The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-19 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, JUNE IS.—This forenoon his Majesty,
with his household attendants, heard divine service at
the, new Chapel Royal:
On Friday and yesterday his Majesty, with his dis-
tinguished household attendants, dined at Virginia
Water. It is expected that his Majesty will leave the'
Royal Lodge on Tuesday for Carlton Palace. It is
said for a few days only.

The Duke of York continued gradually renovering
on Saturday and yesterday from his late indisposition.
The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester
visited his Royal Highness yesterday, Sir Henry
Halford attended the Duke of York yesterday and
on Saturday, and stated that his Royal Highness con-
tinned better.

Yesterday the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of
Kent, and the Princess Feodore, attended divine ser-
vitt, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The Princess Sophia gave an alegant entertainment
on Friday evening, at her apartments in the Kino's
Palace, Kensington, to the Princess Augusta and a
select party.
Yesterday the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of
Gloucester, the Princess Sophia, and the Princess
Feodore, visited the Princess Augusta.
On Saturday Mr. Secretary Canning gave a grand
dinner to a numerous party of Foreign Ambassadors
and Ministers, &c. at his residence in Downing-street.

It is said that Lady Cochrane, who continued to
reside at Brusseli after the departure of her husand, is
preparing to go to Italy.
The Drury Lane Committee met on Saturday to
receive tenders for a Lease of that Theatre ; but in
consequence of an intiinatioh that several other tenders
were to be presented in the course of Monday, the
Committee adjourned to Thursday next.
The Gentlemen who are at present looked to by the
Livery as Sheriffs for London and Middlesex, to be
proposed at Midsummer-day, are Charles'Farebrother,
Esq. Citizen and Vintner, and Henry Winchester, Esq.
Citizen and Cutler.

MinpLEsrx..---Yesterday a-deputation of Middle-
sex electors waited upon the Lord Mayor, and re-,
quested him to allow himself to be proposed as a Can-
didate for the representation of the county. 'His Lord-
ship has, we are assured, also received a number of
letters to the same purpose, but he has not as yet ac.,
ceded to their request. It was reported last night that
another Candidate for the representation of the county
i;.ould present himself in the person of Mr. Mellish,
Observer.
As Dr. Lushington was arguing a case before Sir
Christopher Robinson, in the Consistory Court, .on
Friday last, a Flemish girl, habited in the costume of
her country, perceiving the door open, and believing
the Court:to be a dwelling-house, stepped in and cried
aloud " puy a proom, puy a proom." The circum-
stance caused a little merriment, but the poor girl was
much alarmed on disco'vering her erior, and hastily
retreated .after glancing at the Counsel.
It is -a curious coincidence, .that Mr. Fuller, better
known some years sip in. the House of Commons, as
honest Jack Fuller," who was taken under the pro-
tection of the Serjcant at Arms, for expressing' himself
in rather unhandsome terms 'of the Speaker's Wig,
was in company with Lord Colchester, that identical
Speaker, at the private' view of the King's pictures on
Saturday, and they went round the 4allery together,
taking an attentive survey of
,the paintings in the par-
ticipation of a joint connoiseurship, in Nvirich breaches
of order and wigs seemed to he forgotton, so true are
the words of the poet—
Tlgenuas difici!tee fitleiiter arter

Evimiht mores nee mink esseferaa.
During the last French war a frigate wan lying
at anchor one very hotaterous night in the Downs.
'rho boatswain: on watch was amusing himself
with a song, when an officer happened •to con
on deck—, Jerk,' said he ' if' pence were to
Come, you could iiever make, your lwead by singing.'
Avast there,' says Jack, ‘, for shiver my splinters! if
I did' not once make: half-a-crown at Portsmouth by
singing a song?-4 Indeed!' said the Officer, rather
incredulously, How was that ?*-4 Why, Sir, they
gave me Wye see, one shilling and sixpence to hold
my tongue, and one shilling to walk to the door.'
LACONIC ADDRESB.—Sir Gilbert Elliott, during
the siege of Gibraltar, said, What ! would you
Englishmen, that are fed upon beef, suffer yourselves
to he beaten by these Spaniards; who' live only On
chesnuts ?' Such an appeal as this went home, at
once, to the very hearts and stomachs of his men,
and victory could not fail to follow it.
A provincial paper once stated, that the grains of
wheat were so large that year, that they choked the
little birds that attempted to swallow them !
At the time of the commercial dissentious between
Great Britain and Holland, and when non-importation
resolutions were passing in many parts of the sister
island, the inhabitants of one of fits towns assembled
to do the same likewise ; but as they wisely considered,
that they ought to except from destruction an article
of which they stood in great need, their resolution ran
thus: "Resolved, that we will burn all articles brought
from England, excepting coals."
HEROD'S CRUELM—When Herod had put to
death many of his children, the Emperor hearing of
it, said, He had rather be Herod's hog than his
child, for he killed his children, and spared his pigs !'
ELECTIONEETIING EXTRAORDINAnY.-7—The
Agents of a candidate .for the representation of a
Northern Borough, not very famous for the purity of
elections, were so eager in procuring voters, that a
good lady who wished to have a trip to the country,
'to enjoy the fun and frolic of a contested election,
presented ,herself, in the garb of her Lord Anti master,
to the agents, and was immediately sent off to the poll.
The following friendly notification may be met
with on the Mile-End-road :—" 'All persons who
attempt to enter these premises after dark twill be
shot f !