Star.
London, England, 1826-09-18 00:00:00

DItOADSTAIRS.

The Assembly Rooms built by the late S. Nu-kol,
was most numerously attended on Friday last, the 15th
instant, by all the fashion and beauty of the Isle of
Thanet. T. e Isle never could boast of more Islobili.y
and beauty than at the present lime ; the Ball-room w,,t
attended by about one hundred cf the most f.shirmable
and elegant Ladies in the Isle. Drncing commenced
at half-past nine, and was kept up with great spit it until
twelve, when the gay throng retired to the refreshment
room, and partook of a very neat and elegant tepast,
which was tastefully set out, and decorated with flower.
After supper, dancing was resumed until two o'clock,
when the company departed highly gratified. Mete
has been a considerable change of company at this
place, and although the houses have been gener..ll) re.
engaged before they were empty, there are now sevctal
unoccupied.
' Among the late arrivals we have noticed the Duchess of Rol.
borough, the Earl of Shaftsbury, Captain Is3acke and family, Mr.
Ramscock, Mr. Temple Halyard, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Creed Halford,
Mrs. G. Morris and family, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Young, Mr. Pea.
sock and family, Mr. Cooper, M. Jennings Inge, Mr. and dirt
Nicol, Mr. and Mrs. Mandy, Mr. P. Champion.

NAVIGATION LAWS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

September 15, 1306.
SlR—The importance of the subject of the Naviga.
tion Laws, and the delusion which the pub' cation of
Mr. Huskisson's speech is calculated to diffuse, renders
it an imperious duty to expose, as shortly as possible its
futility, and this can be the more effectually accom.
plished by a mere statement of facts. A great many
words are employed by Mr. Huskisson to explain the
origin of the Navigation Laws, when it may be at once
known they were laws of protection ; and that they have
answered this purpose to a great extent the history of
our marine, naval or commercial, will forcibly demon•
strafe; indeed, these two objects are so intimately con-
nected, that the navy cannct be adequately manned,
w t an extended employ of our merchant ships,
n ese protected without an ericient navy. That the
operation of these laws should be injurious to foreign
shipping, was, till the discovery of Mr. Huskisson, con.
sidered 33 a good to this nation, rather than an evil;
how far its application should have been extended in
our colonies is a subject of doubt, but as we empli
ourselves, we strengthen our own means, *He, by 4
contrary system, we increase the power of our cornps
titors, and decrease our own : this is proved by the in.
crease of foreign shipping, particularly Prussian, in con-
veying to us the great article of freight (lumber), for
which they have no other market they can supply, and
our present policy is to encourage the Prussian, not only
to bring to us what no other nation will take, but place
him on equal terms with our own ships, when it is
notorious, he can navigate at less than half our ex-
penses, thus shutting out of employ our second class,
and coal ships (in the summer), and strengthen our
rivals by being their best and only customers, and giving
to them full employ in the carrying trade from tin
north of Europe, to the exclusion of our former trade;
so that they hive reversed the state of employ, they
being as six to one now—whereas, under oar old policy,
the freight was with us in that disproportion ; thereby
injuring and neglecting our own colonies, in which
British capital, British ships, British seamen, and British
manufactures ate sure of being only and exclusively
employed.
The question, then, of policy, with respect to our
Navigation Laws, is to be tried by the tendency tiv se
new lights are calculated to produce in the decrease of
our shipping, and the increase of foreign shipping, in
the largest carrying trade we have, under which we are
the only purchaser; to any extent (lumber ), with the in•
crease of foreign ships for that object. N., man con-
versant with this trade can doubt we shall be gradually
upon this new policy excluded from it. Ihe compari•
son as to the increase of our shipping, generally, is no
answer to the inflicting this particular loss and injury,
as the madness of the two last years, caused by the arti-
ficial diffusion of capital, by the erroneous calculations
of the Government, the Bank, and Bankers, is no data
upon which our prosperity or security can rest; as we
leave ourselves unprotected, while a debt of eight hun-
dred millions renders it impel iously necessary we should
maintain protecting laws, and thus prevent that de-
structive competition, in which our industry will be in-
effectual—indeed, in which it will be destroyed, and
other nations set up for themselves, and be the substitute
for the employment of our increasing population—es-
pecially if the mad system of free trade extends to the
importation of corn. The foreigner will increase in his
gains to our loss, and discouragement to this nation,
who will then have an idle agricultural population, and
a destructive increase (to human labour) of machinery,
to partially encourage a sickly vicious race ot manu-
facturers.
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positions should be questioned. A BRITON.

