Star.
London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

CHAlrar.
The Duke of Rutland, from South Audley.street, to Stanton
Wood House, Derbyshire; Viscount Anson. from Staffordshire,
for his seat in Leicestershire ; Lord Wodehouse. for Kimberley
Hall, in Norfolk, from Suffolk ; Lord Redesdale and Mr. and 'Miss
lilitford. for Elmsford Park, near Morton in the Marsh. from Chel-
tenham; Lord Manners for Walnffeet. in Lincoln hire; Lady and
Miss Lumley, from Park-street, for Bath ; Lord Dundee, fur Ashe
Hall, from Upleatham Park, Yorkshire; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs.
Frederick Twisleton, from Windsor, for Walton-on-Thames;
Sir G. Crewe, Bart. and Lady Crewe, for Shooters Hill, Kent;
Mr. Heathcote, from Tunbridge Wells, for Brighton; Major and
Mrs. Boynton. from South Wales. for Bath; Captain sad Mrs.
Horton, for Clifton Hot Wells ; Mrs. and Miss Somerville, from
the New Steyne, Brighton, for Bath • Major 51' Dona% for Can-
terbury • Major Strangeways, from Bognor Rocks, for Brighton ;
Lieut.-Colonel and Mrs. Bolton, for Portsmouth ; Captain Charles
Moors, from Rochester, for Dublin ; Lord J. Thynne for Long-
leat, Wilts; Mr. and Mrs. Hughes, from Brook-street, for their
seat in Herts ; Mrs. Bigg and family, from Warren's Hotel, Re.
gent.street, for their seat in Hants; James Crosby, Esq. from
ditto, on a tour ; William Meyer, Esq. from the British Hotel,
Jermyn.street, for Oxford ; Capt. Percy, from ditto, for Brighton.
ARRIVALS.

The Marquis of Headfort, at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from
Ireland; the Earl and Countess Gower, at their seat In Shropshire,
from a tour ; Earl of Ossory, at Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's,)
St. James's-street, from Oxford : Viscount Clifden, in Hanover
-
square, from his seat In Northamptonshire; Mr. and Mrs. Peploe,
at their seat, Geanstone, Hereford, from the Earl of Dartmouth's
seat, Sandwell, Staffordshire ; Sir Lawrence and Lady Palk, in
Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, from their seat, Renne House,
Devonshire ; Captain and Mrs. Hall, in Pall-mall, from Chelten-
ham ; Mrs. Bury and J. Bury. Esq. at the Berners Hotel, Berners-
street, from Waltham Abbey; the Rev. Mr. Bell and Mrs. Bell,
at ditto, from Dublin ; G. C. Thornton, Esq. at ditto, from his
seat, Hertford ; G. Lewin, Esq. at ditto, from Brighton ; T. W.
Hearne, Esq. at ditto, from the Ridge, Herts.

WORTHING, Nov. 3.

Her Royal Highneu the Princess Augusta attended Divine
service In the morning. at the Chapel of Ease, yesterday. as usual.
Her Royal Highness has taken carriage exercise almost every day
during the past week, and expresses much pleasure on finding the
drives In the vicinity so much more picturesque and beautiful than
she bad anticipated. Every day adds to our stock of noble and
distinguished visitors.

Prince LEOPOLD came to town on Wednesday after-
noon from his residence at Claremont. His Royal
Highness honoured the performance of Miss FANNY
Kotale, in Ronseu and Juliet, at Covent Garden Theatre,
with his presence in the evening.
The Russian and Austrian Ambassadors, and the Prus-
sian Minister, had an interview with the Earl of ABER-
DEEN yesterday, at the Foreign Office. Monsieur ROTH
Drench Charge d'Affaires previous to the arrival of the
uke de LAVAL MONTMORENCY) had an interview with
the Noble Earl, to take leave on his departure for the
Continent, having been appointed by his Most Christian
Majesty, Minister to one of the Foreign Courts.
Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial Office, for the Earl of RELMORE, the Governor
of Jamaica, and the different Governors of the West
Indian Islands. _

The Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earl of ABER-
DEEN arrived in town on Wednesday evening from a
visit to the Duke of BEDFORD, at Woburn Abbey, Bed-
fordshire. The Duke proceeded to Apsley House,
Piccadilly, which had been prepared for his occupation,
and slept there for the first time since its resonstruction.
His Grace attended yesterday at the Treasury, when the
Marquis CAMDEN had an interview with the Noble Duke.
The Hon. Mr. ADDINGTON arrived in town yester-
day from Bristol.
A rumour has for some days gone about that Parlia-
ment will assemble early in January.
It is reported that great reductions are about to be
made in the salaries of public officers, and that the Ca-
binet Ministers, with the Duke of WELLINGTON at their
head, will set the example by lowering their official in-
comes at least 25 per cent.
It is said that Ministers intend to reduce the duty on
West India sugar 25 per cent. The equalization of the
East and West India sugar duties is also talked of.
Not the slightest doubt now exists of its being the
determination of Government to attempt the reduction of
the Four per Cents. and no apprehension is entertained
of their being able to effect the measure.
We hear that Mr. HUME intends to move for a repeal
of that most unjust and unreasonable law under which a
lodger may, on the very day he comes into his apart-
ments, have all his goods seized to pay one year's rent of
the house. It is strange that such an anomaly has so
long existed, for in no way is the lodger's credit or re-
spectability staked by the tenant to his landlord. Why
then'shoul4 he become responsible ? Some most flagrant
and oppressive instances have recently occurred.
By a letter recently received in Plymouth from a Gen-
tleman at Fernando Po, we learn that 31 marines out of
40, who went out in his Majesty's ship Eden, some time
ago, have fallen victims to that inhospitable climate.
The marriage of a certain theatrical syren is said to
have realised the drama of Love's Labour Lost.

The friends of the late Eugenius Roche, one of the
Editors of the Courier, are about to publish, by subscrip-
tion, some poems which be left in manuscript. We
cordially wish success to the undertaking, both from re-
gard to the memory of a very amiable and respectable
gentleman, and for the sake of his disconsolate family,
who are left without adequate provision.
The Duchess of BEAUFORT has arrived in Bath, and
taken up her residence in Catherine-place. We under-
stand the amiable Duchess visits Bath wider the necessity
of consulting its able faculty. Her Grace is accom-
Eanied by her three daughters, the ladies Svsaw,
Inewcifs, and MARY SOMERSET.
A few days ago a young gentleman and lady, who
reside in the neighbourhood of the Potteries, Stafford-
shire, eloped from their friends and set off by chaise for
Liverpool. They had not, however, gone 20 miles before
they were overtaken, and the young lady brought back
to her family.
The St. Vincent Gazettes, which are down to the 27th
September, announce the death of the Hon. ROBERT
GORDON, President of his Majesty's Council of that
island, on the 16th, in the 91st year of his age.
Arrived at her house in Piccadilly, DONNA JUANA de
GoaosT z , Lady of his Excellency the Minister of the
republic of Mexico.
In Mexico, a traveller must go well armed. There is
an extraordinary French Marquise that travels from one
part of the republic to the other as a negociante, and
being of an intrepid character, has frequently been em-
ployed by merchants to convey their money from the in-
terior to the city of Mexico, or from thence to any other
point. She was once attacked by two or three men, one
of whom she shot without ceremony, whereupon the rest
thought it advisable to ride away. Arriving at the nearest
town on the road to which this event happened, informa-
tion of which had already preceded her, she was taken be-
fore the alcade ; and the two surviving rogues, who had
attempted to commit the robbery, now appeared as evi-
dence against her. The alcalde, with great solemnity,
said he must commit her to prison. Hereupon our heroine
took A loaded pistol from her bosom, which having cocked,
she presented at the alcalde, making this observation—
" rne man whom I shot attempted to rob me, and if you
do do not allow me immediately to depart, I have another
shot ready for, your honour, considering you and the two
witnesses accomplices." The case was instantly die-
charged !—Hardy's Travels in Mexico.

THE THEATRES.

THE ADELPHI,THESIAPAESE ELEPHANT.

