Star.
London, England, 1829-11-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-General Sir John Riley, X.C.B from the royal regiment
of horse.guards. will, it is said, be appointed colonel of the tat
(royal) regiment of dragoons, vice General Thomas Garth, de-
ceased.
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MILITAILT DIMARTMI3III Di 'INLAND.
Chief Secretary's Office, Dublin Castle—First Clerk, Edward
Connor, esq.
Military Accounts Oface, Upper Iderrkm-street, Dublin—Com-
missioners, Robert Barry, esq. and B. Taylor Ottley, esq.
Judge Advocate General's Office, Dublin—Deputy Judge Ad-
voarate, D. Walker, esq. Prevost Marshall, Lieut. R. Speedy.
Vice Treasurer—The Right Honourable Sir G. Hill, bart,
Deputy ditto, Lieutenant-Colonel William Blacker.
Coiumander of Hibernian School—Major G. Spottiswoode.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

liana Almelo Tots Dar.--Dublla I—Waterford I—Franee 1—

Flanders 1.

The George, Bechar. from Archangel, arrived at Broadstairs,
with loss of rudder, anchor, and cable, and six feet water in her
hold, baying been on the Goodwin Sand, bound to Leedom
The Christy and Jean, Brown, from Liverpool, arrived at !eau-
awls faU of water; has been on shore ..bound to Newry.
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The Britannia, Bully ; Flora, Hutton ; and John and Elizabeth,
Hutton, of Yarmouth, and Mariner, Clew, of Sunderland, all
on Yarmouth Beach—crews saved.
The Ranger, Burnett, of Whitby, is on shore on Pakelield
Beach.
The Commerce, Newton, is onshore at Bridlington.
The Henry Hope, Hoyle, from Genoa, was on shore near Leg-
horn oa the 15th instant.
Dees, Nov. 25.—Wind S.S.E.—The brig Mountaineer is a
complete wreck. The pilot, Mr. W. Sergeant, of Deal, a Deal
boatman, and two of the crew, drowned. The wreck has been sold
at auction this afternoon—part of the cargo saved. The schooner
Maria, of Preston, Thomas Corbsll, Master, from blip, to Lon-
don, with oats, drove on shore last night near the Mountaineer—
crew saved—cargo discharging.
Poasensouru, Nov. 25 Wind N.E. It blew a heavy gale last
night from N.—Arrived the Robert Edwards, Sherburn, from
New York.
Fusionist, Nov. 24.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Fidelity. Eng-
lish, from Quebec; Ceres, Dunn, from Miramichi ; William and
Mary, Miller, from Labrador; and Eliza Leton, nelson, from
Leghorn.

Monday last the King honoured the Marquis of Head -
fort with an audience at the Royal Lodge, who delivered
to His Majesty the insignia of the order of St. Patrick,
worn by his late father.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when the following Captains were sworn
in to the command of their respective ships,---viz.
Captain Robert !Backe Orwell, St. Helena, Bombay, and
China ; Captain S. Timing Reliance, Captain Joseph
Stanton, General Harris, Bengal and China; and Capt.
Frederick Madan, Berwickshire, Bombay and China.
The ship Astell, taken up for a voyage to China, was thus
timed,---viz. to be afloat on the 3d of March, sail to
Gravesend on the 24th of March, stay there 21 days, and
be in the Downs on the 21st of April.
The new Police-commissioners appear determined to
improve the police system of the metropolis in every
possible way. Instructions were given, owing to the
very heavy fall of snow, that the men on duty, yesterday
morning, should see that the snow was swept off the pave-
ment by each housekeeper: and those who refused to do
so to be reported, and they should be fined in the full
penalty of the law. This order to be strictly attended
to throughout the winter.
THE OLD FLEET MARKET.—Monday the materials
of the tumble-down sheds of this venerable timeworn
market were disposed of by public auction. The sale
took place on the spot, and was conducted by Mr. Crea-
ton. There were about 200 lots, each lot consisting of
the bricks, timber, sashes, &c. of a shed, conditioned
that the buyer should remove the same at his own ex-
pense, within three weeks of the day of sale. The whole
of the internal fittings, which were the property of the
respective tenants, had been previously removed. The
lots fetched what, considering the oldness of the work,
were deemed fair prices. Workmen are now busily
employed in placing barriers all around the market, by
direction of the Corporation, in order to prevent any
accidents from carriages being driven over the rough
broken ground, which in a short time will alone remain
to mark the site of this ancient market. And even this
last vestige will continue only so long as may be neces-
sary for the entire repaving of the street, and the whole
as one spacious and commodious thoroughfare will then
be thrown open to the public, when its former title of Fleet
market will become merged in that of Farringdon-street.

