Star.
London, England, 1824-01-05 00:00:00

• • THE -TtlEAfli ES. • • - •
DRURY-LANZ. ,
The Opera of Artaxerxes was revived at this house on'
Saturday night, and the poivetful cast which the bills;
displayed, attracted a very full house. BnAUAM as Ar-P
Laces, Hon as .iirtabanes, Madame VESTRII AS Ar-'
taxerzes, Miss SiteirEtts as Afandane, and Miss Povr
as Sernira, were announced to support the Opera. BRA
HAM sang the early songs in the finest manner* Miss
STiP/lENS; after singing, « If o'er the crud tyrant, Dire,"
sent an apology to the audience, with a request to be
indulged on account of, severe indisposition.
,MadaMe
Verrnts was in- good voice, and was loudly eneored in
singing " In infancy." lloattt was also'encored in one
of; his songs, and sung well throughout his part.
COVENT GARDEN.
The Opera of the Lord of the Manor was on *Satur-
day performed with great effect at this Theatre; and
Miss TREE, Miss PATON, andllr. SINCLAIR. Were res-
pectively honoured with calls for repetition of some of
the beautiful airs allotted to their several partc.- The
new Pantbmime was, as usual, re.vily applauded.
DEVONPORT.

There has been a great fete at the town once called
Plymouth Dock, but now by the more independent and
dignified appellation of Devonport. This change, which
took place on Thursday the first day of the near year,
was celebrated by processions, a public dinner, and
other rejoicings. Even the publiCation of a Newspaper,
an event of such awful moment that it appears too on.
portant to be delayed for, any human consideration,
was postponed ; and the Plymouth and Dork Journal,
usually published on Thursday, did not appear until
Friday, in order that the name of Devonport might be
introt!uced into its title, and that it might contain-ad
account of the proceedings of the preceding day.
The morning was.ushered in by the ringing Of the
bells of the parish church, the dock-yard, &c,
The day was rather fine, and the consequence was,
that before nine o'clock in the morning, the streets were
all in a bustle, not only with the inhabitants of De-
vonport, but with many-of their neighbours of Ply-'
mouth and Stonehouse.
About nine o'clock those who.were appointed, or in-'
tended to join in the procession, began to assemble in.
the Town Hall and Ker-street, and after a large distri-1
bution of bread, to the amount of upwards of £5O. we
believe, had been made to the poor, an Address written
for the occasion was delivered by H. J. John's. Esq.
Proclamation of the change of name WAS first made
in front of the Town Hall door, about a quarter before
ten. • After a flourish of trumpets, the Royal Mandate'
for changing the.name Was read in a distinct and audi-
ble voice by R. Rodd, Esq. the Town Clerk, The King's
health was then drank, and" God save the King," and
44 Devonport for ever," given, amidst the most enthu-
siastic' bursts of applause from all present. A flourish
ilof trumpets and the national air of God save the King
followed, after which a procession was marshalled,
which paraded the streets and passed under a triumphal
arch which had been erected for the purpose. . •
Soon after five nearly 150 Gentlemen sat down to a
ost excellent dinner at the Devonport Royal Hotel,
which, was served up in Mrs. Gondes' best style, and
with the wines, which were excellent, gave universal
satisfaction. The whole of the band. of the Marine
orps., stationed here attended and played select music
during dinner and throughout the evening. Robert
Rundle,. Egg. presided at dinner, and J. Smith, Esq.
was Vice-President; Messrs, Rodd, Billing, Ramsey,
Burnet, and Barton,. acted as Stewards; and after the
cloth was removed, s, Charge" and fire-away Was the
order-of the night,,to enforce which, we need .hardly say
there was, and indeed on such an occasion could be no
difficulty.whateVer. On the right, the Chairman was
supported by T. Husband, Esq. the Resident Magis-
trate, and on the left by John Hawker, Esq. T.•
and J. W. Clarke, Estirs, also Magistrates for the South
Division of Roborough. Indeed,- a more highly res-
pectable company could not have assembled. " The
King," and several loyal-toasts, were drank , with en-
thusiasm.
Great part of the company remained and kept it up
until a very early, hour in the morning. All was una-
nimity, harmony, and gbod order; and every persco
present during the whole evening seemed delighted.

Yesterday morning the Duchess of KENT attended
Divine Service at the kisses Royal German Chapel, St. James's,
and heard a sermon by the 'Rev. Dr. Korea.
