The Sun.
London, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrival-Sept. 10, The Macassar, Giescke, from Batavia,
off Falmouth, bound to Rotterdam, sailed the 14th May, and
St. Helena, 13th July.
Arrivals at the Mauritius.-The Apprentice, Cadenhead,
May 22, from the Cape ; the Jean Graham, Thornton, May
23, from Liverpool ; the William Lockerby, Parker, May 24,
from the Cape; the Caledonia, Symers, May 24, from Bom-
bay ; the Palmer, Francis, May 24, from Marseilles ; the
Juste, Bowen, May 22, from Granville ; the Comet, Miller,
from Autongel Bay ; the Radama, Coffey, May 22, from
Bourbon ; the Euphrasia, Paget, May 23, from Calcutta ;
the Pasquita, Henrichen, May 24, from Calcutta, and sailed
the 25th for Bourbon ; the Soliel, Morrice, May 26, from
Marseilles, and sailed the 28th for Bourbon ; the Manchester,
Harris, June 5, from Maranset ; the Earl of Clare, Scott,
June 5, from Calcutta; the Johanna, Gerard, June D, and
Falcon, Papier, June lb, from Furt Dauphin ; the Tiger,
Clement, June 5, from Tamatave ; Mouche, Herinette, June
6, and Legere, Goring, June 6, from Seychelles.
Departures from the Mauritius -The Augustina, Perry,
May 23, for Madras ; Emma, King, May 28, for the Cape
of Good Hope ; Lord Elphinstone, Towle, June 5, for Co-
rings; Margaret, Dixon, June 5, for Moulmein ; Escual-
dame, Passement,:June 5, for Pondicherry ; Jane Blain, Mac-
alister, May 9, for Madras; Samuel I?aker, Wild, May 10,
for Calcutta; Watkins, Whiteside, May 11, for Singapore ;
Diana, Dudman, Miy 11, for London ; Lot d Auckland, Wil-
ley, May 11, for Madras; Dorothy Gales, Moore, May 11,
for Tamatave; Haidee, Symons, May 12, for Madras; Mary
Malaby, Gray, May 16, for London (query Calcutta) ; Bel -
zoni, Marin, May 23, for Tamatave; Robert le Diable, Le-
porte, May 23, for Bourbon ; Emma Peckett, May 24, for
Singapore; John Panther, Elsdon, May 25, and Mary Eliza,
Patterson, May 25, for Calcutta; Olivia, Roome, May 27, for
the Cape of Good Hope.
Mauritius, June 6.-The Carnatic, Richards, which sailed
from hence on the 28th April, for London, has put back with
four feet water in the hold, and thrown part of her cargo over-
board, and must discharge. The Brave, Le G rand, from
Bourbon, has put in here leaky.
Arrivals at Madeira. -The Malabar, Pollock, Aug. 12,
from Plymouth, and sailed for Bombay ; the Rajahstan,-
Ritchie, from London and Plymouth, and sailed for South
Australia. _ _

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Passenger per Barbara, from'Bombay—J. Surcombc, Esq.
Passengers per Patriot, from Ceylon and the Cape.—Mr.
and Mrs. Robson, Mrs. Burton and child.

