The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-05 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DE:At., JAN. 4.—llalft-pastd p. m. N.N.E. fresh breeze.—
About 2 p. in. the wind shifted to the northward, when nearly
the whole of the outward bound got away. The Honourable
Company's ship Windsor, Haviside ; Kingstone, Sever; Isa-
bella, Wallis ; and Essex, Appleton, are not yet gone. Arrived
and remain the Loyalist, Chicken ; and Argo, Spink, from St.
John's, N. B. ; Midas, --, from New South Wales, last
from Cowee ; and Meridian, Croker, from Oporto, in 8 days.
was
inclining from
PORTSMOUTH, J. 4.—ln the early part of the day the
north,wi(7 plwina.ril-bound have yet
None of the ou it has got to the
attempted to sail. Arrived the Kaines transport from Halifax.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the lirails.
ford, , from Miramichi, in 23 days. The Percival was
SealVt er 1; y at.
got off the rocks in Mount Batten Bay, and towed into
this time
Catwater. _

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Robert Kerr, ---.,
from New Brunswick ; Waterloo, Dudne, ditto ; Favourite,
Walker; Agenoria, —_, and Douglas, Eales, from New-
foundland ; Fairy Queen, _ , from Gibraltar; and Ellen,
Jenkinson, from Lisbon.

The Dove, Brown, from Bremen to St. Übes, was carried
into Dover yesterday with considerable damage, having been
on shore behind the North Pier.

The Abeona, from London, has put into Grimsby wit*
damage, having been on shore on the Trinity Sand.
Accounts from Memel, dated the 17th ult., state, that owing
to the late immense flowings of the waters, a great improve.
meat had seemingly been effected on the Bar at Memel; the
depth of water at present being 16 feet.

CORN EXCHANGE, Jam. 5.
The arrivals of Grain in general to this day's Market are
moderate. There is not much doing in the Wheat trade to-day,
and Monday's prices are hardly supported. Barley is also dull
at last quotations. Beans and Pease have no variation. Oats
find buyers with readiness at the terms last quoted. The Flour
trade is very dull at the late advance.
ARRIVALS.—EngIish Wheat 2,100, Barley 3,206, Oats
1,000 qrs. ; Flour 3,700 sacks.

LIMERICK, JAN. 1.-011 Tuesday a general
search for inns was made by B. WAR➢URTON, Esq. Chief
Magistrate of Police,in the barony of Leitrim, county of Galway,
accompanied by Lieut. Bindon, Mr. Townshend, and Mr. Cof.
fee, police officers, when after a diligent search, thirty-two
stand of arms were taken and lodged in the military bar-
racks. The sante day, Michael Ityan was apprehended oa
suspicion of murder at Bilboa, and brought to this city for
examination. On Wednesday night, about eight o'clock, one
of the out-offices in which were two horses, the property
of Colonel O'Donnell, in the parish of Trough, was mali.
ciously set fire to, but fortunately put out by the tenants
who happened to be near. On Thursday Lieutenant Bindon
apprehended, on suspicion of being concerned in some
outrage, James Donellan, who was before charged with having
maliciously killed a cow on some lands, for which he was ad-
mitt. .d to bail for next Quarter Sessions to be held at Six-mile-
bridge. Donellan was at work in a field about half a mile
distant front the house, when Lieut. Bindon and his Orderly
apprehended him.—( Limerick Chronicle.)
Sir THOMAS PAUKYN, the possessor of Burnley.
Hall, in tl►e early part of last century, was re-
markable for his love of wrestling, in which he
excelled. A short titt►e before his death, whicic
happened in the year 1741, at the age of 78, he
published a treatise upon wrestling, in one part
of which, speaking of the excellence of the art;
he says, " I receive no limbErlams, no darling
sucking-bottles, who must not rise at Midsummer
till eleven of the clock, till the fire has aired
their room and clothes of their colliquative
sweats, raised by high sauces and spicy forced..

