The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-18 00:00:00

ROYAL ARSENAL.

The Mary Ann lighter was employed on Tuesday in
conveying 5,000 thirty-two pounder shot from the Ar-
senal to a vessel in the Docks about to sail for the East
Indies. _ _

The Chalton lighter was employed on the same day
conveying 2,000 eight•inch shells to be put on board a
vessel in the Docks under orders for the East India
Company's service.
The Queen, ordnance sloop, arrived on Wednesday,
from Purfleet, with a cargo of gunpowder to be made up
for service by the workmen in the Royal Arsenal.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, JAN. 16.—1 t blew very bard in squalls during
the night from the Eastward, and rained very fast after
rnidaight. Wind this day at noon light at S.E., with
light rain.
DEAL, JAN. 15.—Wind N. N. W.—Sailed the Walker,
Reay, for Calcutta ; Dream, Squire, Cape of Good Hope ;
and Harrington, Mercer, New Zealand.
POUTSMOUTII, JAN. 15. —Wind N. N. W. to E. S. E.
A mahogany binnacle stand, marked with a broad arrow,
has been picked up twenty-five miles S. S.E. of Bern-
bridge Ledge.
WirITSTABLE, JAN. 15.—Part of the wreck of the
Lochiel, which was burnt on the Maples Sand, is being
towed into the 13ay.

CLYDE, JAN.l3.—Sailedthe Rebecca, Stewart, for
Trinidad ; Reliance, Tuzo, ditto ; Elizabeth, Allen Jr•
maica.

CocK, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Rising Sun, Christian,
Laguira; Shelmlere, Morris. St. John's, New Brunswick'.
PLymorvit, JAN. 14.—Wind S. E. to N. E., strong
gales.—Arrived the Factory, Janson, from Batavia; Com-
modore, Campbell, Santa Martha.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 13.—Wind S. to N. E.—Arrived the
Hannah, Handley, from Taganrog. The Spey packet,
which sailed hence on the 17th of October ftir Havannuir,
Belize, and Mexico, struck on a coral reef in the Bahama
Channel, en the 24th of November, and became a total
wreck. The crew, passengers, mails, and stores arc saved.
CORK, JAN. 13.—The Shelrolere, Morris, arrived here
from St. John's, New Brunswick, encountered very severe
weather, damaged her rudder, head sprung, and loss of
sails, &c.

KINSALE, JAN. 12. —Arrived the Trinidad, Brown,
from Honduras.

REDCAA, JAN. 14.—A sloop, supposed the George,
from Newcastle to Stockton, in making the Tees, on the
12th instant, was seen to go down.
SHIELDS, JAN. 14 —The Hehe and Crown of this port,
coal laden, were dr.ven on the Hint Sand this morning.
The latter àas been gut off after discharging part of her
cargo.
HUNIBEk, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Helena, Lody, from
St. Domingo.
LivEitrooL, JAN. 15.—Wind S. E.—Arrived the Coo-
ington, Holbrook, from Charleston. Sailed the Agenora,
Gifney, for Mobile. The Antelope has been condemned
at Prince's Island. The Colchester, Withers, arrived here
from Bombay, experienced a hurricane for ten hours on
the 28th ult., in lat. 41, lon. 94.
DOVER, JAN. 15 —Arrived off port, the Vulcan, Pa-
trick, from the Mauri'iii.,

VESSEL 3 SPOKEN WITIL.The Wilberforce, of Liver
pool, with loss of main-topsail-yard, 3d ult., lat. 44, long.
35; Charlea Clarke, St. Jago do Cuba, to Swansea. Ist
inst., lat. 46, long. 34 ; Rajah, Java to Falmouth, same
day, by the Monkey, arrived at Falmouth. Lady Douglas.
Vera Cruz to Congre,s, 10th Nov, within iis hcurs' sail
of the latter place ; Republic, Liverpool to New York,
at
York,
L'd inst., lat. 48, long, 28, by the Rising Sun, arrived
Cork. Zeph)r, Cuba to London, lat. 51, long. 23, by
the Trinidad, Brown, arrived at Kinsale. Joseph Chiutell,
of London, 21st ult., off Cape de Gatt, by the Julia, ar-
rived at Milford.

