Star.
London, England, 1827-09-17 00:00:00

MR. MARTIN. OV CAMAY.

Prince ESTEkHAZY, the Austrian Ansbassador. the
Marquis de Pauencia, the Portuguese Ambassador, and the Count
de VILIA Ream, the Portuguese Minister (on a special mission),
had interviews on Saturday with Viscount Dumas' sad WARD, at
the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
Viscount PAL/orgasms bas left town for his seat at
Broadlands.
MEKTING OteMll. HUSEISIION'S FRlENDS.—Yesterday
a Meeting of the friends of Mr. Minimum was held in the large
room at the King's Arms, in this town, in order to take into coo-
sideration the propriety of calling a General Meeting, to forward
a Requisition to the Right Hon. Gentleman, requesting him again
to offer himself as a Candidate for the representation of the Fitirongh.
On the motion of CHARLES LAVIIIiNCI, Esq. Sir Jong Tosm was
called to the Chair. Mr. GLeDSTOWII then moved that a Public
Meeting should be called on Wednesday nest to agree upon an
Address to Mr. Montano. This motion being seconded, was
unanimously carried, and fifteen Gentlefnen were named is& Com-
mittee to prepare the Address. Thanks were vottd to the Chair-
man and the Meeting:—Liverpeof Courier, September Id.
Thursday morning the Marquis and M rehionees of
Dowsoact. arrived In the steam-ship Chieftain from Liverpool, and
immediately proceeded to Ormeau, his Lordship's residence, where
they were welcomed with every demonstration of unfeigned joy.
The flag was hoisted at Fort George on the Lagan, and 21 guns
were fired as a salute, after which three hearty cheers were given by
the persons assembled oa the battery—Belfast Chronic&
Lord KINGSTON is said to have upwards of thirty
thousand mulberry trees growing upon one estate In Ireland, and has
already sent a small quantity of raw silk into the market.
The earliest mention of the harpsichord that has
been discovered, is in the year 1534. The single harpsichord was,
In effect, the double spinet' or virginal; and the double harp-
sichord, with two unisons and an octave to each note, received the
improvement of a third unison from the ingenious Meaux, about
the year 1771, when it was rapidly superseded by the piano-fone,
the grand peculiarity of which consists in the tones being produced

by ‘ansmers instead of quills.
The title of Elector is useful beyond its foreign mean-
ing. An Englishman travelling through Germany, having presented
himself at the gate of a German city, was desired in the usual manner
to describe himself, " I am," said he, an Hector of Middlesex."
The Germans, who bold the dignity of Elector as next in rank

to that of King, and know little or nothing of English titles and
rank, immediately opened their gates, and the guard turned out
and did him military honours.
Mrs. SIDDONS was at the English Opera House on
Friday night.
Accounts have been received from New South Wales
to the end of March. Five of the unfortunate prisoners
who were convicted of piracy, in seizing the brig Wel-
lington, which was conveying them to the penal settle-
ment of Norfolk Island, bad been executed at Sydney.
The names of the men were Edwards, Leddington, Smith,
Johnson, and Cothusst. The temainder of the convicted
pirates had been again shipped for Norfolk Island,
there to be worked in irons for the remainder of their
lives. Mr. CUNNINGHAM was about to set out from
Sydney on an exploring expedition. His design. it is
said, is to collect information respecting the Rivers
Lackland and Macqua'rie, and to learn something of
the country between Liverpool Plains and Moreton
Bay. The brig Glory, belonging to Sydney, had been
to ally lost in January last. The circumstance occurred
w last the vessel was lying to an anchor at Pitt's Island,
in lat. 44. 45; no lives were los'. The principal streets
in Sydney were lighted up with lamps, for the first
time: on the 14th M .rch. Some disturbances had
taken place in the district of Hunter's River with the
■abotibinal natives, an I several bushrangers were also
motion in the upcountry. ' Captain %/awn; late of
the Buffs, had 'been appointed Police Magistrate 4t
Newca tle.

