Star.
London, England, 1825-09-08 00:00:00

PUBLIC NOTICE.

Commissariat, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, June 8, 1825.
Notice is hereby Given to such persons as may be
desirous of tendering rix-dollars for bills of exchange,
drawn at thirty days' sight, by Assistant Commissary.
General Hewetson, upon the Right Honourable the
Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, that
on Wednesday in each week, commencing on the 15th
instant, at 12 o'clock, bills will be granted at this
office in exchange for the same, at the fixed rate (ac-
cording to instructions which have been received from.
their Lordships) of a bill of 1004 sterling, for every
1051. in paper rix-dollars, computing each rix-dollar
as equivalent to Is. 6d. British sterling money.
The tenders to be sent in any time prior to the hour
specified, and to express the respective amounts in
which the parties may wish their bills to be drawn,
observing that no bills will be granted but for sums of
even hundreds, from one hundred and upwards.

Although the metropolis is comparatively thin, yet
the attractions of the Diorama causes it to be extremely wol
ttfencled. The situation of this beautiful Exhibition is fa-
vourable to promenading, on account of its vicinity to the BA-,
gent's Park; and the cool appearance of the moonlight view of
Holyrood Chapel, is quite refreshing, after being exposed for some.
time to the heat of the sun, to say nothing of the magical illusion
which the two Paintings, now on view, present.
Nlajor•General SCHULGIN is appointed Chief of the
Police at Moscow. and NlajorgGeneral Piscarew (outof
service) Rector of the University of that city.
In the different' parts of France these are 12 vessels
bound for Hayti, that will sail between the present day
and the 20th instant.

According to an account published in the Official
Gazette of Norway, the revenue of that kingdom in
1824 exceeded the expenses by the sum of 70,000 rix-
dollars in silver; and 133,000 rix•dollars in bank paper.
In consequence, the Government has deposited the sum
of 150,000 rix-dollars in the Bank of Norway. •
HARVEST Mot:mi.—This is the last of a series ef
ten years in which the moon has proved the most be-
neficial to farmers, for reaping and' gathering in the
fruits of the eat th —viz. from 1816 to '1625, inclusive.
The preceding nine years—viz. from 1807 to 1815, in-
clusive, were in the class of those in which, from na-
tural causes, the harvest moon has been least beneficial.
Such also will be the years from 1826 to 1882.

The new circular bisilding erecting for a shot-manu.
factory on the south side of Waterloo-bridge, is to be
170 feet high; an elevation, that will give the lead
dropped into the water for shot a true spherical form.
A soldier, named Denis Sengis, was lately condemned
at Lille to two years imprisonment and to pay a fine
of 16 francs, with costs of the proceeding, for having
publicly shouted the seditious cries of el 'Vive l'Empe-
reur—Vive Napoleon IL—Vive le Roi de Rome."
The BITTERN sloop of war was docked last week, and
Sir H. Davy's protectors removed from her bottom.
They have also been taken from the bottoms of several
other commissioned ships, as the PANDORA, DRUID*
NIGHTINGALE, &c. and are to be disused on *all sea-
going vessels by order. Specimens of the state of the
protectors have been sent to the Board..
Doves, Sam s.—The terri* fight, as it was an-
nounced of Mr. Courtney, the American Phenomenon,
from the Heights, at Dover, to the Rope-walk in the
Bay, took place this afternoon about five o'clock. An
intense interest pervaded the inhabitants and visitors
who assembled in numbers to witness the fact. A rope
of two and a half inches in circumference, and two
hundred and thirty fathoms or four hundred and silty
yards in length, was made fast to an anchor on. the
Heights and stretched to a capstern of the Rope-walk,
not so tight but that a segment was formed by a piop
Ilbeing placed near the end. Every necessary prepare-
lion being made, be was suspended under the rope-by
Istays or braces at the shoulders, waist, and one foot, at
leach of which pans a sheaved block traversed on the
'rope ; having both hands at liberty, he waved a small,
red Rag in each, which being contrasted with his White
dress, bad an imposing effect. He was started off the
precipice head foremost, amidst the shouts. of thou-
sands, and the velocity with which he descended is rat-
most incredible; the friction of the blOckir on the rope
caused them to smoke considerably, and in- just nine-
teen second% from the time of his departure, he reached
nearly to the opposite side of the Pent, when an accu-
mulation of mud on the rope, and the segm• nt thereof,
caused him to stop rather abruptly, and he was taken
into a boat apparently somewhat exhausted, and brought
to shore.

