The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-09 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

IV I NOWA, AUG. S.—Yesterday afternoon, at
half-past two o'clock, his MAJESTY 41ccompanied by
the Lord Steward in his phaeton, left the Royal Lodge
for Virginia Water, followed by his attendants in an
open carriage and a single phaeton. On his MAJESTY
arriving at the Royal Marquee, he immediately
embarked on board his cutter. His MAJESTY'S
cabin is covered over in form of an arch, with strong
green silk awning, and side curtains of the same ma-
terial..

This day his MAJESTY will also dine at Virginia
Water. His MAJESTY enjoys excellent health.
Yesterday forenoon, her Royal Highness the Duch-
ess of. Gloucester, arrived at Frogmore Lodge, on a
visit to her Royal Highness Princess Augusta, as did
also the Dowager Duchess of Leeds.

Sir Henry Halford, Dr. Warren, Dr. *Michael,
and Mr. P. *Gregor, held a consultation yesterday,
about.l2 O'clock, at Mr. Greenwood's villa at Bromp-
tou, on the state of the health of the Duke of Yort,
which, we are happy to announce, continues in the
same gradual state of improvement. Sir Henry Hal-
ibrd arrived on Monday evening from his seat, Whis-
tow Hall, Leicestershire.

The Duchess of Gloucester left her seat at Bagshot-
park, on Monday morning, on a visit to her Royal
s►ster, the Princess AUgusta, at her residence at Frog-
more for some days..
-The Portuguese Ambassador, and the Chevalier de
Neumann, Counsellor of the Austrian Embassy, trans-
acted business yesterday at the Secretary of State's
Office for. Foreign Affairs.

Lord Bexley transacted official business yesterda
afternoon at the Foreign Office.

Despatches. were sent off yesterday to the Right lion
Charles Bagot,. Ambassador to the Court of the Ne.
therlands, and to Lord Granville, our Ambassador ai
Paris, from the Foreign Office.

The CommissionerS for building new churches held
a meeting yesterday morning at their Office in Great
George street.

Miss Coates succeeds the late Miss Dee as Lady
in Waiting to the Princess Sophia Matilda.
The magnificent portico which adorns the entrance
into Carlton House will be removed to the new Palace
for the King.

The principal apartment in the new Palace in the
Park will be the Picture Gallery—one hundred and
ninety feet in lengA . This gallery will fonn the
centre, and the whole length of the building ; doors of
communication will branch forth into all the apart-
inents. Except the Vatican and the Louvre, it will
excel every thing of the' kind now in existence.
Sir William Curtis has anchored . his yacht in our
river, and maybe, seen daily in the High-street, where
his jolly and portly appearance attracts the attention of
the visitors... He is not unfrequently followed by a
train of a dOzen seamen bearing immense baskets of pro-
visions.—Southampton Paper.
Letters from St. Petersburg speak of the enormous
expellee of living in that capital. It far exceeds that
of any other Court in. Europe, and, since the period
of the approaching Coronation, the extortion almost
exceeds belief,

We understand it has been for some time decided
that tread-wheel labour shall be used in 8 out of the
14. yards at the New Prison, for the county of Essex,
and that the proposition to work the flour-mill at pre-
sent 'at work in the House of applies to
only two of those eight yards ; it having been intended
that the tread-wheels in the remaining six yards should
be connected with two fliers..-... Essex Herald.
The following method of making yeast for lirend is
easy and expeditious. Boil one pound of good flour,
a quarter of a pound of brown sugar, and a little salt,
in two gallons of water, for an hour ; when milk-warm,
bottle and. cork it close ; it will be fit for use in
twenty-fonr hours. One pint of it Will make eighteen
pounds. of bread.

• " There is a tree," says an author, whose credulity
is amusing, " whose leaves, when they fall upon the earth,
possess the power of motion, and even loco-motion, by creeping.
The appearance of these leaves is like that of the mulberry; they
have two small feet on each side. When squeezed, no blood
jaquag from them ; hut, if touched, they escape backwards direct-
ly. One of these was preserved eight days alive in a platter ;
and, whenever it was touched, moved round the rim of the platter.
In Judea, as Josephus relates in the seventh book of the. Jewish
War a plant, called Bacharas, is produced, of the colour of
flame, but which glitters in the evening like a sun-beam. If
Hay' one approach, with the purpose of plucking it, it imme-
diate•ly take. to flight,,and does not stop its course until sprinkled
with water." ,