We understand that Sir John Cam Hobhouse is in treaty
for the- renting of Erle Stoke Park, near Devizes. A rumour is also preva- lent that a marriage is on the tapis between the honourable baronet and the accomplished daughter of one of the Members for Wilts.— .Devizes Gazette.
Viscount Melbourne was to have returned to Brocket Hall this week, but has been detained in town. He is expected daily to join in a shooting-party at the seat of his sister, the Countess Cowper, at Pansanger.
Lord Stanley has taken the mansion of the Countess de Salis, in Carlton Gardens, for the next season. His Lordship has already oc- cupied the house while he was in office.
Colonel Fox has retired from the Grenadier Guards. It appears that the rules of the service prevent the gallant officer from receiving the brevet rank of Colonel, though he is one of the extra Aides-de-Camp to his Majesty.
The Earl of Lichtield is confined at Shti ekburgh by an attack of gout, Peom which his Lordship occasionally suffers, and which prevents him 'from returning, to town.
'The Earl of Eldon has arrived, in Hamilton Place from Encombe House.
A correspondent of the Times says, that the palace of Dr. Monk, the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, is to be built out of a fund nomi- nally devoted to the building of churches and glebe-houses in remote or populous districts. Dr. Monk, it seems, also holds a stall in Westminster Abbey in commendam, and he will soon pocket a fine of 14,000/. for the renewal of a lease about to fall in the bishopric of Gloucester. Dr. Monk is one of the Commissioners for the reform of the Church.
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