The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-17 00:00:00

LLO YD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind this day at n oon,
S.W., light and hazy.
DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W. by S. modernt.
Arrd. Pink, Patterson, Calcutta; Itoseberry, You ig,
Montreal, Sld. Golden Fleece, Perna mbmx); Whaza-
ilea, Demerara. Remain, Fiedel, Venergia, for Rio
Janeiro; Edinburgh, New Orleans; Ocean and
Jean Graham, Sierra Leone ; Isabella, for Demerara;
Charles, for Tobago; and several others.
PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 15.—Wind, S.S.E.. fine.--Sid.
'Quebec, New York.
Orr BEACHEY HEAD, DEC. 14.—Manhattan, Bith-
;nib New York, for Amsterdam ; Adeline, Chum-
be.:-s, Quebec.

ITEA. X1;10ETII, DEC. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Roy-
alisi, ,Shapeott, Demerara; Pestonjee Bomanjee
(,'-ranspo.,-t), Launceston, Quebec.
, DEC. 15.—Arrd. Albion, Hick, Quebec.
Sld. 1171111m1 Miles, Jamaica; Hero, Fayal.
SWAaSEA, -DEC. 13.—Arrd. Helen Simpson, Cuba.
LARNE Chieftain, Quebec.
GnANGEMOUnr.—Arrd. Hampton, Quebec.
GLAsoow, DEC: .15.--The Fidelity, from Lerwick
to Bristol, stranded on the Island of Jura, has been
jot off* after discharging her cargo, and put into
Ardilshan to repair.

Ir.FRACONEE, DEC. 15.--The L udd, from Cette
and Gibraltar, has been towed in here with loss of
rudder, spars, and sails.
Llvraroon, DEC. S.S.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Richard Anderson, Bernyett, Virginia; Port-
land, Robinson, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld.
Bitlston, Calcutta ; Fame, Buenos Ayres ; Windsor,
Ceara; Ariadne, and (John Boltcm New Orleans;
Mary Campbell, and Greenock, Mobile ; Garrick,
New York ; Levant, Magnolia. The Hampden,
bound to Liverpool, was ashore on the Bar of the
Mississirmi about Nov. 8.
Orr IlAsTiNus.—Glen Huntley, Calcutta.
DUBLIN, DEC. 13.—Arrd. Industry, Stephens,
St. John's, New Brunswick.
LOIVESTOFF, DEC. I.s.—Anna, Haward, of New-
nrt, which was on the Holm Sand, has been assisted
oft; and proceeded.
SiVELDS, DEC. 14.—Sid. Princess Victoria, Monte
Video.

lIITL4 DEC. 14.—Arrd. Harriet Rochwell, Brand,
Chariestog,

THE GREAT GALE on LAKE ERIE.

A furious pie took place on Lake Erie on Friday
last and the night following, accompanied by a driv-
ing fall of snow, wilich _rendered the atmosphere so
thick as to obstruct the Tisiol: at a few yards' distance. /

The weather was very cold wjthai, aiid we fear the
damage done on the lake was very gz eat. The Bilfalo
Commercial of Saturday evening rec:rimts the follow-
ing disasters within a few miles of that rort
" The schooner Jefferson, Captain I.lougall, went
ashore at six o'clock last night, about three miles
above Buffalo light •house, and is a total wreck, at-
tended with a melancholy loss of life— one entire
family, husband, wife, and five children, together with
a young woman, and one of the men belongiog to the
vessel having perished ! Captain Dougall, front whom
we have the painful recital, says that about two hours
after his vessel beached, the companion-way was
washed off, and the children and young won:an
drowned in the cabin and forecastle. A portion
of the crew had got ashore in quest of help, old
were endeavouring to rescue the family. The
mate wrapped his overcoat around the woman, an&
tried to keep her warm by walking her to and fro on
the beach, but she soon became exhausted and inca-•
pable of motion, and was placed in the boat which had:
washed up, where she died in a short time. Her
husband was delirious on reaching shore, and attempted
to escape into the swamp near by, but perished within
a short distance. One of the hands belonging to the
vessel, named James Bruce, got into the swamp, and
was likewise lost. The Jefferson was bound for that:
port, with a cargo of 500 barrels of salt, 40 tons of
iron, and some merchandise, which will be mostly lost.
The crew succeeded about mid-night in getting on
hoard the brig Olive Richmond, beached below them,
in a greatly exhausted state.
When our reporter reached the vessel this forenoon,
the figure of the young woman above-mentioned was

discoered standing in an upright posture, in the fore—
castle companion way, frozen stark and stiff, with
hands partly raised in an imploring posture, and her
eyes fixed with a cold and stony gaze upon the shore.
Of the vessels heard from, eleven in number, all
have been wrecked, in a distance of some twenty
miles from Buffalo, which is the extent of the coast
heard from ; what the effect has been beyond isvn-

known, but it is apprehended will prove most fearful.
The steamers Great Western and Wisconsin, from
the upper lakes, and due at Buffalo on Thursday, had

not arrived. The Canal is closed at Rochester and
westward.

