Star.
London, England, 1824-01-30 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

Mr. SINCLAIR last night returned to his engagement
at this Theatre, after a short absence, during which he
has been delighting thesmusical ears of the Bath ama-
teurs.—The Opera of The Cabinet attracted a numerous
audience, and his singing in Prince Orlando was re-
markably brilliant and successful. The principal songs
were encored, and called forth enthusiastic applause.
Miss PATON was in fine voice, and the Opera went off
with great spirit.

PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING OF
PARLIAMENT.

Lord Gwydyr and his active Secretary, Mr. Tellowes,
have been busily employed for the last fortnight in di-
recting the arrangements necessary to give order and
splendour to the important ceremony of his Majesty
opening the Parliament in person. The Duke of %%rel.
Roston, as heretofore, is to bear the sword of state on
the occasion. We believe that it depends entirely on the
pleasure of the Lord Great Chamberlain to select the
individual who is to bear the sword, and that it is ne-
cessary for him, at the opening and prorogation of every
Parliament at which his Majesty attends, to renew the
appointment. Lord Gwydyr properly selects the Noble
Duke, as being not only personally acceptable to the
King, but also because, from his illustrious career, he
deserves every honour which he can wear in the pre-
sence of the country. The Royal entrance to the Hotie
is now most conveniently arranged. The door at which
his Majesty alights is iu.advance of that at which the
Officers of State and-the Household descend, so that the
whole cavalcade can form immediately behind his Ma-
jesty without any crowding or bun led bustle. This erir,
trance is to be lined with dismounted guardsmen as far
as the top of the flight of stairs which leads to what is
called th)e Royal Anti-room, which stairs, together with
the ante-room, and the gallery leading to the old
Painted Chamber, form part of the new improvements
constructed under the direction of Mr. S.rane.
It is worth observing,, as an instance of modern expe-
dition in creating edifices, that not a brick of this ex-
tensive building was laid till the 3d of October last.—
' The Painted Chamber remains as yet in stata quo, but
it is to be pulled down, as is also the present House of
I Lords; and new buildings are to be erected in their
place, according as the intervals between the Sessions •
will permit.
The anti-room and gallery leading to the Painted
Chamber will be Friarded by the Yeomen of the Guard
and the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. Before the
Prince's Chamber and the old House of Lords were
pulled down, many hundreds of spectators were ad-
mitted into them by the Great Chamberlain's tickets.—
But on Tuesday no spectators will be allowed to enter
the gallery and anti-room until after his Majesty shall
have left the House, as it was wished that, in passing
to the Robing-room, his Majesty shall have an unin-
terrupted view of the new arrangements. This we pre-
sume to be the cause of the very limited number of
tickets which have been issued, as all the spectators will
be confined within the Painted Chamber, where seats,
rising row above row, are now erecting fur their accom-
modation. His Majesty, it is to be understood, passes
from the gallery through the Painted Chamber to the
Robing-room, and returns by the same way. Those who
have tickets for the Painted Chamber, are to enter by
the door No. 1, or the Bishop's door, as it is called.—
Those who have tickets for the bar, are to enter by the
House of Commons passage : and those Ladies who
have tickets for the body of the House, are to go in
by the Peers' entrance, and must be full-dressed ;
but a morning dress is considered sufficient for the La-
dies Who have tickets for the Painted Chamber. The
Gentlemen who are to be admitted to the Painted
Chamber, and below the bar, may also go in morning
dress. The doors will be thrown open at twelve.

LONDON TITHES.--MACDOUGAL V. PORRIER.—A
question, relating to the tithes of the London Clergy,
came before the VICE-CHANCELLOR on Wednesday, kut
was adjourned till Wednesday next, when the ItEconota
and COMMON SERJEANT will attend. A bill has been
tiled by the plaintiff for a reference to the Master, to
take an account of what sums were due for tithes from
the defendant as one of the parishioners of St. Helen's,
Bishopsgate-street, from the '2sth of March, 1822, to '
the 25th of March, 1824.—The plaintiff states in his
bill that he is entitled to receive these tithes, as the lay
impropriator of them, and the rate itself was fixed by
the 37th of Henry VIII. on the award of the Arch-
bishop of CANTERBOttIf, and enrolled in the Court of
Chancery. The question in fact is, whether Clergymen
claiming tithes under the Act abovenamed, are bound
to produce the Act of Enrolment to support their right.
The City is much interested in the case, which will pro-
bably go to the House of Lords on an appeal.
Wednesday week, as Samael Greenyer, a workman
in the employ of Henry Doughty, Esq. of Denton, near
Newhaven, in Susses, was digging in a chalk-pit, he
discovered, three feet below the surface, a skeleton of a
female. She had a sing on her finger, and is supposed
to have been buried there '3O years since, from the cir-
cumstance of a woman having been reported to have
been murdered about that time; her body was never
found, or traces of the murder discovered.

THE CABII OF C. A. DEMPETER, WHO SWALLOWED A
Case-xturs.--This unfortunate man died at Middle-
wichoan Friday the 14th instant. The Public will recol-
lect, that inattempting some juggling tricks at Carlisle,
he swallowed a table-knife rather more than nine inches'
long, which remained in his stomach without exciting
any acute pain or producing any serious consequences,
until within a few days of his death. He left Carlisle
uith the intention of proceeding to London, where his
mother resides, for the purpose of consulting Sir Astley
Cooper. During the journey to Manchester he suffered
much pain lions the jolting of the coach; when, finding
himself unable to bear the motion of the carriage, he
embarked in a canal•boat; but being taken very ill in
the boat, he was prevented pursuing his journey further
than Middlewich. This case having excited considera-
ble interest in the public mind, as also in that of the
profession, it may be proper to observe, that the body i
was opened the day after his death, and the knife found
in the stomach, which, with the other of the viscera,
was in a state of inflammation and gangrene. The
handle of the knife, which was of bone, was dissolved,
as likewise a considerable portion of the blade. So
powerfully, indeed, had the knife been acted upon by
the juices of the stomach, as to impress very forcibly
on the minds of the medical men who opened the body,
a belief that, had the man continued at Carlisle, and been
kept in a quiet state, the whole of the knife might have
been dissolved, aad the case terminated favourably.