The Earl of Eldon died on Saturday. The daily papers
have pub- lished memoirs of his life ; which, however, supply no particulars Sot previously notorious. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his grandson, Lord Encombe.
On Thursday evening, Lord Brougham entertained a elect party of his political friends at dinner, at his new residence 're Belgrave Street.—Post. [ So it was to a dinner-party that " the '1 hunderer " retired from the House of Peers, leaving Lord Glenelg to bewail his disappearance.]
Sir Robert Peel's political dinners will commence the st week in February. Sir Robert's nephew, Mr. Robert Peel Daws n, has been appointed to an ensigncy in the Grenadier Guards.—Globe.
Lord Ashburton has bought the estates, Ike. of Bucklm d Filleigh, North Devon. The mansion cost 40,000/., and the manor consists of about 2,000 acres of finely-wooded land.
A matrimonial alliance is said to be on the tapis between the Mar- quis of Douro, eldest son of the Duke of Wellington, and Miss Angela Coons Burdett.—Bristol Paper. Lord Ward has purchased the magnificent estate of • ne of the oldest and most respected of the Worcestershire f' nservative gentry, Mr. Foley, of Willey Court has parted with th s beautiful property to his Lordship for 890,000/.— Worcester Journal. The splendid castle of Rossie, in Forfarshire, with the ' t rrounding estate, yielding a rental of 4,000/. rer annum, has been ; u chased by this eminent equestrian, ( Ducruw,) from Mr. Horatio Be • , formerly I.P. for Aberdeen.—Courier, [Fudge—sheer fudge.— 'saes.] The Countess of Essex died on Tuesday evening, tit 1„ t house in Hill Street, Berkeley Square. Dee j,adysliip had et tered her seventy-eighth year. She nas a Miss Bassett, the dot ghter of a former Governor of St. Helena ; and married Mr. Stephenson, a rich West Indian. Shortly after that gentleman's demise, she married the present Earl of Essex, and brought with her a fortune of sixty thousand pounds, of which four thousand a year was settled on her Ladyship. Incompatibility of temper was assigned as the cause of separation. The noble lord is three years older, and enjoys pretty good health.—Morning Post.
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