The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-12 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, JAN. 11.—His MAJESTY, we are happy
to state, notwithstanding his acute and wounded feel-
ings upon the late melancholy event of the death of
his much-revered and lamented Royal Brother, is as
well as can be expected. His MAJESTY is in good
health, but is, as must be expected, much dejected.
He receives no visitors, except the branches of the
Royal Family, or that of his Ministers of State.
The surrounding Nobility and Gentry have left their
cards of condolence at the Royal Lodge.
On Tuesday forenoon his Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex paid a visit to her Royal Highness Princess
Augusta, at Frogmore Lodge, where he retrained until
nearly four o'clock, when his Royal Highness partook
of some refreshment ; after which his Royal Highness
took leave, and left Frogmore Lodge, on a visit to
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Clarence, at Bushy Park, with whom his Royal High-
ness dined and passed the night.
Yesterday forenoon, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Clarence paid a visit to her Royal Highness Prin-
cess Augusta, at Frogmore Lodge, and after a long
interview, and partaking of some refreshment, his
Royal Highness took leave, and left for his residence
in Bushy Park. His Royal Highness appears to en-
joy good health.

During the long afflicting illness of the late la-
mented Duke, it was deemed essential for his comfort that his
Royal highness should have an invalid chair; one was conse-
quently ordered to be made according to the position he was
compelled to sit in by his disorder, but it did not answer. The
King and the Duke of Sussex both sent their Royal relative one.
His Majesty's chair answered the purpose, being more adapted to
the afflicted state of his Royal Highness.
Two King's Messengers were sent off on Tuesday
evening from the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, with despatches for the Continent.

ROYAL MA RRIAGE.---WEINIAR, DEC. 26.-
Their Royal llighnesses Prince Charles, of Prussia, and the
Duchess Maria Louisa Alexandria, of Saxony, were solemnly be.
trothed yesterday, is the presence of the Members of the Grand
Ducal Family of the reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and
Prince Ferdinand, his brother, as well as several strangers of
distinction, and of the principal Officers of State.

His Majesty the Kin.g of Persia has conferred on
Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald the Insignia of the Lion and Sun
of the First Class.—Birmingham Chronicle.

Detachments belonging to the 67th Regiment of
Infantry, have received orders to march this morning, from West-
minster for Windsor. Detachments of recruits arrived in town
yesterday, from Salisbury, on route to join their respective corps
and depots. _ _ _

It is said that Government have employed an Agent
to collect and transmit officially information respecting the state
of the Mining Speculations in the Republic of Mexico.
We understand that Mr. Sheriff Winchester intends
to move the Court of King's Bench, as soon as term commences,
for a mandamus, directed to the Cott It of Aldermen, requiring
them to swear him in as Alderman of Wintry Ward, on the first
Election which, it is rumoured, \vas set aside on ground which
cannot be maintained.

Such is the unfortunate prejudice which still pre-
vails in some parts of the kingdom against vaccination, that at
Bridport no less than fifty-nine persons lately, fell victims,• in a
short time, to the ravages of the small pox.

When a Swiss Officer was reproached by a French-
man tliat he fought for money, and not, like the objector, for
honour, he replied, " Every man fights for that, of which he is
the most in want."

The first time James went publicly to Mass at the
Chapel. Royal, after his accession, the Nobleman who carried the
sword before Min, stopped at the door, and bowed, to let bis Ma-
jesty pus, thereby intimating that he did not mean to enter him-
self. " Your father, my Lord," said the zealous Monarch,
"would have gone farther." To which the other replied, " Your
Majesty's father, Sire would not have gone so far." •

DISAPPOINTED NUPTIALS.--On Monday week,
being Christmas-day, a loving pair, who are parishioners of Gaws-
worth, appeared at Prestbury, and sans cerernonie presented them-
selves at the hymeneal altar; their banns of marriage had been
duly published in Prestbury church, but as the curate of Caws-
worth had, by a note claimed the parties to be of his flock, they
were, much against their wills, obliged to return to their homes
in a state of "single blessedness."—Pottery Mercury.

