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London, England, 1825-02-10 00:00:00

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The augmentation of the itligimeets in India is to /he sine Writ
the Company's Spring ships. Frequent migmentatUas of tlll
will essendally increase the ateurity India.
No more Officers or meal 2re to bb sent to the id West Indian
Regiment, now at Sierra Leone, where the Regiment has suffered
much in the loss of Officers and men. Whin the establishment of
the Colonial African is complete, the 2d West Indian Regiment
is to be ordered to the West Indies, and the Officers and men sent
to them from England. The Regiment is at present distributed as
follows :--Head-quatters four Companies at Sierra Leone; two
ditto, New Providence, ikthamas; two ditto, Bathurst, St. Mary's,
Gambia; two ditto, New Town Barracks, Honduras.
Detachments belonging to the following Regiments of Infantry,
viz.—The 2d, Bth, 13th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 30th, 31st, 34th, 37th,
38th, 41st, 43d, 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, 54th, 67th, 69t11,89th,
98th, and the Royal Staff Corps, embarked on the 25th tilt, under
the command of Staff Serjeant 01300ERTY at Dublin, for Bristol,
on route to the Depots of their respective Regiments.
The 2d (Queen's Royal) left Chatham, to embark from Graves-
end for India, on the 6th instant.

• FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.
The Bishop of Exeter had a dinner party onTuesday, at his house
in great George-street, Westminster.
Lord James Stuart entertained a distinguished party at dinner
yesterday, at his house in Whitehall-place.
General and Mrs. Ross entertained the Marchioness and the Ladies
Cornwallis, and a select party, at dinner, yesterday, at their house
in Portland-place.
The Countess of Essex entertained an elegant circle of fashion-
ables yesterday evening, at her house HiU-street, Berkeley-square.
The Dole of Devonshire has arrived in town from the Duke of
Rutland's, Belvoir Castle, Rutlandshire.
Lord George Lennox arrived in town yesterday, from his seat
in Sussex.
Viscount Duncannon has arrived in town from a tour.
Lord and Lady Anson have arrived at their house in Curzon-
street, May-fair, from their seat in Staffordshire.
D. Tighe, Esq. has arrived in town, from llr ighton.
Mrs. A. F. Greville has arrived at her house in George-street,
Hanover-square.
G. B. Hamilton, Esq. has arrived in town from Brighton.
Lord Frederick Bentinck has left town for the Earl of Lonsdale's
seat, Cottesmore, Rutlandshire.
Srr Alexand. t H tpe, Bart. arrived in town yesterday, from the
Military College, IJagsbot.
I lon. Thomas Knox, M.P. has arrived at his house in Upper
Grosvenor-street, front his seat in Htrts.
Mr. Mrs. and Miss Newton left Blake's Hotel, Jermyn-street,
yesterday, fur their seat in Norfolk.
Mr. and Miss Coryton yesterday left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-
square, fur I's; is.
Colonel Lowther, M. P. has left town for the Earl of Lonsdale's
seat in Itutlandshire.
Arrivals ..t Kirkham'a Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Mr. and
Lady Sarah Bailey and family, front their seat, Hertshall, Suffolk ;
Mrs. I Hoare front Brighton; Batson, Esq. from his seat in
Cambridgeshire. Lady Galway and family have left ditto for their
seat in Yorkshire.
Lord Stoplord has arrived in town, from Ireland.
The Duke and Duchess of Athol and family arrived on Tuesday
. their house in Great George-street, from their seat in Scotland.
The Earl and Countess 01 Jersey left town yesterday, for their
scat Middleton Park, Oxfordshire.
Lord: and Lady Kingston and family arrived yesterday at their
house in Hertfor d-street, from Ireland.
Lord and lady Langford and fatuity arrived yesterday at their
house in Bakeley-square, from their seat, Cooper's hill, Surrey.
C. K. Tynte, Esq.left town yesterday, for Weymouth.
Arrivals at Read's lintel, Lower Grosvenor-street :—llonour-
able Andrew Windsor, from Warwickshire ; Hon. Captain Ed-
ward Curzon, R.N. front Lord Scarsdale's seat in Derbyshire ; Mr.
Hudson and Mr. Torre, front Abingdon Hall, Cambridgeshire;
Mr. Vansittart, from his seat in Bucks.
Thomas Smith, Esq. M.P. has left town for Cottesmore,
Ru tlandshire.
Arrivals at Holmes's Hotel, Parliament-street:—General Hart,
M.P. from Ireland; Mrs. Rose, from Brighton; Airs. and Miss
Smith, from a tour.
Arrivals at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street :—l.ord Long-
ford, from Ireland; Mr. and Mrs. Lawson. from their scat in Suf-
folk ; the Rev. Henry and Mrs. l'almer have left ditto, for their
seat in Leicestershire.
Arrivals at the S:. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street:—The Rev.
Mr. Gooch, from a tour; Capt. Jervoise, IL N. Capt. ganderland.
Arrivals at the British lintel, La:llya-street—Mr. Powell, M.P.
and Mr. Crew, M.P. from Ireland.
Arrivals at the Royal Hotel, St. James's.street :—.f. Mansfield,
Esq. ALP. T Blacket, Esq. Lightbody, C. W. Clay, Bs+ C. P.
Berkeley, Esq. R. Harrison, J. Sandars, front Liverpool ; the Hon.
J. Steuart, from Edinburgh.
ABR/VALS AT CIIELTENHAM.

