The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-12 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS-
TOM-HOUSE, FEB. 11.
The Zevaan, Cassanwers, from Louvain; Highlander, Lees,
Sierra Leone ; Astrea, Watson, Smyrna.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, FEB. 11.
The Joseph Fenton, Henderson, for Leghorn ; Lotus, Sum-
merson, Sydney, New South Wales ; Sea Bird, Cruthfield,
Vera Cruz ; Hymen, Head, St. Lucia; Fame, Barfield, Rot-
terdam ; Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Richardson, Cape,
Madras, and Calcutta; Ann and Elizabeth, Tiltman, Boulogne.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, FEB. 11.
Prince of Saxe Coburg, Ladd, for Rotterdam ; Sceptre,
Douty, Trieste and Venice.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, FEB. 11.
The Enchantress, Christie, for Smyrna; William, Naseby,
Medemblick ; Fairy Queen, Hyem, Terceira.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Eden, of London, for Jamaica, 6th ult., lat. 18. long.
75. ; David Lyn, for Jamaica, and Duke of Beaufort, for
Cuba. 7th ult., lat. 18. long. 74. .by the Nightingale Packet,
arrived at Falmouth. Sultana, Scott, Liverpool to Constan-
tinople, 6th inst. lat. 47. long. 9. by the Huam, arrived at
Bristol. Falcon, Cronstadt to Boston, lat. 47. lat. 47. long.
24. by the Harvest, arrived at Cowes.

AFFAIR OF Holcoun.---The statement appear-
ing in the Packet of Thursday as to an affair of honour be-
tween Mr. O'M ,of the bar, and Mr. V. B. F—, is
not exactly correct. The collision was the consequence of
some strong language employed by the latter gentleman towards
the former in the office of the Chief Remembrancer, while Mr.
Blake was in an inner room and out of hearing. The parties
having been placed on the ground fired without effect ; and it
was immediately declared on the part of Mr. F. that he hod
discharged his pistol in the air, and had not directed it at his
antagonist, on which both gentlemen were walked off the ground
by their respective friends. Both parties displayed the utmost
coolness and intrepidity.—Dublin Evening Mail.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A FEAIALF..--
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday evening an inquest was held
at the vestry hall of St. Alphage, London-wall, before Mr.
Payne, the city Coroner, and a respectable Jury, on view of
the body of Sarah Spalding, aged forty-two. It appeared
from the evidence that the deceased resided at No. 5, Bird-
court, London-wall. On Tuesday afternoon she ' told her
only child, a boy about twelve yea..s old, to go out and play;
on the lad's return, in about half an hour, he found the door
locked inside, and called repeatedly for his mother without
reply ; at length the door was burst open, when the unfortu-
nate woman was discovered on her knees, with the whole of
her head and face in a tub of soap suds, but so determined had
been her purpose of self-destruction that she had tied tightly
round her head and face an apron previous to immersing it in
the sods. On the arrival of a surgeon life was found to be
quite extinct. Witnesses proved that the mind of the poor
woman had been distracted for some time past„ owing to her
being separated from her husband and great pecuniary distress,
and tho jury returned a verdict of " Insanity."

Within the last three or four days the new House of
Commons has had an extremely narrow escape of sharing a
similar fate to the former one. Some workmen employed
in the building were passing along the corridor of the Com-
mittee-rooms, when a stream of smoke was observed issuing
from underneath the door of No. 12 Committee-room. The
door was found to be locked, and some time elapsed before
it could be opened ; but an entry having been at last ef-
fected, a vast body of smoke and flame rushed forth, and
the interior of the room was then found to be completely
on fire, the canvass hangings of the room being actually
blazing from the flooring to the ceiling, and having already
communicated to different portions of the wood work. The
hangings were directly torn down, and a ready supply of
buckets of water being obtained, the fire was prevented
from spreading, and eventually extinguished without doing
any considerable damage. It was most fortunate the dis-
covery was made at the moment it was; or otherwise the
further lapse of only a few seconds would, in all probability,
have produced a complete repetition of the late catastrophe
on the same spot. In what manner the fire originated re-
mains unaccounted for, but a rumour is strongly circulated
ascribing its taking place to the overheating of the flues to
warm the House.

About eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon the servants
of Roberts, Esq., residing at little Ealing, near Brent-
ford, discovered that one of the hayricks in the stack-yard
had been maliciously set on fire. Assistance was imme-
diately procured, and by dint of great exertions the fire was
subdued after about four loads had been destroyed. No
doubts are entertained that it was a malicious act of an in-
cendiary, as one of the servants had passed the stack not ten
minutes before, at which time no symptoms of fire were per-
ceived, and after the fire was extinguished a match and some
lighted tinder were found on the spot. It is generally sup-
posed the incendiary was a stranger, as Mr. Roberts is much
beloved by the labourers in his neighbourhood, who imme-
diately on the alarm being given rendered every assistance
in:their powor, Y ,r.,. r., „

On Sunday morning last, about two o'clock, Mr. Tun-
nard Aspland, a respectable farmer, residing at Swineshead,
was awoke by his servant girl, who told him that his corn-
stacks were on fire. Mr. Apsiand immediately got up,
proceeded to the stack-yard, and set about removing some
wheat in sacks near the stacks. He was soon joined by
several persons from the neighbourhood, and shortly after-
wards two men, named Joseph and Robert Taylor, came
running into the yard to assist him in stopping the progress
of the flames ; but, owing to the very strong breeze at the
time, they failed in the attempt, and in a very short time
the whole of the stacks, consisting of five joists of wheat,
together with part of the premises, were consumed. The
circumstance of the two men named Taylor being upon the
premises so early, and stating that they observed the fire at
the Fen Houses, which are about a mile and a quarter off,
at twelve o'clock, and other suspicious circumstances while
assisting in the yard, induced Mr. Aspland to suspect them
of being concerned in setting fire to the stacks, and he ac-
cordingly had them taken into custody. They underwent
an examination yesterday morning before A. Duggan, Esq.,
and the Rev. M. Sheath, and were committed for further
examination. The damage is estimated at nearly .500/., the
whole of which is insured in the Yorkshire Fire Office.—
Boston Herald.