The Sun.
London, England, 1821-11-23 00:00:00

MERCA►NILE SHIPPING, &c.

DEAL, Nov. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived and sailed for
the River the Ariadne, Pitt, from Naples ; Fortitude, Lan-
caster, from Smyrna; Henry, Addington, from the Medi-
terranean ; and William and Thomas, Lane, from Seville.—
Also the Fame, Nicholson, from Miramichi for Duridee. Put
back the • Brothers, Eclipse, and Kains, for Jamaica; Deme-
rara packet, for Demerara ; Bahia packet, for Poole, and se-
veral others, names unknown.
FAL mourn, Nov. 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Osborne
packet, with a mail, from the Brazils ; sailed from Rio the 2nd
of October. Sailed the following packets with mails :—Duke
of Kent (2), for Lisbon ; Countess of Chichester, for the
Mediterranean ; Lord Stdmouth, for America; Montagu, for
Jamaica ; and Blucher, for the Brazils. Also the John and
Joseph, Warren, for Seville ; and Alica, Blake, for Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Hiram, Ilyr.dman,
from St. John's, N. B. ' • on the 2nd of November, in 1at.,45.
52, long. 37. spoke the Providence, Success, from Liverpool
for St. John's, N. 8., with loss of the head of her mainmast.

DOVER, Nov. 22.—ft has blown very hard all day from the
S.W. Five boxes of linen have been picLed up and landed
here, marked 11, 14, E. S., one marked No. 11, 53, 56, E. S.,
and one, marks not

llAnwictr, Nov. 22.—The Maldon, M'Ewen, having
stopped her leaks, has proceeded to Dundee; she had struck
on a wreck on coming over the Spitway.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind W.S.W.----Arrived the
Emulation, Stanworth, from Gibraltar. Put back the Brook,
Aiken ; and Geo. Daysh, Edgar. It has blown a strong gale
all day. The outward-bound remain all well.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind W.—Arrived the Fa:imy
and Royal Briton transports, from Portsmouth, with the 15th
Regiment.

EiART 3101ITn, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Franciseus, Sonder-
man, from Hamburgh for Havannah, with loss of fore-top-
mast and leaky.

BRISTOL, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Fairbys, Dawson, from
Demerara; on the 21st ult., in lat. 32. 30, long. 59. 40., fell
in with and was boarded by the Columbian schooner of war
Ilona, Capt. Natta, on a cruize.

The Richmond transport is now lying at the Nore, and' will
sail in a few days with convicts for Botany Bay.

NUMERAL SIGNALS.—We understand that an outline of a'
plan has been submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, by
Lieutenant Alfred Burton, of the Chatham Division of Royal
Marines, for the establishment of a code of NUMERAL SIG-
NALS, by which comunication may take place between ships of
war or commercial vessels, of the same or different nations, in
a kind of UNIVERSAL NAVAL LANGUAGE. The plan we be-
lieve to be something of the following kind, and by its sim-
plicity, it reminds us of the story of Columbus and his egg.
The signal flags made use of may, according to their position,
represent certain NUMBERS, and these numbers may represent
those SENTENCES by which the usual communication is
generally carried on between ships at sea. Those numberS,
therefore, which signify any sentence in the English, will also
signify its MEANING in every other language : and thus a limit-
ed communication may take place between vessels totally ig-
norant of the language of each other. By means of four flags,
64 numbers may be expressed, and, consequently,.64 sentences;
five flags are capable of expressing 3Z numbers, and six flags
1956. The adoption of this plan cannot but be attended wits►
great convenience and advantage to the maritime world, and
we are only astonished that it was never thought of before.--
(Liverpool Courier, Nov. 21.)

On Saturday afternoon, about half-past fotir
o'clock, a woman leaped from a four pair of stairs
window in the. New Wynd, Glasgow, and was
killed on the spot. She has been married for
35 years, has left a well-doing husband and fa-
mily, in whose absence, in a fit of intoxication,
she laun:hed herself into- eternity.
DANG EROUS DRIVING.-Yesterday the driver
of a Bishop Sortford stage-coach was convicted
in the penalty of Si. and 10s. costs, at Lambeth-
street Office, for coach-racing last Friday, so as
to endanger the safety of his masters' passengers.

UNION HALL..--AN aAr. ClllLD.—Yesterd4.
Henry Angel, a boy about 16 years of age, was brought up,
charged with having beaten and kicked his mother in a most
desperate manner.
. . . _

Alrs. Chapman, sister to the boy, stated, that he had been a
long time in the habit of beating and otherwise almsing
his mother, so often, and so violently, that the whole neigh-
bourhood in which they lived attributed every noise they
heard to the filial attentions of the prisoner. The witness
was absent from home four or five days ago, and had left her
mother and brother in care of it. Upon her return, she found
her mother in a deplorable state, the poor old woman having
been beaten and kicked from head to foot by this inhuman :'tl-
- Notwithstandingthis treatment, the mother would never
have appeared to complain, had not the neighbours joined with
the witness to prevail upon her to attend.
The boy spoke not a word, but smiled during the examina-
tion, and appeared quite indifferent to every thing, until roused
by the decision of the Magistrates, who said, when the mother
was sworn to the fact that her son had beaten her -that verv-
morning, " Lock up this scoundrel in a solitary cell in the
House of Correction at Brixton, t'or three months, and let him.
be well flogged." The prisoner then changed countenance,
and the unfortunate mother supplicated in tears to have the
" flogging" remitted. In this entreaty she was joined by the
daughter.
The Magistrate (Mr. CHAMBERS) strongly censured both
mother and sister for snaking so absurd a request ; and ob-
served, that if the unfeeling son had received such punishment
as he was about to undergo some years ago, there would' pro-
bably have been no necessity now for making any complaint.--
The boy was then taken to prison.