Star.
London, England, 1829-08-27 00:00:00

OPORTO. Auo. 5.

The Divino Imperador schooner, which arrived at Lisbon on
the 30th July, in 16 days from St. Michael's, brings word that the
blockade of Terceira was continued with great strictness. The
D. John VI. was at St. Michael's, to take on board the troops
destined to attack Terceira, which was blockaded in the mean
time by the other vessels. Assurances had been received from
the faithful inhabitants, that as soon as his Majesty's forces
should appear, aU would be finished, the island would submit, and
the traitors would not be able to escape, as they greatly desired
to do, in consequence of a Proclamation, dated the 17th June, on
board the D. John VI. and posted up in the island on the 24th, in
which the inhabitants were called upon to submit, assuring them
that the rebels were disunited among themselves, as appeared from
their letters for England, intercepted on board the Decan, Captain
Daniel. Lastly, they are invited to deserve his Majesty's pardon,
by preventing the Sight of the rebel leaders.
This proclamation is dated the 17th of June, on board the Don
John the Vlth, signed by Jose Joaquim da Rosa Coelho, Coat-
mander-in.Chief.—Lisbon Papers, dug. 14.
CI'T'Y. Twicvs o'CLocic.

This Is settling day in the Coastal Market, and the chief business
doing at present is settling their accounts. As yet we do not hear
of any failure, and the Account appears to go off well. Consuls,
which left off yesterday at 513§ for the Account, opened at 881 59,
and for next time 591.

In the Foreign Market nothing doing at the present time.—
Prices nominal.

CITY. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols have continued very lively during the whole of the
morning, and have improved to 89i for Money, and 89j 1 for (k.
tober Account. The settling of Accounts continues to go off well,
as up to this hour we do not bear of any failures. It is singular
that the prier of Consols were oo the lad settling day the same as
this Account. It is supposed that the Bulls, the Hebrew party,
have made great havoc amongst the Bears this Account.
In the Foreign market little or nothing is doing. Brazilian
Bonds are not so good as yesterday.
The following has been received at the North and South Ame-
rican Coffee-house from New York :

CIRCULAR TO TIIE COLLECTORS OF CUSTOMS.

Treasury Department, Sth June, 1629.

Stas—Tbe heavy losses sustained by the United States, through
the failure of importing merchants to pay the debts due upon
Custom-house bonds, and the facility with which the priority of
the United States is evaded in cases of insolvency, render it
indispensable that more effectual precaution be observed on
the part of the Collectors, in accepting securities for the pay-
ment of bonds given for duties. With a view to this object you
are instructed to keep a bond account with each extensive im-
porter, that you may be able at a glance to see the amount
of his debts; and In all cases you are directed not to accept
security which is not deemed by you fully ample for the debts in-
tended to be secured, or to give extensive credits to persona who
are liable for large sums.as securities on the bonds of others. As it
will be impossible to prescribe fixed limits to the credit proper to
be given in each case, you are to exercise a sound discretion In
guarding the interest of the Government.

S. D. INGHAM,
Secretary to the Treaoury.
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All anxiety is now felt in the City for another Russian
bulletin ; by which they shall officially learn the true
situation of the Grand Seignor ; and whether he has sued
for peace or decamped from his capital. Certain it is he
must do one or the other.

Accounts from Gibraltar of the 6th August state, that
the emigration still continues, and commerce is entirely de-
stroyed. The troops of the garrison are in camp, and
the town almost deserted ; and it may be at present
called a military place.
Accounts from Buenos Ayres of the 15th June state,
that the enemy's troops were concentrated between Lu-
nn end Mixello.

Quebec Papers to the 24th July, and Port au Prince
to the 13th July, are received at the North and South
American Coffee-house. The Quebec Papers state, that
his Excellency Sir James Kemp has left Montreal, on a
visit to Chambley. His Excellency, who is said to have
derived great satisfaction from his visit to Montreal, will
return to the seat of Government the first week in August.
The ;Majestic, from Belfast, has arrived after nine weeks'
passage, with 3.50 settlers. The weather continued un-
settled for the last three weeks, with continual rain.

We understand that Government received last night
accounts from Constantinople of the 10th August, which
bring the important information, that the Grand Sultan
has left his capital, with the whole of his forces, for
Adrianople : at the same time the sacred standard was
hoisted, and he was determined to give the Russians
battle. Should he prove unsuccessful, Constantinople
was to experience the fate of Moscow, and be reduced
to ashes.

Letters have been received from Batavia of the 10th
May, but they contain no political information. The Maria
had arrived, after a quick passage of 101 days, with the
two nephews of Richard Thornton, Esq. of London.
The young Duke of BottuDEAux observing a soldier
of the Swiss guard, while on duty at the Palace of St. Cloud.
eating some very black bread, inquired " Why he preferred such ?"
The answer was obvious—" It is the hest, please your Highness.
that I can get." "Is it se? replied the Prince, " then wait a
moment ;" and without further ceremony the young Duke rushed
into the apartment where his MAJOTT was taking his dejesnser,
and seizing a chicken and a loaf, curried them off in triumph to
the soldier.

