The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

(FROM LLOYD'S.)
DEAL, SEPT. 21.—Wind N. W., moderate.—Arrived from
the River and saged the Trevor, Lind, for Malta; Kinnear,
Maillard, for Sidney ; Dart, Orrnston, fur Nladiera ; Kaia,
Fairclough, for Pernambuco ; and Jordeson, Jordeson, for
Demerara. Arrived and proceeded for the River the Hinde,
Turnbull, from St. John's New Brunswick.
PORTS NIOU SEPT. 21.—Wind N. N. W.—No arrivals.
Sailed the Duke of Argyle, Bristow, for Madras ; and Ro-
bert, Elder, for Madras and Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 20.—Wind N. N. W.—Arrived the Star
of the West, —, from Cadiz. No sailings.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 20. —Wind N. N. W.— Arri ved the Alert
packet from the West Indies—sailed horn St. Thomas's, the
17th ult. Sailed the Crown Princess Josephine, for
Charleston, United States.
MARGATE, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Ada, Simpson, Jamaica.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Echo, Orwin, from Arch-
angel; Bristol, Shepcote, from Riga; and Caroline, Win-
berg, from Dantzic.
BEACHLEY, SEPT. 21.—Arrived the Richard, Dodd, Memel.
Ci.vos, SEPT. 20.—Arrived the Arethusa, Boyd, from
Trinidad ; and Sapphire, Maxwell, from St. Petersburgh.
HULL, SEPT. 20.—Arrived the William and Ann, May,
Thorley, Garrett, Ceres, Walker, and Peace, Newbiggin,
from St. Peterburgh ; Zealous, Anderson, from Narva ; Si-
don, Pyle, Wesley, White, and St. Lawrence, Whitson,
from Wyburg ; and Maria, Peters, and Albert Alexander,
Brown, from Memel.

The Lord Lyndoch, bound to Riga, put back to Dundee on
the 17th instant, leaky.
The Actif, from Stockholm, bound to Hull, has arrived at
Erg-sound, much damaged.
The Jane, Hill, bound to Liverpool, has been condemned
at New Orleans.
The Jeune Normandie, from Newcastle, bound to Toulon,
has arrived at Cherbourg leaky, and must discharge.

We regret exceedingly to hear that a misunderstand-
ing exists between a portion of the pitmen of this district and
their employers. The chief cause of discontent we believe to
be an impression, whether well or ill-founded, that the corves
or baskets in which the coals are brought from the mine to bank
have been larger than they ought to have been, and that the
pitmen have in consequence received less money for working
them than they were entitled to.—Tyne Mercury.

Dr. Bowring left town this morning for Paris.
THE MULETEER.—The Muleteer, the general
medium of traffic, crosses the Peninsula from the Pyrenees and
the Asturias to the Alpuxarras, the Serrania de Ronda, and
even to the gates of Gibraltar. He lives frugally and hardily ;
his alforjas of coarse cloth hold his scanty stock of provisions ;
a leathern bottle hanging at his saddle-bow, contains wine or
water, for a supply across barren mountains and thirsty plains.
A small cloth spread upon the ground is his bed at night,
and his pack-saddle is his pillow. His low but clean-limbed
and sinewy form betokens strength ; his complexion is dark
and sunburnt ; his eye resolute, but quick in its expression,
except when kindled by sudden emotion—his demeanour is
frank, manly, and courteous, and he never passes you without
a grave salutation, " Dios quande a usted Va ustad con
Dios ."' " God guard you ! God be with you, Cavalier !"
Washington lrvino.
DEATH OF ROBERT ROE, ESQ.—With the most
sincere regret we have to announce the death of Robert Roe,
Esq., one of the most eminent, as well as intellectual, mer-
chants of this city. The melancholy event took place at his
country residence, Sans Souci, near this city, yesterday morn-
ing. In politics he was a Liberal of the best kind, being a safe
and practical politician. We do not know another man whose
death would have left so melancholy a chasm in society._
Dublin Evening Post.

A correspondent has furnished us with the following
copy of an inscription on a tombstone in Irongray church-
yard, near Dumfries. Most probably it has been published
before, but it will stand reprinting :—" This stone was erected
by the author of Waverley, to the memory of Helen Walker,
who died in the year of God, 1791. This humble individual
practised, in real life, the virtues with which fiction has in-
vested the imaginary character of Jeanie Deans, refusing the
slightest departure from veracity, even to save the life of a
sister; she, nevertheless, showed her kindness and fortitude
in rescuing her from the severity of the law, at the expense
of personal exertions, which the time rendered as difficult as
the motive was laudable. Respect the grave of poverty when
combined with love of truth and dear affection."—Greenock
Advertiser.

