The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, DEC. 19.—Wind this day at noon, Wes-
terley, light breeze and hazy.
DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind W.N.W. moderate.—Arrd.
Elizabeth, Muth, Hull, for Mobile; Sovereign tran-
sport, Parkfield, Rhind, and Rowena, westward.
Ski. Thomas Bonet, Cape of Good Hope, and several
others. The Scotia, from Rotterdam for Mobile got
on the Goodwin Sands yesterday, but was assisted off,
and proceeded without apparent damage.
FALMOUTH, Dvc. 17.—Wind N.W. to W., mo-
derate.—Sld. Solway, West Indies.
SWANSEA, DEC. 17.—The Brazilian, from Havre
to Port-au-Prince, got on the Patch Sand Bank at
the entrance of Meath harbour last night, and ex-
pected to become a wreck. Crew and part of cargo
saved ; the latter in a damaged state. •

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 18.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd.
Palmyra, Croal, Demerara; Methiers Pumeiro,
Paths, ayal ; Walter, Boyd, New Orleans, left 16th
ult.; Secret, Brewer, Lima ' • Margaret Forbes, Pres-
cott, Charleston ; Susquellanah, Micken, Philadel-
phia ; New Zealand, Bannerman, St. John's, New
Brunswick. Sld. Devonia, Africa; Valparaiso, Val-
paraiso ; Perdonnet, New Orleans ; Harriet and Jane,
Charleston. A large three-masted vessel was seen
15th inst. five miles north of Point Lynas, with her
bows just above water.
B LLY SHANNON; DEC. 16.—The Louisa Conolly,
ashore on the Bar, has become a wreck ; part of cargo
and materials saved.

PORTSMOUTH, DISC. 18.—Wind NAV. to W.—
Arrd. Nailor, London, for Maranham; Pakenham,
London, for Vera Cruz ; Tory transport, Lukey,
Quebec. Shl. her Majesty's ship Warspite, Bei amda.
Arrd. off, Belgique, Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp.
COWES, DEc. 18.—Arrd. Pilgrim, London, fox
Rio Janeiro; Neptune, London, for Havannah ;
Achilles, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Antwerp.
Orr NORTH FORELAND, DEC 14.—Polidon, Ham-
buEgh, for Pernambuco.

RAMSGATE, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Providencia, Ham-
burgh, for Madeira, with damage to rigging. The
True Love, Poulton, from Mauritius to Amsterdam,
has been assisted in here leaky, with loss of sails, &c.
KINGSTOWN, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Plata, Liverpool, for
Buenos Ayres.
DUBLIN BAY, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Cleveland, Manly,
Colombo and Cape, left Oct. 2, with the master and
crew of the Abercrombie Robinson.
LEITH DEC. 16.—Arrd. Thames, Bell, and Nor-
thumberland, Mepulay, Dalhousie.
'MONTROSE DEC. 16.—The Mary, Lawson, from
Belfast, which was ashore in the bay on the 12th
inst., has become a wreck. Cvrgo saved, in a da-
maged state.
STROMNESS, DEC. 10.—The Highlander, Roberts,
from Riga to Liverpool, has put in here leaky, having
struck on a reef off the island of Sanday.
KINSALE, DEC. 15.—The Woodside, Scott, from
Gibraltar, which arrived :here on the 11th inst., got
on the rocks yesterday, but was assisted off.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 18. Arrd. Elbe steamer,
Dunkirk; Lady Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar.
Sld Royal Tar steamer, Gibraltar.
TEIGNMOUTII, DEC. 17.—Arrd. Ilaberdure, Hore,
Labrador.

OFF PENZANCE, DEW. 17.—Elizabeth, Newfound-
land ; Nassau, Nassau.

