Star.
London, England, 1829-10-22 00:00:00

CIIANGE&

The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbuty, at their seat, Hat-
field, from a tour; the Earl of Delawarr. from Newmarket, for
Bourne Han. Carton, Cambridgeshire; Viscount Deerhurat, from
Severn Bank to Beau Desert, in Staffordshire ; Admiral Lord
Colville, from a tour to Bath; Sir Charles Hulse, Bart. from the
Isle of Wight, for Fordingbridge. in Hampshire; Captain Boyd,
for Paris; Lieut. Colonel Mitchell, fur Dublin; Lady Elizabeth
Mooch, in St. James's-street, from a tour; Mr. Robert Vyner,
from a tour, to Gaudy, in Lincolnshire ; Major and Mrs. Heath for
the Parade at Ramsgate; Mr. and Mrs. and Captain Kemp, for
Bath ; Captain ['mallet for Brighton ; Mr. R. Glynn*, for Gaunt's
House, near Wimbarne, in Donetsbire; Captain Abbott, in Cid-
ford-street, from Brussels; Major and Mrs. Sanderson, in Con-
dult-street, front Paris; Colonel Bristow, in St. James's-street,
from the Hague; Mr. Henry Fellowes, M.P. from Haverland Hill,
in Norfolk, for Ramsey Abbey, in Huntingdonshire; Mr. John
Commerell for Stroud Park ; Captain Shipley for Paris; Captain
Skinner, of the 31st Regiment, from Bengal, to Chesterfield.
street, May-fair; Captain and Mrs. Luke, in Grosvenor-street,
from the Continent ; Major and Mr. Woodford, in Pall mall, from
pans; Captain and Mrs. Macdonald, from Harley-street. to Ire-
land ; J. Gibbs, Esq. at the British Hotel. Jermyn-street, from
Bath ; Sir William Burdltt, Bart. from ditto, to Cheltenham ;
Captain Locke, front ditto, to Cheltenham; Capt. and Mrs. Basil
Hall, from Warren's Hotel. Regent-street, to the Continent ;
Win. Sidney, lisq. from ditto, on a tour ; Mr. and Mrs. Spencer
Mackay, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for their seat
Bookbant Grove, Surrey ; G. A. Towry, Esq. from Crawley's
Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, for his seat Sunninghill ;
Mr. and Mrs. Smith and family, at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-
street, from Ireland ; 1.. Nairn*, E,sq at ditto, from the East
Indies ; Sir Wm. Robinson, at Ditto, from Dover ; Dr. Newell,
at ditto, from Cheltenham ; G. Johnstone, Eq• at ditto. from a
tour ; Dr. Carter and Son, at ditto, from Ireland.

CITY. Tviscva o'CLock.

The express from Paris this morning having brought
the ratification of the Treaty of Adrianople on the 20th
September, by the Sultan, and the news that the Russian
army will commence its retreat on the 28th of October,
as well as the improvement of the French Funds,—this
information has had a favourable influence in the Consol
Market. Consols which left off yesterday at soi to 91
for the Account, and 90i for Money, opened at the
same price ; and at present may be quoted at 91 to
Money, and 91i for the Account; and investments for
Money still continue.
In the Foreign Market little doing ; but Brazil Stock
continues a favourite fund for investment, owing to a
report that the Brazilian Minister is maturing some Fi-
nancial plan which will prove of great benefit to the
country.

CITY. HALF-PAST ONE.
The Consol market is not quite so good as in the
early part of the morning, when Consols were at 911
for the Account; since which a slight re-action has
taken place, and must be quoted at 91 to for money,
and 911 sellers for the account. The Commissioners
purchased at 91i in Consols. A Broker bought 100,000
3i per Cents. for a Scotch Bank in the early part of the
day.
In the Foreign market, the chief business doing is in
Brazil, Danish, and Spanish Stocks, which are improving.

Private letters from Sydney state the price of wheat at
7s. per bushel, and not likely to advance ; so great was
the new stock of goods at .;•ydney, that Captain Bunn
has resolved to return the iron and pitch to London.
From the Hobart Town Papers :—Letters are in the
Colony from Captain Fitzclarence, mentioning his in-
tention to come round here immediately in the Pallas;
so that we may expect not only this frigate, but also the
I Naiad, and perhaps the Sulphur.

DON MIGUEL TO ASSECA.
THIS INSTANT CONE IN WITH TM: LISION

EXPRRESS.