tinsel?. or • Lawevia TRAK SOULOGNI, bA TED nt't
Colonel Richard Mtt tin, the Lite Member for
is still the same amiable patron of donkeys, as inimied to spars and
whips. sod to the nots.smotrosil of these imclements of annoyai,,,
as teen ' "fhe sands at low water being the chief resort of aqua.
titans, Mr. Martin is seen regularly • proceeding, at the time of
assembling, to that plan, and in no instance does he f,il to in.
terpose, whets any thing like au unfair advantage it taken of the
mute animal by his unthinking master. Mr. Martin is certainly
least of all chargeable with any approach to a violation of thou
principles by, which he seems to regulate the viaduct of tubers.....
For instance, lie never wears spurs himself, and very ardently
preaches up the inhumanity of using them. lie argues, fairly
enough, that the horse that is nut sufficiently provoked to dig.
patch by such suggestions as the unarmed heel of his rider can
contenunicate, iv unable to the ettcution of what is etpected from
him. However, let his arguments be ever so wrong, his heart
is certainly right ; and In striving to assert the claims of the brute
cseation to that tendernesss front man which their utility ea well
descries, he leaves every consideration of personal safety and coo.
venience out of the question. A few days since he accosted a yore
horseman, who treated the unfortunate animal in a way whids he
would not have done M am the said animal had the power of reason
strance or resistance. •Do you know, Sir," said Mr. Martin," that
you have no more tight in torment that poor horse than you his,
to torment me r " Sir, I don't know you : I shall do as I Ana
with my horse," was the reply. " Why, then, if you will
as you please ith him. just whisper In his ear that he has peg
d—d bad master." " Sir, this is language that lam not acrimony
to, and you must apologise;" and the youth presented his oldie
the late Member for Galway. " Pub, my little ladoion't be threw.
Mg your cards about in this way ; find some other no le
them—my name Is Colonel Martin, and if you want to know any
thing more about me, any body in Boulogne will do you the fawn
of telling you where I live." The young matt went his way.
CLERICAL IN TELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, Sem t.f.
The Bishop of 'Janda, bat collated the Ref. Weird Janet,
M.A. of Christ Church, and Perpetual Curate of Mortlake, Senty,
to a Prebendal Stall in Llandaff Cathedral, 'stain by the dark of
the Mev Dr. Nash.

Rev. James Shirley, M.A. of Trinity College, hat been intlitated
to the Rectory of Antinglsam St. Mary, Norfolk.
Rev.ihielding, of Abergavenny, South Wales, to the Curacy
of St. Andrew Auckland, with the Chapelry of St. Ann's, Buhl
Auckland, annexed.
The Earl of Aberdeen has been unanimously elected Chancellor
of King's College and University of Aberdeen, in rOM of the
Duke of Gordon, deceased; and Viscount Arbutbnott unanimously
chosen Lord Rector.

HAnsdit Tuanraa.—The extremely pleasant
little Comedy of Simpson and Co. was pertotmed here
on Saturday night, for the purpose of introducing a
debutante in the character of Mrs. libation. The Lady'i
name is said to be fluorite, and her personal quell&
cations for the stage are not inconsiderable. She was
well received and kindly encouraged by the audience.
A report having been circulated, that the whole of the
music composed by PAIR for 7'he Freebooters, has not
been sang at the English Opera House, we have authority
to contradict it. Not only every air composed for the
principal female part in the Opera has been nightly
sung by Miss BETTS, but an additional song from
Agnise, by the same composer, has been introduced by
that young Lady.
The English company now in Paris have at length
gratified a French audience with the representation of
Harald, and given the French critics an opportunity,
Which they seemed very much to desire, of instituting&
comparison between the talents of C. Krems And
TALIIIA. The Moniteur announces that the forther, is
the chat meter of Hamlet, gave proof of undoubted as•
THSON of profound sensibility. The
declares that all comparison between
is quite nut of the question, sod
to the few points in which any Co.'
instituted between the Humid of both
TELMA was incontesiible. The
for a second representation ns
_ Is said to have been full to sofa
cation, and the receipts amounted et) 7.500 francs.

