The Sun.
London, England, 1822-12-25 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, DEC. 24.—Wind E.N.E.—Came down from the
River last night and sailed the Britannia, Rymainton, for Ja-
maica ; Symmetry, Davidson, Demerara ; Ridley, White,
Trieste; Harmony, Grossard, Madeira; also to-day the Ran-
ger sloop of war and Pioneer schooner, bound foreign on parti-
cular service; and Telegraph, for Havre.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the Mon-
trose, Roxborough, for Trinidad, with Sir R. Woodford and
suit. _ _

CORK, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Recovery, Fotherby, from
London, and Earl St. Vincent, Reeves, to take convicts to New
South Wales ; also the Mary, ditto, Tankerley, from Dublin,
with female convicts for the ship Woodman. Sailed the Ze-
phyr transport, for Portsmouth.

ESCAPE OF FIVE PRISONERS FROM THE LIME.

RICK GAOL.
On the morning of Thursday last, it was discovered that the
following prisoners had made their escape from the New County
Gaol, viz.:—David Leahy, sen., John Cussen, Patrick Cuthane,
and Daniel Reedy, who were capitally convicted at the last As-
sizes, for the abduction of Miss Goold, but judgment respited
for ie opinion of the twelve Judges; and Daniel Doody, who
put off his trial for the murder of Buckley, the Crown witness.
An inquiry was immediately instituted before such Members
of the Committee of Superintendance as were then in town,
when it appeared that these men had been secured by the turn-
key, in the ward at night-fall on the evening before, and when
he returned to open the ward at day-break, he found the out-
ward door of the building open. and the lock hanging on the
hasp, without having sustained any injury ; the interior doors
leading to the cells remained locked, but a bar was cut and forced
in three of them, so as to admit of the passage of a man through,
and the doors of the five cells in which the prisoners had been
confined were open, and the locks remaining without the least
injury. It further appeared that the men had made their way
through the privy into the sewer, and, having effected a passage
by removing the masonry on one side of the grate, placed to
secure it, they finally forced their way through the arch of the
sewer outside the jail wall. It was manifest that assistance
must have been given from the outside, and that the prepara-
tion tor the escape must have occupied a considerable length of
time. The vigilance and exertions of the Police are unceasing
in quest of them.—( Limerick Chronicle.)

The extensive Library belonging to the late
Professor KALT., of Copenhagen, which consisted
of 202 volumes printed before the year 1500 ;
1000 folios ; 4000 quartos ; and 8000 octavos, to-
gether with 50,000 Doctorial Disputations, and
688 MSS., mostly relating to Danish History,
have been purchased by Mr. NESTLER, Book-
seller of Hamburgh, for the very moderate sum
of 9000 marks current, (about 6001. sterling.
The citizens of Copenhagen regret the sale very
much, on account of the MSS.
COTTON WOOL.--GLASGOW.—The sales, during
the last week, amounted to 1,051 packages, 101
Sea Island, 112 d. a 124 d. ; 60 ditto Stained,
80. a 10fd. ; 874 Boweds, 78d. a Bd.; 26 Or-
leans, 92d. ; 34 Demerara, &c. 104 d. a 10-1-d.
Imported, one vessel from Demerara, 50 bales.
As a proot of the flourishing state of the Cotton
trade, we need only state, that W. FIELDING,
Esq. has contracted for the building of a factory
in Blackburn, which, it is said, will contain about
36,000 spindles : and Messrs. LIVESEY and Co.
have also determined upon erecting another
spinning-factory, capable of holding about 20,000
spi nd les.—(Lancaster Gazette.)
Saturday last, the watchman stationed near
the Gibbet Toll, Edinburgh, stopped a person
driving a gig, which seemed to be suspiciously
loaded, and was coming from the southward.
Upon examination, it was found to contain the
bodies of two females, one of them very old, and
without teeth. The watchman very properly
took the driver and his whole charge into custody.