The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-10 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS

Srocritotar, Dec. 20.—From Western Dalecarlia
whole troops of beggars are emigrating. The prospect
for the ensuing spring is very gloomy in that province.
It has been found in Norway that farmers are involved in
debt, in consequence of having had corn advanced to them
by the Government, which was of bad quality and has not
come up.
ELBERG, Dxc. 26.—The Grand Duchess Helen of
Russia passed through this town yesterday afternoon. Part
of the Polish soldiers cantoned about Elberg, who refuse to
return to Poland, were to be placed in the other canton-
ments on the 21st, but as they were going to be conducted
along the road to Prussian Holland they suspected that the
military escorting them would compel them to go to Po-
land, and, in spite of all assurance to the contrary, they
returned to their old quarters. Several hundreds of them
returned to this town. These were conducted to the
square and surrounded with troops. It was proposed to
take them to the building where the soldiers were exer-
cised, there to pass the night, but they were still suspicious
and refused to go. The Hussars were then ordered to use the
flat side of their sabres to compel them ; this was done, bat
unfortunately it being dark, three Polish soldiers were
wounded. The next morning some Polish officers being
allowed to explain to them that there was no intention
whatever of obliging them to go to Poland, they readily
proceeded to their several cantonments.
BERLIN, JAN. I.—The only two cholera patients re-
maining here recovered in the course of yesterday, so
that at the close of the year the capital was free from the
cholera. To day, however, there have been two new cases.

In the year 1831, 1,621 ships arrived at Amsterdam.
The number of ships that arrived in the Masse and Goree
in 1831 greatly exceeded that in 1830, as appears from
the following statement :—.

SEARS, MOVED. SAILED.
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1831

lnereaie 476
At Sehirdam the arrivals were 153 ships, with coals,
from Sunderland and other English ports, and 127, with
corn, from the Baltic.

DISCOVERY OF 'VALUABLE CLAY MINES,
NEAR CHEADLE.—We have this week to record the dis-
covery, by a gentleman in this neighbourhood, of exten-
sive beds of china clay, on the estate of the Earl of
SHREWSBURY, in the vicinity of Okarnoor, near Cheadle,
only fourteen miles from hence. The quality of this clay
is said to be excellent. The beds lie generally within
four feet of the surface of the earth, covered with a rich
stratum of alluvial soil ; they vary in thickness, from six
to fourteen feet, and extend through a considerable tract
of land ; so that there is probably sufficient to supply
these Potteries for ages. The clay is very white and pure
in its unwashed state; and is said by one of our principal
potters to be of excellent quality,—an assertion justified
by the appearance of some manufactured specimens we
have seen, and one of which now lies for inspection at our
office. On the same estate have been discovered beds of
beautifully fine white sand, and veins of coal. It is the
intention of the Noble Earl to have the clay mines worked,
and with this view a nunil'er of men are already employed
in excavating, and others are engaged to wash and prepare
it for sale, as in Cornwall. The Cauldon Canal, which
runs through the estate, affords every facility for bminging
the clay into the Potteries at a cheap rate. When we
consider that the original price of the chief material in the
earthenware manufacture, is more than doubled by the
expanse of freight from distant parts, we cannot but look
upon the discovery of so large a quantity close at hand, as
an important era in the history of the Staffordshire Potts-
rim...Pottery Paper.

petrel INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.
Yesterday several seafaring men from Newcastle
came to the Justice-room to request the LORD
MAYOR'S interference upon some occasion of no public

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Alderman WiLsoN, who sat part of the day for
the Lord Mayor, his Lordship being engaged in
swearing in the city constables, asked the applicants
whether they lately arrived from Newcastle, and
whether the residents were not in a state of dread-
ful alarm in consequence of the prevalence of the
'elauliktirorbue ?—One of the sailors said they had
just birived, but tbat none of the Newcastle people
were in the slightest degree alarmed about the disorder.
Alderman WILSON—What ! are not there num-
bers dying there ? Sailor—No—not so many as
generally die at this time of the year.
Alderman WILSON—Have none of your friends
or relations died there ? Sailor—Not one belong-
ing to any of us. I have a wife and six children at
Newcastle, and we have all of us families there, but
not a being of them has been taken ill. Nobody is
in the least alarmed.

Mr. Hobler—Do you mean to say that there are
not people at Newcastle dying of a distemper un-
known to the place ? Sailor—We have heard
something about it, but we don't believe it. We
are as healthy as ever we were, and are no/ afraid of
any thing.