THE REFORMATION SOCIETY AND
STONYHURST SCHVOL.
At a meeting of the Committee of the Blackburn
Auxiliary to the British Society for promoting the Religious Prin-
ciples of the Reformation, it was resolved that the following invi-
tation to a public discussion be forwarded to the Reverend the
Principal of Stonyhurat, and to the Clergy of the itomish Com-
munion resident in and near Blackburn
Reverend Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned Members of the
British Society for the Promotion of the Religious principles of the
Reformation, beg leave respectfully to invite the ttev. Fathers of
Stonyhurst. and the Clergy of the Church of Rome, and any res-
pectable laymen belonging to that Church, to en open and public
discussion (with members of the above Society) of the points of
difference in controversy between the Churches of Rome and

England.
We beg to inure you, Reverend Gentlemen, that we address
this invitation to you io the spirit of Ch istian charity and personal
good will, Influenced by I sincere desire to investigate and promote
religious truth, and firmly convinced that such public discussions as
that to which we now invite you, so far from fomenting, do most
materially allay the irritation produced by religious animosities,
and promote personal respect among the members of different

communions.
It is our ardent wish to remove every probable and even pos-
sible cause of complaint or dissatisfaction on the part of our ex-
pected opponents—for which purpose we beg leave to propose that
the thre, subjects, and detailed regulations of the discussion (if our
invitation be accepted) shall be settled by two Committees, which
may mutially arrange all preliminaries, and, previous to the Meet-
ing, give sufficient notice of the same to the gentry of this and the
adjoining counties.
With the further desire of giving entire satisfaction, and rentov-
. ing all apprehension on the part of our opponents, it has been our
object to select a Chairman who shall be perfectly acceptable to our
Roman Catholic brethren. Peregtine Edward Towneley, Esq. of
Towneley, has appeared to us, from his personal character, the esti-
mation and antiquity of his family, and other considerations, emi-
nently qualified for the situation—one, whose character as a gentle-
man, and whose nobleness of disposition, place hint beyond all sus-
picion—in whom the Prote.tatit disputants can entirely confide.
We bet leave to inform you, Reverend Gentlemen, that Mr.
Towneley has had our whims in this respect intimated to him, and
has consented to preside at the proposed discussion,prov filed it takes
place, and the previous arrangements be satisfactory to both parties.
In the earnest hope of learning at your earliest leisure that our
proposal is received and accepted with the same liberality and per-
senal good feeling in which we make it, we remain, Reverend
Gentlemen, very respectfully your obedient servants,
(Signed) J. ww. WHITTAZAH, JONATHAN MACKINAW,
JACK*ON PORTON, P. CONLIRPONO Law,
G. LAILDNZIL FOZTOU, EDWARD IRAWSDIIN.
Blackburn, Nov. 6.
THE

71.RDENS.

