The Colonelcy of the Longford Militia is now vacant. The
Earl of Granard, father of the late Lord Forbes, resides with his family at Paris. His Lordship's only surviving son, the Honourable Francis Reginald Forbes, is Minister at Dresden.
The Earl of Kingston's magnificent seat, Mitchelstown Castle, in the county of Cork, has been relinquished to his son, Viscount Kings- borough. The Earl, it will be recollected, by a commission de lunatic() inquirendo has been pronounced of unsound mind from the 9th of April 1830.
The Marchioness Wellesley has been indisposed at Herlingham House, Fontein.
The Duke of Devonshire frequently walks to his villa at Chiswick and back before dinner, making about fourteen miles.
Frampton House, the seat of Mr. It. H. Sheridan, has been the scene of great festivity on the occasion of the christening of the infant heiress. The villagers of Frampton were regaled most sumptuously with old English fare.
The Duke of Montrose is very ill at his house in Grosvenor Square.
Some of the Paris newspapers have announced that Lord Lyndhurst was on his way to England, in order to assist at the dinner which the members of the Glasgow University have offered to Sir It. l'eel. This, however, is not the fact ; for, if we are correctly informed, the ex-Lord High Chancellor will not leave Paris before the opening of Parliament. Lord Lowther' son to Earl Lonsdale, and formerly a member of the Wellington Administration, means to stay in our capi- tal till the same period.—Paris Paper. [Lyndhurst is to be launched in a new line : he is preparing himself, under the ablest Parisian master, for an assault on the foreign policy of Lord Palmerston.] All the magnificent pictures which adorn the principal state apart- ments in Devonshire House are about to be removed, to complete the new gallery lately built at Chatsworth. The town mansion will then undergo many improvements ; among the number there will he intro- duced a new style of decoration for the walls. The Duke of Devon- shire intends to take his Christmas dinner in town., and early in the ensuing year his Grace will go down to superintend the arrangements of the pictures in the new gallery, and then return to give the usual dinners at the opening of the fashionable season.-2Iforning Post.
Lord Brougham left town on Saturday, to join Lady Brougham and his daughter at Worthing, where they are sojourning for the benefit of their health.—Morning Chronicle. jHe has got "confoundedly weary" of idleness and "the dull prosers " he has met in London : he medi- tates a grand flare-up at the opening of the session.]
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