Star.
London, England, 1829-12-19 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A detachment belonging to the 50th (Cambridgeshire) Regi-
ment of Foot, has received orders to march this morning from
London for Gosport, to join the regiment stationed there.
A detachment belonging to the 55th (Sussex) Regiment of
Infantry. has received orders to march this morning, front Lon-
don, for Portsmouth. on route to join the Reserve Companies in
Jersey.

A detachment belonging to the 47th (Lancashire) Regiment
of Foot has received orders to march this morning from London
for Portsmouth, on route to join the Regiment in the Isle of
Wight.
Captain Tempest's Company of the 60th Rifles, with the Hon.
Lieut. Dillon, marched on Friday from Limerick, for klinistymon,
where they are now stationed.
A party of the same Corps, with Lieuts. Cross and Parris pro-
ceeded to Corolla, County Clare.
It is believed that the 62d Regiment, quartered in Limerick,
will embark in March for India.

The Reserve Companies or the 82d under Major Ilogartb, have
moved from Sheetneu to Chatham.

INDIAN ARMY.
MINERAL ORDERS I.IOID TO HIT 111111 MIT'S FORM IN INDIA.

Head Quarters, I'oree, June '2O, 1829.
In reference to General Orders of the sth instant, his Excellency
the Commander-in• Chief has been pleased to promote the under-
mentioned Officers of his Majesty's Forces. serving on the establish.
meats of Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, to be Colonels in India—
the Commksions dated June 5 :

BENGAL—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels : J. Daniell, 49th
Foot ; F. S. Tidy, C.B. 44th Foot ; B. Torten', C.ll. 38th Foot;
G. 11. Murray, C.B. 16th Foot; M. Childers. C.B. 11th Dra-
goons; James Cas►idy, 31st Foot; Hon. J. Finch, C.B. half-pay
unattached.

Manaas—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonels : Sir Ed. Miles,
Knt. 89th Foot ; Sir E. K. Williams, K.C.B. 41s1 Foot ; Richard
Armstrong, C.B 26th Foot; Archibald Campbell, 46th Foot;
Colquhoun Grant, C.B. 54th Foot; S. Boyse, C.B. 13th Dragoons ;
Henry Wander, 26th Foot ; W. H. Sewell, 49th Foot ; R. B.
Fearon, C.B. 6th Foot.
Bousav—Lieutenant Colonels to be Colonel.; ; fii. Sullivan, 6th
Foot ; T.Willshire, 2d Foot ; 11. Thomas, 20th Foot ; M. Wil-
son, 4th Dragoons ; H. Rainey, hilf-pay.
fly order of the Commander in Chief,
R. TORRENS,
Adjutant General of his Majesty's Forces in India.
The following extract from a general letter from the lion, the
Court of Directors in the Military Department, under date the
29th October, 1928, has been published in The Calcutta Govern-
mast Gazette:

