The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-21 00:00:00

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

The heavy portion of the Australian mail has
arrived. We take the following items of South
Australian news from the South Australian .hegis-
ter of the 23d August :
" Very heavy rains have continued till within
these last few days, and the country has been exten-
sively flooded. Several fatal accidents have oc-
curred, and much damage has been done to gardens.
The weather is at present fine and warm-
" This year's immigration vote of £25,000 has
been passed without opposition.
"A more liberal system of leasing mineral lands
is likely to be adopted by the Legislature.
" A preliminary meeting has been held on the
subject of Lancashire distress. The collection in
the room amounted to £240.

" The body of the Rev. T. Q. Stow has been
brought from Sydney and buried in the Adelaide
Cemetery. The attendance at the funeral was very
large, and arrangements are being made for erecting
a monument to his memory.

" Messrs. J. and C. B. Fisher's Mount Schanck
estate has been sold by the trustees for £BO,OOO.
It is expected that 20s. in the pound will be paid to
all the unsecured creditors within the present year.
" The Chamber of Commerce has resolved to
urge upo❑ the railway authorities the charge of a
uniform rate per mile upon goods.
" Flour is quoted at £l2 10s. for wire-dressed,
and £l3 to £l3 10s. for silk-dressed, per ton of
2,0001 b.

" Wheat is worth ss. 3d. to ss. 4d. per bushel of
601 b.

" Copper is £B6 10s. per ton at Port Adelaide.
" Banks purchase draughts on London at 60 days'
sight at par, and sell at 2 per cent. premium.
"Arrivals.—The Sea Star, the Lady Ebrington,
the Alwynton, and the John Norman, from London.
"No departure for Europe."

VISIT OF MR. COBDEN, M.P., TO MNCHESTER.
—Mr. R. Cobden, M.P., arrived in Manchester on Friday
evening, on his return from Scotland, accompanied by Mrs.
and Miss Cobden. On Saturday, a large party of gentle-
men were invited to meet him at a luncheon given at the re-
sidence of his brother-in-law, Mr. W. Sale, where Mr.
Cobden is staying. Before the company separated, Mr.
Malcolm Ross, vice-president of the Chamber of Com-
merce, proposed Mr. Cobden's health, the toast being re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. Mr. Cobden briefly re-
plied, and expressed the pleasure experienced in being once
more in Manchester, amongst his old and valued friends.
On Friday morning at 11 o'clock, the hon. gentleman will
attend a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The
hon. gentleman has written a letter to his constituents,
accepting their invita? ion to meet them at Rochdale, and
has fixed Wednesday evening, the 29th instant, for the
meeting.

COMPLETION OF NEW LAMBETH-BRIDGE.---This
novel erection is now nearly completed, and will be opened
iu a few days for public traffic. In the meantime Mr.
Barlow, the engineer, is doing all in his power to render
this a model bridge of its kind. In order to dispense with
alt unnecessary loading, he is having the roadway paved
with wooden blocks, which do not weigh, on the whole,
more than about 120 tons, while the footway will be paved
with ordinary paving stone. It is undoubtedly a very re-
markable instance of rapid bridge. building, scarcely a year
having elapsed since the commencement of the works, the
first portion of the iron cylinders of the piers having been
Ma on the 11th of November, 1861,

IMPORTAN7 LIFEBOA7 SERVICES.

LYTHAM, MONDAY NIGHT.

At early dawn this morning n3tice was received
that a ship was on the most dangerous part of the
Horse Bank. It was blowing a very strong gale at
the time from the west, with a very heavy sea. As
soon as practicable the lifeboat of the National Life-
boat Institution was launched, and towed to wind-
ward by the Loch Lomond steamer. After having
been cast off by the steamer the lifeboat had to go
through a tremendously heavy sea of broken water,
which filled her three times, but, with great perse-
verance on the part of the crew, she at last reached
the ship, and with much difficulty took on board
thirteen of the crew and a Liverpool pilot who was
on board. The vessel proved to be the ship Annie
E. Hooper, of Baltimore, U.S., bound to Liverpool
with a cargo of wheat, flour, and tobacco. She was
of 1,500 tons burthen. After taking off the four-
teen men the rope by which the lifeboat held to the
ship parted, and the Southport lifeboat, which also
belongs to the National Lifeboat Institution, coaling
up at the time, took off the captain and the remain-
ing three men. The vessel will probably become a
total wreck. Nobler lifeboat services have seldom
been performed, as: the eighteen poor :shipwrecked
men testified with grateful hearts. Both lifeboats
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