The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Dec. 29.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Westerly ; rather strong breeze, and cloudy weather,
with rain. •

SOUTIIAMPTON, Dec. 28,—Arrived—Borussia, steamer,
from Now York.

FALMOUTH, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Theodore
Voss, from Taganrog.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Renshaw, from London for Cape Coast Castle; Alpine,
from Shields for San Francisco ; 3ledusa, from London
fcr Calcutta.

MILFORD, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Ocean,
from London.

PLYMOUTH, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Venus,
from Buenos Ayres.
SUNDERLAND, Dec. 27.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Jane
Frances, for Kingston.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Nova
Scotian, screw steamer, from Portland, U.S. ; Elizabeth
Cameron, from Pomeron. Sailed—North American, screw
steamer, for Poitland, U.S.
DUNDEE, Dec. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--Victor,
from Monte Video.

CARDIFF, Dee. 28.—Wind W.—Arrived—Ellen Stuart,
from St. Nazaire. Sailed—Speraver, for St. Thomas ;
Albion, for Gibraltar.
COWES, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Belle, from
London for Mauritius.

FOWEY, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jane and
Ann, from Smyrna.

41KINGROAD, Dec. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mary
Fry, from Calcutta.

LET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. 1
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Dec. 28—Frederick William, from Guernsey;
Ellen, from Nicoloff ; Ontaria, from Calcutta.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

No arrivals.

Bank of England Returns,--Last Evening,

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Dec. 27, 1865.

ISSUE DEPORTMENT.

Notes Issued ......417,339,675 Government Debt £11,015,100
- Other Securities 3.6:34,9C0
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,680,675
Silver Bullion ....

£27,330,675

427,339,674

BANILLNO D
r oprietors' Capi-
tal X11,553,00')
[test
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac- _ _

P E PARTM EN T.

Government Seen-

rities ((including
Dead WeightAn-

nuity)
Other Securities
Notes
Gold and Silver 713,4:7
Coin

8,341,!' 43
Other Deposita 13;233,93S
Seven Day and

other Bills 402,326

£39,93),6A

£39,989,681
MILLER, Chief Cashier,

Dec. 2S, 1865.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 32.
Brazil. and Cape Verde. by British packet Jan. 4.

Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 2L.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Jan. 2.

Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton . Jan. 27.

India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Jan. 2

Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 11.

Ditto, via Marseilles .. Jan. 5.
Mauritius, via Southampton Jan. 11

Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 5.
Newfoundland .., Jan. 17.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon.
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton
Ditto, via Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Dec. 29.
West Ccabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Jan. 19.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico ' Dec. 2).
Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29.
Bahamas, via New York. Jan 11.
Bermuda, ditto • Jan. 17

Loss OF A LARGE LIVEIIPOOL SIIIP.—NOBLE
LIFEBOAT SERVICE.--;-ARKLOW, IRELAND, Dec.
27th.—I have to report (says Dr. L'Estrange) the loss of
the ship Tenasserim, of Liverpool, Captain Howson, bound
from Liverpool to Calcutta. She stranded on Arklow
Banks on the 25th inst., but owing to a fog she was not
seen until yestetday morning, when the lifeboat Arthur
Venables, of the National Lifeboat Institution, was at
once launched, and was happily the means, under Provi-
dence, of rescuing 84 poor fellows who had taken to tho
foretopsail yard for safety. Before the arrival of the life-
boat two sailors had unhappily been washed overboard
and drowned.

THE ABANDONMENT OF TIIE WEST INDIA TRADER.
JAMES LAMB.—The ship Queen of the South,
Captain Wilkin, which has arrived in St. Katherine's Docks
from Algoa Bay, reports having fallen in with a valuable
prize at sea, the British bark James Lamb, bound to Liver-
pool from Demerara, with a cargo of rum, sugar, cotton,
and merchandise valued at many thousand pounds, which
had been abandoned by the crew. Great anxiety, how-
ever, is felt for the safety of the chief officer and six of the
hands of the Queen of the South, who volunteered to go
on board the abandoned ship with a view of bringing her
on to England. The James Lamb was sighted on the 4th
instant, her position being more than 1,000 miles
from the chops of the Channel. On a boat's crew.
from the Queen of the South boarding her it
was found that the hands had left her, and the
ship was nearly half full of water. She appeared, how-
ever, in very good condition, and after some consideration,
the chief officer and five of the crew of the Queen of the
South volunteered to take charge of the abandoned vessel
for the purpose of navigating her home. They accordingly
took possession of the vessel and made sail, the Queen of
the South keeping company as long as possible. Towards
midnight a heavy gale came on from the S.W., with a very
heavy sea. The weather continued to increase in severity,
and by the morning the Queen of the South had lost sight
of her prize. She hove to for some time, but nothing could
be seen of the James Lamb. It is hoped, however, that
she succeeded in weathering the gale. Should she be got
safely into port the six brave hands on board of her, as
also others of the crew of the Queen of the South, and the
owners, will be entitled to a handsome amount of salvage.
The crew of the James Lamb were taken off by a passing
ship, and have since arrived.

A shepherd boy named Millon, only 12 years of
age, a foundling from the hospital of Marseilles,
was tried last week by the Court of Assizes of the
Basses-Alpes on a charge of having, at St. Etienne,
on 10th November last, murdered, by blows with a
stick, another shepherd boy named Bonifaco, two
years his jailor, for the sake of recovering a
two-sous piece which he had given to the latter to
mind his sheep while he played with some other
boys. The evidence having established that the
prisoner had committed the crime, well knowing
what he was about, the jury found him guilty of
murder with discernment, and the Court—applying
the law relative to murder committed under such
circumstances by boys under 15 years of age—con•
downed him to 12 years' imprisonment.