The Tinwe says—" Our readers will have seen the abuse
of Queen Adelaide for not going to the Duke of Devonshire's, at Chatsworth. Well, we are authorized to state that her Majesty postponed her visit to another year at the suggestion qf the Duhe himself who wished her not to see his place till he should have finished the splendid conservatory which he is now building."—Times. On this the Morning Post re- marks—" We do not like to call in question the authority our re- spected and esteemed contemporary,' but very Meth authority is cer- tainly required for a statement like the above. It is not the practice of gentlemen, and therefore surely cannot have been that the Duke of Devonshire, first to invite a lady of illustrious rank to visit them, and then, just as the visit was about to take place, to suggest its postpone- meut to another year, in order to afford time for the completion of a conservatory. Had the story been that his Grace suggested the post- ponement of the Royal visit on the ground that by next year, not his conservatory, but his Conservatism, might probably be completed, it would have been equally true, and infinitely more ingenious."
The Earl of Miuto will leave the Admiralty the week after next, for Minto House, Roxburghshire, to join the Countess of Minto and fimily. The noble Earl will return to town on the meeting of Perlin ment in January for the season ; when the elegant parties at the Admi ralty will be commenced.—Morning Post. [how long will the elegant parties be continued—at the Admiralty I] The Marquis of Douglas, it is said, has at length won the affections of the beautiful Miss Stuart, the youngest daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay, and coheiress with Viscountess Canning. We may congra- tulate the noble Marquis on having fairly distanced his competitors, as Miss Stuart is known to be as highly accomplished as she is fair. The Honourable Mr. Maynard will be united in the spring to the Honour- able Miss Murray, second daughter of the late Lord Glenlyon, and Lieu to the Dukes of Northumberland and Athol. It is also reported that a noble Marquis, recently become a widower, already contemplates a union with the only daughter of one of our Royal Dukes. We alluded in our paper last week to the current rumour that coupled Lord Pal- merston with the Dowager Lady Cowper.—Morning Post.
The jointure of the Dowager Countess Cowper is said to he six tbousaud a year ; which will be no trifling acquisition to the very limited fortune of her intended husband, and will serve as a comfortable sub- sistence when driven from the sweets of office, as he anticipates soon to be.—Morning Post.
There is not the slightest foundation for the rumoured indisposition of the Earl of Durham ; his Lordship being in the possession of far better health at this presetrt time than for some months rise—Morning Post,
Sir Lionel Smith was one of the passengers in the Great Westein." That vessel brought thirty-four passengers, but no specie. Bills, how- ever, on Holland and France have been received to a large amount.
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