The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-07 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, May 7.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, MPy 6.—Arrived—White Star, from Can-
terbury, N.Z.
SWANSEA, May s.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Ethelbena,
from Caldera. _ . .

PLYMOUTH, May G.—Wind N.N.—Arrived—Athens,
screw steamer, from Southampton for the Cape of Good
Hope.
FALMOUH, May 6,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—F. A. Alma.
na,gre, from Sagua la Grande.
BRISTOL, May 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pallas, from
Huelva.
LEITH, May 6.—Wind 11T,N.W.—Sailed—Bertha, for
Singapore.

BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, May 6—Lympha, from Christiana—Antelope,
from Gothenberg—and Pluto, and Soren Winkle, from
Aalborg,

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Trio brig, from the north for Fayal.

REFORMATION OF THE JERSEY COURT.—The
petition of the British residents in Jersey to Parliament in
favour of Mr Locke's bill for the reform of the Jersey
Court, has received a large number of signatures.
SERIOUS STEAMSHIP COLLISION OFF DEPTFORD—
A SHIP SUNK.—Yesterday morning,between 5 and
6 o'clock, a very serious collision happened on the river, off
the works of the General Steam Navigation Company, at
Deptford, which resulted in the sinking of a fine bark which
had recently arrived in the river from the Mediterranean
with a cargo of sulphur. The barque was lying at the re-
gular moorings off the lower part of Deptford, on the south
side of mid-channel, when a large iron screw steamship, re-
ported to be the Beta, bound foreign, on her way down the
river, struck the ship on the port quarter, close to the stern.
The steamer came stem on, and such was the fearful charac-
ter of the blow that the bark was cut down several feet, and
driven from her moorings nearer towards Greenwich. It
was then found that the ship was fast filling. Fortunately
the crew were enabled to take to the boats and preserve
themselves before the ship went down. She now lies in the
fairway of the navigation, but the Thames Conservancy
harbour masters have taken the usual precautions to protect
the shipping passing up and down the pool from sustaining
damage or getting foul of the sunken ship. The vessel which
wan lying near to the bark also sustained come damage.
The loss of the bark and her cargo will involve a consider.•
able amount. The Beta, after some delay, proceeded on her
course down the river. The bark is reported to be insured.
THE CONFEDERATE VESSEL PAMPERO.—On
Thursday a final judgment was given in the case
by Lord Ormidale at Edinburgh, in terms of a compromise
agreed upon between the parties for a nominal conviction
without penalty. Minutes were lodged by the builders,
withdrawing from the suit, and by the owners, stating that
they adhered to the statement that, so far as they were con-
cerned, the counts in the information were unfounded in fact,
having ascertained that Mr G. T. Sinclair, one of the de-
fenders, did attempt and endeavour to furnish the vessel
with the intent stated in the third count; and being advised
that the said vessel might thereupon be legally liable to
seizure, even though her owners had not themselves in-
fringed the statute, they had entered into the agreement set
forth in the joint minute with the Crown. The joint minute
for the crown and the owners set forth—first, that the de-
fenders, John Eeming and others, consent to a verdict being
entered for the Crown, without the intervention of a jury,
on the 37th count of the information, but this on the footing
that no liability is incurred by the said defenders to her
Majesty's Advocate or to any of the officers of the Crown
acting in their capacity of informers; and, second, that in
the application of the said verdict no expenses shall be found
due by either party in the suit. The Lord-Ordinary pro-
nounced interlocutors—first, allowing Messrs. Thomson,
the builders, to withdraw from the case ; second, allowing
the minute for the defenders, Fleming and others ; and,
third, finding for the Crown on the 37th count in terms
of the joint minute, the count in question being to the effect
that the defenders attempted and endeavoured to furnish the
said ship or vessel with intent and in order that such ship
or vessel should be employed in tho service of tho Confe-
derate States, with intent to cruise and commit hostilities
against a certain foreign State with which her Majesty was
not then at war—to wit, the republic of the United States ;
the third interlocutor farther declaring that no penalty had
been incurred by the defenders, and that no expenses were
due by either party.
A MANUSCRIPT WHICH HAD BELONGED TO
TILE TENIERS FAHILY has lately passed into the archives
of the city of Antwerp, from which it appears that David
Teniers had a son of the same name, who was also a painter
of some celebrity.
LETTERS FOR CIVITA VECCIIIA AND NAPLES, BY
FRENCH PACKET.—In consequence of some alterations
which have been made in the arrangements of the French
load packet service in the Mediterranean, letters, &O , in-
tended to be sent to Civita Vecchia and Naples, by French
packet, despatched from London by the day mail of every
Wednesday, or the night mail of every Saturday, will, in
the ordinary course, be in time to be forwarded by the
packets leaving Marseilles on the following Thursday and
Isionclay,—)3y command of the Footmaster-General,