The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-04 00:00:00

Street is rapidly progressing towards completion. A
sewer has been cunstrected for the whole distance, and
is now being connected with the Oxford-street and Tot-
tenham-court-road sewers. It is about 1,800 feet in
length, and in depth from the surface fifteen feet, and
has been about two months in execution. The workmen
are now forming the footpaths on each side of the way,
and shortly the gravel which has been excavated in the
course of the formation of the sewer will be removed. It
is expected that in a few weeks the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests will issue their proposals for the
erection of the new houses, for which purpose the whole
distance will be divided into separate plots of ground.
The improvements which have been commenced in Pic-
cadilly were authorised by an Act passed on the 9th of
August last, by which it is provided that the space be-
tween Bolton-street in the east, and Park-lane on the
west, should we widened and improved, and that a por-
tion of the Green Park should be appropriated for that
purpose. Power is given to the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests to obtain possession of any property re-
quirsd to carry out the intention of the Act, and in the
schedule, the mansion occupied by Baron Rothschild,
and belonging to the Crown, is mentioned as requisite
for the improvements.
On Wednesday a Court of the Governors and Sub-
scribers to the Scottish Hospital was held at the Hall of
the Scottish Hospital, Crane- court, Fleet-street, to re-
ceive and confirm the by-laws, &c., Mr. Nisbet in the
Chair. A proposition, moved at the previous Court, to
insure the picture of King William the Fourth (by
W ilkie) for 300 L, another of Mary Queen of Scots for
9001, and the whole of them for 6001., was agreed to.
Professor Donaldson moved that at a future Court they
should insure the pictures for seven years, which would
effect a great saving to the Hospital. The by-law were
confirmed end adopted.
The inquest on the bodies of the sufferers by the fatal
explosion at the Haswell colliery was resumed on Tues-
day, and again adjourned.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
cloudy, ) OcT. 3,—Wind —Wind westerly, fresh breeze and
DEAL, OCT. 2.—Wind W.N.W., strong.—Arrd. Thetis,
Calcutta; Oromocto, SL John's, New Brunswick; Peven-
port, St. John's, New Brunswick; Jamaica, —; Medora,
°t. "alif4x, ----- ; Favorite, Allen, Ichaboe, for Leith;
Charlotte, Grenada ; crania Berg, Jamaica (query Rio
Janeiro) ; Princess Alice 'Maue, St. John's, New
13runswick.
14)1SCATE, OCT. 2.—The Lady Anne, Smith, from
Newcastle tO this port, struck the West Pier-head,
damaged larboard bow, and is leaky.
PORTSMOCTIf, OCT. 2.—Wind W., very squally.—
Arrd. Iler Majesty's ship Apollo, Quebec ; Thetis
(Danish The war steamer), Mediterranean, for Copenhagen.
Mary, Leighton, of Sunderland, got ashore last
night on South Sea Beach, but was assisted off, and
brought into harbour, apparently without damage.
OFF SaLcomnE, SEPT. 30.—Louisa. Gilts, Havannah;
Adler, lloherst, New York ; Wilhelmine, Ilamburgh,
for St. Th
--""t"s'S ; Clarendon, Forder, Jamaica; Konigs-
'auntie, Lorentzin, St. Jsgo .de Cuba. for Bremen ; Ha-
/neline, Cronholm, Philadelphia, for Rotterdam.
FALMOUTII, OCT. 2.—Wind W., fresh breezes.—Off,
Gannet, Nichol, Syclr.ey,iNS.W. ; William Carey, Dove,
Havannah ; Ahagan, Furney, Richmond, for Antwerp.
BRISTOL, OCT. 2.—Arrd. Minerva, Furlong, Jamaica ;
Mansfield and Yorkshire, Quebec ; Pearl, Earl, New-
foundland.
.
SWANSEA, OCT. I.—Arrd. Sumatra, Harvey, Helen
Hardy, Smith and Jane, Boyd, Middleton, Cuba.
OFF TUE WlGUT.—Charles Norris, West Indies.
