Star.
London, England, 1829-10-16 00:00:00

BRIGHTON, Oct. 14.

Lord Jon); TOWNSEND left the King's-road yesterday,
on a visit to the Earl of ECINZMONT at Petworth. It is under-
stood that his Lordship will proceed with the Noble Earl to He-
refordshire.
Major and Mrs. Baceer are arrived. Sir B. and Lady Easy are
occupying apartments at the New Styns Hotel.
The Royal York Hotel continues full of elegant company. inclu-
sive of the Marchioness of Downsinaz (Baroness Sastrms), and
Lady MART HILL, the Countess of ALDBONOIO3IIi SIA. Sir W.
WILLIAM* and Mr. Wuxuass, Mrs. Notoon, and Mrs. SYMONDS,
were included in its departures this morning, all for the splendid
Sea House Hotel at Worthing—the last arrival and departures at
which Include Lord Ratenas, Lady Isruxu.st, Sir B. and Lady
Campeau, Sir W. %wows, Dr. V , Mr. and Mrs. BOUM;
Capt. and Mrs. BAILIT, Capt. araa, Mr. Baxtres, Capt.
BOWATIR, Mr. and Mrs. Bums and ftily, General UPTON, Ste.
Worthing continues gay in the expected of a visit for a sojourn
of some weeks of the Princess AIIONSTA
The last of the series of Subscription Balls at the Old Ship
Rooms took plate on Monday evening, and was splendidly attonded.
The company included the Countess of Rothe', the Ladies Mary
aid Elizabeth Leslie, Lady George and Miss Stuart. the Hon.
Mrs. Tenant. Lady Parker. the Chevalier Castillo, the Misses De
la Torre, Major Wyndham, Mrs. Webb, Miss Wykebam, Sir B.
H. Carew, and the Officers of the 15th Hussars generally.
Our Theatrical Corps has received an acquisition in the return
of Mr. Nona.
Lord Lazo joined the Hunt, for the season. with the Subscrip-
tion Harriers, at Patcham, on Monday. Five bares were found,
and fear killed.

Lord GRosvENoR, at the Cheshire Whig Club Din-
ner, in touching upon what he—feelingly, no doubt—
called the " delicate subject" of Parliamentary Reform,
is stated to have said that " when any borough should
become decayed, or the electors be convicted of a corrupt
exercise of their franchise, that borough should be extin-
guished, and the franchise transferred to some large
manufacturing town." What would his Lordship say to
beginning with the immaculate boroughs of Shaftesbury
and Stockbridge
The lawyers are hurrying to town in shoals, heartily
tired of a long vacation, which, while it has as usual
brought no grist to the mill, has not presented the usual
alternations of air and exercise, by way of recruiting for
the next campaign.
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A Paris paper states that a person suspected of having
taken part in the robbery of the Princess of Oaa tic e's
jewels, has been arrested at Maestricht.
THE PRINCE or Moscow.—lt is with the most sin-
cere pleasure that we publish the following trait of gene-
rosity in a young man, who bears a name celebrated in
the annals of our military glory. On Saturday last, an
English pleasure yacht anchored in our roads, and the
owners came to spend the day at Boulogne. During their
stay the wind, which was blowing right in shore, had in-
creased, and the sea had become very rough at the en-
trance of the port. That, however, did not prevent the
young men from attempting to regain the vessel at night-
fall in a small boat. The danger to which they exposed
themselves was so evident, that no one suspected it was their
intention to clear the breakers. All who were on the end
of the jetty expected to see them perish. Among the spec-
tators was the Prince de Moscow, who sent to the Captain
of the port a 500-franc note for those who should succeed in
saving them. One of the pilots, assisted by some sailors,
and inspired as much by humanity as the allurement of
the promised reward, attempted to go to their succour ;
but the sea was terrible and he was obliged to return
into port. The Prince then sent 40 francs to these
honest fellows, as a recompense for their exertions.
Every one believed that the young Englishmen had fallen
-victims to their own imprudence. Fortunately, however,
it was ascertained, on the following day, that, after having
run through the greatest dangers and difficulties in com-
batting the waves, the little bark and crew were thrown
back on the coast of Dannes, near three leagues to the
south of Boulogne.—L'Annotateur Boulonnais, Sept. 24.
The Countess of Montholon brought an action in the
Court of the First Instance at Paris, on the Bth October,
to recover part of her property which had been seized by
a person of the name of Saunders. It appeared from the
statement of the Lady's Counsel, that in consequence of
misfortunes into which Count Montholon fell, his wife
found herself under the necessity of separating from him.
She therefore demanded and received from her husband
some property, amounting in the whole to 550,000 francs
value, a sum which she brought him as a portion at her,
marriage. Among this property were 2,500 books,'
which the defendant Sanders, a creditor of the Count's,
seized at the residence of Madame Montholon, as pro-
perty belonging to her husband. The Counsel for the
defendant contended, that as the house where the books
were seized was the domicile of M. de Montholon, as
well as Madame de Montholon, the legal presumption
was,
that the property there belonged to the husband.
The Court annulled the seizure, and condemned the de-
fendant Sanders to pay the costs.
FRENCH CENSORSHIP.•••••TO give one instance of the
the Star Chamber' Proceedings of the oligarchical cen-
sorship, the following fact will suffice:—in the MS. of a
play (where the stage-director ordered the scenic repre-
sentation of a' Village market-place') the following note
was inserted in red ink—" Granted, provided there be
no church painted therein I"

