The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Oct. 31.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—lieroine,
from Patras for London.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 30.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Favorite
from Rio Janeiro—Tre Hermance, from Guayaquil. Sailed
—Helen Denny, Kenilworth, and Hansa, for the West
Indies.

SWANSEA, Oct. 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrivcd—Annie Holy,
berg, from Hong Kong.
RAMSGATE, Oct. 30..—Wind N.B.—Arrived—Lac:fa,
from Havannah.
CARDIFF, Oot. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the
Good, from Itio Janeiro.

KINSALE, Oct, 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Periclosi
from Cuba for Queenstown.

(lIT MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVE4END, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 30—Elizabeth, from Petersburg—Mary
Pring, from Dantzio—Herman, from London—Crapaud,
from Guernsey—Wilhelmina, from Hernosand—Elizabeth
Ann, from Dordt—Roe Riddern, from. Sundswall—
Souvenir, from Bruges—Belt, front Gothernburg—Scan.
dinavian, from Sarpsborg.

7,..Arrived, Oct. 3i—Dorothy Jordan, from Memel.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 30—Glennarck, for Canterbury—Cioh I
Nor, for Bermuda—both from London.
Passed, Oct. 31—Fiery Cross, from London, for Bong
Kong.

A DELICATE AlissioN.—Another remarkable
letter is published in the American papers frorri
Francis P. Blair, bearing date at Silver Spring, October 5
1854, which permits us to see something of what is going
on behind the scenes in tke intrigues of the Presidential
campaign. This letter was not captured by Confederate
cavalry, but is given to the public by Mr Blair himself, to
set Mr Lincoln right on the question of his having offered a
oomreand to General M'Clellan if that gentleman would but
with draw his claims as a candidate for the Presidency. Mr
Blair tells us that he went to New York as a self-al pointed
commissioner in the interests of harmony among the friends
of the Union, just as Kirk, alias Gilmore, and the melan-
choly Jacques went to Richmond on the blessed errand of
peace, and, like Kirk and Jacques, he had no authority to
speak for Mr Lincoln at all. Oh, no 1 The President had
no knowledge whatever that he had left Silver Spring, and
what tie said to the New York editors and politicians was
wholly on his own personal responsibility. Some tender in-
terviews he held with the amiable Bryant, the philosophic
Greeley, and the incorruptible Bennet, and with General
M'Clellan he had the pleasure of a long and free converse,
tion, in which he gave the general to understand that if he
would resign all aspiration for the Presidency, and wrote to
the President asking a command, that command would be
given him. Gen. M'Clellan promised to p nder the pro-
positions of Blair, but pleaded the domestic trouble of a sick
child in the country as a probable bar to a second interview.
Nlr Blair returned to Washington and made known to Pre-
sident Lincoln the results of his mission, who received them
kindly and courteously, but without indicating approval or
disapprobation. It seems clear enough that Blair did not
make this offer to M'Clellan without an assurance from
some quarter that it would have been ratified at Wat,Ling
,on in case it was accepted ; but M'Clellan was astute
enough to decline. That's all.-2hc

DEATH of THE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL —The
Marquis of Bristol, after lingering hopelessly some days,
expired at five o'clock on Sunday morning at lekworth
Hall. His lordship was in his 61th
of Earl Jermyn, the late marquis's eldest aor, to the House
of Lords, a vacancy will arise in the representation of West
Suffolk. year. By the elevation

COLONEL CRAWLEY.—Friday night's Gazette
contained the announcement of the promotion of Lieutenant
Colonel Thomas R. Crawley, of the 61.1 Drcgoone, to a full
c.oloneley, the rank dating fr SePte