meats, where the cook dues the office of the sto-
mach, with the emetic tea-table set out with
bread and butter for breakfast. I'll scarce admit
a sheep-eater : none but beef-eaters will go
down with we."—(Ackermann's Repository.)
NEW WAY TO DRY CLOTII Es.---(A True
Story.)—A sportsman last season, when abroad
in the moors, perceived a very heavy shower ra-
pidly approaching. He debated within himself,
shall I have a wet skin or wet clothes? He de-
cided for the former as the preferable evil. There
was no time to lose, and no refuge from the
storm. Ile stripped himself to the skin, and
folding his clothes closely together, laid them
upon the heather, and stretching himself close
above them, covered them as well as he could
from the rushing deluge. The strange pheno-
menon caught the eye of a sporting companion
ntssing in that direction. Astonished and amazed.
at the strange apparition, he approached the spot
—he saw it was a fellow-creature, and while his
dogs drew back with affright, he vociferated,
66 Who, in the name of , are you ?" "It
is me, Mr. " What, in the name of
wonder, are you about ?" " Keeping my clothes
dry till the rain pass !" was the reply to the
friend, whose fear and surprise was turned into
laughter.

FIRE.--(Windsor, Jan. 4.)—Yesterday morn-
ing, about half after ten o'clock, a stack of hay
belonging to Mr. J. Tatnnecn, of Dorney, was
set on fire by a boy -making a small bonfire near
it, the flames of which were carried by the wind
and communicated to the rick. Prompt assist-
ance was rendered by the farmers and labourers
of the neighbourhood ; but the flames were not
prevented extending themselves to two other
ricks of hay, and the three were nearly con-
sumed. An oat rick was removed by the timely
assistance rendered by the neighbours, to whom
great praise is due for their continued exertions.
The ricks were on fire until late last evening.—
No other part of the stock was injured.
ROBBERY.-Mary Wardell was brought up to
Queen-square Police Office this day, from the
watch-house, charged with stealing from Edward
Powell, a Chelsea pensioner, two sovereigns, and
eleven shillings in silver, yesterday afternoon.—
The prosecutor deposed, that he met the pri-
soner, in company with two other girls, in Dock-
yard, Westminster ; they decoyed him into a
house, where he remained but a few minutes be-
fore his waistcoat pocket was cut, and the pro-
perty stolen. He was certain that the prisoner
was the person who held his head down and as-
sisted in the robbery. She was committed fur
trial.

SHOCKING ACClDEXT.—Yesterday morniag,
Mr. GREEN, an elderly gentleman, who resided

in Eden-street, Golden-square, was invited to
dine with some friends in Great Palteney-street.
After partaking of dinner with perfect health and
spirits, he apologised for leaving the company for
a short period, and quitted the room ; but being
absent longer than was expected, his friends pro-
ceeded to the yard to look after him, when they
found that he had fallen into a deep area, by
which his skull was fractured, and his botdy
dreadfully injured. He was quite dead. The
body lies for the Inquest.
Sentence of Death was recorded against Hen-
derson and Briscoe, two of the 17th Lancers) at
the Sandwich Sessions, on Thursday last, for
robbing Captain Scott, of theabouvearrreageikmsentia, of
t
plate, wearing apparel) and other articles to a
considerable amount) at Dial
October.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

_E_ittraets- from the Mornirqf Pqpers Jan. 5, 1525.

