The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

Sut:nmr, JAN. `27.—high Water, 37 inn. past 7.
Wind W. W.S.W.—Arrived the Thetis, Townley, from
Dublin ; Speedy, Lake, from Catnpeachy ; Favourite, Royal,
from Riga; Blossom, —, from Newry; Mary, --,
from ditto ; Earl Killmory, —, from ditto ;
Morris, from Limerick ; Favorite, —, from Sligo ;
Airth Castle, Watson, from Westport; Day, Orange, from
Palermo; Olive Branch, Harding, from Savannah ; Jfssie,
—, from St. John's, N.B.

Arrived last night the Nithsdale, Irving, from St. John's,
N.B. ; Swiftsure, Caddy, from Cadiz and Dublin ; Albion,
Boyd, from Milton.
A small ship has gone up the river to quarantine, not
known what vessel.

Telegraph Office, Jan. 27.

The Yarmouth, Thompson, from Liverpool, for Bahia,
put into liolyhead yesterday at three p.m., having ex-
perienced heavy gale of wind for the last few days at
W.N.W. to S.W. by W. All well.
Wind at Holyhead this day, 30 min. past one, N.W.
blowing very fresh. Nothing off.
The Lalla Rookh, Fullerton, from Campeachy, at Cork.
The Mary Brade, Lincoln ; Francis Watson, Blair ; and
King George, Richardson ; from Liverpool, at New Or-
leans.

The Mary Ann, Work, from St. John's, N. 8., at Cork.

EAST INDIA.

ARRIVALS.—The Crown, Baird, from Bombay, in the
Clyde, sailed Oct. 4 ; the Palamham, Nash, from Bombay,
in the Clyde.
ARRIVALS AT BOMBAY.—Mountaineer, Canny, London,
and sailed Oct. 4, from London; Clyde, Scott, Liverpool,
and was to sail Oct. 10, for Liverpool ; Pomona, IluAhes,
Liverpool ; Dublin, APLean, ditto, and loading again.
Aug. 28, Bolton, Clarkson, London.

BENGAL.-The Sir Edward Paget was going into dock
for repair ; the Roxburgh Castle, Denny, was to sail for
London Nov. 15 ; the Louisa, Mackie, from Leith to Ben-
gal, was spoken, Dec. 22, lat. 2. 39. N., long. 23. 30.
The Foreland, of Liverpool, from the Cape to the Mau-
ritius, was spoken Nov. 26 ; out four days.
LISBON', JAN. 19.—Arrived the Sarah, Christie, from
London, in 21 days, having sprung a leak.
BENGAL, AUG. 18.—Arrived the Lady of the Lake,
Nicholls, London, and the Albion, M'Leod, Liverpool.
The Scalebv Castle and Inglis were to sail the 24th
Aug., for China.
The •Bencoolen, Martin, from London to New South
Wales, was spoken, Jan. 23, in lat. 18. long. 49.
SAILINGS FROM 51, the Hashmy,
from Madras ; Falcon, Moore, for China ; Jane Eliza,
Wallace, for ditto ; Hon. Compony's frigate Hastings, for
Penang. Aug. 27, David Scott, Thornhill, for Madras
and London ; Madeline, Cochlan, for the Mauritius.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SOCIETY.--•A
ball took place last evening, at the London Coffee-house,
Ludgate-hill, for the benefit of the funds of this charitable
institution. There were upwards of 200 individuals pre-
sent. Quadrilles were the order of the evening.

Within the last week fires have been lighted
in all the rooms adjacent to both Houses of Parliament. A
splendid new lustre has been suspended immediately at the
entrance into the House of Lord*, which, upon being
lighted, will have an imposing effect. The entrance oppo-
site to the east end of the Abbey, has been neatly paved.

EXTRAORD INA RY BIRTH.—On Saturday
the 19th instant, a poor woman, the wife of a miner named
JOHN PAscoE, residing near Launer, in the parish of
Gwennap, was safely delivered of a female child, which has
five fingers and a thumb on each hand, and six toes on
each foot in all twenty-four.—The child in every other
respect is quite perfect and in good health, and very likely
to live. The mother is also doing well. —.Cornwall
Gazette.

