The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-14 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Bishop of London, the Countess Bathurst'
General Gascoyne, Lady Culling Smith, &c., visited
:be Duke of York yesterday, at the residence of the
Duke Of Rutland, in Arlington-street. Sir Richard
Jackson, and c!her official gentlemen, transacted mili-
tary business with tile Commander•in-Chief yesterday
morning.
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the Princess Augusta, at Frogrnore.
Soon after one o'clock yesterday
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secretary State for Fo.;:1,1g abreirifFswer;e
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Earls of Liverponi, Harrowby,
at three o'clock
Westmorland, and Bathurst ; the Duke of Welling-
ertelamtheinh.:
ton, Mr. .Secretary Peel, Mr. Secretary' Canning, Vis-
count Melville, Lord Bexley, Mr. Wynnt Mr. Hue-
el:
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kivion, &c.
The Lord Chancellor joined the Cabinet a: four
o'clock. The Cou Ticil broke up at half-past five o'clolck.
Yesterday the D. Ike of Devonshire transacted busi-
ness with Mr. Sec. 'airy Canning, at his office in
Downing-street, for th first time since' his arrival in
' e T
town from his Embassy . to the Emperor Nicholas.
The Prince Esterhazy
and. Colonel Buckley arrived
in town, on Sunday, from Broatilands, the seat of Lord
Viscount Palmerston, in H. IniPs;(•‘ire*

The morrow of St. Martin 'ailing on Sunday, the
fallowing
celebration war observed yeste ,rday.
The fol
rt of Lords of the Council assembled at the, CL 'ullor the
Ex-
chequer at two o'clock. The Lo. Yd Chancel. ;
First Lord of the Treasury ; the .1.%0rd Preside. -nt ofof
the Council ; the Lord Privy Seal ; the Secretary
State for the Home Department ; the President ()tithe
Board of Control ; the Judge Advocate :-General ; ther
Vice-Chancellor; the Lord Chief Justic t of the Court
of King's Bench ; the Lord Chief Justice of the:
court of Common Pleas ; the Lord Cl lief Baron
the Chief Justice of Chester ; and the nine. Justices of
the different Courts. These distinguished personages
nominated the sheriff's for the ensuing year, via. three .
gentlemen for each county. The proceedilnga occu—
pied exactly one hour. Some irregularities took place.
in consequence of the retirement from office of some
members of the Privy Council, and the decease of
others. This was the first time the Vice-Chanoclior
attended on this or any other simillar occasion since
the creation of that office.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was Hot present,
owing to the late decease of his only daughto, Arid
who has in consequence obtained his Majesty's lame
of absence from public business. This was a dime-
pointment to a number of persons osembled, as this tit
the only occasion on which the Chanclellor of the EX,Y
chequer appears in his full robes.

NEW PARLIAMENT.—The number of new' Mem.
hers in the new Parliament who have not as yet sit in
the Hon. House, will be 169 :—For English counties,
12 ; ditto boroughs, 118 ; Scotch counties, 9; ditto
burghs, 3 ; Irish counties, 16 ; ditto boroughs, 11.
The front of the new Palace at Buckingham House
is to be sustained by iron pillars, which are to be
painted in imitation of stone. It never was intended
to transfer the screen at Carlton House to Buckingham
House.

A fine dish of green peas was gathered last week at
Titchtleld, Hants.

The Virginia University, lately founded by Mr. Jef-
ferson, contains two novelties, a Professorship of the
Principles of Government, and a Professorship of the
Anglo-Saxon Language.
A silver cradle, an odd kind of perquisite, is said
to belong to the Lord Mayor of London whose lady
may produce him an infant during his mayoralty : if
this be correct, Lady Venables gained the' prize just
an hour before his Lordship relinquished his title of
Right Honourable.—Literary Chronicle.