The Sun.
London, England, 1837-08-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—Aug. 28, the Caledonia, Strogan, from Bombay.
at Liverpool, sailed May 6. The Royal William, Irving,
from Bengal, at Liverpool, sliled March 21. The Patriot,
Dunn, from the Cape of Good Hope, at Cork.
Arrivals at the Mauritius.—The Symmetry, Saville, from
London ; the Great Harwood, M'Gowan, from Bristol.
Arrivals at Bombay.—The East India Company's ship Ata-
lanta, Campbell, April 29, from Mogadore ; the Mary Dug-
dale, Harrison, May 2, from Liverpool ; the Lintin, Richard
Walker, from Liverpool ; the Mount Stuart Elphinstone,
Small, from Greenock; the Buckinghamshire, liopkinson,
from London.
Departures from Bombay.—The Balfour, for Liverpool ;
Duncan, May 3, and Cestrian, May 6, for Liverpool.
Ships Loading.—The Madras, Dickson, for Liverpool, to
sail May 8; William Turner, for Liverpool, May 10; Cam.
bridge, for Tellicherry and London, May 7, John Denniston,
for London, May 10; Regulus, for London, May 15 ; Mi-
nerva, for London, May 20. Freight to London, 3/. to 3/.
ss. ; to China and Candy, 15 rupees, nominal.
Arrivals at Madras.—Her Majesty's ship Conway, Drink-
water, April 21, from Portsmouth and the Cape ; Catherine,
Rose, April 21, from London and the Cape.
Passengers per Severn, from Bombay (expected.)—Mrs.
James and two children, Mrs. Gataskell, Mrs. Muspratt and
three children, Lieut.-Colonel James, Mr. Muspratt, Capt.
Benbow and child, Dr. Hatkorn, Dr. Arding, Lieut. Vincent,
Rev. Mr. Laurie, Capt. Jacob, C. Briscow, Mrs. Briscow and
two children, Mrs. Wilson and ehild, Mr. Howard, Mr.
Plummer.

Passengers per Hugh Lindsay from Bombay.—Colonel
Chesney, A. Hogue, Esq , G. Fraser, Esq., G. F. Hodg.
kinson, Esq., George C. Arbuthnot, Esq.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Fieldfare, London to St. Jago de Cuba, let. 45 , long 16. ;
Puckers, Waterhouse, Newcastle to Demerara, lat. 48.. long.
9., by the Penyard Park, arrived in the River ; William Glen
Anderson, from Portsmouth, 16th inst., lat. 48., long. 20.
W. ; Elizabeth, London, to Barbadoes, lat. 49., long. 10.,
by the William and Alfred, arrived in the River; Herald,
from Liverpool to New York. 22th ult., lat. 47., long. 31. ;
Shannon, from Quebec to Annan, Bth inst., lat. 52 , long.
12., by the NI ilhelmina, arrived in the Clyde, Panther, from
Sligo to New York, June 23, in let. 45., long. 32., with loss
of mizen, main, and top-masts, by the America, arrived at
New York ; Glolr, Messina, to New York, Ath inst., in lat.
44., long. 37. ; Hoogan, from New Bedford, 10th inst., in
let. 41., long. 37. ; Sir John Byng, from Poole, 20th inst.,
in lat. 46., long. 15 ; Everhead, from Havre to New York,
21st ult., in lat. 49., long. 14 ; Lord John Russell, from
Bristol to Quebec, 22d ult., in lat. 49., long. 14 , by the Ro-
bert, arrived at Cork ; Louisa, Hammersley, from Hamburgh,
in lat. 50., long. 6., by the Carron, arrived at Yarmouth;
Petrel, bound to Quebec, in lat. 42., long. 19, by the Wolga ;
Malabar, Dunlop, from Clyde to the Cape of Good Hope,
21st ult., in let. 10. N., long. 35. W. ; Eclipse, from Tober-
mory to Sydney, 13th inst., in let. 34., long. 16. W., by the
Copse, arrived at Leith ; Nancy, from Csdiz to Rio Janeiro,
224 ult., in let. 12. N., long. 27. W. ; Ellen, Johnson, from
Bahia to Trieste, 4th inst., in lat. 33., long. 18. ; Arachne of
Exeter, 18th ult., in lat. 49., long. 10., by the Sophia Fardy,
arrived at Guernsey.

WHEAT AND FLOUR IN FRANCE COMPARED

WITH LONDON.

WHEAT.—The highest price of the best wheat in Paris, is
25 francs per 14 hectolitre, which is equal to 38s. 3d. per
English, imperial quarter. The highest price of the best
1,, ssex and Kent wheat in London, is 663. per quarter, show-
ing fin, wheat to be 235. 9d. per quarter dearer in London
than in Paris, or upwards of 85 per cent. ; and that the same
money which will in London buy but eight bushels of wheat,
will, in Paris, procure upwards of thirteen and a half bushels
of the finest quality.
FLotra.—The highest price of flour of the " first mark" in
Paris, is 49 francs per 159 kilogrammes, which is equal to
31s. per English sack of 280 pounds. The highest price
of the best " town made" flour in London, being 625. per
sack, shows fine flour to be 2 le. per sack dearer in London
than in Paris, or nearly 64 per cent. ; and that the same monry
which in London buys but 280 pounds of floe flour, will in
Paris purchase 430 pounds of the very brat quality.

