Star. — London, England, 1830-11-01 00:00:00

FORRICN FUNDS. TWO O'CLOCK. riw'! PAK spr Cr. Act: 614 Peruvian Bonds, 6 wet. 14 alto Ace. Cil Port. Ild.l. 5 p ‘ t Ct. D. • • 'ila. 3 . Br. Do. Acc. 52 Di. "(cc()Unl GO Rues. Il t la. 1822, 5 pa Ct. airs. H.l, 5 per Ct. I Do. 111 98 Do. it 1825.6 p. Ct. 35 Sp. 111‘. 5 per 11. 211 i De Ace. 36/ On. Act, 214 I AND - ,, 1.E1GN SII.At(ES, Two ()CLOCK. ►A IT , !Et 'HA IL 35 20 63 -- 20 74 7 40 32i I2i I Lk:4ls:m Imp. 1:5 pm.) Cocarx Umted %lexicon Ow at .R 2 pm) , !I{N.EXCIIANGE, MARK-LANE; Nov. I. Th. suppli,... of Wheat to-day are small in proportion to the demand, mai tine samples have readily obtained 2s. advance, and higher prices have' been asked. The price asked for Barley has been considerably Wolof.; but thou:th the demand is great, and the supply extremely small. the maltsters refuse to give more than 2A. advance, not being able to obtain a proporinnate price for Malt. Oats are in full supply, lied remain steady in price. There are but few White Pease in the isiarket t Gs. advance has been asked, and in sonic instances given.— Flout remains steady. Wheat,ncw,Kent, Essex 58. 72. Old . •-•-• S Suffolk, . 58s 674 Y'sorfulk & Suff. (Red), Ms 661 Rye . 30s 34s lttrlty. 34s 36s —Fine 40s 44s Prss, White . 48s 52s Boilers . 544 56s istrORTATIOUI Wheat, English, quarters . 3321 Welt Ditto . . • Do. Foreign . . 2429 Barley, British . . 5888 Irish . 1)o. Foreign . . . 340 English . . 4218 English Oats . . 12,976 Irish Oats . 2750 • Peas, Grey . . 38s gg s Beans, Small . . 42. 443 Tick . . 34.36. Oats, Potato, . . •28s 30s Poland . . 21s 28s Feed . . 20s 243 Flour, per sack, . . Ms (Al, Rapeseed . 4'26 £2B per last. L/11112 Will. Foreign Ditto . . 2670 Rye, - English • • • Beans, English -cans, Do. Irish . Ditto, Foreign . Peas,F.nglisis . Ditto Fr-- to Foreign . . —..... Eng:ith Flour, sub . 6871 American ditto, brl . 750 SMITHFIELD. Nov. 1. CAITLI AT X Beasts, 3160 I Sheep, 25,400 1 Pigs, 230 I Calves, 157. Peet Alutton ..... 3s 104 4s 6d Lamb Veal Hay (Pet load), 22 2s. to il 15s. Clover, 23 Os. to £5 Si. — Straw, 21 10s. to 41 18s. COAL-MECHAM:IL Nov. 1. Eighty-four new ships were entered for sale to.day, and there was an abundant supply of Coals at market. The Coal Exchange was fully attended by merchants. Ships arrived during the snswe et October 783 Best AVallsend Coals t ►ther sorts Ships at Market, 147*. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY. NOVEMBER 1 ALL SAINTS DAT.-HOLSDAT AT ,u BAIT. This afternoon a Privy Council was held at St. James's Palace, at which the Speech to be spoken by the KING to morrow, was laid before his MAJESTY. After the Privy Council, the Puke of WELLINGTON and Sir ROBERT PEEL, are to give Cabinet Dinners to their friends and colleagues, in the Administration. This day despatches were received at the Foreign Office from Lord STUART DE ROTIISA T, our Ambassador at Paris, and from Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the Hague. A Messenger arrived this morning at the Foreign Office, with despatches from Antwerp. A public Meeting was to take place to-day at Penenden Heath. We consider the intelligence which occupies the subse quent columns, to be the most important which we have had to communicate for many weeks. It will be seen that the French Ministry is about to be remodelled; and to enable our readers to judge of the nature of the change, we refer to the details afforded by the Herald, and to an extract of our own from the Constitutionnel, of the day before the event became positively known. The si tuations of M. GUIZOT, the Count de Bsoo LIE, and M. CASIDEIR PERRIER, are said to be occupied by M.M. LA EITTE, ODILLON BARROT, and MERILUON. What is expected of these new Ministers, by the antago nists of the retiring ones, may be thus readily perceived. —The new Ministry is formed from the extreme left ; or, in other words, the party which is the most po pular, has the ascendancy in French politics. We cannot pretend to say, that this change is not the result of necessity—and we should be equally presumptuous to say, that the new Ministers do not intend well to wards the interests of France ; but the very necessity of the measure—the very fact that it has been forced on the King of France by the tumultuary movements of the people we conceive, is quite sufficient to make it a matter of re gret and alarm, to all those who are solicitous that the international peace, and internal tranquillity of Europe, may be preserved. M. CASIMIR PERRIER, it appears, has not approved of those measures, which are considered indis pensable to please the sovereign majesty of the people. A period, we apprehend, will soon come, in popular concessions, when M. Ls vivre, and his colleagues, may find them selves in an analogous predicament. We sincerely hope our fears may prove fallacious ; but if all physical