The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-29 00:00:00

FA§HtO/4AlitE fNTELLiGtiiCii.

The Duke of York's health continued in the same
favourable state of improvement yesterday, his Royal
Highness having passed a good night. His Royal
Highness took an airing in his carriage, on Tuesday
afternoon, in the grounds adjacent to Mr. Green-
wood's villa, at Old Brampton. The Princess Augusta
visited the Royal Duke yesterday. Sir Herbert Taylor
transacted business on Tuesday with his Royal
Highness.

The Sheriffs of London and Middlesex transacted
business yesterday at the Secretary of State's office for
the Home Department.
The resignation of tour of the present senior Alder-
men is expected in the city; and it is rumoured that
the inhabitants of one Ward have, in anticipation of
such an event, invited Mr. Hume to become a can-
didate.

Now that Almack's and the other fashionable balls
are at an end for the season, the " Hop intelligence"
will be all of one description.
A foreigner named Enlenstein has had the honour
of performing on the Jew's-harp before his Majesty, on
which simple instrument the harmony he produces is
quite astonishing.
The establishment of a Branch Bank at Gloucester
was last week finally determined upon by the Directors
of the Bank of England. The sole management is to
be confided to Mr. Cripps, a banker of Cheltenham,
and the plan will be in operation in a short tline.-7
Morning Herald.
The beautiful Yacht, fitted up with every con-
venience, in which Lord Cochrane has sailed for
Greece, was once the property of Mr. Perkins, the
eminent brewer ; that Gentleman and his family visited
in it most of the islands in the Mediteranean and the
Adriatic Seas, as well as the coast of Spain.
Earl Fitzwillitith completed his 78th year on the
30th of last month, and has enjoyed his title and
estates nearly 70 years. Lord Milton is just turned
of 40, having been borne May 4, 1786, sixteen years
after the marriage of the Earl and Countess. He has
three sons and five daughters now surviving,. Mr.
Marshall is said to be 64 years of age. The Hon.
Mr. Duncombe's age is, we believe, about. 28, and
Mr. Wilson's about '5O. Our late. Member, Lord
Warncliffe, is in his 50th year.—Yorkshire Paper.

As Mr. Brougham is not supported by any man of
landed property in Westmorland, his present attempt
to be returned for that county is considered 'quite
groundless. .
It is not Mr. George Hibbert, the agent for
mica, who is among the voters for Mr. Brougham at
the Westmoreland election, but his son, a young gen-
tleman who has the honour of being intimate with Mr.
Brougham's family.
The age of chivalry is revived at Paris. An esta-
blishment for tilting,has been opened at the Boulevard
St. Denis, which is the rendezvous of all the Parisian
Belles and Dandies.
The York paper says, that the four Candidates for
the County are to make their entrée in splendid cars,
to be drawn by horses which are now erecting
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that purpose.
The vicissitudes of fashion cannot be more strongly
exemplified than in " leather breeches," which were a
few years ago the very pink of gentility, being now
used as a by-word and reproach.
A Spaniard rising from a fall, whereby his nose had
suffered considerably, exclaimed—" Voto a tal ego es
por la sierra !"---This comes of walking upon
eaTth..,
Was the custom of Charlemagne to affix to the trea-
ties which he consented to, a waxen seal, impressed
the pommel of his sword.; And with die point,'"
added the Emperor, " 1 will support it."

GAM No," -said an - Italian gamester, after
an intolerable rut) of ill luck, " No, thou jade, Fortune !
thou niayst indeed cause me to lose millions, but I
defy thy utmost power make me pd.?) them."
• In the Borough is a sign on which is inscribed—
" The old Pick my .Toe,"
probably set up in the room, of the representation of
the Roman Slave, who, being sent on some message
of importance, would not stop to pick a thorn out of
his foot, until he had completed his commission.
" Be civil to every body," said an old chimney
sweeper to his young companion, when he saw the
urchin disposed to quiz the late John Kemble in the
streets of Norwich, because he was a player ; " you
do not know what you may come to yourself."

LUCKY RECOLLECTION." Avast there," cried a
sailor to his comrade who was busied in heaving over-
board the lower division of a mess-mate just cut in
halves by a chain shot, " Avast ! let us first see if he
has not the key of our mess-chest in his pocket."

Porson, after having taken his gin-grog, fell asleep over
his book; on awaking he discovered his glass empty,
and his candles in their last glimmer. After looking
stedfastly at the wrecks before him, he sorrowfully
exclaimed " Ovb't I'o4, °LIE s-sexXXcc."

Some of the vagabonds who have charge of the turn-
pike gates round the metropolis, have invented the
following fraud ; in giving what is called an " exchange
ticket" to a pair of hired horses, they contrive that it
shall be of a wrong date, and on its production on the
return of the carriage, they take advantage of their
own roguery, and insist upon the payment of the full
duty for the day.
At the Deptford Bench of Justices, on Saturday
last, James Waterman, a common brewer, at that place,
was convicted in the penalty ofloo/., for having. un-
lawfully in his possession the following articles, viz.—
vitriol, liquorice, gentian, honey, salt of tartar, and
carbonate of soda. The production of the above in-
gredients, especially the first, dated a very strong
feeling in every one present, and the Magistrates, E.
G. Barnard, Robert Edmonds, and George Evelyn,
Esqrs., severely reprov;cl the defendant.
SINGULAR DEATH.—A farmer of Thoarout, in
Flanders, was following a swarm of bees in the heat of
the day ; at length seeing the bees hanging on a branch
of an ash, he presented the hive to tpem, but unfor-
tunately the queen bee took her station on his face,
and in a moment the whole of the bees followed their
sovereign, and the unfortunate man was overwhelmed
by this cruel species of attack. In a quarter of an
hour he WAS dead. A person whp WAS with, him to
assist hint in the operation, ran away from him.
Tuesday afternoon, between three and four o'clock,
a most tremendous hailstorm visited the town of St.
Alban's. Pieces of ice, three inches in circumference,
fell, and broke the windows of many houses. One
person has sustained a loss;to the amount,' it is said,
of 100/. by this occurrence. The windows of the
New Intl, which was opened two or three days ago on
the New Cut, were all more or less broken. The
corn in the neighbourhood was beaten down, and con-
siderable darriage was done to the gardenic. A good
deal of rain fell several miles on each bide of St, Al-
ban's, but there was HQ hail except at that place.