The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-04 00:00:00

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

DEAL, SEPT. 3.—Wind S.S.E.—Came down from the River
and sailed the City of Cork, Evans, for Cork ; Wallace, My-
rick, for New York ; Robert, Jones, for Cadiz ; Retrieve! Ro-
binson, fir Ferrol; Bramin, Rawson, for dilboa ; John,
Mathews, for Naples; and Laurel, Aiery, for Trieste.
PORTSMOUTH, • Strr. 3.—Wind S.S.E.--No arrivals or
sailings.
PL Y M 0 tT Tli, SEPT. 2..... Wind S.S.E.—Arrived the Friends,
Conghall, from Petersburg!); Briton, Reed, from Riga; Man-
grove Bay, Ritchie, frum Chiorzi ; lllenwr, Tornstray, from
MemeL Oft' the the ors the Britannia,. Weisilds,, from Lisbon;
stover, CoAlc, front Naples Stag, Lashley, from Rio Janeiro;
and his Itiajesey's ship Infeinal, from Algiers. Sailed the
Lord Exmouth, Barrett, for St. John's, N. 8.; and the Ann,
Macey, for Prince Edward's Island.
Fat.stou'rtt, STrr. 2.—Wind S.—Arrived the Stanmer
packet, from Lisbon in 10 days; Jack Tar, Anderson, from
Jamaica; St. Vincent's Planter, from St. Vincent's in 37days
Lady Flora, M'Donald, from Bengal.
lay Ettroor., SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Seaford', 1111D0wel
from Demerara ; and Caroline? Hodge, from Dantzic.
WHITBY, SEPT. 2.—Arrived the Lively, Baxter, frPlll.l
Greenland, with one fish.

Arrived off Dartmouth the Albion, Rich, from Antigua;
Felix, —, from Gibraltar ; and liorrahood, from
Teneriffe.

Arrived off Scilly the Eliza, --, from Bengal.
The Favourite, Cummins, from Waterford to Cork, was on
shore in Youghall Bay on Wednesday, and it is feared will be
wrecked.

Yesterday Mr. Secretary CANNING came to
town from Gloucester Lodge, where he slept the
night before, and transacted business at the Fo-
reign Office.

Yesterday the Prince de POLIGNAC, Ambas-
sador from the Court of France, transacted busi-
ness at the Foreign Office with Mr. Secretary
CANNING, who, we are happy to state, is quite
recovered from his recent indisposition.
A favourite gander, which had lived 30 years
at the farm of Locherwood, and a still longer period at
Mousewald Mains, died a few days ago at the latter place,
fairly worn down by age anti infirmity. Thus far his hi,
tory is fully known ;_ but as he was evidently no stripling
when first domesticated at Locherwood, it is not improbable
that his span was stretched to the long. period of seventy or
eighty years. Few eastern potentates have had more wives,
and not one of them, perhaps, so many sons anti daughters;
and if there be any merit in furnishing the principal dish
to several hundred Christmas feasts, we should like to
know the Moslem who has been half so useful in his day
and generation. This season the geese at Mousewald Mains
not only tidied to breed, but refused to take any charge of a
race of goslings that had been hatched as her own, by an India.
criminatmg duck ; in this emergency the philanthropic gander
stood forth as sponsor to the orphan brood, and by nightly
gathering them under his wings, is believed to have hastened
his own dissolution.—(Dun tion.—( Dumfries Courier.)

On Thursday afternoon, as the workmen who
are constructing the coffer-dams for the new Lon-
don-bridge, were clearing away dirt from the bed
of the river, with a machine fixed on board a
vessel, and worked by a steam-engine, the bucket
brought up the kg and thigh of a female (which
was beautifully shaped, with a small foot), on
which were a silk stocking and shoe. The body,
it was conjectured, had been carried with the
current against the side of the coffer-dam, where
there were more piles to be driven, and that a
pile had literally been driven through it, or the
body must have been brought up altogether, in.
stead of the kg and thigh being torn off, which
was the case. The rest of the body has not yet
been recovered. It. must have been in the water
at least a fortnight by the appearance of the leg
and thigh.
One of the workmen employed in removing
the pipes attached to the old water-works, Lon-
don-bridge, near the wharf of Tnomesor; and
Co., coal-merchants, lately discovered, at a con-
siderable depth below the surface, a large piece
of gold coin, in high preservation, bearing the
efy►gy of Louts XIV. The man sold it, and it
is now in the possession of Mr. COPE, one of the
city Marshals.