A London correspondent of the Madrid Epoca, in a lively letter about society in the British capital,' says that the honour of dancing with the Prince of Wales at the Marlborough House balls is greatly coveted by the ladies of the fashionable world, and that while several dames of high degree, including one Spanish lady of rank, have failed to secure this dis tinction during the season now closed, Patti,' Nilsson-Rouzand, and the Spanish Countess of Galve are regarded with much envy and malice because it was conferred upon them' by his Royal Highness. , The third son of Lord Napier of Mag dala was married on the 25th of July to a Miss Parker, of Clopton Hall, and a wonderful wedding it w&s. The villagers crowded the green, and the bridal proces sion was a sight to see. The bridesmaids, ten in number, came together in a carriage drawn by four grays, with postilions in light' blue jackets and white favours. Of the' ten bridesmaids, six wore blue 1 skirts, with cream-coloured silk tabliers or tunics, and bonnets of blue silk, with white tulle and wreaths of stephanotis. The dresses of the remaining four bridesmaids were of the same rich material, but' the arrange ment of the colours' was exactly reversed, blue silk tabliers , being substituted for' the' cream-coloured. Each of the brides maids had white satin, shoes with blue bows, arid cream-coloured gloves ; a fan presented by the bridegroom, with the initials of each lady in red and gold letters!

The Children Colmn

'^ Opening Address. — I am here. And if this is what they call the world I don't think much of it. It is a very flannelly world, and smells of parpgoric awfully. It is a deadful light world, too, and makes me blink, I tell you. And I don*t know what to do with my hands ; I think I'll dig my fists in my eyes. 1 No ; I won't I'll scrabble at the corner of my blanket' and chew ' it up, and then I'll holler ; whatever happens I'll holler. And the more paragoric they give' me' the louder Vllyell. That old nurse put's tte spoon ih my moUth in' a 1 "very uneasy way^ and keeps tasting my milk herself all the 1 while. 