The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-22 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals -August 21, the Statesman, Rowett, from New
South Wales, at Liverpool, sailed April 30, from S't Helena
July 2 ; the Trusty, West, from China, off Limerick, sailed
Feb. 7, from St. Helena May 17, from Bahia -; the Eucles,
Smith, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed April 18 ; the Bar-
bara, Beasley, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed April 6.
Arrivals at St. Helena.-The Concepciona Cantabria, June
13, from Manilla March 8, and sailed March 14 for San-
tander; the Mogul, De Beaufort, June 13, from Calcutta
March 28, and sailed March 14 for Havre ; the Paqucbot de
Rio, Cornileir, June 14, from Bourbon, and sailed June 15 for
Nantes ; the Arno, Scudder, June 15, from Batavia April 7,
and sailed April 17 for Boston ; the Eclipse, Allen, June 17,
from Timor April 9, and sailed April 21 for London ; the
Adams, Mills, June 20, from 13ombay April 21, and sailed
April 23 for Liverpool ; the Derwent, Nash, June 22, from
Singapore March 24, the Cape June 4, and sailed June 23 for.
Liverpool ; the Euphrates, Buckharn, June 30, from China,
sailed July 1, for Liverpool ; the London, Lamb, July 1, from
the Cape, and sailed for London ; the Brooke, Bleasdale,
July 1, from Bombay, and sailed July 2 for Liverpool ; the
Patriot, Dunn, July 1, from the Cape, and sailed July 3, for
Cork; the Johanna, Bergman, July 2, from Batavia, and
sailed July 3, for Rotterdam ; the Boadicea, Venus, July 3,
from Hobart Town; the Inglis, Wire, July 3, from China;
the Bolton, Compton, July 3, from Bengal, all for London ;
the Trio, Offias, July 3, from Batavia for Amsterdam ; the
Earl Grey, Williamson, July 3, from Manilla for Liverpool.
Departure from St. Helena.-The Emma, Peckett, July
27, for the Mauritius.
Arrivals at Sydney.-The Lucy, Ann, April 17, and Bet-
sey, April 18, from the sperm fishery ; Elizabeth, April 19,
Launceston ; the Francis Freeling, April 21, from Hobart
Town; the Thrap and Elizabeth, sailed April 3, for London;
the Arab, April 23, for the Mauritius and Hobart Town ; the
Tnoms, Lowry, previous to April 17, for London and Torbay.
Bay of Islands, Feb. 22.-The Clarkson, arrived here on
the 6th inst. from Nantucket, spoke the Mary, Coffin, of ditto,
on the 31st ult., lat. 39., long. 177., W. The master stated
on the 4th ult., after leaving Bavan, he saw many spar:, and
picked up a topmast, with a lower cap attached to it ; saw
many spooks ; the cap and mast by the size appeared to be-
long to a large ship, and was of American work. The Mary
spoke the Braganza near the wreck, with 2,650 barrels; all
the boats were blown and washed- from the cranes, with the
boats overhead, and only three of them saved. The India,
Coffin, with 2,100 barrels ; Bowditch, with 120 brrrels ; and
Atlantic, with 700 barrels, were spoken with on the Ist inst.
The master of the India stated that early last month, in lat.
from 17. to 19. S., long. 171. W., he picked up the follow-
ing articles, branded " Reaper," viz. :-A flying jib-boom,
painted green ; a fish danet ; a tool chest ; a spar, apparently
main topmast (not branded); mainmast (appeared to be new,
fifty feet from the head to the mizcn stay), with an iron band
for patent truss, and old checks that had been taken from
another mast; the head of a foremast; the mizen mast in two
pieces, picked up 100 miles apart; one of the upper deck
hatches with pine in the middle and oak in the sides ; the
beam over the cabin windows, chesnut wood, and cased with
pine; the casing having the appearance of belonging to a
vessel of some age. Captain W. P. Harris, fourth mate,
cooper, and boats' crew, lost on the 26th of November, 1836,
in lat. 50., S., long. 174, E.