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MAILS Altlllll2 Tons Day.—Deblin I—Mem:l'llrd i—Flaa-
den I—France I—Holland 1.

The Alliance, Holmes, from London to Newcastle, was driven
on shore at Yarmouth on Wednesday, and bilged.
The Mat Leeds, from London ; Providence, from London
to Spaldin and Lively Increase, from Hull to London. were
delved on s near Mundesley on Wednesday.
The Elizabeth and Margaret, Reid, from l)antzic to Newcastle,
was abandoned near the Dogger Bank on the 9th init.
The Mary. from Newfoundland to Bristol, has been found at
sea abandoned, and towed into the Bristol Channel.

The William Lannour, from Uverpool to Charleston, was on
shore near Westaide on Wednesday.
The Thomas Fenwiek, and Adriatic, of Leeds ; Margaret, Sur-
to. Blydon, and Caledonia, or Sunderland, were totally wrecked
on 'Wednesday. The following vessels were driven on shore :
Barton. Spence; Vine, Hunter; Syron, Cure; Friar, Cooper;
Navas, Patterson; Thomas, Gale; Hunter, Dodd; and James,
Vim. of Sunderland ; Isis of Newhaven ; and the Phenix, of
Shields.
Dear., Ocr. N.W.—The Clio, Hopper. front Sierra
Leone, bas put back, with loss of anchor and cable. and windlass
damaged. The Thomas King has proceeded, and the Isabella—
the latter reported to have anchor and cable. Arrived from Lon-
don, the Jane Young, Cleland. for Honduras.
Poonatourn, OCT. 15. Wind N.N.E.—Sailed the Lady Hol-
land. Snell. for Madras and Calcutta; Duke of Norfolk, Man-
ning, for St. Kites ; John, Wilkinson. and Elizabeth, Phillips, for
Jamaica; Marshal Bennett transport, for Barbadoes; Henry
Porcine transport, for Cork ; Bee, Duckpin, for Madeira and the
Mauritius; and his Majesty's ship Algerine, for South America.
PLTKOUTII, OTT. 14.—Wind N.—Sailed the Seppings. Loader,
for Ceylon, and John, Munro, for Berbice.
I 'FALMOUTH, Ocr. 14.—Wind N.N.W. to N.—There is a packet
off the port, working in. supposed the Marquis of Quernabury,
from the Mediterranean.
Doves. Ocr, 15.—Arrived the Anlaby, Oriston, from Oporto.
Ltvzaronz, Oct. 14.—Arrived the Algonquin, West, from
Philadelphia.
ScuLv, Oct. 13.—Off the port, the Octavia, Atkin, from Cuba.
Baumann, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Muodi, Hawkins, from
Bengal.
Bummer, Ocr. 15. Arrived the Vora, from Quebec.
W ZZZZZZZZZ OCT. 13.1.1.11Ved the George the Fourth, May,
from Quebec.

