The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-28 00:00:00

NisTity M. vl' BOUTTNICEF.

St. Petersburgii, July 19,1836.
Your Excellency is aware that the Imperial Govern-
ment published an Ordinance prohibiting foreign seamen
who frequent the cast coast of the Rack Sea to land at
any place excepting where there is a quarantine establish-
ment, or a custom-horse, namely, at Anapa and Redut-
Kate. Now, as it has happened that ships have attempted
to ,lelate this prohibition and to entertain an unlawful
intercourse with the inhabitants of the coast, the
squadron cruising there is obliged to be doubly vigiLvat and
strict to hinder similar violations,and it is therefore sometimes
Obliged to detain and search even such ships as have no
unlawful intentions, hut excite suspicie,it by too closely ap-
proaching that coast. Such cases have occurred more than
woe, and took place evenlin tlu,lcourse of last year. The
Imperial Ministry has therefore judged it necessary to think
of means to prevent occurrences of this kind for the future,
or at least to make them as rare as possible. For this Ow-
pose you arc requested to take the first opportunity that
offers to acquaint the diplomatic body, and, through your
chancery, the foreign consuls and merchants that the above-
mentioned prohibition, which was already made known to
tine•r.n by your communication in :the year 1831, is still
111 force, that an armed squadron watches over the obser-
vance of it, and that therefore merchantmen which are
not bound either to Anapa or Yedut-Kale will do bet-
ter not unnecessarily to approach the coast of Abaisa, if
they will not expose themselves to the inconvenience of
being detained and searched."—Prussiali Slate Gazette
22f Jan., and Hamburgh Papers, 23d and 24th Jan.

AFRICA.
Extract of a letter from Tripoli, dated 2d inst. :—" A
brisk cannonade was heard throughout yesterday. A serious
engagement was fought between the Mesehins and the
Turks at about a league from the town ; it lasted tii the
Pasha sent out several hundreds of his bravest Delis, who
brought in a•considerable number of .heads , hitt the sortie
was not decisive, and they will again have to contend'with
the half-savage Arabs. The Porte is continually increas-
ing. the number of its•troops stationed here ; first, through
pride, not wishing to yield to the natives, and having garri-
sons engaged in the East : secondly, because the Sultan is
deceived by the reports of Tahir Pacha ; and thirdly, and
chiefly, to maintain a footing in Africa, and take advantage
of any favourable opportunity that may offer for supporting
the Bey of Constantine, who keeps up an intercourse with
the Pacha of Tripoli both by sea and land. We learn
from various sources that troops will shortly be sent to the
Boy, with whom an arrangement has been made for paying
them, and furnishing them with necessaries. An Ottoman
sloop has just anchored here with a convoy of three trans-
ports, from which between 500 and 600 men have been
landed. They still appear to remain half laden, which in-
duces us to believe that they have ammunition on board.
A certain Nadir Bey, formerly in the service of the Paella
of Egypt, and who has the reputation of being a good
soldier, has also arrived at Tripoli. According to general
rumour, he is about to proceed to Constantine.

UNITED STATES.
(From Galignani's Messenger.)
We this morning received New York papers to the 3d
instant, brought by the Utica, Captain Pell, which arrived
at Havre yesterday. These Journals are satisfactory as
regards the health of the vnerable President, whose acti-
vity in the
,duties of his 'nigh office shows a great improve-
ment, if not an entire restoration of his health. He had
transmitted to Congress a Message, relative of the admis-
sion of Miel-Agan into the United States, which was re-
ferred to the usual Committee. The General had like-
wise recommended, by a communication to Congress, the
re-construction of the Washington Post-offices, and that
the, new buildings should be fire-proof. A terrible fire had
deStroyed a great part of Broad-street, St. Augusta, the
damage of which was computed at 75,000 doilars. Much
of the property was, however, insured. From Texas the
news is of little importance. Reports. had been spread of
the advance of the Mexican army, but it turned out to
be a false alarm. Bravo, the Mexican General, had been
unable to raise money, and in default of these sinews
of war," could not advance. The Texan Senate had
passed the law for raisin? 5,000,000 of dollars, and the rage
for speculation' in lands in that quarter is described to
rival the European railway mania. St. Anna was pursuing
his way to Washington ; it had been reported that he had
been iyachtd at a town called " Memphis," but the intel-
ligence seems unfounded. Mr. Clay had been elected re-
presentative for Kentucky by a majority of twenty-two over
his opponent, Mr. Guthrie. White, whose trial for setting
fire to the Treasury buildings was proceeding at the last ac-
counts, is to undergo a fresh trial. The proceedings against
the pri .oner occupied six days, at the end of which the jury
were seventy hours in considering their decision, and then
returned notice to the judge that they were unable to agree
to a verdict. Turning to lighter subjects, we find that the
Bowery Theatre, lately burnt down, had rt sprung from its
ashes more splendid than ever, and from the description
appears to be really a fine edifice. An amusing part of the
manager's announcements is the engagement of a Miss Louisa
H. Medina, who is to fulfil the double post of dramatist and
literary censor.