A FATHER DROWNED WHILE EKDEAVOUR

ISO TO RESCUE MI SON.—About four o'clock on Friday
afternoon last John Halstead, a boy about fifteen years of
age, while in a boat which was near one of the locks of
the canal at Ashton-under-L)ne, owing to the slippery
state of the boat, fell into the canal, His father, wrho was
on the canal bank at the time, immediately threw• off his
frock, jumped into the :water, and endeavoured to get to
his son, but being unable to swim got out of his ..lepth.
lie sank and rose again two or three times, and there dis
appeared altogether. In the mean time the boy clue tg to
the boat, and Thomas Hill, a boatman, jumped downt."4,m
the lock, got hold of him, and pulled him out. Immedi ste
search was made for the body of the father, but half roLn
hour elapsed before it was discovered, when we hardy
need add life was quite extinct. An inquest was held ust
the body of the unfortunate man, whose name is Henry
Halstead, on Monday, before Mr. Chapman, the coroner,
when the above circumstances were stated, and the Jury
returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." Chester
Chronicle

CRIMINAL LUNATICS.—Messrs. Mayo and
Southey, the physicians appointed by the Home Secretary
to inquire into the treatment of the patients in the criminal
wing of Bethlem Hospital, made their report last week to
Mr. Fox Manic. It is needless to give the document at
length, as its contents consist chiefly of unqualified praise
of the system now in operation in Bedlam. It contradieas,
in almost every instance, the charges made by Mr. Sergemnt
Adams, and thus concludes—We have the honour, Sir, of
transmitting to you this detailed result of our inquiries into
the mode of treatment followed in the criminal wing of
Bethlem Hospital, which, we trust, will satisfy the Marquis
of Normanb), as it has convinced us, that the criminal
lunatics are well and conscientiously treated. When the
class of lunatics who are to be controlled there is considered
—when it is remembered that of the seventy-eight crimi-
na!s now in that wing twenty-nine have murdered, and
twenty have attempted murder, that nineteen aro thieves,
and three housebreakers, the difficulties opposed to their
moral regulation and tho preservation of their life and
health are obviously extreme, and the credit given to those
who have adequately performed these duties; ought to be
proportierate.
DEATHS IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL.-
On Thursday Mr. Baker, the Coroner, held three inquests
in the above institution. The first was on the body of
John Shenery, aged 21, a seaman on board the ship Lime-
rick, now lying in the London Ducks. On Sunday morn-
ing last the deceased was found lying insensible in a small
cabin in the forecastle of the vessel. A surgeon was sent
for, who said that the deceased appeared to be dying from
suffocation, and he soon afterwards expired. It appeared
from the evidence of a youth named Cameron, the mate of
the ship, that there is a register store in the cabin in
which the deceased was found lying, and, the cabin
being very confined when the door was shut, it vas
usual to open the stove so as to permit the free descent
of air, as without this was done no air could enter. The
deceased omitting to take this precaution became suffocated.
He had gone into the cabin to lie down to sleep, and
it is supposed was sleeping when discovered.—The second
inquest related to the death of Catherine Carey, aged 63.
A lodger living in the same house as deceased stated
that last Saturday fortnight she bawd screams proceed
from deceased's apartment, and on going to see what was
the matter she tound bet in flames. The witness suc-
ceeded in extinguishing them, but not before the deceased
was very much burnt. The deceased was sitting by the
fire alone, when she fell asleep and fell forward into the
grate. She died on Monday last.—. The last case was that
of Hannah Warren, a child two rears old, the child of
street, Old poor parents,
a
Gravel-
lane, Napping,t
was burnt to' death, owing to her
clothes igniting by playing with Vie fire while her
mother
was from home. The accident o..tcurred on Saturday, and
she died on Monday. Verdict in each case—,, Acciden-
tal death."
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at No. 3, lei ag.
AW.-00 Thursday an action was
e
tried for Athre recovery of costs incurred in disputing a will.
The Proctor's bill amountod to upwards of 1,000/ , of
t which sum 3501 had already been paid. The jury, with-
out d
xe lk in
returnedgat the lawyer's bill (of course it had been
a verdict for the balance, 6771. 183. 91
tao)o,
SPITALFIELDS CHURCII.-A meeting of the
Vestry was held on Friday to consider the Surveyor's
Report relative to the damage (lone to the steeple by the
thunder storm of Sunday, the ad, when it appeared that
the damage could be repaired -without taking down the
spire, and that this might be alone at the cost of from
4001. to .500/.