The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-17 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Aug. 17.—Wind this day at noon, S.E.;
light airs, and calm and hazy.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 16.—Wind W.—Arrived—Gibral-
tar (s.s. tpt. 183), from Smyrna. Sailed—Stadocona, for
Quebec ; Germania (s. tpt. 287), Woolwich.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 16. Wind variable.—Arrived—Coun-
tess of Leven and Melville, from Requijada. Sailed—
H.M.Str. Meteor, for the Crimea, in tow of H.M.S. Rha-
damanthus. _ . .

AtiLroßD, Aug. 16.—Wind W.—Arrived—Nornen,
froni Quebec for Pembroke Dock.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 15.—Wind E.—Sailed— Secret, for
Newfoundland. Off the Port—Omega, from Callao, and
proceeded for London.
SHIELDS, Aug. 16.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived—John
and Mary, from St. John's, N.B.
STOCKTON, Aug. 16.—Wind W.—Arrived—lndian
Queen, from Shediac ; Queen, Dalhousie ; Anna Doro-
thea, Miramichi. _ - -

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug.l6.—Arrived—Alster (s. tpt.), from
Gibraltar, with the mails of the Sultan (s.), from Alexan-
dria. Salle-I—Magdalena (s.), for West Indies.
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CERISTIANSAND; Aug 6.--LThe schooner Neptune, from
Odense to London, put in here yesterday leaky, with
pumps choked, and list of nearly four planks ; she must
discharge.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 15.—The Emanuel, from Danzig to
Cardiff, has been lost on the Northern Hooks ; crew saved.
CADIZ, Aug. 9.—The French screw-steamer Isabella,
from Havre, Szc., to this port, struck on the rocks near
dabo Candor, on the 7th inst., and filled ; it is expected
she will become a wreck ; crew, passengers, and part of
cargo saved.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday ➢Zorning.
Arrived.—James and Jessie, from Newport ; Bruns-
wick steamer, Plymouth.
Sailed—Argyll steamer, for Carentan.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind, S.
Arrived.—Petrel, from Requijada.
Off Boadicea, from Barbadoes.

Sailed.—Bonne Mere, for Havre ; Frowning Beauty,
Callao ; Covenanter, screw steamer, Constantinople • Bar-
bara, Limpias ; Adelaide, Gibraltar ; St. George, iotter-
dam ; Henrietta, Constantinople.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
Wind, S.. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 15.
Sailed —Phoenix, for Gottenburg ; Secret, Newfoundland.
DUBLIN, Aug. 16.

Wind, N.W.
Arrived—Alice, from Porto Rico.

DEAL, Friday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind, Westerly; light.
Passed—Cornelius Grinnell, from New York, for Lon-
don ; Tulloch Castle, Bombay ; Charles Oak, Newport ;
Scio, Naples ; Agamennon, Quebec—all from London ;
Germania, screw-steamer, 207 Transport, from the Black
Sea to London.

The Cheltenham Examiner states that the well-known
nursery grounds of Mr. Jessop, in that town, have sus-
tained by the late floods a damage to stock alone to the
amount of 8001. A subscription in his behalf is in pro-
gress.

BANFFSHIRE.—A VORACIOUS COD FISH.—On Thurs-
day a cod fish was brought ashore at Buckie, which had
in its stomach no fewer than 25 full-grown herrings,
several of which had been but recently gorged.—North
Pritish, Daily Mail.
SINGULAR RECOVERY FROM AN APPARENTLY MORTAL
WOUND.—At the battle of Inkerman, a private in the
lst:Battalion of the Rifle Brigade was wounded by a
musket-ball, which passed directly through both temples.
The man was insensible for fourteen days, but is now
(with the exception of his hearing) perfectly recovered,
and is nightly employed at the Surrey Zoological
Gardens.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A SOLDIER BY GUNPOWDER.

—Yesterday a frightful accident occurred to William
Harding, aged 26 years, belonging to the Royals, lying
at Winchester, and who had leave of absence to come
to London to see his friends. It appears that the man
had some blank cartridges in one of his pockets, and
while smoking his pipe in Battersea-fields some fire fell
from it, and an explosion took place, injuring him
severely. He remains in a precarious state.
LONGEVITY.—Mrs. Murrell, residing at Yapton, near
Bognor, celebrated the anniversary of ber birthday on
the 10th inst., surrounded by her five children—three
sons and two daughters ; their respective ages amount.
ing to 433 years. This venerable lady is 99 years of age,
and retains her faculties, of which she gave proof by
singing the appropriate song of " Long have I rambled
through the world."-17(:st Surrey Gazette.
SERVING ON JURIES.—The annual jury papers are now
in course of delivery at every occupied house in the
kingdom, to be filled up by the tenants, and those claim-
ing to be exempted either from over age or otherwise. By
being properly attended to by the occupiers, &c, a great
deal of trouble would be saved to those entitled to ex-
eption, as well as the clerks of the Peace at the Crinu-
nal Court and Sessions for the Counties. In the coursete
of next month these jury lists will be preparel byoo h
doors of
overseers of each parish, and exhibited at th
are ins-
-properly every church and chapel. Persons whose names
properly inserted can have them struck out tPetty
Sessions.