The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-29 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals—The Romeo, Pollock, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed Aug. 5, Cape Oct. 23 ; Anna Robertson,
Hamilton, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed Sept. 5,
Cape Oct. 23 ; Osceola, West, from Bombay, in the
Downs, sailed Aug. 27, St. Helena Nov. 5 ; Amity,
Bell, from China, at Liverpool, sailed May 29, Cape
Oct. 6 ; Nith, Shaw, from Bengal, sailed Aug. 11, St.
Helena Nov. 5 ; Maid of Mona, Sievie, from Ben-
gal, in the Downs, sailed July 1, Cape Oct. 10,
St. Helena Oct. 28 ; Adelaide, Dryden, from Port
Philip, off Dover, sailed Aug. 10, Pernambuco Nov.;
Apolline, Deane, from China, off Dover, sailed July 17;
St. Helena, Nov. 2 ; Navarino, Warming, from Bengal,
off Margate, sailed Aug. 9, St. Helena Nov. 5 ; Balfour
Butler, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed Aug. 26, St.
Helena Nov. 4 ; Samson, Brown, from Bengal, in the
Downs, sailed Sept. 1. St. Helena Nov. 6 ; Chanticleer,
Wilson, from Mauritius, in the Clyde, sailed Sept. 25,
Ascension Nov. 9 ; Herculean, Grindail, from Bombay,
at Liverpool, sailed Sept. 5, St. Helena Nov. 3.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope—The
Earl of Clare, Scott, Oct. 24, from China ; Argyll;
!leatson, from Bombay ; Taple,y, Mallory, from Cal-
cutta ; Joshua Carroll, Lieut. Charles Crowley in charge,
from Zanzibar, detained by her Majesty's ship Lily ;
Hero, Cloyde, 21st, from Algoa Bay ; Claudine, Brewer,
21st, from Madras ; Candahar, Ridley, from Bombay.
Departures from Table Bay—St. George, Williams,
Oct. 15, to Calcutta ; William Salthouse, Burn, to
Port Philip ; Plantagenet, Domett, 20th, to Calcutta ;
Thomas Wood, Gray, to Calcutta ; Briton, Barrow,2lst,
Arrivals in Algoa Bay—Louisa, M‘Donald and
Couch, Bell, Oct. 12, from Table Bay ; Friends, Brown.
12th, from New London, and sailed, 13th, for whaling.

Departure from Algoa Bay—Laura, Day, Oct. 10, to
Mauritius.

Arrivals -at Mauritius—Exmouth, Cook, Sept. 13 ;
Champion, Bndd, and Gentoo, Dods, 13th, from Bengal;
Fortitude, Hutton, from Lombock, hound to Cowes, put
in for medical assistance ; Rainbow, Winn, from Algoa
Bay ; Caledonia, Laburg, 17th, from Tarnatave ; Alfred,
Anderson, 19th, from the Clyde ; Lerwick, Currie, 22d,
from Penang ; Janet Boyd, Topping, from Calcutta.
Departures from Mauritins—Maria, Palmer, Sept.
12, and Isabella, Cole, 13th, to Calcutta; Charles Huddle,
Clement, and King Fisher, Stains, to Madagascar ;
Martha, Donaldson to Madras and Calcutta. The Ann
Gales, Giles, from China to Sydney, which put in here
12th inst. dismasted, grounded on a reef in entering the
port, but was towed off, and has discharged to be hove
down. Ships loading, 24th Sept.—For London, Juliana,
Parker; Arabella, Jackson; Success, Gordon; Richmond,
Farber; Sir Charles Forbes, Bacon; and Minerva, Mills.
For Liverpool—Frances Ann, Thomson. For England
—Amphitrite, Ansell. For the Clyde—lmogen, Shields.
Arrivals at St. llelena—Blaek Nymph, Hall, Nov. 2,
from Singapore, and sailed 3d to London ; Rota, Carl,
ad, from Batavia, and sailed 3d to Copenhagen -; Graven-
hage, 3d. from Batavia to Rotterdam ; Vanguard, from
Singapore to London ; Bombay, 4th, from Bourbon to
Bordeaux ; Bahamian, Stroyen, sth, Bengal to Liverpool.
Arrivals at Port Philip—Caroline, July 30, and Ade-
laide, from Hobart Town ; Sea Horse, 31st, from Syd-
ney ; Hamilton, Bradbury, Aug. 1, from London ; Aus-
tralasian Packet, from Sydney ; Catherine, 2d, from
Sydney; Will Watch and Paul Pry, 4th, from Launceston.
Departure from Port Philip—Ann Sophia, Aug. 9, to
Port Nicholson.