Duke Maximilian of Leuchtcnburg will leave Mu-
nich about the end of the month for Odessa, in order to be
present at the military manoeuvres in the south of Russia.

The heir apparent to the Russian Throne is con-
tinuing his progress through his father's dominions. On the
28th ult. he left Smolensko and arrived at Moscow on the
4th inst., where he visited all t►he places rendered metnorab!°
in Russian history by Napoleon's eventful campaign of 1812.

The Augsburg Gazette gives the following letter
from Rome of the sth instant :—" The several cases
hitherto attributed to cholera are considered doubtful ; but
the Pope has ordered several large buildings to be prepared
to receive patients, should the disease really make its ap-
pearance. All public functionaries have received orders to
remain at their posts, under pain of being discharged. This
injunction includes the physicians, surgeons, apothecaries,
and chemists. The lower orders of the people here, as well
as in most other places, arc inclined to impute this infliction
to a system of poisoning." The same journal states that
during the fury of the populace at Palermo all sorts of afro•
cities were committed ; women and girls were viohlted, and
even human flesh was eaten. The alarm is very great at
Syracuse ; the people have driven out the garrison, and
have got possession of the forts.
A shark was brought into Mevagissey on Wednes-
day morning, which, when opened, had 4 pilchards in his
stomach, besides two or three scads.—West Braun.
SUDDEN DEATIIS.—As a labouring man, named
Edward Ashton, servant to Mr. David Jarman, farmer, of
Coedmawr, near Llanidloes, was mowing hay, together
with several others, he was suddenly taken ill. He fell on
his knees, and told his fellow ►workmen that he was un-
well, and died in a moment afterwards. As Thomas David,
blacksmith, and tenant to Morris Williams, Esq., of
Cwmgloyne, was returning from the Independent Chapel
at Velindre, in the parish of Bayvil, Pembrokeshire, on
Sunday, in ascending College Hill, he fell down dead on
the spot. On Sunday, as a lad in the employ of David
Davies, Esq., of Cardigan, was dri‘ing cattle to water to
the pond of Pantygwyndy, it is thought that he fell in, for
on the following morning he was found drowned. The
body, when discovered, was in a perpendicular position.--
Shrewsbury Chronicle.