barriers are to be removed to the flooding tide, we need not expect that M. Lanare, and his present colleagues, will be more sucoessful than King CANUTE, in restraining its pro gress, or in discovering, perhaps, the exact limits, which its last flowing wave may include. We are not without hopes, however, that another experiment will be made, to preserve that line of foreign policy, which will not be incompatible with pacific international relations. The state of Belgium is, in the meanwhile, still further than ever from adjustment : and although the new French Ministry may sincerely wish to observe the neutrality which is evidently so prudent, a doubt of their ability to do so, and at the same time satisfy the cravings of a revolutionary, su perabundant, half-employed, and military population, must be entertained, by every person capable of enlightened re flection, on the present politics of France. At the moment of going to press, we have received intel ligence that a letter is in the hands of an influential capi talist, in the city, dated on Saturday from Paris, which states most positively, that the intelligence published this day in the Morning Herald, extracted in this Paper, an nouncing the change in the French Ministry, on which we Uwe beim induced to offer some observations, is unfounded; that the alteration in the Ministry had not taken place at one o'clock on that day ; and was expected, when it did, to be indicative of moderate policy. We insert below, a letter from a correspondent of our own, giving a most appalling account of the destruction of An twerp. We are further enabled to state, on the authority of other private letters received in town this morning, dated the 29th ult., that property to the amount of fifty millions of florins has been destroyed. The magnificent Cathedral, with its fine paintings and other rich furniture, has partly fallen a prey to the flames. A parley for three days is said to have been agreed upon; but no doubt ex isted of the ultimate surrender of the citadel. Wo now proceed to the shocking details of our correspondent. He writes thus : " ANTWERP, THURSDAY, S rat. " I arrived bore last night safe. A few shells were thrown into the town after my arrival. I went to see the fires in dif ferent parts immediately : a more shocking and terrible scene was never witnessed. People lying dead and half dead in the streets, women and children screaming ; and, I assure you, I sould not keep from shedding many a tear : 300 red hot shells were thrown into the town, besides continual showers of grape shot from the citadel and frigates : two bomb boats, and two ships of war, were incessantly firing on the town, from two o'clock yesterday afternoon, until one this morning. Several Congreve rockets were thrown in. Yots cannot imagine the devastation and destruction. The Ge neral Entrepilt, which contains op the merchandise of the Antwerp merchants, and is estimated at thirty millions of florins, is burnt to the ground. The naval and military ar senals are burnt to ashes, besides whole streets and some of the moat magnificent mansions. It is most dreadful. The cause of all this destruction was merely from a few drunken Bourgeois, firing at one of the frigates in the river yesterday. The Dutch and the Belgians have agreed to remain quiet three days—then, Gun knows what will follow. Parts of the town are at this moment burning and in flames, and there is scarcely one pane of glass in half the town next to the river. 3urnt legs, hands, and beads, are lying in the streets, and the wounded in every direction. What will this country become? It is already half-ruined. Although every thing I look upon here makes me shudder, yet I would not have missed such a sight on any account." Letters from Amsterdam, received by the mail this morn ing, state that a confirmation of these horrible scenes had just arrived in that city; and the Dutch funds had fallen to 371. At a late hour, this afternoon, we hare a letter from Rotterdam, dated 29th ult. more particularly descriptive of the losses sustained at Antwerp. By this letter, it appears that in the entrepot, fourteen millions of guilders have been consumed. Tho arsenal, hotel St. Antonio, Klooster-street, the Place Verde, and part of the beautiful steeple are Con- I sumed ; and in other respects great damage has been sus tamed. It is supposed that 8,000 of the Insurgents have marched on Bois-le-duc. The Prince of ORANGE had ar rived on the Dutch aide at Dort. It was stated in the City this morning, that the military and the machine breakers in Kent had had a conflict. We have just received the means of contradicting this stateoient. The burnings had also decreased up to last night, some fears having been occasioned by the knowledge of the fact that military were on their way to put down the malcontents.