The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-13 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Oct. 13.—Wind this: day at noon—South.
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

COVES, Oct. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Fanny Brick,
from Callao.

CARDIFF, Oct. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Mary Pester,
from Bilbea.

SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Atrato,
steamer, from the West Indies.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived --Stam-
boul, from Quebec.

QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Morning
Star, from Bahia.

CLYDE, Oct. 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna, from
Pernambuco.

SWANSEA Oct. 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Richmond,
from Buctouche.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPR.I

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 12.—Sir R. Seppings, from Madras; Vic-
tory, from Oronstadt ; Woodfield, from Alexandria •; Queen
of Sheba, from Tobago.

Arrived, Oct. 12.—Star of Erin, from Calcutta ; Emily,
from Bahia; Queen of the North, from Colombo; Leon
Raymundo, from Madeira ; City of Aberdeen, from Poo-
chow-foo ; Maria, from Guernsey; Venet, from Patras
Harmony, from Labrador; Lady M'Donald, from Kurra-
chee; Wilton, from Jamaica; Wild Hunter, from Minitit-
lan ; Matilda, from St. Kitt's ; Crested Wave, from Cochin;
Nora, from Harlingen ; Melpomene, from Custendjee ;
Ravensbourne, from Calcutta ; Jessie, from Rouen ; Pal-
merston and Palmona, both from Colombo ; Victory, from
Brussels.

Sailed, Oct. 12—Cosmopolitan, steamer, for Hamburg;
Condor, steamer, for Bremen ; Albany, for the Cape of
Good Hope.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

No arrivals.

THE COURT.—At Windsor Castle preparations
are being made for the reception of her Majesty the
Queen and the various members of the royal family on
their return from Balmoral, which is expected to take
place
at the close of this or beginning of next month. In the
course of the week Col. Sir T. M. Biddulph, the Master of
the Royal Household, has paid a visit to the Castle. The
alterations in the Vandyck and billiard rooms in the west
front of the palace are nearly completed, the ceiling of the
former having been recoloured in dead white, and the orna-
mental portions regilt by the Messrs. Cooper, of Windsor.
The Vandyck-room (formerly the ball-room) usually con-
tain the superb collection of pictures which gives it the
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REPRESENTATION OF BRECON. -- Mr. Howell
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the electors of this borough. He declares himself an in-
dependent Conservative, strongly attached to the Esta-
blished Church, but at the same time willing to relieve
Dissenters from the payment of church rates. Ile is. op-
posed to the income tax, except as an additional 'measure
in time of war, to provide for the exigencies of the country.
Mr. Gwyn sat for Penryn for several years, and he un-
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THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO A VOLUNTEER IN-
STRUCTOR.—The Volunteers of the metropolitan
regiments have been invited to attend the public funeral of
Sergeant Dranfield, of the Royal Engineers, the instructor
of the Ist Tower Hamlets Volunteer Engineer Corps, whose
shocking death from a premature explosion of gunpowder,
while instructing_ his regiment in blowing up a stockade,
was recorded in The Sun a few days since. The funeral will
take place on Sunday afternoon, when those intending to
follow will parade at the militia barracks, Globe-street, at
the back of Bethnal-green Church, where they will march
to the Tower Hamlets Cemetery. The poor fellow whose
life was thus lost while discharging his duty was a well
educated and clever man, and he had won the regard of his
superiors by his steady conduct. He has left a young family,
and his regiment is now endeavouring to raise a sufficient
sum to place the widow and children out of the reach of
want.