The English Opera House has been crowded to excess
every evening during the last week. Me Oracle, and Peay.'s
Farces of Beare Breaylist, and Jonathan in England, aided by the
unrivalled talents of CH* ULU MATOZWO, have greatly contrabut,:a
to fill ate coffers of the Treasury.
The public here seen, with general satisfaction, the
appointment of Sir Joins Consv as Master of the Rolls. This
Gentleman, in the discharge of his duties as Attorney-General, con-
trivod,by a course of good temper and liberality to exempt the
office from much of the jealous feeling with which it has beta
usually regarded in this country.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL s retirement from the Bar
will throw abroad professional emolument probably little short of
15,000/. a year.
Mrs. Fonn EST, one of the ladies who figures here. ;s
no other than Mrs. nixie., the beautiful and fascinating mistre,
the kite unfortunate Mr. FAUNTLEROY. The number of fern .:es
altogether in the house was at least ten, all of them, save one, ;
and elegant, and possessed of considerable charms. Mr. It►a•urs.
we understand, holds a situation as Gentleman Ueher at Clur.—
Tbe placard is still in Mr. Bannow's window, in consequence. it is
said, of all the ladies not having left No. 24.—Brighbin, Sept. 15.
GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—There was a
grand Selection on Thursday morning of Sacred Mu,:c, at the C.-
thedral, which wu filed in every part. The Concert in the evening,
at the Shire Hall, attracted near 1000 persons.
The body of a yi.ung man named CHRIsTiWitERsoN,
has been taken out of the Brunswick Duck, Liverpool, with every
appearance of having been robbed and murdered. The Inquest has
.returned a verdict to that effect. _

%hen the New Post-office is finishe', and it is now
coveted in and rapidly advancing, the several mail coaches are to
receive the bags at the donrs of the Post-olbcc, and thus al. necrss:ty
for mail carts will be superseded.
This is the Annicets..ry of the birth uf IIunNET,
Bishop of Salisbury, 1643; death of Mat-ram Paton, 1721; birth
of Dr. SA MS!. JOHNSON, 1709.
Friciity I iglit, Mrs. SANiUELS, of the City-toad, was
thrown out of a gig by the horse taking fright iii' the New-rn
Mary-la-bonne, and, pitching on tar head, Was moat
injured.

DINNER TO LORD WHARNCLIFFE,
AT SHEFFIELD.
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_Thursday, a grand dinner was given to Lord Whim-
iliire, late Representative for 'Yorkshire, by an immense
number of the Freeholders of that Coupty, Dr. YOUNGS
a•as in the Chair.

Among the toasts drank after dinner were t
" Our Gracious Sovereign, and may he always so reign In ate
hearts of his people, that they may always stand up and sing GOD
nye the Kistg. —Three times three; which was accordingly sung
by the whole ccunpany standing, accompanied by the band.
" The Duke of York and the Royal Family."
. _

