The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-17 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON FEB. 16.—Wind, light westerly breeze, and hazy.
DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., moderate.—Sld.
Jane May, Barbadoes.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Ellen Brooks,
FEB. 15.—Arrd. Oriental steamer, Alex-
Havre, for New Orleans.
a gale at Bermuda on the 27th and
COWES, FEB. 15.—Arrd. Marie, New York, for Havre.
Alex-
andria,
29th of January.
SodriziwlttwrroasNbtlowing
FALMOUTH, Fitn. 15.—Wind S.W.' strong breezes.—Arrd.
Glenalvon, Crouch, Aux Cayes, with loss of boats, bulwarks,
topmasts, yards, water casks, atc., whilst lying to during a
severe g_ale on the 24th and 25th ult., in lat. 37, long. 58.
. OFF DUNGENESS, FEB 12.—Elizabeth Louisa, Laguna, for
Hamburgh..
NEWPORT, FEB. •15.—A mast fifty feet long, apparently
the mainmast of a brig, or the mizenmast of a ship, seemingly
some time in water, came on shore in the bay 10th inst.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.—Wind S.S.W., light.—Arrd. Agnes,
Braithwaite, Rio de la Hache (Dec. 28) ; \\Warn Penning-
ton, Jamaica ; Jackson, Savanilla ; Jane Ross, Crabtree, New
Orleans; Elizabeth, Moses, St. John's, New Brunswick.
Sld. Sisters, Mexico ; Scotland, Now York. Two large
vessels were passed on shore on Fortune Island, and a large
barque on Crooked Island, with wreckers alongside, by the
Agnes, arrived here ; the same vessel saw also the top and
part of a topmast up on end on Robert's Shoal ; also, a large
mast, not long in the water, off Barbuda, and experienced
very bad weather on the passage.
SHIELDS, FEB. 14.—S1d. Amazon, Calcutta ; Orwell, Cape
of Good Hope.
WHITBY, FEB. 14.—The Magnet, of this port, from Stock-
ton to Scarborough, got on Whitby Rock at 4 P.M., but was
assisted off at eleven o'clock very leaky, and proceeded with
extra hands. The Neptune, of and from Sunderland, ran in
the neck at 6 P.M. and sank ; crew saved.
YARMOUTH, FEB. 15.—The Dispatch, from Middlesborough
to Ipswich, and the Percy, of Sunderland, were in contact in
the Roads yesterday, when the former lost bulwarks, &c.

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eWdneesdilinayg:ton is expected to leave
where his Grace will remain three or four days, to entertain
the judges; and during his Grace's absence it is not expected
that any business of importance will be transacted in the
House of Lords. Mr. Arbuthnot continues at Apsley House
in improved health.
SANDWICH ISLAND JOURNAL.—At the meeting of
the Estmological Society, held on Wednesday evening, fhere
were the first four numbers of a newspaper, published at the
Sandwich Islands in the native language._ This singular
journal, a small folio size, was published every second week,
the circulation was about 3,000, and the annual subscription
was about one-eighth of a dollar, or 6d. It is edited by an
American missionary.
THE METALLIC CAPSULE. —A very ingenious
method of preserving wine, spirits, and other liquids, how-
ever volatile or effervescent, whether in bottles or other ap-
propriate vessels, and without the use of wax, resin, wire, or
other objectionable or inconvenient materials, is now brought
into practical operation by Messrs. Betts, of Smithfield-bars,
to whom the public already stand so much indebted for their
successful efforts in distilling a pure and healthful spirit from
British produce, as a substitute for French brandy. The in-
vention consists in 4 metallic capsule, which encloses the
upper surface of the cork, and the neck of the bottle, in the
most perfect manner imaginable ; so that whilst nothing chin
escape, nothing can pass in to injure the contents •
whilst,
being stamped with the name of the firm and a description of
the article—whether used by the patentees or by other par-
ties—the utmost Security is afforded against the sale or sub-
stittion of anything spurious or inferior. The metal of
which the gr,10441Q lt+ P,R340.1P. anti theielba
unaffected by damp, ilternations or temperature, or the ex-
tremest change of climate. And to these advantages, eco-
nomy being added, the use of the metallic capsules by wine
and spirit merchants, perfumers, oilmen, confectioners, and
.
°Pigs., Must be nipst VAISII4IV.S> m.(l
I-lUNPEHTORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION-BRIDGE.
—lt' was stated on Thursday, at the half-yearly meeting of the
Col-4'114, th4t thq bridge -wilt hdcoMPletecl tlawrnuier.
It is contemplated to take a halfpenny toll, that amount in-
cluding the right to return.