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Queen Adelaide has given one hundred pounds as a donation to the{ fund to be raised by the Spitalfields Weavers' ball.
The Baron de Bourqueney gave a grand dinner, at Hertford House, on Sunday last, to celebrate the birthday of the King of the French. Among the guests, were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Melbourne, Lord Clarendon, the Marquis of Normanby, Lord Palmerston, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Erroll, Lord Uxbridge, the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis of Anglesey, Prince Esterhazy, Baron Bulow, Baron Neumann, Baron Brunow, Prince Castelcicala, General Maya, M. Van de Weyer, and several diplomatists. The health of the King of the French was proposed by the Marquis of Lansdowne. Baron de Bourqueney responded, by proposing "The Queen of Great Britain." He afterwards gave "The Sovereigns in alliance and amity with France." The toast was acknowledged by Prince Esterhazy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury gave his first public dinner this season on Saturday. The list of guests comprises several noblemen, Bishops, and Members of Parliament, nearly, if not quite, all of the Tory persuasion in politics.
The Directors of the New Zealand Company gave a dinner in the Clarendon, on Saturday last, to Mr. Gibbon Wakefield, their founder, and founder of the colonizing system which bears his name. Among the guests invited to meet him, were Lord Eliot, Sir Hussey Vivian, Mr. Charles Buller, Mr. H. G. Ward, and, oddly enough, Lord Howick I Lord Howick has hitherto been considered one of Mr. Wakefield's most inveterate antagonists ; and the last time they appeared together before the public was in the Committee on New Zealand, about a year ago, Lord Howick being a member and Mr. Wakefield a witness ; and how they fought, the Minutes of Evidence testify. To add to the surprise of Saturday, allusion was made to some resolutions which Lord Howick has induced the Select Committee on South Australia to adopt— how the lovers of old systems will be astonished!—for still further raising the price of land at the Adelaide settlement, with a view to its being raised in all the Australian Colonies.
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