The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals.—March 7, the William Barras, Norie, from Ben-
gal, at Bristol, sailed Oct. 12, and from St. Helena, Jan. ,;
Avoca, Beadle, from the Mauritius. at Liverpool, sailed Nov.
16, and from the Cape of Good Hope, Dec. 13. March 8,
the Renown, from Bengal, off Margate, sailed Oct.,
21, and from Table Bav, Dec. 29; John March, Clucas,
from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 26, and from Table
Bay, Dec. 14; Malabar, Dunlop, from the. Mauritius, Nov.
26, and from the Cape of Good Hope, Dee. 24.
Arrivals at Singapore.—Her Majesty's brig Zebra, .M'Crea,
Nov. 15, from Milian; her Majesty's brig Victor, Crozier,
Nov. 15, from Batavia.

Arrival at Cochin.—The Walmer Castle, 13ourebier, Nov.
29, from London and Bombay, bound to China, had been
struck by lightning on the 22d, off Mzngalore.
Madras, Dec. 15.—The wreck of the Thalia, Bidet), has
been sold for 5,000 rupees.
Arrival at Goa.—The Don Pedro, Nov. 19, from Lisbon
and Mozambique.

Arrival at Jladras.•—Her Majesty's brig Algerine, Thornrt.,
Dec. 15, from Trincomalee.

Arrivals at Bombay.—The Ardaseer, 1141‘Intyr, from Fort
William; Nador and Charlotte, .Jan. 2, from China; Turro-
harry, from Cochin : Clairmont, Ogilvie, from Calcutta.
Departure from Bombay.--The Clarissa, Andree. Dec. 30,
for Madras.

Arrival at Rio.—The Charles Carter, Christall, Dec. 20,
from St. Helena.

Departure from Bahia.—The Lord Goderich, Smith, Jan.
3, for Rio and South Australia.
Arrivals at Calcutta.—The Swallow, Adam, and Will
Watch, Barrington, Nov. 30, from Penang; Patriot King,
Clarke, Dec. 13, from Liverpool ; Indian, O'Brien, Dec. it,,
from Rangoon.
Departures from Calcutta.—The Betsy, Laffield, Nov. 18,
for Bombay ; Coromandel, Dicon, Nov. 19, for London ;
John William Dare, Watt, Nov. 21, for Busbire ; Sarah,
Luster, Dec. 1, for Moulmein; Fanny, Sherriffe, Dec. 15,
for Ceylon.
Departures from China (previous to Nov. 27.)—The Ann
Griffiths, for Manilla ; Prince George, Lenston, Nov. 3, for
Manilla; Lord Auckland, Wylie, Oct. 22, for Calcutta.
Ships spoken with.—The Abberton, Shutticworth, front
London to the Cape, Madras, and Calcutta, in March, in lat.
41. N., long. 10. W., by the Liverpool steamer, arrived the
Ist ult. : May, Lions, from Llanelly to Bombay, Dec. 8, in
lat. 61. S., long. 64. E. ; Thalia, Graham, from Liverpool
to Calcutta, Jan. 21, in at. 3. N., long. 23. W. ; William
Allen, Valerino, from London to the Mauritius, March 4, in
lat. 49. N., long. 9. W., by the George Canning, arrived in
the Downs.

Passengers per the Earl of Balcarras, Vaux, from China to
Bombay and Manilla.—Captain Christopher Biden, late of
the Victory ; Shillibeer,
Passengers per the Orient, Taylor, from Bombay (expected).
—Mr. and Mrs. Elwin and child.

Passengers per the Euphrates, Hannay, from Bengal (ex-
pected).—Colonel and Mrs. Hall and family, Mrs. Lamb and
family, J. Lamb, EEq., Lieutenant Waugh, and Lieutenant
Reid.

