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l ea rn, under 6460 of k Petersbargh, lath Stab that, Prince DOLGOROCIET bas been appointed adjunct to t he Minister of Justice, and that Prince LAaamow." Boni:sow, who so long presided over that depart ment, and was at the same time Minister of the Council of the Empire, has been permitted to resign. We ►hould D ot be at all surprised, if the next resignation, which as every reader knows, is a courteous term for dismissal, we re to be that of the present Minister of Foreign, Affsirs, particularly as the Greek party in the Russian c a binet appears to be regaining the ascendancy. We also received this morning the Algoneine Zeitung to die 22c1 inst. It merely announces the departure' of t h e Emperor and Empress of Aust./11a on the 17th, for the Nine of Laxenburg, their usual summer residence. The other members of the Imperial family were to set out for the same place on the fallowing day. It was stated in a former account, that their Imperial Majesties would proceed from Laxenburg to Presburg, to dis solve the Diet, which appears to have terminated at last its proceedings. Bombay Papers were received this morning at the Jerusalem Coffee House, to the 16th January, but they do not contain any news ; which implies that our •ast possessions in that quarter of the world were not only perfectly tranquil at that date, but free from any appre hension of their tranquillity being immediately distut The Paris Papers, which arrived last night, are chiefly occupied with the proceedings of the Chamber of De puties, which are not of sufficient interest to require any n , tice on our part. The intelligence they contain from Constantinople, would be important, if true, as it states that the Porte hts given another decided proof of its determination to oppose the intervention of the European Powers in its quarrel wi.h the Greeks. Such statements, however, must be always received with great cau ,sion, particularly when they emanate, as in the present instance, from a source proverbially partial. Admiral MIAULIS, who so long directed in person the naval operations of the Greeks, has just set a noble example to his countrymen, in offering to serve under Lord COCHRANZ, in whatever capacity the Greek Go. vernment may think proper to decide. This being the Anniversary of the Restoration, it was observed as a holiday at the Bank and the Stock Ex change; and at one o'clock the Park and Tower guns were fired on the occasion. Dispatches, dated the 11th of February, were re ceived yesterday morning at the Colonial Department, from Lieutehant General the Hon. Sir G. L. Cote, G.C.B. at the Manikins. Accounts have been received at Liverpool from Lis bon, to the 17th instant, inclusive, by the William and Henry. The only intelligence she brings is, that the PRINCESS REGeNT was gradually reco►ering. We have received a file of the Sierra Leone Gazettes to the 11th of March. The following is an extract from the Ga zette of the sd of March :—" It may not be uninteresting to our readers to be informed, that there have been emancipated by Decrees stifle Courts of Mixed Commission In this Colony, from the date of t►eir establishment in 1819, to the end of 1826, 9,326 d o es. 2,567 of whom were liberated in the last year.—Prom the btter number, however, great as it is, but little idea can be formed of the extent of the SlaveTrade,too fatally evidenced in the number ofanfortunate beings carried away from the coast in the like period: The Duchess of G Louc Santa, the Princess AUGUSTA, and the Princess Son HU visited bis MAJESTY yesterday: L , rd FA the KING. 111 had an audience ye;terday of --- ----- Yesterday morning, soon after nine o'clock, the Duke of Ckaaanca left the Admiralty in his travelling chariot and Nur, attended by Colonel FITOCLAILIUICIF and Colonel Worm, and proceeded to Woolwich for the purpose of reviewing the Royal Marines, of whom his Royal Highness is General. The Royal Duke was received by the Colonel Commandant of the Division stationed there, and some of the principal Officers of the Marines. After the review his Royal Highness partook of some refresh ment at the Of mess. His Royal Highness left the Dock Yard at half past three o'clock, on bis return to the Admiralty. The Duchess, of KENT, the Princess AUGUSTA, the Duke and Duchess of Gkoncaseaa, and the Princess FEOD01; dined with the Duke and Duchess of Chancuca on Sunday, at their residence in the Admiralty. The Princess AUGUSTA visited Lady CAROLINE Wstnaoasva yesterday, at her residence in Curzoo-street. