The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, May 14. —St. Peter, from Uddewalla; Cito, from
Stolpemunde ; Alma, from Christiania; Vibilia, from
Guernsey; Lionne, from Gravelines ; Joiin Brogden,
steamer, from Lisbon.
Arrived, May 15.—Batavier, steamer, and Waterloo,
steamer, from Rotterdam ; Fairfax, steamer, from Udde-
walla; Florence, steamer, from Antwerp; Fusilier, steamer
and Sir Robert Peel, steamer, from Dunkirk; Panther,
steamer, from Boulogne; Holland, steamer, from Ostend;
Parthenia, from Gothenburg ; Mary Ann, from Dantsic ;
Alert, from Windau; Pearl, from Griefswald; Edel, from
Skive ; Aren, from Namson; Zwaantje Dost, from Holm-
stad ; Estonia, from Windau.
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Sailed, May 15.—Victor, steamer, for Brussels; Strath-
avon, for Marseilles; Martlet, steamer, for Dunkirk.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed, in Tow.—Liverpool, from New York, for Lon-

don.

Sailed.—Panther, for London.

CAUTION TO MARINERS.—SUNKEN WRECK.—
NEWCASTLE (Ireland), May B.—A fishing boat re-
turned from sea this morning, reported that she had fallen
in with a mast carried away below the hounds, standing
upright and about four feet of it above water, attached to
something below, and at six fathoms depth she saw what
appeared to her to bo about 100 feet of a wreck. Tho
wreck lies in about 20 fathoms water, about six miles
south-west of St. John's Point, and five to six miles east
of Aualong, in the track of vessels Bailing between Car-
lingford and Belfast.
RACING IN VICTORIA.—The Launceston Champion
Races took place on February 26, 27, and 28. The prin-
cipal race, the Champion Sweepstakes, worth about £l,OOO,
was won by Fish-hook, a three-year old son of Fisherman,
Volunteer second, and Warwick third. The St. Leger was
also won by Fish-hook; the Tasmanian Handicap by
Volunteer; the Queen's Plato by Volunteer; and the Town
Plate by Warwick. Several minor races were run, and the
meeting was a decided succe:fs.
EAST INDIES.—INCREASE IN WEIGHT OF BOOKS
AND PATTERNS.—The limit in weight of books and pat-
terns sent to the East Indies has been raised from 3lbs. to
51bs.—By command of the Postmaster-General.—General
Post Office, 13th May, 1867.
HEREFORDSHIRE HOUNDS. The Herefordshire
Hunt Committee have just held a meeting, and the secre-
tary, on reading the returns, announced that the sum of
£875 had been promised, in shares of £25 each, towards
purchasing a pack of hounds. Au offer was made by the
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late masters to sell the whole of the present pack, together .
with the kennels, horsas, plant, and saddlery, for £2,000,
subject to a lease for ninety-nine years of the land at £l5
per anutn. Major Heywood agreed to undertake the
mastership, with the aid of a managing committee, during
the ensuing season, hunting four days a week, and after
this year to take the sole mastership. The estimate for
the year's expenditure is set down at £l,Boo. Itwillh'):
decided in a few days whether the existence of a Hereford-
shire fo rY,
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tihinNicuhp have continued.
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BLACKFRIARS AND SOLITIaIWARK sBeeIt.IDGES. An
Parliament has
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just
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been printed authorising the
City of London to rais
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purchase of Southwark Bridge.
By a former act £300,000
was to be raised to rebuild a new
. This bridge at Blackfriars sum is now declared to be in-
Isufficient for the works.

An excitable gentleman says he has been warm
but once since he had a new furnace placed in his house
and that was when the bill of it was presented,