Star.
London, England, 1830-01-04 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JAN. 11.
Sunday sesnight. Mr. George Ralik* Meatcheote was admit-
ted actual Fellow of New College.
Tuesday se'onight. the Rev. John Measles. M.A. and Scholar
of Corpus Christi College. was admitted Probationary Fellow of
that Society.
The Rev. George Cumming Rasideigb, M.A. late Fellow of
New College. now Fellow of Winchester College. Is presented to
the Vicarage of Andover. Haan. vacant by the decease of the Ve-
r.erable Archdeacon Heatbeete. Patrons, the Warden and Fel-
lows of Winchester College. _ _ _

Wurrenat.r.Pasacninti.—Atnew arrangement of duty bas taken
place in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall. in consequence of which
the monthly preachers from the two Universities are dispensed
with. The preacberships were established by King Gauge L for
the purpose of bringing into notice resident Fellows of his two
Universities. _ _ _ _ _

At attaitlination held on Sunday, the 13th inst. by the 111 .hop
of Bath and Walls, the following gentlenten were ordained :

William John Chmshyre, B A. WWI College, Oxford.
William Leslie, M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford.
John William Watts, B.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford.
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Henry Simon Charles Crook, If A. Lincoln College. Oxford.
William lloutledge, B.A. Trinity College, Dublin.
Ac an Ordination beld by the Bishop at ►is Cathedral at Bangor,
on Sunday, the Wth of December, the following Gentlemen were
admitted into Holy Drams :

Henry Reynolds. M.A. fleboia orients College, Word.
John Griffith, B.A. Jesus College, Ozford.
John Jones, B.A. Trinity College, Dublin.
'warn. _ _

John Vangban Lloyd, B.A. Scholar of Jesus College, Oxford.
Lea Heatteote Prang, B.A. Christ Church, Oxford.
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James Arndtsteal, B.A. Wadbant. College, Oxford.
Lawrence Aimituesd, B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford.
Jobn Kay, li.A. Lincoln College, Oxford.
Frederick Robert Neve B. A. Oriel College, Oxford.
G.. rge Jonathan Quarsaby, B.A. Lincoln College, Oxford.
henry Thomas &region, B.A. Queen's College, Oxford.
liall Graham. & A. Exeter College, Oxford.
Edward Tbos. asampnes, B.A. 'Malty College, Cambridge.
Junes Septimus Cox. B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Thomas Ladd*, B. A. Calm Caller, Cambridge.
Joseph Rasps= Middleton, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge.

Richard Dennis Hoblyn, M.A. &ilia College, Oxford.
Thomas Sutton, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Matthew Cutler Tompson, B.A. Trinity College. Oxford.
Thomas Walpole, M. A. Balliol College. Oxford.
Thomas Ayres. S.C.L. St. John's College, Cambridge.
Hobert Edward Blackwell, B.A. Catherine Hall, Cambridge.
Septimus Dawes, B.A. Cans College Cambridge.
William Hutchinson Ling. Catherine Hall. Cambridge.
Thomas Mills, R A. Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Charles Murray, B.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
ICC LISLITICA L PROMOTIONS.

The Right Hon. and Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, M. A. has
been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Lincoln to the Rectory of
Eastmanstead Cheyneys, in the county of Bocklugham, on the pre-
notation of his Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Rev. Matthew Cattier Thompson. B.A. has been iodated to
the Rectory of Woodstooe, in the county of Huntingdon, on the
preeentailoo of Mrs. Tompson. of Round Coppice, Becks.
The Earl of Fitswitliam has been pleased to pnsent the Rev.
Rdw. R. Tbeed to the i•ectory of Fiction, near Peterborough, va-
cant by the death of the Rev.. 7. Lowe.
Bev. William Hicks, M.A. of Magdalen College, Cambridge,
has been instituted. by the Lord Bishop of London, to the Rectory
of Stormer, Essex, ou the presentation of his Grace the Grace the
Duke of Rutland.
Rev. Chas. Fisher, M.A. has been instituted to the Rectory of
Colton, in Suffollt,oa the presentation of the Rev. George Anguish,
of Somerleyton Hall.
Rev. G. Bomar to be Minister of the New Suffolk Square
Church, Cheltenham.
Rev. R. Newnan. M.A. Warden of Rathin, to the Rectory of
Clocacauc, in the county of Denbigh.

