The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-03 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Aug. 3.—Wind this day at Noon, N.E. ; fresh
breeze, and cloudy, with rain. There was a heavy storm
of rain, thunder, and lightning, at about three o'clock this
morning.

Cowls, Aug. 2.—Wind, W. Arrived—Marie, from
Callao ; Amadora, Trinidad de Cuba ; Union (s), Havre,
and left for Now York.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 2.—Wind,,N.W. Arrived—Faid
Gehaad (Turkish war steamer), from Alexandria. Sailed
—Magdalena, for the West Indies.

OFF PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 2.—Medway, from Melbourne,
with 42,000 ounces of gold.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 2.—Wind, N. Arrived—lnvoice,
from the Persian Gulf and Mauritius ; Jeanette, Porto
Rico ; Mauritius (s), Calcutta and Mauritius. Sailed—
Panama, for Sydney, N.S.W. ,• Kent; Melbourne.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 2.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Maria
Cecilia, from Havre, for Guadaloupe, assisted in with
damage, and two men killed, from contact with an Ame-
rican ship bound up the Channel, about 35 miles S.W. of
the Lizard; the latter lost jibboom and foreyard.
OFF PORTLAND, Aug. 2.—Ernestine, from New York,
for Bremen.
CARDIFF, Aug. 2.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Sophia,
from Quebec. Sailed—Higginson, do.
SWANSEA, Aug. 2.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Artistic,
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from Valparaiso.
SHIELDS, Aug. 2.—Wind, N. Sailed—Balkan,. for Rio
de Janeiro.
QUEENSTOWN, Aug. I.—Wind, W. Arrived—Countess
of Durham, from Callao. Sailed—James L. Bogart, for
New York.
GRIMSBY, Ang. 2.—Arrived—Bellona, from Miramichi.
ELSINORE, July 28.—The Eagle (s), from Memel to
Hull, was in contact last' night with a Swedish brig, and
lost bowsprit, but proceeded to-day.
July 30. —An English Steamer, with the transport No.
9 in tow, arrived from the North Sea last night, and pro-
ceeded for the Baltic with troops on board.
The English screw steamer, No. 107, and the transport
No. 108, passed this morning to the southward, both with
troops on board.

(BY SUBMARINE ANJ) EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday, 11.27 a.m.
Wind, E.; tide, quarter ebb ; weather, raining.
Arrived, 2d—Agamemnon, from Quebec.
Arrived, 3d—Yrima, from Guernsey ; Vibilia, Guern-
sey ; Gefion, Bahia ; Perseverance, Marseilles ; Geo. Les-
lie, Matanzas; Theodosia, Demerara; Aberfoyle, Sierra
Leone ; Aunadar, St. Stephen's Louisa, Oporto • Wes-
tertina, Alexandria ; John Wesley, Guernsey ; Christina
Camel, Buenos Ayres ; Forager, Guernsey ; Capido,
Memel ; John Mowlem, Guernsey ; Augusta, St. Andrew's;
Caroline, Guernsey ; De Pique de Bairne, Maranham ;
Kossuth, Matanzas; Henrietta, Danzic ; Vorwarts, Gir-
genti ; Pearl, Quebec ; Milton, Gothen burg ; Concordia
(s.), Rotterdam; Baron Osy (s.), Antwerp; Earl of Auck-
land (s.), Rotterdam; Magnet, Amsterdam ; Columbine
(s.), Rotterdam.

Sailed,
3d—Calabar, for Port Phillip ; Ocean (s.), Havre;
William Joliffe, Calais.

AL, Thursday, 9 a.m.
Wind, E.N.E., moderate, and D
ra Einy.
Oceanus, from Cardiff for the Baltic, on the Goodwin
Sands, full of water. Has mast cut away. Boats are
saving the stores, etc. Crew are all lauded at Deal.
Passed—Robert Law, from London for Melbourne;
Persian, London for Leghorn ; Thibet, Sunderland for
London.
Sailed—Drnid, for San Francisco.

LETTERS OF NAVAL OFFICERS.—GENERAL Pon-
OFFICE, July, 1854.—The Lords Commissioners of her
Majesty's Treasury having been pleased to extend to
officers in the Royal Navy, serving abroad, the privilege
granted in 1850, to seamen employed on board her Ma-.
jesty's ships on foreign stations, of pre-paying, by means
of postage stamps, letters, forwarded by them to the
United Kingdom, all letters from naval officers which
may hereafter leach this country in bags made up on
board any of her Majesty's ships are to be delivered
free, provided the postage to which such letters are
liable for conveyance from the place where they may
originate to the United Kingdom, be duly paid by post-
age stamps of the proper value being affixed to them.
These instructions relate especially to postmasters at
the outports, to which 'mails are brought from abroad
by packet or by private ship.
THE STEAMSHIP FRANKLIN.—Latest particulars re-
specting the situation of the steam-ship Franklin, are
dated up to 11 o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning,
when the-general belief of the most experienced seamen
was to the effect that the steamer would be a .total loss.
From daybreak of Tuesday she lay more easily, but was
momentarily settling deeper in her bed, with from 81 to
10 feet of water in her hold. Notwithstanding the heavy
buffeting which she had endured from the moment of the
disaster up to the hour at which our last accounts were
written, the machinery still held together, and was con-
sidered to be in good working order, although covered
with water. Mr. Kane, the • purser, with about 35 of
the hands employed in various departments of the vessel,
reached Brooklyn by the Long Island Railroad at a
quarter•past 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A number
of the crew were left behind, owing to having been
marched to a wrong station, and they suffered a good
deal froth want both of food and fresh water. As the
Franklin is the first steamer which ever went aground
on the Long Island shore, the scene at the mainland, on
the bay, and even in the surf, was at once romantic and
affecting. Mrs. Commodore Hull, Mr. and Mrs. Mor-
ris, with some 6 or 8 more of the passengers, remained
at Bishop's Hotel, Morriches, yesterday morning. It
was then expected that the baggage and a portion of the
cargo would rmtcli New York this evening, or tomor-
row (Friday) afternoon, at least. The baggage has been
well cared for, and the Custom-house.officials were dili-
gent in the execution of their duty. —Now York Heraw,
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