The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

STEAM PACKETS.

We stated, some time ago, that not less than twelve steam-
boats ply from this port. This number will soon be increased.
Three new boats are now building in Messrs. Mottershead and
Hutchinson's yard ; one large one to ply between this port and
Greenock ' • another, between this port and Bagillt; and a third
is destined to sail regularly to the vicinity of Lancaster. One
river is also projected to cross the between this port and Seacomb.
When all these boats shall' be finished, the number of our
steam-packets will, we have no doubt, double that of any other
place in the kingdom.—(Liverpool Courier.)
We understand that the proprietors of the Cambria, steam-
packet, at a meeting held a few.slays ago, determined on build-
ing another vessel, to ply daily, by way of Hoylake, between
Wales and this port. She will be ready early next spring, and
the public will thus be accommodated with a conveyance every
mornirg and evening, both from Bagillt and Liverpool. The
communication between the rivers Dee and '.‘Jersey, with the
improvements to be made at the landing-place in. Wales, will
then be perfect; and, we are informed, there is some proba-
bility that one of the vessels will sail regularly once every week,
during the summer months, by way of Hoylake and the Point
of Ayr, to Beaumaris and Bangor, leaving passengers at Aber-
gele and Conway, to return by the same course.—(ldem.)
Yesterday afternnon (Monday, Bth inst.) the Tourist arrived
from London in fifty-two hours. The regularity with which
the London steam-vessels have performed heir voyages during
the late gales of wind must in a great measure remove all doubts
of their incompetency for the passage, and establish that
confidence with the public which they seem to merit.—(Edin-
burgh Paper.)

A Frankfort Paper contains the following
amusing notice from a Professor :

Professor Krug has sent us the following :—" There is not
one word of truth in all that Mr. Clod, Student of Divinity, has
said in respect to me, in No. 133 of the Hamburg Corres-
pondent.! This Mr. Clod has either lost his senses or he is an
Impostor, if he is not the tool of a wretched intrigue, intended
to make a good cause ridiculous by a foolish defence of it. In
general I request that all accounts about me in the papers may
be looked at with distnist, as they are partly quite false, and
partly but half true. " Prof. KRUG.
" Leipsic, Sept. 23." •
General EDEN, who was obliged to have one.
of his hands amputated in consequence of the
bursting of his gun, whilst shooting, a few days
ago, on Lord Buckingamshire's manor, is now
rapidly recovering.
m urtoEn.,—On Saturdaylast an Inquest was held at the Knuck-
las, in the parish of Hayup, in the county of Radnor, before ED-
WARD MEREDITH, I:sq., one of the Coroners for the county,
for the purpose of ascertaining how Arthur Bedward, late of die
parish of Beguildy, tailor (who was found murdered and thrown
into a ditch near the road leading from Knighton to the Llay-
ney), on the Friday morning preceding, came hythis death ; and
after a patient and attentive examination of the case, the Jury
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Samuel Har-
ley, of the parish of Knighton, labourer, and he was committed
to the common gaol at Presteign to take his trial for the same.
The deceased was an elderly man, of the age of CO or upwards,
and was murdered as he was going home from Knighton mar-
ket on the Thursday night, between the hours of ten and eleven;
he has left a widow and ten children to lament his untimely
end. On Sunday Samuel Harley cut his throat with a razor in
the prison, and no hopes are entertained of his recovery.—(Here-
ford Journal.)
SETTING FIRE TO A WATCH-HousE.—A few
evenings ago,' Smith, a constable of Lambeth,
apprehended a boy named Crow, about 17 years
of age, on a charge of stealing, and lodged him
in Lambeth cage for the night, where there was
also another prisoner confined. About one o'clock
in the morning, he was informed that the watch-
house was in a blaze, and the fire had 'gained
such an ascendancy, that it was feared the pri-
soners had been burnt to death. lie hastened
to the spot, the watchmen following him with
the two parish engines, and after half an hour's
incessant labour, extinguished the flames. On
proceeding to the interior of the watch-house, he
found Crow with the sleeve of his coat on fire,
and his arm a little burnt, and the other prisoner
nearly suffocated by the smoke, but not injured
by the fire. The boy, Crow, was suffering so
much pain, that at the moment he confessed hav-
ing set fire to the place. The watch-house was
completely destroyed (at least the timber-work)
so that Smith was obliged to convey them to the
Surrey, watch-house during the might.