The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-23 00:00:00

led to those examinations and collations of bills
by himselfand others which resulted in verifica-
tion of the fact suspc.,rted.
GIi.ROMCLE.—A transaction has been com-
municated to us to-day which serves to show in
a very strong light the distrust with which Ex-
chequer bills are now looked to in the Mone3r
Market. An influential broker sold a consider-
able amount of these securities the other day,
and no sooner had he done so than he made it
known that he wished to lend the money. The
same party who bought the Exchequer bills
came tbrward to offer for it : on which the

party who had sold the Exchequer bills, said
he had no objection to lend him the money,
but it must be on other security than Ex-
chequer bills. It has been very generally
stated that Smith will be received as an
approver, or Queen's evidence; but whether the
report be true or not has not yet been confirmed.
If such a course be necessary to expiscate truth
and to punish the guilty, so as- to trace out the
whole parties implicated, the step may be proper,
as necessary to the ends ofjustice ; but if it have
been gone into merely to ensure a conviction,
and not to bring home punishment to the prin-
cipal authors of the crime, he policy may well
be questioned.

Several failures are announced to-day. One
of them, an extensive Italian house in the silk
trade, whose drafts have been accepted to a
considerable amount in the City. Another
Spanish firm of some importance at Xeres, is
said also to have suspended payments, and there
is a report of a large brewing establishment
nearer home.

TIMES.—A private letter from New York,
after making some observations on the maritime
relations between this country and the United
States, points to the purchase of Cuba by Eng-
land as likely to prove an advantageous measure.
The United States, it is admitted, might at first
feel some indignation at the transaction, but it is
observed that we have just as much right to pur-
chase the island as President Jefferson had
to purchase Louisiana—as much right to buy
a controul over the trade of the Gulf of
Mexico as the United States had to buy the Gulf
itself. Such an acquisition would, it is remarked,
be the very best security for the regular pay-
ment of dividends on American State bonds,
and also prove, a firm bond of peace between
the United States and ourselves, as the greater
part of the American exports would be com-
pletely within our power. As to the practica-
bility of the purchase, we are reminded that
Spain is a debtor to this country, and that the
revenues of the island are such as to prevent
its being an incumbrance. The people
of Cuba themselves object to the importa-
tion of fresh slaves, and as to the pre-
sent slaves, it is suggested that a prospec-
tive emancipation might get rid of every diffi-
culty. The change of rulers does not seem to be
thought a very great obstacle, since it is re-
marked that if the people can submit to a
Spanish Council and Governor, they can submit
to anything. There is no doubt, from the general
tone of the letter in question, that obstacles are
treated as lightly as possible, and perhaps too
lightly, but still, considering the value of Cuba
and its geographical position, the subject is worth
consideration.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING.
LONDON, Nov. 22.—Wind variable, from S. and W.
SHEERNESS, Nov. 20.—The Constante Margueretta,
from Porsgruna to Jersey, put in here yesterday leaky,
and with damage.
DEAL, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W. strong. 21st, S.W.
strong.—Arrd. Jenny, Barwick, Cuba; Essequibo, La-
mont, Antigua; James Herris, Quebec; Patriot, west-
ward; Mid-Lothian, Morison, Singapore.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Delight, Stockton for
Marseilles, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c., strained and
leak v.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.S.W. to W., strong
and squally.—Arrd. Rachel, Leghorn, with loss of sails,
cook-house, &c.; Caledonia, Gottenburg, for the Cape ;
Henry Tanner and Camilla, London, for Jamaica. Put
back Imaum of Muscat, for Ceylon. The Facility, from
Liverpool to Gravesend, ran ashore last night on the Sand
Head, but was assisted off to-day by the Sprightly (re-
venue cutter), and brought into the harbour. The George,
Buridge, came into the harbour this morning, and is laid
on the east mud.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Zuna,
Paraiba • Queen Victoria, New Orleans ; Huskisson,
Lucas, Bonny, sailed 4th August ; Mastery, Tobasco ;
Voyager, Ocean, and Enterprize, Quebec. Sailed Amelia,
Havanna ; Francis, Savannah ; General Wiltshire, New
York ; Sarah Fleming, Africa ; Wave, Bombay. The
Nancy, bound to Oporto, has put back leaky. Arrd. off
one ship, one barque, and five schooners.
MARGATE, Nov. 21.—Arrd. off, Jenny Jones, Wake•
ham, Taganrog. The Caroline, from Quebec to Lon-
don, got on shore on the Woolpack Sand yesterday, but
was assisted off and proceeded.
COWES, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Amos Scott, London, for
Cape; Rawlins, ditto, for Jamaica ; Scourfield, ditto for
Trinidad, and proceeded to the Motherbank. Comet,
Leghorn, with cargo shifted, and pumps choked, bound
to London. Hiram, Copenhagen, for China.
POOLE, Nov. 20.—Arrd. Eden, Newcastle, with rudder
damaged, after being on shore on Gros Bank.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Welling-
ton, Newport, for Charleston, leaky ; Forrester, Hull,
for Smyrna, with loss of fore topmast. It has blown a
gale at S.W. since the evening of the 19th, and con-
tinues. The Libertas, from Shields to Constan. nople,
has brought in the crew of a small vessel, which she ran
down off the Hart on the 19th inst.
DOVER, Nov. 21.—The Atlas, from Honflr- r to
Shields, sprung a leak off Fecamp, on the 17th instant,
and was abandoned 18th in a sinking state—crew saved.
WIVENHOE, Nov. 20.—The Prosper, from Newcastle
to Libourne, was totally wrecked on the Burrows yes-
terday—crew saved. Arrd. British Queen, Tilley,Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 20.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong
gales and violent squalls.—Arrd. Pera, from Smyrna to
St. Petersburgh, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c. ; Due
Sorelli, Ancona, with loss of bulwarks, &c. ; In ian,
London, for Van I)ieman's Land ; Morgan, Newcastle,
for Marseilles, with mainmast sprunw • Montrose steamer,
Gibraltar—left 11th inst., Cadiz 126:Lisbon 15, Oporto
16; Vigo, 17; her Majesty's ship Illustrious, Ports-
mouth, Halifax.

