Star.
London, England, 1831-08-02 00:00:00

weapons.

PROSSIA.—The King of Prussia is at present
at the watering place of Toplitz ; the Crown Prince
is at the watering place of Saltzbrunn, in ssitcsia;
the Minister of ‘Var has gone to a waterii4,- pl:co
in the Tyrol; General Witzleben. ,did-du-Camp
to his Majesty, is gone to a watering place in Bo-
hemia ; and General Muffling, the Commander et
the corps d'armce of Westphalil, is sea-bathing :a
Norderncy.
Cosnarr's Rut wren list week treats at lane.
and with his usual force, of the case of the
DEACLES the extra-judicial defence of the Ba-
rings, and the t;ssertions made by divers mcniber_,
of the House of Commons. The inferences of th::
public will be d,awu from :he sword evidence er.
toe trial, the responsible statements of Mr. BRAD-
FORD, and the authoritative opinions of Mr. MAN-
TELL, the scientific surgeon of Lewes, whose bare
word on any subject would satisfy all who reside
within ten miles of that enlightened district. Mr.
Cohbett ar.vises the prosecution of newspapers
priuting the Lebate, as a wholesome indirect lesson
to those who :cake irresnonsible statements. How
singular it is, that these eternal questions should
result from special legal commissions being matte
prosecute and punish, instead of special wtemal
ones to inquire into grievances, and retires. them ?
How much st.torter and safer would have been the
wise than the impassioned course ! Nor is the
subject laid at rest by the affair of the Descnss—
their) are the mistakes about Cooke—the hundreds
of transports, &c. &c. and still the first wise step—
the ENQUIRY and aun asss— is even yet to come.
The second commission iu the west, seems there-
fore to be likely to be as indelible as the first. For
our parts, we esteem most of the Ministers too much
not to wish that for their sake the second had never
occurred. It was, we fear, a Pandora's Box—wt.
thought so at the time, and we gave respectful
warnings; but nevertheless it was pertinacimpily
opened on the responsibility of the parties— the
Whig Ministry—the quintessence of all liberality'.
bust' AT Sr. GILES'S.—TRe neighbourhood C.
St. Giles's Ling so continually annoyed by tl.e
riotous behaviour of the lower class of Irishmen.
particularly on Sunday mornings, the respectable
Irish inhabitants, publicans, and others, have formed
an association binding themselees in a penalty not
to bail any of the lower class of Irish for a breach ci
the peace.

Jiws' CON v ERBION.— A Jew family at Ham-
burg, named Goldsmid, consisting of the father,
mother, and nine children, were baptised
month at Leipeic, by a Lutheran pastor. This is the
seventh family which has, within a year, embraced
in that city the Protestant communion.
last

ROYAL EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 12 o'clock
1; 811 f for the account, opened at the same price
this morning, with little doing; they have reached
4.21 buyers, but are at present 821 i.
The Foreign Market is scarce worth mention-
:es—nothing doing.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, since the early part of the morning,
;;,re recoiled a per cent. from 824 to 82i i for
:he Account, and at present they are 82$ for

te Account.

THREE O'CLOCK.

iTOCX RunAwo6.—Bank Stock, 1994 2001. Three per
0d
.9,. an e. Three per Ct. Consols, 821, 324 4. Three
end a Balt per eent. 1818, 91g. Three and a Half per Ct.
!tej. 911 90 11+. Three and a Half per Cenr. New,
.v; I. Four per Cent. 1826, 991. Long Annuities,
la, 1.",e,0, —. Annuities, Oct. 1869, —. Annuities,
Ise, It India Stock, 201 ; do. Bonds, 2 prem.
Xi Annuities. --. £lOOO Exchequer Bills, 12 11;
‘5O do. 14 11 12 ; £lOO and £2OO do. 14 11 12.
t telt for Account, 821 f.

The private letters from Hambro' this morning
that the cholera morbus has now appeared
within 80 miles of Berlin ; likewise in the vicinity
of Vienna. At Hambro' preparations are making
.; prevent it reaching that city.
N the arrival of the American papers to the
j:1!!-, we have received some days' later accounts
Jamaica and Tampico. Letters from
King-
J-^,aica, to the 17th June, mentiou, that files
„ C.::fhagetia.papers have been received, stating
tiie country Ras bankrupt, and that John Bull
at ITzt found out, that he only shipped

• to Colombia to enrich her Gener.sis :
.')J. it has boon discontinued, and the Colombians,
r in a towering passion. Mr. Watts, our Consul
grosslynsbuind, fer his endeavours to protect the
i terest and British commerce. A report
ty,:s current at Kingston, that all the British sub-
ject: at Santa Fe had been murdered: the names
;I two clerks in the employ of Duncan, Haldane,
:.1:1 Co. were mentioned.

