The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-22 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.)

LONDON, Match 22.—Wind this 6y at noon, N. ;
light breeze and cloud intervals.
COWES, March 21.—nViud W.—Arrived—Erna, from
China, and for Hamburg ; Norma, Zanzibar ; Anna, Port
au Prince.

SVVANS?A, March 20.—LWind N.E.—Sailed—M`Laren,
for Marv..

POOLE, March 20.—Arrived.—Lord Nelson, from Lis•
bon ; sjornetnenta, Groningen. Put back—William, for
Newfoundland, in a very crippled state, out 106 days from
Lisbon.

OFF SALCOMBE, March 20.—Qacen of the South and
Speedy, from St. Michael's.
LIVERPOOL, March 20. Arrived Stranger, from
Africa ; Paraguay, Caldera ; Governor, St. Domingo ;
Granite, Western Cbief, and Curling, New Orleans; Ther-
mutes, Alexandria ; Blanch Maria, Requijada.
FALMOUTH, March 20.—Wind N--Arrived.—Superior,
from Alexandria ; Odin, Iquique ; Miranda, Rio Janeiro ;
Charlotte Read, New Orleans ; Ganges and Jau
Alexandria; Franzi4ka and Rudolph, Galatz ; Caroline,
Ibreil anti- ; Louise, R47o.‘ock ; Cornelik,.-Triasto ;
Nuovo, Aanadilla ; Maxwell, Ova, and Addison, Alexan-
dria ; Nally, Ibrail ; Hope, Figneira. Off the port.-2 I.
Centurion, from Sydney, N.S.W.
CARDIFF, March 20.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Forfar-
shire, for Callao.

(PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAM)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind N.

QUE ENST OW N, March 20.

Wind W.S.W.

Arrived—Marco Polo and Barbara, from Mazagan ;
Landscape, Kalifs.; Saramanca, Trieste; Madawaska
Cal-
lao; Thernia, Seville; Junietta, Mary Ann, and Deme-
trius, Trieste ; Gem of the Sea, Maria Isabella, and Doro-
thy and Favourite, Ala xandria ; Penningliam, Girgenti.
Sailed— Fairy, for St. John's.

( BY SUBMARINE AN') BRITISH TELRGRAPFL)
GRAVESEND, SAturday, 10.37 a.m.

Wind N.W.; tide near low water ; weather fine.
Arrived—March 21.—Ellen Douglas. Hastings, and
Maria Gray, from Calcutta ; Ocea❑ Gem, Table Bay ;
New Era, Shanghai ; Sir James, Whampoa; Susan Crisp,
Algoa Bay ; Colingsbnrg, Foo-choo-Foo.
Arrived, March 22.—Dorothy, from Port Louis; Prince
Arthur (s.), Balaklava.
Sailed.—Constantine, for Rio Janoiro ; Rhino, New
York.

DEAL, Saturday, 10.25 a.m.

Wind N.N.W. ; light.

Anchored.—Marcianus, from Calcutta, for London;
Elizabeth, Trieste, London ; Comet, Alexandria, London ;
Greenwich, Alexandria, Hull ; Sophia and Margaret,
Malta, for orders.
Passed.- Undaunted, for Cardiff; Danube, Conaanti-
nople ; Georgiana, Liverpool-- all from London.
Sailed—Theodoro, for Dominica.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT BOUSFIELD,—This culprit,
whose execution is fixed to take place on Monday, the
31st inst., for the murder of his wife and three children,
still continues to exhibit that dull taciturnity which ho
has displayed since hie conviction, although constantly
attended by the Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary of New -
gate, whose exertions have been unrerniWng to awaken
him to a sense of the awful position in which he staodz,
but with little success. He porsists in reiterating bis
former statement that the whole scene of the murder is
to him a dream and a delusion ; he still declares he has
no recollection of it, and clings to that statement with'
obstinacy. It is the opinion of the governor and other
authorities of the gaol, and all those who have visited
and conversed with him, that be is perfectly sane, and
had a full knowledge of the crime at the time of com-
mitting the murder. He does not deny the justice of
the sentence, and expresses no hope of his life being
spared.

A TRUE BRITOIL—A few days since a paragraph ap-
peared in the Morning Post in reference to the longevity
of the inhabitants of Bath, from which it appeared that
ore in about every nine hundred of them was a non-
ogenarian, which the writer stated no other town in the
kingdom could boast of, and that:the only place besides,
which came at all near it in this respect, wet Teign-
mouth, in which those above ninety were in the propor-
tion of one to every twelve hundred. The writer of the
paragraph, however, is mistaken ; for in the town cf
Crediton, Devon, which: contains 4,500 inhabitants, a
correspondent knows six individuals, aged respectively
95, 93, 93, 91, 90, and 90 (and an inquiry in several
back streets and courts might probably discover still
more nonogenarians). The youngest of these six is Mary
Briton, who still possesses all her faculties in a wonder•
ful degree, walks out with a Pght, active step during all
weathers, sometimes without a bonnet, and is still
strong enough to draw water from a well. She has been
regularly to church every night during the present week,
where she reads from her prayer-book without the aid of
spectacles. Another old lady, who resides with her, is
84, and has all her faculties unimpaired. Crediton,
which has long been noted for the longevity of its inha-
bitants, has produced several centenarians, one of whom,
the wife of a surgeon, died not many years since.
( From a Correspondent.)
THE OLDEST DUTCH NEWSPAPER.—The oldest of the
Dutch krirnals has just completed its 200th anniver-
sary, and the publisher has issued to his subscribers
copies of the first number of that journal, as it appeared
on January 8, 1656. The earlier copies of this paper
were carefully consulted by Mr. Macaulay in preparing
his history. The Haarlem, Courant of this time was
then called De Weeekelyeke Courante van Europa. The
first number contains two pages, small folio, of news.
It declares its mission to be to supply the public with a
digest of the most important news conveyed to the pub-
lisher by private or by special communications. The
following paragraph bears date, London, Dec. 31,
1655 :—" On the 15th of this month was taken pri-
soner Colonel Day, who last Monday fortnight as-
cended the pulpit in the church of Allhallows, and
preached very severely against the present Government.
Coming into the pulpit, be, in place of taking a text from
Scripture, pulled from his pocket a paper, which he read,
saying that he had received it from Wales, and then gave
an explanation thereof, tending to make the present Go-
vernment contemptible (leelyck), calling it a company of
thieves and robbers. After this came into the pulpit a
Mr. John Simpson, who, it is true, took a text from
Scripture, but altogether lost sight of it in his sermon,
and preached against the Government, as the preceding.
Him they have also tried to arrest, but he remains in a
_ Li ling-place."--Notts and Queries.