Star.
London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

THE KING'S LEVEE.

The King held a Court yesterday at St. James's
Palace.

A numerous assemblage of Peers, headed by the
Lord Chancellor in his state robes, preceded by
Mr. Butt, the Mace-bearer, Mr. Putnam, Yeoman
Usher of the Black Rod. Mr. W. Courtenay, Clerk
of the House of Lords, and other attendants, ar-
rived at the Palace about a quarter before two
o'clock, to present au Address from the House of
Peers.

Shortly afterwards the Duke of Devonshire, as
Chamberlain, announced that his Majesty was
ready to receive the Address. The Deputation were
ushered into the royal presence by Mr. Mash, the
Gentleman Usher.

His Majesty was seated on the Throne, habited
in a Field-Marshal's uniform. •On the right of
the Throne were the Duke of Sussex, the First
Lord of the Treasury, and the Captain of the Ho-
nourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners. On the
left of the Throne were the Lord Steward of the
Household, the Treasurer and Comptroller of the
Household, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and
the Page of Honour. To the right of the King,
below the Throne, were the Duke of Brunswick
and Prince Leopold. The Honourable Corps of
Gentlemen Pensioners surrounded and formed an
avenue to the Throne.

The Lord Chancellor then read the Address of the
House of Peers to the King, in reply to his speech
from the throne on opening the session of Parlia-
ment ; to which his Majesty made a most gracious
reply.

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The deputation then withdrew, making their
obeisances.

The following Peers attended the presentation of
the Address:

Dukes Norfolk and Richmond ; Marquises Cleveland,
Wellesley, and Lansdowne ; Earls Shaftesbury, Charlemoot,
Grey, Gosford, Fife, Radnor, and Alulgrave ; Viscount Go.
ddich ; Lords Plunket, Belhaven, Dude, Suffield, Craven,
Auckland, Lilford, and Rossie..

His Majesty afterwards held a Levee.
....

At the Entree Levee, le Chevalier Salvador de
Zea Bermudez, First Secretary to the Spanish Em-
busy at Paris, was presented to the King by his
Excellency the Spanish Minister.
Mr. Washington Irving, Charge d'Affaires of
the United States of America, was introduced to
the King by Viscount Palmerston, and conducted
by Sir Robert Cheater, the Master of the Cere-
monies.

There were also present at the entree levee, the
Austrian and Netherlands ambassadors ; the Spa-
nish, Prussian, Bavarian, Neapolitan, Swedish,
Hanoverian, exican, and Wirtemburg ministers ;
the Grand Master of the court of Hanover, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, most of the Cabinet
Ministers, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the
Horse, the Lord Steward, the Captain of the Hon.
Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Vice Cham-
berlain, the Master-General of the Ordnance,Vis-
count Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting, the
Judge-Advocate General, the Nl:kilter of the Cere-
monies, Garter King of Arms, and the Master of
the King's Hunt.
His Majesty gave audiences to his Royal High-
ness Prince Leopold, Earl Grey, the Duke of De-
vonshire, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Granville,
Lord Erskine, Viscount Combermere, Viscount
Melbourne, Sir James Graham, and Mr. Stanley.
The Judge Advocate-General laid before the King
the proceedings of some Courts Martial, and re-
ceived his Majesty's commands respecting them.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent en-
tertained a large and distinguished party at dinner
yesterday.
The Duchess of Cumberland sent a handsome
donation by her Chamberlain, the Baron Leinen-
gen, on Monday, to the Bazaar in the Regent's
Park, for the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of
the Ear. The Baron also made excuses to the
other Ladies Patronesses, for her Royal Highness's
absence.

A Cabinet Council was held at twelve o'clock
yesterday, at the Foreign-Office, which sat during
an hour and a half in deliberation. All the Cabinet
Ministers were present.

The Marquis of Douro, it is said, is shortly to
be united to one of the amiable and accomplished daughters
of the Earl of Liverpool.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Mr. Serjeant Spankie was appointed
the Company's standing Counsel, in the room of William
George Adam, Esq. who has resigned.
The first stone of the new Hungerford Market
was laid on Saturday.
Yesterday evening, PAGAw rw I gave what has
been announced as his final Concert, at the King's
Theatre. His very singular and almost inexplica-
ble performances hare already been fully described
in our columns. The Theatre was last night as full
as it could hold—even including the Stage—every
vacant space of which was occupied by those who
could not find room in the other parts of the house.
We cannot state any fact to prove the general at-
tention which the unique talent of PAGAN rwr has
occasioned, than that we saw present last night in
the Theatre three characters so dissimilar in pur-
-1 suits and sentiment, as the venerable JEREMY
BENTHAM, the venerable Lord ELDON, and the
CHAIRMAN of the BANK of ENGLAND.

