The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-19 00:00:00

I\IERCANTI LE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, MARCH 18.—Wind N.N.W.--Arrived and remain
the Latona, Lovey, from Demerara; Marquis Cornwallis,
Yapicr, from Havre ; and Elikabeth, Hamant, from Zante•
Came down from the River and remain, the Asia, Balderston,
for India ; and Briton, Reed, for Alicant ; the latter has sailed
with the Canning, for Bencoolen and China, and the rest of the
outward-bOund. Also came down and sailed, the Florida,
Hodgson, for Constantinople. Sailed the homeward-bound for
the River.

HALF-PAST SlX.—The Canning is coming back again.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind W.--Arrived the
Amelia Wilson, Underwood, from the Downs for Timor ;
Kingston, Luckie, from ditto for Demerara ; Arethusa, Ander-
son, froth ditto for the Cape of Good Hope ; Maass and Usscl-
ton, Renses, from 'Antwerp for Bayonne ; the latter out six
months ; and Java, Neal, from Flushing for Batavia ; the
latter with bowsprit sprung.
FALMOUTH, MARCH U.—Wind N. IV.—Arrived the Ophe-
lia, Oliver, from Sunderland ; and Cornwallis, Baker, from
Shoreham, both for Lisbon ; and Le Jume Laure, Magner,
from Bristol for Bordeaux.

RAMSGATE, MARCH 18..—Arrived La Clementine, Aubrey,
from Rouen for Brest ; Perseverance? Brown, from Africa for
London ; and John and Mary, Gibson, frqm London for
Drogheda—all with loss of anchors and cables.
HARWICH, MARCH 18.—. Arrived the Henry Freeling
packet, from Holland ; Princess Charlotte and Leicester
packets, from Cuxhaven—all with mails.

The influx of Foreign Funds is beyond all
precedent : a Dutch mercantile house has intro-
duced Spanish Bonds, contracted for by Hope
and Co. of Amsterdam, paying 57 per Cent. per
annum, for which purchasers have been found
at 641, at the exchange of 12, If per pound
sterling. •
By letters received in Glasgow from Lisbon, of
the 19th ult., we learn, that the Fish Trade is
likely to be considerably affected by a Brief from
the Pope, just.publishod, granting leave to eat
meat all the year. This was to commence on the
first of the present mouth, and is to continue for
six years. [We presume the fishers will be im-
mediately going on a pilgrimamcre to Rome with a,
'petition to his Tfoliness to annul, and the cattle
feeders to affirm his Decree.—He only claims
such a power.—Editor of the Glasgow Courier,
March 16.]
The congregation of a dissenting Meeting-house, situated
near the beach at Troon, met with a singular impedirrient to
their egress from the place of worship on Sunday last. During
sermon, the tide rose to a very unusual height, and surrounded
the building. "As the congregation occupied the upper story
only, this overflowing of the waters was unobserved till they
were about to retire, when they were rather surprised to find
themseltes completely insulated. The worthy Clergyman had
no other alternative than to commence another discourse, and
by the time it was brought to a conclusion, a number of carts,
&c. had arrived, by means of which the congregation were ex-
tricated from their unpleasant situation.—(Glasgow Courier,
March 16.)
IMPOSTURE OF A HACKNEY COACII3IAN.-Samilel
Fisher, of No. 562, summoned a Gentleman to the Police
Office, Bow-street, on Friday last, for refusing to pay him
Is. fid. for carrying him from Palace-yard to the Turk's Head
Coffee-house, Strand. The Gentleman offered to pay Fisher
one shilling, which is the fare set down in the authentic
book of fares, published by Mr. Quaiff, the Surveyor of the
Hackney Coach Commissioners in Essex-street. 'Sir RICHARD
BinNIF. not being satisfied'with this evidence of the distance,
ordered the ground to be measured by Mr. Perry, of Bow_
street. For this measurement, therefore, each party was
called upon to advance five shillings, and it took place on
Saturday morning. The result was against Fisher, the'coach-
man, and his'advance was of course forfeited. Thus the cor-
rectness of the fare by this route, which has subsisted for a
series of years, is fully established,' and thus we hope any fur-
ther attempt at exaction is effectually guarded against...._
(Morning Chronicle.)
THE STOMACH.—The stomach, to adopt a
simile, is a very hospitable gentleman, who is unfashionable
enough to live in a sunk story, as his ancestors have always
done before him since the memory of man : the palate is the
footman, whose duty it is to receive all strangers at the top of
the stairs, and announce their rank and quality, before they are
suffered to ascend to the apartmtnts of his master. The lat-
ter is occasionally rather irritable and choleric, and, in such
humours, scruples not to kick out his guests, when their com-
pany is disagreeable, who rush past the astonished footman at
the landing-place, and make their exit with far less ceremony
than precipitation. He also uniformly expresses the
„greatest
horror at the very idea of receiving a second visit rrom the
guests he had previously expelled ; being, no doubt, in dread
of the voluminous apologies which such a circumstance would
render necessary, for his former rude and indefensible pro..
ceedings—(lllackwood's Magazine.)
Mr. SQUIRES, of Limehouse-hole, plumber, while sitting
in his counting house a few days back, was roused by a mouse
running across his writing desk, and getting in at one of the
water-holes of a breeding-cage, m which were some canaries ;
being fearful that the little intruder had sought this new habi- .
tation for the purpose of devouring not only .the fgod, but
eggs of the birds, he was induced to search after *it, and was
not a little surprised at finding it snugly concealed in one
of the nests with its brood of six young mice, nearly furred.
.—Mr. Squires had been for Some time astonished at the quan-
tity of food consumed, he supposed by the birds alone. The
mouse, it is presumed, having gone first to the cage for the
purpose of pilfering the food, became so much attached to
it, as to induce her to deprive one of the birds of its ready
built nest, -and there bring forth its young. She is now
allowed to live unmolested in the cage, where it and its young
eat and drink in common with the canaries.

thou WAY ROBBL4RY.—Sunday, before dark, as Mr. CAS-
wrcx, of Marlborough-row, Broad-street, was returning to
London, he (was stopped by three ruffians in the lane leading
from T'rot's-cray to Blackheath, And robbed of ten sovereigns
and his watch. One of the villains gave him a stunning blow
on the head with a stick, and they made off:—A similar rob-
bery was committed at mid-day on Saturday, in the road
leading to Chislehurst, 'and it is conjectured by the same party.
111 ORESUCCES AT HAZARD'S.—Again! HAZARD
and Co. have sold a k 20,000 in Shares ! No.
7,839, drawn last Thursday.—llizAßD and Co.

also sold in Shares No. 467, drawn a prize of
220,000., on the First Day of the present Lot-
tery, and several other Capital Prizes.—The
next day of Drawing will be Thursday, 28th
March, when the first-drawn Prize will be en-
titled to t 20,000 !—HAZARD and Co.'s old es-
tablished Offices, Royal Exchange Gate ;
Cornhill; 324, Oxford-street, corner of Swallow-
street.