Star.
London, England, 1831-08-05 00:00:00

THEIR MAJESTIES; AND COURT NEWS.
WIN WINDSOR.A cc . 4.—At half-past seven &cloak
yesterday evening, their Majesties arrived at the Castle.
Lord and Lady Clinton arrived shortly after theit Males.
ties, with whom they had the honour of dining and passing
the evening. The pony landau, phaetons, and saddle horses
were in redinesa at three o'clock this aftemnoon, when their
Majesties proceeded to take their usual exercise. The
Melina of Gloucester and the Landgravine accompanied the
King in the pony landau, and the Queen rode on horseback.
The Princes' Augusta paid a visit to their Majestic.' thi,i
forencon, after which she returned to Fenimore Lodge.
After the breaking up of the Council (mentioned
in the STAR yesterday), Mona. Fakir, the Ambassador
from the Netherlands, and the Baron Zeylar de Unevelt,
on a special mission from the King of the Netherlands, had
a long conference with Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign
Office. Afier the departure of their Excellencies, the Au..
trian, French, and Russian Ambassadors, the Prussian
Minister, and the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary, held a
ennferenee for loose hours with Viscount Palmerston, at the
office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mons.
Van des Weyer' the Minister from Belgium, had also an
interview with Viscount Palmerston.

The King has at length determined on the com-
pletion of Buckingham Palace, and that it will henceforth
form the residence of the British Court. It has been esti-
matel that what remains to be done to the Palace, to make
h in a suitable state for the reception of their Majesties and
the Royal suite, can be accomplished by an expenditure ut
70,0001.

General Lord Comouniin
in-Chief, finished his military tour, in the Kent district, •
Saturday last.
The Commander-in-Chid, attended by the Adjutant-
General, Major-General John Macdonald, and by the
Quarter-Master-General, Lieutenant-General Sir J. W.
Gordon, Bart. K.C.B. and G.C.M. inspected, on the 31th
ult. the Cavalry Depot, at Maidstone.
The Cavalry detachments, composed principally of the
Cavalry Regiments serving at present in India, were drawn
out early in the morning in open order, and on the arrival
of the Commander-in-Chief, on the presented arms.
The General-in-chief, accom by his staffthen rode
to the right of the line, pissed down the bent and rear of the
line, inspecting most minutely, as he rods along, the condi-
tion of the men and the state of the bones. During this in-
spection, Lord Bill, who, independently of his personal
staff, was attended by the Commandant, the Assistant-Com-
mandant, the Riding-master, the Adjutant, the Quarter mae-
ter and the Veterinary-surgeon of the depot, to whom he
severally addressed himself as the different circumstances re.
quired, concluded his inspection of the different depots, and
subsequently took his Madan in frontathe cane sidle line.
The line then wheeled bark into open columns of squad-
rons, right in hoot, and passed in review eider.
Alta havingisat sed in squadrons, lei squadrons, in
din in In es, sad le file, slow and quick these, the de-
pots marched to eir Milne position, and subsequently
wheeled into line.

