Star.
London, England, 1828-08-19 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-General Ross, it is said, will succeed Major. General Sir
J. CoLsoitios, K.C.B. as Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey and
Alderney.
The Ist Division of the 3d Battalion of the Grenadier Regiment
of Guards arrived on Saturday at Portman-street Barracks, from
Ireland, and the 2d Division of the same corps arrived this day at
the same station.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS /WM= THIS Mi.—Dublin I—Waterford I—Holland 1

France I.

The Meridian, from Port-au-Prince'and Boston, has arrived off
the Start.

The Cognac packet, from Pernambuco, has arrived off Holyhead.
Ltvaftrooft, AUGUST 36.—Arrived the Vitttorla, WILSON, from
Cuba; Columbus, 'lbsen., from Savannah; Nimrod, AGNEW, and
Huskisson, Naar, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Defence,
Rum's, from Miramichi; Lady Kinnear, from Halifax; and
Atalanta, from Tunis.
BRISTOL, AUGUST 17.—Arrived the Concord, Escorr, from To-
bago; Friends, NEWMAN, front Oporto; Nautilus, Caoss, from
Archangel; and Mars, front St. Petersburgh.
FALMOUTH, AUGUST 17.—Wind S.W. to W.—Off port the Al-
fiance, ELLIOT, from Shedrac.
PORTSMOUTH, Accost la.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ships Cordelia and Britomart, from Lisbon; Need, SIMMS,
from Trieste; Amity transport, from Halifax; and La Fortune,
Curs Ito, from Cm unna, with refugees front Portugal.
DEAL, AUGUST W.N.W.—Arrived the Frederic.
FREEMAN, front Jamaica; Bonito, TERRY, front Miramichi : Lady
Rowena, itussm, front New South Wales; Ariadne, BLACIIELLE,
from Newfoundland ; Albion, from Gibraltar ; Livorno,
Gftrimasat.t., front Genoa ; Argo, AIUNNO, front Aft Ica ; and Tul-
loch Castle, PEARCE, from Jamaica. A ship from India passed
early this morning, supposed to he the Elphiiistmie.
ArrosuvmENT.—Comm ande r Charles Paget, to the Procris, sloop
of war, intended for the Irish station.
Lieut. W. J. Cole, July, 1810, now in command of his Ma-
jesty's ship Onyx, was promoted ro the rank of Commander on the
Bth inst.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

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CHANGES.

The Chancellor of Ireland and Ladies, from Nerat's Hotels, for
Brussels; Lord Viscount Glentwoith and friends' from ditto ; the.
Earl and Countess Stanhope, Lord Mahon, and the Hon. Miss
Stanhope, front Warren's Hotel, fur their seat in Kent ; Capt. and
Mrs. Elliott, far Newport, in the Isle of Wight; Captain and Mrs.
Gordon' for Thames Ditton ; Mr. and Mrs. Fortescue, for the
Steyne, Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Stanhope, for the Glynde, Lewes ;
Major and Mrs. Collyer, For the Isle of Wight; Capt. Fitzmaurice.
for Rome; Mrs. and Alias Featherstone, for Lyme Regis, in Dor-
setshire ; Major and Mr. Dormer, for Scarborough ; Mr. and Mrs.
Edmonstone, for :-arrowgate ; Mr. and Mrs. Utterson, fur the
Hague ; Major Heneage, for Brighton ; Mrs. Dilke and Mrs.
Dugdale, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel ; George Round, F.sq.
and Mrs. Round, from ditto; Captain Hodgson, from ditto;
Anthony Denney, Esq. from ditto ; F. Cotton, Esq. from ditto ;
the Alarquii and Alarchioness of Tasi.tock, for the Earl of Essex's
seat, Cashiohury Park ; Prince and Princess kloskowa, from
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris ; R. J. Thompson,
Esq. and son, front ditto, for Yorkshire; Mr. and Lady Jane Car-
negie, front the Burlington Hotel, Oldillurlington and Cork-Streets,
for the North ; W. H. Unwin, Esq. from ditto, fur the North ;
J. M. Brackenbury, Esq from the Royal Hotel, St. James's-streets
far Paris ; J. Resdest, Esq. front ditto, on a tour ; W. Tomlinson,
Esq. from the Brills!' Hotel, Jermyn-street, fur Oxford; J. Cooke,
Esq. from ditto, for Paris.

