Lord and Lady Holland have arrived in Paris.
It is said that Government has taken up the large steamer Sirius, which lately made a trip to New York, for the purpose of conveying the Marquis of Clanricarde to St. Petersburg ; the Firebrand and Lightning steam-yachts sot being large enough. The Acton, twenty- eight, Captain Russell, is ordered to accompany the Sirius.—Hampshire Telegraph.
Lord Derby, we are told, still remains in a feeble state. His Lord- ship has not recovered the use of his left side and arm, and is obliged to be lifted in and out of bed. The whole of the family of the noble earl are still assembled at Knowsley.—Morning Herald.
The second son of Lord Leicester, tout teen years of age, shot 24+ brace of partridges one day last week.—Chronicle. L Precocious youth! The child is father to the man ! How many partridges will he kill when he "wears hair upon his chin ? " This fine young fellow will make laws, perhaps, for our descendants.] The visiters of Buckingham Palace, who have an opportunity of seeing the Queen's bed, and who are accustomed to conclude that royalty and rank must repose on feather beds and downy pillows, will be astonished to have pointed out to them a small camp-bed, with a bard mattress and one small pillow, as the couch of royalty. Yet such is the fact. If ladies generally would follow her example, they would feel the benefit of it in the improvement of their persons and figure, and the uniform flow of health and spirits it would secure.—Globe. [This is a mistake : it must be the Duke of Wellington's mattress which the Globe was thinking of : we are credibly informed that the Queen sleeps upon swansdown covered with silk and ermine, and curls her lovely locks with bank-notes of 1,000/. each.]
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