The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, June B.—Wind this day at noon— W.S.W.;
moderate breeze and showery.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.

Arrived, June B—Magnet, from Itotterdarn ; Try, from
Caen ; Hanibal, from Smyrna ; Appolina, from Shanghae ;
Express, from Calcutta; Malvern, from Nangasaki, Tigris
from Barbadoes; Gilbert Thomson, from Calcutta; Daniel
Rankin, from Bombay; Shannon, from Mauritius; Cape
City, from Algoa Bay.
Arrived, June B—Chrystoline, from Buenos Ayres ; Le-
vant, frem Porto Rico; Nibea, from Dominica; Blossom,
from Dantzin ; Furet, from Gravelines ; Marion Ross, from
Ostend ; Electra, from Grenada ; Zoe, from Buenos Ayres ;
Lucknow, from Columbia ; Annie, from Berbice ; Ottoburn,
from Riga • Clynmene, from Mauritius; Ann Eliza, from
Sagua le Riga;
; Virgine, from Columbia ; East, from Ha-
vaunah ; Julia Augusta, from Columbia ; City of Durham,
from Foo-chow-Foo; Eliza, from Guernsey; Atlantic, from
Jamaica; Mangerton, from Barbadoes; Rose, from Bou-
logne ; Confidence, from Casa-bianca ; Token, from Lagos ;
Maitland, from Cochin; Warbler, from t'orto Rico; Re-
becca, from Sines; Esperance, from Pera.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—Abeona, brig, from the west, for London.
Anchored—Accrington, from London, for Canterbury;
Maria, from Girgenti, for Hamburg.
The Phoenix, from Antwerp, for Leghorn, sprung a leak,
and has gone to Ramsgate Harbour.

THE IRISH ELECTIONS.—The polling for Nevi,
Ross and Kinsale took place on Saturday, and for the for-
mer borough, Colonel 'l ottenham, the Conservative candi-
date, was returned by the narrow majority of two. We
havd not received a statement of the close of the poll at
Kinsale, but at two o'clock Sir George Colthurst, a sup-
porter of Lord Palmerston's Government, was twelve votes
ahead of his opponent, Mr. Fitzgibbon.
THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE TURF.—If his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales be willing to
cultivate the most beautiful part of our racing system, so as
to add utility to the personal pleasure and popularity he
will attain, then we say let him turn his attention to the
breeding of thorough-bred stock. There is a magnificent
opening, which may be entered upon under the best
auspices—the good wishes of a whole people. The most
skilful advice, we are assured, would be at the Prince's ser-
vice. He is surrounded by gentlemen of experience and of
practical and theoretical knowledge. The racecourse has
learnt to do little enough, as it now exists, to insure the ful-
filment of its original intention; it improves remarkably
the condition and pockets of some of its votaries, but it fails
to affect, in the minutest degree, the general capability of
the hack or the hunter which we ride. It is worse than
useless, for its perpetuation of bad horses is mi.Fchievous ;
and there is perhaps nothing in the world about which a
betting man knows so little as about the horse which he
backs, if we regard its quality or form.— fhe Field.
THE DEMOLITION OF OLD ST. PAUL'S.—The
demolition of the old walls was a work of extreme
difficulty, and the height of the principal tower (200 feet)
so terrified the workmen that they refused to encounter the
risk of pulling it down. Wren soon made the work prac-
ticable. He caused a hole to be dug, about four feet wide,
at the base of the north-west pillar, the tower being sup-
pc,Nrted by four columns, each 14 feet in diameter, and then
wrought a hole two feet square in the centre of the pillar, in
which he placed a box containing 181bs. of powder. A
cane was fixed to the box with a match, and the aperture
securely closed. The train was now to be fired, and Wren
anxiously watched the result, which was surprising. The
explosion of that small portion of gunpowder not onlylifted
up the whcile angle of the tower, with the two arches resting
upon it, but also the two adjoining arches of the aisles. The
explosion see.'ned deliberate enough ; first the walls cracked
to the top, and visibly lifted up the whole about 9in., which,
falling backward, split into a vast ruin, without the least
scattering. It was some seconds before the mass ofmasonry,
opening in several places, began to emit smoke. The
shock of that great weight, falling from a height of 200
fee, alarmed thetLondoners with the expectation of an.
earthquake. A second explosion took place under the direc-
tion of an assistant, who, disobeying Wren's orders, put a
greater quantity of powder, and was !ess careful in securing
it. The necessary effect followed, but a block of stone was
projected to the opposite side of the churchyard, and falling
into a bookseller's balcony, did considerable mischief. The
further use of gunpowder being forbidden by authority,
Wren was forced to use other expedients. A. batteringrrhi
was constructed. He caused a mast, 40ft long, to be shhoadswainta
iron at t he thickest en d, and being strengthened
iwraithelledr the
ferules, it was set to work. Thirty
machine against the was, and beatawinhaonle day', without
them to proceed.
the least visible result. He encouraged
On the second day, the wall
itasobserved to oscillate at
the top, and in a few hours fel: to the ground. The
labourers were paid ls. 6d. per eunbyieoffooctafromrernemaogvirneegd t ht,e)
old foundations, and the Ct
bring the Portland stone frio:'. Paul's wharf to the church
at ls. 4d. per ton, provided each stone did not exceed eight
tons and a half in weight. The foundation. was opened at
the west end and carried to the ea
st.—City Press.
AMERICAN STEAMERS DUE AT LIVERPOOL THIS
WEEK.—The steamers City of Baltimore, from New York
on the 30th ult. and the North Amoric an, from Quebec on
the same day/
may be expected at Qui2enstown and Lon-
donderry on the morning of Wednesti ay next. The next
Cunard vessel, from New York on the 3d instant due at
Queenstown, is the China, and she fray be confidently
morning next. looked for on Saturday