The depots next pwfonned • variety of smoky move-
ments with extraordinary preeisims--the charge in line,
which Is the most mementoes movement of Cavalry against
Infantry in the same position, was executed with terrific
effect—the charge ageing supposed squares et Infantry was
totally divested of this terrible demossuation; it is now well
understood that the bat Cavalry cannot make my imptcs.
sion on well-disciplined Infantry formed in squaws.
The Commanderin-Cklef afterwards imposted the D.pat
Regimental Books, the Brooch, the Mai" and she lute.
doe economy of the Cavalry Depot. He was pleased, est re-
tiring from this minute Inspeeden, to eaves himself is dr
most unqualified terms of of the admirable
system pursued in the Cavalry M Maidstone.
New London Bridge will on this day be strippc,l
of all its decorations. A most interesting estertainintot
fiem 'the eourreetors, Jolife and Boohoo the workmen
engaged to the magnificent work, closes the celebration art
the opening.
It was Mr. Chapmen, the Member for W est -
meath, and not Mr. Mullins, the Member foe Kerry, wh..
alluded, so feelingly, on Wednesday night, to the late Mali
at Code Pollard.
The French Papers received yesterday contain
rumours of the illness of the Emperor Nicholas. We have
yet no direct statements of the facts of the case; but we art.
satisfied, from various circumstances, that all ie out right v
' St. Peteraburg.--Morning Chratiels.
Tice youthful kluoidouses of Hastings, who has
seettaiesd bee majority, possesses, k is andastood.a very
fortune, her Ladyship, who is a Bareness is her own
t, having had an unusually long minority, the late Lord
Grey de Ruthyn dying in Ocober, 1810.
Many distinguished persons called yesterday nt
the Clarendon Hotel, to maks csatplimentary inquiries aftt t
bee Majesty Donna Maria, and the Duke and Duchess of
Brajpanse. The Duchess of Sr. Lea paid a morning visit.
UR CIN Y-COA CH li.—Mr. S. Rice, OR Tue.--
thy morning, just as the House was about terries, beenght
the Bill " to consolidate and soma the him relating
hackney-coaches, and the registeelug and membeing of wag-
gon, carts, and drays used in the amarspelle I sad alse to
place the collection of the duty an wish twokeepseasliss
under the management of the Ceemannimems at SIRINfi. Rid
to transfer the collection and mannement ef the 41116 R on
hawkers and pedlars in Englund tame the Commbillanees of
hackney-coaches to the Cmacakeleame of Stamps."
ST/LA II -CR aguass.—On Monday the follow-
thtimmien la the 'Sato Committee now sitting an the
subject of " sseserearrigese mop gamed in the Hew of
Commove, and earried—namely, " that they have power to
enquire generally into the present state and fitture poppers
of land carriage by means of wheeled vehicles propelled by
steam or gas on common roads, and to report upon hc pro.
bsble utility which the public may derive therefrom.
It is said that a number of Mr. Wellesley'sE h-
i sex friends intend petitioning the Lord Chancellor for his
ramie.

A most absurd outcry has been raised againAt
the Lord ChanceDor for introducing a bill to allow &Olds.
vile of service to be read after the last seaL It appeored last
Mkm the speech of Lord Eldon, that she Coen el
erry pommies hill power to enforce the object without
the intervention dm act of Parliament ; sad yet ea applies.
dm to be enabled to nee this power withonteach dispute and
resistance as bad been partially threatened by certain pear.
Wooers, was denounced in one of the Tory prints yesterday
as subversive of the constitution of the Conn, and even of
the country. The real secret of this amid conduct la the
wish of persons whose sense of right is merged In party
feeling, to throw obstacles in the way of that despatch which
the Lord Chancellor, in compliance with the sopeatodly ex.
pressed wish of all classes of the people, is aazioss to
practise.
Yesterday morning, at eight, the Court-martial
re-assembled at Wooly' •M pursuant to adjournment.—
NIT. Simon Byrne, Civil Engineer, stated that he was on
board the Pluto ; every thing possible was done to save the
lives of the persons in the barge. Lieut. Symonds gave si-
milar testimony. Lieut. Buchanan placed every confidence
in his pilot. H. Myers, carpenter of the Chanticleer, gun-brig,
stated chit he was also on board the Pluto; he heard a
noise, and beard the words hard a starboard." He ran
aft the paddle-box, and got bold of the aide ; a man and
woman was standing on the side of the barge. He called
out to her to come to him, and she caught him by the hand.
The man, seeing she was in a fair to get up, also seised bold
of him and her; and in his endeavour to get up, pulled the
woman down, and they both snub. The barge sunk in the
mean time.—The President now ordered the Court to be
cleared, and after a short deliberation it was again opened,
when the Judge Advocate, after the usual preliminaries,
announced that it was the unanimous opinion of the Court
that the accident arose front the ignorance of Richard
Powell, the pilot, and that no blame was attached to Lieut.
Buchanan or Mr. Davis, the second Master, and they were
acquitted.
Yesterday a coroner's inquest was held in the
Borough Compter, on the body of Henry Lloyd, a King's
prisoner, before Payne Esq. The deceased had been
maned for a considerable :Igoe in the above prison ; he had
friends, ho they did not visit him ; it was his wish that they
should know of his misfortunes. Mr. 11. Ward, surgeon of
the prison, said be was Snit called to attend the deceased
on the twenty.niath of July, 1530 ; his general health
was weakly, and he had wounds in ins legs; in October
following lie required farther eseistame, in comequi nee of
less of appetite; and at Christmas a pnlminsry dinette ap-
peared, wide' continued till within the last two menti,s,
when dropsy' mooed. He was embhe wi be down, in con.
allnofthe general breaking.op of his reinstitution. tie
ew:eys attention and nourishment, mil wanted*, not: ins,
so fer as was proper temp limb& One of the prieui..l s
who wended Ma to the saw fleet. Vettlic
Ratoral Deitb."