The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-23 00:00:00

SIIIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
DEAL, FEB. 21 and 22.—Wind S. by E.—Arrived
from Loudon, the Palmira, Thompson, for India ; Grace,
-----, for Malta; and Lady Holland, Snell, for India.
Arrived the Juno, Lott, from Alicant ; and Excellent,
Wood, from Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 21 and 22.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.
--Arrived the Champion, Lark, from the South Seas.
Passed the Columbia, Delano, from New York; arid
Charlemagne, Robinson, from ditto.
PLYMOUTH, FED. 20 and 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Ar-
rived the Missouri, Weller, from New York ; Maria, Cum-
mings, from Lisbon ; Lark, Miller, from St. Michael's ;
and Enchantress, Remington, from Figucira.
FALMOUTH, FEL 20.—Wind S.—Arrived the Wan-
derer, Mitchell, from Gallipoli ; Duke of Marlborough
racket, from Lisbon. Sailed his Majesty's cutter Vigilant,
fur Lisbon.
COWES, FEB. 22.--Arrived the Idz, Aleda, from
Batavia.

MARGATE, FEB. 22.—Arriyed the Franklin, Farley,
from New York ; Cadiz packet, Williamson, and Premium,
Young, from Cadiz.
-.GUERNSEY, FKIS. 20.—Arrived the BNssom, Falla,
from Rio Janeiro.

Arrived at Bengal, the Marquess Ely, Mangles, Asia,
Balderston, Vester, Brown, from London; Andes, King ;
St. George, Swansea; Fairy, Welburns, and Chieftain,
Blair, from Liverpool ; and Mary, Dobson, from the Clyde.
Arrivgd at Batavia, the Francis Watson, Bragg, from
Liverpool.
Arrived at St. Helen', the Elizabet't, from Bengal ;
Arcturus, and Bibberta, 'lheaker, from Bombay ; and
Potomac, from Batavia.

days
Protestants of Fermanagh meet in a few
_ to address the King. They will be immediately foi-
-1 owed by all the northern counties.— Cork Constitution.
DUI(ES AND FOOLS.—A Scotchman giving
evidence at the bar of the House of Lords in the affair of
Captain Port eons, and telling of the variety of shots which
were fired on the occasion, w sked by the Duke of New-
castle what kind of shot it was?—" Why," said the man,
in his . broad dialect, " such as they shoot fools (fowls)
with, and the like." " What kind of fools ?" said the
Duke, smiling at the word. Why, my Lord, dukes
(ducks) and sic kin'o'foois."—Dublin Morythig Register.
A general meeting of the leading and influ-
ential members of all denominations of Dissenters, in Ex-
eter and its neighbourhood, was held on Tuesday last,
when it was determined to petition both Houses of Parlia-
tnent, to remove all civil disabilities on account of reli-
gious opinions. The petition to the House of Lords, is to
be forwarded to the Earl of Morley, and that to the
Commons, to Sir Geo. Cockburn, for presentation.—
Weitern Times.

THE BRUNSWICK RABBLE.—It was pre-
meditated to have a desperate riot around " King William"
last night, and an attack on every place where obnoxious
individuals resided. The Brunswick mob began to as-
"'hie at ten o'clock.; hut the authorities having received
kearly intimation of the design, took their measures accord-
neY, and the ruffians were dispersed before they could
%e• t
--'''" injury- In this instance the police performed
rtY; but the military were ready to act if they ne-
Morning Register of Friday.
MEE TING • •TI
OP THE BRUNSWICK CONSTI-
TUTIONAL CL --The second meeting of this precious Club
*albeit! on Thursday last at Dublin. About 1,200 persons
were present, the Earl of Enniskillen in the Chair; and
touch rhodomontade and inflammatory speechifying was
indulged in. -Mr. Serjeant Lefroy was unusually animated,
and observed that " They were now to have a new settle-
Inent--which he hoped would be designated the second
Act- of Settlement. The Act of Parliament to which he
had referred, prohibited the King from marrying a Papist,
or holding communion with any of that benighted creed,
or
Pain of losing hie crown, which was to descend to the
next Protestant heir—the Act distinctly had it, the next
Protestant heir.—(Boisterous applause.)—ln case the King
acted contrary to the provisions of that act, the law relieved
the subject from his alleg'ance.—(Cheering for several
in;nate,o)
A correspondent, who has, during the last
wt.* conversed with a great number of persons in the
mr,minfactuting villages on the proposed concessions to the
1-atholics, -assures us that Ministers, notwithstanding the
awful manifestoes of the Brunswickers, have nothing to
fesr.frora lay turbulent expression of the feelings of the
rmanufacturers on that subject, and that, in fact, they are
ich more alarmed at the declension of trade than at the
ihaugera of Protestantism, and would be glad to barter all
,
restrictions for a few good ready-money orders.
7-7:4'eedB Ateretii7.
BultY,-FEB. 20.—The Clergy in this neigh-
-64111°04 are exerting themselves in the greatest manner to
procure signatures to petitions against the Catholics. In
a village near this town, the clerk was sent round to the
parishioners, requesting them to go to the Parsonage,
Where they would be well treated, provided they signed a
Petition against Popery.—Suffolk Chronicle.
The weavers here have been obliged to submit
to repeated reductions, until wages have now reached a
lower point than perhaps ever remembered. It is satis-
factory, however, to state that the work is not scarce; but
if the present rate of wages continue for any time, weavers
With families to provide for will soon be in a distreising
tituatirm...-Perth Courier. •

