The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-09-10 00:00:00

Y'ASHIONABLE INTELLIGEN'a.

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The Earl of Guildford arrived yesterday at his house in St.
Jones's-place, from his seat, Wrexham Abbey, Oxfordshire.
Lord and Lady King arrived, on IVednesday, at their house in
Dover-street, from their seat, Ockham, Surrey.
Sir George and Lady Nugent left Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street,
yesterday. for dick scat in Bucks.
Mrs. Watson and family arrived, yesterday, at Gordon's Hotel,
I Alhemarle-street. from Scotland; Colonel and Mra.Vyse left ditto,
'for their seat in Bucks.
Arrivals at Thoma.s's Hotel, Berkeley-squarer—The Countess
of Meath from Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. Scott Stonehewer, front their
Seat in Cambridgeshire. Departures front ditto.—Mr. and Mrs.
. Wilbraham and family, for Cheshire; the Dowager Countess of
Gosfort, for Brighton.
Arrivals ut Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street :—Major
Nl'eyisini and Mrs. Fraser, from Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. Na-
ked', from their seat in Lancashire ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bal-
lard, from Conte. bury ; G. Mearci, Esq. from Ireland ; J. Corn-
niing, Esq. from his seat, Trent Park, Herta ; J. Moffatt, Esq.
from Yorkshire ; and Mrs. Wynne, from Heywood. Departures
from ditto r--Mr. and Mrs. Duncan, for Paris ; Win. bloater,
Esq. for Ramsgste ; and C. Peering, Esq. for Oxford.
Departures from Read's Hotel, tower Grosvenor-street :—.The
Rev. Henry Torre, on a tour ; John Nethercot, Esq. for his seat
in Northamptonshire.
Lord Alvanley has left town on a tour.
C. Moore, Esq. left town :,esterday for Bolvoir Castle.

Mr. Canning (who has been staying at Mr. Bolton's,
Storrs Ilan) passed through Ulverstoae on Tuesday, on his
way to Furness Abbey.
A report has prevailed that the Earl of Clanricarde is to
be the Representative Peer in the place of the late lamented
Earl of Donoughmore. This has given way to another,
perhapi' more probable. Lord- Clanricarde is to be a
British Peer, and Lord Farnharn to succeed to the vacancy
alluded to.—Dublin Correspondent.
GE NERAE ELECTlON.—Throughout the county of Corn-
wall " the note of preparation" is now sounded without
disguise. Under a positive belief in the dissolution of
Parliament (of which there is no doubt among well-in-
formed persons) in October next, even the Commissariat
are engaged in procuring the materiel for the support of
" the inner man.'

Mr. Charles Kemble has been in Paris for several days
past. He has already, it is said, entered into engagements
with some of our actors far the approaching season at
Covent-garden Theatre. This theatre, one of the finest
in Europe, will be immediately opened with the represen-
tation of a new opera, by Weber. It is asserted that the
music of this opera is even finer than that of the Frei:-
ebutz. Mr. Kemble is at present engaged in a negotiation
with %Veber, to induce him to go to London, end superin-
tend
in person the arrangement for the representation of
his opera.—Constitut ionne/.
lassie PROVINCIAL BANKING COMPANY.—This useful
establishment has commenced business in Cork, where
their branch bank opened on Thursday. The hours of
public business are from eleven in the morning till three in
the afternoon. The local directors are merchants of the
first character, and they have entered warmly into the
business. The following are the places in which for the
present the transactions of the Provincial Bank are to be
carried on :—Armagli, Athlone, &Nast, Birr, Castlebar,
Clonmel, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, London-
derry, Newry, Sligo, Waterford, Westport, and Wexford.
—Dublin Evening Post.
OLD ENGLISH HOSPITALITY.—When the late Mar-
quis of Rockingham came of age, a great entertainment
was provided at Wentworth House, in Yorkshire, which
consisted, among several ether things, of the following,'
viz.:-110 dishes of roast beef, 70 pies, .53 dishes of mut-
ton, 48 hams, 55 dishes of lamb, 70 dishes of veal, 40
dishes of chickens, 104 dishes of fish. And the liquors
drank on the occasion were:-13 hogsheads of ;le, $0
hogsheads of strong beer, S hogsheads of punch, and 4
hogsheads of wine. There were besides Is hogsheads of
strong beer drank the next day, and .10 loads of wheat
baked into bread and pies. There were upwards of 10,000
guests in the whole, upwards of 3,000 of whom were en-
tertained within the house. And after they had dined,
the victuals were carried out into the booths for the po-
pulace, who had strong beer and ale, as much as they
pleased.
Tire Rev. Mr. Fletcher had an exhibition on Sunday
evening last on the top of the Calton Hill; and, as the
evening was fine, he bad a very numerous audience—or
rather, attracted by curiosity, The weather, and the delight-
ful nature of the scene, the crowd which surrounded him
was strikingly great. Some liked his discourse, some
thought it declamatory, some blasphemous. All agreed
that his lungs were sound: and we can vouch that the
crowd, which broke up into picturesque masses on the hill,
were about half an hour in being disgorged through the
pass at the bottom of the steps in front of Bridewell. Com-
pany accidentally on the promenade, were thus unex-
pectedly detained, and witnessed one description of life
in Edinburgh on a Sunday evening. A collection was at-
tempted to be made, but, as we beard, with very little sue-
cess.—Scotsman.

