The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-06 00:00:00

MISCEL:

Australian Agricult
!Canada

ICopperMiners of Eng,
Do. Preference .......

!Crystal Palaco.

Eastern Steam

Electric Teleg. of Ir.
Gen. Steam Navigat.
General Screw Steam
Irish Beetroot Sugar
Netherlands Land....
Peninsular & Oriental
Royal Mail Steam
South Austral. Land
Univeml Emigration
and Colonization....
Van Diemen's Land
Submar. Telegraph

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22 - 24

LLOYD'S SHIPPING (THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Jan. 6.—Wind at Noon, S., fresh breeze, and
cloudy.
DEAL, Jan. s.—Wind, S.W. moderate. Arrived—
Commodore, Demerara. Arrived from the River, and
sailed—Rifleman, for South Seas ; Van Galen, Sydney,
N.S.W, ; San Francisco, do. ; Challengd, Hong Kong;
Hellespont, Maulmaiu ; Marquis of Breadalbane, Sierra
Leone ; Gilbert Munro, St. Lucia. Sailed—Hendrick
Hudson, New York.
LIVERPOOL, Jan. s.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Eclipse,
Paraoba, sailed on the 7th of December, and experienced
fine weather the whole of the passage until she arrived off
Holyhead on the 3d inst. ; Propontos, Buenos Ayres;
Sinn, St. Domingo ; Coquette, Honduras ; American
Union, Now York ; Standard, Tatniagouche. Put back—
Ebba Braho, Mobile. The Mary Dickson of Belfast was in
contact this morning with the Princeton—was dismasted,
and drifted fail of the Kossuth. Jan. 6.—Sailed— Digby,
Melbourne ; Sir R. Jackson, Valparaiso ' • Virginia, Man-
zanilla ; Empress, Baltimore; City of Glasgow, Phila-
delphia.
FALMOUTH, Jan. 5.--The Lady of the West of New-
port, Bristol to Now Orleans, was abandoned in a sinking.
state on the 26th December, 47 N., 9 W. ; master and
fourteen of crew picked up in the long boat by the Fanny
of Salecombe, and transferred to the Esther, arrived here ;
the remaining four of the crew had left in the pinnace.
CARDIFF, Jan. s.—The Mary Cook of Glasgow is on
horo.

abandoned in a sinking state , p
• icked up on the 26th
Jan. s.—The Spring of Shields was
crew
FRASERBURGH,
of December. The vessel which runinto the Freedom on
the 29th, was the Maria, and not the Myra, as reported ;
she is supposed to have gone down.
MARYPORT, Jan. s.—The Wilson, from Liverpool, is on
shore ; expected off.
IsLAY, Jan. s.—The Clorinda, Troon to Smyrna, has
been assisted
ed in here leaky, &c., and must partly discharge
t be caulk.
MoNruosE, Jan. s.—The Wheathill of Wisbeach was
abandoned on the 26th of December ; crew saved.
DUNDEE, Jan. s.—The Express of Sunderland foundered
on the 28th of December, forty miles off this port ; crew
saved.
SHIELDS, Jan. s.—The Perfection of this port was aban-
doned ; crew saved.
dYered ARMOUTH, Jan. s.—The Jago, Blyth to Lynn, foun-
on the 27t
SOUTHAMPTON h of December, off Whitby ; crew saved.
mann (s), New York. , Jan. s.—Wind, S.W. Aarived—Her-

DECLIVITY
give the runnin
OF RIVERS. —A very slight declivity suf
fices to
about three miles anll straight channel, gives a velocity of
per mile, in asinowil g motion to water. Three inches
waters of the hour. The Ganges, which gathers the
is at eighteen Himalayahundred miles
the loftiest in the world,
eight hundred feet
miles from its mouth, only about
the height of St. above the level of the sea—about twice
Paul's in London, or the height of
Arthur's Seat, near Edinburgh, and to fall these eight
hundred feet in • its long course, the water requires more
than a month. The great river Magdalena, in South
America, running for a thousand miles between two
ridges of the Andes, falls only five hundred feet in all
that distance. Above the commencement of the thou-
sand miles, has seen descending in rapids and cataracts
from the mountains. The gigantic Rio de la Plata has
so gentle a descent to the ocean, that in Paraguay, fif-
teen hundred miles from its mouth, large ships are seen,
which have sailed against the current all the way, by
the force of the wind alone ; that is to say, which, on
the beautifully inclined plane of the stream, have been
gradually lifted by the soft wind, and even against
current, to an elevation greater than that of the
spires.-4 rnoteB Physics. our loftiest