POACHING AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER.--On the
night of Thursday last (26th ult.) about half-past ten
o'clock, Thomas Myers, the gat:twice:ls' er of Colonel
Plumbe, and an under.Jreeper, named James Garside,
having heard some firing in the woods ill the neighbour-
hood of Tong-hall, and supposing it to proceed from
pheasant shooters, appointed (Garside having in first
secured the aid of another of the gamekeepers, named
BoOth) to meet at a certain part of the wood, with the
view of detecting, if possible, the offenders. But before
Garside and Booth had arrived at the place of ren-
dezvous, they encountered four men armed with guns,
two of whom they recognized as John Pearson, of Wit),
sey, and George Riley, of Bradford, the former of whom
immediately seized Booth, whilst his three associates
commenced a most murderous attack upon Garside
with the butt ends of their guns, after which, supposing
life to be extinct, they threw him into a ditch. Riley
then went up to Booth, who had mastered his assailant,
and commenced a similar attack upon him, from which
he did not desist until he had cruelly beaten him. The
four ruffians then decamped with Booth's sword and
Garside's stick and hat, leaving behind them -the 'butt-
end of one gun, and part of the stock of another, which
had been broken in the fray. In about five minutes af-
terwards Myers arrived on the spot with five assistants;
and found Garside almost lifeless, and 'Booth in a pi-
tiable• state. They were both carried home, and on
Friday Garside was removed to the Royal Infirmary of
this town; where he now remains. Both thise unfortu-
nate*men are, we undetitatid, likely to do well. One of
the brutal perpetrators of this outrage has been arrested,
and, as we hear, committed to the Wakefield House of
Correction. York Castle would surely be a fitter •re-
ceptacle for him.—Leeds Intelligent:en

PUNNING Compi.tuswr.—One day when Sir. Isa AC
I-IsAnO was with his late. Ma:mine, it was announced
that his MAJEsTn horseras ready for hunting w Sir
ISAAC" said the Knoiti." 9- 'op a. jutil 'ofho r
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NA PAL INTELLIGRNCE,
the brig 'Alai/net, of Aberdeen, is totally lost on the Island of
Satrinna-Master, pliot, and two of jise crew drowned: •
The Minerva, Money., struck on the SCI-Oley Sand on Aridly.
and was carried info Yarmouth, leaky: • •
The names of the Officers who bdooged to the Asa', lately lost
on the Irish cam, are Lieutenants-W. P. Saves end T. GRAHAM ;
Mr. Joint Maumee, Master; Mr. G. M. Catewitte, Surgeon;
Mr. It. WILLIAMS, AssiitantzSurgeon. Her coniplethent of men
was one hundred and ten. -.
Ninety-nine illiesbiemen were promoted to the rank of raiente-
nant during the past year, including the Hod, 11. J. C;Tataot, of
the Seaaaownaws:. Forty-eight eutenaatts ate now employed in
the Preventive Service, on the cows of Suttee and Kent alone.-
Lieutenant W. Wartime -a is jusppointed to that service; the
lice. JOIIN Aascour, to be Chaplain et the Livat.e.
rALIVMTII, JANUARY 5.- Wind W.-Sid:ell his Majesty's packet
NIA olive, with a Mail, for Lia'aon ;_and Nancy, CANDLIE, for Genoa.
PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 2.-Wind W.- Arsived the Sorts of COM-.
tnerce, front Oporto in nine daes, with Ines of sails, bulwarks See - .
and part of her cargo of wine thrown overboard; and Union, LOW.
ILAN, from Terceira. .
Pottesnoure, JANUARY 3.-The continnance of strong westerly
gales during the week has preveNuel the out Ward-bound ships from
even making an attempt to sail, until this morning, when it shifted
to the northward, anti the Cameateca, 20, Caet..in T. J. Mattes;
instantly unmoored, and made the preparatory signal, when the Con-
suls and Vice-Consuls, and their (=Wits who are going out pas-
sengers to South Americf, embarked; and, should the wind con-
tinue fair until day-light to morrow morning, that ship will then •
proceed on the voyage; as will, also, the AKTICLOYL, with 300 can- •
victs, for Bermuda ; the Kaocialloo, surveying-ship, for Jamaica ;
and about fifty sail of outward-bound merchantmen, destined to all
the principal part: of the globe.
JA NUA RV 4.r-Wind N. W.-Sailed his Majesty'eship Casrsetnei,
'Captainitlateto, for SoUth America. Passed by lot *Lention, the
General Painter, Tausears, front Madras; and the Palmyra (or
Pyramus). from ditto.
Ships at Spithead--The CAIIRRIDCE, HUSSAR, JASPEa, CAME..
LEON, CAL twee, Aet rd.oricand KA NCA Ron. In Harbour.-gonste
CHARLOTTE, AL3IION, JUPITER, PIi•CION, TW/111, RANGES, MINA!,
TiNIC, PA ?MORA., GRASSHOYPER, ARRcues, SPA ILROWIIAWII, Aartow„
CYCNIT, PLOVER, and STARLING. •
• DEAL, JANUARY 4.--Wind N.W.-eSailed yesterday the Whole
of the outward-bound. Came slows from the River and rensain, the
Peter, Rtaas ; and Independent, WILD, for Vera Crus. Arrived the
Thames, HAVUUDE, from China. The brig Dispatch, PittoLav, cut
from het: anchor at one A. se hating driven close in the hawse of
another vessel ; and at two A. M. was run on board of by a large slab
and was obliged to proceed to Ramsgate harbour.
Lwaleoot., JANUARY 2.-Arrived the Sarah, Totem, front Dee
rnerara ; Havannah packet, Euswer, from Havannah. its Hornby,
WADE, from Liverpool for Rio, was totally lost on the Rocks of the
Great Ormshead-only one of the crew (JnumWite.taus) saved.
