The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-16 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(MONDAY.)

BELFAST, OCT. 12. —The Sheldrake, Wilson, from Lon-
don to Larne, struck on the North Rock, near Belfast, 11th
inst., but got off—part of the cargo discharged, in a damaged
state.

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GUERNSEY, OCT. 12 —The Dart, Putt, from Brexham to
Jersey, was lost off the Sark, 11th inst.
WHITBY, OCT. 13.—The Barbara, Wood, from Scar-
borough to Newcastle; David, Brown, of Whitby ; and
Hoffnung, of Accummersiel ; were on shore near Whitby,
13th inst.

SHIELDS, OCT. 13.—The Vesta, Hutchinson, from Liver-
pool, struck on Shields Bar this day, and sunk in the harbour;
crew and materials saved.
SUNDERLAND, OCT. 13.—The Hope, of Shields, was totally
wrecked near this place the 13th instant. The James and
Thomas, of Inverkeithing, was on shore near this place the 13th
instant ; crew saved.
BRIGHTON, OCT. 14.—Arrived off port the Jack, Rees, from
the Gold Coast.

FISHGVA RD, OC r. 13.—Arrived off port the QuAcc, Davis,
from Montreal.

CORK, OCT. 12.—Arrived the John Stewart, Le Buff, from
Newfoundland; Little Queen, Wood, from St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Allichies, Hayers, from Cadiz ; and John, Poyntz,
from London.
HULL, OCT. 14.—Arrived the Wilberforce, Skerry, from
St. Petersburgh.

The Swan, Walsh, was on shore, in Framore Bay, 11th
inst., but expected to be got off.
The Britannia, from Shields to Leith, and Safety, Shaker,
of Shields, for Eyemouth, were on shore, near Sunderland,
13th inst.

The Dart, from Sydney, New South Wales, and Port Ade-
laide, to Mauritius, struck on Troubridge Shoal, South Aus-
tralia, the 29th March, and filled with water.

A letter of the 9th inst., from Amsterdam, states
that all the preliminaries for the marriage of the eldest son of
the Prince of Orange with the Princess Sophia, second daugh-
ter of the King of Wurtemberg, which we have already alluded
to, have been finally arranged. The matrimonial negotiations
had been considerably protracted in consequence of the desire
at first entertained of satisfying the court etiquette, which re-
quired that the elder sister of the Princess should be first mar-
ried ; but, at the pressing instance of the Royal family of Hol-
land, the King of Wurtemberg had consented to waive his
scruples on this point, and his decision to that effect had just
been received at the Hague. The Baron Van der Duyen de
Maasdam, Governor of Southern Holland, was to set out for
Stuttgardt to make an official demand of the young Princess's
hand. It is expected that on the opening of the States Ge-
neral on Monday next a Bill will be presented to them on the
subject.
OVERGROWN WEALTH.—The celebrated Countess
Branitska, the niece of Potemkin, died lately on her estate of
Biala-Cerkiew, in the 80th year of her age. She had been
a favourite of the Empress Catherine, on which account the
Emperor Alexander always treated her with the utmost dis-
tinction and respect, addressing her by the name of matushka
or mother. He never met ber without kissing her band, and
he would stand in her presence until she bade him be seated.
The Countess has left an immenso fortune, which will be
partly inherited by Count Woronzow, her son-in-law. The
sum of 1,000,000 sterling in specie was found in her chateau ;
she had 60,000,000 of roubles lodged in the Bank of Russia,
and on her estates were 130,000 peasants or slaves. The
Countess in her lifetime made money in every way : she lent
it out in mortgages, and there are very few landed proprietors
in the empire who are not her debtors. She discounted bills,
sold gold, disposed herself of the immense produce of her
lands, and it is even said that, having visited France some
years since, and finding human hair so valuable an article in
that country, she had, on her return to Russia, caused the
beads of all her female slaves to be shaved, and shipped a
cargo of chevelures to France, where they fetched her a hand-
some return. Her caisse was always escorted by 30 or 40
Cossacks, and her reputation for wealth was so general
throughout the empire that, during the last insurrection, the
Polish Government had given instructions to General Dwer-
nicki and other Officers sent on expeditions into Lithuania to
endeavour to gain possession of her treasures.

THE ROSE BED or BENGAL.—Ghazipore stands
upon the north bank of the Ganges, about seventy miles by
water, below Benares. It is not a very extensive town, but
is justly celebrated as the Gul-istan (the rose bed) of Bengal.
In the spring of the year an extent of miles around the town
presents to the eye a cont'nual garden of roses, than which
nothing can be more beautiful and fragrant. The sight is per-
fectly dazzling ; the plain, as far as the eye can reach, extend-
ing in the same bespangled carpet of red and green. The
breezes, too, are loaded with the sweet odour which is wafted
far across the river Ganges. The flower is cultivated thus exten-
sively for the manufacture of rose-water, that of Ghazipore
being justly esteemed as surpassing in excellence every pro-
duction of the sort. Whether or not this may be attributable
to the superiority of the flowers, or the process of distillation,
I cannot say ; but, as the roses did not appear to me to possess
greater fragrance than others of their class, I should rather refer
it to the latter cause ; unless, indeed, it be that the wonderful
abundance of the materiai enables them to be more lavish in
its decoction than is elsewhere possible. It is no less cheap
than excellent ; a gallon of the most delicious may be pur-
chased for seven or eight shillings. They do not, however,
understand at Ghazipore, the art of distilling the atr of roses
in the same perfection as the Persians. The spurious com-
pound which they endeavour to palm upon the traveller is
weak, and possesses a sickly disagreeable odour foreign to
the rose; but the purchaser is often deceived by a little of the
true atr being rubbed about the stopper and neck of the bottle.
The prices demanded for this miserable imitation are exor-
bitant the explanation of which I received from one of the
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vendors—he assured me that long experience had taught him
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that it was part of the character of the English to despise
every thing cheap, and to consider any thing choice and excel-
lent which was extravagantly priced.—Oriental Annual.

On Wednesday last two woodcocks were shot at
Wingerworth, by the gamekeeper,—Nottin,yhcon Journal.