Star.
London, England, 1828-12-26 00:00:00

BLiCKIIEATII.

The Assemblies for tile season cr.mmenced on Moe.
day evening last. In addition to the magnificent hill
room at-the Green Man Hotel, a since cf worm lately
built by Mr. WHITM A itSli were opened on the °mos.
The Assembly was as•u.nal well and elegantly attended,

THZ MARQUIS OF CHANDOSI RURAL PARTY.
Lift %ea, atWotiop, Bucks, the Marcrii, of Clus•l
DOS gate a grand Battu to the following distinguished
Noblemen and Gentlemen:
The Duke of Wellington, Lord Deresford, Lord Gotham, Sit
George Alarm. Sir Henry Harding. the Right Hon. R. Pal,
Yofe.W. Peel, Mr.W. Hoboes M.P. and Mr. T. Holmes.
They bagged 1,500 head nt game. The party rent.
rated on Saturday, after which the Marc,u s auJ Nlar•
chintstss of CSIA twos, a ith W. Holmes, &q. proceeded
to Betch LOdge, Great Marlow, the seat tf Wscoru
WYNDMAMI Eq.

His MAJESTY has prevailed opon She Duke of WEI..
LINGTON to accept the office of Lord Warden of he
Cinque Ports, which became vacant by the death of the
Earl of LIVERPOOL.
The report of Lord STRANGTORD having (ailed in fit
mission to Doa PEDRO, is tint c, Erect. Hy the la.t at.
CoLIDO he was endeavouring to bring about a reconctlik
tion between the two brothers.
The Duke of Sussex is still on a visit to Mr. COKI
at Itnikbatn, and.does not return to Kensington Palace until After
the Christmas holidays. Ms Royal Iligtmesa enjoys escelkst
heal&
The Hon. W. L. WELLE3tET has purchased the late
town resideoce& in Dover-street, Piccadilly, of the Duke of Rut.
WOO.
The Duke of RICHMOND, report says, will receive the
vacant Hilda°a of the Osder of the Garter: '
Ills Glace the Duke of RUTLAND and Lord Roam
111 have affixed their names to the county petition agairst
the claims of the Uoman,Sathelics. The petition will lie at the
Exchange a few days longer, for the signatures of the inhabitano
of the town and county.—Leicester
DAVIES Gu.sear. E q. the President. presented the
Royal Society, on his late election, with a munificent donation of
£l,OOO, the interest of which is to be appropriated to scientific

purposes.
So warm, and consequently so unseasonable a Chri‘t•
tors a• the present, has not been experienced fur many years. TM
thermometer out of doors has not been below .50 for some time. ,
According to an average, founded upon eight years
observation, either rain or snow falls every three or four days
throstskeut the yeac in Lapland.
Di A LOG U f.-••••• 4 Pray, where have you been?" "1
went to Kilooe !"—" And where are you going?" 44 I'm;oisrts
Kihnany !"—" And then?" " I'll be going to F ilmore r—" A) 3
and then r". Why, then I'll go to KilessaU."—Tbe Catechist na
away.—Arew Masai, Magazine.
The Rev. H. C. DZ CIRISPIUNT was removed frees
Leice,ter county gaol on Monday ha, by a writ of
Haieas Corpus, to be admitted to bail before the Judges
it is stated, that if the Reverend Gentleman will leave
the country, no further proceedings will be instituted.
DISTURIBANCI AT Till FRINCH AMSASSADoIet (.70*
war..—lt has hitherto been the costoitt.to perforn High
Mass in this Chapel on Christmas...we, but some I.4r,eg
robberies having been committed last year in th,r ?lye
of worship, the Abbe la Lane ordered that in u(o:e
High Mass should be perfotmed at six o'cic k cn
Christmas morning. On Wednesday night, b:gas
eleven and twelve o'clock. At number of persoi fc/'
lected mound the doors of the Chapel, among wham
were smetabsotorious characters, whose sole objet •
l •
plunder, and created great riot, as the performazrew "
the ceremony had been postponed. Several con.-alstcs
were mat for, and order was soon restored.
AU the carpets •of the principal rooms in v. ,a11"‘
Castle have been-manufactured at Axminster.
. Them are four towns in Nato Attleties named 460.;
two of which are noted, like our own, for bat X
mineral spiings.
A go4deal of snow has fallen on the Hi "lani
road, particularly.. in thti districts of Badenot
Diamouebenr. Travelling, howeitr; bu not Ot'Ve.;
way interroptid.—Edimbergh Mawr.

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