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had a numerous party to dinner yesterday. Lady EMMA LASCELLES, the third daughter . of the Earl and Countess of HAWIOOD, will shortly be led to the altar by Mr. Lows an POILTMAN, the Member for Dursetshire. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY had a numerous party to dinner yesterday. The Earl of Rostrata , / entertained. the M , rquis and Marchioness of LAN.DuVIN and a distinguished party to . dinner yes serday, at his house in Piccadilly. In Yorkshi e, Glasgow, Birmingham, and indeed ge serafly through the kingdom, the various manufactories are getting very busy—this is owing to a progressive demand, and therefore likely to be lasting. At Norwich the warehouses are cleared of the late accumulation of stuck. The following notice has been issue.' at the Bank on the shutting of the books for the dividends: Three per Cent. Gnu& shut on the ZOth of May ; open on the 46ilt of July. New Four per Cents. shut on the 31st of a lay; open on the blth of July. - Three per Cents. of 1726 shut on the 7th of June; open on the Itth of July. s Life Annuities shut on the 14th of Jane ; open on the 10th of July. ftladame VESTRIS has renewed her engagements with the Managers of Covent-garden, for the next season, at the enormous sum of seventeen pounds and ten shillings per night. If Theatres do aot prosper, actors and ac tresses certainly prospe r . MACRADY and Miss Love are engaged by the Lessee of Drury-lane Theatre for the ensuing season. Jones, the comic actor, quits London at the end of his engagement at Covent.garden Theatre, which termi nates with the present season. A person named Corday, a cousin of the famous Charlotte Corday, was lately tried at Rouen for forgery, and condemned to six years forced labour. Abstinence, as a prevention, is certainly of most dif trult application. If an abstinence from animal food be entered vpon in early fife, while the system is unimpaired, doubtless It is safe, and may be effectual; but if this plan should not have occur-' red till the constitution has been broken by intemperance, or In the decline of life,i; may then endanger the bringing on an atonic state ; so that its safety will more or les, depend upon a propernpplica *4 of if. Th r body being disposed to pletbora, as well as Milan,- nation, from the use of animal food, should, therefore, be espe. gall, avoided. But, on the other hand, a vegetable aliment, by its a,texttcy, and nut aff o rdin g su ffi c i en t nourishment, may weaken I" tone of the stomach, and hence a diet of a middle nature ap. Put more eligible. Milk is precisely of this kind, as containing aairnal and vegetable matter, which, in conjunction With acme or mealy se. ds, always form a very proper species of bawl PITT CLUB. • isitberolis Meeting of the highly r Members of the Pitt Club held their Ai Meeting yesterday at the City of London Among the Members we noticed-1.6 The Duke of Newcastle The Duke of Wellington T►e Marquis of Salisbury The Marquis of Duoegal The Earl of Harewoud The Earl of Eldon The Earl of Farnham The Earl of Falmouth The Earl a Westmorland The Earl Bathurst The Earl of Wiechelsea The Earl blanvers Sir Murray Maxwe ll Major Peel. M.P. tier %litc.am, Esq. ,Lawrence Peel, Seq. M.P. The Hon. H. Dundee; M.P. Colonel Wood, M.P. -.W. E. Tomlin', Esq. M.P. Captain G. Piu Rose, M.P. Al. Maxwell, Esq. M.P. T. Alcock, Esq. M.P. Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. MX T. 'Greene, Esq.M.P. Lord Rolle Lord Kenyon Marquis of Blandford J.ord Apeley, M.P. Lord Downes, M.l'. Lord Florham, M.P. Lord Castlereagh, M.P. Sir J. Bart. • J. Mr. Sheriff Parebrother Mr. Sheriff Winchester M. Bell, Esq..M.P. Captain Bastard, R.N. M.P. Hun. W. L. Bathurst Captain hluudy, M.P. W. R. Cartwright, Esq. M.P. E,q• M.P. M. N' J. Gibbons, Sir J. 1). Astley, Bart. M.P. Sir J. Chetworle, Batt. Sir Charles Flower, Ban. Sir Rich. Vysyan, Bart. M.P. Sir C. A. Hastings, Ban. M.P. Sir G. H. Smyth, Bart. M.P. Sir J. G. Cottereil, Bart. 31 P. Sir Edw. Knatchbull,Bart.M.r. Sri T. B. Lethbridge, Bart. M.P. Sir H. Harclinse, K.C.B. R. Hon. Sir G. H.Rose.G.C. B. Rt. Hon. R. Peel, M.P. lit. Hon. C. Arbuthnot, M.P. Rt. Hon. T. Wallace, NI.P. Sir C. Wetherell, M. P. J. H. Strott, Lisut. Gen. So. E.C.B. M. J. J. Busion Esq: M.P. K B. Wilbrson,'F.sq. M.P. H. S. Nortbeote v Eisq. ALP.' H. B. Cooper. Esq. M.F.. The Hum W. Dumont*, M.P. W. Y. Peel, Esq. M.P. G. It- thwson, Esq. ALP. G. Bankes, Esq. M.P. Sir J. B. Gross:Au -The llou. Lloyd Keeyors B. A. Bands, Emq. Colonel Trench, 11.1. P. t. M.