The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

SHIPPING RETURNS.

The shipping returns of the Board of Trade for the
month ending the sth of September show again .a ge-
neral increase in the .amount of tonnage employed.. Fo-
reign vessels continue. to exhibit the largest proportion-
ate augmentation, not: necessarily, as has been before
observed, from their comparatively gaining more fav our,
but simply, it may b e assumed, from the scarcity of
British ships.
Subjoined are the gl meral totals of entries and chmr-
ances

Entered inwards—
TONNAGE FOR 'MIS MONTH ENDING SEPT. 5.
1851. 1852. 1853.
British ve55e15.................. 499,241 485,861 495,225
United States ve55e15........ 79,875 75,674 102,045
Other countries

794,263 741,710 919,466
The clearances out viards were-
-1851. 1852. 1853.
British vessels
United States' vessels.. 84,125 80,302 112,233
Other countries 172,501 188,975 207,702

691,859 735,484 805,583
For the first eight nonths of the year the aggregate
of entries and clearances shows an increase of 13 per
cent. over the corresponding period of 1852.
With regard to th. 43 coasting trade the tonnage en-
tered inwards was 1, :L49,311 in the month ending Sep-
tember 5, 1851 ; 1,0 913,980 in 1852 ; and 1,061,433 in
1853. The clearances outward were-1,185,226 in Sep-
tember, 1851 ; 1,6(36,415 in 1852 ; and 1,133,231 in
1853.

The John Soucha,y has arrived from Hobart Town,
whence she sailed on. the 24th of May, but the amount
of gold she brings has not yet been ascertained.
NATIONAL GALLEN Y.—The Earl,;of Onslow has pre-
sented Mr. Morris M core with the sum of one hundred
guineas, as a mark of the sense he entertains of the
services rendered by :Mr. Moore to the public and to art,
by his uncompromisiiz ig exposure of the proceedings at
the National Gallery..
THE NEW DUTIES': ON SERVANTS.—By the new As-
sessed Taxes Act, n in.sters have to pay from the 10th
instant for every ma In servant of the age of eighteen and
upwards the annual •duty of 1/. ls., and under that age
10s. 6d. Last year the duty on servants brought to the
revenue 209,613/.

THE DUCHESS or KENT.—Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, accompanied by Lady Augusta
Bruce, Lord James durray, and Sir George and Lady
Couper, arrived in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening,
from Abergeldie, by -the Scottish Central and Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railw. wys. The distinguished party were
received at the ten ctinus by Mr. Sheriff Gordon. Her
Royal Highness is expected to remain here for a week
of ten days.—Scots nan.

PRINCE OF Wm,' :E3 YACHT CLUB.—The closing trip of
the season will tak e place on Saturday next, when the
yachts will rendezv us, at three o'clock, at the Marine
Station, Blackwell, and proceed to Erith to dine at the
club-house, the Cr own. The annual dinner is to take
place on the 9th o f November, the anniversary of the
Prince of Wales's I rthday, at the Freemasons' Tavern,
when nearly 200 n members are expected to attend, the
club, during the la: it two months having made the most
extraordinary and r a pid advancement under the auspices
of its indefatigable commodore, Mr. Berncastle, and a
very excellent staff a.f officers.

EXPLOSION IN r fiE ClTY.—Yesterday afternoon a
terrific explosion c ►9' gas occurred at 73, Broad-street,
City. The basemc .rit and lower flight of stairs were
entirely destroyed. J W. Donnadieu, the celebrated French
savant, had a prov idential escape. While descending
from the atelier of a resident artist he was struck on the
bead and shoulders 1 by portions of the flying debris, and
the flooring carried fr. )m beneath his feet, without, how-
ever, causing further n eischief.

DESPERATE ASSA IT LT ON HUNGERFORD SUSPENSION
BRIDGE.--A corresp. cs adent of the Morning Herald, in a
letter to the editor cif that journal complaining of the
gross inattention to duty by the police watching Hun-
gerford-bridge, says : On Tuesday last, about a quar-
ter past nine o'clocl c at night, I was attacked by two
men and seriously in. 1- ured—nay, had I not been tall and
powerful I must hay. a been thrown over the bridge, as
the ruffians wished t o. do."

