The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-09 00:00:00

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Dec. 9.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. ;
fresh gale and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, Dec. B.—Wind S.W. to S.S.W.—Ar-
rived—Charles C. Fowler, from Ilavre for New Orleans.
Sailed—Catapulco, for Valparais.. •
PLYMOUTH, Deo. B.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived—James
Drake, from Batavia; Gambia (s.), Africa. The Cruizer
has broken up.
CowEs, Dec. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Emily, from
Cape Coast ; India, from Bremen for Batavia.
SWANSEA Dec. B.—The barque Richardsons, of and for
this port, from Coquimbo, is expected off on the 10th
inst.
CARDIFF, Dec. 8. —Wind S..—Arrived—Marquis of
Bute, from Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, Dec. B. The Tenerife, from Patras, is
on shore at St. Bees Head, with masts gone ; cargo may
be saved.
GLOUCESTER, Dec. B.—Arrived—John How, from New
York. _

CARDIFF, Dec. B.—The Beecher Stowe, of North
Shields, has put into Penarth Roads with considerable
damage from collision with the schooner Condor, of Ham-
burg. off Scilly. The latter is supposedto have gone down
with only two men saved.
MILFORD, Dec. B.—lt is blowing a heavy gale. The
Louisa Munro, of Liverpool, went on shore near here on
the 6th inst., and has gone to pieces; master, seven men,
and a boy drowned.
CARLISLE, Dec. B.—The brig Derwent, of Workington,
is ashore at Beckford much damaged and abandoned by
the crow.

WEXFORD, Dec. 7.—A large ship is at anchor half a mile
from shore, with masts cut away.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.S.E.
Arrived—Emerald Isle, from New York; Inez, St.
John's, N.B
Off—Underwriter, from New York; Imperial, St.
John's, N.B.

QIINENBTOWN, Dec. 7.

Wind S.W.
Arrived—Dale, from Odessa.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.14 A.M.

Wind, S. ; last hour's flood ; cloudy. .. _
Arrived, Dec. B.—Nepaul, from Madras ; Celestial,
Whampoa • Conflict, Bombay; True Briton, Melbourne ;
Daphne, lirhampoa ; Sprite, Guernsey • Rebecca, Faro ;
Queen 'Sheba, Madras; Cynthia, Rio Janeiro; Thames,
Rio Grande ; Hilda, Sundswall ; Amitie, Gravelines ;
Malabo., Casilda ; John Bell, Manila ; Eclair, Malaga ;
Lady Ann, Messina. Dec. 9.—Rose, Bordeaux ; Con-
stantia, Tuticorin ; Transit, Mogador ; Emperor, Penang ;
Rover, Gravelines ; Two Sarahs, Havre; Providence,
Gravelinea ; Propitious, Guernsey.
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.8 a.m.

Wind S. S.W. , fresh.
Passed, Dec. Bth—Jacob A. Stomeley, from New York,
for Antwerp. _ _

Passed, liec.,9th—Contest, from Calcutta, for London.
Anchored, Dec. Bth—Baltic, from London, for Calcutta;
Abbot, Algoa Bay, London-52 days' passage ; William
Bailey, Algoa Bay, London.

The Lords of the Treasury, at the request of the Man-
chester Committee of Art Treasures, have been pleased
to grant to Mr. Peter Cunningham six months' leave of
absence from his official duties. Mr. Cunningham is to
edit the catalogue of the Art Treasures Exhibition, and
to assist the committee generally in the selection and
arrangement of the several works of art.
LIVERPOOL GRAND POULTRY SHOW.—The annual
show of poultry takes place at Messrs. Lucas's lteposi•
tory, on the 28th, 29th, and 30th January next.
In addition to the usual liberal prizes in money, no
less than sixteen silver cups or pieces of plate will be
awarded to successful exhibitors.