We have read, somewhere, of a KING OF SIAM, who
when he first conversed with some English merchants,
required of them a detail of the common appearances by
which the summer and winter were distinguished in their
country; and when they told hint of water growing. so
hard in the rivers that men and horses and 13411 car-
riages passed over it, and that rain sometimes fo:i dawn
as white and as light as feathers, and sometimes almost
as hard as stones, he would not believe a syllable
they said ; for ice and snow and hail were names and
things utterly unknown to hint and his subjects in that
hot climate.—Now just as incredulous would John Bull
have been of the wonders of the kingdom of Siam, had
not two such remarkable specimens of its prodigies been
transmitted to gratify his eager curiosity, as the Ei.c-
PJIANT, the unprecedented attraction of the A delphi ; and
the twins now exhibiting at Bullock's. The sagacity of
the beast, —and the extraordinary phenomenon presented
in the formation of the youths, are wonders not more
astonishing to us, than the description of the hail and rain
and frost and snow to the Kt no of Slam. Our complacent
contemporary, the Times, however, is so accustomed
to the admiring contemplation of the moral monstrosities
of greater beasts (oven in human shape) than the Simms.:
Elephant, that the sage " Plural Unit" gravely declares
" we must own that her performances fell much short of
what we had been led to expect,"—although the learned
Pundit, immediately afterwards, " makes confusion
worse confounded," by saying, "'strangers as we are,
in this country, to the movements of animals of such
magnitude, the performance is a curiosity which will
well repay a visit to the Theatre.— This is " blow-
ing hot and cold" with a vengeance. But as we
said before; the moral monstrosities at which the Times
daily assists in the political world, have rendered him in-
sensible to the astonishing display of instinct, tractability,
capability, and "presence of mind" which would render
the performance of this Elephant instructive even to
some men who are now the objects of constant eulogy to
the " independent Times," which has the effrontery to
" damn with faint praise" the " great moral lesson"
taught by the mighty animal.
The exploits of the " great object of attraction" are
not numerous, but they are wonderfully effective. In the
first scene her exertions are confined to petty acts of
courtesy, most gratefully performed,—such as culling
flowers and presenting them to the Princess Indamora,
and the ladies of her court---and then becoming the bearer
of a love-letter from the Princess to the Prince Almanza ;
and never before did love choose such a "flying post !" The
decision of the Empire, by the Elephant's snatching the
crown from the head of the usurper, and placing it upon the
brow of the legitimate Prince, taking up his lawful
Majesty at the same time, and waving his Royal person
triumphiantly in air, to the admiration of his faithful
lieges; the banquetting scene—the delivery of A lmanza and
his comrades from captivity—and, at tho close, bearing
the youthful lovers in triumphal procession,—all drew
down long-continued bursts of applause. At the fall
of the curtain, the audience, in imitation of the Parisian
play-goers, called for " the Elephant," and the stupendous
animal came forward, evidently accustomed to the
whole affair, and waved its trunk in mute acknowledgment
of the thundering plaudits. This is a vile trick, how-
ever, on the part of a sensible people. The perform-
ances of the evening commenced with a prologue
full of point—and pun, of course—very effectively
delivered by YATES. Such is the splendor of the pa-
geantry, dresses, and decorations displayed in this spectacle,
that even without the exhibition of the elephant's as-
tonishing feats, it is calculated to attract spectators for
many an evening. It is altogether the most brilliant
thing of the kind that hest been seen for many years. By
some effort of Theatrical Galvanism, " Billy Taylor,"
whom we fancied extinct, was resuscitated, and as rap-
turously received as ever.

Consols have continued the whole of the morning at
95i to I, which price was rather contrary to expectation,
as it was the general opinion they would experience a
further advance ; the Commissioners for the Sinking
Fund purchased this day 32 thousand 3 per Cents. Re-
duced at 94, both for the Sinking Fund and Life An-
nuities. _ _

In the Foreign Market most of the foreign securities
have improved.
It is reported that the New York packet of the Bth
Nov. is off Holyhead.

Letters from Madrid, of the 21st Nov. state that a
copy of the armistice is handed about. It excludes all
persons who caused the King to agree, on the 7th March,
1820, to the acceptance of the Constitution !