THE EAST.—Mr. Buckingham is again delivering lec-
tures In London. Every Individual who has a relish for a cup of
rod tea,—to say nothing of a taste for fair dealing or a distaste to
grasping--ahould patronize these lectures, one of the objects of
which is to put down the odious monopoly of the India Company,.
the effect of which is to make the people of this country pay twice
as much for their tea as Is paid by the rest of Europe and America.
' But while Mr. Buckingham exposes this pernicious tax, he doss
Dot bore his bearers with dry financial details and political aria-
'anent.: be dilates upon the characters, habits, and manners of vs-
' rious nations of the East, of which he has been a frequent and at-
sentive spectator; and we can pay, from our own experience, that
the carious original and striking facts put forth by Mr. B. In his
lectures, are, as It seems to us, well calcul.ted to amuse and instruct
every seeker of useful knowledge, of whatever sea or age.
ECCLESIASTICAL STATISTICS Or YORYSHIEZ.--- .
We gather the followinginformatioo respecting the state of lie'
Established Church in this county, hoes the last volume of the
Ecclesiastical Directory. The number of Church Livings 181109 ;
' the ;miaow of which Is thus divided:—ln the gift of Govern-
ment, 113; Church, 350; Universities, 32; Public Bodies, 33;
Nobility and Geouy. 299; Inhabitants, 2. Dr. Vernon is the
diocesan, and the number of Cathedral Digteitarks is 69.
RELIGIOUS DillfOtillioTiohe ii YOUIL3MISE.-6e.
Tbe following is' we believe, a cot reef statement of the sendatralf
religious consulss:lm brittle county, exclusive of those belongke..
,to the Established Church. Roman Catholic coagregetfos_ '411•
Poosbyrseissii 13; Quakers 64; Pereicular Baptiets at; Gomel
lEspehts 9 ; Wesleyan Methodist* 562 ; Calviaistie Merhesiliu 1 ;
other klethodists 147; Independents 154; Home Miselosery, and
Other stations 1.
STATE .OP RELIGIOUS BILNEVOLINCI Iff YOffill=
anssz....The ems of 4211,11111' ISa. 94. was Collected lien year 'in
phis county, in aid of objects which the following lkidediiitariy'
into effect teW.The conutaatious do the BIM, Misty lien 47,317
Op.
lid -Church filbssiower, Bedew, MAI tattd.trildoei..
flo. £3,943 12s. 1 td. Wesleyan de:.1111,557 19s. lid: .do.
ome.det Unitarian do. and Viet Sedge', MO .111 • Tho
long Guistird:;lLlsa ;IFooresoc"surbialillipinorcParialberstiodedef
,;:e4s-'aliddlivleesidet.ftted""abbvttherbte edesiltbhweitilill:filiunti:StaPrettlittlielrowt.r
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eds, 1192 21.dd.. . Ardl, ABP..- Hutkielifiehl,49lf, 'bd.
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1$ is probable.thalt the cosily AbotritHitie , thf 'sista •
£30,660 pee ann. towards the' advocated* Of raglan' ktifkrielge.
I

