The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-16 00:00:00

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MALI AUGUST 15... Mind S. W.—Case doers 6:ont the
river and remain. the Magnet, Bluetit, for New York;
Sarah and Eliaaheth.for South Seas; Aaiiisr,for New South
Waits; the Asia. for Calcutta; the Christians, for Liver.
pool; and the Arethusa and Trial, for Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 15.—Wind IV.—Arrived, the
i Thalia, Maud, from the Downs, for Montmorenci, and
Hood, from do. for Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Avousr 14.—Arrived, the Duke of Kent
1 Packet, from Lisbon ; sailed 30th ult.

The alone. Hortsman, from London to Liverpool, has put
into Cowes, leaky, with loss of anchors and cables, haring
been run foul of.

WEEKLY REGISTER OF WEATHER.
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If variety be charming, this week may be quoted as an ex-
cellent specimen of the vicissitudes of our changeable climate.
At the close of the preceding week the mercury in the baro-
meter was rising, and indicating an agreeable change; but
Sunday proved that the sway of St. &villa* was still para-
mount; and it was not till Tuesday that the promise of fair
weather was fulfilled. The son shone forth that day with a
splendor in which It had not appeared to us for manyweeks, and
the thermometer was higher than it had been any day this year.
The warmest day previously was the 7th of May, when at I
o'clock p. m. our thermometer, in the shade, was 76 degrees ;
but at II that nkjM, it fell to 33. On Tuesday last, et Ip. m.
the seam thermometer, in the shade, stood at 78 degrees, and
another, exposed to the sun, reached 103. On Wednesday the
warmth encreased. At Ip. m. that day, our thermometer, In
the shade, was 78 degrees ; but in the course of the night an
unpleasant change took 'place. The thermometer, in a south-
ern exposers, which at I o'clock p. m. on Tuesday stood at 103
degrees, scarcely reached Oat the same hour on Thursday.—
On Wednesday morning some suchehange was indicated by the
descent of the smoke of London, fro■ the °oldness of the
higher regions of the atmosphere; and in the course of the
preceding night, we learn, a violent storm of thunder and light-
ning, accompanied by heavy rain, had taken place in some of
the midland counties. Since that period the weather has been
much the same as it had been for the sit weeks before. The
nights and mornings have been quite autumnal. This morning
between 3 and 8 o'clock our thermometer in a southern ex-
posure was scarcely 60 degrees. The quantity of rain fallen
here sines Saturday last amounts to 4-tenths of an inch.
Strand, Aspott 18.

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o'cdock. o'clock. at night.
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July — .
Aug. 10, 8, 66 64 69 30,15 , Rain
11. M. .. 66 74 63 ,I 0 Cloudy
12, T 6B 78 68 .01 Fair
13, W B7 78 65 29,1'5 Fair
14, W..— 88 68 66 ,80 1 Cloudy
13, F 66 64 32 ,Si 1 Showery
18, B 66 06 ,84 I Showery
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We understand that many of our builders have
been put in requisition, in consequence of a great deal
of work being forthwith to be done at the Pavilion.
It is said that the roof, and dome, of the Royal sta-
bles, &c., are to undergo reparation and improvements.
—(Brighean Herald.)
The suite of rooms now fitting op for the King. in Wind-
sor Castle, will be ready by the Ist of SeptemberSext. The
onshore to be placed therein will be collected from the dif-
ferent Palaces. Not a pew article bas been ordered; strict
economy it is professed will he, in future, the leading fea-
ture in the Royal establishment. It It said that his Majesty
intends to return to Brighton early its November.
On Friday se'nnight the Senates Aeadecus of the Velvet-
slly of Edinburgh conferred the Degree of Doctor of Medi-
ohm on slimy Gentlemen, of whoa 90 are natives of Ireland.
TEE KING'S PLagn.—The Doke of Dorset, in reply to
en application by Lord Somers, to obtain a King's Plate
for the Hereford Races, says in his letter, that " there are
twenty places only which have King's Plates, the money for
providing which is paid to his Majesty from public money
y the Treasury; in ease,-at has happened, though very
rarely, of any place so favoured giving up their races, his
Majesty has confmed the tenant plate on some other piece,
bat otherwise the King cannot do so, excrpt by paying the
requisite sum oat of his privy purse, which is very unusual,
if ever done, and obiionsly would constitute a personal bur-
then on his Majesty."

Hanes or Loans.—Pursuant to the stipulations of the
Board of Works at the recent sae of the materials, the
Old House of Lords is now bane rapidly demolished. The
roof and the iatesier we gone, as is "Gay Fawkes' Porch ;"
only old stone and brick walls remain with the snee at work
on them pecking the walls to pieces, which is no easy labour,
so decided is the consistency of the materials. The• House
of Lords was, we most now say, a very memorable place;
besides the fact of the cellars tiederneath being the scene of
what is called the " Popish Plot," it is said at one time to
have been the Bed Room of Henry VIII. And even now
the "'Royal Robing Room," which is a contiguous Chas-
bor. and where the King robes when be goes to meet the
Parliament. is surrounded with carious *id tapestry rept&
sentieg "the Birth of Queen Elisabeth." The celebrated'
4en Balme appears in her bed ; and there are on one side
of her an attendant. and a nurse with the child on the other.
The tapestried story is somewhat broken into by the loss of
a piece of the arms, cut to make a door way for his Majesty.
leading from the staircase and the new Royal Entrance. la
the tapestry beyond the Queen Ann Bailin. appear Henry
VIII. and his Coortiers; and one of those Courtiers seems
dispatched to hying back intelligence of the of the
Queen's indisposition. . The Old House of Linda, of late
years, has seldom been and, except as a Committee Room
when witnesses were to he' examined. It was last used by
the Lords' Committee who received the evidence for and
against the Bill for the Repeal of the " Spitalfields .4 cts."
The Old House of Lords is directed to be pulled down
to make way for the furtherance of those improvements
about the Upper House;of Parliament that have long been
contemplated, especially since the completion of the New
Royal Entrance 10 Palace-yard. The chief improvement
will be a gallery, leadink from this entrance and the stair-
case to tbe " Painted Chamber," and thence to the Rob.
Room;is and other portions of the space thus gained
Will be occupied with offices requisite for the business of,
and the penone atteadieg the H-Juse of Lords'. The whole
of these alterations are made by the Board of Wombs. and
are constantly inspected by Mr. Sosne, the Architect. It
is still in contemplation, we stated on a former dray. to
take down Mr. Lee's house in Cotton (harden (in a portion
of which building Gay Fawkes, &a. secreted themselves,
according to evidence adduced on the trial), to make way
for a regular series of parliamentary offices occupying the
site of Cotton-garden. The present Parliamentary Offices
I Meet are at an inconvenient distance from the House of
Lords; they are in Abingdoo-stre,t, by the alteration they
will be, as they ought to be, attached to the House, sad
convenient for reference and busbiess when the House is
sitting.
It luta been erroneously siated in some of the papers, that
the" Painted Chamber" was to be pulled down as wet!
as the old House of Lords; that is not the feet. It is to re-
main. It is the doe, long Chamber in which the " Court
Of Claims" holds its sittings. Some of the paintings
oa tti walls, together with scraps of Norman French, (there Is
no tapestry about this Chamber) are still distinctly visible.—
Other portions of these, when the Chamber was repaired, were
towered with canvass and framework, and afterwards piss-
sued.

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