SENSATION IN FASHIONABLE SOCIETY.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 359, 23 May 1884, Page 5

SENSATION IN FASHIONABLE SOCIETY.

- ■ . . . ,* — . — A great sensation (writes the London, correspondent of the * Leeds Morcury') has been created in fashionable society by the report that a distinguished judge, who stands almost at the head of the bench, has proposed to Miss Mary Anderson. The suit of the noble and learned lord has not prospered, and he has been rejected by the charming actress who is now filling >the Lyceum. The story, however, has got noised abroad, and is exciting the greatest interest, not unmixed with amusement, in society. The rejected, suitor o£ Miss . Anderson was a fre quent visitor at the Lyceum, and his friends knew that he was a great admirer of her acting. They did not suspect* however, that his feelings had taken a warmer character. The Lon- 1 ■ : don J correspondent of the * Dundee Advertiser ' adds that the too susceptible judge is exceedingly disappointed and dejected at his refusal. He thought that his name and rank and person would win the heart of the American beauty ; but Miss Anderson declares that she has not yet seen the person whom she will wed. The London correspondent of the Dublin , ./Express ' discloses the name of the ■unhappy Judge. He says : — « The 1 Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord . Coleridge, has proposed for the hand of v; ilisß Mary. Anderson, the American ,:, actress, and been refused."