WINDSOR, March 26.-His Ma...
The Times, 1824-03-27T00:00:00

1V'1 N nsOR, March *26i.-His Majesty took an airilg this dlay in his carriage to the Royal Lodge, and inspected the grcat alterations, that are making there, and returnied to the Castle to dinner. It is remarkcd bv the .Joternl des Debatls, that in thle tribunic set aliart for the Dtplomatic Corps, at the royal sitting en 'T ucsday, all the foreign Ambassadlors were ac- scmbced. A contrast is hilnted, bettween the commencement I of this scssloIt and that of the last. It will be recollected that last year the English Ainbassadlor, Sir C. Stuart, wvas not present to hear the declaration of iwar againist Spain, wlich his Government had tri(d in vain to prevent. The late Sir Thomas Maitlanld's wi'll was proved in the Preregative Court in Doctors' Coommons on the 18th inst., by the Righ 1i on. James, Earl of Lauderdale, the brother, one of the ex- ecitors, the Right lion. Lord Viscrount Maitland, and the Honour- able Anthony 3laitland, the noelpew"s thr o.her exceutors, nrot hav- ing at present untlertaken Qtc trust. The personals within the pro. wince of Canterbury are sWOM under 30,00o)1. Five thousand vounds are bequeathel to tite testator's sister, Lady Jane Houston, andI 5..O0t., to thie chi',dren of Colonel Edward&. With the exception of these two su'.,t, evcry thing is lett to the Earl ot Laudertlale, the re- tdsuary le.,atee. Thie will is dated the 5th of August, 1823. At the hal':yearly C(ourt of the Batik Proprietors, it will be recollected that Mr. Gundry proposed, as an amndmerint, that the bUlt-year's dividend should be live, instead of four per ccut. as uri- icinallr proposed by the Court of Directors. Upon this amendtment a. balloc vas demanded, whichi took place on Thursday, and at the close the numbers were winotinced as follomv:- For the original motion for a dividend of 4 per cent. . 209 For the ameudnient of a dividend of 5 per cent .... . 39 illajority tor the original motion . . . . -170 1 The dividend or 4 per cent. was of course declared to be carried. Nine freeholtd houses in the Stran(d an(d its neighbour- hood, prodiucing a rental of 46.;1. per annum. were sold at Gar- rawayv' yesterday, by Messrs. Squibb, for l6,8101., being 36 years' purchase. M eNSTER BAR.-WC e have heard of some verv extraor- dinary occurrences which have just taken place in Lime;tick. The rartie. mentioned are Sergeant lefroy, the Going Judge, Sergeant lioold. and MIr. O'Connell. For the present.we decline stating par- *ii.lars. especially as we understand that in conseraquetce of a requt- i:i'n s'dressedi to the father f ltlie bar, there wvill be a meetitng of this body at t'ork, for the purpose oftaking the matteriinto considera. thor,. ad ado-tiig some resolitions thereon.-Dublin Er-citg lost. !REt.ANu.-We regret exceedingly to state, that the dis- turbances in Linerick. C'ork, and Kilkeony continue. Wie will io- say that they are aiarining, but certainly they are of a nature that must inflict pain on every man urho has a regard for his miser- ahle country. and its wretched inhabitants, to whatever rank or clacs they rsay belong. In Kildorrery (Cork) a murder has been comitte d on a man named Sullivan. Near Buttevant, in the same county, tile house of Mr. l1ward, a farmer, was burnt. In 'T'ip- perar". near New Inn. a roan of the name of Conway liad his skull fractured. of wktch hedie. We have already milentioned the mur- der of Zulr. 'Marumu, in Kilkenny. At or near Catlatt, in the samiie county, one Long, a process-server, who etideavoured to levy tithes, was inurtlered on the same day. In Limerick thev are sontimiing to arrest under the Insurrection Act. Sixteen men 'were taken tip on the 20th inst. in Kilmeady, in this county.