As Lord Abinger was crossing Parliament Street on 'Wednesday, he
was struck down by the pole of a carriage, which he had not perceived in time to escape from, and was in innninent danger of being crushed under the wheels of the carriage, it being with difficulty that the horses were stopped after they had passed over his legs. Fortunately, Lord Abinger was not hurt, but was able to dine with the Duke of Wel- lington in the evening.
Some noise is making in the fashionable world just now by the fact of a Russian nobleman having bestowed very striking proofs of his attachment upon a lady of high connexions. Similar marks of affec- tion have been long in vogue in Russia, though not quite in boa ton in Paris or in London ; for our readers will recollect that Catherine II. expressed strong doubts of the sincerity of Prince Potemkin's attach- ment towards her, on the ground that Ile had never given her a beating.
Part of the North wall of Windsor Terrace is in a dangerous state, the Ibundations having been sapped by a drain dug at the bottom on land belonging to the Canons of Windsor.
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