The Sun. — London, England, 1821-12-15 00:00:00

We respectfully solicit the attention of our Readers to the Report of the Committee of Ship Owners, inserted in our preceding columns. The examination of this important doCument should be considered a duty, even by persons who have not any direct connection with the Shipping Interest, since the preservation and extension of Our Shipping is indispensable to the power of the State, and to the general prosperity of the whole Empire. All parties have an interest in understanding the principles and regulations on which the Naval superiority of England rests, and from which has sprung our commercial and manufacturing greatness. The vigilance, activity, and intelligence of the Committee of Ship Owners cannot be too highly estimated. Their services are of the first importance, not only to the Shipping Interest, but to the Country at In our first Page will be found the Letter and Advertisement of Mr. PINSENT, which was an. flounced ,yesterday. It is deplorable to find that the Slave Trade Was never at any period more extensive, active, and prosperous, than it now is. The abolition or the detestable traffic by England has been followed by no relief to Africa. By an arrival °f Sierra Leone Gazettes, we are furnished with a list of upwards of forty slave ships, examined by or known to the British cruisers, on one part °ply of the coast of Africa, in the course of three °lentils! Thirty-tzoo of these slips are described as capable of stowing from eleven thousand to l u:eke thousand victims! These vessels undis guisedly bear the flags of their respective coun tries, France, Spain, and Portugal ; and few of them, under existing treaties, can be lawfully Condemned as prizes. About the middle of Sep tember, however,tiie Portuguese schooner Adelaide, With upwards of 200 slaves on board, was brought into the harbour of Sierra Leone by his Ma jesty's ship Pheasant, and condemned as lawful Prize to the Crowns of Great Britain and Portugal. The slaves were liberated. Another Portuguese vessel,called the Conceicao,with 54 slaves on board, Vas brought in on the 2ith of September, prize to his Maiesty's brig Snapper, Lieut. KNIGHT, c ommander. A great number of French and P ortuguese vessels, fitted fcr slaves, were found securely riding at anchor in the dif ferent rivers visited by the Snapper, while their cargoes were collecting in the factories on shore. When the Snapper was at Calabar, she found, besides the Portuguese schooner sent up fur con_ 'demnation, a Spanish fehfcca . and two Prench schooners, the Ilypolite and Le Neptune; the Spaniard was so fast a sailer, that they enter tained no fear of her capture when once clear of the river; she is a constant trader between the Havannah and Calabar. Lieut. KNIGHT was in.: formed that a French schooner had lately sailed with 200 slaves for Cayenne, which vessel, from the sharpness of her building, for the advantage of sailing, could only carry at the rate •of nine gallons of water per slate ! and her commander had no intention of touching at any other place before he reached his destination. It is stated, that in,the.ri.ver of Calabar there were recently several slave vessels, moored to gether, with springs CH) their cables, in such a po sition as to present at a short notice a half-moon battery ; and they Were deterthined, as they said, to support each other to the last.—The settlements On.the Gold Coast had been unusual ly unhealthy, this . year. AMong the deaths are those of the G,overtiorGeneral of the Dutch Set tlementsat Elwina, the 'Governor-General of the Danish Settlement at. Accra, and Mr. GORDON , Governor of the -English Settlements of the same , - place. . EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM SIERRA LEONE, DATED SEPTEMBER 24. From the tenour of. youi last letters I fully expected that his Majesty's Government would ere now have taken into their consideration the deP'ressed state of commerce in this part of the British dominions, and, according to your expectations, have reduced the duties on African produce to an equality with othes of his Majesty's islands and plantations; but, instead of this, the British Colonies in Africa are not even put on a foot ing with FOREIGN STATES. • "'ln corroboration of this, I need only notice two or three of the principal exports from our African Colonies, viz. --Ox and cow hides, averaging 7:1 pounds each, are charged a duty of 6d. per