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

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Wtabsoit, Sart. Y.—Monday his MakuTv did not
Visit Virginia'Watet, but took some drives in hii pony
Onion ea the Great Park.
Vesterday.eiternoon at two eclat, his Maianzwith
his usual household attendants, and regular retinue of
domestics, left the Royal Lodge, and proceeded to
cranbourne Lodge (which his MAIM? has latterly
ri,ited almost daily in the course of his drives), and by
Sandpit-gate, to China Island, and from thence along.
the drive on the margin of the lake, to the Royal Mar-
quee, where his M*iuTv arrived a little after three
o'clock, and on his arrival dinner was immediately served
op. After dtrirrrr his MAJZSTY, with hi: attendants,
embarked in the Royal Cutter, and enjoyed their usual
excursions until seven o'clock, when they returned to,
shore, and arrived at the Royal Lodge at half-past
seven. This day his MAJIISTIri phaeton, and attendants,
are ordered to be in readiness at the usual time, and
dinner lire wise at Virginia Water.

THE ARMY.

yeterdsy, a warrant, signed by the Row, dated the Bth of
Austin, was issued from the War Office, establishing a daily, in.
steal of a weekly, settlement of the pay of soldiers.
It is reported that the 88th Regiment, which is now stationed
at Ternplemore,will, very shortly, be ordered to the Mediterranean.
One Troop of the t;tla Dragoons has been ordered to march from
Manchester to Liverpool.
Two Companies of the 72d Foot, arrived at Downpatrick from
Belfast, on the 50th of August, and one Company at Carrickfer-
gus, on the 29th of August.
One Company of the 63d Foot quitted Carrickfergus on the
30th of A non, and will arrive at Castlebar on the 10th instant.
l'wo Companies of the 63d Foot, marched from Downpatrick
on tht 51st of August for Castlebar, where the Regiment will ar-
rive on the 19th instant.
The Ist Division of the 7th Regiment has arrived at Corfu.
Detachments of Invalids belonging to several Regiments, have
arrirtd in the Stoworth, Baltic Merchant, and Diadem transports,
at Portsmou th, from the Mediterranean, and are ordered to proceed
to Chatham.
The 24th Regiment of Foot is ordered, on the arrival of the
z 2,1 at Plymouth, to embark for Cork.
'Three Veteran Companies are to be raised forthwith, from the
Out.peniioners of a certain description belonging to the Veterau
liattalioos,for service in New South Wales.
A Detachment of the 69th Foot embarked on Tuesday for Tyne-
mouth; and a Detachment of the 97th Infantry for Sunderland.

New CATHOLIC ASSOCIATION.—.Saturday, there
was a Meeting of the Education Committee, pursuant
ro advertisement. Shortly after a few members had
assembled in the Secretary's (Mr. Dwyza) room, this
Gentleman came into the apartment in which the Re-
pollen were assembled, and informed them that the
business of the Committee was concluded, and that it
was not likely there would he any meeting of public in-
terest before November next.—Dmolin Freeman's Aura.,
The AristarquePai is Paper states, that several agents'
of DOWINAND have had interviews with M. Dc
Luc, on the subject of a new loan, for the purpose of
,eliciting his influence in the negotiation. The French
Minister, according to the Aristarre, invariably com-
menced by asking whether the parties had authority to
recognize the loans et the Cortes, and upon the answer
being given in the negative, the interviews have always
terminated immediately.
A Mr. King, at Richmond, in Surrey, went to church
last Sunday, went home well, and while eating his
dinner fell down and expired; he has left a Wife and
two children. What is most singular, his wife's first
Irusbanil, a Mr. Mills, late one of the Bank clerks,
choaked himself with a piece of beef at dinnpr, and died
abash th:ee years ago.
A poor man died last week in Bethlehem Hospital,
who had been confined there ever since the year 1791,
a period of 54 years; during which time his parish
have expended on his maintenance upwards of 7001.
being at the rate of 20 guineas a year.
Yesterday, a Vestry Meeting took place at the Parish
Church of St. James, Clerken well, for the purpose-of
con.idering the propriety of granting 1501. to the Com-
e appointed for ornamenting and beautifying St.
John's Church. The 150/. was for repairing and en-
larging the portico, so as to make it worthy the
admiring gaze of the passer by, and creditable to the
dignity and munificence of the parish—sO thatseviry
part of the Church should form a beautiful and perfect
whole. The motion, after along and warm disco:sic%
was rejected by a majority of two..
Friday, a singular case of assault came before the Po-
lice Court, Edinburgh. The complainant was a young
woman, and the defendant a stonecutter. Both had air
pealed as parties in some case.before the Justice of Peace
Court, upon Monday last, when judgment was given
against the mason, who, being of a very cacheable
temper, sprung upon the girl as she was leaving the
bar, and would hive throttled her, to all appearance,
but for the interposition of one of the constables, who
with difficulty got him pushed out of the Court. The
evidence being very distinct, the Magistrate ordained
the defendant to pay two pounds of damages, and to
find caution to keep the peace under a penalty of twenty.
On the sentence being pronounced, the fellow would
• again have repeated his violence to the complainer, had
he not been dragged away from thp bar, making use of
the most horrible imprecations.
There is a fellow going about the town, dressed
like a painter, imposing upon the unwary, by selling
them painted birds, for foreign ones. He entered a
public-house. on Monday last, in Thames-street, and
• after some simple conversation with the customers in
the room, he introduced the topic of his birds, which
bi bad in a paper bag, stating that he had been at work
in a Gentleman's family at the west end of the town,
and the Gentleman being on the point of leaving Eng-
land for a foreign country, he made him a present of
them ;. 44 but," says he, "I'm as bad as himself, for
I'm going down to Canterbury to-morrow morning
• myself, to work, and they being of no use to me, 1
shall take them down to Whitechapel and sell them for
what I can get." Taking one nut of the bag, he do-i
scribed it as a Virginia nightingale, which sung four
distinct notes or voices ; the colour certainly was most
beautiful ; its head and neck was a bright vermilicayi
the back between the wings a blue, the lower part of
the tail a bright yellow, the wings red and yellow ; the
tail itself was a compound mi:cture of the above colours,
the belly a clear green—he said it was well worth a
sovereign to any Gentleman. However, after a good
deal of lying, bidding, and argument, one of the party
offered ss. which he at last took; and disposing of the
others much in the same way, he quickly decamped.
In the course 'of an hour after, a barber, a knowing
hand in the bird way, who lives in the neiglibourhood,
came in, andtaking a little water, with his white apron
he transferred the variegated colours of the nightingale
to the white fief of his profession. The deception was
visible—i-the swindler bad Bed—and the poor hedge
sparrow had his unfortunate head cruelly severed from
hit bodt; for being fenced to personate a nightingale.

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