The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-28 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Arrivals from Great Britain. —At Hong Kong—March
10, the India, from London. At Shanghai, Feb. 15, the
Leopard, from Liverpool ; Feb. 20, the Mary Shephard,
from London.

Departures for Great Britain.—From Whampoa—
March 7, the Ann, for London. At Hong Kong—
March 10, Her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, for England.
At Shanghai—Feb. 19, the Julia, for London ; Feb.
24, the Fanny Chapman, for Liverpool ; the Nile for
London.

Under dispatch and loading.--At Whampoa—The
Scotland, Flora M'Donald, and Thetis, for London—
Marion M'lntyre, for Liverpool. At Shanghai—The
Bon Accord, Crystal Palace, Duke of Portland, Enna-
dale, Harriet Humble, Mary Shepherd, Racer (Ameri-
can), S. V. Giren, and Thomas Roydew, for London—
Leopard, for Liverpool.

GALE IN THE DOWNS. -FATAL SHIP WRECKS.

RAMSGATE, APRIL 27.—During the last forty-eight
hours a succession of gales from the north-west have
been blowing in this vicinity of coast, occasioning a
serious loss of life and property. On the much dreaded
Goodwin Sands two fatal losses occurred. Other wrecks
took place in the neighbourhood of the Downs, while
several large homeward bounders, some Indiamen, had
a narrow escape, having lost their anchors and cables,
and left to the mercy, as it were, for the •time, of the
elements. While the gale was at its height, about one
o'clock yesterday morning, rockets were fired, as if from
a vessel which had got on the Goodwin, and at daybreak
the remains of a large vessel, apparently, were disco-
vered on the sands. Nothing could be learned of the
crew ; and from the tempestuous character of the night,
and the chances of escaping from a wreck on that for-
midable shoal, with the sea breaking over her, there is
little dount as to the fate of the crew. Another fatal
catastrophe took place on the Goodwin early this morn-
ing. Between 1 and 2 o'clock, the brig Harriet,
the
to relate, every soul belonging to her perished, vessel
Hartlepool, was carried on to the sand, and, melancholy
with the surf
fast settling down and dilappearing, On the adjacent
despiterem atihneedmbosutmsppiinrited
Long Sand a tfhtihrde
gale.
shAiprewecdkiehhahpaprencinecel, duringnamed the
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continuance o
Carl Johann, bound to the Thames from Dantzic and
Gothenburgh, took the shoal in the course of yesterday
the crew to get her off. Her total loss exertions of
then
inevitable, and the position of the appeared
vwehrehr:r,she
afternoon, where
poor fellows on board
became the most trying. They took to
doubtless all the unfortunate the rigging, and
creatures would have
perished but for being perceived by the ship City of
Carlisle, Mr. Storey, piaster, from
was, four poor fellows wore Newcastle. As it
the crew, including the drowned, the remainder of
pre-
served by the captain and mates, b •
City of Carlisle,which being
wreck.

A serious loss happened near or on the Kentish
Knock, the foundering of a London and Antwerp
trader, called the James and Emma. It appears that
in shaping a course for the entrance of the Thames, the
violent state of the weather much trying her, she caught
the Knock and sustained much injury. Hewever, the
crew managed to get her off, only, however, to find that
she had made an extensive leakage, ani wee fast filling.
No time was lost in preparing the boat for the escape of
those on board, and they just had time to leave her,
when she foundered. They were aftewards picked up
and landed near Margate.
The accounts from the eastern coast also describe the
gale to have been severely felt in that district.
Several wrecks occurred between Orfordness and
Yarmouth Roads, but were happily free: from loss of
life.

ADULTERATION OF TOBACCO.—.YeSterday a return was
üblished by order of the House. of Commons of th
several seizures made, and offhe proieCtitinna for breach
of the laws relating to tobacco, between thelrithja"atir
1850, and the sth January, 1852. The ii contains
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names of 87 offenders, and in 70 of, the came the ge
seized as "tobacco" were condemned. - d

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