OFF FILMOUTIL—NicoIas Witzen, Lang, Surinam for
Amsterdam ; Harriet, of Sunderland, St. John's, N. B.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 2.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd.
Alpha, Hod ;son, Valparaiso; Cestuan, Douglas, Bonny
(July 1); Penelope, Ward, Trinidad; Phoenix, Greaves,
Antigua ; Rochdale, Allenby, Jamaica; Jane, Mitchell,
Cuba ; Renovation, Stewart, Honduras; Martha Wash-
ington, Stephens, New Orleans ; Britannia, Smith, St.
Andrew's ; Chuffey, Chuffey, ditto ; Calliope, Douglas,
Flora *Donald, Laura, and Washington, St. John's,
New Brunswick ; Alert, Halifax ; Oronoko, Miramichi;
nan
y,e, Carokett, Montreal ; Abigail, Arethusa, Cove-
ter, Courtney, Lord Sandon, Mary, Mearns, and
St. Abbott, Quebec ; Henry Patterson and Symmetry,
Newfoundland, Off, Tam O'Shanter and Bona Dea.
STOCKTON, Sxr.r, 23.—Arrd. Lancer, Parker, Quebec.
27. Robert, Allen, Quebec.
CowEs, OcT. 2.—Arrd, Olympe, Ravue, and Spring,
Hamilton, If avannah.
SOUTIIAMPTON, SEPT. 30.—Arrd. Canova, Wescott,
llichebucto. Sld. Dee steamer, West Indies.
PORT TALBOT, OCT. I.—The Brunswick, from
Southampton, touched in the Breakwater coming in,
and afterwards grounded, but came off without damage.
LITUAN, OCT. 2.—A round steam-boiler, about thirty
feet long, apparently new, has come ashore three miles
N. W. of this.
CLYDE, SEPT. 28.—Sid. Alexander, Johnson, Batavia;
Conqueror, Trinidad; Countess Durham, Buenos Ayres;
Dryden, Ichaboe; Alceste, Demerara. 30. Lady Falk-
land, St. John's, New Brunswick.
KINGSTOWN, OCT. I.—Arrd. Recovery, Conway,
Quebec.
OFF CORK, SEPT. 30. —Carena, Woodman, Matanzas;
Cynthia Anne, St. John's, New Brunswick.
NOTICE TO RULES AND REGULATIONSMARINERS FOR. THE GO-
VERNMENT OF PARTIES AT ICHABOE.
A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from James
Fitzjatnes, Esq , commanding her Majesty's sloop Clio,
containing printed regulations and rules for the govern-
s of all parties residing at the island of Ichaboe,
agreed to on board her Majesty's ship Thunderbolt, at
Ichaboe, 14th M last,andagreed to and confirmed by
Admiralßear- ay_
the Hon. Josceline Percy, C. 8., Com-
mander-in-CI '
' nef at the Cape of Good Hope, which can
be seen by •
parties interested upon application at Lloyd's.

WooLwicu.—The Artillery division of the Hon. .
Artillery Company, under the command of
hCaptrauimn
Iselin; with Lieutenants Rooke and Lewis, mare edf
the Armoury 'Louse, in Finsbury-square, on
l.. Tuesday
last, and arrived on the practice-ground at ha fpast
eleven o'clock, and immediately commenced firing from
a battery of light six. commenced
at the range of 650 yards,
directed towards a target six feet square. , Upwards of
sixty rounds were fired with a precision which must have
been gratifying to the comtnandino- officer, to whose in-
troduction of an improved method of drill, this success-
ful result, so eminently creditable to the corps, is mainly
to be attributed. The steady and soldier-like marching
and general bearing of the non-commissioned officers
and gunners, were much admired by those who wit-
nessed the progress of the detachments and the practice
of the day.
