The Sun.
London, England, 1825-01-13 00:00:00

OF CARGOES.

Arrived. Sailed.
Mahogany - 1 0
Tobacco - 2
Beer - 1 0
Coals - 1 0
Brandy - - 1 0
Oil Cakes - 0
Flax .. 0 5
Tow - 0 2
Bones - 0 3
Guns - 0 3
Wheat - - 0 3
Oats - - 0
Furniture . 0
Bricks - 0
Passengers - 76 82
Vessels in ballast 92 62

On Saturday the business of the Northern
Banking Company commenced ; their capital
500,0001. sterling. The constitution of this
establishment, our readers already know, is
founded on similar principles to the Scotch banks,
which have long been so stable and useful in that
country, and we doubt not that this, and other
joint stock companies, will prove equally benefi-
cial to Ireland.—( Belfast Chronicle.)
We are at length likely to have a new commu-
nication with the ►metropolis, by means of an iron
railway, as a Company is formed in London for
the purpose, under the appellation of the London
Northern Rail-road Company.— (Cambridge
Paper.)
When KEAN paid his last visit to Ayr, his per-
formance of Othello happened to be the subject of
conversation in a shop, when a butcher who was
present asked very gravely whether Mr. K. spoke
all he said out of his own head, or if he learned it
from a book ? Being told how the thing was, he
exclaimed against paying to hear a man repeat
what every one who could read might do as well
himself ; an objection which was met by some
one observing that the actor " did not only recite
the play, but he delineated the various passions
which belonged to the character." " Passions !
passions !" cried he of the knife, " Gang to the
fish-market if ye want to see the passions; that's
the place for passions !"—(A,yr Paper.)
Bony StfATcniNG.—lt is a happy thing for all
when a man is uniformly wiser than his neighbours, and a great
convenience when he kindly undertakes to overlook their con.
cerns as well as his own. But the most consummate sagacity
will sometimes make a slip, as the following recent occurrence
testifies. A box, a suspicious looking box, lying at the coach-
office in Scotch-street, addressed to a medical gentleman in
Edinburgh, was pounced upon ; and what should it con-
tain but dead bodies ? It was ascertained that it came
from a surgeon in this city ;—what farther proof could
there be required ? The illayor was therefore instantly
appealed to—called away from a good dinner to be present,
Every part of the process was conduced with due solemnity ;
the moment of developement approached, and all the by-standers
instinctively laid hold of their noses; 10, instead of dead bo-
dies, the box was filled with bottles of Gilsland water ! None
but a llogarth could have preserved the expression of the
countenances of the knowing ones on this discovery. We hope,
however, that the laugh which has since gone against th_an will
not be the cause of at all slackening their exertions for the good
of their neighbours.—( Carlisle Paper. )
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday se'en-
night, between 10 an 11 o'clock, in the forenoon, as three boys,
two of them sans of Thos. Small, labourer in Lessudden, were
walking by the side of the Tweed, near Mertoun Mill, the
youngest boy, 'Wm. Smaill, fell from the bank in the river, was
carried away by the current, and almost immediately disappeared.
His brother, although only ten years of age, courageously at-
tempted his rescue by plunging into the water, and would
have been lost also, had it not been for the assistance of his re-
maining companion. An alarm having been given, the father
of the poor boy, aided by many of his friends, commenced an
anxious search for the little sufferer, which was continued t'll
near six o'clock of the evening, down as far as Kelso, without
success.—(Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 10.)
At Thorpe, near Norwich, last week, as Mrs.
Postle, wife of Mr. William Postle, tithe bailiff to the Rev. J.
Maxwell, was walking on the turnaike road, a led horse, be-
longing to an officer of the Dragoons quartered in the barracks
there, kicked her in the stomach, and she died in consequence
eighteen hours afterwards.
On Wednesday last a salmon was caught at
one of the stations on the Tay of the weight of 16 pounds,
and, to all appearance, a clean fish. Upon being cut up, how-
ever, the same day at the fish-yard here, it was found to be
foul, and the roe, which was remarkably large, was taken out
and boiled. The ova, after being separated from the integu-
ment, were about the size of garden peas, and, upon their be-
ing counted, turned out the astonishing number of 12,130.—
(Perth Courier.)
The man who, it was stated a few days since,
had recently committed various frauds under the
travelling names of Major Brock, Clare, a West
India merchant, and the Rev. Mr. Carr, was ap-
prehended in his travelling chariot between Roy-
ston and Cambridge, on Tuesday, on the charge
of feloniously stealing the said chariot and a pair
of horses from a Mr. Mann, of Holywell. He
was entrusted with the property on trial, and to
give 160 sovereigns if approved of. This trans-
action took place on the 4th inst., when the
swindler was playing the part of the West India
merchant. The frauds committed by this man in
less than three weeks have been ruinously ex-
ensive,