" With respect to the recommendation of the Commander-in.
Chief. that an interpreter be appointed to each of his Majesty's
Regiments serving on your establishment, we have to express our
acquiescence in the proposal, upon the salary and establishments
recommended by you, namely—Staff allowance per month, 60
rupees; moonshee, 50 rupees onstatiery, 10 rupees—Total, 100
rupera"
It has been determined by the Commander-in-Chief in India,
that all Officers of his Majesty's service under the rank of Field
Officer, arriving from England, either with or without troops, and
Medical Officers, shall proceed immediate:y to the Depot of King's
troops at Chinsurab, on the strength of which they will be borne,
until they shall he ordered to join their respective regiments.
The Goverhor-General in Council has resolved on the reduction
of the Arracan Provincial Battalion, in addition to the three Pro-
♦incial Corps already ordered to be discharged.
LIMERICK, Dec. 16
The 37th Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Smelt, was inspected
at Enniskillen on Thursday, by Major-General Thornton.
This morning the grenadier company of the 57th Regiment,
under Lieutenant ToJd, left Enniskillen, head-quarters, for Sligo.
Lieutenant Cross, two serjeants, and thirty-two rank and file of
the 60th Riles, with a bugler, marched hence on Monday to
Corofin, Cuenty Clare.
Francis Bland, Esq. late of the 2d Regiment Ceylon Rifle
Corps, is arrived at the residence of his brother, the Rev. T.
Bland, at Killarney, from the island of Ceylon.
Lieutenant bpi!, 15th, and Ensign Nixon. 66th Regiments, in
Canada, accompanied the expedition last August, to explore the
country between the St. Maurice and Ottowa rivers. The result
has proved the existence of a grand water communication from
the Saguenay to the Omuta at Hull, which hereafter may prove
useful for military purposes.
A reinforcement of a subaltern and twenty-five men of the
Royal Marine Artillery, is ordered to be sent to the Island of As-'
ernsion. Lieutenant 51' Arthur, of that corps, will take charge of
the detachment. We trust ibis is preparatory to the abandonment
of that grave of Englishmen, the settlement of Fernando Po.
The watchmen appointed to guard the City Gaol have been pro-
vided by the Board of Superintendence,with handsome uniforms—
blue frock coats, grey trousers, oibeloth caps, and great coats.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS AntIVED I—Nate:ford I.

The Eleanor, Inch, from Liverpool to Buenos Ayres, was driven
on shore near Castktown on the 12th instant—crew and materials
saved.

The Sportsman, from Liverpool to Virginia, was driven on shore
at the Isle of Man on the 14th instant, alter being in contact with
a brig off the Calf, and abandoned.
The Henry, Brodie. from Bengal, was totally lost at the Mau-
ritius previous to the Sth September—Crew saved.
Arrived at St. Helena the Lord Melville, Brown, and Provi-
dence, Bowera,from Batavia; and Malay, Githes, front Sumatra.
DeaL, Dec. 18.—Wind S. to S.W.--Arrived from Londuo the
Batavia, Blair, from Singapore; and Blair, Riches, from Malta.
POATSWOUTN, Dec. 18.—Arrived off the port the Endeavour,
from Quebec.

Rumor/Ix, Dec. 18.—Wind variable.—Sided the Duchess of
Olouctstrr, for Charente.

It is confidently stated by the East India Houses in the
City, that orders have been transmitted by the Directors
to Calcutta to suspend the contemplated reductions till
further orders from England.
A Busnos-Ayres paper, of the 12th September, states
that M. de MAN nEvILLE, the French Consul in that
city, who, it will be recollected, fled from thence during
the period of disorder, has addressed a letter from Monte-
Video to Don Tuo xAS GUIDO, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, in which he announces that he will accelerate his
return to Buencs-Ayres to enter as before on the dis-
charge of his Consular duties. The same paper, on the
authority of letters from Corrientes, gives a positive con-
tradiction to the reported death of FRANCIS, the Dic-
tator of Paraguay.
Letters from Bahia to the 20th of October state that
such articles of import as draperies, silks, &c. were selling
currently, when the quality was good, at moderate prices.
Ordinary qualities of coffees were at 2,600 reis, white
sugars at 2,100, and browns at 1,400. The crop was
abutlant, particularly of white sugars. The exchange
on London was at 32.

We are happy to stilt. (says the KeLso Mail) that En-
sign James Pringle, 'a ho was wounded in the late duel
here, is doing well, and is now considered out of danger ;
but be has not et been able to be conveyed to Stitchel
House. Mr. Baillie and Captain Noel, the seconds,
have been admitted to bail, and it is expected that Cap-
tain Stewart will forthwith be liberated, under the usual
forms of the law in similar eases.

