The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-21 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, JULY 19.
The Christina, Gale, from Demerara; Lapwing, Osborn,
Buenos Ayres; Maria, Palfrey, Newfoundland; May Ro,
Cray, Lima; Nightingale, Crookshank, Barbadoes ; Frank,
Harrison, Jamaica; Gazelle, Ashbridge, Trieste; Naperima,
New Brunswick ; Isabella, Strangford.

ENTERED FOR LOADING, JULY 19
The Clifton, Cumming, for Africa; Challenger, Africa;
Zosostre, Boy, Assens ; Corsair, Irwin, Barbadoes; Leonore,
Lamb, Boston; Georgetown, Nichol, Demerara; Sandbacb,
Bespham, Demerara; Hopkinson, Taggart, Demerara; Bea-
t: ice, Genoa, &c. ; Elizabeth, Edington, Halifax ; Concordia,
Leer; Hoffning, Leer ; Alexander, Luekett, Mobile ; Omega,
Baring, Philadelphia.
CLEARED OUTWARDS, JULY 19.
The May, Morton, for Quebec; Bland, Callum, Calcutta;
Theodosia, Colman, Calcutta; Cintra, O'Brian, Lisbon;
Union, Steenc, Ostend.

TELEGRAPHED.
Wind N. N. W.—Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Thomas
Washington, from London ; Jubille, from Savannah.

The salmon season is very backward this year. The
arrivals last week, and the advices for this, howevcr, give
reason to believe that, though late, there will yet be a good
supply. There has been more very large salmon than usual
this season.

‘N ANTED, A WIFE.--A REAL- GOOD ONE.-
We find the following letter in the NeugEtryport (iviassa-
chusetts) Herald, written to a friend, a merchant in that town,
by one Mr. Luther W. Day, of Lorraine county, Ohio:--
" Dear Sir,—l perceive by the Louisville Public Advertiser
that you have a thousand more females than males in your
town, and of course you have some girls that would make good
wives, and lam in want of one. lam thirty-two years old,
of middling size, of decent appearance, of a good education
for a backwoodsman, own a good farm, With improvements
sufficient to support a small family, and have a good crop of
wheat on the ground. lam a good-natured man, of a good
moral character, and in good credit ; and if yOu can send me
a good girl, not over twenty-five years of age, I will pay all
expenses, receive her thankfully, and use her well, and thank
you, dear Sir, a thousand times besides, for there are no girls
in this place, and my business is such that I cannot leave to
find one."

Yesterday afternoon, between two and three o'clock,
a serious accident occurred on the London and Birmi▪
ngham
Railroad, Chalk-farm, near the Hampstead-road, whi▪
ch had
nearly proved fatal to two gentlemen who were passing over
the line of 'works, in their gig, to Chalk-farm Tavern. There
were eight tram-waggons laden with earth, each containing
nearly three tons weight, linked together. The gig had not
crossed the road, on the tavern side, before the waggons were
set off: before it was possible to stop them the horse was
knocked down and the gig
in.stantlyoverset, and both gentle-
men were precipitated out:if?t, providentially falling in a con-
trary direction to the train, otherwise they must have been
crushed to _atoms; both fore-legs of the horse were severed
from the body, and the animal, a valuable one, was imme-
diately afterwards killed. The road leading over the bridge
to Chalk. Farm Tavern is, for the present, particularly dan-
gerous;
on
i account of the rapidity with which the trams travel
along the iron grooves.
.
FEMALE Swiss Co ST UM E.—The following morn-
ing I proceeded to Stantz, the capital of the other Unter-
walden, before breakfast. I bad met, higher in the valley,
a diminutive of the Schwytz cap already mentioned, but here
the costume was entirely changed; the girls having the hair
clubbed behind, and decorated with red ribbons, while the
matrons had the club ornamented with white rosettes. Many
of the latter seemed to have literally pulled their hair out by
the roots, in the effort to draw it tightly back into this club,
or ball. I saw four, who had certainly not one hundred
fibres left among them all, and one was actually bald, with
the exception of the back of the head, where there was a
dirty rosette, attached to some down. A few wore flat straw
hats also, and I still saw one or two of the cocks' combs.
The guide was of opinion that the frost had killed the hair at
roots, in the case of bald ladies !—Cooper's Excursions in
Switzerland.

•
OATHS —Many natives of Scotland, who happen
to reside in England or Ireland, feel aggrieved when required
to take an oath in the English form, by kissing the book, in-
stead of the Scots form, by raising the right hand. The
subject was recently brought before Government, and a Bill
for the relief of all Presbyterians who conscientiously desire
to be sworn according to the Scots form will shortly be intro-
duced. A question has lately risen on this point in Ireland,
which has been referred to the twelve Judges. Quakers and
Moravians are eligible witnesses in all cases upon solemn
affirmation, by the Act of 18.33.