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, fpr 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. _ _

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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.

(BY 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; Ondino, 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 LlaLlly.

LIVERPOOL, Mardi 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 ; Europa, for
Smyrna.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Wind S.S.W. ; tide four hours' ebb.
Arrived, March 10.—Antigua, from Demerara.
Arrived, March 11.—Malabar, from Demerara ; Harfleur,
from Karrabeck ; Lizzie Morton, from Leghorn • Exmouth,
from St. Maio ; 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 Hominy, brig,
from Jamaica—both for London.

Anchored.—lno, from Shield, for Dublin; Telegraph,
from London, for Liverpool; Clarthe, from London, for
Constantinopie.
Sailed.—Ballarat, for Shanghai.
Put back.—Cocidius, for Alexandria; Suomi, for Car-
cliff, having been in collision, and sustained damage.

CORK, Wednesday Evening.—The Neapolitan
exiles still remain at Queenstown, where they have been
provided with lodgings in some instances.
We have to announce the death of Mr. Cocks, the
senior partner of the well-known banking firm of Messrs.
Cocks and Biddulph, of Charing-cross. Mr. Cocks died at
his house in Harley-street yesterday morning, shortly after
one o'clock.

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—The following
foreign cattle were imported into Hull in the week ending
the Bth inst. •—From Harlingen, 36 cows, 16 oxen, and 1
calf ; from Rotterdam, 43 oxen and 6 calves • from Antwerp,
9 calves ; and from Kampen, 31 pigs ; total, 36, cows, a 9
oxen, 16, calves, and 31 pigs.
DRURY LANE THEATRE.—Two hundred of the
Greenwich Pensioners have permission to attend at the
theatre this evening (Friday), to hear the opera of
" William and Susan," and see the Pantomime. Mr. Smith
admits them gratuitously; and Mr. Wheatley, the cele-
brated Greenwich omnibus proprietor, very liberally offers
his omnibuses free of charge.
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 Charing-
cross. The branch, if made, must necessarily pass through
St. Thomas's Hospital, and will, in all probability, 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 a new hospital
in a suburban or rural district, it would be a noble example,
which might bo followed with advantage by other
hospitals.
UOYERNMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's
Emigration Commissioners chartered two ships yesterday
afternoon, the leth inst.,—viz., the Estcort, 765 tons, to
sail from Liverpool for Adelaide, South Australia, at
£l5 19s. sd. per statute adult, and the Sebah Jehan, 758
tons, to sail from Southampton for Algoa Bay, Cape
of Good Hope, at £l2 17s. per statute adult, both vessels
to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as
the Commissioners may appoint between the 18th and 28th
of April. They have also given notice of their intention to
receive tenders next Thursday, the 17th inst , for a ship to
proceed to Sydney, New South Wales, to be ready for the
reception of passengers on such day as the Commissioners
may fix upon between the 25th of April and the sth of
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 to it
being a common practice for subscribers for such news.;
papers to pay news agents for considerable periods in ad-
vance (including the postage), his lordship has been pleased,
with the concurrence of the Lords of the Treasury, to post-
pone from the Ist of April to the Ist of January next the
commencement of the regulation lately announced in the
Gazette for adding one penny to the postage of newspaPerg
sent via Southampton and Suez, to defray the cost of the
transit through Egypt.
WRECK OF lott FRENCH BRIG.—GALLANT RESCUE.
—PADSTOW, March B.—This morning, during a hex gale
from the N.W., the brig Gonsalve, of Nantes, got eal
near this place in running for Padstow harbour:
caSrirlicdwars
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caught while running over Stepper Point, and
the ebb tide and heavy sea over Doom Bar Sand.
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boat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, .
Before reaching the wreck the heavy .
here, was immediately got afloat and procseaeesderttleodthsee
vsheraipl.
filled by the surf, but no sooner ,
times into the lifeboat, and when alongside thewa7itik.n she
was repeatedly
self-ejected. Her gallant and experi-
enthacnediterevcays
were,, instantlyhowever,determined, with God's help, to
accomplish their humane object, or perish in the attempt.
Fortunately their perseverance was crowned with success.
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
gale and the high sea that prevailed at the time.
ROYAL MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETY.--
At a crowded meeting of the medical profession held last
Tuesday evening, Mr. F. C. Skey, F.R.S. President of the
Society, in the chair, Mr. Sibley, the Registrar to the Mid-
dlesex Hospital, read a verinteresting 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 8f 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,
age of 20 years. only four being attacked under the
The paper, which was unusually long,
received the commendations of Messrs. Arnott, Birkett, and
the President, who considered that the best thanks of the
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