Yesterday's Government Hue and Cry and Police
Gazette contains the particulars of the following daring high-
way robberies committed during the last week :—On the
night of Monday, between the hours of ten and eleven o'clock,
as Mr. J. Stanford, a farmer, of Little Hampton, near Eves-
ham, in the county of Worcester, was returning home he was
suddenly attacked on the high road by three men, who vio-
lently assaulted and robbed him of eleven sovereigns, and
three Si. notes of the Herefordshire branch bank, and a hat
nearly new. Mr. Stanford has offered a reward of 101.
for their apprehension.—On Tuesday night, about nine
o'clock, Mr. Robert Dennis, of Gieetham, in the county
of Lincoln, was attacked on the highway near Grce-
tham by four men, who dr.igged him from his horse,
end, after beating him severely, robbed him of a leather
purse containing a Si. Bank of England note, a sovereign,
a half sovereign, and six 101. notes of the Boston bank
of Messrs. Gurpet and Co. A reward of 50/. from the trea-
surer of the Horncastle Old Association for the prosecution of
felons, in addition to 501. by Mr. Dennis, has been offered for
their apprehension. About eight o'clock on the evening of
Thursday last, as Mr. John Palmer, of Up-Lamborne, was
riding down Woodspeen-hill, near Newbury, in the county of
Berks, he was stopped by four men, who, after cruelly beating
him and pulling him off his horse, robbed him of live sove-
reigns, one-t.alf sovereign, six half-crowns, five shil-
lings, two double-bladed penknives, and a bunch of
keys. One of the sovereigns was a new one, of the
Victoria coinage. All the men wore jackets, and one
of them (who was rather taller than the other three)
wore a white hat and a while apron, or smock. frock rol'ed
round his body. A reward of 20 guineas, one half from the
treasurer of the Lamborne Association, end the other from
Mr. Palmer, has been offered for their apprehension.
lIOYAL EXCHANGE —Soon after the merchants
obtained a place for exchange business in the yard of the Ex-
cise Office, by leave of the Lords of the Treasury, during the
period required for rebuilding- the Royal Exchange, great
annoyance, as well as risk to health, was experienced from the
want of any sort of shelter in so exposed a situation. A plan
was therefore projected to remedy the inconvenience, and a
subscription commenced for ca Tying it into effect. A suitable
shelter has now been erected with skyliglvs, covering a space
of 100 feet by 40, with an ad(li!ional covering to the eastern
passage, which, being open on all sides, does not exclude air,
whilst it guards from bad weather. The expense is stated to
be about 500/. To render the conveniences more complete,
however, it is understood to be in contemplation, should the
subscriptions be adequate, of which of course no doubt can he
entertained, to make a foot pavement under the covering-, and
have gaslights during the short days ; and these improve-
ments, with further accommodation in various parts of the
quadrangle, which may perhaps be obtained, and is r'esrahle,
will, it is expected, increase the expense to 7001. It is cal-
culated that three years will elapse before the New Exchange
can be ready.

REPORT OF THE I It!SH RAILIVAIC

COMMISSIONERS.

(From the Railway Times.)
We are glad to sue that the Report of the Irish Railwo/
Comm -rs is beginning to he subjected to the severe ordeal
of the Press, in almost every part of the empire. The subject
tr wed of in this able document is a national one of the
Li.4h .tst importance. Those who would attempt to reduce it!
magnitude within the scope of mere party discussions, and
make it an atria r of political controversy, must icon tee that
ey can hardly advanc e o e step without finding the ground
slip from under them. 's hey will not discover in the Report
even a, single exprecosi upon which they can expatiate, either
in a conservative or demo..ratical point of view. Lis a pro--
ject of peace fir all vartirs—a project for the encouragement
of industry—for the profitable investment of capital—for ac-
cekrating and confirmin, the progress of these islands in
e,r.or of pprosperitya. d glory, Which has long attracted the
admiration and the envy <.f the world.
The great charm which this Reporf has in our eyes 15, '
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newness (we prefer the word to novelty) in many respects.
I;
suggests inquiries, arising certainly in some respects out et
o.d ideas, but in other points wholly created by the higher
c, urses of thought, the more expanded spheres of action,
which steam power has opened to the human mind. For i"
stance, we cannot h lye read ti is Report without going tc°
consider what are the issues to which we are all hastening, by
substituting for horse and wind power this miraculous speed
f railway intercourse between man and rssan? What will be
the results of the solution of that problem which 50 long
doubted whether the Americas could be reached by steam:
ships from our shores? How backward are they alma*
the tide of the new age, who talk of separable interests, al
between England and Ireland, at a moment when We
may behold communications established between dill'
tricts of the two islands, which have brought thrill
nearer t) each other than wrs hitherto either of those
districts to towns end ports within the the boundary 0.,
its own coast? It would now be just as foolish to talk oa
the dissolutiol of the union of tl e two islands, as it would be
o say .bat Yorkshire and Midd'esex must have distinct or
ortlament And so with America—the twe Americans—N
and :Louth, and the whole of the West India isles. They Ws
all be brought, as it were, to our shores. We shall all be
c irporated—the Americas, Ireland, and Great Britain---'
one great confederacy, which must give law to all the other
0 at ions.
Other new ideas, of a more technical nature, are also
veloped, partially at least, in this Report. Hitherto it ba
been pretty generally assumid, that it is an indispensable re"
quisite to the utility of a railway, that it shall be mechanically
as perfect as possible—that ir, that let the ;lost be what it may'
the line should run as straight as possible, thrTmgh mountains,
and across sallies and rivers ; that it should, no oatter at what
expense, be as level as possible ; and that t,..t,e shortest
attainable distance should be admitted within the iglu i:
het
mirable Mr. Barlow has produced a series of twelve 11.
mirable tables in the Appendix to this Report, altoger efil
original, we believe, as to the objects treated in them, which
prove that many railways have been hitherto laid down at se
expense wholly unnecessary for the transit of the traffic thel
are likely to command. He demonstrates, in fact—to put the
thing in a popular point of view—that the traffic now carried
on upon cross-roads, which have been constructed with a vies?
to mechanical perfection, might have been, with almost equal'
or at least quite sufficient speed, carried upon roads less per"
feet in a mechanical sense, and, of course, very much less ex'
pensive. The practical deductions are—that a road, very
short of the utility of one that has cost 12,0001. or 16,000
per mile, might, upon a system of slightly different gradients;
have been constructed for half the money; that by a to e
pressure of steam, a velocity not much varying from the biiit
est yet attained, is practicable, and that, consequently, gf'.,
savings might be effected in fuel, and in the wear of
chinery.
We should wish to see the attention of engineers directed
rather to these tables (see App. pp. 106-109) than to
paltry course of attack in which so many of these gentlemen
hr.v, thought tit to embark against the Repert. The recer
tion which marl of them have given to this most valuable 1)°,,Y5
of researches and statistics, is any thing but honourable to 1--
profession to which they belong.
We are glad to pee that a small edition of the Report is lle#
nounced for publication, under the authority of the Comm's/
sioners. It is to contain the Map upon which the lines et. the
Commissioners, as well as those of private parties, are 11°,,,
down ; and also those parts of the Appendix which tool
ou,
the immediate elucidation of the Report. The more the he„,.,
is circulated and read, the more, we are certain, will it be t
mired as a monument of industry and talent of the high°
kind yet applied to the development of steam agency.

