Star.
London, England, 1826-06-19 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN OPERA.

There was nothing of novelty in the performances of Saturday;
but the whole went off with infinite eclat. In the brilliant circle
we noticed—

The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, Duchess of Kent, Prin.
eess Feotiore, Princes: Esterhazy; Dukes of Wellington; Grafton,
Portland, Bedford; Duchess of Richmond; Marquises of Woe-
ewer, Hertford. Graham, Londonderry, Salisbury, Douro;
Marchionesses of Worcester, Aylesbury, Salisbury, Londonderry,
Dowager of Salisbury; Earls of Scarborough, Carlisle, Jersey,
Somerset. Gkogall, lastisdale, Harewood, Howe, Westmoreland,
Fate; Countesses of Lansdale, Hampden, Clare, Scarborough, St.
Anima°, Bristol, Jersey, Somerset, Tankerville Cowper, Carlisle,
M.n,Seld, Sefton; Viscount Palmerston; Ladies Anne Beckett,
Gwydyr, Caroline Paulen, Mary Shepherd, Stewart, Francis
Levi•ori GO'A tr. Farquhar, Petre; Lords Sussex, Lennox Gwy-
dye. Aibley, Binning, Howard de Walden, Bruce, Grenville,
Somerset, Petre, Holland; Honourable Mr. Archibald Hamilton,
Mr. Tierney, lion. Mr de Roos. Hon. General Ponsonby, Hon.
General Upton; lion. Mrs Orby Hunter; Count Woronxow,
Sir Thomas Lawrence, Admiral Sotheron, Sir William Rowley,
Sir F. U. Sir M. Stewart, Mr. Merlin Dyer, Count Palmcia.

Accounts from Nidda, in Hesse Dirmstadt, dated
4th June, state that imminent danger has been done in
that and the neighbouring districts within the preceding
week, by dreadful bail storms and torrents of rain,
which have destroyed all the standing crops, and in
many places covered the fields and gardens with earth
anul stone, brought down from the higher parts of the
country. The river Nidda was, on the 9th inst. swelled
tr. a rapid. torrent, and brought down with it ruins of
buildings, household furniturtrof every debt:intim), and
dead cattle. No persog in the distriet of Nidda had
perish e', but the corpses of six persons of the country
high-r up had been found, and it is thought that the
'somber of those who' hare lost their lives is much
mere considerable.. . _ _

PONT LPG A L.—Thi kingdom of Portugal contains 4,101
par ishet, 765,395 houses, and a population of 3,013,900
souk; the superficial extent of the kingdom is 3,150
leagues (20 vi a degree). The list of persons enjoying
title', contains three Dukes, 34 Marquises, 76 Counts,
41 Viscounts,- and 27 Barons, or 181 in all; and k is to
be Oise, ved,-th'at 122 of these persons owe their titles to
the titunificence of the late King, who, during the 34
years ul his reign, crested one Duke (Victoria), 12 Mar.
t 56,44. 42 Counts, 40 Viscounts, and 27 I; trone, not trs
speak Of the tide; Created and extinct during those 34
years by the death of the possessors, but only reckoning
drose.now existing ; so that there ate 59 titles anterior
to the reign Of the late King, and 122 of his creation.
We hay,- received a variety of American Papers to
the fit St tilt. The dates frant Peru are o the 13th a March. Bo-
Laois had arrived at Lima from tire Upper Country, and had suns
mooed the Congress of Peru to asseniLle on the 20th of April.
WWI. was on Board an English frigate. The fire at the Old Cos-
tom Clouse at Vera Crux is mentioned in these Papers. A consi-
derable part of the nierchodise lodged in it was saved. The build-
ing was thately consumed. 'the estimateil loss is a half million to
WI hundred thousand dollars. These Papers contain very recent in-
telligence from Mexico • they are rather gloomy. ea account of the
effects of the failure of ;he contractor (Goosenstair) in London.
The Mexican Papers attribute the final refusal of that Government,
in sending an extraordinary Ambassador to England to arrange the
Treaty, to the peremptory interference of the Senate. It is stated
the American Nlinister suggested the propriety of insisting upon
" free ships making free goods," in the English Treaty, which was
the chief impediment to the arrangement. Mr. itannox.ris, rim noted
Americas Senator, has arrived at Liverpool.
We understand that the Estate of the late Plymouth
Bask is expec.ed to pay a dividend of about Bs. in the
Opunri. Many rrt the outstanding accounts, which may
be considered good, still remain undischarged—Ply-
mouth Weekly Journal.
Party spirit at this moment runs high in the borough
of Plmouth. Two rival candidates, (E. Lockyer, Esq.
and Cartain Arthur, lt.N.) have already star ted for the
stiff ages of rt e freemen at the next election of Mayor,
th* ugh the cffi,e dews no become vacant, in -the usual
coscrse. unt 1 September. Each of these gentlemen has
fii:ril h and is considered a leader in his
parts. The opposing interests ate conjectured to be
ners,l) b e.inced,an 1 A snot t c *quest is thereto' e expected.