The ativices front Tampico, of the 12th of June,
state, that the eol:ector at Tampico had notified to
:he Mexican Consul at New Orleans, that the law
)f t!v Ist of May, which laid a duty of one per
raat. on foreign goods, wares, and merchandize
Ung into the interior, went into effect on the
3th of June. Onc per cent. more will be paid in
on the I Oth of December next.

,:ontreal Papers to the 3d July, and Quebec to
Ist July, have been received at the North and
American Coffee-house. The Quebec
Inas have a notice of Emigrants' Wages in
e;,per Canada, Distress, &c.-1n the recent dis-
%.,::ons which have taken place on the condition
f migrants, and many of whom, it must be con-
,:sco, are in a state of gri-at wretchedness, the
-:te of wages has been variously estimated for both
Anus. In this province it is more difficult to
.‘ a :Anne:lrd than in Upper Canada ; but
enabled on geed authority to state,
!Hlt is the Newcastle district the following
the general prices paid during the
unth :—Carpenters, 7s. 6d. per diem,
....ions the same, without board ; labourers
the day 2s. 6d. to 3s. and found in board by the
runth, 40 to 60, and board women servants
hying in the family earn from 15s. to 209. per
c.onih. It is also stated that tailors and shoe-
:7,-10:9 find ready employment.

EARL MARSHAL AND THE Loan G LEAT

\atnFitL.tt The arrange mements for the'
onation devolve on the Duke of No, folk
.'!'e hereditary Earl Marshal of England), and the
: Cholmondeley (Deputy Lot d Great C am-
' . :lain of the Kingdom); his Lordship officiating
Lb mother, the Dowager Marchioness, who, with
nephew Lord Willoughby D'Eresbv, is joint
ati.iitary Great Chamberlain. Her ladyship in-
i•ta the office from her uncle Brownlow, last
of Anceater, who died in 1809. The present
Willoughby D'Eresby performed the func-
,a3 of Lord Great Chamberlaia at the Coronation
I:is late 51ajesty in 1821, cs Deputy to his
•-•.c.th.n, the late Baroness Willoughby. The fami-
.,..3 of Willoughby and Cholmondeley have each
Loki the office in alternate reigns.

li.,rz arc- politicians, who, calculating upon
Leopold's popularitv, go the length of specu-
C.lat, should the Ring of Holland persist in
is i.osLitity to the Belgians, it is not improbable
,:t :red, tii3 former may unite the two crowns of
and Belgium in his own person.
NI:79I,APERS IN TUN UNITND STATES.-
27e arc non published in the United States 364 •
..v..iigtpers, of which 158 are in the interest of the
.i.publican, and 157 in the federalist party; the
:e-s are neuter. Eight are printed in German,
.•. Freed), two in Spanish, and the oihers in .
Nine of these journals were establidiedl
•'r to thu American revolution: theh aggregate
...:;cll sale is estimated at 25,200,000.
7.I7CES ON ADVERTISEMENTS.—Xbe town-
;:er mils the ancient medium for advertisements of I

:cure:ices, announcements of the arrival of goods,
.i.; a hatecer it was requisite to have promptly
.:.ado known to the public. We will suppose that
•!-.it; functionary is erapioyed to proclaim the oc-
..::rence of a calamity, and call upon the cha-
:able to meet and de,-ise the means of relief;
i• that he is employed by a distressed mother
known the loss of her child. He has
the people of the neighbourhood, and is
~ according to his formula, to advertise
nait!'..r. when forth stela a personage clad in
d interrupts the proceeding, saving, " At
Its 'e ii of a suit in the ktxclititter, and a fine of
lets than 201. I command you, in tho King's
s:up until you pay me three and sixpence."
TV•s;;;:;:zsi,r Review.
AritICAN DiscovEnv.—lt ;s not a little re-
..,:•.;!,!e that the tv..o grand geographical pro
,:.:ice hate so iong occupied the tAtentiou o.
erld, ly, the course of the Niger, anti
,:,!aence e; the long-so uglit imbuctoo, tri
lettois het; heen satisfactorily solved about
''.c awe tLe. The .ureter of these disco-
.
il2B hrmi achieved he our adventurous!
ctitatityttlan Lauder, whose most amusing'
ap.letitib.: .1., Africa have excited such general I
t Lite t tie merit of the latter is due to M,
•4.12, ithOEC flat tat lye of his gavels to that inys-
-:.;,us city has ay..akened great public curiosity
" 'very quarter of the globe. Tee journal of the
'':.irrated traveller Pearce, also throws much va-
-"tile light on another portion of this vast coati-
Lent—vis. Abyssinia, respecting which little has
tl;aspired since the days of Bruce.

