Saturday morning, about s...
The Times, 1824-01-05T00:00:00

Saturtlay morning, about seven o'clock, Prince Leopold left Clarenrnt, in his travelling carriage, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. His Rloyal Iligiiess procee(le(d tlirouglh London: he did not make any stay, but merely changed horses. On Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer dined with the Earl of Liverpool at Coombe WVood. Wlre deeply regret to state the total loss of his 'Majesty's sloop of war Arab, Capt. Wmn. Holmes, with all the officers and crew, on the coast of Ireland. No particulars are known. The melancholy fact is staed in a letter kindly written by Admiral Lord Colville, to Capt. Holmes's father, whlo resides at Portsea. Capt Holmes, we understand, has left a widow and five young childreii. The names of the officers wvho belonged to the Arab, are Lieutenants 11. F. Sayerand T. Grahanm; iVIr. .John iMIahony, master; Air. (J. Al. Caldwell, surgeon, Mr. R. Williams, assdstant-surgcon. Her comnplement of men was I I0.-/Hanipshire Teligrapk. We are assured by a letter from Lisbon, dated so late as the 23d ult., that the Portuguese Government is much distressed for inoney, and quite desponding at the total loss it has sustained of its South American pessessions. Every article impoi-ed is taxed to the utmost.; and an additional riew crown has been levied on each pound of tea, piece of handkerchief, and all other imported articles and aforced loat is in contemp3ation, toinclude all classesofpeople, aind native as well as foreign merchants. Tne French l\linister, in order to obtain favour with the Court party, is most liberal in his en- tertainments, in whlich he considerablv oatvies the English Ambas- sador. Lady Thornton had arrived out from England.-Mlamp.shirc TelejerapA. The continuance of strong wvesterly galts during the week, has prevented tlhe ontward-bound ships from even inalcing an aLttempt io sail, until this morning (SaturdaLy), wvhen it shifted to the northlward, and the CamRzbridgae, 80, Captain. T. J. illaling, instantlv untnoored andmadethepreparatory signal, and the Consuls and Vice_.Consuls, end their families, who are going out passengers te tiouth America, emnbatked* and should the wind cNntinuc fair until day.iight to-morrow vsorning (yesterday), tat ship will then pro- ceed on the voyage; as wvill also the A,tezope, with 300 convicts for Bermuda, the Kaezgnroo, surveying ship, for Jamaica, and about 50 sail of outward-bound nielhatimnen, destined to nl the principal parts of the globe;-Hampshirc Telegraph. The He.vsar, 46, Captaii George Harris. C.B., will sail for Barbadocs in a few days. The Camelion, CalLt. Burton, is held in readiness to take despatclss to a foreign port.-I_asnspltire Tele- graph. Died, at Paris, oi the 18th tilt, in the 54sth year of his .age, the RightHon. Henry Earl of IBarrymore, Viscount Butte- vant, Baron Barry, of Olethan and Ibaune, Baron Barry, of Barry's hourt, originally by tenure and writ o; summons, premiiier Viscount in Irelansd succeeded his brother the 7th Barl, in Mlarch, 1793. His Lordship married in Januarv, 1795, Anna, the daughter of.Je- remniab Cogh an, Esq., of Ardo, In AVaterford; but having died without issue, all the titles have become extinct, except the ancient Baronies of Barry and Olethan, which devolve on his only sister, Lady Caroline Afelfort. His Lordship's mother was Amelia, daughter of Vljlliam, second Earl of Harriugton, by Lady Carolinc Fitzroy, eldest daughiter of Charles, secondDuke of Grafton. He had been the last five years in a very bad state of health, but had beeu much better for some time prcviods to Ills having an apoplectic fit, from which he never recovered.. I turbide, the ex-E.piperdir of Alexico, arrived in London on Tlhursdav, having came overland from Leghorn. He is accom- paniel by the Spanish Consul Torrente; wvho resided at Leghorn under the Coristhutionalists,but who is now, of course, superseded. Iturbide speaks no languagebut Spasish. He bas come to England merely' upon a s:hort vilsit of. curiositv. He has brought with iiinu two Sons ansl a nephew. On S4turday at one o'clock the first assevablage of the perforniers for the Italian Opera took place at the King's Theatre in the Haynsarliet, when AIr. Benelli, the new manager, attended prin- cipalty for the purpose of engaging the instranmental performers for the ensuing season, wihich is expected to commence in abont a fort.t night. The: iirst peformance is (it is said) to be a new opea, the music composed by Rlossini. The Duke of Devonshire has at length iesolved, that the town of Wetherby is to be rebuilt, and that operations arc to com- mence early in the enDiiink spring; the bridge, too, is to be improved and widened..-Eveuzingpaper. One. of the keepers of the forest of Mfarly was latelv killed by some p6achers of a neighbouring village. The keepersa dog, an returnioghome without his master, indicated by plaintive howlings, that some mnisfortune had belllen hinm. The wife of the keeper foUlowed ~* dog, who led ber to the place where her:wountled husband layin the forest. He lived twvo days, end Ywas able to de. s,nibe his assaS6, ~who have -beenb appreheaded. and 1geda in the paiuQofVcgailllce.