THE WAVERLEY BALL.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 26, 6 November 1871, Page 3

THE WAVERLEY BALL.

The Waverlcy Ball, in London, proved a very great success, and added £SOO to the Scott Memorial Fund. The costumes were remarkably correct, and mostly chosen from the works of Sir Walter Scott. Of course, there were some uniforms known only to the costumier. The Princess of Wales personated Mary ,Queen of Scots, and thoroughly realised the ideal heroine of our childhood’s sympathies. She wore a robe of ruby velvet trimmed with Spanish point, over a petticoat of gold tissue and pearls ; the velvet corsage was ornamented with lace, diamonds, and pearls ; a Holbein stomacher, richly jewelled, as also was the girdle which encircled her waist. On the coiffure, which was of ruby velvet, were magnificent diamonds and pearls, and a long veil depended from the back of the head-dress. Her Royal Highness wore a costly necklace, consisting of nine rows of pearls and a diamond cross. The Prince of Wales was most appropriately attired as Lord of the Isles. 'lt was a sight not to be forgotten by the quiet observers who watched the brilliantly-attired dancers in the four specially arranged quadrilles. A group of foreigners looked on at Lady Lea Hope’s Scotch reel with speechless astonishment, not unmixed with awe. The i shrill, piercing tones of the bagpipes, as | played by the pipers of tb ; Prince of ; Wales, the Marquis of Humly, and Lord | Macduff, added to the cracking of thumbs and shouts of the dancers caused a lady i to exclaim, “ Ccs sont dcs sauvages."

A clergyman was lately depicting before a deeply-interested audience the alarming increase of intemperance, when he astonished hfs hearers by exclaiming : —A young man in my neighbourhood died very suddenly last Sunday, while I was preaching the Gospel in a beastly state of intoxication.