The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-06 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

WINDSOR, APRIL .s.—His MAJESTY left
the Royal Lodge, yesterday afternoon, at half-
past two o'clock, in his pony phaeton, accom-
panied by► his Suite, and drove to Virginia
Water. The KING alighted upon his arrival at
the Lake, and visited the Fishing Temple, which
is to undergo some alterations during his MA-
I JESTY'S absence, and to be in readiness for his
enjoyment of aquatic excursions upon his,return
to the Royal Lodge. His MAJESTY afterwards
drove to the new bridge which crosses the Lake
near Blackness, and returned by Cumberland
Lodge, after an airing of three hours.
The KING will take an airing this day, dine
early, and afterwards leave for London.

ARRIVAL OF HIS MAJESTY IN TOWN.-
Last night, at a few minutes past ten o'clock, the KING ar-
rived at his Palace in St. James's, in his travelling chariot
and four, with outriders, from his Royal Lodge in Windsor
Park.

The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess
Sophia visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. Their
Royal Highnesses afterwards took an airing.
A Cabinet Council- was held yesterday after-
noon at three o'clock, at the Foreign Office, which was at-
tended by the Duke of Wellington, the Earls of Harrowby,
Westmorland, and Bathurst, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mir.
Secretary Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Vis-
count Melville, Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Wynn, and Lord Bex-
ley. The Ministers continued iu deliberation for an hour
and a half.

Baron Sterniold, the Swedish Minister, trans-
actecrofficial business with Mr. Secretary Canning yesterday.
Viscount Granville transacted business at the
Foreign Office yesterday.
The Earl of Liverpool was stated yuterday, by
Dr. Dreyer, to be going on very 'well.
Prince Lieven gave another grand entertain-
ment on Wednesday, at Ashburnham House, Dover- street,
to a distinguished party. Among whom were the Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis of Lansdown, the Earl and
Countess of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Lord
and Lady Gwydyr, Count and Countess of Woronzow,
Marquis of Paknells, Lord Auckland, Sir Charles and
Lady Eliz. Stewart, Mr. Lamb, &c.

The Duke of Buckingham entertained a dis-
tinguished party to dinner on Wednesday, at his house in
Pall-mall.

The Marquis of Hertford had a grand assembly
on Wednesday evening, at his house in Piccadilly, which
was attended by all the leading and distinguished fashion-
ables in town.

Earl and Countess Grey, together with their
youngest daughter and son, came to town last night, from
their seat, Howick Castle, to their residence in Portman-
square.

Lord Falmouth, Lady Trigge, Admiral Fel-
lowes, and H. Peters, Esq. had dinner parties yesterday.
Sir Mathew Tierney is reported to have given
it as his opinion that Mr. Canning's complaints are merely
muscular, and that the main sourcea of life and health are in
no degree impaired.
The Grand Triennial Music Meeting at Wor-
cester is fixed for the 11th, 12th, and 13th days of Sep-
tember next.— Worcester Journal.

The venerable Earl of Shrewsbury departed
this life this morning, after an illness of many years' dura-
tion. His Lordship was in the 77th year of his age ; anti
it is reported that he died possessed of nearly half a million
of money, independent of landed and other property.
We understand that Signora Toso is shortly
to apear in Rossini's celebrated opera of Mahonzet. She
will be accompanied by Galli, whose arrival in England is
hourly expected.
MRS. WA KEIPIELD.-We understand that
Mr. Turner has, in a manner and with the forbearance in.
the highest degree creditable to his injured feelings, inti-
mated his intention of not pressing for the judgment of the
Court against the female defendant. The verdict alone, to
a person of ordinary feelings, is, when contemplated, suf-
ficiently humiliating, and cannot fail to be a severe punsli-
ment; to which; as regards Mrs. Wakefield, Mr. Turner,
it seems, is unwilling to add incarceration in goal.--Maccles-
field Courier.

HOPEFUL CONTINGENCY.—We hear that
a very singular affair is now under legal investigation at
Brussels. A man, it is said, declares that he has married
and established himself, depending on a fortune to accrue
to him from his wife, and which fortune was found after
his marriage to consist principally in forged bills of ex-
change.

