The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-20 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, .TUNE 19.—Yesterday, afternoon, at
three o'clock, his Majesty, attended .by Lord Graves,
the Lord in Waiting, entered his pony phaeton, ac-
companied by part of his usual attendants, with the
Earl of Fife, in the 'double-bodied phaeton. His
~lEc,sty, on leaving the Royal Lodge, proceeded
through. the new plantations, and the private drive to
Frogmore Lodge, where his Majesty entered the
Home Park, and drove to, the• Castle, where he again
pasSed nearly an hour in the inspection of the works.
On leaving the Castle, his Majesty returned by the
Long Walk, and on :passing the middle gate, took
several delightful drives in the Great Park, and re-
turned to the Royal . Lodge at half-past six o'clock;
and at the usual hour of dinner, his Majesty honoured
his distinguished attendants with his company.
Yesterday forenoon the Earl of Fife arrived at the
Royal Lodge on a visit to his Majesty,
This afternoon, at half-past two o'clock, his Ma-
jesty, accompanied by his attendants and the Earl of
Fife, left the Royal Lodge for Virginia Water, where
his Majesty indulged in his pleasurable excursions, and
at five o'clock (which is the hour that his Majesty
dines on these occasions,) returned to the dining-boat,
where an elegant dinner, chiefly cold, was served up.
After dinner, his Majesty, in general, renews his plea-
surable excursions until eight o'clock, when lie re-
turns to the Royal Lodge.
The Duke of York continued better yesterday.
The Royal Duke was visited by the Duchess of
Gloucester yesterday morning. The Duke of Sussex
also aid a visit to his Royal Highness on 'Sunday.
Sir Henry Halford and Sir Peter Macgregor attended
the Royal Duke yesterday.
Yesterday, the Duchess of Gloucester and the
Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta.
Mr. Secretary Canning left town yesterday morning
for Brighton.

We thought public confidence bad been restored,
but, notwithstanding, we heard on Saturday of the
failure of Bankes at Cambridge.

Why is a Lord Lieutenant better than others ?
Because he can have only one Vice (lieutenant) and
sometimes has none.

The cross erected upon our churches was adopted
in the fourth century,, to distinguish the edifices in
which Christ was worshipped from the Heathen Tem-
ples. It was called Stauropegium.
SPECIMEN OF PUNCTUATION.—At the new Cut
which has been made in a hill on the road between
High Wickham and Oxford, is the following notice
thus carefully pointed :--"You, may, now, go, up the,
new, road."--There are too many pauses in this to
enable those who run to read.
A CLASSICAL APPARITION.—At a dinner party
some few months since, the Rev. C. C. C. the avowed
patron of the Stamford ghost, (an invisible gentleman
who put forth his opinions in Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew.) on being asked to account for the classical
propensities of the goblin ; observed that they were
perfectly characteristic, " for a dead man.would natu-
rally wish to speak in a dead language."

The late Moonshee, a native Indian teacher at the
llaileybuty College, was mentioning to a visitor the
expellees of bousekeepini.to which he declared con-
sumed the whole at his income : indeed, he said he
could hardly support his family. Being asked how
many children he had, he replied, " I had eleven, but
praised be God, they are all dead but jbur."
Tam Bini,rt.—When Henry Wife repaired the
clergy to prepare a translation of the Bible, Bishop
Gardiner %%anted to retain 99 Latin
.words in that
language. BY an act passed by Henry, .1446, he
forbade all artificers, journeymen, Sze., and all women,
except those of rank, to read the scriptures.
A curate, with a large family of ten. or tweke chil-
dren, was enjoying a hie summer evening; under the
shade of a lime (not a fig) tree near his door—when
two old college ompanions who were coming to pay
him a visit, stopped their horses to admire the family
group. " There is rural felicity for you," says one. I
think," says the other, " considerin our friend's small
fortune, I should rather call it rueful facility." •

GERMAN POSTING.—The German Postillion
seems to be a part of the machinery of the vehicle, cal-
culated to move at the rate of one German mile per
hour, and no more. To this living automaton, threats
or persuasions are alike unavailing ; he turns his head
at the sound of either, takes the pipe from his mouth,
listens, answers " Yaw Mynheer, yaw, yaw," replaces
the pipe in his mouth, and jogs on as before.—Ten-
nant's Tour.

