Star.
London, England, 1831-08-27 00:00:00

THEIR MAJESTIES.

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WINDSOR, FRIDAT.The King returned from
St. Jaanes's at nine o'clock on Wcdnesday evening, escor►ed
by :a party of theist Life Guards, and accompanied by the
Duke of Sale-Aleiningen sad Nord Clinton.
The Landgravine of Hesse Homberg left the
Cattle ou Wednesday, on a •isit to their Royal Ilighne,ses
the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, at Biyshot Urge,
there she will continue .o reside till Si.ureftv.

Their Majesties continue to take out-of-door
exercise daily, and usually confine their drives to the vicinity
of the Great Park, where they generally continue for several
►ours.

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Yesterday their Majesties and the whole Court
!tattoo!: of a delouse • la foureheite wi,ll their 'loyal High•
lessee the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, at. Ba;•tho,
luclge. Their Majesties left the Castle at one o'clock, and
on th4r antral at Dagshot Lodge, pnecedefl to survey the
grounds, the royal phaetons havini bee'. forwarded for that
purpose On the "serious evening. At three o'clock the
royal party mutual to the house. and partook of an elegy,
collation prepared for them, and at half.past seven left fa.
the Castle, which they reached at a little before nine.
This day their Majesties and the whole Court will honour
the Duke of Devonshire's fete, at Chiswick, with theit pre.
seine, fur which ;torpor: they will leave the Castle at one
o'clock.

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This day the Foot Guards were inspected in the
Home Park, by Lord Frederic:: Firsclarence, in the presence
of the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, Prince George of Cam.
bridge, and others of the Court.
The Duchess of Cambridge still continues on a
visit to their Majegies. Her Highness will remain in this
country till after the Coronation, when the will return to
Hanover.

Their Majesties will to town on the sth of
September, to prepare for the Coronation, and wiU continue
to reddest St. James's Palace for about ten days.
Colonel and Lady Mary Co:: arrived on Wed-
motley, ou a visit to :Lehr Majesties.
On Tuesday last, her Majesty was graciously
pleased to ho tour our Mana,ger cf the Theatre Mr. Perky,
with ha commands. Tin; house was brilliantly attended,
and the performances went ofi' with great spirit.
It is incumbent upon the Secretary for the
Homo Department to institute an immediate in-
quiry into the condition of such parts of the town
as St. Giles's, where it appears that human beings
are lingering out a miserable existence in a state of
filthiness «bleb it is quite impossi'ole to describe.
Ws understand that the wretched lodging-houses,
some of which contain nearly 100 human beings,
though consisting. of eight rooms only, on an area
of 12 feet by 24, belong chiefly to tradespeople,
who contrive not only to derive large incomes
from their inmates by way of rent, but who, by
obliging them to deal ai their shops, get great
profits from then, by way of trade. It is surely
nigh time that this sort of traffic in the lives of
human beings was put a stop to.
THE GRAND DUCHESS HELEN E..—Her Royal
Highness has spent her time for some days past
in visiting most of the splendid residences between
Sidmouth and Teignmouth. On Monday Her
Royal Highness visited Exeter, and inspected the
Cathedral and County Prisons. Her Royal
Highness expressed herself in such terms of ad-
miration of the sacred edifice ns gave the highest
opinion of her superior intellect. Her close and
earnest inspection of the prisons lead us to draw
the conclusion that some practical good may result
from her visit when she returns to her own
country.

It fa rumoured that Colonel Tynte, NI.P. for
Bridgwater, is to be included in the accessions to
the Peerage that will take place at the Coronation.
—Plymouth Journal.
The Earl of Munster drives about London the
two beautiful grey ponies, pets of his late Majesty,
George the Fourth, who was so exceedingly at-
tached to them, that they were used by the King
himself only in his drives round Windsor Great
Park and Virginia Water, %. ben his sole companion
was the Marchioness of onyngham.
A Mr. Chadwick, who intends offering himself
as a candidate to represent the West Riding of
Yorkshire so soon as the Reform Bill passes, sums
up his pretensions and qualifications thus :—" I
am no man of family ; I am no man of business—
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I have never been used to it ; but I can shout,
laugh, hawk and spit, and cough, stamp, hiss, boot
and bum ' • and what more can be wanted for an
M.P. Ido not doubt but my ttamping, shouting,
&c. would have as much effect in the House of
Commons as most speeches generally have."
It surely can only proceed from the moat bare-
faced cant and hypocrisy to propose •to shut the
poor man oat of the house where he can procure
two pennyworth of beer, while it leaves open to
him the house, the baneful 4. Wine Vaults," where
; in exchange for his money he obtains an ardent
and noxious stimulant, under the name of whisky
or gin. The reasoning powers of the man who
could bring forward such a proposition may aptly
correspond with the intelligence of that person who
' should object to skittles as an " unmanly game."
Nothing could more clearly show the animus with
which a person so objecting was actuated than such
A remark. For the benefit, both of the health and
the morals of my working countrymen, it might
almost be wished that, as a condition, no beer house
should be licensed that conid not provide a skittle-
ground. Muscular exertion has a great tendency
to allay mental irritability ; and quarrels in a
skittle-ground, where beer is chiefly drank, are
nothing compared to the desperate affrays that I
so frequently occur at put or dominoes for a guar-
tern of gin.

A great sensation, as the phrase is, has been
created in the City by the sudden disappearance of
a "gentleman" whose business it was to look after
delinquents who, by dint of ingenious penmanship,
contrive for a time to levy heavy contributions on
the wealthy portion of the community, The " gen-
tleman" alluded to, it is said, is gone to America,
and it is added, for the purpose of paying a visit to
Rowland Stephenson, as much as for other pur-
poses
which we decline to mention.
Thursday a Vestry Meeting of St. James's, Clerk -
enwell, was held in the vestry-room of St. James's
Church, to take into consideration a report presented
to the Vestry on 20th of April last, as to the amend-
ment of the Local Acts. Thomas Key, Esq. the
senior churchwarden, in the chair. Mr. Hux pro-
posed a resolution, that application be made to
Parliament for an Act which would dissolve the
present Guardian Board, and render that body for
the future under the controul of the Vestry, which
should have the power of electing them once a year.
Mr. Scott objected to the motion because of the
expense of an Act of Parliament, which would be
about 2,0001. Mr. Solomon. was averse to the
proposition, both with reference to the expenses,
and to the absurdity of expecting that any good
could result from an application to an unreformed
House of Commons. After several gentlemen had
addressed the meeting, the question was put, when
the numbers were—For the motion, 20; against
it, 23.