The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-09 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Aug. 9.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ;
light breeze, and cloudy. The Mercury is now falling
slowly.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. B.—Wind, W. Arrived—Sutlej,
from London, for Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. B.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Edward,
for Quebec; Lady Peel, do.
GLOUCESTER.—Arrived—Euclia, from Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Aug. B.—The Sonne, from Memel to this
port, was totally lost on the 4th of August; crew landed
at Dundee.

SHIELDS, Aug. B.—Wind, S. Sailed—Express, for Rio
Janeiro ; Lord Lambton, Quebec.
SUNDERLAND, Aug. B.—Wind, S. Sailed— Gutterus,
for Maulmain.
SWANSEA, Aug. B.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Maria
Antoinette, from Garrucha. Sailed—Commodore. for
Cuba.
SYDNEY, N.S.W., May 22.—The Vixen is reported to be
on shore at Trial Bay, and abandoned, excepted by two
men.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.40 A.M.
Wind, W. N. W. ; moderate, and cloudy.
Arrived—Hants, from Africa • Dicky Sam, Valparaiso ;
Isabel, Antigua; Meridian, Berbice ; David Huntley,
Barsborough, Nova Scotia ; Saxon, Messina ; Crescent,
Cadiz; St. George, Santauder.
Sailed—Liverpool, De Witt, Clinton, and Great West-
ern, for New York ; Wilhelmina, San Francisco.
Off Port-2—Gannett (screw steamer), Andes; and Isabel.
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
DEAL, Wednesday, 10.40 a.m.
Wind, S.S.W.; light, and fine.
Passed—Calendar, from St. George's ; Countess of Dur-
ham, Callao ; Gunna, Quebec—all for London ; Penguin,
from London, for Bermuda ; her Majesty's steamer Lucifer,
from Portsmouth, for Woolwich.
Anchored—Guinebode' for Santander ; Adelaide, De-
merara; Wm. Simpson, for Batavia—all from London.

THE TURKISH MUSEUM. The handsome hall, a
stone's-throw from Hyde-park-corner, first brought into
notice by the wonderful Chinese Exhibition, has, after
undergoing many appropriations, returned to an exhibi-
tion very much like the one with which it opened. Two
Turkish gentlemen, Messrs. C. Oscanyan and S. Azna-
your, have with great spirit and ingenuity opened here
a most interesting illustration of the Turkish nation and
habitt. The desire was only conceived in Constantinople
lass November, and it has been brought to its present
wonderful perfection since that time. Walking round
the large room, the spectator passes all varieties
of Turkish life, each function of humanity being
performed by admirably executed wax figures, dressed
in clothes brought from the East, and provided with
such furniture, scenery, and properties as shall endow
them with a pprapriate sheres for their artificial life.
" Scenerp," by the way, is a weak term to express the
liberal manner in which the waxen Orientals are pro-
vided with domiciles. The hamam, or bath, which comes
first in the series, is a real substantial building, with a
tiler, as good as alive, repairing the roof at the top, and
the spectator who enters the door may pass from one
department to another to study the luxuries and the
tortures of the institutions. On another side of the
room there is a barber's shop, in which a faithful Mus-
sulman resigns himself most piously into the hands of
the tonsor, while his brethren of the faithful solace them-
selves with coffee and backgammon in the courtyard.
Then we have a snug party of Turkish epicures—the
inside of a slaue bazaar, and—most solemn of all the
interiors—the interior of the Sultan's harem, nith the
Sultan's daughter smoking a chibouque, and receiving
the congratulations of a female friend on her approach.
ing marriage. Nothing is is spared to giue variety
to the exhibition. Life indoors and life out of doors,
high life and low life, are alike brought forward. Here
sits the late Sultan Mahmoud in Divan, surrounded by
his stately Ministers ; here a party,s toying at a water-
ing place, rides in a superb ox-drawn carriage ; here
the llama's, or porters, of Constantinople perspire under
their heavy burdens ; here, that our glance may become
retrospective, a meeting of the Janissary conspirators is
convened, and we are allowed to see those famous kettles
which, answering the double purpose of kettle and
kettledrum, served alike to cook the victuals and to ex-
press the sentiments of the once formidable, but now
extinct body. It is a great point to hit a topic of the
day, and a greater point still to hit it well. In both
these respects the contrivers of the Turkish Museum
have succeeded to a nicety.
THE COMMON LODGINGS ACT.—Notwithstanding the
exertions of the metropolitan police to bring into prac-
tical operation the provisions of the Common Lodgings
Act, and to remove in some degree the reeking nuisances
that have been for years allowed to accumulate into hot-
beds of pestilence, we very much fear that the cholera
has overtaken us in a very unprepared state. Poverty
and vice are truly conservative of the seeds of disease
and the deposits of filth. They hate the introduction of
light and air and pure water. No wonder, when the
elements of life make the degradations under which they
labour more hideous. Not a moment should be lost in
extending the most vigorous measures of purification
into every district. It is the struggle of life against
death and its feverish allies, promoted by this hot and
teeming weather.