Star.
London, England, 1827-08-31 00:00:00

ARRIVALS.

Captain and Mrs. Camae, In Brook-street, from the Coeninent ;
General Hamilton. at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, front Paris:
Mt. and the Misses Femme, at ditto, from their sear, Chipping
Norton ; the Rev. G. Dawson and Mts. Dawson, at the Berners
Hotel, Berners.street, from Cheltenham; the Rev. R. Scott, at
(Stub from Shrewsbury ; Mr. Rawson and Family, at the St.
George's Hotel, from a tour; Mr. Eyre and Family, at ditto, from
their seat, neat Southampton.

ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM.

Marquis and AI archinness of F.zeter,Counsoos Beauchamp, Dowa-
ger Viscountess Doner.ile and Family, Lord Kenyon and Family,
Lady Gibbon, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Sowell, Sir Henry and Lady
Bell, Sir Wm. Brabazon, Sir Robert Blair and Family, Sir Edward
and Lady Tucker, Sir John Dugdale Miley, Admiral Sir Herbert
Sawyer and Family, Sir Nelson and Lady Rycroft, Major-General
and Lady Grey Egerton, Lleut.-Colonel Sir William, Herrin, Capt.
Sir IL J. Fletcher, Rear-Admiral Raper, General Mallon, Colonel
Sonde, Colonel Blacker, Colonel and Mrs. Munro, Lieut.-Colonel
Roberts and Family, Colonel and his. Sibley, Lieut.-Colonel Curi-
um, Major Ford, Major Irwin, Major Vaughan, Archdeacon
Tbswipsoo, Ste.

FOETRY.

. • . ENIGMA.
al IlA*7 Hos. ozonos camupo,
'Mari's% weed a plural ovedldry'll/"'"'1!)
Revs peace and trangoil dumber.
Now, any word ysu choose to take.
By adding s, you plural make;
But if you add an s to this.
Strange is the metamorphosis--
Plural is plural then no more,
And sweet what bitter was before !

i .

BOLUTIoN.
Though bitter erns soft slumbers seldom meet.
&ill, by some loved egress, they're rendered sweet. X. Y.

Drury-lane and Covent-garden Theatres open on the
Ist of October, and the performances, contrary to cos-
..

tom at the

of the season, are to be sis

nights in the week inste.id of three.
A most numerous and respectable meeting, including
a great number of Ladies, was lately held at the Chapel of the Blue
Coat Hospital, at Liverpool, for the purpose of estabHshing a Liver.
pool Branch of the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign.
Parts. The Bishop of CMICITSI was in the Chair.
Travelling on the Bath and Bristol road must be
mach on the increase, the tolls at the Devizes turnpike
alone having last week let for 4201. more than the rental
of the preceding year.

THE LION or THE NORTH —The following anecdote,
illustrative of the well-known amenity of manners and good-natured
politeness of oar distinguished countryman, Sir W Score, is
current among our witlings. An English Gentleman and his Lady
lately arrived in the neighbourhood of Abbotsford, and being natu-
rally anxious to behold its owner, seat a card to him, stating that
they had travelled thither from a distant part of England, solely en
purpose to see the great " Lion of the North," and earnestly request-
ing the honour of an interview. Sir WALTZ& immediately returned
far answer, that.. as the Lion was wen to most advantage at his'
Avers, he would be happy to see them that day at dinner.
They went sccordiagtf; and, it is needless to add, met with the
greatest attention *O4 bowitality. —.Edinburgh Observer.
The HARLEIAN. MANUSCRITTIL—A curious original
letter Of MARGARET CAVIENDISIIE, Duchess Of PORT-
LAND, relative to -the sale of her father's collection of
manuscripts, was sold at a recent auction of auto-
graphs and otiginal documents, for one guinea, The
letter, which is dated 3d April, 1753, is addreued to
the Speaker, Onslow. The proposal made to het by Par-
intent, for the purchase of the manuscripts, the accepts,
only upon one conditiun, viz.—That this great and
valuable cAlection shall be kept together in a proper
repository, as an addition to tfie Cotton Library, and be
called by the name of the " Harleian Collection of Ma-
nuscripts." She concludes by saying, that she does not
consider the price offered by Parliament for the pur-
chase of these manuscripts as by any means adequate
to their value.

Sir FREDERICK FLOOD had a droll habit, of which
he could never effectually brcak himself (at least
in Ireland). Whenever a person at his back whir
pried or suggested any thing to him whilst he was
+peaking in public, without a moment'a reflection,
I e almost always repeated the suggestion literati's.
S r FREDERICK was once making a long speech in
the Irish Parliament, lauding the transcendent merits
of the Wexford Magistracy, on a motion for extending
the criminal jurisdiction in that county, to keep down
the disaffected. As he was closing a most turgid ors'•
Lion, by declaring " that the said Magistracy ought to
receive some signal mark of the Lord Lieutenant's
favour," JOHN EGAN, -who was rather mellow, and
Sitting behind him, jocularly whispered, " and be
whipped at the can's tail And be whipped at the
cart's tail!" repeated Sir FREDERICK unconsciously,
amidst peals of the most unconttoulable laughter.—
Berrirtgton's