MARRIAGE —Yesterday morning, by special license,
at St. Mary's. Bryauston-square. the Earl of CHICHESTER to Lady
MARY BIUDINILI., fourth daughter of the Earl of CARDIGAN.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE.-7-.The Opera of Arthur and
Emmeline, with Fuacetis music, was performed at this theatre
last night, for the first time this season, to the delight of a numerous
audience.

Mr. POOLE, one of the Ushers of the Court of King's
Bench, was about leaving home, with his wife, on Sunday even-
lug, about five o'clock, to visit some friends, when he went up
stairs to fetch his stick ; but scarcely had he entered the room when
he was seized with an apoplectic fit, and instantly expired. Mrs.
Noce hearing a noise, immediately ran up stairs, and found him
on the floor a corpse.
A notorious character, named Millen, convicted of
horse stealing at the late Huntingdon Assizes, and sentenced to
fourteen years' transportation, escaped from that gaol on Monday,
and has not since been heard of.
_ _ _

Yesterday an Inquest was held at the " Grapes,"
Newcastle-court, Picket-street, on view of the body of Tommie
ADAM, aged forty-seven years. The deceased, who had lodged at-
the Grapes fqr some time, had formerly-been a confectioner, and
carried on an extensive business in Cheapside and Picket-street,tut
died suddenly on .Saturday morning from an inflammation °cm.
sioned by an abscess which was formed on the cerebellum.
A le:ter from Plrtsmouth, dated Sunday, states the
arrival at that port of his 'Majesty's ship Harrier, Commander
WILLIAH Monsce, from Lisbon, in nine days, having left that place
on the Bth inst. in company with his Majesty's frigates Pyramus,
Captain SAIITOKIUS, and Galatea, Sir Cuaasso SULLIVAN, Bart.
bound to I'lyniouth, with which ships the Harrier parted company
in a gale on the night of the 13th, in the Bay of Biscay. They left
in the Tagus the French frigate Thamis, and a Falmouth.packet:
a French store-ship, bound to South America, sailed with the Ilri-
tish squadron. Don Mums had a squadron of ten sail ready to
start fur the attack of Madeira, consisting of one 74, one frigate,
three corvettes, three brigs, and two troop ships.
There area great number of ships building in the
Dock-yard at Woolwich. The timber is in preparation for a vessel
of 120 guns, named the Trafalgar, and for a steam vessel of 700
tons, to be called the Dee. A large basin or wet dock •is being
constructed for ships to float in. It. is 400 feet long by 250 wide.
Considerable reductions have taken place in the Royal Arsenal and
Depository during the last three weeks.
.FRAOSS ON THE UNDERWMITERS.—The following is
an extract of the sentence passed at Hamburgh, on parties con-
cerned in scuttling the Vrow Gretha, Athen, Master, from Ham-
burgh to London, in December, 1825, with intent to defraud the
underwriters in Hamburgh and London —" Simon Stern, of
Delfzyl, three years imprisonment, and to be banished from Ham-
burgh. Mani Samuel Alondag : his imprisonment from FA.1826
to Feb. 1827 considered sufficient, to be banished. Israel Emanuel
Von Damn, four years iniprisonmeneand hard labour. Ernst Al.
fred Cohen, of Hamburgh, five years imprisonment and hard labour,
and banishment front Hamburgh and its territory. Levi Koop.
man Samuels, of Jever, ttlSt sufficient proof against him. Proceed-
ings to be taken, agaitut Heineman Athen, the Master, and De
Boer, the Mate."
LADY ELL/NA CAMPBELL.—Extract of a letter, dated
Islay, August 7 Among the numerous sports and
recreations which this valuable island affords itsiwor thy
proprietor and numerous friends who visit him, it may
not be deemed uninteresting to state, that a few days
ago, the Lady ELLINA CAMPBELL, with some of her
domestics and guests, went with a draught net t I the
beach in Lochindall, near to Islay House, in which %ere
caught, at one haul, 276 salmon, weighing from nine to
fifteen lbs. each, besides which many escaped by a part
of the net bursting. Mr. CA1.171/.LL and his Noble Lady,
with their characteristic kindness and benevolence to
their-tenantry, immediately distributed this valuable
quantity of fish among the worthy and needful bt them:
On this occasion her Ladyship was attended by aileril
dentin, one of their tenants, who is upwards of 90 years
of age, who is yet capable of performing an ordinary
day's journey and whose age was not a. little renewed
by the novelty of the sight.