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—William Inglis, London
to Constantinople, 19th ult., lat. 3G N., lon. 18 E.
Chilian, Clyde to Batavia, 30th, lat. 41, lon. 12 W.,
by the Eliza and Ann, arrived at Falmouth. Black-
eyed Susan, from Liverpool, Bth inst., off Cape St.
Vincent, by the Integrity, arrived at Falmouth.
Hampden, Howard, Nov. 24, lat. 27, lon. 79; William
Goddard, same day ; Chimborazo, Liverpool to Lima,
16th inst., lat. 51, lon. 16, by the Walter Boyd, ar-
rived at Liverpool. Penelope, Girgenti to Liverpool,
29th ult., lat. 38, lon. 7 E.; Phosphorus, Liverpool
to Seville, 6th inst., off Cape St. Vincent's ; Rowena,
Constantinople to London, 10th, lat. 40, lon. —, by
the Will-o'-the-Wisp, arrived at Liverpool. Indus of
Dundee, bound to New Zealand, 16th ult., lat. 9 S.,
lon. 31 W., by the Achilles, arrived at Cowes. Ma-
tilda, London to Cape of Good. Hope, lat. 18 5.,10n.
31. IV., by the Henry, arrived at Cowes. Jupiter,.
Messina to London, 7th instant, in the Gut of
Gibraltar ; Fencer, Patras to London, Bth instant;
Sanders, Taganrog to London, Ist ult., in the Straits
of Cerigo; Aberdeen, of Scarborough, Alexandria to
Falmouth, 29th, lat. 39 ; Wave, Corfu to Cork or
Falmouth, 30th, E. of Minorca, by the Rosa, arrived
in the Creek. Walker, Marseilles to Bombay, Ist
July, lat.! 9 N., lon. 22, W., by the Nautilus, arrived
at Mauritius. Eleanor, Liverpool to Bombay, Sept. 6,
hit. 4 W., 63 E., by the John Wood, arrived at Mini-
rains. Mercury, Clyde to Valparaiso, with loss of
topmasts, July Bth, lat. 5 N., lon. 12 W. ; Helen,
Ceylon to London, 21st, lat. 36 S., lon. '25 E. ; Leo-
nard Dobbin, Liverpool to Bombay, Sept. 6, lat. 3 S.,
lon., 59 E., by the Hector, arrived at Mauritius.
Granby, Liverpool to Cape of Good Hope, 10th ult.,
lat. 7, lon. 24 ; Byron, bound to New York, 22d,
lat. 26, lon. 37,. by the Fleetwood arrived in. the
Clyde. Tigress, in June, with 750 barrels ; Duchess
of Northumberland, London to Hobart Town, 3d
ult., lat. 8 N., lon. 22 W., by the Cleveland.

SUICIDE BY A MAN EIGHTY YEARS Or AGn.—On
Saturday morning a most determined act of suicide
was committed by an old man, eighty years of age,
named Robert Campbell, residing at No. 9, Church-
road, Stepney. It appears that he had been in an in-
firm state of health Ibr some .time past, and on the
morning in question his wife had occasion to go to the
Post-office, leaving her husband in bed. She returned
in less than five minutes, when she was horror-struck
at finding him lying on the outside of the bed covered
with blood, issuing from a deep wound in his throat,
which he had inflicted with a razor. Medical assistance
was sent ibr, but he expired shortly afterwards. Ile
had at one period of his life been in very comfortable
circumstances, but latterly had been much reduced.
This, it is supposed, had preyed upon his mind, and
induced him to commit the rash act.

CORNIIILL IVAnD.—In consequence of the resig-
nation of Clement Harris, Esq., one of the repre-
sentatives of this ward in the Court of Common
Council, a requisition, signed by the leading inhabi-
tants of the ward, has been presented to Thomas
Lund, Esq., a resident for full forty years, soliciting
him to allow his name to be put in nomination for
the office. It is understood that 111 r. Lund has con-
sented to stand.

REPRESENTATION OF NORTH SIIROPSIIIRE.--The
necessary writ under the Great Seal of England,
summoning the present Lord Hill to the House of
Peers, was issued by the Lord Chancellor yester-
day. This proceeding officially announces a vacancy
in the representation of the Northern Division of
Shropshire.

