The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-11 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

Ann and Elizabeth, and Madras, at Sierra Leone.
Bess Grant, and Maggie Walker, sailed from
Sierra Leone, for this port.
Elizabeth Emily, Lotty Sleigh, Medea, and In-
vincible, at Cameroons.

Mary Ann, Mary Hamilton, Queen of the Isle,
Majestic, Paramatta, and Clangregor, at old Cala-
bar.

Orpheus, of Milford Haven, Victor, loading for
Queenstown, James Hay, and Eliza, at Fernando
Po.

Isabella Secundo (Spanish frigate intended for
hulk), Santa Maria, and Santa Teresa, at Fernando
Po.

Amelia, Lilly, Mary Ann Bruford, Empress,
Guanchee, and the French frigate Bayonnaise, for
Brazil, at Teneriffe.

Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus, Grace Work-
ington, Monte Cristo, Voyageur, Bon Pere, Ma-
thilde, and Marsaille, at Bathurst,
Majestic, Paramatta, Elizabeth Morrison, Clan-
gregor, Honesta (ready for sea), Mosquita, Lucetta,
Africa, and Rhoderic Dhu, at Duke Town.
Spoken by the Cleopatra, June 4, in lat 37 18 N,
long 15 16 W, bark Janet; June 5, lat 40 37 N,
long 13 45 W, Suffolk, bound south.

Si. Andrew's, Charles Horsfall, Osprey, Sobraon,
Benledi, Magnolia, Pomona, Woodman, Ellerslie,
Grand Bonny, ship (nearly ready for sea), at
Bonny.
Her Majesty's ship Arrogant left Lagos for Fer-
nando Po and South Coast ; her Majesty's ship
Archer, on the South Coast ; her Majesty's ship
Prometheus, at Sierra Leone ; her Majesty's ship
Spitfire, at Cape Coast Castle ; her Majesty's ship
Electo, gone south. At Lagos, her Majesty's gun-
boats Bruiser, Eagle, Providence, Pride, Richard
and William, Mentor, and Newton (master dead).
The Cleopatra towed out the Thornhill, from
Bonny.

The- screw steamer Retriever towed the Tapley,
from Duke Town.
The Mary Hamilton, of Glasgow, and the Queen
of the Isle, of Liverpool, at Creektown.

Mr. Osborne paired with Sir E. Filmer against
Sir J. Fergusson's amendment on Thursday last.
THE LATE GALES.—Among the north country
vessels that are supposed to have perished during the late
gales with their crews is the Star of North Shields. She
sailed for Holland some days before the Whit Monday
storm, and has not since been heard of. She had eight
hands on board. The owners had given up all hopes of her
on Saturday. There is a report of the loss of a vessel bound
from the Tyne to Holland, which, beside the crew, had the
master's wife and four children on board ; but it is to be
hoped that the rumour is not true. Five of the bodies of
the unfortunate seamen lost in the Jane Green near Hartle-
pool have been picked up and decently interred. The ships
stranded at Redcar during the storm have been got off with-
out any very serious damage.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.—At the Comilla,
Majora, held on Friday, June 8, the following members of
the College were admitted into the Fellowship :—Frederick
William Headland, M.D., 37, Margaret .street, Cavendish.
square ; Nicholas Tyacke, M.D., Chichester ' • William
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Barnes,Wlll Surrey;enry Cooper, M.D., Hull ; Thomas Graham Balfour,
. Davies,
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Wimpole-street ; and
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Charles E. Brown- Sequard, M.D., 81,
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Henry Hurry Goodeve, M.D., Stoke Bishop, near Bristol.
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Flowers and Gardens. —We loiter on, and
down a close, iron-railed area We see a
goodly number of
half-dead plants, with their brown leaves supported
by green sticks, in pots of extreme brunette complexion,
some of which plants are so totally devcid of " charac-
ter" in their foliage, that their " order" is a mystery.
These are the especial and treasured property of the
cook, who is never known to abuse her favourite tabby—a
matchless mouser—save when he surreptitiously nibbles at
the white pinks ; she has serious thoughts of rubbing them
with mustard, to deter him from the indulgence, having
tried pepper without any success. In the balcony of
the drawing-room above, we perceive snowny camehas
and gorgeous cactuses and oleanders standing up
in their rich china vases, in attractive and splendid
magnificence. They belong to the young heiress,
who tends them daily with her own delicate and jewelled
fingers, and who dispensed as decided and vulgar a box on
the ear of her juvenile sister, for destroying the bud of a
matchless
arum, as could have been bestowed by the
most unrefined of exasperated young ladies. It is plain
that those above and those below "love flowers."
Gardens are pleasant places. They were so when under
the classical patronage of Semiramus and Alcinous, and
they form charming, attractive green spots" in the world's
arid choking waste in these modern days, past and present,
bearing the patronymics of Ranelagh,. Vauxhall, Versailles,
Tuileries, Kew, Rosherville, Kensmgton, or Cremorne.
There is something 'trefreshing in the very word "gar-
den." "Whether the style be Italian or Dutch, it is of little
consequence a • far as the general impulse of humanity is con-
cerned. We admit that we prefer to ramble where Nature and
Art keep up a becoming family feeling of union—yet, when
we find ourselves shut up with pert-. ct Euclidian right lines
and angles, and peacocks cut out of box trees, whose only
merit is that they do not scream—yet, we say, we cannot
quarrel with the place they disfigure. We feel that a
" garde t" was m • tended, and that is enough to sanctify the
most atrocious bad taste. ' Flowers and sweet green
leaves" are among the most prominent of the "beautiful
and undying," and we reverently recognise them as the
silent ministers of God's unfathomable power and the un-
ceasing shrine kd man's instinctive homage.—Eliza Cook's
"Jottings frAin my Journals."