The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, March 23.—Wind this day at noon—North-
East ; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
PLYMOUTH, March 22.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—lre-
landia, from for Middelburg.
DARTMOUTH, March 22.—Wind E.—Arrived—Teviot,
from Colombo.

BRISTOL, March 21.—Wind tc,E.—Arrived—Monsoon,
from Mauritius.

DOVER, March 22.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Polma,
from Alexandria.

NEWPORT, March 22.—Wind N,E.—Arrived—Gustav
Williams, from Santander for Barcelona—thrkstone, from
London for Jamaica. Sailed—Caledenia, for Rio Janeiro
—Mary Grim, for St. Thomas.

(SY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrivei—Jantje Manias, from Groningen, Jantena
Aleda, from Marionsiel.
Sailed—Penn, steamer, for London.
The Bremen, steamer, due off Cowes to-morrow from
New York, a regular course, will call at Queenstown for
orders, she having received instructions to that effdct before
going out, in consequence of the war in Denmark and the
vessels of the North German Lloyd not having been trans-
ferred to the Russian flag at the time of her departure.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, March 22—Raven, from Dram; Avalanche,
from Singapore; Apollo, from Porsgrund ; Juliet, from
Gravelines.
Arrived, March 23—Actio, from Landscrona ; Adler,
from Calmar; Batavier and Leo, steamers, from Rotterdam ;
Gustaf Wass, steamer, from Gothenburg; Ceres, from
Horsens; E. U., from Sannesand ; Pomona, from Helsing-
b, rg ; Argo, from Dram ; Industrial, from Aarhuus ; Lord
John Russell, steamer, from Dunkirk.
Sailed, March 23—Seine and Tatnise, steamer, for Paris ;
Sir R. Peel, steamer, for Dunkirk; Triton, steamer, for
Boulogne.

Dm, Wednesday Morning.
Passed—Come On, of Exeter, from the north, for the
west.

The late Newman Smith, El., has left the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution a legacy of £5O.
THE LEOMINSTER MURDER.—At the Hereford-
shire Assizes, yesterday, Watkins, the man charged with
the murder of his wife at Leominster, pleaded guilty. The
plea was, however, withdrawn, on the resommendatien of
the judge, and the trial was postponed.
THE WORKING MAN'S OWN CLUB.—In 1855 a
club was established at Littlemore, near Oxford,
by the Rev. T. W. Huntingford, the government of which,
as that gentleman says in en account he has written of its
operations, was "oligarchical, with a dash of despotism."
This IS very often the ease in small country towns and vil-
lages, where working men, conscious of their want of ex-
perience in business affairs, are glad to place themselves
under the guidance of the local clergyman or squire. In
some Maces specific religious opinions are required as an
indispensable condition of membership. But in others the
artisans and labourers have taken the matter into their own
hands with admirable effect. A remat kable instance of this
is presented by the club recently inaugurated and now
flourishing at Wednesbury, a little town in the iron manu-
facturing districts of Staffordshire. The institution was
first proposed at the commencement of last year; but the
gentlemen who made the suggestion, or who promised to
patronise it, slumbered over the work, and the mechanics,
getting tired of waiting, set their shoulders to the wheel,
rented a house on their own responsibility,furnished it with
everything necessary for such an undertaking, and obtained
so many members that, although the rooms were only
opened on the 30th May,1863, the club has for some months
past been entirely self-supporting, with no other receipts
than the subscriptions of its members and the sale of provi-
sions within its walls. The subscriptions are 2,1 a week and
2s a quarter, the honorary members giving a yearly dona-
tion of a guinea. The number of members at the commence-
ment was 100, but they increased so rapidly that it was soon
found necessary to take large and better premises, and the
club now rents the old Town Hall at £45 per annum. Judg-
ing from the information we possess, we should say that a
more perfect specimen of the genuine Working Men's Club
cannot be found anywhere. The committee and all the
governing officers belong
to the industrial classes ; mem-
bers and subscriptions are canvassed for every Monday
morning at the factories, and the rent of the building is
guaranteed by the men themselves,—Dickens's "All the
Year Round."

A TALE FOR THE MARINES. There is a
wonderful Hindoo chess-ph.yer at present in
London. He plays three games blindfolded, and wins.
At the same time he plays a game of cards, and
wins. During the game a bell is toughed every one or two
seconds, and he gives the number of times it has been
touched. A man stands behind and throws little pebbles
one by one against his back; these, too, he counts; and
after the games are told he recites a poem in perfect rhyme
which he has composed during the sitting.
A senator died this week—Prince de Beauvais,
born 1793, left for dead in the march on Moscow, under the
First Empire, and who reappeared in political life only
under Napoleon 111. He had married a sister of the ill-
fated Duo de Fraslin,