The Sun.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

A FASHIONABLE GLOSSARY.

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The meaning of many words in common use haring under-
gone a material change within the last thirty years, the fol-
lowing Fashionable Glossary will or may be found useful:—
Age-An infirmity nobody knows.
Buying—Retaining goods without purpose of paying.
Bore —Any thing one does not like, or any person who
talks of relig,on.
Conscicwe—Something to swear by.
Common Sense—A vulgar quality.
Caatilq—A golden ticket to any fashionable performance.
Courage—No fear of God or man.
Debt—A necessary evil.
Decency—Keeping up appearances.
Dress—Half-naked.
Duty—Doing like other people.
Day—Night, or strictly speaking, from ten p. m. to six
a. m.
At Home—The domestic amusement of three hundred visi•
tors. called a rout.
Not at Home—Sitting in one's own parlour.
Fortune—The summurn ltonum.
Friend—The meaning not known.
Fashion—The Je ne sais quoi of excellence.
rice—Only applied to horses and men-servants.
Husband—A person employed to pay one's debts.
Home—Any one's house but one's own.
Haspitrz/ity—Obsolete.
Coachman—A gentleman or accomplished nobleman.
Chariot—A vehicle for one's servants, the dickey appro-
priated to Or ladies, and the coach-box fur the gentleman.
Drunh—Happy.
Love—The meaning not known, since the ossification of
the heart has become a fashionable disease; and would be
obsolete but for novels and romances.
Modest h ec
Music—Execution
Matrimony—.l bargain.
Morality—A trouldsome interrupter to pleasure.
Nensense—Polite conversation.
New—Delightful.
Economy—Obsolete:
(fid—lnsufferable.
Prudence—Parsimony.
Prodigality—Generosity.
Pay—Only applicable to visits.
Poetry—hypocrisy.
Enthusiasm—Religion in earnest.
Quic—Any inoffensive person not in one's own circle.
Spirit—Conterupt of decorum and morality.
Style—Splendid extravagance.
Religion—Occupying a seat at some genteel chapel.
Time—Only regarded in music.
Truth—Memory wicertain.
Tricked—lrresistibly agreeable.
Highly Accomplished—Reading music at sight, painting; a
border of flowers, or having a talent to guess charades.

We are requested to remark, that though in
several London and Scots Newspapers it has been
asserted that the claim to the yeeroge of Airly
has been rejected, or not sustained, by the House
of Lords-, thiS is by no means the case. That claim
is still in dependence, and it is hoped, that on
consideration of all its circumsiances, it will be
ultimately sustained, though, it is true, that on
certain points referred by the House to the con-
sideration of the Twelve Judges, the opinion given
by them was rather unfavourable, but the whole
merits-of the case were by no means thereby de-
termined.--(Edinburgh Paper.)
The Thermometer in Paris, on Saturday last,
was at 24 degrees and a half of Reaumur ; rather
more than 85 of Fahrenheit.

The balance of passengers between England
and France begins now to turn greatly in favour
of the latter • between the 22d and the 29th 'ult.
theta were .546 went from Dover to Calais, and
only 189 from Calais to Dover.

A new method of shoeing horses has recently
been introduced. It consists of two pieces join-
ed by a hinge, which is defended by a strong
steel-headed rivet, and, by adapting itself to the
expansion of the foot, is intended to prevent con-
traction.

Et/e.—Saturday a dreadful ,fire. happened at
Hill-end Farm, Sandridge, rear St. Alban's,
in the occupation of B. YOUNG, Lsq. The
fire began about one o'clock, and burnt down
three barns, wish 60 loads of threshed and
unthreshed wheat, about 20 loads of untbresbed
tares, also a stable and cow-house, /with three
calves, ten pigs, and some ponitry, a horse and
chaise belonging to Thomas Rackstrow, Esq. of
Hertford, with his family (on a 'visit there), a
horse and chaise belonging to Mr. Young, a
%cheat-rick, supposed to contain about a hundred
load, a quantity of straw and stubble. The Origin
of this melancholy catastrophe is not ascertained.
being particularly dry, the flames were
sol'b rapid, n
aspeiads,othatthe buildings were down in lebS than
an hour. Providentially none of the family re-
ceived injury.