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Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
The Queen ' s Drawing Rooms have been well attended ; the last for the season took place on Thursday , 19 th June . Don Carlos , his consort , the princesses , and suite , landed at Portsmouth on AA ednesday the 18 th June , at half past seven , under a salute , ivith manned yards , from his majesty ' s ship Donegal , and on their landing were received under a salute from the batteriesand a guard of
, honour of the royal marines , under the command of Captain Menzies , R . N . The George Hotel , from the influx of strangers , not having sufficient accommodation , a spacious house next to the lieutenantgovernor ' s has been hired for their reception , but how long they will sojourn there , or their ultimate destination is unknown .
A rich tanner has just died in Paris , leaving a will , by ivhich he imposes on Ms heirs the obligation to bury him in a well-tanned hide , with the tools belonging to his trade . He also requires that a monument should be erected to his memory in the centre of his establishment , in order that he may be in the midst of his workmen even after death .
Dennis Collins , the old sailor , who was transported to Van Dieman ' s Land , for throwing a stone at the King , when at Ascot Heath Races , two or three years ago , died at Port Arthur , on the first of November last , " in consequence , it is said , of his fixed determination to refuse all necessary nourishment , although the best diet that the settlement could afford was offered to him . "
DIFFERENCE OP AGE IN A FAMILY . —The eldest daughter of Mr . Coke , of Norfolk , himself betiveen eighty and ninety , is sixty years of age , and the youngest two . His present wife , Lady Ann Coke , is a daughter of the Earl of Albemarle , and not more than twenty-five years of age , and consequently the mother-in-law to a lady of sixty , j
NOVEL DISCIPLINE . —AVhen the Hussars , of military and fashionable notoriety , were once quartered at Piershill barracks , Edinburgh , a young officer amongst them was observed to be exceedingly ingenious in evading all military arrangements regarding early rising . One morning several Leith fish-wives , ( who are numerous in the environs of Edinburgh , ) of robust make , and arrayed in their peculiar and picturesque costume , entered the barracks , and requested to be
shown to the rooms of " Maister Cornet H . " They were directed towards them , entered , and found the gentleman in Ms bed as usual , instead of out at exercise with the troops on the sands ; and forth from his bed they hauled him , by dint of mere muscular strength , malgre his efforts at resistance . Then , leaving the disconcerted hero fairly stretched on the floor , there to finish his repose , the harridans , not without threatening future visits , should he persist in Ms morning sin of slumber , retired triumphantly , to claim from their employers ( some of Maister Cornet ' s waggish brother officers ) the pecuniary guerdon of their meritorious exertions .
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Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS .
The Queen ' s Drawing Rooms have been well attended ; the last for the season took place on Thursday , 19 th June . Don Carlos , his consort , the princesses , and suite , landed at Portsmouth on AA ednesday the 18 th June , at half past seven , under a salute , ivith manned yards , from his majesty ' s ship Donegal , and on their landing were received under a salute from the batteriesand a guard of
, honour of the royal marines , under the command of Captain Menzies , R . N . The George Hotel , from the influx of strangers , not having sufficient accommodation , a spacious house next to the lieutenantgovernor ' s has been hired for their reception , but how long they will sojourn there , or their ultimate destination is unknown .
A rich tanner has just died in Paris , leaving a will , by ivhich he imposes on Ms heirs the obligation to bury him in a well-tanned hide , with the tools belonging to his trade . He also requires that a monument should be erected to his memory in the centre of his establishment , in order that he may be in the midst of his workmen even after death .
Dennis Collins , the old sailor , who was transported to Van Dieman ' s Land , for throwing a stone at the King , when at Ascot Heath Races , two or three years ago , died at Port Arthur , on the first of November last , " in consequence , it is said , of his fixed determination to refuse all necessary nourishment , although the best diet that the settlement could afford was offered to him . "
DIFFERENCE OP AGE IN A FAMILY . —The eldest daughter of Mr . Coke , of Norfolk , himself betiveen eighty and ninety , is sixty years of age , and the youngest two . His present wife , Lady Ann Coke , is a daughter of the Earl of Albemarle , and not more than twenty-five years of age , and consequently the mother-in-law to a lady of sixty , j
NOVEL DISCIPLINE . —AVhen the Hussars , of military and fashionable notoriety , were once quartered at Piershill barracks , Edinburgh , a young officer amongst them was observed to be exceedingly ingenious in evading all military arrangements regarding early rising . One morning several Leith fish-wives , ( who are numerous in the environs of Edinburgh , ) of robust make , and arrayed in their peculiar and picturesque costume , entered the barracks , and requested to be
shown to the rooms of " Maister Cornet H . " They were directed towards them , entered , and found the gentleman in Ms bed as usual , instead of out at exercise with the troops on the sands ; and forth from his bed they hauled him , by dint of mere muscular strength , malgre his efforts at resistance . Then , leaving the disconcerted hero fairly stretched on the floor , there to finish his repose , the harridans , not without threatening future visits , should he persist in Ms morning sin of slumber , retired triumphantly , to claim from their employers ( some of Maister Cornet ' s waggish brother officers ) the pecuniary guerdon of their meritorious exertions .