A man in Salem, Ohio, in hewing out a mill-stone,
after having broken off the upper surface of the stone to the
depth of three and a half inches, discovered several holes in
a straight line across the stone, and in one of these holes a
part of a wedge. Two thin plates of iron had first been put
into the bole, and the wedge was driven between them.
Part of one of the plates was broken off, but otherwise they
were both, as well as the wedge, in a perfect state of preser-
vation, and but little rusted. The stone which contained ,
them was perfectly solid on ,the outside, and also within,
except at the holes, and had apparently grown over them.'
A book ant! Pamphlet seller, living in the New
Hungerford Arcade, has two papers in his window, on one
of which is written, " The influenza to be had here for
2d. ;" on the other is, " The influenza cured for 2d."

On Monday, shortly before nine o'clock, an alarm
of fire was given, and guided by the light, which illumina-
ted the horizon to a great distance, vast crowds proceeded
to the Humber Dock, where it was found that the engine
employed in clearing the mud from the dock was on fire.
We have not heard how the fire originated, but it is sup-
posed to have been from some part °ldle machinery, which
is worked by steam. The engine-house, which was of wood,
and a great height above the water, was totally enveloped
in flames, and the sight of so large a burning mass was very
splendid, reflecting on the hulls and shrouds of the sur-
rounding vessels. Fortunately the night was very calm,
and the copious showers of rain which had fallen during the
day had saturated the rigging of the vessels with which the
dock wes crowded, and thus prevented any serious results.
A large body of police, under tlw direction of the superin-
tendent, were immediately at the place—they disposed
themselves on rafts surrounding the engine, which was got
into the middle of the dock, and communication cut toff
from any part of the adjacent vessels, or the dock sheds,
which contained much valuable merchandise. The wood
compcsing the machine burnt to the water's edge. We
have t of heard of any fatal accidents arising from the im-
mense number of persons who were on the spot; thought
several got overboard, they were promptly extricated.—
lie/lObscrl'Cr.

In the llarleian Manuscripts in the British.rom the
Mu-
seum, 991, will be fbund, folio 7, some extracts f
pocket-book of Richard Symonds, who, after giving a brief
i
account of the splendid inauguration of Oliver Cromwell,
second to a coronation only by the absence of the crown,
he says, film() 23, " At the marriage of his daughter to
Rich, in 1657, the Protector threw about sack posset
amongst all the ladies, to soil their rich clothes, which they
tool: as a favour, and also wett swete meates ; and dawbed
all the stooks which they were to sit with wet swete meates,
and pulled off Rich's perucque, and would have throwne it
into the fire ; hut did not—yet he sate upon it."
BREMEN, JAN. B.—The emigrations to America
last year were very numerous. In 1835, 75 ships with
6,185 passengers, left this port for the United States ; in
1836, 11,811 passengers in 107 ships sailed direct from the
Wire, and 2,326 were forwarded from this place to Cux-
haven, who sailed from the Elbe in 23 ships, making a
total of 14,137 persons and 130 ships. A ship is also
gone to Maranham with 160 sailors for the Portuguese
navy, where a trial will be made to substitute German
for English seamen, of whom the crews are now chiefly
2ompos6d.

