FASHIONABLE PARTIES.-011 Saturday, the Archbishop of Canterbury entertained the Chancellor

of the Exchequer, Mr. Herries, and a select party at dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester had a dinner party, and a numerous party in the evening. On Monday, the Duke of Wellington entertained Prince and Princess Lieven and a large party at dinner. The Duke of Devonshire gave a grand fete, which was attended by all the distinguished of the hard ton in town. Lord Henry Cholmondeley had a grand dinner party. Lord Bexley entertained a distinguished party at dinner. Lady Shaw Stuart had a grand musical party. The Countess of Jersey had a splendid assembly. Mr. Watson Taylor gave a grand entertainment to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and a distinguished party. On Tuesday, the Earl of Mansfield entertained a distin- guished party at dinner. The Earl of Guilford had a grand dinner party. The Countess of Arran entertained a select party of fashionables in the evening. On Wednesday, din- ner parties were given by the Earl of Jersey, Lord Bexley, Lord Carrington, the Right Hon. Charles Arbuthnot, and Mr. Fellowes, M.P. Mrs. W. Camac had an elegant as- sembly. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury had a grand assembly, which was at- tended by upwards of four hundred. Prince Lieven gave a grand entertainment. Almack's bait was attended by nearly tire hundred. On Thursday, the Marquis of Anglesey en- tertained Prince Lieven and a distinguished party at dinner. George Wombwell, Esq. had a grand party. Mrs. Leigh had a musical party, which was very fashionably attended. The Marchioness of Lansdowne gave a rout, which was attended by nearly six hundred. On Friday, the Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Chesterfield, and Mr. 0. Hunter, had dinner parties. Mrs. Hope entertained a large party in the evening. Dinner parties by the Dowager Lady Cawder, Sir W. Hotham, Sir Robert Harland, Wilbraham Egerton, Esq. M. P., F. Heppe!, Esq. and the Hon. Mrs. Wood, are announced for to-day. A lady sitting in one of' the lower boxes at the Opera-house, being much an- noyed by a knot of talkers in the pit, gave one of the sprigs of fashion, with whom

she was acquainted, a card, with these words written on it—" Ladies' ears bored gratis." The party took the hint. The repairs making at Lambeth Palace are upon an extensive scale. The ex- terior of the chapel already presents a new appearance. A wall has been built next the river, by which the Lollard's Tower is enclosed, and a portion of the public highway annexed to the gardens of the Palace. The cell or lower part of the tower, where it is said the Loltards were imprisoned by the Popish Prelates, no longer catches the eye of the passenger. Within twenty years of the present time, in consequence of the falling in of leases and other circumstances, the annual revenue of the Bishop of London will exceed 100,000/.

In the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday, Robert Osborne was sentenced to , six months' imprisonment for having produced forged letters and documents to the Apothecaries Company, in order to obtain his certificate.

A very singular document has been posted on the west door of St. Dunstan's church. It purported to be signed by the Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of London ; and it stated that a learned King's counsel, who is not now in Puha- • ment, but who formerly was so, had agreed to allow to his wife a certain sum as a separate maintenance, and that that suns was unpaid and in arrear : and that as the learned gentleman had absconded, it was ordered by the Ecclesiastical Court that the process against him should be affixed to the doors of St.Dunstan's church and the Temple church, and also on the door of his chambers.

We understand that the Catholic Cisalpine Club has black-balled Mr. O'Cone nell, in consequence of which some of the members have retired.—Standard.

Air. Noble, about whose treatment in Portugal, by Miettel or his agents, so much has been said, arrived in Liverpool on Saturday, front Oporto. He had ' been escorted on board the ship by a guard of soldiers. The remains of Lord Colchester were privately interred on Thursday morning in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey. Mr. Christie is this week selling a very valuable collection of Italian pictures, many of them from the Orleans Gallery, the properties of Mr. Udney and the late Lord Ranelagh, with a mixed assemblage belonging to Mr. Birch. In a window of one of the houses in the Regent-Quadrant there is the follow- ing bill :—" Wanted, a young lady to learn drawing, and live with the master."

The honourable fraternity of black-legs are looking forward to the approaching Epsom meeting, as the only means of making up for the unexampled dulness of the late London winter.—Slandard.

TELEGRAPHIC Couersuir.—Last week the young girl who manages the signals at one of the telegraphic stations (Bidstone, we believe) had the following query put to her by signal :—" How do you do, my dear ?" To this she immediately replied, adopting the same mode of communication, " Mind your own business, sir, and don't be ogling the girls."—Shefflehl Paper. A man and a woman, stating themselves to be natives of Scotland, with three children, the woman apparently far advanced in pregnancy, applied at Portsmouth to the overseers of the parish for relief, and to be passed home to Scotland. It being suspected that the woman was imposing upon them as to her pregnancy, she was examined, when she was safely delivered of a jacket, trowsers, and three pair of stockings.—Porlsnnoeeth Paper. A gentleman in Bridgewater, who keeps a breeding sow, moves her at farrow- ing-time into an obscure corner of the adjoining parish, and when the delivery has taken place he puts the young in a basket, and the sow follows them home. The mayor, who receives the small tithes, is thus cheated of his pig. Should the parson of a neighbouring parish discover the trick, he is not unlikely to try its le- gality. 'fine owner of the pigs is considered at least worth 40,000/--Sherbornc Journal.