ARCHDEACON PALEY.—lmagine to yourself a
thick, short, square-built man, with a face which, though ani-
mated and cheerful, could not but, at first sight, appear ugly ;
with bushy brows, snub nose, and projecting teeth ; with an
awkward gait and movement of the arms ; a decent and dignified
but by no means excessive protuberance of belly ; wearing a
white wig, such as suited his place ; a short coat, but without
what would have suited his place, a short cassock. To this part
of the dress of the dignified Ecclesiastic he had a particular dis-
like, and ridiculed it by calling it " a black apron, such as the
master tailors wear in Durham." The whole of his dress was of
course black. lie wore silver buckles at his knees and on his
shoes.—New Monthly Magazine.

SINGULAR DORMITORY.--A few nights ago, one
of the inmates of the Angel Inn, in Rochdale, a knight of the
Thimble, was left alone in the kitchen, rather fuddled, in the ex-
pectation that lie would, sooner or later, carry up his bones to the
bed he had before occupied. Early in the following morning a
soldier, who was quartered in the house, on going into the kit-
chin, fancied he heard an uncommon noise in the chimney, peeped
up, and recognised poor Snip, who, under the influence of Sir
John Barleycbrn'a potent influence, had mistaken the road
to his bedchamber. "Is it thee, .lem?" asked the soldier,—
doubtingly.—" Aye!" said the tailor, " there are two of us, my-
self and another. Is it day-light ? If it is 11l get up."--" Nay,.
Snip," said the soldier, " thou hadst better come down," undraw-
ing the window curtain. " It's quite light enough to turn out."
The glare was too much for the fraction of humanity, and down
he came- as black as a soot merchant. A good-natured North
Briton, his fellow-lodger, however, took compassion on him, and
with proper auxiliaries, after a couple of hours' scrubbing, the
tailor was regenerated.

- A country girl, who had come into Aberdeen last
summer ma yerofournghertreadduesemataion7,
and a
had, duringvery
closeher taatyim athere,ty existedfallen
be-
tween with .
tween them. At the end of summer, the girl was recalled to the
country ; there also she procured a sweetheart who did not mince
matters, but came instantly to terms; he bade her name the happy
day, and at length she did name it : her friends concurred, and
every thing was going on in a fair way for the consummation.
As is usual on these occasions, the bride set out for town to pur-
chase her " marriage braves," accompanied by the bridegroom,
and possessed of I 0!. which she had received from her father. A
fatal journey—fatal at least for the country bridegroom : for,
going out under some pretence from her lodgings, she met her
former lover ; a few minutes, certainly not two hours, saw them
proclaimed and married ! The astonishment and chagrin of the
disappointed swain beggars description: and he went home in a
sad state of despondency, leaving his faithless love in the possession
of his more fortunate rival. The affair took place last Thursday.
—Aberdeen Journal.

EMBALMING.—The process has undergone some
change within the last half century. The celebrated Wm.
Hunter's method was to fill the Wood vessels, very shortly after
death, with a fluid highly antiseptic. This fluid consisted of the
essential oil of turpentine, in which a small proportion of Venice
turpentine had been dissolved, with a trifling addition of vermil-
lion, in order to diffuse a florid colour over the skin. The fluid
was thrown into the vessels by a common syringe, which was in-
serted into one of the inguinal arteries. After a short interval the
viscera were then taken nut, and the natural juices squeezed out of
them, as well as from the body, by a gentle pressure with both
hands. The blood-vessels of the viscera (or bowels) were injected
in the same way as the body had been, and after being tied, they
were well washed with camphorated spirits of wine. Thebowels
were then replaced, and a powder (consisting of camphor, resin,
and nitre, sprinkled with the essential oils of rosemary and
lavender) was thickly strewn upon them, and the cavities were
then carefully sewn up. The various cavities of the body were
next filled with this powder, and the part between the eyes and the
eyelids. The whole of the body was then well rubbed with the
essential oils of rosemary and lavender, and it was placed on a bed
of plaster of Paris, that the moisture which oozed from it might
be absorbed. The late Dr. Baillie improved on this mode, as he
injected all the blood-vessels, without taking out the bowels, which,
however, were to be swell-washed, and partly filled with campho-
rated spirits of wine. He then filled the cavities of the heart;
and the other external cavities of the body (as in the process
adopted by Dr. Hunter) were filled with the antiseptic powder.