Star.
London, England, 1824-07-23 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, JULY 22.

The Libraries are nightly filled with fashion and beauty ; and
the singers at fully maintain their popularity.
The town is increasing in gaiety every day, and all things pro.
mise a gay and prosperous season. The " note of preparation" has
been accordingly heard among our townspeople, and we are sure
they will not be disappointed : there is at present much more corn.
patty here than is usual in the month of July.
Many families have arrived within these few days, and continue
daily to an ive for the !laces. The Duke and Duchess of lltenstom,
and Duke and Duchess of ARGYLL. are expected un Monday next.

Prince LEOPOLD arrive.] at 'Marlborough House yes-
terday Afternoon, from Claremont.

The young Greek, adopted by Lord BYRON, is now
at Lord flaaarnarrnes, and crowds of the Nobility and Gentry
are daily in the habit of visiting him. Ills temper seems violent,
and can only be tamed by depriving him of his dress, of which he
appears to be inordinately proud.
The marriage of the Austrian Archduke FRANCIS
rif•Rtgs with the Princess FREORNIICA SOPHIA DOROTHEA, will
take place in September next, at Vienna.
There is actually a diffe.ellce of one-thir..! in the price
of the same description of bread sold at different bakers' shops in
the metropolis.
The town of Folkestone, has. after many applications
to the Treasury, obtained from their Lordships the privilege of
having a clearing office.
Saturday the silver bowl given by the Royal Corn-
early of Archers, King's Body Guard, was shot for and gained by
NAPIER., Esq W. S.
The Belfast chronicle gives the particulars of a plan
for a Bank in that city, to be called the Ulster Joint Stock Bank,
with a capital of £500,000, in shares of £lOO. The business is to
be conducted on the principle of the Scotch Banks.
PUBLIC PRESS OF ITALY.—One newspaper is pub-
lished at each of the following places :—Venice, Milan, Genoa, Bo-
logna, 'Rome' Naples; less extensive papers at Fuligno, Modena,
and in some other places. A newspaper, in Italian, is printed at
Lugano, in the Italian bailiwicks of Switzerland, and circulates iu
different parts of Italy.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER is now at Cheltenham ; he
arrived there on Tuesday, and his Royal Ilighness is expected to
make a considerable stay there.
The Farewell Ball at A ListacK's was a bumper, and
the dance was kept up with spirit to a late hour. Nearly four
hundred distinguished Fashionables were present. Among the pria-
cipal were—
Prince Gortchacoff . . • Lady Acton.
Lord Tullantote . • . Mrs. Pellew.
Mr. Lister . . • • Lady Uxbridge.
Mr. Anson . . . • Lady M' Farlane.
Lord John Russell . . . Duchess of Durazzo.
Count Vaudreuil . • . Miss Villiers.
Earl of Wiltshire . . . Lady A. Paget.
Lord Stormont . . . . !Lady Oreville.
Lord Valletort . . . . Lady G. kleaoclerk•
Lord George DM . . . Lady M. Clements.
Count Paul Lieven . . . Lady St. Clair.
Lord Hervey
Earl of Chesterfield .
Mr. M. 'Mulynenx . .
In 1`294, when twelve Ambassadors tom different
Courts came to Rome to congratulate BONITACI VIII. the
astonished to find that they were all Florentines, exclaimed, "
rence is the first city in the world, and the Florentines the ref
fifth element, the quintessence of mankind!"
At the late West Kent Quarter Sessions, in the
of an indictment against the parish of Frindsbury, for not repairing
a road, there were nine witnesses, whose united ages amounted •
siz hundred and forty years. They were all in gond health,
the oldest of them, who is in his ninetieth year, is able to walk
teen miles a day.
The iron trade has recently assumed an uncomi
briskness—in consequence of which the manufacturers
in Wales and Yorkshire have advanced the price
pound per ton. This difference produces to the hou:
of a wo.thf City Alderman an additional eighteen thou-
sand pounds a-year profit at least.
A TURF BULL—The Mayor of an English City "
put forth an advertisement previous to the races' ,
no Gentleman will be allowed to ride on the Cow
erupt the horses that are to run !“
New FEMALE PENITENTIARY, Wednesday aft.
noon, a numerous meeting of land and householders
the vicinity of Clerkenweil and Islington was hell'
St. James's Church, Clerkenwell, to take into cons!
ration the conduct of the County Magistrates in
upon a piece of their own ground to build a Peni
tiny fur female delinquents. Various speeches wi
made on the occasion, purporting that if the Cout
Magistrates persisted in building a prison on the grow
pointed out, the whole of the houses erected in the
nity for some years back would become of little or
value; and that a direct communication, so rat.
wanted between that part of the town and Brunswit
and Russell-squares, would be for ever prevented.
veral Resolutions were moved, and it was determi
to apply to the Magistrates at Quarter Sessions to
further proceedings with this female prison.
Letters from Gibraltar, dated the Ist instant, state,
from the reports of the harvest being very bad in Spain.
several cargoes of grain, from the ports in the Mediter•
ranean had arrived, and completely glutted the market,
which had caused the paces to fall from 10s. to'
per quarter, and several of the cargoes would be
warded on to some of the ports in Spain, from there being
no room in the garrison fur the cargoes that had arrived.
Tuesday the Allerton arrived at Liverpool, fr
Kingston, Jamaica. The papers brought by this
veyance are to the Ist of June; but they do not contain
a word of news.

New DISCOVZRY.—The Edinburgh Weekly P2Per'
the Independent, publishes an account of a new disci
very in the arts and sciences, which, it is asserted,
altogether supersede the use of steam in working
chinery. Instead of steam hydrogen gas is introdu
Into the cylinder, which being destroyed by combustiosi
produces a complete vacuum, into which the paw,
rushes with irresistible force. Gas is again introduced
and raises the piston, when it is again destroyed by com-
bustion as befnie. A patent has been obtained tor'
discovery. The engine will only weigh from twr
five to thirty cwr. A small stove will supply the
of the steam-boi'er, andfive barrels of oil, it is
latedi will take a ship to India.

HASTINGS, JUL Y 21.
The favourable change in the weather has contri-
buted to add greatly to the number of •i,itants at this
beautiful place, and the demands for lodgings are daily
increasing. The town is now nearly full, and all the
best halms are let.
The Earl of Oilcans's and family, Lord and Lady Frrzsta-
aim, Lord and Lady Camacusix, are now resident ; and the Du-'
chess of Tdaatroaouou and many noble families are expected.