In the last number of the Edinburgh Medical Journal there is an account of a case of dropsy in a female, in which the operation of tapping was performed fifty- three times, and 1394 pints of water abstracted. . The Leeds Pitt Club has resolved, that, under " existing circumstances," it is not advisable to hold their anniversary dinner this year.

The Magistrates at the Liverpool Boroughs Sessions, on Monday week, sen- tenced four old offenders to be transported for life. This is the first time they have exercised such extensive criminal powers.

Emmen-lose—The Marquis of Anglesey, Steward, sailed on Saturday morning with one hundred and ten passengers, a large quantity of horses, sheep, cattle, and merchandise, for the new settlement at Swan River.—Hampshire Telegraph. Nearly sixty families, comprising between two and three hundred souls, arc about to emigrate from Comrie in Perthshire.

CATHOLIC GFARDIANS ; EFFECTS OF THE RELIEF Ace.—in the case of Wil- liam Pennefather, a minor, blaster Connor, of the Irish Court of Chancery, had, since the Relief Bill became a law, decided that the child should be taken from the mother, a Roman Catholic, the father having died a Protestant. On Saturday last, Solicitor-General Doherty moved the Lord Chancellor to set the Master's report aside. Tile Lord Chancellor—" Have not all these questions been set at rest by the late act." The Solicitor-General—" The Master thinks not : but the act of 1793 disposed of the question." The Lord Chancellor—" It is unfortu- nate that any doubt was allowed to remain on the subject." The Solicitor-General— • "The act of 1793 removes all disabilities, except certain excepted ones : the act: of 1829 removes the latter." Mr. J. Dwyer (for the mother)--"The Master's! construction creates a disability." The Lord Chancellor—" You must be aware,: Mr. Solicitor, of the intention of the Legislature in passing the last act." The Solicitor-General—" It would be arrogant m me to say that I knew the intentions of the Legislature ; but I can say it was the object of the friends of the measure, to do away with every remnant of that ferocious code." The Lord Chancellor- " We had better leave out hard names." The Solicitor-General—"Edmund Burke so designated that code—I think justly ; but, thank God, it is now done' away fur ever." The Lord Chancellor, after observing upon the act of 1793,1 and the act of 1829, set aside the Master's report.

CAPTAIN AND LADY AGNES BYNG.—In the Irish Court of King's Bench, on' Saturday, the Solicitor-General moved for a criminal information against the pro-' prietors Of the Siar of Brunswick and Dublin Warder newspapers, for a libel onl Captain and Lady Byng. Both papers had given currency to a report that a se--; paration had taken place between the complaining parties on the same evening ont which they had been married, in consequence of a discovery having been madam that a criminal intercourse had previously existed between Lady Agnes and: Lord Erroll, who had been attached to Lord Anglesey's court. The circumstances: they denied ; and accounted, on oath, for every day, by stating the various places. at which they had spent their time together siucc the day of their marriage. Lord! Errol also denied, upon oath, the imputation cast upon him. The Court imme- diately granted the order.

A criminal information has also been obtained by Lord Viscount Dungarvon' against the proprietor of the Dnblin Evening Mail, for a libel which reflected strongly against his Lordship's character.

A house in the silk in Dublin failed last week for 100,0001. Mr. Kean has had another attack of illness at Dublin.

A story is told in the Westmeath Journal, of two Catholic priests having re- fused to perform the funeral obsequies over a respectable tradesman's wife, unless the usual collection was made. They successively refused three guineas in lieu of the collection.

It is said that silk gowns are to be conferred on Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Bellew, Mr. O'Loghlin, and Mr. Farrell.—Deblin Register.

MADRAS CHICKEN MULLIO ATAWNY.—The receipt for making this delightful Indian soup we obtained from a gentleman long resident at Madras :—Get two pounds of veal and the same of the ribs of lean mutton ; cut them into pieces, as for soup, chopping the bones well ; put them, with a table-spoonful of salt and three quarts of cold water, into a saucepan, and boil till it becomes a rich gravy, which will be in about four hours. Skim every particle of fat off, and then strain it clear through a hair sieve into another saucepan, to which add a tender chicken, or young lean fowl, cut into the smallest joints, and well washed, with three large spoonsful of Mulligatawny paste (not powder). Boil till the chicken is tender, which will be in twenty minutes ; and it is ready.

The King of France left Paris last week for St. Cloud, where lie is to spend the summer.