Passengers per Seringapatam, Denny, from Bengal (to ca/1
at Vizagapatam and Cape, expected).--Lady Malkin and two
children, Mrs. Gardner and child, Mrs. Major Malkin and two
children, Mrs. Captain Trevelyan, Mrs. Rose, W. Wilkinson,
Esq., C. S. ; Colonel Tickell, C. B. ; H. Scott, Esq., C. S. ;
Captain Trevelyan ; Captain Rose, I Ith Light Dragoons ;
Captain Todd ; Cobb, Esq.
Passengers per Madagascar, Walker, from Bengal (to leave
Jan. 15).—Dr. and Mrs. Swiney and two children, Mrg.
Doris, Mr. Siddons, lst Light Cavalry ; Airs. and Miss Sid-
dons, Mrs. Forbes, Captain Webster, Mr. Save and two child-
ren, Captain Roberts, Artillery ; Mrs. Roberts and child.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF LONSDALE.—WO
regret to have to announce the death of the Countess of Lons-
dale, which took place at the. Earl's scat of Cottcsmore, in
Rutlandshire, on Tuesday. Her Ladyship was a sister of the
Earl of 'Westmorland, and was born in 1761. The amiable
manners of this Noble Lady, and the grace as well as good-
ness which distinguished her conduct and deportment, will long
be affectionately remembered, not only by her family but by all
who had the honour of her Ladyship's acquaintance.
SURGICAL OPERATION.—That very hazardous
operation in surgery, amputation at the shoulder joint, was
performed a few days since in the short space of three minutes,
by Mr. W. H. Reed, a member of the College, practising in
Tiverton. He was ably assisted by the presence and the ad-
vice of the principal surgeons of the town and neighbourhood.
The patient was James Jesson, a poor labouring man, about
32 ; his arm had been amputated at the wrist some time sinco
in the Exeter Hospital ; it was afterwards amputated just above
the elbow, but the disease still continuing, the only chance left
was this operation. The poor fellow had made up his mind
for the worst, and bore all the agony without even a groan.
The operation was most successfully performed, and the pa-
tient is doing very well.— Western Times.

AN ATTEMPT AT RAPE.--A man, named
Richardsen, was brought before the Court, charged with an
attempt upon his own daughter. The young victim was ❑ot
born in wedlock, but had been acknowledged and iegitimized.
It was sought to prove that her birth had taken place long
before his acquaintance with the mother, and that he had
merely acknowledged her from generosity. Mr. Persil main-
tained the impossibility of proving non-paternity. Mr.
Derode argued that the Jury had a right to discard every
legal fiction. The law (said he) more severely punishes a
parent for such an attempt, because he commits an outrage on
the most natural feeling of respect. Where no tie of nature
exists, the aggravated f,rm of punishment cannot be inflicted
without injustice. The Jury, coinciding in this opinion, de-
clared Richardson guilty of the attempt, but did not entertain
the question of paternity. lie was sentenced to five pears'
imprisonment.—Droit.

At Chelmsford, on Saturday, three wretched fa-
mished children and their mcther were brought before the
magistrates, having been found sleeping in a pig-sty, without
food or covering, and almost dying of starvation. Their names
arc Bailey, and the father, with them, had a few weeks ago
been turned out of the parish workhouse ; he having no work,
had left his wife and children, and had been roaming up and
down the country, trying to live by begging, and was appre-
hended for that offence, and committed to prison for one
month's hard labour as a vagrant. The Rev. Mr. Brooksby,
the magistrate through whose benevolence the miserable fa-
mily had been rescued from death, ordei ed the attendance of
the overseer, to whom he expressed his horror at the unwar-
rantable neglect of the poor creatures, who were left in their
wretched shelter for aree days without food. The overseer
admitted that they had been turned out of the parish work-
house, but they might have applied, he said, for admission to
the district workhouse. 'I he worthy magistrate under the
sanction of the Bench, made a provisional order for their im-
mediate admission into the workhouse, for which the poor
woman expressed herself sincerely grateful. —Essex Tunes.