- Nightingale, The Hon: o.lOnel Wodeknuae Genera Peachy, M.P. H. Banker, lisq. M.P. Sir T. Goods took the Chair precisely at *even o'clock.—The cloth having been removed, " Non 'Maks Mistime" was sung by -the professional Penziemen present. The CHAIRMAN then proposes! " the health of his Majesty," which was arm* with much erithusialm by three times three. °' GOD save the King" was then sung—when the singers tame to that line which runs—. '• Frustrate their knavish tricks," their voices were completely drowned in the deafening applause of the company. Sir TUONAS then proposed " the puked Clarence, and the rest 'of the Royal Family," which -was drunk with three times three and followed by the glee of " hail ! Star of Brunswick !" The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen,-the neat toast which I have to propose, is most appropriate to Vie object of our meeting this evening. When I see around me the talent, the aristocracy, the landed inte rest and commercial wealth of the country, I cannot. but feel aweJ in • addressing such an assembly. These, Gentlemen, are difficult times in which we live. It may be, that I cannot address you without stating particu lars what may offend the feelings of individuals; but such important events have lately taken place, that, though conscious of my insufficieacy, I cannot resist the temptation of making on them a few observa tions. Is it possible for me to look to the right or to the left without seeing on one side of me a Noble Lord, than whoa no one counsellor ever stood near his Majesty of more ability—(lmmense cheering.) Let me guard against the imputation of flattery ; but though I will not flatter, 1 must speak the truth, in which the whole country will agree with me. I repeat, there. fore, that there never was a Minister of more talent, in dustry, and integrity, or more firmly attached to the principles of Mr. Pitt, than my Noble Friend, the E srl of Eldon.—(Cheers.)—lf I turn to the other side, whom du I see there? The greatest Captain.of the age—(ap plause)—an illustrious hero, and . equolly distinguished by heroic deeds in the"field, and manly rectitude in the Senate. It is impossible to see those distinguished indi• viduals vilified by the Press, as bigots, and dragged through the mire of calumny—it is impossible to see this without horror. I am as much a friend to the Press m any man, but when we behold such licentiousness, it is more than Englishmen can bear ; and let not that Press express any benefit from that conduct ; for, though there are people who like the treason well enough, they cannot but hate the traitors. I hope soon to see the day when the, principles of Mr. Pitt will govern the country ; they are the only principles which can save the Constitu tion in Church and State. But instead of these—an Administration guided by those principles—we have now one formed of the most heterogeneous particles, made up of sweets and sours, composed of a coalition of conflicting interests. Of the merits of such a coali tion I cannot give a clearer illustration than that con tained in a speech delivered by Mr. Pitt in his early days. It was spoken on occasion of the celebrated coa lition between Mr. Fix and Lord North; one, by the bye, from the effects of which those celebrated men never recovered. The Hon. Baronet, after reading an extract from Mr. Pitt's speech on the 24th of March 1783, concluded his address by giving, " The immortal memory of William Pitt," w►ich was drunk with immense applause, and three times three. Song—" Pitt's illustrious name." Sir THOMAS then gave • The Army and Navy." Song—" Rule Britannia." "The House of Brunswick, and may they never forget the prin. ciples that seated their Family on the Throne of these Realms." Song—" With a jolly full bottle." The lines— " Here's a health to old England, the