Yesterday being the birth...
The Times, 1824-05-25T00:00:00

Yesterday being the birth-day of the P,incess Vittoria, when her Royal Highness completed her fifth year, her Royal Highness's uncle, Prince Leopold, gave an elegant! dejeune at Marlborough-house, at two o'clock, to the Duchess of Kenlt and the infant Princess, in honour of the day; at vhich wvere present, the Dukes of York, Sussex, and Glocester, the Prince of Leiningen, the Duchesses of Clarence and Glocester, anl the Princesses Augusta, Sophia, Matilda, and Feodor. The Royal party broke uD about four o'clock, and soon afterwards the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Vittoria left Marlborough-house for Kensington. The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Augusta, and the Princess Feodor, dined with the Duchess of Clarence on Sunday. In the evening, the Royal Duchess had Prince Leopold and a numerous party to tea, &c. Yesterday Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador, had a long interview with MTr. Secretary Canning. The Duke ef lrellington has recovered from his indis- position. A variety of mis-statements have appeared within these two days, relative to the destruction of Lord Byron's Memoirs. We have reason to think, that a correct account of the transactions connecedl with this event will shortly be laid before the public. In the mean time, we know that the 2,000 guineas have been put into the hands of M11r. Murray by Mr. Moore, whose publishers, Messrs. Long- man and Co., advanced him the money for that purpose. A fall of full loper cent. has occurred in Bank Stock, in consequence of the reduction of the interest on Exchequer bills, by which the profits resulting from the employment of the capital of the Ban; must necessarily expenence a material diminution. The price of Bank Stock was yester- day from 234 to 23.5: beforc the rotice of the reduction it wfls quoted at 245. We are authori7ed to state, that the master of one of the post-houses in France. havsiug lately miscoaducted himself towards twvo English ladies traveling in that country, has been ordered to Paris by the Director-General of the Posts, to be there severely reprimanded; the French Government being particularly anxious that all foreigners ttavelling in France sbould everywhere meet with that hospitable re- ception to which they are entitled. GTItBALTAR, MIay I O.-The master of the Mllalvina, ar- rived this morning from London, reports, that yesterday, about balf- past 10 x n., he saw two brigs to windward; one fired a gun, and im- mediately after saw the other on fire, and her masts falL The bng that fire bore down on the Malvina and hailed her; she was armed and had a flag, white, blue, and rel, three stars in the tipper canton. LIVERPOOL, May 22.-The Hannibal, Lowe, from Vir- ginia for this port was struck by lightning and destroyed. Three of the crew were i-illed; the master anti the rest saved. This was the vessel seen by the Alfars, arrived here from Charleston. The Henry Cerf-, arrived at Cork from Baltimore, ex- perienced severe gales on her passage, and lost her bulwarks, fore- topmast and sail, jib-bcom, &e. She saw on the 2d of May a brig of about 300 tons, with her main mast gone by the deck, her fore- topmast and jib-boom also gone; she was paintedz with yellow sides and half ports, with a head, was newly ccppered, and a plain stern with tw.o port holes. :HEIRa SwNDwIcrH MA^JESTIrSa.-His Majesty is of very gentletnanly appearance, and but for the darkness of his complexion, which is of very deep copper colour, might pass for an Englishman, havingin every respect correctly adopted oar costume. The Queen is not so tall nor of so robust an appearance as has been represented. Her MIajesty is certainly a fine full.grown lady; she is remarkably weeU made, possesses an open and very agreeable countenance, not devoid even of sweetness and sensibility, with good eyes and teeth, and is by no means deficient in gracefulness of manner or elegance of demeanour. Already, with the exception of her head-d_es, which is very plain, has she, like her Royal Husband, conformed in a great degree to the English mode of dress. The royal suite are eight in number, composed of the Governor, his wife, Admiral of the Fleer, Treasurer, Secretary, Steward, and two menial servants. On their way to this country they touched at Rio Janeiro, and during their stay their Mlajesties were presented to the Emperor of