At the Assizes recently held at St. Omer, four
English gentlemen were tried on a charge of attempting to
commit homicide in a duel, in which Mr. Cecil Johnson, late
Captain on the Quartermaster-General's Staff of the British
Legion, and Mr. Walker, late a Cornet in the Ist Lancers
of the same Legion, were Principal:, and Messrs. H. Weten-
hall and W. Fitzjohn were seconds. The Jury acquitted all
the prisoners.
On Saturday• Richard Metcalf, one of the workmen
on the railway near Littleborough, was at work in a shaft
connected with the tunnel when a bucket of cement which
was being lowered broke from the rope, and, falling upon
him, killed him on the spot. This is the second accident
of exactly the same description w rich has occurred within a
few days, and not many yards from the same spot. —Halifax-
G:Jur

MURDER AT DIEPPE.—A countrytral, with his
clothes torn, and his hand covered with blood, went, a few
days ago, to the office of the Procureur du Roi, at Dieppe,
and surrendered himself as a murderer. He gave his name as
Devaux, and stlted that he had long lived on bad terms with
hi brother-in-law, Ducrocq. for his ill-treatment of his sister,
whom the latter had martied. Two days before a violent
quarrel had arisen between the man and wife, which ended in.
the elopement of the latter. As she remained absent the
whole diy Ducrocq imagined she had gone to her brother's,
and went there to seek her. She had not, however, made his
house her refuge, and they both agreed to go out together and
endeavour to find her. Not being successful they returned to-
gether to Devaux's to supper, during which DucrUcq perceived
that the other was in the possession of a pistol, and offered to
gi%.e him a watch in exchange for it. This was refused; and
they separated for the night. They met again early the next
morning in a wood, each armed with a bill for cutting the
branches of the trees, which was their occupation. Duerocq-
renewed his importunities for the transfer of the pistol, which
Devaux had still with him, and being again refused he de- .
clared that, if he could not have it by fair means he would by
foul. In the end they commenced a battle with their bills,
which lasted for some few minutes without either of them
being struck. Devaux, however, found that he was weakest,
and, at the same time, irritated by the conflict, he drew back
a few paces, took the pistol nom his breast, cocked it, and fired
it at the head of his adversary, who fell, covered with blood.
Maddened by rage, Devaux threw the pistol from him, and
taking up his bill, gave his fallen adversary several desperate
wounds. Devaux further declared that, his crime being con-
summated, he remained for a considerable time in a state of
stupefaction, but, on recovering his senses, he was so over-
conic with horror and remorse at the ghastly si;ectacle before hint
that he resolved to deliver himself up to justice. Two medi-
cal men and a party of gendarmes were sent to the wood,
where they found the mangled body of Ducrocq, anrt, as their
report confirmed the confession of Devaux, he was committed
for trial.

Lord Ward obtains his majority on the 27th ing,
It is supposed that his income will exceed two hundred thou.
sand pounds sterling per annual. There will be a series of
fetes given—the first a dinner, when covers will be laid in the
House at 'Holley, in Staffordshire, for sixty persons. On the
3d of April an immense banquet will be given to the tenantry
in the Great Hall of that baronial mansion ; and on the sth of
April will be given a magnificent ball and a most sumptuous
supper. Covers will be laid for two hundred and fifty only
but a far greater number of persons of distinction are expected
to grace the board. IZeport speaks highly of the princely
rounifieet:ce which will man k the outline of his future career.
The trustees for the management of the propel t,:,7 Lre_Lord
Hxa telt'
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THE t a ly), the Bishop of
ETHE POTTERIES.-Trade is still very dull : most
o: the manufacto-ies a reemployed li;tle more than 'half time,
—Sta.ffin. cish ire Exami c
and many not yet started since the front : but the poverty
oc-
c isioned by it is considerably relieved by the praisewort' y
exertions of all parties in diva ibuting br:ad, soup, coals, Sec.,
to the.necessitous poor.

