Star.
London, England, 1826-07-10 00:00:00

DRURY•LANE THEATRE.

Mr. Bus ha. declined becoming she 'Assn of this Theatre, In
consequatee of dm most er.traordioary binding clauses whichtliii
Mew remains I nc.t a stick, or a pin coo be taken away, theme' 4111.
Lessee may upend 100001.°alba pranita—hance cholas, otpeof
&meats. who-certainly ought 'to hastramsther chance it rederoMog
himself. if it be true that his aredkoosidd 10.11.101. on his bekag.
A Proprietor of a Misuser Theatre. spa hundred miles from W 5.
terloo Bridge, is now named as the *nt likely person to tali* the
helm at Drury.
The lease of Diary Unlash. *pi that was ever granted-4m
It occupies a dozen sheets of patimmat 1 Is it the lots Uwe *thus
never a turnieg?

• TheDnke of YORK continued going on well yesterday,
*when his 'loyal Highness was visited by the Duchess of Otaseess.
eta, the Princess Aswan, and the Princess Scorns& On-Satyr-
day, Sir HEWS? TaYsosi transacted military busks's, with his
Royal Highness the greater part of the morning. Soon after three
o'clock the Royal Duke rode out in his open carriage and pair, and
proceeded at a slow pate from Mr. Gassnwooto's villa to Sc. James's
Park, and viewed the new building erecting for his future residence.
His Royal Highness did not alight from his carriage. but passed the
bending in the Park and in the Stable-yard. His Royal Highness,
we are happy to say, is evidently looking much better.
Yesterday .the Princess AUGUSTA attend>•d Divine
Service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
SAMS day morning, the Lords of his MAJESTY'S most
Honourable Privy Council assembled at the Council Mee, White-
hall, to hear Plantation Appeals. The Lords present were Lord
Seowsu., the Master of the Roils, and the Right Hen. H. Et Lim
The Appeals were from the Islands of Grenada, Jamaica. Berbice.
and Prince Edward's Island. Mr. Haat, Mr. Assam, and several
other Barristers, were heard by their Lordships in the Appeals.
Their Lordships sat till about half-past three o'clock.
One hundred and thirty•threeMembers of Parliament
have been returned from England and Wales that did net sit in the
last Parliament.

D.. BUItal2T states, in his Meteorological Report,
that we have not had so a Spring as the present these 20 years.
Saturday the Earl of iff ISTMOIULLA SD and Mr. MOAILA
trammed business at the Foreign 011ee.
Lord SToWII.I. transacted business at the Colonial
Office on Saturday. •
Dispatches were on Saturday received at the Admi.
salty from Rear-Admiral Sir Gomm Ryer, Commander in Chief
of his Ilajessy's ships on the South American station. These dis.
patches were brought home in the Marchioness of Salisbury packet,
in which vessel Colonel FREILKAstnt came passenger, c►arged with'
dispatches for Mr. Secretary Cameo, At the date of the sailing
of the Marchioness of Salisbury, his Majesty's ships. Waussiar,
Mammon, and Rasmus, were lying at Rio dui Janeiro, and it was',
expected that the Monona would sail in a few days with his Excel-
knct Sir CHAILES Svvaey.
Ihe East India Company's ship Castle Huotly, out-1
wardbound,was aU well on the 224 of April, in lat. SI. 40. South,
long. 29.90. west.
The election of the sixteen representative Scotch'
Peers, which takes place on Thursday next, excites more than usual
interest; there being nineteen candidates. _ _

THEATRICAL CHIT CHAS'.—The Proprietors of Co-
vent Garden Theatre here engaged Mr. Young for the ethnic of
neat season. Cm* ILLES Knout and CHAN= Yotaut are alternately
to pc/form the tragic heroes; the highest rank in the sterling Coins.
dies will continue to devolve on CMARLZS Reasai.e.

PooLaand KINN y are both at work upon new dramas;
and Naze, the treasurer of the English Opera House, has a piece
nearly ready for that establishment, in which Prfuraxwa is the hero.
Miss &ILLY and Dowrou are expected to return to old Drury,
where M WIDEN will be solicited to play a certain number a nights:
This favourite veteran rather inclines to accede to terms, which are
reported to be offered him by his friend Fawners, the Manager cf
Covent Garden. Lwow will shortly resume his station, and add
to the wealth of the Haymarket Theatre, where Mosta has much
novelty is store for the present season.
A hoax was played on the Stock Exchange about
half-past twelve o'clock to-day. The Dulls and the Bears were
tossing and pawing, when the Mirka was thrown into great con.
fusion in consequence of a report that not lea than six fermata had
arrived from South A:nailed, and were waiting at the end of the
Court to deliver their diapatelseg. In an to-aant the house was
empty, all eager to ascertain the wonderful information they brought.
when, to their great surprise, the expresser pravad to be the six
Sadkrs Wells policy racers; and at., signal given, they proceeded
up the Court Tutu the Foreign 31arket, from whence they were
conducted Into the 11.11ish Nat ket,"then turned about, aid wade
,their