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Star. — 1830-05-14 (London, England)

WELLINGTON. The Duke cf LEEDS, while at the Palace, obtained leave of absence as Master of the Horse to his MAJESTY from town. At the KING'S Palace, St. James's, the number of inquirers among the nobility and gentry who came to learn the state of his MAJESTY'S health were as great as on any preceding day. Lord GLEN LYON was the Lord in Waiting. and Mr. HOPE the Groom in Waiting.  A Paris paper says, that Count Pozzo ni Boaco will shortly set out for Vienna, in order to be present at the marriage of his neico. . ... _ .  The French Ambassador had an interview with Rance LEOPOLD yesterday. Letters from Constantinople, to tho 24th ult. were received yesterday. The Sancho Faun, from London, Traveller, from Liverpool, Evander, from Malta, the Westoe, and a number of vessels from Odessa, had arrived. The Elizabeth was on the point of sailing for Liverpool. The House of Lords has appointed a Select Committee to inquire into the subject of the expenses of the witnesses on the East Retford Bill.  Sir J. K. JA m ES, Bart. has declared himself a candidate for the Representation of Dubin, in the event of a Geuerid FJection of Members of Palliment.  The unfortunate Gentleman, by whose suicide a pension of 1,0001. a year reverts to the crown, was the Very Rev. Dean Bum; it , nephew of the celebrated HUSSEY BURGH, who had beim many years since a distinguished oftranclit of the Irish bar.  The late High Sheriff of the King's County, Sir Wm. Cox, is so ill, as to be unable to travel to Dublin to pas the annual accounts before the Court of Exchequer.  His Excellency the Duke of Non•rnuMSEIILAND, accompanied by lA,rd Wm. B now NE, (the aid-de-camp in waiting), visited the exhibition of Paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy, on Monday. His Excellency expre.:aed himself highly pleased with the exhibition, which contains so many excellent and valuable specimens of Irish art, and which cannot but he considered most creditable to the sculptors and painters of the country. TII E O'Coy N ELL Fu N n.—A new remittance of 6001. was received on Monday from Cork, and the collection of the National Tribute is again in active progress ia that district, the surrounding counties, and indeed throughout the trhole of Munster.  A lady of high rank, and closely connected with the Court, hid the good taste to relinquish the box she was in treaty for at the Opera, on the appearance of the first official billetin of hia Majesty's health.
Star. — 1830-02-01 (London, England)

METHOD OF MAKING FRENCH BREAD.—The very light, spongy, and superior article called French bread is made in the following manner :—lf a peck of the very finest quality of wheaten flour is to be made into French rolls, a small quantity of it is to be mixed with as much warm water as will convert it into dough : in the water a handful of salt should have been previously dissolved. About a pint of distillers' yeast, or if this cannot be obtained, ale brewers' yeast, which has been washed with some cold water to remove the bitterness, is to be well worked into the dough. This is to be set by in a warm place to ferment. Meanwhile all the rest of the flour is to be mixed with as much warm milk as will form a sponge. Half a pound of butter, melted at the lowest possible degree of heat, is to be poured on, along with six eggs; and the whole is to be hastily mixed up together, along with the sponge, provided that it has sufficiently fermented, and is sufficiently swollen. After the mixture, let the dough be left in a warm place, and when it has risen sufficiently, let it be divided, shaped into rolls, and baked in a moderately heated oven. The oven should, as in all other cases, have been perfectly heated before the bread is put in; and the heat should be equal throughout, however difficult this may be to effect with some ill-constructed ovens.—Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia, Vol. 111. being a Treatise on Domestic Economy, Vol. 1. Suicide is again becoming general in Paris. The impossibility during the frost to destroy themselves in the favourite way, by taking to the water, has driven the Parisians to the use of a more expensive element for selfdestruction. I gave, a few posts since, the melancholy details of an attempt at suicide by a man and a woman, who hired a lodging for the night, closed the doors and windows, and chimney, and then, igniting a quantity of charcoal, went to bed, when the man was found suffocated and the woman nearly so. A more pitable case of attempt at double suicide occurred on Wednesday morning, the parties being an aged couple, (each upwards of 60,) who had seen better days, but who, having become reduced, determined upon ending their lives and their miseries in this world together. The intention must have been long entertained, as the poor man made several testamentary dispositions of mere trifles, to be sure, but in a manner the most affecting. As in the instance above referred to, the suicide was here to be effected by the agency of lighted charcoal, and, as in that case also, the man was the immediate victim, the poor woman still breathes—a Mend, to whom the deceased bad written to acquaint him with his intended self-destruction, having flown to the lodging of the poor people on reading the letter, and in time to save the cld lady from present death.
Star. — 1830-02-09 (London, England)

