The Sun.
London, England, 1867-02-21 00:00:00

The Approaching Fashionable Season.

(From the Court Journal.)
There are some few things which may be pre-
dicted of it with certainty. In the first place, if
politics go on smoothly, it will not be a short season
or interfered with materially by the Paris Exhibi-

flan. It .is calculated that it will be June before
all the treasures are fully displayed in Paris, which
are to be brought from a distance, unpacked, and

shown in due and attractive order. By that time
life in London is always at the zenith, and not to
be interrupted on any account, by order of mam-
mas who have daughters to marry, and by the wish
of daughters and youths who desire to be happy, by
politicians who are searching after place or fame, or
by the thousands of the upper world who are seeking
pleasure in its varied and difficult found sources.
We know that the Prince of Wales as well as
numerous great people have been invited over to
Paris by the Emperor, but the stay of the Prince
cannot be for very long. His Royal Highness, if
we are rightly informed, is bound with the Princess
of Wales to pay a visit to Copenhagen, to assist at
the Courtly doings consequent upon the celebra-
tion of the " silver wedding" of the King and Queen
of Denmark, and it is very probable that their
Majesties will return with the Prince and Princess
to England. The great personages who will visit
Paris—the Sultan, the Pasha of Egypt, the King
of Prussia, &c.—will all cross the water to London,
and add of course to the general gaiety. It is
asked if the Queen will this year enter more into
public life ? There seems little chance of that
being the case, and an early date is already
spoken of for a visit to Balmoral. There will
be numerous parties and balls given by the Prince
and Princess on her Majesty's behalf, and in that
way the Courtly gaieties will be kept up. Gossip
says that an extra allowance will be asked for the
Prince of Wales, but gossip has said that every
year, and originates in the good-natured feeling
thatthe Prince is called upon to make large sacrifices
for that which, if it is a pleasure to himself, it is also
assuredly pleasing to society, and of inestimable ad-
vantage to the numerous classes that are dependent
on the rolling ball of fashion. We have seen some
statements that there will be a change of costume at-
tempted this year. We should presume there would
be ; ladies do occasionally change their costume,
but whether it means higher CE lower dresses,
or more or less crinoline, all the West-end oracles
are at present at a loss to say. They are particu-
larly dumb. We have, however, heard of a lively
ova dit. We should be inclined to fancy that it wasa
i
canard if it were less precisely vouched for. It s
this, that small silver bells are to be introduced into
the trimmings of ladies' dresses. We know not
where or on what sacred or mysterious spots. The
idea is a little wild India and squaw fashion, but
there may be something pleasing in it ; and in a
dance it may keep a sleepy partner vivacious if the
belle ever and anon shakes her bells by way of keep-
ing up the excitement and her partner awake.

A MINISTERIAL MEETING.—CoIoneI Taylor has
issued the following circular to the supporters of the Go-
vernment in the House of Commons :—" I am desired by
Lord Derby to request that you will do him the favour of
meeting him at No. 10, Downing-street, at 2 o'clock, 011
Monday, the 25th of February."
The first dinner of the Cobden Club this yearwill
take place at Willis's-rooms, 26, King-street, St. James%
on Saturday, the 2d of March ; Lord Houghton in the
chair.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has presented the
Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, of Queen's College, Oxford,
late Rector of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, to the vicarage 01
Eastry, near Sandwich, Kent.
THE NATIONAL CHORAL SOClETY.—Mendele
sohn's " Hymn of Praise (Lobgesang)" and Rossini's
" Stabat Mater" will be performed by the National Choral
Society at Exeter-hall on Wednesday, the 27th. The banal,
which will include the most eminent instrumentalists, and
chorus, will number 700 performers ; conductor, Mr. G. W•
Martin.
NEW JUDGES.—The bill laid before the House of
Lords by the Lord Chancellor provides that, on the nest
vacancy in the office of Judge of the Admiralty Court, the
present Judge of the Probate Court shall become the first
Chief Justice of the Admiralty, Divorce, and Probate
Courts, and two puisne judges of these courts are also to be
appointed. The Chief Justice is to have rank next after the
Lords Justices of Appeal; the two puisne judges with the
other puisne judges. The salaries are to be £6,000 a ye°
for a Chief Justice, and £5,000 for a puisne judge; the re-
tiring pensions £3,750 and £3,500. An appeal is to lie to the
Privy Council in an Admiralty cause, and to the House °f
Lords in a divorce or probate cause. Any of these judge°
may, at the request of the Lord Chancellor, sit in any of tb!
superior courts of law or equity with any judge or judge°
e
thereof. The Archbishop of Canterbury may appoint otl_
or more of these judges to execute the office of Dean a tli°
Arches, for which there is to be no remuneration otlisr

than the fees, if any.
THE ADULLAMITES have been invited to the
meeting at Mr. Gladstone's, says the Owl.
REVISION OF THE LICENSING SYSTEM.—.A. meet;
ing of vice-presidents of the recent conference, and
other gentlemen, took place on Saturday afternoon at the
Earl of Shaftesbury's residence in Grosvenor-square, I'ol
a view of determining what further steps should be take°,
with reference to this important subject. The meetitib
was attended by the following noblemen and gondol:10i:
—The Earls of Shaftesbury and Lichfield, Lords LYt t°e'
ton and Eliot, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster, M.P., Mr. Air,..t°13,1
M.P., Mr. Morrison, M.P., Mr. Eykyn, M.P., Col. SP'e.a7
M.P., Mr. Fordyce, M.P., Rev. Dr. Manning, Sir J•
Shuttlewortb, Sir John Bowring, the Rev. S. Hansard, J.
Golly, and W. Russell, Mr. S. Sony, F.R.S., and 31r. C.
Ribton-Turner (the secretary). The question 10 to the
desirability of holding an adjourned meeting of the °II:.
ference was discussed, and it was decided that, eoasid°'-
big the pressure of business before Parliament, it is
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pedieut to postpone the further public consideratioe °s
the subject for the present. An executive committee or°
appointed.
AIR. AND MRS. KEAN'S ENGAGEMENT AT 1115
THEATRE ROYAL, EDINBURGH.—Mr. and M. ICe3D.,. ca°ll;
tinue their engagement with the greatest success•
dition to " Wolsey" he has now played " Shylocli:" nate
Louis the Eleventh," and to-night he is to Pers°-„, t
" Hamlet." Mr. Bean's " Louis" has always drawn
houses here. A large number of the elite and fashioae"...
the city, who are never tempted to go to the theatre 1,
cept when the beans or Miss Faucit are in Edinbtillod
crowded the boxes to see Mr. Kean in his great part, 3,0,
gave a most enthusiastic reception to the illustrious aG'
and his accomplished lady.—North Briton. $ Of
MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—The Napoleon Iloaa
the celebrated Wax-work Exhibition, in Baker-street,
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tinue to afford the greatest satisfaction possible t)
visitor who may feel interested in beholding the illuilToes
able relics of the Great Napoleon, and which can be.
only at Madame Tussaud's truly magnificent gal to
Life-size models of Emperors, Kings, as also most
f Europe,
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