Lothair, otherwise the Marquis of Bute, was married on Tues-
day to Lady Corisande, Miss Gwendoline Howard, daughter of Lord Howard of Glossop. The ceremony was performed by Cardinal Grandison, Archbishop Manning ; mass was said by Monsignor Catesby ; and the novelist who has described, exalted, and satirized them all, Mr. Disraeli, was one of the five witnesses who signed the register. The London journals give whole pages to accounts of the ceremonial, and the Western Mail actually devotes thirty columns, each longer than one of the Standard's, to the wedding, the rejoicings in Wales and Buteshire, the history of the family, the twelve titles, and the six great estates of the bride- groom, the charms of the bride, and the descriptions of her jewel- lery. We have no objection ; the Marquis of Bute is really a personage in the State, but do not let us again laugh at the place assigned to gilded upholstery in Lothair.
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