Star.
London, England, 1824-03-16 00:00:00

THE

. We regret to state that hiS MAJESTY is Sligh:l7 inclir•
posed with an attack of gout. It was partially felt on
Saturday, and on Sunday it prevented his MaJun
from coining down stairs. His MAJESTY dined up stairs..

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Yesterday morning, at eleven o'cluck, the Lords of
his flansvir's most lionetrable Privy Council, Whitehall, as.
sembied to hear-Appeals front Jersey, &c.
The LORD LIEFrENANT of lieland held. his third
Drawing-room for the season, at the Castle, on Thursday night last.
PARIS, ..MARCH 12.2 Letters from Italy suite, that
tise House of Bourbon has just suffered another loss, by the death
of her blaiesty" Manta Lopisa Jostramx, Duchess of Lucca (for-
' merry Queen of-Etruria). She was born on the 6th July, 1782.
The work of excavation is going on very rapidly for the erection
of the Nevi, Post Office, ih Saint Martin s-le-Grand. The brick-
layers will Shortly commence laylng'a course of bricks. The first
stone is fixed to be laid on St. George's day (the 23d of April), in
honour of his MAMTY.
The diving bell, at London-bridge, is the object of much curio-
' shy. Boats are constantly going off, from the adjacent plying places,
full of passengers, anxious to get a peep at the submarine explorer.
The machine is anspended so high out of the river, that the boats
sail both under and around
Sunday evening, as three young lads were amusing themselves
in an open boat near Battersea, one of them accidentally lost.hold
of the scull, which was proceeding rapidly with the tide, whet
another of his companions, in endeavouring to secure it,. unfortu-
nately overbalanced himself, and was instantly precipitated into the
watery element and drowned. We understand his name wai
Bowden, and the son of respectable parents residing at Chelsea.
According to an Account presented to the H9use of
Commons of the Grain, bleal, and Flour remaining warehoused
under the 55th Geo. 3, c. 20, on the Ist of January last, the follow-
Ins are the quantities of the several sorts :
Qrs. Bush.
Barley .......... .. • 40,091 7
Beans .. .. ...... 10,655 41
Indian Coin
1,248 4
Oats... -
... 155,351 5
Pease
Rye 3,515 5
Wheat. 461,591 51

• Total - - 675,812 7
Wheat-Meal and Flour... 54,825 cwt. 151.
Of these quantities, 44,170 quarters and half a bushel of can
and grain, and 15,296 ewt. 3 quarters 4 lbs. of meal and pone,
have been warehoused since 13th May, 1822. In London there are
warehoused 260,185 quarters of corn (of which 164,701 quarters
of wheat), and 6,750 cwt. of flour. In Liverp001,121.677 quarters
of corn (of which 77,985 wheat), and 39,361 cwt. of flour.
Tarransaces, Mauls 15.—The Subscription-room was well and
most respectably attended at an early hour, and betting was very
brisk, particularly on. the Riddlesworth and Derby. The other
stakes did not excite much interest. The only tran•action in the
routine of the day's business worth noticeovas that of a colt named
Elephant, against whom 1000 to 20 was repeatedly laid for the
Derby, two or three days ago, as not being expected to start, having
been found on his road to Newmarket to train for these Stakes;
in consequence of which information his name got up, and the pre-
sent state of the odds against him and the other horses will be found
accurately detailed below :
RinoLtsvroarn-2 to 1 agst &former ; 7 to 2 apt Prudence;
9to 2 apt Quadrille ; 6to 1' apt Don Carlos ; ig to 1 apt Sister
to Sailor ; 15 to 1 apt Lyrnessa; 20 to 1 apt Cressida.
DEnar-5 to 1 apt Reformer; 64 to 1 apt Agnes; 6i to I apt
Banshee ; 16 to 1 apt Jesse ; 18 to 1 apt Hotly Burly ; 1$ to I
Don Carlos ; tft to 1 agst Elephant ; 20 to t agst Ridicule. lies',
Skim colt, Corinne, Cressida, Sir Grey, Dactyle, &c. about the
same as before. _

Omti-4 to I on the Ficlcl.-----DoNcAsTER. Sr. Leash--No
alterations worth notice on this StAke. _

ilmrtuo.—The Earl of Derby's Hounds meet on Friday, at
Epsom Downs.
MATcH OF 300 hlu.m.—Captain Fairborn, whine pedestrian
feats stand eqtial to any on record, started on Wednesday morning
to go on foot from Hyde Park to the 150th mile-stone and back, in
five days : he finished his laboOr at six o'clock yesterday morning,
having performed the task in- twenty minutes within the given
time.
A LIGHT CALENDAR. The Irish Papers congratulate their
readers on the diminution of crime—proved by the lightness of the
Calendar for the County of Galway, which exhibits only /fur cases
for mader, and but six for rapt.
Harrotr.Gannsu.—An antiquated Sybil, whose visage and equfp-
ment bespoke her profession, was charged with having been seed
receiving three whole sixpences at once, from a. Lady. With great
reluctance she confessed her name to be Mary Birth, and said, with
a pathetic tone, that she lived " by getting money any way Goo ;I-
lowed. her."—Magistrate—You must go to the house of Correc•
don for one month—Mrs. Birth—Very well, 1 have no objec-
tion to that.
DIED.— Lately, at Cot terstoc k, near Motile, an aged woman; that
lived fur many years as cook in the service of Sir George and Lady
Booth, of Cotterstock. Hall, at whose marriage she attended, are
was dressed in the fashion of that day, in her then best. Sir George
aed his Lady lived to good old age, but the cook outlived duns
both, and received by their bequest, a weekly pentiod to the day ef
her death. Such was the good old cook's gratitude, that a shirt
time before she expired she put on the very ply attire, deltic, bon-
net, and white favours, which she wore at the tying of the nuptiA
knot of her good Master and mistress; and in these antiquated lir:-
biliments she was ipterred, leavgig the rest of her clothes, &:. to
the inmates of the house in which she had lived, on condition of
their seeing that she was not despoiled in hei eoffth of her attire.

NAus nus Tuns DAY.—I Dublin 2 Gottenburg I S liambro%
Anntern I Waterford 12 Guernsey 15 Gottenburg I 1 HuIla::(1
I France.

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