MARRIAGE IN HIGCEI LIFE.—The two noble houses of
De Ros and Wilton were on Wednesday united by the
marriage of the old t daughter of the latter with the
heir of the former an. cient family. The ceremony took
place at the village ci Lurch of Prestwich-cum-Oldham, in
the immediate vicinili uy of Heaton Hall, the seat of the
Wilton family, in 7y ancashire. The bride, who has
scarcely completed be r twenty-first year, is Lady Eliza-
beth Grey Egerton, eldest surviving daughter of the
Earl and Countess of Wilton ; and the young nobleman
is the Hon. Dudley ( Jlarko Fitzgerald Do Ros, of the
Ist Life Guards, onl: son of the 20th Baron De Ros,
and recently appoints d Equerry to his Royal Highness
Prince Albert. The ceremony was performed by the
Hon. and Rev. Ger aid Wellesley, domestic chaplain to
the Queen, and the noble and happy pair afterwards de-
parted to pass the honeymoon at Lord Rokeby's, Bazlo-
wood Ilouse, Herts.,

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

A Council of Ministers was held on Wednesday
morning at St. Cloud, before the departure of the
Court for Compiegne. The Emperor presided
at it.

The Emperor and Empress arrived at Compiegne
on Wednesday afternoon, at a little before five
o'clock. Their Majesties were received at the rail-
way station by the Prefect of the Oise, accom-
panied by the Sub-Prefect and the Mayor of Com-
piegne. A large crowd of persons were assembled,
by whom their Majesties were hailed with loud ac-
clamations.

There will be a grand stag-hunt in the forest of
Compiegne on the 14th. The Empress will accom-
pany his Majesty on the occasion. An archery
ground is being arranged in the park for the Em-
press. It will have only one target, and not far
from it will be erected a mast twenty metres high
for a game something like the old popinjay. A
battalion of infantry has arrived at Compiegne to
remain during the visit of their Majesties.
Twenty-seven French and foreign archbishops
and bishops and their cardinals were present on
Wednesday at Amiens at the removal of the relics
of St. Theodosia.

Prince Poniatowski, Minister of Tuscany, pre-
sented on Tuesday, to the Empress of the French,
the young Duke de Casigliano, who is shortly to be
married to the eldest daughter of Queen Maria-
Christina.

Prince Jerome, who has passed part of the fine
season at his property of Villegenis, and part at the
Chateau of Meudon, has just returned to Paris, and
taken up his residence at the Palais Royal.
The Emperor has conferred a silver medal.on
James Thorpe, captain of an English fishing boat,
for having assisted French seamen in distress.

A rumour prevailed in Paris lately that Kossuth
had come to the capital, and had been seen by,
several persons. This report at last assumed such
consistency, that the police paid a visit to the house
of M. Kif, a rich Hungarian, who is married to a
French lady, and searched everywhere for the
Hungarian leader, though. without effect. They
afterwards became aware that they had been mis-
informed, and that Kossuth had not quitted
London:

The language held by all men connected with the
Government shows that as far as France is con-
cerned she will adopt the alternative of war rather
than make any further concessions. It is said that
preparations on a large scale are in course of being
made in anticipation of hostilities, and that a
considerable body of troops will be embarked
for the East direct from Algeria, and that
three points have been already fixed on for
the embarkation of the troops, namely, Al-
giers, Bona, and Mer-el-Kebyr (the port of Oran).
Previous to his departure for Compiegne, in a con-
versation which the Emperor had with a member
of the corps diplomatique, on the subject of Eastern
affairs, he said, " I leave Paris for the present, al-
though nothing is changed in the position of the
question. Russia must yield, or war is inevitable."
To another personage, to whom he expressed his
regret that the peace of Europe was about to be
broken, he said, " Mais it vaut mieux la guerre
avec une alliance que la pair sans alliance."
Some sensation has been created in theatrical
circles here, by the rejection by the censorship of
Alexandre Dumas's new play of La Jeunesse de
Louis XIV. It appears that the subject of the
play is the marriage at one time projected between
Louis XIV. and one of the nieces of Cardinal
Mazarin. M. Dumas, in working out this subject,
has contrived to make allusions to the impropriety
of mesalliances, which was considered as directed
against the marriage of Louis Napoleon with Ma-
dmoiselle de Montijo. It is said that M. .Arsene
Houssaye, and the reading committee of the Theatre
Francais, who received M. Dumas's piece, have
fallen into disgrace, and run some risk of losing
their places.

There were numerous fluctuations remarked in
the price of public securities at the Bourse yester-
day. The Three per Cents. opened at 72f. 85c.,
and rose to 72f. 95c., but, on an announcement
that the Bank of England had raised its rate of
discount to 5 per cent., they fell to 72f. 50c., and
closed at 72f. 60c. for the end of the month. The
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 99f. 30c. ;
Orleans Railway shares, 1,152 f. 50c. ; Rouen,
1,012 f. 50c. ; Havre, 485 f. ; Great Northern, 830 f. ;
Paris and Strasburg, 905 f.; Paris and Lyons, 8951.;
Lyons to the Mediterranean, 727 f. 50c. ; Western
of France, 695 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 590 f. ; Great
Central, 520 f. ' • Lyons and Geneva, 505 f ; Shares
of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 707 f. 500.