The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-29 00:00:00

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

LONDON, .Tan. 29.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light breeze and fine.
OFF DOVER, Jan. 28.—Arrived--Elizabeth C. Felton,
from Bremen for Charleston ; Adelaide, from London for
Geelong.
POOLE, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Shepherd,
from Heenspond for Newfoundland.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 23.—Wind S.S. W.—Sailed—Oscar
(as), for Africa.
ILFRACOMBE, Jan. 28.—Wind S. W.—Sailed—All vessels
for eastern ports.
CARDIFF, Jan. 28.—WindW.—Sailed—Gibson
Craig, for Caldeira.
-w-ATRE.roun, Jan. 28.—Wiud S.S.M—Arrivod----Sarah
Ray, for Maarags.
BELFAST, Jan. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Amina,
from Troon for Barb idces.
SHIELDS, Jan, 28.—Wind S. W.—Arrived—Edward
John, from Hnela.
SWANSEA, Jan. 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Velocity,
from St. Valery ; Mentor, ditto ' • Leonia, St. Malo ; Rio
Nunez, from Liverpool for Rio Nunez, with loss of sails,
bulwarks, and other damage, having been out 25 days.
Sailed—Alome, for Gibraltar.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—An.
canasta, from Callao ; Medora, from Cardiff from Bahia,
leaky.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind W.
Two flats were loaded last night with deck cargo in good
condition from the Loire, screw steamer, but the remainder
of cargo is badly damaged. The ship will be a total
wreck.
Arrived—Atrevida, from Mexico ; Melina, Marseilles ;
Ariadne, from Smyrna.
Sailed- Panther, for Montevideo; Boomerang, Jamaica;
Ann Buckle, Bombay ; Agnes, Rotterdam ; M. R. Ludvig,
New York ; Mensagera, Cape do Verds ; Perastina, Trieste;
Hiate Hercules, Gibraltar.

(Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.30 A.M.
Wind S.W., light.; tide two hours' flood.
Arrived, Jan. 28th—Sincerity, from Dunkirk.
Arrived, 29th—Mary Aim, from St. Michael's ; Triton,
steamers, Boulogne ; Caledonia, steamer, Hamburg.
Sailed, 28th—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne ; Mowe,
Bremen.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Wind S.W., moderate.
Passed—Her Majesty's steamer Caracas, from Ports-
mouth, for Gravesend; Mangerton, screw steamer, from
London, for Limerick.
Anchored—Dawston and Czar, for Sydney; St. Michael,
St. Kitt's ; Victoria, Antigua ; Adeline, Rio Janeiro —all
from London.

SALE OF THE ADRIATIC.—It ie reported that the
Adriatic steamer, of the Collins line, has been sold in
New York to the Russian Government. She is des-
tined, it appears, for a steam war ship.
We understand that Messrs. Currie and Cs., the
bankers, upon balancing their books at the close
2001
the year, have presented the handsome gratuity ofto
the
per cent, upon the amount of their salaries
employes in their establishment.
The Hanover Gazette of
the 23d announces•the retire-
meet from office of ti. de Decker, Minister of Justice.
_
M. de Bothmer, Minister of Public Worship, has been
charged provisionally with the direction of the vaeact
department.
A letter from Berlin of the 25th says :—" Several
houses in the capital are already ornamented with flags
and garlands in honour of the marriage with Prince
Frederick William. The lower classes are flocking to
the pawnbrokers in order to pledge articles of less value
than five thalers, as they well know that on the occasion
of the marriage of any prince of the royal family the
pledges fJr that amount will be restored to them gratis,"
CARDIFF DOCK EXTENSION.—The new East Bute
Dock has now been opened its entire leugth. The bank
of eat th which separated the portion first used from t,e
second has been nearly removed, and the water allowed
to run into the extension, the whole forming a lake of
water 3,000 feet in length, and from 300 to 500 fast in
width. Vessels have entered, and the steam dredging
machine is actively at work.
Professor Pepper, of the Royal Polytechnic, ha
ex?erimen'ed upon, and scientifically tested, the pro
perties of the patent cork mattress, manufactured by the
Cork Mattress Company under the patent of Mr. Ritchie.
He reports most favourably and at considerable length,
and considers that the mattress is indeed all that it
asserts itself to be, via , "a perfect bed and life-buoy."
As to its medicinal properties, it generates caloric and
prevents cramp ; it is easy of management, being light,
wrong, and easily removed. He also says that he has
[.Tactically tested the mattress, usingocEi n his own dor-
mitory, and finds it the best he has used. In addition
to this, experiments are going on every day. A sea-
faring man is constantly employed by the company to
make experiments, which consist in his being thrown
overboard from large vessels in strong tides with a
mattress tied round him, and in his being buoyed up
successfully and comfortably. Many members of the
n tval and mercantile marine have exeree-ed themselves
perfectly astounded by the powers shown by the mattr es
in these expel imects. Government has also, after an
experiment very successfully carried out at Woolwich
Dockynrd, given considerable orders to a certainly
perfect, and, to emigrants and sailors, unparalleled
invention.

