The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-12 00:00:00

'MITS.

IM PORTED.

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Same pc-
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This nod last
year. year.

Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
Liverpool 521,868 446,489
London 52,779 47,151
Glasgow 23,869 20,223
Total exported in 1829
Same period 1928

EXPORTED.
Previous-
ly this
y ear.
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Bags, &c. Bags, &c.
1,209 24,618
1,350 35,726
237
63,139.
42,361.

THE SWIMMING RACE AT LIVERPOOL.—
At half-past one o'clock on Thursday, Mr. Yumal. and
Mr. EDWARDS started from the northern extremity of the
Prince's Pier, to swim to the opposite shore. The match
was so vaguely made that it is impossible to determine
which is the victor. Mr. EDWARDS, it appears, landed
first about Birkenhead, under the impression that he who
should reach the Cheshire coast first would gain the prize.
Mr. VIPOND landed near Woodside, a few minutes after ;
but according to his own account he could have reached
shore much sooner had he not supposed that it was neces-
sary to land between the two piers at Woodside. Having
passed that station, he lost, as he states, at least 20 mi-
nutes in stemming the tide, before he could arrive at what
he supposed the destined goal. The accounts of the two
gentlemen and their friends are so much at variance, that
we see no probability of deciding the match but by another
struggle.—Liverpool Mercury.
AMUSEMENT IN NORTH AMERICA.—In
Salem, Massachusets, after the heavy and deep snow fall,
a man was discovered sticking sticks into a huge " winter
bank of snow." On being asked why he amused himself
thus ? " Amuse!" said he, with a voice which betrayed
the deepest anxiety of mind, " fine amusement ! I have
lost my shop—it used to stand somewhere near this spot."
—American Paper.

A GRAVE PUN.—When Mr. B- was
offered a judgeship in India a friend who wished him to
accept the appointment observed to him that the salary of
the office would enable him to live in much better style
than he could by the exercise of his talents at home.
" True," said the legal punster ; " but, after all, I prefer
small beer in England to any bier, however magnificent I
might obtain (and no doubt I should need it soon enough)
in India." This argument was too cogent to be resisted,
and Mr. B. was importuned on the subject no more.
UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF FELONY.—The
following ludicrous circumstance took place at Blackwall
one day last week :—A respectable tradesman of that
place, who had been in the navy, was informed by a friend
that an Irish sailor, then drinking in the Admiral Vernon,
had asserted that he well knew him (the tradesman) when
he wfis a regular sheep-stealer. Anxious to repel this at-
tack on his spotless reputation Snip (for our friend was a
professor of the goose and shears) posted off without delay
to the public-house in question, and indignantly demanded
why his fair fame had been assailed by so unfounded an
assertion. "Airy, my jewel !" coolly returned Paddy,
64 I niver thought of such a thing ! All I said was—an'
I'll stanl to it for the truth—that whin I know'd you
aboard the Britannia you was the regular ship's-tailor!"
This explanation of the mysterious charge produced a roar
of laughter, in which poor Snip joined; and ere he and
his former messmate parted both were once more half-
seas over,