On Thursday, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence gave a
grand dinner at Bushy. In the morning, the Duke laid the foundation-stone of a church at Hampton. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria returned on Thursday from the seat of Lord Liverpool, in Sussex.
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland gave a grand dinner-party at Kew, on Saturday. A splendid fete is in preparation at Apsley House. The Duchess of Wel- lington is now dangerously ill at Strathfield.say
Prince Esterhazy gave a splendid entertainment on Monday to the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the foreign Ambassadors.
The Marquiss of Stafford gave a grand dinner-party on Monday, on the occasion of opening his splendid new house in Stable-yard. The first of the subscription balls at Almack's is on Wednesday, the 28th.
Lord Hillsborough, the hero of the late exploit at Eton, has completed his triumph over the two labourers who set upon him, by presenting each of them with five pounds. His Lordship, about a year ago, saved two boys from being drowned in the Thames. The Hon. W. Ashley Cooper has vacated his seat for Dorchester, with the intention of travelling for some time on the Continent.
THEATRICAL Gossip.,—The Easter melodrame at Drury Lane is called the Dragon's Gift, or the Scarf of Flight and the Mirror of Light : it is very splendid, and was completely successful. That at Covent Garden is called the Wigwam, and is founded on Cooper's novel, the Pioneers. Astley's has reopened with "an equestrian romantic tale" entitled The Spectre Monarch and his Phantom Steed. It gives Ducrow an opportunity of ex- hibiting his unrivalled skill. At the Surrey, they have made a melodrame of young Burke's exhibitions. The Coburg rejoices in Monsieur Gouffe, the man monkey, and a piece of spectacle bearing the captivating title of Charles the Terrible. And Sadler's Wells has brought out something after the model of Tom and Jerry.
The stupid old twaddler Colman has, according to the daily papers, given a new specimen of the manner in which he exercises the functions of Dra- matic Licenser. In the English version of the opera of Cinderella, brought out on Tuesday evening at Covent Garden Theatre, the following dialogue originally occurred:— Dandini. Pray, Master Alidoro, help me, for I am a great man now, and can do nothing !--.Alidoro. How, sirrah ! is that one of our privileges P—Dandini. Certainly, what do the great do but live by the labours of the little ?" Mr. Colman struck out the whole of Dandini s last answer. Ass!
Errisro HUNT.—This annual amusement of the Cockney sportsmen seems to have been this year even more amusing than ordinary. The deer, instead of running from the field, ran towards it ; and the whole of her course was performed in the midst of the horses, some of them leading, some ac- companying, and some following the chase. The poor dogs were quite scared from their propriety by such preposterous doings) and wisely left their mas- ters to manage them in their own way.
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