The Sun.
London, England, 1825-11-29 00:00:00

THE CINQUE PORTS.

(From the Cinque Ports Herald of Saturday.)
A Harbour Board was held by Lord LIVER-
POOL, on Monday last, which continued sitting nearly six
hours. We are glad to learn that the Board directed six jetties
to be immediately put down along the bay, for the better pre-
servation of the new houses and terrace on the Marine Parade.
We are gratified also to learn that the Board have it in contem-
plation, in consequence of the great spirit which now prevails
for building in Dover, to allot more land for that purpose.—
The Board, we understand, unanimously voted 100 guineas
to Mr. Moon, our Harbour blaster, as a mark of the sense
they entertained of his valuable services in perfecting the
Dry Dock. This is done by an invention wholly his own,
which, simple, and most completely successful, has been
attended with little comparative expence, and the harbour was
thus saved many thousand pounds, which would have been re-
quited to carry into effect the plans of the late Mr. Rennie and
others, for making the dock complete. We lament that Mr.
Moon's disinterestedness, and his eagerness to put the public
in possession of his discovery, by sending full details of it to
the Mechanics' Magazine, deprived him of the large gold
medal which the Society of Arts would otherwise have present-
ed him with. A most handsome letter was written to him by
the Secretary of the Board, wherein great regret is expressed
that by their rule of not bestowing their medals after making
public an invention, they were deprived of bestowing on him
their large gold medal, which they considered his valuable and
ingenious invention justly entitled him to. •
OGLE CASTLE'S CAnoo.—This was a case on salvage,
which came on the 25th instant, before Jour; SUIPDEM, Esq.
Surrogate of the Cinque Ports Admiralty Court, and it is in-
teresting from the novelty of the decision, in directing to the
salvors a proportion in kind of the cargo, instead of a proportion
of the appraised value. The salvors, nearly 100 in number, had
picked up at sea, a long distance from the land, about 300
bags of cotton, some bales of silk, and other articles, which
they had delivered to the Lord Warden's Officers, and which
were claimed by the consignees, subject to salvage. The
Surrogate, in pronouncing judgment, adverted\ to the great ex-
ertions of the salvors, which he stated to be highly meritorious,
and to have been, in several instances, at tended with great per-
sonal danger, a gale of wind blowing, with a tremendous heavy
sea running, insomuch that several of the boats' crews were
obliged, for the preservation of their lives, to throw overboard
what they had picked up. The Surrogate, taking the whole
of the circumstances into consideration, and the difficulty, from
the bulky nature of the goods, of saving them, and their small
comparative value, decreed that salvage expences should first be
raised by a sale of a sufficient part of the goods, and that a
moiety of the remainder should go to the salvors.

AMERICAN ARTIST. - Mr. DUNLAP: who
painted " The Bearing of the Cross," has nearly
completed another historical piece, on the outline
republished from a London Newspaper, of
" Death on the Pale Horse," by WEsT. The
latter is said to be of greater merit than the for-
mer.—Vero York Paper.)

As a remarkable instance of tnortality in Leeds,
64 burials hare taken place at the parish church,
fro►n November 13 to November 21 inclusive;
being nine days only.