Star.
London, England, 1818-03-17 00:00:00

CUSTOM-itOUSE, Itch fiG.

Samovars-aro Istivaans.—The Diligent, Atkinson, from Har-
lingen; Robin Redbreast, Hart, from Copenhagen; Abeona,
Allen, from Waterford ; (10, Jlawin, from Lisbon ; th,e Henry
Clay, Thomas, from Charleston; Swift, W‘myss, and Samuel,
Soper, from St. Michael's ; Dorchester, 'lodge, from Cork ; the
Jupiter, Walker, and Aimwell, Alexander, from Oprrto; Fly-
ing Fish, Smith, Eleanor, Stephens, ant Duke of Wellington,
Martin, from Ostend ; Cullen, and Parfaite Union, Chls-
cot, from Calais; Bowen, Sims, from Bh.s,ina ; John, Smith,
from firemen ; the Duke of Kent, Pound, and William Bowers,
Mason, from Rotterdam ; Albeit, Swan, from Virginia ; Cyn-
thia, White, from the Cape of Good 'lope and R trbadnes ; the
Good Intent, Bell, from mseilles ; Neptune, Ray, from Na-
ples" and Palermo; Friendship, Stafford, front Dentxrara; Bri-
tannia, Gallop, from Cadiz ; Lurd Wdlia2..on, Kerne, from Cal-
cutta; and Willi,un Pitt, Loving, fur P.,inbay and the Cape of
Good Hope. Ours,nr.s—Tii,. Hope, ColiirTs, ; the
Coastellatian, F. 11, f-,r f 1 ,yti; Nepruke, Stranack, fur Ostend;
and Vr....w Maria, Tents..ll4:od, f..r lanlburgh.-

It s said the French Government has consented to
a EN" transit f. r all Colonial goods coming from Hol-
land and Get n;any, and destined to Switzerland, and
that to this end an entrepot shall be established in
Strasburgh, in which these goods may remain four
months ; but that they shall not, upon any pretext
whatever, be removed from this entrepot, except for
the purpose of being forwarded to the place of their
destination. As the direct conveyance from Hol-
land may be effected without difficulty by the• way
of Mentz or Coblentz, the way through Alsace will
certainly be found very advantageous for this transit.
A second kind of transit will, it is said, he granted
to foreign manufactures, particularly of Germany
and the North, which are not among those prohi-
bited, and which will be allowed the transit through
all France, to be conveyed either to the French sea-
port, or by land to other frontier States, Spain, Italy,
Switzerland, the Netherlands. A new law on thi
subject is likewise expected to be resolved upon
the Chambers, to whose consideration it has been
submitted.

On Monday, the 29th of December, the Constitu,
tier. of the lonian Islands was solemnly proclaimed,
as ratified by his Royal Highness the Paixcs REGENT
on behalf of his Majesty the King Of GREAT BRITA!
and IRELAND, their sole and exclu,ive Protector.—
In consequence of this publication there appeared,
on New Year's Day, a Proclamation from the Lor
High Ccmmiscioner, Sir TIIONI is MAITLAND,
which, in conformity with the above-mentioned act
cf the Constitntion. he appoints, in the name of hi'
:VIAJLTry, Baron EMANUEL THEOTOKY to be Pres;
dent of the SenaLe of the United States of the loniai
L:lands ; and at the same time announces that Col
Members cf t.:le Senate. For the first Parliament have
been chosen by the Legislative Assembly, and from it!
owit body, the Co:. SCAMO CALICIIIMLO, of Corfu
Count Nicol.° AN:N'), of Cephalonia ; Count DEMF
TRIO FosoAnn:, e ; Mr. FELICT: ZANISELLI, o
Santa 111:m-:11; and Dr. BAsitto ZArro, of Ithaca,
According to the 7th Article of the Treaty relative to
the Ic.nian is:ands, concluded at Paris. November 5,
ISIS, betwecn the Courts cf London, Vienna, St. Pe-
burgh, ar.d Ber Fr., there shall be only Consuls m
Agt:r,ts for Ccminercial affairs, accredited to the Uni,
ted States of lonian Islandi. According to ar
of the Constitution, no native can in future (a,
was hitherto generally the ca,:e), fill the place ci
such a Consnl or Agent.
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Wednesday se'r.r.i—ght James L.:uric k, a young man,
a mason trade, I:ft Dumfries about ten o'clock t
go home to Moss-side of Craigs, near three miles dis•
tint, and on 'Thursday ntorning was &and dead upor
the foot-path (near the house of GRAY, nf Craigs',
about a mile and a half from Dumfries. The night
was extremely dark and stormy, with a heavy snow.
and it appeared he had wandered from one place tr
another a good deal before he had fallen, and mum
have had a violent struggle, as the knees of his pan.
taloons, and the nails of his fingers were much torn.
Wednesday, at noon, an explosiu:t of a distilltn:
apparatus took place in the laboratory of the Gla:
gow Apothecary Company, and the ether container
in it, igniting, the whole buildings were threatener
with destruction. An alarm was immed:ately giver
and the fire engines were taken to the spot. liappi'
however, no material injury was done to the premi::e,
although the shock produced by the explosion war
considerable. A man attending the apparatus wa,
thrown down, and so much scorched that it was fount
necessary to send him to the Infirmary.