hide; and ox and cow hides imported from Buenos Ayres, averaging 26 pounds each, are only charged a duty of 10d. per hide. Other articles might be enumerated, to shew that Go. Vernment, instead of favouring the infant commerce of Africa, has actually denied her the privileges granted to FOREIGN STATES. • " About a year ago, our merchants in St. Mary's succeeded in bringing a part of the gum trade to the banks of the Gambia; but jnst as they, after great expence and trouble, had accom plished this important end, Government, as it would seem, to thwart their endeavours, reduced the duty on gum from France, from.33s. 3d. -to 12s. per cwt. and raised our duties from lls. 10,id. to 12s. per cwt.; thus crushing in its infancy this valuable branch of African commerce. " The same may said respecting the excellent timber shipped from this place to Great Britain. As soon as we had esta blished an extensive trade, employing from .twenty to thirty large ship 4 annually, in carrying timber from hence, Govern ment imposed a duty of 10s. per load, which has at once an nihilated this valuable branch of trade." [Extract of a Letter from Quebec, Nov. 18.] " It is not easy to account for the clamour which has been kept up in Upper Canada on the subject of duties levied in Lower Canada on goods, which it is supposed go into Upper Ca nada for consumption. It has always been un derstood that the Legislature of Lower Canada always disclaimed any intention of profiting by duties ultimately paid by Upper Canada con sumers (although it might assuredly have main tained a contrary doctrine respecting all goods imported for sale in this Province), and that the continuing to levy and pay over those duties, which, in the first instance at least, in great part certainly come out of the pocket of the subject : here was a boon granted to Upper Canada. The Legislature of Lower Canada ap pears to be sufficiently jealous of its right of levying and appropriating to the public use the monies which come out of the pocket of the sub ject in this province, and it ought not to be sup posed that it is so lost to all sense of justice, as to wish to deprive others of a right which it so so justly esteems. When the matter comes to be sifted to the bottom, it will .be probably found that the clamour has been without foundation." [Extract of a Letter from Bombay, July 2.] SiK natives have been convicted before the Supreme Court, in Calcutta, of having inflicted torture upon two other natives, in order to force them to confess that they had been guilty of murder, and have been sentenced to imprison ment.—Of our crop of cotton not more than 60,000 bales have found their way to Bombay, the greater part of which will go to China by the regular route." NEW Yona, Nov. 19.—The three new banks proposed to be established here are the Wash ington Bank, the Agricultural Bank, and the Tradesman's Bank, each with a capital of half a million of dollars ; the application for the first is headed by THOMAS FRANKLIN, the second by BENJAMIN ROMAINE, and the third by JAMES HAIL. WINDSOR, DEC. 1 4.----On W' ednesday his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK arrived at Frogmore, dined with the Princess AUGUSTA and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER, and in the evening returned to Loudon.—Yesterday evening the Princess Au- Gown and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER took an airing to Bagshot Park, and returned to Frog more to dinner. Yesterday the Earl of LIVERPOOL arrived at Fife House from Combe Wood, and in the course of the day transacted business at the Foreign Office. FASIIIOMABLE ARRIVALS.—The Earl of Mount Edg cumbe, in John-street, Berkeley-square ; Sir John Hippesley, in Grosvenor-square ; Lady and Nliss Campbell, in Baker street ; Right Hon. George Tierney, in Old Burlington -street ; Mr. Robert Adair, in Queen-street, May-fair; the Couniessde Grey, in St. james's-square ; Viscount Melbourne, at Mel bourne House, Whitehall, from Brighton ; Earl Morley, at Kent House, Knightsbridge; Orby Hunter, Esq., in Grosvenor place, from Rendlesham Hall, Suffolk; the Hon. W. B. Gray, in Charies-street, Berkeley-square, from Wales ; the Hon. Mrs. Robinson, in Privy-gardens, from Durnford, Wilts ; the Hon. Col. Lygon, from Farmington, Gloucestershire ; the Bishop of Ely, in Dover-street. from Ely Palace, Cambridgeshire. DEPART U RES.