The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-23 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, Aua. 22.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived and sailed for
the River the Seppings, Hearn, from Jamaica; Lady of tha
Lake, Gray, from St. John's, N.B. Passed through the Wil-
liam M‘Gilvrav, Stoddart, for Montreal ; Ruby, Haswell, for
Alicant ; and Elizabeth, Stewart, for the South Seas.
PORTSMOUTH, Aua. 22.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Ot-
tawa; Dotiglat,'from the Downs for. Quebec ; and his Ma-
jesty's cutters Camelion and Tartar, from a cruize.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 21.—Wind N.—. Arrived the Specula-
tion, from Memel; and Cygnet, Hill, from Peters-
burgh. Sailed the Dickens, Proctor, for Gibraltar.
l'Ar.kouTn, AuG. 21.—Calm.—Arrived the Betsey, Lead-
bitter, from Petersburgh ; and Sarah, Bunster, from London.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 21.—Wind W. N.W.—Arrived the
George Bentinck, Mackennay, from Quebec ; Sarah Sheaf,
Brogdon, and William, , from New York; Agnes,
Johnson, from Antigua ; and Elizabeth, Atkinson, from Riche-
bucto.

The Frankfort Papers state, that the epidemy
amongst the cattle, in the Canton of Freyhurgt
has assumed a more serious character. It attacks

all descriptions of animals, and is so contagious
and dangerous that the mere burying of the dead
cattle is insufficient to guard against infection ;

all the carcases are ordered to be burnt.
FRANcFoaT, AUG. 14.—The arrest of soma
persons at Leipsig has attracted great attention.
These individuals whom the police has thought it
necessary to arrest, were practisers of magnetism:
they will be prosecuted in the criminal court.
The proceedings have already commenced.
In the Royal Court at Guernsey on the 6th inst.,
a circumstance came on which kept the Court in a roar. It was
an action by Sophy Martin against Miss Ann Oliver, for the
care and maintenance of three cats for nea., nine months. Miss
Oliver being obliged to go to London for some time, engaged
Sophy to take care of her cats and feed them properly, for
which she agreed to pay her two shillings per week. On her
return in May last, Sophy brought in her account, amounting
to 3/. I8s• 3d., which Miss Oliver disputed, *on the ground that
Sophy had neglected the cats so much that two of them died a.
long time before her return, and that she had also attempted to
impose upon her, by substituting another tat instead of one of
her own that died, and that this strange ,Cat had been main-
tained at her expellee, and that she had some 'trouble to get rid
of it after she came back. The bailiff and two of the judges
were in favour of the plaintiff; and allowed her demand.
The important question as to how far the
Pariah of St. Sepulchre, in which St. Bartholomew's Hospital
is situate, is bound to supply juries, and to sustain the ex-
pences of the numerous Inquests continually being held there-
is likely to become the subject of legal inquiry ; as with a view
to such result the Coroner yesterday issued his precept, direct-
ing the beadle of St. Andrew's, Holborn, which is situate in
the same ward as St. Sepulchre, to summon a Jury for last
night. The beadle, acting under the advice of the Church-
wardens, refused to comply with the precept, and in conse-
quence Mr. SHELTON declared V* determination to indict the
beadle for the contempt at the ensuing Sessions.
The Hon. and Rev. Dr. STEWART has returned
from Canada, in consequence of the demise of the
late Bishop, and is now supposed to be Bishop
elect of Canada.

