Star.
London, England, 1816-12-25 00:00:00

Ot)E TO eIIitiSTMAS.

Old Chripsnas, hail! thy reverend form
Comes dreneled and dripping with the storm
Thy hoary locks are temper-rent;
Thy milk.white beard' is ice besprent ;
Wind, sleet, and snow, thy steps assail,
Yet will I say to thee—Old Christmas, bail!
for well 1 love thy ancient sway;
Aty jocund, jovial, festive day ;
thy geoerous sports and calm delight,
Thu gild the dreary hours of n'ght,—
nunsport the Will to summer's cline, •
And fledge with plumes the leaden wings of time
Let not, to damp the general joy,
X)ull care obtrude his dread alloy,
Igor recollections sad create
Of friends, who've met the stroke of Fate
Ere the revalving year went round,
For ever In thy train should tusrtis be found!
Thee, Christmas, hail ! a welcome guest,
Then enm'st to ev'ry social breast ;
Oval cheer shall thaw thy frozen veins,
Blythe sports expel thy shivering pains,
And pleasure strew thy torrent way
With flowers, as binomial as the lap of May!

Tbe Mike of DEVONSHIRE will entertain a large
/wry of afiatinction, during the holidays, at his seat,
Chatsworth, Derby shire.
The Marquis of SALISBURY left town yesterd ty, for
Li; seat, antield.
, "he Earl and CO/01TM of-Dmtaisav Isritscuwa sk
renjay, for their mat, Cobham Hall, where they' elp
lett a large on Offashionables during the holidays.
Lerd and Lady NITRE have left tow.. for their
seat,Thorndoni Essex, for the holidays.
The Theatres being closed yesterday evening, ac-
cording to annual custom, on Christmas Eve, gave
e Managers of bah Houses an opportunity of a
gall rehearsal of their new Pantomimes, of which
Green-room report speaks highly.
Mrs. Courrs, (with her usual benevolence of
lean) has transmitted to Mr. 'WILLIAM WHITEHRSO,
g Woodham Walter. Esser. ‘BO, together with 20
pair of blankets, and ten dozen of various articles of
iirgmelothing, for the relief of the poor of that pa-
rnh, ordering that 200 pounds of good beef, and 100
quartern loaves, together with the blankets, warm
clothing, and a supply
of coals, should be distributed
amongst 100 poor families, after Church Service, on
Christmas Day ; and further, she has ordered a
weekly allowance to 30 of the most necessitous fa-
I ages, according to the.r circumstances, during the
three winter months, many of whom receive 6s. 3d.
per week.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, as Warden of the Cinque
hats, as First Lord of the Treasury, as a Commis-
sioner 4f tfe India Board, and as Clerk of the Fells
is Ireland, has re 13,100 a year accruing, from the
Public. His Lordship has also two official houses.
Of the latter sinecure office, the value of which is
it3SUO a-year, the reversion was granted tome years
since to Viscount Boet.z, son of the Earl of SHANNON.
We are happy to hear a rumour, and, as it is said,
aeon pretty good authority, that the office of Third
Secretary of State is to be abolished ; a measure of
this kind will give weight to professions of economy,
We should be among the last to recommend the
oppression of any establishment of real utility ; but
lithe Third Secretatimtp-grew up wan tne•seari ao
,with the termination of the war, or at least after
I finding up the arrear of war business, it seems :la-
teral that the office and its emoluments should cease.
PARISIAN FASHIONS, Dec- 21.—We have observed,
Suing several days past, toque: of dark velvet, high
'sad flat at top, without any rim whatever. The orna-
ment to each is a range of jet grain: at the bottom.—
AMA of black velvet have bands like a man's hat,
sod scarcely any rim. They are ornamented with
clasps of jet and black feathers ; rose and white silk
plash hits are still fashionable.. The Ladies wear,
with these hats, walking and pilgrim dresses trimmed
with plush. The collars of spencers and walking
Goats Are high.
if Ifrni so Christrior Psrtie:—A fashionable Duchess,
highly ipprovingof the present State Lottery Scheme
(ia'shich it will be seen that the smaller Prizes are
-4.1 t increased'in value, there heing 800 of 25 Gui-
- lowest being 17 Pounds), recommended
:d party to play for Tickets or Shares
money ; very aptly observing, although
_for small stakes, they might gain Twenty
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•ly this morning an alarming fire broke
lisle Arms public house, Caslisle-place,
ip's Walk, Lambeth, which consumed
the premises ; fortunately no lives were
add to the calamity, the landlord was

, Bill of all the Christenings and Burials
Iher 12,1815, to December 10, 1816:
the 97 parishes within the wails, 983—Buried,

the 17 parishes without. the walls, s,46l—Burled,

the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey,
10,104.
the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of
,027—Buried, 5,136.
'IINID. WRITE,.
Males 10,105/ Wan 20,316
ji in all 23,581 1 Females 10,211
WUERILOT 11AVII I:USD. .
UDdtt two years of age 5,400 Sixty and seventy . . . • 1,720
letween two and five • • 1,960 Seventy and eighty . . . 1,108
alve and ten
tat and twenty 675 Ninety and a hundred . . 168
Nulty and thirty . .
ilins___ t and forty •• • • 1.912 A hundred and one .• . 0
MI and fifty
'Eland sixty
increased in the Burials tills year 756.

HUNTING.
,Tke Prince Regimes Stag Hounds meet on Friday at Harley-
Isis sear Walton Brldge.at eh yea, if bunting weather.
The tlatEeld Hounds 'meet on hursday at Latchwortb ;
4117 day, at No Man's land; at half past ten.
Tin Understood Harriers meet every day at fennel, at half
Maberley's, Esq.'s. Fox Monads meet oo Thursday
'Worms Heath; Sa urday, at the Fox, Keaton.
1 knife, Est's, Fox Hounds meet on Thursday at Nudistd
"ma ; Saturday, at Chipstead Church.
Cenyer's Hounds meet to-morrow at Thoydon Park;
March; at Danmow High Wood.
The Eat Essex Fox Hounds meet to-morrow at Woodham
Common; Saturdty, at the Mack Boy, Chelmsford.
21 tomorrow Duke of Grafton's Hounds meet tmarrow atWood cad
..7,L* Saturday, at Ash keys, at half past 10 each day.
Quaradon Hounds meet to-morrow at Wldsserpool lon ;
142 HUAS ; Saud ty at Mudding Wood, at ball-past
lid, 67.

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males c1n27153724
90ve r* Females 11,449