The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-19 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, AUG. 18.—Yesterday afternoon, at
half-past two o'clock, his- MAJESTY left the Royal
Lodge, in his pony phaeton, accompanied by the Duke
of Dorset, and followed by his attendants, in the
double-bodied and a single phaeton, drove to Virginia
Water, where his MAJESTY, with his attendants,
dined in the Royal marquee, at five o'clock. Previous
to dining his MAJESTY, with his suite, took an ex-
cursion on the Lake, and at eight o'clock returned to
the Royal Lodge ; when the Duke of Dorset took
leave of his MAJESTY, and left for his residence in
town.

Mr. Secretary Canning arrived in town on Thurs-
day from Coombe Wood, where Mr. C. had gone to
pay a visit to the Earl of Livervool on his return from
Brighton. The Right Hon. Gentleman was engaged
yesterday at his office in Downing-street, transacting
business with Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian, and
Count Lieven, the Russian Ambassadors, and others
of the Foreign Ministers.
Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Fo-
reign Office to the Right Hon. Frederick Lamb, our
Ambassador at Madrid, and also to Lord Grenville,
our Ambassador at Paris.

Despatches were received at the Foreign Office on
Thursday, from the Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot,
our Ambassador at Brussels, to Mr. Secretary Canning.

A despatch, dated the 18th June, has been re-
ceived at the Colonial Department from Mr. Warring-
ton, the British Consul at Tripoli, which announces
the arrival of Major Laing at Timbuctoo.
Despatches were received yesterday morning, at the
Colonial Department, from te Duke of Manchester,
at Jamaica. -

Despatches were also received yesterday morning
at the Colonial Office, from Sierra Leone and Quebec.
A King's Messenger arrived at the Foreign Office
on Thursday morning, with despatches from the Con-
tinent.

Mr. Cockburn, our Minister to Colombia, came
passenger by the Canada New York packet, which ar-
rived a few days since. On account of his health, he
was unable to get further than Carthagena.
The King's private apartments in the new Palace
building in St. James's Park are to be at the side next
Constitution Hill, to which a very splendid entrance is
nearly completed.

The Right Hon. Robert Peel, his Majesty's pre-
sent Secretary of State for the Home Department,
when only a young man about 22 years of age, after
four days public examination by the four Sworn Ex-
aminers of the University of Oxford, was adjudged
entitled to the highest Academical Honours, both in
Classics and the Sciences. In token of their admira-
tion of his unequalled excellence, the Examiners spon-
taneously and simultaneously rose, uncovered, and
congratulated him on his examination—a circumstance
without a parallel, either before or since.--Leeds In-
telligence r

As one of the Brighton coaches was changing
horses yesterday.at Meacham, in consequence of the
inattention of the horsekeeper, the leaders turned
round, which gave the coach such a severe jerk, that
a gentleman on the box was thrown with such violence
to the ground, that he broke his leg, and sprained his
wrist ; and a gentleman on the roof was precipitated to
the ground, and fell with great violence on his chest.
The name of one gentleman was Mr. Lord, a solici-
tor, in London, and the other a Mr. Jones, of the
Stock Exchange.

DUD LEY.--( From our Correspondent).—The iron
trade is becoming still more depressed ; and from every
thing I can learn, from those intimately connected
with the trade of the neighbourhood, I must prognos-
ticate that things will be worse. A considerable esta-
blishment in this vicinity is blowing out (this is a pro-
vincial technicality, the literal meaning of which. is,
stopping the works); not from the want of capital,
but the want of a market. Fifteen hundred or two
thousand pair of hands will consequently be thrown
out of employ. It is a pleasing reflection that, labour-
ing as they do under great deprivation, the work-peo-
ple are quiet, and sustain their misfortunes with forti-
tude. The colliers are, generally speaking, at work ;
but they still cherish feelings of murmuring and dis-
content. There seems no disposition on their part to
commit outrage. They are a rough, uncultivated
class, possessing manners and habits peculiar to them-
selves ; . but there is a genuine good nature belonging
to them that I never met with in any other operative
body. The
,company of the fourth Dragoons is still
here, but expect every hour to receive orders to return
to barracks.7—Birmingham Chronicle.

PUBLIC DISTRESS IN IRELAND.

(From the Cork Southern Reporter.)

MEETING AT THE MANSION-HOUSE.

This day, pursuant to a Requisition to the Mayor, and the call
of his Worship, a meeting was held at the Mansion-House fur the
purpose of taking into consideration the most prompt measures
for relieving the existing distress. The assemblage was very
numerous and respectable, and a highly intfresting discussion took
place, not only on the means of giving immediate relief, but on
the subject of the Poor Laws, on the introduction of which into
Ireland, there was but one opinion pervading the meeting ; and it
will be seen that a Requisition to the Mayor to call a Meeting, for
the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament
to frame a modified system for this Country, was agreed to on the
instant, and received a great number of the most respectable sig-
natures we ever.saw appended to a public document originating
in this City.
The MAYOR immediately named Tuesday next for 11gr, meeting,
to be held in the City Court House.
At the hour the meeting broke up (five &clock), it is not in
our power to give any other report of the proceedings than the
resolutions agreed to, which embrace the business of the meeting.
The sum already subscribed amounts to over 1,200/.

STATE or THE COUNTRT.—There are DO mills at work in
this neighbourhood for miles—and this from want of water. Flour
and oatmeal are sold only in very small quantities, in consequence
of speculating upon apprehended scarcity, and dearth of provisions,
in the later season, Oats sell fur sixteen shillings per barrel,
whose produce, the sustenance of the poor in lieu of potatoes,
brings to the miller, who is frequently the purchaser of the raw
gram„Vs. per cwt. This state of things, combined with the
diminution of supply at market, will strike down the labouring
pool. • In some parts of the nouuty Kilkenny, from the detlei."&ey
of the crops, there will soon be neither oatmeal nor potatoes. The
population is, in a great measure, subsisting upon new wheat boil,
ed with milk. We would recommend to the Mendicity and other
charitable Committees around. us, to purchase in time oimeal, in
good quantity, to relieve distrea in winter and spring, and,,indeed,
much sooner* they will find recompense in the quiet of the coun-
try, and the blessings of the poor.—"Vtee/9/4. post,

TURN-OHT 3,N T.HE PAPER TILA.IO..
The Paper ikralit in the neighbourhood of; Dublin have all beau
idle fig three or four weeks, u Iluvituence of a turn-out situongst
the. operatives to efirct payments in the new currency. The ail_
vox thus rowlited is about the sum that enables the Irish maim..
fat arer to compete, in this branch of trade, with the English
inamtktarer ; and, therefore, if the operatives succeed, there is
no great likelihood that any Paper AL'inufactory will be left long
.1-staxe had three or four shillings a week
We undersiand that the operatives in
ettuizloei'rtPaieutigrutruinbtuti;:iiitir:eFiclul,blenieen7 in Manchester, Liverpool, or any othek
Englial, tptyt,„ the introduction of machinery into the
otablisitinente, has been heretofore successfully rtio4ol by th.
operatives,--Dublin Morning Refitter.* •