Star.
London, England, 1824-05-11 00:00:00

YORK.SIIIRE WCIET'S:

Yesterday the thi:teeuth Anniversary Meeting of thel
Yorkshire Society for maintaining, clothing, and edit
caring the children of indigent Yorkshilo parents resi-'
dent in the metropolis, was held at the London Tavern.
The dinner was served up at a quarter beim e seven'
o'clock, his Royal Ilighness the Duke of YORK in the
Chair, supported on his right by the Earl of Lonsdale
and the Right Hon. John Beckett, and on his left by
the Earl of Harewood, Sir Henry light Wilson, Mr.
leerman B idges, &c.
His Majesty's health was drank with four times four.
The Earl cf LossnaLE then 'lmposed the health a,
their Loyal C;iairman, which was thank with applause.
The Duke of roux, in re:urning thanks, hoped that
he never had stained the white rose of York, and as-
sui ed the.n it would be ever his pride to maintain its
character—( 4 plqausr).
After the otittr usual toasts of the Royal Family were
given, the children supported by the It“itution were
introduced, and the 'Treasurer read the subscriptions
which were given in the room : 10 guineas. w ere given
by the Earl of Lonsdale, 10 guineas were sent by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and by some junior
branches of the Halewood family, and similar sums
from the partners of the York Bank, and other indivi-
duals of respectability connected with the county of
York, amounting in all to about 3001.
The subscriptions in the room w ere then recapitulated,
and the Dukeof Yot k quitted the chair at eleven o'clock.

The remainder of ti:e boys, 500 in number, belong-
ing, to the Royal Military Asylum at Chelsea, attended
by their Officers and Music, visited the Grand National
Menagerie, at Exeter 'Change. Each boy was regaled
with a bun and a glass of wine, and the greatest order
and harmony prevailed. . . .

The Joul;azi des Debats contains a long article which
may be called a funeral oration on the late Duchess of
Dxvossut it e. Slie is chiefly praised for her liberal pa-
troliage of rut and literature, *artists and men of letters
at Rome, her excavations and her editions. She caused
to be reprinted, with the utmost luxury of typographic
and graphic art, the translation (into Italian) of Vir-
gil, by AN:MAL CARO, the Journey to Brundusium
of Horace ; and she designed art edition of Dante, in
the same style.
Friday last, about ten o'clock in the evening, the
London mail-coach, on its way to Edinburgh, was
overturned about nine miles to the north of York. The
coach was full inside, and there were two passengers on
the outside, who were thrown into an adjoining field,
but none of them received any material injury.
Wednesday se'nnight, a plantation of young trees
caught fire on part of the Brown Muir, belonging to
the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, in the parish of Middlebie.
it was not till the Friday morning, that the flames
could be extinguished. The trees have been either to-
tally destroyed, or more or less injured, over an extent
of between twenty and thirty acres.
Sunday se'nnight, when a pedlar belonging to Fort
William was within two miles of Glasgow, he was at-
tacked by two fellows, and robbed of his pocket-book,
containing £lB.
LONG SPEECHES.—The late Lord ELLINBOROUGH,
on one occasion, in the House of Lords, when another
Noble Lord had just made a dreadfully long speech,
got up and said, " My Lords! my Lords ! I am an-
swerable to GOD for my time," and said no more--
Literary C'hro;:kle.