Star.
London, England, 1824-12-28 00:00:00

RAMSGA7'E, DECEMBER 27.

Three steam-packets, bound from Calais to Dover, came into
Ramsgate harbour on Friday evening, having on board nearly three

hundred passengers. They were unable to get into Dover.
Sunday morning, shunt one o'clock, the Arrow steam-racket,
with nearly one hundred passengers, also arrived here, having the
day before, in attempting to get Into Calais, struck against the Pier
and not being able to enter that port, was compelled to make for

Ramsgate harbour. She ailed this morning for Dover, but ha

just returned again, not being able to enter that harbour, in come-

quenett of the bar.

The Calais selling mall packet arrived here this morning, as the
bar still continues to block up the entrance of Dover harbour.
&r William Curti, is now at Ramsgate, and, as Chairman to the
Trustees of the Royal Harbour, has given every nece4alry direc-
tion towards facilitating the landing of passengers, carriages, and
baggage, for which purpose one of the cranes has been removed to
a part of the cross waU, near the West Pier, a situation particularly
well adapted for the purpose, as it is not only most convenient for
steam-ve,sels,which require a quick discharge of their living freight,
but is entirely out of the way of the sailing vesiels.
There are nearly three hundred sail of vessels at present in this
harbour, wind bound.

Six, P. M. —The Monarch steam-packet h just come into the
harbour ; she sailerktfrom Calais -this morning, and the weather
being rather more moderate, enabled her mind her passengers br
the Day of Dover, but ur.h not able to enter that harbour, the bar
still continuing; she conniquently ran for Ramsgate.

.••111MMIENIMMID
NAVAL. IN i P.LLIGENCE.

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His Majesty's ship Auaoaa, from Valparaiso, &c. to England,
with specie (it is said to the amount of three millions sterling), has
arrived safe at Rio Janeiro.
'The Charlotte, Cuassev. from Newfoundland to Quebec, was
last on the I th ult. at Mahan, in the St. Lawrence—crew saved.
The Rebecca, Atm:samosa, from Greenock to Jamaica, was
driven on shore near Wexford on the 22d instant, and filled with
water, and it was feared would be totally lost, with her cargo ;
crew and passengers saved.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 26.—Wind W.—The outward bound remain,

all well. No arrivals or failings.
PLYMOUTH, Dec..26.—Wind W.—The Lady Mary Pelham
Packet, for the West Indies, and the Dove Packet, for the Bra.
ails, have put into Fowey harbour. Sailed the Woodlark, Jam.
lest, for Havre.
Poen/room, Dec. 27.—Wind S.W. blowing bard.—The out-
ward bound remain as before. His Majesty's ship Sumanto hat
cone into harbour.
Cowes, Dec. 27.—Put back the William, Mown/sow, with her
Mate, washed overboard on the 24th insant.
DEAL, Doc. W.S. W.—Arrived the Mary, Svaa-
Mot, from Gergentl, for Newcastle. Put back the Nimble,
RLSDIM, for the Mediterranean, with her Mate washed overboard..
The outward bound remain, all well. The Llandovery, Valiant;
Cambridge, Juno, Mary Jane, and others, sailed for the River this
morning.
larearoota Dec. 26.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Sarah, Kew
DALL, from Pernambuco--sailed 24th ultimo • Richard, BLAcu.lv,
from ditto ; Caledonia, Mune from Demerara ; John Links
Rosana., from Pictou • Gasper, 'BILIA so, from Sicily ; JohnCeallay
Douctas, from Bay CLaleur • and Ariel, Powls. from Lisbon.
Poinsatooto, Dee tts —Daring the past week, we have repe.
rienced a succession of violent gales from the West and South-
west; the consequence has been the prolonged detention of the
Nine= and ATROLL at Cowes, and all the outward-bound transports.
Mr Roses: Breetscis has paid a visk to Portsmouth Dock-yard,
with a view to make some alteration in placing the hawse holes
of ships of the line. It is understood to be his intention to work
the cables on the middle deck of three-deck ships, and upper deck
of two-deck ships.