Our Game is lost—our race is run.
Our Bank is smash'd—we're all undone
Our golden dreams of hope are o'er
Shut up with our Exchequer door—
Our Executioners utipsid
Refuse to carry on the trade
Our Guards—true blackguards every one—.
Refuse, on tick, to lire a gun ;
Our spies mulct of their secret bribes.
Permit the folk's seditious jibe, ;
The Priesthood with our money fled
Scarce any where Mew ghostly head—
Denying in our dire despair
To credit us with MO or pray'r'
My Nobles—to the_mads have gone,
To levy taxes of their own ;
And our best friends beyond the seas
Will now drop a with our Atreus
The Bull next Sunday, I am sure,
Will turn and gore us—now we're poor-.
To Downing Street, the*, quickly fly,
To learn on what we must rely .
If &mom at any price
SAW OM the Dam of his advice
Then—mercy on us—Ser and Kim..
For You must bolt—and I must swing.
s s . O•

7•ffE ARMY

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BENGAL ALLOWANCE.
We have been favoured with the following copy of,a
addressed to the Bengal Army, on tue subject of the late ite.tue-
time in the Officers' Allowance en that Ketablithment I- will
be seen that both Lord Combermere and Lo d Willt.an Petlrina
are taveutable to a Repeal of the llotintrab Court , I
un
this important subject, and that t3e Case has again bred ref, t e t
to the East India Directors for furth r considerattin..

CII:CULAS.
Adjutant-General'. 015;,.
" Head-Quarters, Poore:, April ti 7.
" Sir—l have received the orders of bis Exceliet:cF the
Honourable the Commander in Chief, to inform you that it !lA,
been intimated to him by the Right Honourable the Govrrnar•
General in Counsil, that it 14 bis Lordship's intuition to rr.•:.;nit
to the Honourable the Court of Directors, Copic% of the .
and 51emorials which have been submitted to Governmeni. .1.
recommended to its favourable cousidetation by hi; Exceliolcv,
the subject of the Government General Oreer of the TiLh of N ..-
vember, 1828, with a communication of the views and •entime•.
which the Government have Inca led to entertain oa thi4 tn. tin

tent question.
" His Lordship in Council has been pleased to add, th it
afford him sincere gratification if the lionourabk Court of lh
rectors shall see fit to re-consider it.
" I have the honour to be, Sir,
" lour obedient servant,
(Signed) "C. FAGAN, Adj. Oro. of the Army
The following has been given by a contemporary, as a lair s- ;;
ment of the case on the part of the East India Company :
" The Officers in India receive the same pay as Officers screw,
in England. They also receive an allowance den ttttt Mated li ,
which is intended to provide for the peculiar personal ripe! cc:-
attendant on service in a tropic.) climate. Lieside4, they receive,
when not in the field, quarters free of expence, or an equival, r t
house rent; and tent allowance for keeping up tents, and cattle tut
carrying tents, in case of being called upon to move suddenly against
an enemy. The principle of the set vice, ever since the Company
established a regular military force, has, it appears, with one aa-
ception, been to give their officers a larger allowance when WI
actual service in the field than when sitting down quietly in canton-
ments or garrisons. This difference has been elude under :be head
of batta—full baste being granted in the field and half bate with
Douses or hoses rent, in garrison. The exception has been in the
ease of a portion of the Bengal Army, who, is consequence of an
erroneous measure adopted many years ago were granted the same
allowances when in quarters as when in the field. The error was
this—on making, up their accounts of the exproce of maintainik;
quarters for their officers in garrison, it was found that. from some
mismanagement, the espence had been greater than was antici-
pated ; and it even appeared that if the officers bad been granted
field allowances without quarters, instead of garrison allowances
with quarters, the Government would have been gainers. The
natural and proper arrangement to have been adopted under these
circumstances would have been to give the officers house rent, and
to leave them to provide their own quarters, which they could al-
ways do at less expense than the Government ; but instead of pct.
suing this course, the Bengal Government, acting on'their arith-
metical comparison,whilst leaving the officers to provide their own
quarters, gave them field allowances as a compensation. By this
arrangement it came to pass that the Bengal thficers received the
same allowances when cantoned as when engaged in a campaign.
In reviewing, some years afterwards, the military establishments
of India, this discrepanty was observed, and ordered to be cot.
reeled. The established principle of the service has accordingly,
but after muck delay, been applied to the officers serving at those
stations of the Bengal Army at which officers were originally sup-
plied with public quarters. These nations were, we find, only
four in number out of nearly 50, and the uutnber of officers affected
by it was about 270 out of nearly 2,000. The loss• sustained
varied from 200 to 20 rupees per month, according to rank ; and
was, of course, temporary only, ceasing when the officers were
moved to other stations in the ordinary arrangements of relief. The
anxiety of the Court of Directors to adhere to established arrange-
ments appears, we understand, in this, that although subse-
quently to the erroneous admission of the officers to full hatter
to cantonments, many other stations hive been occupied in the
more dusting provinces, which, properly. come under the desig-
nation of fixed cantonments, they only required the return of the.
Government to the old system at those cantonments in the Lower
Provinces at which the half-batta system had actually easel in
1796. Thus the Bengal army has still great, very great Awry.-
Uges over the armies of the other Presidencies, at which the
sound and wholesome system of increasing allowances in time art
war has been uniformly and completely acted upon, from the
earliest times. We believe there is not the slightest intention of
altering or extending thew arrangements. Ot course, the
equalization of allowances to Officers serving at the different
Presidencies of India must be a very desirable object. It 'ace
been stated that this object can only be properly accomplished by
bringing up the lower in all cases to the higher ; but even sup
posing that an equalisation on this principle (by which the distinc
Lion between garrison and field allowances would be destroyed at
Madras and Bombay) would have been a wise arrangement, it is
unfortunately too true that the financial pressure arisin: out of the
long and expensive war with the Burmese admits of no increase in
the pay and allowances of the troops."
• The Lieutenant-Colonel, 200 rupees a month; Major, 141
Captain, 49; Lieutenant, 50 ; Ensign, 20.

