The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-07 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Dec. 7.—Wind this day at Noon, N.W. ;
fres
Ph breeze, and fine weather. •
ORTSMOUTH, Dec. 6.—Wind, W.N.W., blowing hare.
Arrived—Marie Auguste, from Bremen, for Porto Rico.
Sailed—Cumberland (steam-transport, 151), for the Crimea.
Put back—H.M.S. Monarch, from Devonport, with main-
yard sprung.
FALMOUTH, Dec. 6.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—H.M.S.
Brisk, from Plymollth, for the Prcific. Sailed.—Charles
Richard, for Southampton. Put back—Jazo, for Liver-
pool.
DARTMOUTH, Dec. 6.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Siren,
from Newfoundland.
GLOUCESTER, Dec. 6.—Arrived—Lonisa,.from Quebec.
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 6.—Sailed—Washington (s), for
New York; Metropolitan (s), ConstantiKple.
BRISTOL, Dec:6.—Wind, N.W. Arrived St. Yres, from
Honduras.
OFF DUNGENESS, Dec. 6.—Truce, from Callao; La
Belle, Honduras • Mary Jane, Prince Edward's Island.
HULL, Dec. '6.--Wind, W. Arrived—Unita, from
Kertch ; Albatross (s), Antwery ! Amor Paterno, Constan-
tinople.
QUEENSTOWN, Dec. s.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—
Eucles, from Callao.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. 6.—The Peltoma, of this port, was
lost in the Black Sea during the gale of the 14th Nov. ;
crew saved. The Mary Ann, of Bristol, was lost during
the same gale. The Gertrude, of this port, is also re-
ported lost.
WATERFORD, Dec. 5. —Wind, W. to W.S.W. Arrived
—Cruz 2d, from New Yolk.
ST. HELENA, Oct. 19.—The Charlotte, from Queenstown
to Calcutta, was totally wrecked in Algoa Bay on the 20th
Sept. ; 62 soldiers, 11 women, and 26 women perished.

SOCIETY 01' ARTS.—Last evening, at the ordinary
meeting of this society Mr. J. J. Mechi read his fourth
paper " On British Agriculture, with some account of
his own operations at Tip-tree Hall Farm." The chair
was occupied by Mr. J. Lawes (of Rothanstead), and
the attendance was unusually numerous, many being
unable to obtain admission. Mr. Mechi said he should
offer no apology for appearing for the fourth time before
them, believing that there was no question so important
to the national welfare as the attempt to increase our
supply of food by improved British agriculture. An
abundant home harvest was not now enough for the
increased population, and therefore when foreign supplies
of corn were cut off commerce and manufactures were
paralysed, but he ventured to assert that by investment
and improvement more could be grown than all the food
' required by the British people. The mere drainage of
all the land that required it would add millions of quar-
ters of corn, and much additional meat to our present
supply, and his own farm might be taken as an instance
of greatly and amply increasing our food supply, his
balance-sheet having shown an advantage to him in rent
and profit of 7501. All things progressed in this country,
and so would British agriculture, and the superabun-
dance of capital we had should avail to give to agricul-
ture a higher and more dignified, mere intelligent, and
consequently a more profitable position. The clumsy
appliances and prejudiced neglects of antiquated agricul-
tural customs were not profitable. The men who now
suffered most in agriculture were precisely those whose
ill-farmed, wooded, small, and undrained fields, and un-
improved buildings, were slowly but surely absorbing
the tenant's capital and binding him in poverty and
distress. Mr. Mechi, in the course of Lis paper, alluded
to the questions of town sewage, steam cultivation, and
other matters relating to the management of a farm and
the disposal of capital upon it. In the discussion which
followed, Messrs. Sidney, Davis, Merton, Hoskins, and
Col. Chaloner took a leading part. Thanks were after-
wards voted to Mr. Mechi for his able paper.
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM 4ACIIINERY.—An inquest was
held by Mr. Edward Her:ord, the coroner for the city
of Manchester, at the Co Jner's Court, on Monday,
touching the death of Thomas Wilkinson, aged 35, a
cylinder-tender. The deceased was employed at the
cotton mill of Mr. Henry Lees, at Droylsden. About
three weeks ago, the mornis,g being damp, he had occa-
sion to wipe the friction plate of a cylinder drying ma-
chine, which ha did whilst it was going, and as he acci-
dentally slipped down on his knees his left arm was
caught between the wheels which turn the warp cylin-
der. He gave a shout, and he machinery was instantly
stopped, but his aim was so severely lacerated that he
died from the effects of the accident, in the Manchester
Infirmary, on Monday morning. John Braddoch, the
manager of the weaving department of the mill, said the
machinery was boxed off as well as it was thought it
could be done, but since this accident further security
had been added, which must render it impossible for
any person to be drawn in again. The jury returned a
• Tordict of Accidental death,",