The Sun.
London, England, 1824-10-04 00:00:00

On Wednesday last the Royal Charter brought
out in the Hibernia was read at' Government

ouse by the Royal Marshal in the presence or

the Lieutenant-Governor. A. salute of 21 guns
was 'tired from Mulgrave battery after the read-
ing. The Chief Justice, on his appointment,
shortly addressed the assemblage, expressing his
satisfaction in witnessing the arrival of the
Royal Charter, by which the Colony obtained
so important an extension of its laws and institu-
tions.

We understand that two Indiamen and a
Packet have been driven' ou shore at the Cape
of Good Hope in a storm. The crew of one of
the Indiamen have been saved.

Letters were yesterday received from Calcutta
to the 16th, and from Madras to the 10th of April.:—Colonel
Sir A. CAMPBELL, of the 30th Regiment, Commander in
Chief of the expedition against the Burmese, sailed from Cal-
cutta on the 12th of April for Rangoon. The first division of
the troops, which were to proceed thither from Madras, was
embarking on the 10th. It consists of 7600 men. The seeond
division, consisting of 2600 men, was to embark early in June.

DOVER' OCT. S.—The Medina, Capt. BROWN,
from Batavia, and the Lady Nugent, from Cal.
cutta, arrived off this port this afternoon, and
having landed passengers and dispatches, pro-
ceeded for the Riven—The Fury packet is ar-
rived to-day from Calais, bringing the Earl of
GRANVILLE, our Ambassador to the Hague,
Lord CLokuttooK, Sir CHARLES arid Lady LONG,
and many other passengers.

Dispatches, dated the 26th of August, were
received on Saturday at the Colonial Office, from
Sierra Leone. They contain no news of im-
portance.
The Algerines threaten the Dutch and Sardi-
nians with hostilities.

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Mr. BAKER, our Consul-General in America,
who:has been for some time in England for the
recovery of his health, left town yesterday to
embark for the United States.
It is rumoured that Marquis GRAHAM will he
a candidate for the representation of this
Borough, at the approaching general election.—
(Cambridge Chronicle.)
A letter dated Reikevig, Iceland August 8,
(published in the Copenhagen Gazetie of the 18th ult.) states—
, that the weather during the last winter, with the exception of
a month or two, had been remarkably mild. In all parts of
the Island the inhabitants enjoyed the best possible health ; and
there was generally very great briskness in matters of commer-
cial traffic. There had been a considerable increase in the
number of inhabitants since the Ist January, 1823, when the
Censors gave a total of 50,092, the number of births subse-
quently being 93.5 boys and 847 girls."—[To have understood
the exact increase of population, the writer ought to have given
the number of deaths since Jan. 1023.—Editor of THE SUN.]
The following. is extracted from a letter, dated
St. Petersburgh, 4th September The new ship of war,
called after the Grand Duchess Helena, has just set sail on a
voyage round the world.. She is commanded by Lieutenant
Tschistakow, of the Imperial Navy, an experienced sea officer,
who has already circumnavigated the globe. 'rhe other, naval
officers attached. to the expedition are the Lieutenanta Balk,
Nadolsitii, and Schischmarcw. •
As regards commercial affairs, there seems to
be no relaxation of imports. In the course of the summer we
have received 890,000 pods of sugar (about 260,000 cwt.)—at
the same time there is a palpable dullness in trade, which ren-
ders it difficult to effect sales. The accounts also, as far as we
have them, of . the great fair at Nisckney, Novogorod, do not
promise much good to the trading world. In the Crimea all
the corn and the vine-yards, have been destroyed by locusts.
On the 29th July a dreadful inundation created terrible destruc-
tion, at Bertsch. ,

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A commercial letter, dated Stockholm, .Sep.
temlier 7, contains the following :—" Some of .our great men
chants here, viz. the houses of Kantzow and Biel, and Heiden,
strauch, have purchased a fine large American vessel, of the
burthen of 200. lasts, having paid for the same the sum of
15,000 dollars. She is to be fitted out by the new owners for
a voyage of adventure to the East Indies, a species of mercan-
tile traffic not enjoyed by Sweden for many years. She will be
commanded by Lieutenant Iljelm of the Royal Navy, by the
special favour of the King; and his Majesty has further de-
clared his intention of Aiding the expedition by permitting the
reduced duties of 1010 to apply both to ship and cargo."
• On Wednesday the Blonde 'frigate, Captain
Lord Ilirnos, sailed for the Sandwich Islands, with the re-
amine of their late Majesties, and the Governor, Admiral, and
suite of the late King and Queen of that nation. Previously to
their embarkation, the ministers of religion, and pastors of
Christian churches in .the borough of Portsmouth and town of
Gosport, accompanied by Captain Henry Moncke Mason, of
the Royal Navy, waited upon the officers and gentlemen com-
posing the suite of their late Majesties, to testify their sym
pathy and condolence on the much-lamennd death of 1 e Nla.
jesties, which they, as friends to societies formed fort their
the
ur-
pose of sendibg the Christian religion to other nation's
deeply to deplore. They also tendered expressiona theirave
gratitude to the Sandwich gentlemen, and through them to
their nation, for -the• reception it has given to the missionaries
of the gospel•of the one only living and true God, sent talk°
world by his son Jesus Christ ; and most respectfully corn.
mended to their patronage andprotection, the missionaries, and
the cause of missions, in their islands ; ardently hoping that
the whole suite and attendants on their late Majesties, and all
the islanders of the Sandwich nation, may partake of the ad-
vantages of that gospel which has proved of such inestimable
benefit to Britain as a nation, and to many thousands of her po-
pulationias individuals. The venerable and able tutor of the
:Missionary Academy at Gosport (the Rev. Dr. Rogue) was
prevented from. accompanying the gentlemen alluded to by a
most severe domestic affliction.—(llatripshire Telegraph.)
The Loan-MAYou has evinced a laudable ac-
tivity in removing nuisances from the streets, but
there is a greatannoyanca which calls loudly for
his Lordship's interference, viz. the great accu-
mulation of coal-lighters on each side of the
River, and at moorings in the stream, to the
great inconvenience of the navigation, and hazard
to the lives of those whose occupation is con-
stantly upon the River.
Ma. FLETCH ER.—Yesterday morning this Mi-
nister preached to a congregation as numerous as
that which assembled to hear him on the pre-
ceding Sunday. No attempt was made to inter-
rupt his progress to the pulpit, or to place an-
other Minister there. At the conclusion of the
service, Mr. FLETCHER addressed the congrega-
tion and stated that one of the Members of the
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Synod at Edinburgh, and who had dissented from
the proceedings which his colleagues had adopted
regarding him (Mr. FLETCHER), had written to
inform him that the Synod would do nothing fur-
ther until next' May, when that assembly was
again to' meet. The same gentleman also in-
formed him that-he might then petition the Synod
to review and alter the decision which it had
come to regarding him. That course he would
adopt, and if the Synod refused to alter their
sentence, he would then make his bow, and leave
them (the Presbytery.)