The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-02 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, March 2.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. ;
Light airs and hazy.
PLYMOUTH, March.—Wind
from Havana ; Willing, Lyme, for Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, I.—A ship's life-boat, about 30 feet long,
painted white, with blao upper strake, apparently new,
was picked up cn the 22d Feb., in lat. 47 N. lon. 9 W.,
by the Halcyon, arrived here.
YARMOUTH, March I.—The Dutch gailiot Harmonie,
from Lyme to Bayonne, got athwart hawse of the brig
Sarah, of Whitby, in the roads yesterday, and received
some damage.
CLYDE, Feb. 28.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Glasgow
(s.s.), from New Yozk. Sailed—Brechin Castle, for Ba-
tavia ; City of Madras, Calcutta.

WATERFORD, Feb. 28.—Wind W. to S.W.—Arrived--
Clara, from St. John's, Newfoundland.
SWANSEA, March I.—Wind N.B.—Sailed—Swansea,
Knight, and Ogilby, for Coquimbo.
LIVERPOOL, March I.—The Kalamazo, from New Or-
leans, reports passing, on the 11th Feb., in 40. N. W.
a quantity of bulwarks.

(PEATRLEffm.IOR2IOTEN, LEGRAPH-
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY
MORNING.
Wind easterly, fine.
Arrived, Feb. 28.—Gipsy, from Llanelly; Louisa, Ere
ter ; Emerald, Smyrna ; Chance, Dublin ;Four Brothers
Lime ; Pope, Portsmouth; Argyll (steamer), Carentau.
Arrived, March 2—Ariel and Earl Grey, from Cardiff;
Ann and Maria, London; Le Coq, Cherbourg.
Sailed, Feb. 28 —Cicely and Atalanta, for Sunderland;
Alarm, Portsmouth ; Mechanics Own, Cardiff.
Sailed, March 2—Florida, for Cardiff; Edith, Llanelly;
Clara, Sunderland; Charlotte, Guernsey; Sandford, for
Shields.

LP7EEPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind S.W.
Arrived—Gipsey Queen, from
QCharleston.
UEENSTOWN, Feb. 28.

Wind 5.
Arrived—Jessie, from Ibraila.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.5 a.m.
Wind calm, weather foggy, tide last hours' ebb.
Arrived, lst—Rebecca, and Alionette, from Blade%
Sailed, lst—Soho, for Havre.
Sailed, 2d—Wisconsin, for Sydney.
DEAL, Monday, 9.50 a.m.
Wind E.N.E., moderate, and hazy.
Passed Dungeness yesterday—Ariel, from St. Michael's;
Agenoria, from Galati ; Ocean, from Sicily—all for Lon-
don.

Passed, Ist—Vesta (s.s.) for Oporto ; Dreadnought, for
Cape of Good Hype Sally, for - ---Y. aor Colombo ; Feronis, for
Canaries ; Jesamine, for Malaga; Sarah Fox, for Swansea
: S
—all from London.
Passed, March 2.—Pert, from North, for
1-„oparaiso ;
Hampden, from Newcastle, for Constantinople;
and Chris.
tabel, from Sunderland, for Calderia.
A. ,s on shore on the
small brig, supposed to be a collier,
north part of ther
ass Goodwin Sands. Several boats gone to
heistance.
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ITALIAN Bails BRICK AND Bfouren—The lofty towers of
Italy (says Mr. R. Racvlinson), and the minarets of the
East, are for the most part constructed of bricks and
the mortar, oirts and that neither the one nor the
mortar. I have examined the bricks, and I have tested
modern practice. -
if so good as, the modern archi-
tect may have at his cornmeal. The proportion of •
mortar ... Ign structures differs,
in the fore
of Italy and 0 the East are very thin •
hbroivrckeverto„
most niaferlausi from
"lo:tatenrdthianf°,
in proportion to area. or bed—nine
inches square by
inch, or at the most inch and a quarter, in thickness.
These bricks (or as we should almost designate
The bricks
them) tiles, are frequently set or bedded in mortar as
thickly spread as the bricks, so that there is almost as
much mortar as brick. From my examination I have
no hesitation in saying that the permanence of the work
is in a great measure dependent on this liberal use of
bard-setting, tough mortar. The tornado's sweep and
the earthquake's shock have alike failed to overthrow
these slender and lofty piles; though many times they
must have shaken, vibrated, and bent under the furious
effects of tie contending elements and dread tremhlinga
of the earth. The elasticity and tenacity of the mortar
have, in my opinion, alone preserved the structures
from sudden overthrow.—Tile Builder