The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-26 00:00:00

(Prom the Aberdeen Chronicle of the 22d of July.)

On Saturday last the Expedition, Watson, arrived in the Bay,
had a fine passage of 44 days from Montego Bay, Jamaica, and
left only 6 or 8 vessels, among which were the David Lyon, of
and for London, nearly loaded, and the Trelawney of Glasgow
discharging; on the 3d of June, when in lat. 24. 28. N. and
long. 80. £O, about twenty miles southward of the floating light
on Carisford Reef, was chased by a schooner, which, on coming
near, appeared to have a long gun a midships, and a number of men,
who came on deck on nearing the brig ; the Expedition had bore up
to join a brig to leeward, which proved to be the Superior of
and from Portland, from Havannah, with molasses ' • but the
schooner, although named from a friendly port, having Tropic of
llattimore on her stern, declined coming between two, made
8411, and gave chace to a brig, which she overhauled in an incre-
dible short time, although as far as it could be seen to windward,
and was observed still alongside of her at dark next day,
"e schooner was standing into the Keys alone, and from her man-
ner of maneuvering, and other suspicious circumstances, there is
every reason to believe her a pirate. She is described as an
uncommonly handsome vessel; very long, with a white bottom,
and yellow panned streak all fore and aft sails; and sailed like
the wind.—The Phesdo, 111‘Bain, which arrived in the Bay on
Sunday, also from Cape Breton, and proceeded to the southward,
brings the melancholy account of the loss of the General Broth,
of Jersey bound for Gaspee, she was run down by an unknown
brig at half-past twelve o'clock A. ai. on the 29th, in lat. 47.
10. N. long. 4.8. 30. W. Thomas Mallet, Jlimes Perrin% and
Philip Barker, jumped on board while she was entangled with
the General Brock ; James Home continued on board, and was
drowned. The rest, fourteen in number, took to the long boat,
and very soon afterwards saw the vessel go down. These
men' were in the boat for ten days ; they had no water,
and during the first five days they had only a small Dutch
cheese. During the last cix days, six of them' perished, vi:.
Philip naval, clerk to the house of Jamie and Co.;-Francis Che-
valier Cooper, Philip Severat, Clement Rinolp, 'Elias Vibrant,
and James Brown ; and the rest were obliged to subsist on the
dead bodies of their comrades. On the 9th June they were fallen
inwith by the brig Ann, of Liverpool, Capt. Forbes, who took
them on board and treated them with the utmost humanity, but
four of them, viz. Captain P. Land, Edward Lace, Charles
Meyers, and Francis le Marc, soon after died. The survivors
are, Elias Bundon, mate; Jos. Powell, John Dobard, and Wm.
/NON., and they have all suffered much from the effects of cold
—their feet having been host-bitten and ulcerated.

WHALE FISHERY.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Ash, of the Ever-
thorpe, dated off Iceland, June 10, on his way from
Greenland for Davis Straits :—.
I write to inform you of my being off Iceland, towards
Davis Straits, with 1,200 seals, but no fish-15 tons of
01. I was in lat. Si, mid in and out of the ice down to
lat. 70, and saw four fish. The Jane and Neptune, of
Aberdeen, had one fish each; the Kiero one, and 500
seals-18 tons; all the others clean. E. and N.E. winds
have packed the ice the same as last year. Greenland will
be as bad as last year, I think, so I would leave it in time.

The accounts from the Manufacturing Districts to-
day, though repeating the statements of the distress
every where prevailing, are satisfactory, as showing
that a peaceable disposition pervades the unemployed
classes, and that the continued attempts of the vilest
of mankind to excite them to acts of riot, have uni-
versally failed. The following letter from our Agent
at Sheffield is one of the many proof's we could give
of there being no other wish among the operatives than
for work and food :

" I have been through most of the distressed manufactur-
ing towns in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and I am very
sorry at the misrepresentations of newspapers respecting
the distressed manufacturers. It would appear, from the
statements of the Press, that we were on the eve of a Re-
volution; but I can assure you I never saw so much dis.
tress with so little disposition to riot; and when the great
'meeting at Manchester, on Saturday the Bth instant, took

plate (which Meeting the papers so blazed with dreadful
apprehensions), a friend of mine, an eye-witness on the
spot, declared to me that the greatest part of that assembly,
instead of being excited to riot by the harangue of the Irish
orator, were disgusted with his inflammatory discourse,
and went peaceably to their homes. Having myself
asked one relative to the affair, he said he did not want to
fight, he wanted work. I sincerely hope his Majesty's
Government will very shortly devise some means to re-
lieve this distressed but loyal people."

The case of Mr. WAKEFIELD, at the ensuing
Lancaster Assizes, continues to excite increasing
curiosity, and we understand that several of our co-
temporaries have made arrangements for getting up a
report of the trial exclusively for the gratification of
those who are longing for such a prodigiously interest-
ing affair. We are really grieved to be under the ne-
cessity of throwing cold 'water not only upon the
laudable exertions of our spirited rivals, but upon the
growing impatience of our fair readers, by informing
them in due time that there will be no trial at all—as
Mr. TURNER will not appear against Mr. WAKE-
FIELD. This is turning round to some purpose, but
what a lame and impotent conclusion !