The inhabitants of the town of Scarborough have re-
cently been enlivened by the presence of a whale, supposed to
measure about sixty feet in length. He announced his arrival by
spouting water to the height of a steamer's chimney, and after that
was content with exhibiting his back several times.
THE SIGHTS OF LONDON.—London is the place for
strange things. There a Balm: may be seen acting as a pollee-
officer, with a Salem for an assistant ; a ring acting at a minor
theatre (the Coburg) and an Arbon (Lord Tenterdeo) presiding in
a court of justice instead of a monastery.
ARCHITECTURAL ODDITIES.—The largest Protes-
tant church in the world (&. Paul's) was built by a Wren (the
sesllest of birds); and the Adelphi has stood since the days of
.ddans, who built it. •

LIBERTY, A PLANT.-" Qui teneros castles alieni
'merit hard," says Horace. which, in good English phrase, we take
to mean " Let your neighbour's cabbages alone," may well head the
following conceit :—At a public meeting, held for the purpose of
discussing the never-to-be-forgotten subject of Parliamentary Re-
form Dr. Manse!, then Master of Trinity College, and afterwards
Bishop of Bristol, completely alarmed Musgrave, the political tailor.
in the middle of a vehement and spirit stirring exordium on blerty.
" Liberty, gentlemen." said snip, addressing his brother craft-
4, Lskerty is a plod !" " lie is cabbage I" ezdaimed Dr. Mengel.
The contrast was so irreiledhle, that Musgrave, though a man of
considerable nerve, was WOW down.

THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE PRESS.
Our contemporaries still permit themselves to be rocked
gently in the drowsy cradle of delusion. Although the victorious
sums.' of the Russian army are despairingly admitted, in world
refutation of all they have been opining for the public so long,
they cannot yet forego the same unction they so fondly lay to the
50u1..-•011! peace, dear peace ! what must be your charms, when
those devih incarnate, London Editors, affect to hug you so closely!
--they who have hitherto used their pens, 41 like quills upon the
fretful porcupine." in daily irritation and domestic strife. The Czar,
they admit, may be even now master of Constantinople ; and their
confidence only Increases in Turkish forbearance. The Sultan, they
conceive, cannot longer decline granting the simple reparation of
honour solicited so humbly by the invader.—Constantinople in

jeopardy is a real benefit ;—for all will now be well. Our dila°.
matises will have a fair advantage, in pressing arguments of recipe_
ciliation with the Divan ; and the Sultan, good natnredly, win
offer his band to the Czar,—who, grateful thereat, win
plod his way back to the Danube, satisfied in mind and pocket.
If, however, this petty war wigkosit ceessiversce should be conti-
nued to the slight interruption of oar trade in the Levant, we have
only to dispatch a handful of troops and a squadron of ships to
establish amity and good order, and all will become as before ;
our commerce rise as prosperously as ever; Greece tranquillize
itself ; and Paskewitsch, glad to relinquish his conquests, leave Ana.
tolia and Trebisonde to its Makontedan masters. Then,restored,
without interruption, to their own delightful element, the directors
of the British Press—channting jubilee--will return to the brawl
and skirmish upon the halfpenny-farthing questions of domestic

interests sufficient for their calibre, and on which they, as champions
of party, can alone affect importance. Game Laws and Lethbridge
—Emancipation and Eldon--Select Vestries and the Lord Mayor—
Oh shade of Chatham—Nee/gate and Sir Richard lErnie!
But, alas ! the Czar is as anxiously active and resolutely earnest as
our politicians are indifferent and supine. He leaves us to
our home concerns while he secures a bold on the Darda-
nelles—never to be relinquished while he can command
a single soldier faithful to the interests of his country.
Yes, suck was precisely our apathy and pacific narrow views
when Hocks invaded Holland. It required thirty years
of bloodshed and treasure to rectify our mistake ; and now it may
require an equal duration of struggle, a general invasion, and a
Waterloo, to repair the errors of IU9.
How desolating is it not for every thinking man attached to the
interests of this country, and jealous of its honour, to contemplate
so muck lethargy, silly complacence, and humbug, as is now enter-
tained by the press of this country, as an eventful crisis in which
our immediate commercial interests are so alarmingly threatened
—nay, our very existence as an independent nation. The march
of Napoleon to Moscow was not more terrible than this Rus-
sian invasion of Constantioople.—lf it has fallen, woe to
the mercantile--ansfusion to our governors. Our advantages will
have been thrown away through corruption or imbecility ; and
England, pulled down at once in the scale of nations, must crawl
on as a third rate Power. • • • • •

THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL.
PORTSMOUTH, Toter Evansa, Auc. 25.