Brazil, at a Court Levee, when the Emperor was pleased to present the King with a most elegant sword; and in return the King pre- sented the Emperor with a most curious cloak or mantle, made of the richest materials of his islands, the outside of which is of fea- thers of rare birds, of the most beautiful colours. Their iAlajesties and suite landed at Portsmouth, under a salute of 21 guns from the ship. The following are the names of those distingtuished Islande,s: itheo Rlhio, the King; Kamebameha, Queen; Boky, Governor; Twinny, Governor's Lady; Kapihi, Admiral; Joanoa, Treasurer; John Rives (a Frenchman and Interpreter), Secretary; Alacawcaw, Steward; Wawwaw, Alanmua, servants. L Lord Byron recently enjoyed about 7,0001. per annum, rxvich now reverts to Lady Byron, and makes her a splendid fbr. tune of above 10,0001. a-year. His nearest relative is a half-sister, Almrs Lee, who is the mother of a large family- and to whom, we are informed, a very small portion of his property can fall. His cousin, Captain Anson Byron, of the royal navy, succeeds to the title, but with little or no property. But his will has not reached England; and till then much must be sunmise. His body is on its way to a last home in his native land; and it is thought that West- minster Aobey will receive his remains. Another statement is, that he had expressed a wish to be interred in a particular spot in Harrow churchyard, which, if seriouslytrae, would, we suppose, be fulfilled._M tcrajy Gazette. The petition presented by Mr. Davenport on Friday to the House of Commons, praying the repeal ef the 10 per cent. duty on legacies to public chanties, was from Mr. Folliott, of Chester. In the list of presentations on Thursday, the name of Dr. Thomas lfrince, Chaplain to the English residents at Brussels, was accidentally omitted. An inquest was taken on the 15th inst. at the parish of St. John, In the suburbs of l'inchester, on view of the body of Thomas Forder, the cause of whose death was one of the most ex- traordinarv cases ever witnessed. The decease) was in every re- spect healt'hy, till within about 20 hoars of Iiie dissolution, when he complained of a soreness on his tongue, and sai be thought that it was swelling, which, in fact, proved to be the case, and- it continued to enlarge, until, in spite of every exertion used by the medical gen- treinen who attended him, it reached such an enormous size as to c3use his death by suffocation! Under these extraordinarv cir- camstances, it0became necessary to have the body opened, in order that, by the evidence of the surgeons, some light might be thrown orn this novel and mysterious case. On dissection, however, the body exhjbited a healthy appearance, nor could the slightest cause be discovered ot the fatal disease. It is very remarkable, thatfrom the time the sweling commenced up to the time of his deatht, the deceased did not suffer a moment's bodily pain; his constant reply to allinquiries as to that point beinz a sbake ofthe head. The ver- dict of the jury was, *' Died by the visitation of God, in conse- quence of a sudden disease and enlargemene'of the tongue."-SaUs- bury paper. A few weeks ago, as the workmen of Messrs. Fletcher, brush-manufacturers, of Stockport, were cutting up a large syca- more tree at their manufactory neat Chesterfield tbe sawyers in the act of dissecting the bole of the tree into plank, beardapiercing shriek proccei from the middle of the tree, and on opening the tim- ber found in themost central part of it an enormous fine toad of beautiful colour and full of life. On exarnining the timber, it was found perfectly sound above and below the secret residenceof this inmate. The track it occapied was about 30 inches long, and from three to four inches wide, and it appeared to have enjoyed the ex- tent of its confines,the part being cased with a dark barky substance, and in some places quitesmooth. Thesawing instrument had pene. trated its residence and put its life in jeopardy atthetimeitpleaded for mercy. lVhat effect the ato.ospheric air had upon it was not observed, for ou its liberation it immediately disappeared amongst the rubbish. This part of the tree was of very large dimensions, and ne connexion whatever appeared to exist rith either root or branches- a little discolouring might be traced, which is not un- common in this description of timber, but each extremnity was per- fectly sourd and clo&edStard4hdrc Advcrnior.