The Sun.
London, England, 1837-04-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-
HOUSE, APRIL 19.
The Orwell, Cubit, from Harlingen; Sarina, Manger,
Gurnsey; Symmetry, Fuzzard, St. Michael's; Friends, Man-
ning, Harlingen ; Vibclia, Pentrei:th, Trieste; Alliance,
Turner, J racy ; Nymph, Newly, Nassau ; Republic, 13..yce,
Calcutta.

ENTERED OUTWARDS.
The Themis, Le Boss, fur Leghorh; Stedfast, Smith, Am-
sterdam ; Farne, Harrower, Eisitrur; Giraffe, S:rannaelc,
Rotterdam; Pelican, Douvies, Antwerp; PerAvverance,
Judge, th-rger; AlLoaar, Heath, Rotterdam ; Car-
rie, Elsineur ; Woodman, V, alt, Guernsey William Jolliffe,
Middleton. Calais.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.
The Thomas, Ara°ld, for Hamburgh; Durham, SpenelYt
St. Petersburgh ; Ileresford, White, Odessa; Caroline,
Nlagot, Guernsey ; E.irl of Clattearty, Williams, Rotterdam;
I3Ultinch, Gunton, St. Petcrsburgh.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST.

The Welsford, Andrews, for Quebec; Somersetshire,
Jackson, Malta; George Palmer, Jackson, Quebec; Psyche,
Brown. Jamaica; Leda, Masy, Quebec ; Harpooner, Lack,
South Seas ; Isabella, Little, Trinidad.

The tide of emigration has commenced setting from
Yarmouth. The Baltic, with. 250 emigrants on board, having
dropped down the harbour on Tuesday last, sailed on Wednes'
day for Quebec. She will speedily be followed by the -Venus
and other vessels. A large Norwegian bark, deal laden, i 5
now lying on Yarmouth beach a complete wreck. She Was
found at anchor in the \Vold, deserted by her crew, and
brought into the Roads by the Badger cutter ; the crew had
been taken out of her by a smack, and landed at Harwich.---
Suffolk Chronicle.

—John Field, the English pianist, who has so long
resided in Russia, died in Russia, died in St. Pctersburgb
last January; he was a pupil of Clementi, and had been out
of this country save one short visit, since 1803.

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We invite the attention of our townsmen to the pe-
tition to the House of Commons, for the early repeal of the
Window-tax, now lying at the Exchange and other places
for signatures. It appears by the tables drawn up, and circu-
lated by the central committee of the Westminster parishes.
dated 25th March last, that nothing can be more uncertain and
unfair than the scale on which this tax is levied in those pa-
rishes, where the authorities have been at the pains to compare
the rates of the assessment with those of the actual rents.
Take for example, Devonshire House, (180 windows) which
pays window tax after the rate of 11. 17s. per cent. on its
annual rent or value ; this is about at the top of the published
scale, whilst lower down, we find houses in Great George-
street, paying 201. per cent. on rental. Ditto, in St. Martin-
street, paying 271. 103. per cent. on rental ; and ditto, in
Chandos-street, paying 401. per cent. on rental; yet such is
the tax which its advocates laud to the skies as a sort of pro-
perty tax. The rule it seems being, the less•the property, the
heavier the tax ! Down with it, say we, and away with all
such like insidious defences of this most unfair, because un-
equal impost.—Sunderlarld Herald.

On Wednesday week, a gluttonous fellow of the
name of George Redding, of Bilton, went to the Coach and
Horses, at Rugby," with two of his associates. Soon after
having favoured the house with their presence the glutton
agreed to eat fifty eggs, with the shells, half a pound of bacon,
and a penny loaf, and to drink what ale he might choose, in
half an hour. This feast for a brute was accordingly pro-
vided. The eggs and bacon were fried first, then the shells
were smashed and fried, that they might be first consumed;
but when the fellow had devoured nearly three fourths of the
shells and about ten eggs, his brutal appetite deceived him,
and he gave in, being half choked, and having the comfortable
consolation of paying the expense of the gorge. This is just
the fellow that ought to be compelled to subsist, for seven
years, on the Union Workhouse scale of allowance to the able-
bodied and idle—but at his own expense. Such brutes are S
disgrace to civilized society.— Warwick Advertiser.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, APRIL
About 3,000 bags is the extent of to-day's business, without
any perceptible change in the tone or character of the market.
Buyers of American descriptions ranging from 6d. to 7ia•
have difficulty in purchasing on as favourable terms as last
week,that class of cotton becoming more and more scarce every
day. Exporters have taken 300 Surat and 200 American.
Friday night last a prisoner, named William Gaunt,
for horsestealing, committed suicide in Derby Gaol. He hung
himself by the neckcloth to the upper hinge on the door which
closes the cell window. He was, up to the time of committing
the act, quite well in health and spirits, and on Friday evening
ate his supper as usual. Verdict, " Felo de se." .
In a pamphlet just published by a ton of Mr.
Cobbett, be complains of the treatment he had to endure front
proceedings in the Court of Chancery, It is grievous W
lament that the mental property of this extraordinary man—
for he left little else than the copyrights of his various works
should be made the prey of this greatest of all nuisances
Hampshire Advertiser.