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Difficulties are said to be in the way of filling up the
incumbency of Cheltenham, vacant by the resignation of
Mr. Close, now Dean of Carlisle.
A young woman named Ann Leonard was yesterday
fined 101. 14 Mr. Beadon, at Marlborough-street police
a ourt, for obtaining a situation with a false characters

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—SERIOUS
DIICLOSURES.—We believe we are betraying no
confidence in stating that the directors of the
Edinburgh and Giasgow Railway, impelled by the
repeated serious disclosures of official men south
of the Tweed, recently resolved on instituting a
rigid investigation into their affairs, by a thorough
examination of the books employed by the clerks at
every station on their line. The investigation extends
over a period of two years, and already at some of the
stations circumstances, we regret to say, have been dis-
closed sufficient to warrant the wise decision of the rail-
way directors.—Alloa 4 dvertieer.
TEETOTALISM AND TIPPLINO. —A quondam minister
of the gospel, who advocates the Maine Law—" the total
and immediate suppression of the liquor traffic"—is a
shipowner ; and one of the ships in which he is lutes
rested recently delivered a cargo of French brandy in
the London Dock The freight being lucrative, another
of the vessels in which he is interested was sent out
for another cargo of brandy I—Gateshead Obserrcr.
Yesterday a new Roman Catholic church, dedicated
to St. Mary and St. Michael, and erected in the Com-
mercial-road east, close to the Shadwell station of the
Blackwell Railway, was opened for public worship, his
Eminence Cardinal Wiseman officiating on the occasion.
The church was commenced in 1850, and is a very hand-
some structure in the decorative period of Gothie archi-
tecture, being capable of containing over 2,000 persons.
It has been built almost entirely by the penny subscrip •
tions of the poorest of the poor, the surrounding congre-
gation consisting all but entirely of bargemen, coal-
heavers, clock labourers, and bricklayers' hodmen. The
church is built of stone, and its external dimensions are
185 feet by 75 feet. It consists of nave, aisles, chapels,
and the usual accessories of a Roman Catholio place of
worship, the tower and spire not being as yet com-
pleted. There are no galleries. Altogether this church
must be considered to present the most successful appli.
cation of the principles of Gothic architecture to the
wants of a large and poor congregation of any hitherto
erected within the metropolis or its neighbourhood by
the Roman Catholic or any other denomination. The
architect is Mr. Wardell, of Parliament-street.
ABORIGINAL REMAINS IN TEI AS, —The fabulous ruins
of the big Thicket have been almost equalled in reality
by a late discovery in Angelina county. On the 23d of
September Mr. H. D. R. Smith writes that while him-
self, his brother, !Josiah H. Smith, and Jacob R. Stan-
ley were returning from Mr. Sterrock's mill, within a
half-mile of the Neches river, their dogs (three in num-
ber) started a panther and chased him down the river.
The men followed on horseback. After going about two
miles the dogs stopped, and bayed very loudly at the
flit of a high and rugged bluff of rocks, about 200 yards
from the river. On approaching the men saw an aperture
two or three feet in diameter leading into a cave. Driv-
ing away the dogs, they saw the panther, and Mr.
Stanley shot and killed him. They then entered the
cave, which they found neatly circular, in form,
awl about 12 feet high, with a small aperture,
apparently leading to another. But the light was so im-
perfect as to deter them from entering it until they bad
first supplied themselves with a lighted torch. On pass-
ing through the aperture they found themselves in a
nom about 10 feet in breadth by 8 in height, and some
40 feet long. To their astonishment, they beheld at the
further extremity of the room what appeared to be two
human bodies, one stretched at full length on its back on
the floor, and the ether lying with the head partly ele-
vated on the wall against which it leaned. The party sp-
preached with the torch close to them, and awed, almost
appalled be-the strange sp-xtac!e, made a complete exami-
nation. They were, indeed, two human forms entire, com-
plete, and perfectly petrified. The hands and feet were
bare. A garment, which must have resembled a hunting
shirt, seemed to have been worn by each, and partly pre-
served by petrifaction, was distinctly visible, especially
at
its seems and folds. On the waist of one was a
buckle of
pure gold, three inches in diameter, securely embedded
in the body. The features were not much shrunkea ;
the eyes were partly closed, and even traces of the
eye-
brows could he seen plainly. The party who discovered
these bodies intend in a few days to remove them to
be seen by those who
Jonesborough, where they may
wish to examine them. They express no conjecture as to
the time these remains may have occupied their present
position, how they came there, or even the race to which
they belonged. They probably lived before the race of
Indians at present found in Texas.—'"rialreStOn, Gazette.