LORD WEL LEST, EY.—Various rumours arc
afloat, and some of them with great appearance of truth,
that Lord WELLESLEY is about to return to this country as
Lord Lieutenant, and the reign of Conciliation, perhdps,
be again established. The reason assigned for this extra-
ordinal y, and, as it would affect Ireland, thin ruinous re-
solve, is, that they do not know what to do with his Lord-
Ship in England; and that the Duke of WELLINGTON, in
order the more effectually to keep the Marquess out of the
way, has come to the determination of again sending him
to Ireland. We doubt the fact of the determination, al-
though we can very well understand the degree of truth to
be attached to the reason.—Dublin Evening Mail.

A GirosT.—The good folks of Ulverston
have been upon the qui vice during tht past week to hear
or see something of a Ghost which has lately beet Visiting
the Old Hall, a farm belonging to T,, It G. BRADYLL,
Esq., situate about a mile from that town. Several per-
sons affirm to have seen her ghostship (for it seems she is
of the feminine gender), and 'report says that 201. have
been offered for her apprehension. We have not heard
whether the ghost he mischievously inclined, but it seems
three mon have been set to watch and catch her—if they
can.— Westmoreland Advertiser.
FATAL ACCIDENT.--On Tuesday night
last, JAMES PARKER, of Huddersfield, cabinet-maker, re-
turned home from a public house, in a state of intoxication,
and after turning his whole family into the street, he leek-
ed the door. Soon after a tremendous noise was heard in
the house, and on the door being burst open, PARKER was
found weltering in his blood, at the bottom of the stairs,
down which he had fallen, and fractured his skull so se-
verely as to occasion his almost instant death.—Leeds
Mercury.

Mr. WysE said, that he assented to the resolution.
The Duke of Wellington was not only the enemy
of Ireland, but the deep enemy and foe to the pro-
sperity of England, and of freedom all over the world.
After some further suggestions on the part of
Lord Killeen and Mr. O'Connell, as to the phraseo-
logy of the resolution, it was finally put and carried
to the following effect :
" Resolved,—That we feel it a duty we owe to
the Irish people to declare, that we shall consider
every Irish member of Parliament an enemy to the
freedom, peace, and happiness of Ireland, who will
support, either directly or indirectly, any Adminis-
tration of which the Duke of Wellington, or any
individual professing his principles, is the head or
contriver; and we call on all counties, cities, towns,
and parishes in Ireland, to act upon the spirit of this
resolution."

Mr. O'CONNELL said, that the next motion was,
that of a motion of his for a mission to England,—
This was a subject which he had maturely turned in
his mind, and the more he thought on it, the more
genvinced he felt of its necessity and utility. The
object of this measure was to disabuse the English
mind of the prejudices against them,—to call for a
statement of these, and answer the objeetionsagainst
.hem by argument; and whenever these prejudices
arose out of falsified historical documents, to meet
and do away with them by historical facts. Mr.
O'Connell concluded by moving, " That it is the
opinion of this meeting, that a deputation to Eng-
land, to explain the Catholic tenets, and remove
prejudices, would be advantageous to the cause of
Irish liberty."

Mr. BRETT seconded the resolution, and expres-
sed his concurrence in all the sentiments that had
fallen from Mr. O'Connell on the subject.
Lord KILLEEN said, he had, by this time,
some experience in deputations, and they certainly
had not terminated well. If this were to end in the
same way as others had done, he confesSed that be,
for one, would not be very anxious to carry it into
practice. . . . .

Mr. WvsE said, that he agreed with a great por-
tion of what had fallen from Mr. O'Connell on the
expediency of the meassre: but he understood that
Mr. Shiel had a motion to make for Sunday, for an
address to the King. He considered, that in the
event of that being carried, it would be best to com-
bine both measures, and let the mission in question
precede the Address, and terminate its route through
the various towns, by presenting the Address to his
Majesty.
Mr. LAWLESS said, that by this course it would
appear as if they were passing through an ordeal of
evangelicalism before they presented themselves to
his Majesty. (Laughter.) He thought it would be
better to go to the King in the first instance; lie
would recommend that the mission should be an
open one, with full liberty to all, whether laity or
clergy, whoever was able to bear the expense, to
join it. He would, on the whole, suggest the pro-
priety of postponing the further consideration of the
question, at least until after the discussion on the
expected motion of Mr. Shiel.
Mr. COPPINGER opposed the measure.
Mr. M'DoNNELL supported the motion at great
length.
It was subsequently put and carried, with the
dissentient voce of Mr. Coppinger. The meeting
then adjourned.

