Star.
London, England, 1824-04-17 00:00:00

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The force of the Irish Militia Staff, is at pre;ent 38 Atrytarts,
38 Surgeons, 38 Paymasters, 38 Quartermasters, 38 Sergeant-Ma-
pars, 38 Quartcrmaster-Serjeants, and 1671 Non-commissioned
Officers ; the cost to the within by the year, including £13,597 to the
Supernumerary Lieutenants and Assistant Surgeons, with £5,2.30
lodging, fuel, and candles, amounts to A 791,791. 13s.

Saturday the Devizes Wcst Yeomanry Corps, under the com-
mand of Captain Locke, completed its annual duty, attd received the
approbation of the Captain for its steady and improved discipline.
On the preceding day the Troop, honoured by the company of the
Officers of the Chippenhant Troop, partook of an excellent diaper
at the Elm-Tree Inn.

THE QUARREL.

When Love and Hymen both were boy!,
They hid a day of smiling weather,
To slew each other all their toys,
And pass an afternoon together!
To Hymen's bower young Cupid came,
And each with each was quick delighted;
Love shot his darts of surest aim,
And Hymen's brightest torch was lighted !
But Hymen soon, capricious elf,
(Now Hymen's but a peevish fellow),
Told Love he wish'd the bow himself.
And then began to pout and bellow !
Love gave his friend the weapon strait,
(Young Love is such a cheerful giver)!
And thus for Hymen's torch of state,
Cbang'd his best bow and fullest quiver !
While each his proper arms possest,
Men neither could nor would resist 'em;
For Hymen's fares infiam'd their breast,
And Cupid's arrows seldom miss'd 'ens !
But, changing thus their arms about,
The boys became perplex'd and stupid ;
Love puts the torch of Hymen out,
While Hyme►► blunts the shafts of Cupid!
'Twas this dissolv'd their union sweet,
And broke Affection's firmest tether :
So now if Love and Hymen meet,
They seldom sojourn long together!

GOOD FRIDAY.

Yesterday being Good Friday the commemoration of
our SAVIOUR'S Crucifixion and Death was celebrated
at the various Catholic Chapels in the Metropolis, with
all that reverential devotion peculiar to their faith. The
most conspicuous in their devotional exercises were the
Bavarian, Portuguese, St. Patrick's, Moorfields, and
St. Gebrge's-fields Chapels, which were so excessively
crowded that hundreds of persons were necessitated to
attend to their duties in the avenues leading to the
places of worship. The High Mass was performed by
three High Priests, one of whom, prior to the ceremony
of the Host, exhorted the congregation to faith, repent-
ance, and an attention to the fervency and homage
due on the occasion. At the right hand side of the
chapel a temporary altar was erected, which was co-
vered with white, and bestrewed with odoriferous flowers,
which, together with the wax lights, gave the edifice a
neat and interesting appearance, and encircling the
Host, conveyed a sublime idea for religious reflection.
The regular altar was hung in black, and in other re-
spects decorated as usual; after the ceremony of the
Host, an appropriate sermon was delivered, at the con-
elusion of which, according to Catholic custom on
Good Friday, a grand procession of the Priests and
Acloytes took place round the body of the Chapel, each
bearing some emblem in remembrance of the Re-
deemer's Passion. This being gone through, the Host
was deposited in its usual sanctuary, and the service
thus concluded. •

UNIVERSITY and CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, APRIL 17.

Saturday, the last day of Lent Term, the following Degrees were
conferred :

DOCTOR IN DIVINITY..•BCV. Christopher Lipscomb, Fellow of
New College, and lately appointed Bishop of Jamaica.
DOCTOR IN Civil. Law—Rev, George Chandler, some time Ftl-
low of New College, Grand Compounder.
Mamas OF ARTS—Rev. John Hobart Seymour, Exeter Col-
lege; Rev. Francis Lipscomb, Scholar of University College; Rev.
John Fisher, Pembroke College ; Thos. J. Powell, St. Alban Hall.
BACHELORS or Anis—Rice Robert Hughes, Esq. Jesus College ;
David Williams, Jesus College.
The !lumber of Determining Bachelors in rant was 24T.
The whole number of Degrees in Lent Term was—D.D. two;
D.C.L. two; B.D. five; M.A. thirty-five; B.A. forty-nine. Ma-
triculations, 112.