" Our Glorious Constitution, which is founCledin wisdom, pro-
tected by British laws, supported by British valour, apd may it be
transmitted unimpaired to the latest posterity."
Dr. YOUNGS, after a just compliment to the virtue and patriotism
of Lord %Winneliffe, gave—.
" The health of Lord Wharncliffe, and may be long enjoy those
honours which our Gracious Sovereign, the fountain of honour,
been pleased to confer upon him."—Continued applause, and
three times three).
Lord.WHARNCLIM returned thanks in an excellent
and appropriate speech, in the course of which he said,
" I am not now going to enter on any political subject ;
I know full well that there are at present in this room
men of all political opinions. lam humble enough to
think that 1 may have been wrong in my opinions, and
I only claim credit for my sincerity; but neither here
nor elsewhete will I ever submit to have it said, that on
any one occasion of my life, in any one word I ever
said, before the county assembled, before the country
any where, or in my place in the House of Commons,
I ever deceived this county. (Great applause). True it
is, I differ with many of those persons wh• originally
supported me, on one great question ; but I must use
my own understanding, and it, after the best considera-
tion I was able to give to a question, I thought it
proper to differ from them, they have no right to cen-
sure me. But lam told there was some understanding
that I was not to support a particular question, I might
Is well name it—the Catholic Claims. Ido not now
say that I was right on that question, and I am
willing to suppose, for the sake of argument, that I was
wrong in my judgment on that subject. But I call upon
the whole county to look back to those circumstances,
and I will state them to you now, and will then put it
to you whether any man could by possibility be deceiv-
ed by my conduct.—(Here the Noble Lord gave a de-
tailed statement of his parliamentary conduct during
the last fourteen years).—He then proceeded It has
been further said, that the peerage was bestowed upon
me at the instance of Mr. Canning, and was a subter-
fuge to avoid a contested election fn. this county. I
have a high respect fur Mr. Canning—l look up to him
as a man of powerful abilities and the kindest heart,
and I am proud to think that I am in habits of friend-
ship with him. But, Gentlemen, I am too proud to
have received a favour from the hands of Mr. Canning.
—(Loud cheering).—lt has often been said to me, not by
persons of my own family, or particularly interested in
me," You are in a situation to ask aPeerage; why do you
net do it ?" My answer has always been, " I feel myself
a greater, man as a representative of the county of York
than I should as a Peer ; and besides, I never will ask a
favour of any Minister."—(Loud applause).—Gentle•
men, I never did ask it. The King, in the kindest man-
ner, in a manner which will never be forgotten either
by me or my family to the last hour of our lives, offered
it to me. He told me that he did not offer it to me at
the instance of his Ministers—there were parts of my
conduct in Parliament which he did not approve of—
that theta were subjects on which he differed from me—
but he aided, that my character and station in life were
such, that he thought me a proper individual to receive
a Peerage. A title so offered could not be refused.
(Applause).—A Peerage is not a thing to be slighted, and
I do net see why I should be debarred from that station
more than any other man. I would never dtia base action
to obtain it ; but, having been given to me, I will prize it
as I ought. (Cheers).—The Noble Lord thus concluded:
I hope I shall never forget, in the situation in which my
Sovereign has been pleased to place me, that I have
been the Representative of a large body of the people.
Some there are who object to individuals that are likely
to become Members of the House of Peers being chosen
Members of the House of Commons. I have no such
objection: it cannot but teach the members of noble
families the duties they owe to the people. I have served
as Member for a Borough and for a populous County ;
and I hope in my place in the House of Lords, that
whilst I shall endeavour to protect the prerogatives of
the Crown, I shall ever recollect that those prerogatives
sire had in possession for the good of the people, and
should always tend to their maintenance—(Cheeriag).
The next toasts were—" The Duke of Norfolk—the Duke of De-
vonshire—Bari Fitzwilliam—Lord Harewood;"

The PRESIDZNT then observed, that it was said to be
one of the functions of the Emperor of China, to break
up the ground in the Spring, upon which occasion the
people flocked in crowds to witness their Sovereign
holding the plough with his own hand, which ceremony
was symbolical of the riches of the State, being origi-
nally derived from the bowels of the earth. This was,
perhaps, nowhere better understood than in Great Bri-
tain, where the science of apiculture meets the suppOrt
of both wealthy Peers and Commoners. As they were
interested in making two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before, be should drink—" Success to
Agriculture."
This toast having been drank, the President observed,
that as they had paid a compliment to agriculture, he
would beg leave to refer to another class of members of
society, equally deserving of public notice. Is thereon
earth (enquired Dr. Younge) a character more honour-
able than that of a British merchant ? The arch enemy
of this country endeavoured to stigmatize it as a nation
vi shops ; but these shops have furnished the sinews of
war—they have defeated his purpose, and preserved the
peace of Europe. Agriculture and Commerce are the
two arms of our body politic—neither could exist with-
out the other. He would therefore propose—" The
Agricultural and Commercial Interests united."
Dr. Youxcr—

Oh! England, oh! my country, with all thy faults
1 love the still. He that leaves thee
To find a better will soon find himself mistaken;
For look upon thee an in all, •
I neer shall took upon thy like again.
The nesident then gave—
" The Duke of Wellington, and the brave Armies of the United
Kingdom."
rbe Navy of Great Britain."
Dr. YOUNGZ observed, that if we could no longer
boast of having a Wortley for our representative in',
Parliament, yet there wAs a son, educated in the sarne
principles of inJependencet 'rho was at present a mem- '
her of the House of Commons, who would, he doubted
Lot, en& as our to promote the interests of the County of
Y,•rk at la•ge, and of the town of Sheffield in particular.
He would, therefore, propose
" Ihe health of the Hon. John Stuart Wonky, and 'may we
have, at some future time, to pay him a similar compliment to that
which we have this day endeavoured to pay his father."—(Loud
and long continued cburrinit-)

In* Ho•. JOHN SINAI/a Wan.er fttallitti thank* in a nut lad
appropriate speech.
Several other coasts were drank, and the utmost harmony pre-
vailed to a late hour.