An Italian gentleman of the name of Ctesar, who
had married a lady called Roma, was annoyed by
seeing the following caution posted up on the statue
of Pasquin

41 Cave Ciesar ne tna Rome respublica fiat."
Under which the indignant bridegroom wrote

" Ctesar regnat ;"
but bad the farther mortification of seeing the nex
morning that his indefatigable enemy had added

" Ergo tvionahitur :"
alluding to the usual matrimonial decorations of that
country.
PRICE OF PROVISIONS DURING ELECTIONS.—
During the ;diction at Sudbury four cabbages sold for
10/., and a plate of gooseberries fetched- 25/., the
sellers, where these articles were so scarce, aping voters.
At Great Marlow, on the contrary, things were cheap,
and an elector during the election bought a sow and
nine young pigslor a penny.
Dr. Johnson, a few days bef6re his death, acknow-
ledged to Mr. J. Nichols, that the Parliamentary
debates (in the early volumes of the Gentleman's
Magazine) were the only parts of his writings which
then gave him any compunction—(did he reflect upon
the Life of Milton?)'-`but that at the time he wrote
them, he had no conception he was imposing upon the
world, though they were frequently written from very
slender materials, and (Alen/rout none at all, the mere
coinage of his own imagination.—(Here the Dr.
seems to have " imposed" upon hiniself.)—He never
wrote any part of his works with equal velocity. Three
columns of the Magazine in an hour," he said, " was
no uncommon effort ;" which was faster than most per-
sons could have transcribed that quantity. In one day
in particular, and that not a very long one, he wrote
twelve pages, more in rantity than ever he wrote at
any other time, except in the life of Savage ; of which
4$ pages in Bvo, were the production of one long day,
including a part of thevnight." Of his friend Cave, he
always. spoke with great Affection ; "Yet,,' said he,
4-, Cave (who never looked out of his window, but with
view to the Gentleman's Magazine,) was apenutious
pay-master ; he would contract for lines by the
hundred, and expect the long hundred; but he was a
good mai:: and Always delighted to have his friends at
his table.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CIIANCERY.-(Ti DAT.)

TNOMPSON P. momrsosi.
Mr. Stinnes moved to discharge an Order made by his Honor
the Vice.Chaneellor. The bill in this case was filed for the
purpose of raising legacies under the Will of a gentleman
named Leonard Thompsim. The bill was filed in the
year. .1817, . end the heir-at-law .put in
-him answer to it,
admitting a" Will, made in ;815, to he a valid Will sub-
sequently a supplemental, till was filed, which the same defendant
answered without alleging that the will wee not valid, though
before the putting in of that answer he had now said be had been
previously advised .that the. will ,was rint valid. Afterwards the
defendant applied to the. Vice-Cliancellor for an order giving
leave to put in further answer, putting into issue the va-
lidity of the will, on the ground that the testator sea.
not of sound, mind when made the will. The Vice-Chan-
cellor made the order, which Mr. Sugden.submitted ought to
be discharged, on the ground that the defendant having known
the fact of the testator's unsonndness of mind before he put in
his last answer, just as much as he knew it now, and which be
had then taken no notice of.
KNIGUT opposed the present motion. The question before
the other branch of the Court, and the question before his Lord-
ship was, whether, if an heir-at-law, however in error and mis-
take, admitted the validity of a will, which was, in fact, not a
valid will, was for ever to be concluded, from that
cumatance, without ever having an opportunity of deliver-
ing himself from that admission ? The defendant had dis-
tinctly stated, that from error and mistake he had omit-
ted putting the validity of the will in issue, in his last an-
swer ; and it would be, as Mr. Knight said, an exclusion of jus-
tice if he were not now to be at liberty to do that which he might
his last answer was put in, and appeared by-his Assignees.
to have done before. The Defendant had become a bankrupt sine*
His Loanaute's opinion was, that the solicitor for the defend-
ant ought to make, an affidavit to inform the Court what he knew
of the circumstance now brought forward, previous to the putting
in of the last answer; and the case was ordered to stand over till
such an affidavit could be filed.

A mr...u.s.
Mr. floaNe applied ftir a case to be advanced to an early day
after the first Seal.
His LORDSHIP said, he really could not grant the application.
From the nature of each and every of the appeals, he had made
up his mind to allow nothing whatever to interrupt the hearing of
them till after the lust Seal. Some of the appeals were four or
five days old ; and from this determination he would be unbend-
ing, as he. wished the bar to understand.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH...4'l'ms DAY).
Haar v. CURME AND eOMrANY.
This was an action brought by one miller against another, for
diverting the current of the river Lea, at Bromley, Middlesex, by
which the power of plaintiff's ►will was taken aw►►y.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1001.
damages.