The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-18 00:00:00

SHIPPING.-(TTIIS DAY.)

FROM 'S.)
DEAL AUGUST 18( LLOYD
.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived and pro-
ceeded DEAL,
the River, the Larkins, Ingram, from Calcutta--
sailed on the 6th of April, and St. Helena on the 22d of June;
and Rival, Briscoe, from Jamaica. Arrived from the River,
and remain, the General Palmer, Dunn, for Calcutta:
Thetis, Gill, for Sierra Leone ; Fairlie, Ager, for the Cape of
Good Hope ; and Eclipse, Fisher, for Mauritius. Come
down from the River, and sailed, the Limerick Lass, fioakt
for Limerick; and Ariel, Carter, for Limerick.
PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 18..—. Wind N., fine.—No arrivals
or sailings.
PLYMOUTH, AUGUST 17.—Wind N. E.—Arrived his MS'
jesty's steamer Columbia, from Jamaica ; and City of Lillie'
rick, —, from Bordeaux. Off port the Caroline, Gregory'
for Quebec. No sailings.
FALMOUTH, AUGUST 17.—Wind variable, light breezes..."
No arrivals or sailings.
MARGATE, AUGUST 18.—Arrived off the Dart, Detchato,
from Cadiz.

C.OWES, AUG. 18.--Arrived the Union, Alson, from Buenos
Ayres; and Delta, Farlie, and Sun, Hood, from Havannah.
GUERNSEY, Alio. 16.—Arrived the Griffin, Cook, from
Dantzie.
NEWPORT, AUG. 18.—Arrived the Bensley, Nixley, from
Memel.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 17.—Arrived the Jessie, Grunn, from
Quebec; Mariste, Storey, from Charente ; Enterprise, Hat-
ris, from Petersburg ; and Sophia, Rysel, from Narva.
DUBLIN, AUG. 16.—Arrived the Dora, Bell, from London.
CORK, Ave. 16.—Arrived the Emerald, Buck, from
London.

The Hannah Moore, Moore, from Tobasco to Liverpool, was
totally lost on the 13th May at Tobasco.

SAFETY COACH.--This coach is of the ordinary
size, and the point of suspension instead of being placed below
the centre of gravity, as is usual, is fixed considerably above it.
Whenever, therefore, the inequalities of the road elevate the
wheel on one side, the body of the carriage oscillates, and in-
stantly assumes the same vertical position which it had on the
plainest surface. —Hull Express.
THE BISHOP OF DURHAM.—The Right Rev.
Dr. Maltby, the new Bishop of Durham, accompanied by
his family, arrived at Auckland Castle on Monday afternoon.
On approaching Bishop Auckland, the Rev. Prelate was met
by a large concourse of persons in carriages and on horse-
back, who paid him the respect of escorting him to the splen-
did seat of the see of Durham. After the usual ceremony of
presenting a Falchion by the owners of Pollard's Lands bad
been gone through in the vestibule of the Palace, his Lord-
ship turned round, and addressing the company assembled,
returned them his thanks for the warm and hearty welcome
with which he had been received; and he hoped he should
live on terms of the best neighbourhood and good feeling with
those who had honoured his arrival with their presence. The
venerable Castle of Durham, one of the ancient seats of the
Bishops of Durham, having been appropriated by Act of Par-
liament to the purposes of the University of Durham, is about
to be stripped of its greatness, and its interesting contente
sold by auction. The castle was built during the reign of
William the Conqueror, and within its walls the former
Bishops of Durham held their Courts with almost regal poreP
and sway.—Newcastle Journal.
The Journeymen Printers, anticipating a great de-
mand for hands, on the reduction of the newspaper stamp dutY•
from the new papers which are expected to start in conse-
quence of that measure, have been taking steps to turn that
event to their advantage, by agreeing to resolutions for the
future regulation of the trade, the direct tendency of which l°
to raise the price of labour in the market, and to increase the
cost of printing generally, and of newspapers particularly.
The resolutions to which we allude were agreed to at a meet-
ing of Delegates, summoned by the Committee of Manage-
ment of the Northern Typographical Union, held at Man-
chester, on the 27th of June, for the purpose of " taking into
consideration a variety of subjects affecting, in the highest de'
gree, the interests of their Honourable Profession." The
Delegates amounted to thirty-two, comprising journeymen
from the principal towns in the North of England.—Liverpool
Albion.