A person residing in Russell-street had at variou:
periods missed articles of a light nature in a very
way. In vain had be made inquiries for the recovery a t,he
stolen goods, or sought to discover the thief—both one aotiLed
other were equally non est inventus. At last it was notr'r,
that the articles, principally consisting of specimens of am. en,
&c., disappeared when the window of the room was left oap, $
and this being connected with the fact that a neighbour h
magpie, the very Turpin of the feathered creation, the eAvo
elusion was arrived at that the magpie was the culprit, sol" its
it proved. He was tracked to his hiding place, and the SP°
ray sterio.o e
recovered.—Brighton Herald.
Yesterday afternoon the Great Nassau Balloon
in
made another experimental trip from Vauxhall Gar
is
this ocoa-
the presence of a large assemblage of persons. On
sion it was the intention of the aeronauts, Mr. Rush and Mr'
C. Green, if possible, togain a far greater elevation than lbel
attained on Tuesday last. g
To accomplish this,
after being inflated to its greatest distension, was attacheettt;
the original car that was first intended for the balloon, ;at
the machirie•
sshtch was afterwards found to be too small, differing' in weron
considerably. The ballast exceeded in its extent th.at use" sis
any previous ascent, amounting to 1,7001b5. Shortly •
a"erared
o'clock the signal was given, and instantly the bellow) S°,,cry
into the atmosphere in fine style, and soon attained go
great altitude. The course was south-easterly. in th'l4
Yesterday evening, an inquest was held
Geo,
Vestry-hall of St. John's, llorselydown, on the body 01 the
Frederick Savage, aged fourteen, who was drowned in tel
Thames. The father of the lad, who is a lighterman, de tom.
that he saw him last alive on Monday last on the Custo.v.
house quay, when he was in good health and spirits, rd:ll,el‘
ness told him to go with a boat to Billingsgate, and 0;01
as soon as he could, but he never returned. Witness ;hod
not account for his being drowned. He (witness) 119",:hiss
the misfortune to lose three sons in the same manner bofq
the last twelvemonths. There was no evidence to SW° o
the lad came into the water. Several of the Jurors,
the
were employed on the river, gave it as their opinion that the
deceased had fallen nut of the boat and been drawn until:
numerous craft which lie off the Custom-house and
gate. Verdict—Accidental Death. 'll4
SUNDAY TRAVELLING ON RAILWAYS:" mot
number of passengers to and fro between London and Winids'
by the Great Western Railway, on Sunday last, was ti-
of I,soo.—Reading
CROSBY-HALL WINE ESTABLISH— .n•
35, Bishopsgate-street-within.—CURRALL and SON heKtv-:,„Ts-
vite public notice to their stock of Old Bottled and Draught "ifing
Their Crusted Ports are of superier quality and flavour, ith
shipped by houses of high reputation at Oporto, and bottled ,°,4r
sedulous attention. Their Sherries also, with every other cles'At%
tion of White Wines, are of equal character; and in I)°%sicr
Wine.; the same attention has been paid to quality. Curt's", to
Son, being desirous to secure that patronage which articles ° re,
first quality, at fair and remunerating profits, will maintaio,
spectfully submit the annexed list of cash prices : ro‘ r'°
PER DOZ. 41.