—Lidy and Miss Hill, for Bath ; Colonel and Mrs. Clifton, for Brighton ; Major and Mrs. Hammond, for the Parade, Brighton ; the Marquis of Salisbury, for Hatfield ; the Earl of Essex, for Cashiobury Park ; Sir R. Clifton, from the Claremont Hotel, for Clifton Hall ; Captain Delaney, from ditto, for Ramsgate ; the Dean of Chichester, from Ntrarne's Hotel, for Chichester. ' . • CiraxuuS.—Lord Viscount Ebrington and the Hon. Mr. Fortescue, from a tour, to Cheltenham; Major and Mrs. Max well, from Ramsgate, to-Bath. BATH Ant:mitts—Lady Bankes, Lady Duncan, Lady Keane, Major-Gen. Sirs J. Ashe, T. Buchan, and J. Nugent— Dr. and Mrs. Sabine, Dr. and Mrs. Sulltvan:--Col. Croft, Col. Jones, Cot M'Donnell, Col. O'Neill, Col. Roberts, Lieut.- Col. Gordon, Lieut.-Col. Goldie, Major llarris, 'Major Rich ards, Major Stone Captain and Mrs. Bird, Capt. and Mrs. Garratt, Capt. Clarke, Capt. Colin Campbell, Capt. Stevens— Rev. Mr. and Mrs.. Bartholomew, Rev. 111 r. and Mrs. Maule, Rev. Mr. H. Knapp, Rev. Mr. Bell; Rev. Mr. Estcourt, Rev. Mr. Eckersall, Rev. Mr. Ellicombe, Rev. Mr. Griffiths, Rev. Mr. Oliver. . The Duke of Devonshire arrived at half-past two yeSterday afternoon at Devonshire House, from Brighton ; after chang ing horses his Grace set off for his seat,,Chatsworth, Derbyshire. The Duchess of Devonshire has proceeded from Paris to Rome. The Prince Esterhazy proceeds to the Pavilion in the Holidays by invitation from his Majesty. . The Duke of Wellington has left Strathfieldsay for the Earl of 'Westmorland's, Apthorpe, Northamptonshire. The Marquess and Marchioness of Waterford arrived yester day at their house in Mansfield-street, from Ireland. The Duke of Rutland is hou'rly expected in town, from his seat, Belvoir Castle, on his way to the Pavilion, Brighton. Mr. Greenwood gave an elegant dinner yesterday, in Audley square. Mr. Charles Greville had a dinner party yesterday, in George-street; Hanover-square. 10 d 1 41 s' -t• " vit e ., 3 4 1 • •••••;-- v 2 IER of tao Ot 644 PRIVATE LOTTERIES' FOR FURNITURE, PROVI- • SIONS, AND OTHER THINGS. LOTTERY OFFICE, SOMERSET PLACE, December 15, Nil. WHEREAS divers Persons have of late . published Proposals and sold Tickets fur Private Lot" teries, or Little Goes, of Upholstery Goods, and Merchandize, Provisions, and Property of various descriptions, to the injury of the persons fairly dealing in those articles, and contrary to the Statute in such case made and provided, by which they have_ forfeited the sum of Fifty Pounds for each offence, and are liable to be prosecuted as Rogues and Vagabonds, and Punished as such, of which complaint has been made at this office; it is ther e fore become ❑ecessary to give THIS NO TICE that all such Persons as offend in this particular, sill be .PROSECUTED under the Act of Parliament, Ist.Geo. IV. • cap. 72, sect. 38. ',. HESSE. THIS is to give notice, that in Pursuance of Directions from the COMMISSIONERS for VIC TUALLING HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, I shall be ready'at this place, on WEDNESDAY the 26th inst., to receireTenders in writing (sealed up), from such Persons as will undertake to Purchase the HIDES, (except what may be wanted for the Dock Yards); and FAT that may be produced frost the Oxen slaughtered fur the service of His Majesty's Victualling De pa'rttnents at Chatham and Portsmouth, from the Ist day of January next ensuing, until the ;fist day of'March following. The Tenders to contain distinct prices, expressed in words at . : length for each article, and to be made sepaiate for each Port. The s:;•ne to be paid for at the end of each month. WILLIAM MELLISH. Shadwell-Dock, December 12, 1821 HEBDOMADARY : StiwnAY, Deeember 16—Third Sunday in Advent—O. Sap. e Ca. T. .—Sun rises at 7m. after 8; sets at 53 m. after 3. Moon Last Quarter at 8 h. 49 m. morning. MoXDAY 17—Oxford Term e.-:-Sun rises 7 m. after 8 ; sets 53 m. after 3—Moon rises 45 in. after midnight. TUESDAY 18.—Sun , rises 8 in. after 8 ; sets 52 m. after 3. Alonn rises 56m. after 1 morning. A r LDNEsims 19.—Ember Week.—Sun rises 8 m. after 8 ; • sets 52 m. after 3.—Moon rises 6m. after 3. i rI!gRSIJAY 20.—Sun rises 8 m..after 8 ; sets 52 m. after 3. 1 V196n rises 19 in. after 4. 21.—Sun rises 8 m. after 8 ; sets 52 m. after 3,_ Moon nsis 29 in. ohm . 5. SATURDAy 22.