It is understood that the Duchess of Berri will go to Dieppe in June, and there is a revival of the rumour that she will cruise over to Eteglatel. Two of the prin- cipal members of the Yacht Club have repeated the oilier which was made last year, of escorting the Duchess to Brighton with the whole of the yacht Paris fewer.

The four vonne Chinese, lately imported into France, have made a great stir at Paris. 'Nee, have been intredured to the King and to all the Royal Family.

One of than cow posed a speech iu Chinese to his most Christian Majesty, and translated it into Latin. They remained covered, and did not bend their kuee to the King.

The French Chamber of Deputies decided on 'Wednesday that the late Keeper of the Seals, M. D. Peyronnet, should be ordered to be sued in a court of justice

for the sum of nearly 8,000/. sterling, which he expended in furnishing and en- larging his official residence, without the previous censent or authority of the Le- gislature.

Another item of M. the Pevrontiet's extravagance, of which the Chamber is likely to resist the payment, has come to light. This item consists of 17.000 francs (or 680/.) for firewood. which still remains unpaid. A head of expense more scandalous is found in a debt of 20,000 francs due to the Royal Printing,- office, for libels circulated d ,eing the last election.

A French Jury have decided, at the assizes held for the department of the Cher, that to rob a fellow-traveller in a stage-coach is not a highway robbery, a stage-coach being " a rolling house." This distinction savours more of English than of French jurisprudence.

The weather bee been so inclement in some parts. of France. that on the 1st and 2nd of May, flocks of swallows, which had, it appears, followed rather the rules of the al titan tick than the indications of the seasons, have Leen foiled dead, either front cold or from want of the insects on which they feed.

A tri-coloured flag was some days ago set out in the mare-et-place of Cholet, in La Vendee. A French paper speaks of this as an " attempt at insurrection," and the King's Attorney General is endeavouring to discover the guilty.

The King of Prussia is about to perchase the Turkish library taken by the Russians at Brailow Iasi year, which is stated to be very valuable.

The King of the Netherlands, in his solicitude for the health of his subjects, has sent to the Second Chamber the project of a law which he presses it to take into immediate consideration. It relaters to the bakers, and wine and beer and spirit makers and sellers, who, it appears, have been in the habit of rising blue and white vitriol and other deleterious substances. Hie Majesty proposes that all bakers using such articles in the making of bread or in Feline s, or scaling bread or liquors knowing them to contain sled' article:, shall be punished with imprisonment of from two to five years, and a lint, of front two to live hundred. florins.

In the Royal Almanac& of Spain, Don -Miguel is styled King of Portugal ; whereas in the equivalent French publication Donna Maria is styled Queen.

Further shocks of earthquake have occurred in the province of Murcia ; one of them long and violent.

Mount Vesuvius was in eruption at the date of the latest accounts from Naples; vomiting flames, accompanied with stones, to the height of six hundred feet.

FRANKFORT FAIR, May 3.—Tbe fair has hitherto been very favourable. especi- ally to the sellers of English manufactures and French calicoes ; but the demand for British manufactures in particular eu far exceeded all the new consigtunents, that many wholesale dealers have been able to dispose of stocks which they have long had on hand, at very good prices: and those who have had several descrip- tions of goods (for instance, waistcoat pieces) conveyed by the post, have been amply indemnified, by the advance in price, for the additional expense of con- veyance. Among the English manufactures, the woollen cloths in particular deserve notice. There is at present a great rivalry between them and the Flemish manufactures of the same description. Even good judges of these arti- cles find it difficult to decide which of the two, paying regard to the prices, deserve the preference, as the English manufactures, in this point of view, are of very unequal quality.

It appears by letters from St. Vincent's, dated the I Ith March, that the season has been " distressingly dry ;" and that the crops will pei,e ;reedit' deficient.

Some districts of the Cape of Good Hope were in February devastated by locusts ; which in their turn were devoured by the locust birds, " This extraordinary bird," says a private letter, " is a complete match Mr the locusts; and the farmers give accounts of their manner of attacking and destroying a flight of locusts, which appear almost hype helical.'

Calcutta papers to the 20th January mention, that regular packet-ships arc im- mediately to be established between Calcutta and Sidney. 'These papers state that New South ‘Vales will be immediately the great resort of persons in bad health from India. and of many who have realized moderate fortunes, and who are deterred from returning to England by the expense of living.

The Bombay Courier of the 10th of March mentions that a conspiracy had been discovered in China, having for its object no less an achievement than the mer- turni,ng, the present dynasty of the Celestial Empire. The ramifications, by a sort of Freemasonry, extended over all China.

ROWS, AND STEPHENSON'S Boorv.—A letter from Savannah, dated the 12th March, in the New fore Morning Ciro/tette, mentions some particulars con- nected with Stephenson, from which it seems that he is not quite in the destitute condition he represented himself. In the hands of one merchant he had placed exchequer bills to a large amount ; and in the hands of two other persons, sums in gold, which they were converting into the currency of the country.