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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 354, 27 February 1871, Page 2

The following sketch |has appeared in one of the American papers:—" The three notable women of the time in the aristocracy of Bag" land are Countess Waldegrave, Lady Molesworth, and the Marchioness of Salisbury, yet neither were of patrician birth. Lady WaldegraYe was tho daughter of Braham the singer. Her first husband was Mr. Waldegrave i Mr second, his brother, the Earl; her third, Mr. Harcourt; her fourth and present, Mr. OinChester Fortescue, who graduated at °f™. f with the highest honors, and is now UW Secretary for Ireland—a brilliant man. «» last marriage was a love match. Lady W. ever so rich ; owns Strawberry Hill, winch Delonged to Horace Walpole, and other tone mansions, and entertains superbly. A*°J Molesworth was a Miss Carstairß, md IW bred for a professional singer. Like _wy Waldegrave, she has the good sense M*farw ignore the comparative humility of her ongi • She has rare mental endowments, is a _c. har™ ing conversationist, and as for her dinners, bless you ! old Apicius would have raw OT% them. There is a good story her entertainments, at which four danf »" present. Tho dinner was so good ana* dukes were so- dull that during two course none of them spoke. The Marchioness » Salisbury inherited, no doubt, some oU» abilities from Baron Alderson, who wasi a sem wrangler and afterwards an eminent juusp She married Lord Robert Cecil, W%JgB poor, wrote for the papers. She bad^ggj| sb c wrote too. They were regular contoouw to the Saturday Review. When Lord J*oo eldest brother Lord Cranborne, who was o but cultured and accomplished, OTJ.^ Robert succeeded him, and his w°r^ me sessions were materially enlarged, n .ft Secretary of State for India, aß\™7° %_&y high degree of administrative abnuy.. Salisbury.like the two ladies named V*°™rfr t0 possesses all the tact and talent W^j make the home of a statesman attrao socially and politically."