The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-26 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR* JUNE 25.—This morning his Majesty
and suite attended divine service at the new Private
Chapel. In the afternoon, shortly before three
o'clock, his Majesty left the Royal Lodge in his
pony phaeton, accompanied by the Lord Steward,
followed in a second by Lord Graves, and drove
down the Long Walk to the Castle, His Majesty
was met in the Quadrangle by Mr. Wyatville, but did
not alight from his phaeton ; and after a shorter stay
than usual he left through the Little Park, and by
Frogmore, for a continuation of his drive,
esterday his Majesty took his usual excursion on the
Lake of Virginia Water,'and after dining in the Royal
Boat, at five o'clock, his Majesty drove to New Lodge,
and Cranbourne, in his pony phaeton.
The Band of the Life Guards are expected to add
to the gaiety of the Terrace this evening, in unison
with the performing of the 63d Regiment, and the
Terrace is expected to be well attended.
Windsor was never known to be so much crowded
with elegant visitors as it is at present, excepting on
great State occasions,

We are happy to state that the Duke of York was
so much better on Saturday, as to be able to leave his
house in South Audley-street soon after four o'clock,
for Mr. Greenwood's Villa at Brompton, Mr. G. hav-
ing accommodated his Royal Highness with the loan
of it for the enjoyment of the change of air.
Yesterday the Duchess of Gloucester, the Princess
Augusta, and the Princess Sophia, visited their Royal
Brother.
Yesterday morning the Princess Augusta attended
Divine Service at the Chapel Royal.
On Friday a Board of the Lords of the Treasury
was held at the Treasury Office, Whitehall.
Mr. Braham is engaged to sing at the Grand Musi-
cal Festival, at Gloucester, in September.
Mr. Morrison has declined becoming a candidate
for the Aldermanship of Aldersgate Ward.
Mr. H. Sumner red herrings were too much
smoked to suit the palates of the Surrey electors.
A bUst of M. Von Weber is preparing by Mr.
Kendrick, from a mask taken immediately after his
decease. The likeness, we understand, is perfect.
DRURY.", AWE THEATRE.--Thomas Bish, Esq.
the member for Leominster, and contractor for the
present Lottery, on Saturday signed a contract to be-
come the Lessee of this theatre for fourteen years.—
The terms have not been mentioned, but this spirited
speculator has given a cheque in part payment of his
enagement.—Representatme.
-The freedom of the city of Norwich has been pre-
sented to Mr. Secretary Peel, in grateful acknowledg-
ment of the benefits rendered to the laws of the coun-
try
by his late admirable Acts.
EYES.--Dr. Franklin observed " the eyes of other
people are the oyes that ruin us. If all but myself
were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine
house, nor fine furniture."
THE BLESSINGS OF Mk/lit:worm—Married a
few days ago Joseph Ritchie, Esq., to the widow Mul-
rea, with a fortune of eight children.
MARRIAGE.--One of Mahomet's rules for securing
happiness in the married state, was thus :—" Wives
behave to your husbands in the same manner that your
husbands behave to you."
BRlDEs.—The custom of breaking a cake over the
bride's head, when she enters her husband's house, is
borrowed from, the Greeks, who, as an emblem of
futnre plenty, poured figs end other fruits over the
headi Of both bride and bridegroom.
AN AFFECTING PREACHER:-.Wfiiid a Dervise
was preaching at Bagdat,, one of his hearers seemed
vastly affected. Proud of his power, the preacher
asked how his discourse had touched him so much.
" Oh, Sir," replied the other, " it is not that, but
your heard put me so Much in mind of a goat I lost,
that I could- not help crying."— Morning Paper.
A fine sturgeon, measuring eight feet six inches,
and weighing above two hundred weight, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, yesterday morning, by Nel-
son, the water-bailiff. It wav caught above the
Kennington Lock, by getting through the bar. The
Lord Mayor sent it to his Majesty, with orders to
have the usual ceremony observed. It is the largest.
that has been caught for more than thirty-six years.
It is rumoured that we are likely to lose Madame
Pasta and Signor Curioni after the present season.
The manager of the principal Italian Theatres at
Milan, Naples, and Vienna, is now in London, and
' in treaty with those performers for his various esta-
blishments. We should hope that no small tempta-
tion will make them forget that something is due to
this country for the support which they have met with
from all ranks of the English people.
BLUNDER UPON BLUNDER.—in a debate upon
the Leather Tax, in the Irish• House of Commons, the
Chancellor of the Exchequetobserved, that in the pro-
secution of the war, every man ought to give his /list
guinea to protect the remainder. Mr. Vandelure
said, " however that might be., the tax on leather
would be severely felt by the bare footed peasantry
of Ireland ;" to which Sir Boyle Roach replied, " that
this could be remedied, by making the under leather
of wood."
From some memoirs of Voltaire, by two of his Se-
cretaries, which have lately been published, it appears
that the King of Prussia once entertained the singular
idea of making Voltaire his Charo d'Affaires at
Rome. Why this plan of bringing the Patriarch of
the Freethinkers and the head of the Catholic Church

in personal contact was dropped, does not appear.
The tolerant Clement XIV. had, however, some com-
munications with the philosopher, which were far from
being of a hostile nature. An English gentleman
rising through Feeney,' on his way to Borne, asked
oltaire whether he had any commands for that city.
" Bring me," said the latter, " the ears of the Grand
Inquisitor, wrapped in a sheet of music." On hearing
of this request, the Pope desired the English gentle-
man to tell Voltaire " that he found it impossible to
execute his commission, as the Grand Inquisitor had
no longer either eyes or ears."
LOVE AND CHAMPAGNE; MATRIMONIAL MAR-
QUERADING.—A young lady, the daughter of a
highly respectable tradesman, residing in St. James's-
street, who attended Charles Wright's last Masque-
rade, at the Argyll Rooms, in the character of a flower
girl, so captivated the Hon. G— the son
of an Irish Peer, who had casually walked in, in do-
mino, that having learnt from one of Miss
party, the place of her residence, he called the next
morning, made her m oiler of marriage,
and a Band-
some\ settlement, which was accepted by the hitt shi rig
fair one, and they were united in the bands of Hymen,
at a village near Maidstone, on Saturday last. Vile-
ther the young bride may attribute her matrimonial
success to the influence of Charles, Wright's creaming
Champagne over the feelings of the enamoured swain,
it is not our province to determine; we have only
to remark, if that be the ease, it verifies the old adage,
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