King, and the Chuich, " May all plotting contrivers be left in the lurch," were lordly applauded. . The CH niesiAti then said,'Gentlemen, I must trouble you with a tew words Wore I give out this toast, which is, “. Protestant Ascendancy." There is no greater friend to religious freedom than I am ; but Protestant Ascen dancy is not oppose.' to religiousfreedom. If Mr. Pitt himself were alive to-night, and presiding in this chair, he would drink this toast ; and here I must observe, that it never has been intended by it to hurt the feelings of those public characters who, while supporting the gene ral principles of Mr. Pitt, may, notwithstanding, think fit to vote for the Catholic Question. In fact, there is not one in ten thousand of them, if that question have ten thousand supporters, that dries not intend, and wish the continuance of, Protestant Ascendancy,•uninjured, even after the concession of the Catholic Emancipation. And while I regret that many have remained away fi om us, from an impression that the principle of our Meeting was hostile to their opinions, I am glad to see that we have to-night recovered some of our lost sheep. I give you, Gentlemen, " Protestant Ascendancy."—The toast was drunk enthusiastically with three times three. The Cu/imolai then gave," May the principles of Mr. Pitt al ways animate the Councils of Great Britain!" The CHAIRMAN.—The next toast, Gentlemen, we must drink in solemn silence. It is the memisty of one by whose death the Nation sustained a great and much deplored loss. I propose " The Memory of the late Duke of York." The toast was drunk by the Corn pany standing, and in the most profound and respect ful silence. The CHAIRMAN said he would then give a toast which he was sure would meet the warm approbation of the Meeting—he meant that of the Noble Duke on is left. That Noble Duke and his late colleagues were a set of meo who thought it a duty which they owed to themselves and to their principles to a itbdri . w limit an gaboiniatietion which they. conic! not support ecmsis, nkri with iWnse principles. • I call on yoti. Gentlemen, . Ala Sir' Thomas), and, if I hid a voice kind enough, I .stould call on the country to declare, could they be esteemed honest men had they not resigned under such circumstances?—(Cheers) Would they have merited , the confidence of the King. or of the country, if they had not done as they have done? Is it not too much, then, to, hear the illustrious Duke, and the Noble and Learned' Earl, and my Right Hon. Friend, charged with dictating to their Sovereign ?—a Sovereign whom they love, to whom they. are attached, and for whose honour and dignity they are ready to sacrifice their dearest interests —(Great Cheering). These charges are so monstrous, Gentlemen, that it is time for us to speak out. He who addresses you is like those noble perssnages, one, who thinks for himself. and he never thought more sincerely, than when he now says, that no set of men ever left an, Administration so consistent, so honourable, so much respected by the country, as those whose healths he now proposes to you. Gentlemen, I give you the health of the Duke of Wellington, with three tines three, or, if you would rather have it so, with four times four. The toast was then drunk in the:most enthusiastic manlier. The Duke of WsuosOron.—Gentlemen. I return s you my sincere thanks for the honour you have done me in drinking my health.. It is very true, as stated by my Hon. Friend, that' am no longer in that active service of the K ng, in the coarse of which I had the honour of so often r'criving your approbation. But it was not the practice of the-great nista wh•ise birth-day we have met to celebrate, to detail to assemblies of this kind the reasons and motives which led hide to enter or quit his M service; aryl, with your permission, Gentlemen, 1 shall take the libe ty, on this occasion, to toll iw his example; and a ill not go into detail or expla nation of the causes why I am no longer one of his Ma- . jesty's . Cruncil. This, however, I will say, that my retire menu, " as my Hon. Friend has truly said, did not arise out of the failure of any contrivance or conspiracy, or to any of those causes to which it has falsely been attributed ; and allow me to add, that notwithstanding the calom .nies which have been animadvetted on by my Hon. Friend, I feel my confidence increased from your appro. baton this night, that those ,misrepresentations have bad no effect whatever on the minds of my countrymen. - :—(Great cheering), The (HAIRMAN.