It seems generally thought that the Branch Banks in
the country will be directed to afford the same accommo-
dation* in making advances on Exchequer Bills, India
Bonds, approved Bills of Exchange, &c. as is now af-
forded by the Bank of England.
Ma. &mina Itzee.—A number of the citizens of
Limerick have already entered into a subscription to erect
a testimonial initionour of Mr. Spring Rice. In answer
to a communication on this subject from the Guild
of Coopers of Limerick, Mr. Spring Rice says—" Let
your testimonial be erected to perpetuate the enfranchise-
ment of our city, and the successful assertion of our
rights. Let it not be dedicated to an individual, but to
a cause in which all the independent citizens were fellow-
labourers. Lit it word the names of those excellent
men who were your friends and mine—the venerable
and emptied John Howley—the benevolent Edward
Ryan--the indefatigable and publie-spirited Michael
Egan. Ido not presume to praise the living, but it is
not adulation to offer the tribute of respect to those who
are no more."

BONDED GOODS AND MERCHANDISE.

Important for the consideration of liar:alters, l'ur.
chasers, and Brokers of Goods Warehousod.

As our Journal is so generally referred to, en com-
mercial matters, we deem it our duty to call the attention
of our numerous readers to the following(the 82d) Section
of the 4th of Geo. IV. cap. '24.—lathled
An Act to make more effectual Ft °vision for permitting
goods imported to be secured in warehouses, or other
places, without payment of duty on the first entry thereof.
" And be it further enacted, that from and after the commence-
ment of this Act, upon every sale, fairly and bow fide made by the
importer or importers, or proprietors, of any goods or merchandise
which shall have been secured under the provisions of this Act, in
any warehouse in the actual occupation of such importer or
importers, or proprietor or proprietors, of such goods and
,tner-
' etandise ; and the possession thereof shall by such sale be trans.
terred to, and shall be vested in the purchases or purchasers
thereof, to all intents and purposes whatever, ali bough such goods
and merchandise shall remain, and continue in such warehouse •
And such good' and merchandise on sold, or the possession thereof
or any title thereto, shall not pass to or be vesttd in, any assigned
or llNNifne.s of such importer to importers, or proprietor or proprie.
tots, under .o .y commission of bankrupt which may issue against
such imps rter or importers, or proprietor or proprietor.. before
such goods or merchardize shall have bean removed by the put.
e Ita‘er or put chatieri, or their assigns, out of or from such ware-
house ; and every such sale shall be valid against such as• goer or
assignees under any such commissicn of bankrupt, any law, cua
tom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding.
"Provided that upon every such sale there shall have been a written
agreement signed by the patties, or a written Contract of sale,
made, executed, and delivered by a broker or brokers, or other
person or persons legally authorized for, and on behalf of, the
parties resrectively ; and the amout.t of the price stipulated its
the said contract or agreement, shall have been actually paid,
or secured en be paid, by the purchaser or purchasers of such
goods or merchandise; and that a transfer shall have been en.
tered in a boa to be kept for that purpose by his Majesty's Officer
of Itevenue having charge of such warehouse, which book
the Commissioners of his Majesty's Customs and Excise, both or
either, as the cal may he, are hereby directed to cause to he kept
by such officer, and produce upon demaad : and the said officer is
hereby required to make such entry of transfer. specifying the dab:
of such entry, upon the application of the owners of the said good,
or me•chancPse. Provided also, that no such as:dgnment shall affect
the bond given to his Majesty on the warehousing of the goads or
merchindize, for securing the payment o- the duties thereon'"
We invite the attention of our commercial readers to
this important clause, which we have reason to a.y e-
hend has not generally received the attention which we
feel assured that it demands, and we solicit their ems-
munications on its various bearings, and among other
things—
- -

Whether if, after the importer in bond has sold at
bond-price, in bond to a purchaser, and the first pui-
chaser, again to a second, still in bond, and the goods
be destroyed on the first premises by fire or otherwise; the
importer would be still liable for the operation of t!,o
bond given to his Majesty, should such bond from any
circumstances be put in suit, although he had sold the
goods for which he gave that bond ?
Whether a bona fide purchaser in bond not basins
made the entry in the Revenue officer's book, is secure
in his purchase against the claim of a consignor abroad,
or against assignees of the vendor at home ?
Whether an advance on such goods in bond, and a
transfer in the warehouseman's books, and his acknow-
ledgment of such transfer be safe, without such entry in
the Revenue officer's bOoks ?
Whether a warehouseman of goods in bond, be safe in
the delivery of such goods, without such entry ? Or,
whether the assignee of a bankrupt might not come upon
such warehouse-keeper for having transferred such goods
without such entry ?
There are other cases in which this clause may be of
important consequences, and on which we shall be glad to
receive communications.—Public Ledger

