FASHIONABLE Parerres.—Onsaturday, the Archbishop of Armagh had a grand dinner
party. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester gave a dinner to a large party. OS Sunday, the Duke of Wellington entertained a select party at dinner. Mr. Peel had a dinner party. Sir George Warrender, had a musical party. The Earl of Ilchester entertained the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, and a distinguished party at dinner. The Countess of Arran had a select party in the evening. On Monday, the Earl of Mansfield had a dinner party. The Countess of Brownlow's ball was numerously attended. Mrs. Parnther had a musical party. On Tuesday, Prince Leopold dined with the Duchess of Kent. On Wednesday the Duchess of Kent gave a grand dinner to a select party. The Earl of Fahnouth entertained the Duke of Cumberland and a numerous party at dinner. Sir George Murray entertained the Cabinet Ministers at dinner. Dinner parties were given by the Earl of Talbot, Sir Edward Kerrison, Sir Robert Harland, and Mr. Fellowes, M.P. On Thursday, Lord Grantham gave a dinner party. Lady Louisa Clinton had a grand ball. Mrs. Denison received a large party of fashionables in the evening. Mr. T. Oakes gave a ball. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained a distinguished party at dinner. The Duke of Norfolk gave a dinner to a large party. The Earl of Falmouth hada grand dinner party. On Friday Mr. Douglas had a musical party.
ANOTHER SIGN OF THE Mmes.—Queen Bess once threatened to unfrock a refractory Bishop : we have a more modern tale to tell, of one who was tinwigged, and by a much less potent personage. When monkeys begin to manifest an undisguised disrespect to and for the heads of the Church, verily it is not to be wondered at if the Right Reverends take umbrage, and cultivate alarm. The worthy Bishop of St. A— visited the Zoolcgical Museum the other day, and was standing, perhaps too carelessly, among a lively group of those merry mockeries of mankind, monkeys,little dreaming, good easy man," how near his human dignity was in danger of disparagement, when one of the largest and least mannerly of that tribe snatched off the orthodox caput-cover of the Reverend Father, and vaulting up his pole, left the poll of the disconcerted prelate looking very bald and bereaved below. We are happy, however, to say that the wig was speedily restored to its learned wearer, no grace displaced,"—the powder looking as powderly as before, and the curls as circumspect and clerical. Considering that the 'Marquis of Lansdowne, a notorious Whig, is president of the Society, we must say that we deem the un-whigging of a visitor, whether Tory or Whig, to he altogether inconsistent with the professed liberal principles of that very useful establishment.
It is rumoured that a near connexion of one of Mr. Peel's own Under Secretaries has lately become a convert to Popery.—Morning Herald. As a proof of the desperate state of things in the play-world, a correspondent informs us that one of the most flourishing Hells in St. James's-street is reduced to so low an ebb as to purchase its coals by the bushel.—Standard. Mr. Kean appeared as Shylock at the Dublin Theatre on Monday last, and was received with much applause. It would appear, therefore, that the accounts of his indisposition had been ridiculously exaggerated.
It appears from a Parliamentary paper just published, that the total amount of 1 goods exported from Great Britain to the East Indies and China, together with the Mauritius, for the year ending 5th of January 1829, was 5,212,353/. 4s. 6d., I of which 1,126,926/. 7s. id. was by the East India Company, and 4,084,426/. 16s. 11d, by open trade, including the privilege trade. The merchants and manufacturers of Glasgow have forwarded a memorial to Government on behalf of the South American republics, similar to that adopted by the London merchants. One of the French Papers mentions, as a curious circumstance, that M. Achilles Murat, son of Joachim Murat, ex-King of Naples, is now a candidate for a seat in theLegislative Assembly of Florida.
LOYALTY.—A most scandalous scene took place on Sunday week in the church of Sainte-Foy, during the celebration of high mass. The vicar officiating perceiving in the choir a young man who wore a blue watch-ribbon over a red waistcoat, at once inferred that these two colours, taken in conjunction with his white neck-cloth, were most seditiously emblematical. In consequence, he immediately laid hold of him, and accused him of hoisting revolutionary colours. The young man replied with great temper and moderation, and the matter went no further—thanks to the self-command exhibited by the supposed revolutionist. This circumstance reminds us strongly of another venerable ecclesiastic, who in the'course of the sharp winter which succeeded the "hundred days," directed the Swiss on duty to take into custody a pale-faced individual, the tip of whose nose the frost had turned red, while it had also made his lips look blue—this hi-colour being a sufficient indication that he must be an inveterate Bonapartist."—Lyons Paper.
Fox FaieNes.—The following appears in the Canton Register. Two coffin makers on Honam have received forty sets of coffin timber of the best quality, which they recommend to their friends. The price is not fixed.
SLANDea...-The slanderous rumours against Lady Agnes Byng have been traced to Mr. Gerald Callaghan, late member of Farliament for Dtuldalk. The letter • containing the calumny, which was written to a brother Brunswicker, will be produced upon the trial.
RELIGIOUS ENTHUSIAST.—Edmund Manning, Water-street, Manchester, lately announced that he was to fast forty days and forty nights, in obedience to the command of the Saviour. He alleged that he had seen the Lord, who said unto him, " Fear not, fast forty days and forty nights, that the world may see what I can do with man." From that period he abstained from meat and from drink, except cold water ; and at the end of the period of abstinence, he affirms the. Lordappeared to him a second time and said, "Arise and eat, and I will tell thee when thou hest enough." The poor visionary accordingly partook of food. He has been visited by crowds of people ' • but it does not appear that his family, though poor, attempt to make money of the affitir. The neighbours say that Manning looks much Leiter than before he began to fast. It will of course be understood that the man is considered insane.
W. Cornish, a shoe-maker, was last week licensed, at Worship Street Policeoffice, to preach. He could write none, and was scarcely able to read a page. A new commercial news-room has been opened in Leeds with a list of about five hundred subscribers.
According to the New Law List, there are fewer than 12,895 lawyers in England and Wales.
A boat was literally raised into the air by the operation of a whirlwind, to the elevation of about ten feet, and was carried, with sundry eccentric revolutions in its ourse, to the distance of one hundred yards ; when the impelling power having expended its force, the vessel descended from the unusual element in which it had been disporting, and rested on terra firma, without having sustained any material damage.—Boston Gazelle. Several families from the neighbourhood of --Lewes, have recently proceeded to different porte' purposing to embark for America.
Four vessels have already sailed from Hull with passengers for the United States or British America.
A few weeks ago, nine boats, belonging to Mr. James Christie, Burge had caught with the small lines the astonishing number of three thousand and sixty codfish off a little distance from Nairn.
A ROYAL SAINT.—Some pilgrims, on their holy errand to Rome, were lately passing, together with a few countrymen, through the Vatican, when struck by the splendour of Sir Thomas Lawrence's full-length portrait of one of the Holy Alliance Sovereigns, in its prodigious gilt frame, down they fell on their knees before it! They mistook it for sonic great saint !—Court Journal. The modern city of Moscow is in great part constructed of English bricks. From a recent census, the population of the Netherlands is found to be 6,166,854.
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