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

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.55 a.m.
Wind, calm ; tide, half hours' flood ; fine.
Arrived, 7th—Emilio Frederick, from Hudickswall ;
Sceptre, Stettin; Two Brothers, Caen; Sophia, Orsens ;
Soderham, Skelleftea • Present, Yarrow Bay ; Daphne,
' Amsterdam • Elizabeth, Konigsberg ; Furet, Gravelines ;
Bernadotte, Horuosand; Caroline Alice, St. Übe's; Albert
Leith, Middlesbro'; Active, Adde walla.
Arrived, Bth—Eliza, from Stettin.
Sailed, Bth—Queen, steamer, for Bremen.
DEAL, Tuesday, 10.31 a.m.

Wind variable, and fine.
Her Majesty's steamer Wildfire, from Sheerness, for in-
valids from Deal Hospital.
Minden, 122 transport, from river for Calais, passed
yesterday at the back of the Goodwin Sands in tow.
William Brown, from Colombo for London, anchored in
the Gulls.

PANAMA.—Advices from Panama make strong com-
plaints of the total absence of protection for life and
property in that city, owing to the inefficiency or cow-
ardice of the Governor during the present disturbed
condition of New Granada. A meeting of the various
foreign Consuls had been suggested, to insist upon the
adoption of proper measures for the safety of the roads,
and especially of that part of the passage across the
isthmus over which the railway is not yet completed.
An alarm had been lately raised of an intended attack
on the town by the partisans of the insurgent
general
Melo.

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THE FORTIFICATONS OF SAN FRANCISCO.---The work
of fortifying the harbour of San Francisco is rapidly pro-
gressing. The constructions are to consist of two lines
of batteries: Fort Point, the principal fortification on
the outer line, will mount, when completed, a battery
of 115 guns, of 8 and 10 inch calibre. The guns will be
arranged in four tiers, the wall of the fort rising directly
from the water at an angle of about 75 degrees, and cas-
tellated at the top. The works at Fort Point are being
prosecuted with vigour. On the side of the channel
directly opposite Fort Point, a battery will be erected
of nearly equal size, and capable of mounting about 100
guns. The battery on Alcatraz Island, on the inner
line of fortification, will comprise 50 guns. It may be
completed in twelve months' time. The stone of which
the walls of the fortresses are built is granite of a very
superior quality, brought from Monterey and Puerta de
los Reyes. The estimated cost of the works at Fort
Point is $750,000 ; and it is thought that the whole
work of fortifying the harbour will cost at least
s2,ooo,ooo.—San Francisco Paper.
A. GROUP OF PATIENTS.—}Iere, the paralytic octo
genarian ; here, the widow in mourning, with her rickety
child ; here, the wounded officer from India ; here, the
withered nabob, who had lost his liver, and was come
hither on speculation to ask Sir Hygey if had seen it by
chance come that way; here the old lady from the country,
afflicted with nothing save a plethora of money and anxious
to ask the doctor if it were likely that anything would
ever be the matter with her ; there, the anxious
father, with his consumptive daughter—the gentleman
of small means, who had been painfully hoarding up
his guineas that his child might have the bene-
fit of the great medical man's. advice ; there
the young exquisite, who had been living too fast ;
the old exquisite, anxious to die as slowly as possible ;
the over-taxed student, who had gained his double first
and lost his health ; the popular actor, beginning to be
nervous about his voice, and feeling a warning stiffness
and weakness in his limbs. Here they all were, mourn-
fully silent—wrapped up in their own ailments, or at
best speaking in stealthy whispers. Every now and then
you heard a silver bell tinkle, and saw the grave raven-
hued servant flit in and out ; and then the crimson
door open noiselessly ; and when your turn came (if you
had been a duke you could not have gone out of it) you
were ushdred into the presence of Etir );Iygey rebrifuge.-.
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