It It passing adage. that the character of a people separated
front tweedy by a narrow sea, and politically connected with us fns
nearly seed hundred years, should, even to this day, be but very
01 understood by the majority of the people of this kingdom
the Dish are alines always looked upon ebbe, en or bens en laid
(more frequently the latter,) and he who has a mind to declare the
plain truth upon the matter. can rarely get a fair bearing. in *A-
ngulo= of the violas prepossessions on one side or the other,
with which even reasonable men are apt to be loilmed.
In very troth, the hid' character is rather chamdsoo-like ; its
Odours ore entrasody differest,adording to the lights and shadows
Which strivounding drcusstanoss throw upon it; but we cannot
settle the dispute, like the perms of the fable, by " catching the
creature" and examining him, " for the satisfaction of our
thought;" does nalooal character Ls to be fouled. not in the indi-
vidual, but in the aggregate.
Nothing, then, but a pretty general acquaintance with the coun-
try, and the various conditions of its inhabitants, can enable any
one to form a just judgment for himself, and much less qualify
him to instruct others. apes this interesting subject. The writer
of this paper lays claim to that general acquaintance, or be would
not attempt even the brief iketch of Irish character which be now
resumes to offer. It has been said that the hues of Irish charac-
ter vary namely, according to the light in which they are seen:
This is true, to some exam. of the national character of all coun-
tries ; but that which individualises Ireland in this respect, is the
greatness of the degree of variation. An Englishatao is e row Is
not exactly the same thing as an Englishman in peaceable, friendly
society; but an Irishman in a row seems to beds' utterly a dif
ferent being from what he is, apart from all row-lab circumstances
Take him in friendly, social society. you will End his heart as soft
and manageable as your canvas bag of gunpowder, which lies in
the corner; bring hint in contact with some caching cause, and
the Awe and wild uproar of that quiet heart, is like that of the
bag of powder, when a casual spark has fatless upon it. What is
the obvious inference? That Irishmen, like gunpowder, should be
managed with ezceediag are; that causes of eacitement should
be kept away, and strong security provided in ease elan esplusion.
Has this been the case ?—Alas! let the page of Irish history, let
the record of English management, give the answer, and then, let
Eogileinnen proceed to pour scorn spat the Irish with what ap-
penile they may. It is a melancholy troth in the history of human
mature, that we are gaudily disposed to despise sad hate thaw
whom we are coasdous we have injured, and an much the more,
as the injured party abstains from bold and manly resistance to our
oppression. We defend our iniquity upon the ground that we have
been suffered to continue in it, and like most things which Nature
teaches, there is, even in this, some good reason. Why did the
Irish bear so long with a system of English Governeness, gess:
rally as despicable in strength, as it was wretched in policy?—
Hoe can hardly think upon this. without feeling that them
is some muse foe &glad* scorn towards Ireland. Looking
along the line of Irish hi.tory for four hundred years after,
the ars coming of the English, oppot canted occurred, time
after time, almost as numerous as the years of dash degraded
existence, when the Irish. by the least united effects, might ham
burled all the English in their country into the sea, after that mos
Der, of which the cold and bloody Henry de Most Maurisco, had
taught them a fearful 'sample ; but De such effort was made, or if
it was, it was bet for an instant, and the attach on the common
enemy was abandoned, that they might light amongst themselves.
Their national character, which has scarcely been amended by
time, was at the bottom dike. They were only roused to exer-
tion by aped excitement.witicia,:on the least reverse, or even delay,
was succeeded by a no less mad despair, sad their conduct more
resembled the action of a frantic poet's dream, than that of men
supporting a cause the most sacred, next to the cause of Goa, for
which man can persist, and for which be ought to peril every thing,
not excepting life itself.