—AIIow sac now to propose the bea') of a virtuous and able Minister, whose political demise we all deeply lament—l mean the Earl of Liverpool. • Sung, by Broadhurst, es My sin fire side." The CHA11011•1111 DOWlbeg to propose, Gentlemen, the health of the Earl of Elden. This toast was received and drunk amidst most clamorous cheers. The Earl of - Ection.—As one of the very oldest Members of the Pitt Club, I claim to be indulged in a very few obseivations. ' As one of the oldest of his Majesty's late servants, I must express my concurrence with the Noble and illusttious Duke to whom the coun try owes so much—so much more than it can ever pay —that this is not an occasion on which I am called on to explain the causes of my late retirement. But, in fact, my retirement requires no explanation at alt.— After tilling the highest judicial offices in this country once 1782, and that preceded by a long course of pro fessional labour, I cannot think I should do my duty to the public, and to the Members of the Pitt Dub, if I sbould continue to hold office at my present advanced age and stowing physical infirmities. This I may state, that in the principles which governed me through life :saprhsciples which I adopted because most conducive. sts I thought, to the public good—in these I shall die. I Though calumniated by the Press for entertaining them, I think I have not forfeited your good opinion, nor the good opinion of the public—(Cheers.) But, though calumniated ten times more, Usedl never reply to those that abuse me. Though "i might gain their commen dation who have *hosed me, and their abuse who have commended me, I could not but feel degraded should 1 call on any part of the Press to support me by their praise. Much has been said about doing bu iness and dispatching it ; but I have this consolation to cheer me, between my retirement from business, and my retire ment from life, that whatever may have been the effect of all my procrastination and delays, I never was in duced by them to give the estate of A. to 13. I retire with the satisfaction, that I have the good opinion of those whom I value, and feel no regret for the loss of the good opinion of those whose good opinion I have never regarded as worth possessing. I was an original Member of this Club—twenty-one years have ,now gone by since the dea h of that illustrious per son, in whose honout it- was instituted, and since I stated it as my opinion, that it was a duty that the country owed to itself to pay the tribute of an Annual Meeting in honour of his memory. These is, I must re. mat k, a very great misunderstanding as to two of our toasts—l m:an " Protestant Ascendancy," and the sen timents connected with the House of Brunswick.—l cannot believe or imagine that there is one Protestant, in this Piotestant country, who does not wish for Pro testant ascendancy. Malty, I am aware, differ from me in this sentiment; but I maintain that Pi otestant principles are indisp nsably necessary to the Government of a Pro. testant country; and on this I have the highest autho• rity. Llok to Mr. Pitt himself ! Did he think he could alter the ptinciples of our Protestant Constitution? Did he give in to what are called new lights' No; he merely said that he would grant to the Catholics whatever pri vileges were consistent with safety to the Protestant Constitution. Did he at any time of his life, even shortly before his death—did any statesman for long after his death, ever dream of conceding to that question without obtaining securities for the safety of the Estab 1-shei Church ? I say then, and if it weee the last words I had to utter, I u ould say, that, as tar as I know the opinions of Mr. Pitt on the subject, and no man had more opportunities of ascertaining his opinion than my self, he never had an idea of granting Emancipation without obtaining adequate secui ities—l mean, without taking every precaution for the piotection of the Pro testant Church. But if you look to the 13.11 s which have been introduced into Parliament since his death, and in conformity with his alleged principles, 1 tell you, that the securities contained in them are not worth so much dust and ashes. I have never been absent from this Meeting but once. I shall to the last year of my life, while I have health, attend it. through a sense of duty to the public, and from a feeling of respect to the me mory of a man, the first of his own titres. and whose like GOD knows if ever we may looke on again.