The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The extended repairs and alterations that
have been gOing forward in this memorable building,, are
now rapidly approaching towards completion ; but s good
deal of scaffolding raised from the floor to the ceiling yet re-
mains. The ceiling has been thoroughly renovated, the plas-
tering white-washed, the wainscot cornices, frame-work to the
ventilators, &c. revarnished. The two large ventilators, one
of them being in the ceiling, nearly over the Speaker's Chair
and the other directly over the strangers'. gallery, are finished.
The boarding in the roof forming those ventilators have no
peep-holes" in the sides of them, so that the ladies who
may be desirous of listending to the debates have no other
facilities than those that were previously afforded by the
frame-work and peep holes over the grand chandelier which
is in the centre of the ceiling of the House. The open
work, 'or grating that was formed in the roof, as parts of the
Machinery of the former ventilator, was finished in very or-
dinary style, the divisions or bars being tOrmed by boughs
and leaves ; but the two new pieces of frame-work or grating
for the cold air to pass from the roof, through the ceiling
and thence into the body of the House, are most appropri-
ately designed and highly and tastefully finished. Each frame
or grating is five or six feet long, and between two or three
feet wide; and each presents an elegant and bold arrange-
ment, or grouping of the national emblems, the rose, the
thistle, and the shamrock. The design is 'skilful, and it is
executed with 'vigour. The different emblems Stand out
well, and are decidedly able and tasteful decorations. The
whole is woodwork, presenting the appearance, in accordance
with the sober character of the general finishing Of the House, of
highly-varnished wainscot. These ornaments, being so well de-
signed, and so beautifully finished, surpass any thing of the kind
that we have seen ; and they reflect great credit on Mr. Edward
Wyatt, by whom they have been prepared. The air, of course,
it is understood, passes through the,interstices left between the
national emblems, the boughs supporting them, and the leaves
completing the ornaments. The general design is taken from
the open-work brass plates that are let into the floor also for the
purpose of regulating the heat in the House; burin the appli-
cation and finishing it is greatly improved.
The various scats have undergone thorough repairs, and
some of the backs of the benches have been heightened. A
new seat in a recess has been formed, for the Serjeant at Arms be-
low the bar of the House and under the stranger? gallery; so that
according to the present arrangement of the seat, the Serjeant at
Arms %will not be disturbed by the passing and re-passing of
Members, or by Peers and their sons taking seats under the
gallery, to which they are privileged ; and those who happen so
to pass or repass will not be liable to stumble over the Serteant's
sword as heretofore used to be the case.
The other works that are proceeding in the House are merely
the customary renovations. The smoking rooms and Com-
mittee rooms are also being repaired.

HUNTING INTELLIGENCE.
The members of the Hampshire Hunt have hitherto expe-
rienced a rwst successful season since the commencement of
their favourite amusenient, not having had one blank day. On
Monday last they had a run of an hour and a half, and killed
the fox in gallant style. The hounds ran through Lord Bol-
ton's park, and the gate being fast
at the further end of it, a
gentleman, by the name of Appleby, charged the pales, and
got well over, although they were full six feet high.
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iIEETINGS OF HOUNDS IN THE PRESENT WEEK.
The Earl of Derby's Stag-hounds, on Tuesday, at Epsom
Downs ; and on Friday, at Smitham Bottom.
H. Joliffe,ox-hounds, on Wednesday, at Nuffield
Marsh ; and on Saturday, at Povey Cross.
The Surrey Fox-Hounds, on Thursday, at Keston ; and
on Saturday, at Bogey Hill.
The Harriers every day.
Mr. Chaworth's Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Kelmarsh
Thursday, at Ravensthorpe ; and on Friday, at Duston.
The Duke of Grafton's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Cuttle
Mill ; and on Friday, at Wappenharn.
The Hampshire Hounds, on Wednesday, at Ilinton House ;
Thursday, at Grange Park ; and on Saturday, at Windmill
Hill.
The Hapbledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Wickham
Lodge ; and on Friday, at Westbury House.
Mr. Shard's Hounds, on Friday, at Dowles.
The Earl of Darlington's Fox-Hounds, n
o Wednesday, a
Baldesby Lane End ; Friday, at Wood End ; and on Sam--
t
dab at Thorp Hall.
The Lambton Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Little Stainton ;
Thursday, at Thorpe ; and on Saturday, at Hogs House.
The Earl of Scarborough Fox-hounds, on Wednesday, at
Wadworth • and on Friday, at Sandbeck Park.
The BaSsworth Fox-hounds, on Tuesday, at Pollington ;
Thursday, at Sharlston Village ; and on Saturday, at Woolley.
Hall.
IThe Earl of Harewood's Foa-
ccahounds, on Wednesday, at
Harewood ; and on Friday, at De.

