The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday, 10 a.m.
Wind E., fine.
Arrived—Barbara, from New Flarlingsea ; Fanny, Pre-
pont ; Clara, Sunderland ; Trio, Newcastle.
Sailed—Le Coq, for Cherbourg ; Solida, Rio de Janeiro ;
Saxon, Bristol.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind E.
Arrived—Aurora, from Corisco; Gov. Langdon, Mobile;
Chatsworth, Baltimore ; Betje Pronk, Rochefort ; Potosi,
Arica ; Talaveri, Foo-Choo-Foo ; Florida, Savannah ;
F. U., Plymouth.
Sailed—ltalian, (s.s.), for Havre; Christine Matbilde,
Konigsberg; Rembart, Rio Janeiro; Urania, Riga;
Celerity, Labrador; Little Fred, Galatz.

JAMES SADLEIR.—The estates of James Sadleir,
situated in the counties of Waterford, Tipperary, and
Limerick, are advertised for sale on Tuesday, the 7th of
July next. The property is offered in three lots, the gross
net rental of which is estimated at 1,2821. per annum.
THE COMET.—A maid servant at Shields got a holi-
day, a few days ago, for the 13th of June, " that she
maybe drowned by the comet beside her mother !" A
thoughtful inhabitant of Cleadon has made a large chest
of oak, in which he int, nds to shut himself up on Satur-
day, in order to be safe from the comet. A sly Liver-
pool tradesman,- whose stores are " under the office
where everybody goes to get his weights stamped,"
writes an essay in the advertising columns of the local
papers, demon-trating the danger of the " Milky Way"
from the comet, and advising the public to lay in a stock
of his butter "before the source is dried np."—Gates-
head Observer.
A CENTENARIAN.—Laat week an old woman, named
Christina M'Leod or Inkster, was examined as a wit-
ness in the Leith police court against a person for steal-
ing various articLs of clothing from her house. She
stated that she was 100 years and five months old.
Notwithstanding her extreme old age, she gave her
evidence in a clear, lucid manner. She is in possession
of all her bodily and mental faculties, and looks as if
she might live 10 or 15 years longer. She states she was
born in Orkney, where she resided till about 15 years
ago, when she went to Leith ; that she was married
when she was 24 years of age, and that she had seven
children, all of whom are dead with the exception of
one son, an of i man, living in Ca'thness. Her circum-
stances are not by any means good, her chief support
being half--a-crown a week from the parochial board.—
Northern Ensign
THE NEW ZEALAND GOLDFIELDS.—Wssrs. Nichol.
son and Ridings, of Nelson, New Zealand, in their gold
circular, dated the 14th of March, say :—" From the
date of our last circular (2&h. ult.) to the 10th inst. the
produce of the Aorere goldfield is stated to be, at a
moderate estimate, 150 ounces, of which over 50 ounces
have reached N. laoo. The number of diggers at that
date was about 150, one-third of whom had very re-
cently arrived. The average yield per man, therefore,
gives good wages, and we have not heard of a gold-
. field where success is more evenly distributed. Front
4 a gu ly on this side the great dividing range, and
within a short distance of Motueka (a small settle-
mentw within 18 miles by water from the town) 18
pennyweights of gold have this week been received.
This sample is rounder. than any other we have yet
seen. It was in the neighbourhood of the place
where this sample was found that, during last win-
ter, the first indications of the existence of gold in
the province were met with. From the Takaka
Valley, which is also on the east side of the range,
a few grains of gold have been brought into town, and a
party has gone out to prospect that country more fully.
We have in these facts an evidence that the washings
from both sides of the range, on the west at the Aorere,
and on the east at the Takaka and Motneka, contain
gold ; and this, taken in connexion with the highly
auriferous appearance of the mountains, leads to the rea-
sonable presumption that the whole range will be found
gold-producing. It may he taken as a very favourable
indication that, the nearer to the high mountains the
diggers proceed, the larger become the particles of gold.
Some men have sold to our correspondent at the Aorere
an ounce taken from a gully about two miles nearer to
the range, about which he writes that it is quite a dif
.
ferent character of gold ; is a much larger grain, and
darker in colour.'" On the 20th of the same month they
supplement the following :—" The advices to-day from
our goldfields we may briefly state to be that success
had been during the past week very general among the
300 men engaged in digging, though some had been alto-
gether nnsuccessfuli and that the yield for the week was
ever 200 ounces. Of this we have ourselves obtained
more than one-half, but for the remainder cadre over-
bidden. Oar own purchases to date amount to 200 cz."

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

Lord Belhaven, the Eta of Beverley, L,-.,rd Crawford,
the Earl of Gainsborougb, arid the Duke of Leedfl, took
the oaths and their seats.

SALE OF INDECENT BOOKS AND PICTURES.
L CAMPBELL introduced a bill for the suppres-
sion of the sale of indecent books and pictures. The
evil had so i: creased that the interiention of the
lature .as imperatively called fr. The bin was
trained on the same principles as the Betting
House Act. It empowered the police to seize and
carry off those abominable productions.
The bill was read a first time.
MINISTERS' MONEY.
The Eail of DERBY gave no;,ice that on the motion
for the second reading of this bill he should move that
it be read a second time that day six mouths.
The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from
certain parties in Ireland praying to be heard at the bar
against this bill.