FASHIONABLE PARTIES.—OH Sunday, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Thomas Kinnaird,
and M. Taylor, Esq. M.P. had dinner parties. On Monday, Prince Leopold gave his second grand entertainment, which was one of the most brilliant parties that has been given this season. Sir Edward and Lady Kerrisqn gave a grand dinner to the Duke of Cumberland. The Duke of Devonshire entertained the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and a large party, at dialler. Dowager Lady eawdor had a grand dinner party. Mrs. Smith gave a grand ball and ,upper. Lord Dynevor entertained a distinguished party at dinner. On Tuesday, the llte.,:e of Norfolk, the Earl of Cassillis, the Bishop of Ely, Sir Henry Hardinge, the Hon. Mrs. Wood, Rev. Archdeacon Prosser, Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, and Mr. II. J. Hinehlife, had dinner parties. Mrs. Champagne gave a ball and supper. The Marquis of Lansdowne had a grand dinner party, among whom were Prince Leonold, the Duke of Orleans, and the Duke dephartres. On Wednesday, the Duke of Beaufort and the Marquis of Cleveland had dinner parties. Lady St. John gave a splendid rout. Almack's was crowded. Mr. Coigutioun entertained at dinner the Brazilian, Swedish, Danish, Bavarian, and Saxon ministers, Baron Ralarnb, Mr. Billing, and other members of the diplomatic corps On Thursday, Mr. R. A. Dundas, M.P. and Lady Mary Dundas entertained a distinguished party at dinner—The Hon. Mr. Musgrave had a dinner party. The Dowager Countess Poulett entertained the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester at dinner ; and had a select party in the evening. The Marquis of Cleveland a dinner party. On Friday, the Princess Sophia Matilda gave a dinner party at her residence, Blackheath, to meet her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta. The Earl of Carlisle had a grand dinner party. Lady Hampden had a dinner and evening party. Dowager Lady; Cawdor had a grand assembly. litre. Watson Taylor entertained a numerous party in the evening. Mrs. Hudson Gurney had a grand musical
party.
ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—The lady who lately eloped with a foreign prince was arrested in her flight to the Continent by the promptitude of a eertain military nobleman, and conveyed to the scat of her father, where she remains fur the present. —Morning Post. The Bishop of Winchester has purchased from the Duke of St. Albans the fine mansion in St. James's Square, for a good round number of thousands ; but , the see will afford it. This house has within a few years experienced strange vicissitudes ; it was built by the late Duke of Leeds, and at his death purchased by Mr. Blades, the rich glass manufacturer, on Ludgate-hill, who either let or sold it to a company of noblemen and gentlemen, by whom it was converted into a club and gaining-house, where an excess of play ruined its character. The late Duke of St. Albans bought it cheap. It is now converted into the residence of a pious churchman, in whose hands its original good name is sure to be recovered. It is situated within a door or two of the house which was once inhabited by the celebrated Mistress Eleanor Gwynne.—Morning Chronicle. The Duke of Orleans, who is said to have always taken an interest in the Polar expeditions, has presented Captain Parry with a valuable gold snuff-box.
A petition was recently transmitted to Lord Skelmersdale, from I3olton, against the practice of paying wages in goods, the postage of which cost his lordship 11/. 8s. 6d.
The Armley Pitt Club, which used to drink the health of " the pilot that weathered the storm," in eighty-one bumpers, (under the notion that Mr. Pitt's health, with nine times nine, meant with so many glasses of wine,) have this year followed the example of the Leeds Pit Club, by letting the 28th of May pass over in "sullen silence."—Leeds Mercury.
Among the novelties for exhibition in town, is a Miss Margaretta Maria Downes, of Fir Court, Churchstoke, near Montgomery, who has been tapped for the dropsy one hundred and twelve times, and from whom one thousand four hundred and forty-two quarts of clear water have been extracted. The wives of several respectable tradespeople in Gravesend lately deserted their homes and their families for Ashton-under-Line, there to meet and be pre. , sent at the coming of Johanna Southcote's young Shiloh, who, as foretold by the Southcotonian prophets, was to arrive there on a given day. These devout ladies, moreover, in order to make suitable presents to the Shiloh, have taken with therm a considerable supply of money, of which they had disencumbered their husband's store one of them is supplied with no lessthan 500/. Last week, Mrs. Barnett, a widow, took the veil in the Presentation Convent of 'Wexford, as a sister of the order. The lady who has thus chosen a nunnery for her final abode was brought up a Presbyterian.
The Leeds abode, mentions that the clergyman and the parishionervi Sherburn are quarrelling as to whether the church shall be coloured or whiteviashed. The priest is zealous for the more expensive mode of ornamenting the interior of the building, and his flock are as determined that it shall only be whitewashed. 'rhe settlement of this ridiculous dispute is likely to be left to the , Ecclesiastical Court.
At a dissenting place of worship in Leicester, on Sunday week, an individual happening to be behind time, the minister, who had been before disturbed by persons coming in, told him that he was half an hour too late ; but to accommodate him he would begin his sermon again, which he accordingly did.—Leicester
Chronicle.
A striking instance of the debasing effects of intoxication occurred in Leicester a few days ago. A wocicomber being unable to satisfy his insatiable thirst for the juice of Sir John Barleycorn in any other way, actually took off his coat and waistcoat in the street, and sold them to a rag dealer for sixpence ! He has ever since gone to and from his place of work without either garment, his dissolute habits having prevented him from yet procuring others in their stead.—Leicester ! Chronicle.
The county of Lancaster may challenge every other in the kingdom, to produce any town within their confines, containing a population of thirty-five thousand souls, in which there is but one attorney's office. Such is the happy situation and such the population of the neighbouring town of Salford„—Manchester Advertiser.
An " Anti Bread Tax Society" has been established in Liverpool, the object of which is to promote petitions against the corn-laws.
Last week, a butcher's wife in Liverpool, in order to relieve the wife of a Manchester weaver, who was beggin.b with three children, purchased one of themfor a guinea that she might rear it as her own offspring, as she had no children. It turned out that the child was merely borrowed, to extort charity. It was returned to its parent ; and the silly but humane woman was thus duped out of her money..
Kean left Dublin for Glasgow, on the worst of terms with the Dublin manager. The manager has published some flagradt charges against the tragedian, and assigns a very unworthy cause for his non-appearance on some nights and his inefficiency on others. The Directors of the Bank of Scotland have reduced the rate of interest on all sums above 500/., to 2 per cent.
An instance of despatch in the unloading of a merchant vessel, and freighting her again for a new voyage, has been mentioned. The Water Lily, of three hundred tons burden, entered the West India docks from Jamaica on the 26th ult. The cargo, consisting of five hundred casks of sugar and ruin, i&c., was discharged, one hundred tons or outward goods were received on board, and she finally sailed through the Downs for her new destination on Saturday the 30th.
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