FASHIONABLE PARTIES.--On Sunday, the Marquis of Cleveland entertained the Duke

of Wellington and a select party at dinner. Prince Leopold gave a grand dinner party. On Monday, the Earl of Westmoreland entertained the Duke of Cumberland at dinner. Countess St. Martin de Front entertained a large party in the evening. Mrs. Tynte gave a grand ball and supper. Grand dinner parties were given by the Earl of Mansfield, Lord Yarborough, Lord Sherborne, Sir 1'. Lennard, Sir J. Gerhard, the Dowager Coun- tess Poulett. On Tuesday, the Marquis of Salisbury gave a public breakfast at his scat at Hatfield, to the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, earl and Countess Bathurst, and a numerous party of the nohility and gentry. The Duke of Cumberland honoured Mr. W. Taylor with his company to dinner. Time lion. Airs. West gave a splendid ball and supper. Mrs. Rothschild had a grand musical party, Mr. It. J. Hinchliffe entertained a party at dinner. The Countess of Arran entertained a select party in the evening. On Wednesday, the Duke of Beaufort, Earl Dudley, the Earl of Falmouth, time Hon. Mrs. Pelham, Earl Grosvenor, the Earl of Rosebery, and Sir Charles Burrell had dinner parties. Mrs. Dupre Alexander had a grand musical

party. Mrs. 'F. Bainbridge gave a splendid ball and supper. Almack's was again crowded. On Thursday, the Marquis of Stafford, Earl Grosvenor, and the Hon. Mrs

Pelham had dinner parties. The Countess Grosvenor had an evening party, and the Countess of Essex a card party. The Earl of Falmouth had another grand dinner party. 011 Friday, the Duke of Grafton and Lord Robert Seymour had dinner parties. The Earl of Mansfield entertained the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester at dinner. The Countess of Mansfield, the Countess of Grosvenor and the Ladies Beresford, had even- ing parties.

Yecier Ceun.—The first grand sailing-match of the season between the boats belonging to the Thames Yacht Club, took place on Thursday, from Greenwich to Northfieet and back to the place of starting. The prize contended for was a handsome silver cup and cover superbly chased, with an emblazoned figure on the top, weighing altogether about fifty ounces, given by members of the Thames Yacht Club. Six boats started ; and after a contest, in which much nautical skill was displayed, the prize was gained by the boat Lady Louisa of Rotherhithe, belunging to Mr. Smith. This gentleman had before gained four cups and two sums of 100/. and 60/. by boat-racing. ROWI:•■G MATCH BETWEEN TIIE OXONIANS AND 'CANTABS.—This match came off on Wednesday evening in Henley-reach. The Oxford men won easily, to the utter dismay of their opponents and their friends.—Evenzng Paper.

The Oxonians, some days ago, beat the Club of Guardsmen quite hollow, in a boat-excursion from Oxford to London.—Times.

In seven years (from 1822 to 1828 inclusive) the Royal assent was given to upwards of 2,100 acts of Parliament. In the Finance Accounts for the present year, we find among the receipts the following curious entry : " Cash front a female patriot, towards paying the National Debt, 6/. Os. 9d." Admiral Sir Sidney Smith, whom sonic journals hare sent to Constantinople to defend the empire of the Crescent, is now at Antwerp.

One of the beautiful swans in St. James's Park lately hatched a brood of five cygnets on the small island opposite the nee- palace. The parent and her off. spring now adorn the piece of water in the Park, and attract numerous admirers.

'ale Green made his seventieth balloon ascent on Wednesday evening, from the gardens of the Jamaica tavern, at Rotherhithe ; and descended about a mile beyond Kingston. A gentleman named Westcott accompanied him in his ex- cursion ; and is in raptures with what he saw. On the 29th May, sixty guineas were oflered and refused in Covent Garden Market, for sixty quarts of green pease. On the Tuesday following, pease were selling at 5s. per quart, and since at from Is. to 10c/. The Duke of Norfolk has given a piece of ground for a new Independent Chapel and school-rocim, at Worksop. The valuation fixed upon Liverpool for the county-rate, is 751,1264; on Man- chester, 371,749/.

