ilhscellantous.
Sir John. Keane, Knight Commander of the Bath, has been " nomi- nated and appointed" a Knight Grand Cross.
Sir Jasper was formally appointed Commander-in-Chief of the East India Company's forces, by a Court of Directors held on Wed- nesday.
The dinner given at the Crown and Sceptre at Greenwich, last week, to the Duke and Dutchess of Cambridge, by Lady Jersey and another Countess, at which Lord Brougham, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, and ninny other Tories, were present, was distinguished for gayety and festivity. Champagne produced its usual exhilirating effects ; and, after dinner, the old English pastime of " Kissing in the ring" was re- sorted to. The large room, at a rather late hour in the evening, pre- sented a grotesque appearance.—Morning Chronicle. [The Morniny Post appends a note to this paragraph—" The compiler of the above has got hold of a transaction which took place much nearer Pimlico than Greenwich, and has thought fit to change the scene and the names of the characters. The grotesque appearance' was in the ball-room of a certain public-house (at least the public paid for it) on Monday night week, or rather Tuesday morning. For kissing iu the ring,' however, read, jumping over pocket-handkerchiefs held up by ladies fair."] Most of the members of the Committee of the House of Lords on Irish affairs dined together at the Trafalgar, Greenwich, on Saturday week. Lord Wharneliffe was in the chair, and Lord Brougham and Lord Lyndhurst were, of course, present. After dinner, the doors were closed, in order to prevent any knowledge of the proceedings being ob- tained ; but the noble lords could not prevent its being known to all who had ears that their meeting was most stormy.—Morning Chronicle.
We hear that the Duke of Devonshire is determined to convert Chatsworth into a striking similitude with Versailles. It is upwards of twenty years since his Grace commenced the gigantic works now nearly completed ; and it is his full determination not to again visit it until the whole is finished, which a very few months will do. The noble Duke has purchased furniture of the most costly and gorgeous descrip- tion, of which a considerable portion was the property- of Louis le Grand.--Noraing
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