It was a remark of Lord Chatham's, and equally so of
Mr. Burke's, that the occasional use of low words
_does
not detract from the dignity of true eloquener.. Mr.
Canning and some of his successors have, however. ven-
tured to differ from these two great men.—Mirror.
FRENCH DRAIDA.--Voltaire, as a dramatic wrior,
studied only to complete what is called stage eject ; and
with him, moreover, originated the contemptible practi:e,
now so prevalent in France, and once so much in thii
country, (and which the Irish triumvirate justly cell
' blarneying John Bull,') of flattering the passions, and
pouring incense on the high altar of popular vanity.—
Foreign Review.—Nearly all Colman's comedies have
this glaring weakness, although some allowance should ha
made for the strong excitement amidst which they were
first produced on our stage.—Mirror.
STANDARD OF ME JANIBSARIES.—Odd as it may
seem, a soup-kettle is the standard of the Janissaries, an
emblem rather more appropriate for a Coart of Aldermen.
Dr. \Valsh says that he saw in the streets of Constanti-
nople, an extraordinary greasy-looking tellow dressed in •
a leathern jacket, covered over with ornaments of tin,
bearing in his hand a lash of several leather thongs ; hu
was followed by two men, also fantastically dressed, sup-
porting a pole on their shoulders, from which hung a
large copper kettle. They walked through the main
streets with an air of great antharity, and all the people
hastily got out of the way. This he found on inquiry
was the soup-kettle of a corps of Janista:ies, and always
held in high respect ; indeed, so disting,:ishing a charac-
teristic of this body is their soup, that their colonel is
called Tchorbad6, or the distributor of soap. Their
kettle, therefore, is in fact, their standard, and whenever
that is brought forward, it is the signal of some desperate
enterprize, and in a short time 20,050 :nen have been
I known to rally round their odd insignia of war. Apro-
pos, have they not something to do with kettle-drums

A French Paper of Sunday reports the proceedinxe
of a meeting of the Paris Geographical Society, to
which the ex-Minister of Marine, M. Hyde de Nea.
vine, presided. The President introduced the business '
of the day by an eloquent speech on the objects of the
Society, of which the late M. Matte Brun was eithe►
the founder or the most distinguished original sub.
scriber. It offers prizes of considerable value, amount-
ing to from 12,000 to 20,000 francs, to travellers who
explore unknown countries. Two of its late premiums
have been awarded to M. Pacho, for his travels in the
Cyrenais ; and to M. Caine, for his journey to Tutu.'
bonctou. The only novelty which occurred at the
meeting of the 12th inzt. was the reading of a memoir
on the discovery of the traces of La Peyrouse's expe-
dition, by Captain Durville, of the corvette Astrolabe.
The ingenious navigator tells us Oat he was &beet to
return to France from his voyage round the workl4
when he received, in the Indian Seas, new induc-
tions pointing hie march to the Phcres of Manicolo for
traces of this ill-fated expeiAiticn. It is a pity that thi
gallant Captain should have forgotten, in alluding to this
subject, all mention of cur countryman, Captain Dijon,
who had preceded him in this voyage, and 114 akettiiiietl
facts which he did little else but confirm.

NEW FARRINGDON MIA REIT—TEM DAY.
There wee a Ong display of swot at Me isarlier 10-41e7. Beef
was particularly One. In egarespienge of the great demo& foe.
Christmas. nest is a panty per lb. dearer this it was lest week.
Bur—riset rinsedap, sid. sad /id. per b. Bean, U. La.
qui questlty of each. W..aN so. lietsea—Welber Irp Wt,
end qa. Ilasseb;sid. tibeelder.4l4. sad sae Reck et. 'remote
sed. Vear.-711. gad . Pena—sµ sad 70: Tie war.
was respectably by buyers.