Coleridge, on parting with a fellow•student (Ger-
man) at Gottingen, being requested to inscribe same me-
morial in the album (or stammbuch) of the place, wrote the
following lines
We both attended the same college,
• Where sheets of paper we did blur maize„
Andln rEonll‘anced're4gaonindgytoou sport our
co:lair:L:4lw; Jedgv„

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, J.I.V. 27.
THE KING V. II:1RWOOD.
Mr. BALGUY showed cause against a rule obtained by
Sir W. Follett, calling on the defendant to show cause by
what: authority he claimed to exercise the office of town
counci 1 ur of the LorouLidi of Derby. The Municipal Reform
Act gay.! to that borough thirty-six town councillors and
twelve aldermen. In November, 1835, the first election of
town councillors took place, and the defendant was elected
one of the six town councillors fir one of the six wards into
which the horough had been divided. He was one of two
persons who came in with the lowest number of votes foe
that sa: d. When the town councillors had been elected,
they proceeded, according to the provisions of the Statute,
to elect aldermen for the horough. Ten of the al.lerm•sn
were by them chosen from among their own number, and
two others from the persons among the burgesses qualified
to be aldermen. Ten vacancies, among which were too fur
the ward to which the defendant had been elected, were
thus created among the town councillors, anti a fresh elec-
tion of ten persons to till these vacancies took place. The
two persons who had been on the first occasion lower-on the
poll than the defendant were elected to till op the vacan-
cies in his ward ; but their election took place on a smaller
number of votes than he had received on hi 3 election.
All the ten vacancies were filled up, and, the corpora-
tion became thus for the first time constituted under the
now Act. At the end of the year, namely, on the Ist of
November. 1836, the time came for one-third of the mem-
bers of the town council to go out of oflice. -Of course,
two were to go out of office for the defendant's ward, and
it was insisted that as at the first election the defendant
had come in upon the smallest number of votes given at
that election for that waid he must be one of the two. The
defendant, however, insisted that the election to fill up the
vacancies occasioned by the appointment of the aldermen
was an ordinary election, and was to be considered in law
as taking place at the time at which the first town coun-
cillors were elected.
The Court thought that this was a question which de-
served to be put in a'courso of inquiry, and so made the
rule for a quo warranty absolute.
THE KING V. THE I'ORFOIUTION OF BRIDGWATER,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL appeared on behalf of the
members of the corporation of Bridgwater to show cause
against a rule for a aaiulanrus to be directed to them, com-
manding them to prepare and execute a bond for granting
to a Mr. Trevor, the town clerk of that borough, an annuity
of 101/. 12s. 4d., directed to the Lords of the Treasury,
to he paid him as compensation for the,loss of the office of
clerk to the justices of that borough. The defendants re-
fused to execute this bond, because they said that Mr.
Trevor had not been dismissed from his office by the new
corporation, and that his office was not one which was pro-
perly the subject of compensation, so that, in fact, the
Lords of the Treasury had no jurisdiction to make the
order which they had issued, and which the applicant now
sought to enforce.
Sir W. FOLLETT supported the rule.—ltule granted.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 27.

WILKINSON V. HALL.

The Court was occupied the greater p.trt of the day in
hearing the arguments in this, which is a special case. It
was an action of ejectment for double value, and the ques-
tion was, whether a mortgage containing a particular pro-
viso for the payment of interest every half year conveyed
such a legal estate as amounted to a lease.—Sir F. PoL-
LOCK argued for the plaintiff, and -Mr. Sergeant Bolt Pas
for the defendant.—The reply was deferred to a future day.

PREROGATIVE COURT, JAY. 27.
CLARKE V. NUNN AND WOOD.
This is a suit respecting two testamentary papers, left
by Mr. Charles Evans Nunn, late of Ticehurst, in the
county of Sussex, who died in July, 1836, possessed of
very considerable property, the personal amounting to
60,0001., and the real to upwards of 4,0001. Two allega-
tions were this day offered, each propounding one of the
papers alluded to, one of which materially benefits Mr.
Henry William Nunn, the brother and one of the execu-
tors of the deceased, and the other seriously affecting the
interest of Miss Wood, a lady with whom the deceased
cohabited.
Dr. AnnAustippeared for the other parties in this suit,
viz., for Mrs. Clarke, the sister and next of kin of the
deceased, Mrs. Harvey, another sister, for three Misses
Bovell, the deceased's nieces, and an infant son of deceased's
brother, and on their behalf opposed the allegation which
he contended was inadmissible in Coto.
The KING'S ADVOCATE, on behalf of Mr. Henry Wm.
Nunn, supported his allegation.
Dr. LusniscToN followed on the same side.
Dr. BURNABY, on behalf of the allegation propounding
the paper in favour of Miss Wood, will be heard in the
next session.