Extensive remains of a Roman villa, and other highly interesting Roman an- tiquities. have been recently discovered at Litlington, in Cambridgeshire.—Cam- bridge Chronicle.

On Whit-Sunday, at St. Brival's, in Gloucester, several baskets full of bread and cheese, cut into small squares of about an inch, are brought into the church; and immediately after service is ended, time churchwardens, or some other official personages, take them into the galleries, whence their contents are thrown among the congregation, who have a grand scramble for it in the body of the church. This occasions as great a tumult and uproar as the amusement of a village wake, the inhabitants being always extremely anxious to attend worship on this day. This custom is holden for the purpose of preserving to the poor of St. Brival's the right of cutting and carrying away wood from three thousand acres of coppice land in fl udknolls, and for which every housekeeper is assessed 2d., to buy the bread and cheese which is given away.

It is generally understood that Ashton-under-line, near Manchester, is the Je- rusalem of the Southcottonians, or "Modern Israelites," who, during their " Feast of time Passover," come hither from all parts of the United Kingdom. The Passover commenced this year at sun-set on the 29th of May, and was con- tinued until the saute hour on the 30th; the whole of which time was spent within their tabernacle, or temple, none being allowed to enter, save persons of their own creed. At the termination of th;feast, they all came forth, and repaired to a brook in the neighbourhood, which they crossed, in imitation of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. The greater part of the succeeding week was also spent in religious ceremonies, at which many persons from Yorkshire, and from the South and West of England, assisted.

A young man, at Moulton Seals End, Lincolnshire, lately scaled the steeple of the parish-church, which is one hundred and ten feet high, by means of the small projections of stone attached to the exterior of the spire. Not content with gaining the stone which caps the summit, he aspired to substitute his cloth apron for the vane ! 'Whilst climbing up the staff, at the extremity of which the vane is fixed, it broke with his weight ! His destruction appeared inevitable; but for- tunately his body caught the stump of the staff, and he was thus arrested in his fall, and shortly after descended to the ground in safety by the adventurous route which he traced in his ascent.

There were upwards of six hundred horses kept at the it rent establishments in Norfolk last season for the sole purpose of hunting. Sing the annual ex- pense of each hunter at 601., the enormous sum of 36.e thus brought into the county in the course of one year, to say nothing ce it must be expended

by their owners.—Buces Herald.

Several farmers in the neighbourhood of Carlisle are esitivating Indian corn upon time plan recommended by Mr, Cobbett, Hay-making has commenced around Devizes, Worcester, and Plymouth ; but the papers say that the crop is so light as to be scarcely worth cutting.

THE Palmer AND THE Pueatcan.—A fortnight ago, the high bailiff and con- stables proceeded to examine the measures used by persons in various situations by which they dispose of different articles. Upwards of two thousand false measures, of pewter and earthenware, were seized. They visited, in the course of their very useful peregrination, the house of a certain publican, who displayed much alacrity in exhibiting and tendering for proof her various measures, which were found to be quite correct. The officers were leaving the house, when one of them asked, " Are these all your measures ? what are those that are hanging up?" The woman replied that she never gave any thing out of them as full measures. The words had scarcely been uttered, when a parrot, which had hitherto been quite mute, screamed out, " You're a liar !" Marks of confusion were evi- dent on the woman's visage at this unexpected charge ; the measures were brought down, examined, found very much less than they should be, and thus the publican was convicted through the charge (and intelligence !) of " pretty Poll." —Birmingham Journal.

