Star.
London, England, 1824-04-17 00:00:00

EDUCATION IN DENMARK.

In Denmark the system of mutual instruction is
making great progress, and although only a short time
since it was established, there are already one hundred
and forty schools, where this method is followed. Count
Nloltke, Minister of State to the King of Denmark, is
recently dead, and not cgOrt with patronising the
Sciences, during his life, he even wished to support them
after his death. He has, in consequence, left to the
University of Copenhagen, 50,000 rix-dollars, to be
distributed as rewards to the Professors of Natural
Sciences, who shall treat certain questions to be pro-
posed by the University in the best manner. • He has
also given 10,00) elders to the Academy of the Fine
Arts, and 100,000 to he employed in educating the
sons of poor Officers. These legacies are strongly con-
trasted with the regulations sometimes made in other
countries in favour of Monastic Institutions, that some
people are desirous of reviving.

M. (lumbold communicated to the French Academy
of Sciences, at its last sitting, some very interesting ob-
servations made by Messrs. Boussingault and ltevero,
two travellers. These Gentlemen had analysed aero-
lite weighing several quintaux, which they found in the
mountains of Santa Rosa, to the northeast of Santa
Fe de Bogota. They say that, according to letters fr orn
Antioquia, a mass of native gold has lately been found,
weighing more than 190Ibs. They have proved the
presence of both sulphuric and muriatic acids in the
waters of a small river which runs from the volcano of
Purace, near Popayan, and which is called by the inha-
bitants Vinegar River. The letters of these Gentlemen
are up to January 5, 182.4.. At that time a School cf
Mines was about to be established at Bogota, and the
country enjoyed the greatest tranquillity.

It appears from a return supplied to the house of
Commons, that the quantity of Tobacco seized by the
Customs and Preventive Service, from January 5,
1823, to January 5, 1824., amounts to 872,887 pounds,
about one-half the quantity seized the year preceding.
From an account just printed by order of the House
of Commons, it appears that the fireign tonnage im-
ported into the port of LondOn, amounted, in 1814,-to
269,83+ tons; in 1815, to 275,375 tons ; in 1822, to
106,099 tons; and in 1823, to 161,705 tons.
A New York Paper notifies the extraordinary cir-
cumstance of English Newspapers having been re-
ceived there of as recent a date, within one day,
those from New Orleans—the Emerald having per-
formed the Passage from Liverpool in the short space
of sixteen days!
INFORMATION FOR TUE BRITISH .POBLIC.—It is an
old remark, that these Who are out of a country fre-
quently know More of it thin-those who live in it ; and
this *seernitolse•the 'fact with us and our friends across
the Channel. The taile of Thursday list, in an article
on the Theatres, ceittununicates the .follawing, infer-Ora-
tion The-Theaire of Covent-garden' has just given,
for the benefit of the actor Kemble, a representation, at
which the crowd was so great, that in a moment after
the opening Of the doors all the places to which the
Public art admitted, that is -to say, die pit 'and galleries
—(Here the gditor, in a note, says—, It is well known
that the 'boxes 'are hired for long periods, and are in
some sort hecotne the fixed property of-certain 'families')
—were so filled that the people were in 'danger of suf-
focation. MadameCatalani sang hark Britaimia and
God save the King, which she was compelled to repeat.
The Eitgligh papers speak of the elect which the pro-
aimed; and we 'tan easilyConeeiie this,from the
cii-
eumstance of lier singing'the -natiOnel airs ;.:but 'it
always lieey difficult to knowitie.trrithas to what pieslitil
iii the Enslish theatres, becausethe Managers write the
eritimies-dietnielves, Which are sent to.the papers, and
inserted verbatim, at a:fixed :pi ice !"
SOMETHING NEW.--ZOllle of the 'Papers, by way of
novelty,, have revived the worn-out 'Story of the •sea-
man who %vas at once assailed •by a tiger and an alli-
gator, and'etcaped frotnlyqh. The' beq of the jike is,
that the thian.o. is taken tom an American Paper, when
it has not only been
opriblished in various shapes 'here,
butitas even foimed the subject of plates stuck in•the
shop windows.

Saturday•last Putriiic'Catrull, a htbotirer, at Liver•
I)ool,'haiingprovidecYliimiell with a tube, watched his
opiorittttnitY while the officers were gauging some gin
on Queen's 1)ock qtray,• and drank so freely :is to
occasion:his death is-two hours.

One day :laic week, a desperate attempt was mule
by the prisoners in Perth to force their way out of jail.
After'being biatight down to breakfast they peiempto-
rily refused to retie to their cells. Three or four 'were
armed with kniiii and razors, and the rest had large
pieces of brick torn from the back of the chimney, and
put into the corners of small bags, for the purpose of
telling their assailants. Recourse was atlast hid to the
military; and a party of dragoons, with Lieut.'Razo
at their head, arrived from the barracks, when the pri-
soners immediately laid down their razors, Stc.and re-
tired quietly' o their, cells.
John Camp ell, who lately broke out of Stirling pri•
son, but was 40011 .after apprehended in Edinburgh, was
tried before the Circuit Court of Justiciaryat Stirling
on Friday,accused of housebreaking and theft, convicted,
and sentenced to be executed on the 14th of May.
It is stated in a recent number of the Journal of
Antwerp, that the decree of the King of . the Netber-
lands, a *Society of Commerce Belgium,
lias'been receiied with great satisfaction, which mani-
fested itself by the -subscription in one day of ten
?aliens Olefins. " It may .be fore-.ten," adds the
joitrnid,"that our city alone will furnish the primitive
fund of the society. "This'great measure, in favour of
maritime commerce, manufactures, and agriculture,
without being subject to-the controul or direction of the
Goiernment, has been duly 'appreciated by _all our
merchants, Who 'see in it a centre of activity and a
Source of riches."