PLYMOUTH, Om 18.

The Hyacinth. 18, is ordered to be commissioned at this port,
for foreign service.
The Vigilant ketch. Lieut. R. Loney, returned from Ports-
mouth on Monday afternoon.
The Sparrowhawk,lB, Commander T. Gill, on her way to the
West Indies, will call at Fernando Po.
In Hantoaze—St. Vincent. Kent, Orestes, Pylades, Leveret
Royalist, Meteor, steam-vessel.
In Baroppol—Undaunted.
At the Island—Britomart. Vigilant.
Arreurraterrrs.—Captain C. J. Austen. Commander Hon. G.
Cavendish, Lieutenants J. T. Warren, G. T. M. Purvis, J. J.
kl‘Donnald, R. W. Pilkington W. H. Jervis; Mr. John Camp-
bell (b) &rams ; Messrs. Benjamin M'Avoy and C. Dickson.
Asslstant-Surgeons, to the Winchester; Capt. Lord Colchester,
Lieut. Clue. and Mr. Joshua Taylor, Master, to the Vobge ; Lt.
J. B. Cragg. to the Semiramis ; Lt. A. 11. Cape!, to the Tal .
Paomoirorrs.—Mr. Robert Puny, to be Lieutenant of the Pan-
dora ; Second Lieutenant Hamilton, of the Royal Marines, to be
First Lieutenant of the Chatham Division.
Mr. John Runciman is appointed Supernumerary Surgeon, of
the Ramillies ; Mr. T. Thompson to be Surgeon of the Pylades ;
Mr. W. Mould to be Assistant Surgeon of the St. Vincent ; Mr.
Wm. Munro, from Plymouth Hospital, to be Assistant Surgeon
of the Pylades.
Mr. Alex. Knox, Autstant-Surgeon of the St. Vincent, is ap-
pointed to the Kent, vice Mr. J. M'Donald, who is ordered to
Fernando Po.
His Majesty's ship Dartmouth arrived at .Gibraltar from Tan-
gier Sept. 17. The Victor was at Isle Verde Aug. 16. The
Emulous arrived at Vera Crus from Falmouth Aug. 13, and
sailed for Tampico. The Sapphire arrived at Lima 9th April,
from Islay, and sailed 6th June. The Mutine arrived at Bowes
Ayres from Falmouth 224 July. The Espirgle arrived at Trini-
dad from Barbadoes Aug. In. The Briton arrived at Rio de
Janeiro from Falmouth Aug. I.
The brig Rosin'. Weeks, from this Fort for Sunderland, and the
galUot Princess, &la, got entangled near Dunkirk, on the Bth
inst. and sustained so much damage that the Rosins sunk within
the entrance of Dunkirk, and the galilee •to the east of the
harbour. Both crews saved.
The Mary, Wills, sailed from Newfoundland for Flgueirs. itSth
Aug. The William, Broad, arrived at Almeira from this port
12th Sept. The Cygnet. Russell, of this port, arrived at St. Pe-
tersburgb from Dundee, 224 Sept. The Hope, Howell, from this
port, arrived at Memel 21st Sept. The Priscilla, Mitchell, from
this port, arrived at Limerick from Quebec 9th inst. The Kers-
well, Armstrong, of this poet, arrived at Mauritius from the Cape
of Good Hope previous to the 3d of June. The New Bideford,
Mathewson, and New London. Itadmore, of and from this port,
for Prince Edward's Island. were spoken with the 27th of Sept.
in Lat. 43 N. Long. 19 W. The Eliza, Edwards, of and from
this port, arrived at Faro ISth Sept. The Active, Hayman, of
this port, sailed from Denla for Liverpool, 224 Sept.

