The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-05 00:00:00

CHELTENHAM, Nov. 3.

Our winter season has commenced as a I:ispiciously as could
possibly be desired. We have alrea,ly a good deal of com-
pany, with the prospect of 84 great deal more during the pre-
sent month.

The Duchess of Roxburgh arrived last week at the Im-
perial Hotel. Her Grace drinks the waters regularly every
morning, at the Montpellier Spa.
Lady Burdett and family came in on Friday, and Sir
Francis is expected in the course of a few days. They have
engaged Suffolk House for the winter.
On the same day, Lady George and Mrs. Taylor arrived at
their residence in Montpellier Spa-buildings ; and Mrs.
Spencer Stanhope and family, at No. 15, Lansdown-place.
Lord Segrave came in on Thursday, bringing with him his
famous pack of fox-hounds, consisting of eighty-one couple,
together with forty-five hunters. They threw off on Satur-
day, at Starwood, and had a capital run. To-day they meet
at Naunton-inn, and to-morrow at Coome-end. The Duke
of Beaufort's hounds also meet to-day at Sandford, and on
Wednesday at Eyeford.
The summer balls closed for the season on Thursday last,
when between two and three hundred persons honoured the
Rotunda with their presence; dancing was kept up with great
spirit till past one o'clock. The winter balls commence on
Monday, the 17th, at the Assembly-rooms. There is still a
small band of four performers kept on at the Montpellier Spa,
who perform every morning from eight to ten o'clock, in the
promenade room.
Mr. R. J. Ball has been delivering lectures on oratory and
Shakspeare's plays, for the last fortnight, at the Literary and
Philosophical Institution here, which have been very success
ful, judging from the respectable audiences that have attended.
His course comphends yet four more lectures.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

The Earl of Portarlington, at Grillon's Hotel, Charles-
street, Grosvenor-square, from Ireland; Lord Rokeby, at
Montagu House, Portman-square, from a continental tour ;
Sir Charles and Lady Coote, in Connaught-square, from
Ballyfin, Queen's County, Ireland ; Lord and Lady Ward, at
Wimley Hall, Staffordshire, from a tour ; Lord Dormer, at
Grove Park, Warwickshire, from Sir H. Titchbourne's seat,
Titchbourne House, Hants ; General Rebow and Lady
Ormsby, at Wivenhoe Park, Sussex, from a tour ; Lord
Lyndhurst, in Hyde Park-plaoe West, from a tour; Major-
General Sir Jatnes and Lady Cockburn, in the Grove-road,
Regent's Park,

The emoluments of the Governor of Sierra Leone
are estimated at 2,5001. per annum. The late ill-fated Gover-
nor, Octavius Temple, Esq., had only received three quar-
ters' salary when he fell a victim to the pestilential climate.
The gallant officer who has accepted the inauspicious appoint-
ment ( Major Dundas Campbell) has been taken from the Half-
pay Unattached List of 1825.

The members of the Stock Exchange, who have
frequeutly suffered by speculators out of the house, in refusing
to pay their •ditierences, but who have have had hitherto no
sort of remedy against them as against individuals of their own
body, have resorted to the expedient of placarding defaulters
of this class also, expecting probably that through dread of
such an exposure, they would be able in many cases to obttin
payment. An exhibition of this kind was made yesterday at
the Stock Exchange. The individual whose name we do not
think it necessary to give, moves in fashionable circles, and
bears rank in the army. He is also said to be a knight of the
Order of the Bath. The mode of doing this is cautious, and
does not express the actual default of the party, merely inti-
mating a wish that any brokers who have transacted business
with him will communicate its nature to the committee of the
Stock Exchange. The committee themselves, if the first ex-
posure is not found to answer, will probably publish the name
of the individual alluded to.

It was generally understood at the time when it was
first proposed to abolish the Exchequer-office, and to transact
the money business of that department wholly through the
Bank of England, that for the greater convenience of the
Government, a branch bank would be established for the pur-
pose at the west end of the town, but there is no longer anyt
-
thing said on that subject, and it is concluded, theree.ore, tha
the intention is abandoned, and such is, we l''']fieve, the case.
The cireumSt4APP is only worth advert
;;,g to as furnishing fur-
ther nrce of the good understanding which subsists between
the Dank of. England and the private bankers, who appear to
have entered into a species of tacit agreemeut that the en-
croachments of the great mon2-,lists, as regards banking
business, shall go
for an further. There existed no good motive
"..--,;iabitsliment west of Temple-bar, as no houses can
possibly stand higher in point of credit than the leading bankers
in that quarter of the town—so much so, that the Bank was
not likely in any fair competition to obtain such a preference
over them as would enable the projected establishment to pay
its expenses, and their systematic opposition must have been
productive besides of many inconveniences. The matter is,
therefbre, perhaps finally adjusted, to the advantage
of all
parties