Star.
London, England, 1829-02-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Lard 8 COlMlMasiling is Molt held s Tam Ma efts,
his Mee at the Horse. Guards. The Tollsolas General, am aim
meaty other Meets, paid their respects to his Lordship: %aim
I;.rbes. General the Uri of Cavan. Slake:General Scott, Lai
Boston, Sir James Gambier.
The Best detachment of the 63d Regiment is ordered to rec,,,4
from Chatham ti Gravesend, there to embed' oo board the Lad
Harwimeidt T
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NAVAL IN I h..LLItt ENCE.

MAILS AIIIIIVIID Tuts Day—Dublin 1--llaterford 1-.-OT
and Jersey I—Flanders I—France 1.
The Letitia, Breatirf. from London, is on shore in the Elbe.
The Salmis, Ayr. from ~was lost on the Hasbro' a
on the sad insant...erret saved.
The Jean, Bemis*. from Arbroath, tall over on Gosport Beach
yesterday, lost ber bowsprit, and aged with water.
The Countess of Fortescoe. Edwards, from London to Bits.
staple and Bideford, grounded inside of Bideford Bar on Soma"
night, but was espected to he got el without much damage.
Deat.. Fan 23.—Wind R. by R.
Poamatoryss. Rm. 25. Wind &R.
PLYMOUTH, Pea. S.s..—Arrived the Active, Hayman, from k.
Ander°. S.il.d the Astrea, Hurst. for Oporto; and slope, Byre%
for Sc. Lucia.
FALIMOUTII, Pea S4.—Wind R&R to R.—Arrived the Rogue,
Stone, from Mos ; DutcLe'lf armee, Sestets, from St. Anders.

ENGLISH OPERA 1-10 USE.
Mademoiselle JINNI' Cot.,'N closed her very successful
engagement at this theatre last night before* t extremely
crowded audience; she perf-tmed in three different
pieces, and was received throughout with reiterated sp.
plaits,. Among the 14,hionabl s who honnured the per.
torrnances with their pteseace we noticed the frllowing t
His %Tat Highness the Duke of Batinex, his Grace the Dukes('
Devonshire, the Marquis of Worcester, the Marquis of dilettivry,
Lord &Ron, Lord Bury, Count LedollF, Cnionel Fitzgibbon,
Captain finurheiiy, Mejor Webster, Mr. De Ilsoc Ur. Drunsittne*
Mr. Fitzgibbon, Lady Forbes, Lady Gage, Lady comb. Lade
Gifford, Lady MerrelL•Countess 'Adolf, Mrs. Rothschild, Su.

The Bill for suppressing the Catholic and other As.
sociatioris in Ireland, is expected to receive the Royal
assent by commission this day, in the House of Ludt,
The Emancipation Bill is prepared, anJ frill be intro:
duced. it is understor,d, into the House of Commons on
Thursday next, by Mr. Secretary Pam

