The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-13 00:00:00

A .i GHOST ! A GHOST !"

A prince of bricks and mortar, living not a hundred
miles miles from Leake Common side, proceeding to
Spalding Market very early on Tuesday morning, on
within a quarter of a mile of Leake Church,
aed he heard an unearthly sound in a ditch,
so alarmed him that he struck his spurs
itno his steed and galloped to the nearest house,
where ho awoke the master, not by shouting, for
he was " frightened speechless," but by breaking
four squares of glass in the chamber-window with his
whip. With this awakened neighbour he held a con-
sultation, which ended by the parties resolving that it
was not safe to go to the haunted ground without more
assistance : they therefore proceeded together to the
house of two brothers, both good men and true, and
supposed to be proof against the terrors of apparitions,
&c. They immediately armed themselves in this
unipiritual fashion : one brother took a rusty old
fowling-piece, well primed and loaded ; the other
a brace of pistols and a poker ; whilst their neigh-
bour armed himself with a large manure drag :
thus equipped, and swearing to stick to each other
on all emergencies, they sallied forth in se►arch of the
spirit, led on by the bold Prince. When they arrived
near the place he cautioned his followers to " be on
the " look out ;" on hearing which charge he with the
gun exclaimed " here is a post!" the bearer of the
muck drag, thinking he said, " here is a ghost!"
eb irged with might and main ; the prongs of the drag
ning into .the wood, he ejaculated at the to? of his
, " it has got hold of my weapou—it will pull it
..- from ma!" Oa hearing this terrible announce-
..hey all took to their heels, leaving the drag in
p, sses,ion dale supposed ghost, and there was not to
be found a titan who dare fetch it away until two
o'clock in the afternoon.—Boston Herald.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

VEssizto SPOKEN Wirri.—The Rosalind, from Liverpool
to Itilboa, 9th inst., by her Majesty's ship Meteor, arrived at
Falmouth ; Commerce, Jersey to Para, 20th Jan., lat. 30,
long. 24 ; Robert Parker, of Portsmouth, N. H., 19th nlt.,
lat. 48, long. 14 ; Francis, of Boston, Ist inst., lat. 49, long.
6, by the Gladiator, arrived at Portsmouth. Louisa, of London,
19th July,ont ten months, with 800 barrels (sperm.) ; Sisters,
6th July, with 300 barrels, out eight months ; Alexander
Henry, 7th August, with 100 barrels, out four months ; Mars,
Henderson, 2d Sept., with 150 barrels, out ten weeks; Wood-
lark, with 650 barrgls, out ten months, by the Harriet, arrived
at Sydr.oy, New South Wales. Phillips, Liverpool to Arica,
4th December, lat 46 S., long. 80. W. ; A brig, (supposed to
be the Pearl of Liverpool), steering N.E., 12th, lat. 50 S.,
long. 32 W. ; Kortenaar, Rotterdam to Batavia, 25th, lat 33
S., long 19 W. ; Agenora, of, and from, Liverpool, 18th Jan.,
lat 18 N., long. 38 W., by the George and Henry, arrived a
Baltimore.

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday, as
two daughters of Mr. Congreve, of Sinning, named Ruth and
Eliza, who were residing with their brother, Mr. D. Congreve,
near the Deeping High Bank, were crossing the river in a small
skiff, to attend divine worship in Cowbit Church, accompanied
by a boy, the wind being high, they had not been long seated
before the water flew over the sides of the boat, upon which the
young ladies removed to the other side ; their weight imme-
diately caused the frail vessel to upset, and they were pre-
cipitated into the river. The boy, being able to swim, soon
reached the bank in safety, but his unfortunate companions
sunk at once. In about twenty minutes time the bodies were
recovered, through the exertions of Mr. R. Parr and his son,
but the vital spark had fled. The unfortunate young ladies,
who had attained the respective ages of 23 and 21, were univer-
sally beloved, possessed of great personal attractions, and of
truly amiable dispositions. What, if possible, makes the occur-
rence still more deplorable is, that one of them was to have
been married in a fortnight's time, and both of them were
filled with the joyful anticipation oepassing a happy day with
their friends.— /3 w ton Herald.
The small-pox is very prevalent in the county,
and is making inroads in the city of Lincoln. At Holton
Beckering (the population of which does not exceed 230) there
are fifty lying ill of the disease, and one
family of nine persons
are all confined. In several villages it has terminated fatally ;
and at Harmston, on the Cliff-row, a
otandertwo children
died last week within a few hours o;neatiorstenh : the three
bodies were interred in one large coffin.— Herald,
PRO-CORN-LAW MEETINGS.—The farmers
and "the farmers' friends," clinging to the unholy pr fi
pernicious monopoly, are, we see, in many placeme:intgs ofa a
nd
manufacturing petitions to Parliament, in favour of a system
which, whilst it robs the rest of the community, does not much,
and that not permanently, enrich the monopolists themselves.