The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

POIETSMOUTH.—The Thunderer, 84, Captain Pring,
is ordered to proceed from the Downs to Plymouth,
and, according to report, there to be equipped, to re-
inforce the squadron on the South American station.
The Pique, 36, Captain the Hon. M. Stopford, is
ready for sea at Spithead, waiting final orders. She
is to proceed again to the North American and West
India station.
The new steam-ship Thunderbolt, built at the
dock-yard, is commissioned by Commander, G. N.
Broke, 1840, reported for the Mediterranean. She
is equipping in the basin. The new steamer Fire-
brand is to proceed to the river, iu order to receive
her engines and machinery, preparatory to being corn..
missionedwith the Cormorant.and Acheron steamers.
The Racehorse, 18, recently paid off at Plymouth,
is being surveyed for re-commissioning.
The Lily, 18, Commander Allen, according to
letters of the 12th September from the pap. of Good
Hope, is expected to be in England by.Chnstmas, to
be paid off.
The Salamander steam-frigate, Commander A. S.
Hammond, put into Funchal Roads, Madeira, on the
11th October, bound to Rio de Janeiro, having on
board the Special Minister to the Court of Brazil,
the Right Hon. Henry Ellis.
The brig Wasp, 18, Commander Drew, remains at
Spithead for final orders. She takes out dispatches
for Sir Charles Adam, in the West Indies, also several
assistant-surgeons to join the flag-ship Illustrious, 72.
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Mediterranean.
The ships fitting out in this harbour are the Sama-
rang, 26, Captain Belcher, for surveying the coast of
China; Frolic, 16, Commander Willis, and Thunder-
bolt, steamship, Captain G. Broke.
The Southampton, 52, Captain Hillyar (late was
ship of Vice-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.B.),flag-
paid off on Saturday, at Chatham.
TUESDAY, DEC. 6.—The Warspite, 50, Capt. Lord
John Hay, C. 8., returned to-day from Gibraltar, to
which place she had conveyed his Excellency-General
Sir Robt. Wilson, G.C.8., appointed Governor of that
fortress, vice Alex. Woodford. The Rodney, 92, was
the only ship of war left in the Bay at the departure
of the Warspite, the Cambridge, 78, having left
for England, and may hourly be expected. The wind
having veered to northward, the Pique, 36, Capt. the
Hon. M. Stopford, sailed early this morning fbr her
destination, the West Indies. The Wasp, 18, Com-
mander Drew (distinguished for his gallantry during,
the Canadian outbreak), still remains at Spithead,
destined for the West Indies.—Brighton Gazette.

A thick fog has enveloped Paris for the last three
days. It commenced on Saturday about noon, and
gradually increased toward the evening, when ob-
jects could scarcely be recognised at fifteen or
twenty paces' distance. It entered the theatres so
effectualtyN as to incommode the audience, and
the omnibuses on certain lines were obliged to go at
a walking pace. On Sunday it cleared up partially
towards the middle of the day, but returned in the
evening. Yesterday it continued all day, and in-
creased in the evening, particularly in the Champs-
Elysees, where the lamps could be barely seen across
the road.—Paris paper.
MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—We have received the
following communication from a respectable corres-
pondent in Holywood :—" Having been informed, by
several persons, that swallows were to be seen in the
neighbourhood of Holywood, I was disposed to with-
hold credit from the report, until Friday lost, when I
observed on the wing a pair of these birds, so rarely
to be seen at this advanced season of the year, feed-
ing, as in summer, on the small insects, which are
plentiful at present. I may also mention, that I
heard a thrush singing, in Ballymenoch grounds, on
Sunday se'nnight ; and that sparrows are daily seen
carrying straws, &c., to their building places." As
another proof of the temperature of the season, we
may here observe, that on the Ist instant, there was
left at our office a bouquet of full-blown primroses,
which were gathered on the lands of Wm. Arthur,
Esq., of Whiterock, at least 300 feet above the level
of the sea.----Belfast Northern Whig.
GERMAN RIMG.—As is the general practice on
the Continent, they seem to ride rather for parade than
pleasure. Their horsemanship is, in fact, the most
uncomfortable thing in the world, and makes one's
back ache to see it. They sit as erect as posts, and
jolt along without springing in the saddle, in a way
that must make every joint of their back-bones, as
well of as their limbs, undergo the most cruel of martyr-
doms. They tell you that the English are the worst
riders in the world, because in a sharp trot they lean
forward and rise in the stirrups. But knowledge of
anatomy and the common principles of mechanical
philosophy might show them, that to sit perpendi-
cularly, as they do, converts all the bones in their bodies
into pestles to
pound each other to pieces, and makes
their whole weight come bump, bump on their horses'
backs, most painfully and detrimentrally to them ; while
the Englishman, on the contrary, throwing the pillar
of his bones out of the perpendicular, brings his mus-
cles and tendons to act as springs ; and by that gentle,
and, in a good rider, almost imperceptible rising in the
stirrups, he accords his motion harmoniously to that
of his horse, and both go together at any speed with a
delightful smoothness and elasticity, which give a spur
to the animal spirits, and make rapid riding one of the
most genuine luxuries of life.—Howitt's Rural and
Dontestte Life of Germany.
CANTON AND VENlCE.—Captain B. Hall has no-
ticed a remarkable resemblance in many respects be-
tween the cities of Canton and Venice. There is an
exact similitude between one of the canal bridges in
the latter city and one in Canton. The streets in
both places are
paved, he says, in the same style ;
they are of the same width ; have the same degree of
light ; the shops are
just of the same dimensions and
forms ; the houses are equal in height. The only
difference seems to be in the signs. In China each
shop has a large, finely japanned board, six feet long,
with gilt letters, hanging, not horizontally, like ours
in Europe, but perpendicularly, and left loose to flap
about with the wind on one side of the door. Neither
in Venice nor in Canton are there any wheeled car-
riages or horses ; the same method of carrying loads
at the end of poles across the shoulders being prac-
tised in both places, a circumstance that tends greatly
to heighten the unexpected resemblance between two
places so remote from each other, and so differently
circumstanced.

