The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-31 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUR_
TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 30.
The Eclipse, Simons, from Bruges ; the Anion, Stehr, from
Altona ; Woodmanstern, Hastie, Gibraltar; Neptune, Pietres.
Brussels.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING,
The Opsrey, Payne, for St. Sebastian ; Demerara Planter,
Willis, Demerara; Factor of Beaumaris, Price, Cape Coast
Castle ; Mina, Mason, Rio Janeiro.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.
The Tropic, Anderson, for Jamaica • Mary, Ganton, Genoa ,
the Regent Packet, Ziddle, Cape of Good Hope; George
Toran, Simpson, Demerara ; London, Lamb, Cape of Gocd
Hope; Osprey, St. Sebastian.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST.
The Orwell, Hall, for Harlingen ; Guston, Lindgrecn,
Kid; Fanny, Bartlett, Sierra Leone.

The General Steam Navigation Company's new
ship Caledonia arrived at three o'clock on Tuesday with
the Hamburg mail of last Saturday, after a most tempes-
tuous passage. On Monday, near the entrance to the
Thames, the sea was terrific ; and about a mile distance
from the Caledonia, a three-masted ship was thrown by a
heavy sea on her beam-ends, and while in that state a fol-
lowing sea struck her, and sent her with all her.hands to
the bottom. The Caledonia received some injury in her
paddle-boxes and works on deck, but happily no further
mischief was done. Captain Whittingham, a very expe-
rienced seaman, speaks of the weather as the most awfully
tremendous he ever witnessed.
The vale of the Wear stands unrivalled for the
abundance, diversity, and value of its mineral riches ; for
not only does it yield the coal shipped at this port, which
claims the pre-eminence in the London market, but the
great coal-field from which that is worked which is shipped
in the Tees, lies in its bosom. Indeed the boundaries of
the vale to the south appear to be the termination of the
coal in that directiim ; as we are not aware of a single col-
liery from whose workings the water finds its way into the
Tees. But this teeming locality does not abound with coal
alone ; for, further to the west, near Frosterley, there lies
the mountain limestone, which yields the lime so highly
prized in agriculture, for its in valuable qualities. Conti-
guous to this district lies another, rich in veins of lead ore,
which are worked to the sources of the mountain streamlets
which form the head of the river. Proceeding thence down
the vale, we come to the superior freestone quarries in the
neighbourhood of Painshaw, from which the immense
blocks are hewn that are indispensable in the formation of
piers, bridges, &c. &c. Lower down the stream we arrive
at the immense beds of Ironstone at Hylton, which have
been worked to advantage. Nor are we to omit the inex-
haustible strata of magnesian limestone, which complete the
series ; the eastern boundary of which stretches into the
ocean, and yields that excellent species of lime which has
long been an article of extensive export from this place.
The town of Sunderland, situated at the mouth of the river,
under whose banks, and those of its tributary streams,these
treasures lie ;—whose merchants are noted for their enter-
prize, and whose labouring population are remarkable for
their industry—owning a mercantile navy whose tonnage
exceeds that of the whole nation of Ireland—and which
carries on an export trade to every quarter of the globe ;
Sunderland, we say, possessing these great advantages, cer-
tainly is the most natural as well as convenient outlet for
these productions. Why, then, we ask, should the inha-
bitants of Sunderland remain inert, and allow their neigh-
bours of the Tyne and Tees, to carry away the mineral
riches of the upper part of the vale, without making an en.
deavour to claim a share of what may justly be termed their
legitimate property, by extending railway into that part of
the county ?—Sunderland Herald.