Lord Stanley has fitted up his new mansion in St.
James's Some lately tenanted by the Windham Club, in the most superb style. has taken the lease of the edifice for twenty-one pine. Standard.
The rumoured marriage between the richest heiress in the kingdom and the grandson of a noble duke is said to be off. By the marriag settlement of the noble family of Howard, all the boys must be brou up and educated Roman Catholies.—/Iforning Herald.
Fraser's Magazine records or imagines a very good story about the Reverend Sydney Smith and Edwin Landseer, R.A. Some sho time ago, as the story runs, the painter and the Reverend Sydney Ise, at a dinner-party. Smith was so remarkably pleasant, that the paints; was delighted with him, asked him to sit for his picture ; to which the "joker of jokes" replied—" Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?"
Sir George Smart has been appointed one of the composers of the Chapels Royal, in the room of the late Mr. Attwood.
Messrs. Goslings and Sharpe, of Fleet Street, in a letter to the Times, state that the Nelson monument subscription, said to amout to many thousands, reached only 63/. 10s.
John Reeve's will has just been proved in Doctors' Common The amount of his effects have been sworn under 3,0001. The pro. perty is bequeathed to his two daughters, Louisa and Fanny, and to his son John, to whom he also bequeaths a share of a house in the Strand.
A Mr. Nettleship has written a letter to the Morning Post, cowl& dieting the statement in the Edinburgh Review that Lady Charlotte Bury is the authoress of the " Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth." It is very hard upon LadyCharlotte, that people persist in attributing the scandalous publication to her pen, regardless of her disavowals.
The workmen have commenced their labours in Westminster Abbey, preparatory to the Coronation, by removing many of the seats and wood-work in the chapel of the Abbey, which were conveyed into buildings near the public school.
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