Star.
London, England, 1830-01-26 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Doke of &Match, on a visit to Lord and Lady Montague,
at their seat. ninon Park, Bucks; General Sir George Nugent,
&rt. from the Brunswick Hotel, Jennyn-street, for his seat Hod-
dodo°. Bucks ; W. F. Campbell. Beg. from ditto, for Kent; Lord
and Lady Brudenell. fir Melton Mowbray; Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Barre% for the Berl of Egrensont's seat, Petworth, saner ;
Lord Anson, for his seat in Staffordshire; Henry Moss, Esq. and
Son, from the Burlington Hotel, for Liverpool ; James Sparkes,
from ditto, on a tour ; Alexander Stuart, Esq. from ditto, for
Brighton ; Sir Lloyd Dukenffekl. Ban, from Fentoa's Hotel, St.
James's street, for Brighton ; George Harris, Esq front the St.
James's Hotel, Jerenyn-street, for Nottingham.

A deputation of six of the principal Merchants of Li-
verpool, headed by Mr. HUSKISSON and General GAS-
COYNE, the Members for that town, had a conference
with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Trea-
sury. The object of the interview was to obtain the re-
vival of the mode of paying the Landing Waiters of the
Customs at the port of Liverpool, on a plan which, after
a trial of several years, had been found to be eminently
conducive both to the interests of the revenue, and also to
the trade of the port, but which practice has lately been
altered. The Duke paid the greatest attention to the
arguments adduced during the conference,which lasted for
an hour and a half, in favour of the objects in view, and
received certain documents relative to the alteration. His
Grace, however, did not express any decided resolution, but
promised that the subject should be well considered. Mr.
DE.IN, the Chairman of the Commissioners of Customs.
and Mr. IRVINE, the Inspector of the Exports and
Imports of London, were in attendance at the Treasury
during the conference. Mr. Husx Isom( came to town
from the residence of Earl Cow pxn, at Pansanger, Herta,
on purpose to attend the meeting, and on its conclusion
left town on his return to the seat of the Noble Earl.

The Governor and Deputy IGovernor of the Bank of
England attended yesterday, at one o'clock, at the Trea-
sury, and had a conference with the CHAXCELLOa of the
EXCHEQUER.

A deputation from the Provincial Bank of Ireland
waited, by appointment, at 12 o'clock yesterday morning,
On the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER; MT. SPRING
RICE, M.P. Mr. DOUGLAS, and MT. LIGHTFOOT, Di-
rectors, and Mr. MARSHALL, Secretary to the Company,
were among the members present. The interview lasted
a considerable time.

The Duke of BUCCLEUGH, and the BISHOP of LON-
DON visited the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday.
A Messenger attached to the lonian Government ar-
rived in town at a late hour on Sunday night, from
Ancona, with despatches from Sir FREDERICK ADAM.
the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, for
Sir GEORGE MURRAY. The Messenger had been de-
tained a fortnight on his route in consequence of the state
of the weather.

The Lord Chamberlain had an interview yesterday
with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, at the
Foreign Office.
The Neapolitan Minister transacted business yesterday
at the Foreign and Colonial Office.
Mr. Sectetary Pest, the CHANCELLOR of the Ex-
CHEQUER, and Viscount LOWTHER, had interviews with
the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday at the Treasury.
Viscount MEI.VILLE visited Sir GEORGE MURRAY
lyesterday at the Colonial Office.
The answer to the inquiries after the health of Mr.
VESEY FITZGERALD yesterday, was "Mr FITZ-
GERALD passed a better night, and is better to-day."
The Marquis of CHANDOS is busily employed with a
new Game Bill, which be intends to bring in shortly
after the Meeting of Parliament ; it is at present receiving
the revison of the Earl of ELDON. The Duke of Ricu-
MOND has a Bill on the Wool Trade in preparation.—
Hampshire Advertiser.
J. W. JEFFCOTT, Esq. M.A. Barrister at Law,
Middle Temple, is appointed Chief Justice of Sierra
Leone and the Gambia, with a salary of 1,5001. per
annum, and emoluments as much more.