The Helvetie publishes a biographical article respecting
the late M. Mater, the claims to whose property have given
rise to differences between the British Minister and the Go-
vernment of Zurich. His real name was Thomas Naters.
He was born in Liverpool, and served a long time in the
merchant navy. Tired of that service he repaired to Ca-
nada, and subsequently to the United States, where he be-
came a farmer. He had not, however, been long engaged in
agricultural pursuits when a rich relative of hi:died, leaving
him property to an immense amount. The possession of so
much wealth deprived M. Naters of repose and peace of
mind. Having no family, his first care was to look out for
an heir. His choice fell on M. William Mather, of New-
castle-upon Tyne, and at Long Island, in the State of
New York. He made a will, constituting him his uni-
versal legatee, on condition of his paving two legacies
of 20,0001. each. His motive for selecting M. Ma-
ther was because the latter was a distant relative of the
friend who had bequeathed him all his fortune. This will
was signed by M. Naters on the 27th of June, 1822, in
presence of three witnesses, and a duplicate of it. was sent to
England and deposited in the hand of one of the legatees, on
condition he should net open it before lie obtained positive
information of the testator's death. Shortly afterwards Na-
ters left the United States for Europe, with a view to find
out some solitary abode where he might conceal himself and
his riches from mankind, for he had become a complete mis-
anthrope. He avoided going to England, and sought refuge
first in France and eervrards in Switzerland. He lived a
long time retired near I'verdon, and then removed to Gol-
denberg, a remote country st;:it of the district of Andelfin-
gen, in Zurich, where he at last Tound and enjoyed the soli-
tude he had been so long in quest of. Naters, although
a man-hater, was, nevertheless, charitable to prodiga-
lity. He lavished his fortune indiscriminately on every-
body around him, and his munificence was attended
with such deplorable consequences, that the Authorities
of Zurich were at last obliged to require him to confine his
benevolence within limits which would render it. truly bene-
ficial. Naters- acceded to their invitation, and from that
day he placed yearly at the disposal of Government a cone
sidcrablc sum to be divided, in proportion to their wants,
among the public establishments of Zurich, such as the li-
braries, the deaf and dumb, and blind institutions, &c. On ar-
riving in the canton of Zurich, in 1823, he dropped the
name of Naters, and took that of Van Mater. In Novem- -
her, 1828, however, he addressed a letter to the Govern-
ment, in which he declared that his real name was not Jacob
Van Mater, but Thomas Naters, and expressed a desire that
the identity of those two names should be recognized by the
authorities of the country in which he had fixed his residence.
This demand was readily assented to, and the Government,
to recompense his unbounded charity, conferred on him, by
a very flattering letter, dated the 19th of March, 1831, the
right of naturalization, with all the privileges and immunities
arising out of it. Naters received with pleasure this mark
of esteem, and testified his gratitude to the Executive
Council by gifts still more considerable. On the other
hand, the authorities of the district of Goldenberg,
not to remain behind the Government in that
respect, offered M. Naters the right of citizenship, which
he declined accepting. The year following he, for the first
and only time, quitted his country seat of Goldenberg, and
undertook a journey to Havre. Before his departure, he
carefully burnt, in presence of two witnesses, the draught of
a codicil. Whilst in Havre he sent to Goldenberg for his
American will, but it does not appear that he made any al-
teration in it ; and, on his return to Switzerland, in 1833,
he concealed it in a portmanteau, locked up in a closet
next to his bed-room, into which he allowed nobody to en-
ter. A few days after his death the authorities, in taking
an inventory of his property, discovered the will in that
room. It was read on the 28th of October, 1836, before
twelve witnesses, and the moment official intelligence of his
death reached England, the duplicate thereof was opened
with the usual formalities, when it was discovered that he
had constituted Mr. William Mather his universal legatee.
The number of bathers in Baden (Argau) is so consi-
derable this year that all the hotels are full. Between the
31st of May and the 4th of August, 8,623 persons visited
the baths, and 168 more arrived there on the sth.

THE FAIR SEX AT CONSTANTI-

NOPLE

CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 26.—The following ordinance,
relative to the conduct of Turkish women in the streets
and in the public promenades, was published on the 18th
of July :

