The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-12 00:00:00

PACKET

VANE LONDONIARRY.

INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM HOUSE, JAN. 11.
ENTERED INWARDS.—The Cornelius Moss, from Sche-
ve b
nin,en ; Eeudraght, do. ; Maranthon, Quebec ; Nornen,
do.'
; Andenken Trilleborg ; Falken, Newstadt ; Memosa,
Boston, U.S. ; Cybele, Berbice ; Demeuse, Havannah ;
Hunt Mary, Bombay ; Gloriosa, Calcutta ; Solider Jylla,nd,
Helsingborg ;
Forerunner, Africa ; Powhattan, Philadel-
phia. ; Albert Gallatin, New York ; Elisa Louise, Buenos
Ayre l
s • Callender, Lisbon ; Courier, Wisby ; Nathalia,
La,ndscrona ; Enigheten, Marstrand ; Joven Anita
Oporto ; Esther, St. Kitts. ,
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Brisk, for
Adelaide ; Wilheltnine Maria, Hobert Town; Frances
Havre
Henty, Portland Bay ; Sir James Ross, Ceylon ; Active,
; Hdrika. Jantina, Louis Esther, Fecamp ; Sea
Nymph, Hobart Town ; Cybele, Demerara; Newbottle,
Bordeaux.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO --The Celeritas, for
Antwerp ; Glaphyra, St. Kitts ' • Maria Christina, San-
tander and Vigo ; James Booth, Port Philip.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.
The Emilia, from Rio Janeiro, at this port, reports
having experienced very heavy gales from the 17th to the
23rd December, commencing at N.N.W. an I veering
round the compass—lost bulwarks, binnacle, die. barometer
during - the gale, 28'07. Dec. 28th, lat. 48, long. 12,
passed a ship, from 700 to 800 tons, apparently Colonial-
built, with loss of fore and main masts, and abandoned ;
and, on same day, passed through a large quantity of flour
and cotton.
The Colonel Cutts, from New York, in a violent gale of
wind, on Dec. 19, is lat, 48, long. 17, wind blowing from
the northward, was hove on her beam-ends, sprang a leak,
and shifted cargo. At the same time shipped a heavy sea,
which stove poop, flooded the cabins, carried away one '
boat, and damaged three others. A quantity of cargo was
thrown overboard to right the ship.
The Princeton, from Quebec, at this port, with the crew
of the Loyalist, from New York to London, abandoned on
the 21st ult.
The Autumnus, from Calcutta, and the Nancy, from
Miramichi, for this port, put into Holyhend yesterday.
TROMSOL, Dec. 4.—The Ararat of Aberdeen, from Arch-
angel, has put into an out port near this place, is reported
be leaky, to have received damage in sails and rigging, and
it is expected will come here to repair.
ARCHANGEL, Dec. 28.—The Ocean's Pride, for Leith,
after being out 66 days, and as far north as 72 degrees,
has put back to the mouth of the river, and is surrounded
by ice ; proper measures will be taken to put the ship and
cargo into safety.
PADsTow, Jan. 9.—The Larch, of and for Jersey, from
Swansea, with coals and coke, was driven ashore here last
night—crew saved.
SHIELDS, Jan 10.—The following vessels were driven on
the Bird Sand in taking this harbour last night and this
morning :—The Lively, of this port, the Happy Goole, the Savannah, of Lynn, the Janus, of Return, of
Christiania
and another vessel, which has since become a total wreck., It is reported that a vessel sank inside the bar this morn-
ing, and that all hands perished. The Wentworth Beau-
mont (London Trader), was seen off here yesterday, well
out to sea, and it was thought would reach Leith Roads.
The Thames (trader) is reported to be in Leith. Both ves-
stels have very valuable cargoes. The Active, Littlehamp-
on to Sunderland, was on shore near Blyth, previous to
the 9th instant. A schooner was seen to
founder with all
hands near the Herd this morning.
GEELONG, Oct. 13.—The Louisa Bailie, in anchoriing
.
down the West Channel, went on shore on thsehoners Swano ),P Spit.
DUNKIRK, Jan. B.—The Mary Elizabeth (c
Holyhead, came ashore yesterday, and has five feet of orate
in her hold--crew raved.

