The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day,

LONDON, Oct. 22.—Wind this day at noon—West
light breeze, and fine weather.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 21 —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Onyx,
from Mauritius. Oct. 22—Arrived—Norfolk Hero, from
Smyrna; Black Cat, from Naples; Armand and Louise,
from Havre for St. Thomas.

CLYDE, Oct, 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—lndiana,
from Quebec. Sailed—Aboukir, for Port Chalmers, N. 8.;
City of Petersburg, screw steamer, for Nassau.
OFF FALMOUTH, Oct. 22.—Arrived—Cid, from Rio
Janeiro.

CARDIFF, Oct. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Asbaume,
from Bilboa. Sailed—Suez, for Singapore; Regina, for
Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady
Eglinton, screw steamer, from Dublin, and proceeded for
London,

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GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 21—San Spiridin, from New York.
Arrived, Oct. 22—Hezon, from Cronstadt ; Chanticleer,
from Stettin; Matamora, from Cronstadt ; Richard, from
Wyborg; Unda, from. R.rageroe.

DAL, Thursda g.
Passed—Nora, screw steamer,E and 5,793 pedant, frola
the west; 'Windermere, from Quebec—all for London.
About 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, a quarter of a mile
from the middle buoy at the back of the Goodwin Sands,
the galley Arrow, of Deal, fell in with the screw steamer
Albert, of Guernsey, having in tow a ship, name unknown,
5500 to 600 tons, copper bottom, boats carried away, sails
. The master of the Albert stated that he found the
wreck abandoned early in the day, and then she had
signal lamp burning by the bow above water. To all ap-
pearance the vessel had been in collision. The steamer was
trying to tow the wreck round the South Sand towards the
main. Otbor steamers went out from the Downs to assist)
but nothing can be seen of them this morning.

1 DESTRUCTIVE DROUGHT.—A Smyrna letter a_
de-
, the 6th has the subjoined intelligence :
atructive drought, which has done so much harnitovro
there
crops, still continues, and in many parts of rkiL greatly
is a positive water-famine. The figs have suffered
will in eonseqacnue
--terileal 1 our
from this cause, and the season's crop vr..-_, „aantity. The
be far below the average both in quality end `i
greater extent.
cotton crop will suffer to an equal or Ivor kas induced our
The continued activity of the briganua _v. amongst his
Governor-General to make a vigordro, ""
suppressing the evil.
:nadirs and other
subordinates in the interior towato
the
With this view, he has addressed to
their most strenuous
vagabond who cannot
local chiefs stringent orders to use
positive disgrace to all
endeavours to arrest every armed himself, and to send him,
give a satisfactory accouc The province has for
down to Smyrna for examination.
hisa
the honest and energetic
government—notwithstanding months been in a state iav,_i_aticing
The light-house
.4' Put completing its service of lights for
within the immediate neighbour-
efforts of Ahmet Iv" f
down the evil. 4.,.. nu.
it is expected, have the line of this
hood of Smyrnapci
will,
administration is fast
round the strait of Myteline fully function-
these waters.
hence
ese of next week. The service will be a great
our own immediate navigation, the accidents to
which
num from the want of such beacons, especially near the
castle and on the iiermus bank, have of late years became
&one and costly, if not fatal, in proportion to ex-
bibdoagoy ninainsdr the
-
sending trade.''
THE MURRAIN--The following intelligence
comes from Mostar (nerzogovina), Oct. 2 :---.i The
ravages of the murrain have been very serious among the
cattle in the district, At Brood (Turkey), out of 1,200
ozen only 100 remain. Throughout al! Bosnia and Her-
zogovina the mortality amongst the cattle of all descriptions
has been equally heavy,causing immense loss to the people.
Much blame is attributable to the local authorities, who
take no
adequate precautions to prevent the spread of the
disease. The cattle which died were thrown into the rivers.
Save and Unna, and other streams ; of course all animals
drinking of the poisoned water quickly became diseased._
The murrain is now raging along the Austrian frontierioo: sn
the cattle are dying in great numbers. At Petrova aae.
is
epidemic has broken out among the inhabitants, wh
caicrthiaolic
ascribed to their using the impure water.
,t week
The
sod
eek in
Bishop of Herzegovina, Mgr. Baracic, died la
Siroki-Brigh convent, at the age of 67 years.
The deceased the
prelate was en ardent supporter of Austrian
influence, and
der of the Iron Crown,"
was rewarded for his zeal with the decoration of Cowman-