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Port, from the wood 2Ss to 338 Rota Tent .................... .. sat
Ditto, three years in bottle... 36s Cape Wines ......... ifo ry 03
Ditto, older,rich, and superior 42s Nastiest
........... _. _
Ditto, very oltl, in wood and j French and Rhenish Wig 0 600
bottle
Sherry, excellent dinner wine 2Ss Pink ditto ditto ............ ••• os
Superior ShErries 368 Pink creaming Champagne ••• 79g ,
Sherry, very tine, pale, and !White ditto ditto .............. • 63,
brown
428 to 46s Claret 6OB le 53a
Ditto, very delicate, and ex- 'Ditto, in pints
tremely pale...
46 V' e
Ditto, old brown, (rare quality) b2s'Sauterne
41, to illo,
Madeira
Madeira (by way of Calcutta), Wines per Gallon• OS
121 os
first quality 63s to GGs Port
Ditto, in pints 33s Sherry... ••••••••' 7, to Its
Bucellas (finest quality)
Lisbon and Mountain ...... ... 30s Marsala .......................
e' ......
Vidonia (old)
Marsala
B Atte., 33. per dozen ; hampers, ls.per dozen.
..„„.....1.
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PATENT LEVER WATCH
Four and a Half Guineas each. strac";
A variety of Second-hand Watches, on this celebrated c°ra irello;
tion, with going fuzee, to continue going; while winding "13',A11 115't
in tour holes, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel e oar'
other modern improvement., are offered at the above PrrNiatell'
ranted, at COX SAVORY'S, Jeweller, Silversmith, an" Attfcm.
m:ilier, 47, Corniiill, London (Seven Doors from Grace
street).
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of a
BIRTHS.
On the Bth inst., in Chatham-place, Mr.. Anderson
G.
daughter.
, r, ptai°
Oct the 7th last., at liologne-sur-Mer, the lady 0, -.3.
the
Turman, R.N., of a son and heir.
rheshire,
On the 6th inst., at the Parso a - Daresbury, n ge,
of a lady of the Rev. Chat les Dodgson, of a son. bill'
On the 9th inst., Mr. Charles :decking, of Holborn-
Dirs'
son.
On the 9th inst., in Gloucester-place, Portman-square'
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George Richard Grilliths, of a son.

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goratidaugh.
On the Sth inst., at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool,
nett, EN., of ::;reat St. Helen's, Lontkri, to Janet, Yeiillgeit
/3 azet-,
ter of Joseph Mondel, Esq., of the former place.
On the sth inst., at Cheltenham, Lieutenant C.
of the 9th Regiment of Bengal
Stead'
Charles I' ieut'
W. 'l'. Garrett, of the Bengal '
Artillery.
Cavalry, to Harriot, relic: °:ste .
hire, patric _bar.
On the 4th inst., at Hermitage Duinbartonq.
,__ of kW
Esq., Great Yarmouth, Norfo.lk, 'to Suianna, tlaugla-ei-
Fulton Alexander, Es q , o: Hermitage.
On the Fth inst., at St. Pancras Nev Church,
place.
Esq., of Kentish-town, to Miss Taylor, of the same place.
Smith,

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DIED. es,
Lately, at her residence,
.Northurnberland.street, Isecas $0,0172:
inn-Tyric, much and deservedly respected, Miss StecilePoieraudi
0 surviving daughter of the late John Stecley, ESq"
of that town. oat ITO the
___,(a)ll the 30th ult. (having a( ci.lent7y fallen from aetl' oorpast
k, third
of Ur.
p my), Charles predmd............._...
Coruhill and Hampton Wick, aged 20.
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