COUNTY WONDERS.
Dr. Fuller in his quaint history of the " Worthies
I of England," parcels out, under the title of " 'Won-
ders," as he proceeds to illustrate our English coun-
ties, all the artificial or natural rarities which they
possess. His peculiar wit spices the whole, and even
the few selections we adduce, are not devoid of his
usual grotesqueness of remark.
HAmrstitar.—An oak, near Lindhurst, in the New
Forest, is credibly reported to put forth green leaves
yearly, on or about Christmas day. It must now be
sprouting.
KENT.—The wonders of art are the ships here, '
which are better than the French, who are left-
. handed in sea•fights ; better than the Dutch, which
are floaty and buoyant:; while the Spanish pride bath
infected their ships with loftiness, which makes the
better marks for our shot. Our English oak is incom-
parable, and though the Hollanders bought our tim-
ber for.their ships, they could not buy our art of ship-
building; so that, as Bishop Latimer once said to one
who had preached his sermon, " They have gotten
our fiddlestick, but not our rosin."
LEICESTERSIIIRE.—At a village here called Curley,
all that areborn the rein have a harsh and rattling kind of
speech, and cannot pronounce the letter R. One of
the best scholars in the county could not for his life
utter Carolus Rex Britannix without stammering.
The best was, the King had from him in his hearty
prayers what he wanted in his plain pronunciation.
Lnicomcsntax.—At Harlaxton, in this shire, a
helmet, not gilt, but of massive gold—cassis non au-
rata, sed aurea—was' turned up by the plough, and
presented to Queen Catharine, first wife of King
Henry the Eighth.
RUTLANDSIIIRE.—It is surprising that this county,
so pleasant and fruitful, almost in the middle of Eng-
land, had never a single abbey in it, and only two
convents, which were appurtenant to other counties.
Dr. Fuller, with somewhat anti-clerical zest, remarks.
hereon, " The; like cannot be paralleled in England,
choose so great a parcel of ground where you please.
Show me so fair a bunch of sweet grapes, which had
no more flies to suck them."

GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Oysters, cockles, and peri-
winkles of stone are found at Alderley. Shallow
Itabbies, says Fuller, who count themselves of the
cabinet, but are scarcely of the common council of
nature, consider them to have been formerly shell-
fish ' and not lusus =lune of creation.
LANCASUIRE.—About Wigan and elsewhere in this
.ounty, men, says Fuller, go a fishing with spades
and mat-hooks. First they pierce the turfy ground,
and under it meet with a black and dudish water,
and in it small fishes swim. Let them be thankful to
God in the first place, he says as comment, who need
not such meat to feed upon. And next let those be
thankful who have such meat to feed upon when they
need it. This practice is now obsolete, but the just-
ness of the remark applies fully to the state of that
county at this moment.
DERBYSHIRE.—Here is the Mam-Tor or Mother-
Hill, so called because it is always delivered, and pre-
sently with child again, for immense heaps of sand
constantly fall from it, yet it never appears diminished,
but is secretly recruited.
DEVONSHIRE.--The Hanging-stone. This got its
name from a thief, who having stolen a sheep, and
tied it about his own neck to carry it on his back,
rested himself awhile on this stone, which is a foot
high, till the sheep by struggling slid over the stone
on the other side, and so strangled the man. Let tl.e
lawyers dispute, remarks the Doctor, whether the
sheep in this case was forfeited to the King's almoner
as a deodand.

ExErea.—When the city of Exeter was besieged
by the Parliament's forces, so that only the south side
of it towards the sea was open to it, larks appeared in
such numbers that the poor boiled them for pottage.
It was assigned as a cause that these birds, frightened
by the shooting on the land, retreated to the sea-side
for their refuge.
BEDFORDSHIRE.—The river Ouse, in this county,
in 1399, parted asunder, the waters from the, fountain
standing still, and those towards the sea giving way,
so that it was passable over on foot for three miles to-
gether, not without the astonishment of the beholders.

CHESHIRE.—Here is a pool adjoining Brereton, the
seat of the honourable family of that name, wherein
bodies of trees are seen to swim fur certain days be-
fore the death of any heir of that house.
CORNWALL.—The celebrated stones called the
Hurlers, are reported by tradition to have been
formerly men, metamorphosed into these masses for
hurling—a sport peculiar to Cornwall—on the Lord's
day.
CUMBERLAND.—The moss-troopers, who were pe-
culiar to the borders of this county, were so called
from dwelling in the mosses, and riding in troops
together. They dwelt on the bounds or meeting of
two kingdoms, but obeyed the laws of neither. They
went to church as seldom as the 29th of February
comes into the calendar. They lived by the species
of free trade, comprehended in the motto " Vivitur
ex rapto ;" and like a nest of hornets, strike but one,
and all stirred about your cars.
SUSSEX.—William of Newbury writes, " that in
this county, not far from Battle-Abbey, in the place
where so great a slaughter of the Englishmen was
made, after any shower, presently sweats forth very
fresh blood out of the earth, as if the evidence thereof
did plainly declare the voice of blood there shed, and
crieth still from the earth unto the Lord." Credat
Judrens !