A Liberal Journal, published at Niort, and called La
Sentinelle des Deux Sevres, attracted the hostility of the
French Ministry, and has at last been suppressed by a
threat against its printer, the only one in the town, who
has refused to print it for the future. The editor has two
Government prosecutions against him. This mode, if it
be pursued, will enable M. de la Bourdonnaye to get rid
of many of the provincial Journals.
PHILOSOPHY OF THE WEATHER.—After a season
in which Spring and Autumn can hardly be said to have
been separated by the intervention of Summer, Winter
appears to hurry on with accelerated strides, and pre-
pare his icy campaign, long before the time at which
we have been accustomed to look for his arrival. Snow
fell in France as early as in the month of September ;
and letters from Dover inform us that the seventh of
the present month exhibited all the appearance of the
veriest depth of winter. The morning was dry, but
piercingly cold—the wind, towards noon, veered round
to the North-east, with heavy rain ; the wind by two
P. H. had increased almost to a gale, with sleet, which
ended in a confirmed fall of snow. The snow was some
inches deep in the keep-yard of Dover Castle, upon Folk-
stone hill, and in other elevated situations ; and the
London coaches, as they came, exhibited the hoary
livery of winter, amid the gloom of what, in better
years, was regarded as an autumnal evening. In Ply-
mouth, on the same day, a flock of starlings was ob-
served, an occurrence very unusual at so early a
period, and one which may be regarded as a sure prog-
nostic of a severe and early winter. Thursday, the
Bth, was cold and boisterous, with the wind veering
between N.W. and N. b. E. and blowing quite a
gale during the squalls, which were frequent and
(about noon) at short intervals. During the squalls
hail and sleet fell mingled with the rain, and lay for
some time undissolved upon the surrounding heights.
In the evening the weather improved, and the wind be-
came more steady in the N.W. Upon referring to a
table of Lunar periods of nineteen years (or the lunar
cycle, at the expiration of which the lunar phases
return nearly to the same order as at its commence-
ment, and which Toshio and others conjecture to
be accompanied with a recurrence of similar sea-
sons), we find that the complexion of the present year
ought to correspond with that of 1810 ; and that the
recurrence of a precisely corresponding year, is not to
be expected again before 1848—although an in-
different year answering in character to 1822, may be
looked for in 1841, or twelve years hence. Next year
we may expect it to be cold and dry-1831 variable and
moist—and 1832 and 1833 warm and dry. Two years
more of variable weather, will bring back the seasons cor-
responding to those fine warm and dry years 1817,1818,
and 1819 ; and in the year 1839 we may expect to enter
afresh upon a dreary suoccession of years, progressively
declining till they attain the full developement of their
severity in 1848, the 19th year from the present time,
and corresponding with it in its ungenial and disastrous
character.—Plystouth Paper.

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THE MAN OF LEISURE, IN CHELTENHAM•

No. I.
" Lotd. I beseech you. let me go through Gloucestenhire
&Limnos w.g.—Heary IV. p. 2. a. 4. s. 3.

