Star.
London, England, 1826-09-11 00:00:00

' TRIESTE, AUSUST 27.

A ship which iefc Modon zi days ago, bring word that while it
was there Iti ships of war, two of which were of the line, arrived at
Navarin fromCoostantinople,to be at the disposal of IbrahimPacha,
who had returned with his army to Tripelizu from Mains, where
he had sustained some loss. A Mainote schooner, which interrupted
trade in those seas, was attacked and roughly treated by an Aus-
trian schooner.

Several files of American Papers to the 18th of
August have been received, but their contents are unimportant.

Accounts from St. Domingo state, that a French fri-
gate was to sail from Port-au-Prince about the fth of July for
France, with about three millions of dollars, being on account of
the second instalment from the Harlan Government to that of
France.

Letters from Carthagena of the 7th of July state
that the provinces of Varenes, Maracaibo, and Comma, had not
at the above date joined General PAZZ, and the prevailing opinion
was that be would not succeed ; be was also endeavouring to raise a
loan, in which be found great difficulty.

Jamaica Papers to the 19th July have arrived. It is
stated by a Gentleman from St. Jago de Cuba, that trade was very
dull at Port-au-Prince; there were lately no less than twelve French
merchant vessels lying there, and not a particle of produce to ship
in them.

' The Paris Papers of Thursday, and German Papers
to the 3d instant, have been received. The Finite al-
ludes to the conspiracy at Lisbon, but denies that per-
sons of distinction ar• implicated in the proceedings. It
is probable, however, that Priests and Jesuits are in-
triguing to produce opposition to the Constitution, but
their efforts will be unavailing. The Monks can only
flourish under an arbitrary Government, when the
Throne is filled by a fanatical Despot. The Conslint-
amine' contains a letter from the Greek Committee at
Marseilles to that of Paris, which gives an account,
from Smyrna, of the success of the Nlainotes over
IBRAHIM, and asserts that the affairs of Greece in gene-
ral have taken a favourable turn. It would appear
from intelligence received ft oni Constantinople, that a
storm is likely soon to rage in that capital. The SULTAN
and SERASICUR are every day insulted with placards,
and a terrific re-action is expected. It is positively
affirmed that LORD COCHRANE had arrived at Napoli
di Romania on the 26th July, and was waiting for the
arrival of vessels. Ws Lordship, unfortunately, we
fear, will have to wait a long time, in consequence of
adverse circumstances, which will daily retard his
efforts in favour of suffering humanity. The first Diet
of the Principality of Schwataburg Rudolstadt has ter-
minated its sitting of six years, after greatly reducing
the public debt. The Pops is employed also in making
various political reforms, combining extensive retrench-
ments in the Customs and Army. The Administration

of Ecclesiastical Estates in the Provinces has had the
same fate, being wholly abolished, and united with the
Ministry of Finance.

It is with the sincerest pleasure we find ourselves in a
situation to congratulate our Readers on the favourable change
which has taken place in the state of trade during the last fort-
night; the accounts from all quarters of the manufacturing dis.
tricts bring us the cheering intelligence of progressive, If not of
rapid, improvement. The crisis is now past ; and though the shock
has been a severe one, we trust the constitution of the patient has
escaped uninjured. The improvement to which we have alluded
is not confined to any particular branch, it is general, and effects
beneficially the whole body of our national industry. Cases of
temporary distress may, and no doubt will, still occur; but, with-
out being considered as too sanguine, we are persuaded we may
be now allowed to say, that ultimate recovery now appears certain,
and that at no very distant period. It is not to be ranked amongst
the least satisfactory circumstances accompanying this return to
improvement in trade, and consequent national prosperity, that it
has been brought about without any extraordinary interposition on
the part of Government. Such an interposition, although it might
have afforded momentary relief, would inevitably have operated
ultimately to have increased the evil which it was intended to cure
by checking individual exertion, and even feeding the disease
—Superabundant manufacture, it is agreed on all hands, was the
main spring of our distress, and supplying the means to continue
that superabundant creation of manufactured goods from time to
time, would but have been to feed the source from which the evil
sprung, to have given strength to the disease, and to have caused
it to break forth at no very distant period with redoubled force, and
to an extent which not even tLe united efforts of the Government,
and private benevolence could have stemmed. The wisest measure
which Government could have adopted is that to which they have
had recourse, the opening the ports for the admission of foreign grain,
for whilst t►e state of the crops on the Continent is such as to prevent
any very large Impost of grain into Great Britain, the measure will
still, to a certain extent,have the effect of keeping down our own mar.
kets to a moderate price, and will also open a market in the way of
►arter with the Continent, to the full amount of the value of corn 1
purchased taff us, for our earn manufactured goods. Under all cir-
eneastances we feel convinced there are grounds for a well-founded
confidenc,e on our part, that the day of trial is passed, and that,

although we may not flatter ourselves with the expectation of any
sudden influx of prosperity, yet that we ate in a progressive state of
amelioration and improvement.