THEIR MAJESTIES' VISIT TO THE CITY, AND
THE OPENING OF NEW LONDON BRIDGE.
Yesterday, the Ist of Aortae, Was the day appointed for
this august ceremony ; and, if we may judge by the myriads
of happy faces that we met in all parts of the Metropolis, it
will be one celebrated in the present generation, to say
nothing of those " sold world" stories that will descend to
the hereafter when this account, together with that of our
contemporaries, may be quoted as specimens of the quaint
and antique style in which the pageantries of 1831 were
described.

The very first act which each denizen of the metropolis,
whether male or female, performed on rising yesterday
morning, was to jump from their bed to the windows, to
ascertain, by their own palpable senses, how the day pro.
;nista, and whether a ruddy sun-rise "gave token of a goodly
day." As early as four or five o'clock many were the un.
shaven cheeks " bearded like the Pard"—many were the
lilly.est feet (and aneles) that emerged from the single sheet
covering, an in unison with the heat of an August sun, to
aseettain per se and pro sc whether the sky was really as
bright as their hopes, and whether watered silks might be
sported gaily in the breeze without the fear of undergoing
fresh water from the Heavens. The aspect was as brilliant
as heart could wish ; and husbands, brothers, cousins.
uncles, fathers (under which appellations are included most
of the world's womanly cortege) were wakened from
their morning's sleep to be in readiuess to attend their fair
charges to some of the thousand barges that with their gay
colours decorated old Father Thames, or to Soros of those
elevated roofs and spires that commanded a prospect of the
coming spectacle. The haats were ordered—the watermen
were in attendance— the hammers were real —the provender
was packed—and nothing offered in prevention of immediate
embarkation. No wonder, then, that almost as early as sun.
rit,e the more eager were in motioo towards securing them.
-elves places for a very fron . r,w : a thousand boats :o and
fro were conveying their lively cargoes, era the sudaee of
the river appeared to be as teeming with animation, as Poets
and Philosophers tell us with respect to its bosom a:d its
depths.
It is somewhat difficult to know where to carnal: nee when
every point is so worthy of description ; but as sonic vnle
must be established, that of locality appears to be die best.
as to the Londoner it will present a flier: ord. ily sev..nce.
and to the countryman will aff,.l not only a history of the
procession, but a general idea of tha more strikiri; rt.s
peculiar to the Thames.

W r.STMIXATE UrIDGE.

This bridge presented a stron:.: contrast with tho•enea.er
to the scene of action : from Waterloo Bridge, sod s 3 down-
' wards to the City, the whole u; the Thames from ion:: to
bank was crowded with craft, great anti small, pressl:g for.
ward to the immediate line by which the cout Se or dub
Majesties was to be direct Lil ; while at West:it:aster Bridge
was solitary and deserted, save that now and th-+tit I:,at
laden with the more fashionable west-enders pushed oil' io ali
imaginable hurry, as if to be for a single moment out of the
great concourse was so much happiness lost. But even these
few launches stream-wards were hot to the melancholy waver-
c.rs of Wcstmioster bridge. The Dii farentes appeared t.s
have quitted it for the day, and to have left none behind but
goigons„ furies, and harpies. Each individual that crosse.;
this Westminster " bridge of sighs" was conspicuous for
.lie selonutity of ids pace and aspect. None was to be seat
but chlaly gentlemen who had no wives to take care of them
—regleetcti vir;ins suicidally reflective—rapacious bailiffs
with no shoulders within their apprehension--nnd minority
en:i-reformens, wi,o could not conceire the possiMlll of a
der'• pleasure when the constitution was within en ace of
It-ing ruined. Erempfi folit%a--We saw en abstruse senior,
wi it a pig (or something that was once a pigtail) auks-
routing to win the favour of a trippin3 km. who would only
condescend the ansircr—" Sir, 1 never says nothing to old
fellows ;" we saw a maiden of nineteen and ni-e months. who
wanttl ninety times Maven the first and cceond rece,s,
looking io vain for her ninth part of a man who Intl pro-
mistql to meet her at nine o'clock ; we saw a bailiff— but, no.
it wont' he dangerous to mention names, ever since —Uri,
E'q. of Newman-street, prosecuted Life in London
for a libel en his cheraett-r—and. " last, not least, in our
dear tore," we saw Sir Charles NVetherell, with solemn step
and high-low breeches. syllogistically meditating on the un-
constitutional deprivation of the paralytieal borough of
Tonne:.