The Sun.
London, England, 1806-11-05 00:00:00

NEW FASHIONABLE FURNITURE.

.SlNrct the last• season considerable alterations and
improvements have i3,:en In* in furniture,,and in
ornamental deCorations in the interior" of tasteful
houses. The Egyptian costume, At best but indiffer-
ently understood; is,totally laid Nide, and •a style 'of
furniture drawn from the florid lonic is substituted
in its stead. We shall now be no longeNlisgusted
with the horrid imitations from what ,is called,*, he
antique, and shall be glad to see specie§ of bar-
barism Completely exploded, and the mansions of the
Great again "become the seat of the Arts and sciences;
by being stored With movables of domestic use, de-
signed after the purest Grecian model. A more
grand and beautiful outline is adopted in the shape
Of ea,, h piece of tUrniture. The whole are divested of
superffuous Arabesque-ornaments, which, in general,
have been placed without taste or discrimination.—
We are indebted for these improvements to some of
.out: scientific amateurs and professors.
Among the alterationS- in 'the wall-decorations of
state apartMents, theintrodwrition of flock, covering
the compartments in one uniform 'Colour, has been
attempted w•ith but indifferent success though the
etfett is rich, if managed well, and is-certainly next
to hangings of silk.

All mahogany ftirniture is now divested of inlaid.
ornaments. Chairs, tables, sAlf:ts, &c. Ted indraw,
ing rooms, are all covered -wit,, gold,. or a mitture
bronze:and gold. '1 he japan ' ; now entirely confinW
to the ihird class of gentry.'
'A new idea,:-for fitting up libraries, is about to
be introduced in the house of a much - esteemed'
Nobleman, ,'The'.body of the room is" to be occu-
'pied: by a cenotaph, serving as a, writing table, and
at the sametime is to contain maps of every country
in the Known warld,.properlydigested, and so arrang-
ed as•to befit for inspeaion withopt the least trouble
or confusion. This adndirable invention possesses
other requisites for literary accoMmodation. The
wings of the library cantain recesses capable of hold-
ing 500 of the largest folio volumes of antiquities.—
At ,each of the four angles are placed', figures as large
as 'life, of real bronze, supporting lamps Capable. of
affording sufficient quiet light fcl the purpose of
study.

Monday. night, about half-past nine o'clock, the
premises of Mr. Browne, of Luke-street, Finsbury-
square, timber-merchant, were discovered to be on
fire ; and notwithstanding the night was rainy and
wind low, the flames seemed to threaten destruaion
to the adjoining houses ; but through the exertions
of the firemen little 'damage was done beyond the
premises in which the fire commenced.
On Saturday last, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Fa-
veil, oftheflorough, was returning home in a single
horse chaise, he came in =tad with a post, near
Walworth, when the chaise -Was nearly bfoken to
piece, and Mr. Favell received a ;violent contusion
on the head. He was* immediately conveyzd home,
with very little hopes of recovery.
The highest Capital yet shafed in the present Lot-
tery is No. 7,157, a Prize of t 0,001. which was sold
in one Quarter, two ,Eighths, arid eight -Sixteenths,
at the Offices of and Co. 1 1, Poultry, and 12;
;Charing-cross, where Tickets and Shares, Ntrarranted
UndNwn, continue on sale. There
,are sixteen Ca-
pitals in the Wheel besides the proportion of inferior
Prizes.—Friday will be the next day of drawing.
Two of the unfortunate passeno-ers who lost their
lives on board the King George.-facket, on her pas-
sage from Parkgate to Dublin, some time since, are
supposed to have had considerable property with them.
Mr. CATON, of Heysham, Lancashire, who took pos-
session of the property found upon the bodies thlt
floated on/shore about three weeks since, has -dis—
covered the widow of one 6f them, of the name of
KENNY, and delivered to her the property tbund
upon her deceased husband. This worthy Gentle-
man has likewise received the following letter :

li-Pallas Park, near Tullamore, Ireland, Od. 20,.18c6.

" Sig—l have seen 'an account in The Dublin
Evening Herald of the 17th inst. mentioning, that
several Of the.bodies of .the 'unfortunate people that-
were lost on the 14th of- last month in the King
George Packet yvere thrown on shore near your place
.of residence. Among those unfortunate people, it
is supposed two men were lost ; the name of one
was JOHN MOLLOY the other JOHN FARLOW FLA;
NAGAN. The first was a man of about 5001. a year
prdperty, whose family reside near nie3 the other
has' been resident in the Strand, London, as a keeper
of a coffee-house : it is supposed they were on their.,
return to Ireland, with the earnings of some year's:
it is supposed MOLLOY had near 10001.; the other,
I hear, 15001. It would 'be, an as of the greatest
humanity if you would be so good as to make in-
quiry if any information can. be
.obtained of these
people, as, perhaps, if the money was not a&ually
in their possession, some traces of it might remain,
so that the families of the deceased might recover it..
~The two men left Highgate on the sth ortith
of September, in one of the coaches, but no account
having been heard of them since, it is thought they
got on board that Packet' at Parkgate. Molloy was
-a very thin man, 'about five feet eight inches high ;
he usually wore a blue body coat, and had a Surtoiit
coat of a very brown, or nearly black. lam
induced to give you this trouble at the entreaty of
the friends. of those people, who all live near me. I
holyou.will pardon this intrusion. _ Any infOrma7
tion you can send will be most'gratefully received.
"'I have the honour to be,
" Sir, your very obedient Servant,
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