Tin GIGANTIC WIIALE.—We yesterday were
admitted to a private view of—we do not hesitate
to say—one of the most interesting natural
curiosities which has ever been exhibited in
this country—the skeleton of one of the largest
whales perhaps ever seen by man. This whale was
found floating in the North Sea, Nov. 3, 1827, and
I was towed ashore by some fishermen at Ostend.—
Some scientific and spirited French naturalists
have painfully cleansed and united the bones
of this immense specimen of animal organi-
sation ; and it is now to be seen in a conve-
nient Pavilion erected for the purpose, opposite
the King's Mews. A table is placed in the
entrance of the whale, and those who like to act
Jonah may have the opportunity. The length of
the animal is 95 feet; of the he'd 22; and its
weight was 480,000 lbs. Baron Cuvier has con-
jectured, by the state of the bones, that it bad ex-
isted 9 or 10 centuries.

HORRIBLE CARNAGE AT NE WTO FTNEtA RR T.
From the Morning Register, June 22.
The following details regarding the frightful
massacre at Newtownbarry, some account of which
we supplied in yesterday's Register, from a hasty
communication, are from correspondents residing in
the neighbourhood. We do not wish to trust our-
setves to an expression of our feelings respecting so
monstrous and inhuman an attack upon a defence-
less multitude—and the only remark we shall add
here is, that this atrocity affords the most lamenta-
ble instance on record of the withering and de-
structive effects of the tithe system—for it ap-
pears that the calamity, which has brought death
and desolation to the homes of hundreds of dis-
tracted families in the peaceable county of Wex-
ford, had its origin in the unnatural and cruel tithe
system, the prolific source of misery and misfor-
tune to this devoted land. It is not the least re-
markable feature in this detail of butchery, that in
the tissue of gross and heartless misrepresenta-
tion which has appeared in the Evening Mail,
nor in any other account that we have seen, is
there even an allegation that the Riot Act was read
before the order for slaughter was fulminated.
It is not even pretended that the peaceable
people —women and children included —had re-
ceived the slightest intimation of their perilous con-
dition, if they remained under the muzzles of the
loaded muskets of " the gallant and chivalrous yeo-
manry." And it should not be forgotten, that the
miserable pretence of a disposition to effect a rescue
of the cattle, is rendered totally incredible by the fact
that the large body of yeomanry and police congre-
gated upon the occasion were armed and well pre-
pared for battle, whilst the people were unarmed
and defenceless. The following are the letters to
which we have alluded :

Bomar', SUNDAY. —One of the most sanguinary and
brutal butchering, that ever gave pain to the eye, or sadness
to the heart, took place at Newtownbarry yesterday. There
were three little heifers to be canted for tithe—they were set
up to auction, and no bidders appearing, they remained in II
the street. It was a market day, and the town was filled
with country people, who gathered around the cattle,'
and some persons having cried out that they would
be suffocated by the heat, the people opened a passage,
and the heifers ran down the street. A Captain Graham, from
Enniscorthy, with all the police and yeomen from many
miles around, immediately followed the cattle, which were
brought back. The people, the yeomanry, and the police,
were passing together by an old ruin, from which a few stones
were thrown by some boys inside, not intending them for the
yeomen or police, as they might as well hit the people. Im-
mediately the police and yeomanry were ordered to fire, and
oh ! how the heart sickens at the consequence. The people not
expecting any such thing, fled in all directions; every shot
left a mother, father, or child a corpse on the street. The
people ran to some plantations and endeavoured to hide them-
selves; but here the slaughter baffles descriptior --every
person seen was immediately a corpse ! Wherever the people
were seen running away, they were fired upon. The num-
ber killed could not be known last night, but an eye-witness
of the indiscriminate carnage informed me this day, that be
counted 17 dead in the streets, and they were bringing the
dead and wounded every moment from the field. The report
at six o'clock was, that there were 35 found dead or mor-
tally wounded. A fine young woman, making away from
the bloody scene, was shot dead ; another woman, the mo-
ther of nine children, shared the same fate.
Newtownbarry, Sunday, Two o'clock, tat.