A new
herd Boy.
complete

is very interesting;
The Meggido de is / , tett,
with owe child, marries agiin, and through the mactilitatkini of the
stepmother his mind is soned against this solitary offspring of his
drat anion, and the child is driven from his home and becomes an
inmate of the house of Gautier (Mr. &slaw), limier the name of
Asir (Miss Kaux), as a shepherd boy. The Marva having been
in peril of the tusks of a certain hunted boar, has been rescued in a
somewhat extraordinary manner by the Elokierd withbut
knowing bias to be his son, whom he supposes dead. After alias
absence frum his domains, the iferquis returns in disguise, lamenting
his barehriess towards his lost child. He visits the house of Gilpin
and again sees the boy who delivered him from the boar, sad hi+
quiring front him his history, Altaic (who knows that the Marquis
is his father), relates it to him in a parable, and the parent and child,
after an highly wrought scene, are eventually reconciled.
The feeling.and fervour with which Miss KELLY (to
whose hands the character of Alexis was entrusted) ro.,
lated this little incident, was distinguished by that in-
imitable etcellence--that unerring insight into the im-
pulse of Nature—which breathe like an inspiration
through every performance of this great actress. Thd
part of the steward (who recognises his master, but dares
not acknowledge him) is most humorously played by
KEELEY, and called forth irrepressible bursts of laugh- I
ter. A village Baillie was also very effective in the
hands of CHAPMAN, who creates mirth at the expensel
of the pompous verbosity of Magisterial proceedings.
Miss GOWARD, as Lucette, the daughter of Gautier,
played and sang very cleverly. The music of the
piece, compo,ed by Mr. REEVE, is spirited and tasteful.
Romanies- fine overture in D was played on the oc-
casion with great effect. Mr. BARTLEY announced the
piece for rtepetition amidst enthusiastic applause ; and
it cannot fail having a long and successful run.
The new Operatic Drama was followed by the hu-
mourous farce of A Dui a Day, in which the excellent
acting of BARTLEY, as Plush the Tailor, kept the
audience in a roar of laughter throughout ; nor was
CHAPMAN much leis successful in his mirthful efforts
as the representative of the cratty Valet.
HAYMARKET.
Last night, after the Deaf Lover, in which Mr. FAR-
ERN displayed his usual powers, an apology was made
for Madame Vesrurs, on the ground if illness. That
Lady, however, assumed her part of Laura, in Sweet-
hearts and Wives; and, notwithstanding her indisposi-
tion, performed it in a manner which procured her re-
peated and general applause.

ELLISTON, by the aid of sea breezes, the baths of
Rainsgate. and gentle exercise, in the Isle of Monet, is advancing
rapidly towards recovery. He is expected to return to town before
the end of month: Drury-lane Theatre will certainly open at
the period that has been announced.
• Messrs. Michaelson and Benedicks have begun to
engage Norwegian sailors at Christiansand to man the
ships which they have bought of the Swedish Govern-
ment. They will be conveyed from Frederickvarn to
Carlscrona. •
. The veterinary surgeon to the stud at Stockholm
having • opened the body of a horse which died of a
contagious disorder, caught the infection, which has
caused his death. •
The Commissioners appointed for the improvement
ot the prisons in Sweden, though they have been but a
short time employed, hive already taken measures for
diViding the, &ironies into classesin the House of Cor-
n.4Ao at,kiordkoping; and for enlarging the building;
and base also prepared a plan for enlarging the House
• aCCosrection here. -

According to accounts received from the Norwegian
Commissioners, . appOinted far the rectification of the
frontiers between Norwegian and Russian Lapland,
they arrived on: the 9/7th of June at Kola, in Russian
Lapland, where they were received in the most obliging
manner. The Russian and Norwegian Commissioners
then ptoceeded to the frontiers to commence the sur-
vey, and there is no doubt that the whole business will
be next year settled to the entire satisfaction of the two
Governments.
On Thursday afternoon, a son of .a farmer of the
name of Kiftivarr, who lives near Clara. while handling
a gun, let off thq contents, and shot his brother and
first cousin dead, and wounded his sister. They were
all children. The unhappy boy who caused the catas-
trophe is only eleven years of age.
CoßObilit'S ROBBER
.SnoT.—AD In-
quisition, which had been adjourned from Friday last,
was yesterday resumed, at the Jolly Gardener public-
house in Peascod-lane. Windsor, before James MAY,
Esq. house,
for Berkshire, on the body of Thomas
Cooper, a young man about twenty-four years old,
.who was shot last week by Mr. WILLIAM BLOWSPIELD,
a market-gardener, whose grounds at the time, in con-1
laOetian with two others, he was in the act of plunder-I
g.—Verdictt " Justifiable Homicide."
Another of those fatal accidents arising from in-
-cautiously leaving guns loaded, occurred at Matlock's
Farm, near Colchester, on Tuesday. The son of Mr.
HouLoswoitcp, Who manages the farm, incautiously
Lett his gun loaded in the kitchen, after teturning from
shooting; and his young brother, a boy eight years of
age, took it up, and pointiug it at the maid-servant,
said he would shoot her. The gun went off upon the
half cock, and lodged the contents in the side of a
youth of the name of Wilkinson, a husbandman, who
was sitting at dinner. It did not kill him on the spot,
but not the slightest hopes are entertained of recovery.
Mr. THOMAS LYN% of Barrow, near Bury, whilst
following the sport of partridge shooting, on Thursday,
was suddenly taken ill, and dropping . upon his gun,
instantly expired.
Sunday morning last the wife of a gardener, in the
employment of Mr. Cockfield of Upton, in Essex, sent
into a druggist's shop for sixpennyworth of tincture of
rhubarb for her children, they labour ing under a com-
plaint in • the bowels. A boy in the shop filled the
phial with opium instead of tincture. As soon as the
mother received it she gate a smal.quantity to an
infant, but deferred giving some to the remainder'of
her childrenohey being asleep. The poor infant died
immediately after taking the dose. The mother ii
almost distracted at the fatal mistake.
Sunday last, a respectable young man, named James
Williams, of -King-street, St. George's East, went. out
with a party on the Thames,and was unfortunately
drowned, near Barking. n Thursday, F. iday, and
Saturday nights preceding, he had dreamed of drown.
ing .in a variety, of ways, and with all imaginable terri-
.fic accompaniments; and he told his sister, who tried
to dissuade him from joining the Sunday party. He,
however, thought it would make him look ridiculous
to chew any regard to idle dreams, though they had
made a deep impression on his mind; for he pnisched
three letters in,his shoes, that he might be ithillgiad,
-however long he might remain in the water- HISISOdy
has not yet been Mond.