—Sun rises 8 m. after 8 ; sets 52 m. after 3. . Non. rises 23 m. after 6. . • PRICE 0. .TITIS DAY AT 3 per Cent. Red. 76 3 per Cent. Cons " shut 31 per Cent I IA 4 per Cent 96 *r eeht: lshivy Ann shut F STOCKS WELVF. O'CLOCK. Bank Long Ann. 193 7-Mills - India Bonds 70s. Excheq. Bills, ...2 pr. par 2 pr. Cons. for Opening 784 WATER AT LONDO . Ilornin, 7 minutes after 7. PINT BRIDGE TO-MORROW. 1 Evening, 30 minutes after ^I% THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICEIZE FALSUN_AUDE..IT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 182 L UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 14.—0 n Tuesday the following Degrees were conferred : MASTER OF ARTS.—Rev. Thomas Wyatt, Trinity College. BACHELORS OF ART S.—William Drake Sealy, St. Alban Hall; William Stratton, St. Edmund Hall ; John wetherall Brazenose College ; Ednuind Philip Stock, Magdalen Hall ; Edward Trelawny and Henry Thursby, Oriel College ; John Williams and Thomas Proctor, Jesus College ; Frederick Richard Stevens, Worcester College ; Henry Peyton Sadler, Pembroke College. PREFERMENTS.—The Rev. John. Webb, one of the Minor Canons, has been presented by the Dean and Chapter of Glou cester Cathedral to the Vicarge of Cardiff, void by the death of the Rev. Mr. Jones. The Rev. James Mainwaring, Vicar of Cainsham, near Ludlow, has been appointed, by Earl Soniers, coifed his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains, -PREACHERS.—Rev. Mr. Radcliffe,,on Sunday morning, at Christ Church ; Rev. Mr. Chandler, of New College, in the afternoon at St. Mary's : ReV. Mr. Streatfield, of Trinity col lege, •St. Thomas's Day, at St. Mary's; TfiE THEATRE.—The tragedy of Jane Shore was last night represented at Drury' Lane The atre. This tragedy was professedly written in SHAKSPEARE'S style, and though the imitation has not been so observable to the public in general, as it doubtless appeared to the author, yet the very attempt seems to - have animated his Muse to rise to a nobler height than she attained in all her other labours. The truth is than the play is not only interesting, as founded in his tory, and relating to a woman whose name and story will never be forgotten, but it is treated with considerable dramatic skill. The character of Gloucester is marked by sublety, fire, and Vigour, and in that respect, at least, follows up the de-. sign of SUAKSPEARE with more success than ap pears in the other parts of the play. The part of Alicia too is marked by great spirit, and the play altogether makes a very strong appeal to the feelings. - We have said more than we intended on this play, because it has been much too harshly treated by the diurnal Critics, as ROwc was not only an ornament to the British Drama, but a man of genius and learning, with the higher praise of being an exemplary character in private life. The young Lady who appeared last night in the melancholy her3ine of the piece is said to be a Miss EDMONSTONE, and a pupil of Mr. FooTE, a respectable Actor of this theatre. Whether she is most indebted to the experience of her tutor or to her own good sense, we know not, but it may fairly be supposed that she has profited by both sources, as she did not appear :to . act under the trammels of tuition, but frorn . her own feel ing of the part,, as soon as she surmounted her terrors. Her scene with Gloucester, where she bursts into an eulogium on lietsthzgs for protect ing the -Royal children, was supported with a noble and impressive enthusiasm,- and she dis played her dejection in the. following scenes with obvious sensibility. Her person is ele gant, and her face, it not critically handsome, is pleasing and expressive. Her voice is good in tone, and of sufficient power-for the stage, when modulated by -more practice. Ilex deportment is easy and unaffected, if not graceful. But the best part of it was its evident subserviency to her feelings. In the last scene she was too ela borate in expressing the effects of famine. The necessities and infirmities of man should be exhi bited to a certain extent on the stage, and no EDMONSTONE was very well re ceived by the audience ; and if the play were not of so mournful a description, it would doubt less be more attractive. The part of Hast ings was injudiciously selected by Mr. KEAN who, from his success in Rickard, should have adopted that of Gloucester. He has many requi sites for the latter, which are unsuitable to that of Hastings, but he gave some passages with striking effect. Mr. COOPER gave the part of Gloucester with judgment and •effect, but he cer tainly is better qualified for the part of Hastings. lie was well