The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-15 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

WINDSOR, JAN. 14.—This forenoon hit MAJES-
TY'S Household Attendants heard Divine Service at
the new Chapel Royal.
This forenoon her Royal Highness Princess Au-
gusta, with her Royal Sister, the Duchess of Glou-
cester, had Divine Service performed at Frogmore
Lodge.
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Yesterday afternoon her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester arrived at Frogmore Lodge, on a visit
to her Royal Highness Princess Augusta.
On Thursday last, preparations were commenced in
St. George's Chapel, for the funeral procession and
interment of his late Royal Highness the Duke of YORK.
It is now again reported, and with much confidence,
that his MAJESTY will, in the early part of next week,
leave the Royal Lodge, for the Pavilion at Brighton.
The artisans and mechanics employed in St. George's
Chapel, in forming the preparations for the funeral cere-
mony of the late lamented Duke of YORK, are, since
the commencement of the preparations, obliged to
work from an early hour in the morning until nine and
tO o'clock at night.
Yesterday Mr. Mash and Mr. Bailey visited St.
George's Chapel, and inspected the works carrying on ;
and gave some additional instructions ; the whole of
which is superintended and carried on under the direc-
tion of Mr. Tebbott, his Majesty's carpenter, &c.

Mr. Secretary Peel has been on a shooting ex

CUTSIOII.

Mr. Dykes, the King's Messenger, artived at the
Foreign Office on Saturday, with despatches from Lord Gran-
ville, our Ambassador at Paris.

Lord Bexley transacted business with the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer at his residence in Downing-street, last week.
Rumours of Ministerial changes have been long
current ; but we never before noticed them, as we never heard
them mentioned in quarters entitled to much credit.—Chronicle.

It is confidently reported in well-informed circles,
that au important Ministerial change is about to take place.
Lord Lansdown and two of his friends are, it is said, to take the
place of three Ultra-Tory Members of the Cabinet, of whom Lord
Bathurst is one.

Lord Strangford has purchased a hoUse in Harley
street for his future residence.

The Duke of Devonshire has been making exten-
sive improvements on his estate at Dungarven, in Ireland, as well
as in the beautiful picturesque Castle of Lismore. The Noble
Duke is a very popular landlord in Ireland, never having raised
any of his tenants' rents.
The Court of the Netherlands has gone into mourn-
ing for twelve weeks, beginning the 10th inst. on account of the
death of his Royal Highness the Duke of York., • The first six
weeks deep, and the last six weeks half-mourning.
Yesterday the pulpit, reading desk, &c. of Tavistock
Chapel, Broad-court, Drury-lane, were hung with black, in me-
mory of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York.
Mr. Kingstone, one of the late Commissioners of
Stamps, has ' been appointed, by Lord Liverpool, to a lucrative
situation in the Audit Office, _

Lord Rivers is the hereditary proprietor of the
extensive Manorial Rights attached to Cranbourn Chace in Dor-
setshire, which comprise a domain of nearly 120,000 acres, and
from whence a considerable number of the deer have recently
emigrated into the low countries for want of food. The average
number in the Chace have been considered to amount to 10,000,
but in 1826 they were calculated at very little under 14,000.
BlRTlL—Yesterday, the 14th inst. at Goodwood,
her Grace the Duchess of Richmond, of a &tighter.

The Mogul Sultan Archer, bore this inscription
upon one of his seals ; " I never knew a man lost upon a straight
road."

A CONVENIENT CONSCIENCE,—" Where are
you going, Pat ?"—To Galway, your honour, to swear affidavits."
" What about, Pat ?"—" Sure I don't know, till my master ar-
rives from Cunnemara."—Bolton Express.
Sir C. Flower said a remarkably clever thing the
'other day. .The conversation turning on the two clergymen who
shot at each other under the mistaken idea that both were
poachers, he inquired if one of them was not related to Shute
Barrington, the late Bishop of Durham.
' I see how it is,' said 'Lady A—, the other day,
to her Lothario Lord, who falls, or fancies he falls in love with
every fresh face he sees. ' I see how it is with your pretended
regard for Out of sight, out of mind.'—' Not at all, my
lady,' returned the noble rover ; ' I swear I love you best at a
distance.'

A farmer recently received a polite note from a
neighbour of his (whose children were going on a short distance,)
requesting the loan of an ass for a few days. Being unable to de-
cipher his friend's hieroglyphics, and wishing to conceal his igno-
rance from the servant, the farmer hastily returned for answer—
., Very well, tell your master I'll wait upon himself myself pre-
sently !"
A WALKING IMPROMPTU.—As two Gentlemen
were yesterday walking by the Round Pond, in Kensington-Gar-
dens, where there is a board stuck up with a prosing prohibition
against fishing on pain of prosecution, one of the Gentlemen, who
was rather short-sighted, asked the other what the board meant?
on which the other promptly answered—
These waters are protected ;
And tho' you may be wishing,
You'll be sued, if you're detected,
In unlawful fishing.

The new Comedy at Covent•garden continue to
attract crowded 'houses nightly. On Saturday the house was a
bumper, and the piece went off with, if possible, increased eclat.
The,acting of Farrell alone is worth going fifty miles to laugh at.
111 dances so like a tar, that all on board recognise him as the
life of the ship's company.

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The return of Mr. Kean to resume his unrivalled
station on the boards of Drury-lane, 'has called forth an Appeal
to the Justice and Common Sense of the Friends of the Drama,
by a liberal minded individual, who compares the treatment ex-
perienced by Miss Foote and Mr. Kean after the result of their
respective trials. The Appeal is written with perfect candour and
good sense, deserving well of the friends of the Drama, who are
much interested in the question whether the first actor of his day
should be allowed to adorn the stage, or banished to the wilds of
America. But, happily for all parties, and play-going folks in
particular, the storm has passed over, and Richard is himself
again, although Othello's occupation was very near gone. The
present appeal glances at some other curious things, highly in-
teresting to the lovers of chit chat.

Shakspeare's King John will be produced this
evening at Covent Garden Theatre, for the purpose of introdu-
cing to the London boards Aliss Hargrave, in the part of Con-
stance. In this character the celebrated Mrs. Cibber, when she
first appeared in it, is said to have extinguished the merit of every
other performer in the piece, although Garrick sustained the part
of the King. Victor, in his " History of the Theatres," thus
desribes the effect which she produced :—" When she entered
with dishevelled hair, and wildness in her eyes, having lost her
son, her pretty Arthur; the Cardinal and others attempting to
comfort her, she sunk on the ground, and, looking round with a
dignified wildness and horror, said—
Here I and sorrow sit ! this is my throne ;
Let Kings come bow to it !'
Nothing that wu ever exhibited could exceed this picture
of distress ; and nothing that ever came from the mouth of mor-
tal was spoken with more dignified propriety. The late Mrs.
Woffingtoia,- who was excellent in many parts of this character,
could never succeed in this particular passage. Mrs. Cibber
never executed it without a burst of applause from the whole
audience.'