The PHAZTON will proceed to Sheerness about the middle of the
next month, where she is to take in an iron main-mast and bow-
sprit, for the purpose of making a trial of thern.
The Esc is not now expected to arrive at Spithead before the
beginning of January.
The ROYAL Oat, 74, is ordered to be brought forward in the
Dock-yard at this port, and to be fitted as a receiving hulk ; it be-
lag Intended that she should be stationed at the naval arsenal of
Bermuda, for the purpose of receiving the crews of such ships as
may be undergoing a refit at that place.
The. Fes ars, 10-gun brig, is expected to be commissioned shortly
We understand that much dissatisfaction has been expressed by
he mechanics *ho have been employed as labourers in all the dif-
t etent Dock-yards in the kingdom, except that at Portsmouth, so
the subject of their labour and wages. The Lords of the Admi-
ralty having determined on again reducing the establishment, as
'order has been issued for the discharge of 775 men from the yards;
but in consequence of the exemplary conduct of the labourers at
Portsmouth, in refraining from the continued complaints which
have been sent from all the other arsenals, not a single man at this
port is to be removed. The discharge will, therefore, consist of a
proportion taken trout each of the other Dock-yards. Tice ship-
wrights and labourers have further received the unqualified thanks
of their Lordships, for their expeditious and able exertions in the
care of his Majesty's ships at this port during the Lite storm..
Mr. WM. Hume Boon, Purser, has been appointed to the Rasa,
vice Hussain. Major H. Cox is appointed a Pay Captain of the
Portsmouth division of Royal Marines, in the room of the late
Lieutenant-Colonel &soon. Wittman.
Lieutenant &vas, chief Officer of the Brownsea station, is Ns
moved to Rut Cowes; and Lieutenant Fiume, of the %Vernet&
station, is appointed to the Brownsea station. His Majesty's re-
venue cotter Sustowea, is appointed to 'the coast guard station
at Poole.
Tuesday, the young Gentlemen educated at the Royal Naval
College, as well as the students of naval architecture, underwent
the usual half yearly examination of the propels each had respec-
tively made in the various branches of their education, befogs a
Committee of Officers, consisting of the Port Admiral (Sir GUODGI
Mains), Captain Gstastast EDITH Hannon), C.B. of his Majesty's
ship Wmarsuir, and Commissioner the Honourable Sir Gnome
Glut, Bart. and H. C.B. after which the Collegians dispersed for
the Christmas vacation.
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Not a single Leith and London regular smack sailed
from Tuesday so'nnight till Thursday, when three sailed. The
cause was the striking of the seamen for an augmentation of wages,
which the Companies have complied with.
CHRISTMAS FARE.—Some idea of the loving kind.
ness of John Bull's countrycousins, may be formed
from the fact that nearly 2,000 parcels, containing
turkeys, geese, game, &c. were delivered from one inn,
the White Horse, fetter-lane, on Friday last. The
greater part of them were sent home. Supposing each
parcel to weigh 121 b. which is less than the average
wtight, the total amount would be 21 tons 4 cwt. 321 b.
The greater portion of this immense quantity was sup.
,plied from the cognties of Norfolk and Suffolk; and
such was the loading of the coaches, that one of them,'
the Fakenharn, which should al rive early in the morn-
ing, did not arrive until after eight in the evening ; and
the Norwich did not reach home till mid-day.
Mtn G-Rt)o TATTERSA LL'S, DEC. 27.
The Room was but indifferently attended to-day, and nothing of
any consequence was dune. There was not any betting on the
Doncaster Sc. Leger. in consequence of the near approach of the
tittle when the nominations will be published. The few engage-
ments made were en the Derby for which Muleteer has gone back
a point, and the Duke of York s Phantom colt and Lord Jersey's
cult -re getting up. The odds are as follow:

• DIRIBT.

8 to 1 agst Rufus
9 to 1 aght Muleteer.
12 tot apt Duke ui York's c.
IA to 1 aght Lurd Jersey's cult
20 to I agst AJsuuce
20 to 1 agst Catsv.is

:to to 1 agst Diana
1.2 to 1 igst Legacy
25 to 1 agst Defianee
2.1 to 1 agst Jenny
liigb olds against any otter.

5 to 1 apt Aline
11 t• 1 apt Sorcery

10 to 1 apt Wal!it
IV to 1 apt Attica

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TIIERTREI
nutnawtoni. • • • •,1.
Lsi night, the children and the morepown.holiday
folks were entertaiped, as °anal at this festive and lapgb-
.
season. of the year.. with a nc* Pantonsiose, vend if
nolsy, tongues. and clapping, hands. be, indications of
4tisfact kids% there was abpodent, testimony of its exist.;
ence, Manifested by one of the most crowded audiences
we eyerAernepber, to have witnessed within the . walls
of this-Theatre: lire pity of liesarro preceded the pain-
6:mime ; and as we go to the theatre at these holiday
times to join in the merriment and share in the laugh.,
however produced, we 'bid a truce, to criticism. The
Pantomime is entitled. Harlequin and the lathing Bird;
or, the siaging 7 rees Golden Waters. In the course
of it we ate delighted *ith a very fine sea view, while
we are, at the same time, amused with MDR of the
tricks of the Chan and his comrades. The qui;
against the size of the hairy caps of the Guards had
no point, and failed ; and the pickpockets at the Lord
Mayor's Shew did not deserve much booty, from ,their
evident want of skill in their adventurous vocation.
—The omission-of both those scenes, and that of the
riv arof the rocket ce.tch, might also be advantageous ;
although we must confess there was a something ludi-
crous in the racket seizing en the dickey behind the
coach, and twirling amen and Pantaloon in the midst
of the fires which the rocket emitted. The procession
of the gla s-blowers might shale a similar fate. The
panoramic view was good; and the transformation of
a few old houses into the premises of the Steam-wash-
ing Company, was amongst the best hits in the mecha-
nical department of the piece. The shop was closed
too suddenly, but, perhaps, it was intended to apply to
some other scene. Auld Riekie, a scene b' Stanfield.
was a fine specimen, and some of our Edinierrgh
friends, who sat near us, recognized the Cal on Hill,
and the Tron Church, and rart of the New Town of
Edinburgh, with eai nest feelings of delight. In point,
however, of effect, the Haunted Kitchen, painted by
HOLLOOAN and ADAMS, was decidedly. the favourite.
It is a burlesque on the incantation scene. in Der
Freischutz, and is very well managed. Bone of the
scenes are admirable specimens of art—we would par-
ticularly notice the
first and last scenes. Master ED-
SIONDS was deservely encored in a very pretty Scotch
air, and the curtain fell amidst general appliuse. The
machinery was well worked, considering it was the first
representation of the Piece, and with a few necessary
curtailments, we hope it will become a faionrue with
the Public for the usual period.
COVENT-GARDEN...
Last night, after the tragedy of George Barnwell had
been acted to a very numerous, but, as usual ..n holi-
days, noisy and impatient audience, a new pantomime
was produced, entitled Harlequin and the i tiwgon of
Wently, or More of More Hall. It opens with a view
of the interior of a Copper-mine arid a p and chorus
of Miners, then changes to the Palace of Sulphurball,
a fiery milignant spirit leagued with the Dragon, a inch
last, after divers 'sanguinary pranks, being vanquished
by a Knight Errant, Mote. of More Hall is trans-
formed into the Clown. More, of More Hall, having
stipulated that as the reward of his valour ghoul I he
overcome the Dragon he should be entitled to the love-
liest of all Yorkshire lasses, is about to assert his lights,
when the banns are forbidden by a riva, Sulphurball,
who constitutes the Clown and Pantaloon AS the cham-
pions of his pretensions. By a spell the Fairy of the
Fountain transforms the maid to Columbine, the Knight,
Mr. ISAAps, to the Harlequin, Mr. ELLAR The usual
pantomimic noise and bustle sue eed, and e leave
Yorkshire altogether, after taking a par-irk view of
the ancient city in a picturesque perspective by Gni Evic.
There are one or two novel tricks attempted—the first
the removal by Harlequin of the Y ik Mail into the
White Horse Inn, Fetter-lane; the ,econd, the turning
upside down the Stand-house on Eosom Race-ground,
from which the company are seen makir.g their escape,
also turned topsy turvy. This excited considerable
laughter. These were also representations of the go-
t therhithe intended tunnel lighted with gas, which ex-
ploding sets the Thames on fire. to the infinite torture
of the boiling fish : the Horns at Kennington, Ep-om
Town, Blackfriars-bridge, etc. but the scenes tr. rte w filch
much was, expected were the grand Sailing Match,
represented in a moving Panorama, sliming the effect
of the improvements on the North bank of the Thames
according to the plan of Colonel Trench. .
To enliven this view, which in itself was beautiful and
interesting. the grand sailing match was introduced.
The waggon in danger of being overwhelmed by a land
flood, was a good perspective piece of painting The
transmutatioh into a gay vessel was r apid and agreeable.
Epsom Race-Course was clearly the appui of the piece,
and was well described, as far as, respected scenery ;
and the grouping of apptoprice figures, v.i h 11,1 clear-
ing of the Course, were all effective, and hple strimg
resemblance to the attractive re.dity of E;.som Downs:
ELLAR and GRIMALDI the younger exerted themselves
most successfully. Miss RoMatt, a nth a pretty face
and person, possesses a neatness and si:irit in her dancing
which every day tender her a greater favourite with the
public. She performed Columbine extremely well. The
concluding scene was excessively splendid, representing
the Fairy Palace of Fountains. We have seldom seen
anything more appropriate to a grand tale of enchant-
meut. Doubtless considerable pains have been taken
'in getting up the piece, which was announced for repe►
tition amidst general applause.
ADRLPHI THEATRE.

This popular Theatre was, as usual, extremely well
attended last night, and the performances affors.!ei
much amusement to the - audience. The Butletta of
-the Life of an Actor maintains its attraction, and will,
together with the new Pantomime of Mother Red Cap,
be a great treat to the juvenile holiday toilc,, and
great convenience to their patents, as th,.- pettniMAUCCS
are finished at a seasonable hour each night. Ti.e see•
nery of the new Pantomime is excellent, and it abounds
in whimsical changes, and some ridinioaille u mks.
Mr. W. KIRBY, in Harlequin, and Mrs SZARLS, in
Columbine, acquittesl thens,elves ssith infinite vivAcity,
and the dancing was m,ch an I deservedly admired.
The Pantomime was also much indehteJ to the comic
dancing of Mr. IN a LBOURY, MT. ELLIOTT A% Prostalooth,
and the drollery of Signor PAULO as the Clown.

It appears froth an official statement just published,
that these are '256 Catholic Chapels in ENzland, 71
charity and other schoOs, and 348 officiating Psi ••1 :
thece twelve chapel', one schi•ol, and eight .s,
are in the county of pants; 'ix chapels aht. 6:c
itt Sussex ; alive chapels and tv,.. Pi tests in \-41t,:.,fe;
six chapels and Priests m ties ischire; seven cha-
pels, one KliGol, and eight Piles', m Dot ,a.;440. In
Lancashire there appears to he the largest numbei,
them being 81 chapels, six schools, and 79 NMI,