received, and there were some calls for a repetition of the play, which probably oc casioned its having been announced for Monday. POETRY. " Sorrow endureth for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." " Yes ! in the morning of the Just, When springing from her cell of d.ae, The soul shakes off this mortal clay, And soars to Heaven's eternal day ! But here, in this sad world, all joy Is a brief meteor born to die ; • A moment's light, an instant's bliss ; Meeting's first glance, or welcome kiss ; A phantom in mad Fancy's train ; A hope to lull some cureless pain ; A distant prospect still m view ; (Where all things seem, but none are true.) Youth's self-created, wild belief,. Unreal, transient, false as brief ; Manhood's vain search ; and age's scorn, For truth of pale experience born, Too late with glance divinely bright, Puts every magic shape to flight, And where gay Fancy's palace stood, Shews the bare waste, or tangled wood, The yawning guiph, and stormy flood ! Let me then dare with steadfast eye To read man's wond'rous destiny ; And with courageous spirit look On all that's in that fearful book ; Assured, that when the hand of age Shall turn the last momentous page, And death the tedious volume close, He, from whose love e'en suffering flows, Will with Almighty power unrol, On man's astonished, ravished soul, The record of celestial joy, The roll of Immortality ! ' HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. 3IEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Sir Richard Puleston's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Twemlowes ; ancron Friday, at Hampton. Heath. Sir Edw. Smythe's Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Shawbury White Gates ; and on Friday, at Pimhill. The'Holywell'Harriers, on Monday, at Mostyn ; Tuesday, at Licksom Green ; Wednesday, at Downing ; Thursday, at Calcot Hall Gate ; and on Friday, at Talacre. The'Cliester Harriers, on Monday, at Newton Wood ; Wednesday, at Trafford Bridge ; and on Friday, at Backford. The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Bartington Heath ; Wednesday, at Stapleford ; Thur s d a y, a t T arpor l ey T own End ; and on Saturday, at Lea Hall. Sir Jacob Astley's (Norfolk) Hounds, on Monday, at Hin dringham Field-house—Buck hounds ; Wednesday, at Guest wick—Harriers ; a nd o n F r id ay, a t Pluinstead Wind-mill— Buck-hounds. SETTLEMENT OF COLONIES OF JEWS IN CHINA. —During the first century a Colony of Jews settled in China, of whom there is an interesting account in Brotier's Tacitus, on the authority of letters from Jesuits in the 17th and 18th centu ries, who were Missionaries of the Roman Catho lic Church to that country. The Jews settled there, as is stated, during the dynasty of Han, in the reign of Ming-ti, A.D. 73, or three years anterior to the destruction of Jerusalem. They appear to have emigrated from Persia, and to have consisted of at least seventy families, of which only seven remained a century ago, in number about GOO souls. For a long time they flourished and were eminent in China ; some were distinguished scholars, others rose to the rank of Mandarins; But in process of time they degenerated. Many embraced Mahommedanism ; and of all the cities where they dwelt, Nimpo, l Pekin, Cai-fong-fou, &c. &c. the last alone, the capital of Honan, 150 leagues from Peking, now contains the remnant of their race. They are called by the Chinese Hoei-lloeil, name com mon also to the followers of Mohammed,) but they designate themselves Tiao-kin-kiao, i, e. the law of those who cut out the sinews, because they cut out these and the veins that they may ab stain from blood. Their synagogue is magnificent. Their most ancient MSS. of the Pentateuch are held to be about 800 years old. It seems a desi deratum to collate our version with these MSS. ; but the extreme superstition' and peculiar doc trines of the sect have hitherto prevented the ac complishment of this object. The Commissioners appointed by Parliament to inquire into all the Departments connected with the Revenue in Ireland, have closed their sittings in that country for the present season, and have adjourned to their office in Cannon row, WeStminster. Mr. IlEaaus, Mr. LUSIIING- ToN, and Mr. BERENS,. are arrived in London ; Mr. WALL-10E and Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS are expected daily. The Battalion of the Chatham Division of Royal Marines was inspected on Friday last, on Chatham Lines, by Sir G. COCKBURN and Sir G. CLARKE. The precision with which the exercise and various field movements were made by this valuable corps, drew forth the warmest expressions of approbation from Sir G. COCKBURN.