The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-14 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.'

The Walmer Castle, Bourchier, from China, off' Port-
land ; sailed from Lintin 26th March, and St. Helena, 27th
June.

The Stratford, Laing, from Mauritius, off Portsmouth ;
sailed May 13.
The Jessie, Bell, from New South Wales, at Liverpool ;
sailed from Sydney, April 17.
The Patriot, Dunn, from the Cnpe of Good Hope, eta,'
Cork ; sailed May is.
MACRITIUS.-Arrived ilre Cuba, Grey, in April, from
London, and sailed, 26th. for Calcutta; Perruel, Rentoll,
from London and Algoa Bay, and sailed, 26th, for Singa-
pore; Samuel Baker, Wild, 24th, from Calcutta; Radama,
Coffey, 26th, from Bourbon ; Dorothy Gales, Moore, 27th
front Calcutta and Pondicherry; Addingham, Scdgtviek,
28th, from Sydney ; Olivia, Roome, 28th, from the Cape ;
Emerald hle, Driver, 29th, from Calcutta Anti Madras ;
Jane Blair, M' Mister, 29th, from the Cape ; Man-
chester, Harris, 29th, from Madagascar ; Trois Fl-cres,
Lepredour, 30th, from Mattiga,car ; Mallaby,
Grey, 30th, from London ; Maria, Thompson, May 2, from
Marseilles ; Harriett, Parsons, 2d, Tiger, Clement, 3d,
Edouad, Durnas, 3,2, all from Madagascar; Emma, Reckett,
3d, from Singapore and Pondicherry ; Jeune Evenor, Beak-,
3d, from Madagascar; Haidee, Lymus, 4th, from Ce.leutta ;
Mary Eliza, Patterson, 4th, Jane Sheriffs, Mav2on, 4th, all
from London ; Caledonia, Labary, sth, fr-n Ma4agascar ;
Cassiopea, Verruine, sth, from Liver2ool ; John Panther,
Els& n, sth, from Bordeaux; Saucy Jack, Mainyard, 7th,from
Tamalane; Pncenix, Vedal, 7th, from Marseilles ; Maryteret,
12th, from Amsterdam, S'a'iled the Tv; ecd, Laws, on April
23, for London; iVlcinuire, Jollrtt, for Bourbon ; Freak,
Srncult, 24th, for Calcutta; Kite, Noble, 24th, for Singapore;
Crator, Terry, 26th, for London; Helen, Petford, 29th, for
So ile ; Sanobit. 29th, for Bourbon ; Charles Dumarque,
Wilso-a, May 1, for Rangoon ; Edward Robinson, Parsons, Ist,
for Pondicherry ; Penelope, Patterson, and Zenobia, Owen,
Ist, for London ; Manchester, H,,rris, 4th, for Madagascar ;
Prosper, Chelin, 5;.h, for St. Brandon; Radama, Coffey. sth
for Bourbon ; Addingham, Sedgwick, 7th, fur Calcutta ; Har-
riett, Paraans, sth, for Madagascar. >
China.-Arrived the Ruby, Randle, in March, from Cal-
cutta and Singapore ; Chandler Price, Dabs, from Philadel-
phia. Sailed the Naples, Archer, March 26, for Boston ;
Pekoe, Gillies, 26th, for Manilla ; Trafalgar, S; cos, 26th, for
Liverpool ; David, Clarke, 26th, for London. Vessels load-
ing 26th March for England:-Golconda, Bell, Mary Dug-
dale, Hero of Maloasn, Grundy, and Blake, Thompson.
St. Helena.-Arrived the Oost Indien, Blom, June 23, from
Batavia, and sailed 26th for Amsterdam ; Orator, Terry, 24th,
from the Mauritius, and sailed 25th for London ; Mount Stewart
Elphinstone, Stewart, 25th, from Bombay, and sailed 25th for
the Clyde ; the Dutch brig of war Snelheid, Ferguson, 25th,
from India and the Cape, and sailed 26th for the Texel ; Irina,
Cone, 26th, from Calcutta, and sailed 27th for Havre ; Tra-
falgar, Syms, 27th, from China for Liverpool ; Pauline, Hoff-
man, 27th, from Batavia for Middleburg. Sailed the Adams,
Mills, in June, for the Cape.
Madeira.-Arrived the Adelaide, Guthrie, June 28, from
London, and sailed July 3 for Bengal ; Surrey, Sinclair, July
3, from London, and sailed sth for South Australia ; Forti-
tude, Wilson, 7th, from Glasgow, and sailed Bth for Rio.
Sailed the Lintin, Gillman, June 28, for Bombay ; Iris, Mack-
wood, July 6, for Ceylon.
New Zealand.-Arrived the Ann, Ball, March 11 (of Lon-
don), out 22 months, with 1,600 barrels of oil ; Trent, King,
Bth, from the Coast, had spoken the Australian, Rhodes, off
the Eat Cape of New Zealand, with 1,000 barrels.
Sydney, N. S.W.-Arrived the William Jardine, Crosbie,
April 11, from Dublin ; Mary, Levindells, 11th, from the
Sperm Fishery ; Orwell, Living, 11th, from Hobart Town ;
Jess, Wilson, 11th, from New Zealand; Edward, Cannon,
12t1a, from Liverpool ; Orestes, Smith, 12th, from Bristol ;
Wnodlark, Grimes, 14th, from whaling, with 350 barrels of
oil, put in in consequence of a mutiny on board. Sailed the
Joshua Carroll, Lindsay, April 13, for Hobart Town ; Emma
Eugenia, Wade, 13th, for South Australia ; Vectis, Ise-
monger, 14th, for London ; L' Heroine, Cecilia, 15th, for Bay
of Islands; Achilles, Veale, 15th, for London ; the Blenheim,
to sail 16th, for Sourabaya and Semarang; the Upton Castle,
to sail 16th for Madras and Calcutta; Scamander, Rogers,
and Lady Rowena. 10th, for the Sperm Fishery.-Projected
departures from :sydney :-The Brilliant, for London, April
22; Cockerr-,outh Castle, Bell, for London ; Spartan, Ball,
for Londoa ; Stirlingshire, fur London ; Minerva, Furlong ;
and Superb, Briscoe, for Liverpool.
Mauritius.-Arrived the Mellish, Cowley, May 12, from
whaling, with 1,800 barrels of oil; the latter had spoken the
Admiral Cockburn, 20 months out, with 400 barrels of oil.
Batavia.-Arrived the Stadt, Utrecht, April 1, from Amster-
dam; Briton, Harrington, Ist, from Liverpool; Hippomenes,
2d, from Flushing ; Asia, Freeman, 2d, from Samarang ; Nas-
sau. 6th, from Amsterdam ; Maccassar, sth, from Rotterdam.
Sourabaya.-Arrived the Mandarin, Symonds, March 24,
from Canton.