WOMBWELL'S MENAGERIE.-PERILOUS OPERATION.--
An occurrence of a singular nature happened on Monday
__—
night last, at Wombwell's Menagerie, Castle Terrace.
"of the animals the lion Wallace was • Hull to Melbourne, Nov. 23, lat.
During the feeding
The Jenny (brig), from
seen to rush wildly to and fro in his den, and on closer SN. long. 21 W.
Demerara to Bristol
VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
observation it was ascertained that a large bone, which The Lucy (barque), from Dem , Jan. 5,
he had been attempting to swallow, had stuck crossways lat. 47 N. long. 15 W.
Newfoundland, to Lon-
from Liverpool to Phil de
in his throat, almost suffocating him. Two of the The City of Glasgow (s. s.)'lo W. a 1.
keepers instantly entered the cage. One of them had a dia, Jan. 6, lat. 51°N.4.1.011%n,5,
pitchfork, the handle of which he got into the animal's The Agenora, frora_6V "
mouth, after which he courageously thrust his arm down from.NewbYork to London, Dec. 31, lat.
the lion's mouth, .and succeeded in displacing the bone The Goodwin, from don, Dec. 8, lat. 30 N „jou... 69 W.
with his hand. Considerable excitement prevailed at 51TNhe. long. 25
from London to Launceston, V.D.L.,
the time amongst the visitors and others, great anxiety June 9, lat. 37 N., long. 15 W.
jun., from London to Melbourne, July 1.6,
being also felt for the safety of the intrepid keepers. The The Barette,
lion soon recovered.
lat. 7 N., long. 18 W.
The Mary, from London to Melbourne, Sept. 17, lat. 39
A WEATIIER-BOUND FLEET. Leith Roads have for
the last three or four days presented the unwonted spec- 0806 E.
phandel, from London to Hobart Town, Sept.
tacle of a fleet of at least two or three huudred sail at S.
hloonKg.
26, lat. 10 N. long. 23 W.
I
anchor. The vessels, which are for the most part . The Maria, from Liverpool to Batavia, Oct. 26, lat. 6 N.,
coasters, have been drive up the Frith for shelter from long. 17 W.
the flereeeasterly galeli that. hava„-arraught such havoc The Kenou Hasselaar, from London to Port Philip, Oct.
along the east coast of England. A °Teat number of 30, lat. 6 N., long. 21 W.
vessels have also taken refuge at St. Margaret's Hope, The Senator, from
near Queensferry.—Edinburg4 Advertiser. 40 N., long. 65 W. New York to Liverpool, Dec. 18, lat.

STATION BETWEEN THE NORTH OF
IRELAND AND 5002 LAND.