GALE ON LAKE ONTARIO.-tt letter just received
from Oswego, dated Nov. 19, says—

" We are in the midst of one of our most tremen-
dous westerly gales. A, schooner, froth mismanage-
ment, has just been driven-on-the!eastlisr, within the
piers, and must be lost. I neVer this, a more prodigious
sea running."
Further advices we fear will swell the tide of suf-
fering for days yet. No steam-boats had arrived_
down the lake for 24 hours. We learn verbally that
the Erie Canal, as far east as Rochester, closed with

ice on Saturday night—doubtless from the effect of the

snow fall. We fear that by this time the Canal i
nearly closed throughout, greatly to the disappoint-
ment and loss of the mercantile community, who have
now millions worth of produce embarked on it, or
awaiting transportation the wrong side of Albany.
The water rose five feet in Buffalo Harbour, and
the Rochester packet of Friday night had not reached
Buffalo on Saturday at two P.m.

EXPENSES OF THE LATE CONTEST IN YORKSHIRE*.
—A paragraph appears in the Leeds papers, to the
effect that Miss Rhodes, of the Stafford Arms Hotel,
Wakefield, filled as many as 8,000 classes of brandy
during the election for the office of registrar, and
charged them to the committee acting on behalf of
the lion. Arthur Lascelles. The statement is wide
of the mark by several thousands ; and 800 would be
much nearer the truth. The gross amount of 111iss
Rhodes's charge to the committee is 2,1701. Mr.
Hodgson's expenses fall short of 4,0001. Mr. Las-
celles will hardly be free, it is said, for 5,5001. or
6,0001. Both parties are paying off as fast as the bills
can be got in; and we hear of no grumbling on either
side in regard to deductions from the charges in the
bills.—York Courant.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 11.--On Friday the 16th of this
month, the fifty-second anniversary of his Majesty's
birth will be observed in the. usual manner.—lt will
be remembered that the Chamber of Representatives
has resolved to search for, collect, and publish docu-
ments relative to the ancient national assemblies of
Belgium. We learn that the Chamber has just ac-
quired some highly interesting MSS. towards this
collection. These papers (between 550 and GOO)
concerned the States-General assembled at Brussels
and Antwerp in the years 1576,
1577, 1579, and 1580.
Count John and Lady Cecil Delafield, leftiMvart; s
Hotel on Thursday, for the Earl of Limerick's
Bedfordshire.
DEATH OF TUE HON. C. H. STRATFORD.—Letters
have reached town which announce the death, at sea,
on his return from China, of the Hon. C. 11. Stratford,
Captain in the 18th Royal Irish, and second son of the
Earl of Aldborough.
EOLOGY.—A person residing in
this place lately picked from the top of an old
dyke a piece of sandstone, which struck him as
being marked with some singular impressions.
On submitting it to the inspection of several of
our local geologists, they were convinced that the
impressions were organisms of an uncommon
type ; but they were unable to define to what
genus of animals they belonged. Subsequent
light has been thrown upon the specimen, howeveri
and it appears that the impressions in question are the
scales of the Holoptychius, a fish which belongs to
the upper formation of the old red sandstone, and
which, in point of grotesquesn ess of form and
peculiarity of construction, will yield to none
which the wonder-revealing science of geology has
yet brought to light. The specimen of the scales
which has been discovered here, is supposed to
have come out. of Tudhope quarry, near which it
was found. The quarry has not been wrought
for several years ; but now that this discovery has been
made, there is no saying to what extent the remains of
primeral days may have been brought to the surface by
the inobservant quarryman. As it is, a new interest will
beimparted to the sandstones of this district, and
we have no doubt that geologists will find a new
field for further discovery. Scales of a similar
character to those above mentioned have , been
found by an intelligent gentleman of Rule Water,
near the foot of Wynbrugh Hill. There are few
instances in which an entire specimen of. the
Ho4tychius has been found anywhere. The most
perfect is that discovered by the Rev. James Noble,
of St. Madoes, in the sandstones of Claslibe
in nnie, and
which has created a great deal of discussion its day.
—Kelso Chronicle.
We understand that communications have been
exchanged between the Bishop of London and the
Attorney-General on the subject of the impunity
which has hitherto been permitted to the pub-
lishers of blasphemous tracts and placards, and
that measures are about to be adopted by the
Government for the punishment of the guilty
parties. A very few days before the interference
of Mr. Knight Bruce, a young gentleman
of the name of Wileis had applied at Bow-street
and other police-offices for warrants against the
miscreant whose windows were broken by Mr-
Bruce, ' without success ; those gentlemen, although
one of the placards was produced before them, de'
dining to interfere.—Standard.—[Wl3° are the en-
tlemen to whom our Contemporary refers ? The
only parties to which the leader alludes are police-
offices and Bow-street, never till the present time
reckoned gentleniep]

