Star.
London, England, 1828-10-17 00:00:00

Oct. 18, um.

At present the weather is particularly qq",
families arrive daily. This place is now beams.:
fashionable autumnal and winter tesnrt---The
arrivals since oar last are as under— •

Dowager Lady Beckett, and the Miscis Beckett are!
Beckett; Mrs. and the Misses Worley,Mra- tvo„i;1
and Mrs. Wortley (Nunnic.gtnn Hall); Mrs. Iltepile
the Misses Shepherd; Colonel and airs. Torre; a 1k.4
liaq. and suite; S. Hrouksbank. EN. and ditto; R„.79
Brooksbank and ditto; Samuel Crompton. x.p. and
.1.1111
Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Iktatiyhaal ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Fun,47l.
Ives); Major Ferrand 11r. and Mrs. 11011484, .w.l the It—
Holland; It. Scott, Esq. Mr.. Scott, and fami:r mr. ,04—
Saltsnarsla;si Satrasrsh; Mrs. and the Misses not, k4"'IL
• - . DEPARTURES.
Lord Pollington. to P. H. 1.. Thompson, Laid iki.
Sir y.. P. Heresford, Hart. and suite, fee his seat near Bedaki
&arm, Req. Mrs. and Mits S:urges, (or Dunesr:er; Mn 61,
Clay aid Miss Watkin, fat Con Lbro, near Doncaster;
clillie,•for Langton Hall.
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OXFORD.
Otfotd, that renowned seat of learning, awnkts,
the mind every associate which links man, in his it*
existence, with the grear, and good, And wise, of
that are gone! He who can 'tread the grcandssf
has once been trodden by sages and by heroes, sad
not • feel a thrill of enthusiasm, a sentimer.t of stsy
ration, kindling in kis bosom, proclaims his limps.
ticipation in those qualities which dstine his intellects,'
superiority. He can.hardly Ike said to come vthl2 tbe
character of man, so beautifully, and yet so philo.op,.
call, described by Shakspeare-44 a being of Liget&
course, looking berme 'and pfier." What art wet),
leges of this almost consecrated spot, but so watt
masses of stone, piled op (in forms of architect*
proportion and beauty, we admit), it disconntcted hog
the many generations of illustrious dead. who tm,
lived and moved within their walls ? Hew I;sed aof
moved! They do so still,.in the 4. mind's eye" of Ilia
who looks upon them with all the recollections if the
past fifth and vigorous in his soul—who mill back de
:tide of time, and with a magician's art evokes tie
shades of the migl.ty. of earth's children, mhos,
mingles, and converses with them! his the chemist
a moment, but of a moment in ash ch live all age..

ages that form the brightest records in die history
natiocs or of men. Brief as the vision is, it is worth
eternity of the naked realities of common life.

LETTERS FROM THE LEVANT.
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We were met by several girls retaining from it, bee.
ing vessels in which they had been to draw water, asi
others laden with linen which they had washed at at
fountain. Throughout the East, the custom, so ofta
al'uded to in Scripture.of its being the duty of femalesa
go to the wells, seems to have prevailed from a period a
•the remotest antiquity, and is as prevalent at the pitmen
moment, as when Rebecca assuaged the thirst of the Se"
rant of Abraham, Nat the time of the evening. ever
the time when women go out to draw water," or ebto
the woman of Samaria met Jams by the well dhoti.
This very' edifice too, and others constructed for a
similar purpose,
.afford a striking illustration of it
peculiar force of the passage to which I have al.
hided, besides several throughout the New Tests
sent, in which the word " well " is enema*
translated. 44 If thou knewest (said Jesus to the ww
man) the gift of GOD, and who it is that saith use
tbee give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked hits,
and he would have given unto thee living tenter. The
woman saith onto him, Sir, thou has nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep ; from whence, then, hest
thou that living water ? Art thou greater than oat
father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereri
himself, his children, and his cattle? Janus with oats
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst ass**
But whose drinketh of the water that I shall give hie
shall never thirst, but the water that I shalt give hi.
shall be unto him a well of water springing up ids
eternal life."

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The Dowager Queen of WIRTZIMERG bad beet
afflicted with the dropsy for. some years past, which w 6
the cause of her ex:raordinary size. Her &Gime
malady was one principal ireaPecement for her MAJzsif
uniting her native country last year, being of opiate
that the English faculty could giro her relief. Si
ASTLRY COoPIR and others were called in to attend tie
Quenr,and by SirAnutv's advice, her MAitITY under
L went the operation 9f tappiag, while residing in St
James's Palace, which was performed by Sr Armes
with very great privacy. There were very flattering
,hopes that the operation would lead ultimately Ins
',eclat cure. Her MAJESTY frequently experienceil
great difficulty in breathing, and was obliged to be car•
reed up stairs in an easy chair. When she entered s
carriage, her Manny was obliged to be assisted
two domestics.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar of the 25th of
September:—" It is very extraordinary that, although
the season is very far advanced, the number of sick is
that place, instead of diminishing, has augmented. %
observe that in the hospitals the number of deaths ate
more considerable than in the houses : in general, the
physicians who attend the private houses are Spaniards,
while those who attend the hospitals are English. Ihe
first have adopted emetics, purgatives, and acid re-
freshments; while the system of the latter is making
use of mercury and other violent remedies; which are
generally fatal to inflammatory fevers. There is a g►eat
.want of tents, owing to most of them having bet%
occupied by the inhabitants, and two thousand of whom
axe busted of assistance. It was proposed to form a
grand kitchen in the camp, to distribute soups to tke
poor unfortunates."

When a detachment of one of the regiments in this
Karam was lately ordered to Gibraltar, a detainer was
uneectedly laid upon one of the men selected, by the
parish Officers, on the information of a lady resident in
Castlerstreei, who ascribed to its:, individual the bruits,'
'of being the father of a child with which she declared
herself enainte. Subsequently. however, an order
countermanding the detach:m:lA was is,ued, and tEeu .t
was discovered that the lady's awry v..is tabticatier,
suggested by the soldier a, a rise de viers e to save 1:11:3
horn the dangers of the fever at Gshi altar. lle is cog
ender pUnislunent for this unmanly conduct, and
lady is threatened with 4 visit to the
mead& Jost nal.

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