. •
[THE TIMES.]
Lord Charles Somerset seems fully bent on
maintaining his ground in the public recollection.
Fdr: the wholesome. exercise in which he has kept
as, at least, and this Journal, we owe his Lord-
ship more acknowledgments than perhaps he
svould like to receive. There are others also,
more personally interested than we are (thank
Heaven) in the conduct of this Governor, who
seem desirous of making known to the world
the rate at which they value. him. The settlers
of Albany have presented a memorial to Lord
Bathurst, respecting the hardships which they
have encountered since their establishment in the
colony. These annoyances, they say,---how
justly we pretend not, of our own knowledge, to
asseverate,—have been brought upon them
through the sort of feelings with which they are
regarded by a lordly personage at the Cape. It
is observable, that these unfortunate exiles from
Their own country are not in all cases of a mur-
muring or complaining spirit. They have spoken
of Sir Rufane Donkin in terms of the warmest
gratitude. That reasonable and worthy officer
took pains for their comfort and security. He
built the town of Bathurst as a centre and rally-
ing point for the inhabitants of the new dis-
trict—he fixed there the seat of a magistracy,
and established an effective system of mili-
tary defence against the Caffres, with whom he
thus enabled them to carry on a fearless
and even friendly intercourse. Since the time
of Sir Rufane Donkin, the settlement has made
fast progress towards decay. The regiment left
for its protection has been removed, and the
safety of the colony committed to a corps of
Hottentots ! These gallant and faithful de-
fenders have not, it appears, at any time, suc-
ceeded in gaining the public confidence them-
selves, or in securing any portion of it for Lord
Charles. They are objects of dread, rather than
reliance. They are constantly deserting to the
Caffres, and had, it is stated, been actually en-
gaged in a plot for rising on their officers, and
joining the public enemy in a body. The cattle
and other 'property of the wretched emigrants
having, from the helpless condition in which they
were placed,. been frequently plundered by the
Caffres, and grievances having accumulated upon
them from every side, the sufferers were anxious
to hold public meetings for the purpose of ad-
dressing the Governor; but in this design they
aver that they were constantly thwarted by his
agents, and the parties to the requisition diligently
stigmatized and insulted. After a long endurance
of such vexatious injuries, they had nothing for
it but to transmit their complaints to England ;
nor was such an expedient resorted to on their
part, without a multitude of difficulties being
thrown in their way by those to whom they were
entitled to look for active protection and huma-
nity. In October, 18'23, however, they did ad-
dress themselves to the Commissioners of Inquiry
then at the Cape, with a detail of their manifold
grievances. They refer to many previous, but
fruitless letters, which they had written to the
highest authority in the settlement, without ob-
taining through them the least shadow of relief;
and they have now finally thrown themselves on
the mercy of Lord Bathurst. We ask, then, for
the fiftieth time, is that a situation with which
our fellow-subjects can be any longer left by an
honest Government to struggle? And we add the
question, which still remains unanswered—ls this
man recalled, or Not ?

[SEW TIMER]
The Bill against Mr. O'Connell for seditious
words has been thrown out by the Dublin Grand
jury. We presume that nobody will be so much
surprised at this event as the Learned Gentleman
himself. He gave it as his opinion that there
would be no difficulty in getting any Bill whatever
to be found against him. Judge Moore, who pre-
sided, however, laid down the law most impar-
tially in his charge, and the Grand Jury were evi-
dently determined by it in their construction of
the evidence requisite to support the indictment.
A curious circumstance occurs in the list of the
Grand Jury: among the 23 names which compose
it we find both hone and Hunt ! This occur-
rence is likely to give new spirit to the Catholic
Association ; and as its meetings have of late be-
come mere spouting clubs for young Barristers,
we shall probably have a succession of philip-
pics against Mr. Plunkett, very appropriately
mixed up with exhortations to employ against
The Courier " the utmost rigour of the law."--
Opinions are much divided on the policy of pre-
(erring,
such a Bill. Some persons ascribe the pro-
eeeding to a want of tact in the Irish Attorney-
General, who, they say, is a man of a powerful
straight-forward mind, but has not a facility in
embracing all the collateral circumstances of a
case, such as those arising out of any temporary
agitation in the public mind. Other persons, on
the contrary,consider the prosecution as properly
a measure of the Irish Government, and regard
it as intended to shew that what is vulgarly term-
ed an " Orange" Jury can administer justice
fairly even where a Catholic is the party accused,
and that Catholic Mr. O'Connel.