,
r1.4.t • nor of the eve, tool bu idiom n 1 tl e new
CsAge, Sat it. ua• put up La *tell. fhe tuumlit►ut► stone
was laid in the year 1761/.

CLEIUCAJ.. INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDGE, Julie IT.

At a Congregation on Saturday last, the following degrees were
conferred :
13acum.oa it Dtvintrr—The Rev. T. W. Thirlwall, St. John's
College.
Rag ileum its Oen. Law—Rev. Gilbert Alder, 'Choler of Tri.
nity
BacHston tw Parsm—Heneage Gibbs, Downing Coil.
Racisetna or Aam—Samuel Collingridge, Trinity College.
At the statutabk Congregation on the 11th in.t. the following
Gentlemen were admitted:
Dacus:Lox' Diyuner.—The Rev. Thomas SAwey, Fellow of
St. John's College, and Vicar of Oswestry ; the Rev. J. T. Blunt,
Fellow of St. John's College • the Rev. John Weller, Fellow of
Emmanuel College ; the Rev.banielWilliams, aate-hall; the Rev.
Stephen Middleton, Queen's College; the Rev. John Sharpe, Sid-
ney College, Vicar of Doncaster, and Domestic Chaplain to the
Earl of Clanwilliam (compounder).
OXFORD, Julgic 17.

Farms Commit—An Election will rake place in this College,
on Friday, the 3rith of June, to two Fellowships, the one founded
foe natives of the Diocese of Salisbury, the other for nathes of
the county of Devon.
Wednesday, Mr. James Sayer Ogle was admitted Scholar of
New College.
Thursday, the following degrees were conferred.
BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN DIVINITY, IT DEGREE CIT CONVOOA.
von—Rev. John Hawtayne, M.A. of Exeter College, Archdeacon
of Bombay.
DOCTOR 111 Ceru. LAW—James Chapman, Christ Church.
asconzoa m Oyu. Law—William- Elliott Marsh, Fellow of
St. John's College.
blarrams or Airs—Richard Martin, Fellow of Exeter College ;
Rev. Thomas Cleave, Oriel College; Rev. Charles John Hume,
Fellow of Wadhant College; Rev. John Charles James Hoskyns
Abrahall,,Echolar of Wadham College; Henry Shute, Odd Coll.
BACIIILOOS or ARTS—Edward Robert Nares, Merton College;
William Gardiner, Ester College • William Jones, Chust Church ;
Henry Thomas Dyke, Oriel College; Jervis Triggs Gifford, Fel-
low of New Coll. Henry Darell Stephens, Fellow of New Coll.
At a private Ordination of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, held
yesterday, the following persons were admitted into Holy Orders ;
DEACONS—Robert Albion Cox, B.A. Merton College, Oxford;
William George Dymock, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford ; William
Henry England, B.A. Pembroke College, Oxford; Wm. H. E. D.
Shaw, B.A. St. Peter's College, Cambridge; Hugh John Bel.
four, literate.
Penton—James Scott, B.A. Wadhain College, Oxford; Alex-
ander Templeasan, B.A. Queen's College, Oxford; Edward Wilson,
B.A. St. John's College, Oxford; James Parker Vuules, B. A. St.
Peter's College, Cambridge.

Rev. Wm. Holme, B. D. sailor Fellow of Emmanuel College,
Cambridge, has been presented, by the Master and Fellows of that
Society, to the valuable Rectory of Loughborough, vacant by the
death of the Rev. Dr. Hardy.
Wednesday, the Rev. S. B. Vince, Vice-Provost and Tutor of
King's College Cambridge, was presented, by the Provrt and Fel-
lows of that Sticiety, to the living of Ringwood, in Hampshire.
Rev. W. B. Whitehead, M.A. Vicar of Chard, has been Wad-

toted to the Vicarage of Timberscomhe, Somerset, on the presen-
tation of the Rev. Prebendary Vanbrugb.
Sunday se'nnight, the Rev. Joseph Ford Leathy, Rev. Charles
R. Hanson, Rev. Thomas Furlong, Rev. E. N. Ilorre, and the
Rev. Edward Hardman, were ordained by his Gr-ce the Arch-
bishop of Tuam.
Wednesday se'nnlght, the Rev. Mr. Kennedy, late of Alterfeldy,
Perthshire, was ordained Pastor of the Congregation meeting in
Fraser•street Chapel, Inverneu.
The Trustees of the Earl of Eglinton have presented the Rev.
Jacob Richardson, preacher of the Gospel, to the Church and
Parish of Larp, Ayrshire, vacant by the translation of the Rev.
Dr. Mitchell to be Professor of Divinity in St. Mary's College,
St. Andrew's.