The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-21 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LoNuoN, May 20. Wind this day at Noon, S.
DEAL, MAY 19, A.M. R.N. E., light and foggy,—r..st ,
SE. by 5, moderate thick fog.—Arrived from the river and
sailed, Clormda, Doming 0; 'rector, Jamaica; Vulcan, Japan,
for the Smith Seas. Arrived, Bilson;Newcastle fur Singapore.
LivEarooL, MAY 19.—Wind variable, Westerly—Sd. Ri-
verstone, Maranham ; Sarah, Tretman; Barbadoes ; S. Mark,
Savannah • Normanton, Montreal ; Nymph, Newfoundland;
dalcntta. Arrd. off Harmony.
Du BUN, MAY 14.—Sd., Ellen. Trinidad.
CROOKHAVEN, MAY 14.—Arrd. Samuel Abbott, Weymos,
Cuba, for Swansea, sailed March 24th. Sid. Marquis Normanby.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S. S. W. to N. W. —Arrd.
her Majesty's ship Crocodile, Plymouth.
PLYMOUTH.— Sailed Repulse (transport), Madras.
FALMOUTH, MAY 18. —Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
A,lriana, Rotterdam, for Havannab, with mainmast sprung.
SW. 'ray (steamer) West Indies.
PENZANCE, MAY 16.—Arrd. off, Bolitte Puggaard, Lund,
Havannah for Stettin. _

PASSED THROUGH THE DOWNS.—Thfstes (barque) London

HER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE.-I,FiOravanti's comic
opera of Le Cantatrice Villane was performed for Lablache's
benefit on Thursday !for the first tithe. It primarily appeared at
Paris. in 1806, and there bad a considerable run. During the
ten subsequent years it was frequently revived, and after having
lain dormant for the next twenty, was re-produced there with
especial success last season at Paris, which has led to its
representation here. Fioravanti died at Naples in 1&33.
Lablache. acted the old rich gouty amateur of music, Don
Marco Bonlba ; Persiani the Rosa of the piece ; and Frezzo-
lini the Agatha. Between the acts of the opera, Celt° intro-
duced her Gitana dance. which met with unbounded ap-
plause, and the National Anthem was afterwards sung, in
honnnr of her Majesty's birth .day.
W • refer our readers to the Mansion House report of
a ca,e which came before the Lord Mayor yesterday.
.
It appears from this that the Consuls of foreign States
have rwraed to refuse relief to sailors in distress of their
•
respective
.countries,, when they .'arrive
in England as
sailors on board an English vessel. lye cannot see the
justice or expediency of such a regulation. It does not
appear quite fair to throw the burden of maintaining
the poor sailors of other countries' on England, merely
because they entered into an engagement with an
remitsyelves, for they ; they can-
'have been industrious, and God has been bountiful. "As
English Captain when they could 'find no other em-
ploy ment.
THE QUEEN'S LETTER.—A Correspondent asks us
how it is likely the episcopal clergy will speak of the
usd abnyy nualetupreoalpcle alt
di,tresit of the people hi their sermons. They cannot
can-
not sp
rib(e%ikt,ohieitsaasycsa, to
o
politicians, I know," he says, "how the clergy will treat
the question ; but what they can or will say about it in
the temples of the living God, I urn puzzled to con-
jecture." Perhaps some of our clerical readers, the
izt.,v. Mr. Spencer, or the Rev. H. Price, may supply
model sermon for the occasion.
In the last nine years the Ccimmissioriers of Woods
awl Forests have expended 61,3601. in improving the Phenix
Park, Dublin.
The lamentable accident on the Paris and Versailles
Railway has excited the greatest attention among the Railway
Companies in this country, who are desirous of ascertaining the
real cause of it. Some of them have already sent over to
Fiance for the purpose of obtaininE, accurate information.
EXTENSIVE THEFT OF BOOKS, &c.—..A few days
ago, two gentlemen—one from Glasgow,,re and another from
Paisley—appeared at the Police:TT ne, and stated that a
variety of books, shawls, &C., ha disappeared from their re-
spective premises, and that they suspected a certain M.D. of
their acquaintance, then residing in Edinburgh, of having
stolen them. The pol.ce accordingly repaired to the lodgings
of the suspected party, and there found a number of the miss-
ing articles, besides others which havebeen claimed as
the property of persons in this.ci y. Having learned also that
the mother of the learned delinquent resided in Aberdeen, a
letter was immediately forwarded to the Superintendent of Po-
lice in that quarter, requesting him to order her house to be
searched. The result was the arrival on Tuesday night of two
large boxes of books
Glasgow,
and shops both in Edinburgh and The individual is
in custody.—Edinburgh Paper.
A 'fleeting- of a remarkable character tookiplace on
Sunday last at Dunkerrin, a village schich is situate on the
borders of Tipperary and King's counties; It appears that let.
terly spies and incendiaries, knoan by the appellation of
" Paddy M'Kews!" have been actively at Work in that part of
the country, to induce the peasantry to abandon the temperance
system, and become members of - secret and illegal confedera-
cies. Thirty Thousand of the teetotallers attended on that days
when the Rev. Dr. Nolan protested 'violently against the4l
ecret proceedings, and adviset! them to serrender up all fire-
ams if they possessed any. Scverad person,
f
came onward
acknowledging the facts, and „nleitily expressing contrition.
An inspection is forthwith to take place of the
Militia Stall of the United Kingdom •
In order to ascer-
tain their efficiency and fitness fur (hay.
There is nothing of interest in the Madrid journals
of the 10th inst. The discussion on the budget continued in
the Chamber of Deputies, but no real .progress had been
made in it.
FIRE AT HANIBURGIL—Mr• Cohen, cigar-manufac-
turer at Hamburgh, requests us to contradict the statement
which has appeared in most of the papers, that the fire broke
out on his premises. He informs us that he has satisfactorily
,' proved to the civic authorities of Harabaigh, by the evidence of
!-the Chief Commissioner of Police, that the fiie did not reach
i his house till full half au hour after it=had laden out.