The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-01 00:00:00

DEPARTURES.

The Dowager Marchioness of Satisb•ary, for Hatfield;
Count St. Aldegonde, from Fenton's Ho'c.el, St. James'-street,
for Brighton; William Gwyn, Esq., art the Misses Gwyn, from
Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, fo-,. the Continent ; W. G.
Osborne, Esq., from the CavenO:Alt Hotel, Jermyn-street, for
Portsmouth ; Sir D. Erskine, 'Bart., from ditto, for Fifeshire ;
Captain Mayne, from Ra'Agett's Hotel, Dover-street, for
Ramsgate ; Mr. and Mrs, J. Melville, from Brook-street, for
Brighton.

WEXIVIOUTH HARBOUR.

(From the Guernsey Star.)

THE ENVAEPOT OF RICHES AND CENTRAL
COMMUNICATION.
ro THR EDITOR OP THE STAR.

Sir,--I beg to congratulate this, my native place, and
the Channel Islands, on the recent passing of the Act of
Parliament for the Great Western Railroad from London
to Bristol, so highly creditable to the Commercial interests
and the Committee of the said Railroad.
" For they that n-,ost and greatest things embrace,
Enlarge thereby their mind's capacity,-
As streams enlarged, enlarge their channel's space:"—Davies.

Weymouth Harbour stands in reference to this subject
strikingly conspicuous, and it is capable of being extended
to any depth, so that in fact all classes of vessels migl.it enter
an outer or inner harbour as their draught might require.
A vessel of 200 tons draws according to build froze, 12 to 13 feet
300
400 , 16 to 17i...
500
600 , 18 to 19i...
700 ~ 19 to 21 ...
The staple commodities here at present are—
_ Portland Stone—Pipe Clay—Coals—Timber—and Fish.

Weymouth is also, as you are well aware, a packet sta-
tion to and from Guernsey and Jersey. There is every
facility to proceed to France from Guernsey and Jersey ;
the South of France a direct route by this line.
If a rail-road betveer:n Weymouth and Bristol, in order
to connect the centre of the British with the Bristol
Channel, were estal':dshed, Weymouth and its neighbour-
hood would becorne the entrepOt of riches and central com-
munication, evidently to the great advantage of the Go-
vernment as v:ell as the Great WeStern Rail Road. (Vida
Map of England.)
In reference to the subject of .the Portland Breakwater,
which I trust has been pretty clearly demonstrated, allow
me to observe, for the immediate information of the Great
Western Railroad Committee, &c., that the reasons for
converting Portland Roads into a safe anchorage for ship-
ping are very cogent, and the investigation of the subject
is of the greatest moment, and deserves the mosic, serious
attenti-on and consideration as it regards the maintenance of
the superiority of the British Channel, so essential to our
!existence as a C'omniercial Nation ! And it may be ob-
served the numberless large stones at Portland tupersede
the necessity of cones in the construction of the Portland
Breakwater. Should Government erect it, a convict ship
might be secured and protected within the boundary of the
Salt Pond at Portland ; the object of obtaining a desirable
port at that spot for future operations on an extended scale
could be realized at a small expense and form a respectable
harbour. The convicts under guard of a company of ma-
rines could be marched in a morning to the quarries, &c. ;
the facility of paddle-boats, each wit a dozen such men,
for towing stone barges from the shore to the Pier, or else
where is obvious, and Government would have the labour
and conveyance nearly for nothing.
" England is, to all intents and purposes, a maritime
power. Her navy has been called the right arm of the
empire ; and this is eminently true, even beyond the mean-
ing of the metaphor, whether we regard her 'warlike or her
commercial power. Experience has taught 'us the wisdom
of attaching the most intense interest to 'whatever relates
to the welfare of our navy."
I feel assured, therefore, of the great importance of this
central, and consequently commanding position in a con:-
mercial point of view as an auxirxtry to the GreatlVestern
Railroad, and I entertain no douht whatever that my views
of it will be noticed by spirited individuals of commercial
influence.

I beg to thank you for your valuable co-operation, and
am, Mr. Editor, respectfully your obliged,

JOHN HARVEY.

Weymouth, September, 19, 1i435.

SIIIPPINU..-(THIS DAY.)

VIIONI LLOYD'S.

DEAL, SEPT. 30.—Wind S. S.F. to W., moderate.—
Arrived the Broadoak, Hubback, from Pernambuco ; William,
Hadnett, from St. Vincent's ; and the Alert, White, from
Belfast. The Sylph and Isabella of Sunderland got in con-
tact last night in working out of the Downs, when the former's
mainmast was carried away, and the latter proceeded; the
Sylph has since put into Ramsgate Harbour. Arrived from
the River, and sailed, the Emerald Isle, Mawle, for Cork ;
and City of Londonderry, Lewis, for Dublin. The Catharina
Maria, Kraef, for Newhaven, and Anna, M.Kay, for Lisbon,
lost each an anchor and have again been supplied. Several
small vessels sailed this morning, but have put back again this
afternoon. and remain. with the outward-bound. Etnt
Wind S. W., moderate.

STANGATE CREEK, SEPT. 30.—Arrived the lan, Adair,
from Odessa.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Aurora, Deering, from
Miramichi ; Centre, Nash, from Malaga ; and Torn Tough,
Williamson, from Charente.

CLYDE, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Indwa, —, from Quebec.
DUBLIN, SEPT. 28.—Arrived Aurora, Laval, from London.
Coax, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Royal Adelaide, M`Gartla,
from Gibraltar ; and Voadere, Musquito, from St. Übes.
LIMERICK, SEPT. 28.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Bailey, and
lanthe, Langley, from Quebec.
STOCKTON, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Anna, Cook, from St.
Petersburgh.
HULL, SEPT. 29.—Arrived the Meteor, Parks, from St.
John's, New Brunswick.

PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. W.—Wit :al S. S. E. to S. W. Arrived
from London the Palmyra, L'Jader, for Bombay.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 29.-- Wind S. E. Arrived the Perse-
verance, Mulsem, from faro.

FALMOUTH, SEPT. :29.—Wind S. WV. to S., strong breezes
and squally. Arrived the Orestes, --, frord Honduras. Off
port the Hero, Mitchell, prom Jacmel, P:ad Caledonia, Con-
gach, from. Odessa.

Goldsich, of Weyni outh, was lost on the Knock
(iV armouth) yesterday Dv:A-fling. Crew saved.
he Franz, Radman, br,und to Stettin, put back to Cardiff
in a sinking state, haviwg struck her anchor, and must discharge.
The Echo, Sutherland, from Sunderland to London, sunk
in Yarmouth harbour yesterday.

We are happy to be enabled
.4..0 state that the
progress of the borough Registratlon has been highly fa-
vourable to the cause of Reforin.—Hull Observer.

SINECURES ABOLISHED.—The following offices
in the Irish Court of Exchequer are to be abolished on the
Ist of• November :—Comptroller of the Pipe, Thomas
Stirling Berry, Esq. ; Clerk of the Pips, Henry Luttrell,
Esq. ; Clerk of the Extracts, Georco Dance, Esq. ; Tran-
scriptor and Foreign Appose::, Arthur Jones, Esq. ; Se-
condary to the enief Treasurer Remembrancer, Joseph
Nunn, Esq. The present possessors are to receive com-
pensation. Sir Hugh Stewart, Bart., and Mervyn Stewart,
Esq., have been deprived of the office of Second Rementi-
braneee in the Court of Exchequer, by the sth and, 6th
William VI, c. .55, of last Session, but receive eornran-
sation.