In opening a new grave in South. Leith church-yard,
a few drys ago, a cannon ball of consider..ble size we,
dug up. much corroded from the time it had laid in
the ground. This, in all probability, would be di..
charged from one of the English ho' itzers at the siege
of Leith, during the Regency of Mary of Lorraine....
Ediabargh raper.
An hoses/ tar in Kincardine, u hoo better half kat
caught cold while attending sermon on Sunday weeniest, and had
been confined to bed in consequence for several days, imagined
that his wife was fonder of the repeat she enjoyed as an Way
thap of superintending his household affairs when in good beak!,
Su, 'without giving his helpmate notice, he puked up a bundle, and
dressed himself in hie Sunday's garb,which soon attracted her Wise,
and induced her to ask him where be was loins ? Why, says Jail,
you know you have been laid on your beant.ends this week past, ele
I consider you a total wreck, and intend casting you upon the le.
offence Club (meaning the Burial Society), and looking out for a
new ship to make the voyage of life with. So saying he left the
house, and returned about an hour afterwards. when be found his
wife bad righted of her own accord, and was busily employed with
her doasesue duties. Since then he has heard maul farther of
the good woman's cough.—StireiegJountei.
STATE or TitaDt.—The improvement in business
noticed in oar last still continues. Water twist is scarce, and in
some instances obtain) a tilling advance ; mule yams are less is
request, and do not more than support previous prices. In pewee.
loom printing cloths there is more business; but, netwitherearies
the diminution of the production by the turn-ast at &earn.
hitherto without any advance of pikes. NU advance, indeed, ia
to be expected until the stocks previously accumulated have all
been absorbed. The calico-printers, we believe, are generally
busy ; and some houses in various lines, whose besinees is delay
with shippers, have informed us that this week and the last they
have taken very considerable orders. Muslim and ferny realism*
better, and we are happy to learn that here at inprt,thpre is some
revival in the silk trade.—..Waneliesteellfervery. • •
Soar, Pus. 25.—A shocking occident reenered'ajk.
Saturday afternoon. As avian of the name of Sparrow was
nut of town with one of the Duke of Norfolk's waggons loadid
with mature, attempting to get upon the shaft, Wreak slipped,
and the wheel passing over fits head literally crushed en his eyes
and brakes i• Medical assistance was obtained kanutlititly, but
happily life was extinct. The wife of the peer um Hai within
a few hundred yards of the spot where the saddest bempempL,
An Inquest was held on the body before Coma. 2111111111.
CorunerLand a verdict of " Accidental Death" retuned.
Dr. MISTER, in Ili lively dissertation on Shop slid
Tavern Signs, says—We do not premed to ken the eel* of
a drunken fellow falling backwards, commonly ealk4
down Dick." There pre many public bosses he Beigissed
this sign, and one very well known was recently t.kee down hi
the Borough, to improve the swoosh to the new Londonsbeidge.
Tillam sips were originally intended to ridicule Richard, the see
end anecomer of Oliver Cromwell. At Dior, in Moult. Beet
since,
re
new occupant of a house which bad this sign, named
Fibt. thought proper to change it, substituting the figure of a
straight man, intended to represent himself, and subjoined the
friaveriss
• 04 Tumble-dome Dick is dead and gene.
And in kis room comes Upright Jibe."
Two years since the North Highlands were always
stNMad with grain from the coast; but with the improved aids
vat(sn of the soil and favourable seasons, it is now so plentiful that.
the farmers continue busy in exporting to the South. Three days
het week there were 60 cart load, each day sent from Strathspey
le Radiant, to be shipped for Lassies.
THOMAS A BICICITs" According to traditionary
Jam. and probably, in this instance, founded on troth,
Ileckspes mother was e be Ancona aracen, named Ma.
tilde, the daughter of a Pagan Prince, to *hose co‘tocli
Gilbert, his father, had been assigned, after having been
made prisoner when travelling in the Holy Land. The
legend states, that after a confinement of eighteen
months, he escaped byt the assistance of Matilda, who
had fallen-in love- with him, and been converted to
Christianity by his persinsions. She afterwards, urged
lie an unconquerable affection, deserted her family, and
1011131. ring Gilbert to London, was there married to him
and had Thomas, the Archbishop (who was tailed
Thomas of Aeon, or Acres, the ancient Ptolemais, free
the presumed birth-place of hismother), ands diteghtee
named Agnes."
A few nights since, a young man intended to vary
off a farmers daughter, who resides in the [wishbone
hood et POlitiMila, and to whom he was paying his
iddremen. A few hours before the appointed time, oat
f tbo petty who was to assist the food lover in carrying
*this kit sir, mentioned the circumstance to the yoting
errs bredttr, and advised him to have her taken oat
111 the lily. The young man took the hint, and instantly
bad himself attired .in his sister's apparel (to whom
.bore• a strong likeness), • and was in the act of
making up some caps, when the party came into the
house, and without any ceremony took him away.
Clad carried him across the Shannon to the
sif Tipperary, where they lodged him at a
house for the night. .So anxious was the woman of the
Moose for her safety, that she had a bed made up in die
bars, for the supposed girl and her only daughter, in
Chshe locked both up, and kept the key herself, for
of any intruders. However, in some few hewn
idler, the mother heard some noise inside, for which
sbarply reprimanded them, and finally retired for the'
night. On the discovery of the affair next morning, the
snot& r became almost frantic, and all -sortaof &area
don were vowed for the delinquent; but, by the kind
interference of the daughter, the matter was hotbed sp.
shod the happiness of the couple crowned by the arriri
of the Priest, who married diem; by which lucky Pe" •
camatanee the fellow came In for a good fortis••••
Weaeris Argus.