FOREWN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK.
GMreeex.kildß•saides.2l.sg6Sp'S. PCtC.. 5212112 II
Chillan Bonds, 6 p Ct. 36
I o. Ac.. 361
Colonthi,n Bonds, Mex. Acet. 52; i 2 i 1 i
Do. Bonds, 1824,33 Prue. lids. 4 p C. 1144
Ditto Acct. 33 Ituss. lids, 1812, S p 0.1121
Daillbh floods, 5 pCt. 57 Ditto Aect.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARES, TWO O'CLOCIE.
swans. ram.
Anglo Mexican 5 pm. 100 65 10
Brazilian 100 15 27
General Mining Asso. 100 5 . 4
Potosi La Paz and Peru. Ass. 50 5 li
United Mexican 40 22i 8
Marine Alliance 100 5 Si
FRENCH FUNDS, Pants, Sir:must 9.
Five per Cents. • . . 98f. 10c.
Three per Cents. • • • 66f. 10c.
Bank Stock . . . 2012 f. 50c.
Royal Spanish Loan . . 4.5 g.
Rentes tie Naples . . . 72t. 85c.

WINDSCkft, SEzr.lo.—This morning her Royal
nest the Princess AUGUSTA, attended by her Lady in Waiting, heard
Divine Service performed in the Parish Church, when the Rev. j.
GOlll3rD, the Rector, delivered an excellent discourse from the
Chapter and 4th Verse of Ecclesiastes: Tite 63,1 Regiment rmirc!ird
from their Barracks this morning to the Cavalry BArLicks, where
Divine Service was performed to both Regiments in the
School.

The health of the Duke of YORK, we are happy to
state, continues gradually improving. His Royal Highness wa,
visited on Saturday by Sir MERRY Marano. Dr. Mscsuctiart.,
Mr. MA'CORROOR, Sergeant Surgeon to the Kum, and Mr. Sisiesoy,
Surgeon to the Royal Duke. His Royal Highness transacted bu,i.
ness on Saturday with Sir HZIUDIRT Tnyt.oe. Sir Heuer Tonere',
Sir WILLOUGHIT GORDON, and Colonel Seinsesson, Surveyor Ge.
neral of his Majesty's Board of Works. The Royal Duke also re-
ceived visits from the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of liureatro,
The Princess SOPHIA visited the Duke of Yogic yei-
terd.ty. The usual Medical Attendants also visited the Royal Duke
yesterday.
Mr. WyNx left town on Saturday, on a shooting
excursion.

Lord HOWARD DE WA LDER,Under Secretary of Sta'e
for Foreign Affairs, entertained a select party to dinner yesterday,
at his residence, in South Audleystreet.

Mr. and Mrs. CANNING, the Marquis and Marchi.
oness of CLANILiCARDS, &c. were of the dinner party given on Friday
by his Lordship.
Sir Wm. CURTIS has off-red his very comfortable te.
sidence at Ramsgate to his 3tlaassrr. The apartments, however,
are far too circumscribed to accommodate his 51.sacm and suite.
East Cliffe Ilouse, therefore, will be the abode of Royalty during
the autumn.