AANCHESTES,, Serressata 15.
It is many months since people appeared in such
good spirits on 'Change as they- were on Tuesday, and
the feeling then prevalent has since been fully sup-
ported. Money is more plentiful, and confidence de-
cidedly greater than it was. For twist for shipping the
inquiry continues brisk, and somewhat higher prices
are demanded ; goods are also in moderately fair re-
quest for some of the foreign markets. One water car-
rying concern to Hull, we understand, has forwarded
not less than eighty tons a day, of twist and manufac-
tured good;, for several weeks past, and on Saturday
last, we believe, received upwards of a hundred. The
demand for printing cloth is good ; and power loom
calicoes, which during the depression fetched no more
than Bs. 9d. have been sold at 101. There seems to be,
in the minds of some people, an apprehension that,
when the autumn demand for the home trade has been
supplied, and the shipments to the Continent are inter-
rupted by the freezing of the Elbe, we shall again ex-
perience a considerable depression,
The surveyors of the various roads where the poor
are employed, bad not at a late hour last night made
their accustomed report. Up to Thursday evening, how.
ever, the number of applicants amounted to 1,220, to
665 of whom tickets had been given, and on Thursday
evening there were 363 at work ; 302 had abandoned the
employment. There were yesterday about sixty addi-
tional applications.
Dysentery is at present very prevalent in this town, and many
fatal eases have occurred.

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Hen and
Chickens, in Oldham-street, on the bodies of Edward and
Mary Hudson. The deceased and their brother, Thos.
Hudson, had some time ago gone into Lincolnshire, for
the purpose of procuring employment as reapers, but
were in a great measure unsuccessful. They returned
about three weeks ago to the house of their aunt, Mary
O'Donnell, having apparently sufferedmuch from want,
and in a state of great sickness. They had aplied to the
overseers of the psor, and had been frequently relieved.
They bad been visited by Dr. Hardie, and by Mr.
Barnes, the surgeon to the workhouse. From the evi-
dence of the latter it appeared that they had died from
a disease, which is at present very prevalent in this
town, dysentery attended with fever. They required, the
surgeon said, no stronger aliment than weak gruel, and
their death had no doubt been accelerated by their liv-
ing io a very foul and damp cellar. Aware of the very
injurious effect this would have on their health, he had
sent the slings for the purpose of their being removed
to the workhouse; but they declined going thither.
The Reverend James Crook, a Catholic priest, deposed.
that he likewise had visited them several times, and had'
relieved them from a fund placed at the disposal of
the Catholic clergy for the poor Irish.—The Jury found
a verdict that the deceased had died from natural dis-
ease, and stated their conviction that the town's officers
had in every respect done their duty in the case.
The brother of the deceased, Thomas Hudson, and
mother of the aunt, Mary O'Donnell, live in the same
cellar, and are ill of the same complaint, but expected
to recover.

Early on Thursday morning, the body of a sew.lsom female child
was found in a box, in St. Michael's Chureiryard.
Wednesday a young woman was playing with an in-
fant on the battlements of Ancoats-bridge, when a man
passing at the time caught the girl's arm ; the move-
ment caused her to let go her hold, and the child was
precipitated into the water. Mr. James Collier, of Sal-
ford, threw off some of his clothes, and plunged into the
canal after the infant. He had succeeded in bringing it
within two or three yards of the side, when the girl
stooped forward to lay hold of it, but not being able to
reach it, she fell headlong into the water. Mr. Collier,
however, succeeded in bringing the child safely to land,
and afterwards the young woman.
Saturday, as a girl named Jane Downward, aged fourteen years,
was nursing an infant, aged twelve months. in the Cloth.hall, in
' Great Bolton, it fell from her arms from the second story to the
lags below. The fall caused a compression of the brain, which
caused Its death the same afternoon.