The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-27 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS

BRIGHTON, JAN. 25.—The attendance of Nobi-
lity and Gentry at the Palace to-day, to leave their
names in the Hall Book, has been quite as great as
that of yesterday. Among others we noticed--
The Dowager Marchioness of Donegall and the Misses Godfrey,
the Countess Dowager of pinto and Lady Anna Maria Elliott,
Lord and Lady G. and Miss Seymour, the Earl of Cardigan and
the Ladies Brudenell, Lady G. and Mr. Baillie, Sir Hugh Palli-
ser, Vice-Admiral Sir H. Blackwood, Lieutenant-General Sir W.
and Lady Inglis, Major-General Sir C. Pratt, Colonel Sir G.
Way, Mr. and Mrs. Cholmeley Dering, Sir T. and Lady Leth-
bridge, Lady Harvey Lady A'Court, General and Mrs. Fitzroy,
Sir G. and Lady Berkeley, Lieut.-General Sir J. and Lady Ha-
milton, Lord Dunglas, &e.

The most gratifying answer to all enquiries, at the
Palace to-day, respecting the KING, has been precisely
the same as that of yesterday, viz. :—" His INIAJEsTv
is well."

The names left in the Hall book, exclusively for
the Duchess of Gloucester, have also been numerous
to-day.

L► addition to the arrivals mentioned yesterday, Sir
William Kepple,,joined the Royal suite at the Palace
this evening.
The weather here continues rigidly severe; and
scarce any out-door exercise is taken.
His Majesty's Private Band has arrived with us,
but their attendance at the Palace has not yet been
required. Those experienced police veterans, Town-
shend and Sayers are as usual when Royalty is here,
sojourning with us.

The Duke of Sussex left his apartments in the
King's Palace, at Kensington, about eleven o'clock yesterday
morning, in his carriage and four, on a visit to the Princess
Augusta, at her seat at Frogruore.
Mr. Secretary Peel is expected to-day at the seat of
Mr. Huskisson, at Earth, near Petworth, Sussex.
Mr. Waring, the King's Messenger, arrived, at an
early hour yesterday morning, at the office of the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, with despatches from Richard Vaughan,
Esq., the British Minister to the United Sitates of America: Mr.
W. had a very quick passage. Some of the despatches from
Washington were dated up to the let inst. The Under !:;ecretary
of State in attendance opened the despatches, and immediately
forwarded them to Mr. Canning.
Despatches, dated the 9th inst. were received yes-
terday morning, at the Colonial Office, from Lieutenant-General
Sir William Clinton, at Lisbon.
Despatches were also received yesterday morning
at the Colonial Office, from Lord Beresford, at Lisbon.
Miss Jarman, late of the Dublin Theatre, has arrived
in 'London, and will shortly make her appearance, at Covent
Garden Theatre, in the character of Letitia Hardy. The most
sanguine expectations are formed as to her success.
Baroness Willoughby de Erisby entertained the
Dowager Countess of Clare, Lady I. Fitzgibbon, Lady Gwydir.
Hon. George Agar Ellis, and a select party to dinner on Thurs.-
day at her house, Whitehall.
Lady Bathurst, the sister of the late Duke of Rich-
mond, was not forgotten by the late Duke of York in his last
moments.—The conduct of the Duke of York in refusing to fire
when he met the Duke of Richmond, then Colonel Lennox, on
the occasion of their dispute, excited the highest admiration of
his Royal Highness's magnanimity in the mind of her Ladyship.
—A strong friendship existed between the Duke of York and
Lady Bathurst from that time to the period of his Royal High-
ness's death.—At the interview which took place between his
Majesty and his Royal Brother immediately before the Duke of
York's death, his Royal Highness requested that his Majesty
would, in the event of the disorder proving fatal, send a lock of
his Royal Highness's hair to her Ladyship, in token of his friend-
ship and affection. On Monday last his Majesty forwarded the
hair to Lady Bathurst, at the Albion Hotel at Brighton.
BIRTH.-On the 26th instant, in James-street,
Buckingham Gate, the Lady of Henry Bedford, Esq., of a son.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Llarrowby,'of Sandon
Hall, near Stafford, has been pleased to present the Rev. William
Edward Coldwell, 31. A. Rector of St. Mary's, Stafford, and
late of Catherine Hall, to the vicarage of Sandon, vacant by the
death of the Rev. George Bonney, M.A.—Cambridge Chronicle.
NEW LONDON UNIVERSITY.—Dr. Fellowes has
made a very princely bequest to this Institution,—as much ground
in the Regent's Park as the Council may deem requisite for a com-
plete botanic garden.—Literary Gazette.