To. THE EDITOR OF THE BELFAST NSWS-LETTBR.
Wynyard Park, 28th Dec., 1853.
have read • in your paper of the 26th instant,
a letter commenting on one addressed to Mr. Thomson
by me, and already before the public, and although I
hope that, in common no doubt with many ofyour readers,
I may be excused for not being able to understand
the intended meaning of several parts of that letter,
or what the writer really intended to express, I infer
from a perusal of the whole, that although he seems
to vindicate the conduct of the Donaghadee committee,.
he substantially admits and corroborates the de-
scription given in my former letter of their fickle and
irresolute conduct. He admits that the Donaghadee
committee, in the absence of himself alone, unanimously
agreed to certain resolutions pledging themselves to
co-operate with the Belfast committee in an application
to Government fora commission to inquire and report
as to the two poiks of departure on either coast. He
admits that. he himself was apprised beforehand of their
intended meeting ; he admits that they then attended a
meeting of the mayor and principal merchants in Bel-
fast, and proposed to them the resolutions which they
(the Donaghadee committee) had previously drawn up,
and that this same Donaghadee committee subsequently
changed their minds in a manner which must have ap-
peared to
.to Belfast merchants most supremely ridicu-
lous, and sent to apprise the latter—who had assembled
for the express purpose of meeting the Donaghadee
committee—that they must decline for the present to co-
operate with the Belfast people. He expressly admits
that the Donaghadee committee, with the exception of
their most distinguished member, Lord Dufferin,
and another member, thus made volte. face at his
express bidding, on the miserable pretence that,
in the absence of one member who had been duly
summoned, their "'course of proceeding was informal,
as they did not represent the unanimous views of the
Donaghadee committee, though they could attend the
conference as private individuals!" ' With regard to
his own reasons for ordering the Donaghadee com-
mittee to unsay all that they had before said; I collect
from his letter that they are that he thinks 'that the
time hag 'not yet arrived for a combined effort to apply
to Government to take the proper steps to establish
suitable harbours; If this be so, in the name of com-
mon sense, why get up the Donaghadee and Portpatrick
committee at all? Why was the meeting held at Do-
naghadee, and were long speeches made about Do-
naghadee and Portpatrick harbours, and the advan-
tages of the shortest sea passage, ,&c., if the next day
the same committee, at the dictation of one individual,
were to turn round and say, "We will do nothing ; the
time has not arrived ?" No wonder that the Belfast
people laughed at the whole procedure as the height of
imbecility and puerility.
Will not the public naturally say, either this Donag-
hadee committee are doubtful of their alleged advan-
tages and afraid of an impartial commission, or, at the
bidding of an individual, they are acting the part of the
dog in the manger, and will neither do anything to get
their own sea passage, nor co-operate with any one else
in getting one.
My object has been, for many years, and is, to secure
the short sea passage, and I fought for years for Donag-
hadee and Portpatrick. I was borne down in this,
and after it had slumbered for years, and I despaired
of success, another line by Loch Ryan was proposed
by the Belfast merchants. lat once threw what influ-
ence I possessed into this scheme as offering a prospect
of success from the practical men who seemed to head
it. , : A Donaghadee committee then started up and,
commenced an active opposition, and, owing to this,
both schemes seemed likely to fall to the ground ; but,
good sense having prevailed for a time, au effort was
made to procure a co-operation of both bodies to ascer-
tain which was the proper one. This effort at first suc-
ceeded, but, on its being upset by the 'interference of
one person, I saw at once that nothing was to be hoped
from the llonaghadee committee, which, for all practi-
cal purposes, was evidently defunct, and therefore I at
once determined to throw any influence I possess into
the hands of the Loch Ryan committee, and trust
to the business habits, power, wealth, interest, and
influence of the great town of Belfast for the attainment
of so desirable an object as the short sea passage.
It is a remarkable coincidence that since this corres-
pondence commenced a gieat meeting, headed by-the
Marquis of Downshire, took place at the other side of
county Down, to discuss the relative merits of the
harbours at Ardglass and Carlingford, and that that
meeting, composed of the leading persons in that part
of the county, adopted the very course that was at
first decided upon by the Donaghadee committee, and
afterwards so unceremoniously reversed, and deter-'
mined to apply to Government for a commission to
inquire and report upon the comparative merits of the
harbours at Ardglass and Carlingford. This shags con-
clusively what is the opinion of the enlightened and
impartial public as to the best mode of going about such
a matter, and .surely no one will have the hardihood to
say that Ardglass and Carlingford can offer more urgent
and immediate claims to attention than Portpatrick,
Donaghadee, and Loch Ryan.
A moment's reflection will show that the Carl ingford
committee were 'right, and that the Donaghadee com-
mittee have committed a fatal error in changing their
position, and have thereby missed the surest means of
attaining their object. For if it be true, as alleged by
them, that Donaghadee and Portpatrick are the true
points of departure, the Government Commissioners,
finding the harbours already there at a vast expense
to the public, would, of course, have reported in favour
of this line, and the point being once established in
favour of these ports, railway speculators would have
only been toe glad to invest their capital in the it-lime-
diate"extensitml of railways to these points, as offering a
`secuie and -remunerative investment in a line destined
to become the highway between the North of Ireland
and Great Britain.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
(COPY.)
ALTERATION IN THE BOMBAY LIGHT-HOUSE.
BOMBAY, Nov. 26, 1853.—The local Government con-
template repairing the Bombay Lighthouse, and for some
months the present revolving light will not be used. A
fixed light will occupy the place. This is likely to take
place about the commencement of our next monsoon. The
revolving light has always been the main, and indeed the
only sure, guide for entering the harbour during thick
weather.