Star.
London, England, 1830-04-23 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.

The Duke and Duchess of Bedford, in Relgrave.square, from
Tavistock, Devon ; the Duke of Leeds, and Lord O. osborne, at
Whitehall, from Hoenby Castle, in Yorkshire; the Marquis and
Marchioness of Clanricarde, in St. James's-square, from thei
seat in Hens • the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury and Miss
Wellesley, in 'Arlington-street, from Hatfield ; Lady Warburton,
at her house in Albemarle-street, from Hulmewalfield, Cheshire ;
Mr. Kennedy, M.P. in Dover-street, from Scotland ; Sir Henry
Parnell, M.P. in Jennyn-street, from Birmingham ; Sir
and Lady Sophia Greeley, in Saville-tow, from their sea., Itrer -
low, Derbyshire ; the Hon. George Apr and Lady Georgina Ellie,
in Spring-gardens, from Roehampton ; Captain and Lady Agnes
Byng, in Upper Brook-street, from Wrotluun Park ; Colonel W.
Hughes, M. P. in South Audiey-street, from his seat, Kinmel Park,
St. Asaph ; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers, at the St. James's Hotel,
Jermyn-street, from Doncaster ; J. Dingwall, Esq. in St. James's.
street, from his seat in Surrey ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Jeffery ; at the
London Hotel, Albemarle-street„ from Scotland; Sir Robert "I.
phinstone, at the Brunswick lintel, from Scotland; Sir John
Dalrymple, at ditto, from Scotland ; General Finch, at ditto, from
Oxfordshire ; L. O'Brien, F:sq M. P. at ditto, from Ireland ; Mr.
Leuchtenhurg, at ditto, from demtany ; William Campbell, Esq.
at ditto, from his seat in Kent ; James Taylor, Esq. and Son, at
Symmon's Hotel, St. James's-street, from his seat in Warwick.
shire; the Rev. B. Adderly, at ditto from Moseley Hall, Worces-
tershire ; W. Bloseley, Esq. at ditto, front his seat in Worcester.
shire ; Mrs. Gregory and Miss Williams, at Fenton's Hotel, St.
James's-street, from Paris; Mr. and Miss Benyon, at ditto, from
a tour; J. Shirley, Esq. at ditto, from a tour; Lieut. Colonel
O'Reilly, at ditto, from Windsor ; Sir George Crewe, Bart. at the
Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Hastings; Mr. and Mrs. Mol.
kit and family, at Talke's Hotel, Jermyn.street, from Birmingham ;
Dr. Bumgarton, at ditto, from Huntingdon.

CHANGES.
The Dowager Lady Ellenborough, for Roeharnpton; the Hon.
Colonel and Mrs. Howard, from Grosvenor-square, to their seat,
Ashtead.park, Surrey ; Maned Talbot, Esq. from Fenton's Hotel,
to Bath; J. Coulson, Esq. from ditto, on a tour; the Marquis of
1 Douglas, from Talke's Hotel, for Oxford.

ALMACK'S GRAND BALL.

On Wednesday evening the first of a series of Files,
upon a scale of increased magnificence, took place. The tooms
having undergone considerable improvements, were illuminated in a
novel and beautiful style. The dancing commenced at eleven o'clock.
The selections were from the new French Operas entitled Guillaume
Tell, Fra Diavolo, Le Dikllanle d'Anignon, Les Deus Nulls,
and also a new set named Les Ecossair. Also new Waltzes, being
a selection of Austrian and other German melodies; and several
from Rossini's admirable airs. To these we may add all the new
Galopailes. The new movements were admirably performed by—
Sir Roger Gresley
Lord Norreys
Colonel Bowater
Captain Eden
Colonel Molyneux
Captain Grey
Marquis of Abereorn
Count Donnioskold
Considering that this was the first ball, and held during the
parliamentary recess, it was very well attended. There were
upwards of three hundred persons present ; among whom were—
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ely. The Earl and Countess of
Harewood.—Couturesses--Sefton, Antrim, Abingdon.—Loans
—Eliot, George Beresford, James Fitzroy, Stanley, Edw. Somerset.
—Lanixs—.Elizabeth Palk, Lucy Vaughan, Coots, Shelley, Far.
guitar, Elizabeth Loftus, George Seymour, Eleanor Campbell,
Augusta Chichester Hampden, Edward Codrington, Charlotte
Bertie, Fitzroy Somerset,i Caroline Barham, Mary Shepherd,
Fiances Stephens, Harriet Frampton, Augusta Cotton, Phillips,
Anne Beresford, Georgians Eliot, Charlotte Crofton, Borough,
Rivers, Elizabeth Cornwallis, Caroline Percy, Cecil Delafield, Eli-
zabeth Paget, Glynn, Duck, Mary Rosa, Caroline Wrottesley,
Alexander Hope, Augusta Pelham. Sias—William Riddell,
Francis Doyle, Frderick lamb, Stephen Glynn, Richard Phillips,
John Johnstone, E. Hering, J. Burgoyne, R. Chester, F. Burdett,
Geo. Anson. CoLoxiis—Willoughby, Cotton, Musters, Elphin-
stone. Major Keppel. CAPTAIWII—AIIIdmay, Ellis, Loftus, Nu.
gent, Carpenter, Helene, Milligan, Codtington' Abbot, Needham.
Missas--Charles Stanley, Maone% Hon. Robert Francis Mo-
lyneux, G. Knox, R. Foley, Edwards, W. Law, Augustus Lid.
dell, J. Pelha.n, CampbelM —urratsers—Hott. John Gage,
Hon. Leigh.—Dirsszs.....Cotton, C. Stanley, Pitt, Gage (two),
Ross, Shepherd, Doyle, Somerset(three) Wrouesly, Borough, Geor-
gina de Roos, Geraldine de Roos, Park, Burdett (two) Frampton,
Codrington, Hope, Barham, Shelley, Anson Campbell, Chkbester,
Moreton, Stephens, Beresford, Glynn. Count Billabroke. Mon.
sieur Erudson. Madame and Margarette Gonads&

