The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-18 00:00:00

NAVIGATION OF THE THAMES.

The state of the navigation ow the Thames, be-
tween lilackwall and London-bridge, has long been
the subject of complaint. Last year we published
the letter of an active and intelligent correspondent
on the subject. The obstructions were chiefly pro-
duced by colliers. However, Magna est veritas,
et prcevalebit, says the thread-bare quotation : that
is, in English, " It's a long lime that has not a turn-
ing." It is not along lane, however, but two wide
lanes, or at least two lanes of sufficient width, that
have at last been effected for the free passage of
vessels up and down the Thames, by the well-di-
rected efforts of our correspondent, and the just in •
telligence of the city authorities.

We have great pleasure in publishing the follow.
ing proclamation to the effect above described :

" PORT OF LONDON.

" TO ALL PERSONS IN FITARC4E OF COLLIERS NAVIGATING

ON THE RIVER THAMES.

" Whereas it has been deemed expedient that a free and
unobstructed passage should be preserved through the up-
per and lower pools, of not lees than 300 feet in width,
and instructions have been given to the harbour-mastery to
prevent any collier ship or vessel from encroaching upon
the same, and to cause any ship or vessel which shall be
so moored as to encroach upon thy free passage as afore-
said, to be forthwith removed.

" Notice thereof is hereby given to all anusteis and others
in charge of colliers navigating on the river Thames, and
they are strictly enjoined to obey the directions of the har-
bour-masters from time to time accordingly.
" And notice is hereby further given, that there is to be
preserved a channel or passage of nut less than 40 feet in
width, at low water, for barges and small craft, between the
tiers of vessels and the north shore of the river, from New
Crane down to Limehouse Bridge-dock.
" And notice is hereby further given, that no collier will
in future be permitted to moor at the chains in the upper
pool without permission of a harbour-master.
(Signed) " MATTS. P. LUCAS,
" Afansion-house, Oct. l ti. Mayor."

SUICIDE.—On Friday last, a man named
TAYLOR, a collier, walked into the canal at Walk Mill,
near Ashton, and drowned himself. The body was found
soon afterwards, and is said to have been warra whet) taken
out ; but instead of sending for a surgeon, the persons who
found the body merely sent for the constable!—Stockport
Adrert;ser.

On Saturday night last, about e:even o'clock,
the driver of the mail coach alighted at Littleton to trim
the lamps, when be was knocked down by two ruffians,
each of whom struck him a blow with II stick and fled—
the only reason he could assign to the passengers for this
assault, was a quarrel which he had sometime previously
with the guard ! the venal scribes and alarmists who live
by calumniating the country, will probably announce this
assault on the driver, as " an attack on his Majesty's msil
coach, at Littleton ! !"—Tipperary Free Press.

" Will you join our Brunswick Club, Cap-
tain ?" said a gallant and ci-derant son -burnt Colonel,

(who, accustomed to the browned musket, has shuddered,
it is said, at polished Steele,) to an old son of Neptune ;
you will, no doubt ; " for," said he, after an astonishing
display of speech, " these are times when every man must
he either a Catholic or protestant !"—" Why, by G—,
Sir, lam neither," replied the old tar. This broadside
made the land-lubber sheer UM—Dublin Morning Post.

IRISH ANswEßs.—During a gale of wind,
last week, when the greater part of the passengers in one
of the Liverpool steam-boats were sick, a very tall Irish.
man, who seemed to take matters very easily, was compli-
mented by a friend of our's upon his being so stout and
hale ; to which Pat replied, " Oh, yes, master, I believe
I'm pretty stout, thank Goal ; I can stand as much sleep
as any man ; that's a great proof of a man's strength, you
know."—North Wales Chronicle.

MELANcIioLY OCCURRENCE.--A most re-
spectable individual was casually drowned in Sutton drain,
in the vicinity of this town, on Friday last. The deceased
!moved to be Mr. D. Parr'?now, an individual possessed
of some property, the third son of the late Mr. PATTI
sox, of Swine. On Saturday an inquest was held over
the body by Mr. IvFsax, and a respectable Jury, who re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death by drowning, the
deceased, D. PATTINSQN, having, while in a fit, fallen into
Sutton drain."—Hull Advertizer.

