The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, May 24.—Wind this day at noon—N.E. ;
light breeze, with fine clear weather.
HULL, May 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—Napoleon
111., from Bombay; Memoriam Parentium, from Monte
Video.
PORTSMOUTH, May 23.—Wind E. to N.E.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship banshee, from the westward.
PLYMOUTH, May 23.—Wind S.—Arrived—Ascension,
from Havannah.
OrF FALMOUTH, May 24.—Arrived—Isabeltisa, from
Manzanilla.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tussday Morning.

Wind, E
Arrived—Dispatch, steamer, from Havre; Danube, from
Newport.
Sailed—La Poule, for Cherbourg; Alliance, steamer, for
llavre.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.E.
Arrived, May 23—Adriatio, from Monte Video; Maria,
from Iceland.
Sailed—Ashburton, for New York ; Ceres, for Narva ;
Uzelia, for Harlingen.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind, N.N.E. ; tide, five hours' ebb ; weather very
fine.
Arrived, May 24—Neptune, from Dunkirk ; Jabes, from
St. Martha.
Sailed, May 24—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne; Ears
den, steamer, for Genoa.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind N.N.E., moderate.
Pissed, May 23—Rhine, for New York ; Royal Bride,.
for Bombay ; Christiana, for St. Helena—all from London;
her Majesty's steamer Pigmy, from the westward for the
River.
Passed in tow—Akbar, from Demerara for London ;
Robert Lowe, screw steamer, from London for tile west..
ward.
Sailed—Trade Wind, for Leith.

Mdlle. Piccolomini has taken passages for her-
; self and suite in the Vanderbilt steamer, which is to leave
New York for Southampton and Havre on the 4th of June.
LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The Pacific Company's
mail steamship Lima sails from this port to-morrow (Wed-
nesday) for Valparaiso; via St. Vincent, Cape Verde, and
Rio.
KEW GARDENS.—The National Botanic Gardens,
containing the great palm-house, the old and new museums,
the tropical aquariam, &c., and the royal palace pleasure-
grounds, flower-gardens, and new arboretum, having been
greatly improved and adorned, are now open for the season
every week day from one o'clock till dusk, and on Sundays
from two o'clock till six. Free admission to the whole.
CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS BALL.—This annual
fete, always one of the leading events of the London season,
and which for many years past has drawn together the
aristocracy of Scotland, has been definitively fixed to take
place on Monday, the 27th •of June, as usual, at Willis's
Rooms. Already more than 40 ladies have subscribed
their names as patronesses of the ball; and the treasurer,
Sir Charles Forbes, promises that the arrangements for the
present year's festival shall surpass all that have gone be-
fore it.
INTERDICTION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF " JACK
SHEPPARD."—This once famous, or infamous, drama was
played during the last week at the Victoria Theatre, and
was announced for future representation ; but a notice has
been sent to the manager from tho Lord Chamberlain's-
office interdicting the performance of the play at this or
any other theatre for the future, and requesting that it may
be withdrawn as soon as convenient.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a, man
employed to attend to one of the gates at a level crossing
on the North Kent Railway, just below the Strood station,
by some neglect failed to clear the line in ina cient time fo
an up-train, by which he was knocked down, and his head
literally severed from his body.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—AS Mr. William Bateson
Whitby, a merchant of Liverpool, was leaving the ItoYal
Institution in that town a few days ago, he came into con-
tact with a runaway horse and car, and was thrust so
violently against a lamp-post that he lad to be taken to the
Infirmary. He died of the injuries he received on Satur-
day last.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO YOUNG MR. FAEQUHARSoN,
or FINZEAN.—A fatal accident, which has cast a gloom
over a large circle of friends, occurred on Saturday last to a
young student of Trinity College, Logiealmond, Perthshire,
a son of Mr. Farquharson, of Finzean. He was attempting
to ascend a steep brae above the Almond, when a tree by
which he was holding gave way in his hand. His foot, as
he slipped downwards, caught in a projecting rock, so as to
throw him forward, head foremost, on to the edge of the
river. The neck was dislocated by the violence of the fall,
and ilate4taneous death enmed,—Pertitsitire 4clvertiser.

THIRD

SUN O.;E'FICB, Seven o' Clock.

NAVAL APPOINTMEArT.

The following appointments:were made this afternoon at
the Admiralty :
Midshipman—A. H. Blair, to the James Watt.
Paymasters—James D. Gilpin, to the Edgar; Arthur
A. Speed, to the Aboukir ; Alfred Barron (additional), to
the Eagle.
Clerks—Thomas Pullinger, to the Hastings; Allan P.
Gain, to the London.
Assistant Clerk—Alfred Clements, to the Agamemnon.
Naval Cadets—V. P. Harper and A. F. Grant, to the
Algiers; J. G. Dennison, D. L. Stuart, and G. H.
Noel, to the Hannibal; C. A. Woodruffe, A. H. Fronde,
and A. H. Percy, to the Hero ; R. M. Woodhouse, E. A.
Liardet, and H. L. Veitch, to the Agamemnon ; C.
P. Foot, to the Brisk ; the Marquis of Queensberry,
to the Indus ; C. A. Tucker, A. G. Fullerton, H.
J. Turnbull, and G. C. Carter, to the London ; C.
V. Napean, to the Mersey ' • W. R. Clutterbuck,
J. F. Sullivan, A. C. Elwes, and C. D. Eden, to the Eme-
rald; H. C. Roade and F. Wilson to the Exmouth ; G.
Parnell, J. F. Robinson, and A. S. Philpotts, to the
Cressy; A. J. O'Rourke, to the CaOmus ; J. V. Ryder,
to the Doris ; H F. Grenfell and J. H. Dickson, to the St.
Jean d'Acre ; T. James, F. R. Carr, and J. Echlin, to the
James Watt.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERrE IN
THE NEW PARLIAMENT

(Prom the _London Gazette)
CROWN-OFFICE, MAY 21.
County of Londonderry—Robert Peer Dawson, of Mayola-
park, county of Londonderry, Esq. ; Sir Frederick Wil-
liam Haygate, of Bellarena, county of Londonderry,
Bart.
Borough of Coleraine—John Boyd, of Dundoan, county of
Londonderry, Esq.
City of Londonderry—Sir Robert Alexander Ferguson, of
the Farm, Londonderry, Bart.
County of Wexford—Patrick McMahon, Esq., of Inner
Temple-lane, London; John George, Esq., of Cahore
House, county of Wexford.
Borough of Wexford—John Edward Redmond, of the
Deeps, county of Wexford, Esq.
Borough of New Ross—Charles Tottenham, Esq.. of Bally-
curry, county Wicklow.
King's County—John Pope Hennessy, Esq., of the Inner
Temple, London; Patrick O'Brien, Esq., of Merrion-
square, Dublin.