As I purpose, touring my sojourn, in this delightful neighbool-
bond, to devote the little intervals of accidental solitude to the com-
position of a series of Essays descriptive of the scenes through which
I range, and thus endeavour not only to give " a local habitation
and a name" to the " airy nothings" of my imagination, but to
contribute my humble portion to the intellectual entertainment
of the community in which I mingle—au unobserved observer ;
it is but -fair that those to whose gratification I desire to
minister, and whom I am thus about to make the Weal compa-
nions of my " petty progresses," should be enabled to form some
notion of their dfsmedean associate. I think Demosthenes betrayed
the very weakness not of ambitioa, but of vanity, when he 'ma-
rmot.' that he had taken great pleasure in hearing one of the rabble
say. as he past, " That is Demosthenes;" and although there is
nothing more ridiculous to me than the " digitor issonstree," yet in
a case like the present. I hold it fitting at once to present to my
readers a faithful " likeness it, little" of The Mess of Leisnre,..
that should they meet such a personage in their walks they may
be Satisfied of my identity,—and extend to me and to my lueu•
brations, that courteous and considerate attention which it has
been the good fortune of other writers to experience at their bands.
Had I been naturally of a melancholy temperament, it is
more than probable. ilia I should long since have slept
the quiet sleep " and been numbered with the dodo of the
valley ; for, what with the ourtows which clouded the morn-
ing. of my life,—tbe disasters which ruined all the hopes, and
laid waste the honorable prospects, of my manhood,—and a
certain disappointment of too tender a nature to be that pasoingly
referred to, were it not to hint that it consigned me to aWe of
• single blessedness'—l could never have endured the buffeting,
of Time and Fate,—or ' heard the chimes at midnight,' as they
tolled out the fifty-ninth, and welcomed in the sixtieth year of my
existence—bad I not been blessed with an imperturbable equani-
mity, and an alacrity and cheerfulness of spirit, which bore me, if
if nut unscathed, at least—' o'er all the ills of life victorious.'
I have thus unreservedly contested that I have been in this
breathing world upwards of half a century—filling a place, per-
haps, that might have been much better occupied. And yet, my
best years have been spent in active pursuits,—although it has
happened with me, as with too many others, that the season of
action has left behind it no harvest of profit. I grew old—and I
grow grey—(fleaven save the mark! fur it is a mark of rev,-
ratter, and a motive unto respect): and were it not that I may
safely " thank the Gods they have not made me poetical," I might
give some notion of my pers-nal greatness, by adding that I ■m in
very truth " fatter than bard beseem•." Fallen as I am into " the
sere—the yellow leaf," I now indulge in a sort of autumnal re-
pose, which, though suited to my years, is still more suited to
my temperament. I have long forsworn companionship with
the great world ; and I derive my principal source of pleasure
from a tranquil contemplation of mankind, and a specula'ive habit
of husbanding the resources of my faculties, that I may turn them
to account by and by. Alas ! for man—this "by and by" is a
species of ion:intuits, a very Will-'o'-th'. Wisp, luring us through
the wilds of youth, till we sink into the " slough of despond ;" and
then its meteor-gleam is extinguished, and all our gay visions, and
our long cherished hopes fade away, and are forgotten in the gloom
of age. Poets, indeed, may tell us of " a youth of folly, an old
age of Cane—but a sterner reality reminds us that a youth
of espectatian is but the prelude to an age of disappoint-
ment and regret. For my own part, I speak not on this
matter from experieuce—witb me the delusion subsided long
before it had become familiar to my thoughts ; and as I bad
never sapped the foundation of bodily health by riotous ex-
cesses, nor corrupted the integrity of my mind by seeking
lolace under my afflictions In any means of merely temporary alle-
viation, so do I now find myseU—tbougb treading the down-hill
path of life—robust in constitution, my mental vigour unabated,
and the whole man in a better condition than many of my fellow-
travellers to hold on the" even tenor of my way." Thee, then,if
my readers should, in their rambles, chance to encounter " a good
portly man, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye,
and—bis age some fifty, or, by y'r lady, inclining to three score ✓'
why, even so, in Falstaff's qualified portrait of himself,—lackey'd
by no menial, but followed by a faithful spaniel, the companion of
many a long day's pilgrimage—they can have little difficulty in re-
cognising The Mon ofLenore•—Having so far " dischatged the
custom of request," I proceed to a brief detail of the circumstances
which recalled my steps after long time and travel, to this must
pleasant haunt of early days.
In the year 1828, I returned to England after a residence dooms
twenty years in a tropic clime, and I had safely set foot on my
native shore, when I found that of all whose smile of welcome
should have gladdened the wanderer's heart, not one remained to
greet my coming. I returned in weahb—l found myself in desola-
tion; and of what value was the competency I had acquired—and
for which I bad forgone the endearments of friendship, and the
enjoyments of domestic happiness? Alas! so intimately interwoven
are the good and the evil, the joy and the sorrow, the comforts and
the miseries of this life, and so baneful are its brightest allurements.
that we may exclaim with the poet of the East-0 In the sandal.
trees are serpents; in the waters, lotus-flowers, but crocodiles also ;
in all enjoyments there is something which impairs our happiness.'
I lingered for months and months round " the dwelling of my
fathers," and revisited every spot which the recollections of boy-
hood bad invested with a sacred charm ; but my thoughts were
thoughts of sadness—and bittern's' was in my heart. My spirits
became depressed by the recurrence of feelings " which do lie too
deep for tears," and remembering that there is no better physic for
a melancholy man than change of air and variety of place, I resolved
" If not to travel and see fashion," at least to traverse the kingdom,
and see all that was worth seeing in my native land. I bad for
some time, however, been warned by certain unerring symptoms,
tbit I had not escaped the debilitating consequences, which, not-
withstanding their most ♦igilant precautions, all travellers " from
thO *White Islands of the West," must he content to incur in their
search after affluence in those regions
" Where the gorgeous East with rich: at band
' Show'rs oa her kings barbaric pearls and gold."
And a medical friend, to whose skill I immediately commended
myself, advised me to proceed at once to Cheltenham. As be did
so, he spoke with all that confidence which only experience can
bestow, or justify, of the surpassing efficacy with which the cele-
brated mineral waters had been resorted to in many similar eases
that had come under his own observation; and he dwelt with
almost enthusiastic admiration upon the local beauties of the
scenery surrounding the town. " There." said be, "as Johnson
has said—

