The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-23 00:00:00

SHIPPING.-(TEM3 DAV.)

(FAIODI—LLOYD'S.4 •. 1
b.f.,11,, Dec. 2.2.—Witld W. S. W Arrived theand Generacl Chai4 isatavia ; Ontario,
iTom tort ; Ulysses, Pratt, and Caroline,
1V0.!i; Ciuebeg, Came down from the river and pro•
retitled the Michael Redson, for St. Kitt's ; and Alexander,
Robertson, for New Orleans. All the outward-bound sailed
this morning except the Otourfica Thb wet Of El.
supposed to be tit •Aniericat4 Was stoat thi§ Mottling heftr the
Goodwin South Sand lead: A beat ttorn the light Vessel,
five men in .N
'llitimeting to board her, was upset, and
three men drowned. The Kitty, Murray, from Cork to South-,
amplon, has been driven into this port, laden with oats almost
on fire.

PORTSMOUTH, Dm. 24,,vina N. to E. to W. S. W., with
very light aim.— A rrikA±.ll the Palmyra, Lorder, from London
for Borabiy e.4.a Catherine, Rose, for Calcutta. Sailed the
Ilawk, Johnston, for Muscat ; Jane, Wilkinson, for Mauritius;
and Matilda, —, for the Cape of Cloud lope.
Pt, vmoUTII, DEC. 21.—tiallea the Folkestone, Bliss, for the
South Seas ; lit,•-be Whitehead, for Ascension Island ; Cru-
sader, Ma‘edOtiald, for Van Diemen's Land ; Clarendon,
ristitr, for Jamaica ; Ann, Nixon, for ditto I London, Morgan,
for ditto ; Hector, Arman, for ditto ; Ituckers, Soper, for
Grenada; Railleur, Renutff, for Martinique ; William Miles,
Kindley. for Fernando Po; Ruth, Corredgall, for Sierra
Leone; Theresa, Moon, for Algiers ; Trega, Vasseur, for
New York ; James, Champion, for Nassau ; his Majesty's
packet Sophia, Behal, for Fayal ; Keit, Cumming, for St.
Michael's ; Mayflower, Orley, for ditto ; Maria, Cumming,
for ditto ; Lively, Trap, for Bordeaux ; Star, Wood, for
Oporto; A mwell, Hesse, for Marseilles ; Aurora, Stephens,
for ditto ; Prince Regent, Trapt, for Cork ; and Cressinus,
Evans, for Cardiff.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 21.—Wind N. W. to N., moderate
breezes.—Arrived the Royal Tar steamer, from London, and
left for Dublin. Sailed the Vanguard, Stewart, for Bombay ;
General Brock, Trayte, for Rio Janeiro ; Ida Amalia, Riessa, for
Bahia ; Caroline, Campbell, for Jamaica; West Indian,T urmer,
for ditto ; Vere, Roberts, for do.; Anna, Roberts, for do ; John
Pink, Nixon, for do.; Hercules, for St. Thomas's • Rosalind,
Fanrose, for Trinidad ; Hope, for St. Michael's ; iortune, for
St. Übe's ; Favourite, Cobden, for Malta, &c.; Byken,
Bruce, for Trieste ; Trefusis, M'Kinnon, for Venice ; Mary,
Castell, for Leghorn ; Jane, Allan, for Algiers ; Ann,
Pringle, for Gibraltar.
GLONCESTER, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Adelaide, Canaries.
BRISTOL, DEC. 22.—Arrived the Experiment, New York.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21.—Arrived the Experiment, from
Campeachy ; Ann, from St. John's, New Brunswick ; Dib-
den, Hutchinson, from Quebec ; Dandy, Mayhew, from St.
Michael's ; Pearl, Holland, from Leghorn ; Rebecca, from
Gibraltar ; Fillo and Filhao, from Lisbon ; Swallow, M'Kean,
from Copenhagen. The Othello, Dott, from Quebec to
this port, was fallen in with 28th ult. in lat. 45., long. 51.,
with loss of rudder and water-logged, and the crew taken out
by the Sarah, Sinclair, arrived here, and on the sth inst., lat.
46., long. 45., spoke the Wellington, from Miramichi to
Southampton, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been struck
by a heavy sea, and put three of the Othello's crew on board ;
on the 7th, lat. 48 long. 32, during a violent gale, passed a

