The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-01 00:00:00

rIIST.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Glaucus, from Iquique to Liverpool, March 3, lai
52 S., long. 52 W.
The Rebecca Jane, from Callao to Bristol, Aprill3, lei
40 N., long. 29 W.
. .

The Sarah (barque), steering W., 21st, lat. 51, N., long
13 W.

The Queen (schooner), from Liverpool, lat. 49 N., long
9 W.

The Lucy Munro, bound W. 10th, lat. 49 N. long. 10 W
The Eccles, from Liverpool to Coquimbo, Feb. 25,
lat. 67 S., long. 64 W. with loss of foremast close
to the rigging, and maintop-gallantmast.
The La Serena, from Coquimbo to London, March 18,
1at.155., long. 25 W.
_ _

The Marquis of Londonderry, from Shanghai and Singa-
pore to London, Jan. 18. lat. 9 S., long. 102 E.
The Edward (barque) of Devonport, April 12 lat. 48 N.
long. 21 W.
The 'Mountain Maid, of Dundee, for Melbourne, Feb.
2, lat. 35 S., long. 18 E.
The Rodney, from Trinidad to Bristol, April 24, lat. 50
N., long. 13 W
The Countess of Durham, from Shields to Quebec, April
21, lat. 51 N., long 11 W.
The Koning Willem 11., from Hartlepool to Batavia,
March 1, lat. 2 N., long. 18 W.
The Thate, from Sydney to London, Jan. 17„ lat. 56 S.,
long. 68 W. _ _

The Quito (supposed), outward bound, 16th, lat. 19 S.,
long. 68 W.

The Mary Ann, from Callao to Cork, same day, lat. 20
S., long. 29 W.
The Bramin, outward bound, 17th lat. 18 S. long. 28 W
The Maria Jacobs, from London, 19th lat. 14 S., long.
28 W.

The James Drake, from Cardiff to Havanna, April 5,
lat. 27 N., long. 47 W.
The Bengal homeward bound, Aprill9.
The John Bright, from Mauritius to London, lat. 48 N,
long. 22 W.

The Mary, from Cardiff to Quebec, April 16, lat. 51 N.,
Long. 10 W.
The Queen of the West, from New York, April 24,
Long. 11.

NEWSPAPER WRITING.—Though everybody affects
secrecy, it is a secret known to all the town, that
almost every competent man in political life has now
and then used the newspaper press, the most powerful
engine there is for acting upon opinion. An acquaint-
ance of ours, calling on one of the bishops, had to wait
beside him until he finished a leader for a daily paper.
Several political chiefs affects little secrecy respecting
the fact of their contributing to newspapers, though
they of course do not wish to be identified with all their
contributions. " You may think it very easy to write
an article for a newspaper," said a Cabinet Minister at
a public dinner recently, " but try it." In truth, to
write a good leader on an occurrence of the hour, acute
and ready in its arguments, and humorous or forcible in
its illustrations, with the brief statements of facts, and
the skilful management of personalities which it de-
mands in reference both to the newspaper and its party,
is one of the most difficult of all kinds of composition.
The political pamphlet is a series of leaders strung toge-
ther, according to a unity of its own. Nobody needs to
be told that, perhaps, the most piquant and powerful,
certainly the most snccessful, of political pamphlets of
late years, was the pamphlet published by Mr. Bulwer
when the death of the late Earl Spencer occasioned an
intrigue which ousted a Ministry in a day.— Westmin-
ster Review.

A NOTABLE HISTORICAL FACT.—Wheat was first
sown in North American colonies in 1602, on the Eliza-
beth Islands, in Massachusetts, by Gosnold, at the time
he explored that coast. That has been just 252 years
ago, and since that time so great has been the increase
of this cereal, that in the year 1849, according to the
census of 1850, the product amounted to 100,503,899
bushels. Up to 1610, and perhaps later, England sup-
plied the colonies with the greater part of their bread-
stuts. How changed is it now ? All Earope is looking
to us for bread. The cry of famine reaches us with the
arrival of every steamer, and we respond by sending car-
go in the wake of cargo from our abundance to save
them from starvation. The bread sent to the colonies
1610 was not cast upon the waters nevermore to return.
Two hundred and forty-four years afterwards it rolls
back in a continuous stream to gladden the hearts of
half-famished millions in England, France, and Belgium.
The descendants of men originally lashed and scourged
from their shores, and forced to make their future habi-
tations beneath the shades of an almost boundless wil-
derness, bleak, desolate, and uninviting, more humane
than the taskmasters of their fathers, are now striving
to return good for what was considered an evil, by sup•
Plying thesis with bread--Avwrig44 Paper,