The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-30 00:00:00

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

The Coromandel, Boyes, from Bengal, has arrived off
Portsmouth, sailed from thence the 30th March, from
Madras on the 3d May, and St. Helena on the 2d August.
PASSENGERS PER TEE COROMANDEL—Mrs. Stacey
and three children ; Miss A. Stacey and servant ; Mrs.
Massingham died at sea on the 13th of June ; Miss Mas-
singham ; Lieutenant-Colonel Gilman and Captain Speik,
of the Bengal Service; Mr. Fender, Assistant-Surgeon ;
Captain Connor, of his Majesty's 44th Regiment; Capt.
Keily, of his Majesty's 15th Regiment ; Major Fiddes, of
the Bengal Service, from Madras ; Mrs. Bowes and two
Children ; Mrs. Irving ; Lieutenant-Colonel Bowes, of the
Madras Service ; Mr. Irving, Surgeon ; Captain Cuppoge,
of his Majesty's 46th Regiment; Lieutenant Horn and
Lieutenant Kerr, of the Madras Service; Mrs. Fiddes,
one Native, and five European servants.
ARRIVALS AT MADRAS—The Clarissa, Ruffois, from
Bordeaux, on the 6th of April—sailed the sth of Novem-
ber; his Majesty's ship Pandora, Gordon, from Trinco-
malee, the 13th—sailed the 15th of April ; the Mary Ann,
Spottiswood, from London, the 21st ; the Renown, Baker,
from Bombay, the 22d, and the Simpson, Warren, from
ditto, the 21/tie—sailed from Telichery the 30th March,
and from Colombo the 20th April.
Switnics FROM MADRAS—The Telkia (steamer),
Peters, for Bombay, the 7th April ; the Edward and Eliza,
for Sumatra and Batavia, the 12th; the Minerva, Phillips,
for Sumatra, the 14th ; his Majesty's ship Pandora, Gor-
don, for Penang and Singapore, the 25th ; and the Re-
nown, Baker, for Bengal. The Mary Ann, to, sail for
Penang and Singapore the 7th May.
ARRIVAL AT CEYLON (CoLoalao)—The Whinscales,
Messenger, from the Mauritius.
ARRIVALS AT BENGAL—The Palamhang, Nash, from
Bombay, the 14th April ; and the Abgarris, Edwards,
from Madras, on the 15th.

SAILING FROM BENGAL—The Lord Melville, Bell, from
the Mauritius, the 16th April.

THE SHEARERS IN SCOTLAND.

The hand-loom weavers who were so judicious as
to leave the ill-paid loom for the labours of the har-
vest, have nearly all returned, and are highly pleased
with their success. Those that went no farther
than Linton hiring market have had from five to six
weeks' constant shearing, when the weather per-
mitted, and the wages per week were 95., exclusive
of bed and food. Those who went nearer the
borders had 12s. per week and victuals. Their
Lours were from five o clock in the morning till
seven o'clock at night. Their food was porridge
and akim or butter-milk, morning and evening.—
They messed in parties of seven; each male and
female was allowed a Scottish pint of porridge, and
a fourth of that quantity of milk. The breakfast
for this large number was, like in old Baronial times,
made at once in a capacious copper utensil. The
Porridge " spurtle" was 12 feet long ; and the top
°f it was inserted in a hole made in a plank, across
the is:listing ; and a stout person below kept stirring,
while the oatmeal was gradually scattered on the
Wiling surface. It tired two or three before the
process was completed, and the cogs fairly carted to
the field. The dinner was considered the poorest
1, the invariable diet being a "bap," or about
a two-penny loaf and a bottle of ill-fermented small
beer. The weavers coming off the loom did not the
first week relish this sort of food, but afterwards it
became quite palatable; and now, when they have re-
turned, they have acquired such vigorous stomachs,
that they say they ,are afraid that they will be able to
eat more than they can earn. They slept in pairs,
430 plenty of straw, with a pair of blankets below, and
another pair above them. None of them were allowed
to come near the fire; for if this privilege had been
granted to any, the farmer's ingle would have been
inundated. If the shearer's clothes became wet, it
had to be borne as philosophically as possible.
Washing of linen or shaving were unattainable to
the majority; and at the morning muster it was
jtuestioried if Nicholas's Don Cossacks could have
iekiipsed the grotesque appearance then displayed.
they 4,eseribe these large assemblies of Highland,
end Irish shearers as " coarse parties,"
say that the Highlanders are best behaved.
Some of the Irish, though candles were interdicted
'n the barn, would smuggle them on the Saturday
gdllhts, and play at cards till near day-light on Eun-
y morning,
The observance of the Sabbath is
harvest. represented as suspended in the Lothians during
.
The wages were paid on the Sabbath
0
raulgs, and the re-engagements made for the
en()suing six days for such shearers as were willing to
Lnctinne; and in case of sickness or wet weather,
oi and shelter were given, but no wages allowed.
The.tr shopkeepers did most business on the Sabbath.
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arptng-stones, and all agricultural imple-
ment openly displayed and sold in the village,
and the shearers devoted the day to making such
ra,rehases as they stood in need of, in clothes, shoes,
loni% Jo., besides the indispensable luxuries of co•
oil production.
The wheat crop this season is considered about
anaverage, though a good deal of it had sprouted,
fad will be inferior in quality. In one extensive
rut there was only planted one acre of potatoes
4ilq fifteen acres of corn. Dairy produce is nearly
• 4egleeted, anti the milk for the shearers had to be
carried to a considerable distance.—Glasgow Chron.

RAMSGATE, SEPT. 24.—An extraordinary
aind very novel circumstance occurred on this coast the other
14Y• A Custom-house officer observing a retrial kable oh-
4reiet floating at a short distance from the land near Pegwell
may, went out to it to satisfy his curiosity, and was sun-
rised at the discovery of about twenty-five tubs of spirits
i„I" IPgPtlier, and a dead man entangled in the ropes. It
‘apposed that hg had been endeavouring to tow the tubs
a!hore by swimming, and had perished in the attempt by
kausted
?Inking into the sands at low water, or that becoming oc-
he had been carried away by the current. In
!nher case it is probable that he suffered a dreadful death
to starvation. Ile was recognized as a gardener belonging
this town, who was not generally suspected of being en-
gaged in illicit trade. The capture of a smuggler in this
411ner is as novel as the strange and hazardous enterprise
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"ugh terminated so fatally.—. Essex Herald.