The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-12 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRIVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, June 11—Kund, and Eiche, from Nykiobing ;
Mars, from Calcutta; Ann, from Gottenburg ; Amelia,
from Rochester ; Camilla, from Alicante.
Arrived, June 12—Water Nymph, from Melbourne.

DE IL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Raby Castle and Emily Farnum, from Calcutta ;
Astronomer, from Akyab ; J. P. Keeler and Liverpool,
from New York ; Ellen Rose, from Bathurst ; Latonia,
from West (in tow) all for London.
Anchored—Regulus, for Cardiff; Triumph, for Trinidad ;
Lavinia, for Bussorah; Jehu, for Mossel Bay—all from
London; Pietrino, from Shields, for Messina.

THE LATE NEWS FROM AMERICA.--A writer in a
contemporary says :---" There are two items in the late
news from America which may not be understood without
a word of explanation. The first is the vote of Congress
to enlarge the locks of the Erie and Oswego canals. These
canals are State works, with which the general Govern-
ment has nothing to do; but they are now seized, like the
railways, for military purposes. When these-locks are en-
larged every gunboat in the Federal navy can pass into
the great lakes, including lake Ontario and the River St.
Lawrence. The enlargement of these locks means the in •
vasion of Canada and war with Great Britain. The second

item is the Union mobs at Baltimore. The Union party in
that city consists of a few respectable "Republicans" and a
large body of "rowdies" of the " native" or " Know-
nothing" party, who have been the tern r of the city for
years. The Maryland Union Regiment was composed of
these rowdies, and when they were cut in pieces by the
Confederates their friends in Baltimore wished to revenge
them. The Federal army was largely recruited from the
"roughs" of the Atlantic cities, and there are no worse
ones than compose the Nativist Clubs of Baltimore. When
it is certain that General Butler has committed the atro-
cious outrage reported of him at New Orleans, he will, I
doubt not, receive the sentence he deserves. If his Govern-
ment do not punish him it will share his infamy."
GIFT OF A PUBLIC PARK.—About 12 months
since Mrs. Joseph Locke, widow of the eminent engineer,
in order to mark the connection of her husband with the
town of Barnsley, in addition to giving £2,000 for the
foundation of scholarships in the grammer school, and
£l,OOO in aid of the Catholic schools, offered to present the
town with a park, if a suitable site could be found. In
accordance with that desire she caused a piece of ground,
about 17 acres in extent, close to the town, to be purchased
and laid out. The whole has been inclosed, and now forms
a magnificent recreation ground. Provision has been made

for cricket playing, bowling, and a variety of other games.
Whit-Monday was appointed for the ground being handed
over to the Board of Health as the representatives of the
town, and the inhabitants vied with each other in showing
their appreciation of the munificent gift.
THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—In addition to the
opposition of the Crown lessees and the Duke of Buccleuch,
petitions have been presented to the committee on the bill
praying for special protection to their properties along the
northern side of the river, and, as connected with their
jurisdiction, from the Metropoliton Board of Works, City of
London Corporation, City Commissioners of Sewers, Con-
servators of the Thames, Westminster Steamboat and Pier
Company, Charing Cross Railway, London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway, Vestry of St. Martin's, Marquis of Salis-
bury, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Radnor, City Gas Company
Watermen and Lightermen's Company, Heralds' College,
Mr. Drummond, proprietor of Adelphi-terrace, residents of
streets in Strand, abutting on the proposed embankment,
National Mercantile Assurance Company, Grand Junction
Wharf Company, Messrs. Barraud, Reid and Co., Mair and
Co., and other wharfingers. The total number of petitions
before the committee amounts to 22.

A MODEL " CANDIDATE."—The following is a
verbatim copy of the letter of a candidate for the office of
librarian to the Yorkshire Mechanics' Institution :—" Hol-
beck, May 25, 1862.—Gentlemen,—In offering myself to
you as a candidate, I confess I have no credentials to bring
before you. This is an age of sadden impulse, an age when
reason seems to be surcharged for want of proper scope to
expand. We see, almost daily, virtue immolated,
gravity change into buffoonery, philsophers turn fools,
wise men arrant rogues. Then what is character to-day
isnot for to-morrow. Character is but the summary of
conduct gone by, and no reliable sample. I have a slight
knowledge of geography, natural and physical astronomy,
astrology, astronography, meteorology, mythology (ancient
and modern). Teach the use of globes, maps, and charts.
Very little acquaintance with history, except ancient. Can
speak of Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene periods in geology.
Can point to probable cause of tho disruption, at various
epochs, of the crust of this our earth. Understand magic
lanterns, dioramic or dissolving views. or phantasmagoric
performances.—Yours, &c." yesterday the
MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL.—
annual festival, " election day," took place at Merchant
Taylors' School. On this day the result of the elections to
the exhibitions at the University is publicly proclaimed to
the fortunate candidates, and prizes are awar ed to the
comparatively ignobilc vulgus of the school. The elections.
to the two scholarships at St. John's, Oxford, fell upon Mr
Edward Bond, the head monitor, and Mr. T. Nolan, the
fourth monitor, while Mr. C. Evans, the second monitor,
was nominated to the Steuart scholarship at the same
college. Mr. E. S. Dewick, as the best mathematician of
the school, was
the fortunate nominee for thNeaPsalrilksionperso-.
ex-
hibition, and Mr. Covington, as second best, v
meted to an exhibition, bot at Cambridge.—There was the
customary banquet in the eh vening.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REG ENT'S-PARK .91,74
persons visited these gardens on seamierMonday-_a less
a
by 1,803 than attended on Easter M The
onday.
idifferenceeh
v
is to be fully accounted for, however, by the showers
fell in the ft..ctioon, just about the time the peoplee
were on
their way to the gardens. At holiday times these gardens
are via tel by the working classes in large numbers, and
we are glad to perceive that such wise reductions are made
in the old refreshment tat id; by Mr. Finney,gardens,bl enable th e these
people to purchase their frugal fare within
instead of being compelled to bring it withl'
INCONSISTENCY.—When some stupid' fellow
charged Sheridan with inconsifs.tency, the wit replied that
the accusation reminded him
enter-
tainer of a convivial party, who thehe reasoningih'° ffriends the
observe
ethat it was time to take leave,'' thear wngatchismanWsocrssing
r past three, observed " Why ou don't mind that fellow do
you ? He changes his story, every half-hour."