The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-11 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 11.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light breeze, and cloudy.
PORTSMOUTH, March 10.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's steamer Peseverance, from Malta and Gib-
raltar. Sailed—Compeer, for New Orleans.
PLYMOUTH, March 10.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Ardent, from Sierra Leone.
PILL, March 10.—Wind S.—Sailed—Courier, for
Africa ; Lord Duncan, for Africa ; Elizabeth, for Trinidad.
CARDIFF, March 10.—Wind S.S.E—Sailed—Balgowrie,
for Caldeira ; Alarm, for Galveston; Alma, for New
Orleans ; Rapid, for Charleston ; Transit, for New Or-
leans.

FALMOUTH, March 10.—Wind S.E.—Sailed---Una, for
Porto Rico.

TORBAY, March 10.—Wind variable.—All the wind-
bound vessels are getting under weigh, except the Reaper,
distanced in consequence of the crew being refractory.
CLYDE, March 10.—Wind S.S.W.—Sailed—Bryan,
for Bahia.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 10.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—
Thames (steamer), for the West Indies
(BT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.

Wind W.

Arrived.—Hotspur, from London, leaky ; Miram, from
Sunderland ; Pet and Ocean, from Newcastle ; Atalanta,
steamer, from Jersey; La Poule, Le Coq, and Georges, from
Cherbourg; Ondine, steamer, from London, L'Etoile, from
Charenton ; Moslem, from Newport.
Sailed.—Thames, steamer, for Madeira and St. Thomas's ;
Heroes of the Alma, for Sierra Leone ; Brilliant, for Jersey ;
Don Colino, for Guernsey ; Ondine, steamer, for Dublin ;
Argyll, steamer, for Charenton ; Swift, for Bristol ; Aller-
ton Packet, for Newcastle ; Fellowship, for Seaham ; Comet
and Clara, for Swansea ; Mystery, for Cardiff ; Spring, for
Woodbridge; New Mary Ann, for Dublin; Tweed, Jessie,
Confidence, Eliza, and Queen, for Sunderland ; Mary, for
Portland ; Mayflower, for Llanelly.

LIVERPOOL, March 11.
Wind W.S.W.
Arrived—Sino, from Galveston ; Quilha, from St.
Michael's.

Sailed, March 10.—Cintra, screw steamer, for Oporto ;
Rhone, screw steamer, for Genoa ; Souvenir, for Pernam-
buco ; Sea Flower, for Odessa ; Electra, for Rio Grande;
Dart, for Charente; Frederikke, for Aalborg; D. W.
Pickering, for Nantes; Anna, for Fredericia ; /area, for
Smyrna.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPM.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind S.S.W. ; tide four hours' ebb.
Arrived, March 10.—Antigua, from Demeraia.
Arrived, March 11.—Malabar, from Demerara; Harfleur,
from Karrabeck ; Lizzie Morton, from Leghorn • Exmouth,
from St. Malo ; Confidence, from Seville ; Planter, from
Guernsey.
Sailed—Edith Moore, for Calcutta ; Panther, steamer,
for Boulogne ; Planet, steamer, for Harburg.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

Wind S.S.W. ; moderate.
Passed—Delaware, from Jaffa, and John Romilly, brig,
from Jamaica—bath for London.
Anchored.—lno, from Shield, for Dublin ; Telegraph,
from London, for Liverpool ; Clartho, from London, for
Constantino*.
Sailed.—Ballarat, for Shanghai.
Put back.—Coeidius for Alexandria ; Suomi, for Car-
diff, having been in collision, and sustained damage.

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Society, in the chair, Mr. Sibley, the Registrar to the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, read a very interesting paper on cancer,
from which it appeared that, as regards the hereditary
nature of the affection, it was found that this formidable
' disease was traced in 81 per cent. of the cases ; there were
five instances in which they had two cancerous relations,
and in one very remarkable case five relations were affected
with cancer. The duration of life was found to vary greatly
according to the seat of the disease ; and in the cases of
cancer of the breast, those who had been operated upon
lived 53 months, whilst those in whom the disease was
allowed to take its natural course lived only 32 months. In
respect to age, it was observed that nearly all the patients
had arrived at maturity, only four being attacked under the
age of 20 years. The paper, which was unusuafly long,
received the commendations of Messrs. Arnett, Birkettttid'
the President, who considered that the best thanks of thi '1
society and the public generally were due to Mr. Sebley'
for the great care exhibited by him in the compilation of
the paper from cases in the cancer wards of the Middlesex
Hospital.
NEWSPAPERS TO INDIA AND AUSTRALIA.—We
are authorised to state that as it has been represented to the
Postmaster-General that much inconvenience would arise
from an alteration in the postage of newspapers to India
and Australia being made without a long notice, owing
being
a Common practice for subscribers for such no:I--
papers to pay news agents for considerable periods in
Vance (including the postage), his lerdshithas been „„,t:
with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treaeurh to
next pone from the Ist of April to the Ist of Januarydnein
the
commencement of the regulation lately
postage of newspapers
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One by one the foreign shipwrecked crew, consisting of
seven men, were taken into the lifeboat, and afterwards
safely brought on shore, amidst the acclamations of the
people. When the lifeboat was got out a double crew im-
mediately offered to man her, notwithstanding the heavy
tide and the high sea that prevailed at the time.
FISHERMEN FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
—Eight or nine men belonging to this district have lately
been engaged here for service at the Cape of Good Hope as
boatmen and fishermen. They are to be engaged, we be-
lieve, in boating goods from vessels in the roads to the
shore, and, when without work of that description, as
fishermen. All the men who have been engaged are mar-
ried, and take their wives and families with them. They
are promised good wages, and have already received ad-
vances for their outfit and passage.—.Tohn o'Groat's
Journal.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The shareholders
of this company have agreed to raise £300,000 to aid in
carrying out the proposed branch railway connecting the
South-Eastern station at London-bridge with CharinC
cross. The branch, if made, must necessarily pass through
St. Thomas's Hospital, and will, in all probalility, inter-
fere so materially with it, as to raise the question of its re-
moval from its present site to a better. Should the
managers decide on the propriety of erecting anew hospital
in a suburban or rural district, it would be a noble example,
which might be followed with advantage by other
h )spitals.