The Hertford Fete.
[From an cveninj paper.I Wte7 have scldom had to recordan entertainment like this. The noble Milarquis was determined that his taste and munificence should not bc called in quiestion, and thereforc he gave a ball acud supper on Friday last to the ladies, in a style of more tkoan OTiCntal inagfi- ficence. The suite of five. roonms-thc proportions are prodivious-were more brilliantly illuminated than before, and their matchless furni- ture, in the style of Louis XIV., being reflected by the infinity of mirrors, produced an cffect quite magical. The viaitants began to arrive at 10 o'clock; a promrnade till a quarter past 11. Dancing commenced half an hour after with a quadrille (a new one, played by 16 French performers), led off by the Ladies Clement and Char- teris, Lords Chesterfield and Cholnondeley. The coup d'ril was heightened by a perspective view in the rear of the music gallery, of the tapestry saloon, a kind of fanciful bou- doir, upon a iamgepcale, the walls of which were hung with a scrip- tural subject, Ou7rSSaviour healing thc Sick, personified by groups of figures as large as life, admirably executed. Indeed. it is ferv probable tnat this may be, what it is saidl to be, the chef d'cevrc of the early Gobelin school. The supper hour was two, but it was half-past when the banquet commenced in the dining-room, beneath the ball-room, now opened for the first time. It was a magnificent sDectacle, to see the display of glittering plate, aitded by a plateaux of singular grandeur, bear- ing the finest flowers and the whole lighted up by branchesof gold and frosted silver. '1'he most delicious wines, French, Spanish, Ita- lian, and Hungarian. Fruits of this year's growth, from the south Of Frauce. In short, eVery thing was provided in profusion. At four o'clock the dancing recommenced, and at six the music ceased. Among the company present were-the Dutch Ambassardor and Lady, the Portuguese Miniater anti suite, the Neapolitan and Sar. dinian .M inisters, tl6e Princes Gortcl,akoft'aud Leinengen, the Duke ot Dorset, Duchess of Wellington, MIarquis and AIJarchioness of Londonderry, Matchipness of Cholmondeley, Marchioness of Elert- ford, Marchioness of Westmneath; Earl, Countess, and the Ladies Bathurist; Earl of WVestmorland, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Earl oF Shaftesbury Lo)rd I'almerston, Mlr. Secretary Canning, Mrs. Canning, and Mliss Canning, Countess of Clarendon and Lady Elizabeth Villiers, Lady Ramnsden, Earl of Chesterfield, Counteis of Warwick and the Ladies Grevilic, iM1rs. Boehlm, Dowager Mlar- cliioness of Lansdown, Mlrs. Goutts, and Admiral Sir Richarti and Lady Strachan. Prince Pausl Esterhazy, the Duke of WVelling:on, Count'and Countess Lieven, and several other leading personages, were unavoid- ably absent on a visit to the King. TIlF IIERTFOIeD FETE.