Star.
London, England, 1829-08-14 00:00:00

tHE ARMY.

Yesterday the Amphitrite transport, Lieutenant WAas, came
into Dover harbour, from Portsmouth, with three Companies of
the Rile Brigade ma board, to be stationed at Dover. The Colonel
of this distinguished corps is his Grace the Duke of Watuasovent.
FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Sefton and the Ladies Malraux. at the Doke of
Richmood's scat, Petwortb, Sussex, from hake Farm, Berke; Mr.
and Mrs. George Morgan, at Brighton. from their seat in Hens;
Miss Wickham, at the Waterloo Hotel, Joslyn-street, from Brigh-
ton; Colonel and Mrs. Gore Lineal, at Southampton, from their
seat, Newton Park, Somersetshire ; Captain and Mrs. Harris, in
Brook-street, from the Continent.
DEPARTURES.
The Dowager blarchlemess of Hertford, from her house lo Man-
cheater-square. for ber seat, Temple Newsham, Leeds, Yorkshire ;
the Earl and Countess Cowper and family, for Toobridge Wells;
E. M'Douald, Esq. and the Countess of Antrim, from Cavendish-
square on a tour; Foster Conliffe, Esq. old the Hoc. Mrs. Con-
las ad family, from Grosvenor-street, for their seat, Medley
Manor. Newcastle, Staffordshire; Wm. Hale, Esq. and the Hon.
Mrs. Hale. from Grosvenor-place, for their seat, King's Warden,
Hens ; Edward Tunas, Eaq. M.P. and Mrs. Tans, from Upper
Brook-street, for Berke; Lord Forrester, for Edinburgh; Hud-
son Gurney, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Gurney and family, from St.
James's-square, [or their seat, Resvrick Hail, near Norwich ; Lord
Francis Osborne, from Park-street, for his seat in Cambridgeshire ;
Captain and Mrs. Green from Park-lane, for Cheltenham; War-
dale Price, Esq. from the Waterloo Hotel, 'trap-street, on a
tour ; H. Simpson, Est), from ditto, on a tour.
The death of Mr. CHARLES WARREN, which took
place at his house in Rsdfordequare on Wednesday aßernoses.
makes a vacancy in the lucrative and muck-sought-for coke of
Chief Justice of Chester.
Singapore Papers have been rectived to the 13th of
March. The Governor General of India, Lord Wit. Basnince,
arrived there on the 11th, in the Enterprise steam vessel. His
Lordship's bolds was entirely re-established.
We :understand that there is a great probability of Mr.
stenotebecomieg the tenant of Covent-garden Theatre.—Brighron
Gawk. •
The Dublin Theatre Royal, with all its machinery,
scenery, wardrobe, led property, was bought in yesterday for
17,900 guinsis, no hitter alter being made.
Wednesday the Duke de CHARTRES arrived at the
Albion Betel, Brighten, in order to embark there for France.
Princess VICTORIA, the presumptive heiress to the
English Throne, is in her cinemas year. Her Royal Bighorn.
enjoys eacellest beakh. When not engaged at her studies, to
which she attends very closely, she is generally eat tildes exercise
in Kensington Gardens or Hyde Park, accompanied by her Royal
Mother or her Governs% feeismody by both. Her Repel
bears a strong mendilmee in do face to her late father thilli=
of Assn la her simers need plebes. of amsprehesissehever
much rwesildo the Me Pd.... Caesium. The Noses, his
very few coot pidana or Ike Is very had et mode,
and has 'node peat pas Is it. .Her Royal Mow aggari
, her to attend very closely to her religions duties.
Sir.NICHOLAS TIIDAL and Mr. Justice B URROUO
the Judges an the See& Circuit, dined on asesay why, sir War.
andultdiPets, at fiste House; from which place they awned
on awning, and arrived in Exeter about two o'clock;
after w their opened Commission at the Chide and
do
Gendhall. and proceeded to, attend Divine Service at
Cathedral.
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TRAVELLING BY STEAM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR.

Loudon, August 14, 11149.

Sts--I beg leave to draw your attention to an inven-
tion which bids fair to make a considerable revolution in
out agricultural and commercial interests: it has 'long
been thought chimerical, but the experiments of the last
fortnight have established its reality. I allude, Sir, to Mr.
GURNEY'S Steam-Coach, which a fortnight ago pro-
ceeded from Cranford-bridge on its way to Bath, and
was stopped in its progress at Melksham by an attack
from an ignorant and misguided mob, who supposed that
as machinery had injured their interests by dispensing
with the labour of man, the steam coach would also add
to their. misfortunes. I think I can undertake to prove,
that the coach will contribute more to their welfare than
any invention brought before the public within. the
memory of any ono now living, or their fathers or grand-
fathers before them. Political economists do not exactly
agree on one point, viz, how many men can be main-
tained on a space of land sufficient to feed one horse :
some say eight, others only five : I will take the medium,
and say 6i. Now, Sir, I -believe lam not at all exagge-
rating, when I say that, on the Bath and Bristol road
alone there are two thousand horses kept for the purpose
of conveying passengers by the daily coaches, not in-
cluding in this calculation the post horses, vans, waggons,
&c. &c. Should the steam coach succeed in putting
these two thousand off the road, there will be land dis-
posable for the maintenance of thirteen thousand men.
The vans, post chaises, and waggons, employ ak many ;
so that, on this road alone, it would provide for the sus-
tenance of twenty.six thousand men. This on the Bath
and Bristol road only. I really dare not proceed with
my calculation, as applied to all the roads in Britain : it
would amount to something so enormous, as would astonish
and confound cleverer heads than mine. But this,Sir, I can
vouch for—that the two accounts published in the Time.
are substantially correct. I myself witnessed it going up
Marlbro' Hill, together with some hundreds collected to
see its progress, and it was universally allowed to go up
at the rate of seven miles an hour. If lam wrong, there
are many at Marlbro' who can correct me. After this,
there are people who ask, "Is it likely to succeed ? " I
say, it has succeeded. Ask Mr. FAG, a coach proprietor
of Hounslow, what it did on Wednesday last, in the pre-
sence of the Duke of WELLINGTON ? But, Sir, con-
sider the consequences of its success on various articles of
food, absolutely essential to the existence of an English-
man—bread, meat, beer. Land, now appropriated to the
culture of oats and beans, will be laid out for wheat and
barley ; and where the horse now feeds, the ox will
fatten. I could enumerate many more of its advantages,
but fear I have trespassed too much on your time : allow
me, therefore, to conclude, by subscribing myself, .
Your obedient servant,
DELTA.