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

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, May 18 Wind this day at Noon, N.W. ; light
breeze, and cloudy weather.
C°NVES, May 17.—Wind, variable. Arrived Hydra,
from Rio Janeiro, for Antwerp.
DARTMOUTH, May 17.—Wind, E. Sailed--Jet, for Mel-
bourne.

OFF DOVER.—Uhland, from Bremen, for New York.
MALTA, May 11.—The following are the names of the
Britibh vessels thnt slipped from their moorings and put '
to sea on the morning of the bombardment of the place by
the allied tieets b.. 1 goes— exford, of Wexford; Martha
Kay, of Sunderland ; Conciliator, of Shields ; John Old-
ham, of London • Themis, of Sunderland ; Menassia, of
-Wexford ; and the brig Adelphi, of Shields. The follow.
ing vessels were dis, barging 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.
not allowed
The following vessels wore ballasted and ready to sail. but
go out --Brigs—Regina, of Sunderland;
Catherine, of Leith Richard Mount, of London ; and the
barque Swift, of Shields. On the Ist of April the Rus-
sian authorities had demanded and obtained the registers
of all the British.vesaels in port.
STROMNEM 51-ay 15 _W E. Arrived—lsabella,
Qu
fromebec Shileaelds. (qy. Aberdeen); Elizabeth, do., both for
, ky.
ELSINORE, May 11.--The Jantina Jikkina, from Memel
to Louden, put in here to-day with loss of mizeu•inast,
from contact with a Norwegian vessel.

(BY ZIACTRIO TICLEGRAPIL)
LIVERPOOL, Th
uradaY, 10.30 a.m.
Wind, N.; cloudy and doll.
Arrived—Margaret (s.), Havre; Lady Eglin t
oun (ss),
London.
Off the Port--Witch of the Wave and Troubadour (s).
(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEP.N TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thai■ lay, 10.3 a.m.
Wind, N.N.W.; tide, five hours ebb; fresh.
Arrived, 17th Patrioten, Gulf of Bothnia ; Baron Osy
(8.), Antwerp; Alar (s.), Dunkirk; Eliza, Belize; Con-
cordia, Lemoeg ; Rhina (s.), Rotterdam ; Earl of Auck-
land, Rotterdam.
Sailed—William Jolliffe (s.), Calais ; Twee Zusters, Port
Philip.

DEAL, Thursday, 9.37 a.m.

v ere, Jamaica ;
Wind, N.N.W.; fresh, and cloudy.
Passed—Rangoon Madras ; Woodstock, Arena, and
„
Passed—Rangoon,
Newton, S . Kitt's ; Gilbert
Munro, St. Lucia ; Leila, Nassau ) • Ceres, Oporto ; Racer,
Newport— 11 from London.
Anchored Panama, Callao for London ; H.M.S Bell-
isle, Portsmouth for the Baltic ; French war steamer,
Cherbourg for the Baltic

EVENING SCHOOLS FOR ADULTS. —ln taking the
census, accounts were obtained of 1,545 evening
schools for adults in E 'gland and \Vales. The
amount of weekly payments varied from 1,1. to 2s. ;
in the majority it did not exceed 4d. There were
39,783 students a•tendin,, these schools, nearly a
third of them females. 'Returns were made of the
tempi:. ions of the above two•thirds ; 14,405 were
arti,ans, 4,418 factory bands, 6,709 agricultural la-
bourers, 1,317 domestic servants. R :acting, writing,
and arithmetic were the thing 4 tanght in these schools
generally, but some were of a superior class. Grammar
was taught in 3;;9. veo,raphy in 344, history in 172,
mathematics in 135, modern languages in 36, bookkeep-
ing in 29. These schools are distributed all over the
country, but Lancashire and the West R•ding of York-
shire stand at the head of the list of counties, greatly
exceeding all ottitne