Charlestown Papers are received at the North and South
American Coffee-house, to the 28th Oct. They contain
the same accounts of the capitulation of the Spaniards at
Tampico, as previously received by the New York Pa-
pers. From the Paper of the 27th October, it is stated
" that exertions will be made at the ensuing Session of
the Legislature of Georgia, to abolish the Central Bank,
lately established by the State. This establishment is
said to have disappointed the expectations of its friends."
The new finance measures adopted yesterday by the
Bank Directors are to this effect :—Lending money on
Exchequer Bills during the shutting of Consols, as well
as on India Bonds, India Bills, and Bills of Exchange,
at an interest of three per cent. per annum, for the period
between the sth December to the 15th January next, on
sums not under 2,0001. also on the deposit of bullion at
the Bank, advances will be made at the rate of two per
cent. There is scarcely a doubt that these measures of
the Bank Director" will prove very beneficial to the com-
mercial community. Money will become more plentiful,
and discounts will be obtained at the rate of two per cent.
The French Rentes, received this morning by the
Express, come higher; and the new measures of the
Bank have given the Consol Market this morning a very
lively appearance. Consols which left off yesterday,
after the House was closed, at 95 for the Account,openedl
at 94i, but immediately improved to 951 for January
Account; and at present may be quoted 951 to I. In'
the Foreign Market little doing at present.
An American Paper states that the Collector of the
district of Rochester made a seizure of a quantity of
British broad cloths, and a quantity of calicoes, at Pal-
myra, and these goods were introduced from Canada, and
other large supplies were in preparation to be
smuggled in the same way. The British, it will
be remembered, boasted on the Tariff that they
would evade its provisions, and deluge the Armenian
markets with smuggled goods.

A report was prevalent at the Coal Exchange on Wed-
nesday last, that the ship, Captain Cook, a Newcastle
collier vessel, had foundered during the late severe gale ;
also, that the ship Liberty and Prosperity had been lost,
but the crew saved. The reports were not true, as both
ships have safely arrived, and their cargoes were entered
for sale at this day's market. The captains and crews,
though they have experienced severe weather, are all
safe.

TO THE RIVER NITH

Hail, gentle stream! for ever dear
Thy rudest murmurs to mine ear !
Torn from thy Baw s, though far I rove,
The slave of poverty and love;
Ne'er shall thy Bard, where'er he be,
Without a sigh remember thee !
For there my infant years began.
And there my happiest minutes ran,
And there, to filial duty true,
The blossoms of affection grew !
—Blest days. when fond parental care
First led me to the House of Pray'r,
And, full of precepts from above,
Inspit'd my earliest slog of love!
Blythe on thy banks, thou sweetest stream
That ever mired a Poet's dream!
Oft, in the intervals of school,
I've plung'd across thy deepest pool ;
Or, fishing in forbidden time,
(If youth could sanctify a crime!)
Wtth hazel rod, and fr udful fly,
Pnsnar'd thy beauteous ,almoo.fry ;
In pain have haul'd them up, till when,
Pursu'd by lurking fishermen—
Away I've flown as fleet as wind,
My lagging followers far behind ;
And, when the fruitless chase was o'er,
Return'd successful as before! •
Still, on tby Banks, thou sweetest s•r:lna
That glitters to the morning-beam,
Hay youthful sports and joys resound,
And Love and Poesy abound ;
While I, through life, a pilgrim roam,
Far from thy Dank+, my happy borne!

JOHN Niarrig.

FACTS AND FANCIES.