There have been thirty six men, women, and children
killed or mortally wounded. The number who have received
severe, but not dangerous wounds, is estimated at sixty;
but many unfortuate beings, particularly women and
children, are known to have perished in the river
Slaney. Only two of their bodies have yet been found.
A poor woman, the wife of a small farmer, who bad at-
tended the market to sell some flannel, on her return home
was fired at and mortally wounded ! She died in half an
hour after ! This unfortunate woman was in an advanced
state of pregnancy—and in the agonies of death gave
birth to a still-born child ! It was rumoured that some
of the yeomanry had been killed. Such is not the fact.
The only person belonging to the assailing party seriously
injured was the son of a yeoman, who happened to be among
the crowd, and was shot in the first volley. I have heard
it alleged, as an explanation of the readiness of attack by
the yeomanry. that two of this body had been pelted with
rotten eggs at the late election for the county of Wexford.
The people in this neighbourhood warmly espoused the
cause of the reform candidates, and voted against Lord Va.
leotia, who is a near relative of Lord Farnham.

Newtownbarry, June 20th.

Oo Saturday a dreadful slaughter took place here about
tithe business ; there were fifteen killed, and twenty-four
wounded, not expected to recover—all innocent people! and
there are a great many more wounded, not yet known. A
few stones were thrown at the yeomen, when they were
ordered to fire on the multitude. An investigation is to be
held this day ; the coroner's inquest is to be held also on
this day.

Two placards were left at our office last evening, one in.
scribed " Selling for Tithe," which the gentleman who left
it stated was posted on the cattle to be sold in Nswtownbarry
on Saturday; the second is printed in the form and manner
that we give it. The introductory paragraph appears to us
to be somewhat suspicious, and would almost induce us to
believe that it esme not from tithe-payers, but from tithe.
owners. If such a placard was posted, it could be the only
cause for the yeomanry arming themselves, and attending in
such numbers; it is extraordinary, if concocted by the people,
that it should have had an opposite effect upon them, and urge
them to go unarmed and defenceless among their enemies :

REFORM!!
CHURCH IN DANGER!!

The GovaalirMallT have sent Ci lICUILas LITSIIIII 10 all
the INCIIIIIISNTS ix INILAND, requiring then forthWitit
to furnish a cornet *mount of ♦LL their mamas, with a
view, in order, in future, to pay them out of the Treasury I 1

INHABITANTS OF THE PARISH OF
ST. MARY'S,
NEWTOWNBARRY,

There will be an end to CAvac■ PILUNDZi; your pot,
blanket, and pig will not hereafter be

SOLD BY AUCTION,
To support in LUXU CT, IDLENTSS,IIIId CM, persons who
endeavour to make it appear that it is essential to the peace
and prosperity of the country, and your internal salvation,
while the moat of you are starving.

Attend to an AUCTIOX of your neighbour's cattle, on
SATURDAY next, the 18th inst. seised for tithe by the Rev.
Alexander ill'Clintoek.

(Pros Hs Pilot).
We have to record a scene of revolting and san-
guinary massacre—which makes the Castlepollard
massacre, with all its black and ferocious features,
sink into comparative insignificance. The scene of
this bloody affair took place at Newtownbarry, on
Saturday, and the following is a summary of the cir-
cumstances : Three lieifers, belonging to a rade_

man of the name of Doyle, were seized for tithe, by
the Rev. Mr. M'Clintock, brother to Mr. M'Clin-
tock, of Louth. Mr. D. alleging that the tithe was not
due, and, therefore, that the distress was illegal,
would not release the cattle ; they were, therefore,
to be sold for tithe on Saturday. It was natural
that the incident and a market-day should collect a
crowd, and some parties chose to anticipate a rescue.
The anticipated crowd of men, women and children,
met unarmed—some giddy or mischievous boys
threw a stone or two. The yeomanry got what they
thought sufficient excuse. The word fire was given
on the instant, followed by a murderous obedience,
and men, women, and children, unsuspectingly
at the muzzle of the guns, were devoted to in-
discriminate slaughter—nearly forty left dead, and
numbers badly wounded. Read this, Lord An-
glesey—read the affecting and simple narrative
we subjoin from a witness, and then ask your-
self, what is to be done ? We shall return to
the subject:

Nestownbarry, Sunday evening, 19th June.

