreadful scream, and fainted away. She was fortunately soon rescued
from her perilous situation, and conveyed in-doors, where prompt aeelp.
tans was rendered, and she was wi h wine little difficulty restored.
CONSOLATION.—On Sunday evening, after the collision
between the Venus and Fire-fly steamers, by which the latter was rms.
&red a wreck, an elderly gentleman, a pongee on board, having been
landed, and recovering from the alarm occasioned by the accident, re.
marked to his spouse, "31y dear ! what a narrow crape we have bad,
1 wonder we were I.ot drowned." " I expected nothing kis," re.
plied the spouse; "but there is one consolation, if we be met
with a watery grave, that more than 500 would have shared the same
fete."

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