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Thee &eel, Which were once the fairourite..reiet df li kick
sans of London, took place this day; and the event of -the&
pastilieS the expektadOn that thei still, ere long. become Wag
as regiilar meetings: - •
The-Rites did not begin ull'hetweeti three anti four ih the at-
ternooti, before which time • all the families of distinctiok in the
neighbdurboodetere piesetit, and the roml, the surroundint Geldsl.
and every irk which could Afford a view off 't4 rtinnhig, wee O.=
vend with spectateri, whose ndmber was about 20,000. •
The sport was made by half bred horses and blood ponlei, the
latter being Of high tepistation, and well known in the sportine •
world. The followirig is the statement :
A Silver Cup; far all ilea: •
Mr. iiyat•eili. m. Maid if the Mill 1 0 1
MI. Charlton's ch. M. Malvin* ' 2 0 .
Two others started 7t04 au Maid of the Milli whii In all the
heats made the running, add Won very easy,' whitest either Mill;
or spur. The second heat waia false start; and in the third, the
by who rode Malvina was thrown, in cOnieguencead his
loother breaking off: be was tiot.huct.

The Ladles' Plate.
Mr. Chase's May Fly .. . . ; 1 i
Mr. Shepheid's Creeping Jenny. . : 2 2
May Fly took the lead in both heats, kept it, and wolf easy.
A Purse for. Ponies: •• , .
Mr. Wilson% bi. or: Surrey Lass • • • 1 1
Mr. Parry's b. f. - .
--------- Polly Hopkins . . S 8
Two capital heats: first won by a neck, the second by a liog-th.
WARWICK RACES, Tutstatv, Sliminess S.
This delightful Course exhibited a glare of splendour rarely wit
neued, and the Races, which are not surpassed in Out
.stake and
first-rate horses by any in England, afforded excellent sport.
The Guy Stakes Of 50gs each, h. ft. for Three-years old.
Lord Stamford's b. f. Linnet . . . . .
Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus • : • . . . 11
Mr. West's Mystery . . : . . 3
Lord Warwick's blephistophilea . . • . 4
The Leamington Stakes of 20 soy. each. h. ft. Re. tee mike.
Mr. Craven's Triumph, Sst. 121 b. . . . . 1
Mr. West's Claude Lorraine, Sit. 101 b. . : 2
Mr. blytton's Euphrates, aged • : • . 3
Mr. Gisborne's Susan . . . - . . 4
Mr. Tomes's Sir Gray . . . • . 2
Sweepstakes of 5 soy. each, with 50 added. Two-mile heats.
Sir T. Stanley's Genetal Mina, S yrs . . . 1 1
Major Gore's b. f. Spree, 4 yrs . . . 4 2
Mr. Sadler's Warwick, 4 yr, . • . 2 0

Three others started.
The St. Leger Stakes of 25 soy. each, 10 ft. Mr Three-years.
Sir T. Stanley's Dr. Faustus . . . i
Mr. Bartley's b. e. Fleitible . . .
Mr. Yates's Madame Poki . .
Mr. Rawlinson's Rarity . - . .
PONTEFRACT, Tuasoat, Serrassaaa 1.
Sweepstakes of .50gs. each, h. ft. for the. Produce of Mares covered
in 1821 ; colts, Ilst. alb. fillies, Ilse. alb. allowed, kr- One mile
and three-quarters.
Lord Milton s b. e. Humphrey Clinker .
Mr. Lamliton's b. f. by Leopold ;
Mr. Petre's br. e. Lord John

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