The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-31 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

VONDON, Aug. 31.—Wind this day 16t noon, E. ;
ight breeze. and fine clear sultry w.ather.
RAMSGATE, Aug• 30.—Wiad N.E. —Arrived—Rosita,
from Newfoundland.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—lmpe-
rial (s.s. tpt. 188), f-oin Malta, &c., and left for Deptford.
Sailed Helen A. Miller, for Newport, Monmouth, and
Belli more.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 30.-1 V hid S.W.—Sailed—Wanata,
for Calcutta.
FALMOUTH, Aug. no.—Wind variable.—Arrived—Fe-
ronia, from Quebec; Medallion, Matanzas. Sailed—Bre-
vet, flr Valparaiso, via Cardiff.
LivEnrooL, Aug. 30.—The Retriever. which capsized
in the river ou the 3d inst., has been raised and taken
into dock.
CHRISTIANSUND, Aug. 26.—The brig America, from
Danziz to Dublin, has put into Arendahl very leaky, and
must discharge there and repair.
OFF TORQUAY—EarI of Eglinton, from the Cape of
Good Hope.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 29.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—
Labnan (s.s), from Liverpool, for Singapore, with machi-
nery out of order.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—S 'gittarie, from Fecamp ; Maria, London ;
Blue Jacket, Naples ; Brunswick (s.), Plymouth ; Effort,
Sunderland ; Transit (s.), Jersey.
Sailed—Argyll (s.), Carentan ; Courier (s.), Jersey; Ata-
lanta, Havre ; Malcolm Brown, and Thomas and Marga-
ret, Sunderland ; Florida, Newport.
LIVERPOOL. Friday Morning.
Off—Briton's Pride, from Alexandria.
Sailed—Empire, for New York.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 29.

Wind, S.
Arrived—Midi Akena, from Trieste ; Herdoicka Thilda,
Alexandria ; Sirius, Seville ; Fortuna, Syria ; Rattlesnake,
Salon ion.
Sailed--Baroling, for Gibraltar.
DUBLIN, Aug. 30.

Wind,
Arrived—Edwold, from Tiieste.

(BT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRATIT3
GRAVESEgD, Thursday, 9.56 a.m.
Wind, E. ; tile, five hours ebb ; fine.
Arrived, August '.o—Sutlei, from Antwerp.
Sailed—Amanda, for Stettin.
DEAL, Friday, 9.30 a.m.

Wind E.. moderate, and fine.
Passed—Tilakeley, from Shields, for Carthagens, ; Da-
nube, from London, for Calcutta ; 11.M.5. Dee, westward,
for the river.

A Special General Meeting of the Mitre and JEgis
Life Association was held yesterday, at the offices, in
Pall-mall, when a provisional agreement was assented
to for an amalgamation of the Hope Assurance Corn,
parry, of Princes street, B ink, with the association. It
was also agreed to increase the capital for the purposes
of the association.
THE KATHERINE SHARER.—The total destruction of
this fine ship, outward bound to Hobart Town, with
passengers, ac., was made kr.own yesterday at Lloyd's.
The Katherine Sharer was a Sunderland•built ship, of
nearly 500 tons burden, the property of Mr. Wilson, of
Wapping. She sailed from Gravesend on the 23d of
last February for Hobart Town, under the charge of
Captain Thorn, with 27 passengers and a general
cargo of. merchandise, including about 10 tons of
powder. She amcoraPlished the voyage out safely,
sighting Cape Esperance, near the entrance of the har-
bour of Hobart Town river, on the afternoon of the
6th of June, and in the evening she was brought to
an anchor in the bay to await the morning tide and
pilot to take her up to Hobart. About eleven o'clock
the passengers were startled out of tbeir sleep by cries
that the ship was on fire. On reaching the deck they
found flames and smoke issuing forth from the fore
hatchway, and the captain and all hands endeavouring
to keep th. fire under; yet it gained an ascendancy
rapidly, and it soon became evident that the ship was
lost. Already had the captain ordered the boats to be
prepared and secured ; and, finding it would be highly
dangerous to jeopardise the lives of his men and passen-
gers by their longer remaining on board, he immediately
abandoned the ship, the passengers and crew being equally
proportioned to the three boats. Two hours afterwards
the flames reached the powder, which blew up with ter-
rific explosion, which was heard for miles distant. The
boats were, fortunately, far beyond its reach, and the
occupants escaped injury. The news of the catastrophe
did not reach Hobart Town till the lltb, when Mr.
Chapman, Lloyd's agent, directly chartered the Mimosa
cargo
itaonfd the underwriters. All thai could
placing it in security on the
steamer and proceeded to the spot, where he found the
wrecke was her topmast, which is just
captain and crew of the burnt ship collecting portions of
herbbvee,visible
seenshatteredcble forofbt
n
heee
water.
There is strong reason to suspect
anr
that the ship was wilfully set on fire. One of the crew
has been arrested on suspicion, and had undergone exa-
mination before the magistrates before the mail left.
The passengers lost every portion of property belonging
to them, and many of them were reduced to compara-
tive misery. The ship was insured at Lloyd's.