The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-21 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

We have the satisfaction to say the Duke of York
was considerably better yesterday.
Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Har-
key, Secretary to the Marquis of Hastings, the Go-
vernor of Malta, transacted business at the Secretary
of State's Office for Colonial Affairs..

The Irish Spiritual Peers, in the next Session of
Parliament, will be the Archbishop of Cashel, and the
Bishops of Clogber, Killidoe, and Kilmore.
On the first day of nomination for Members for the
City of London, Mr. Farebrothh and Mr. Winchester
were introduced by Mr. Alderman Lucas and Mr.
Alderman Thompson to the Lord Mayor, as the Gen-
tlemen to be proposed to the Livery on Midsummer
day, fir the important office of Sheriffs of London
antl:Sheriff of Middlesex, ibr the ensuing year.

The last stone of the external building of the Col-
lege of Edinburgh was put up 'this week. The four).-
dation stone was laid in the year 1759.
A sanguine Welehman had so high an opinion of
the pleasures to be enjoyed in the study of Heraldry,
that he' used to lament the hard case of our forefather
Adam, who could not possibly amuse himself by in-
vestigating that science, nor that of Genealogy.
A Highland laird having got a horse upon trial from
a friend, after having kept him for a month, returned
him with the following laconic note :—" Dear Sir, I
canna keep, your horse, for she is lame on the four
feet."
FRENCH POLITENESS.—Lard Chesterfield in the
course of conversation with a French Gentleman,
made use of a term, of the correctness of which he was
not Confident, and asked the Fentleman whether it was
good French. Mi Lord,' replied he, "it West pas
absolument francois, mais it merite bien de l'etre."
ALMACK'S IN TNDlA.—When Sir John.M,Pher-
son was Governor General of India, most,of his staff
consisted of Scotch gentlemen, whose names began
with Mac. The Flon. Mr. Fitzroy used to call the
government house Allmaeks, for said he, " if you stand
Indic middle of the court, and call Mac, you will
have a bead popped out of every window."
It is expected that, the third battalion of Grenadier
Guards, the first battalion of the. Coldstreams, and the
second battalion of third regiment of Foot Guards,
will be reviewed at Wormwood Scrubs, on Tuesday
next, by his Royal Meiners the Duke of York, the
above being the only battalions at present in town.
Westmoreland is the' (,n% county in which the
strange anomaly of an hereditary Sheriff exists; that
hereditary Sheriff is Lord Thanet, Mr. 'Brougham's
chief supporter. Lord Mallet appoints a deputy to
hold the election, and this deputy is, of course, likely
to be a warm supporter of Mr. Brougham. The pub-
lic should bear this in mind, and they will see, as the
election proceeds, how this circumstance works.
GOOD NOTES TO A POOR Book-.—The great
Duke of Chandos (who, Noble says, was unjustly
vilified by Pope, as he was really prudent, though mag-
nificent, and theliberal patron of literature and every
kind of merit) one day exhibited his library to a poor
clergyman, and told him to select any one he prefilred.
The clergyman from modesty fixed on one of small
Value, which was sent home to hiM, and on opening it
he found bank notes to a considerable amount
the leaves..

APPLE TR Eas.—We have been creditably informed,
that to engraft the apple tree tin !qemnore, will be the'
means at preventing the ftuit from being destroyed by
frosts, c.% en in the lowest and coldest ground. The
apple keeps pace, with the growth of the stump, which
makes the tree very large, and it blooms so late in the
Sitting tlntt the cold tides not affect it. rt would eer.
Way b well tor our Comers to try the experiment,—
fklerson's Ohio Gazelle.
Some years ago, a gentleman bronght home from
India' a favourite Arab horse. which he displayed in the
Park and elsewhere, mitliont haling the ~atisfaction of
beating a single remark made an its uncommon beauty.
One day, however, from the lameness of one of his
hunters, he was induced to try the Arab with the
hounds, and was in at the death with no' one but .a
whipper-in, who, wiping his forehead, exclaimed with
great apparent satisfaction, " Bless toe, Sir, how that
pony has carried you I"
here is a gentleman belonging to the bar of Vir-
ginia, now in 'Washington, who possesses an extraor- ,
Binary facility of acquiring and remembering decided
points of law, so as to be able when any point is pro-
posed, to state the reporter, the volumes, name of the
case, and the page where reported. The facility, it is
stated, he has acquired by a method of'reading peen-
liarly his own ; 'and he is willing to communicate the
secret to gentlemen of the profession for a small com-
pensation.-2 Vere York Paper.
JACK AT FAULT.—Durmg the war, the weddings
at Plymouth and Stoke were exceedingly numerous,
and the jolly tars were so thoughtless, that they would
often go to church without any money to pay the fees,
nay, not unfrequently without the rwedding-ring. It
became at length incumbent on the Incumbent to de-
sire the Clerk, at a partieular'period of the ceremony,
to collect the fees. On, one occasion, the Clerk went
round as usual, anti he came to a weather-beaten tar,
who had not cash enough in his pocket. What was
to be done ? Jack looked at Poll, and Poll leered
at Jack. The ceremony stopped. At length .fack
held out his hand with all the money he had, and said,
" Dash my wig, Master Parson, take this, and marry
us, as far as it will go.",