We understand a somewhat interesting native of
India, " Mohem Lai," arrived in London by the last
overland mail. He is the same who travelled in Central
Asia, in disguise, with the late Sir Alexander Burnes,
and subsequently with
his journal in Calcutta. Since
that period he has been devoted to British interests, and
was greatly has
in effecting the deliverance of
our prisoners in A.ffghanistan. We hear he has been re-
ceived with marked attention by the Chairman of the East
India Company, who, after honouring him with a visit,
invited him to dinner at his residence. lie will shortly
proceed to Scotland, to meet the parents of his late la-
mented-friend Sir Alexander Burries.—Post.
MR; T. E. M. TURTON.---.The above gentleman,
who, •it may be recollected, acc mnpanied the late Earl of
Durham as his private secretary to the Canadas, when
the latter nobleman sustained the highly responsible
office of Governor of those colonies, has for several
months been labouring under very severe and painful
illnessq, and has been advised by his medical attendants
to repair to Malta for the benetlt of his health, where
he is now sojourning. The office of Registrar of the
Supreme Court of Calcutta, which is at present enjoyed
by this Learned Gentleman, is considered to be the most
lucrative appointment which the Gover iment can bestow
upon an advocate practising at the bar of the above-
named presidency.
BusariEss DowN SOUTll.—Atessrs. J. 11. Bondurant
and Co., negro-dealrs at Mobile, Alabama (and two of
the most furious Democrats, as the swindling cant is, in
that city), inform the Alabama planters that they will
not be able to give a high price for human cattle until
Texas is admitted into the Union—after which, they
feel confident of selling at prices which will satisfy their
breeding customers. We insert the regular business
card of these distinguished Democrats for the edification
of their northern brethren :--" J. 11. Bo' ndurant and Co.
will e3nstantly keep on hand a large and well selected
lot of young trey keep
of all descriptions, which they will
sell low for cash. They will also receive and sell
negroes on commission. They will occupy the house
fornierly occupied by J. E. Zunta, No. G 6, St. Michael-
street, Mobile. J. H. BONDURANT and J. E. WHITLEY.
July, 184"—New York Tribune.
SOUTHEND NEW PiEß.—The progress of this con-
struction is not very rapid, but it bids fair to be com-
pleted in. the course of the ensuing spring, or early in the
summer. Its extraordinary length, stretching out as it
does over the shallow bay a distance of a mile and a
quarter, renders it an undertaking of much interest.
The pier is chiefly supported on cast-iron piles, which
are so placed as to lean considerably towards each other,
so that when united by the cross-beams and planking,
they have most of the properties of an arch, and present
thereby the strongest resistance to the pressure of the
sea, which in stormy weather runs very high there. At
first an attempt was made to drive these iron piles in the
fret manner, by the machine which is commonly called
' a monkey," though its play is anything but gentle.
!WittThis process was abandoned in consequence of the metal
wrigging by the conussion. The piles are now fixed by
ling," their weight under an oscillatory motion
serving to insinuate them into the soil so effectually, that
it is found impossible to move them when fixed, and
some difficulty has arisen in consequence of one or two
not having been slopod inwards as originally intended.
The necessity for the erection of this pit r must be appa-
rent to all who have landed at this little watering-place
at any other time than the period of high water, fur an
awkward transit in clumsy flat-bottomed boats does not
always serve to secure a landing, passengers being some-
times and
requested to step out and wade through the
mud and water, at a depth ot' four or five inches. With
better luck, you are landed on a " hard,"
have to balance yourself on a narrow ledge of slippery
where you
stn sort of causeway, not like the Mussulman's
road to Paradise, as narrow as a hair and as sharp as a
ne"(110, hut in reality as slippery as soaped stairs, and
11(A 50 good as a good-sized plank.
SE tram AND HARTLEPOOL.—The Bo
essd f us-
tonas have decided that the revenue businar oof theCport
Of Seaham is to be transferred from Stockton to Sunder-
land ; the change to take place on the 6th of January
ilex t. Seaharn, which has hitherto) been a branch port
of Stockton, from which it is distant twenty-seven milea,
tevenwill then become a branch port of Sunderland, distant
wiles- The port of Hartleuinespool, which in revenue
s has hitherto been a branch port of Stockton,
estithli
will, on the above date, have a distinct Custom-houshed there- and be ranked as a sixth class port. se=
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