Star.
London, England, 1830-12-13 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, Dzc. 11.

The Winchester, 62, Capt. C.J. Austen, with the flag of Vice.
Admiral Colpoys, arrived at Bermuda, Oct. 21, from Halifax. where
she will temain until the beginning of January, and then proceed with
the Admiral to Barbados, and thence to Jamaica. Sir Hi!grove and
lady Turner took passage in her from Halifax to Bermuda. The
Blanche, 48, Commodore Farquhar, had completed her refitment. and
was to sail from Halifax to Bermuda a day or two after the Winchester,
to join the Cuenmander.in.Chief. Our letters are dated Nov. 0, when
all were well.

The Alert, 18, was at Guayaquil oo the 9th of July ; the Harpy,
10, Icarus, 10, with the Speedwell and Pincher achoonerr, were at
Jamaica on the 2d of October.

The Rainbow, 28, Captain 84.4 Franklin, after repairing her da-
mages, went out of Plymouth harbour on Saturday, and sailed on
Tuesday, in company with the Pallas, 42, Captain M. Dixon, for
the Mediterranean. The latter, it is understood, will relieve the Ma-
dagascar.
The Racehorse, 18, sailed from Plymouth on Saturday, for Halifax.
His Majesty's steam vessel Carron, Lieut. Lapidge, arrived at Ply.
mouth on Wednesday, in eight days from thbndtar, with despatches
hear General Don. The Canon is ordered to be fitted with guns—four
long 18-pounders, and two 18-pound carronadts, on Commander Mar-
shall's principle.
The Hermes steam vessel arrived to-day from the westward, to be
placed under the orders of the Commander-in-Chief.
The Belvidere, 42, Capt. R. S. Dundas, was taken out of dock this
morning.
The Savage, a new brig of 10 guns, will be launched from Plymouth
Yard the latter end of this month.

At Spitheed—Herald. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Royal George,
Ganges, Wellesley, Undaunted, Tyne, Sapphire, Belvidere, Anson.—
Hampshire Telegraph.

THE CHURCH.
OXFORD, Due. 11,
Thursday the fallowing Degrees were conferred i.
MASItitS OW ALTIL—WM. Read... Queen's, grand compounder;
Gen
williuro Hope, Christ Church; George illiam Newnhatn,
Sc
of C.C.O ; Rev. Thos. Barton Hill, inidluun ; Rev. Stair
Douglas, BallloL
BACIILLORO OW AlLTO.—Henry William Barrow Willan, Queen's;
William Henry Vandeistegen. Brasennose ; Holiday Dickyn, Bruen-
nose ; John Wise, Widhani ; John Vaughan, Worcester; Thomas
bledwin, Worcester ; Thomas Timothy Lane Bayliff, Si.. John's; Sa-
muel WhiddOn, Lincoln ; Jonathan James Toogood, Balliol g John
Edward Walker, Balliol ; James Hale Talbot, Pembroke ; John Wm.
Thomas, Merton ; Slater Thomas, Memo.

The key. George Bumsester, AI.A. of Balliol College, has been in-
stituted to the Rectory of Little Oakley, Essex.
CAMBRIDGE, Dcc. 10.
Friday last the Rev. E. Huilen was instituted, by the Bishop of Lin.
coin, to the Reototy of &awell, in the county of Leicester, vacant by
the resignation of the Rev. G. L. Faithful.
The Rev. S. B. Ward, B.A. of Calus College, has been presented to
the Rectory of Teffont Etta', Wilts.

PROMOTIONS
Rev. W. K. Fergusson, B.A. to the Rectory of Belaugh, Norfolk,
with the Vicarage and Parish Church of Scottow, annexed.
Rev. C Codd, B.A. to the Rectory of Cley next the sea.
Rev. T. W. Gage, M.A. of Magdalen College Cambridge, to the
Vicarage of Higham Ferrets ; and Rev. R. A. Kannaford, to the Vi-
carage of Irthingborough, Northamptonshire, both vacant by the death
Of the Rev. G. W. Molina ; patron, Earl Fitawilliam.
The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to appoint the Rev. S. }LAI.
demon, M.A. formerly Fellow and Tutur of Caius College Cambridge,
one of his Lordship's Chaplains.
Rev. T. Evans, to he a Minor. Canon of Gloucester Cathedral, in the
room of the Rev. J. Webb. resignel.
The Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has boon
pleased to appoint as one of his excellency's chaplains, the Rev. J. W.
King, A.M. Chaplain to Charles the Second's Hospital, Oxmantown,
and eldest eon of Sir A.B. King, Batt. •
Tuesday the Rev. Mr. Macfarlane, lately of the Chapel of Esse,
Anderston, near Glasgow, was, after the usual formalities, inducted to
the pastoral charge of the parish church of Renfrew, vacant bj the death
of the Rev. 3lr. Burns.
The Rev. Robert Trail, A,M. has been preiesd fe by the Lord Lieu.
tenant of Ireland to the valuable tonsolislated Rectory and Vieusge of
Skull, in the Diocese of Cork, vacant by the resignation of the Venerable
the Archdeacon of Connor.

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Fl MIT ENGI.IBII.CULoT4 y Alititcu.-r-But many
yein elapsed before the Priglisli ereeted my dettleinini In Anieeica.
The first Metope was skate by Sir ilansphar .Gilbert, trio, in the
nlOllO6 of June, 1575, obtOned a patent from, Itmoll_glisallotb., who!
rising him to plant a colony. (filbert's Project failed I but it win after-
4ards maned br.his half-heather, be eslibeited at Walter koloigh,
who, in obtaipod patent similar to that which bad been drtanted
to Gilbert, an tiest year Planted if lol'l'y tit the rbooth thir &snake.
regnant Obi &Autry Vitentu; its Wawa his refallabinrwer. Ins siJ
thole sepkr, as well as tnhare iiho crowd the Atlantic dark's the
neat twenty years, efthd ponbitirl &aloe dCerie or by din.
kands of the Indians, or returned to England.—Dr. Lanissiee Cabinet
Cyciopedie

OtWhy are urns for hot water, tea-pots, coffee-puts, &c. made wit's
wooden or ivory handles ?—lkcause if metal were used, it would con-
duct the heat so readily, that the hand could not bear to touch them,
whereas wood and ivory are both nun conductors of heat.
Wby will a vessel which has been filled to the lip with warm water.
not be full when the liquid has cooled 7—Because of the expansion of
the fluid by heat. Hence some cunning dealers in liquids snake
their purchases in eery cold weather' and their sales in warns weather.
Why is a glass stopper, sticking fast In the neck of a bottle, often
released by surrounding the neck with a cloth taken out of warm water,
or by immersing the bottle up to the neck ?—Because the binding ring
is thus heated and expanded sooner than the stopper, and so becomis
slack or loose upon it.
Why does charcoal prevent meat. &e. becoming tainted ?—liectuse
it absorbs the different ga.es of putrefaction. and condenses them in its
pores, without any alteration of their properties or its own.
Wby is baking the least advantageous of all modes of cookery Because meat meat thus dressed loses about one-third of its weight, and .1o:
nourishing juices are dried up. Beef in boiliug loses 261 b In 100 lb, in
roasting it loses nearly one-third.
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