NEW YEAR'S DAY IN SCOTLAND. .
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• GLASGOW, JANUARY 2.
Yesterday was a busy day in preparing and procuring.
and last night in consuming hot pints and-whisky.' The
lieges were very noisy, but very good humoured. The
person snort in for it mistook the waggons with the
giantess and the wild beasts for the Trades' Land and
the props to' it; the new jail for the Steeple at the Cross,
and could not-be persuaded that his head and not the
city was turned. The favourite song at six o'clock this
morning was My Wife's a wanton wee things it would
appear that some Ladies' Societyl or other had been
broken up last night, And things returned 'to their
wonted social state, for the, sexes at an early hodr,
were all parading in pairs properly assorted, and ap-
parently highly pleased with the selection 'each had
made of his or her company.
• EDINBURGH, IA NUARY 2. . •
Yesterday moaning, tire New Year was, according to
imniemorial custom, ushered in with boisterous festi-
vity, but unaccompanied by any of those scenes Of vio-
lence which on one occasion' led to such fatal conse-
quences in Edinburgh. On inquiry at the Police Of-
fice, we find that there are a few drunken stragglers in
durance there, who will, at the meeting of the Court,
be dismissed with an admirnition ; but there is no one in
custody under any more serious charge. - .
This morning, at half-past two o'clock, a fire broke,out ,
in the shop of Mr. Paterson, carpenter, in the Cowgate,
and in leas than an hour the premises were burnt to the
ground. The engines arrived in time to preserve the -
adjoining houses. .
Monday eight, a copper-plate printer, residing in the
Potter-row, of the name of Mitchell, who had been
some time separated from his wife, called upon her, and.
it is said, deliberately,plunged a knife into her left side.
when no person was present but Nlrs. Mitchell's mother
and a little girl. Hew declaration was taken the same
evening by the Sher*. The ruffian is not taken.
• -
The. Madrid Gazette csitstains at length the Bull of tbe
late Prof VII. by which his Holiness authorixed•The
Regency of the Kingdom, during his Majesty's captivity,
to levy the sum of ten millions of-realS per. mutat
.' lidintrt
. .„,
£I00.000), for the term.of six years on the prtlelit of
the Clergy. • •
Je •L.-...
The new harbour which the American •Predrient, :ea
his Message, says is to be fortified, in the West Indies,
is about twenty-six miles from Cape S:tble. in Flyriday
and is formed by a bar which reaches from an Island
'called Salt-pond Island, to a IoW mangrove island,
..
and in the .embayed part contains only (by the-latest
soundings)ahree fathoms water. None of the Land rises
more than three feet above the sea, and it produces bad
fresh water, scantily, from one spot only. Fr,igates can
approach almost within musket-shot, and command the
whole space. It is opposite the •Havannah-distant
about eighty miles, and is nine miles within the Key
'surrounding Cape Sable; consequently is much ex-
posed to burricanes.-Southampton Chronicle.
CORN EXCIIANGE, MABK.LANP., JAN. 5.
. Theloisterous state of the wind last week kept the supplierback
so that the quantites were very small. This morning the fresh sup-
plies of Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Peas, from Essex, Kent, and
Suffolk, do not equal the expectations-of our buyers;. and there are
but few Oati in from the North. The top price of Flouris stlength
-established at 60s. per sack, and our Millers, in consequence thereof,
plirchased very freely to-day ; and Wheat is advanced full 2s. per
quarter on the currency of last Monday. Barley ii further advanced
Is. per quarter. Deane and Grey Peas are each Is. per quarter
dearer. Boiling Peas are from Is. to 2s. per quarter higher. The
'stands are nearly cleared of Oat samples at a rise of full Is. per quar-
ter. Nearly every article in the Seed trade sells freely.
. ' TRIMS ON BOARD SNIP.
Wheat, Red (new), 485. 60s. Rye,,new, 40s. 465. •
- ---- .old, 565. 645. , ......- old, 405. 465.
White new, 545. to 645. Beans, Small, new, 37a. 395.
..-. old, 58s. 70e. . --e- old, 40s. 435. ' -
Barley, New, Ses. 369. -•_ Tick, new, 3ee. 3-9 s.
Old, 275. 345. - a.-- old, 38s. 40s.
Peas, Grey, New, 31s. 33!1/4, Oats, Feed, new, 21s. 245.
..-..--... Old, 325. 54s- , . •--- old, 225. 25'. .
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• . Maple, new, 355. 365. .• .7
Poland, new, 235. 275. -
. - old, 335. 341. „ *.' ..----- old, 255. 28$. • •
White, new, 38s. 405 c -. u .Potetoe, new, 235. 5.95.
. ...-.--. old, 365. 425. . -a----- old, 275. 30s. •
. 'toilers, new, 41:s. 4.51. ', : :Flour' per Satk, 555. 60s. '
e-.-- old, els. 435. . Repeseed, per lash £36, £BB.
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• A IMITAt2 LAST WA.. . • ,
Wheat, English, Vs. - A 5,703. 'Beans.: . - - 62$
: Barley ' .- . .1;401 Peas ..re- - ... • • • • 695
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