The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-15 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, Auo. 14.
Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, from Ostend; Flora, Maulden,
Harlingen; Lord Rolle, Townsend, Scorfu; Gezina, Taddy,
Rotterdam; Vier Gebrendes, Fokkema, Worcum ; Duncan
Gibbs, Doval, Bombay; Drey Stern, Davids, Rostock;
Glory, Hurst, Hamburg ; Brocklebank, Sandwell, Antwerp ;
Jane, Taylor, Hull ; Catharine, Balleher, Brake

ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Aue. 14.
Emelie, Brandt, for Stettin ; Two Brothers, Robson, Ham-
burgh ; Columbine, Corbin, Hamburg ; Perseverance, Pain,
Hamburg; Ottawa, Douglas, Montreal; Imperial, Spencer,
Elsineur and Petersburgh ; Nelly, Best, Antwerp • Batavier,
Dunlop, Rotterdam ; Terra Nova, Bergstrom, gtockholm
Bee's Wing, Smith, Oporto ; Anne, Drybrough, Oporto.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, AEG. 14.
Neptunus, Pieters, for Brussels ; Britomart, Vaughan,
Sydney ; Adrianople, Jansen, Archangel ; Coriolanus, Sisk,
Ilalifax and Jamaica ; Symmetry, Dove, Bordeaux; Deme-
rara, Thorns, Rio Janeiro; Nautilus, Blyth, Quebec.

CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, AUG. 14.
Margery, Wheatly, for St. Petersburgh; Adolphe, Indier-
side, Blonberg ; Neva, Toyn, Norway ; Bertha, Lange,
Memel; Irene, Lownes, Elsineur ; Athol, M'Cready, St.
John's ; George Murray, Riga.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Hebe, Jersey to Bahia, the 23d March, in lat. 26,
long. 20 ; the Salus, London to Cape of Good Hope, the
27th, in lat. 18, long. 25 ; the Sophia, Manilla to Cadiz, the
14th April, in lat. 3, long. 22 ; the Amicus, of Belfast, from
the Clyde, the 9th inst. in lat. 49, long. 12.

Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Peterhead,
dated the 11th of August.
" SlR,—Since announcing the arrival of the Eclipse, of this
port, from Greenland, the Union, Carden, and the Mary,
Walker, of this port, have arrived, the former with two fish
17 tons, and the latter with three fish 27 tons. They report
the Sarah and Elizabeth, of Hull, had proceeded for Davis's
Straits.

" The Eclipse, Sutter, in the course of flinching his fish,
caught 500 sharks, preying upon the carcases, from the livers
of which he will have from eight to ten tons of oil.
" I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" WILLIAM GAMACK."
" To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's."

HOLLANDERS, FRENCHMEN. AND ENG

LISHMEN.

No sooner has a Hollander become resident in a colony
than he conforms himself, without hesitation or delay, to
the genius and climate of the place : and, regarding it as
his future home, he abandons all thoughts of returning to
his native land, and employs his capital and resources in
establishing himself, where he happens to be, and in
collectinc, around him the conveniences and enjoyments of
life. The Frenchman, with all his flexibility of character,
`requires a longer time than the Hollander to become re-
conciled to a foreign land ; but nevertheless, when settled
there, he sooner or later, acquires strong local attachments,
and generally at length naturalizes himself to the soil, and
looks forward with complacency to spending his days there.
But the Englishman, willing as he is to emigrate under
the hope of improving his fortune, and long as he may re-
main abroad, never really becomes a colonist in the strictest
sense of the word. He finds it nearly impossible to assi-
milate himself to any country except his own, and, to the
last, allows his mind to be haunted with the desire of re-
turning there ; while lie at the same time denies himself
various indulgences, in order that, by economy, he may
limit the term of his expatriation. The foreign towns of
the three nations in question are strongly illustrative of
these remarks. The English settlements in almost every
part of the world are built in a mean and unsubstantial
style, and seldom comprise any ornamental features, how-
ever insignificant. They seem to be purposely kept in a
condition that will allow of their being abandoned by their
occupants with as little loss or regret as possible, on the
successful invasion of a hostile power. And it has always
been a principle with the British Government to spend no
money on the improvement of her colonies, probably be-
cause she considers their tenure too. uncertain to warrant
her doing anything of the kind ; and because her disregard
of that object is likely to inspire their inhabitants with a
similar one, and to prevent them from employing their sur-
plus capital in a way that would permanently withdraw it
from the parent state It is not my intention to discuss the
good or bad effects of this system, but merely to remark
that the Dutch have always viewed the subject in a diffe-
rent light, and considered that it is a piece of sound policy
to attach colonists to their place of abode, by surrounding
them with useful and agreeable objects, and encouraging
them to increase the number of these out ot their private
resources. Hence the towns which they build in foreign
places equal, in stability, grandeur, and convenience those
which they have at home ; and their colonists feel a deep
attachment to the land where they happen to reside, such
as is unknown to the English under similar circumstances,
and which the latter would regard as unnatural and unpa-
patriotic. Cape Town is perhaps the handsomest town in
the world of its size ; and almost every building, either re-
spectable or ornamental which it contains, with the excep-•
tion of the Commercial Exchange, was erected by the Ba-
tavian Government, or the Dutch inhabitants, previous to
its being captured by the British. And though the colony
has now been thirty-five years in our possession, an episco-
palian place of worship is only now in the course of erec-
tion ; and the members of the Established Church have
hitherto been under the necessity of meeting in one of the
Dutch churches, the use of which has been liberally granted
them by its particular congregation.—Howisoils European
Colonies. ''o

THE
MAN OF HONOUR.—Falstaff asks, " Wirat
is honour ?" and the question is certainly not an easy one to
answer. But we take it that honour, now-a-days, is a still
more incongruous mixture than it was in the time of the jovial
and witty knight ; and the public will be curious to see the
delineation of it in the pages of the new novel entitled as
above. This production comes unquestionably from the pen
of a lady of high birth, who now makes her debut as an
authoress • and her design is to show of what materials these
" men about town" are made. The nobie writer has, we
doubt not, selected some living specimen of the class for her
especial castigation ; and we think it will not be long before
our readers have as shrewd a suspicion as to the individual as
ourselves.

FIRES IN LONDON.—One cause of the frequency
of fires in London is the imprudence of persons wishing to put
up stoves in cutting into party walls, without any regard for
what may be on the other side. In this manner the flues of
stoves are often brought dangerously near wood work ; and,
if from any incidental cause a fire is made of rather more than
ordinary potency, the wood in the next house on the other
side of the wall becomes ignited, and a fire ensues, for which
at first there appears to be no assignable cause. There is a
law which obliges all persons intending to make alterations
in the party walls of houses in London, or to make exterior
additions or alterations in them of any kind, to give notice to
the district surveyor; but though it is generally attended to
with respect to exterior alterations, it is generally neglected in
the case of interior ones. In a case which came before the
Lord Mayor about twelve months since, the party-wall of a
house in Snow-hill had been cut into to such a degree for the
purpose of setting a kichen stove, that a hole was actually
made into the next house, and the party wall became so hot
when the kitchen fire was lighted as not to be endured by the
hand. The person who inhabited the house into which the
hole was cut stated that the paint had become blistered with
excessive heat. His Lordship said that often in setting up a
kitchen range workmen cut into the back of the cupboards of
the next house, and in a short time afterwards a fire broke out,
for which no one could account.--Architectural Magazine,