A MERRY COUNCILLOR, OR
COURT FOOL.
" Frederick William was so pleased with Gundling,
that he immediately secured his services ; he soon be-
came his Majesty's daily guest, and accompained him
wherever he went for the sake of pleasure. The most
dangerous privilege which the King conferred on
Gundling was free access to the Royal beer and wine
cellar. The Learned Councillor addicted himself to
drinking so immoderately, that, both in the smoking
party and at the Royal table, he very often appeared
intoxicated, and never quitted it otherwise than com-
pletely drunk ; sometimes, indeed, in so helpless a state,
that he bad to be carried home. As the King made
his provosts wear French bags, that they might
be regarded as ignominious, so he strove to make the
Court gala dress ridiculous, by requiring Gundling to
appear in no other. This dress the King sent to
him in 1717, with the appointment of Grand Master of
the Ceremonies. It consisted of a red coat, lined with
black velvet, with gold button-holes, and large French,
cuffs, and a richly embroidered waistcoat. His head
was adorned with a prodigious wig of white goats'-hair
descending in many hundred curls, and a large hat with
red ostrich feathers. The breeches were straw-coloured ;
with these he wore red-heeled shoes. This gala
dress was not long in the best condition. The
wearer rarely went home without tumbling into
some ditch or kennel, and, if he did chance to
keep upon his legs, he could not escape the very coarse
practical jokes played off upon him, in general at the
instigation of the King. Once, in winter, when the Grand
Master of the ceremonies was reeling across the bridge
from the palace of Wusterhausen, he was seized by four
stout grenadiers, who bound him hand and foot, and let
him down, with terrible outcries, into the moat,
which was frozen. The rope slipped out of their
hands, and Gundling fell with such violence that the
centre of gravity broke through the ice, and he had the
greatest difficulty to keep himself from sinking with his
elbows and his feet. Means were instantly taken to get
him out, but he lost both has. and wig in this cold bath.
The King was so delighted itith the scene that he had
it painted several times. -On another occasion, some
mischievous wags put two young bears, remarkable for
their nastiness, and which ran about like yard-dogs at
the palace of Wusterhausen, into Grundling's bed, and
then carried the drunken historian to pass the night
with these delectable bedfellows, who made him in such
a pick'e that for several days he was not admitted to the
Royal table."—Campbell's Frederick the Great and
his Times.

COLBUItN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE,
AND HUMORIST, FOR JANUARY, 1842, EDITED BY THO-
MAS, HOOD, ESQ.—Amongst the admirers of true wit,
humour, and pleasant reading, Colburn's New Monthly
has always taken the first rank in periodical literature.
Under the editorship of Thomas Hood, and at the cog •
mencement of a new year, its claims to the attention of
the public are redoubled. The January Number con-
tains an extraordinary variety of entertaining and amus-
ing papers by the most distinguished writers of the day.
The Editor himself has contributed no less than three
articles, " An Anacreontic .for the New Year," " English
Retrogression," and " The University Feud ; or, a Row
at the Oxford Arms," all in his best style. Mr. Poole,
the author of " Paul Pry," has a most humorous paper
called" The School; for Horse Play," and continues his
caustic story of " Phineas Quiddy." Barry Cornwall re-
appears in these pages with some excellent verse, en-
titled " Weeds and flowers ;" Mr. Laman Blanchard
furnishes a laughter-exciting- sketch called " Wanted, a
Father, Mother, and a Few Sisters." The author of
" Rattlin the Reefer," presents us with a stirring story,
under the title of " The Sea Lawyer; " and Mr. Horace
Smith appeared to great advantage in his " Short Rides
in an Author's Omnibus ; the facetious " Peter Prig-
gins" continues his " Graduates and Under-Graduates"
with unfailing spirit ; and besides all these attractive
papers we have several others of a more than usually ex-
citing kind, and which will attract much attention.
Amongst them some original letters of Dean Swift, now
fir the first time given to the public ; Recollections of
Eton," by auEtonian; an" Account of Lebanon in 1841 ;"
he "Reminiscences of a Medical Student;" and the re-
entrkable story, "A Strange Passage in the Life of
Charles - Welford." Altogether the first Number for
18.12 of Colburn's New Monthly Magazine may be said to
distance all its competitors, and give extraordinary pro-
mise of the future exertions of its distinguished editor
and his coadjutors.
The remains of the late Earl of Westmoreland
were deposited in the family vault at Apthorp, near
Peterborough, on the 27th instant. They were attended
by the Dowager Countess of Westmorland, who left,
America fifteen months ago, in consequence of letters
from the Noble Earl, earnestly and affQctionately entreat-
ing her to return.