Star.
London, England, 1817-11-25 00:00:00

COVE..N I' CiRDLN.

Last night Ream mod Juliet was performed, in
which Miss O'NEILL played Juliet with her usual and
well-known ability. Mr. CHARLES liciaete deserves
considerable commendation fur his representation of
Home.. if there were any fault in his acting, it was
that lie was somewhat wanting in tenderness, and in
the expression of the passion of love. The Play is
altogether beautifully got up. Some improvements
have been made in the grand central gas-light lustre.
The removal of the gas chandeliers from the front of
the dress boles is not objectionable; but the dull
ground glass lamps, or lanterns. that have been sub-
stituted, have a heavy and sombre effect.

The Duke of Sussex returned to town on Friday,
from Windsor. On Saturday morning, his ROYAL
Him sess left Kensington Palace for Tnnbridge Wells.
The exterior of the New Military Club house is
nearly completed : it is to be opened with a grand
dinner, on St. George's Day, which in future is to be
kepr as the anniversary of the Prune It WENT'S birth.
This is in imitation of the usage of the Continent,
where the Birth-day of the reigning Monarch is al-
ways celebrated according to the place which his
name Saint occupies in the Calendar.
The galls of the new gaol, building at Bristol
have, it is said, (owing, doubtless, to some mistake)
been seized by the Custom-house officers of that port,
for the duty on the stones, which were conveyed by
water from the Black Rock, Hotwells
The Work which we this day announce, .1 Peaks(
Cogeneration: on the Afair: of Frames mad 114," is
attributed, we understand, to M. JULLIANA. name
familiar to all Frenchmen.

The following is an extract of a letter from Genoa,
respecting the Polish Officer PIONTOWSKY, who fol-
lowed BONAPARTE to St. Helena, but lately left bins
and returned to Europe The faithful CNA nuts
PIONTOWSEY was, on the morning of the SOth of
October, conducted by the Sardinian gendarmes into
use Lazaretto of Genoa, and on the Yal of November
carried from there to a tower near Genoa. On land-
ing at Gibraltar, it appears this unfortunate Officer
had waited ten days fur an occasion to go to Leghorn,
and at length finding no vessel going there but a Sar-
simian, he went before the Sardinian Consul, and
made an agreement with the Captain, that although
the vessel was in the °first instance bound to Genoa,
with passengers, he, Proarrowsav, was not to land
or be landed in any part of his Sardinian Majesty's
dominions. Notwithstanding this engagement, sanc-
tioned by the Consul, :tad which afforded proof that
ProNvowsxv had no intention to trespass on the ter-
ritory of the King of SARDINIA, 011014Vakaaldati a
itaultorl.frGne Lord CASTLERFAatI, atahlWiNial Iris depar-
ture for Maly, he was seized in tbrnight of the vessel's
arrival at Genoa, all his papers and effects were to ken
possession of, and he now, as before stated,is pining
in a dungeon, for having been guilty of the virtue of
attachment to his benefactor."
A letter from Ceylon, dated June 18, says : " The
Native Schools have now become very numerous, and
for a few cents per month, without the expense of
books or stationery, the boys can learn to read most
fluently on the ola leaf ; and with astonishing rapi-
dity they learn a kind of short-hand, so that they will
take down a whole sermon, without missing scarcely
a word. Little boys, about ten years old, write as
fast as they can move their pen. So far we can as-
sert, that one Spanish dollar will support a boy of
ten years of age with food and clothing one month.
Females never learn even to write, as it would be
thought a disgrace for them even to learn to read."
EA IiTILQUAKE.—On Sunday morning week, exactly
three minutes past eleven o'clock, a slight shock. of
an earthquake, which was accompanied by a hollow
subterraceons sound, was perceptibly felt by numbers
of persons in the different places of worship. The
same alarming sensation was experienced in Dent, on
the banks of Windermere, as well as at Coniston ;
and it is to be hoped that the concussion was confined
to narrow limits, because we have not been able to
trace the pro;ress.of it to any other places than those'
already mentioned. The last earthquake in Kendal,
prior to this happened at three o'clock in the morn
rg, of A tiz us!, l ;W. Kendal Pater.