Star.
London, England, 1826-12-20 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

Prince and Princess Lieven and family, fur Brighten ; the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford, for their seat, Woburn Abbey ; the' Mar.
quis and Marchioness of Stafford and family, for their seat, IVer
Hill, Surrey; the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, for liathel.f,
for the holidays; the Marquis and Marchioness of litisfol,
their seat, Putney Heath, Surrey, for the holidays; Lord• Pal- I
merston, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Hope, at their seat, Deep-
dyne, Surrey ; Baroness Willoughby d'Rrsby, from Cheltenh.on,
for town; Lord Hervey. on a tour ; Sir William Ingilhy, l'orr.
from Fenton's Hotel, Sr. James street, for his seat in Lincohl.
shire; Lord and Lady F. L. Gower, for the Marquis of &Jodi
seat, West Hill, Surrey ; F H. Green, Esq. from the Clarendon
Hotel, Bond-street, on a tow; Sir Charles Prooke Vert.,
from Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Su:folk ; the Rev. Mr.
Moleswortb, for Surrey; the Hon. Colonel Anson, M.P. fur the
Duke of Bedford's war, Woburn Abbey; the Earl and Canners
of Clare, from the Marquis of Exeter's seat, Burleibh, Lincoln-
shire, for town; the Earl of Bracknock, for his father's, the Mar-
quis of Camden's seat, 13ayhain Abbey, Sussex ; Lord Althorpe,
for his father, the Earl Spencer's seat, in Northamptonshire; Lad,'
Elisabeth Calk, for her seat, Rectory House, Enfield ; the Earl
Lauderdale, fnr Dunbar, N.B. Lord John Hay, for Scotlard,
Lord and Lady Mill, for their seat in Hams; Sir Thomas and
Lady Acland, for their seat in Somersetshire ; William Yates
Peel, Esq. for his seat in Lincolnshire, from Warren's Hotel,
Regent-street ; Lord Charles Manners, fur Belvoir Castle; the
Marquis and Marchioness of Ely and family, for their seat,
irons, Canterbury ; Lord and Lady Bradawl!, for Grantham,
Lincolnshire, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and
Cork-streets.—The Duke of Devonshire, from his seat, Chats-
worth, Derbyshire, for the Earl of Carlisle's seat, Castle Hoard,
Yorkshire, for the holidays.

This day, a Gentleman (Mr. BUCHANAN), arrived at
the Colonial Office, with dispatches from the Earl of DALHOWITI
at Canada.

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Mr. DRAFFEN, a King's Messenger, arrived this day
at the Colonial Office, with dispatches from the lonian Islands,
Yesterday several official Military Gentlemen trans-
acted business with the Duke of YOZE.
Monday and yesterday his MAJESTY'S royal Christ.
etas bounty was distributed to 500 poor aged and infirm men and
women, by Mr. HANBY, the Secretary to the Lord High Automat
at the Almonry Office, in Scotland-yard.
Yesterday afternoon, Prince POLfGhIAC, the French
Ambassador, transacted business at the Secretary of State's Office
for Foreign Affairs for a considerable length of time.
We regret to say the Earl of LIVERPOOL continues
confined by indisposition at his seat, sear Coombe Wood. Sir Ante
Coors& attends the Noble Earl.
Monday evening Mr. Secretary CANNING had a select
dinner party.
The Duke of WELLINGTON is to be Constable of the
Tower, in the room of the late Marquis of HASTINGS, and his Grace
resigns the government of Plymouth.
MATTHEW BELL, Esq.the new Member for Northum-
berland, is fitting up a spacious mansion in Wimpole-strset, for his
town residence.
Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East
India House, when Captain &MULL UREA was sworn into the
command of the ship Inglis, consigned to Bengal and China.
Monday Lord MELVILLE arrived at Portsmouth, 10
inspect the Boys in the Naval College, previous to their Charm:at
Holidays.
The Bishop of OXFORD has had a relapse, and is very
ill at this time.

The rehearbals of "La Schiava in Bagdad,"of PAccol,
are going on rapidly at the King's Theatre. the Opera,if welnai
credit report, will be brought out about the beginning of January
Monday, in the twilight of evening, a bat v..is el"
served on wing in the nelihbourhood of Edinburgh—a circt.r:
stance almost unexampled at this season.
WILLIAM DURWARD, Ecq. merchant in Montro,c,
has distributed upwards of 200 barrels of coals amongst the poor h
that town.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, in speaking of " 119

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PARIS, Declaim 11. By the Leeward Island Mail, Papers have been re-
Letters from the frontiers of Russia, of the 4th inst. rains its present suspicious reserve. Unless it lay aside, ceived from the Islands of a late date. The Houses of like that irregular offspring of fire, the Potheen of his native Inc.
Tales of the O'Hara Family," says, '' that the genius of the val•e•
give the following :—The news from St. Petersburgh of and that speedily, a circumspection so unworthy of the Legislature at Grenada had met, and the B lls regard-
. it would be in vain to look for in productions more amen
• the sth November, bear that the Marquis de Ribeau- occasion, and so unsuitable to the character of a great ing the amelioration of the Slaves had been rejected b a;
has not only a strength, but a wildness of flavour about it,,bwiely
J :he gauge of criticism. The Author is one of the most mast, .
pierre, who, along with the Count de Woronzoff, had Power, we shall begin strongly to suspect, that its pacific a large majority, chiefly on the ground that the Bills
the management of the conferences at Akermann, had were unnecessary, and their introduction unconsti u- this assertion will be fully borne out by the evidence of ta.let.
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professions are merely a pretext to gain time—.a cloak, painters of national character that have yet appeared in Ireland.;
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arrived in that capital with the Act of the Convention • •tional. A similar fate had attended the introduction
retified by the Sultan. It was said that he was imam- to conceal the secret and active workings of a perverse of a like set of Bills in the House of Assembly in St. vhich, ren ind us of the early and best days of Miss
ili Etw'uGhvowain,roll,.
he Second Series of these Stories, the powerful deli:nation, ;
,n4l the " Aby Nowlan," in the present work,
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(barely to set out again for Constantinople as Ambassa- ambition. It will also most assuredly incur the sus- Vincent, and7the Planters appear jealous of the attempts hink, at least equal to the measurable "Ms Candy, 0l '
doe; on the °Reiland, to press the execution of the Con- picion of being at the bottom of an intrigue, which h made to legislate for thenrby the Government.
as , Rack-rent."
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FALMOUTH. DECEMBER 17.

Aseinsn THIS 1t093111M.

Arrived, the Ottawa, Doons.as, from Quebec. In 28 days ; landed
mail anti passengers—Mr. Buchannan, with dispatches foe' the Co-
office ; Mr. Gowan, Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Becket. Mr.
Carter and Mr. Roffenstein remain on board.
QUEBEC, NOVIDI ism 19.

The weather has been variable during the past week, the cold
which has been experienced in the early part, subsided on Thursday ;
since which there has been a continued thaw. The *inter roads
arc apin broken up, and travelling must be bad, as the Montreal
Post did not arrive until three o'clock. Most of the outitratd bound
vessels are ready for sea.
MONTREAL, Novingsza 17.

The indications of the approach of winter are thickening around
us. On Sunday evening a pretty smart frost set in, which did more in
two hours to improve the streets, than all that the superintendant
tias done for the last twelvemonths. The chill visitant has continued
his much-needed influence ever since. Yesterday forenoon It began
to snow, and, before dark, the streets were covered to 'the depth
of inches.