SINGULAR. CASE OF LONGEVITY.—On the 12th
of August, a party of gentlemen, before going to the moors,
paid a visit in the Glen of Rothes, county of Elgin, to an old
woman, in her 102 d year, and on going to the summit of the
hill on which her cottage stands they looked down upon four
adjoining parishes, the pastoral charge of four Clergymen,
whose united ages amount to 333 1 The most veteran of
thaw Ministers is in his 87th year, another is 84, another 83,
and the youngest 79. The climate of Morayshire has been
long famed for its salubrity, rendering it in some measure the
Montpelier of Scotland, and a more remarkable proof of this
could hardly be adduced than that of these aged Ministers,
who have so long seen the sun rise and set, day after day, and
Sabbath after Sabbath, amid the beautiful and interesting
scenes where their lot is cast.—lnverness Paper.
Major-General R. Ellice does not succeed General
Ross in the Lieutenant-Governorship of Guernsey, having
been appointed Commander-in• Chief of the western district,
in the place of Sir Willoughby Cotton, who takes the com-
mand at Bombay. General Ross's fuuctions cease on the
26th of this month.
THE PHOENIX.—It is well known to our readers
that this steamer was a very formidable opponent to the Car-
lists the ether day, her "long Tom" dealing out immense
slaughter and confusion in their ranks ; but, after all, she
nearly fell a victim by getting aground in a very awkward po-
sition, which the Carlists took advantage of, and opened on
her a very galling fire ; she, however, fortunately escaped their
lovino. kindness. The Plumb; has since returned to England,
and was docked here last Wednesday. On the water leaving
her keel a keg, supposed to have contained brandy, was dis-
covered to be jammed between the splinters of the keel as neatly
as if arranged by the most experienced smuggler.--Plymouth
Journal.
The Duke of Rutland and his Grace's visitors,
during their sojourn at Longshawe, killed 988 grouse, and
about 100 black game. His Grace, accompanied by the Mar-
quis of Granby, left Longshawe on Monday last, for Chats-
worth, on a visit to the Duke of Devonshire ; from thence
they proceeded to Leicester, to attend the races at that place.
The quantity of hazel-nuts in this neighbourhood is
wholly without a parallel in the memory of the oldest farmers
and labourers. They are brought into this city by cart-loads,
and are offered at ss. sack.—Bath Herald.

Mr. Justice Coleridge, after his recent arduous toils
on the Circuit, is now enjoying the tranquil beauties of our
lake and mountain scenery near the head of Windermere. The
Learned Judge occupies the residence lately erected by Dr.
Ainslie.—Kendal Mercury.
COALS.—There was a meeting on Tuesday of the
shipowners of the port of Sunderland at the Exchange, " for
the purpose of taking into consideration a letter received from
the Secretary of the Coal Trade, announcing the intention of
the COAL-OWNERS to raise the price of the best coals two shil-
lings per chaldron, from the Ist of October next—a measure
which the Committee of the Society submit cannot be suffi-
ciently deprecated, and ought not to be submitted to."
The number of ships that passed the Sound in the
month of August was—from the North Sea 764, from the
Baltic 869; total 1,633. Of the former 230, and of the latter
236 (in all 466) were English.
AN ENGLISH HAT IN THE EAST.—It iS not a
difficult matter to become the wonder of a city ; and as yet
unconscious of the way in which I had merited to be one, I
followed the crowd, as the evening approached, towards the
convent. When we had entered the gate, a little boy, struck
by the singular shape of a round hat which I wore, clapped his
hands and called out, " Abu-tanjier l Abu-tanjierl" " the fa-
father of a cooking pot; look at the father of a cooking pot!"
This was echoed from every side; for the resemblance a hat
bears to the common cooking vessel with a rim to it is too
strong to escape, and I was pursued by the shouts of the
people till I was nearly out of sight. A woman who had heard
the uproar came to her door, and, as I had out-walked the
crowd, she could not resist the chance of gratifying her curio-
sity, and begged me to show her my hat. I took it off with
great gravity, and put it in her hands. I believe she was dis-
appointed to find that it was not a cooking pot in reality. I
rescued it from her in time to save it, or it might have been
in
lodged one of the colleges, as a perpetual puzzle to the
learned of the city.—Major Skinner's Adventures in the East.
A lady of a certain age, the widow of a superior
functionary under Government, retired a few months ago to a
convent in the Faubourg St. Antoine, where she soon became
much liked by all the inmates of the house. She had only
one fault, that of such an extreme loquacity, that the director
of the convent was unable, in spite of all his remonstrances, to
check it. A short time ago, however, she was observed to be-
come suddenly as silent as she had before been talkative, and
a few mornings after was found in bed, with a large wound in
her throat, bleeding profusely. On being assisted by a me-
dical man, and in reply to the questions of the lady at the
head of the house, she declared that she had inflicted this
wound on herself, with the hopes of stopping her loquacious
propensity, by wounding the throat at the point where the
voice originated, hoping to render herself dumb for ever. Not-
withstanding the efforts of the physician, this poor lady died a
few days after,. the victim of a singular kind of infatuation.—
Galigrauz t's Messenger.
MONSTER POTATO.—We learn from the Athe-
r,unt that Prince Charles de Rohan has lately sent a single po-
tatoe to Paris, under the above denomination, capable of af-
fording a plentiful meal to more than 20 people. This beats
our Watt's Cesarean cow cabbage out and out. What will Pat
say to this. We guess that his remark would be "Oh blood
and owns that's a thumper!"
Sometime ago a professor of legerdemain entertained
an audience in a village, which was principally composed of
colliers. After " astonishing the natives" with various tricks_
—metamorphosing wine into water, &c., he asked the loa.ttea
a halfpenny from any of his admirers. collier, with a 1.1 le
f
hesitation, handed out the coin, which the juggler speedily
that
ex-
hibited, as he said, transformed into a guinea.—"
my is
bawbee !" exclaimed the collier. Undoubtedly,"r'. an-
cud
swered the juggler. " Let's see't," said
turning it round and round in examination, with aa
ecstasy ofdelight,
delight, thanked the juggler for his kindness, an,d ,b
putting.a,v it
, into his pocket, said, " I'se warn% t'e'll no turn t into a , -
bee again."—Greenock Advertiser. the collier;