The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-14 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Sept. 14.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light breeze and cloudy, with rain.
PonTsmounr, Sept. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed—
Azof, for Mogadore ; Irene, Cape of Good Hope,
Q U EENSTOWN, Sept. 12.—Wind S.—Arrived—Lady
Douglas, from Rangoon ; Carastacus, Akyab ; Cleader
Bombay. -
On' PYLMOUTII, Sept. 1?.--Arrived—Burmah, from
Demerara.

PLY➢LOUTH, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Power-
ful (a a ), from London for Africa.
CARDIFF, Sept. .I.3.—Wind W.—Sailed—Pauline, for
Bombay.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) .
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday, 10 A.M.
Wind S.W.W., rain.
Arrived—Le Coq, from Cherbourg; Charles and Mar.
tha, Cardiff.
Sailed—Britannia, for Liverpool.'
LIvERPOOL, Monday Morning.

Wind S.W.
Arrived— Spray of the Ocean and Glenalvon, from Born
bay
Off—Hy. Holman, from Smyrna.
QUEENSTOWN, September 12.

Wind S.
Arrive!—Margaret Dandas from Odessa.
Sailed—Dahomy, for Hamburg ; Black Swan, for Ant.
warp.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind S. by E. ; nearly high water; raining.
Arrived—Dorothea Chlistine, from Groningen; Pone-
lope, Trinidad.
DEAL, Monday, 9 p.m.

Wind calm, and showery.
Passed, in tow, Sept 13.—Ster of Peaco, from Sydney
for London.
Passed, Sept. 14.—Progress (s.s.) and Oron brig, both
from the Westward for Loudon.

The French squadron of evolution, under command
of Vice-Admir tl Trehouart, and consisting of the
steamships of the line Bretagne, Ulm, Tourville, Aus-
terlitz, Algeciras, Arcolo, Prince Jerome, the steam-
frigate Isly, and etcarn-corvette Duchayla, cast anchor
on the 31st of August off Tunis, proceeding from
Ajaccio.
ATTENDANCE OF METROPOLITAN MEMBERS. —The Re-
form Asiociation in Cannon-btreet keeps a register of
the attendance of members of the House of Commons,
extracted from which we have lately reeen'a little table
showing the number of divisions during the last session,
or the first of the present Parliament, and the presence
or absence on each occasion of the 18 representatives of
the metropolitan constituencies. A glance at tho table
shows how deceptive as an index to a member's; efficiency
and usefulness is the frequency of his attendances er the
number of his votes. The best metropolitan member by
the test of attendance is Mr. Co; of Finsbury ; ti •
worst, Sir De Lacy Evans, of Westminster. Mr. C x's
number is 119, while Sir De Lacy Bvans's is only 25.
Next to Mr. Cox in eminence, determined in the same
way, stands Mr. Ayrton, of the Tower Hamlets, whose
attendance reached to 114, while those of such a man
as Lord Ebrington figure no higher than 29. Mr. W:1-
liams, of Lsnabeth, attended at 105 divisions. Lord J.
Russell gets credit for only 38. We do not say that
attendance is an element by any means to be neglected
in estimating a representative's value ; we mean only to
observe what a fallacious criterion it is, taken by itself,
unconnected with the more important points to be
weighed before a man is pronounced a good or a bad
'member of Parliament. Men of the first mark and value
to the public may possibly not be as often in their places
as it might bo desirable that they should be ; but it is
no less certain that a wan may be as regular in his at.-
tendauce as the Speaker himself, without having any
other merit or reoommendation.—R4finino,

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