PERU AND CHILI.

We extract the following from a private letter from Lima,
dated Oct. 22, 1837:

" The Chilien expedition, destined for the invasion of Peru,
under the orders of Admiral Blanco, sailed from Valparaiso
on the 13th Sept. It consisted of eight men-of-war and about
20 transports, conveying 2,700 infantry and 700 cavalry, w:th
their horses, &c. It arrived off Arica on the 24th of the saran
menth, where a party of 200 men landed without appositith,
the Peruvian forces being at the time at Tacna, This party
tuck possession of the Custom-house stores, but had not long
been in charge thereof when it was discovered that British
property, to the amount of upwards of 3,000 dollers, had been
p'undered; but on representations being made by the English
Consul, and Captain Eden, of his Majesty's ship Rover (which
vessel had accompanied the expedition from Valparaiso), Ad-
rnirel Blanco immediately made good the loss, and shot the
captain in command of the party at the door of the Custom-
house. The Chili squadron sailed for Arica on the 26th ult.
" The latest news we have is up to the 10th instant, when
the invading fleet was at Quilca, having landed the forces at
that place, and these having got as far as the valley of Vitor,
on their way to Arequipa ; we also hear that they had about
600 men sick.
It is generally supposed that they will occupy Arequipa,
as the Peruvian troops had been withdrawn front that town,
argil all the Government employes, as well as the Bishop and
other persons of consequence, had emigrated therefrom. Sunta
uz was at La Paz on the Bth instant; his intention is to
unite his forces at Puno, and then march on the enemy.
" General Vigil has been sent hence with a division of 1,000
rem to the south by land, to cut off the retreat of the Chilenos
to the coast, should they have advanced to Arequipa ' • and the fleet, consisting of Tocabaya and Confedet acion,
with the brig Congress, and the schooner Yanacocha, under the
command of General Moran, also sailed from Callao on the 19th
instant, as, it is supposed, to cruise near the ports of Quilca
and Yslaz. Santa Cruz will be enabled to concentrate at Puno
a force of about six battalions of foot and two regiments of
horse, which will, no doubt, be fully sufficient to rout the Chili
trcops. The invaders had chiefly trusted to the co-operation
of the Buenos Ayreans of the *Argentine provinces of Salta
and Tucuman, as also to a revolutionary movement in Bolivia
and treachery on the part of the Peruvian Generals. Of
all or either of their anticipated succours, there is every
apparent certainty of disappointment, for the provinces of
Salta, Tucuman, and Jujuz have declared in favour of the
Peru-Bolivian confederation ; Bolivia is quiet, and the
character of the Generals in whom Santa Cruz has trusted
is too well known to admit of a doubt of their fidelity.
All this I have gathered from persons well acquainted with
such matters; as also that a stronger and more united na-
ticnal feeling to resist an invasion, or a more determined de-
testation of the parties concerned in such invasion, never ex-
istfd in these countries. The abhorrence felt towards the
Chilians has been greatly augmented by the scandalous fact of
their having landed at Cotija (the only port of Bolivia) a party
of robbers and murderers, about 100 in number, which have
been thus let loose from the Chili prisons to commit fresh
crimes in Bolivia. They have been entitled the " innocents,"
and were landed at Cobija, by order of the Chili Government,
to do as much injury as possible. Little doubt is entertained
as to the results of the struggle. The Chilians will fall into
the same snare as Delaverry did at Arequipa, and with a supe-
rior force before them, and a strong party to cut off their re-
treat to their ships, they must do miracles to succeed. We
have still a very respectable force in Lima under the command
of General Ballivian."

" I will let you know by the first opportunity the end of all
these disturbances, and will only now further add, that all is
perfectly quiet in this quarter."
" Ocr. 26. —The Chilian forces entered Arequipa on the
11th idetant."