On Monday evening • the Pilot, Lieut. Williams, arrived at
Portsmouth from the Mauritius, the Cape, St. Helena, and
Ascentinn. She left the Mauritius on the 25th of July, the
Cape of Good Hope on the 14th of September, St. Helena on
the 29th, and Ascension on the 6th of October. She brought
two companies• of royal artillery from the Mauritius and the
Cape, ten invalided seamen, and several Officers, passengers.
Commodore Nourse was to leave the Cape, in the Andromache,
for the Mauritius, Bourbon, and Muscat, on the 16th Septem-
ber. The Cygnet had sailed for the Mauritius, and the Heron
to look for and ascertain the precise situation of the Tele-
maque Shoals to the south-east of the Cape. The Menai,
26, Captain F. Moresby, C. B. sailed from the Mauritius
on the 23d July, on a three months' cruise. Capt. Owen, with
the Baracouta and tender, sailed from the Cape on the 12th of
September, to commence his survey of the eastern coast of
Africa. The royal marine garrison at Ascension were well,
and much satisfied with the increase to their comforts on the
station. They supplied the Pilot with pigs and poultry. The
Pilot fell in with a Portuguese corvette, off the Western Islands,
on the 6th November, lat. 35. long. 42. out of Lisbon 42 days,
looking after a pirate, which had fired into a Portuguese tran-
sport, and killed the Commander. The following officers came
home in the Pilot :—Major Jones, Lieuts. Pemberton, Moles-
worth, Keats, and Doctors Macdonald and Napper, Royal Ar-
tillery ' • Lieutenant Higgins, 36th Regiment ; Lieut. Drum-
mond,B2d Regiment ; Mr. Willcocks, Purser of the Hyperion,
invalided; and Mr. Marshall, Boatswain of'the Dockyard in
the Cape.—We are truly happy to hear that the condition of
the English emigrants located on the frontiers of the Cape was
much improving. During two seasons they had entirely de-
pended upon the Government rations, but nine months of rain
having succeeded to the long drought, there was every prospect
in the present season of all the crops of their fertile land coming
to perfection, and in great abundance.—(Hampshire Telegraph.)
LExtract from a letter, via Liverpool.]
" V AI.P Anniso;;JULY 4,1822. L-TheL-The Aurora frigate, Capt.
H. Prescott, C.B. arrived here on the 27th ultt after a fine pas-
sage of' thirty-three days from Rio . Janeiro; and notwith-
standing it being winter, she had only one breeze that bore any
appearance of a gale, and that was perfectly fair. The French
60 gun ship Clorinde, had arrived a few days previously,
with the loss of both her lower yards on the passage, but
she is now all to rights, and sailed for Lima on the Ist inst.—
Lord Cochrane is here, with two frigates and one brig, quite
done up. His Lordship looks very well. He has an estate
about sixty miles to the northward of this port, for which he
gave 175,000 dollars. He must therefore have done well, for I
do not find that the sum is to be picked up in the streets of
Valparaiso. The Alacrity, 18, Hon. Capt. Fred. Spencer,
arrived from Lima on the 2d inst. with 700,000 dollars on
board. When she left Lima, that place was in a most wretch-
ed state, every kind of provision being very dear, and of a
bad quality, and the place threatened with a siege, the Royalist
troops being then only 90 miles. distant. Perhaps the greatest
security San Martin has, is the little confidence his antagonist
feels in the spirit and discipline of his men. The Aurora will
sail to-morrow morning for Lima, to touch at Arica on the way.
It appears to me that an enterprising young fellow, with a little
cash, would do well in this country, as a miller. It abounds
with corn, and they grind it with hand mills, but they are as
ignorant as mules as to the method of separating the bran from
flour after it is ground; so that you must either eat the whole or
none.—Mr. George Hannsford, second master of the Aurora,
is appointed master of the Alacrity."—( Ibid.)
Commodore Sir Robert Mends is to hoist his pendant on
board the Owen Glendower frigate, instead of the Iphigenia,
which ship is found unfit for service on the coast of Africa.
Captain Franklin, the intrepid traveller to the Coppermine
River, on the northern shores of America, is promoted to the
rank of Post Captain.
The Tartar frigate is fitting at Plymouth, for the South
American station.
The Forte frigate, Capt. Sir Thomas Cochrane, is ordered to
proceed to Plymouth to be docked and refitted.
The Hound revenue cruiser, Lieut. Dickson, arrived on
Thursday, and came into harbour for the purpose of refitting.
Ths Morgiana, 18 gun sloop,
,Ceptain Knight, was paid off
on Friday, and laid up.
The Pelter and Clinker gun-brigs are to be re-commissioned
for the Newfoundland station. Lieuts. R. C. Curry and John
Eager are re-appointed to the command of them.
The Loyal Briton and other transports have been taken up,
to convey a company of the Royal Artilrery, and detachments
from the different West India Regiments to the Islands. These
transports will also assist in the usual transfer of the troops to
the different Islands.,
The American ship Levant, Captain E. Cabet, arrived at
Cowes on Tuesday evening, in 193 days from Canton.
The Success transport, Lieutenant Church, Agent, will pro-
ceed on Tuesday from Woolwich, with a company of Royal
Artillery to Barbadoes, and return to England immediately
with a Company of Royal Artillery, relieVed.
Captain Godfrey, of the Surinam, is promoted to the rank of
Post-Captain. Lieut. Coulthurst is appointed to command the
Townshend cutter, vice Darby. Lieut. Arthur Morrell, who,
when First Lieutenant of the Revolutionaire, with so much
judgment and gallantry, captured two piratical gun-boats in
the Mediterranean, to be First Lieutenant of the Tartar ; and
Mr. Napier, to be Master, and Mr. Birnie, to be Surgeon of
that ship.
The Driver, 18, Capt. Thos. Wolrige, captured on the 19th
ofAug. last, after 20 hours' chase, the Spanish schooner Josepha,
a fine new coxper-bottomed vessel, of 100 tons, with 216 male
slaves on board, and had only been 24 hours out of the Bonny,
River. The vessel was sent into Sierra Leone for condemna-
tion, under the command Mr. Lane, Midshipman.
A letter from .a gentleman resident at Happisburgh, under
date of the 19th instant, says, " This morning the men em.
ployed to break up the wreck of his Majesty s late cutter,
Ranger, completed their labours. Most anxiously did I look
for something material being found under her. All hitherto
discovered, however, is a small quantity of rope ; not a vestige
of any of her unfortunate crew has been seen."