brig timber laden, and apparently North Country built, with
loss of top masts, &c. The Asia, White, from Quebec to
this port, was abandoned on the Bth inst., in lat. 47 long. 38,
crew saved by the John, from Quebec. The Christopher,
Kay, from Quebec to London, was fallen in with, a wreck, on
the 6th inst., in lat. 48, long. 38 ; four men were seen on
board, but only succeeded in saving one, by the George, Gor-
don, arrived at this port.
PENZANCE, DEC. 21.—Wind W. N. W., light breezes, hazy
and small rain.—Arrived off port the Baltic, from the Baltic.
HASTINGS, DEC. 22.—Light air and variable.—Arrived
the Iris, Brackwood, from Colombo ; and Walgar, Cood,
from New York.
AMSTERDAM, DEC. 20. A boat with " Ruscosus T L F,
London, John Murray," has drifted on shore at the Helder.
The Ellida, Bught, from Norway to France, has been brought
into Texel with loss of masts, &c.
NoanEri, DEC. 16.—The Margaretha, lost in the Euse,
was bound from Rusterrul to Gloucester, with apples and nuts ;
also the name board of a vessel " Eisc de Gravelin," was
washed on shore at Juist, on the 6th inst.

The Harriet, Warman, from Quebec, has arrived off the
Isle of Wight.
The Sarah, Sadler, from Singapore, has arrived in the
Channel.

The Egfred, late Maclin, from Quebec to Liverpool, was
abandoned on the 6th inst. in lat. 47 long. 40., being water-
logged during a gale the night before.
The Onderneeming, Stamp, from Newcastle to Amster-
dam, was totally lost near Ameland on the 10th, crew saved.
The Hendicka, Eust, from Amsterdam to Newcastle, was
wrecked near Herlenge!' 17th inst., crew saved.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS I)AY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

Our arrivals this morning are the French, Ostend, and
Dutch mails, and ship-letters from Quebec, Batavia, Cey-
lon, of August 27, Now York, and Calcutta of the Ist of
September.
The Consol market is very heavy this morning, in con-
sequence of a report that the Westminster Bank (a
great creditor of the Northern and Central Bank) will
not agree to the terms entered into with the Directors of
the Bank of England. This has had the effect to lower
Consols from the leaving-off price of yesterday, 884, to
88i for the Opening ; Reduced 871 ; Exchequer Bills
16 18 ; India Bonds 9 11 ; Bank Stock 2081 2091.
The Foreign Securities are also lower. Spanish receded
from 201 to 19 1 ; Passive 5 1 a ; Deferred 7 a 8 ; Portu-
guese 431 44 ; Three per Cents., 2841 ; Colombian 21
221- ; Dutch 21 per Cents., 544.
HALF-PAST ONE.

The affairs of the Northern and Central Branch Bank,
it appears, remained in an unsettled state to a late hour
this morning, and a bill of] the above Bank was pre-
sented for payment, which was refused by a banker ; but
soon after a notice was sent to the parties that the note
would be paid ; consequently we may infer from the above
that, in the course of the morning, the business has been
settled between the three parties.

Consols have been at 88k ; at present may be quoted
88-g 1; Reduced 87 ; Exchequer Bills 16 19 ; India
Bonds 9 11 ; Bank Stock 2081.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 1911 ; Passive
5i ; Deferred nothing doing ; Portuguese 44 ; Three per
Cents., 281 ; Colombian 22i ; Dutch Two-and-Half per
Cents., 54i
Consols for the Account, 88 a.