In the course of last week Dr. Brookes delivered two
lectures on the ostrich at thercologkalGardens, in the Regent's•park.
The subject upon which he lectured was a male ostrich which be-
longed to the society, and which bad been for many months previ-
ous to its death in an ill state of health, so as to render it advisable
not to exhibit it to the visitors, in consequence of which it was kept
out of sight in a stable by itself. The bird having died, and Dr.
Brookes having consented to lecture upon it, one of the rooms in
which the wild beasts arc kept was fitted up as a sort of temporary
lecture-room, and a platform of boards raised to receive the
body of the bird. The greater prt of the learned anatomist's
lectures applied to ornithology, and, indeed, to anatomy generaUyi;
but he, nevertheless, made some very curious remarks on the
ostrich itself, though, at the same time, he bad to lament
that the long illness under which the bird before him had
suffered bad relaxed a great deal of the internal anatomy of the
body, and, consequently, prevented its being so fine a spe-
cimen in that respect as he could have wished. Dr. Brookes
then called the attention of his audience co the construction
of the legs of the ostrich, which were so admirably formed
for running, by which means nature had supplied what she
had taken away In depriving it of the power of flying. The ostrich
was one of those few birds which have but two toes on each foot ;
but here again, that nature might not seem improvident, she has
made those toes of such a length, and supplied them with so pow-
erful a joint—a joint acted upon and strengthened by the very
weight of the body—that they were adequate to all the purposes
for which they were wanted. But, although the ostrich was in-
capable of flight, its wings were of use to him, as in running be ex-
panded them to assist his progress; added' to which, the ends of
them were armed with sharp spines, which, though not of the
length of those of the porcupine, were sufficiently long to assist it
in repulsing any animal that might attack it, and to inflict a pretty
severe wound. This, however, was not a feature exclusively be-
longing to the genus struthio, (amongst which the ostrich is en-
rolled) but was to be met with in the screamer, the African goose,
and perhaps some others. With respect to the bones of the os-
trich, there are two things very remarkable—the one, that it was
without that bone which is familiarly called the merry-thought.;
and the other, the amazing strength of the pelvis ; this latter cir-
cumstance was, doubtless, a provision of nature to add to the
strength of the lower part of the body ; and, when it was consi-
dered that the ostrich, though it weighed from eighty to one hun-
dred pounds, was able to outrun the fleetest horse, it would be
easily apprehended how necessary such a provision was. The In-
ternsl arrangement of the ostrich was in many respects curious, and
among other things might be noticed the enormous length of its in-
testines; for the curiosity of the thing Dr. Brookes mentioned that
be would measure their length ; but. as he did not do so in the
course of the lecturer, it was probable that the circumstance sub-
sequently slipped his memory. We heard a scientific man make a
guess that they were from thirty to forty yards long. During the
second lecture a piece of brick, or stone (about 2 or 3 inches in di-
ameter) which had been found in the stomach of the ostrich, wu
handed to the doctor, and he took occasion thereon to suppose that
it had been thrown to the bird by some of the visitors to the gar-
dens, who came there full of the mistaken idea that the ostrich's
powers of digestion were such as to be able to digest iron or any
bard substance. As to the stomach, it would have afforded. hint
much pleasure to have dissected it, and to have lectured upon it on
that occasion ; but it was thought advisable by those who had the
mlnagentent of the affairs of the society to preserve the stomach
whole, in order that it might be kept in spirits ; and with respect
to the organs of the voice, which presented many interesting cir-
cumstances, he should not touch upon them, as a member of the
society. Mr. Yarrell had made that portion of zoology his pant.
cuter study, and gone more deeply into the consideration of it than
any of his predecessors.
In the course of the second lecture Dr. Brookes mentioned that
the body of an ourang outing had been sent to the society for dis-
section ; it would have afforded hint great pleasure to have assisted
at the operation ; but, unfortunately, his avocations at the present
season of the year were so numerous, that be was quite unable to
spare the time; be regretted this, however, the less as the Zoolo-
gical Society had the good fortune to enrol amongst its members
some of the first zoologists and physiologists in the world, and he
had no doubt through them the subject would be done ample justice
to ; and, even should that fail, as the animal was in spirits, perhaps
at some future time he should have it in his power to enter upon
the examination. He likewise mentioned that within a few days
a fox, in the possession of the society, had died, which presented
the curious phenomenon of having but one kidney. Such instances
were rarely met with, though they were nut without example;
and, indeed, instances of the same thing had occasionally been met
with in the human species.
It is hardly necessary to add, that this great anatomist was lis-
tened to throughout with the profoundest attention, and, by his
observations, afforded the highest gratification to his auditory,
among whom we observed some of the most scientific men be-
longing to the

Nety.

The Custom-house gentlemen are all on the qui vive
look-out for the elephant, whose arrival is expected to
take place to-day or to-morrow. It is to be hoped for
Mathews and Yates's sake, that the Government duties
are not to be paid by weight.
A very common notion has obtained, that in the early
periods of the world its inhabitants were both more juve-
nile and more perfect; that they were of a gigantic sta-
ture, incredible strength, as well as of an amazing leng.ll
of life. In consequence of these notions, many roman-
tic fictions have been broached, such as, that Adam at-
tained to the height of 900 yards, and almost to the age
of a thousand years. But philosophy has converted the
supposed bones of giants, discovered in different places,
into those of the elephant and rhinoceros; and divines
have proved, that the chronology of the early time was
not the same with that which is now used : some have
gone so fat as to assert, that the year, till the time of
Abraham, consisted only of three months ; that it was
afterwards extended to eight ; and that it was not till the
days'of Joseph that it attained to twelve. According to
this view, the 1600 years before the flood will become
414; and the 900 years of Methusalem will be reduced
to 200, which is no improbable age, when we consider
the temperance of the period, and the age to which many
have attained inmodern times.--Health Without Physic.

Wheat

Barley

Oats. ..
Rye

Peas ........
Beans
All other Grain

Total Qrs. of Grain..
Cwts. of Flour ....