— It is said that disturbances have ;commenced at Manches ter. Consols for Account were depressed this morning to 83g. At one o'clock. prices was rather better. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. PARIS, STPT. 30. Sin—l hasten to inform you that the new French Mi nistry is expected to be announced to-morrow. It is still in doubt whether Casimir Perrier retires. The following ex tract from an article in the Constitutionnel, headed " Bulletin of the night," must supply at present the place of any com mentary of my own :—" The Ministry question has taken a decided character. The Doctrinaries—M. M. Gui ZOT and De BROGLIE—have retired. The Interior will no longer be given up to a Minister, who only understands the system of English aristocracy, so adverse to our manners. A firm moderation—that is for the moral principle—will characterise the administration now constituted. As to political princi- , plea, the execution of the present laws, the immediate reform of bad ones, a cheap Government, the right of elec tion extended to a more numerous class, but which offers security in knowledge and in property ; such will be, if we are well informed, the line of conduct the Ministry will fol low. The principle of non-intervention will be rigidly res pected, and will be a guide in our foreign relations. To open ' and disguised hostility will be opposed—not a timed explana tion and promises without dignity—but the attitude which can be taken by a nation with a million of National Guards, and which could bring into the field a million of soldiers. We shall say nothing of the new men, except that they have the character, and the patriotism, to be in accordance with M. Dupont de 1' Eure, who unites wisdom with energy. More distinguished orators, talented writers, citizens of great and just influence, will surround a Council so na tional, and so fit to give us liberty, without ceasing to• maintain order. The Journal des Debuts insists on saving that there cannot be a good Government without M. Casi mir Perier. We think the contrary ; for we think that, whatever might be the services rendered, it is governing badly, with the fear uppermost of a revolution, an aversion to its liberal consequences, and the predilection for an heri ditary Peerage, and for a second Chamber composed of lord lings. '—l am, in great huts, yours, J. L. Gen.Lallemand has arrived at Havre fromNewYork, in the packet boat Charlemagne. He is accompanied by another French General, it is said, whose name we have not learned. Monitcur. General Lallemand was one of the refugees to the United States, when the proscription took place in 1815. He has formed a military school there, on the same plan as the Poly technic school at Paris. The fears manifested by the inhabitants of the quarter of the Luxembourg, on the subject of the quarries situated un der that part of Paris, could not fail to awaken the solicitude of the authorities. In virtue of this, orders have been given by the Prefect of Police ; and a visit has been =de n te . commissioner, accompanied by the architect of the P ture and the engineer of the quarries of Paris. The OW minute and attentive examination took place, the result et which is, that no communication whatever exists between the catacombs, the quarries of Montrone, and the Palace of the Luxembourg, and that tho uneasiness is entirely without foundation.—Monitear. Upon the order of M. Persil, the Attorney-General, M. Hubert and M. Thierry wore yesterday committed to Saint- Pelagic, to submit to the imprisonment of three months, pronounced against them by the Tribunal of Correctional Police, in the matter of the society of " Des Awls du Peu ple."—Journal du Commerce. By a letter which has been addressed to the Chamber of Commerce at Bordeaux, the Consul of Portugal has said that Don Miguel will readily admit, into the ports of his kingdom, vessels carrying the tri-coloured flag, and thus the commercial relations between France and Portugal con tinue to exist on the same footing, as under the fallen King Charles X.—lndicateur. It is positively asserted that M. to Baron Capell6, ox-Mi nister of Charles X. has removed from Germany, and at this moment he is directing his steps towards Edinburgh.