-Diddiir E.el.;irg P'oot. DE;STIRUC1 TV FitE AT LiVER u'OOL-.011 Sunday night (21st inst.), about half past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the pre- niises of .Messrs. J. and B. Slater. vwhich extendt frott See]-street to 1lect-street. and comprise a range of joiners' shops, including aroom occupied by .Messrs. Steele and Foster for glass-cutting, and a va- lulable steam-engine and machinery for sawing planks and veneers. The fire-engines were soon on the spot; but. tron the nature of ti;e .iaterials, it was impossible to subdue the flamiies: and, by half past 11 o'clock, the whole of these extensive premises (witlh thie exception of the valuable engine-house) were consumed, together with a quan- tity of valuable veneers and vood of various kinds. The spreading of the fire to thcadjoiningdwelling-houses was fortunatelv prevented, its ravages being confined to the premises in which it originated.The extent of loss from the fire is not yet ascertained; but we itderstand thlatiMlesirs. Slater are prinicipally covered by insurance..Liverpool Cui,u rr. Cot.oirrzArIoN,-WVe find there wvas a mistake in the article under this lhead in our paper of yesterday, in stating, in ex- planation of the term fatnegada of land, that it was equal toabout a qiuarter of an acre. The tfnegada, it appears, is " a square, the four sides of which each meaure 100 yards of 3 feet each, Spanish measure, being equal, therefoTe, to between two and three acres. tAaBBIT Will'lt SAucP.-Mlr. Battier, wlio lately belonged to the gaudy Regiment 0. Cavalry called the lOlh IIuasars, during the pcriod he was plavr,l in Cuve ntr,p bv that magnanimous body, conitinued to dine, a.s usual, at the miess. One day he directed his servant to take biYt plate to an ofhcer wlho was sarving a dish of rabbits, in orumer to be helpedI to sonte of them. The oflicer, instead of helping l inn in the ortlinary way, p!aced ant entire rrubbit on the plat, say ,ng, - Thle Tenth never carves fbr mercliants' so;s."- 1'is w5 zottlly said to the itnuiula, the officerr dared not to say it to M r. Battier, who has since given the I0t,h Regiient a rabbit, vith .8ae-. enougn, (God knows, to help their digestion.-D,blin star. ,fOXTINEs.-'The word ''onfine is only a canit wvord derived frora the name of an Italian projector. 'This was Laurence ronri, aczeature of Cardinal laz.rine, who, finding the people extremel out of lhumour with his Erninency's audministration, itot- gined be couldt reconcile them by a proposal of making the people rich in an instant, without trouble or pains. Iiis schieme was a lot- tery of annuiities with survivorship, which he proposed in 1653, -with the consent of the coutt ; but the pailiament would not regis- ter the edict. Tlhree years afterwards he tried his project again for buluding a stone bridlge over the Seine, when it had both the f:avour ,of the court, and the sanctioni of parliament, under the title of the Banque Royale, but it failed again; tor somraebody having given it ithe uniluckv name of Tontine, nobody in Paris would trust his money in a lottery which had an Italian title. The last attenipt poor Tosti maile was te get his plapi adopted by the clergy,for the payment of thieir debts; but though they acknowledged the ingenuity of it, they rejected it as unfit for the r purpose. 'i is was the invention of ttlie Tontine. It first came into use when Louis XIV. was distressed by the treaty of Augsbtirg, at(i granted nioney beyond what the revenue of the kin dom wouild furnish. For suip- plying his enotrinous expenses he ha(i recourse to the plans of Tonti, hicli, though long laid asilde, wvere not forgotten; and by an edict in 168If created a Tontine Royale of 1,400,000 livres, annual rent, .divided into 14 classes. The actions were 300 livres a-piece, and the proprietors were to receive 10 percent., with benefit of survivor- ship in every class. This scheme was executed but very imperfectly' foy none of the classes rose to above 25,000 livres instead of 1JO,000, according to theoriginal institution, tliougl the annuities were re- gudarly paid. A few vears after, the people seeming in better hu- noor for-projects of this kind, another Tontine was erected upoyu nearly the same terms, but thiswas never above half full. They bsth existed in 1724, when tie French King united the 13th class of the first Tontine with the 14th of the second, all the ac- tions of which were possessed by Charlotte Bournemay, widow of Louis Barbier, a surgeon of Paris, who died at the age of 96, This gentlewoman had ventured 300 livrts in each Tontine, and in the fgst year of hbr life she had for hier annuity 73,000 1ivres per.annum.