UNPROFITABLE TRADE.—A female thief,
/1141 e in the hands of the police the other day for coin-
1121,ttil!g a. theft, emphatically declared that'she was deter-
aed to.drop the trade—for this was only her third essay
In't she had uniformly been detected:—Perth Courier.
THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS.—A
~--ndent enumerates the following extraordinary plagiari,ms
tirikithis play from a posthumous tragedy of Cumberland on
subject :—The introduction of Brutus and his
....""sie first scene—his long interview with his son—his
Valerius after the fall of the statue, where he
11," "ands Valerius and awakens him to a suspicion of
7,4160.01 en. real state of Valerian,
ind—the scenes_ between Titus and
th "91"nia--the scene where the Centurton gives Brutus
e account of his son's crime and capture—and the re-
illnssrances of Tarquinia with Brutus. These, the
tile! scenes of'te play, re all from Cumberland, and even
...,isdge directions area borrowed sometimes in his very
veusT-sornetimes with slight alteratidns.
hiZAMICELD HOUSE.—Forty masons and sixty
Pl°
-unrers, with twenty horses and carts, are at present em-
Will Yed at the" Duke of Athol's splendid mansion, and more
tot -
to corn.employed when the days get longer. His Grace is
'rorti London in April to lay the foundation-stone,
is.co;ch be done with masonic honours. —lnverness
rim
Mr. Lamb, as he was fowling on Wednesday,
tet-With sudden and shocking death. He unwarily had
e; trigger of his gun full cocked, and as he was leaping a
'oP,‘e fence, in the fields of Mr. Naismith, about. three
csklc p.m., the trigger got entangled with the thorns,
,1434- She contents of his gun were lodged in his head. He
t-ka% shot in the one side of his neck—his cheek bone and
lnll were literally shot away : he presented a ghastly
ecsele, and breathed but a few minutes.— Glasgow
Pie Press.

she late floods in the Dee have swept off' and
-anted to Sea several thousand trees from the
'laughs and
j,tller law situations on the banks of that river, where they
tolilbeen laid for- floating at various places, from Braemar
ia harbour. A number of the trees have been seen off
Part of the coast, and part of them have been thrown
ss4l._.taa rocks to the southward, but very few of them it is
'I, tan be recovered by the men who have come down
(Oast of their property.—lnverness Courier.
•fie speculative herring-owners at Yarmouth
&at„,w,"k sent a barrel of their finest to the Pope, as a
ss.l,e' exPecting an order from his Holiness against Lent !
"a Courier.
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—.LAING FISHERY IN THE FRITH OF
11,1 R.----We stated in our last that this has been the worst
Is:-;tHig fishing that his been known in the Frith for at
Ittis eight years, but, by subsequent enquirit...s, we have
p t,:ed that it has been the worst ever experienced by the
11,Zt generation. During the best week's fishing the
f4lil'en men only about 450 cranes. Though
that
)' equal in skill and intrepidity, the Newhaven men
kept peek Caught only about 1014 cranes. The herrings
41%,4 "nntantly so far down, that the " Buckv men" had
btetl3rB the Frith swept before they as rived. There have
°,"IY about 150 barrels cured this season at Newhaven,
rich '4 ordinary years, about this number were cured
11,4. In 1825 upwards of 2,480 barrels were cured at
c'ut f„..''eLn. On Thursday a number of the fishermen set
tfie last time this season, as they thought, and not
,rqisp.ing to take as
tour herrings as would fill a single
l'avQ"-P4nbut they rned with the greatest quantity:they
el4ghi this season. This unexpected return of the
Probably induce them to persevere a little longer.