The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-05 00:00:00

FIiSHIONA.DLE AND MISCtLLANEOVg,

The Duke of Clarence held his first Levee, as
Lord High Admiral, yesterday, at the Admiralty.

The Duke of Clarence, the Duchess of Glou-
cester, and the Duke of Devonshire visited the
King yesterday.

The Princess Sophia Matilda arrived in town
yesterday morning from her seat on Blackheath.
The Duke of Northumberland gave an elegant
entertainment yesterday, at Northumberland
House, to the Duke and Duchess of Athol, the
Bishop of London and Mrs. Howley, Lord
Redesdale and Miss Mitford, Lord and Lady
Strathaven, Mr. and Lady H. Clive, Mr. and
Mrs. Sullivan, Miss Knight, Miss Murray, &c.

Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, and
the Marquis de Palmella, the Portuguese
Minister, transacted business yesterday at the
Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs.

Lord Holland entertained the Duke and
Duchess of Clarence, and a distinguished party,
to dinner yesterday, at Holland House.
Earl Cowper entertained a large party to din-
ner yesterday, at his house in Maddox-street.
The Earl of Arran had a dinner party yester-
day, at his house in Dover-street. In the even-
ing her Ladyship had a select card party.
Lady Ashburton entertained an elegant circle
of fashionables yesterday evening, at her house in
Stanhope-street, Mayfair.
The Viscountess Torrington has arrived in
town, from Yotes Court, Kent.

Sir John Leach, Knight, was yesterday sworn
in before the Lord Chancellor as Master of the
Rails at Westminster Hall.

It is now about twenty years ago since Lord
Lyndhurst, the new Lord Chancellor, held his
first brief, as leading Counsel in an appeal case,
the Parish of Sandiacre v. the Parish of St.
Mary, Nottingham. Our late Recorder, Mr.
Balguy, was Counsel for St. Mary. Mr. Copley
exerted his utmost, and won his cause. It was
remarked in Court during his address, that the
talent that day exemplified gave great earnest of,
and would one day lead their possessor to, emi-
nence and fame. That prediction is now fully
realised. We have this anecdote from the par-
son who advised giving Mr. Copley the brief,
and whom he always met with kindness when he
saw him at the Derby Assizes, as long as he
came this Circuit.—Nottingham Herald.
The materials of Lord Portmore's mansion, at
Weybridge, are to be consigned to George Ro-
bins's hammer in the ensuing week.
A new Tragedy was read in the Green Room
of Old Drury yesterday, of which report speaks
in the highest terms. Mr. Kean has an excel-
lent part, and is so satisfied with it, that he
anticipates a career not less gratifying than that
he secured in Richard.

Marshal Soult's son passed through Carmar-
then lately on his way to Ireland ; and when he
reached the monument now erecting to the
memory of Sir T. Picton, he stopped his car-
riage, and examined it minutely. He made a
number of enquiries respecting the illustrious
soldier ; of what place he was a native ; from
what funds the monument was erected, &c. ;
and when informed on these particulars, expres-
sed his admiration of the structure, and of the
patriotic spirit of his countrymen, in rearing this
tribute of their esteem. He seemed to regard
the relievos with much interest, and passed many
encomiums on the architect, the builder, and the
perdurable materials of which the column is
composed. He is a fine looking man, and sports
large mustachios.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
THE R EFORMATION.—On Thursday se'n-
night his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam con-
firmed in the Church of Ballymachugh, in the
County Cavan, forty-three persons belonging
to that Parish, who had conformed from the
Roman Catholic to the Established Church.

When Prince Blucher, in the early part of his
life, repeatedly solicited King Frederic 11. of Prus-
sia to accept the resignation he tendered of his
Commission, as a Captain of Hussars—the King,
in a moment of impatience, wrote on the margin,
" Captain Von Blucher may go to the Devil as
soon as he pleases."

BON MOT OF THE KING.—On a recent ec-
clesiastical arrangement,, rendered necessary by
the decease of a Reverend Prelate, it was sug-
gested to his Majesty that a certain Doctor
should at once be collated to a lucrative See,
thereby being, as to profit, placed above the
head of a deserving Bishop, whom the King
designed to benefit by giving his Lordship the
vacant diocese. " What arc your reasons ?"
asked his Majesty.—" Why, Sir," said the
courtier, " the Bishop of— is such an unintelli-
gible character ; and Dr. is of such an afl'a-
ble and charming disposition." "If that be so,
then," said the King,'" by all means let the
Bishop be translated, and your friend the
Doctor be preferred.--Blackburn Mail.
A lady notorious for her low origin, but who,
from the immense wealth accumulated by her
father in the honourable and lucrative trade of
money-lending, succeeded in allying herself to a
nobleman, whose fortune and frame were equally
shattered by the effects of his dissipation, was
one day showing off her sumptuous mansion to
George Selwyn. After leading him from room
to room, and boasting, in" rather a periphrastic
way, of her taste, she opened a folding door,
which led to a grand saloon magnificently fur-
nished; but in which there were no paintings.
" It is here," said she, to Mr. Selwyn, " that I
intend to hang up all my family." " I thought,"
said George, " that your Ladyship might have
been spared that trouble, for I have always un-
derstood that they were hanged long ago."—Le
Furet.

Signs of the approach of summer are fast
crowding upon us. The neighbourhood of
Loughborough was favoured on Monday even-
ing with a thunder storm, which, when it pro-
duces no serious accident, ought to furnish an
occasion of unmixed gratitude with the farmer,
on account of the impulse thereby given to the
process of vegetation. A vine shoot that had
been accurately measured, grew a full inch (lur-
ing the night on which the storm occurred,—
Nottinghanz Paper.

THE WEATHER.--In this neighbourhood
on Tuesday there was a heavy fall of snow, and
at night the frost was so severe, that in exposed
situations ice was seen a quarter of an inch thick.
On Sunday the heat was so great, that in the
afternoon the thermometer indicated summer-
heat ! This change has forwarded vegetation
with extraordinary rapidity ; the pastures show
the finest verdure. The pear trees exhibit the
most beautiful appearance ; a finer blossom has
not been seen for many years.—The blossom on
the earlier pear and cherry-trees was much in-
jured by the•frost on Tuesday night.—The rain
last night wilt prove of the greatest service to the
grass and cum crops, but especially to the bar-
ley.-- Worcester Journal.