21 JULY 1832, Page 11

At the . fite which the Marquis of Hertford gave on Tuesday,

at his seat in the Regent's Park, there was no lack of the chiefest grace and ornament of fetes champetres—flowers, of which the colours were the most splendid and the perfumes the most grateful. So strong, how- ever, did the apprehension of the cholera prevail over all other con- siderations, that his Lordship had ordered tar-barrels to be burnt in every direction : and so vigorously and generally were his Lordship's orders executed, that the scene of his entertainment smelt and looked as though his aristocratic gathering had met for the purpose of cele- brating the anniversary of Guy Faux.—Tines.