The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-10 00:00:00

FASITIONAELt INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, JULY 9.—His MAJESTY this morn-
ing, accompanied by his Suite, attended Divine Ser-
vice at the new private Chapel, near the Royal Lodge.
The KING'S pony phaetons are ordered this after-
noon at half-past two o'clock, when his MAJISTY
will take an airing in the Great Park. His MAJESTY
is expected to visit the Castle, and inspect the general
improvements.
Yesterday the KING and visitors, together with his
suite, passed the afternoon at Virginia Water, and
dined at five o'clock under the marquee. His MA-
JESTY enjoyed several hours' angling, and we are happy
to state continues in good health and spirits.
Lord and Lady Strathaven are on a visit to his
MAJESTY.

Windsor during the present season has been a place
of more public resort than has ever been remembered.
Visitors of the most fashionable description almost
daily honour us with their presence ; the Inns are
crowded, and the private lodging houses are almost all
occupied.

The Duke of York continued going. on well yester-
day, when his Royal Highness was visited by the Du-
chess of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, and the
Princess Sophia. On Saturday Sir Herbert Taylor
transacted military business with his Royal Highness
the greater part of the morning. Soon after three
o'clock the Royal Duke rode out in his open carriage
and pair, proceeding at a slow pace from Mr. Green-
wood's villa to St. James's Park, where he viewed the
new building erecting for his future residence. His
Royal Highness did not alight from his carriage, but
passed the building in the Park and in the Stable
Yard. His Royal Highness, we are happy to say, is
evidently looking much better.
Yesterday the Princess Augusta attended divine ser-
vice at the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
On Saturday morning, at half past ten o'clock, the
Lords of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council assembled at the Council Office, Whitehall,
to hear Plantation Appeals. The Lords present
were, Lord Stowell, the Master of the Rolls, and the
Right Hon. H. Elliot. The appeals were from the
islands of Grenada, Jamaica, and Berbice, and from
Prince Edward's Island. Mr. Hart, Mr. Adams,
and several other Barristers, were heard by their lord-
ships in the appeals. Their lordships sat till about
half-past three o'clock.
Earl Bathurst left town on Wednesday for Strath.
fieldsay, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington.
Saturday the Earl of 'Westmorland and Mr. Morier
transacted business at the Foreign Office.
Lord Stowell transacted business at the Colonial
Office on Saturday.
On Friday Mr. Huskisson transacted business at
the Foreign Office.
Friday evening Mr. Littlewood, a King's Messen-
ger, was sent off from the Foreign Office with de-
spatches to Lord Viscount Granville, the British Am-
bassador at Paris.
On Friday afternoon, about five o'clock, Colonel
Fremantle arrived at the Foreign Office, Downing-
straet, in a chaise and four, with despatches from Sir
Charles Stewart, at Rio de Janerio.
On Thursday the Lord Mayor gave a sumptuous
dinner to the Court of Common Council, on occasion
of Sir Peter Laurie's accession to his new honours as
Alderman of the Ward of Aldersgate.
Madame Caradori and Miss Ste are engaged
for the grand musical festival at Gloucester, to take
place the middle of September.
It is incorrect that Mr. Farquhar has left only one
nephew. He has three, and a more immediate rela-
tive in America.
The metropolis and its neighbourhood experienced
the benefit of some refreshing showers, for about three
hours, on Saturday night.
The remains of the Earl of Chichester are to he
be removed to-morrow morning from his house in
Stratton-street, Piccadilly, for interment in the family
vault in Sussex.
It is reported that the French Government is about
to adopt a new system with regard to the breed of
horses. An establishment, composed chiefly of mili-
tary officers is to be formed in some of the central
cities of the kingdom, for the purpose of carrying the
plans of Government into effect.

We understand that application has been made to
the Lord Mayor by the Police Magistrates of Dublin,
requesting his lordship to exercise his authority not to
allow the newly-elected Candidates for the County to
be chaired through the city, as they consider it might
occasion riot and disturbance. We have not learned
his lordship's decision on the subject, neither do we
know that any positive determination has been come
to by the friends of Colonels White and Talbot, rela-
tive to the chairing.
One hundred and thirty-three Members of Parlia-
ment have been returned from England and Wales
that did not sit in the last Parliament.

Dr. Burney, who publishes a Meteorological Re-
port at his academy at Gosport, states in his last
month's report, that there has not been so dry a
spring in this country, as the present, for the last
twenty years.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-.-Mr. Bish has declined
becoming the lessee of this theatre, in coneequence of
the most extraordinary binding clauses which the lease
contains • not a stick or a pin can be taken away,
though the lessee may expend 50,0001. on the pre-
mises—hence the loss of poor Elliston, who certainly
ought to have another chance at redeeming himself, if
it be true that his creditors bid 10,2501. on his be-
half. A proprietor of a Summer Theatre, not a
hundred miles from Waterloo Bridge, is now named
as the most likely person to take the helm at Drury.
The lease of Drury-lane is the longest that was ever
grantecl—for it occupies a dozen sheets of parchment!
Is it the long lane that has never a,turning?

contest terminated at three o'clock on Thursday in
NORTHUMBERLAND ELECTION.—.'.This severe
favour of Messrs. Bell and Liddell ; each of whom
addressed the electors at great length. The expences
of the election have, it is said, been almost unprece-
dented. Mr. Beaumont, the defeated party, has ex-
pended no less a sum than 80,000/. ; Messrs. Bell
and Liddell, 30,000/. each; and Lord Howick,
though he discontinued his expenditure much earlier
than the others, nearly 20,0001., Prodigious ! !
Q-- D—k, the late candidate for Malden,
agreed to purchase a horse, on condition the owner
allowed his (Mr. D.'s) groom to 'flake trial of it for
a day, to request the owner consent-
winch reasonable
ed, and accordingly the man rode him as far as the hus-
tings'and returned in the evening, where he found the
owner anxiously waiting his arrtval; but, not wishing
to
appear too eager to ask his opinion of the horse,
he began with, " Well, John, how does your Master get
on with his election ?"—._" Why," says John "I thinks
as how, if Measter an't returned, the horse aught to be."