The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-14 00:00:00

CLEARED OUTWARDS, OCT. 12.

The Triumvirate, Green, for Newfoundland; Orion, Scott,
Port au Prince ; Hirondelle, Hayti ; Catharine, Bakker, Rot-
terdam; Amphitrite, Elsineur ; Bootle, St. Thomas's; Alex-
ander, Stewart, Jamaica.

TELEGRAPHED.
Off Point Lynas, inward bound, the Patriot, from Adra ;
:he Sir John Franklin.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrived the Lloyd's, Garrett, from Bengal, off Ramsgate,
sailed from Calcutta May 21, Saugur 23d; the John Barry,
Robson. from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed June 15; the
Alert Palmer, from the South Seas, in the Downs, sailed from
Timor —, St. Helena, Aug. 22 ; the Hindostan, Pattison,
from Bombay, off Liverpool, sailed June 16. Passengers, per
Lloyd's, from Bengal :—Opie Smith, Esq., of his Majesty's
11th Dragoons; Lieutenant R. Rolls, Madras N. I. ; Lieu-
tenant Heron, of his Majesty's 9th Regiment; per John
Barry, from Bombay, Captain Apthorpe, 20th Regiment;
Lieutenant Parbury, India Navy ; Captain E. Walter, 3d
Light Cavalry.

Arrival at Bomhay.—His Majesty's ship Hyacinth, Black-
wood, June 10, from Sydney.
Departure. from Bombay...2.Thc Susana, June 12, front
Macao.

Arrivals at the Mauritius.—The Samuel Brown, June 1.
from Pondicherry ; Bengal, June 7, from Padang, and sailed
June 7, for Bordeaux ; Edmond Castle, from Calcutta ;
Henry, June 11, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Cyrus, June
11, from Java ; Mary, June 11, from the Cape of Good Hope ;
Lise, June 12, from Marseilles ; Lystrane, June 14, from
Buenos Ayres ; Raduma, June 22, from Madagascar.
Departures from the Mauritius.—The Haidee, June 1, for
Madras; Onyx; June 4, for Ceylon ; Carnatic, June 6, for
Bombay; Pero, June 6, for Bombay ; Adolphe, June 6, for
Calcutta ; Drongan, June 12, and Argyle, June 13, for Ma-
dras ; British Monarch, June 21, for Calcutta.

Arrival at Madras.—The Neraudda, May 12, from Bombay
and Alleppy.

Deparitiies from Sydney (New South Wales).—The Lady
Wellington, April 29, for the South Seas ; Chalcedony,
April 30, for Boston; Jane Goudie, May 4, for Madras; Go-
vernor Harcourt, May 5, for London ; Francis Freeling, May
10, and Siren, May 10, for Hobart Town ; Elizabeth, Sisters,
and Genii, May 11, for the South Seas ; Brougham, for Two-
fold Bay ; Apprentice, was to sail May 14, for the Mauritius ;
North Briton, for Batavia ; Stirling Castle, for Singapore ;
Platina, to sail May 22, for London; Avel Goun, June 1, for
London; Alexander and Bencoolin would proceed in company
through Torres Straits, for Calcutta.

The Clifton, Worsell, from London to China, was spoken
on the 10th July, in lat. 13. 10. N., long. 25. 45. W. ; the
Pyramus, Livesay, from Cork to New South Wales, Aug, 30,
in lat. 13., long. 27.

RAPIDITY OF COMMUNICATION.—We have been
permitted to make extracts from the official logbook kept at
the Liverpool Telegraph-office, and by it we are in posses-
sion of instances of such extraordinary rapidity of commu-
nication as appears almost incredible. It appears to be a
rule in this office frequently to send a communication
exactly at one o'clock, through the whole line from Liver-
pool to Holyhead, in order that the different signalmen may
regulate their time-pieces ; this is done by a peculiar signal
made exactly as the clock strikes one, which notifies the •
time, and asks the question " Is there anything to report?"
An acknowledgment or answer to this is returned, either
" Yes," or " No," as the case may be. The distance from
Liverpool to Holyhead; from station to station, is 72
miles, hence there and back 144 miles, and this signal
and answer is considered unusually long if it occupies
one minute. We find from the extracts above-men-
tioned, that in the month of September, in which, by
the by, we have had much stormy and bad wea-
ther, this signal has been sent on 18 different days, the dis-
tance the signal must have passed in those 18 times must be
2,592 miles, which has been done in the incredibly short
.space of 16 minutes and five seconds, being an average of
161 miles per minute. In 17 of the days mentioned, the
distance 2,448 miles, the time occupied was 14 minutes 5
seconds, average 175 miles per minute. In 11 of the
shortest periods, the distance was 1,584 miles, time Lsccu-
pied 7 minutes 5 seconds, average 223 miles per minute.
In taking the five quickest communications during the
month, we find the distance to have been 720 miles, the
time occupied 2 minutes 30 seconds, being an average of
288 miles per minute. The shortest time during the month
was on the 10th, when the signal passed, and the answer
was received in 25 seconds. When it is considered that
there are 11 different telegraph stations, and only one man
at each station, this will appear the more extraordinary, and
speaks favourably of the management of Lieutenant Wat-
son, under whose superintendence the telegraph was first
established, and still continues.—Liverpool courier.
MUNICIPAL EE. EC T lONS.—The following is the
clause in.the Act which regulates the
yearly retirement of
members of town-councils :—" And be it enacted, that upon
the Ist day of November, 1836, and in every succeeding
year, one-third part of the number appointed as aforesaid to
be the whole number of the council- of every borough shall
go out of office, and in the said year 1836 those who shall
go out of office shall be the councillors who were elected
under the provisions of this Act by the smallest number of
votes in this present year ; and in the next year, 1837, those
who shall go out of office shall be the councillors who were
elected under the provisions of this Act by the next smallest
number of votes in this present year, the majority of the
whole council always determining, when the votes for any
such .persons shall have been equal, who shall be the per-
sons „so to go out of office ; and thereafter those who shall
so go out of office shall always be the councillors who have
been the longest time in office without re-election ; pro-
vided always that any councillors so going out of office shall
be capable of being forthwith re-elected if then qualified as
herein provided."

A fellow has been taken into custody who was
driving a flock consisting of "?3 sheep, from a close at New-
port Parnell, belonging- to Mr. Armstrong, to whom the
sheep also belonged, and has been committed for the of-
fence to Aylesbury Gaol.