THREE 0' CL 0 CX.

CHRlSTMAS.—Christmas brings with it a thousand
delights, and it possesses a thousand uses that minister to
our better nature, and deserve to live in the remembrance
of all with whom homely joys, and home-felt attachments
have power to charm. Pleasant recollections return with
it ; happy hours, past away, indeed, but, whose memory
is yet green in our hearts, associate themselves with its
presence. It is sanctified to our domestic affections, and
the lamp of love would burn but dimly were not the oil of
gladness poured into it on anniversaries like these. Our
outer world is a cold and cheerless world ; it has no soil in
which the loves of the heart can take root and flourish ;
hence, when man passes into it, and mingles with its
business and its strife, his affections fade and wither,
and too often die. But it is the beautiful use of the
festival of Christmas to bring him back again to old thoughts
and old associations, to revive affections that are droop-
ing, and to make him feel how far nobler and better a
passion is love than ambition. We have no patience
with a world which is beginning to despise its good old
custom ; and yet, alack ! how are ye fallen, ye merry-
makings and mummings and masques. Ye had better get
to a nunnery, for the utilitarians have declared you to be
vain and unprofitable, for they cannot extract any per con-
tage from your existence. Ye neither sow nor reap ; ye
spin no silk, and ye weave no stockings. His Majesty can-
not tax ye, neither can the custom house officer make ye
profitable to the state. Away, then, ye mistletoe bushes, and
ye yule logs ; vanish snap-dragon, hot cockles, and was-
sail! Too long have ye cumbered a commercial world with
your profitless presence. Go, and seek some land where
folks are uncultivated enough to love homely pleasures, and
respect olden things. Find out some new people whose
hearts are weak enough to beat with pleasure at your re-
turn, and who love ye for the dear associations ye call up.
Go to some spot like this—if you can find one, and leave
us, who have grown older and wiser than to waste our time
in loving or being loved, to the exalted employment of level-
ling a railroad, or improving a spinning-jenny.—T. K.
Harvey.
We understand that, in a short time, the south
mail, by changes in the south, will arrive here four or five
hours earlier than at present, and a mail is to go direct
to Dundee, through Fife, from Edinburgh.—Perth Adver.
We regret to learn that information has been re-
ceived at Lloyd's of the total loss, in the river Hooghley, of
the valuable ship the Windsor (1,400 tons burden), on her
voyage from London to Bengal and China. The crew
saved. The amount of insurances effected in London is
stated at 100,000/.

M. B—, the son of an honest and moderately
rich proprietor of Henmerstoff, a village near Metz, had for
some time quitted his home and commenced a dissolute mode
of life. Under different pretexts he had at first obtained
money from home, but as his misconduct could not be long
concealed from his parents, he received from them strong
letters of remonstrance, which served only to excite his
vengeful passions. Having been informed that his sister was
on the point of marriage, he returned home last week, ac-
companied by one of his debauched companions, named
Schilter. The next day the two companions in vice visited
the assembled family, B--- armed with a pistol, which he
immediately levelled at his father. The unfortunate parent
endeavoured to avoid the parricide's aim, but was dragged
from amongst the company by Schilter. The persons pre-
sent speedily fled, and the wretched father, seeing the fatal
weapon pointed at him, made a last effort at the moment of
its discharge, and sheltered himself behind his son's accom-
plice, who received the ball, and fell mortally wounded.
The son was immediately arrested.—Galignanis Messenger.

CHANCERY COVR,i'.—(ritis DAY.)

toctn oiftl ttfo-
,ions to-day, none of which were of the least public interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took motions to-
thiy, but no COS° of interest came before the Court. His
Honour will take motions to-morrow.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

TllO COURT was occupied the whole morning with the
remaining petitions, none of which were possessed of any
public interest.
His Lordship will not sit after to-morrow, until the 11th
of January, being the first day of Hilary Term.