A report generally prevails that Mr. Baron Graham
had resigned his official duties (or was on the point of so doing),
as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and that Mr. Serjeant
Vaughan was to be appointed to succeed the Learned Judge.

A Supplement of the Mirror, of this day, contains
a spirited programme of the funeral procession of the late Duke of
York, taken from Hatchett's Hotel to Hyde Park Corner.

The hand of the King's Guard' played for the first
time since the death of their Royal Commander, on Thursday
morning, while mounting guard at the King's Palace, St. James's.
The band was that of the First Regiment of Foot Guards.

The Privates of the 24th and 66th regiments in
Limerick garrison have applied, and obtained leave from their Co-
lonels to wear mourning on the left arm, in memory of the late
Duke of York.

The Scots' Grays and Royal Artillery also wear
crape round the left arm.

The 73d Regiment stationed at Waterford, at•
tended Divine Service on Sunday last, the Officers and Men wear.
ing crape on their caps and left arms.

W. Neat, a paymaster-serjeant in the 94th Regi-
ment, who had come from Gibraltar to Plymouth on leave, has
been committed to -the Devon county gaol, on a charge of stealing
a sovereign, the property of J. Roach, master of a Falmouth
barge, lying at Stonehouse.

The various lots of Play Bills sold yesterday, by
Sotheby, in the sale of Field's Dramatic Library, produced about
1401. Charles Mathews, the comedian, was the principal
purchaser.

AN INFANT AS LARGE AS ITS MOTHER.—The
Macclesfield Courier of Saturday last announces to its readers,
that an infant, borne by a pauper in the workhouse of that town,
after being weighed, proved to be upwards of 1001bs. This is
indeed "a thumping boy.—Stockport Advertiser.

BAD WRITING.—An eastern writer, speaking of a
man 'of a weak understanding and deformed parson, but magnifi-
cently attired, compares him to a wretched hand-writing traced
in characters of gold.

No less than 1,606 grains of barley were last week
aken from the crop of a pheasant at a gentleman's house at Bury.
—Cambridge Chronicle.

A TYRANT.—Knowles, in his Turkish History,
relates an extraordinary instance of capricious tyranny. It is,
that a German prisoner, of a gigantic figure and heroic courage,
was exposed by command of the Salton, with his hands and feet
securely fettered, and destroyed inch-meal by a dwarf who
reached little higher than his knees.

Mr. John Marfleet, miller, of Huttoft, killed a fat
pig a few days ago, not two years old, which weighed 47 stone,
14 pounds to the stone.—Stamford News.

STEAM VESSELS.—At Calcutta, the Indians,
from seeing the steam-boat stemming wind, tide, and current,
have called it Sheitaun Koonoo (the devil's boat ;) and an intelli-
gent Persian Syyud, wishing to compliment our national inge-
nuity, thus expressed himself :—" When the arts were in their in-
fancy, it was natural to give the devil credit for any now inven-
tion; but now, so advanced are the English in every kind of im-
provement, that they are more than a match for the devil him-
self !" Capt. Keppel's Journal.

ITASQUERADES.—The first Masquerade given in
England upon the foreign plan, uniting, after the Venetian fa-
shion, elegance and rude mirth and revelry, was by the Queen of
Charles 1., but as it was unfortunately fixed for a Sunday, the
populace loudly complained of the profanation of the Lord's Day.
In the front of the hanquetting-house at Whitehall, a scuffle en-
sued between the soldiers and the people, in which half a dozen
of the latter were killed, and two or three of the guards. This
produced a general dislike of the Queen, which afterwards aggra-
vated every other imputation that was cast upon that unfortunate
lady, as well as created a ♦iolent popular and somewhat tuagiste-
ria opposition to masquerades generally, fur nearly a century after.