1,556,067
288,259
429,329
64,730
38,852
42,0116
47,158

1,343,933
233,515
188,426
63,914
21,081
33,582
40,496

200,477
54,911
459,619
26,055
23,091
26,139
5,257

2,466,474 1,924,947 I 795,6 W
440,794 : 7;35,382 57,656

TABLE TALK, .
HISTORICAL, POLITICAL. LEARNED, and HUMOROUS

—" Pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection. auda-
cious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange
without heresy."—Snausrwts.

MOLIERE.—When Aristocratic pritte, or more fre-
quently private malice and wounded self conceit, assuming
the pretext of difference of rank, endeavoured to put an
affront upon MOLIERItE, he 'usually received instant in-
demnification from some noblemen of better taste. Thus
When the other valets-de-chanthre of the royal household
showed an unwillingness to assist MoLIERE in the dis-
charge of his office, Monsieur de BELLOCQ, a man of
genius as well as rank, rebuked them by saying aloud to
the object of their paltry spite —" Permit me to assist
you in making the King's bed, Monsieur de Mott E
shall esteem myself honoured in having you for a
companion."
THE LATEST INFORMATION !—M. de E— was
relating a story. M. de B— said to him, " That cannot
be, for I have a letter of the 31st, which says the con-
trary. " Ah," replied the narrator, " but mine is of
the 32d !"

GREY HAI as.—Lou is XII. one day looking at him-
self in his mirror, was astonished to see a number of grey
hairs on his head. "Ah !" said he, " these must be
owing to the long speeches I have listened to ; and it is
those of. M. le —in particular, that have ruined my
bair."—Menage.
YOUNG CARDIN A LS.—The two youngest cardinals on
record, are ODET de CIIATILLON, who afterwards be-
came a Calvinist—and the CARDINAL INFANT. The
first was only eleven years old, and the second some
months younger.---Loriguerue.
FRANCIS I.—FRANCIS I. was one day playing at
tennis, when a Monk, who was playing on his side, by a
successful stroke, insured the victory to the King's party.
" Well done !" said the King, " a brave stroke for a
Monk !" " Sire," replied the Monk, " your Majesty
can make it the blow of an Abbe when you please." Some
days afterwards the Abbey of Bourmayen became vacant,
and the King presented the situation to him. —Duchat.
LEARNING ENCOURAGED.—One of those booksellers
in Paternoster-row, who publish things in numbers, went
to GIBBON'S lodgings in St. James's-street, sent up his
name, and was admitted. " Sir," said he, ""I am now
publishing a History of England, done by several good
hands : I understand you have a knack at them there
things, and should be glad to give you every reasonable
encouragement." As soon as GIBBON recovered the use
of his legs and tongue, which were petrified with surprise,
he ran to the bell, and desired his servant to show this
Encourager down stairs.— Walpoliana.
MA Z EPPA.—The mode of punishment, so powerfully
described by BY RON in his poem of " Mazeppa," was of
great antiquity. The horrid custom of tying a criminal
to an unbroken horse, which was then driven at full speed
through brakes and forests, was actually inflicted on
BRUN MIA UT, or BRUNECIIILD, a very wicked Queen
of France—but who, with all her iniquity, might boast

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of being the daughter, sister, aunt, wife, mother, and
grandmother, of Kings. This event was confirmed by
the examination of her tomb, in the abbey of St. Martin,
at Autun, in 1632 ; one thousand years after her death.
in it was found thtt. remains of her bones, and the rowel
of a spur, which it was formerly the custom to fix on the
sides of horses used in such executions, to render them
more furious.
EXTR AORDINART EEQUEST. EUBREQUIUS in-
forms us, that ACIIIIZT BASSA, when condemned in
1555 to be strangled, by order of the Sultan, made it
his particular request to the executioner that he would
deprive him of life by degrees, and that after be had
tightened the bowstring, he would loosen it again, that
so he might know minutely how the pangs of death
made their approach !
MINISTERIAL INFLUENCE.—A Minister, by ill-
advising his Prince, and putting him upon wrong me-
thods, has often had the honour to see a flourishing
country reduced to beggary.— Tom Brown's" Laconics:
POLITICAL INTEGRITY.—A man that keeps steady
to one party, though he happens to be in the wrong, is
still an honest man.—lbid.
ENGLISH LAW.

The atrocious character of the English Law is evi-
denced in this, that any man who is indifferent to public
opinion may at once, under the mask of illegal proceed-
ings, so manage matters as to Owe a man possessed of a
small property in an utter impossibility of preserving it
without the aid of a rich man. Our readers may re-
member a singular case of oppression of two poor women
in a county bordering on Wales, who, in consequence of
the manoeuvres of an attorney to lay hold of some free-
hold property they possessed, were forced into law by
him, and beggared and thrown into prison.—Morning
Chicle.