"'Though his Highness our Most Gracious Sovereign, in
consequence of his natural clemency and kind feelings to-
wards the people, gives his attention to the tranquillity and
satisfaction of his subjects, and to afford to all, especially
the inhabitants of this capital, all decent amusements and
the diversions which they find in the fine season in the
public promenades, it has, however, been noticed by his
Majesty, that women remain too long in most of the pro-
menades, and do not return home till the time of the even-
ing prayer, or later ; that in most of the promenades they
walk about and sit intermingled with the men ; and, lastly,
that they have in their service Harem Hrabadshi (harem
coachmen) who presume to dress in a manner not permitted
to the Rajas. " Now all those things are no less contrary to
the will of his Highness than to the sentiments of all Mus-
sulmen, it is ❑ecessary that these scandalous abuses should
be done away with ; that is to say, that henceforth every-
one is to walk in a decorous manner ; that the women are
not to walk about in the promenades mingled with the
men ; that they are to go home from the promenade at the
latest of half-past ten o'clock (an hour and a half before
tun-set); lastly, that they shall have in their service hones t
people, and no such Arahidshis as dress in a manner unbe-
coming Rajas. Further, though his Excellency the Se-
raskier, conformably with the duties of uir office, is con-
stontly intent on securing public order, by maintaining the
ptetepts of religion, and preserving the people from injury
and misfortunes, by preventing all improper actions, which
are displeasing to God, yet for some time past the ancient
ordinances relative to tradespeople in the necessary inter-
course with the women have been neglected ; and it is ob-
served that in particular the dealers in cutlery, the woollen-
drapers, and apothecaries employ their sons or young men,
who wear Fez turbans or kalpaks as shoptnen, and that the
latter deal with the women, that most of them have their
magazines and apartments in the back part of their shops,
and that the women go into them and make purchases ;
lastly, that the women even presume to enter the coffee-
houses in Pera and Galata, and there to eat ices ; daily to
regulate these matters, and as it was formerly prescribed
that the tradespeople with whom the women deal must be
especially honest persons, it is necessary that these trades-
men should disharge all the above youths, whether Arme-
dans, Greeks, Catholic, Jews, or of any other nation, and
if they want shopmen employ only sober and elderly persons
like themselves.; that the women shall not go into the in-
' side of the sitting room and shops, but only converse from
the outside ; that they shall not enter the apothecaries'
shops, but deliver the prescriptions on the outside, and so
receive their medicines ; lastly, that no woman be hence-
forth yen in a coffee-house. His Highness has accordingly
been graciously pleased to direct the preceding ordinance to
be published and strictly observed, and every person so
transgressing it to be immediately and severely punished."

The Bills of mortality announce an increase of
burials upon the past week of 114.
The unhappy Swur Therese was convicted of having
staid away under false pretences, and moreover confessed
that she had so tar forgotten her profession, as to allow her
patient to address her in the language of a lover. Her
punishment was dreadful. She was taken back to the con-
vent and dedrived of food for several days. Then, after be-
ing severely scourged with rods, her nun's habit was stripped
off her, and with nothing on but a sheet to protect her
from the inclemency of the weather, she was turned out of
the convent at midnight, and left in the street. Poor
Therese was Aver beard of more. It is thought that the
disgrace of her expulsion, added to ali that she had suf-
fered, so affected her mint!, that she either died of the con-
segences, or put an end to herself.—A Summer in Germany .
A mutual passion had been formed between a young,
clerk of Paris and Madame B—, a married lady, resid-
ing near St. Germain, who, though approaching the age of
40, was still handsome. The clerk, a few mornings back,
paid a visit to the lady, and informed her that he was about
to travel for ten months, but was resolved not to go with-
out her ; and, on her objecting to elope with him, declared
that if by five in the afternoon he did not receive from her
a promise to accompany him, he would coma again to the
house, and, if certain signals were not answered, he would
ring the bell. Should this bring her husband to the door,
the clerk assured her that he would first shoot hint, and
then destroy himself. Madame B—, though under the
greatest agony during the day, remained firm to her re:o-
lution. The appointed hour arrived, the signals were made,
and, being unswercd, the bell was rung with great violence.
M. B— rose to go to the door, but his wife threw her-
self at his feet, and entreated him not to stir ; but he brok:
from her, and had his hand on the lock, when the report of
a pistol was heard. On opening the door, M. B
stumbled over a dead body, the head of which, split by the
contents of the pistol, was lying on the step. On seeing
this horrible spectacle, Madame B---, who had followed
her husband to the door, fell dead at his feet.—E.enehl?aper.
Last night, about half past eight o'clock, as a boat
containing six persons was proceeding down the river, it ran
against the piles at the third arch of Bliekfriars-bridge, and
was instantly upset. Boats put off fro:n the shore and
succeeded in rescuing five persons ; but a child fell from its
father's arms just as the boat reached him, and was unfor-
tunately drowned. It is said that a man was drowned at
the bridge about seven o'clock in the morning. How long
is the bridge to continue in -its present dangerous state ?
Scarcely a day passes without some fatal accident occurring.