FASHIONABLE PaaTtes.—On Saturday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester guise
a grand dinner to Prince Leopold, ttrc. On Sunday, Prince Leopold and the Duke of Grafton had large dinner parties. On Monday, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester dined with Lord and Lady Willoughby. The Earl of Gosford gave a dinner. The Mar. chioness of Londonderry gave a grand ball and supper. Dowager Lady Cawdor had an evening party. The Archbishop of Armagh and the Ladies Beresford gave a grand din- ner to the Duke of Cumberland. The Marchioness of Lansdowne had a grand concert, winch was attended by upwards of four hundred. On Tuesday, The Duchess of Kent entertained Prince Leopold anti a select party to dinner. The Duke of Beaufort gave a dinner. The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's gave a grand (Ujung. Lord Godericlt had a dinner party. On Wednesday the Earl of Lonsdale gave a dinner to Prince Leo. pold. Viscount Melville entertained the Cabinet Ministers at dinner. The Countess Brownlow had an assembly. Sir C. Wetherell, Mr. Beilby Thompson, and Mr. B. ,y Ninchliffe had dinner parties. Almack's was very numerously attended. On Thursday. the Duke of Wellington gave a dinner in commemoration of the battle of Waterlo'ol Lord King, The Earl and Countess of Brownlow, and Sir Montagu Burgoyne gave dinners. On Friday, Lord Holland, Viscount Clifden, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, Viscountess Hampden, Mn. H. J. Hinchliffe, Mr. BI'Donnell, and the Coun- tess of Antrim. had dinner parties. The Countess of Bardwieke an evening party. Lady Kerrison a ball and supper.
Lord Eldon has received some substantial rewards for his opposition to the Catholic Relief Bill. The " poor " curates of a place in Cheshire have sent him a ponderous cheese weighing 100Ibs.; and a Welsh butcher has sent him a sheep. THE MoNTEm.—The collection was a very poor one, not exceeding 900/. It is feared that the captain, who provided very liberally for the customary enter. taintnents, will be considerably out of pocket, instead of a gainer, as he ought to be, by the day's proceedings. His Majesty sent 50/. and not one hundred guineas as has been stated. Last Montem between 1400/. and 1500/. were collected.
An ingenious hatmaker has taken out a patent of surpassing oddity. He pro- poses to recover the spirits which have been employed in dissolving the gums used in " stiffening hats, hat bodies, bonnets, caps, and divers articles of mer- chandize, and converting such spirits (after rectification) into use by submitting the said old hats, caps, bonnets, &c. to a sort of distillation." A Mr. Walter Hancock, of Bow, has lately invented a steam-carriage, which during the last fortnight has been daily travelling between Fulham and Brompton, Carrying eight persons, and going at the rate of twelve miles an hour. \Vest, the pedestrian, on Monday gained a wager of five sovereigns, by walking six miles backwards within an hour.
On Sunday last, the religious sect called the "Female Ranters" held a camp. meeting at the bottom of Byron-street, in Leeds. On a temporary hustings, several female teachers, and one or two men, took their stations. In order to show that they were "soldiers of the cross," and that their meeting might have somewhat the appearance of a camp, they hoisted a large crimson silk flag, on one side of which was inscribed, in gold letters, "Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world ;" and on the obverse, in black characters, "Jesus wept." ' The addresses of the speakers, (but particularly of the women) were of the most fanatical description—York Herald. We mentioned a few weeks ago, that a misunderstanding had taken place at Sherburn, on the subject of beautifying the church, and it appears that a set of wags, who have made themselves partizans in the cause, have carried their hos- tility twards the Rev. Samuel Wasse, the curate, so far as to shave the hair off the mane and tail of his horse, and to grub up the vegetables in his garden. To and to the ridicule of shaving the horse, the delinquent; painted it with the ochre provided by the clergyman for colouring the church, contrary to the wish of the parishioners.—Leeds Mercury. A pike weighing twenty-nine pounds was some weeks ago found dead in the Walk-mill Pool. The Staffordshire Advertiser says that this pike "is supposed to be the original piherell put into the pool in the ninth year of the reien of Queen Elizabeth, A.D. 1567." On the 1st May, two persons were married at Hackwood, near Strathaven, whose united ages amount. to one hundred and forty three years. This same couple pledged their faith to each other more than fifty years ago ; but fortune at that time decreed them to be separately united, and to bring up separate fend- lies.—Wasflow Free Press. A poor woman resitting at Carrington, was safely delivered of three children at a birth, a few days ago. It is worthy of remark, that the same female has given birth to five children within the period of twelve months and a fortnight, four of whom are living.—Notting-hanz Journal.
Mrs. Wood, of Hope-street, Walworth.common, was yesterday morning deli- vered of three female children, all of whom were alive and likely to do well.
The Duke of Atholl is said to have upwards of sixty miles of gravelled walks on his Perthshire estates, and more than half that number of miles 'if carriage roads; many of which are formed out of the solid rock, and lead through the most picturesque scenery, to the tops of various of the louver range- of the Gram- pians. But all these yield to that which the Earl of Fife has been for some years forming to the top of one of the highest Bens in Scotland (Macdui, in Brae Mar, which is upwards of four thousand feet above the level of the sea), by which ma- terials are carried for the erection of a family tomb upon the highest pinnacle of the mountain ! The length of the ascent is nearly seven miles from the foot.— Perth Courier.
Whilst the King of the Netherlands was at Bruges, a Portuguese general ap- peared at his Majesty's levee, and received an assurance, for himself vitt such of his countrymen as are in that city, that they might reckon on the protection and hospitality of the government.
It is reported that the Emperor of Brazil is going to be married to the daughter of the Duke of Orleans, and she is to sail on board the Isabella frigate, accom- panied by the Marquis Barbacena.—Morning Paper. The Tz.-ibunal de Premiere Instance at Marseilles recently decided that when an individual had killed an adversary in a duel, an action f, 1- ,.ages eau be main- tained by the widow and orphans of the victim. Ti.- was that of a duel fought on the 11th of December last, between M. Er:: a lieutenant of. the
fith Regiment of the Line, and M. d'Heran, formerly ;. autenant Cutraa-
siers. The widow of d'Heran brought an action again.- • • !ettult, and obtained 1500f. damages—namely, 500f. for herself, and 51ik each of her two
children.
The tribunal of St. Girons, department of the Arr.: as decided that the character of a priest once conferred is indelible. Arpa.:!..:. a priest, who hued in
concubinage with a. woman tried the case in order that he might legitimatize his children. He is thus condemned to live in a state of concubinage. He had mar- ried a first wife during the revolution.
Nothing is talked of at Marseilles but the following new miracle, which far exceeds that of the Cross of all contemporary ones. The Capuchin nuns were engaggcl,iu prayer to God for the restora.tion of the bishop's nephew, who was seriously indisposed. One of the nuns prayed fervently that the indisposition of the patient might be transferred to herself. Her prayer was heard ; she was seized with violent pain, and the bishop's nephew, who was a grand vicar, is doing well. The nun incessantly expresses the joy that she experiences in her suffer- ings.--Frondeur One of the grounds on which a husband may divorce his wife in China, is that of her being too much given to talking.
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