The Duke of Sutherland, before his departure from Paris, made
extensive purchases of pictures and articles of vertu to adorn his noble mansion in the Green Park. Among the marchandes of curiosities in the French capital, his Grace is said to have expended above 50,000/. It is said that the Duke paid the venerable Duke of Dalmatia (Mar- shal Soult) the sum of 18,000/. for three pictures, part of the gallant Marshal's trophies in Andalusia. His Grace was also the purchaser of the saluable pictures of the Marquis d'Azelio, which have been ex- hibited at the Louvre.—Morning Chronicle.
The following announcement is in the Dublin Pilot of Friday : " Lady Mary Talbot, daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury, is about being united to the King of Naples."
By a decree of the Court of Cassation, the Royal Court of Orleans has just been invested with jurisdiction in a case which has been the subject of general conversation in the circles of the Faubourg St. Germain. A legacy of 200,000 francs, given by the will of the late Duke de Charost to the Marchioness de Sallen, is the matter in ques- tion. The Royal Court of Paris bad annulled the legacy, on the ground that the writing and signature of this document were very different from those of a will in his own handwriting, by which the Duke gave the whole of his fortune, estimated at 30,000,000 francs, to his widow, to the total exclusion of his heirs at law. The Court of Cassation did not think this difference sufficient to invalidate the dons- Mu to the Marchioness, and therefore ordered a new trial. It is stated that the heirs at law are about to impeach the will itself.
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