Lord Valentia, Lord Jocely.r, and Sir George and Lady Cockburn,
have been visiting Niagara Falls.
The New York Commercial Advertiser gives the following rather amusing account of a row in which certain English travellers of rank were involved on the other side of the Atlantic. Its correctness, how- ever, is disputed ; and in mentioning the Earl of Rosslyn as one of the party—(was the person Lord Jocelyn ?).—the New York editor is clearly wrong ; as Lord Rosslyn is in th's country. "The public were some weeks since advised, through the press, of the arrival at Boston of a splendid yacht belonging to the Marquis of Waterford, in which its noble owner and others of the British nobility were passengers. The ar- rival of those distinguished visitors in this city was also duly announced, and the hospiteities of our citizens were not slow in being tendered there. Yestez.
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day the Marquis of Waterford, Honourable John Beresfordi Lord Roselyn, and Colonel Dundas dined with one of our towst estimable eitizts I and bore evi- dence on leaving, as we are informed, of his usual unbounded cheer. The ex-
hilaration of sprits imbibed by the guests incited in them predilections for a 'spree ; ' and sundry unfortunate wayfarers, who haplessly came in the way of their midnight migration homeward, received, probably for the first time in their lives, striking testimonials of the force of a nobleman's passion. Passing down Washington Street, near Morris, they attacked, unmercifully beat, and nearly denuded, an inoffensive passer-by. 'Iwo street lamps, that had the pre-
sumption to stand by order of the Mayor and Corporation, were next assailed and demolished ; as was also a neighbouring window, which, lacking a shutter,
exposed its nakedness to their heroic canes, stones, and other missiles. About
this time a plain Republican watchmar., 'named William Carter, found himself suddenly in contact with these noble revellers, and undertook to arrest the pro-
gress of their demolition and the chiva:rous enactors. This plebeian interfer- ence did not appear to sit well on the noble stomachs of the gentlemen; and they gave token of their dissatisfaction by a copious discharge of hard names, angry oaths, and peltings with their fists at the same time putting the offending charley in the knowledge of who it was he was interfering with. The unso- phisticated watchman, however, had never received any instructions to spare Lords or Marquises of any kind whom he found trespassing ; and, giving an alarm rap, two others of the same school came to his assistance; but be- fore they arrived, he had not only suffered much in body, but also in mind, by reason of the comparative nakedness to which the fray had reduced him. When his comrades came, they made a simultaneous charge on the Alar- guis, the Lord, the Colonel, and the •Honourable, and compelled theta to lly. The latter, springing into a boat, converted the oars into bludgeons, and resumed the contest; but the watchmen proved too many for them, and they were conducted, prisoners of war fairly captured, to the watchhouse. When the Police-office opened this morning, four silly-looking young fellows, somewhat the worse for the night's debauch and encounter, were placed before the bar; and the Margu:s of 'Waterford, Lord John Beresfurd, Lord Rossi). n, and Colonel Dundas, of the Royal Guards, answered to their names. The Magistrate, Justice Hopson, straightway informed them of the offences of which they stood charged ; which they in no very mild terms denied ; and made some high-toned remarks, which rather served to put the Magistrata on his 'reserved rights.' He soon made out a commitment for them, and they were escorted to Bridewell by some fifteen or twenty watchmen. Here their ill-. brooked degradation led them into a squabble with the keeper ; in which the noble Marquis was floored, as was also one of his companions. Here they remained several hours ; but were finally liberated, through the interference of his Honour the Mayor anti the British Consul, after paying Carter, the watch- man, twenty dollars for injuries received, and listening to a most cutting rebuke from the Magistrates."
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