The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.—July 24, the Dryade, Heard, from, the Mauritius!
off Dover, sailed April 11. July 25, th.e Gilbert Monro,
Duff, from the Nlaurrtius, off Penzance, sailed April 8, and
from St. Helena May 26. July 26, the Matilda, Wardle,
from the Mauritius, off Liverpool, sailed April 17, from St.
Helena May 31 ; the Mona, Gill, from Bengal, off Liverpool,
sailed from Calcutta March 11, and from Saugur March 13,
and St. Helena, June 5.

Arrivals at St. Helena.--The Matilda, Comin, June 2,
from the Cape, and sailed the same day for London ; the
Rhoda, Hurst, June 3, from Launceston, and sailed the same
day for London ; the Egyptian, Johnson, June 4, from Sours-
baya and the Cape ; the Colombo, Beck, June 4, from Ceylon,
and sailed June 5, for Bordeaux ; the Middleburg-, Ricketts,
June 4, from Batavia, and sailed June 5, for Amsterdam; the
Colonel Hoopman, July 4, from Batavia, and sailed June 5,
for Rotterdam ; the Marion, Pope, June 4, from Calcutta ;
the Emma Packet, June 5, from London ; the Perseverance,
Cockhill, June 5, from New South Wales.
Arrivals at Calcutta.—Her Majesty's brio. Zebra, March 8,
from Trincomalee ; the Ajax, Brenton, and Elephants, Fu-
chan, March 9, from the Mauritius ; the Amphitrite, March
9, from Nantes and Bourbon ; her Majesty's brig Algerine,
March 9, from Ceylon.
Arrival at Bahia.—The Trusty, West, June 4, from China
(for Limerick.)
Arrivals at the Mauritius.—The Andromeda, Latimer,
April 8, from Liverpool, and Bordeaux ; the Belgrave, Sal-
mon ; Pegasus, Howlett ; Avoca, Boader ; and Charles
Heartly, Hopper, all from Calcutta.

Ships SpOienWith.—The Imogene, Riley, from London.
to Calcutta, May 4, in lat. 6. 44. N., long. 24. W. • ihe
Pekoe, Gillies, from Calcutta to Liverpool, off the at.e;
Hon. Company's steamer Berenice, Grant, from the Cape to
the Mauritius, off Algoa Bay; the Iris, Mackwood, from,
London to Ceylon, in lat. 7. S., long. 28. W.

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE.--OR the ap-
proach of a violent thunderstorm on Saturday last, some men
who were at work in a field at Wytbam near Oxford, 'sought
shelter under an old ash-tree, at.d had not been tee molly
minutes, when the electric fluid struck them to th', ground,
and injured one so much that his recovery was fr, some tirr •
doubt!ul ; his hat was,scorched, and his hair burnt from his
temple a and head. We understand that now doing well,
and tl ere is every prospect of his recovery. Another of thev
men had his shoes scorched, and had since suffered from violent
swellings and pain in his extremities. The other men were
Lut slightly injured. The cireamvtinee is rendered the more
remarkable from the interior of the tree (which was old and
hollow) having caught fire, and continued to burn unnoticed
until the following day, when it fell down.

WAVES.— 11 rounding the Cape of Good Hope
waves arc rather met with, or rather a swell, so vast, that a
few ridges and a few depressions occupy the extent of a
mile. But these are not so dangerous to a ship as what is
termed a shorter sea, with more perpendicular waves. The
slope in the former is comparatively gentle, and the rising
and falling are much less felt, while, among the latter,
the sudden tossing of the vessel is destructive. When
a ship is sailing directly before the wind, over the long
swell now described, she is first descending headlong on its
front, acquiring a velocity so wild, that she can scarcely
be steered ; and soon after, when it has glided under her, also
appears climbing on its back, and her motion is slackened al-
most to rest before the following wave arrives. To a passen-
ger perched, at such a time, on the extremity of the bowsprit.
and looking back on the enormous body of the ship, with per-
haps its thousand of a crew, a hundred feet behind him, heaved
by these billows as a cork is on a ruffled lake, the scene is truly
sublime. When a coming wave lifts the stern, and ill
the same degree depressing the bow, he is deep in the
hollow or valley between the waves, and sees only the ship
rushing headlong down towards him, as if to be engulphed ;
but soon after, when the stern is down, and the bow is raised.
he looks from his station in the sky upon an awful scene be-
neath him and round. The velocity of waves has relation to
their magnitude. The large waves just spoken of proceed at
the rate of from 30 to 50 miles an hour. It is a vulgar belief,
that the water itself advances with the speed of the wave; but,
in fact, the form only advances, while the substance, except a
little spray above, remains rising and falling with the regula-
rity of a pendulum. A wave of water, in this respect, is ex-
actly imitated by the wave running along a stretched rope.
when one end is shaken ; or by the mimic waves of our thea-
tres, which are generally undulations of long pieces of carpet*
moved by attendants.

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