— Journal du Commerce. " The National of yesterday, in expressing its regret at the delay of the issuing of the new French coinage with the effigy of the King, relates an anecdote connected with the putting in circulation the first coinage, with the type of Buonaparte. The fact is correct ; but in consulting the Journals of that period, it will be seen that the execution de sired the day after the First Consul's visit to the Mint, was so imperfect, that all men of taste highly blamed the issue of that money, as neither justifying the progress of arts, nor the reputation justly acquired in the perfection of the French mo ney. A public competition for the engraving of the type of Louis Philippe, would have been, in ordinary times, a cer tain means of exciting the emulation of artists. But the hurried stride of events required that the slowness of the rule generally observed, should be set aside, and quicker means be employed; for that end the Government thought it convenient and seasonable to charge a single engraver with the execution of it. An order of the Minister of Finance, of the 21st of August, 1830, appointed M. Galle, Member of the Institute. This artist immediately set to work, and the President of the Commission of the Coin ac knowledges, in justice to his zeal, that every day, and at all hours, for the last two months, he has found him in his workshop, occupied with the noble effigy. The work is nearly finished, and it appears certain that, by the sth of November next, the anniversary of the battle of Jemmapes, the issue of a a considerable number of five-franc pieces will take place at the Mint of Paris, leaving to a future period the retouching of the die, if the Masters of the Art consider- 1 rit necessary. As to the gold of Algiers, not a single piece hes been struck from it, the Ministers of Finance having placed it in re- serve, to be struck at the period when the die of the new effigy will be finished."—Meniteen CITY, ONS O'CLOCK. Consols, which left off on Saturday at 841 for the Ac count, opened at 84 6, went down to 84 sellers: at present they are 83 i 11, Market heavy. Foreign Market, Spanish Bonds lower 21 I Letters have been received from Vera Cruz of the 12th August. At that period, all was tranquil there. The private letters, by the Express from Paris, state the now Ministry, although of a revolutionary principle, were determined to maintain peace in Europe. CITY. TWO O'CLOCK. We have a report that Mr. Rothschild has taken the whole of the Dutch loan, of 20 millions of guilders. The private letters from Antwerp are not of that awful description, as appears in the Papers. They do not men tion that the Cathedral has been destroyed. We have very bad accounts from Kent: it is said that the troops have fired, and some lives lost. Consols, which were as low as 8311 for tho Account, have improved to 83j; in the Foreign market little or nothing doing. We have letters front Antwerp, dated the 29th, 11 o'clock in the morning, which state that all was quiet : the fight ing bad ceased, as they were waiting the orders from tho Hague for the retreat of the Dutch troops from the citadel. Letters from Amsterdam state, that the proporty in the En trepot at Antwerp, was not more than one hundred and twenty thousand pounds sterling ; most of the English pro perty had been removed to Hamburgh and St. Petersburgh. LIVERPOOL, OCT. 30.—The import of cotton this week is 7,899 bags, and the sales 6,970 bags, at a decline on Brazil of ith of a penny per lb, and at scarcely last week's rates for other descriptions. In sugar, upwards of 800 hhds. of B.P. sugar have been sold this week, at rather lower prices. In foreign, nothing has been done. We have a file of Quebec Gazettes to the 20th ult.— King William the Fourth was proclaimed there with great splen. dour, and slaty minute guns frost Cape Diamond Battery announced his accession to the throne. The 15th. 24th. and 32d Regiments were paraded In full dress before the Governor, and fired a feu-de. Joie, accompanied by three hearty cheers. Captain Stack commanded the grenadiers of the 24th, which, with the band of that Regiment, attended the High Sheriff to proclaim his Ilaiesty through the town, and the different church bells were ringing during the ceremony. OLD BAILZY.—(Tais DAT.) Ma. Sr. Joint Loxo.—With reference to our detailed report of the trial of Mr. St. John Long, of which we gave a brief notice on Saturday, and further details in our last page this day, we have now to state, that be was brought up at noon to the Old Bailey for judgment, when the RE CORDER proceeded thus:—" John St. John Long—You have been indicted for the crime of Manslaughter. On your trial, the law and the evidence were fully stated to the Jury by the learned Judge, who tried the case. The Jury have thought it their duty to find you Guilty of the crime im puted to you; and the Court, having taken into conside ration the whole of the circumstances of your cue, the sentence upon you is, that you pay a fine of 2501. to the King, and that you be imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, until the fine be paid." FORGER T.