THE NEW GATES IN PICCADILLT.—Yesterday
the workmen commenced operations for taking down the
wall nearly opposite Coventry liou!e ; and thence a gravel
road direct to the Queen's Palace will be formed.

The Havre journals of the 24th mention the arrival
of Dr. Bowring on his way to Egypt, on a mission to the
Naha of Egypt.
'TIE ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY has been most
Usefully employed in prosecuting numerous cases of cruelty
in London and Gravesend during the last fortnight ; some
of them of the most diabolical kind. One was that of a
boy who had placed straw under an exhausted dog.
(Committed for 14 days by Mr. Traill.) Another that of
a butcher having twisted the tail of a calf till he broke it,
and dreadfully lacerated it ; and a third that of another
butcher who bad been detected in a private slau7hter
house Ainniny a sheep alive ; the two last were, owing to
the lamentable leniency of Mr. Troughton, one of the Ma-
gistrates, only fined in costs. The Hon. Secretary also
caused Ball's Kennington omnibus driver, 290, to be fined
13s. by Mr. Traill, for furious driving. At Gravesend the
Rev. Mr. Tippet's, a member likewise, delivered an able
sermon on cruelty, at the end of which some persons ob-
served that they " never considered that God thought so
much of animals before," and a fishmonger declared that he
would never sell any more eels.
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double piquancy to the pleasantries of Irish character. In
this work she has taken new ground. The story is of a
truly English nature, mid abounds in vivid pictures of
British life, drawn with the authoress's accustomed delicacy
and beauty. The great charm of the work consists in its
being written naturally, and with true feeling ; and we have
no doubt that it will become one of the most successful of
this lady's productions.
On Sunday afternoon an accident of a most dis-
tressing nature occurred on board the Ariel, a Woolwich
steamer, while passing down the river with passengers. As
she was passing St. Katherine's Dock, between five and six
o'clock, Mr. Swiesland, the mate began to collect the fares
of the people, when one of his children, a beautiful girl, five
years of age, began to amuse herself with the bolt of the
gangway doors, on the larboard side of the vessel, and while
her father's attention was otherwise engaged she pulled the
doors open, and pitched forward under the rail into the
river. The father saw her as she reached the water, and
cried out " My child, my child !—she's overboard, Sir!"
The vessel was 'going at full speed, and Captain Rule, the
master, instantly ordered the vessel to be backed astern,
which was immediately effected. The agonized father
jumped into the boat astern, which was soon lowered, but
by that time, from the way the Ariel had in the water, she
was a hundred yards from the spot where the girl fell in,
and she had disappeared. The father kept his eye on the
spot, and continued rowing towards it ; the child again
appeared on the surface, but before he could reach her she
sunk again and was drowned. Swiesland has ever since
his severe loss been in a state of distraction bordering on
madness, and on board the vessel the Captain had great
difficulty in preventing him from committing suicide. He
is a steady and respectable man, and the afflicting loss he
has sustained has excited great commiseration.
A few days ago, a live kitten was put into a box
containing a ferret and some young ones, as food for the old
one. Instead, however, of immediately killing and devour-
ing the little animal, the ferret took it under its care and
protection, and brought it up along with its own young.
The kitten remains with them at present ; but from the
confinement of the place, an the overweening attachment
of the old ferret in keeping it well covered with hay, it is in
a weakly state, not being allowed a sufficient quantity of
air and exercise. It grows up with the young ferrets, and is
now about the same size. If the kitten is at any time
taken from the box and placed upon the ground outside, it
is immediately fetched back in the mouth of its foster-mo-
ther, and covered up in the litter along with the young
ferrets. The ferrets belong to Mr. Bower, of Rossington,
near this town.—Doncaster Gazette.

CHURCH-RATES. —On Saturday week, at a
meeting of the West Riding Magistrates, held at the Castle
of York, Mr. Robert Waller and Mr. Thomas Backhouse,
two members of the Society of Friends, appeared in answer
to summonses which had been obtained by Mr. Thomas
Hoop, of the Cross Keys Inn, Holdgate, against them for
refusing to pay the Church-rates in that Township. It ap-
peared, that in addition to the usual objection which these
gentlemen, as well as the whole religious society to which
they belong, have against these obnoxious rates, they consi-
dered the demand quite illegal, inasmuch as the said Mr.
Hoop had added to the rate, charges of his own, after it had
passed the vestry of St. Mary, 13:shopshill ; particularly for
eating and drinking at his house on the day of perambula-
tion ; which,inexcusefor himself, he alleged had been done
as a benefit to his house, and in remuneration for his trouble
for acting as Churchwarden. After hearing the case, the
worthy Magistrates unanimously declared the charge was
illegal, and a gross imposition upon the township of
Holdgate.