A considerable wager was about to be decided
between Lord B. and the young Marquis of B. on the re..
pective merits of two young Dien in eating. Lord B.'s
engagements did not suffer him to be present;; but begot a
friend to attend, fur the purpose of seeing that the man he
bathed kw fair play, and of giving his Lordship the earliest
notice of the resu4. The contest was arduous, and betting
fur a long time equal; !Mt at ieugth his Lordship's luso
took the lead, and seemed so certain of victory, that the
commissionaire despatched a carrier-pigeon with the fol-
lowing note :—" My Lord—Lombard-street to a China
orange. PpF r is 4 head of the Marquis's a sucking-pig
and an apple tart. Till they finish, your's, p.

Busiues gt the. Proomielaw, though a little
brickee than it was two months ago, still continues dull,
and the number of arrivals and departures have not in,
creased the stir upon the quay. The exportation of cpals
is at presept, as formerly, the department in which the
greatest business is doing; and it is not unfrequent to see'
upwards of twenty carts standing qn the quay at unp time.
There have been considerable arrivals of fruit for some
weeks past from Jersey, which can be purchased at a low
rata, A of salt herrings from the various fishing
stations continuea also to bp landed on the play; the best
are sold at 38s. a ban:el, The it.wirtglori of gr4iil is
very limited as compared with that of former years.,,-
rilasgow Chronicle.

EQUAL AND IMPARTIAL JUSTICE.—ThiS
morning four pieces of artillery, with the proper quantity
of gunners, &c., left town for Charlernopt Fort, in the
county Tyrone, one of the hot-beds of Orangeism. We
believe we may state for certainty that the contracts en-
tered into by the Government with the proprietors of the
steam-boats, engaged for the conveyance of troops from
England to Ireland, is, that as soon as the troops are em-
barked, the destination of the vessel Is to be at the diippsal
of the liiiitary Officer in command, and that he goes on
board with a species of sealed orders. We believe we may
further state that the Qoverpment are more anxious at
present to hold troops in readiness for the North than for
}be South.—Dublin Evening Post. .

A quantity pf ducks were stolen on Sunday
week from one of the ont:boildings attached to the Black
Lion inn, Gedney. On the laisdiady? Mrs. Wortst, going
to fist; them at the usual time in the evening, the found
the birds. had gown, and in their place she discovered a
short tobacco pipe, which she immediately recognized as
having been used by a man GI anspicious character, an in-
habitant of Long Sutton, who, with a pompanion of the
, same stamp, bas been drinking at Ler house in the afternoci4.
T Long Sutton she aegopdingly bent lor steps, and on en-
tering 11w habitation of one of thp suspected persons, she
found his wife busily employed in stripping en:ne ducks of
their feathers ; the* :ate claimed as her property, bpi, the
claim was resisted, and sip was under the necessity of sip!
, plying to a constable for a.ssistanca. On returning to the
house, however, the ducks had again} takpo night; neither
birds nor feathers coulti be found ; and the Ir4oloag of thP
house, with brazen effrontery, persisted in declaring that
no ducks had ever been Ow,. Mrs. W. of course returned
home mortified with the respit kf her investigation.—
Drakard's Stanford News.

PARIS, OCT.II.
The state of affairsin the
East, the sets of the Russian Government,re astititll:ttliie quiet
submissiveness of the Englishpollahibieinmetioda
in Paris.le
tiott Contempt, the most
sub-
jects that chiefly engross the
almost every
It is
impns,lii)le to disguise the fact,
bitter and in is felt and expressed
aoefatshioen,,oonhiemetisnds where towards the English Ministry. Th • •
asserted that • • e charge of fear
has been so often isset 4itis at length believed,
of satisfaction at the success
and
the strongest denials tlintomilyakoenneoviierowi
This
al-
ready bent upon taking
4:)enfte.chlinbgive no identity of interest
ofar itsehse, however,
:outit,eolF.
with them, for the first intelligence of the checks which the
-
Russians received %vac, hailed with pleasure y
the accounts in the London Paper, I find that a similar;9 Paris. B
feeling prevaiW in that pipital; *ad I observed that it
was attempted to be accounted for by that excellent prin-
ciple of human nature which identities the spectator with
the man attacked and oppressed by a number of enemies
acting in concert together. It is to be hoped that this
generous feeling had some influence, but certainly a posi-
tive dislike to the Russians came in for its acsshare— is-
like founded probably on a jealous foreboding of the gp-
ing ambition of Russia, Considerable expectations arc
excited as to the part the French troops will have to per-
, form in the Mores, but every body speaks as if they would
du little more than see the stipulation for its evacuatinn
carried into full effect, and then return " covered with
the glory of having assisted iu the restoration of liberty
to tiw classic soil of Orem,"

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Gazette de France, dated Oct. 16.)