On Wednesday an attempt was made by Mrg•
Graham to ascend in a balloon from the Cricket-ground,
Leicester. The process of inflation commenced about two
o'clock, and was completed about six. The car was then at-
tached, and Mrs. Graham entered it. At seven the cord was
cut, and the balloon rose. Unfortunately, in crossing Wharf-
street, the net which surrounds the silk became entangled
with a chimney, the car at the same time striking a spent,
which protruded. The balloon rolled about, the bricks and
chimney-pots became loosened, and a large rent was made in
the silk. The car too was greatly tossed about, and Mrs.
Graham was in imminent peril. She was at length taken in
at a window by Lieutenant Freer and Mr. Macauley. Not-
withstanding her recent danger, Mrs. Graham has announced:
her intention of making another ascent so soon as the neces-
sary arrangements can be completed. —Northampton Mercury.
THUNDER STORM.—Sunday morning the metro-
polis and its suburbs was visited by a dreadful thunder storm,
which extended not only over London, but for many miles in
south-easterly direction. For upwards of an hour the rain fell
in torrents, and overflowed the low lands to a great extent.
In some parts of the metropolis the streets were under water
for a considerable time, owing to the drains and sewers being
chocked up, and where they were in a defective state great
mischief was done. The thunder and lightning was awfully,
grand, peal upon peal, and flash upon flash, followed in rapid
succession, and a few minutes before eight o'clock an unuse-
ally loud clap of thunder was heard, which seemed to proceeciA
from towards Blackheath, and continued for some time.
boy passing over the heath, was at the same moment killed by
the lightning, which we are informed struck a tree in the
vicinity and shattered it to pieces. The electric fluid. went
over Rotherhithe, where many persons were greatly alarmed,
and entering the top of the George public-house, pear the
Commercial-road, destroyed part of the roof, passed through
several rooms, and went out of the side, doing considerable
damage in its progress, and striking a girl, whose arm Wes
so severely scorched that it is feared she will never recover,
the use of it. Mr. Wickers, an elderly man, the landlord or
the King's Arms, a water-side public-house in Mill-wall'
Poplar, was standing at his window watering some plants and
flowers during the storm, and was knocked backwards by the
force of the lightning, which, however, did not enter the mom'
He was for some time insensible, and it was several hours be' •
fore he entirely recovered from the effects of this awful visits'
tion. The electric fluid appeared to spread itself in all direc-
tions, and struck the mast of a sailing-barge proceeding down
the river, and shivered it and the sail to a thousand pieces.
The man at the helm was knocked overboard by the shock,
but he was immediately picked up by his mates, who were
quite overcome with terror, and the noise of the thunder,
which resembled the firing of a park of artillery. The violence
of the storm abated soon after eight o'clock, but the rain con-
tinued falling heavily until eleven o'clock. Some other acel;
dents, but not attended with serious consequences, occurre;
during the storm ; and the steamers, generally so much
crowded on Sunday mornings during the summer months,
were quite deserted in consequence.
AWFUL THUNDER STORM.--We are not aware
that this island (Man) was ever visited by so severe a storm
of thunder, lightning, and rain as on Wednesday evening
last. It commenced about six o'clock, and continued till nearly
12. At Laxey, five miners named John Henry, James 10.;
binson, Isaac Moore, James 'Henry, and John Kelly (the 67,
having large families, and Moore a wife and child) met with
an untimely death in consequence of the Laxey river bell;
so much swollen that it broke over its banks, and descend
with such fearful rapidity into the lead mines at that place'
that the men who had only just gone into the mines for tl.l
night were unable to extricate themselves, and unfortunatel
perished. The mines are completely filled with water. 14,8
the awful visitation taken place half an hour earlier, the ee:
struction of human life would have been calamitous, as about 40
men had about that time left the works for the night. Two.
horses, grazing on the estate of Tromode, about two rime,
from Douglas were struck lifeless by the electric fluid. The
house of Mr. Corkill, on the Green, Castletown, was strut
by the lightning, which tore down part of the gable, and se
terrified the servant maid that not the least hope remains e,
her recovery. Great quantities of hay have been wathce
away by the rain, as also some cattle and sheep.—Correspon-
dent of the Cork Herald.
TAXES.—WhiIe the country feels deeply the weigh .
of some very heavy taxes, such as the window duties,
stamp duties, many of which, besides that they are uneclut
and unjust, are altogether exorbitant, the duties on insuranc.7.
and other very heavy duties on consumable articles in ver
general use, such as tea and sugar, the whole attention of euir
s,
financiers seems to be directed to the duties on trivial articles'
which nobody knows or cares any thing about, except, Pe
haps, those who deal in them, and who are always readY te
raise an interested clamour in their own favour. Who with
have ever thought, for example, in a country oppressed wai,
heavy taxes, of reducing the tax on castor oil and on 011111,,,
n t..,7
or even on pepper ? Of what moment is it to the community
whether the duties on such articles are high or low ? f
ever complained of the high price of opium or of castor 0' d,
And there are certain fine woods, such as cedar and rosemniies
on which it is proposed to lower the taxes ; but these V.'!"
are in general extremely light. Let any one calculate.
t!e-a
proportion which the duty bears to the price of a finely 'Bnish),
rosewood table, and he will see at once how i.,neusuil!,,,e.
trifling these duties are, and how little they affe the Prl-0...
Of how little consequence, too, to the comfort of the celn—, t
nity at large, is the article of currants—and of what momen
is it whether the price be Bd. or 10d. per pound ? Yet r ('—
P. Thompson confesses that lie has lost 130,0001. by t"" ‘)
duction of this duty, which is of so little importance that
6,
one either knows or cares about its amount. What an In.
nitely greater benefit would have been conferred on the r'e of
munity by the reduction of the duties on stamp receipts, t
half the duty on fire insurances, which produce r 3 ?rel.
600,0001. or 700,000/. a-year, and which could hay e bee
fected with little or perhaps no greater loss of re ;venue .00.
has been occasioned by the reduction of the duty on eurra
—Edinburgh Courant.
e de
Two days ago the tenant of a house in the In" the
Bonne Nouvelle was about to draw a bucket of ,eater from the
well, when he heard the groans of a persons issuing fro ed
bottom. Assistance was called, and a young man entATithe
by an upholsterer determined to go down r.ncl ascertaro the
cause. He, after some difficulty, succeeded in bringing
~„ho,
brink a young woman named Amelie Aire, aged only 20/ and
from the resuscitating means taken, was restored t o life,
self
acknowledged that she had made an attempt to desixoy who
in consequence of the marriage to another of a you- ogins "
had engaged her affections.—Paris Paper.