The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-23 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, March 23.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; blowing a strong breeze and fine weather, but
very cold.

CAME:VON, March 21.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hudders-
field, from Iquique for the Clyde. _ . _

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DUBLIN, March 22.—The Sperring was driven ashore
north of Arklow pier.
CLYDE, March 21.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Glen-
withy, from Iquique. Sailed—William Connal, steamer,
for Bordeaux.

LIVERPOOL, March 22.—The Stadtsraad, from Cagliari
for this port, lost part of her deckloop, and sustained other
damage.
PENZANCE, March 21.—Wind S.E—Arrived—Adven-
ture, from Demerara for London.

(ET MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, March 22.—Loch Leven Castle, from Shanghai ;
Cosmopolitan, from Rotterdam.
Arrived, March 23.—Jessie, from St. Michael's; Earl De
Grey, from Pomaron.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, March 22.—Cillena, for Callao ; Thomas Sly
all
for Kanagawa ; Inez, for Saffa ; Catherine, for Quebec—all
from London.
Passed, March 23.—Magnificent, from London, for Port
Phillip; Eagle (schooner), from the west, for London.
Passed in tow, March 23.—Danno, from Adelaide; White
Star, from Melbourne; Allerpo, from Wellington; Tudor,
from Callao ; Southern Cross, from Penang; Henry (ship),
from the west; Calcutta, from Calcutta—all for London.

Mary Bibby, 'who was 'convicted at the Man-
chester assizes, on Monday, of the manslaughter of her
child, was on Tuesday sentenced to fifteen mouths' hard
labour.

RESPITE OF THE CONVICT POTTER.—Two of the
commissioners appointed by her Majesty's Secretary of
State for the Home Department to examine into and cer-
tify to the mental condition of the murderer, James Potter,
arrived at the County gaol, Derby, yesterday morning, and
shortly afterwards visited Potter's cell. They examined the
Rev. E. W. Foley, the chaplain, and other officers of the
prison. The governor of the prison has received an official
letter from Sir George Grey, intimating that her Majesty
has been pleased to order the respite of Potter
for seven
days, solely to afford time for the commissioners to in-
quire into the state of the prisoner's mind.
ESCAPED PRISONERS.—Two young men, named
respectively Michael Brennan, 18, and Walter
Walker, 20, were convicted before Mr. Justice Shee, at the
Manchester Assizes on Tuesday, and sentenced each to
seven years' penal servitude. After the sentence they were
removed to a cell underneath the court, as usual in such
cases, and locked up to await removal. But when the door
was subsequently opened, it was discovered that both the
prisoners' had escaped.. An investigation and proper in-
quiry appear to have established the following as the way
in which the culprits attained their liberty, which has not
yet been interfered with :—There was a trap-door for ven-
tilation at the top of the cell, which is on the ground floor
of the assize courts, and it is supposed that one of the pri-
soners was lifted up to this ventilator by the other, and
then drew his companion after him. From thence they
passed under the gallery of the Crown Court till they got
into the blowing-room connected with the ventilating ap-
paratus of the court, where they would find a ladder. They
found the blowing-room door locked, but there was an
aperture over it, and through this they made their way,
dragging the ladder with them into the air-chainy anbmere.Ts ofhis
brought them to the front of the building, and, by
the ladder, they readily reached one of the large apertures
under the grand entrance of the court to tho west. Through
this they would have easy egress into the open air. They
Were not dressed in the prison dress.