We understand tbat the office of Lord
Mayor's Fool, has been revived, for the express purpose of
installing the Reverend Mr. Dillon, in all its emolu-
ments and respectability. This is a compliment due to,
the gifted historian of the " Lord Mayor's Journey to
Oxford ;" and goes far to refute the illiberal notion that
great men are not rewarded according to their deserts.
EXTRAORDINARY FEMALE INTREPIDITY.
___BRussitLe, APRIL have received ttvo letters
from Mamur, giving an account of a terrible fire in the
house of M. Chenneye. A barrel of gunpowder blowing
up, the fire communicated to several casks of brandy.__
Twenty barrels were got out by some courageous men,
who in spite of the imminent danger entered the warehouse
and rolled the casks into the Meuse, but this act of courage
was surpassed by Chenneye's daughter, a young person 20
years of age, who mounted by a ladder into the burning
loft, threw three barrels of gunpowder out of the window,
into the court yard, and descended unhurt, and had them put
into a boat, while her father, ignorant of this heroic action
exhorted the people to let every thing be burnt, rather than
expose themselves to certain destruction. It was not till
she had informed him of what she had done, that the
workmen renewed their exertions.

The following is the House List of Governors
and Directors of the Bank of England for the year
ensuing, via.:---.

FOR GOVERNORS.
JOHN BAKER RICHARDS, Esq. Governor.
atatuit. DREW E, Esq. Deputy-Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.

John Bowden, Esq.
Cornelius Buller, Esq.
James Campbell, Esq.
John Cockerell, Esq.
Timothy A. Curtis, Esq.

James Pattison, jun. Eq.
John Pearse, Esq.
Charles Pole, Esq.
Henry Poreher, Esq.
Richard Mee Raikee, Egg.

George Dorrien, Esq.

Sir John Rae Reid, B

John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Simon Taylor, Esq,
William Manning, Esq. And. Henry Thompson, Esq.
William Mellish, Esq. William Thompson, Esq.
James Morris, Esq. Samuel Thornton, En•
Geo. Warde Norman, Esq. William Ward, Esq.
John Homeley Palmer, Esq. Money Wigram, Esq*
The Election for Governor andDeputy-Governorfo
r Directors
be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the and
on l
fVou etrh ini the afternoon.esday,thellth instant, from ten in the forenoon
till

ENCOURAGEMENT OF TIIE ARTS
His Majesty has
atisfsrxeeths,pAPßlL his
protection of the
Fine Arts, by decreeing that,
beenrt H.
pressedo L A rt
" Beginning with the year
1897, a sum of 20,000 florins shall be annually paid by
the Treasury, for the purchase of productions of real and
eminent merit, by living artists, of the kingdom of the
Netherlands." Works included in the annual exhibitions at
Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, and Ghost, are to be first
taken into consideration. Rewards are also to be give 4
out of this sum, for engravings on copper, gems, medals,
remarkable lithographic productions, architectural plans, &c.
We have been more than once reluctantly
obliged to complain of the uncivil and unbecoming conduct
of some of the Messengers employed in the House of Com-
mons. Upon a recent occasion their misbehaviour re-
ceived a check which it deserved, and we had hoped that
it was effectually stopped for the future. Last evening,
however, a Messenger, whose name we understood to be
Lead, on clearing the gallery for the division on Sir John
Newport's motion, so strangely mistook the authority with
which his employment invests him, as to beat and push
with great violence the strangers and others who were
making all possible haste to quit the gallery. This man
carried his insolence so far as to strike several gentlemen,
and to thrust diem down the stairs. We are induced to
take this notice of the affair, in order to prevent its recur-
rence, because we are quite sure that the higher authori-
ties of the House of Commons, to whom the public and
the press are under many obligations, would neither coun-
tenaeoe nor tolerate such unnecessary and unprovoked vio-
lence in their menials.-- Times.
A charge of assault of a very grave character
was last week exhibited against a farmer of considerable
property in this neighbourhood. The party accused is
not yet in custody,
,though a warrant is out for his appre-
hension; nut we understand his friends have given an
assurance that he will surrender at the Assizes to meet
any bill that may be
preferred against him..., GI
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