Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-11-14
from the Nae York Ercniag Signal.

IoNboN, sep. y,
Thrrc quite m agreeable American soeicly 10
ihis great metropolis NJ present. Among tie dlslm-
pushcd visitors. Mr. Webster II course stands first.
Quite a fashionable wedding look place = his family
week or Two since. HIS daughter Julil mat
lcd to Samuel Appleton, n Young merchI ol Dos
ton. As the newspapers here have made Tree with
the altar, there is no harm in saying that the bride
looked beautifully and WAS atturd-bnt ! must
ler you 10 the "Magazine OF Fashion Cor her dress
Mrs. pagr WAS present. and looked blooming "a u
Peri. Two OF Mr.. VS.. associates m the Senate were
among the guests.
By The way. rather an amusing incident took
place the other evening NJ fashionable dinner par
~. The Duke Of Wellington, IN introducing Mr.
Webster To some noble lord OF lady. called him
" Mr.. Clay" The old gentleman had confound-
ed the iwn great leaders Of your Federal Legislature
lie immediately recovered himself. however, in
lbs quick, gauunus manner, aud rot oyci the blum
Ier by 4 very neat compliment both 10 Webster aud
Clay.
Literature here is rather stagnant at present D'
lsrael's new tragedy Of AlMeos" does not lake
Al the sau.c umn, Is eloquent and brilliant. Strange
that D'lsraell should never have wrlttcu any thing
+ 10 equal hls boy ,sh eliot, "Nvan Grey Certain
IS, that every thing else from his pen has been
velousS inferior to thai remarkable work. D'lafa.
eli has Just NAMED nch widow. | saw them 10
eothef Al the opera last week. She looks old enou I'll
10 be his mother and lac, with his d nh sldc-locks
hls slim hgutC, and palc lace, looks as much like
Z her oldest sun MS possible. The lady Is " tat
fair, and lory.' Dls,ael is about thniy Three
So, allct all. HE match is not so very unequal.
/ y. i. Willis isrustcaiing with his wllr's friends
lie has been rather secluded the last month two
aud doubt not the result OF his leisure will be somt
new work Of aloresl His plays are higily com.
mendcd here by people of taste Willis has com,
inio the possession oi handsome annuity by h,
father iu-law's death and | lean that he viii pass
lhe winter on the Continent. probably in Italy,
encountered Charles Dickens box at the q ar
rick Club the other evening, and bad the pleasure o
an introduction. His appearance and address al,
preposscsslnr. lie expressed a song desire To Wis
1t America, and, on my informing him that ms fame
~ the United States WAS quite equd 10 what II was IL
EnghQd, he seemed gtaticd and surprised. Boz 4
very laboIous IN his habits, and indeed he looks k
a man Win has done 'ycunan's service in htela
iurc, although has csnutenance Is quite youthful.
had the pleasure the Other evening Of hearing geao
The concluding numbers OF Nicholas Nokleby -
They are good, of course. Manalmi is introduced
again in amusing manner. Frank Checrybl,
marries Kate NIckleby aud Nicholas, as all Young
lady readers will have OWNED, is uued to Maden,
bray, who. by the way TO my mind, is something o
astlck. Old Nekleby chukes Of his own venom an,
goes oil IN an apoplectc fiji, aud Arthur GIdc i
| compelled 10 d'sgorge the principal portion Of In
spots, whereby Madeline Bray becomes hcrcss to
very pretty property. Newman Noggs is made
man oi, aud cuts up such shines on the occasion ~
he never cutbciore. Mrs. Nlckleby babies on /,
the last This portrait IS altogether 100 faithfull
drawn 10 be pleasing. What a genuine specimen .
the genus bore is she But must not dun the ede,
OF your curiosity by letting you more in the secrcu
/ at the denoucmcnt. You will probably !cceiy,
/ by the British Queen the concluding parts of th,
story.