--JO/XeS Mends was put to the bar on an indictment, charging him with uttering a certain paper,pur porting to be a warrant for the sum of 6141. from the Court of Directors of the East India House to the Bank of England, on the Bth of October last. This cue has already been fully detailed in the police reports. It will be recollected that the prisoner was a clerk in the India House, and, by virtue of his office, became aware of the course usually pursued re lative to money transactions. On the day in question, the prisoner went to the Bank, and presented the warrant in question; doubts arose, and hewas detained until a messenger was sent to Mr. Goodale, at the warehouses, who dis claimed all knowledge of the document. The prisoner then confessed the document was a forgery, and was given into custody. The Jury found him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of his former good character. Ex:ausrva ROMIZST OF PLATT.—Two brothers, named Richard and William Watkins, the list of whom was once In the service of Bir John Rade, at Bhipten, have bees fully cons. milted for a burglary et that Baronet's mansion. The Menial is a list of the immense quantity of plate that was stolen, and which as yet remains undiscovered:-79 silver table spoons, 43 silver dessert spoons, 81 silver table forks, 24 sliver dessert forks, 19 silver tea. spoons, 8 silver sauce lodise, 7 silver pavy spoons, silver soup ladles, I silver Ash knives, I silver marrow spews, 1 silver Wed fork. 4 silver twisted candlesticks, 4 silver waiters of the value of 1001., I silver caps end covers, S silver salves* silver imps baskets, 8 slim epergne sisdishes, value 1 silver sager basin lot the valve of 71. and one silver lii ter, 71. :COURT CIRCULAR. The King gave a grand dinner on Saturday at his I'al,c e in St. James's, to the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, th e Officers of State, and a number of official noblemen a n ,s gentlemen. The party consisted of the Duke of Cambrid ge , the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Lord Chan cellor, the Dukes of Wellington, Manchester, Buckingh am, Leeds; Marquises Hertford, Winchester; Earls Bathurst, Jersey, Rosalyn, Macclesfield, Belfast, Howe, Aberde en ; Viscounts Lowther, Melville, Hereford; Lords Hill, Far n . borough, Ellenborough, G. Beresford, F. L. Gower, Clinton, Maryborough, Fitzroy Somerset, the Lord Chief Justice 0 ! England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice the Court of Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of th, Exchequer, the Vice Chancellor, the Speaker of the Hon;, of Commons, Right Hon. Sir J. Beckett, Sir Robert Pe e l, Sir W. Freemantle, J. Calcraft, Sir G. Murray, C. Arbuth not, J. C. Herries, Frankland Lewis, H. Goulburn, Sirs A. Barnard, W. Houston, &c. The dinner was serve(' in the banquetting-room. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland entertained tin Queen to dinner on Saturday, at their residence in the King', Palace, St. James's. There were present to meet her Ma josty, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princ and Princess of Caroluth. Their Majesties, the Duchess and Prince George of Cum berland and the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Service was read by the Rev. Messrs. Beck with ; the Communion Service was read by the sub-Dean of the Chapel. The musical service was Croft's, in A ; tlu• (hutch service was sung by Messrs. Evans, Roberts, Nield, Hawes, Wild, Molineux, and Welch; the anthem, " Sing, 0 Heavens," by Kent ; the verse and solo parts were sung by Messrs. Evans, Nield, and Welch ; Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Rev. Mr. Hook preached an impressive sermon, from the 9th chapter of Deuteronomy, 3d verse. The Princess Sophia and Countess Munster ♦isited the Queen yesterday. The Duke of Cumberland left town yesterday morning' for Kew. A Cabinet Council was held at four o'clock yesterday of ternoon, which was attended by the whole of the lumbers of the Cabinet. The Ministers remained assembled about two hours. Despatches from the Magistrates in Kent were brought by a Messenger, on Saturday evening, to the Home-office, for Sir Robert Peel. The Ambassador from the Netherlands visited the Ear! of Aberdeen on Saturday, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Marquis Camden, the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kent, bad a conference with the Duke of Welliugton, 0:. Saturday, at the Treasury. The Marquis of Hertford arrived in town on Saturday. The Earl and Countess of Harewood and the Ladies Lascelles arrived in town yesterday, from Harewood Houso, near Wetherby, Yorkshire. THE SING'S VISIT TO THE CITY. A great deal of misapprehension, and some exaggeration, has, as usual, gone abroad with respect to the prices demanded for seannmo dialect to view the procession on Lord Mayor's day. In some cases the prices are higher than we could have anticipated, but, in general, they are much more reasonable than the public have been led to believe. In King-street, Cheapside, which, it will be recollected, leads imme diately to Guildhall, the average price of the frontage of a hours is, se cording to the number of windows, from 501. to 