The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-30 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Larne, bound W., July 22, lat. 47 N, long. 34 W.
The Antelope, Antigua to Dublin, July 28, let. 63 N.
The Star of the West, Liverpool to New York, July 21,
let. 37 N. long. 44 W.
The Jacob A. Westervelt, New York to Liverpool, July
26, let. 44 N, long. 49 W.
The Eagle, of Glasgow, lat. 42 N, long. 13 W.
The Briton (barque) of Kirkcaldy, bound westward,
June 23, lat. 53 S, long. '5 W.
The Premier (barque) bound westward, august 22, lat.
50 N, long. 10 W.
The Mary Harrison, of London, August 20, lat. 46'N,
long. 11 W.
The Pendleton, Pill to St. John's, N.B-, August 23, lat.
51 N, long. 16 W.
The Naples, City Point to Liverpool, Aug. 7, let. 37. N,
long. 73 W.
The El Dorado, St. John's, N:B., to Liverpool, Aug. 1,
let. 42 N, long. 63 W.
The Gleaner, Jamaica to Liverpool, Aug. 4, let. 25 N,
long. 80 W.
The Boston Light, New Orleans to Liverpool, Aug. 5,
let. 34 N, long. 74 W.
The Hamilton Campbell, from Liverpool, Aug. 8, lat.
41 N, long. 52 W.
The Stephen Watson (brig), of Sunderland, for Quebec,
July 25. off Cape Rozier.
The Jessie Boyles, St. John's, N. 8., to Liverpool, Aug.
7, let. 43 N, long. 60 W.
The Salamanca, Hong Kong to London, June 5, let. 44
S, long. 88 E.
The Frumbol It (Hamburgh barque), Valparaiso to Lon-
don (95 days out), Aug. 8, let. 17 N, long. 32 W.
The Angusta, of Yarmouth Cadiz to St. John's, New-
foundland, Aug. 18, let" 44 N., long. 38 W.
The Prince Albert, Jamaica to London, long. 47 W.
The Oromocto, of Liverpool, steering west, Aug. 12,
let. 45 N., long. 31 W.
The Alphonse N. Cezl.rd, London'to Australia, July 5,
lot.' 13 N., long." 26 W.
The Ellen, Sierra Leone to Falmouth, July 18, let, 15
N., long. 22 W.
The Adelaide, London to Demerara, July 18, let. 7 N.,
long'. 9 W.
The Princeton, New York to Liverpool, July 2, let. 42
N., long. 62 W.
The Ellen Oliver, Liverpool to Boston, July 16, let. 38
N.. long. 37 W.
The Gertrude, Jamaica to London, July 30, lat. 26 N.,
lobe. 80 W., had been 10 days becalmed.
The Sumner, Canton to London, June 25, let. 11 S.,
long. 97 E.
The Ship, No. 4380, supposed a transport, June 17, let.
44 N., long. 12.

INCENDIARY FIRES AT MANCHESTER. -On Monday
evening, about a quarter past eight o'clock, an alarm
was given that the cellar warehouses of Messrs. Wilkin-
son and Davison, calico merchants, Morley-street, Man-
chester, were on fire. The fire brigade were sent for
and arrived with an engine in a very short time, but in
the interval Palice-constable Andrew Action had
effected an entrance, and found that the cause of alarm
was a quantity of burning cotton wool wrapped in a
paper, which had been thrown in through a window,
and had done no harm beyond burning a ho'e in the
counter. A pane of glass had been newly broken in a
front window, most likely for the purpose of throwing
in the burning material. The warehouse extends under
three others, belonging to other partiez, and had the
incendiary fully effected his object a large amount of
property would no doubt have been destroyed. An in-
cendiary fire is also reported to have been attempted on
Saturday night last.
PRACTICAL JOKING IN LIVERPOOL.—During the last
week a series of "practical jokes" have been perpe-
trated on Mr. Henry Hunt, of the Stir Hotel, William-
son-street, Liverpool, believed to be the production
of a coterie of " strong minded women," out .of re-
venue to Mr. Hurt, who is a widower, for the suc-
cessful manner in which he resisted their individual
attempts to obliterate his date of single blessedness.
The facts are brifly these :—On Thursday morning
a violent knocking was heard at Mr. Hunt's door,
at an early hour, and on proceeding to ascertain the
cause, Mr. Hunt found a bevy of sweeps from rival
proprietors, who each had been furnished by a note
signed by Mr.- Hunt, that all the flues in the house
required sweeping. Later in tthe same (lay, the house
was besieged with appraisers "to take an inventory
of the goods." and by messengers from tradesmen in
every quarter of the town with quantities of glass, gro-
ceries, &c. In the evening a journeyman joiner entered
the house to measure Mr. Hunt for his coffin, and
having been told of the trick played upon him ap-
peared greatly disappointed. Several of the leading
medical practitioners were summ ,ned by the same
handwriting to call to see Mr. Hunt, whh had, it
Was alleged, been attacked with premonitory symptoms
of cholera. But-the " unkindest cut of all" was reserved
for Friday morning, and when'a hearse and two mourn-
ing coaches drove up to the doer of the Star Hotel, and
the driver, in a sable suit and white choker, demanded
"if" the funeral was ready." This was the most serious
"juke," as Messrs. Busby, to whom the (thief was sent,
happened to have all their hearses and mourning para-
pherna.lia engaged, and were compelled, at an expense
of upwards of 51., to borrow them ft:ern a rival pro-
prietor. Not content with the above and sundry other
performances, the " jokers" wrote copies of the marriage
of Mr. Hunt with a Mrs. Grady, widow of a Tipperary
squire ; of the death of . Mr. Hunt. at his residence,
Williamson-Pqnare and of the birth, at the Sian Hotel.
of the wife of Mr. H. Hunt of a son and heir, all on the
same day, and sent each to a separate newspaper. We
learn that, Mr, H. was successful in suppressing the
birth and his death in the local newspapers, but the fact
of hie marriage crept into ,-everal. The authorities have
obtained a clue to the perpetrators ; and 'we fear, from
the number and respectability of the " dupes," they
will prove but " sorry jests" if the perpetrators are dis-
covered, _