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

NEW ENGLAND COFFEE-HOUSE.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 23.—The whole of this day the wind
has blown a tremendous gale from the West;' indeed this
morning, from 3to 4 o'clock, it was a perfect hurricane. It

continues'to blow, up to this moment (8 A.m.), with the same
violence. Arrived the Amity, from New York. The James
Monroe, for New York, which sailed on the 16th instant, was
seen on the 20th beating up off the Skerries, the wind blowing
hard from the Westward. The Savanna, Coles, from hence
for New York, was on Long Island, with all hands.

DEAL, Nov. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived this morning and
sailed for the River the Brailsford, Spring, from Bombay and
the Cape of Good Hope ; Mary, Tucker, Alicant ; Prince Re-
gent, Andrew, Lisbon ; Mina, Boley, St. John's, Newfound-
land. Came down from the River the Sir Edward Hamilton,
for Jamaica : William, Lushington, St. Kitt's ; Acasta, New
York; Augusta, Cussar, Jamaica.
Nov. 23.—Wind W. S. \V. —Arrived and sailed for the
River the Triumph, Harvey, from Jamaica—sailed 6th Octo-
ber ; Bramby, from Genoa; Hyperion, from Quebec; and
Hope, from Bahia. Came down and remains his Majesty's
sloop Sparrow-hawk.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 24.-IVind S.W.—Arrived the Do-
rothea Charlotte, from New York for Hamburgh, in distress.
Put back the Louisa and Hetty.
Nov. 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Henrietta, from
Amsterdam for Marseille*
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 23.-,-Wind S.W.—Arrived the Britan-
nia, from London for Cape Coast Castle; John and Mary,
from Chiosie.—The Doveworth was lost to the 'Northward of
Oporto—cargo saved.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind S.W.—lt has been blowing
exceeding hard all day, with no appearance at this moment of
any abatement. Put back the Manly, for Berbice.
ST. IVES, Nov. 22.—The Ann, 10 weeks from Jamaica for
London, was piloted into this port last evening, having received
some damage.
The Savanna, Coles, from Liverpool for New York, was to-
tally lost the end of last month in Long Island.
The Dorothy, Taylor, from Miramichi, ran against the
Prince's Dock Pier, Liverpool, on Saturday, and filled with
I water.
The Dutch ship Columbo has foundered off Point Natal.

In the year 1764, a Mr. and Mrs. Liddel took
the flitch of bacon oath at the Green Dragon, Harrowgate, and
were most elegantly entertained there by the gentlemen in the
neighbourhood. They declared they never once had a wish of
separation during the whole 17 years they had been married.
Every person present, except one, like the Scotch at a wedding,
gave a dish at the dinner; and he gave grace.
We are concerned to state that George Heald,
Esq. of 'Waterside, near Disley, met with a serious accident on,
Monday last, by falling through oae of the floors of his new
cotton factory, which he was at the time inspecting. Up to yes-
terday, we are happy to hear, he was in an improving state.—`
( Stockport Advertiser.)