The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, May 29.—Wind this day at noon—East;
light breeze, and cloudy weather.
QuxxxsToNvx, May 29.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Glen-
garry, for Halifax.
PLYMOUTE, May 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Annie,
from Monte Video.
OFP QUEENSTOWN, May 29.—Arrived—Gambio, from
Callao.
FALMOUTH, May 29.—Norma, from Rio Janeiro ; Mar-
sala, scrow steamer, from Alexandria for Liverpool, short
of fuel.
PORTSMOUTH, May 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus, from Woolwich. Sailed—
Her Majesty's ship Fox, for Woolwich; her Majesty's
ship Megtera, for the Channel Islands.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 28—Margretta, from Gottenburg ; Vor-
warts, from Trieste; Freemad, from Krageroe ; Richard
and William, from Lagos; Johanna, from Uddewalla ;
Catherine, from Beyderfleth ; "Wave, from Dunkirk; Eliza-
beth, from Memel.
Arrived, May 29—Wanderer, from Jamaica.
DBAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed in Tow_Adamante, from Calcutta, for London.
Anchored—Maria flay, for cotta;Cal Diana, for Cardiff;
Sparkling Wave (of Now York), westward ; Gloire,
for Brest ; Elizabeth Ann Bright, for Liverpool; and East
Lothian, for Victoria—all from London,

At the annual meeting of the United Kingdom
Providentlnstitution the report stated the policies issued for
the year 1861 to have been 2,730 for £453,223, producing in
premiums £15,082. The accumulated capital was £409,000,
and the annual income 122,000.
At the annual meeting of the Great Britain
Mutual Life Assurance Society the report stated the policies
issued during the last year to have been 352, assuring
£168,078, and yielding in annual premiums £5,079.
SPECIAL SUNDAY EVENING SERVICES IN WEST-
MINSTER ABBEY.—The following is .the list of preachers
during the month of June :—June 1, the Rev. Eyan
Nepean, Canon of Westminster; June 8, the Bishop of
Fredericton; June 15, the Rev. H. P. Liddon, Vice-Prin-
cipal of St. Edmund-hall, Oxford ; June 22, the Rev. the
Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; June 29, the Bishop
of Oxford.
It has been decided not to fill up the Under-
Secretaryship of State in the War-office vacant by the death
of Sir Benjamin Hawes, but to revert to the original orga-
nisation of the department before the appointment of Major-
General Sir Edward Lugard as anUnder-Secretar
eta y of State
—that is to say, there will be two
Under-Secr
three Under-
re and
an Assistant.Under-Secretary, in the place of
Secretaries; and Captain Galton, F.R S., who is now in
the department, has been appointed by Sir G. Lewis to fill
the office of Assistant-Under-Secretary of State for War.
MIINIFICENT.BEQUESTS.—The late Mr. A. Pirie,
merchant, Dundee, who died last week, leaving property
to the extent of about £36,000, has left the following muni-
ficent legacies to the local charities of that town, viz :—To
the Royal Infirmary, £2,000 ; to the Industrial Schools, ools,
£2,000; to the Royal Orphan Institution, £250 ;
to h
In-
digent Sick Society, £250. The residue of his property,
after judiciously providing for other parties who had a
claim upon him, is left to the families of his two sisters
A curious and important explanation regarding
French and Spanish movements in Mexicoreaches
good authuzity. The Spanish General P ( rim who is u
either
brother-in-law brother-in-law or son-in-law of Doblado) was sent to
Mexico with the design, on the part not only of himself but
to
of the Spanish Government, set up as President ; and
once in that position he was to pave the way, as opportu-
nities might serve, for the advent of a Spanish prince.
This design became known to the French, and was openly
charged against Prim at a Council, and an intimation made
that France would act independently of Spain, though she
had no objection to have the aid of Spanish forces in so
acting. General Prim, not denying the charge, assuraed
badigutiou, sad withdrew his forces.