The Sun.
London, England, 1824-02-05 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, FEB. 4.—Wind W.—No arrivals or sailings.—The
Alfred, Salacia, and Dominica, made their numbers at noon
all well, and remain with the outward-bound as before.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 4.---=Wital
berty, Aldridge, from the Mediterranean. Sailed the Caroline;
Triney, for London.
COWES, FEB. 4.—Wind S.W.---Sailed the Marquis of
Anglesey, Williams, and Princess of Wales, Gibbs, for Lon-
don. The Louisa, Smith, from Hull to Madeira, with a cargo
of wheat, has come into harbour very leaky.
PLYMOUTH AND FALMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Wind S.W.—
No arrivals or sailings.
DARTMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Arrived the Joseph Green trans-
port, from Portsmouth for Cork ; and the Commerce Steer
from Gibraltar and Seville. , ,

LIVERPOOL FEB. 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Ann,
from Alexandria ; Henrietta, Beckford, and Pretty
Lass, —, from the Mediteranean ; and the Isabella, Nichols,
from Lisbon.

GRAVESEND, FEB. 4. —Wind W.—Sailed the Nicolas,
Carhill, for Si. Thomas's ; 'Wellington, Allen, for Jamaica ;
Promise, GlaSo-how,- for Cadiz ; Diana, Marsh, Pernambuco.;
and Preceptor, Milne, for TenerifFe.

Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India
House, when Robert Fullerton, Esq.,
.was appointed Governer
of Prince of Wales' Island.
The fallowing Commanders took leave of the Court previous
to departing for their respective destinations, viz—Captain
Peter Cameron, of the Earl of Balcarras, and Captain John
Arnim Tween, Sir David Scott, for Bengal and China. Capt.
Marquis was sworn into the command of the ship Rose, con-
signed to Madras and Bengal.
The East India Company's ship Scaleby Castle was at Born-
bay on the 4th August, and was to sail for China on the fol-
lowing morning.

SUDDEN DEATH. -'Tuesday night, at sit
o'clock, Captain LANGDALE, of Rotherhithe,
went to the sign of the Angel, John-street, Ali-
nories, a house he was in the habit of using; he
called for a glass of grog, which was brought, and
while the waiter turner round to snuff the
candles, Captain LANGDALE fell off the seat, and
expired immediately. Coroner's Verdict—
cc Died by the visitation of God."

Tut: CorwET.—There are certain phenomena
in the present Comet which are of rare oc-
currence in those eccentric bodies. When first
noticed, about a month since, its - course ap.
?reared to be northward, with little change in
right ascension ; whence it was expected it would
ecome circumpolar, and be visible above th‘
northern horizon. During the last week 6)4.
Comet has moved in a retrograde direction, de-.
scribing at the maximum an arc of ten degrees
in right ascension in twenty-four hours, and
declining southward. From the increased mo-
tion us viewed from the earth, the Comet
must have passed nearer to our Planet at this
time, although the motion in its orbit had de-
creased ; yet being further from the San, it has
been less Visible. in the present night it will
he nearly in opposite right ascension to the
Sun, and, therefore, pa,,s the meridian about
midnight ; but the tail in that posiiio
being projected in the direction from the
Earth, will appear as the coma snrroundiut
the 'nucleus. A series of observations having.
been made at the Royal Observatory, these will
afford the means of computing the elements with
great accuracy. That indefatigable astronomer,
Dr. Brinkley, has already given the result of hip
observations, and deduced approximate 'elements.
The later observations will skew whether its ap-
proach to the earth has changed the figure of its
orbit, and caused the extraordinary position in
the heavens relatively with our planet.,—Black-
heath, Feb. 2.