The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-26 00:00:00

111 IS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, March 26.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy.
FALMOUTH, March 25.—Wind variable.—Sailed—Maid
of the Seas, for Kurrachee ; Mary Matthews, for Cape de
Verde; Torlodes, for Rio Janeiro; Commodore Villa, for
Ricos.

PLYMOUTH. March 24 —Wind N.E.—Arrived—Cen-
taur, from Rio Grande. Sailed—Philo, for Havannah ;
Fortunate, for New York.
PORTSMOUTH, March 25.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—
Riehard Brown, from Belize. Sailed—Carnatic, for Ade-
laide ; Sovereign, for Madras ; Mary Montague, for
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Jamaica.

BRISTOL, March 25.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Rubi-
con, from Mauritius.
DARTMOUTH, March 25.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Forti-
tude, for Columbo ; Schwabbe, for Rio Janeiro ; Thomas
Lawrence, for Havannah.

(RT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, March 25—Abbyla, from New York; Brilliant,
from Jersey; John Watson, from Seaham ; Edward, Alma,
Test, and West Lothian, from Sunderland ; Despatch,
steamer, from Jersey.
Sailed—Azores, for Cardiff; Havre, steamer, for Havre;
Southampton, steamer, for Jersey; Georges, for Cherbourg;
Breeze, for Portsmouth; English Rose, for Sunderland;
James and Emma, for Portland; Ed ward Barnett, for
Newport.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, March -25—Aley, from Antwerp ; W.S.R.,
from Ghent; Thomas, from Dunkirk.
Sailed, March 26—Boug, steamer, for Odessa.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed—Rotterdam, ship, from Rotterdam, for Batavia;
Storfurst Constantin, from London, for New York.
Anchored—Sclultz, from London, for Cuba.

MONUMENT TO SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.—The
legislature of Tasmania during the last session voted a sum
of £l,OOO for the erection of a monument to the memory of
Sir John Franklin, in connexion with the improvements
now being carried out on the fine site in Hobart Town on
which stood the vice• regal residence at the time the distin-
guished Arctic navigator was Lieutenant-Governor of the
colony.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette.
THE CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY AND BRIDGE.—
Yesterday additional workmen were engaged in clearing
the sites of those houses recently pulled down in Agnes
and Francis-streets, Waterloo-road, and in the York and
Belvedere-roads, (Pedlar's-acre), the ground being imme-
diately required for the construction of the railway from
Hungerford-bridge to the terminus. The works of the
railway bridge are progressing rapidly, the large iron
cylinder for the support of the new bridge being in a very
advanced state, and the enlargement of the stationary
piers is being actively proceeded with.
FREEHOLD LAND IN HERTFORDSHIRE.—In con-
sequence of the late discussion in the House of Lords re
specting the removal of houses required by the various
railway companies in London, the demand for building in,
around, and at a considerable distance from the metropolis
will no doubt materially increase. The Conservative Land
Society is already increasing the number of its valuable
suburban estates, its last purchase being the forty-third,
and the third in Hertfordshire, in the town of Hertfor d
adjoining the estate lately allotted. It is situated close No
the railway station, fronting the main street of the town.
FIVE CHILDREN POISONED.—At Allerston, a
village on the Yorkshire Moors, five children, four of one
family, named Hicks, and the fifth named Jones, have been
accidentally poisoned. The children were at play in Hicks's
garden, on Saturday, where they found what they took to
be a bed of carrots, and they all ate freely of the roots. They
were subsequently seized with sickness, and exhibited all
the symptoms of poison. On Monday one of Hicks's chil-
dren, five years old, died, and another is in a critical state,
the other three being convalescent through the timely use
of antidotes.—An inquest has since been held, and it has
been ascertained that the supposed carrots were wild par-
snips, of which the seed was purchased and sown for car-
rots, the white variety of which the roots resembled, but
were smaller, and had larger foliage. The jury returned a
verdict that the deceased was poisoned by eating wild par
snips.

A letter from Jaffa (Syria) states that all Pales-
tine was deluged with torrents of rain in the commencement
of the present month. Several villages were inundated,
and a number of houses tkrown down, burying the inhabi-
tants under the ruins. On the mountains of Judea the olive
plantations have suffered severely, both the trees and the
soil having been washed away in many places. At Jeru-
salem rain and snow fell in such abundance as to fill all the
cisterns of the Holy City, to the great joy of the inhabi-
tants, who say that there has not been such a supply of
water for more than 200 years.
A FLYING LEAP.—On Thursday evening a horse
belonging to Mr. R. Bourne, of Totnes, performed a very
extraordinary feat. The horse in question had been ridden
by Mr. Bourne's clerk to Broadhempston, and, on its way
home, ran away. Coming down Bridgetown at a great pace
without the rider, it made a flying leap over the Totnes
Bridge turnpike-gate, clearing a distance of 18 feet 8 inches
and a height of something over five feet six inches.—
Weston Times.