Star.
London, England, 1828-03-22 00:00:00

signifies to the•ondernsentionsbl °lacers, that his Majesty
has no further occasion for their services. (Three Lieut.-
Colonels and one Major have been dismissed.)
" The Governor in Chief thinks it not less his duty
than an act of justice to the loyal Militia of the Pm-
vines, to put tliem on their guard against being misled
by the acts of ill diposed persons."

The Poor Rates for the last year, appear, by a late
Retain, to be a charge of seven millions and a half
upon the coot try. Stich an anomaly does not esist in
any other State in Europe; and if the burthen continues
to inmate after its present tate of progression, it will
soon vie with our other special incumbrance—the In-
Iciest of the National Debt. There are persons, indeed,
who consider the latter one of the securities of our
greatness, and to them, perhaps, the • Prior's Rates will
doubtless appear also a blessing; and the monopolies
of Corn, Sugar, and Tea, which, for the sake of the
Landlot ds, and the other Lords, cost about twenty-sir
millions per annum to the. public, Mill be defended by
them as their indefeasible inberitanae. Rut soh doe-
trines are daily losing
.their influence; and we, unit
the Session will not pass without the .question of the
Corn Laws being put on some tolerably equitable foot-;
ing. That the admission price should be Stied so low
as to effect a material reduction in the price of commo- '
dine.. waxen liaidiy hope;' we shall, however. thank,
fully accept whatever sood.fication injthr fzisQng testi-
lations'asay be conceded by the Legislatore•ri-C.onccded,
_we say, baying before Out ey,is2 at hat Isassect is .she
tit*, of Lprds last me on itac sibject. And we do
contend. in behalf of those snffering soor for Whose
relief the scheme of Emigration has, been brought foe-
ward, that, however rod and wie that MC *Mire Mar
be iu itself (as we fully admit it is), yet it e. only on
•the score of there remaining no alternative by whi.h
food can be provided at home, that a Government I
would be warranted in transporting its unoffencling sub.
jects as exiles to a foreign land. Home is home, be it ,
ever so humble; and if, by permitting a free trade in
Corn, the necessaries of life can be cheap, ned Ey many
millions a year, we do protest against a system of keep-
ing op onteasonable prices for the benefit of a few,
whilst we drive our pourer brethren across the Atlantic,
to seek in a distant soil -that just hire and reward of
their laboori which is denied them in the land of
their birth.

The Duke and Duche sot Gt.occesran p3ve a grand
dinner yesterday at Gh ester House. Park.l.ee, to the Duke and
Duchess of CLA MIMI, the Princess Cottossts, and a atect•party
of the Nobility and Gentry. -
The Duchess of 6.l.ovoairsa visited the Princess
August* yesterday. at her reehleteee in the King's Paine, fit.
lariats's. The Royal Sisters afterwards took an airing together.
Thursday' was the anni errs .ry of• the birth-d.iy of the.
Duchess of COSISSOLAND, when het Royal Highness completed her
fiftieth year.
A Cabinet Council .was held at three o'clock yester•
d4y afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downirg•street.
which was attencied

The Mike of Welloigton, gads Bathurst. Dudley. and Aber-
deen'. Viscounts Melville and Palmerston. Lord Ellenborough,
Mr. &cretary Peel, Mr. Secreta►y Huckl4sois, and the Chancellor
of the Pscliequer.—The Ministers nisi:dried in deliberstiun about
two hours.

TROY/18111AL TIIEPT.—It being DTATEJ, on a trial at
GeiWhat!, that a mane name was really /nal, who pretended that
Ws name was Lrneh." I see," observed the Judge, '• they.old sryini
is verified in tots man, who bring admired an fuck has taken an L.'
A letter from our Portsmouth" Co-respondent, of
Thursday'. date, says—" The Carron steam boot sailed this day,
with dimatehes front Government, for Lisbon. Orders arrived the
preetding evening to get her he readiness; and hands were imme-
diately pat to work to get every thing reed_y for her depurate."
We understarid tt•at t' e Duke a WELLINGTON ib
determined to get rid of the Exchequer, the bushier& of which will
merge into the Treasury, or, more properly speaking, into the
Bank. At present the money arising from toles Is paid into the
Exchequer, and from thtuce into the Denk. After the abolition
of the liechequer Office, it will be paid at once into the Bush,
where it will be placed to the credit, of the Treasury. By this
arrangement, a saving of 70,C006 , a yeas' will be effected. The
Government, however, will lose some patronage, but this is an-
ankle which the present Premier holds 'very damp. The Director,
ships of the South Sea Company, another source of useless even*
to the country, are also us be alialisbed.-3ferninglierelL
The Ball at Edinburgh, for the benefit of NI,. Goo's
family, was numerously and fashionably attended. Several Mem-
bers of the Caledonian Hunt, in unilorm • were present ; as also a
number of the Officers of the King's licageoa -Girard& and lead
&Owen.
Mr. GIANT and the Honourable D. Pixcuy the Par—
liamentary Commissioners for Inquiring into Public Clueing", ar-
rived at Liverpool on Wednesday, with their suite.
The Honourable DONALD Ocrumay. of Clove. I as
been appointed, by the Lord ideatenatit of Ferfandeire, ColeneHlf
the Forfar and Kiacardineekire ilreginient of Militia, vice Lord
Devotes, who resigned.
The Marchioness of LeesnowN had a grand musical
party yesterday evening, at Lansdown Houle. Berkeley square,
which was Intended by upwards of two hundred of the horst tow
Emmy Marchioness of Lownoisnitunv gyre a splendid.
rest yesterday evening, at her home in St. James's-square, yrkleh
was very numerously and fashionably attended.
Yesterday the scaffolding do which three men were
employed in altering the gallery of the Sessions Houle, Matra well,
gam way, by which two-ef them were seriously hurt. The foot of
the third caught IP a joist, from which he was suspended s. Ter at
nannies. till relieved by some of Ail more fortunate companion'.
engaged in another part of the building.
A private communication from Lisbon, by the way
of France, is said to have arrived which brings the ful-
lowing.intelligence:4 That 8:r F. L'isstliy the Vigour
of his conduct and the wisdom of bit counsels, had
succeeded in destroying t irflueree of the:Quarts over
Don Mienm—that he had opened his eyes. to the error
of his conduct—had induced him to Writer his steps,
and determined hilt to become the real, not the pre-
tended, supporter of the Constitution. The joint ad-
vices both of Don ftliouss and of our Ambassador, who
had represented to the Quits the imminent danger to
which she exposed herself. her son., and the State, had
induced her to take her departure secretly from Lit-
ho:l.7-11/4'mo ?awes..
We understand that the Doke of WELLINGTON sof-
fess oo Treasury Minute to stand over; they are all
answered on the day or theday after tLey ace made,
though, under former Premiere, ditty ftequentlystood
over four months.--

The Finance Committee, and also the Metropolitan
Police Committee.willsit in the Easter holidays,fer the
purpose of prepariug.their Reports, *bleb are expected
to to presented to the House of Coasawmi *eon after
tire recess. It is understood that both Committees have
made great plovers in their labours.
Lao TAL—It• appeats by the Returns presented
to the Home of Commons. that the total amount of
landst • x redeemed up to the 45th of .11ecrnsber, 1d27.
:ia.T17.1014 4..11d. •
The T=rench seem to have completely lost their love
for la let.rhte de la rue. Foot-ways are now making
after the English kishion in the two great thoroughfares
of Peri., la lime Richelieu, ct• la Rue kit. Honorb.
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