The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-29 00:00:00

CHEL7'ENHAM, EltiminLa 27.

List night Mr. Marshall, the Master of the Ceremonies,
had his annual benefit ball at the Assembly Mon.s, which
was attended by about five hundred perso»s, who kept up
the merry dance till about five o'clock this morning, the
time of leaving off on this occasim being unli►oited.
The evening musical promenades at the Montpellier
have been the principal novelty this season ; thin wage
1,500 persons present the first evening, when the Pump..
room and walks were brilliantly illuminated with gas.
The company amounted to 1,000 the second evening.
The lateness of the hour at which the ball of the Mutt
of the Ceremonies concluded operated as a drawback in t
attendance at the Spa and promenades this morning. II
The flag of the Great Cross of St. George was takiet
down yesterday from the top of the small building at tle
King's Old Well, tinder which his late Majesty Ki.sg
George 111. drank the water ; it had been flying durio4
the stay of the Duke of Buckingham. The Union J.elt
has been =bedewed.

T E PARKS, BUCKINGHAM HOUSE, WE Sil%
MINSTER HALL, !cc.

Much has been said about the Duke of IVe
grounds being considerably augmented, by an infringe-
ment on the rights of the public. Now what is the Let?
The only addition to Ansley House will he the footpath,
and to the extent of half the first gat.•. Ai to the grt srd
in the rear, wherein the posts have been placed to mark
certain boundaries, that spot will be enclosed with an lion
railing, extending from the Piccadilly gate to tin Lido
opposite Stanhope-street. This ground, be it ebser►ed,
will not he accessible by any of the residents in Hamilton-
place or Piccadilly.
There will be two roads meeting where the statue st Ands.
Thus an effect will be produced greatly to the advant ige of
the figure itself.
The Turnpike Trust will be removed to Kiiii4htstridge
on the Ist of October ; and in the same week the two
Lodges will be sold by the hammer. They will be re-
moved on the sults: quent days, and then the chap ;es at
Hyde Park-corner will commence.
Although all is stopped at the late Royal Palace in St.
James's Park, there is no delay in the transformation of
the garden. Excavations have been made, and the ground
thrown up overtops the roofs of the lofty stabling. This
revolution is for the purpose of preparing the foundation
for numerous pipes for fountains and cascades; and due
west there will be a mound containing a reservoir.
The old houses in Palace-yard, IVestininater, near the
Speaker's house, are to be pulled down, for the purpose of
erecting another wing to the Hall, which will accord with
the new Wilding forming the Court of King's Bench.
The ground has been marked out:
The entrance from the interior of Westminster Hall to
the new Court of King's Bench will be in the angle where
the flight of steps led to the old Court of Exchequer.
The steps will be taken away, and an arch made. The
interior of the new Court is well fitted up with oak. The
Jury box is on the left of the Judges ; the witness box
on the right. Great attention has been paid to the accom-
modation of Counsel. They enter to their vats below the
Bar by a door in the middle of the partition, which leads
to a passage through the seats like the middle passage of
the pit in a theatre. This will prevent a deal of crowding,
to which the Barristers have been hitherto subject.

A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at the Secretary of State's Office for Foseign
Affairs, which was attended by the Duke of IVellington,
the Hails of Ilarrowby, Liverpool, Westmerelaml. and
Bathurst, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary Canning.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Lora
Bexley. &c. The Cabinet broke up about six o'clock.
The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Duchess of
Coburg and the Princess Feodore, and attended by Baroness
Spaedth, left Claremont on Tuesday, where the illustrierss
party had been staying on a visit to Prince Leopold, for
Doter, where the Duchess of Coburg was to embark for
Germany, and it was expected would be accompanied by
the Princess Feodore and Baroness Spaedth, on her return
to the Continent.

Yesterday morning the Chancellor of the Exchniatv
came to town from Beckenham.

Tahoe was presented to the King of Prussia by his Ma
jesty's desire, when he was at Brussels, last week, for the
purpose of enabling the King to express to the tnodern
Roscius, in the most flattering terms, how much he was
charmed with the excellence of his performance.—J,ara:l
de Bruxelles.

The election for Lord Mayor takes place to-day, and LI
doubt Alderman 'enables will be returned. In that event
taking place a curious circumstance will occur, the Chief
Magian ate and the Sheriffs all belonging to one Con.pany
—the Stationers.
The Na w SIIIIIIFFS.—Yesterday afternoon the new
Sheriffs, Alderman Crowder en 1 Mr. Kelly, were swore
into office with the usual formalities.
The macadamization of the south side of St. l'au!ei
Church-yard is, we understand, to take place early in the
spring.
Semi( x Araopos.—As we were the first to notice the
finding in this neighbourhood of the sphinx atropceru
its caterpillar state, we take the earliest opportunity ofin-
forming our readers of the taking of a very fine and perfect
insect of this kind in its winged state, and in all tba pleni-
tude of its beauty. It occurred about nine o'clock in the
evening of the 13th, in a house at Cat-denc, near 11111-quay,
where it bad been attracted, no doubt, by the heat of the
fire. It first alighted on the head of a female, to t:o
small concern of the worthy dame at die sight of such a
monstrous loggerhead, and from thence on a lane.
handkerchief which was placed round the shoulders a
another worthy matron, who was also equally alarmAl
at the sight of such a formidable winged visitec•
was ultimately secured and killed, by a man who w2i
present, without injuring the brilliancy of its co:ecr.•
and afterwards purchased by Mr. J. Thornhill, jun. 01
Nether Heworth, for two shillings. Its body is two inches
and two-tenths in length, and one inch six-tenths round
the thickest part, and the extent of its wings four Welles
eight-tenths from tip to tip. The sphinxes—which met-
nerally known by the name of the hawk moths, confine
their heavy flight to the close of evening and the dawn
Atty. They are then seen hovering about a flower, NO,
without settling, inserting their long spiral tongue to wok
the nectar from the bottom of the cup. When 3$ /IA
they fold their antennte under their breast. Some of the
small species fly in the day. On Wednesday last Mt.
John Wilson, of Ilorsley, presented a very large and bolo'
tiful specimen of the sphinx atropos, in the eaterPtlitg
state, which he bad found in his garden, to the Luxor,
Society of this town.—Tyne Mercury.
At the last meeting of Weavers' Association, in Glaglute.
it was stated that the number of unemployed lodms welt
shout 1.000, and the number of persons assisted front go
funds about the same.---Seetsmen.