CHARACTERISTIC ANECDOTE.—A short distance from
Dublin in the direction of Malahitle, the traveller passes
by Mud Island, a place rendered celebrated by being the
birth-place of the boxer Langan, and also being the resi-
dence of some of the greatest thieves and blackguards in
Ireland. On the news of the second defeat of Langan
arriving at this island of Mud, the inhabitants were over-
whelmed with grief, for the battle was looked upon as a
great national again Grief, however, soon gave way to
indignation, and indignation led the way to revem;e. They
were convinced that Langan, like the promoters of the
Union, " (bad luck to it), had sould ould Ireland," and as
Langan himself was out of their reach, they determined to
wreak their vengeance upon his poor old father.—The
" boys" accordingly assembled, attacked the sire of the
defeated hero, and did not desist from beating and other-
wise abusing him till they had broken his thigh!
FORTUNE Tst.l.l N o .—Dr. Moore being at Berlin, went
to ate the execution of a man for the murder of a child ;
his motive for this horrid deed was still more extraordinary
than the action itself. He had accompanied some of his
companions to the house of a fellow, who assumed the
character of a fortune-teller, and having disobliged him,
by expressing a contempt of hie art, the fellow, out of
revenge, prophesied that this man should die on a scaf-
fold ; this seemed to make but little impression on him at
the time, but afterwards haunted his mind so incessantly,
that he was rendered completely miserable, and he resolved
to commit murder, but thinking if he murdered a grown
person he might probably send a soul to eternal torments,
he in consequence murdered a child of his master's, of
whom he was extremely fond, and thus the random pro.
phecy proved its own completion.
HOAXING.—The practical
I joke, known by the appella-
tion of a hour, was, t seems, not wholly unknown to our
forefathers. 'We, their descendants, being a livelier gene-
ration, with a higher zest for fun, and more leizure for
laughter, may, indeed, repeat them a little more frequently,
but we can hardly invent them with better stage-effect than
' the following, which is the first hoax on record, and was
practised by a wag in the reign of her Majesty QUEEN
ANNE. We extract it from READ'S Weekly Journal of '
Oct. 1813. It appeared in all the other papers of the time I
—" A well-dressed man rode down the King's road from
Fulham at a most furious rate, commanding each turnpike- I
gate to be thrown open, as he was a Messenger, conveying
the news of the Queen's sudden death. The alarm instantly
spread into every quarter of the city; the TRAINED RANDS,
who were on their parade, desisted from their exercise,
furled their colours, and returned hems with their arms
reversed. The shop-keepers began to collect sables ; when
the jest was discovered, but not the (author of it."
At Wardour Castle, on Thursday, a woman named
Peniston, in the chapel, publicly abjured the Protestant
faith. She is the wife of a bricklayer of that name, and
for years had kept a Protestant school, and revived great
, encouragement, in consequence of her attachment to the
true religion. By this and other means having acquired
some property, she gave up her school, and has now re-
nounced her faith.—Wiltshire Paper.
On Sunday the Ranters held a camp meeting in a large
field on Mendip, near Beacon-hill, which was attended
by a large concourse of people from the neighbouring vil-
lages. The services, which consisted of preaching, singing,
and prayer, performed by men and women alternately,
lasted from ten o'clock 3n the morning till seven in the
evening.—Dorret Chi wade.

The— old Chapel OFiri mley, in the parish of Ashe,
Surrey, anciently connected with the Abbey of Chertsey,
has been recently pulled down, and a new stone edifice, on
a larger scale, to carry • tower, is now being erected on
the same site, under the auspices cf the Lord Bishop of
Winchester.