The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, May 17.—Wind this day at moon--West;
light breeze, and cloudy weather.
Or FAnacount, May 16.—Arrived—Henry and Oscar,
from Singapore for Hamburg; Coral Queen, from Porto
Rico, for the Clyde.
PLYMOUTH, May 16.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—King
Lear, from Bombay.
FALMOVTH, May 17.—Wind IsT.Bo—Arrived—Jarlen,
from Matanzas.

PORTSMOUTH, May 16.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship vigilant, for the eastward.
QUEENSTOWN, May 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
Persia, screw steamer, from New York, and proceeded for
Liverpool.

CARDIFF May 16.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Elizabeth
Ann, for Shanghai ; Mathilde, for St. Thomas; War Hawk,
for New York ; Prudence, for Bilboa; Integrity, and
Jessie, for Gibraltar.

OFF THE LIZARD, May 16.—Arrivcd—Mary Hardy,
rota Barbadoes.

MARSEILLES, May 17.—Arrived—Marseilles, f Crow
steamer, from Alexandria, with Bombay mails, which was
to leave for London at 11.30 a.m.
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dS Havre;eurSnidui elderd7—nselui eap; mapPFleyelnro;rfea S e aGhitaI:VESEND,
Lon-
don to St. Petersburg, which was stranded on CEseil, has
floated, and continued her voyage, all well.
HULL, May 17.—The Cumberland, steamer, from
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Marquis
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for Cardiff
Arrved—Vortex, from Halifax ; Havre, steamer, from
rfnorinSgu.n-
on, from
Saturday Morning.
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Gleam,
Arrived, SUBMARINE
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from Whampoo.; Lad Ra^.l g '
Edinburgh, from Calcutta. , an, from Kurrachee ; City of
Arrived, May 1 II ' •
d offrung from
Adelaide • , Windau ; Rangoon,
from Port Adelaide
Grietje, from Riga. , Johanna, and Edel, from Skive;

Passed—Latimer DBIL, Saturday Morning.
, for Genoa ; Winof the Wind, for
Bombay ; St. Elizabeth, for St. Thomas g ; ;Seine and T:lmise,
screw steamers for Paris • Princess Louise and Providence,
for Barbados—all from London; Cambria, from Salina, for
London.
Sailed— Indemnity, Jane, and Plover, for thewestward.

GLiSH ENGINEERING IN BUSSIA.

After years of discussion, it has, at length, been
decided that Odessa shall be paved and drained
and, an English contractor having been selected for
the work, there is now a certainty that this " City
of Palaces" will in a few years become one of the
most remarkable cities in Europe, and deserve the
name it has acquired, "Queen of Southern Russia."
Hitherto the unpaved streets and consequent
clouds of dust, perpetual in summer, has ren-
dered Odessa unbearable, and in winter the
streets have been a quagmire. But all this is
to be changed. During the past six weeks, rival
engineers and contractors from England, France,
Austria, and Hungary, have been in (Met,
The rival ago,
competing with native contractors for the
comprised in the town improvements,long
presence, combined with the fact that the
umed
\ pending question of paving and draining
degree of
a shape more tangible, created an unusual
vition
interest and excitement. and works
were submitted to the munieipalietymee
i known that
and a few days afterwards it •
would be given to
ceptable, and that the contract
by
Mr. Hartland,
Messrs. Peto & Betts, represented
Mr. Bayliss, C.E
those from the English contrabctothrse wcosneetrmacotsotr ac-
ceptable,
C.E., or to Mr. George Furness, .
the Great Ontfall 'Works at Plaistow, in connection
with the metropolitan drainage, and who has been
ort of great local
.•
the same contractor's engineerfor the Pernambuco
nuateedsubypt
railway. It was
.general y believed that Mt sm.
peso and
asnudc c eßs se
after several interviews with the represents,-
influence, would obtain the to -Area ; but the com-
ftutsll,Yhraev-Pirnegse
lives of the respective contractors,
mittee,
agreed to entrust this great unanimously
undertaking to Mr.
Furness. The works at pi esent contracted for will
cost £BOO,OOO, but it is expected that the town will
in
ultimately expend public and private imprclre-
ments upwards of one
million and a half sterling.
It is reported that when the contract was signed,
Mr. Bayliss, addressing the committee, said it was
his glory to their honour that he could affirm the
contract had been obtained without douceur or pro-
mise of douceur to individual in the country.
any
inauguration
of 8
_ch;.a.
This is a very auspicous
_,
hoped
public Work, and if, as is to be sincerely —simi_
may be the case, the contractor can meleebcoantract
liar statement at the termination of
isent'of
the 29th April, 1862, will be the com
b tech®Wholie
a new era, not only for Odessa,
Russian Empire.