LARGE EXPORT.—The brig Jane Hatidow,
Captain HAMILTON, cleared out from Greenock on Mon-
day week for Calcutta, with perhaps the largest cargo of
dry goods on board that niy ship has ever sailed with from
Scotland, for any pact of the world. This vessel is three
hundred and forty-,is tons register, and her entire loading
is composed of cotton yarn and other manufactured goods,
from Glasgow and its neighbourhood. The value of this
cargo will not be far short of 80,0001.—rife Placid.

COAL STRATA.—Mr. BALD, the engineer,
estimates the depth of the Loalkeith and East Lothian coal
strata as follows :—As to the depth of this extensive field
or coal strata, in which the beds of coal and organic re-
mains are found, I am of opinion that in the deepest parts
of the basin it will extend to at least 500 fathoms, or
3,000 feet; which shows how very deep the vallies have
once been and the Inure se, if the theory of the moun-
tains having been at one period much higher than they
now are, is taken into account. The distance in one in-
stance, is no less than 90 fathoms between two succeeding
strata of coal ; and it is a fact of great importance in
searching fur coal, in not too early abandoning the pursuit.
tlicekty Pevieki.

WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.-011 TUCS-
day morning, a little boy, seven years of age, belonging to
S. Eva, a ►nasou at Helston, attempted to draw a bucket
of water from a well or shaft of water, about twenty-five
feet deep, on his father's premises : he had got it nearly
landed, when by some means the bucket got disengaged
from the rope, and fell to the bottom, and the child fell
after it. His little sister (only two years older than him-
self) the only person near the place, thought she heard
her brother in a very weak tone calling DIARY ! MARY
which induced her to go to the door, when she saw the
rope hanging down a little way in the well, and looking
into it, saw her brother in the water, with his head just
above the surface, and splashing with his hands as a dog
would with his fore feet. With admirable presence of
mind this little girl quickly lowered the end of the rope to
her brother, who caught hold of it with so firm a grasp,
that his sister succeeded in winding him up, and thus ef-
fected his deliverance Cornwall Gazette.

ST. LEGER.
1:,.! to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Velocipede
13 to 1 agse Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam
20 to I agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Delphine (takers)
45 to 1 agst Herbert Lacy
3000 to 80 was also taken about this horse
No others mentioned.

GREAT UNDERTAKING.

Yesterday a number of spectators assembled in the Wel-
lington Cricket Ground, Chelsea, for the purpose of wit-
nessing two celebrated pedestrians, Coates and Sutton,
perform the following arduous task, for 20/. a side. viz.
—To walk backwards once mile; to walk forwards one
mile ; to wheel a barrow one utile ; to trundle a hoop one
mile ; run a mile : and pick up fifty stones, placed in a
straight line; one yard apart—the first man completing
the above task to be declared the winner. At three o'clock
the umpires and referee being appointed, the men started
different ways, round a circle of a furlong, and did as
follows :

COATES.

SUTTON.

Alin. Sec. Min. Sec.
Walking backwards one mile.— 14 6 13 30
Do. forwardii do. 12 50 11 45
Wheeling the barrow do. .... 9 50 11 15
Trundling the hoop do. .... 9 5 3 30
Running - - do. 8 10 0 0
Picking up the 50 stoney ....... 12 30 0 0

66 31
In wheeling the barrow, about the seventh round, Sutton
ran against a young man who was standing near to one of
the posts, and was upset, hurting himself severely, but
continued his task ; he was, however, previously much
distressed, and losing fast. In trundling the hoop he was
still losing, and in the third round relinquished his task
and fainted. He was carried off the ground in a very
exhausted state, and was spitting blood and very ill at six
o'clock. Coates performed the whole of the task in one
hour six minutes and a half. He is the same man who
performed the feat over the bridges.