GOD." The Juror, however, contended that he was justified in putting the question, and pressed for the answer. The CORONER said he would raise no further objection to the question. The witness might, if he pleased, give answer.  The question having been put, the witness said, " I cannot, upon my oath, take upon myself to state what was the cause which produced that depression of spirits under which his Lordship laboured." The Juror said he should not put the question to any other witness.  Mr. Charles Renaud was then examined. He stated: Lord Graves has resided in my house only since the Ist of January last; I have known his Lordship for the last thirty years, and having heard the foregoing evidence ; corroborate the same, as to the depression of spirits under which his Lordship laboured. From my own observations can state that his Lordship's mind was very much abstracted, and I have observed it since the first of January ; I had not seen his Lordship for six months previous to the time he took lodgings in my house, but at that time be had no lowness of spirits ; on the contrary, he was very jocular, even under bodily infirmity, and I have no doubt that he destroyed himself in a fit of despondency. Sir James Anderson, of Dublin, M.D. was next examined. He said, I now reside at Uxbridge-house, on a professional visit to the Marquis of Anglesey ; Lord Graves consulted me en the 4th instant, for the first time, en account of his bad state of health. It is my opinion that his Lordship's mind was greatly depressed, arising both from bodily disease and mental excitement, and I have no doubt that in one of those flights of excitement he destroyed himself. It is no uncommon thing, excited to the extent Lord Graves was, to be sufficiently sound in mind to do any rational act in one minute, and in the next to be so lost in mind as to commit suicide, particularly when the instrument of destruction was near him. The two medical gentlemen who were called in to attend the Noble deceased, were then called, but they only proved that he was dead when they arrived. A view was then taken of the body by the Jury ; and, on their return to the Inquest-room, the Coroner briefly addressed them upon the melancholy duty they had performed.  The Jury, after consulting together a few minutes, returned a verdict, " That the deceased committed suicide by cutting his throat in a sudden fit of delirium." His Lordship was born on the 28th of May, 1775; married June 27th, 1803, Lady Mary Paget, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Uxbridge, and sister of the present Marquis of Anglesey. Eleven children, we understand, are the issue of the marriage, the whole of whom are living. Lady Graves is 47 years of age. A month or two since, one of the daughters was married to Mr. Hawkey, son of the banker in Fenchurch-street.
Star. — 1824-12-15 (London, England)

BLANDER—ADAMS P. KELLY. This action was brought by Mr. Knightly Adams, commonly called Quaker Adams, against Mr. Kelly, of Paddington, to recover damages for slanderous words. The words set out in the declaration were proved by  Mr. Edmonds, a Reporter for the Observer, who stated, that happening to be at one of the Police-offices in October last, he met the defendant there. The defendant asked if he had heard of the unfortunate circumstance at Paddington-green? and said it would make a good case for the newspaper. Mr. Edmonds said no. The defendant then invited him to go to a public-house, and offered to make him acquainted with the circumstance. They went. to a tavern, the Prince of Wales. The defendant then asked, if he knew a man named Knightly Adams? He was well known as a broker and agent for canal shares. Mr. Edmonds said he had , heard the name before. The defendant then said, Mr. Adams had been found that morning suspended on a hewn in his kitchen ; he added, that pecuniary difficulties was the cause of the rash act, and that he knew a widow Lady who would be a loser by his defalcation to the amount of 13001. Those were the words, and the statement was publi.hed in the Observer, under the head—" Suicide." Mr. Connor, another witness, who was present when Mr. Kelly made the communication, confirmed the scaternert of Mr. Edmonds. Mr. GURNEY, on the part of the defendant, stated that the communication was made by his client, 'withcut any malice. He had heard it the same morning, from several persons at Paddington. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, the defendant had invited the Reporter no publish the slander, and the Jury ought to consider what damages the plaintiff ought to receive for the charge made against his cliaracte:.—The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 20/. Costs, 40s.
Star. — 1828-08-12 (London, England)

