The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-07 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, DEC. 6.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived and sailed for the
River, the Royal George, Ellerby, from Bombay; also, and
remain, the Wortley, Jackson ; Argo, itisung ; Trade, Grant ;
and Ann, Mathewson, from Petersburgh; Odell, Dobson, from
Memel; Funchal, M4Pherson, from Riga; William and Ann,
Goodall, from Dantzic ; and Pedang, Rogers, from Flushing
for Pedang ; and from London, the Perseverance, Best, for
Madras.

PonTs:troyfit, DEC. 6.—Winch S.S.E.—Arrived the Atlas,
Langren, for Alicant • Coriolanus, —, from the Downs for
Rio Janeiro ; John Shand, Rees, from ditto for Jamaica. The
ship Castle Forbes, for Madras and Bengal, is hauled afloat,
having completed heri repairs, and is rcady to receive her cargo.
Put back the Duchess of York transport. Sailed the Loyalist,
Rames, for London.
PLYmou'rn, DEc. s.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived the Bustler,
from Lisbon ; the remainder of the outward-bound
sailed this morning except the Montreal, Thorn ; Ceasar and
Helena, and Anteas, Pearson.
FALMOUTH, DEC. s.—Wind E. to S.—Arrived the Duke
of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 27th ult. ;
Dove packet, from Plymouth; Portia, Silliman, from Cadiz;
Mevagissey, Andrew, from Messina; and Perseverance,
Thomas, from London for Cadiz. Sailed the Noetim packet,
for_ Rio Janeiro, with dispatches.
SHEERNESS, DEC. 6.—Sailed the Woodman, Leary, with
convicts for New South Wales.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. s.—Wind E.S.E.--Arrived the Aries,.
Tonge, from Monte Video ; and Collins, Whitehead, from
Miramichi. Off the port the Oliver,.Blanshard, from Sicily.

The Usk, Macfarlane, from Liverpool to Spain, was totally
wrecked near Belfast the Ist instant.
The Tiger, Buchan, from Teneriffe to Belfast, was clriveu
on shore near the latter place on the Ist instant, but got off'
and carried into Newcastle.
The Friendship, Cassidy, from Irvine to Newry, was lately
lost near Camblemune.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when Captain John Small Henry Fraser was sworn into
the command of the ship Marquis of Bundy, consigned to
Madras and China.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY

Eatracts from the Morning Papers, Dec. 7, 182 5.

[NEW TIMES.]
We have received Madras Government Ga-
zettes, and Letters from that Presidency to the
31st July. By a private letter to the 30th, we
learn that the accounts from Rangoon leave little
expectation- of any more fighting. The whole
population declare their aversion to it ; and the
Burmese.: Monarch is absolutely destitute of
means for renewing the campaign. The King of
Ava, it is said, has offered to treat, and the Go-
vernor-General would probably accede to almost
any terms that could put an end to the heavy ex-
pence of the war ; but little reliance can be
placed on the sincerity of the Barbarian Sove-
reign, who, according to credible intelligence, is
preparing to withdraw with his Court and the
White Elephant, to the confines of China, ex-
pecting support from that quarter, as well as
from the Siamese, on whom we cannot place
any great reliance, as they have been merely
playing their own game in suffering the power of
the King of Ava to be reduced, but without the
least desire to promote our ascendancy. It was,
supposed that if no negociation was opened before
the middle of October, Sir Archibald Campbell
would then move upon Umrnerapoora, which• he
would probably find abandoned by its Sovereign.
The operations of the re-organised Burmese Army
(if it may be so called) are on a narrow scale.,
Of the refugees from Arracan, 2,000 men are.
assembled at Sambaughawa, but -in great con-
fusion. The remnant of the late Grand Army
of Hanzawuddy is concentrating upon Pang-
ham Mow, which they are fortifying, as well
as some other places of minor note lower
down the river. Nothing appears to have been
more unexpected by or fatal to the Burmese than:
the fall of Prorne. No rallying point was chosen
or fixed upon, from the chance of so unlooked for
an event. In the early part of May Sir A. Camp-
bell sent a detachment
.to explore the interior of
the country. The banks of the Irrawuddy are
popoulous and highly cultivated, but the inland
parts are very inferior; the villages are small,
the cottages wretched, and thinly scattered over
the country.- The bulk of the Burman people con-
sist of vagrant feudal tribes who look only to plun-
der for riches and rank. Ava does not, like Pegu,
contain a race of Carians to cultivate the soil. The
Kraynes (aborigines of Arracan) are somewhat
analogous ; but they only inhabit the hills ; and
upon the whole, Ava is thinly peopled. The'
Burmese peasants are very lazy, leaVing all the
hard work to the women. It is death to dig
for any metal without authority from the King,
though many places bore even marks of metallic
veins. The detachment first marched towards
Talmo or Tongo. At the distance of forty
miles, they came to Tagoondine. Where
the Burmese had not preceded them, they
found the people quietly at work, weaving
their
.coarse striped stuffs, and apparently con-
tented. Wherever a Burmese force had been,
desolation marked its course. From Tagoondlac
across the-Galadyat mountains to Tanao is about
70 miles. The detachment, however, could not
proceed so far, but struck off in a North-west
direction to Tow-kin-dine, which is about four
miles inland from Bollay, on the river Irrawuddy,
and a small party proceeded as far as Meaday.
At a village, four miles on the Prome side of
Meaday, were the remains of an extensive iron
foundery, where cannon appehred to have been
cast ; and the fact, that the Burmese do make
guns is very generally asserted by the best in-
formed natives of the country. ;-