Star.
London, England, 1821-11-20 00:00:00

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drawing from the places where the disease melt
the pestilential germs may spread throughout the
Province."
The Commission of Health writes without entering
into particulars—" The lever still rages at Barce-
lona." The letter is signed by Messrs. Pariset and
Bally, whence it may be concluded that the health
of the latter is improved.
These details are the substance of information
brought on the sth instant, from Perpignan, by the
Courier of Catalonia.
The Parguinotes, to the number of 400, having
united with the Suliotes, made a desperate attack
on the fortress of Parga, but were repulsed ; part of
them retreated into the mountains ; the remainder,
including the wounded, sailed for Corfu, where they
were refused, by Sr Thomas Maitland, permission to
land, who also issued a Proclamation for their future
exclusion from the Islands.
French Five per Cents. Friday, 90fr.10c.

Letters were received this morning from Odessa
and Constantinople. Everything continued tranquil,
and large mercantile orders have been received by
London merchants, from both places.

It is expected that his MAJESTY will leave Carlton
Palace to-morrow, for the Pavilion at Brighton; part
of the Royal Household left town yesterday.
It is said that Parliament will meet on the 3d of
January, the day to which it is prorogued, to pass
the Insurrection Act for Ireland. This Act was first
passed during the disturbances in the County of Tip-
perary. The cause of it was the impossibility of ob-
taining evidence against culprits in that unhappy
country, so that numbers who were well known to
have been guilty of the most atrocious crimes, were
Ilroaming about the country at large and unquestioned.
By this Act, which only exists for one year, a Bench
of Magistrates is empowered to lay hold of such no.
torious offenders, and banish them. Under this Act,
formerly, nearly 500 men were sent to Botany Bay.l
His Royal Highness the Doke of Sussex had a large
dinner party on Sunday, at Kensington Palace.
The Earl of BRIDGEWATER has a grand dinner
Iparty at Ashridge this day.
The Earl of SUATTZSBURY is entertaining a distin•
guished party at St. Giles's-house, Dorsetshire.
Lady STEWART, who was seriously indisposed a
few days ago, has quite recovered.
The Dowager Marchioness of DowNSIIIRE, and
the Ladies HILL, are shortly expected home from
the Continent.
Count and Countess CARAMAN and suite dined on
Saturday at the Cafe Royal, in Regent-street. Earl
O'NEIL and Colonel GREvILLE were of the party.
Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE has nearly finished his
beautiful picture of his MAJESTY in his Coronation
robes. He ranks it amongst the very happiest efforts
of his pencil. The KING sat for the last time, at
Buckingham House, yesterday.
His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Lord
Lieutenant, has been pleased to appoint Sir THOMAS
BARING, Bart. of Stratton Park, Deputy Lieutenant
for the County of Hants.
Thursday last, Fnancts Jointly, Esq. was, by the unanimous
vote of the Nations, re-elected Lord Rector of the University
of Glasgow, fur the ensuing year.
FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Earl of Sam in Brook-street, from Cashiobury Park.
Admiral Young, in Quern Anne-street West.
The Marchioness of Clanricarde and Sir Joseph Itarke, ai
the Admiralty.
Colonel and Mrs. Groves, in Park-street.
Mr. and Mrs. Law, in Somerset-street.
Mrs. and Miss Brudenell, in Harley-street. •
Colonel and Mrs. Laforey, in Montague-square.
Colonel Dadtwood, in Park-street.
Sir George Itobimon, Bart. in South.street, Park-lane.
Captain Burdett, 79th Regiment, from Brighton.
Viscount and Viscountess Hampden, in Green-street, front
Hampden House, Berks.
DEPARTURES
Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, and Lady Elizabeth
Conyngham, for Brighton.-
lion. Captain Duncan, R. N. from the Brunswick House
Hotel, for Scotland.
Hon. P. Ashburnham, for his father's, the Earl of Ashburn-
ham's seat, in I.*a.scx.
Mr. Richard Spencer, for Brighton.
CHANGF.S.
Lord Illenborough, at Roehampton, from a visit to Lord and
Lady Stewart, at their seat, Durham.
Sir James Langham, Bart. from Hill Hall, Cobham, for Cot-
tedtroke, in Northamptonshire.
Colonel and Mrs. Moore, from Ramsgate, for Brighton.
Colonel Wauchope, front Edinburgh, for Iladdington, N. B.
Sir Charles Halkett, from Edinburgh, for Dunfermline.
It appears from a Report of the Lords' Committee
upon the Silk Trade, that the value of the article,
w lion manufactured and in the hands of the manu-
facturers, amounts to the amazing sum of Ten Mil-
lions sterling per annum. This proves the immense
home trade in this article, notwithstanding the large
importation of smuggled silk goods from France, &c.
We have no return before us of the amount of the'
silk manufactured goods exported from England tt
the various parts of the world; but we should think
that it bears a very trivial proportion to the amount
we have stated, namely, £10,000,000.
Great efforts have been made in the Stock Ex-
change, in the course of the last few days, to put a
stop to that mode of transacting business called Op-
tions, or, to speak more intelligibly, the sacrifice of a
certain per centage for the option of taking or deli-
vering stock at a given period, whatever the actual
market-pt ice might be. Memorials opposed to, and
in favour of this sort of speculation, have been handed
to the Committee of the Stock Exchange. As thel
matter stands at present, by a former regulation, the
Committee adopted the resolution of not recognizing,
options in the event of any failure of the Stock-mar.
ket ; but this has not deterred the jobbers from trans-
acting business in the same manner, which, at the
present moment, is done to a greater extent than ever.,
It is argued, on the one hand, that if options were
discountenanced altogether, the fluctuation in -the
Funds would be much more considerable; while, on
the other, it is contended, that it would be much less
were they put a stop to.
Several commercial houses in Manchester have,
within these few days, bad considerable quantities of
printed calicoes seized from their premises by the,
Excise, on the ground that the stamp with which they
were marked was not the King's, but a forged one.
The individual (a printer for hire) charged with
'4 having committed the forgery, has absconded.