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

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Glaucus, from Iquique to Liverpool, March 3, litl
52 S., long. 52 W.

The Rebecca Jane, from Callao to Bristol, April 13, lat.
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 head close
to the rigging, and maintop-gallantmast.
The La Serena, from Coquimbo to London, March 18,
lat. 15 S., 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, froni Sydney to London, Jan. 17„ lat. 56 S.,
Long. 68 W.

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

Tile 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 Jacoba, from London, 19th lat. [4 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, let. 48 N,
long. 22 W.
Th 9 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
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pamphletEaprlubli.shed by
Spencer occasioned an
lwahtennyetahres,dweaatsh
intrigue which ousted a Ministry in a day.— Westmin-
ster Review.
A NOTABLE HISTORICAL FACT.—Wheat was first
just
ha theet2s 2
increase
years
i n Massachusetts,
That
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sown in North American colonies in 1602, on the Eliz i-
:le year 1849, according to the
b eth Islands,
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lxiaspulcdoerrseeidnishtthahtasttc
iona times
census of 1850, the product amounted to 100,503,899
birshels. Up to 1610, and perhaps later, England sup-
plied the colonies with the greater part of their bread-
stuffs. How changed is it now ? Ail 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 never more to return.
Two hundred and forty-four years afterwards it rolls
back in a continuous stream to gladden the hearts of 1
half-famished millions in England, France, and Belgium. 1
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 rett rn good for what was considered an evil,
Plying them with bread,---American Paper.