SPORTING IN't ILIGENCE.
TATTEIISA
Many of the principal betting men haying returned front Good•
wood. the attendance yesterday was more uumerous than for sonic
wseits put, and isitne'bets were made on th-. St.. Leger, Chiefly on
the- fi•st tour tavvusites; the consequence being the reinstatement
of Ilessy Bedlam as second favourite. There is a slight mosement
amongst the out-iders,
but very little was said about them. Indeed,
nearly all the betting is engrossed by the first four. AL six o'clock
the odds closed thus:

Sr. LIGE&
.5 to 1 agst Velocipede 1 25 to I agst Murphy
5 to 1 apt llt say Bedlam I 25 to 1 apt Ultimatum
11 to 2 agst The Colonel 25 to 1 agst Economist
7 to 1 agst Ballad Singer 28 to 1 ag,t Master Burke
25 to 1 ago Jour de Noces The rest as before.

2000 even on Velocipede agst Bossy Bedlam and the Colonel.
2000 even between Air. Ciascoigne's two.
TUNBH.I DGE WELLS RACES—FIRST DAT.
The %lanor Bowl, of 65 soy,. Heats two utiles and a distance.
Mr. Dickinson's b h Tom, 5 yrs, Bat 121 b ... ... 3 1 1
Mr. toleman's b g Nonsuit, 4 yrs, 7st 1 llb .. 1 9 2
Mr. Page's Escape, 6 yrs, 9st ... ... .. 9 sdr
The Ladies' Plate of 85 sows. was won in three heats by Mr.
Wetherall's ch c by Woful, beating, Mr. Coleman's Sally, and five
others.

The Town Plate of 60 3oys. was won by Mr. Kettle's llawks•
eye, beating Jar. Coleman's Nonsuit, and four others.

SECOND DAY.

Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. Heats a mile and a

distat ce.

Mr. Coleman's ch g Huntsman,4 yrs, ast 3lb .. 2 1 I
Mr. Farrall's b I Vittoria, 3 yrs, Tat ills ... .. 1 2 2
Mr. %Vallee. c The Orphan, 3 yrs, 7st 4th ... ... 4 3 3
Mr. Kettle's ch g Hiwkseye, 4 yre,-Bst 3lb .. ... 3 4dr
The Waterloo Stakes, of 5 goys. each, and 30 added. Heats ti.o

miles and a distance.
Mr. Pegg's b g Young !Lori, 5 yrs, 9st 71b
.Ir. Friend's b g Idle Boy, ti yrs;9st 91b

A *him Plate of £5O for beaten Horses.
Mr. Coleman's cl, f S .11y, 6.4 41b
Mr. Page's b b Escape, Bat 1316
Mr. Wallet's b g Ifonsuit, tist 31b
Mr. Ryan's f by Watt', 6st 41b
STOCKTON EF.TING, AUGUST IS.