The Sun.
London, England, 1835-07-17 00:00:00

Increase in four years £13,187

IMPORTS

1828 £570,000
1833

Increase..

EIPORTS

...£75,949

1828
1833

Increase £385,152
SHIPPING ENTERED THE PORT OF SYDNEY.

Ships. Tons. Alen.
1828
1833

Vessels belonging to the Port, 94.
IMMIGRATION.

1830
1831

76.5
Increase on two'year:

4,691

1, 3,926 Free Persons.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 15.--We
experienced a steady demand for cotton to-day. About 2,500
bales have been sold at full market prices, viz-50 Ballias,
141 ; 320 Maranhams, Isd. to 15. d; 300 Pernams, 14Ad. to
154-id., a few 16d. ;50 Surat, 7d. ; the remainder American,
from 10d. to 12ed.
INCENDIARISM IN THE GRAMPIANS.--The
.system of revenge and destruction by arson, or, as it is termed
in Scotland, " wilful fire-raising," has, we regret to state, ap-
peared among the Grampians. On the 10th ult., a shieling,
or shephei d's hut, on a farm belonging to Lord Panmure, in
Lochlce, was burned to the ground. This daring act has evi-
dently been the work of poachers, a desperate gang of whom
infested these and other large districts of his Lordship's moors
in 1833. Lord Panniure being admitted to be the most libe-
ral nobleman in Scotland, both as a landlord and with regard
to his game, the destruction of this lonely shelling could not
proceed from the same motives as promoted the burnings in
England last year ; but must have ar►sen from a desire to de-
stroy a hut which commanded an extensive view of the glen
and the surrounding hills.—Stirling Advertiser.

PRIZE-FIGHTI NG.—A most disgraceful exhibition
took place on Tuesday morning in a field on the Edgware-
road, about a mile from Kilburn, occasioned by a butcher re-
siding in the Broadway, Westminster, who, it is said, has
just returned from a lunatic asylum, inducing two well-known
characters, named Ballard and Wren, the former one of the
most notorious smashers in Westminster, and the latter of an
equally reputable calling, to fight for a couple of sovereigns.
The combatants were fitted out by the butcher with a new suit
of clothes each, and the savage amusement lasted for an hour
and forty minutes, when Ballard was declared the victor, and
driven to Westminster by the butcher (who is a man of consi-
derable property) in triumph. Both the fellows were most
severely punished, and Wren is said to be in a very dangerous
condition, so much so as to excite alarm on the part of his an-
tagonist. The exhibition had been a long time in contempla-
tion, and was attended by all the costermongers in West-
minster. The only persons possessing anything like the out-
ward semblance of" gentility" were several well-known mem-
bers of the "swell mob," who seemed to be remarkably busy
in their avocation.

AWFUL OCCURRENCE AT THE LONDON AND
BITIMINOISAM RAILWAY.—TEN Llvks LOST.—Yesterday morn-
ing the town of Watford, and the country for several miles
round, was thrown into a state of the greatest excitement and
alarm, in consequence of a report gaining rapid circulation,
and which unfortunately proved too true, that one of the shafts
of the tunnel of the intended railway to Birmingham, which
runs through the Earl of Essex's estate at Russell Farm wood,
about two miles beyond Watford, had fallen in, and been at-
tended with an immense sacrifice of human life. In the course
of a few hours thousands were drawn to the spot, and the
scene that occurred is indescribable. The following are the
particulars :—The shaft in which this lamentable affair took
place, is situated in the midst of Russell Wood, a very pic-
turesque spot, and the approach from Watford, would lead few
to expect that the line of the Birmingham Railroad was eighty
feet below the spot. The shaft in question, one of the four
in this length of tunnel (1,700 yards), is termed a gin-shaft,
and had been sunk about ninety feet below an elevated plat-
form, erected for the purpose of removing the earth. The
shaft has been lately sunk, and two nine-feet lengths of tun-
nel had been bricked, the third being, it is stated, just mined
and ready for the bricklayers. The shaft was about to be
bricked yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, by a
party consisting of five bricklayers and six labourers, who
composed what is termed the night-gang; and had the ap-
palling event taken place a few hours afterwards, the morn-
ing-gang would have been at work, and the loss of human life
must have been awful in the extreme. As it is, it is impos-
sible to state correctly the number of victims that have fallen
by the dreadful catastrophe, as not one out of the number that
was at work is left to tell the dismal particulars. In loosening
a portion of the wood-work previous to bricking the shaft, it is
supposed the earth gave way, and buried the unfortunate men,
carrying the whole of the wood-work with it. When the earth
fell, a horse and gin were partly buried beneath, and it was
with great difficulty the horse was extricated, and it was dis-
covered that the poor animal bad sustained much injury. For-
tunately, however, the man attending to the gin heard some of
the earth in the shaft fall, and feeling the ground under his
feet giving way, he made a precipitate retreat, and provi-
dentially escaped, while a dog that was lying by his side
was buried with the earth. The falling of the immense
zpiantity of earth into the shaft has caused an abyss of about
35 feet deep, and about 40 feet in breadth. The names of
all the unfortunate sufferers we have not been able to ascer-
tain, but it is known that among them are Mr. Barker, the
sub-contractor, Mr. Jordan, inspector of the brick-work
windmill, a labourer, and Benson, a miner, all of whom have
left wives with large families to bemoan their loss. The
men must be buried upwards of 80 feet below the surface
of the earth, and although 60 men are actively engaged in
digging out the bodies, it is probable that six or seven days
will elapse before they aro extricated. About half-past 8
o'clock last night it was reported to the time-keeper of the
shaft, that in driving the heading way of the tunnel from
the next shaft the groans of some of the sufferers were
heard. He immediately went to the spot, and found that
the men employed in digging had actually introduced them-
selves into that part of the tunnel which was bricked over,
and got hold of the gin rope, but were unable to find any of
their unfortunate fellow-workmen.

THE HERRING FISHERY.--The Inverness and
Glasgow papers informs us, that the herring fishery has now
set in abundantly. Several hundred barrels were caught at
Wick, and on the Latheron coast, in the beginning of June, an
unusual fishing at that season. The boats from Port Skerra,
on Saturday week, had generally fine takes of excellent fish,
very far superior to any yet seen. The ordinary period of
commencement is not till the 20th of July, so that the herrings
are this year earlier than usual. Every preparation is making
at Wick, and the people are elated with the prospect of an
abundant fishing. At Tarbert, in the West Highlands, there
were upwards of four hundred boats at sea on the morning of
Saturday week, and all got herrings—from three hundred to
fourteen maize, or seventeen hundred. They have been pur-
chased by the curers for the Glasgow market, at from 7s. 6d.
to Bs. per hundred, and are of the finest quality. In Lochklo
also, the ishely last week proytd highly lucrative.