CROSSING Tug LINIL—The crew of a ship, while
they were crossing the Equator, planted the carpenter's
mate (a green horn) on the jib-boom end, with a great
hatchet in his hand, in order to cut the line and let the
vessel pass. The Lieutenant of the watch was let into
the joke, and every now and then he song out from the
quarter deck, " Jib boom there." " Sir, horn Chips.
" Are you ready to cut away T All ready, Sir." " See
you do it cleverly then, boy." " Aye, aye, Sir." Afrce
some time," Can you see it yet r “In half a minute,
Sir." And thus was the unfortunate carpenter's mate
kept astride the boom for half the day. On the same
solemn aceasion, Neptune and his crew being a long
time in coming aft, the Captain inquired what they
were about 1 " Shaving the figure head, Sir, and m.k•
Lug the ship free." And so the fact was; they latherei
and shaved the old champion's chin in due form, as Me
vessel had not before crossed the Equator.
DEPLORABLE OCCURRENCE.-4t is with the mist rim
cere regret we learn, that while Counsellor MURRAY
was sailing on a small lake, at his residence Icons
Clines and Monaghan, on Sunday last, accompanied
by a man servant, his boat was overturned by a sadden
squall of wind, by which they were precipitated into
the water, and, we lament to add, both perished.—Eire
Packet, Sept. 13.
A person is now in custody of the name of 7kontio.
suspected to be the murderer of Gregson here, and is
be brought up for examination on Wednesday, the
on which the adjourned inquest is to be hell—Prato

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Papers -
The London mail of Friday night was about an hag
and a half later of arriving in Edinburgh tlian usual, io corneqaum
of an accident which occurred about two miles south of Newark.
One of the wh, .1 hones making a false step, got startled, and la
upon a heap of metal on the road side, by which means the tad,
was overturned, and the driver had one of his legs broken. Mr'
nusately there were in passengers ar the time, and the guard slor
unhurt.
ANTIQUITIM—There was lately found on the WI
of Mr. RANKIN of Whitekill, In the parish of New Canada,
Ayrshire, by a person employed in turning up the ground with
spade, about two feet from the surface, a small vase of an arailisl
form, similar to those in Englefield*s collection, sod of very cads
materials, containing about a hundred silver pennies of Aletsadl!
111. of Scotland, and Edward I. of England, in good preserestak,
having the head and characters distinct and legible. The ACM
coins were more numerous than the Scotct. Thaw of Anode
represent him in profile, aid° all the coins of his reign, and
MR
around the head, At-sander I)ei Gets. and on the other Her Soon*
with a cross extending to the edge, and a spur level on each ati,
quarters. Tho eof Edward represent him in full face, conk
Aug. Diss. HA. and on the reverse of the eaferent coins, 000
Oresfer,' Cieibu London. Chiba Dna. and almost ad the a.
towns of England, with the cross extending to the edge, sod
roses in each quarter. Front the great number of these mingles",
in this part of the country, it is probable they were deposited its de
1 earth by the soldiers of Edward, who had taken refuge is lire.
mountainous regions, when flying from the'wettmerited indiction°
of the Scotch. They must have been placed in the ground 00
'time about the beginning of the fourteen b century. %ace MAI,
`obtained the crown in the year 1306, and relating, as they do, lea
most interesting period M our history, and which is ernhubnedis
the memory of every Seotehman, they are worthy of occuprigg_t
place in the cabinets of the curious. A few of diens have been OPI
to the Museum in Edinburgh College.
Saturday mot lung a line youth, about 17 years of sr
named. Joseph Rockwell, unfortunately slipped of
barge alongside of Al ilfordWhai f, Strand ; and althougl
every exertion was made to save him, it was in vaiu.

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