It will be observed by our Parliamentary Report,
given in another column, that the House of Lords
met yesterday, and after the Commons had by their
Officers appeared at the Bar, both Houses were
formally prorogued to the 24th August.
Nothing has yet transpired to give any sanction to
the Reports which have been for some days in circu-
lation, that Parliament would be assembled at an early
period of the autumn.

In another part of our Paper will be found a report
of a private meeting on Monday, of Gentlemen in-
terested in the improvement of the City, by widening
the space round the Cathedral of St. Paul's.—
Nothing, in our opinion, can do more honour to these
Gentlemen, or confer greater benefit on the City of
London, than the accomplishment of so desir-
able an improvement. It has long been the dis-
grace of this metropolis, that the most stupendous
monument of the Arts has been buried among
rubbishing houses, to the annoyance of the public,
and the manifest injury of business. If we can
afford to expend large sums on useless plans,
and worthless objects, why not have national spirit
and generosity enough to spare a portion of our
wealth upon works which will reflect credit on the
taste of the projectors, be an ornament to the metro-
polis,
and benefit posterity ? Unfortunately for
the cause of public improvement, the little petty
jealousies of private interest step in, and oppose every
plan ; but such short-sighted views should be met fairly
and openly on the ground of public good, and the
consequent advantage to those very private interests
themselves. The removal of Fleet Market has
been talked of for these two years, but little
progress has yet been made, had doubts are now felt of
the practicability of the undertaking upon the original
scale. It is a great pity that the Legislature, in passing
bills for the improvement of certain portions of
the town, do not make them so comprehensive
that the real objects in view cannot be evaded by the
shuffling tricks of local parties, who always contrive to
render the plans non-effective by the enormous ex-
pence incurred through their unblushing cupidity.
An old house having a shop for the sale of matches,
sets up a claim of some thousand pounds for the
loss of business, good-will, and so forth, when the
property possibly would not have realised as mary
hundreds before the projected improvement was made
public.

It is amazing how much these improvements are
retarded, through the opposition of Parochial Boards
to every plan for bettering the communication, or
beautifying particular parts, merely because the
proposition had not originated with themselves,
or some such objection equally frivolous and
contemptible. But we are happy to see the
LORD MAYOR, and other public-spirited Gentle-
men, lending their influence to the promotion of an
object so praiseworthy as the improvement of the pas-
sages and buildings in the vicinity of St. PAUL s,--
and we have still greater pleasure in seeing that a plan
so magnificent has obtained the sanction and approba-
tion of those fostering patrons of the Arts, His
IVIAJEsTy, and his Royal Highness the Duke of
YORK. The LORD MAYOR very properly suggested
the propriety of blending this improvement, with an
improvement of the City generally, and we think
the proposition worthy of serious consideration.
While the Commissioners are employed in remov-
ing that unsightly anomaly, Fleet-market, we would
recommend to them to make a street in an oblique di-
rection from Stone-cutter'*-street, across the rising
ground, into Holborn, somewhere about Fetter-lane.
This would be a most decided improvement to the
property
in that quarter, and would take off the steep-
ness of Holborn-I-1111. It would besides be a ready
ecnnmunication with Blackfriar's Bridge, and take
off a great portion of the carriages and traffic passing
along the Strand.

MR-t'U-/-4118:-

CITY, Twelve o'

There is little business in the British Funds this morning, which
have remained to this hour without any interest. consoia opened
at 76i 1, and rose to 76} 7 ; the nearest price is now 761*
Three per Cent. Consols, '751 7; Ditto for Account, 76. i. 7;
4 per Cent. Scrip, 1 pin. ; India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 19 21 pm. ;
Exchequer Bills, 12 pm.
Foam); FUNDs.—Brazilial, 52 4; Buenos Ares, 4,8 50 ;
Chilian, g 3 5; Colombian, 1824, Sll 'i!1; Mexican, 5 per
Cent., 39 41 ; Ditto, 6 per Cent., 46i 71; Peruvian, 25 ;
Russian, 804 1.
MiNlea.—Anglo Mexican, 4'7i 2i die. ; United Ditto, 10 9
; Brazilian, 11 12 pm. ; Pasco Peruvian, 101 9} ;
Tialptixahua, 5 dis, 5 pm. ; Colombian, 2 per char*.
Sakitzs.—Provineial Irish Bank, 98 dis, ; Australian, 3 5 pro,
Two o'clock.

There is scarcely arty business at either the English or Foreign
Btack Exchanges, and the prices have remained, with little visria-
ti°t's the same all the morning; 3 per Cent. Consols are '764 '7 ;
Cents,,, 921; New 4 per Cents., 934 ; Exchequer Bills,
= India 4 per Cent. Bonds, 19 20 pm.; Mexican, 6
per Cent., 44
7 ; Colombian' 314 Q. In Shares, Brazilian
Mining Sharesare lower, and fever in them somewhat abated,
they have fell to 71 a .
Unitsptn,e Mexican era a shade higher,
and may he quoted at 84 9 dis,

3 per Cent. Consols,- -7 1, utlyerS.
FOUR O'CLOCK
—CLOSING PRICES.
.
Consols 77
Danish Bonds 55 i
7 IT.EIR.E.E 0' CL 0 Cc/C.
Do. for Op 77 i
Brazilian Bonds 54si Zretall.: op.
01,.81285251,
448 i
Buenos Ayres Do. 49 Peruvian Do. 25
Chilian Do. Russian Do. BOf
Columbian, 1824, s2i Spanish Do. 71 8