19 NOVEMBER 1836, Page 10

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Lord Melbourne gave the first , Cabinet dinner of the season on. Wednesday. The only absent Ministers were Lords Glenelg and Dun. caution.

Lord Glenelg is not expected to return to town from his seat in Inverness-shire, for several days.

Viscount Lowther, during his visit to the Imperial Court of St. Petersburg, tendered the acceptance of a pack of British greyhounds to the Emperor ; and accoiditigly a pack of valuable hounds fromLow- ther Castle, Cumberland, were shipped for the royal kennels in the Russian capital.

The Duke of Montrose has rallied sufficiently to take airings be his carriage.

The Earl and Countess of Harrington have been staying for some time at Elverston Hall, Derbyshire, where great improvements have been made. They are now at Pembroke House, Privy Gardens.

The Marquis of Waterford, having purchased the celebrated steeple- chase horse Monarch for 375 guineas, rode him himself on Friday at a steeple-chase, near Cashel, for a wager of one thousand pounds. This horse is considered one of the first steeple-chase horses in the Three Kingdoms, having won seven in his day.—Limerich Chronicle.