The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-23 00:00:00

r TN f)IAN MAILS.—The Royal Mail
, Steam Packet Company's Ship DEE, is appointed to
'mice out. the Alai's of July 1. The Dee will leave Sruthampton
*an that day, at One, r. as., and will proceed direct to Falmouth,
'here she wi!l receive the Mails on the-31 of July, and depart
Unmediately on her voyage for Tlarbadoes, calling to land and
lelahark Passengers at. Corunna and Madeira The line of
stheaormne Tx stuo 6
n, ieact.i:n for both mails and passengers extends to all ports
British and Foreign West Indies, Havanna!), Gult of
ic
and is connected with the Company's steamers,
hieh run twice every month, forwards and backwards, he-
Zeen Havannah, by Nassau, to Savannah, Charleston, New
rk, and Halifax respectively, and also includes the coast of
Louth America and isthmus of Panama. All the Company's
nekets carry a surgeon approved by Government. Each pas-
senger bas a separate cabin ; bedding and linen are provided,
and the passage-money and steward's fee cover every expense,
apt wines, spirits, &c., which are to he paid for.
Berths may be secured at the Company's Offices, 55, Moor-
tate- street, London.
B• All
cleet.ters conveyed by these packets must pass through

Pr' EAST INDIA HOUSE, JUNE 22, 142.
lilt' COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAS r
INDIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice:
That a QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said
uftpany will be held, by Adj,urnment from this .lay, at their
"se in Leaclenhall-street, on .MoNnay NEXT, the 27th
Zant, at Eleven &Clock in the Forenoon, and that at the
10 4Court the Consideration of the following proposed Resolu-
will be resumed, viz.
withTltat. upon consideration of all thn:circurnstances connected `llBritish intervention in the affairs of Affghanistan, as they
tIPPar from the papers already laid before Parliament, it is
bo. °Pininn of this Court that the expense of that war ought
tato be thrown on the people of India, but that it should be
uct by the Exchequer of the United Kingdom."
rirTELVILL, Secretary.
THE .GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION
BR CWIPAN Y'S splendid and powerful first-class STEAM
IPS are appointed to LEAVE fel--
fguAnWEßP—Fronu Brunswick-wharf, Blackwall—Every
0 Il4uaY at half-past One ; every Wednesday and Thursday, at
Afternoon.

0, • From off the Tower.
41113URG and ROTTERDAM, carrying her Majesty's
' --Every Wednesday and Saturday morning.
4VRE—Every Thursday, at Eight Morning.
From London Bridge Wharf :
FISTEND—Sunday, Tuesday, V‘ednesday, and'Saturday.
'S„OULOGNE—Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
‘-;/..LAlS—Sunday, Tuesday, Thursda, and Saturday.
BULL Sunday,
Tuesday and Friday at Eight Morning.
R A aOUTH—Every Saturday Evening, at Six.
in!ANISGATE—DaiIv, at Nine Morning.
I,.IIINBURGH—Fro-m Brown's
. Wharf, Poplar—Every Sa-
-29, 4y, and alternate Wednesday Evening, at Ten. June 25,
Dit,nd July 2,9, 13, 16, 20, and 27.
fu,d'WCABTLE—From Down's Wharf—Every Wednesday
Saturday Evening at Eight.
!tJNDERLAND—Every Saturday Evening, at Seven.
tee etweeu BRIGHTON and DIEPPE, leaving Brighton. foi
Pe, every Wednesday and Saturday—Dieppe for Brighton,
Nlenday and Thursday. according to tide.
,4,0 secure Berths and for the Company's Monthly Bills,
apply a,
the offices 69, Lombard-street ; 37, Regent-circus ;
eadenhall. street.
4"
35 L •

SECOND EMIGRANT SHIP FOR THE CAPE OF
GOOD HOPE.
OR ALG OA BAY direct, positively to SAIL,
%hi full or not full, on the 30th June, the new fast-sailing
•per!,.GUARDIAN, A 1, 500 tons burden, coppered and cop-
iastened, T. P. VICKERM AN, Commander ; loading in
London Docks Has superior accommodation for Cabin.
404411 n cdiate, and Steerage Passengers ; height between docks
skillo six feet, and carries an experienced Surgeon. Passage-
-40/., 201., and 12/.
Chrirly application, for freight and passage, to Mr. J. S.
N',„")lthers, East India Chambers, Leadenhall-street, London.
.3--Respectable Emigrants may have small advances
promissory notes.
WATCHES BY WEBSTER AND SON
It6Rt,fr CHRONOMETER and WATCH 7MANUFAC-
.LItS (Established 130 years), 3, BIRCHIN-LANE.
VA,lll,e Finest Description of CHRONOMETERS and
th,t CUES at the lowest prices consistent with maintaining
.ebaracter for superiority of workmanship which has dis-
Ciislied their establishment during that period.
I)ri, .e COMPENSATED DUPLEX WATCH, upon the
tdeeiplQ of their Chronometers, to which Government awarded
feet P'izea three years in succession, combines the most per-
t the tecuracy with the utmost elegance, and is not surpassed
w_, c!tet Chronometer.
),ofeet).ster s newly-introduced Centre Seconds, for he medical
Also on' elegant and novel in appearance.
their Patent Detached Lever and small Flat Horizon-
()Pr adies, all equally reduced in price, and warranted.
lcrt:Watches taken in exchange. A selection of fine Se-
ltlland Repeating, Duplex, Lever, and Horizontal Watches,
tolt:', most eminent makers, at little above half the original
pro!t and nearly equal to New, warranted. Post Letters
lattended to.
Ati'v!bster and Son, Chronometer Makers to the Lords of the
3, Birchen-lane, Cornhill, London.

