TROUBLES IN HIGH LIFE.

Marlborough Daily Times, Volume II, Issue 169, 2 November 1880, Page 3

TROUBLES IN HIGH LIFE.

A London correspondent of a contemporary records the following:—The social news of the past fortnight has been a daily record of balls, garden parties, and festivities. The season is rapidly drawing to a close, and Rotten Row is a wreck of its former self. Probably the greatest event among the “ Upper Ten ” was the bachelors’ ball at Kensington House, the mansion built by Baron Grant. Such a remarkable scene of beauty, gaiety, and decoration has rareley been witnessed in the records of English folly. The newspapers have mentioned a singular circumstance in connection with that ball. A well-known countess who was present, and who wore about .£SOOO worth of jewellery, returned home after the night’s enjoyment, and being fatigued, left her jewels on her dressing-table, without restoring them to the family safe. A few hours afterwards her treasures were found to be missing, But people do say that this is all hhif/Hc. The lady’s husband is notoriously impecunious. He has got through a fortune of between one and two millions sterling and nearly £20,000 a year, and there are whispers that my lady has sent her diamonds to her “uncle.” Lord Mai mesbury lias also added to the scandal of the town. His nephew, Lord Ossulstog, who is staying in Germany, and who is quite a boy, fell in love with an American widow. The noble earl went off to Germany to break off* the match, and succeeded in doing so to the extent of himself falling in love with the widow. He presented her with many jewels. She hasitated to marry him because of a short period having only elapsed since the death of her first husband; but when pressed to be wed, she confessed that she had already married Colonen Kingscote, whose name was recently before the public in connection with the Buller scandal. The worst remains behind, for the quondam widow declines to return the earl his presents, though the latter are said to include the family jewels. Lord Malmesbury is 73 years of age an ex-Cabinet Minister, and has made himself ridiculous to the public by having written to his heir-presumptive announcing his in ention to get married but statingthat he would recompense him for the disappointment that would arise!