Star.
London, England, 1827-05-22 00:00:00

THE ARMY:

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Hoase May 111.
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Ills Maniere is graciously pleased to bald out to half-pay Officer)
the following encouragements to become settlers. in New Soqi
Wales and Van Dieman's Land. in addition to those detailed in
the General Order of the Bth of June last,
Officers of all ranks on half.pay are eligible to enioY the advantaged
offered by the said General Order, as well as those held out by thi
present order, and they shall not be required to sell their hilt-pay,
or make any deposit as security, the intention bring ch 4 they.#ol
retain their half pay, and obtain grants of land Without piss-Oise ,
subject, however, to the conditions hereinafter specified, vie. •
The remission of quitrent shall take place for a certain minilief
of years beyond the average period which is preseribed in the case
el ordinary settlers, according to the following scale.
tears who have served twenty yeari and upwards, to be ei-
empned from all quit rent.
Officers who have served fifteen yeari and upwards, but tinri
twenty years, to be eiempteti from quit rent for the first fIO yeare.
Officers who have served ten years and upwards; hut short or
fifteen years, iv be exempted from quit rent for Ilse first IS lyari.
Officers who have served seven years and upwards, but Mott id
ten years. to be etempted from quit rent for the fir* ten years.
No Officer to be eligible under seven yeti service, nor any wbd
canner produce datisfactOry testiniorilal of gdod cortsifiet and taw
questionable character. . .
In other respects, the conditions on which the grants arc inade
to be siMilai to those which are now In Operation in New South
Wales. •
The Officer to whom land is granted, shall entie into a bend,
that be, or his family, shall reside for at least seven yeara in the
settlement, and the grant shall not be allowed to be sold by hint,
until he shall be reported to have eipended upon it a capital Midst
to half its value, as that valise was estimated when the grant
was made. ,
For instance, supposing the grant to by 200 acres, at the eihmated
value of ss. per acre, the individual will not be allowed to itil it
until be shall be reported to have expended 2SL upon it. In the
event, however, of his death taking place before the expenditure of
capital already alluded to, the grant will be continued to his heirs,
bat subject to the fulfilment of the conditions under which he Wallin'
held the grant.
The quantity or land to he recelied by Dffitters will be in the
same inspection to their capital. as hi the ease of tirdioui seders i
but until en accurate valuation batistes made of the lands thrones-
oat the colony, and au average price shall be fixed for each parisb;
it is not possible for the Colonial Department to fix the quantity of
land which any individual may be able to dbtain in proportion to
this capital.
The quantity of land ti be ghinted must depend entirely upon the
value which that land, either from local circtimstataces, or from its
peculiar character, may possess; and this, as must be evident. can
only be determined in the Colony.
The Officer who may avail himself of this offer, will be required
to provide for his own passage, and that of his family, to the Colony.
The ordinary rates of passage are the following,, as far as can W
collected from the best sources of information which have been
. applied to:

to stir siourii wAuci.

Cabin...... ••••• ;•• ••••• a .... aa.‘94 10 0 •
&eerage......:.... ..... i•••••••••• •• 40 0 U •

To van usawast's Lain.
Cabin. • ....... . ... 0 0
Steerage
EVery thing supplied to tie pasiengers except betiding. 101.1 s
deducted from cabin, and Si. from steerage passage, in case of a
man and his wife oceapying one birth.
Children of 14 year. pay the slum as adult& '
From 2 to 13
2 to 4 •as elle so; 04. ••• • ..... •• • ...... ••• t
Heavy Goods. 41. Or too } in the Hold.
Sleaaurement Goods, 51.d0.
By his Majesty's Commands
HENRY TORRENS, Adjutant Genets!.
The 62d Regiment, quartered at Enniskillen, on Friday under-
went their half-yearly Inspection, by Major-General Twiny/ow.
The Durham Yeomanry Cavalry, under command of Lieut.-Cola
TOW/R, assembled in Durham on Wednesday, and marched for
Sunderland, where they are to remain on duty fur eight days.
The Bolton Yeomitity Cavalry, on Wednesday last, marched
into Blackpool, for permanent duty for eight days.

Friday se'nnight, about sixty Gentlemen of Greenock
entertained Mr. Caw , Lord Rector of the University of
Glasgow, while on a visit to his friends there, with a dinner in We
Tontine.--Jour Frame, Esq. in the Chair; %Vitamin hI4 Fie, Esq.
Croupier.
A point of law was lately laid down in the Kiag's
Bench, which cannot be too extensively known. The general
rule in respect to Promisiory Bills is, that a lioldet, Who has gWen
real value, shall, in all cases, to the amount Of the value, have re.
course en the drawer, acceptors, and indorsers. The exception to
this rule, laid down by the Chief justice, which is an important
mesh, that wherever a bill shall be melted from one who has, to
the knowledge of the receiver, been guilty, on a (brayer occasion, of
paying away bills without the authority of the owner, although the
receiver has paid value, he should lose his own remedy.

Tun MANES TUNNZI.-At low water yesterday
morning, Mr. Bauxtrad,, sen. Mr. BRUNILL, jun. and
Mr. ORAVAIT, again descended in the diving•bell to
the bed of the river, in order to ascertain the efficacy of
the measures which have been adopted to remedy the
difficulty which has arisen in the prosecution of this
Important undertaking. In addition to large quantities of
strong clay; bags, filled with the same composition, have,
with the help of long spikes, been lowered into the river,
and laid in such a position as would best answer the
purpose intended. Messrs, 13nonscr. yesterday morn-
ing descended principally to ascertain whether these
bags had been properly placed. On the bell being hoisted
up, the engineer declared that everything had been
done in the most proper manner, and ordered adtli•
tional quantities of clay in bags to be lowered on the
place where the aperture previously was. So sanguine
it Mr. BRUN= now that the•evil will be remedied,
that he has given orders that 'the steam-engine should
be got ready, in order•that'at low water the pun►pie
out of the water contained in the tunnel and shaft
might be commenced: Yesterday afternoon, at about
low *ater the diving bell was agaltrkwered. The men
are in good 'Piths, and have expreised themselves mad),
again to work if the tunnel is dwelt! •