EIGHT FIRES AT NORWICH
Have recently been extinguished hy
ITIALDERS' PATENT PORTABLE FIRE-
ENGINE.
(THE NEW PROPERTY PROTECTOR).
orhese Engines are carried by hand and placed immediately
b,'"e they can assail the main source of the fire at close
',ktters to the grea'est ads antages ; when they deliver their
,4nec.le uniform streams- of hater dir'ctly. into the flames with
tr'yring certainty and such sur
inesprising impetuositcan by,e brought
that te
arei banged out before the common engh
t,ifatveenrE),,ln, workedeleverbca, briskly with one hand, and
a window 10 feet distance with
hanpdi, it pointed
ill show how furiously, steadily, and irre-
tee Y the little fire destructor combats and conquers the
14 foe.
En •
itsiell!i°os elegant, durable, and complete in Brass 61. 16s.
rtti t*,There is not yet in existence a good fire-engine
L4'isli 1;40 scale. At Alderman Butcher's fire the Patent
7tia2 .14top filled 12 large pails with water per minute, deli-
the rate of 50 and the two Engines 30 barrels per
b 13tit with the former Parish Pump (which was one of
IS b 24 brass lift-force pumps of the London made trash) not
Itine,7l3 an hour could have been raised, and probably the
)eliio,,t.ould have gained the ascendancy. London is a century
"erwich in Hydraulic Machines.
Merj.„,:` THE Su x" paper, July 10, 1841, and "Norwich
I`Y."* March 5, 1842, where all my inveterate opponents
111 ehopfallen, and laughed at, for they dare not even
114, ° obtain the 100/. reward offered. " Because dame Nature
14-1.44P(1 her imperative caveat
SURPASSED, whichSHALDERS'
Ilratt; NEVER BE is now
*leN'eallY proved to be the only effective, invariable water-
4llra-br in existence, and when well carried out the most
Pump in the world. It stands work as well for lifts
1411 below 100 feet, and it would be strange indeed if it
11,1it' as a good Connector (of a Fountain Pump) will sustain
lite,lre of 50 atmospheric whilst less than a quarter of that
peal 'e
would deliver water rapidly 365 feet high, or over St.
- r,3, London. W. SHALDERS.
.ldraulic-street, Norwich, June 18, 1842.
AE`‘7 r-',,,ARKS BY EMINENT MEN UPON THE IN-
NTION—SEPARATELY AND JOINTLY.
lect,-?AItATELy.—. The Fountain Pump is free from the de-
Peri; 4nd liabilities of the Friction Pump, and approaches a
Lads ,hydraulic machine."—Dr. Birkbeck.--" Shalders
:'7'l:l,9,P'ed Nature, and arrived at perfection."—Ebedour.—
`" eluTt.ur;lP is free from friction and leakage, and is not liable
Civil Engineer.—" This is THE Pump."
J "
,_140,-,NTLY.—" The Fountain Pump is the most important
~w,ittc°,?,Ment in the art of raising water, that has appeared
1/41- ;tie last '2,000 years. It is the greatest advancement in
14e,:''111 arts in modern times, and cannot fail to act in the
kk,vation of life and property from fire and water to an ex-
"3'ond calculation."

At SHALDERS' PATENT PUMP.
Mcll,lll vestry Meeting held at St. Michael's at Plea, Nor-
28th, 1842, the Parishioners unanimously con-
tiapiihated 11ir. Shalders upon having, last May, fitted the
hri/44e
'''4l) with an efficient, permanent, economical, and in-
ultlp (60 feet in length). It was rightly remarked,
°ugh the water delivered by the former Pump was com.
'orkiv..olldy, that delivered by the present one has been uni-
;* SI"; and raised with half the labour.
(Signed) GEORGE IVES,
WM. WOODROW,
H. J. STEEL,
Churchwardens in 1841, 1842.
Norwich, Saturday, May 28, 1842.