This evening at five o'clock, her Majesty Maria da
Gloria, Queen of Portugal, arrived at the George Hotel, attended
by the Marquis de Moselle, his Excellency Viscount d'ltabayna,
his Excellency the Chevalier d'Marcorwhay, as also their Excel-
lencies Madame de la Samara, and Madame Brews. Her Majesty
was received with a royal salute from the garrison, the whole of
which was drawn out to receive her. After alighting from her
carriage, she appeared, attended by her suite, at the window of the
state room, when the regiments of the garrison presented arms and
passed the window, their bands playing, and her Majesty graciously
curtsied to each Officer as she passed, after which the Officers of
the garrison were presented. Her Majesty looked rather fatigued
from her journey. She was attired in a plain white frock with a
pink girdle, a thin green gauze handkerchief round her neck, and
a light pink bonnet. The Empress is expected here every hour
from Ostend, in the Superb. Amongst those viewing the scene
I observed Lord Shaftestury. The town is crowded to excess.
Her Majesty's and the Empress's arrival, added to the Court-
Martial, has brought an Indus of visitors seldom witnessed. Oa
the arrival of her Majesty an the fashionables, as well as the garri-
son, turned out, the Brazilian frigates hoisted their colours, and
their officers instantly repaired on shore to pay their respects to her
Majesty.
COURT CIRCULAR.

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The Princess LIEVEN and the Countess Of ABERDEEN
had interviews with the Duchess of Cuxasal.arro yesterday, at her
residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Marren of the
Reims, the Dowager Duchess of RICEIIOIIO, Lady Maaessamoari.
and Baron Muocuaussx. were among those who called yesterday
to pay their respects to the Royal Duchess.
Dispatches from the Right Hon. ROBERT GORDON,
our Ambassador at Constantinople, for the Earl of Amman, were
received yesterday at the Foreign Deice. They were brought by
a Messenger who came front Ancona, to which port they were
forwarded by tht Lord High Commissioner of the Inalan Islands.
The British Consul at Ancona immediately dispatched a Messen-
ger with them to England. The Messenger brought dispatcher for
the Colonial-office from Sir Faruszarcx Lama, the Lord High
Commi.sioner of the lonian islands.

The Danish Minister had a long conference with the
Earl of Almanacs, yesterday, at the office of the Secretary of &ate
for Foreign Affairs. The Spanish and Prussian Ministers bad also
interviews with the Noble Earl yesterday.

THE CHURCH.

CAMBRIDGE, Auc. 21.
The following Gentlemen of this University were ordained by
the Bishop of Chester, on the 9th instant :

Jacob Pietas], B.A. Queen's College.
John Todd, MA. Caius College.
Ralph Watkins Fibber. B.A. Clare Hall; and
Charles James Shaw, B.A. Trinity College.
DUCONL

Jonathan Blackburn', B.A. St. John's College.
Andrew Cassell., B.A. St. John's College.
Edward Sluittleworth, B.A. St. John'. College.
Joseph Simpson, B.A. Sc. John's College.
Thomas Bradford, B.A. Magdalene College.
George Cole, B.A. Corpus Christi College.
Robert Hornby, B.A. Downing College.
Sunday the With alt. the Arabia., of York held an Ordination
at his Palace at Blohopthorpe, when the following Gentlemen of
this University were ordained :

J. Sadler, ILA. and B. Spurrell, B.A. St. Joba's College.
R. Twells, B.A. Trinity College.
The Rev. Edward Cobbold, of Watlington, Norfolk, has been
instituted to the Rectory of Long Melford, Suffolk, on the pre-
sentation of John Cobbold, Esq. of Holywells, near Ipswich.

Wednesday sennight. the Rev. Robert Mace!, lobo was lately
ordained by the Presbytery of Glasgow to the Church of Niagara,
sailed from Greenock in the Favourite.

Letters from Port-au-Prince state that BOLIVAR w•ad
about to assume the title of Emperor of Colombia, and to appoint
General Peas Generalissimo of his forces.

It is understood the Ganges will be re-commissioned,
and that her destination win be the Mediterranean. Preparations
are also making for dispatching the Kent, 78, to the same station.
Hay was carting round London in excellent order the
whole of Tuesday, a tolerable proof that the rains of the three pre-
ceding. days could have done no very permanent injury.
The weather has been so unusually cold within these
few days, that many persons have had recourse to fires; the ther-
mometer, in a sheltered situation, fell a few nights since as low
as 47.

ETYMOLOGY.—A learned dictionary-maker derives
the word " duel" from do ill, because the parties know that they
are acting wrong. Nothing could mend this 10 absurdity except
the conjecture of another teamed Thaw who having spent more
time in the study than the dub-house, supposed that the name of
the fashionable game of • row et noir" was derived from the
alternate red and Neck looks of the players, according to tkeir good
or IA acme