"There every bush with Nature's music rings.
There every breeze bears health upon its wings;
On all thy hours serenity shall smile,
A Ed bless thy evening walk and morning toil."
And, as be concluded, he laid, I knew not why, a peculiar and
somewhat whimsical emphasis upon the closing words—as thongb
he intended them to convey " something more than met the ear."
—To the consciousness of this temporary malady—fa such I per-
suade myself it will prove—was superadded the melancholy which
in despite of all my philosophy still oppressed me, from the
day in which I saw myself alone in the world, and a stranger
in the place of my birth ; and feeling with old Burton, that
" vuietie of actions, objects, sire, places, are excellent in this
infirmitle and all others"—to Cheltenham I came;
To see the pleasant fields, the crystal fountains,
And take the pleasant air amongst the mountains.
To walk, as I pictured in my fancy, amongst gardens, bowers,
mouton, skoves, artificial wildernesses, green thickets, arches,

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groves, lawns, and such like pleasant places; and to drink, at
the clear spring of water, which, like that in Bacon's " New
Atlantis," should be called " the water of Paradise. being very
sovereigne for health and prolongation of life."
had known Cheltenham, as it was, many many years before.
—say in very early life—when it appeared like Tonbridge in Ike
days of Grammont, " that place of all Europe the most rural and
simple, and yet at the same time the mut entertaining and agree-
able." I had known it, when it was also for the first and only
time the residence of the Court—when it was the summer village
of all that was fashionable, and aU that was dignified :—and now
that every other Watering Place of the kingdom seems to have
outlived its own attractions—l found Cheltenham maintaining
that popularity, which was first acquired by the healing virtues of
its waters, and justifying the remark of a modern traveller,• that
" salubrity conduces more to the support of a place than any real
advantage."—With re.pect to society, the great characteristics of
Tonbridge in that day