1501. We understand that an eminent linen-draper on Ludgate-hill, who occupies a very large house with extensive frontage, receives only one hundred and seyenty.fiye guineas for the whole • but in various places in the Strand, small houses will receive from twenty to thirty guineas, and two windows on the first floor vary in price from two to gyre guineas. In a house at the corner of Shire-lane, in Fleet-street, 20 guineas are demanded for the first floor, and lb for the second; and at a come tioner's a little lower down, the price is one guinea a seat, it being in. tended that 90 persons shall be placed at each window. Flags, ban ners, and garlands, with all conceivable methods of decoration or royal welcome, are to be exhibited in profusion during the day, and illu minations of the most novel character, and on the most expensive scale, are to be exhibited in the evening. Some of the more enthusiasti cally loyal propose, we understand, to expend from 201. to 301. on this method of lighting their Majesties back to the Palace, at the conclusion of the banquet. ROUTE OF THE PeocEssiost.—lt was en Thursday finally ar ranged by the Committee, that the procession shall return by land from Westminster on the approaching Lord Mayor's-day. The following will be the route to and from Westminster on that occasion :—To quit the Manalon-bouse at nine o'clock precisely, and to proceed to iVest minster by the following route:—Mansion-house, Coenhill, Leaden hall-street, Billiter-lane, Ferchurch-street, Lomb ard-street, Poultry, Cheapaide, St. Paul's Chure t hild, Ludgate-hill, Bridge-street, and take water at Biaekfriars-b To return from Westminster hall through Parliament -street, Vhitehall, Charing-cross, Strand, Fleet-street, and on to GuildhalL A number of carpenters are en gaged in erecting a platform within the railings, facing Ludgate-hill. when the Bluecoat boys will be sated; and it is understood they will sing the national anthem as their Majesties pass by to Guildhall. The bead-boy of the school will deliver (according to ancient custom) an ad , dress to their Majesties. That are to be tiers of seats in the form of a half-circle, and will extend upwards of 20 yards on each side of the [ western gates. The same ceremony was performed when George 111. dined with the Lord Mayer. Upon the whole, it will have a pleasing effect. Workmen have commenced erecting a scaffolding in St. Paul's [ Church-yard, for the accommodation of the boys belonging to Christ's Hospital, on the occasion of their Majesties visit to the City. It reported that his Majesty's ministers, by the aivice of the Marquis of Anglesey, have it in contemplation to adopt measures very favourable to the necessities of Ire land.—Morning Register. It is understood that Sir Henry Hardinge is about to pro ceed against Mr. O'Connell by a civil action for tlefamntory libel. GIFTS OF THE Faancit EXILES.—When Charles X. and his family left Lulworth Castle, to all those who at tended upon them there, they presented handsome donntion4. On each shooting excursion that the Ex-King proceeded on, a sovereign was handed to the keeper, and five shillings tc the boy in attendance. The amount of the largess to the poor of the parish was upwards of 2001. besides a sovereign and a half to each of the poorest and oldest persons in the village. He also presented a gold necklace, studded with jewels, and estimated at upwards of one hundred pounds, to a young lady. Sir Henry Hardinge has taken possession of the large house in Whitehall-place, originally fitted up for the late Lord Gifford, when he was Attorney-General, and which is by far the highest rented mansion in that quarter, amounting with the taxes and ground rent to at least 1,4001. per annum. Sir Henry has recently built a noble dining-room and other domestic offices adjoining, which has rendered this edifice more capacious and complete than the house of his friend Mr. Hanes, on Carlton-terrace. Mr. Alderman Thompson has taken a lease of the delightfully situated house on the owner oppositeto Sir Henry Hardinge's, which was formerly occupied by the Crown Club. The rent is extremely mo derate, but its site is delightful. It commands a view of the Thames, the Bridges, Westminster Abbey, St. Paula. and the Surrey bills. The streets at the west end of the metropolis have for the last few days assumed the appearance of the gayest part of the season. Carriages, bearing the ladies of the household in full dress, from the circle of the Queen, have given to the neighbourhood of St. James's-street a character of the good old times of Courtly activity. Among the numerous equi- Mnow observable in the ha un t s o f f as hion, those of the al s train are remarkable for the elegant simplicity of their appointments. They are familiarly recognised by the b re ' of the whip as' the best turn. out in town.' I I 1 I