The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-31 00:00:00

obliged to the Honourable Gentleman if he would favour us with
the date.

Mena. H. de N.—" It is true that the work was pnblished
six years ago." (A sudden burst of hilarity.)
In giving this admirable specimen of rational opposition, we
beg leave to deprecate any idea of our being oppressed by a sense
of our own inferiority to our neighbours in that respect. Whilst
we have the honour and the happiness to reckon an illustrious ex-
Rector, unwearied, (not unwearying) in his labours, amongst
the watchful guardians of our public and private interests, of all
and every kind and description, we doubt not of our ability to
meet France, or any other country, on this as well as on some-
what different grounds.

Letters have been received in town from Major
Lim:lG, who is crossing with the caravan from Tripoli
through the Great Desert, on his route to Tombuctoo ;
it is dated, Oct. 12th, from Gadarnis, lat. 30. 17. N.
long. 9. 16. E. he passes through his consulate, at
Misonc, and expects to reach Tombuctoo on the 12th
of December, then to descend the Niger, which is
supposed to run into the sea in the Bight of Benin.
His Majesty's ship Brazen awaits him there, to take
him to Sierra Leone or England. He may be ex-
pected here in ame.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 29.—The American ship En-
deavour, GILLIES, arrived at Plymouth on the 29th
May, from Manila ; she was boarded in lat. 29. 52.
N. long. 40. by a piratical schooner, and plundered of
3500 dollars' worth of tortoiseshell, money, clothing,
and several other atticles, to the amount of 1000
dollars. The schooner mounted 7 guns, one
18-pounder, on a circle, manned with 60 men ; the
Captain is a native of Colombia ; the crew of
all nations : they reported themselves 20 days from
Carthagena, and that another schooner belonging to
the same owners left that port 10 dap before them, to
cruise off the Western Islands. Ihe schooner that
boarded them was about 200 tons, carried two top-
sails and two top-gallant-sails, and sails indifferently.

We understand that Sir CHARLES LONG and the
Earl of BALCARRAS are, as well as Mr. STUART
WORTLEY, to be made British Peers.

A Morning' Paper states that in making some in-
surance yesterday on specie from the Havannah to the
United States, a slight difficulty was experienced, the
change of destination by the Pyramus frigate having
led to the apprehension that disturbances were about
to break out in Cuba. Letters have, however, been
received from the Havannah, later in date than the
departure of the Pyramus, which represent the state
of affairs there to be tranquil and settled, in appear-
ance at least ; so that the voyage of Mr. Morier must,
it is conceived, relate to some other object. Nothing
has 'transpired to explain his motives ; but the delay
in the arrival of the Pyramus is complained of as a
mostserious inconvenience, by the merchants trading
with Mexico, who expect not only remittances of
specie by this vessel, but information of the highest
interest respecting► various undertakings of great im-
portance now carrying on in that country.
The same paper also says, that a suspicion has got
abroad lately, that the purchases of stock made on
behalf of the Commissioners of the- Sinking Fund,
have in some late instances been merely nominal, and
that they have not been followed by any transfer of
stock into their names. This however, admitting the
fact to be as stated, may arise from the circumstance,
that the stock purchased for Savings' Banks also stands
in the names of the Commissioners of the Sinking
Fund, who may be compelled to sell as much stock to
meet the 'claims of depositors in those establishments,
as they would buy for the redemption of the debt.. In
ibis case no transfer would be necessary.