—The Noble Earl sat down amidst immense cheering. The CDAIRMAN.—I am now, Gentlemen, about to propose the health of a Right Hon. Gentleman, whose absence from office is a severe loss to the country—a Gentleman, who, though young, has done more good to the_ country than any man who ever stood in a similar si:uation, and who, though out of office, still ..,. .0 11110 .1•Pla 1 . 10011 % 1 4-ediatri by AB arIMIII . and artamidesent of her laws...re Gentleman sishelidseeks the ptinciples and the relents of Air. Pitt, and of whirs we may say, as was said of that ille*trious persee-"-tsel siii ad Meier vimiti The health of Mr. Peel *as then drunk amid deafening Mr. Pa5t....... , Gen lumen, I should be much ee l s:7 of myself, if I could find words to do justice to the feds ings excited in me, by the unexpected compliment paid to me this night. Even if I had expected it, I should be ashamed of myself, were I able to express to you my sentiments in good set phrases, and rounded periods-. (Cheer.). I came here as a simple individual to jpiq in paying a tribute of respect to the memory of AN. Pitt. Had I still been in office, I should have been proud to come amongst you to celebrate the birth-day of a man endowed with the rare7postesslon of varied excel leacies, great, when separate, and wonderful in their combination ; one who, .if never connected with the public service, would have stood above the level of ordinary men, by the exhibition of those Splendid faculties, by which, when in office, he gained the con& dence of his Sovereign,and therespect of hiscountrymen. When we call this to mind, we feel compelled to pay ,to his memory every tribute of respect. I shall, on this occasi rn, forget the points on which I differ from Mr. Pitt ; but well 1 remember when he thotight the measure of Reform was brought forwardthrough sinis ter motives, that he relinquished his opinions on that subject, in spite of the clamour and calumny by which he was assailed, because he saw that the adoption of reform would lead to a revolution, destructive of the best interests of the kingdom. If I thought, in thus re linquishing his opinions he did so for the purpose of holding place or power, I would instantly join his ad versaries in censuring him. But when I see that be gave op his opinions in order to save the country, I feel a respect for opinions which were thus honourably abandoned, however erroneous I consider them. I therefore most cordially join you in doing all honour to the greatest man of his times." The Right Honourable Gentleman sat down amidst loud cheering. The CAI/LIMAN then proposed " the health of the gut of West. morland," which was drunk with three times three. Lo d WESTMORLAND expiesed his warm acknow ledgments for the honour he had received, and declared the great happiness he felt at finding, that after so many years trial, he still possessed their confidence--(Ctitevs4 It must be unnecessary for him to express kis admira tion of Mr. Pitt, and with respect to his retiring from office, he thought those best did their duty who placed themselves in a situation which enabled them to advo. cate the principles of Mr. Pitt—(Loud Cheers.) Sir Taos. Gooch (his health having been drink with loud applause) returned thanks. He remarked, that the golden age in politics bad arrived. The li n and the taut lay down together. He supposed t' e lioo, being the most po a erful, was the party who ha 3 taken i the best offices for himself ; and as for the lamb, he I would be discovered, he supposed, in the Right Han. Gentleman who had served up the Mint sauce—(Loul laughter). But they might see still more extraordinary things, however, and that too without living Tong, for the Golden Age might cease and even the lamb, tender of power as he now appeared, might rise up and manage even to undermine the present lion.