The Morning Post gives the following bit of Court scandal-
" At the last Ascot Races, we have reason to believe that the Dutchess of Montrose and Lady Sarah Ingestre received an intimation that hr Majesty was impressed with the idea that they were among the persons who had hissed at it moment when Ito sounds litit 1::!,e of applaase, grit 'dation, and loyalty, ought to have been heard. It was. we believe, further intimated to the noble ladies we have mentioned, that the I loyal ear had been abused to the effect already stated by Laity Liehilaid. T'ue ladies, who led reason to think that they had been tints unja..ily and ridulously accused, applied immediately to their supposed accuser, who denied that uiu had made any sach communica- tion. Ou being urged to give this denial in writing, she declined to do so without first consulting her Loch. But, on the application being renewed at a subsequent period, her Ladyship, as we understand, explicitly anti in writing denied that she had given utterance, to the calumny ia question. Ilere time matter stood, until, from some incidents el»111Ceti.,1 With the late ball at Buck- ingham House, the two /adies thns impeached saw r...a ion to believe that the erroneous impression communient ed to her Majesty at Ascot had not been entirely removed, it was an impression, however, which they could not permit to re- mein without employing every means of removing it', and accordingly the Dutehess of Montrose went to Bnckingliam Palace and requested an audience of her Mnjesty. After waiting for a considerable period, (two hours, as we have been informed,) her Grace was inthrmed by the Earl of Uxbridge that she could not be admitted to an audience, as none but Peers or Peeresses in their own right could demand that privilege. Her Grace then insisted upon Lord Uxbridge taking down in writieg what she had to say, mid promising her that the communication should be immediately laid before her Majesty. In this state, we believe, the matter reinains substantially at the present moment; although it has taken a new form, the Duke of Montrose having, we under- stand, thought it neceseary to open a correspondence with Lord Melbourne upon the subject."
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