The Sun.
London, England, 1835-02-21 00:00:00

ARRIVALS AND DEPARTURES AT THE SCOTCH

WHARFS.

HOARE'S WHARF, FEB. 20.----No arrivals or departures.—
Advice.—The Dundee, Perth, and London Shipping Com-
pany's steam-ship Perth, Mr. James Kidd, sailing-master, was
to sail from Dundee for London with several passengers and
an extensive and valuable general cargo, principally linens, on
Wednesday, the IBth inst., at five P.M.
DOWNE'S WHARF, FEB. 20. Arrived this morning, the
Bloom, John Havisou, master, from Portsoy, with a cargo of
gri:n. Sailed this morning the Montrose and London Ship-
ping Company's smack Hawk, David Murray, master, for
Montrose, with a cargo of merchandise. No advices.
CARRON WHARF, FEB. 20.—N0 arrivals. Sailed this morn-
ing the Carron Company's trader Dynameme, Robert Walker,
master, for Grangemouth, with a general cargo of merchan-
dise. No advices.
MILLER'S WHARF, FEB. 20.—N0 arrivals. Sailed this morn-
ing the Aberdeen and London Shipping Company's smack
Nimrod, James Philip master, for Aberdeen, with a full cargo
of merchandise ; the Edinburgh and London Shipping Com-
pany's smack Supeib, Mein Anderson master, for Leith, with
a general cargo. Advices, the Edinburgh and London Ship-
ping Company's smack Royal Sovereign, John Hall master,
arrived at Leith from London, with a general cargo' of mer-
chandise, on Tuesday, the 17th inst. The Edinburgh and
London Shipping Company's smack Trusty, Alexander Miller,
master, and sailed from Leith for London with a general cargo,
principally whisky and ale, on Weduesday the 18th inst.
LEITH •AND BERWICK WHARF, FEB. 20.—N0 arrivalsl-or
departures. "Advices—The Leith and London Old Shipping
Company's aria Ocean, Henry Johnson jnaster, arrived at
Leith from London, with a general cargo of merchandise, on
Tuesday;' the;llth inst. ; the Berwick and London Shipping
Company's smack Tweed, John Crow master, arrived at Ber-
wick-upon-Tweed, from London, with a general cargo of mer-
chandise, on Tuesday, the 17th inst.; the Berwick and Lon-
don Shipping Company'f!..smack King William, Thomas Dag-
leish master, sailed. from Berwick-upon-Tweed, for London,
with a 'general cargo, on'Tueiday, the 17th inst.
DUNDEE AND ST. ANDREW'S WHARFS, FEB. 20.—Arrived
this morning, the smack, Ocean, Thomas Dawson master,
from Dunbar, with a general cargo. No departures. Ad-
vices—The St. Rolox, John Mackaymaster, and the Hope,
Alexander Primrose master, both arrived at Grangemouth,
from London, with general cargoes of merchandise on Tues-
day, the 17th inst.

Handel required .tmcommonly large and frequent
supplies of food. Among the stories told of this great musician,
it is said, that whenever he dined alone at a tavern he always
ordered " dinner for' three ;" and on receiving for answer to
his question, " Is de tinner tetty?" " As soon as the company
come ;" he said con strepito, " Den pring up to tinner," pres-
tissimo, "I am ddgombany."

" We're all here," answered Mr. Jones, on behalf of the
usual complement of old strangers.
" I told you so, ma'am," said Mat, to a female who stood
beside him, but still leaving the door open to an invitation
from within. However, nobody spoke—on the contrary, I
felt Mr. Hindmarsh, my next neighbour, dilating himself
like the frog in the fable.
I don't know what 1 shall do," exclaimed the woman ;
ve no where to go to, and it's raining cats and dogs !"
" You'd better not hang about, any how," said Mat, " for
ou may ketch your death,—and I'm the last coachL-an't I,
Mr. Jones !"
"To be sure you are," said Mr. Jones, rather impatiently
—" shut the door."
" I told the lady the gentlemen couldn't make room for
her," answered Mat, in a tone of apology—" Pin very sorry
my dear," (turning towards the female) ".you should 1u5...,e1
my seat, if you could hold the ribbons—but such a prett7
one as you ought to have a coach of her own."
He began slowly closing the door.
" Stop, Mat, stop !" cried Mr. Dornton, and the door
quickly unclosed again ; I can't give up my place, for I'm
expected home to dinner ; but if the lady wouldn't object
to sit on my knees—"
" Not the least in the world," answered Mat, eagerly.
"you won't object, will you, ma'm, for once in a way, with
a married genticmattrand-a wet, night, and the last coach
on the road?"
" If I thought I shouldn't uncommode," said the lady
nrecipitately furling her wet umbrella, which she handed
in ,:so one gentleman, whilst she favoured another with her
mudcb• pattens.• She then followed herself, Mat shutting
the door behind her, in such a manner as to help her in.
" I'm sure I'm obliged for the favour," she said, looking
round ; " but which gentleman was so kind ? "
" It was I who hat,: the pleasure of proposing, Madam,"
said Mr. Dornton ; and before be pronounced the last word
she was in his lap, with an Assurance that she would sit as
lightsome as she could. 15,,0th parties seemed very well
pleased with the arrangement ; but to judge according to.
the rules of Lavater, the rest of ti:e company were but ill
at ease. For my own part, I candidly confess I was equally
out of humour with myself and the person who had set me
such an example of gallantry. I, who bed read the lays of
the Troubadours—the awards of the old " Courts of Love?'
—the lives of the " preux Chevaliers"—the history of Sir
Charles Grandison—to be outdone in courtesy to the sex
by a married stockbroker ! How I grudged him the honour
she conferred upon him—how I envied his feelings!
I did not stand alone, in this unjustifiable jealousy ;
Messrs. Jones, Ilindmarsb, Tidwell, and Parsons, seemed
equally disinclined to forgive the chivalrous acts which had,
as true knights, lowered all our crests, and blotted our
scutcheons, and cut off our spurs. Many an unfair jibe was
launched at the champion of the fair, and when he attempted
to enter into conversation with the lady, he was interrupted
by incessant questions of—What is stirring in the Alley ?
What is doing in Dutch ? How are the Rentes ?
To all these questions Mr. Dornton incontinently re-
turned business-like answers, according to the last Stock
Exchange quotations ; and he was in the middle of an
elaborate enumeration, that so and so was very firm, and
so and so very low, and this rather brisk, and that getting
up, and operations and fluctuations, and so forth, when
somebody inquired about Spanish Bonds.
" They are looking up, •my dear," answered Mr. Dorn-
ton, somewhat abstractedly ; and before the other stock-
brokers had done tittering the stage stopped. A bell was
rung, and whilst Mat stood beside the open coach door, a
staid female in a calash and clogs, with a lantern in her
hand, came clattering pompously down a front garden.
" Is Susan Pegge come ?" inquired a shrill voice.
" Yes, I be," replied the lady who had beer; dry-nursed
from town ;—are you, ma'am, number ten, Grove Place ?"
This is Mr. Dornton's," said the dignified woman in
the hood, advancing her lantern—" and—mercy on us !
you're in master's_ lap !"
A shout of laughter from five of the inside passengers
corroborated the assertion, and, like a literal cat out of the
bag, the ci-devant lady, forgetting her umbrella and her
pattens, bolted out of the coach, and, with feline celerity,
rushed up the garden, and down the area, of number ten.
" Renounce the woman !" said Mr. Dornton, as he scut-
tled out of the stage—" Why the devil didn't she tell. inc
she was the new cook ?"—Hood's Comic. Annual.