SUMMARY JUSTICE —1601. The 27th day of Aprill, Archibald Cornell, toune officer, hangit at the crosse, (of Edinburgh,) and hung on the gallows. twenty-four houres; and the caus qrfore he wes hangit—He being an unmerciful, greiddie creatur, he poyndit ane honest manis house, and, amongst the rest, he poyndit the king and queine's picturis; and quhen he came to the crosse to compryse the same, he hung yame up upone twa milk on the same gallows to he comprysit ; and !raj being sene, word zead to the king and queine ; qrupone he wes appre- hendit and hangit.—Birrel's Diarey.

Charles the Tenth is a perfect Nimrod. In one year, 1826, he killed 11,954 head of game. It is said that his Majesty i's nearly deaf in the right ear by con- tinued detonation.

LAND Suies.—Scarcely a day passes in England without the introduction of some new project of improvement; and in this respect France is rapidly follow-

ing our example. Among the late introductions at Paris, is a.sort of stage-coach, called an " omnibus," containing eighteen persons in the interior, perpetually in motion on the Boulevards, and in almost all the large streets. Not content with these unwieldy conveyances, the Parisians have announced a projet of an omni- bus which is not only to exceed all others in velocity, but will be large enough to contain one hundred persons. In form it resembles the hull of a ship, with two decks; it is supported by seven wheels, so constructed as not to be visible ; and it will be drawn by horses, and move on an inclined plane made for the purpose. It is destined to run frqm Vincennes to Neuilly, by the Faubourg Saint Antoine, the Boulevards, and the Champs-Elysees. A pilot, with helm in hand, will be able to turn the carriage or ship at his will, stop or back it, slacken or accelerate its motion according to circumstances. Thus has France discovered at last an element in which her navy may be used with safety and profit ; and should this scheme succeed, she will have to boast of possessing at once the finest army and land navy in the world.—From a Correspondent.

The French Minister of Marine having instituted a scientific examination of certain steam-engines invented by a French engineer named Frimot, has given orders for them to be applied to two frigates, which will be constructed at Brest for the purpose.

Gas has at length made a fair commencement in Paris. The Place de la. Bourse and the Rue Vivienne are lighted with it as an experiment.

N. Dubois, the celebrated French surgeon, who was at the point of death from stone. has undergone a successful lithotritic operation, by M. Civiale's method of crushing the stone. M. Dubois has addressed a letter to the editor of a French paper, in which he says " M. Civiale's method is an effectual substitute for one of the most painful and dangerous operations in surgery." On the arrival of the °Talbot steam.packet at Dieppe, on Tuesday week, the passengers attended the custom-house, for the purpose of being overhauled. On this occasion the corpulent appearance of one lady excited suspicion ; and, on examination in the ladies' searching-room, several yards of flannel were found pinned round her waist. Our unfortunate countrywoman experienced the vexa- tion of losing her goods. and her husband the additional mortification of being fined 30 francs the following day.—Brighton Herald.

There is a law which has existed for a century in the States of the South of Germany, by which parents are compelled to send their children to school, from the age of six to fourteen years, where they must be taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, but where they may acquire as much additional instruction in other branches as their parents choose to pay for. If the parents are wholly or par- tially unable to pay for their children, then the commune makes up the deficiency. Another law of the same antiquity renders " it illegal for any young man to marry before he is twenty-five, or any young woman before she is eighteen ; and a young man, at whatever age he wishes to marry, must show to the police and the priest of the commune where he resides, that he is able, and has the prospect, to provide for a wife and family." Baron Julius von Belle, at present in the Turkish service, has, by order of the King of Bavaria, been struck out of the Bavarian Army List.

At the end of April, proposals were published, at Jassy, for a political and literary journal, in the Wallachian language, to be called the Walachian Bee. The editors express a hope that this journal may tend to the cultivation of a lan- guage spoken by four millions of people, and which derives its origin from the Romans.

The Russians are endeavouring to introduce the cultivation of potatoes and cabbages in Moldavia and Wallachia.

At Bucharest the usual mode of fumigating houses infected by the plague is b y burning dung in them.