The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-11 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

There is a panic in the Cotton-market to-day,
and it is impossible to give any correct estimate
of the sales. Everything is depressed.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day

LONDON, May 11.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, May 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Mariner,
from Demerara. May 10.—Sailed—Norseman, steamer,
for the Cape of Good Hope.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—
John Lidgett, from London for Shanghai; York, from
London for Madras.

CARDIFF, May 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Village Maid,
from Bilboa.

LIVERPOOL, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sardis,
from New Orleans ; Oreflaune, from Bombay; Prince
Victor, from Galveston.

Orr LOUGH FOYLE, May 11.—Arrived—North America,
screw steamer, from New York.

SOUTHAMPTON May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Gee-
long, steamer, from Alexandria; left Gibraltar on the 4th
instant.

Orr LrVERPOOL, May 9.—wind N.E.—Arrived—lrene,
from Calabar.

Hula, May 10.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—lngleborough,
for Quebec.
CLYDE, May 10.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Aronea,
from Trinidad.

LEY ELECTRIC TELEGR.LPH.

GRATEsEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, May 10.— Chariot of Fame, from Melbourne ;
Hudson, from New York ; Ann Mil chell, from Porto Rico ;
Reward, and Two Friends, from Guernsey ; Servannais,
from Mauritius; Clio, from Alexandria; Hamilton, from
Adelaide ; Thomas Mansell, from Terceira.
Arrived, 31-ay 11.—Wyven, from Burraene ; Julie, from
Nantes ; Clifton Hall, from Trieste ; Enthusiastic, from
Antigua ; Memel, from Dantsic ; Endragt, from Worcum ;
James Russell, from Macao ; Ellen, from Guernsey.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed.—Monsoon, from the Cape of Good Hope, for
London; Ivy Groen, from the north, for Carthagena ;
Press, from Madras, for London ; Clarondon, from Bar-
badoes, from Loudon ; Fanny Fern, from London, for
Corfu.

Anchored. -Lizzie, from London, for Cardiff.

PERFORATING ANIMALS.—at may be remembered

that at the time of the Crimean war much curiosity
WAS excited about certain insects that had eaten their way
through sheets of lead. Since then the question of per-
foration has been actively pursued by entomologists, and
even the vegetable kingdom has been found to comprise cer-
tain protophytes capable of scooping out a place for them-
selves in stones and shells. A communication has now been
sent in by M. P. Fischer to the Academy of Sciences on this
curious subject. After enumerating various molluscs, an-
nelides, chinodermata, spongiaria, itc„ possessed of that
faculty, he says that among the Bryozoaria, a sort of poly-
pifer of the family of the Terebriporides, the existence of
perforating cells is a fact which had been scarcely noticed
hitherto ; all that was known on the subject being confined
to the observation that certain Cellepara effected a slight
corrosion on the surface of the shells on which they hap-
pened to fix themselves like cellular crusts. M.
Fischer thinks that as the perforating instrument of this
family has not yet been discovered, the corrosion must
for the present be attributed to a chemical action. The
genus Terebripora was established by A. d'Orbigny, in
order to classify two Bryozoaria found by him in South
America. D'Orbigny showed that this genus differs from
all others of its class by its cells sunk into the very sub-
stance of the shell on which it has expanded. M. Fischer
having had occasion to remark the frequency of Terebi-
pora in the strata of the secondary and tertiary periods,
while ho was studying another subject, viz., perforating
spongiaria in a fossil state, conceived the idea that the
genus Terebripora might after all not be extinct ; and it so
happened that in September last he did find, at Arcachon,
near Bordeaux, an oyster, the shell of which had been per-
forated by a colony of this very genus. M. Fischer also
announces that he has discovered an individual of the same
family, but differing from the others in so far that its cells
are situated on alternating axes. To this new species he
has given the name of Spothipora.
The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the
following as the atmospheric situation yesterday:—
"The barometer continues to fall on the north of
England, and is at 746 mm. at Nairn (Scotland).
This decline has extended to the coasts of the Chan-
nel, reaching 9mm. at Dunkirk and on the North
Sea. The mercury continues stationary at Valentia,
and is rising slightly at Corunna and Lisbon. On
he west coast of Ireland the wind is shifting from
S.W. to N.W. Probably in the passage of the gale
towards/the east the centre has already gone beyond
England. The sky is overcast and rainy over all
the North of France, Belgium, and Holland. The
Mediterranean is calm ; but, as was indicated by the
last despatch from Madrid, a stormy movement
exists on the coasts of Spain. The wind is S. and
the sea rough at Alicant ; and strong from the N.E.
at Palma and Barcelona, where the sky is overcast.
The weather is rainy in Italy." At Paris yesterday
the weather was again exceedingly fine. At three
the thermometer marked 19.2 Cent. (66-2.5 Fahr.)
A man of respectable appearance, about 30 years
of age, having a portmanteau which seemed to
be well furnished, applied the evening before last at
the Hotel du Louvre for a sleeping-room, to
which he was shown. In the morning about
four he rose, and, quietly examining the vicinity,
found the key in the door of a bed-room close
by, which he entered and possessed himself of a
portemonnaie and jewellery to the amount of about
1,500 f., when, in withdrawing, he knocked against
a table on which were some glasses, which came
down with a crash and awoke the occupant of the
chamber. This latter calling out " Who's there ?"
and receiving no answer, jumped out of bed and gave
chase to the thief, who had tried to make his escape
along the passage ; the prisoner's cries, however,
aroused some of the servants, and the front door
being closed the man was taken into custody and
handed over to the police. In his trunk were found
71 false keys, very skilfully made and capable of
opening the most complicated locks ; also boxes of
matches, candles, &c. He has hitherto refused to
give any account of himself further than stating,
g,
first, that he was an Englishman, and then a Ger-
man, neither of which languages however he can
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