. r TENIR Wali.z.—An expression in one of Mr.
Maturin's works to this effect, the " tenth ware of hu-
man misery," induced a gentleman to watch and see if
the largest and mokoverwhelining wave was succeeded
-by nine, and only nine smaller ones, and he satisfied
himself that such was the fact. But this seems to be no
new thought of Mr.,Maturin. There are two passages
in Ovid, in which he expressly mentionathe,pheiomenon.
Oue is in his Tristia--

" Qui 4enithic Sects., Sixtus sopereritet mines ;
'e Posterior now est;loiCaleeesstique .
Meaning, a wave which sneeeeds the ninth, and of course
precedes the eleventh, overtops -the others. The other
is in the Metamorphoses, book 11th, lineS3o—.
" Vastius insurgens dna/ea-reit impetus tindx."
Mane I.ewers, No. 2.
CARACCIOLI, the Neapolitan Ambassador, in the
reign of GEORGE 11. used to say that the only ripe fruit
he had seen in'England was reastedopPia.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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UNION-HALL.

A hackney-coachman, named Jahn Edwards, was brought before
It. J. CHAMBERS, Esq. charged with having stolen two diamond
hoop rings, the property of a Lady. •
It appeared, that on the 9th instant, two rings, set with diamonds'
and emeralds, were brought to the shop of Mr. Walmsley, a pawn-
broker, in the London-road, by a person named Satter, who, on
presenting them to the shnpman, inquired their value, saying that
he was disposed, instead of pledging them, to sell them out and out
for 10s. The shopman, astonished at the low price demanded, in-
formed his master, who detained the property, and gave informa-
tion at this office. The prisoner was taken into custody—the rings
were advertised, and a Lady now. came forward, who stated that
on the Bth instant she hired a hickney-coach in Ilolborn, and soon
after quitting it, missed the rings (now produced), which she said
she had left behind on one of the seats in the coach. She added
that the prisoner was the man who drove the coach.
Satter, who was admitted as a witness, stated that on the 9th
instant Edwards came to him, and exhibiting two rings, said " Sat-
ter, go to a pawnbroker's, inquire the value of the rings, and sell
them to the best advantage."
Tbe.Magistrate observed, that robberies of this description were
so frequent, he considered be should .xicit be discharging a public
duty it he did not send the prisoner to take his trial for the offence.
Ilackney-coachmen all knew that it was their duty to deliver up all
property left in their coaches at the Hackney-coach Office, the Com-
mis •ioners of which generally succeeded in finding the owners.
The Lady entreated the Magistrate not to call upon her to pro-
secute the coachman, who, she understood, bore an excellent cha-
racter; besides, she was in momentary expectation of sailing to
Demerara to join her husband.
Undlsr these circumstances, the Magistrate discharged the pri-
soner, after
-giving him an admonition, and ordered the rings to be
delivered up to the Lady.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

F. xTo N PARE R ACII6--T.aussaAr, Ann. 15.

The Noel Stakes of 2S aays..epeb, lasses. ft. Cults, ast. 71b. 61.
lies, Sst. 41b. rising theme years old. One mile.
Mr. Platel's eh. c. Gap - - 1
Gen. Grosvenor's b. f. by Blucher - . 2
Sir Gerard Noel's b. f. Formosa .
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The Ft anksborough Stakes of 10 s)vs. each, for horses northorw. fl,
bred, 12st. each, bona hde the property of subscribers, anu 1.
have beet, regularly nunted during the season 14323-4, to he ,id.
den by Gentlemen.
Mr. Poster's The Doctor
Mr. Sumner's Woodcock
Mr. Bailey's Knickerbocker
Mr. Ward's Beaumont -

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The Cottesmore Stakes of seven own. each, with 10 adat.d ha ow
Exton P.:rk Racing CIA), for horses that never won or ((T. \
forfeit, and have been regularly hunted In the countits of
land, Leicester, Lincoln, Northarnpton,,nr Nortinet.a❑:.
yr-olds, 10st. ill). four, list. five, l et. si nJ agtd,
41b. Heats, two miles each.
Id 3luncaster's Twangdelta, 4 yrs 0141
4r. Longdon's The Abbot, 5 yrs old
Mr. Bailey's Kuicketbocker
Mr. Stokes's Little Joker

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A Farmers' Plate of 50 sous. given by-the (en►temen of the Ccr
tesmore float, for horses that have been regularly hunted with
the Earl of Lonsdak's, Duke of llettand's, or the (barn ileutiJs.
Two-mile heats.
Mr. Baker's Extonhtn, 4 yrs old, I Ht. 10lb.
Mr. Thompkinson's grama, 4 yrsottl, nu. 101 b.

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