DRAW! FROM STARVATION.—Yesterday an investiga-
tion, which lasted upwards of two hours, took place at
the Lion and Lamb, Drummond-street, Euston-square,
St. Pancras, before Mr. Wakely, the coroner, on view of
the body of Caroline Lewis, an infant, four months old
who died of starvation. Davis, the summoning officer
of St. Pancras, acquainted the coroner that the deceased
was one of many which had been placed by the mothers
soon after the birth at an institution near the Queen
Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, in the New-road, Mary-
lebone—the children were illegitimate, and a woman,
named Kearsley, was in th habit of taking some of
them to nurse from this institution, he (Davis) had
summoned her upon the present occasion. The body of
the deceased was a mere skeleton, and shocked all who
viewed it. The Coroner said he had never heard of the
institution in question ; and, in answer to questions,
Mrs. Kearsley said she was paid 3s. weekly for the
infants she took to nurse. She fed them upon sago,
arrowroot, milk, &c. The mother of the deceased was
a servant. The mother of the child she had in her
arms was also Is servant, and had gone out as a wet.
nurse. Mr. Densay, a surgeon, said the child died of
starvation, for want of the breast milk, Verdict—
" Died of starvation."
THE GREATEST SOCIAL EviL.—At a meeting of the
joint vestry of St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George,
Bloomsbury, at St. Giles's Vestry-room, Jan. 23, the
Rev. A. W. Thorold, Rector of St. Giles, in the chair,
it was resolved unanimously :—"1. That the joint vestry
of St. Giles-in-tlae-Fields and Sr. George, Bioomsbury,
seriously considering the present flagrant condition of
prostitution in the streets of this metropolis, andfully
aware not only 'of the annoyance of the inhabitants or
passengers,' but also of the scandals to public decency and
the grievous temptations to the youth of both sexes, re-
suiting from common prostitutes anti night-walkers loi-
tering or being in any thoroughfare or public place for
the purpose of prostitution and solicitation,' hereby
recognises the duty incumbenton the vestry to make all
feasible efforts towards diminishing so great an evil,
especially within the limits of the united parishes. 2.
The public mind being now directed to the question,
,and the vestries of St. James, Wrestininster, and St.
Marylebme having exerted themselves with considerable
success in this direction, the present appears to be a
favourable opportunity for the independent and yet har-
monious action of other metropolitan parishes. 3. This
vestry, being aware that certain of the visting evils can
only be reached by an amendment of the law, is of opi-
nion that the following improvements might expediently
be pressed upon the Legislature :—(i..) The improve
inent of the criminal law for the affording greater facilities
for the prosecution of houses of ill fame by admit ing a
certificate under the hands of a certain number of house-
holdnr; (hereafter to be fixed) and of the superintendent
of police in the district to be prima facie evidence that
the house described in such certificate is a house of ill
fame. (2.) The placing under the immediate control of
the police the class of houses known night houses ;"
and all houses of refreshment kept open beyond reason-
able hours, not incla led in the present class of
licensed houses. 4. It being, however, apparent
that much of the existing mischief may be
put down at once by the more vigorous execu-
tion of the Police Act ; and that an emphatic expression
of public opinion will strengthen the hands of the exe-
cutive, and greatly contribute to the more fully carrying
out those provisions of the existing law which bear on
the subject. 5. The joint vestry accordingly appointed
the following gentlemen —t he rectors and church wardens
Mr. W. Rogers, and Mr. W. Gaussen—to form a depu-
tatien to her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home
Department, to express to him the strong feeling enter-
tained by the vestry with respect to the presentcondition
of street prostitution ; to suggest to him the expediency
of introduc ng into the existing law the additions above
specified ; and earnestly to press on him the speedy
abatement of an evil which so intensely affects the
decency of our thoroughfares, the respectability of our
places of public amusement, and our character as a
Christian people."