The Sun.
London, England, 1822-06-11 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING, &c.

FALMOUTH, JUNE 9.--Wind E. to S.E.--Arrived the
Four Friends, Roberts, and Commerce, llosker, from London.
A severe gale commenced about five last evening, with thunder
and lightning, but did no damage here.
DEAL, JUNE Io.—Wind N.E.—Arrived and sailed for the
River the Sir Charles Price, Ford, Timer and the Cape of Good
Ilope ; Wm. Parker, Crosbie, Jamaica ; Demerara packet,
Demerara ; henry Curf, Roxburg, Trinidad ; Rebecca, Sim,
St. Lucia. Came down from the River and sailed the Thames,
Davis, for Quebec.

SEVEN o'CLocK.--The wind has just shifted to S.W. and
blows strong, accompanied with thunder and lightning.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind southerly:—Arrived the
Loyal Briton transport, from Plymouth.

We are sorry to announce the loss of one of the Pigmy's
boats, off' the Manacles, on Monday, night last (3d instant), by
which unhappy occurrence a Quarter-master, named Harris,
and six men were drOwned.—( Plymouth Telegraph.)

A LARGE SHARK.—A large Shark was observ-
ed last week off Calshot Castle, Hants, by Mr. Bailey, master
of the Canteen, while he was in his boat. He instantly rowed
on shore, and having procured a musket, with some ball-
cartridges, again put off to the spot. The monster darted
with great velocity towards the boat, when Mr. Bailey
discharged the piece, within a yard of the fish. Oa receiv-
ing the fire it went off, but almost instantly returned, and
with his tremendous jaws wide open attacked the boat, and
received a second shot near the shoulders, which caused it a
second time to disappear, but it came up again in about seven
or eight minutes, to all appearance, in a distressed state. The
effect of the first shot was visible on its belly, it having gone
quite through, and the blood discolouring the water. On a
third shot being fired it went down and was seen no more.—lt
is conjectured that the fish was from 14 to 16 feet in
length.—( Brighton IlcraM. ) •
PRESERVATION FROM DROWNING.—Between
the hours of one and two o'cock on Sunday morning, three
pun: men, who were on their way home from a public-house,
agreeing to bathe in the Regent's Canal at Maiden-lane, Bat. le.
bridge, two of them stripped and plunged into the water, whilst
the third remained on the Bank : in a few minutes one of
them called out, " Save me, save me, I am going, I am seized
with the cramp," and before any assistance could be afforded
him he sunk, but the young man who remained on the bank
courageously leaped into the water to the assistance of his friend,
and after a deal of difficulty, and a lapse of ten minutes, lie suc-
ceeded in rescuing the young man from a watery grave, and he
was carried instantly.to the house of Mr. Young, the Maiden-
head at Battle-bridge, where Mr.. Wakefield, the surgeon,
promptly arrived, and the means used by the Royal Humane
Society were persevered in for upwards of forty minutes, and
happily animation was restored, and the young man was in-
stantly placed in a bed, and was treated with the greatest feel-
ing and humanity by Mr. Young, the landlord. His com-
panions said his name was John Phillips, and that he was 19
years of age, and apprenticed in a very respectable house in
the City.
A monastic seal, in perfect preservation, was found, last Nov.,
in a potatoe field, called Low Garth, near Langrick, on the
Ouse. It is of mixed, or bell metal, 2i inches long, of an
oval shape, pointed at the ends, and pierced through the
shaft: the inscription is " SIGGILLUM FRATEIRNITA-
TiS MONASTERII BEATE MARIE DE HAYLES." In the
centre, on a ground of flowers, is the figure of a man,
clothed in a Monkish stole, bare-headed, and shorn, stand-
ing on an elevation of three steps ; holding in his right
hand a globe surmounted by a cross, and, in his left, a
staff or sceptre, spreading into three rods or branches at
the top. Although found within a short distance of Drax
Abbey, which was sometimes called also Heilham, and pos-
sessed a neighbouring. estate named Hales, it cannot be re-
ferred to that foundation, which was a Priory, dedicated to
St. Nicholas. Neither does it appear to belong to Hales
Owen Abbey, but to the mitred Cistercian Abbey of Hayles,
in Gloucestershire, which was founded by Richard, Earl of
Cornwall and King of the Romans, in 1246, at the expence of
10,000 marks, and dedicated to the Virgin. How it came into
Yorkshire must be mere conjecture, as there was no connexion
between the two establishments.—(Hall Advertiser.)
No fewer than 13 post-horses endcd their miscrable existence
on Ascot Heath race-course on Thursday, and several fine
horses belonging to coach-proprietors dropped down and died
on the road between the Heath and London.

In the early part of last week, a stranger went into the shop
of Mr. Bickerton, hair-dresser, at Whitchurch, Salop, and
desired to be shaved ; after which he complained of being very
thirsty, and requested Mr. B. to fetch him a pint of beer.
Mr. B. did so, and on his return found the stranger in a shock-
ing state; he having (while Mr. B. was absent) cut his tongue
out with the razor used in shaving him, and had actually
thrown it to the back of the fire. The stranger, who was evi-
dently insane, was removed to the workhouse, and placed under
medical care.

Yesterday se'nnight, Mr. KENT exhibited his
apparatus for walking on water at Sunderland. There were at
least 20,000 spectators on the shore, and so many boats, which
crowded about him, that he could not exhibit to any advan-
tage. At a private exhibition, early on Saturday morning, he
kept about two miles from the shore, and it was astonishing
with what rapidity and ease he moved along, like a man
skaiting.