Star.
London, England, 1824-07-24 00:00:00

NEW COMPANY.

A new Company, to be called the" Canadian Company," is now
being established, to possesta capital of £1,000,000, in 10,000 shares'
of £lOO each. The Committee state that a chart.? will be granted,
and that Government will sanction'an application twParliamenr for
an Act of Incorporation. Several of the leading dvm in the mosey
market have been consulted by Mthisters on tie subject, and they
have given a favourable representation of the prospect of raising
the desired amount in shares. The following are the objects of the
Company, as stated in the prospectus :
1. To purchase portions of the Crown and Clergy reserves.
2. To give immediate employment to emigrants on their arrival
in Canada.

3. To prepare, by clearing the lands and by building houses, &c.
for the settlement of persons and families to whom the lands may
be sold or let, as may be agreed on.
4. To make advances of capital, in small sums (under superintend-
ence, at the legal rate of interest iu the colony, which is six per
cent.) to such settlers on the lands of the Company. as may require
it, withholding the tides till the advances are repaid, as well as the
price of the lands.
5. To give in this country, to persons intending to *emigrate in-
formation regarding the lands of the Company, and to facilitate
the transmission of their funds, but not to interfere with the con-
veyance of emigrants.
6. To promote the general improvement of the colony, whether
it be in making inland communications, connected with the lands
and interests of the Company, or in extending the Cultivation of
articles of export, such as flax, hemp, tobacco, &c.

The Marchioness of HERTFORD'S Party, on Thurs-
day evening, was honoured with the presence of his Royal High-
ness Prince Lsoross, and was attended by all the leading Fashion-
ables now in Loadonv _ _

The Dowager Marchioness of Excrea had a dinner
party yesterday, at her house in Privy-gardens.
Government have given orders for every attention
and respect being shewn to the remains of the late King and Queen
of the Sandwich Islands, in their conveyance co Owhyhre, for which
purpose the Baena' *irate, Lord Bison, Captain, at Woolwich, is
ordered to receive them, together with the Admiral and suite, and
proceed to that island.
Yesterday the LORD MAYOR, LADY MAYORESS, the
two Sheriffs, several Aidermitt and their Ladies, proceeded to
Blackwell, there embarked on board the City Barge, and proceeded
to the Ship Tavern, Greenwich, where they were joined by a
numerous party of Ladies and Gentlemen, who partook of an ele-
gant dinner. In the bin of fare that delectable fish white bait wait
not omitted. In the evening, the party came to town in carriages.
This morning, ten minutes before four o'clock, an
alarming fire broke out in the house of Mr. Jones, a milkman, No.
117, Chancery lane, which raged with great fury, and notwith-
standing the exertions of the firemen and engines, totally destroyed
that, as wen as the two adjoining houses, occupied by Mr. Bailey,
a printer, and Mr. Newman, a butcher, and has damaged several
houses situated at the back of these premises. The houses in Chan-
*cery-lane were of wood, and the fire raged with terrific fury. At
twenty-five minutes past four, the fronts of the three houses fell
into the street with a dreadful crash, partly covering the firemen and
engines; but we are happy to hear no serious accident occurred to
them. The engine of St. Duastan's Parish was nearly demolished,
and that of St. Clement's buried in the ruins. Two young men, and
a young woman of the name of Goff, lodging in the second pair of
Mr.Jones's house, alarmed by the fire, jumped out of their window
into the street ; the youngest of the lads was carried to the hospitaL
The other, after escaping himself, rushed again into the house to
rescue his mother, in which he happily succeeded. It is due to the
firemen to state that nothing could exceed their exertions, and too
much praise cannot be given to the exertions of Mr. Roworth, an
eminent printer, in Ben-yard, who, with his men, by supplying the
other engines with water, and the working of two engines of his
own, limited the destructive element, which would otherwise have
been much more fatal.
Wednesday se'nnight, Alexander Malan, alias Milne,
a prisoner in the jail of Aberdeen, was tried before
the High Court of Justiciary, at Edinburgh, for the
crimes of stouthrief, housebreaking, and theft, com-
mitted at Kemnay and Duirk ; and being found guilty
of the stouthrief and theft, was ordained to be executed
on Friday the 27th of August ensuing. The criminal,
in pursuance of his sentence, has been taken to Aber-
deer, and now awaits his awful doom.

EPIGRAM.
She. You men are angels while you woo the maid,
But devils when the marriage vow is said.
He. The charge, good wife, is easily forgiven,—.
We And ourselves in hell, instead of