The King takes daily ride...
The Times, 1824-07-21T00:00:00

The King takes daily rides in his pisaeton in Windsor Park, and inspects the nlumerous improvements going on very fast there and at the Castle. Yesterday afternooni, at four o'clock, the Duke of York held a levee as Commatsder-in-Chief, at his offlice in the Horse-Gauards. Yesterday aftermoon, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council wvas held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, which sat in lengthened deliberation till a little past six o'clock. There wvere preSent-the Lord. Chancellor, the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of LXiverpool, Iarrouby, Westtnor- land?., and Bathlurst, MLTr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretarv Cannlling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscounmt AMel- ville, Mr. Wynn, &ce Thle Portuguese Minister and the Hanoverian Charge 'Affiaires transaeted business yesterday as the Foreign- of fice. Lord Ellenborouglh gave a granid dinner yesterday, at his residence at Roehampton, Surrey, at which the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer was expected to be present, bat was prevented, on account Bf the late bour to which the Cabiniet sat. The followving discovery has been announcedI at Mu- nich :-Lieutenant Hebenstreit has invented a process by which he makes a species of caterpillar spiR a kittd of wadding which is of a fine white colour, and water proof. He made a balloon of this stuff, and raised it by means of a chafing-dish with spirits of wine, in the large warehouse where he keeps his caterpillars at work. He makes them trace ciphers and figures in the wadding. He accomplishes this by monistening outlines of figures or letters with spirits of wine. The caterpillars avoid these tracings, ana spin their web around them. Thus any fine figure which has been drawn is represented in the stuff. A piece of wadding 7 feet square, perfetTy pure, and as bril2iant as taffeta, was made by about 50 caterpillars, between the 5th and the 26th of June. A certain lady in high life is now pursued by no less than thrree Marquises ' Letters dated St. Petersburgh, June 23, say that on the 17th otf May the Dwina at Archangde was still covered with a strong crust of ice, the thermometer standing at five degrees below the freez- ing point. A Court of Aldermen was held yesterday at GuildhaUl for the general despatcl of public business. Anthony Browne, Esq., aldernman and fishmonger, and John Key, Esq., alderman and sta- tioner, Sheriffi elect, attended, and executed the usual bond, to take upon thein the said office in due course. The inquest of the parish of St. Bride attended with a presentnent of sundry ruinous and dangerous houses, and the Court directed the City Solicitor to take uimmediate measures for carrying the act of Parliament into extcu- tion which relates to ruinous premises. The Chamberlain reported the surplus of the Orphans' Fund fbr the quarter ending the 5th of' July instant, and the Court thereupon directed him to take the usual measures for the discharge of 8,5001. of the de0t. MIr. Joseph Bar. row Mlontefiorewasadmitted one ofthe P2Jewbroker The Court re- solved, as a matter of convenience to the public, that the London prisoners at the Old Bailey sessions should in future be tried in the evening, except in cases where the K;sdges may think proper to try EDINBURGH CRITrvISc.-Miss Stephens coontinues to de- light the public of Edinburgh. In the Merrign of Firro and go Sonlgao Supper, on Thursday eveninF, she was exceedingly in- teresting; and irom the tnanner in which she gave " Nid Noddin " s he was hailed with shoats of applause; In tie first edition of tie song,she was vwitchingly simple; in the seond edition, she was irrc- sistibly arch; in the tbird edition-for it was encored and en- cored-she wa-Aliss Stephens, and we cannot say more. IRELAND.-AFFRAY AT CASTLECOSErL.-We regret to learn that an affray of a highly alarming nature occarred in the town of Castlecomer on the night of Sunday last when a nunnerous and anned party of the colliery peope proceeled to break down the Ouncel lately erected at the ar et-house, for the puose of weigh- ing the loaded coals from the colliery, on which an additional of Id. per cwt over and above a ton of coals, in each load, was thus imposed. The-erection of the Oancel and the augmented toil-this being a turupilec road-.-appears to have excited general dissatisfac- tion amongst the numnerous population who subsist by the-convey- ance of coals to the Kilkexny market, and whom this recent impost had depzived of theadvantage of what is called the "' plus" weight, in loading; and the spidt evinced by the class of people on whom this rezulation bore most heavilv. indicated. we amYC toild, some tihe back, a resolution to resist the further imposition of this-2ddidonal toll. Two of the constabulary now stationedin the town wer with- in the Xgarket-house at the moment of this rash and lawless aggres- sion, and several shots were interclanged. The-police, wc-havebeen infurmehe fired, in the opening of the conflict, over the heads of;heir infatuatea assailants, but this forbearance,-as usually happens, only served to give new confidence and a more daring sp-rit to these nmis. guidedsieople, who briskly returned the fire, and tbe aftbir at length assumed so very alarming un aspect, that it-was found necessary to calU in the further aid of the MiQitia Stalf from the barracks, oand the aittackinig patty were at length repules, several having bein se- rinusly wounded mn the affray: none of the polEce or militia ,wer. injred, but the assalnts, hotvever, fally succeeded in their orlginal- project, and completely destroged the QenscL. Such was thefeeling of the colliery people on the subject of this deplorable transation that in the absence of s suffiient military escort it -as considcred unsafe to send the prisoners in cusody hto KiKlkenny. A party of the 78th fligimeht, now stationed here, proceeded to the scene. of outrage on Mlenday afternoon, by orders of Colonel Lindsay ..and an -s4ditioaal force wa in readiness yesterday for the earne destina.. tion, should circumistances require this reinforcernent.filNkeseuy lfoderalor of Wednesday. -- In lhe hill cduntry, thar . e Himala Llountains, a sin- gular and dangerous kindl of bridge is used fror crossing rivers. At some convenient. spot, whebre tte river is rather btarrow, and the rocks cn either side overh:u -the streais, a stout bean af .woed is fixed horizontally upon or beMind trwo strong stakes, tfia are drIven into the banks on esch side of the.water; and- routnd these-,eama ropes are strained, extencling from the one to the other across the river, =nd they are hauiled tigh.t nd -kept in thdir place br s asort of windlass. The rope usii:!IiCbring this brid;e is,gencraJyfsr tw'o to three inches in tclrcumfeience - arid at least iaine or terl itnes crossed to make-it decurq.. V&4 lectiyn of ropesiinsver bya block of wood, ho1lowell,upto hi ke:niccular groove, large enoug& to slide.easily along it, and;aloand 'ttni .blockopes are suspadesd, forming as loop, in whii& 6.asse7nger*siat tFeumse.les, clsineit.i. -npper parts with theIr han-ds lkeep-tbems#elvassteady; .n line fixe to the wootllen Wlock at each'.s ndt.alltehdirlg In eh ban5zevs -to hsp it and the passenW,er. tt chff t&tftoRn.eo sidbc biirjper- Itotlt athet...-P er's. ose x t4 t^ J heimm,se, e clipigzf, its