Marchioness of Downshire, Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord
O'Neill, Lady Gresiey. Sir C. Alorgan, Bart. Count de Rumba,
Mr. and lion. Mrs. Wallis Grieve, General Orr, Colonel and Mrs.
.A.luney, Colonel and Mrs. Plenderleath, Dr. Mrs. and Miss Chi-
chester, Dr. and Mrs. M'Cabe, Rev. Dr. Foulkes, Rev. C. Isham
and family, Rev. Mr. lope, Captain Kettibly; Mr. and Mrs.
Nugent, Stanton, Wallington and family, Walpole, T. Webb,Stc.

Yesterday the dispatches for Bombay and China, by
the ship Inglis, Captain &MLR, were Owed at the East India House,
and delivered to the Purser of that ship.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Captain RICHARD RAWRS was sworn into the
command of the ship Warren Hastings, consigned to China direct.
Mr. CAMPBELL, the poet, has written a letter to the
Editor of a 'Alorning Paper, recommending the establishment of $
Metropolitan University.
The Newfoundland Papers contain the particulars of
a Public Meeting of the inhabitants, held the 3d of
January, to take into consideration the Report of the
Committee appointed to negociate with the English
Government, respecting the state of the fisheries, and the
agricultural and other important interests of the Co-
lony. The Report of the Committee was much ap-
proved of, and a memorial to Lord BATUURST, regard-
ing the decline of trade and the fisheries, was agreed to.
The hurricane of 21st December, threw down the co-
lossal statue of St. Christopher, at Riga. In its fall it
killed a soldier of the 4th Regiment of the Marine.
Between five and six o'clock on Wedne.day se'nnight,
a shot was fired into the drawing-room window of Mr.
Whistler's house, No. 5, Mount•street, Dublin. The
slugs were found on the floor.
In consequence of a new regulation, the Foreign Am-
bassadors at the Court of Stockholm, enjoy unlimited
exemption from duties of Custom, on all goods directly
addressed to them.
A fire broke out about seven o'clock on Friday even-
ing in the premises of Mr. Reid, cloth-manufacturer,
in Chamber-street, near Ardee-street, Dublin. The ac-
cident originated is the overheating of the stove in the
drying-house, which bursting, communicated the flames
to the warps of the cloth, which are at this season of the
year necessarily dried by this means—all the combus-
tible matter in the drying-house became soon ignited,
and the fire spread with much rapidity. The back
houses were burned.
One of the family of a respectable weaver in Alyth
(a boy five years of age), is so well acquainted with the
Hebrew language, that he can read and translate dif-
ferent passages in the Hebrew Bible, with as much per-
spicuity as some who fill a pulpit. He is also acquainted
with all the characters of the Arabic language.
Rail-roads in France are preferable to canals, from
the difficulty and expense of supplying water where
there are so few small streams. An experiment of a
rail-road is now making near Lyons ; but there has
been such a total disregard of economy in everything
connected with it, that it is much doubted whether it
can ever pay. The expellse will be at least five times
as much as it would be in England, and it is entirely
under the direction of the Government Establishment
, of Potts and Chaussies.