CORONER fur LONDON and SOUTI

WARK.

stiltioin, a copy of the Petition frogs the inhabi-
tants of Southwark, to the Court of Common Corm*, she writs
of which were taken into consideration in that Couit :
" To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Commons, of the City of London, in Common Council as-

sembled.
The humble Petition of this undersigned Inhabitants of the
Town and Borough of Southwark.
" Sheweth—That King Edward the Sixth, by charter, in the
fourth year of his reign, after granting to the Mayor, Common-
alty. and Citizens of the City of London, the Manor and Borough
of Southwark, with the rights, members, and appurtenances,
and various privileges therein granted, that the said Mayor
and Commonalty, and Citisens;and their successors, might for
ever choose. according to the form of the law, and constitute every
year. or as often as should seem expedient to them, two Coroners
in the Borough or Town aforesaid ; and that the said Coroners,
and either of them, should have an exclusive authority and juris-
diction within the said Town and Borough.
hat the jurisdiction of the Corporation in the Town and
Borough of Southwark (and which your Petitioners presume your
Hoonorable Court is anxious to maintain), includes the five
veral parishes of St. George. St. John, Sr. Thomas, St. Olave,
and St. Saviour (except the liberty of the Clink), and is bounded
by the river Thames on the North, by the parish of Bermondsey
tnwards the East, and by the parish of Lambeth towards the
West, extending southwards to Neiwingtoo, and to the City
boundary at St. Thomas-a Watering, in the Old Kent-road, and
comprising a population of nearly 70,000 persons, being about one-
ti•th of the population of the whole county.
" That besides the Prisons and the New Bethnal Hospital for
the care of lunatics, which are all situate within the Corporate
limits above-mentioned, they likewise comprise the two im-
portant Hospitals of St. Thomas's and Guy's establishments,
which are of the utmost consequence to the public at large, and
to which are regularly brought almost all the casualties that hap-
pen, not merely within the populous districts which lie more
immediately contiguous, both In London and Southwark, but
likewise within a distance of many miles from all parrs of the
county of Surrey.
" That, in consequence, there are annually held at these two
Hospitals alone, many more inquests than in the remainder of
the county of Surrey, add nearly as many as in the whole City of
London, and occasionally more; and it would tend much to the
convenience and accommodation of the Medical and other officers
belonging thereto, and of the inhabitants in general, who are
several times every week summoned on Juries, if the powers given
by the Charter from the Corown were more fully acted upon, and
a resident Coroner were appointed for the said Borough, either ex-
clusively or jointly with a Coroner for the City of London' in such
manner as to your Honourable Court may seem meet, it being of
the utmost importance that inquests should be held with the least
possible delay, much inconvenience and loss of time having in
fact been hitherto occasioned fur want of such further accommo-

dation.
Your Petitioners, therefore, most humbly pray that your Ho-
nourable Court will be pleased to take the premises into your
most serious consideration, and to appoint at least one Coroner for
the Town and Borough of Southwark. either exclusively or jointly
with the Coroner for the City of London, pursuant to the Charter
grimed by the Crown, and the power of and authority "thereby
given for that purpose.
" And your Petitioners wiU ever pray, &c."