At the execution of Alexander Miller, commonit
called young Scatters, it was observed that to the strap with
which his arms were pinioned was attached a rope held froth
within the Court-house, evidently for the purpose of prevent-
ing his leaping from the scaffold, his feats of agility being w°
well known to trust him without this check. We have never
before witnessed an execution, even when such spectacles were
unhappily more rife than now, which was conducted with less
ceremony and solemnity ; and we trust the period is rapidly
advancing when such exhibitions will be looked back to with
indignant surprise--even for a wretch like poor Scatters. We
regret to learn that a serious assault was committed by a sot
of drunken blackguards on the road home from the above exe-
cution ; which affords a melancholy proof of the inefficacy cr
such examples in repressing crime.—Scotch Paper.
ORIGIN OF TRAINS.--The first dresses which had
trains were clothes torn, as signs of mourning, which wgro
worn at funerals. In imitation of these ragged habiliments`'
trains were invented, and, according to the dignity of the de-
ceased, the trains were longer or shorter. The use of these
long trains, then denominated tails, at funerals, insensibly
brought in the fashion of wearing them in other ceremonies
The annalist of the order of St. Francis, Lucas Wadinghtts,
remarks that, about the year 1435, Pope Eugene IV. gave 50
the monks of the Franciscan order the power of absolving those
females who wore long trains, provided that they wore thee%
more in compliance with the usages of the country in which
they lived, than from any " evil intention." The polonesr,
once a very fashionable dress, about the middle, or rather th 6
latter end, of the eighteenth century, had the skirts draw's
through the pocket-holes, so that the train hung out on each
side, though tucked up ; these floating portions were name's
wings, and the middle the train ; but this train did hot /raj.
at all. Several ladies murmured at no longer being able to
wear a train.

At Willoughby, in Nottinghamshire, the vicar
called his parishioners 'together, and produced a petition
against the abolition of Church-rates. Out of a population
of five or six hundred, he succeeded in procuring six signa-
tures, and three of these were attached by the parish-clerk and
churchwardens.

EIGHT-DAY CLOCKS:
to strike the Hours and Half-hours, Five Guineas each. They a'p't
in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stand on 6
bracket or mantel-piece, and are Warranted, at T. COX SA''
VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, Cornhill, London.
N.B.—A pamphlet containing drawings and a detailed list of tit
prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., madhad gratis, or will be forv.arded in answer to a post-paid applicatio

BIRTHS.
On the 16th iinst., at Woolwich, the lady of Lieut. Howgill,
R. A., of a son.
On the 16th inst., at Porchester-terraee, Bayswater, the lady of
Dr. J. Arnott, of a son.

On the 15th inst., the lady of W. F. Young, Esq., Lieut. n•N't
of Oldbury Hall, near Atherstone, of a daughter.
On the 17th inst., Mrs. Courtney, of Leatherhead, of a daughter;
On the 17th inst., at Clapham New-park, Surrey, the lady (s
G. B. Watson, Esq., of a son.
On the 19th inst, in Henrietta-street, the lady of Henry Robin.
son, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 19th inst., in Devonshire-street, the wife of K. Belle.'
Esq., of a son.

111.41MIED.
On the 18th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Thomas Charles
Simmons, Esq., of Camberwell-grove, to Mary Pirie, the young"
daughter of the late J. Anderson, of Old Aberdeen.
On the 18th inst., at St. James's Church, Dover, the Rev.
derick tie Chair, Rector of East Langdon, Kent, to Louisa °a"
eldest daughter of Richard Mee Raikes, Esq.

DIED.
On the 16th inst., aged 63, Caroline, wife of E. Y. Chester'
Esq., of Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East.
On the 16th inst., at Ore Rectory, Sussex, the residence of bet
brother, the Rev. Dr. Fearon, Miss Fearon, of Guildford-stre
Russell-square.
On the 13th inst., at Tunbridge-wells, George Weather
gress, Esq., aged 48. f 11*
On the 17th inst., in Devonshire-place, Mrs. Gray, widow o
Gray, Esq.. of the Duchy of Cornwall. of
On the 13th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Smith Barwell, widow
T. S. Barwell, Esq., of Bath. the
On the 13th inst., at Suffolk House, Cheltenham, of
second daughter and co-heiress of the late J. G. Lewis, EA"
Llanddyfnan, Anglesey.
of
On the 16th inst., aged five months, Percival Henry, so°
Davis, Esq., of St.. Helen's-place. fis
On the 15th inst., Fanny, youngest daughter of Mr. T.
On the 15th inst., at Claverton Park, near Bath, Thos•
infant son of P. Borthwick, Esq., M.P. A.
On the 14th inst., at her father's residence, Julia, wife °f
t; °
Gilbert, Esq., R.N., eighth daughter of W. H. Price,
Kingsland-place, Middlesex. f jiortiv
On the 15th inst., aged 31, Mr, Rob. John Mansfield, 0 &ter'
Margaret,
place, Gray's Inn, eldest son of G. Mansfield, Esq., of Oxford'
race, Edgeware-road.
eillOa,nwthitelet
Egerton Leigh, formerly Rector a Marston, in Kent, anc.ic"hire•
10thof inst., at
Hudson, Esq.,.
Svuororteloye,satgeddao6gsh,teCrhaorflotthtoseurtfire.ii,oll:.,
the late Sir E. Leigh, Bart., of Brownsover Hall, Watw7itystorlf
On the 15th inst., aged 76, George Fludyer, lE$11•' °
Rutlandshire. a 66'
On the 16th inst., in Ryder's-court, Leicester-square, aged
Martha, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Stannard.
tree
wick-square.
On the 12th inst., Mr. G. A. White, of Kenton-street, 13111 n:
On the 16th inst., Mr. George Taylor, of Titchborne's
Haymarket, aged 65. ~uortoP
On the 16th inst., in Poland-street,
Shackleton, aged 38.
°lin g
Ott the 10th inst., in Agnes-place, Waterloo-road, surrey, a
fant daughter of W. Munns, Esq., of Barnes-green,
11 months St. James's,

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