LITERATURE.-

FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY.
A. J. vsvrr.
Mr. VA Lry is doing an eminent aervice—as he is wont
—to every body who is desirous of acquiring knowledge.
tin: I. of his" Family Classical Library," has just ap-
peared ; and of it, we content ourselves with saying, in
the language of the Editor, that " to those who are de-
sirous of obtaining a knowledge of the most esteemed
autliprs of Greece and Rome, but possess not the means
er . the leisure for pursuing a regular course of study,
the 'present work must prove a valuable acquisition."
We recollect in our youthful school-days that we had to
wade through books,—grammars and dictionaries exclu-
sive which we do not call books—before we could pos-
sibly arrive at the productions, the characters, the pur-
poses, or the effects, which the ancient orators and
writers aimed et. The works of CzsAR and LIVY were.
far from being our pleasure in these days. We could not
enjoy the beautiful pictures of VIRGIL'S pastoral life,
though we lived in the midst of such enjoyments as he
pourtrayed. Even the wit and voluptuousness of Hoßace
were a burden to us ; and as for the Greek authors, we
had an equal abhorrence of the formation of the letters,
as we had for the birch with which we were impressed
with their importance. Mr. VALPY has removed these ob-
jections, by giving us all'the information, which it gene-
rally takes five or six years to drive into us, in
plain English ; and as the order of the present
day seems to be to acquire as mach knowledge as
possible within a limited period, we are gladly willing
to skip over the days of probation, and come to the point
as fast as possible. It will amaze many dominies to be
told that, by the instrumentality of the book before ins—
tate single number—we shall become better acquainted
with Demosthenes in four hours, than they could pretend
to teach us in as many years. Here we have, in an
elegant, tempting form—not only a biographical sketch
of the great orator's life—but his orations at full
length, translated by THOMAS LELAND, D.D. And
thus we acquire what is most necessary for us to knew
—the patriotism of the individual. His philippics, his
olynthiacs, and his orations on occasions of public deli-
beration, are here set before us in a manner that we
cannot refrain from reading; and, thanks to Mr. VALPY,
we trust they will do us good. But as we intend to
notice the " Family Classical Library" at greater
length on an early day, we 'hall, at present, confine
ourselves to ashore extract from the First Philippic, and
which applies very happily to a people of modern times,
who, though they may not be threatened by invasion,
have their liberties to conquer, and tyrants more cruel
than Philip to put down.
And now, as to the necessity of a general vigor and alacrity ; of
this you must be fully persuaded : this point, therefore, I shall
urge no further.- But the nature of the armament, which, I think,
will extricate you from the present difficulties, the numbers to be
raised, the subsidies required for their support, and all the other
necessaries; how they may (in my opinion) be best and most es
peditiously provided ; these things I shall endeavour to explain.—
Btu here I make this request, Athenians! that you would not be
precipitate, but suspend your judgment till you have beard me I
fully. And if, at first, I seem to propose a new kind of armament,
let 4t not be thought that I am delaying your affairs ; for it is not
they who cry out' instantly! this moment whose counsels suit the
present juncture (as it is not possible to repel violences already
committed by any occasional detachment ;) bat be who will show
you, of what kind that armament must be, how great, and how
supported, which may subsist until we yield to peace, or until our
enemies sink beneath our assts; for thus only can we be secured
from future dangers.—These things. I think, I can point out : not
that i would prevent any other person from declaring his opinion.
Thus far am I engaged how I can acquit myself wiU immedi-
ately appear : to your judgments I appeal.
First. then, Athenians ! I say that you should fit out fifty ships of
war; and then resolve, that on the ant emergency you will embark
yourselves. To these I insist that you must add transports and
other necessary vessels sufficient for half our hone. Thus far we
should be provided against those sudden excursions from his own
kingdom to Thermopylx, to the Chersonesus, to Olynthus, to
whatever places he thinks proper. For of this he should necessarily
brpersuaded, that possibly you may break out front this immode-
rate indolence, and fly to some wane of action ; as you did to Ru-
ben, and formerly, as we are told, to Hansen., and but now, to
Thermopyln. But althotigh we should not act with all this vigor,
(which yet I must regard as our indispensable duty,) still the mea-
sures I propose will have their use: as his fears may keep him quiet,
when he knows we are preparad(and this he win know, for there
are too many among ourselves who Inform him of every thin ;) or
if he should despise our armament, his security may prove fatal
to him ; as it will be absolutely in our power, at the first favour-
able juncture. to make a descent upon his own coasts.
'‘Thaso then are the resolutions I propose, these the provisions it
will, become you to make. And I pronounce it still further neces-
sary to ruse some other forces which may harass him with perpe-
tual incursions. Talk not of your ten thousands, or twenty thou-
sands, of foreigners; of those armies which appear so magnificent
on -paper; btu let them be the natural forces of the State :
and if -you *choose a single person, if a number, if this
particular sant or whomever you appoint as general, let them be
entirely under his guidance and authority. I also move you that
subsistence be provided for them. But as to the quality, the num-
%hers, the maintenance of this body—how are these points to
be settled now proceed to speak of each of them distinctly.
The body of infantry, therefore.—but bete give me leave to
warn you of an error, which bath often proved injurious to you.—
Think not that_ your preparations never can be too magnificent :
great and terrible in your decrees ; In execution weak and con-
temptible. Let your preparations, let your supplies at first be mo-
derate and add to these if you find them not sufficient.—l my
than that the whole body of infantry should be two thousand i of
these, that five hundred Would be Athenians, of such an age as yogi
alkali think proper ; and with' a stated time for service, not keg,
- but such as that others may have their turn of duty. Let the rust
ho formed of foreigners. To these yon are to add two hundred
hatar,:fifty of them at least Athenians ; to serve in the 'same
litanaer as the foot. For these you are to provide transports.—
And.nsow; what farther preparations?—Tei light 'allies. For as
be bath a naval power, we must be provided with light vessels; that
ourtroope may have *secure convoy.