But this reference to history is somewhat more than was in-
tended ; ist it, for the present, be our teak to look at Ina cha-
racter as it is seen Moved over the wide surface of society ; or, to
speak
with more correctness of Azure, mingled with the isobsunce
of society, and forming some of not the lean poignant particles of
that heterogeneous mass. It is erroneous to suppose that the Irish
are altogether the creatures of excitement ; they are nut deficient
in judgment, nor without knowledge of principle, nor disobedient
to their dictates ; but, undoubtedly the operstions of judgment, and
the 'hedonics to principles of duty, are more mingled with passion
and feeling than they are bete, and more than they ought to be
any where; but while this combination of feeling with duty fre-
quently leads to bad results, from the latter being overbore, by its
companion, still it also leads to much that is very delightful, and
that irresistibly wins upon the affections. In short, the suscepti-
bility of feeling, and liability to excitement a the Irish, are like
wings to our English motives of action, and may be used either to
See to do evil, or to do good. That they frequently bear Irishmen
so to headlong evil, is quit* true ; that they frequently bear Irish-
men, and very frequently Irish women, towards what is good, I.
true also. Irish morality has too much of_ mere sentiment in it; the
paint of a nour is more frequently their also, than the point of
duty ; common, unadorned honesty has scarcely sellcient owlet in
its appearance to win their approbstion, and the man will peril
his life for his master, who would not scruple to cheat him of '
eighteenpence.
This is not exactly as it should be, sad in the ordinary transactions
of life is highly incesivadent, dace. through modern uraogessente.
one's property is so muck mere liable to attack than one's life.end
is in the aggregate. almost of the same impdrtance u the njistonee
which it supporta. But look at the contrast In England, and bow
does it appear? Tour serum wiU not, perhaps. take you eighteni
pence. bee be doss sot oar' eighteen pence, (pion the lose et hfr
pleas,) 11 some one took your life. It awed attack an kids
*collegian, his Irish servant throws himself between Ms master and
their weapons ; it murderers attack as English gendeanas, his alp
Ash servant goose and cells the police. Masten, take your elonoe—i
your life can be taken but ogee. your half-crowns a thousand damn
—*al you chooto a guardian of the h4elf-erowas, or of the life?
From their ancient feudal habits, yet unbroken—from the chat
' meter ottbeir religion, with its many ceremonies. and its observe,
don of ranks, and prinips.ftri their old,Spasish donut the Ideal
lave a moth abided veneration tee what they call" gentility." Far:
be it trona me to mane light of ditkinalides which are understood
to bating to ginitifirt, seek as elegance of meeners, sod a taste krri
the braudfrol is mature and in art ; but it is the qualities, sad sot:
the condition to ieloidi the qualities sty supposed to Moog, that,
icn
oWerve Our.nitlinatiOn ; and, the abourdky of the Irish lice in this.
lintels, below is paid to the eSslitioo, no Matter what vicious
ooconsitarus it may have..
Herein there is, indeed, spopiA. Ima ow se sambied one;
• tbe' eeiteary. he resell, Se% WI lie surface, rained /

There is no country in Europe to which the national character
of the Irish bears so little analogy, as it does to that of the country
to which it is polkally baited. France, Austria, Spain, Italy,
hive numerous traits of character in 000111100 with the Irish ,
Ragland has scarcely any. The characteristics of Englishmen are
judgment, calmness, regularity, fixedness to one pursuit. and a love
of solid realities. Moreover, they are the most serious people un-
der the sun, and (under favour) their seriousness is as often the re-
sub of want of thought, as of profound thinking. Now the Irish-
' man's character is in all things precisely contrary—his judgment is
ever varying in the gale of Ida imagination ; his calmness is only when
be is asleep, and, haply, enoreth not,nor attitudinises in his dreams ;
his regularity consists in being regularly irregular; his fixed-
ness of purpose is the thing which is nit; his love of solid realities
goes not beyond cots-beef and greens, and even these be is ready
enough to abandon for any bit of amusement of a less solid de-
scription.

The Irishman is often melancholy, but seldom serious for any
length of time ; and though habitually thoughtless, as we phrase
it, yet his mind Is rarely without thought.
In his notions of excellence, the Liebman is much more ena-
moured of the perfection of art, than that of nature : I speak not
of female beauty in this assertion, for ever since I have been in
Ireland, and caught some of their enthusiastic notions, I avoid this
subject, for fear of being thought extravagant; but I world be