CORDER, WHICH HE REJECTED. _  There was a remarkable circumstance connected with the defence r f Corder. Mr. Humphreys, it will be re,collected, was the first solicitor employed for the defence ; and perhaps there is not in the country a man better qualified to do the business of the Crimin it Courts. In arranging the matter of the defence, Mr., Humphreys, upon being asked by Corder's, friends his advice as to various point‘, said, that he wished his client to hold his tongue, and to leave every thing to his Counsel. This advice was not at all relished. Mr.l Charnock, who has been long acquainted with Corder's friends, and who interested himself greatly in the case, advised the course which was afterwards adopted, that the prisoner should tell the story of the suicide. In the opinion that this would be the most advisable plan of defence, all the friends of the murderer acquiesced, and Mr. Humphreys was requested to draw up the address, upon that foundation. To this proposition Mr. Humphreys would by no means agree. He said he considered it a most desperate course, and would by no means conduct the case if it was intended to plead " What, then," said the friends of, Corder, shall be said? Something must be said—he can't be silent." Mr. Humphreys said that he was willing to let his client defend himself upon the ground of provocation in the Red Barn, and declare that be had commitred manslaughter. This mode of defence would, he thought, give Corder a much better chance of his life than the pretence that the uufortunate deceased killed herself. " Let him (said Mr. 11l say that the girl and he had a quarrel about the 51. note, and let him state an angry crimination and recrimination about the note, and that the deieasid struck him in her passion, and was levelled in her turitty st blow which proved fatal. Let him not say with w,bat instrument he struck the blow. This appears to be ate 96ty' chance if .Too persist in your plan of 'obligigg fsigss to make a defence himself:* Mr. Char. alOrmgh he had a very high opinion of the ta. I lents of Mr. Humphreys, preferred the plea of suicide, and all the friends of Corder approved of the suggestion which denied that he had any guilt upon him.— Mr. Humphreys then threw up the case. His powerful assistance WAS, however, found to be very necessary in the course of the trial, and a large fee was tendered to him to undertake the defence; but Mr. Humphreys considered that the friends of Corder would, if fie undertook the case, thro N upon him the whole responsibility in the event, which was considered very probable, of a conviction. _ _ _  Mr. Humphreys was requested to obtain the best legal assistance at the mobt moderate rate. lie first applied to Mr. Adolphus, and was asked 200 guineas, exclusive of expenses, retaining fee, and lee for his clerk. Mr. Sergeant Andrews was now applied to; he agreed to take 100 guineas, but after wards declined going. Mr. D odrick was then solicited to leave his Circuit and undertake the defence, anal he wept down for 140 guineas, exclusive sf the retaining fee, expenses, &c:
Star. — 1831-07-12 (London, England)

SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL. The sitting of the 6th will be marked in the English annals. The second reading of the Bill of Reform united 367 votes in its favour ; 231 voices protested against it : majority, 136. One hundred and thirty-six voices have thus changed the future destiny of Great Britain ; the principle of the Electoral emancipation is proclaimed, and sooner or later it must produce its rigorous consequences. In vain Sir Robert Peel endeavoured, in a lachrymose speech, to convert the majority to his system of fear and resistance ; in vain Sir ) Charles Wetherell attacked with furious declama tion the tendency of the Grey ministry. The sitting of the 6th is for the anti-reformers a sitting of agony and death. They and their system of corruption will perish together. But the Bill will not limit itself to these conquests ; there is in it a germ of vitality, confused still—badly felt—but profound and real ; and which will reveal itself after the delivery. Let but the truth penetrate into a corner of the House of Commons—let but the spirit of liberty occupy some seats—and soon the elective legislators will hold at London also at a cheap rate the hereditary legislators. The struggle will commence with the Chamber, produced by the new bill ; it will take a character of violence which the Ministers themselves have not foreseen, because they have raised an arm of the force of which they were ignorant. The Chamber of Lords has not shown itself so improvident. Kept on the rack by the sole instinct of danger, it is aware of the ticklish position of the future. It has understood that the day when the Lord Chancellor shall announce from the woolsack a decision favourable to reform—from that day the English aristocracy is lost. It is then a question more than ever whether a vast intrigue may not render the bill abortive. To counter work the popular mine, the Lords will open a counter-mine. But the English people have cried in the streets, proclaimed upon the hustings, written upon the transparencies of the fete—" The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill." There are, in those few words, the whole question ; and once the majority has consented, woe to those who would deny to them the consequence ! It is necessary that the Lords should resign themselves to their fate. In every point of view their omnipotence is destined to perish. Either, voting their political death, they will accept reform, and drink unto the dregs that cup of poison which must kill them slowly ; or let them resist—and they will fall in a popular revolution— by suicide or by combat ? they can choose."—La Revolution.  Penis,
Star. — 1831-03-08 (London, England)

