The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-18 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SiIIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, May 18.— Wind this day at Noon, N.W. ; light
breeze, and cloudy weather
COWES, May 17.—Wind, variable. Arrived Hydra,
from Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp.
DARTMOUTH, May 17.—Wind, E. Sailed—Jet, for Mel-
bourne.
OFF DOVER.—Uhlani, from Bremen, for New York.
MALTA, May 11.—The following are the names of the
British vessels that slipped from their moorings and put
to sea on the morning of the bombardment of the place by
the allied fleets :—Ba.i ques—Wexford, of Wexford; Martha
Kay, of Sunderland ; Conciliator, of Shields ; John Old-
ham, of London • Themis, of Sunderland ; Menaesia, of
Wexford ; and the brig Adelphi, of Shields. The follow-
ing 'vessels were dirlarging wheat in the Inner Mole, and
-unable to get out :—Barques—Billow Queen, of Arbroath ;
Sea, of Sunderland ' and the brig John Eleanor, of Shields.
The following
not allowed ballasted
vessels
were and ready to sail, but
barque SWif to
Cathezine of go out ;—Brigs—Regina, of Sunderland;
Rus-
sian authoritiesLe bad demanded Richard Mount, of London ; and the
Swift, of Shields. On the Ist of April the Rue-
of all the British - anti obtained the registers
STROMNESB, vesselsmayin Port.
(cu.
.—Wind, E. Arrived—lsabella,
Aberdeen); Elizabeth, do., both for
from Shields
Quebec, leaky.
ELSINORE, May 11.—The Jantina Jikkina, from Memel
with lose of mizeu-mast,
to London, put in
abseroeritvo4i,l7;
from contact with

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,)LIVERPOOL, Thursday,
Wind, N.; cloudy and dull.
Eglintoun (
10.30 a.m.
Arrived--largaret (s.), Havre ; Lady
London. ca.),
Off the Port—Witch of the Wave and Troubadour (a).
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.3
a.m.
Wind, N.N.W.; tide, five hours ebb; fresh.
Arrived, 17th - Patrioten, Gulf of Bothnia ; Baron Osy
(8.), Antwerp ; Alar (8.), Dunkirk ; Eliza, Belize ' • Con-
cordia, Lemoeg ; Rhine (s.), Rotterdam ; Earl of
Auck-
land, Rotterdam.
Sailed—William Jaffe (a.), Calais ; Twee Zusters, Port
Philip.

DEAL, Thursday, 9.37 a.m.
Wind, N N.W.; fresh, and cloudy.
Passed—Rangoon, Madras ; Woodstock, Arena, and
Vere, Jamaica ; Robert Newton, S . Kitt's •, Gilbert
Munro, St. Lucia ; Leila, Nassau ; Ceres, Oporto ; Racer,
Newport— 11 from London.
Anchored—Panama, Callao for London; ILM.S Bell-
isle, Portsmouth for the Baltic ; French war steamer,
Cherbourg for the Baltic.

EVENING SCHOOLS FOR ADULTS.—In taking the
census, accounts were obtained of 1,545 evening
schools for adults in England and Wales. The
amount of weekly payments varied from ld. to 2s. ;
in the majority it did not exceed 4d. There were
39,783 students attending these schools, nearly a
third of them females. Returns were made of the
occupations of the above two-thirds ; 14,405 were
artisans, 4,418 factory hands, 6,709 agricultural la-
bourers, 1,317 domestic servants. Reading, writing,
and arithmetic were the thing-, taught in these schools
generaly, but some were of a superior class. Grammar
was taught in 339. geoL!rapliy in 344, history in 172.
mathemath s in 135, modern languages in 36, bookkeep-
ing in 29. These schools are di.tribut4l all over the
country, but Lancashire and toe West Riding of York-
shire stand at the head of the list of couuties, greatly
exceeding 41 others.