FOWEY, Nov. 19.—Arrd. the Eliza Ann, London, for
Trinidad, with loss of anchors and cables, and other
damage,having been in contact with a ship in the Downs.
TORBAY, Nov. 19.—Arrd. the Jamaica, London, for
Antigua; Thetis. Shields, Barcelona, with loss of boom,
foresail, &c., and foretopthast sprung.
DARTMOUTH, Nov. 20.—1 t has blown a tremendous
gale these two days from S.W. to W. and N.W. The
Mountaineer, bound to New Orleans, and Neptunus,
from Schien, are riding with two anchors ahead.
JERSEY, Nov. 17.—S1d. Unity, Gibraltar ; Charles,
Teneriffe.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTat.—Wotten, of Brixham, for
Palermo, 17th ult., lat. 36, lon. 11 ; Ann, fin. Constan-
tinople, 3d inst., lat. 35, lon. 4, by the Alice, arrived in
the River. A barque, No. 9,814 (Marryatt's old code,
the William Ash), 13th inst. ; Whim, of Harwich, from
St. Domingo, 16th, lat. 48, lon. 6, by the Denia, arrived
in the River. Whim, St. Domingo to London, with loss
of mate, and crew all sick, except the Master and one
man, 11th inst. ; Sir Charles Napier, supposed from
Liverpool to New South Wales, with loss of fore-topmast
and jib-boom, 14th inst., 30 miles south of Scilly, by the
Mischief, arrived at Liverpool. Mary, London to Cal-
cutta, sth Aug. ; Columbia, Liverpool to Sydney, let
ult., by the Christian Agatha, arrived at Cowes. Sou-
venir, London to Quebec, 27th ult., off Cape Chat, by
the Reaper, arrived at Poole. Adolphus Yates, for
Civitta Vecchia, 16th inst., lat. 48, by the James Dunn,
arrived at Falmouth. Cyrus, Thomson, 18th inst., lat.
48, lon. 6, by the Morgan, arrived at Falmouth. Barque
Magnet, of and for Hull, 13th ult., 30 miles south-west
of Navarino, by the Saucy Jack, arrived in the Creek.
Rosalind, London to Mazatlan, 16th Aug., off Cape
Horn, by the Tuscan, arrived in the River. Elize, Bre-
men to Baltimore, out 19 days, lat. 46, lon. 27. by the
Diana, arrived in the Downs.

EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.—One of the medi-
cal students of St. George's Hospital, named Thackery
(a young gentleman who has obtained great celebrity
among cricketers), undertook to perform the feat of hop-
ping fifty yards and running one hundred yards in the short
space ,of seventeen seconds. Thursday afternoon was the
day appointed for the event to come off, which, unfortu-
nately, turned out to be a most unpropitious one. The par-
ties, however, notwithstanding, met on Putney Heath, and
the ground having been selected, Mr. Thackery started pre-
cisely at three o'clock, and succeeded in performing the
distance in eighteen seconds, thus losing by one second
only, which, however, considering the badness of the
soil, must be allowed was an extraordinary performance;
and it is thus evident, had it been fine weather, and on
good ground, Mr. Thackery would have performed the
task with apparent ease. Calculating 150 yards in
eighteen seconds, gives a distance of 30,000 yards, or
seventeen miles and eighty yards in an hour. Mr.
Thackery is about twenty-two years of age, five feet six
or seven inches in height.
A somewhat singular occurrence took place at
Keswick about eleven o'clock on Saturday night last. A
very large flock of wild geese passed over the town of
Keswick, and flew so near the house-tops that many per-
sons who had retired to rest heard the screeching dis-
cordant noise the wild geese invariably make during
flight. It is conjectured that having been attracted by the
lights in the streets, they had descended from their
wonted elevation, or it might be that they had been com-
pelled by the violence of the wind, which at the time was
blowing furiously, to avail themselves of a lower altitude
than under other circumstances they would have chosen.
However, be this as it may, their visit has in the present
instance verified the generally received opinion that their
appearance indicates the near approach of stormy
weather. On Sunday morning it was intensely cold,
and all the hills, even to their base, were covered with
snow. On Monday morning the frost was very keen, and
the air so piercingly cold that winter may be said to have
commenced its somewhat unwelcome reign in the lal(e
district.—Cumberland Pacquet.
We are happy to find that it is intended to ap-
point an eleventh company to every regiment in India
and in China, immediately the consent of the Court of
Directors has been obtained. The necessity of this
i
measure has been stronglympressed on the Court by
the authorities of the Horse Guards.—Naval and Mai- •
Wry Gazette.