Star.
London, England, 1819-06-05 00:00:00

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Yotstday being the anniversary of birMajestgil
birth-day, the same was observed as usual with every
demon,t;..ttion of respett ; the morning being ushered
in with general tinging of bells, doand tlib display of ,
colours horn the steeples of the, diffetent churches,
pnblic-bui:dings, &c. The King's, the Queen's, the
Tilt-yard Guards did duty in their birth-day anitinms.
At one o'clock the Lannon in St. James's Park and
3: the Tower of Lontfon discharged a. double Total

salute.
is tht course of the day the men employed in Fire
In•araivee Offices and other public offices pattad the
stn.-.'is in new clothing, in the customary manner.
11' the i.fiernoon Mr. Virman, the contractor for
building the mail-coaches, gave his annual entertain-
ment at his house on Milbank-row, to the different
furn',::ers of mail-coaches with horses, &c. &c. It
W3S ::','T:lnged for all the mail-e'oaches to the differ-,
Ent plac....s of destination to start new; and newly
decorated. At five o'clock the Drivers and Guards,
in :he;r new clothing, were assembled on a grass-plat,
tk::rie they' drank the Kt No's health in three cheers.
The annual exhibition attracted' a great assemblage
et t!,e ft' st judges of horses ; among them were Sir
PUIT.N, Sir HENRY CAMPBELL, Mr. °Ave
ritou 3, of Leicester, who has received directions
from the KING of PausstA to select English horses
;or hi; Majesty. Those most admired yesterday were
ihe greys in the Dover, the chesnuts in the•Ports-
and the odd horses in the Gloucester, as well
;lc their harness, which was of a new and• superior,
inuf icturek being all from Mr. EAM &Ws, she Aagei,
it3t. Clement's. The procession proceeded, as
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.. ;.:I, through St. James's -Park, and hatted at, the
~..c•en's Polace and Carlton Housee&c. on their wai
to the Post Office, &c. -
In the evening the Italian Qpera House, the Thea-
rrs, and the houses of 'the Royal Tradesmen, were
nit.roinited. .

rig 7 It OF A RUM LPeirce.—Yesterday after-
about five o'clock, letters were received in town,
amounting the safe delivery of the Duchess of Cum-
.stAxn of a Prince, and that both were doing well.
Friday sennight, the Duke and Duchess of Rox-
B K6ll arrived at Fleurs Castle from Cheltenham.

l'rince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg has purchased
V estate of Tullbach, near Cobourg.
Miss KELLY, who ranks so deservedly high in
the public estimation, takes her Benefit on Monday
at the Lyceum Theatre, where, by way of Epilogue
to the entertainments of the evening, she is to have
I'T° or Three Minutes' Conversation with Mr. Dow-
TON ; in the course of which, no doubt, they will re-
veal Secrets worth Knowing!

The Military Surgeons say, " no one recovers arms"
so well as his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK : he
seems to do it as if by word of command !
Mr. EDWARD WALXISLEY, the Gentleman who
has officiated for many years as Assistant Clerk of
the Lords' Committees, has been appointed Clerk of
the Journals of the House of Lords, in the room of
the late EDWARD PA RRATT, Esq. _ _

By a paper laid on the table of the House of Com-
mons, it appears that the issues of the Bank of Eng-
land have been considerably reduced during the last
am*. The total amovnt of Bank of England notes
in circulation on the 4th of May was k1k446,850 ;
011 the I his of May, £25,774,150 ; and on the Isth,
:.-25,709,080. In the short space of a fortnight the
diainution is 1,`789,770.

The Report from the Select Committee of the House
of Commons oil the Bankruptcy Court has been
prinn:d. It states; that " the Committee are of opi-
Lion that a removal of the Sittings of Commissions
cf Bankrupt from Guildhall to Furnival's Inn would
be productive of great and_ general inconvenience;
they cannot, therefore, *nature to recommend such
removal."

Accounts from Leipsic.state, that the bookselling
trade has not suffered in Germany' by the stagnation
of trade and the scarcity of.money. The number of
new Works published at . the present fair of Leipsic.
amounts to upwards of 3,000, and coMprises every
V,ork that has been printed in Germany since Mi-
chnelmas, and all that will be published before Mid-
:Ammer. Medicine and Surgery furnish this tithe
the greatest number of works : the number in this
department amounts to 73.
A letter from Brussels, dated May 30, Says,
" We lately announced, that a division of the Grand
Armament of Cadiz was on the point of sailing for
Lima, with a corps of chosen troops, a great quan-
tity c f arms, aud Officers who are appointed tc? com-
mand in that part of the Spanish possessions. We
now learn, by letters from Cadiz, dated the 10th of
this month, that a squadron, consisting of two sail
of the line, of 80 guns, and a frigate of 44 guns,
has already sailed for Lima. This division vtas im-
mediately to be followed by a second, intended to
carry out reir.forcensents to the army of _General
'Morino. As for the grand armament destined for
Buenos Ayres, with an army of 15,000 men, it is
believed that it will be ready to put to sea in the
month cf Ju.y."
In a cause tried yesterday in the Court of Itines
Len, h, " Forsyth v. Riviere," sent from the Court of
Chancery, to enquire whether the defendant had in.
;mu=sed a patent granted to the plaintiff? a verdict
was given fur the latter, with 40s. costs.—lt appeared
that the plaintiff had invented a method to discharge
all Xiuli, rare-arms, by igniting the powder by means
of perLu,sion on detonating powder placed in their
touch-licles. A proof of the great ease with which
the above powder ignites, occurred in the Court: A
gentleman U. the name of Hume, a chymist in Long-
Acre, \tho was examined as a witness, had a Ara
uantity of it in a box in his pocket. Ile was seated
In the back row of the students box, and some gen-
tlemen crushing past him to obtain a seat in the
tont row, gave his pocket a slight friction. This
friction caused the powder to explode with a slight
report, and immediately filled the whole court with
a cloud of smoke. As soon as this had cleared away,
all eyes were directed to the quarter from which it
and it was then discovered that the unfortu-
nate chymist was all on fire. We are happy to say,
that he suffered no injury except in the upper part of
his dress, and that he escaped without any further
harin than that of a burnt trill, and a singed waist'.
c.Jat. The circumstance caused considerable laughter
:0 a civwded court. •