PRICES OF CA NAL, DOCK, ASSCR-
ANCE COMPANY S_►IARES, &e. 8,;;_

LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 9.
Number Dividend tut(
of per C A NA LS. per
Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. _

1,71.6 7 pex ck , • ~;,',,m...Mersxe97/.18.3h, 12
11, ..... 1131,h 12

~260 Bas;:igstoa, -V
- - lOO/ .sh . 5
1,0,5 51. Brecitnock and Abergavenny ...1501.51i. 92
3,090:1.46th. 101 Birmingham, 1-16th share ...,811. & 711. 172
1.000
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton.lo 64•41,‘ all pi --•
109 51. Cheimer and Blackwater ......... H.,o,sh • 101
500 321. Coventry 1001. sh. 295
Croydon.. Average3ll.2s 10d. sb .
.1090.7 51.05. Dudley 1001. sh. 93
600 131. Derby lool.sh. 120
'l,OOO 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd 31
3,57 M 4' Ellesmereand Chester AVeltgCl33l.sk. 69
231 621 Erowasn .. , ...1001.sti. 690
6,4..,Z 811. Forth and Clyde lOO/. sO. 1001. pd. lf2
,453 7/. Grand junction 1001.3 n 118
1,8491 255. Grand Union lool.sh 26
!,500
1,0001 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 1001. .
3,096 , Grand Western 3l. sh. allpd 10
800 13, 1211.8 d. Glamorgansbire, Aver. cost 1721.135.4 d. 210
749 M. Uranthm
6.238
100 .
25.128 0.1.155. Kennet znd Avon, Av. 391.186.104. sh PA
11,6991 11. 10s. Lancaster Average 47/. tis. 8d 273. s
2,8971 1,41. Leeds and Liverpool lool.sh 606
5451 1,1. 10s. Leicester 1401.11, 145
1,897 51.05. Leicester & Nort liampton Aver 831.105 71
4,409 101. Monmouthshire loolll' ' 200
250 13L Melton Mowbray
500 254 Mersey and Irwell 1001.3h. 510
3,000 11. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 15
247 171. Neath 1001.56. 365
2,400 51. Peak Forest. Avet..ge about 781.5 h. 55
1,418 %1. Regent's (or London) Av.331.165.8d.5h. 1756
5,669 N. Rochdale Average 851.5 h. 58
500 81. Shropshire 1254..h. 135
800 111. 10s. Somerset Coal lsol.sh. 170
3,600!. 6 pc!. cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121.105. sh . 11%
700 361. Stafford and Worcester 1401.3 h. 666
500 151, Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280
300 91. 3taurbridge.......-....... 1451.6 h. 396
3,647 41.08. Stratford.on-Avoti AV cr....791. 9s. od. sh. 33
533 Ini Swansea 1001.3h. 630
3,782 21. 12s. Severn and Wye &Railway Av. 261.95. sh. 45
2,60015 h. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share lOOl. sh.
d,140 .... ..... Thames and Medway Av. 191. fn. Bd. sh. 2
I.ooosh.] 141. Warwick and Birmingham lool.sh 169
I,ooolsh.
980 104 Warwick and ilaptoss* 1001. sh. 117
7,000 41. Worcester & Birmingham Av. 781.85. sb. 525 a
5.000 361. Wilts and Berko Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 16
800 6., Wyrlev and E55ingt0n.......... 1251. sh '74
.26 Wisocacn . 13:.1.5h. 30
903 ll Wey and Arun llol.ln. 20
DOCKS.
2,00 k 1 3p. c. Commerc.al «H..... 1001. sh . E 2
1,'36515h.
5 per cent. East and West India ........ ~..., Stock 11352
A 38,31011. 34 1. p.ct. London ...........5t0ck 84
Ditto Bonds
2,209 37.65. sd. Bristol Average 14,1. 9s. sh . 75
68,3241.51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lO6
352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 1065(
500,4,00 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds ... lOl
200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Pier .. 201. sh. 204 pd 10
BRIDGES.
1,600 IL Hammersmitl• 50/.sh. 21J4
7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 631. 28. Bd. ah ,
1,700 14 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent., ...... 501.5 h . 19
a,OOO ....... Waterloo 100/. sh. 3
5,000 ‘32s. 0,1. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81 60/. p 4 184
5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. .... 4Ol. pd 1651
rO,OOO/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds
5.848 27s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 2B