Star.
London, England, 1812-12-28 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The ANTELOPE, 50, Captain CHARLES HOBART,
sailed on Saturday morning from Portsmouth for
Lisbon, with seloo,ooo on board, in gold bars, for
the payment of the troops in the Peninsula.
Thursday last two troops of the 15th, or King's
Own Light Dragoons, marched into Oxf, rd, and on
Saturday four troops more were to march in, on their'
route for foreign service.

CHRISTMAS DAY, 1812.
In the last twenty years, so fruitful of signal and
melancholy events, in which every variety of condi- '
tion and of suffering has fallen upon most or all the
nations and people of Europe, a greater instance and
'example of merit and of suffering than that which
the State and people of Russia have exhibited and
endured, has not occurred ;—an equal, it is now to
be hoped, will never recur again to any pe
How often the feeling commiseration, the liberal
sympathy, of the people of England have been mani-
fested on similar occasions for foreigners, as for the
brave, the deserving, and the suffering of their own
community, need not be enumerated here ; but never
before did a case arise, in which interest and humanity,
sympathy and exultation, benefit and suffering, exer-
tion and security, bravery and success, did so conspicu-
ously and eminently unite, and weep and shine together;
never did a case occur more important to Britons, or •
more honourable to the acting and suffering nation
which has, probably successfully, defended our cause
by the blood it has so profusely offered and shed in
the defence of its own independence.
Let this feeling once more manifest itself by an
adequate proof of its seriousness and generality ;
we are fairly called 'upon for a generous, efficient;
and national demonstration of our admiration of the
brave people of Russia. A slight, or small attention,
will be at once a disgrace to our nation, and an af-
front to our brave allies and brothers in arms, against
the most unprincipled and atrocious tyranny by which
the world was ever vexed and scourged.
Let us all, according to our means, contribute our
endeavours : we are of various habits and condi-
tions ; but Christmas comes to all,—the season of
charity and of good fellowship. If we do not, as
we should, all go to Church, we all go to dinner ; let
this, then, be the moment of recollection, and to the
other charities and alleviations we dispense at this
time, let us add, one and all, round the ta4le, our
mite of contribution to the brave and suffering
Russians.

If every social party, at this season, of all ranks,
would, according to their means, both in their pri-
vate and their public meetings, consecrate the offer-
ing of one day's recollection to the Chairman of their
meeting, or to the female President, where such may
be, a great and honourable addition would be made
to the present subscription. To the benevolent and
the humane, as to the good, a ward suffices. If this
humble hint deserve attention, it will meet it; And
that it may, all round the wrekin, is the earnest wish
of many, and of B.

CORN-MARKET, MARK-LANE, DEC. 2s.
We have large supplies of Essex and Suffolk Corn in general
at Market this morning; the Mealing trade has again declined
2s. per Quarter ; Rye is also as much lower; Barley is Es. per
Quarter higher; Oats full as much, the supply being extremely
short to-day. Beans and Peas of all sorts remain nearly without
variation, fine samples still fully maintain their late terms; in
other grain no material alteration ; Canary Seed is rather lower,
and White and Brown Mustard Seeds are each 2s. per bushel
cheaper. For further information we refer to the currency
annexed:

English Wheat, SO.. 105 s. 130 a
Foreign do. liOs. 102 s. 1245.
Rye 72i. 745.
Barley, 625. 655. Us. Tile.
Malt, 102 s. 114 s.
Oats 41s. 545. 621. 641.
Horse Beans, 765. SU.
Tick Ditto, 68s. 745.
Hog roils les. 55..

Boilers 105 s. lea. 1265.
Canary Seed 955. 106 s. 111 s.
Caraway, per cwt. na. 914.
Coriander, de. 40.. 445.
Tares, per bushel, Gos. 00s.
White Mustard, de. e6s. 30n
Brown do. Us. S6s.
Rape Seed £5B, £62 per last
FINE 1054. in 110 s, per ark