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The members of Brooks's Club invited the members of White's and Boodle's to join with them in getting up a ball in honour of the Coronation ; but White's and Boodle's declined ; und the following resolution was passed, on Wednesday, at Brooks's.
'' That the members of Brooks's Club in invitine the Clubs of Boodle's and White's to unite with (twin in giving a ball in honour of leer Majesty's Coteau:0ton, %sere 11141- Tons of divesting such celebration of any thing approaching to political meting ; but that in consequence of the member* of tho.0 Clubs liming declined to combine %MI them, the members of Brooks's think it inexpedient singly to give an entertainment which, under regent citcumstances, might bear the appeinatice 01 a party festival. (Signed) " CIA.V1,1./.14D. Chairman."
This resolution of the Whig gentlemen by no means tells the whole story; as nppeurs from a letter sent to the hfornina Post by the Mar- quis of Londonderry, chairman of the meeting at White's held to take the invitation from Brooks's into consideration. The Marquis says- ••Ist. in the written proposition submitted to While's it ie stated-' It I% Ss that Brooks's Club sill give a ball. To be submitted to White's and Boodle's, to know a hether el • leer or built %mild joie.'
" The compliment halelsonwly paid, but the predetermination antionneed.
" 2(1. W Itett 11w devolution from Illieeks's mailed in' White's, they declared Brooks's were decided to give the hall, a hatever might be the resolution of White's. Both these anuouncements ,Ii' steel 1110 celebration intended of ally thing like po- litical feel ilia. and Illrooks's entertainment ender such circumstances could never for a moment bear the appearance of ii MI ty 11,014 eel. 110 1 CV111.1•S5 it is ley impre•shm, that W leile'e Chile would have felt more teeret ice decliniug the proposal made if the. had not Leen at the same 11111e illf0111114.41 they %toe not (leprising the public of the ball proposed to he c erried lute effect at all events (45 slated) by Bo 'As's."
The Whigs cut a poor figure in this affair—was it not intended as a step towards 4. the Coalition?" And was it not rejected as such by the Tories?
The Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, is fixed upon to he the principal train-bearer to the Queen at the eoro- nation.—Courier. [Ibis lady n:ust be a Cutholic ; and the Earl Mar- shal of England is a Cntliolie too. What Dill become of the Crown and the country ? Fervently do we hope that Mr. Champion Dytnoke is a Protestant.]
The u hole of the parties lit the Palace have been postponed. Rumours of the typhus fever and the measles having made their ap- pearance in the Iloosehold have been officially denied, but the whole is enveloped in a mystery.—Morning Htrold. The Queen has subscribed five hundred guineas to the Wellington, and the same stem to the Nelson memorial.
Mrs. Belzoni, widow of the traveller, has received 9001. nom the Pension-fund, in lieu of an annual allowance.
Lord Stanley left town on Tuesday, to attend the :Manchester races.
The forthcoming title of Lady C. Buggin is, it appears, to be Countess of Inverness, and not Eriniskillen, as stated yesterday. In- verness is one of the titles of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. —Morning Herald.
It is reinurkable that Mr. Fazakerley, known for years as a stanch Whig, voted with Sir Robert Peel and against Ministers, on the
question of the Irish Municipal franchise, on Friday sennight. It is surmised that Mr. Fazakerley did not act in so unusual a manner without a full knowledge of the wishes of it powerful patty in the Cabinet.
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