New Zealand.—Arrived the Neptune, Nagle, previous to
March 12, from Sydney for Valparaiso.

LAMENTABLE EXPLOSION.—On Tuesday after-
noon, about four o'clock, a most lamentable explosion of gunpowder took
place in rile outbuildings belonging to Mr. Harrison, who is a shopkeeper
and firmer, at Harlington, in Derbyshire, by which three persons—two
meal and a boy—were killed. Mr. Harrison was accustomed to keep his
stock of gunpowder in a barn near his house, whence quantities were
taken for sale in his shop. His stock at the time of the explosion was
about one cwt. The place where the powder was deposited was known
to a lad in Mr. Harrison's service, who it appears had been accustomed
to pilfer it for the purpose of making squibs, and in so doing had scat-
tered some on the ground on leaving the place. On Tuesday afternoon
as Mr. Harrison's son (a fine young man), his nephew, and the servant
lad, were standing near the barn, young Mr. Harrison observing some
powder on the ground, remarked, "We will have a fir." He directly
ignited the grains before him with a burning cinder, which commuicated
with the powder in the barn, though the ground was damp, and in one
moment the roof of the barn rose entire, and in the air broke in two
parts; the walls were blown to pieces, four or five tons of hay were
scattered in all directions, and Mr. Harrison's son, a nephew, and the
servant boy, were killed by the explosion. A coroner's inquest has
been held on the unfortunate youths, and a verdict returned accordingly.
On Friday morning as a lad about seventeen, named
Lea, was driving a cart at a rapid rate towards MOE End, he was vio-
lently precipitated to the ground by the wheel coming in contact with
that of a waggon, heavily laden, going in an opposite direction. He
was taken up in a state of insensibility, and removed to the hospital,
where, on examination, it was found that he had sustained a compound
fracture of one leg, three of his ribs were broken, and his head dange.
rota!), contused.

