The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

(PER ELEOTRIO TELEGRAPH.)

PLYMOUTH, Friday Morning.
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam•frigate Mngicienne,
Captain Nicholas Vansittart, four days and a-half from
Elsinore, arrived in Plymouth Sound this morning.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Laura, from Sunderland ; Naiad, Kirkaldy ;
South• Western, steamer, Jersey.
Sailed—City of Limerick, steamer, for Dublin ; Jessie
and Friends, Newport ; John Wesley, Bartley, and Light
Sign, Sunderland.

(BY SIIBMARINB AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.55 Et.tia.
Wind W. ; tide last hour's ebb; weather cloudy.
Arrived, Dec. 13.—Elizabeth, from Akyab ; Wards,
Havre.

Arrived, Dec. 14.—Rolf Agesen, from Leer ;
Vemel ; Freya, Mollerup ; Commodore, Stockholm ; Pre-
ciosa, Gottenborg; Dorothea Elizabeth, Assens ; Weasel,
St. Michael's.

DEAL, Friday, 9.32 a.m.
Wind W.N.W., moderate and hazy.
Anchored—lda, from Australia, for London; Kensing.
ton, from London, for Cardiff.
Passed—Coquette, from London, for Malta ; William
Hammond, from London, for Swan River; Canada, from
London, for Madras; Naiad, from London, for Jamaica.

THE QUEEN OF THE WEST.—This fine vessel, of 2,500
tons burden, which was wrecked some months since on
the Langhorne Sands, off the coast of Carmartheeshire,
has been thoroughly repaired. She was got eff by great
exertions, and docked at Llaneily, where 3,0001 have
been expended in repairs. She is once more an efficient
vessel, and is now the property of Messrs. Johnson and
Major, of Liverpool, who purchased her from the former
owners, Messrs. Luckraft and Co. She has been sent to
Cardiff to be coppered and loaded with iron for New
Orleans.
MEMORIAL TO HIS LATE ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE
OF SUSSEX.—In this age of " testimonials " it is some-
thing refreshing to be told how the good name and
qualities of worth may be transmitted to posterity, as-
sociated with a work of practical benevolence. When the
committee of the "Sussex Memorial " decided on appro-
priating the funds collected to the erection of a new
wing to the Royal Free Hospital, they adopted the best
course to perpetuate the name and philanthropic cha-
racter of H.R.H. the Duke of Sussex. It is only a few
months since we noticed the ceremony of laying the
foundation-stone of an addition to this excellent charity,
to be called the " Sussex Wing," and now we see a hand-
some pile, nearly complete, which when opened in the
spring will afford additional hospital accommodation to
nearly 150 patients. It is a oharity in the strict sense
of the word, for all persons seeking relief are immedi-
ately attended to without delay and ceremony of a go-
vernor's letter, and on that aczount alone worthy of
support. It must indeed be a consolation to the bene-
volent founder to witness the great success of nearly a
quarter of a century's charitable labours in behalf of the
destitute of this metropolis. Over 40,000 sick and
destitute poor have been relieved at the Royal Free
Hospital this year.
SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. JOSEPH BARKER.—The New
York Herald trings intelligence of the death of Mr. Jos.
Barker, a man well known in Leeds. and indeed through.
out Yorkshire. Mr. Barker was formerly an accredited
' minister of the Wesleyan New Connexion. He many
years ago left that body ana embraced the principles of
the Unitarians, but at length became a free thinker.
While a resident in this locality, he was a prominent pc-
litical character, and often spoke at election and other
meetings in advocacy of the principles of the Charti-ts.
His earnest inculcations of his views in the year 1848,
at a meeting held on Skircoat Moor, near Halifax, led to
his being indicted at the Liverpool assizes, at the in-
stance of the Government, for alleged instigation to phy-
sical force, but the indictment was withdrawn before the
day of trial. It is but just, however, to state that
though Mr. Barker often used strong and inciting lan-
guage, he invariablyrepudiated physical force, as not only
impolitic, but as likely to be attended with failure if re-
sorted to. His career of change and vicissitude closed
at Philadelphia, where he died suddenly after address-
ing an anti-slavery meeting for upwards of three hours.
He appears to have expired at the meeting, but whe-
ther death arose from over-exertion or some other cause
is not stated. Mr. Barker possessed remarkable power as
a popular speaker and writer, arising from his extreme
clearness and plainness, his perfect collectedness,s his
boldness, his readinsss in reply, his aptness in illustra-
tion, his talent for ridicule, and his never failing flow
vernacular language. We are sorry to be compelled
eminently
dnty
tol
add that these qualifications made his influence
prejudicial, inasmuch as be devoted a great portion of
his time and writings to attacks upon Scripture and
Christianity, and was the means of turning many half-
informed persons from the truth to infid e v ity. W e see
no reason to doubt that he was thei sincere friend of
liberty and popular rights, though h. e was often injudi-
cious and extreme ; but in the all-important matter of
religion he was as mischievous as he was audacious.—
Leeds Mercury