PARIS. The report of the success of the Poles, and the insurrection of Lithuania, had excited the greatest joy in Pails. We have been informed, however, in the most positive manner, that the last report is unfortunately without foundation. The Government received, to-day, despatches from %I'm saw, dated the 22d in the evening. That day the Poles continued to preserve their advantage, and had obtained some partial success, but with considerable loss of lives. The Russians were beginning to retreat. No account of the Lithuanian insurrection had been received on that day in Warsaw. Morning Herald.  In 1775, on a farm in the midland counties, rent, tithe, rates, &c. were 701. and in 1830 they are 2501. and the value of produce nearly the same. Can we wonder that farmers cannot emrloy labourers? The trade of politicians seems in cs great danger of being destroyed by the Reform Bill, ::s that of war by the $1:-.(1i_ cation of Napoleon. So mites in a cheese nibble at the mountain till they lose their object. What will become of them ?  The press panders too much to vulgar tastes in its petty details of police, incidents, &c. it feeds the lovers of the marvellous by wonders day by day, which, if they ever happen, do net occur above once in a century. The French and Continental Editors display better taste. In them prurient curiosity is never indulged with murders, robberies, accidents, suicides, &c. except when they are of general public import nice. These are John Bali's exclusive hobby, public events, foreign and domestic, diversified only with lite:att►re, the fine arts, and the drama, distinguish between foreign and English newspapers, The moat mischievous pests of the community are those aviricious news-editors who puff rep the state of trade, in order to please their advertizing customers. Papers, in general, have local advertisements in the inverse ratio of their honest: in this respect. They must not cry, Stinking Fish ! Hence, trade is always improving, prices are constantly rising, and workmen are fully employed at higher wages ; and as, for years, no accounts appear of retrogradation, it would be curious to calculate the present last term of this wonderfully increasing series ! Yet such are the data of our fox-hunting and elbow-shaking legislators! We axe knew a provincial editor who boasted for years of his 100 advertisements per week ; but a sub-editor one week bonondy described the depressed state of the local manufactories, and from that time his advertisements fell to 60, 50,40, and 20, till the man died of a broken heart.  ~[  MIEN"
Star. — 1820-08-30 (London, England)

HAYMARKET THEATRE.-.-64 The Suicide," a Comedy, by COLMAN the elder, was revived last night at this Theatre. It IA as extremely well acted, and received with applause. This Play, though so long an alien to the Stage, is probably familiar to most of our Readers. We shall therefore merely observe, that a man in business (Mr. C. KEMBLE) becomes a man of fashion and pleasure—is ruined—determines on suicide—has a harmless dose administered to him for poison by his mistress (Mrs. MARDYN), who accompanies him, unknown, in male attire—imagines himself on the verge of the grave—and becomes repentant and reformed. Mr. TERRY acted a citizen, partner of the Suicide, a personage of no gre4t scope, in his usual style of admirable delineation. Mr. C. ICEmaLE was eminently successful in his (the principal) character, and Messrs. CONNOR and FARLEY were very entertaining in a duelling scene, which presents a ludicrous exhibition of cowardice. Mrs. MARDYN also met with great applause.  The site of Mr. HARRIS'S new Theatre, in Haw. kins-street, Dublin, is now preparing for the erection of the building, which is to be completed by the next Spring. A young Lady, who is said to be a pupil of Puiturs, mad, her appearance on the &age in Dublin, on Friday evening, in the character of Katherine, in the Siege 1 Belgrade, with every prospect of being an ornament in the Operatical department of the Drama.  The Leamington Theatre has opened with every prospect of a successful season ; amongst the Per. formers is Miss POVEY, of Drury-Lane. In the list of the latest arrivals there are—  Sir Thomas Shuckborough, the Hon. Mr. B. and Lady Talbot, the Hon. Mr. Norman, and Major-General Birch. A handsome Monument is about to be erected at Plymouth, by subscription, to the memory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of
Star. — 1829-10-15 (London, England)

GRANT OF LAND IN CANADA TO OFFICERS. General Orders. Hone Guards. July 16th. His Majesty being desirous to encourage officers to become settlers in British North America Provinces, is pleased to command that grants of land in the proportion under-mentioned, shall, on the recommendation of the General Commanding in Chief, be made to those officers who may be induced to avail themselves of the offer, viz. Lieut.-Colonel, 1,200 acres; Major, 1,000; Captain, 800 ; Subaltern, 500, subject always to the conditions of actual residence and cultivation of the land assigned within a limited period—Herbert Taylor  (abstract). We regret to learn that the health of his Excellency Sir Peregrine Maitland is in a precarious state. It is mentioned in letters from Halifax, that it is his Excellency's intention to repair to the West Indies during the winter for the benefit of his health, and it is thought Barbadoes will be the Island. His Majesty's ship Champion sailed yesterday from St. Patrick's Hole. She takes British silver to Newfoundland, where she is to put herself under the orders of the Tyne, till both ships join the Halifax squadron. From the Montreal Papers :—His Excellency Sir James Kemp and suite arrived here yesterday, about four o'clock, and was received with the usual salute. On Thursday, Mr. Henry Ennis, Purser on board his Majesty's ship Champion, committed suicide. The Schweitzerbote (Swiss Messenger) of the 24th ult. states that Captain-Lieutenant Voilel, of Wimpfen's Swiss Regiment, in the Spanish service, who endeavoured to introduce the Pestalozzian system of instruction into Spain, has been arrested at Barcelona, by order of the Count d'Espagne. John Marshall, Fog. M. P. in company with Mr. Wordsworth, the poet, of Rydal Mount, Westmoreland, has arrived at the city of Derry, on his way to the Giant's Causeway. We understand that the Hon. Gentleman and his friend purpose making a tour of Ireland.