The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-16 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE,

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT TIIE CUS-
TOM-HOUSE, AUGUST 15.
The Ramona, Bridge, from Rotterdam ; Frederick Wil-
helm, Schoon, Leer; Stork, Gulls, Paraiba; John Wood,
Woodruffe, Havre; Washington, Jarvis, Riga; Rapid,
Robertson, Smyrna; Eleanor, Fradlandt, Wismer; Dido,
Mondt, Rostock; John Bull, Corbin, Hamburgh.
ENTERED OUTWARDS IN CARGO, AUG. 15.
The Kent, Tune, for Boulogne; Julia, Pracga, Calais;
President, Chadwick, New York ; Undine, Smith, Amster-
dam; Sir Edward Bankes, Norwood, Rotterdam; Giraffe,
Corbin, Hamburgh; Singapore, Locke, Singapore; Vrow
Elizabeth, Louve, Ostend, Bruges, Ghent; Two Brothers,
Robson, Hamburgh.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, AUG. 15.
The Eden, Moleson, for Hobart Town ; Pink, Whitnall,
Dunkirk; Giraffe, Corbin, Hamburgh; Merchant, Jordan,
Boston; Diadem, Bower, Naples.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, AUG. 15.
The Borrusia, Wallis, for Elsinenr ; Anna Maria, Deplin,
Elsineur ; Venus, Muggenburg, Embden ; Eliza, Gezira,
Memel ; Emilia, Blockart, Elsineur.

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, AUG. 14.
The Jane, Lennox, from Quebec; Emulous, Mumford,
New York ; Liverpool, Rowe, Hamburgh ; Ann, New Bruns-
wick ; Jorvo, Laike, Brahestadt ; Louise, Bruges ; Active,
Ellis, Falmouth.

TELEGRAPHED.
Calm all day.—Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Robert,
from Quebec ; Earl Dalhousie, from Mobile.
Off Puffin Island, inward bound, the Mars, from Hamburgh ;
Smyrna, from Smyrna ; and the Elizabeth.
A boat belonging to the steamer John Rigby has been picked
up near Helbre Islands.

FEMALE REAPERS.—The practice of labourers'
wives assisting in the harvest-field is becoming more general in
this county than formerly, and, by increasing considerably the
earnings of the poor, tends greatly to promote the comforts of
their cottage-homes. The Chelmsford and Essex Agricul-
tural Society are endeavouring to foster this spirit of industry,
and we beg to remind the farmers that three prizes—one of
205., one of 155., and the other of 10s.—are given to the wives
or widows of labourers (in the employ of a member), who
shall have earned the most money during harvest by cutting
corn. We are sure the farmers of the neighbourhood will fur-
ther the object of the Society, by giving those who are willing
an opportunity of competing for these prizes.—Essex Herald:
It is stated, on the authority of evidence laid before
a Committee of the House of Commons, that there exist
in the metropolis no less than eighty thousand degraded fe-
males, for the most part under eighteen years of age. Is it
possible that this statement can be read with indifference ?
Can the reflecting mind look calmly on this vast amount of de-
gradation and misery, and not bestir it to the great work of
moral renovation ? From the various accounts which from
time to time arc afforded by the daily and weekly Press, and
other concurrent testimony, it appears that 8,000 of these
wretched females are annually consigned to a premature
grave ; and that by far the greater proportion of this number
either die from disease in the hospitals, or seek a desperate re-
lief from their sufferings in suicide. Some strong measures
must be adopted to check this evil.
A full-grown male sun-fish (the cepholug oblonga-
ta: of Naturalists), taken off Beachey Head last week, was ex-
hibited on our beach by two Eastbourne fishermen, who had
captured this curious inhabitant of the deep. It measured
about six feet in length, and seven feet transversely from the
extremity of the dorsal to that of the anal fin; its weight was
estimated at between 600 or 7001bs. It was announced in a
hand-bill as a " one-eyed sea devil." These fishes, called
moles, or sun-fishes, have the jaws without teeth ; and the tail
so short and high, that the fish looks as if a portion had been
cut off, giving it a most singular truncated appearance. The
skin is very hard, and divided into small angular compart-
ments ; a thick layer, of a gelatinous substance, is spread un-
der the skin. This species is not uncommon in the European
seas, but is very rarely seen near our shores. —B righton Gazette.
A STORM IN THE ORKNEYS.—If the tourist has
the good fortune to be in Orkney during a storm, he will cease
to regret the absence of some of the softer and more common
beauties of landscape, in contemplation of the most sublime
spectacle which he ever witnessed. By repairing at such a
time to the weather shore,particularly if it be the west side,
he will behold waves of the
m agnitudeand force of which be
could not have previously formed an adequate conception,
tumbling across the Atlantic like monsters of the deep—their
heads erect, their manes streaming in the wind, roaring and
foaming as with rage, till each discharges such a Niagara
flood against the opposing precipices, as makes the rocks
tremble to their foundations • while the sheets of water that
immediately ascend, as if from artillery, hundreds of feet
above their summits, deluge the surrounding country, and
fall like showers on the opposite side of the islands. All the
springs within a mile of the weather coast are rendered
brackish for scmc days after such a storm. Those living half
a mile from the precipice declare that the earthen floors of
their cots are shaken by the concussion of the waves. Rocks
that two or three men could not lift are washed about, even
on the tops of cliffs which are between 60 and 100 feet above
the surface of the sea when smooth ; and detached masses of
rock, of an enormous size, are well known to have been carried
a considerable distance between high and low water mark.
On visiting the West Craig some days after a recent storm,
sea insects are to be found abundant on the hills near to them,
though about 100 feet high.