Star.
London, England, 1824-12-14 00:00:00

CIiARTkR-110Ugi40k1141DEirS DAY.

Yesterday being the 124th Anniversir* of in-
estimable Institution, it was celebrated at the Charter-
house, in Charter-house-square.
At five o'clock the company began to arrive, and by
half-past the Pensioners' Hall was crowded with
Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and patrons of the in-
stitution. The spacious apartment was fitted up ex-.
pressly for the occasion t.on either side were placed
long forms, covered with green baize, for the accom-
modation of the visitors, and at the head of the room
the seats were appropiiated for the use of the Masters,
Warders, and Stewards of the Charter-home ; and at
the bottom end a short rostrum was erected fin the
young Gentlemen educated in the institution.
The company having seated themselves, a fine youth,
about fifteen years of age, delivered an appropriate
oration in Latin, in a most admirable style, and with
such energy and effect that filled every one resent
with surptise ; indeed, Dr. Russell, the Master, ad-
mitted, that the youthful orator had far , exceeded his
expectation, although he had heard him.rehearse it be-
fore. At the conclusion of the oration it was greeted
_with three distinct rounds of applause, and the company
present amply rewarded him for his surprising progress
in the language, he having been only five years in the
establishment.

It has been the practice, up to the present time, to
preach at' appropriate Sermon on the occasion, but in
this instance it was omitted, in consequence of the
Chapel being under repair.
The company afterwards repaired to the great Hall,
where they sat down to a- sumptuous dinner, consisting
of the choicest viands the season afforded, which were•
supplied by Mr. Kay, of the Albion Tavern, Alders-
gate.street. The company spent the evening with the
greatest hilarity, and separated at an early hour.

Lord Succour, one 'of the Senators of the College of
Justice in Scotland, has resigned his double gowns.
The Gazette contains a notice of an intended appli-
cation to Parliament for a Bill for preventing a recur-
rence of injury by floods in and about the city of Bath.
A carriage-drive is now forming, with spacious foot-
paths, from Cumberland Gate, in Hyde Park, to the
door at the north-east corner of Kensington Gardens,
which has hitherto not been accessible by carriages.
At the top of Portland-place a commodious archway
has been constructed under the New Road, by means of
which such of the inhabitants as have keys and peimis-
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sion to walk in the garden of Regent Crescent, can now
walk into the Regent-square Garden on the opposite
side of the road, without the danger and inconvenience
of crossing the road itself.
A curious question, under the Building Act, is ex-
pected to come on for hearing in the course of a few
days, before the Magistrates at Hatton-garden, in which
the Commissioners for paving Lincoln s Inn-fields are
attempting to pull down a room of office lately erected
at the south-eastern extremity of that square.
Saturday se'nnight, a most wanton attack was made
by an operative spinner on two women employed at Mr.
Snodgrass's mill, Glasgow, whom he cut and abused,
but luckily for the ends of justice, this miscreant was
apprehended and is now in jail. .
The death of a poor man named Peter Fieldhouse,
whys resided near Wakefield, has been declared by a
Coroner's Jury to have been caused by the wilful neg-
lect of the parish officers. His body exhibited a shock-
ing specimen of miser/ and starvation.

The proofs of increasing prosperity in our manufac-
turing and mercantile industry, force themselves daily
upon our notice. A Meeting was held yesterday in the
City, for the purpose of facilitating the speedy and re-
gular conveyance of goods from Manchester to Lon-
don. It appears, that notwithstanding there are Vans
which travel those roads constantly, still a de-
mand exists for additional means of carriage. The Silk
Trade, in particular, has improved so much of late, and
the demand for silk goods has been so incessant, that
not only have the Vans been-fully loaded, and the in-
terior of the coaches•devoted to this purpose, but par-
cels have even been suspended under the coaches ; and,
after all, delays of several hours have occurred in the
transmission of the sill, to the evident injury of com-
mercial credit. Actuated by these considerations, the
Gentlemen above alluded to have agreed to subscribe
a fund of 40,000/. for the establishment of new Vans;
out of no hostility to the existing Establishments, and
still less with any view of tratlicing in the Shares,
which are in number 400, but simply from the neces-
sity of the case.
The hurricane of the 18th and 19th of last month ap-
pear•to have been almost unprecedented in the physical
history of Europe. It appears to have originated on
the coasts of England and Holland. Hence it swept
along the North Sea, which was everywhere furiously
agitated. There were dreadful shipwrecks on the coast
of Jutland. Hence it traversed Sweden, prostrating
whole forests in its course. Gettenburgh and Stock-
holm wete in a state of the utmost terror, and suffered
'much. In the Gulf of Finland the storm was dreadful
—the hurricane forced the waters of the Baltic into the
Gulf, and the commotion was terrible. At Petersburgh
the scene was one of the most fearful imaginable.
The waters of the Neva suddenly overflowed their banks
and literally deluged the city. AU those residing in
ground-floors, escaped only by the help of boats, which
were rowed in the streets, so fearfully were they over-
flown. Cattle and human creatures, furniture, and other
articles of domestic use, were seen struggling or float-
ing, according as they were animate or inanimate, alongl
the deluged streets. The waters, however, at length
subsided, and left the city, a spectacle of horror. This'
hurricane—the most extraordinary phenomenon of its
kind on record—appears to have traversed in a double
curve of 370 or 400 leagues, and in a very few minutes'
time, the north of Europe. There is no instance re-
corded, in writing or tradition, of such a not m.
The beautiful swannery on the Fleet, near Abbots-
bury, has suffered greatly from the late tempestuous
weather; the heavy gales having dispersed the swans
in every direction, many hare been shot.
How different in disposition are the good people in
London from those in Paris! Versailles is only ten
miles from the latter city, and yet the execution of Leger
was only known two days afterwards by the simple in.
formation in the papers, announcing the citcumstance
in these laconic terms;—"" We are informed that Leger
was executed yesterday at twelve o'clock ; a vast con-
course of people was present."
CAUSE AND EEFECT.—TWO men meeting one day,
" Do you know,"says one, "that our friend, Counsellor
D. is dead?"—"" Yes. I know it," replied the other,
" and the report goes that he has left few diets."—
"" How could it be otherwise," said the other, " when
he had so few causes?"