The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-05 00:00:00

SHIPPING IN rELLIGENCE.

LONDON, April s.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderat breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.
LIVERPOOL, April 4.—Wind N.W.—ArriTed—Sappho,
from Pernambuco.

w.—Anived—Susses,
PvirmouTH, April 3.—wind •
from London for Melbourne.

FALMOVTII, April B.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Danne-
brog, from Now York; August, from Odessa; Clio, from
Sulinn.

CARDIFF, April 3.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Blue Nose,
for Philadelphia.
DovER, April 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Annie Lisle,
from London for Jamaica, with loss of jibboom and other
damage.

SUNDERLAND, April 4.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Portia,
for New York; Nina Moore, for Quebec; Anne, for Bar-
celona.

(By Telegraph.)
GRATEszxn, Friday Morning.

Arrived, April 3—Thyra, steamer, from llelsingborg ;
Caroline, from Alexandria; Speculation, from Wismar;
Alpha, from Dram; Ranger, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Era, steamer, from
Bordeaux; Seine, steamer, from Boulosne.
Arrived, April 4—Rifleman and Adelaide, from Guern-
sey; Alfred Vittery, from St. Michael's.
Arrived, April s—Leo, steamer, from Rotterdam ; Rhine,
steamer, from Boulogne; Frederick William and Reward,
from Guernsey.
Sailed, April s—Condor, steamer,
for Bremen ; Norman-
die, steamer, for Dunkirk; Triton, steamer, for Boulogne;
Samaranga, for Moreton Bay ; Sunbeam, fax Quebec ; Ann
Jane, for Barbadoos.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Mary Ann, for Corfu; Byzantium, for Van-
couver's Island.

WHAT THE WIND SAYS.--" Do you know what
the December wind says, grandpa ?" asked a little child at
an old merchant's knee. "No, puss ; what does it," he
answered, stroking her fair hair. "Remember, the poor !
grandpa. When it comes down the chimney, it roars,
'Remember the poor.' When it puts its great mouth to
the heyhole, it whistles, 'Remember the poor.' When it
strides through a crack in the door, it whispers it ; and
grandpa, when it blows your beautiful silver hair about in
the street, and you shiver and button up your coat, does
it not get at your ear and say so too, in a still, small voice,
grandpa?" " Why, what does the child mean ?" cried
grandpa, who, I am afraid, had been used to shut his heart
against such words. "You want a new muff and tippet,
I reckon. A pretty way to get them out of your old
grandpa ?" "No, grandpa," said the child, earnestly
shaking her head; "no it's the no-muff-and-tippet chil-
dren I'm thinking of ; my mother always remembers them,
and so do I try to." After the next storm the old
e was the first time be had
mer-
chant sent fifty dollars to the treasurer of a relief society,
saunrde
rsaid,
re
d"Call h for more whn
it you want it." The
surprise,trea-
for
ever collected more than a dollar from him, and that, he
thought, came grudgingly." " Why," said the rich mer-
chant, afterwards, "I could never got rid of that child's
words ; they stuck like glue."

MANUFACTURE OF TURPENTINE.--1.11 April last
year a process of preparing turpentine and acetic acid from
pine wood was patented. A company has been organised,
and is now engaged in manufacturing these articles. Their
establishment is at Monk's Corner, in Charleston district,
South Carolina, and is said to be in successful operation.
Tar, pitch, and turpentine, as every one knows, are, or
hitherto have been, procured by wounding the living
tree, from which the gum exudes, and is then caught in
vessels, while the pitch and turpentine are the results of
distillation. The new process, distillation, is applied to
the wood of the pine trees, and is destructive of the wood,
and the results are spirits of turpentine, pitch, and acetic
acid. One cord of pine wood, it is estimated, will yield 50
gallons of spirits of turpentine (the volatile oil), two bar-
rels of pitch, and twelve pounds of acetic acid. This dis-
covery is destined to produce important ohanges in this
extensive branch of industry; and in this it will affect
mainly the parties now engaged in it, but ultimately it
must so bring down the prices of these articles as to make
it an important item to the commercial world, and to those
branches of manufacture that depend upon these articles
for material or that produce them from other sources.

At a recent meeting of the Acadeniy of Natural
Sciences of California Professor Blake exhibited about 20
fossil vertobraa of what he believes to hays been a great
marine saurian, or crocodile. These bones are each about
four inches long and three iu diameter, and, together with
teeth of sharks and other remains, Were found in Tulare
-
Valley, 1,500 feet above the ocean.