" When Grammont graced its hagpy springs,"
are now the distinguishing traits of CHELTINKAII. It is "at the
season, the general rendezvous of all the gay and handsome of both
sexes. The company though numerous is always select, and the
number of those who repair thither for diversion, ever exceeds the
number of those who go thither for health. Every thing there
breathes mirth and pleasure : constraint is banished ; familiarity is
established upon the first acquaintance, and joy and pleasure are
thrsole sovereign's:of the place.o"—l have observed, that nothing
has a more instantaneous effect upon the melancholy mind. than
the sudden development of a grand and picturesque prospect;—
and here we have but to ascend the heights which form a
VIM amphitheaatre, of which Cheltenham seems the centre. to
enjoy—" in rich variety and change of sweetness—fur all change is
sweet"—the most luxuriant scenery that imagination c in conceive.
From every point of view which the long range art " 111111 l main
barrier" presents, the loveliest landscapes may be coutrmpLited—
glowing in the brightness of hues which the pencil of Clau :e
might imitate, but the pen of the poet would inadequately describe,
whilst the fertile charms of the valley are finely contraeted with the
majestic boldness of the towering heights which Nature seems t
have chosen for the display of her most inagnificent auJ nuts: ten:
pored varieties.
Such is the tract esf country through which I am about to watt-
dn, and of which I mean to point out the beauties, to all wit s
will deign to accompany me in my peregrinations, or ro peruse the
descriptive sketchy of The Mora of Lyre.—Chatenham Jraarnot.
Cheltenham. Oetuber sth, 1829.

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• Sir N. W. Waezet.L. f Memoirs of GILA/MONT, .01. ii. p iti.

It should seem that law is not much more cheap
" abroad" than it is "at home." It appears from a re-
port in a foreign journal that the authorities of the city of
Strasbourg have just expended the sum of 3,765 francs
to recover an original sum of 42 francs.
On Friday afternooa, a child El tying with a pioce of
lighted paper, at Na. 24, Lisson-place, set its dress on
fire, and the flames were communicated to the clothes of
two others and an old woman, who ran to its assistance ;
in consequence of which they were all seriously injured,
and one of the children dangerously so; however, some
of the new po:icemen, who were near the spot, conveyed
two of the children and the old woman to the Western
Hospital, Mitford-place, Bryanston-square, where they
were promptly attended to by the surgeons of that
institution.
On the 31st of March last, a case of libel was tried
before the Supreme Court of Calcutta. The plaintiff
was the Rev. James Boyce, D.D. and the alleged libel
was published in the Bengal Chronicle and Harkaru,
of which the defendant was proprietor. It was contained
in one of a series of letters, and formed part of a criticism
on a volume of sermons published by the plaintiff in
1818. The article in question, among other imputations,
charged Dr. Boyce with neglect of his clerical duties,
and with being • a hypocrite. Evidence was offered to
prove that the defendant had been actuated by ma-
lice in publishing the criticism alluded to ; and the Court,
after some consideration, awarded 800 rupees as damages
to the plaintiff.
SMALL NOTES.—When the proposition for suppres-
sing small local bank notes was under consideration, we
felt opposed to the measure from a conviction that evil
and not good must be the consequence of carrying into
effect any legislative enactment which should annihilate
the one and two pound notes. We stated at the time our
reasons for the opinion which we held on the subject,
and we listened attentively to all that was said on the
other side, without being convinced thereby ; and we are
sorry that subsequent observations on the state of the
country since small notes were abolished has influenced
our opinions in a manner quite the reverse of proving
that the judgment we had formed was erroneous. If
the country had been flourishing—if tradesmen's bills
had been paid with wonted punctuality—if the working
classes had met with full employment at remunerating
price:--then we must have acknowledged the in-
correctness of our former opinions. But when tie
reverse has been the case---when almost all descrip-
tions of persons are crying out---thousands even for
bread---what arc we to think ? We seriously believe, the
abolishing of small notes has been a chief cause of our
present suffering and embarrassment. The suppression
bill had every thing about it to render its policy doubtful.
It was the act of a timid wavering Minister—it W;;:t
passed during the panic, and in a hurried indiseree
manner—it was unfair and partial, affecting England and
leaving out Scotland. Every advantage to the public, viz.
security, might have been obtained more Alec-
'Mildly by adopting other means, and leaving the issuing
of small notes alone. But the men were bent upon the plea-
sure, and in an unguarded moment they were allowed to
have their way. The worst enemy England ever had
could not have devised a more successful plan for check,
ing her energies and ruining her prosperity.—SheflieN
Iris.

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