It is with the greatest trouble of mind I communicate to
you the details of a most sanguinary slaughter I witnessed
on yesterday, (Saturday) at Newtownbarry, about 3 o'clock
or thereabouts, but ten times the limits of this paper would
not let you know the half of this bloody tragedy. About a
fortnight back some cattle of Paddy Doyle's, of Tombrick,
having been taken (said illegally) for tithe, by M'Clintock,
were under bail till yesterday, when they were brought for-
ward to the pound of Newtownbarry ; but at the same time
an agent to'Lord Farnham, and a magistrate, collected all the
orange yeomanry and police from the surrounding towns and
country to his own stable yard—screened from the public by
a high wall, to the number of about 150 men, well armed,
and having 50 rounds of ball cartridge each. The cattle
being put to sale, and all these yeomen in battle order on
the road at the pound, some incautious little boys began to
shout, and one or two of them pitched stones amongst the
yeomen, which, without any further provocation, wu
the signal for slaughter : upon this the yeomen opened
on the people—who, unsuspicious of mischief, were at the
muzzles of the guns—a most dreadful, destructive, and
galling fire. Oh ! 1 tremble, and my eyes drop tears this
moment to relate it. In a few minutes the road and fields
were bestrewed with dead bodies of men, women, and
children ! I myself had been at the market, and went
down to the pound ; in a few minutes after my arrival
at the pound the fire commenced; several fell at each side
of me on the road, and, thanks to Heaven, I escaped amidst
tremendous showers of balls, to the town, where I remained
till all was tranquil in the evening, when I came and viewed
all the dead and wounded ; but, thank GOD, found no one
from our neighbourhood, save only one young man, Mick
Doyle, only son of Matty Doyle, of Kildalloo, being shot
through the upper past of the breast. died in about an hour
and a half. Of the remainder of the killed and wounded, I
knew about ten or fourteen, the rest are from the far
part of the Drafty, Kilrush, and, the surrounding coml.
try; but the whole of the killed and wounded that have'
been found, is about thirty or forty ; but, besides, many
have been drowned in the Slaney, and many shot in It—as it
was by the side of the river the slaughter took place—it
wu bank high ; and many women and children, to avoid
the bullets, rushed in and became a prey to the watery ele.l
ment. I saw in the confusion two women who did so, one
the mother of seven children. Enough ! enough ! But
every praise is due to Mr. King, chief of police, and thel
men themselves, for not one of them fired on the people,
unless it might be two or three; and great slaughter had
like to take place between them and the yeomen, who are
all this day locked up in Graham's yard, and last night
also. How it may end, I cannot tell: I saw them looking
over the walls at us, as we went this day to Newtownberry
mass. This is all I can at present say—what I have said is
only a sketch, and a small one. The road, for shout fifteen
perches, was covered with the blood of the slain, u if a
shower of blood bad fallen.

DREADFUL ATFRAT.—It is our painful duty
to announce, that another disastrous conflict has
taken place between the peasantry and the local
authorities at Newtown-Barry, in the County of
Wexford, in which several lives have been lost.
As usual, on such occasions, a great variety of
reports have been in circulation—each narrative
assuming the party colouring of the narrator. Two
accounts of the fatal transaction have been received
at the Castle—both bearing the marks of hurried
anxiety, and not consistent one with the other in
many particulars. All the statements, however,
concur in representing the affray to have originated
in a distress for tithes made by the parson of the
parish—that a rescue was attempted by the peasan-
try, between whom and the police, accompanied by
a detachment of a local yeomanry corps, the fatal
skirmish took place. Upon receiving the account,
Sir John Byng immediately sent forward an express,
ordering the removal of troops from Carlow to the
scene of disturbance ; and Mr. Greene, the King's
Counsel, was sent down by the Lord Lieutenant,
without a moment's delay, to investigate the trans-
action to the bottom, and who will, of course, faith-
fully report every circumstance to the government.
Until that report is received, we shall abstain from
all comment Thirteen of the unfortunate pea-
Isantry are said to have lost their lives—and twenty
three are dangerously wounded. One yeoman was
shot through the head.—Dublin 7 imes.

As we understand that Alderman Wood intends
bringing forward this evening a motion for the
reduction of the salaries of all public offices under
the government, we can anticipate a little some of
the plans and intentions of government upon the
subject of the reductions :—For instance, after the
sth July next, each of the Commissioners of the
Customs are to be reduced, and 2001. a•year to
be taken off from each of their salaries. The
Chairman retains the whole of his salary, being
12,0001. a-year, but the Deputy Chairman is to
suffer a reduction of 1501. a-year, and his
,salary to be continued at 1,6001. a-year.—
Instead of 1,7501. two of the Commissioners of
the Excise, and two of the Customs, are to retire
from their respective Boards ; and upon any future
vacancies, two more from each Board are not to be
filled up. The Secretary of one of the Boards is to
have his salary reduced to I ,5001. a-year ; and the
assistant Secretary, who now receives 1,2001. a
year, is to be reduced to 9001. a-year. In the other
departments of Government. the same system of
curtailment and reduction is going to be acted upon
with the strictest economy. No places that now
become vacant have any chance of being filled up,
unless in cases of absolute necessity for the public
service ; and it is generally understood that Mini-
sters have determined upon immediately reducing
their salaries from 15 to 20 per cent.
In the metropolis, as well as as in many other
parts of the kingdom, the returns under the late
census have been very much swelled by the prodi-
gious number of Irish that are among us.