1113 i,
thank 'CHER and SON beg to return their most. oksitiliguryateful
and
NI, t 0 those friends and neih hours wh
tliti,PitlY rendered them their assistance to exotinguish the Fire
1..." Premises on Wednesday last.
itotngq the 3 likewise take this opportunity particularly,. to re.
which was
letkrnd Mr. Shalders' Portable Fountain Engine,
littitti4° efficient in preserving their premises from total de-
t4e 'tr.
n-street, May 26.
"41114 ant,
LHts—`"'S OF THE EDITOR OF THE "PNROERIuOSLEKS
c%iir'sONICLE," ON; VIEWING THE
ltt THE FIR Welt. out half-past one o'clock onß kW.peldanitel:dwayerme odnisiLnfetrhede
‘ohet/ea of Mr. Butcher, grocer,
qtr, 14% fire by
t, the night watch, an
- the alarm and called
441t.41`caor was at fir'sythdoiffigacvuelt to disiNciorverßuintehtheer
boy ‘i'llt part po.f the pretnises was on fire. .
ttp i'tot that it originated at his neighbour's house, hut. going
toll ~„° the top
"`ele coop of his' premises he perceived where it was , when
mat
b. svn and opened the door of his store-room over the
mkt Crt °f his shop, the fire and smoke but st forth so violently
s that the
Irk, hade eoold scarcely stand on his feet. It appear
loft.
Ikt h °riginated in this store-room directly over a paper
*ay, T 41,41 it i! impossible to tell. Mr. Shalders, from over the
1141110.0 Tnefltately brought two of his engines, by means of
htp, tit'slr. Butcher attributes his house being saved ;1 and pnenr.-
NintC"e whole street, for there being a good dea of g
es
vtoUletl," the premises, bad this ignited the consequenc
tion ,elle been awful. Notwithstanding the natural agita..
Untehecasioned by the near prospect of danger from fire Mr.
!ot h: hhnself removed the gunpowder from t e pretnisesa,
°rengrst t of the goods from the r,varehous and shop wer
tlih I "t and deposited for safety in St. Michael's at Plea
loitijchrl' The engine from the Guildhall was on the spot
wis if
4 few minutes of the first alarm being given., ut it
ltlit 13Possible to bring this into play for some time, ass
ir. Wsmer ~,,._
„1,, ito not turned on; but in the meanwhile
he ~},-'ers' engines (Mr. S. working one and his brother
he h,'ger) were liednn with buckets full of water from
Ilith"r, near at I",aan'a r.M. Yarington and his men acted
It keen eller
r• Shod -gy and iirompt itude. Mr. S',teel,.lllr. Plummer,
'nest Alders and others of Mr. Butcher s neighbours, were
datlhz!alous in their services. In about an hour and a half all
its.trel,,,a& removed. Mr. Butcher is, we understand, insured
11,11:ctirrwich Equitable Office.
'enr•ine e.ia3' which appears to have occurred in furnishing.. the
Itit,"cy 1 with Water on the above alarming occasion, imper .
/ties. jC;Mands the immediate attention of the proper authori-
'oonrce, tho New Alill Company's works are the main public
44,,,eaer :: IuPIY, soar's, 3arr nements should be made for the
Vie CV- e M' speedy turnianron the water into the pipes ; or
,y will sooner or later rue the consequences.]
by ~,
14, 0:
i-,3:,,ovEierDerliTinOß OF THE tt NORWICH MERCURY."
des d• t`'neulaY morning, about half-past one o'clock, a fire
the house of Mr. Butcher, grocer, Bank-
and.?„_bY the watchman on duty. Mr. B. immediately rose.
ator_after examining hi, premises found it had taken place in a
fen, t} situated over the warehouse. On the alarm being
:.I,l7jr:lo,ne.e,stavlcroi.Sseligaulderterese as ttended with his patent fountain enures,
-',",jnuf Cr great exertions the fire was extinguished before any
had taken place. There is not. the
10.3",' loss ' noubt that this fire would have been attended with a
~,,,t,; had it not been for the fountain pump, anti it. was
~,a: "'Y bY Ow Rn(t the exerti,m, c f Mr. "zi`nl.)''' s '''''' 91'
f'"
I)4oZP,r.iiiipuy e.ingui:i.,i, it..i.wiLg 411 Lour ,:... tt.t, t.,:titvc,,
ar.: "Mort engines could be got into play ; and at the time the
Is 7
Butchertscored the whole store-room was in flames, for on
opening the door he was twice knocked down by
ftwiteaud fie, but fortunately received no injuryr