The Sun.
London, England, 1823-11-04 00:00:00

I!/ ERG INl'l IX Sill ['l>l NG.

DnAT„ Nov, 3.-4crind W. and., line weather.--.-Passed
' through for Rainsgate the Fair Hibernia, Bateman, with lass
of both anchors and cables ; and Johannes, Monson, for Var.
Mouth, with loss'of both anchors and cables. Arrived front
L7ndon and remain. the Coquet, for the South Seas.; and the
Isis schooner, from Lyne.. Several vessels passed through to
the Northward, names unknown. • •
Powys/don-Iqt, Nov. 3.. Wind • Westerly.. Arrived the
„Hercules, from Christiana; Brilliant, Hunter, Hull
for Lisbon, with loss of anchor and cable, anti cargo shifted ;.
the Atlas, Lowther, of Sunderland, sprong a Nil: off Peachy
Head, and brought in here in distress, with 10 feet water in her
bold; Margaretha, —, from Norway ; Favourite, stt.oltm-
son, from ditto; and James, Sinith, from the Down,, fOr Africa.
FaLMOUTn; Nov. W.—Airivcd the Wedding-
ton, Sherwin, from Archangel in 10 weeks with loss of sails
bulwarks, &c. Sailed the Success, Brase, for Seville.

The Union. Sanderson, from Malaga to London is on shore
near Lynn.—The Morrison ,h
from Cork to Newport,
foundered off Lundy the 36111 ult.; 17 passengers And 7 of the
crew drowned.—The Clito, of Maryport, sunk near Dublin on
Saturday.—The Friends, Blenkinsop,' bound, to Honduras, was
driven on the melts, near Dublin, on Thirrsday.—The Good-
Intent, of Sunderland ; Adeona, of Illaltmey; and IVotlestN,
of Yarmouth, are on shore near Lynn.— The A gcnoria, Post..
gate, from Sunderland to Topsham, sunk near Lynn during
the late gale.

SHAKSPEARE seems to hare; bad the Society of
Ranters in his .<< mind's eye," when ht made
Hamlet exclaim '.' Nay, it you'll Rant, .1 'll
mouth as well as you !" . .
We are happy to AWO that the 1:0;.liW;11 LIMO
SMl).olVtleti9 of the port of Sunderland hi:ye got
their differences settled. A number of ships
sailed the latter part of last week in consequence
—(,Neticastle' Paper.)
Ouxtip•llALL (Tilts DAY.)--Mr. Joseph P.latthews, a re-
speetable brewer, of Manchester, was brought before Mr.' Al-
demon Gait HATT, charged with attempting' to enter the hoes,,
of Alcsars. Seniors, wholesale chymists and druggists in Bar.
bican, at two o'clock on Sunday morning. The sceusm was
observed by the watchman, at the time shove 'stated, endea-
vouring to unfasten the bolts of the, shutters of Mr. S:tnior'd
house. On being questioned what he wanted there at that
unusual-hour, he said he
,eanteti to go in to bed. Ills conduct
alarmed the inmates,.who.denied all knowledge: of the prisoner,
and he was taken to : the Compter. In the morning ..4r..llinc,
the surceou pronounced hini to be a decided lunatic tr in ' proof •
of which it was stated that an the Saturday he ran into a loft in
Upper Thames-street, whither he' was followed by numbers,
whom he declared to be, his murderers, 'and indulged in the,
most incoherent expressions.—The worthy Alderman ordered,
him to be administered every comfort in the prison and ri:..
mantled him till his friends should arrive in town to taks care
of hitn. -, ,.
EXECUTIONS.-00 %Vetlnesday, Robert, Scoll,
Convicted at the Jedhurgh Circuit, of the murder of two men,
'Bimm and Mitchinson, was executed on a scafftild erected, 'near
the spot where the crimes were committed, a little. to the east.
ward Of the village of.Fanns. The unhappy man behaved
With 'great penitence, firmness, end resignatum. On ‘Vcd.
nesday, 'Francis Cain, aged 17, a cotton-spinner, for highway
robbery, and Gewie..l.aidiaw, Wright, aged N, ..for house-
breaking, were executed at tilast;c4. The two prisoners spent
the previous night in devotional exercises with their friends.
Laidlaw held the handkerchke te give tho signal, but in the midst
of his devotion, he seemed to have forget it, as he had it , oiled up.
and grasped in his hand. Tice eXecutioncr touched him, put
bill, in mind that he had it, and immediately be there w it treni
I hint, and the drop felh .Laidlaw died with.Scarcrly a auritggle;
Cain was more convulsed t hut in a few. minutes titcy'werebrith
dead. Their bodies, after hanging the usual time, were A:tit
deWn and piked in tattling, and taken into thejail. The.eroWd
was alnytt as' large as usual; but there was n'grcst-pr4ortiie,,
tAt.iCeOt Trishfabourers, . .... .• - '

'T'he child at Newton Stewart with Ow e
ii
legends in its eyes, ix become tba,sobject of considerable
wager's. Last Week three gentlemen travelled rot tiara Was.
gow to see it, and determine the question ; bat they did not
find, it at home. The mother is married to a man wilt, siiews
the child to lovers of marvels. The child has teen
,bruught
to Glasgow, land examined by a number of tr,edieal tzer:.•
tiemen and ethers. The appearances, which were said to
be "John Wood" on the right eye, and " beta in WI:"
on the left, are merely white streaks, like -net..work on the
blue of the iris. These have been interpreted to be let-
ters or figures, in the same way as witches are .fancieti in
broom bushes, or palaces in an expiring fire, or oceans
and islands in the evening sky; or any other embodying
of preconceived notions on indistinet forms. It is pro-
bable that the person who first started the. notion of an: in,
scription, had seen one of rhe old ivatches whose faces
have the Roman letters run together in an ill-defined Man-
ner. lied the letters and figures really existed, indicating
the year of the child's birth, and name of the num soul
before4iand by the mother to be its father, it woeld have
been one of the most perfect tniraelcS on mord. It trust of
witnesses were ready to testify its truth, and are yet.disposed to
adhere to the story,; but the betters have all given in.-7,40/a,..,
gore Chronicle.) ' '

COW SWALLOWING A itAHIL--A its, rLd.

ham Tower, near this town, was ?owe Hine 14;4
observed to decline ht its health, by .mm tinny.
countable malady. Curiosity having been exer-
cised as to the canse of its complaint, the cow was
opened as soon as it died ; and the skeleton of a.
a leveret was found in its stomach ! flow it
came there has puzzled the most ingenious; and
various expbmations have been 4en, though not
one of them entitled to much attention. The
story might have been doubted, if there had not
been so many creditable witnesses of .the fact,—
(Westmorland Gazette.)