The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-25 00:00:00

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Aug. 25--Wind this day at noon—South.
Bast ; moderate breeze, and brilliant weather.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 23 —Arrived—Florence, from
Philadelphia, Florist, from Paraiba. Sailed—Dominica,
for Quebec.

WHITEHAVEN, Aug. 23.—Wind E.—Sailed—Warlock,
for Quebec.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 24.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—lda
Ziegler, from London for Auckland, N.Z. Sailed—Her
Majesty's ship Shannon, for Sheerness; Eastern Empire,
for Sydney.

PILL, Aug. 24.—Sailed—Lundonsky, for New York;
Malakhoff, for Prince Edward's Island.

LY ELECTRIC; TELEGRAPH.

SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived—Ann Patterson, from Sunderland; Ripple, from
Portsmouth; Purveyor, from Swanage; Fidtlity, from
Littlehimpton.
sailed—Lord Strangfcrd, for Newcastle ; Lord John
Russell, for Portland; Hannah, for Guernsey.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
_ _ GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 24.—Najade, from Guatemala;
from Hammefest ; Sylph, from Cadiz • Liugina, from
Taganrog; Iris, Emma Eden, Ann, -Vigo, Zuma—from
Guernsey; Louis Emanuel, from Marano; Broadwood, from
Memel; Horton, William and Sarah, Elizabeth—from
Dantzio; Vernon, from Riga ; Abeona from Hoburg ;
Harriet from Havre; Tennant, from Smyrna; Elizabeth
and Sophia, from Droback ; Grecian Queen, Berdianak.

Arrived Aug. 25.—Fanshar Otto Manfanlet, from
Dautsic.

Sailed Aug. 24.—Monsoon, for Port Natal; Her Ma-
jesty, for Bombay ; City of Hamilton, for Quebec.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—California, from Wiburg, for Poole ; Castleton,
from Hartlepool, for Point de Galle; Amelia, of Jersey,
from north, for west; Louise Augusta, from Shields, for
Naples ; Colocotronis, screw steamer, from London, for
Nantes.

Sailed—British Banner, for Alexandria.

VES ` ELS 70 SAIL UNDER TVA7E.R.

The text attempt to construct a vessel of this kind was
made in 1774 by a man named Day, of Yarmouth, who
was successful in two descents, and made a third from
which he never returned. His first descent was made in a
market boat which he adapted for the purpose, and in which
he lay under water for twenty-four hours, afterwards as-
cending to the surface without assistance. This experi-
ment having been successful, he wrote to a Mr. Blake,
whose character as a sporting man he learnt from the
" Sporting Calendar," the letter which follows :—" Sir, I
have found an affair by which many thousands may be
won. It is of a paradoxical natui e, but can be performed
with ease ; therefore, sir, if you choose to be informed of it,
and give me one hundred pounds of every thousand you
shall win by it, I will very readily wait upon you and in-
form you of it. lam myself but a poor mechanic, and not
able to make anything by it without your assistance.—
Yours, &c., J. Day." An interview ensued i i London,
a model was constructed, which was submitted by Mr.
Blake to several gentlemen, who approved the design,
and Day was then sent back to Yarmouth with the funds
requisite for carrying out his idea. When the vessel
was completed. Mr. Blake was present when Day made
his trial descent with his new vessel in Catwater, at the
bottom of which he lay for twelve hours. On the day
fixed for the great trial she was towed to a spot, where the.
depth of the water was twenty fathoms, her inventor shut
himself in ber, let in the water and disappeared. The twelve
hours having elapsed, and there being no s'gns of his re-
appearance, Mr. Bltike applied to the c Wain of the Orpheus
frigate, and also to Lord Sandwich for assistance, but all
was ineffectual, neither Day nor his vessel w, re ever again
seen by mortal eye. There is no description extant of the
mode in which this vessel was constructed ; the only infor-
mation on this point is, that it had a false bottom that held
a quantity of ballast that could be detached when the per-
son inside desired to return to the surface,—United Service
ifagazine.