The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-04 00:00:00

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.

G. Robertson and W. Sinclair, Glasgow, wine-mer-
chants April 6 and 23, at twelve, at the Lyceum Rooms,
Glasgow.

TONNAGE.

A Comparative Statement of British and Foreign Ton-
nage, cleared outwards from the Ports of Great Britain,
distinguishing the several Countries; for the year ending
Jan. sth, 1827.
Countries. Brit. Ton. For. Ton.
Russia
Sweden
The Baltic (nut otherwise stated) 289 41,893
Norway 8,377 78,089
Denmark
Prussia
Germany
Belgium • • 62,127 58,091
France
,Portugal
Spain 26,913 4,690
Gibraltar
The Mediterranean (not otherwise
stated) , 260 185
Malta
lonian Islands,., . l.. 4'883
Turkey and the Levant
Foreign Par t s,not oil I erwise stated 1,627
Hamm IsLINos, viz.:—
Guernsey, Jersey, Man, and Al-
derney
Asia
Africa ...... ... ...... .: .... 26,723

Greenland Fisher; 30,103
Southern Whale Ito
British Northern kll 1 o n i es
British West India.iiilarals
United States of Anterisa 53,947 142,010
Foreign West Indhi Islands
Foreign Continental Colonies 41,119 1,475

Total Great Britain 1,620,293

641,106

(Ireland.)—A Comparative Statement of British and
Foreign Tonnage, cleared outwards from the Ports of Ire-
land, distinguishing the several Countries; for the year
ending Jan. 5, 1827.
Countries. Brit. Ton. For. Ton.
Russia
Sweden v,.... 336
Norway 44. 2,016 15,999
Denmark ..... 232
,Prussia 4........... ...... ..... 3,715 7,330
Germany
Belgium 622
France
1,836 8,069
1,891 1,279
1,1477 1,269
. 394
156
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BRITISH ISI.4tHS, VIZ. :-•-•
Jersey and Isle otiVlan 9(30
Africa 904
..
ftrittsh Northern
pi t)lonies
British West In Islands,
United States o lqa 4/ id c a .....
Foreign Continental Colonies. 296'

Total Ireland 117,032 51,334

AN ELEPHANT HUNT.—A party pursued
awl fired several times at an enormous male elephant, the
animal became enraged with the wounds inflicted on him,
and made a furious attack. He fixed his eye on a poor
fellow who stood at a little distance, whilst the rest of the
party ran up a bill. The elephant, unable to pursue that
track, chased the unfortunate man, and in making a short
turn round
the bush, broke his own leg. This accident,
however, did not stop his pursuit. Instead of running,
the elephant now
made enormous strides. The party on
the hill saw the utter impossibility of the man's escape.
His utmost speed appeared as nothing compared with the
enemy's
gigantic movements. In a few seconds he over-
took the object of his pursuit, twisted him in his trunk,
and trampled him to death ! then raising the body from
the ground, threw it into a tree. The ,elephant now re-
turned towards the bush, apparently suffering much from
the wounds lie had received. The female came out to
meet him, and endeavoured, by placing her shoulder under
him, to enable him to walk off. Another shot, however,
brought hintolown, and his mate left him. One of the
patry then fired at her, but only with small shot, which
made no impression. It bad the effect hoverer, of in-
creasing her rage, and she pursued the officer who fired.
He fled, believing death inevitable, and fell at the moment
the elephant reached him. As be lay flat on the ground,
the animal did not use her trunk, but darted at him with
her tusk, (fortunately she had but one.) She missed her
91132 and tore up the ground within an inch of his shoulder.
At the instant she was about to trample on him, an intrepid
young Highlander advanced within a kw paces, fired, and
mortally wounded the elephant, who quitted her prey,
rushed into the bushes, and died. The stupendous male
elephant measured eighteen feet in height...-. Thompson 's
South Africa.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition from
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Cornwall,
against any alteration of the corn laws.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH presented a petition to the
same effect from the occupiers of 81,000 acres in two pa-
rishes in the East Riding of the county of York.
Lord SUFFIELD, seeing the spring guns bill was
printed, gave notice that he would to •morrow move the
second reading.
Lord SUFFIELD then stated, that he had a petition to
present from the Operative Weavers of Lancashire, praying
for redress. The petitioners stated their utmost readiness
to bear their grievances with patience at a time of general
distress, in common with the other classes of the commu-
nity ; but that there were certain grievances which pecu-
liarly attached to themselves. They stated that they were
subject to the petty tyranny of their masters, who, putting
out work to be manufactured in the summer, if that work
should be in the least damaged, charged their own price for
the damage. They prayed their Lordships to institute an
inquiry, either by a Committee or Commissioners, into the
law of arbitration, which had become a mockery of justice,
from the circumstances of workmen having to appeal to
Magistrates who were connected with the manufacturing
trade. It possibly might be his duty to move for such an
inquiry, for in all cases where public good was to be the
result, he, and he was sure every other Noble Lord, would
be willing to devote time to a Committee, though at the
same time, when there was a Government, or should be
one, the duty of such inquiry more properly devolved on it.
Yet in this instance it was not his intention to move for a
Committee. He said this under the full conviction that
the Noble Lord whom he saw in his place would pay every
attention to the subject.
Lord BEXLEY stated, that though this petition, like
every other, was entitled to the consideration of the House,
yet it was more entitled to attention on account of the
patience with which the petitioners had borne their suffer-
ings. On that account, as well as others, the Government
was anxious to afford them redress; but their Lordships
I were aware of the extreme difficulty and delicacy of inter-
ference between employers and employed, and that legisla-
tive interference often only produced new evils. With re-
spect to the magistrates the greatest care had been taken to
inquire into their character, on purpose to avoid putting
into the commission any gentleman engaged in the trade.
He was sure that a more honourable or independent body
of gentlemen were not to be found.
Lord GOSFORD presented a petition from the farmers,
millers, merchants, and maltstcrs from Hadleigh, in Suffolk,
against any alteration in the Corn Laws.—Adjourned.