Star.
London, England, 1822-06-07 00:00:00

Mr. CANNING entertained Viscount and Viscountess

GRANVILLE and.a large party at dinner, yesterday,
at Gloucester Lodge.
Lord and Lady VANE TEMPEST entertained a large
party at dinner, yesterday, in St James's-square.
The Earl and Countess of BELuonE entertained the
Earl and Countess of DARNLEY and a distinguished
party, yesterday, at their house in Hamilton-place.
The following is an extract of a letter from Odessa,
dated the 28th April (.10th May):—" Between 30
and 40 vessels have arrived to-day from Constanti-
nople, some of them in three days, bringing the
agreeable intelligence that all the matters in dispute
have, at length, been adjusted between Turkey and
Russia, and that peace is now certain. Thi exchanges,
have, in consequence, improved about 4 per cent."
In the late riots at Lyons not only was the cry of
" Vive la Napoleon" raised, but the Marseillois Hymn,
after an oblivion of twenty years, was revised ; and,
as we are assured by private letters, proved a power-
ful stimulant to the multitude. This circumstance
has excited a great sensation at Paris.
Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, a messenger
from the Committee of the Fund for relieving the
Irish, had his pocket picked of a Bank note for £lOOO,
which he was taking to the Bank of England to get
changed.
STOCK EXCHANGE HOAX.—A Capel Court hu-
morist, calculating on the prevailing disposition to
engage in new loans and speculations, and wishing
to practise a hoax on a simple broker, with less wit
than money, and very little of either, brought into
the market, a few days ago, a new species of se-
curity, which he entitled " China Turnpike Bonds."
The thing seemed to take amazingly with the
persons who were in the secret, and who contrived
to be in company with the intended subject of the
joke when the aforesaid new stock was announced.
It was brought out at 12 per cent. bearing 5, if not
10 per cent. interest, and every one present expressed
wonder at such an opportunity of springing into un-
expected fortune. The Columbian Bonds, which
from being so low as 9 rose to 100 and higher, struck
the astonished fancy of the eager Broker. He im-
mediately became a purchaser for some distant set-
tling-day to as great an amount as he could. Other
purchasers arrived, and likewise bought lirgely.—
As the demand increased, the security improved.
The rise in the stock was rapid beyond example, and
our annuitant on Chinese turnpikes bought with as
much alacrity as if the whole land of the " Celestial
Empire," canals, roads, bridges, junks, and pagodas
into the bargain, had been mortgaged for the pay-
ment of his bonds. " It could not rain but it poured ;"
and the flood of fortune rose so high about him, that
he floated on a tide of prosperity which in his hap-
piest dream he had never pictured. "lam a gainer
of thirty thousand pounds (said he, in amazement),
I never thought I should have been so rich !"
At this period the late melancholy news from Canton
arrived, and the produce of Chinese turnpikes was
not likely to be paid by the subjects of a nation with
whom the Chinese prohibited all intercourse. The
bonds, of course, fell as rapidly as they rose, until they
had declined to 2 per cent; Like Alnaschar, our broker
saw all his imagined riches vanish in a moment. with
differences against him far greater than he was able to
settle, and Chinese turnpikes became a sudden bar ix
the road to fortune. He disappeared for a few days,
and strong suspicions were entertained of his sanity
or his life. At last he returned, and had the pleasure
to find that China Turnpike Bonds were again im-
proving, his Bonds were bought back at the original
price, the joke of which he had been the subject wis
explained to him, au he was cautioned to speculate
no more in Bands of the Erripestor of Cl.:iia, c.r of
sh Grand Lama.