The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-10 00:00:00

QUICKEST VOYAGE. The splendid new
steamer, Royal George, Captain Cook, left Liverpool on
Monday evening last, twenty minutes before five o'clock,
and arrived in Liverpool on Wednesday afternoon at two
o'clock, making the voyage in 45 hours and 20 minutes :
deduct for stoppage at Greenock and Renfrew 45 minutes,
loading and discharging cargoes at Glasgow six hours,
keying 38 hours and 35 minutes for performing the voyage
from Liverpool to Bromielaw, Glasgow, and back to
Liverpool.—Liverpool Chronicle.
On Saturday last an inquest was held at the
Union-hall, in the village of Llanstephan, Glamorganshire,
before George Thomas, Esq., on view of the body of a
person unknown, but supposed to be the captain of the ship
Pickering Dodge, of Boston, United States, wrecked. A
jury having been sworn, the Coroner said they had a painful
and disgusting duty to perform, as he understood from
his son that rho body was in a state of dreadful disfi-
gurement and decomposition, so as to prevent his person
being identified, except by his clothes, and being also
informed that the Captain of the above ship had very
considerable property on his person when the melancholy
catastrophe occurred, it was their duty as well as his to
make a minute search of his person. They then adjourned
to the church-yard, where the remains lay in a shell, and
after half an hour's search in the presence of the parish
officers and a large concourse of people, they returned to
the jury-room, where evidence was taken. Verdict—
" Found drowned on the shore of the river Tave."—
Wekhman.
THE WEATHER.—In and about London the
weather for the last few days has been rather fine, but it
appears that in most parts of the country, particularly the
North, where the greatest quantity of Wheat remains un.
housed, the weather has been most unfavourable for har-
vest operations. That the produce of the kingdom will
fall short of an average crop, there now unhappily is but
little doubt, and we fear that while the poor man's loaf will
be further pinched, we shall witness a still greater and more
disastrous derangement of our monetary and commercial
system than that under which all classes are now suffering
—suffering, be it borne in mind, mainly from the operation
of the Corn-laws. .
THE CHARTISTS.—We understand that it is
the intention of the Chartists of this town to hold a large
meeting early in the ensuing week. Mr. Feargus O'Con-
nor and John Frost, Esq., it is expected, will arrive here
from London on Monday, to address that meeting.—Chel-
tenham Free Press.
OMNIBUS ACCIDENT.—On Saturday afternoon
as one of Child's Chelsea omnibuses was on its way to the
Bank, opposite Goding's brewery, Knightsbridge, it came
in collision with a dust cart which turned sharply out of a
street, when, before the coachman could pull up, one of
the shafts of the cart entered the chest of the nearside
omnibus horse, which was thereby instantly killed. It was
valued at 251.
We had the good fortune one evening this week
to fall into a company, where a gentleman was relating his
adventures in North America. He asserted many curious
things as facts, and amongst the rest of his wonderful
assertions, he assured the company that birds never sang
' in America, and that none of its flowers had any scent. If
such be the case we cannot help pitying our translantic
1 brethren.—Preeton Observer.
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