In a notice on a window in the Castletown Post-
office, intimation is given that the " rate of postage on letters
to and from that town to Thurso shall be reduced to twopence,"
which was formerly only one penny. This is about as good as
Paddy's remark about his native county, which he said was the
county of Tip, called the county of Tipperary for shortness.--
John o' Groat Journal.
Lord Teignmouth, the newly-elected Member for
Marylebone is in his 43d year, and succeeded to the Irish
barony of Teignmouth on the demise of his father, John, the
first Lord, formerly Governor or Bengal, in 1834. His Lord-
ship: is connected with the family of General Lord Hill, by
the marriage of his sister, the Hon. Anna Maria Shore, with
the late gallant Col. Sir Thomas Noel Hill, Commandant of
the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone. The Hon. Mr. John Shore,
tle Noble Lord's surviving brother, lately died in the East
Indies, where he was in the civil service, and his relict and fa-
mily are on their passage to England.
On the 12th ult., as some labouring men at St.
Juliet, near Roseastle, were coursing a hare on the cliffs,
William Orchard fell on the snow, which being very slippery,
and on sloping ground, he rolled on several times till he fell
over a precipice on the cliffs above 100 feet high. When his
companions got to him he was sensible, but his limbs were
paralyzed, though no bones appeared broken. He lingered
till next evening, when death put a period to his sufferings.
He was a single man, about 40, living with his mother.—
}l7( St Briton.

ELOVEMENT.-On Sunday last, a gentleman from
Devonshire, waited on the Mayor of Truro, and after some
preliminary inquiries concerning a stranger, who, it was un-
derstood, had recently taken up his abode in the town, stated
his suspicion that this person was a Pole, with whom a young
lady had eloped from the neighbourhood of Exeter. The gen-
tleman afterwards applied to a solicitor, who, with some of the
ecustables, accompanied him to Mrs. Hod,ge's lodging-house,
in Lemon-street ; and there they found the fugitives, who
seemed rather staggered at so unseasonable and unwelcome a
V;Sit. Little ceremony, however, was observed : and, after a
nasty leave-taking, and some brief vows of eternal love had
heel exchanged, the gallant stranger was deprived of his fair
prize, who was hurried into a post-chaise, and carried back to
ber friends. It is needless to add, that the lady is under age.
We understand she is a ward in Chancery, and has a fortune
of acme thousand pounds. Mrs. Hodge says, that the parties,
on applying for lodgings, described themselves as brother and
s:ster, and: cf course, maintained the appearances proper to
that character during their abode with her. What has become
of the Pole we have not heard ; hut, to add to his perplexity,
the lady, who was the cash-keeper, had not time, or was not
suffered, in the suddenness of her removal, to hand over to him
as balance of one hundred pounds, with which she had pro-
vided herself for her flight.—Cornwall Gazette.
One night lately, so daring and ravenous have the
foxes become during the present storm, a farmer near Tor-
pichen had no less than three dozen poultry carried off.
Anxious to get hold of the thief a search was made next
arorning, when the traces of the booty were detected on the
sno "1, and a large fox set up, which tcok refuge in a condie.
A terrier dog was sot in upon him, but was unable to draw,
when a fine terrier bitch was also let go. A severe but trief
struggle told that hot work was going on, and a surprising
insunce of dogs actin.. in concert was exhibited. When the
bitch first appeared she had a firm hold of the dog's hind kg,
while the latter, with his teeth fixed in the throat of the fox,
was made to drag poor Reynard to the light, where he was
quickly worriod.—Durham Advertiser.
THE GAMBLER'S END.-Died, on the 3d ult.,
At Norfolk, Virginia, United States, Mr. Peter Singleton, at
age of 33. When at the age of 21 he entered into the
esses,ion of an estate of 300,000 dollars. In tw oor three
years the race-course and the garning-table had swept away
this large estate, and he was left penniless. He soon became
unfitted for any other society than that which is to be found in
the lowest resorts of drunkenness, and on the day of his death
he was conveyed by private charity, in a state of insensibility,
to the almshcuse.—American paper.
I. H. Howard, Esq., M.P. for this City, arrived at
k'orby Castle on Tuesday last—having been obliged to leave
his Parliamentary duties in consequence of the severe indis-
position cf his mother, Mrs. Howard, of Corby..—Carlisle
Patriot.