HISTORICAL PA RALLELS.

Cow Lev, in his " Discourse by way of Vision, con-
cerning the Government of Oliver Cromwell," has in-
troduced " a strange and terrible apparition," which is
no other than the ghoet of the Protector himself, feotii
whose " sepulchral jam," very properly issue a defence
of " His Highness" aiel a flaming panegyric of his
Government—which prove bet the prelude to the severe
and terrible castigation which the indignant Poet has
inflicted upon his flagitious usurpation, and his tyrannies:
ride. Hunt, with a paltry disingenuousness, unwo; thy
of the historian, and subversive of the purposes of his-
tory. tranefers to his own summary of the Usurper's
chiracter, the egotistical eulogy which Cow Lev put
into the mouth of " the strange and terrible ap-
parition," merely as an introduction to, and gratifica-
tion of, his hitter reply : and then, not content with
" altering the passage in some particulars from the ori-
ginal," HUME comments upon it, as if it were the inten-
tional commendation of " a writer attached to the
memory of that wonderful person," and instead of ap-
pending Cowell v's honest declaration of his own senti-
mente, closes the panegyric, by saying " My intention
14 not to disfigure this picture drawn by so masterly a
hand; I shall only endeavour to remove from it some-
w:nat of the marvellous"—totally regardless of the still
greeter marvel which he was preparing for posterity, in
t'ee exhibition of a grave Historian deliberately falsifying
era contemporaneous record, which should here aidel
his impartial development of the usurper's charaettr,
and not have veiled his guilt in the dazzling "is -
play of his mental qualifications. The tribute which
HOOP. -has thus constrained COWLEY to pay, to
the ' memory of a man whom ho execrated, is too
familiar to Eitglish readers, to require transcription in
this place; hut the faithfel picture which COWLEY actu-
ally drew of the Tyrant, is bat little known. Some of
the feetures—aed those nut the least appalling—have
been so horrilsly, so seikingly, resuscitated in the blood-
stained Usurper of Portusral, that be seems to have
chosen Citootw Ei. L o 3 the loodel on his guilty greatness.
—Cow LEY , in first addreseing the spectre, says, " Such
a Protector we have had, as we would have been glad
to !Iwo changed for an enemy ; and rather receive
a csustent Turk, than this every mouth's apostate ; such
a n e eceecto as man is to his flocks, which he shears
t •
and sells, or devours himself; and I would fain know
what the wolf whom he protects them from, could do
more ? • • There would be no end to instance in the
particulars of all his wickedness ; but to sum up a part of
it briefly, what can be more extraordinerily wicked than
for a person, such. 33 yourself qualifie him rightly, to en-
deavour not only to exalt himself above, but to trample
upon, all his equals and bette:s ? to pretend freedom for
all men, and under the help of that pretence to make all
men his servants? • • to set up councils of rapine, and
court:; of murder ? to fight against the king under a
commission for him ? to d: we, him into his net
with protestations and vows of fidelity, and when
he had caught him in it to betray him with as
little shame as conscience or humanity, in the open face
of the whole world! • • * to fight against Monarchy
when he declared for it, and declare against it, when he
contrived for it in his own person ? • • •to break
his faith with all enemies, and with all friends equally?
and to make no lees use of the most solemn perjuries,
than the looser sort of people do of customary oaths ? to
usurp three kingdoms without any shadow of the least
pretensions, and to govern them as unjustly as he got
theni ? to set himself up as an idol, and make the very
streets, like the valley of Hinnom, by burning the
bowels of men as a sacrifice to his Moleck.ship ?
• * • I call him (said I) a Tyrant, who either in-
trudes himself into the government of his fellow citizens,
without any legal authority over them, or who, having
a just title to the government of a people,
abuses it to the destruction' or tormenting of
them. So that all Tyrants are at the same time
usurpers, either of the whole, or at least a part of that
power which they assume to themselves, and no less are
they to be accounted rebels, since no man can usurp au-
thority over others but by rebelling against them who bad
it befole, or at least against those laws which were his
superiors ; and in all these senses no history can afford us
a more evident example of tyranny, or more out of all
possibility of excuse or palliation, than that of the person
whom you are pleased to defend, whether we consider
his reiterated rebellions against all his superiors, or his
usurpation of the Supremo power to himself, or his
tyranny in the exercise of it."