The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-29 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

The Duke of York drove out in his cabriolet yester-
day morning for near two hours, to take his usual
daily airing. His Royal Highness inspected the
new building erected in the King's Palace, St. James's,
for his future residence, drove up Constitution
Hill, &c.

Sir Herbert Taylor, his Boyal Highness's Military
Secretary, and Sir Willoughby Gordon, Quarter-
Master-General, transacted official business with the
Royal Duke yesterday morning.
Sir Henry Halford and Mr. M'Gregor, Sergeant-
Surgeon to the King, visited his Royal Highness
,yesterday afternoon. Soon after attending the Royal
Duke, Sir Henry left town on a visit to his Majesty
at the Royal Lodge, Windsor Park.
Mr. Secretary Canning arrived at his residence in
Downing-street yesterday afternoon, from Brighton.
Earl Bathurst also arrived in town yesterday.
Mr. Secretary Peel was expected to arrive yesterday
evening from 'Broadstairs, and the Earl of Liverpool
was also expected in town yesterday evening.
Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign
Office from the Earl of Clanwilliam, our Ambassador
at Berlin.

The Marquis of Chandos dined on Saturday se'n-
night at. Buckingham with the Gentry, Clergy, and
Freeholders of the neighbourhood, pursuant to invita-
tion—upwards of 150 were present. On Thursday
the Noble Marquis also dined at High Wycombe
with about 100 Freeholders ; and has accepted an in-
vitation to dine with the Freeholders of Marlow.

Joseph Hume, Esq. M. P., late Lord Rector of
Marischal College, Aberdeen, has procured and pre-
sented to the College Library there the Journals of
the House of Commons from 1547 to 1825 ; the ge-
neral Index to the Journals (except one voltune, which
is out of print); the Reports of the House from 1715
to 1802 ; with the general Index to the Reports ;
making in all 102 volumes folio, in sheets.

STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

(From the Dublin Evening Post.)

Nothing can be well more contradictory than the intel-
ligence which has reached us since our last, as to the state
of the potatoe crop, that upon which, for the present, all
our anxiety is fixed. We have had for the last two days
very heavy rain in this city and its vicinity, and we under-
stand that it has extended through a very considerable
space. That it will save the poor from absolute famine,
we are willing to hope—but it is well known that as the
early crop of potatoes have been a partial failure, the poor
people in several instances were compelled to recur to the
other, long before they were in a fit state for consump-
tion. Added 'to this, the stalks in several instances are
burnt up, and, as it were, consumed by the sun, so that
there is little chance that the rains which we ive had
will service them. One thing, however, we believe, is
tolerably certain,• that we shall have a tolerably good
)10.owth of after.grass—and that there will be sufficient
keep for the cattle.

With regard to the fever-famine, the exertions of the
A uthorities and of the Committees of different charitable
associations, are exerting themselves with great vigour—
but the malady is rapidly increasing, although it is, as yet,
a fever of the mildest type ever remembered in Dublin.
Dysentery, however, is becoming more general.
PAROCHIAL CATHOLIC MEETINGS.—SeveraI parishes
in the county of Waterford have already assembled and
come to resolutions. By the following letter it will he
seen, that the county of Mayo has been by no means back-
ward—thanks to the excellent and active Catholic Arch-
bishop of that Diocese, as well as to Mr. Eneas Macdon-
nell, whose speech at the Abbey Meeting in Mayo has re-
cently appeared in this Journal, and which speech, we
still hope to read in a less perishable form. in Dublin,
St. Andeon's Parish has commenced, and it will no doubt
be followed by the remainder. We entreat most partien-
arly that the petitions may be ready for signature, and
confided with the least possible delay to the Members,'
who will undertake their presentation.

FAMINE—FEVER.
(From the Dublin Patriot.)

On inquiry into the measures taken in order to prevent
the spreading of this alarming contagion, we learn that the
Committee for the relief of the distressed manufacturers
have been most active in the Liberty, by employing the
poor operatives in this duty; from the 26th of May up to
Saturday last, there were as follows :
, Fifty-four streets and lanes, containing 1,170 rears of
houses, cleansed and re-cleansed; 987 houses, containing
3,847 rooms, besides the halls, stair-cases, entries and
yards—whitewashed, and thoroughly cleansed by scouring.
The number of persons employed in this work on Sa-
turday, were as follows :

IRO men, weavers,
IMO women, ditto,
36 boys, ditto.

466 persons.
The Coroner's investigation at Mullinger, has issued in
the following extraordinary verdict :---
" We find the deceased body, Ferdinand Rafferty, cams
by his death by a retention of urine, he having received a
blow of a stick on the side, from Joseph M. Daly, Esq.,
on the 28th of June last."