. .
. .legal wit,-on. being obliged to leave home during
age ef.the lets impesetrableings, lamented the necessity, adding be
should be happy to joss, it per alloset.
.
,A a proof of the march of intellect, it may be remarked,
that a shop in the .Citybla a placard In the window, beaded Bpi!.
Curtest Grom and aanourreing that orders are there received for
Newcorithe's Norwich affiti-eructiitive Sausages I
• 'Ttieiday night, or early the following morning, the
divaillodtbowse -of • Mr. -Griffiths, Gultford-strort.
. agdarmowas.eotered sad robbed of mate Nikki of plate. These.
trauce.wastmade by it.yrindoet thelmek2.preuriseselo whkis a
hole was cut only large enoogh. to bdruit On body :.of-a . little bap.
The thieves left bi‘hbd than iclow-bar and pbospbores-boz, with
• vf.nrOtel• . • .
Amniittuk Fitts.—Yeaterday morning, at an early
haiwiarlooesadarming Are .6m** orst hrWoodzstreet; Chaspaide, by
widyis a aconaldwahlet Inas wasmeetE The-large hour men-
Pisd by. bilArailluano, athe.b Jo the- -trade, wm marlin*
bora down: garklirdidalh• =mod isilldiraceidak
..thgt 'My a few bales* tirtvaltrablamocir was sewed. Then=
Isertp* lbegitmds liallur.wafthmmt-flowb Meimwedibe
of.the crialagratipm. Meru tas ilmetteti ted-br-tbe
eser-
'tiono of she firemen all danger. el, !sedum Assleacdast *as mar la
swat an hour and a half.