—(Kentish Ga.zeite, I)ec. 14.) Mrs. Howell, who wae sentenced to death, at Berkshire Assizes, for causing her barns at Abor field to be set on fire, was sent off last week to New South Wales. On Monday last George Mills, a warder at one of the gates of the Dock Yard, Sheerness, was apprehended and taken before the Rev. T. POORE, Magistrate, and convicted in the penalty of three pounds, for taking up a flag stone from the pave ment of the street, with intent to steal it. The circumstances of the case were as follow :—Ever since the houses on one side of Blue Town have been taken down for Government improvement, &c. the flag stones have been repeatedly stolen, and the offenders have, till now, escaped justice. About three weeks since Mr. Robert Ellis, a constable, was set to watch, and, about a quarter before ten at night, detected the above George Mills in the act of taking away a stone of large dimensions ; being well krown, he was suffered to go at large till a meeting of the Com missioners of the Pavement, &c., when the above prosecution was ordered ; but as this was the first of in which the offender was detected, the Commissioners did not prosecute on the local act of the town, or the consequence would have been more severe, hut on the late Act of Parlia ment for the preservation of hedges, foot-paths, &c., in the hope of preventing a recurrence of a similar o&nce. MERCAN'T'ILE SHIPPING, &c. DEAL, DEC. 14..—Wind S.S.W.—.Came down from the River the Adeona, Syme, for Jamaica ; and Glatton, Lawton, for Honduras; they remain with the rest of the outward-bound. POILTSMOU TH, DEC. 14.—Wind S.—The Thomas Coutta Indianian came tip from Cowes roads this morning, passed through Spithead, and brought up again at St. Helen's. PLI'MOUTII, DEC. S.W.—Arrived the . Maria and Elconora Davis, from Hamburgh fo r Bristol ; Windlust, Engelman, from Palermo and Messina, for Antwerp, leaky, and must discharge, and the following ou tw ar d-b oun d vesse l s : Acorn, for Limerick ; Aurora, for Cork ; "'fiends, for Malta ; Nlelantho, for St. Domingo ; Britain, for Dublin ; Sisters, for Palermo and Naples; Nautilus, for Grenada; Kingston and Duke of Manchester, for Jamaica; Harvey, for Trinidad ; Eliza, for Teneriffe ; Jupiter, for Gibraltar ; Rolla, for Trieste ; and Young Husband, for Cape de Verds. Put back the Gar land Grbve, for Jamaica. Several others are off here, and will probably take shelter. COILIZ, DEC. 9.—Arrived yesterday his Majesty's ships Semiramis (Admiral Lord Colville), and Pliwton, from Ply mouth. Also the Fani,y, Loyal Briton, and Thomas and Mary transports, with the 84th Regiment, froni Plymouth. FaLmou Tx, Dix. 13.,--Wind S.W.—Arrived the follow ing outward-bound vessels :—Rover, Taylor, for Genoa ; Rover, Pay, for Naples; Princ e R egent , f or Gib ra l tar; D uke of York, for Bermuda ; and Skylark, for Smyrna. HULL, DEC. 13.—The Orion, gouge, from Shields for London, was left in a leaky state on the 9th inst. ; crew taken out, and landed at Spurnet ; one man drowned. Arrived on Sunday the Two Brothers, Pearce, from Seville for Grit:thy, with loss of anchor and cable. She spoke the Vigilant in the North Sea, from Portsmouth to London, With loss of burwarks, anchor and cable, and sails split. 1'011.1'01;n, DEC. 13.—The Endeavour, of and for Cork, from Cardiff, was str a nd e d on. S un d ay n i g h t in Waterford harbour, and it Was supposed would be totally wrecked ; crew saved. • CL YDE , DEC. 12.—Arrived the Hercules, from St. Andrew's for Belfast, with loss of anchor and cable. On Tuesday last the Opossum brig was launched from the slip at the North end of the Dock Yard, Sheerness ' • she went off in the finest style, amid the huzzas of th e thousands, whom the fineness of the day had induced to the spot.—Previous to the Pioneer's. sailing from Chatham, on Saturday, the officeis and crew received thdr first payment of salvage for having ex tricated a valuable b"rig from a most perilous situation after she had grounded on the Ooze.tiand. The destination of the East India CoMpany's ship London, has been altered from China direct, to Madras and China ; to be - afloat 23d January, sail to Gravesend 6th February, stay there 30 days, and be in the DoWns 14th March. The remains of Cowen and Pearce, the two unfortunate men who lost their lives at the Med way Brewery the 3d November, were interred in Maidstone Church-yard, and their graves have since been watched nightly by two men, to pre vent the exhumation of the bodies.