DIABOLICAL MI/RI:JELL—This town has been
thrown into great excitement by a murder of an atrocious character,
perpetrated a few days ago. The manner in which this murder
was discovered is as follows :—The police watchman on duty at the
Thorter.row having entered a court on the east side of that lane,
discovered a human body lying at the side of an outside stair,
h ading by a few steps to apartments occupied by Arthur Wood, street
porter, and his wife Honey Young or Wood. The body turned out to
be that of John Wood, son of the above Arthur Wood by a first mar-
riase. The young man, when taken up by the watchman, was found
quite dead, but his body was warm. It was lying on the flag-stones op-
posite his father's door, the feet being next the stair, as if he had been
thrown from it. External marks of violence were immediately per-
ceived. There was a large contusion on the back of the head, which on
examination by Drs. Webster and Moon, was found to be a fracture of
of the skull; arid, in addition to this, marks of a rope were deeply in-
dented round his neck, as if he had been strangulated and then thrown
on the ground. The strongest suspicions being entertained against
Arthur Wood and kis wife—for causes which will afterwards be shown
—both were taken into cumtody. They were found in the house drink-
ing spirits when the officers went to apprehend them. Both were pre-
cognosced before the police court yesterday, and handed over to the Pro-
curatcr.fiscal for prosecution. In this state of the matter we forbear to
sly more than that the suspicions entertained are likely to be fully sup.
ported by a chain of circumstantial evidence. The deed is one of the
most eabolical that has ever happened in Dundee.—Dundee Courier.
Last week the adjourned inquest on Mrs. Mo-
ralee, the unfortunate lady who was killed in consequence of the over-
turning of the Courier Leeds and London coach, was held at the Star
Inn at Lofthouse. It clearly appeared from the evidence that the coach.
men of the Courier and the Express were racing against each other, and
as the former coach was descending Lofthouse-hill, having no slipper on,
it proceeded at a very rapid rate, from which cause the accident above
alluded to occurred. The jury consulted together for about twenty mi-
nutes, but were doubtful as to the propriety of including in their verdict
of manslaughter the coachman of the Express. At length the jury re-
turned a verdict cf " Manslaughter against Michael Rowell, the driver
of the Courier, and a deodand of 504 upon the horses and 501. t.pon the
coach,"

FIRE.—On Thursday morning, about half-past six
o'clock, an alarming fire broke out upon the premises of Mr. Fowler,
oilman, of No. 40, Cornwall-road. The alarm having at once been
given, the engines from this West of England office and the Waterloo-
road station, with two others,were soon upon the spot, and happily suc-
ceeded in extinguishing the flames before they had time to communi-
cate with the shop, The fire is supposed to have originated from the light-
ing of a candle in one of the bed. rooms. The damage done isestimatcd
at 4001., but we are happy to state that the property was insured.
Last week an aged honest couple, named Yvon,
living in a miserable garret in the Rue Pagevin, were rob'ied in the
most audacious manner of the savings accruing from many years' pain-
ful privations. A femee sw:ndler, in the absence of the wife, intro-
duced herself to the husband as having been commissioned by the
Duchess of Orleans to distribute pecuniary assistance to the indigent
inhabitants of the al randissernent The impostor having requested per-
mission to examine the aged couple's wordrobe, in order, as she stated,
that she might be enabled to supply its deficiencies, the husband without
the least distrust consented, and the charitable dune, after a minute in-
spection, took leave, with a promise to return the next day and supply
such articles as were wanting. The wife, on returning soon afterwards,
examined her effects, and found that 45E, which constituted their little
all, were missing.

QuAcKrny IN FRANCE.-Three doctors and an
apothecary left the French metropolis for a professional tour through
the provinces in January, 1837. The quack medicine which they
vended was calved the "Sucre Mexique," a composition of jalap and
sugar, in the sale of which they were very successful, reaping an abund-
ant harvest from the folly and credulity of the public. At Orleans,
however, their career was arrested : being legally qua:itied to practice,
they could not be prosecuted for the assumption of that right ; but the
irdictment contained a count for swindling, en which they were con-
victed, and sentenced respectively to tine and imprisonment. The charge
vras, obtaining money on &Ise pretences, the guaranteeing a cure in
all cases, and proscribing the same remedy, the " Sucre Mexique," for
every disease, without distinction of age, sex, or constitution.
A young man, named Cotigne, residing in the Cite
Pergere, having for some time past shown signs of mental derangement,
his family mule application to the proper authorities for leave to put him
in confinement, but, unfortunately, his madness was not deemed to be
ouch as to warrant this measure. A few days ago a friend, on walking
into his bedroom, was horror-struck at finding M. Cc tigne on his bed,
1% a 3 covered with blood. The first impression was that a suicide
hadl been committed, and the Commissary cf Police was sent for. This
oE
cer soon arrived, presented himself as being a physician, and asked
Coigne how he did ? " Very well" was the reply; "come and sec
how I have cut off my little toe ; a little too, you know, is of no use, arid
mine was always in my Way ;" and he exhibited his mutilated foot.
The young man did not show the least emotion, and it was with the
greatest difficulty that he was persuaded that he must go to his surgeon's
house, since he kept declaring that. it was by no means necessary, and
t hat he neve; !"...it was at iergth taken to a private
-bOtiSC.