The number of actions commenced in the three supe-
rior Courts at Westminster, on an average of five years,
amounts to nearly 80,000 per annum.
It is curious (says a Van Diemen's Land Paper) that
among the numerous emigrants of all classes which of
late have come to our shores, not one in the character of
a dancing-master should have arrived. A good teacher
of this elegant amusement would be likely to meet with
good employment.
Both in this country, and throughout the whole of
Europe, more snow has fallen during the present winter
than during any season for many years.
On Sunday night the thaw, which had lasted for two
days, was arrested by a return of frost, which will pro-
bably have the effect of checking the floods, a ith which
many parts of the country were beginning to be inundated.
During the late frost the thermometer in a gentleman's
garden at Cambridge sunk to 6, or 26 degrees below the
freezing point.
Sir MATTHEW J. TIERNEY left Brighton on Friday
last, for the seat of the Right Hon. the Earl of En at:-
MONT, at Petworth ; and it gives us great pleasure in
stating that his Lordship is going on very favourably.—
Sussex Advertiser. _ _

The LORD CHANCELLOR has recently become a
member of the Verulsun Club, in Lincoln's Inn-fields.
THE LATE DUEL.--We have authority to state that
it was not any gentleman of the Royal Mint who was
concerned in the above. The second to the unfortunate
Mr. CLAYTON is of the Tower of London, where, in the
year 1810, though not since, the Mint was situated.
Wednesday morning last the Lynn coach, having left
that place for London, after having with difficulty pro-
ceeded as far as Tottenhill, was unable to prosecute its
journey further, owing to the drifted snow.
An experiment is to be very shortly tried at Woolwich,
to fire shipguna by percussion, on a plan submitted by an
offieer of the Royal Navy, a resident in Hampshire.
The Duke of OaLastxs has sent to the Prefect 5001.
for the poor of the capital ; and a representation at the
open for their relief having been announced, the Prefect
of the Departassat, and the Mayon of Paris, have sent
sonisindy 1201. be their boxes. This is doubtless meant
es an exam* to Anent imilividemis, and it has, we °b-
arn, bessairi followed by' f. AOVADO, the banker,
who has sent 201. for his box at the spent on the night
in question.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

LI7L-i. 9.

What I mentioned in my two preceding letters as likely
to happen, has at last taken place. The "old QUEEN"-
that scourge of the people—is dead. She departed this
life about four o'clock, p. m. on the 7th of this month, not
having completed the 55th year of her age. The complica-
tion of her diseases rendered her last moments painful in
the extreme—her body was swelled to a most enormous
siie ! . To the last moment, she held on, addressing her
wretched son MiGum,—the wicked, mischievous, and
savage MIGUEL—by the endearing name of " Minka
Perola"—i. e. " a gem of the first water." He, how-
ever, preferred his own obscene amusements ; and, in the
awful moment of his mother's death, displayed an insen-
sibility and recklessness which is without parallel, per-
haps in the history of man. Let the " old QUEEN," be
what she might—still it was this woman who put the
usurped crown upon his cowardly head ; and if he proves
to ho the worthy son of such a mother at the last moment,
she was alone to blame. It is needless to go into many
particulars about such a miserable being ; and I have
univ to add that, by her last request, her body is to be
deposited at S. Pedro do Sul, in Cintra, whilst a monu-
ment is to be erected in the chapel of Ramalhao to her
memory ; which last place. she gilled to the Jesuits,
whom she lately contrived to introduce in flocks ; and in
the remembrance of that bleseed order she will, of course,
he venerated !

As far as regards political matters, I may mention that
SARAIVA, ASSECA'S Secretary, arrived with despatches
and immediately after a Council of Ministers was held.
In the afternoon orders were issued to the arsenaltolequip,
in the greatest haste, two frigates, a corvette, and a brig.
This order gave rise to a number of speculations ; but I
abstain from noticing any of them by this mail, not being
able to ascertain which is entitled to the greatest veracity.
The charrua Maia-Cardozo sails on Wednesday first with
fifty more illustrious victims to the vengeance of Mna UEL,
whose sole crime is attachment and allegiance to their
lawful Sovereign.