F BERLIN, OCT. 2.—Accounts from Constantinople,
which appear to come from a good source, state that
efforts are making from many quarters, to irduce the
Sultan to recognize ~the independence of Greece,
according to the terms of the treaty of the 6th of
July, and to send a deputy to Corfu awl another to
the head-quarters of the Emperor of Russia, to an-
nounce to him this resolution, and at the same time
to negotiate a cessation of hostilities. The Sultan
would not listen to any arrangement which should not
secure his rights of sovereignty over Greece, and ex-
pressed his astonishment that any one should advise
him to negotiate with his own subjects, which would
be the case if he sent a deputy to Corfu, where there
would also be a Greek Deputy.
As for the negociations with Russia, he appears to
have declared that he will not hear of them, till the
Russians shall have repassed the Danube, and eva-
cuated the principalities. The vertigo of fanaticism
has risen to the highest degree at Constantinople._
It is even said that a law has been made by which
every Mussulman is condemned to death who shall
give quarter to a Christian, or accept it from him,—
of course any one who shall subscribe to a capitula-
tion. Conformably to this law, the Pacha of Brai-
low, who so bravely defended that place, was be-
headed on the 7th September. It is therefore be-
lieved that Varna will be taken by storm, unless the
Capitan Pacha consents to remain a prisoner among
the Russians.

The liberal French journals are much criticised
here in the upper circles : the old tendency of libe-
ralism is still recognised in them. People say that
the liberals have learned nothing, and forgotten no-
thing; and that they alone impede the progress of
civilization. An article in the Courier des Pays
Bas, in which the desires of the French journalist ate
perfectly appreciated, has excited a great deal of sen-
sation here, and again recalled apprehensions which
had been long forgotton.
VIENNA, OCT. G.—The mail from Odessa of the
2Gth of September has arrived, and brings no news
of any consequence, except the departure of the '
Empress, which took place on the 21st. Prince
Volconsky and the Count de Modena accompany
her Majesty to St. Petersbnrgh. The Standard
frigate sailed on the same evening with troops for
Varna.

Metalliques, 94 7-l6ths; Bank Shares, 1,052.
PARIS, OCT. 15.--We have received from Bu.
clearest the following letter dated the 26th of Sep,
tember:--

" The news which we have just received from the
theatre of war confirm every thing which has been
announced for this week- past respecting the move-
ments of the Russian army before Shumla, and its
retreat. The Russians, in order to cover the corps
which were retiring, continue to occupy some in-
trenchments, but after having bravely defended them,
they evacuated them ; probably on lettining that the
Grand Vizier was marching by the road from Ad-
rianople to the relief of Varna. Hussein Bey had
followed the remains of the army from Shumla on
the road to Bazardjik, and detached another corps
on the road to Silistria and Ilirsowa, in order to take
advantage of the late events before the first of those
places, and threatened the communications of the
Russians on the Danube.

" The Russian head-quarters were still at Bazard-
jik OR the 19th instant, but the difficulties in saving
the materiel of the army, in the midst of the general
distress, were immense."

We have also learned, by the way of Trieste, that
the Greek inhabitants of Prevesa have revolted
against the Turks, whose garrison had taken refuge
in the citadel, where it is besieged by the Greeks.

Extract of a letter from Marseilles :
" Coron has been taken by storm by the brigade
of General Sebastiani. Our troops displayed an
ardour and courage which called to mind the bravest
epochs of our military glory. The Bth regiment of
the line has sustained some loss.
" The garrison of Coron was put to the sword."
—Journal du Commerce de Lyon.

We quote this letter, without atiswering for the
contents. It is probable that so important a piece
of news would have reached the Government before
it could be published in a provincial journal.
FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, OCT. 15.—Five per Cents.
106 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents. 74f. 25c. 20c. 25e. ;
Bank Stock, 1,840 f. ; Naples Stock, 79f. 40c. ; Royal
Spanish Loan, 79k; Haytian Loan, 670f.—Exchange
on London, one month, 251. 25c.—Three months, 251.
I 4e.— Cows Authentipe.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning ...4t minutes after 10. I Evening....lB minutes after 11.