W.kawicKstunE.—At Leamington, there issue from
the earth two twin-springs, as different in taste and
operation, as Esau and Jacob, the one salt, the other
fresh.

WlLTSHlRE.—Stonehenge. Supposed to be a
Roman work, or temple, dedicated to Co3lum, the
senior God of the Heathens.

SOMERSETSIIIRE.—WockIey Hole in the Mendip
hills. An underground concavity, with spacious
vaults, walls, and labyrinths; the cause being un-
imaginable why the earth was put in such a posture
SURRET.—The river Swallow, which sinks under
ground, and rises again near Letherhead. This river
is more properly termed Mole, than that in Spain on
the like occasion is called Anas, that is a duck or
drake. For moles, like the Surrey river, work under-
ground, whilst ducks, which Anas does not, dive
under water.

YORKSIIIRE.—" From H—ll, Hull, and Halifax
deliver us." This is part of the old beggars' or va-
grants' litany. At the last place, thieves caught in
delicto were instantly beheaded with an engine.

The Naval promotions consequent on the success-
ful termination of the Chinese war, are not yet
finally resolved on, but we anticipate their
promulgation in next Tuesday's Gazette. IFe
have every reason to believe they will be on
such a liberal scale as to satisfy the hopes. and expec-
tations of the service. This is a legitimate occa-
sion, of which the Board of Admiralty will no doubt
avail themselves, to promote the officers who are
fortunate enough to
fill those
ranks that are
usually selected on occasions of important events
which call for some especial mark of favour ;
and, it is generally expected, that not only will
those whose names have been honourably mentioned
in the public dispatches be advanced a step
in rank, but also the Commanders, First Lieutenants,
and Senior Mates of the Fleet, as has been usual on
occasions of perhaps greater brilliancy, but certainly
of no less important results than may be anticipated
from the successful termination of the war against
China. We may anticipate an equally liberalarmy
promotion.—Naval and Military Gazette.
SUICIDE THROUGII FILIAL SORROW.—On Satur-
day evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Queen's
Head, Cree-church-lane Leadenball-street, on the
body of Elias Jacobs, aged 40, a coffee-house keeper,
of No. 2, Bury-street, St. Mary Axe, and of the
Hebrew persuasion. Julia Minis, servant to de-
ceased, said that, seeing on that morning he did not
come down stairs at his accustomed hour, she sus-
pected, from previous circumstances, that he had
destroyed himself in his bedbe-yrbooehdme:rroseolifnF, edsaohrioern,gB
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bed rail, by means of a cord. He had been dead, a sur-
geon who had been called in said, many hours. Ever
since his father's death, which took place eleven months
ago, his sorrow was so great that it frequently
amounted to insanity, and latterly he was attended by
a keeper from a lunatic asylum, who more than once
prevented him from dashing out his brains by butting
his head against the wall. The passing of the Income-
tax Act had added to his insanity, and his constant
incoherent ravings about the ultimate injury he fancied
it would do him, so much annoyed his customers that
they abandoned his shop one after the other. Though,
besides his business, he inherited a fair portion of
freehold property, he dreaded so much the effect of the
Income-tax, that no argument could persuade him that
it would not be his ruin. Verdict, "Insanity."
PALERMO, Nov. 28.—After many years repose,
Etna has during the last three we ekspoured 'forth '
immense masses of fire. It seems that considerable
torrents of lava are flowing in the direction of Bronte.
The damage already done" is said to be immense. The
fine weather allows us to roam about the whole night,
admiring• the extraordinary spectacle. Numerous
strangers come to be near the scene.
JEMMY 'WOOD'S HOUSE. The executors have
ordered the demolition of this rich eccentric's house,
and, in compliance with these orders, men are engaged
in pulling it down. Numbers are attracted to the
ruins, in the hope of finding treasures concealed by
the old banker. Sonic of the over-curious have pur-
chased some pieces of the old timbers of the house, to
convert them into snuff-boxes.

v The
Croydon Railway Directors hare called a meet-
ing of their Proprietors, for the purpose of considering
the i
of relinquishing their carrying depart-
ment, btercoming a toll company only.
ienpt, propriety e
,%r regret to hear that a firm largely concerned in
the corn trade, and having extensive eitablishments
at Penryn and Truro, has failed. Their importations
of foreign grain previous to the harvest are said tu
have been extremely large.—Devonpert Independent.