understood to ray, that la matters of taste, with which animal
passion has nothing to do, the artificial is preferred. This is con-
spicuous in their eloqueoce. The replied figure,the epigrammatic
turns, the elaborated ornaments—the oratorical dress, in short. la
which their expressed thoughts are wrapped up, indicate the pecu-
liarlty of national taste—peculiar, however, only as contrasted
with English sad German habits, for in no other part of the old
world do they make their public harangues merely a more enlarged
and energetic exerdse of the most familiar habits of expression.
Upon the whole matter.—for k would ta►e a longer essay than
I now propose to enter into, to even touch upon all the peculiarities
of Irish character—the genuine Irishman with all his faults, (for
they are many,) and all his excellencies, (for they also are many,)
has a wild and vigorous character. which requires but a proper
system of discipline, to turn to most valuable account. Let not
people be horrified into despair of the Irish, by the dreadful dr-
am:Winces which have occurred in some parts of the South, and.
bb the public ear with horror. The county of Tipperary, which
is the blest. by far the Attest piece of natural land within the domi-
nions of our gracious Sovereign King George. Is cursed with •
fearfully desperate and reckless population : but there Is no part
of Ireland so b•d as this. not even in Cork, when the late trials
took place for conspiracy to murder magistrates by wholesale.
The " conflate improboruis mamas" of Tipperary Is a disgrace to
the island, and an object of disgust to the whole empire ; but that
may be put down, if energetic mama were resorted to, and troops
of murderers were met by troops whose legal business it is to slay
outrageous transgressors of the law.

Bat 'rebind has been long, beg. without any of the things which
minister to peace, to good order. and to consequent happineu.
Religious sod political contention. those horrible destroyers of all
that le good and praiseworthy in a nation's actions, will. we hope,
now gradually expire, nokm the Irish petiole be indeed lost La all
mom Then, whet a • gloriosa work of improvement presents
itself ! The whole countless multitude of the comforts and ek.
geodes of life have yet to be introduced to the mass of the Irish
peopk. Improved agricultnre--aru--sciences—kterature—se In
the one comprehensive word, knowledge—knowledge which and
which elope, " monk mores net sinit ease ftros," is yet to be
imparted to them ; and no raw miter's! Was ever more likely to
repay the hand of the skilful improver, than the National Character
of the Irish. •

GERMAN PAPERS.

CONSTANTINOPLB, Nov. U.

Count Orloff and M. Butinieff ar►ived yesterday at the Hotel of
the Russian Legation. A Dragonsau of the Porte immediately
waited on them to welcomes then, in the name of the Reis Effendi
Count Orloff is to be presented to the Sultan the day after to-mor-
row. Since the arrival of the Count at Rodusto, all diplomatic
intercoms* with Adrianople has dosed, and all points relative to
the emetics of the Treaty of Peace whirls are still undetermined
are to be arranged, as we bear, between him and the Reis Effendi.
The public has not yet been positively intormed whether the
Rossisoe have evacuated Adrianople or not, and expect with im-
patience some notice on that point, as.d also with respect to the
Amnesty.

It ie seW reported that Trebisoud and Kan will be ceded to the
lkossians, and that the Pone may expect a great reduction is dm
milltary contribution. Something important is undoubtedly in &sha-
dow; for the Olken of the English Legation are constantly an-
ployed,ead sew instructioas are said to hems been sent to Admiral
klalcoins, but is is not kaown to what they relate. Out thing is,
however, remarkable : it is said that the Russian fleet will ;raw,
the Archipelago, and p to the Black Sea, end that Coast
Rorke Imo already received orders to that effect. It is
pit known what may be the cause of this change, at a imam
when en Extraordinary Russian Ambassador arrives here, and
when the Greek question is probably near to a decision ; bet' it
mean be doubted that it is connected with important ;Widest
Elbows. The pecuniary embarrassment of the Porte continues ;
uii Its endeavours to defray eves the' erdinary current expenses
eiretikultkres. Yet it I. affirmed that foreign commercial bosses
have again made offers of a luau.
Letters from Smyrna say that the trembles in that neighbour-
hood are, indeed, quelled; but that the discontent coedit...es. Ad-
mini de Ripy had left Smyrna for Rglna.
171 EN NA, Dec Mi.
Iletaapee. ISS ; Four per Cent. ditto, 94 ; Batik Flares,
--Atomise Damn& Das.
ST. PETERS/MUGU, Dec.

Oa the 10th instant, Rene Wee, Csarewiteeh, and Geogia,
salved here.
ODZSISA.kIhaO.