New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-23
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

FOREIGN GOSSIP.
Tho change Of weather so long looked for had
come to England few days before the Adriatic left
The thermometer threw a summerset suddenly, OF some
twenty degrees and the country had put on s pleas
ant morrs-dance and maypoe attire, as properly be-
comes it at this season. This transition had thrown
over everything brighter and gayer aspect, and men
and women as well as the earth of which they are
made had put on look offreshness. few weeks OF
,ueh weather, and the corn and other crops will soon
catch the color of the Great Power from which they
draw their strength and ripeness.
Under the influence of this, bright atmosphere, Rot
tenrow and the ride by the Serpentne thrOnged
with crowds of gallant men and lovely women on
horseback and lines lines Of brilliant equipages and
Hyde Park was in its full holiday garb Among the
most observed Of the observers such occasions is
the Commander in Chief, the Duke of Cambridge,
who usually saunters down the walk, leaning on the
arm of his ade-de-camps, Col Clifton and the Hon.
James Macdonald, the latter Of whom known as
" handsome Jenny" though his beard and mustache
are snowy as Scion Robinsons still holds the belt of
manly beauty against all rival champions. An unfor-
tunae affair of young married Scotch GIRL who had
fallen in love with him, and exhibited too open dis
the Guards left for the Crimea, having some year
since, rs may be remembered, been ventilated IN
m con- suit before the courts of law has excluded
him from the Palace, where nothing with such
stain is permitted pass by the prm and precise Al
bert and thus placed him in an equivocal position.
But at the Clubs, and at the bow window OF Whites
where hs dasbing figure always looms up OF an after
noon in the center Of crowd Of aristocrac asprants
TO the lead of fashion, A" Handsome Jenny is still the
ruling star and the popular of paragons since the
fall of DOfsay, who also parsh at the Palace.
Indeed il is stated that the Queen and Prince by
no means satisfied with the present little arrangements
of their cousin, the Commander-in-C Chief, however
pleasant they may he TO him. IL is known that, like
his uncle, the late King William w., who lived
for so many years with the fascinating Mrs. Jordan
the Duke has now, for some twelve years, lived with
another actress Miss Farbroher celebrated under the
VetIis regime at the Lyceum Theater for the magn-
cence Of her locomotives, by whom he has had five
children and to whom he is devotedly attached. The
connection has been regarded for some time with i'll
concealed dspeasure by the Court not only as great
present scandal but ALSO in consequence of the future
us, leasabt feelings 10 be sakened among he public
when the fruit Of such ilegtimate joys, in the
Of the FizclaIences come TO be pensoned from the
public purse In view of these considerations il Is
said that when Prince Albert some time since visited
his family and is usual at such meetngs the future
tobe-nuplialized map Of Europe uni, ded and all
the manageable, ever, by any possibility, to be
married iafants widows, widowers, and other dispos
able members OF royal houses were paraded for the
discussion Of the omu-marryng house of Coburg, that
selection made for the Duke by his cousin Albert,
bo a nj
cakey diplomacy. Although the Duke has hitherto
resisted stouty any interference with his prese1
pleasant arrangements the good Of the house and the
obligations duty ard decornm in his uncles case,
will doubtless eventually prevail, and small sum of
ten thousand year be called for one of these days
from delighted people and loyal Commons, for the
maintenance of the Princess Of SAKE some whers or
other who is about to ally herself to the Commander
n-Chef. Even it is, the cupidity of the Coburgs
has the soveregnties of Europe at such rate
that Prince Albert but to gather all his relatives
around him at Windsor Castle, he could repeat to
Charles Kean the old Napoleonic invitation, TO come
and play before pit-full of Kings.
Par parenthese, considerable excitement has been
occasioned in fashionable circles by the official
nouncement Of the Lord Chamberlain that certain
Mrs. Duncan Stewart was presented by "inadvert-
ence" to the Queen. This is graceful mode of con-
signing the said Mrs. Duncan Stewart to perpetual
Punishment from good society," doubtless for early
peccado which the keen vigilance of the Court has
detected. And all the Duncan Stewards Of whom
Scotland alone turn out host in every quarter of
the Queens dominions, writing to The Times de-
male, the part of indignant spouses Of their being
the particular lady doomed, and everybody is asking
everybody who Mrs. Duncan Stewart it, Two years
since, Mrs. Mcdowell, wife OF the Colonel Of the
I'd Life Guards was made the subject of similar no.
tiee Of inadvertence" For some few years Of early
love, she had forgotten to obtain the usual marriage
certificate, b0 had subsequently been legally welded,
and hoped that many years Of rreproachable excel
lence in private life had aoned for this early error
but the stern morality Of Queen Victora's Court
herner even than that Of the good Queen Charlotte
wonid not even permit sueh palliaton. Talking of
presentations, there was much murmuring in certain
quarters nj the presentation to the Queen Of our ac-
coInpiished conntrymen, Messrs. George Wilkes and
DIR. Augustus Rawlings. Some reputed early
errors OF Mr.. Wilkes appear to have been raked up
and he and his companion traveller, the gallant Doctor
who are residing at Morey's Hotel, are regarded
very unjurty, AZ playing the roles of Robert Maeaire
and Jaqnes Strip.
An object OF equal II not more observation in tho
Park than the Duke, il Lord Cardigan, who, with his
attest victim, the last Indy Cardigan, leaning on his
I'm, may be seen every Sunday afternoon on the Ser
,entine walk. Though now approaching sixty he car
les hs age with the most elastic buoyancy. And with
lie 1.-THE, vigorous figure and dasbing air, still the