The present Bishop of NovA SCOTIA is pre-
paring for his See, and is expected shortly to
leave England with his Lady and family.
As some workmen were levelling the ground at
St. Mary de Lode's-square, in Gloucester, last
November, on opening the spot where Bishop
HOOPER was burnt, they discovered that part of
the stake to which he had been fastened which
was sunk in the earth. It was about three feet
in length, and eight inches in diameter, and ap-
peared to have been an elm tree, with the bark
on. On being exposed to the air, the greatest
part mouldered to dust ; but some pieces were
preserved.
Tourists in all parts of the kingdom will find_
Gray's Book of Roads a very useful travelling com-
panion, possessing as it does, peculiar features of
utility and ready reference ; its plan altogetlie no-
vel, and distinct from every other work on the
subject. For instance, it brings into one point
of view the various lines of route leading to any
required point of distance ; and the index is so
arranged as to enable a direct and immediate re-
ference to any required route, an important
feature which has long been wanted in Iteneraries.
Besides which, it contains several new lines of
road, and much information relative to the roads,
not to be found in any other work ; whilst the
readiness of its arrangement, and its compression
within the limits of a pocket volume, and accom-
modate it to all kinds of excursions, and render
it an useful auxiliary to every other Road Book
extant. I t is further accompanied w ith a com-
plete County Atlas, geographically arranged in
the order of the Counties, thus combining the
advantages of ia large folding Map, without its
inconveniences.—Published by SHERWOOD and
Co. price 12s. half-bound, or with the Maps
coloured, 15s.
SUDDEN DEATH.—On Sunday afternoon, be-
tween five and six o'clock, a respectable looking woman, walk-
ing in the Tea Gardens at Chalk FarM, suddenly fell down and
expired immediately. She was dresSed in genteel mourning,
and was accompanied by an elderly latly, supposed to have been
her mother, who remarked that the deceased was in excellent
spirits and apparent good health when they left home a short
time before merely for a walk. The body was taken into the
house to await the Inqust.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN TOTHTLI,STREET.—
Four Persons nearl,y killed.—Yesterday evening,
about. five o'clock, a most lamentable accident
took place in Tothill-street, Westminster, w hich,
it is feared, will prove fatal to four unfortunate
individuals. A number of bricklayers have been
employed in rebuilding the houses that were
lately destroyed by fire in the above street, and
yesterday evening, at the time above stated,
they were employed in their usual labours under
a large stack of chimneys that were left stand-
ing since the fire, and more than once the neigh-
bours had occasion to remark On the dangerous
state in which they stood; their predictions proved
true, for in consequence of their being too much
undermined, the whole mass of materials fell
down with a tremendous crash, and buried un-
derneath four men, named Sowter, Hennessy,
Fitzpatrick, and M'Call, all bricklayers. The
groans of the sufferers were indistinctly heard
from the ruin by their fellow-workmen, who
instantly set themselves to work to dig them
out, in which they after some time succeed-
ed. Sowter, who is the master bricklayer,
was so severely injured that he now Les at his
house in a very precarious state, Heim say, we
are sorry to say, has his thigh/broken ; Fitzpa-
, trick is dreadfully injured in the spine, and
many of his ribt are broken, and M'Call is
dreadfully injured .about the head and neck.
build-
ing
The three latter sufferers now lay in the West-
minster Infirmary in a very hopeless state.
Two carpenters, who were 'at workhvth e
wih
at the time, most miraculously escaped
,out injury. In the fall of the rubbish it carried
with it the whole of the first and second floor that
had been recently laid doivn,

TILE LONDON. JOURNALS.

DAILY
.asiract) fro,in tie iVornlnf; Papers,-ifitg.2.3, 1825.

trilE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
As the visit of the Duke of Wellington to the
French capital has not been the subject of a
single comment or speculation in the Paris papers,
we should have imitated their example, if it had
not been for a paragraph which appears it a
Brussels paper, which reached us yesterday. In
lint paragraph it is stated, that diplomatic con-
ferences are to be held at Spa, without specify-
ing, however, their object: It would appear
from another paragraph in 'the same papers, that
Lord Liverpool would be present ; whilst it is
expressly said that the'Duke of Cambridge, who
left Brussels- on the 18th, would attend, though
not for the purpose, we presume, of taking any
direct part in the discussions. What adds, per-
haps, to the mystery in which the business is a-t
present involved, is the circumstance of the King
of Prussia being momentarily expected at Spa.
Whatever may be the cause of the meeting, it is
highly probable that there is some connexion
between it and the visit of the Duke of Welling-
ton to Paris, in which case it is more than pro.
bable, that the French court has an immediate
interest in the proceeding of whatever nature
it is. From no other Monarch attending but the
King of. Prussia, it may be inferred that there is
some controversy between France and- that Power,
and that England has been invited by both to
act the mediator's part between them. If we are
right in this conjecture, the meeting in all proba-
bility has connexion with the two French fort-
resses, which were deliVered up by the Treaty of
Paris, to the Allied Powers, for the term of ten
years, as securities for the good conduct of France
during this period.. As the term is now expired,
and as France has faithfully fulfilled her part of
the contract, she requires no doubt that she
should be put in possession again of the two
fortresses, of which Landau, we believe, is
one ; and Philipville, if we are not mistaken, the
other. As there can be no objection on the
part of the Allies to fulfil their part of the con-
tract, we suppose that the only object of the
meeting is to give eclat to an act, by which
France is discharged from her recognizances to
keep the peace towards all her neighbours. The
presence of Lord Liverpool agrees well enough
with a speculation so conciliatory and pacific;
and as. the Duke of Wellington look so leading
a part in the transactions of that eventful period,
who could be selected with so much propriety us
his Grace, to congratulate the French Govern.
ment in the name of the Allied Powers, upon an
event by which it is discharged from all the pain-
ful obligations imposed upon it by the Treaty of
Paris.