The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Jan. 10.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, Jan. :9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Nybem,
from Sinos. Sailed—Her Majesty's ship Highflyer, for
the Cape of Good Hope.

Munn, Jan. o.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Rumos 11.,
from Bahia.

SWANSEA, Jan. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Hampshire,
from Cuba. .

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QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Alma,
from Liverpool for Demerara, with loss of boat and other
damage.
Hum, Jan. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Annie Forrest,
from Calcutta. _ _

NEWPORT, Jan. B.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Huns, from
London for St. Thomas. Sailed—Agnes C. James, for
Rio de Janeiro. _ _ _

HOLYHEAD, Jan. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tabasco,
from Liverpool for Vera Cruz ; Royal Tar, from Liverpool
for Bombay.

On MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Jan. 9—Jessy, from Guernsey ; Shallett, from
Colombo.
Arrived, Jan. 10—Triton, steamer, from Boulogne.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Anchored, Jan. 9—lron Gem, for Pernambuco ; Clyde,
for Port Philip ; Observator, for Havannah—all from

London.

LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.—An amateur entertain-
ment has been given in Banbury by some young men in
aid of the funds of the National Lifeboat Institution, and
the proceeds thereof, amounting to 41., they have forwarded
to the institution to help in its great and national work.
NEW PALACE-YARD.—The whole of the range of
houses which formerly stood on the north side of New
Palace-yard has now been removed, Fendall's Hotel, the
last of them, which stood until a day or two ago, having at
length disappeared. There is now an uninterrupted space
between the north side of Bridge-street and Westminster-
hall.

SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF LlFE.—Early on Satur-
day morning (reports the officer of Customs at
Stockton), the small vessel the John and Jane, trading
between Middlesboro' and Newcastle, and returning to the
latter place, was wrecked near Middlesboro'. The
vessel was entering the Tees in tow of a steam-tug,
when the tow rope unfortunately broke, and the tug
being unable to render any assistance, the vessel, when
last seen from the tug, was being fast driven towards the
North Garr Sand, upon which it is considered she has
been wrecked, and her crew of two men drowned. The
Middlesboro' lifeboat of the National Institution was
immediately towed down to the bar by a steam-tug-
She waited at the end of the bar for some time, but not a
vestige of the little vessel was visible. The coxswain,
however, considers' it quite impossible that she could have
got away, being without sails and always navigated in
tow, but that she must have sunk, the exact spot being as

yet unknown.
A VALUABLE CARGO IN AN " OLD BOTTOM."--..
Yesterday the old Liverpool and New York packet ship
Dacotab arrived in the Mersey from Nassau, with a cargo
consisting of 4,000 bales of blockade-run rum. At the
present rates for fine American staple in Liverpool this
cargo is valued at £280,000.
A GRATEFUL OFFERING.—The Shoreham Master
Mariners' Mutual Benevolent Society has sent a dona
tion of 5/. to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution,
accompanied with the following resolution :—" Resolved
unanimously, that a contribution of Si. be sent to the Na-
tional Lifeboat Institution as a donation from this society,
and with the earnest wish of the members that the noble
efforts of the Lifeboat Institution may always be crowned
with success."
A WOMAN DROWNED IN A WELL.—Last week: a
poor woman, the wife of a respectable shoemaker named
Sharp, residing at the corner of Church-lane, Leatherhead,
who had been for some time in indifferent health, when
drawing a bucket of water from the well in her husband's
garden, was taken either with a fit or became giddy, and
fell headlong into the well, and was of course drowned be-
fore any assistance could reach her.—Surrey Advertiser.
APROPOS DE BOTTES !—A German journal relates
the following story :—The regiment of Prussian in-
fantry (No. 60), while on its return from the Duchies,
stopped at Spandau, and some of the men were billeted with
a master shoemaker. After they had left to continue their
journey, an apprentice of the shoemaker found, in the room
e lad, 1. 'se carriedw
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which had been occupied by them, a pair of boots, which
he naturally supposed had belonged to one of the sodiers.
The lad, who had become familiar with his master's guests
during their short stay, started off at once after t
regiment to restore the property to its owner; be overtook
was
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apprentice shoemaker, but a great friend of the army,
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and he calls upon me to replace
them. Dear Lord and
King, lam in great trouble. Try.and find out what has
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become of the boots, and take care to send them back to my
comrade." A few days after the
municipality Spandau
received S andau
received by a Cabinet courier the order to inform the
apprentice that the King
e g would pay for the boots in
question.

CONVICT'S AND THEIR WARDERS.—At the Ports-
mouth Epiphany Sessions, held on Saturday before
Mr. John Duke Coleridge, Q.C., recorder of the borough,
Henry Sutton, instructing assistant-warder in the Portsea,
Convict Prison, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment
with hard labour for obtaining money from the friends of
convicts. The evidence proved that Sutton, by the aid of
one of the convicts immediately under his superintendence,
obtained the addresses of the friends of convicts in the
prison, and would then write to them asking for money,
which was to be forwarded to Sutton's residence, and not
to the prison. The letters were written by the convict
alluded to, as under Sutton's immediate superintendence,
but the letter was posted in the envelope by the prisoner
himself. The convict assistant or dupe at length became
alarmed, and gave information to the governor of the
prison.