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
VICE- CHANCELLORS' COURT, Dec. 16.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
The Court was occupied with unopposed petitions
and short causes; it then took petitions by order,
most of which came on to be spoke to, or had been
part heard.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. BRUCE.)
MORTON V. TEWART.
The hearing of this part-heard cause was concluded
this morning, and his Honour pronounced judgment.
It appeared that Mr. Morton, who had married Mr.
Curling's sister, was the tenant of a farm at a rental of
1,4001. a year, under Lord Tankerville. Failing into
difficulties he assigned his property to trustees for the
benefit of his creditors. In substance, therefore, the
farm was relinquished to Lord Tankerville. The
steward of the estate, in the execution of his duty,
took steps for re-letting the farm. This was a great
loss to Mr. Morton's estate, and the loss was heavier
than it would have been, on account of the embarrass-
ments in-which he was involved. 'Mr. Curling com-
menced a correspondence with Lord Tankerville's
steward, with a view to taking the farm himself, for
the purpose of assisting his sister and her family.
The arrangement was made upon the footing that Mr.
Curling should be considered as the tenant, and be
associated with himself in the manangement of
the estate by a fanner of, the name of Bodmin,
who, it appeared, was to hare a certain
part of the farm at his own risk. In substance the
arrangement made was, that Bodmin should have the
benefit of the lease, and make what he could of it.
The question was, whether the interest taken by Mr.
Curling was to be considered as for his own benefit,
and to be used at his own arbitrary discretion: That
was the question in the cause. The letters which had
been put in evidence appeared to afford sufficient evi-
dence of the tenantcy. Mr. Curling's intention might
be changed by a great variety of circumstances. His
Honour, after going at length into the ease, said he
was of opinion that the mother and her children must
be held to have been taken as joint tenants. His de-
cree would be to declare that all the benefits which
Mr. Curling took under the assignment of the lease
were taken as trustee for Mrs. Morton and her children.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir JAMES WIGRAM.)
'' • OOLDSMID V. GOLDSMID.

His HONOUR gave judgment this morning in this
case. The question in the cause related to the moiety
of ten-twentieths of certain property, the trusts of
which were declared by a deed which was executed on
the 25th of April, 1821. The deed was executed in
pursuance of a power which was granted by statute
to certain trustees, in relation to the estate of the late
Mr. Abraham Goldsmid. To this deed Ann Gold-
smid, one of the persons interested in the estate, was a
party, as were all the trustees mentioned in the
statute. Moses Goldsmid, to whsm, by the will of
Ann, a part of the property was appointed, had filed
his bill, insisting that the trust deed of April, 1821,
was void as against him, and prayed relief upon that
footing. The argument for Moses Goldsmid was,
that in the declaration of trust contained in the deed,
the trustees had assumed a power to delegate to others
the execution of a trust which was reposed in them-
selves, that they had no right to delegate that trust,
and, therefore, that the deed was void. He also
objected that the deed authorised a creation
of estates, which was not warranted by the
power. He thought the deed operated in two ways ;
first, as the appointment of an appointee, and, secondly,
as a settlement by the appointee of the property. All
the cases bearing on the point led to the conclusion
that if the estates to be created by the will of Ann
had been inserted in the deed itself, instead of being
left to be created by Ann, those estates would be
good, though not given to the persons named in the
act of settlement. In this case there was, first, the
appointment of Ann, and then the settlement of Ann.
It could make no possible difference whether the form
was given to Ann in the form of an interest, or in the
form of a power. The only shadow of distinction
arose from the circumstance that Ann was not named
by herself as a separate party to the deed; but he
thought that was not sufficient to justify a departure
from the ordinary rule. His decision, therefore, would
be against the plaintiff.