-(Loud Laughter). Lord Bathurst's health was the next toast, and lt was loudly cheered. Lard BATHURST, after returning thanks, said, he was one of the oldel friends living of Mr. Pitt, and it always ,gave him great happiness to attend that Society, and was proud of its approbation. That was not an OCCd •ion for him to explain why he had retired from office. but he must say that he was proud and happy to follow those who had served their country wi:h valour in the field, w th ability and integrity in her councils, had up held her laws, arid, by following the principles of the immortal Pitt, haJ g ven happiness and glory to their country—(Much cheering). Song by Mr. Taylor," Of alt the Steen Wonders." The Eail of HAREWOOD'i hea'th having been drunk, that Noble Lord teturned thanks. He said that be might be fastidious, because he could not place con& dente in a Government which w is composed of all the principles (if such things might be called principles) that had been started from the French Revolution to the present time. If he stood, however, in opposition to his Majesty's Government, he did not deso frgm any change of principle—(Cheers.) His principles were the same as they ever had been. He did not on. derstand . that underhand kind of governing, which per. mitted the existence of associations that were disobedi ent to the laws, but obedient to`unarrstandings. The health of Lord Kenyon was then drunk with app"lguse. " The Norfolk Pitt Clcla," sad" Perpetuity to the London Pitt Club," were drunk with loud elseersgand the aleeting separated. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lady' Barbara Newdigate, in Berkeley-square; Mrs. and Min Edward Moncton. in Portland-place; Miss Mborne, at Lord Fear. cis Osborne s, in New Norfolk-street ; the Marquis and Mar. ebioness of E xeter, in Hamilton-place, from their seat, Burieigh, Lincolnshire; Baroness Willutighoy de Eresby, at her house, White ball, from her seat at Richmond; the Deal of Worcester, from Worcester; H. Beck forJ, lin. at his house In Upper Grosvenor . street, from fifidey Hall, Esse: ; Miss Frances Pigot, in Mu ffled-street ; Mr. and Mrs. Perdu, in Montagu-hquaie •' Lady Pepys and Miss Pepys, in Gloucester - place ; C.pt. F. Howard, is Grosvenor-street; Major Marsae, in Brook-street; Captain Her. nardiston, in Piccadilly; the Earl of Miltown, at the St. James's Hotel, .%ermyn.street, from a tour; CoL Austin, at Jordan's Hotel s St. James's-street, from a tour; Colonel and Mts. Madden, at res tates Hotel, St. James's-street, from a tour. CHANGES. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, yesterday, from tiseit boon in St. James's-quare, for their seat, Woburn Abbey ; the Mar. ebioaess of Dawnsbire and Lady Mary Hill, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for their seat at Roehampton ; Sir Was, and Lady , Maria °islander, from ditto, for the We of Wight. Public curiosity contiliues to be grea'ly excited about the author of " Eitilielt Fashionabkt /broad." It has now beers successively attributed to Lady Normanby, Mrs. Wharton, and Lady BlessinFton ; and, lastly, to the clever seiner of the " Diary of an Ennuyee." Whoever the real authoress may be, it is evi dently from the pen of some accomplished individual who has moved on terms of perfect ersalny in the highest circles of heast-tow, both English and Continental. WM. TurtNEa, Esq. of Shrigley Hall, accompanies by his daughter, and Mr. CRITCHLEY. passed through Maccletfield on Thursdayon their way to London, where their presence may be necessary in the aperJaching discussion in the House of Lordr, TH2 THAIICS TUNNZL.—Up to a late hour yesterday nothing of novelty had occurred at the works. We mentioned on a former day that it was intended to sink a flooring on the spot where the aperture was: r' flooring, which resembles a large raft, is nearly com pleted, and will be sunk in the tonne of to day. Imme diately it has been secured, Mr. BRUNCLL intends to set the steam engine at full work in pumping out the water in the lunnel, and then it will be known whether his exertions to remedy the evil have or have not been successful. Yesterday great numbers of persons visited ItiOerhithe, for the purpose of getung a sight of the works. ioll 1 Il,' 4011 1 1 r., ; ' 1 ' , i i ' I 1 ' li . . i . r li 1 ' i t i i 1 it i i c. ! , t'.l , 1 i • I 1 1 i .... , 1 i l 1.. 1 ., 4 1 ; i . i 1 , 1 i 1 c l , t 1 I t I 4 , 1 1 i :I I' 1 I , i 4'