THE " GEN DA RMERIF"OF E. LAN D.—The people
have been so unblushingly le•trayed by that portion of
the'prese which they theneelvei—deceived by vociferous
professions of liberal aud constitutional principles—fos-
tered Into sir, moll and power ; that it is no !onger a
matter of astonishment to behold the shameless apostates,
like vipers ready to sting the breast that warmed them,
leading their willing. advocacy to every species of delusion
by which the country may be lulled int.) fancied security
and consequent disregard of the silent but rapid stride
of measures for the establishment of a military govern-
ment of the most obnoxious description. The Globe,
which owed all the patronage it ever enjoyed to the
affectation of nationality and pstriotism, now seeks to
mask its too apparent p-ostitution by sneering at the
natural and justifiable apprehensions of those whoa e
yet honest enough to protest against the uncatstitutional
encroachments of power, in whatever shape tl.ey appear,
and to warn the people of England of the danger by
which their chartered liberties are imminently thrt atoned.
Yes, the Globe,—the apostate Globe,—inipudently ri
dicules ail remonstances against the introduction of an
odious and inquisitorial system of Espionage, and de-
signates his uncorrupt contemporaries, "alarmists" who
can fancy anything objectionable in the eaves-dropping
of " the poor men with coarse blue coats and oilskin
capes." What will the servile sycophant say now, when
the Military Ministers to whom we owe the disgrace to
England of an anti-national police, have the hardihood to
issue circulars for the appointment of Su no EON 5 to this
armed force, as they would to regiments of the line ?—Time
was, when the aid of the parish apothecary was sufficient
to keep the regular and constitutional watch in health
from year's end to year's end ; but our new-fangled
watchmen—we beg p:.rdon, our new " Police Officers"
—who out of a guinea a-week (whilst they complain of
inadequate wages—" pay" wo should have said) find
themselves in white kid gloves, scarlet watch-ribbons,
and India handkerchiefs, as suitable appendages to the
" coarse blue coats, oil-skin capes," and rap-rascalst—
cannot dispense with a dispensary of their own, and the
appointment of regular Staff Surgeons to bleed, blister,
and physic the " gentlemen of the Staff."
POLITICAL CONS ISTENCY.—The weathercock Times
is shifting again; but it is not difficult to see in what
quarter the trade-wind which influences the vane has at
length set in. " Constitution" is once more becoming the
" mode at Court," and the Wellington Journal mud
not " be out of fashion." And thus he sports his
liberalities :—" It is surely no small praise of liberty, and
experience justifies us in pronouncing, that a free Consti-
tutional Government is the best, or indeed the only certain
safeguard against the tendetszy of Court intrigues,
which hold nothing sacred, and least of all, the Sove-
reigns." After this, we hope we shall have no more
plausible suggestions put forth for the recognition of that
blood-stained despot, who, having trampled upon the
" free constitutional Government," which he had sworn
to protect inviolate, and proved how true it is, that
" Court intrigues hold nothing sacred, and least of all,
the Sovereigns," betrayed his brother, whose Viceroy he
was; deposed his niece, the rightful and legitimate Queen;
and, traitor-like, usurped the Crown of Portugal.
" MODERATION" OF THE AUTOCRAT.—Passing from
the approving commentary of the Times upon Constitu-
tional Government, to his aide-wind abuse of absolute
power, we are at once struck by the facility with
which our consistent contemporary forms, and re-
tracts, his judgments—reminding us, by the suddenness
of his alternations of " that strange Cirknickaerksey
lake in Carniola, whose waters gush so fast out of the
ground that they will overtake a swift horseman, and by-
and-by, with as incredible celerity are sipped up." A
few weeks ago the Emperor NICHOLAS was all " mode-
ration," even at the gates of Constantinople ;—to-day
we are told, that, " the accession of ALENAN DER WAS
prepared by his father's treacherous and cruel murder;
that of NICHOLAS was accomplished through the usurpa-
tion of a brother's birth-right, and followed by the military
massacre of thousands of Russian subjects." What a
model of " moderation!"

Sir FREDERICK and Lady BAKER, and family, are
expected in town to-morrow, from Hastings.
NAVARIN.—Some of the Newapapers have given vent
to much. obloquy against the gallant Commander-in-
Chief, for the purpose of depreciating the Victory of
Navarin. It is therefore high time that the truth respect-
ing the whole of our Political conduct in the East,
should be made known to the world ; for rumours are
afloat that, bad the gallant Admiral's advice met with
attention, no war would have taken place between Russia
and Turkey, and our faithful ally would not have been
reduced to the deplorable state of prostration which she
now presents. If these rumours have any foundation in
fact a serious responsibility must attach somewhere or
other, for the evils which have resulted from the neglect
of this advice ; and for the great increase of power which,
a deviation from the straight forvfard policy of Mr. Can-
ning, has thrown into the hand of the Autocrat of the
Missies, whose resources, it was idly hoped, would be ex-
hausted before the passage of the Balkan could be effected.
—Plymouth Journal.

THE ARMY.
LORD HIN-7.IrFEEVRE.
Lord Hsu, as General Commanding in Chief, hold a Levee at
the Horse guards, yesterday morning, which was attended ity
Colonel Mardonnel, Admiral Sir It. King, Lieutenant-Coiocel
Correquer, General l.den, Sir Thomas Hay, Lku owns ChicLe.er,
Lieutenant. Colonel Barrington, Captain R. B. Edwards, Lieut, n-
ant Colonel Mills, Lieutenant-Colonel C Hawker, Major Joint
M. M Alton, Captain Harper, Messrs. Drummond, Atkinson, Ma.
gennit, Blake, and Lassa.