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

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SHIPPING INT ELLIGENCE,

CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL 29.
ENTERED INWARDS.--;The Aalborg, from Uddewalla ;
Statesman, Port Philip; -Tallentire, Mazatlan; Mehemet
Ali, Madras and Coringa ; Catherine, Buenos Ayres;
Albion, Madras and Pondicherry; Sylph, Leghorn and
Nice ; Spirit of the North, Calcutta ; Hall, Dantzic ; Earl
of Derby, Mauritius ; President Schmidt, Baltimore ;
Ohpaaende Sol, Frederickshalde ; Velocipede, Marianople ;
Caroline, Nakshow; Aquila, Santander; Maria Theresa,
Walgast ; Dorothea Elizabeth, do. ; Anna, do.; Irene,
Malaga ; Emma, Stettin ; Sn. Elsprit, Marseilles ; Chris-
' tiana Packet, Drontheim ; Johanna Amel a, Lisbon ;
Svanhide, Leghorn.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Princess
Alice, for Melbourne; Eleanor, Mauritius • Forester,
Dunkirk; Uranus, Harburg; Arab, Malaga, Mauritius;
Video,
and Buenos Ayres ; Ardjoens, Sydney.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Jonge Jan,
for Hamburgh and Harburg ; Ajax, Altona ; Emanuel,
do. ; City of the Sultan, Constantinople ; Mystery, Ber-
bice ; Murray, Hamburgh and Harburg ; Maria Stella,
Morlaix and Brest ; Jamaica, Antigua ; Echo, Cherbourg ;
Ocean Queen, New York ; Amazon, Copenhagen; Relam-
pago, Havannah Ysabel Segundo, Santander and Carrel ;
Raphael, Sydney, N.S.W.

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LIvERPoor, April 29.—The Irene, of Liverpool, from
London to Melbourne, was destroyed by tire on the line
when 30 days out.—The Tay, from Callao, off Queenstown
to-day, and proceeded to this port.
YsTAD, April 24.—The Salamander, from Konigsberg
with pumps out of order. has been hr0,,471.
here to-day, and will very likely have to discharge.
FREDERICKSHAVN, April 22.—The Hinda, of Whitby,
from England to Swinemunde, has put in here to repair,
having been on shore on Ruberg Strand, and thrown part
of her cargo overboard.
ANTWERP, April 28.—The Alert, from Antwerp to
Liverpool, has broken her foretopmast in the river. The
William, from Foo•cbo-foo to London, was in contact about
1.20 a.m. yesterday off Kythe with a vessel name unknown,
was thrown on her broadside, and lost maintopsail yard,
forerigging, chain plates, bulwarks, rails, some sheathing,
etc., securing her foremast, and repairing the damage.
She was brought in the South Foreland anchorage.
NEW YORK, April 13.—The Celestial, arrived here from
London, reports having passed in lat. 51 N. long. 56 W.
the Rounder (ship), of Liverpool, waterlogged and aban-
doned April 14. The Richard Alsop, from Liverpool to
Alexandria, was on shore near the Wolf Trap, Chesapealie
Bay; assistance has been sent to her. The Northumber-
land, which arrived here on April 11 from London and
Portsmouth, encountered a hurricane on the 12th in lat.
47 N. long. 4 W., when she had all three topmasts carried
away, was hove on her beam ends, and had to thro .v over-
board 60 tons of cargo to right the vessel.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
The Glaucus, from Iquique to Liverpool, March 3, lat.
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 Dovonport, 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, Ist. 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. lonm
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28 W.

Tho 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, thoughir
they of course do not wish to be identified with all t
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 t. In truth, to
write a good leader on an occurrence la
the hodr, 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 pamphletstrung
is a series of leaders toge-
ther, according to a unity of its. own. Noboay needstobe told that, perhaps, the most piquant and powerful,
certainly the most successful, 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-
stufs. 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 never more to return.
Two. hundred and forty-four years afterwards it rolls
back in a continuous stream to gladden the hearts of
half-fainished millions in England, France, and Belgium.
The descendants of mbn originally lashed and scourged
from their shores, and forced to make their future habi-
tations beneath the shades of an almost bouudless 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 them with bread.--Anzerica2t Prior.