The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-16 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Planta, Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, left town on Sunday for Brighton, on a visit to Mr.

Canning.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the birth-day of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, when he entered his
fifty first year. The usual observances of the day were not kept
lip, in consequence of the death of the Duke of York ; nor did
the tradesmen of his Royal Highness, in consequence of the same

melancholy event, illuminate their houses in the evening.

The Honourable Company's ship Windsor, con-
signed to Madras, Bengal, and China, left the East India Export
Dock for Gravesend, on Friday morning, towed by the Dart and

Hawke steam vessels.

In consequence of the sudden illness of Lord
Fordwich, the Earl and Countess Cowper have put off their party,
consisting of the Earl and Countess of Sefton, Earl and Countess
of Jersey, Duke of Wellington, Mr. Huskisson, the Hon. H. de
Roos, and the Hon. Wm. Lamb.

We are extremely sorry to hear that his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant has experienced a relapse, and is now con-

fined to his room by a severe cold.—Dublh Patriot.

The first meeting of the Noblemen and Gentlemen's
Catch Club, which was to have been held this day, is postponed
in consequence of the lamented decease of the Royal Duke, till the

following week.—The second meeting of the Giee Club is post-
poned from the same cause till the 27th ins`.
The
_large stones which have been taken down from
the King's Palace, in Pall-mall, are removing daily to the new
Palace erecting for his Majesty in St. James's Park.

The Hulsean Prize at Cambridge has been ad-
judged to Mr. W. M. Mayers, of Catherine Hall, a converted
Jew, for his Dissertation on the following subject :—" A Critical
examination of our Saviour's Discourses with regard to the Evi-

deuce which they afford of his Divine Nature."

How impure the gas is of late !" is a very gene-
ral exclamation. 'We can bear witness to its correctness. Like
the man who went in search of a general illumination with a
candle-and-lanthern, we are often obliged to employ candles in
our printing-office to find out the gas-light.—Carlisle Paper.
The late Mr. Cradock was, perhaps, the steadiest,
as he was certainly the oldest admirer of the Stage. In a codicil
to his will, he expressed a " wish that a little picture of Mrs.
Siddons might be presented to Mr. Boaden, the author of the
Life of Mrs. Siddons." It was accordingly transmitted to him
by Mr. Nichols, the particular friend of Mr. Cradock.
The late Mr. Gifford (says a cotemporary) appears
to have been in the receipt of a large income. During-the time
that he was Editor of The Quarterly Review, Mr. Murray paid
him nine hundred pounds a year. He received annually, as one
of the Comptrollers of the Lottery Office, six hundred pounds.—
He had a salary of three hundred pounds as Paymaster of the
band of Gentlemen Pensioners—two hundred a year as Clerk of
the Estreats in the Court of Exchequer ; and, in addition to all
these sums, he enjoyed a pension of, we believe, four hundred
pounds per annum from Lord Grosvenor.
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AN ODD EXPEDIENT.—This week, a swindler
resorted to the following ingenious method of issuing forged
notes :—Having learned that a gentleman was to proceed in his
carriage from Edinburgh on the road towards Glasgow, he hired
a handsome pony, and dressing himself smartly, he rode at some
distance before the carriage, and under the pretence of being the
footman, he changed a counterfeit 51. note at each of the tolls.—
He continued'the imposture as long as he thought it prudent, and
then altered his course, and character, as a traveller.— Glasgow
Free Press.

The Lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, with his suc-
cess, seems to redouble his energies. In addition to Mr. Kean,
we understand Mr. Elliston is engaged for a limited number of
nights. A new Drama, in which La Porte is to perform, is quite
ready ; and the grand Opera, with music by Bishop, will speedily
be produced.

One of the principal actors of the Comedic Fran
aiser stopped short in a Tragedy at this passage—

" I was in Rome, and there ----:—'

was iu'vain he began over and over again two or three times.

He could never catch the thread of his part. At length, finding
there was no way of getting on, and that the prompter, either
through stupidity or panic, was leaving him in the lurch, he
darted a fierce and haughty look at him, exclaiming in a tone of
dignity—
" Speak ! dolt ! and tell me what I did in Rome !"

AN ARABIAN CA TA L ANI.—" At Cairo there
was a famous singer whom the Europeans never called by any
other name than that of the Arabian Catalani. The price which
she required for her performance was worthy of the name which
she had assumed ; to induce her to sing, it was necessary to begin
by sending her a Cacbemere shawl worth a hundred Spanish
piastres; when the concert was ended, she laid the whole com-
pany under contribution ; and a present of small value did not al-
ways suffice, for she had the art of stimulating the self-love of the
audience by proclaiming aloud the value of each present which she
received."—Literary Gazette.