-,-On Sunday night, at a late hour, the watchmen saw two men come from under the archway leading to Mr. Cor rail's residence, and advance to within a short distance of the graves, when one of them fired a pistol at the watchmen (fortunately without effect) and immediately, with his companion, ran away. One of the watchmen pursued the man who fired, but failed in overtaking him. It is said that the other man is known, and the affair is undergoing an investigation. On Friday morning some persons hearing an unusual noise issue from below the grate belonging to the road-sewer near the Angel Inn, Old Bridge, were attracted to the spot, and upon digging a hole in the road,they discovered that the sound proceed-. ed from a fine sow, which fell into the river, from the back of a house in Claverton-street, on the preceding Friday during the high water, and. was supposed to have been drowned. It appears that the animal had floated down the stream un der the sou thermost arch of the bridge, and guid ed by the powerful instinct which pointed out the only means of preservation, had effected an entrance into the mouth of the sewer, whence it proceeded under the turnpike-road to the place where it was discovered. For the space of a week, dur-, ing which it had no food, it had to stem the tor rent of mud, sand, and water which passes through this channel to the river. The poor ani mal was however extricated, and is now fast recovering.—(Bath Herald.) carnal and G ie.:, lately convicted of piracy and murder, have, we understand, acknowldged the justice of their sentence, confessing that they alone devised and carried into execution the mur der of Captain Johnstone and the helmsman Paterson. The Jury on the trial of these men, gave three guineas to the wife of the former, who is still in town, and in great distress ; having married him wlli:e a prisoner in France, she came to Shields with him (of which place he is a na tive) on the peace. She is a French woman, and bears an excellent character, and we heat'. several humane individuals are interesting them selves in procuring small subscriptions for the re:- lief of this truly miserable family.—(Edinburg/t, Star.) CORONER'S INQUEST. - Yesterday afternoon, an inquisition was taken at the Black Horse pub lic-house, Tottenham Court Road, before Thos. Stirling Esq., Coroner for Middlesex, on the body of Mr. Abraham Slade, late of that place, butcher. Mrs. 'Axton, of No. 6%, Edgware.; road, stated, that on Tuesday week, betty en eight and nine o'clock in the evening, as she was sitting in her shop, she heard a noise in the street, which was shortly after followed by art exclamation of " For God's sake take it off, for I • am killed !" On going into the street, she saw the deceased led along by two men ; he complained of a hurt in his head, and expressed his fears that his leg was broken. A gentleman asked how the acci dent had happened, to which he replied that he was driving towards home in his gig, when he discovered something amiss with his harness, and he was standing by the side of the chaise, ad justing it, when a stage-coach, which was driving along at a furious pace, ran down both him and his vehicle, although there was room enough for the driver to pass without coming in contact with him. A little further on, witness perceived a coach lying on its side in the middle of the road, and she also observed two females, who she be lieved were passengers, and had fainted from the effects of the injuries they had received ; as soon as the coach was got up, the driver mounted the box, and rode away, taking no further no tice of the deceased. This testimony was corro borated by other evidence, and it was e•:en ascer tained from a great number of other witnesses that the driver and his companions were drunk, and that they had left a public-house called the Star and Garter for the purpose of having a drive about for pleasure. The Jury said they could come to no conclusion until every step had been taken to prove the identity of the driver, that he might be brought to justice. Mr. Stirling ob served that he was of the same opinion, and the Jury accordingly adjourned till next week.