4ADvaartsamENT).—On the 15th of May, I shall
pnish, at my Shop, No. 183, Fleet.street, a new Szassow, en-
titled, " Goon FRIDAY; or, the Murder qf Jesus Christ, by the
Jews." Price Sixpence. To be had of all Booksellers, in Town
and Country. My other Sermons, twelve in number, may be had
in one volume, price 31. COSSITT.— Lincoln,
April 21, 1890.
In the account laid before Parliament of the receipts
and payment of the West India Dock Company is a
charge of 1151. to one of the Directors " for a broken
period." If all Directors were paid for " broken periods"
—that is, as often as they " break Priscian's head"—
the tax upon more Institutions than ono would diminish
the profits exceedingly.
As a striking specimen of the inconsistency in which
the practice of hired criticism involves the press may be
instanced a fulsome and laboured panegyric upon a work
of the most profligate and abandoned writer of the age,
in the columns of a journal professing to be especially
dedicated to morality and the interests of religion.
On Wednesday morning last, when the Lord Chan-
cellor was sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall, Mr. Gregg, of
the Chancery Bar, a Commissioner of Bankrupts, had
his pocket picked of his pocket-book. Immediate infor-
mation was given, but no traces of the offender or pocket-
book were discoverable.

The following singular affair at present occasions con-
siderable gossip at the west end of the town. It will be
recollected that a few days ago Mr. Andrews, the book-
seller, in Bond-street, attended at Marlborough-street to
complain of having been defrauded last week out of
some tickets for a private box at Covent-garden Theatre,
by means of a note, purporting to have been written
by the Earl of Belfast, which Mr. Andrews subse-
quently discovered to be a forgery. In order to detect
the offender, Mr Andrews, accompanied by a police con-
' stable, attended at the box-door of Covent-garden Theatre
on the night for which the tickets to the private box
had been obtained, and had not waited long before, to
his great astonishment, he saw one of the box-keepers
approach, conducting into the box in question, on the
identical tickets alluded to, a noble peer of the realm
and a party of female fashionables. Mr. Andrews, al-
though considerably puzzled at the moment bow to act,
yet speedily protested against the admission of the noble
party to that box, as the tickets had, he said, been
surreptitiously procured from him, and declared that if
they were admitted, he would not be responsible to the
proprietors of the theatre for the price of the tickets.
The noble peer, who was thus unceremoniously in-
terrupted, seemed considerably annoyed at such an
exposure, and having prevented as much as possible the
matter reaching the ears of his female friends, by
hurrying them as quickly as he could into the box,
his Lordship returned, and in no very measured lan-
guage addressed himself very warmly to Mr. Andrews,
who, in his turn, did not much spare the hereditary le-
gislator, and it was not until after a great deal of loud
and angry altercation that the n.atter was fur that night
suffered to drop. Since then it is understood, or at least
said, that circumstances have come to the knowledge of
Mr. Andrews, connected with this transaction, and which,
are pretty broadly hinted at, tending to allay any dis-
position Mr. Andrews might have had to make a further
disposition of the matter; and the affair has therefore, it
is understood, been suffered to drop altogether, leaving,
however, two facts established,—namely, that the note
sent for the tickets in Lord Belfast's name is a forgery,
and that this practice is not confined to the democracy of
the country.