Star.
London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
Mr. and the Non. Mr.. Hope, in Mansfield-street, yesterday,
from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, at Busby Park;
Colonel and Mrs. Colston, and Miss Warrington, at their house,
Upper Berkeley-street, Portman-square, horn a tour; Colonel
Tonne, in Mortimer-street ; Lady Durrant. in Wimpok-strut ;
Major and Mrs. Mayne, in Pall-mall. from Parks Colonel Delap„
In Harley.street, from Stoke Park, near Guildford; Airs. General
Nicholson, in York-place, Portman square; Miss Garth, in Baker-
street; Mr. Joseph Van Zeiler, in York place; Colonel Murphy,
in Welbeck-street ; Captain and Mrs. Sheldon; Regent.
street, front Paris; Mr. Henry Charles Hoare. in York-place; Airs.
Eillotein Upper Portiand•place ; Lady Lushington, in. York-place ;
Captain Finch. in Grosvenor-place, front Marrovviate ; Lieut.-
Colonel Sutherland. in Montagu-square ; Mrs. Hughes, in ilarky-
street ; Mrs. Calcrah, in Montagu-square; Mr. ar.d Alta. &braid
Taylor, in Brook-street; Captain Bowies, of the Royal Navy, and
Hon. Mrs. Bowles, In Hill-street ; Hon. Misses Somerville, in Hill..
street; Mr. Alexander Boswell, in York-place; Captain Bingham,
sit Pall mall, from Paris; Lord and Lady Gwydyr, on Saturday
last, in Piccadilly ; Mr. Leycester, in Portland-place ; Mr. Jobe
Knight, in Portland-place; Captain Gunston, in Albemarle-street,
from the West Indies ; Lady Louisa Pole, in Upper Harley Well;
Colonel Campbell, in (faker-street; Captain and Mrs. Murray, in
Dover-street, front Paris ; Mrs. Chambre, in Nottingham-place ;
Airs. and Miss Cullinane, in Grosvenor place ; Captain Payne and
Major Willis, in the Regent-street, from Sicily; Mrs. Denison, in
Portman-square; Captain Hope, in Montagti-square

CHANGES.
The Earl and C.untess of Beauchamp, for 51adrefield Court,
Vi-orcester, from Punman-square ; Lord Arthur and Lo►d Mama
on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Sali►buty. at
Hatfield House Capt. Maurice and Major Hatton, from Brighton,
for Dieppe.

An Address to his MAJESTY. and Petitions to brut
Houses of Parliament, against the Catholic Claims,
have been numerously signed by the inhabitants of the
psrishes i.f Betws and LlaneHan-in-Rims, Denbighshire.
The names of the Minister and Churchwardens are at
the head of each instrument.

At the present moment, when so much is said about
bankers and banking business, the following anecdi.te
of a deceased member of the craft may not be unaccept-
able. Those persons who were well" acquainted with
the facetious old Knight, and there are many living,
will vouch for its authentic ty
or The late Sir M— always used to say,
D—n banking l I hate banking. When I was a banker
I never slept soundly, and there never was a. day I was
not afraid of stopping payment.'
" Some years ate, he failed he used to tell humour-
nui stories of the numerous escapes his bank had had
from time to time ; take the following as a specimen—
' One afternoon; said he, just as we acre shutting up
for the day, at five o'clock, our head ca bier came run-
ning to me, and said, " Lord, Sir, here's a man just
come in with a cheque for 5401. and I do not
know what to do, we have only 5001. and a little silver
and copper in the till." Ohl said I, never mind ;do
you close the doors, and tLen run out and borrow
forty pounds, and keep the chap in jaw; and so
ue saved the bank that night. Next morning, luckily,
a customer paid in, as soon as we opened shop,
two thousand pounds, which made all right. The
fatal day, however, was to come, and come it did.
with a vengeance ; we were run upon most unexpectedly,
and, long before I had breakfasted, the house was shot
up, and a large mob was round the doors. For a lag
time I mild not account for it—at last it came across
me like a Bash of lightning. We bad, only a week or
two before we stnpiad, taken in a new clerk to replace
one that had died, and the cashier, when he went to
dinner, by mistake left him at the counter. The chap
was a Tork.hireman. and at once saw bow things were.
and, not having been used to our ways, he told some
friend, that friend told a third, and so we were run out.
Ttris, however, I will say for all the other clerks—we
paid them well, dined them well mice a week, they knew
our secret, and kept It for full ten long years,. My first
toast after dinner always was—l D—is Hanlon! Curse
Banking? I3—t Ranking! and the next was, to the
clef ks, 1.11) site, Gays, heats sal and say nothing r"

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The Princess AUGUSTA was in public en the carriage
drives, and on the promenades, both yesterday and to-day. Her
/loyal Highness is looking remarkably well. The weather, for
the season, coatinnes mild, and is often, for lengthened intervals,
bright.
The Loan Cuenca.Loa and Lady Lexonuavr, Earl Duin.m,
Lord and Lady Gaesivn.r.e, and the Duke of Dmonnisa, left us
to be present at the grand entertainment given by his Manny, at
Windsor Castle, last night, nearly the whole of whom are expected
to return to-morrow.
Mr. Vass, whose melancholy accident with Mr. DUMBRILL Ins
been mentioned, died on Wednesday.

For a fcspn!ght pest there has been a deluge of rain
braced what is remembered by the oldest inhabitants.
It poured in torrents, and when I write, there are tre-
mendous peals of thunder, with the most vivid flashes
of lightning. Frost is most anxiously looked for ; the
Beds are completely drenched. Wheat is wonderfully
,forward, the feathered tribe in chorus, and trees in bud,
all remarkable circumstances at the present season.
Things are extremely dull in this quarter, and some
recent failures have thrown the people in the dumps.