Mr. Huottes BALL, and his fimily, are returned
from Wales, and are now at Oatlands, where a large party are as-
sembled for the enjoyment of shooting.
Mrs. CANNING finished drinking the waters at the
vermeil Spa on Monday last ; and. we are happy to hear, has de.
rived considerable benefit from their use. Mr. Secretary CANIORG
has purchased a house here. It is situated on the Marine Parade,
a little beyond the Royal Crescent —Brighton Herald.
THE LATE LORD GlFFORD.—Yesterday morning,
betwren eight and nine o'clock, the remains of this Nobleman, In
a hearse drawn by four horses, ful!owed by only one mourning
coach, arrived at the Rolls House, in Chancery-lane, from Dover.
The body was, placed on tressels in the library, where, by his
Lordship a particular desire, it will remain, without any state or
pomp ; even candles are not to be lighted until the morning of its
final removal for interment, which is filed to take place at twelve
o'clock to-morrow, in the vault of the Rolls Chapel, adjoining the
Court House. The Loan CHANCKI.LOR has signified his intention of
attending the funeral, which, no doubt, will be followed by the
principal Law Officers and other Gentlemen of the profession.
The Solicitor. General, Sir CHARLES \VETHERELL,
had a long private interview on Saturday with the Loan CHA Nal.*
ROA in his private room at Lincoln's Inn Hall.
THZ FATAL DUEL AT KIRKALDY.---We have no
desire to enter farther into the circumstance,* •L' thi• suciatredoly
affair. The current reports on the subject will soon be confirmed
or refuted ; as we understand that Mr. LANDALZ has been cited to
stand trial at the ensuing Circuit Court at Perth. The seconds are,
we believe, not to be included in the indictment, but admitted as
evidence on the trial.—fife Herald.
Friday the LORD PRovosT, Magistrates, and Council
of Edinburgh, gave a splendid entertainment in the Royal hotel,
to Lord Viscount blumtu.s. The Loan Pasoasr was in the Chair.
supported on the right by Lord Menvinnt, and on the left by Lord
ASERCROMIY. The company present amounted, we understand,
to upwards of a hundred,
MORTON'S new comedy will not be produced at Co.
vent-gardea Theatre until after Christmas. The principal serious
and comic performers in that Theatre will be employed in this
drama.

FREDERICK REYNOLDS has undertaken, on the part
of his friend Pince, to read, superintend, and prepare for represen-
tation all dramatic productions at Drury-lane Theatre, during the
ensuing season.
Tuesday, as several of the inhabitants of Ashley,
Bucks, were engaged in nutting in the woods belonging to that
village. by permission of the Rev. Mr. Rtst.re, who has the manage-
ment of them for New College, Oxford, they were attacked by a
body of men, armed with sticks, from the neighbouring villages of
Whictlebury and Silverstone, who drove them front the woods.
took away their nuts which they had been gathering, and beat some
of them very severely.
HUDDER•FIELD RELIEF COMMITTEL—The number
of persons still needing relief remains nearly the same as heretofore;
but the funds applicable for the relief of the district were, on Friday,
In such a state, as not to justify grants for more than one week to
each township. On Tuesday morning, the Chairman received 500 t.
from the London Committee; this will prove a most seasonable aid
to those neighbourhoods which exert themselves, according to their
ability, to raise means to assist the distressed in such manner as re-
newed deliberation shall show to be advisable and practicable.
DRowNING ASLEEP.—Last week an Inquest was held
at Brotherton, near York, on view of the bodies of John Hill,
Harriet Hill, and their infant child, eight months old. John Hill
was master of an old and very leaky open coal boat, which was at
her moorings in the river Aire, nearly abreast of Brotherton ; he
went on board his vessel about half past nine o'clock at night, with
his wife and child; he pumped the water out of the vessel, and they
all went to bed; he was heard pumping again about half past 11;
and in the morning, about half past five o'clock, the vessel was
discovered sunk in nine feet water, and the three poor inmates
perished in the cabin. Verdict—" Accidental Death.
The crows are pairing at Hall-bank, near Lockerbie,
in Annandale, as they would In spring ; and building nests with as
much industry as they ever did in the mouth of March.
By the French Laws, if a family have no children.
and adopt the child or soother, such adoption is regularly registered
by the civil authorities, and the child becomes heir at law to the
property of its new parents, and cannot be disinherited by any sub-
sequent caprice of the partsea, who are bound to support it in a
manner suitable to their own rank in life.
l'onx MINSTER BELLS.—Notwithstanding the boasted
superiority of Bow bells, they are in every respect inferior to those
of York Minster; in the first place, if we consider the aggregate
weight of bell metal in each, we shall find those of York 1551b5.
heavier than those of London ; whilst the elevated situation of the
Minster bells in its fine capacious tower, with a clear rise of eighty
feet front the bell frame to its domelike canopy for the ascension Af
sound, from which it has 195 feet to descend, gives them a itch
mellowness of tone, that defies all competition from any other peal
lin England. Nothing enlivens the city so much, as when
Their cheerful voice with Joyful sound,
" Makes hill and valley echo round."
Wednesday the brig Mercury, of Poole, arrived at
'Cowes ft om Newfoundland; her Captain died on the
Ist inst. ; she was bound to Poole, but overshot her
Ilport. A coffin was sent on board, as the Captain's son,
who was with him,
through filial affection, would not
commit his body to the deep.
In 1226, wheat was 6s. the horse load ; in 1170, 11.
3d. the load ; and in 1172, bread corn 6s. Bd. In 1126.
the labour cf an abbey baker, yearly, with bread and
firer, was 11. Is. 44. the subsistence of a Knight, one
J4y, 9J. and of a to,tman, IJ.