The French annual exhibition of pictures has just
opened. It contains 1,807 pictures, and 120 pieces of sculp-
ture. Of the 1,807 pictures, 620 are portraits. The most
celebrated artists, such as Horace Vernet, Delarochc, De-
can ps, Bcheffer, Champmartin, Leman, have this year sent no
pictures. The most successful pictures are, by common con-
sent, " The Hernani" of Granct ; " The States General of
17F9," by Hesse ; " The Prophet Daniel," by Ziegler; " The
Apocalypse" of Bruno ; and though last, not least, " The
Prodigal Son" of Clemet Boulanger.
The Hon. B. Elliot, M.P., for Roxburghshire,
paired off during the last week with Lord Ingestric.
The Sheffield constituency have been holding meet-
ings, for the purpose of discussing the propriety of demanding
of Mr. Parker, M. P. for that borough, either the resignation
45! his seat, or of his offiice. The reason of this course is Mr.
P.'s refusal to vote on the Ballot question.—,Stirffield Iris.
ST. JAMBS'S THEATRE.--A most agreeable and
z.n•using operatic burletta called The Anibassadress, was pro-
Co-ed here lately. It is an adaptation of Auber's Ambas-
vadrice, and is, of course, strictly of the bagatelle class of
productions ; but in that class it undoubtedly excels. The
story, which is told partly in choice music, and partly in hu-
morous dialogue, presents a prima donna not only virtuous,
out sentimental, forming a liaison with a Duke and an Am-
bassador ; about to become his wife ; but dec:ining the honour,
and returning to the stage, in consequence of a discovery that
his Grace was attached to more than one prima donna at a
tame. It presents likewise an amatory "principal tenor," and
two other characters more frequently to be met with—an in-
triguing manager, and a second prima donna, whimsical and
authoritative. These are characters which could scarcely fail
to afford entertainment, and they are disposed most advan-
tageously to produce that effect. The piece abounds in
pointed allusions to various managerial expedients of recent
date, which were not lost upon the audience ; and the pic-
ture of scenes which do not unfrequently occur behind the
curtain was faithfully comic. The last scene was cleverly
managed. The front of the stage represented the interior of
a private box at the Opera, from which the stage, orchestra,
and bode of the house was seen during the representation of a
portion of an opera. The illusion of the whole scene was
Pt rfect. Nothing could be more complete than the success of
this production ; and its run is likely to he of considerable
duration. The house was completely filled.
The adjourned Sessions for the city of Westminster
was held on Saturday at the Guildhall. The only case for
t.ial in which the slightest interest of a public nature was in-
voly( d was one of assault, in which an attorney had preferred
a bt'l of indictment against another gentleman of the same
prof( salon. When the cause was called on, however, the pro-
secutor did not make his appearance, whereupon the defendant
was eiselharged. The Court rose, after about half an hour's
sitt.ne,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BOW-§TREET.

A little lady, well known at this office, was brought before
Mr. TwYroße Wednesday, charged with creating a disturbance
in the streets at an early hour in the morning.
Mr. TWYFORP- How old is she? Inspector Nl'Craw—l
think al:; if, about 25 years of age, your Worship.
Prisoner—No, I'm not—l'm eighteen.

Inspector M'Craw—She's been eighteen for several years,
your Worship. She always says she's eighteen.
Prisoner—l do not, your Worship ; I have been eighteen
only these eighteen months.
SVC:raw said that she was a very noisy person, and made
use of a great deal of bad lan,guage in the streets.
She was sent to the house of Correction fur a month.