The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

LI;OYD'S V.4.IIPPIIV.i.—(This Day.)

LONDON, March 20.—Wind this day at noon, E. to
E. S.E. ; light breeze and hazy.
PORTSMOUTH, March 19.-- Wind S.E., fog.—Sailed.—
Ca thariva. Maria, from Batavia ; Eliza Shairp. St. Kitt's.
Off the port.—Dolphin, from Bahia, for the Baltic.
PLYMOUTH, March 19.—Wind S.S. W.—Arrived--Nor-
folk, fr.ma Loudon, for Melbourne. Sailed—Cataragui,
fur 135mba.y.
TORBAY, March 19.—Arrived—Morant, from London,
f r Jamaica ; caulking her topsides, being leaky.
MILFORD, March 19.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Brenda, for
I3arb tdoes ; Uranus, St. Domingo, with the rest of the
outward bound.
GLASGOW, March 19. Tho L. Copeland, of Boston, was
passed, abandoned, on the 21st Feb., in lat. 3d lon. SS.
The brigantine Zoara, abandoned, was also passed ou the
23d Feb., in lat. 36 lon. 65, by the Wolfyille, arrived in the
Clyde.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind S.E.
Arrived—Thames, from Cardiff and Holyh cad, for Malta,
towcd round from Holyhead, partially dismastod.
Sailed 19t1i—Circassian, screw steamer, for Halifax;
Invincib'e, Cameroons ; Le Roi, Goree.
Sailed, 20th—Minho, screw steamer, for Oporto Coring-
Santander; Haidee, Newfoundland ; Architect
sealpe, Bayonne ; Edouard, Ghent; Hermann, Liebau;
Zollverau, Bordeaux.

QUEENSTOWN, March 18.

Wind N.N.W.
Arrived—Merida, from Barbados ; Tridon, Odessa ; Ro-
setta, Jaffa; Thclum, Iquique.
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRICi Si Tr:II/GRAM.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.9 a.m.
Wind E.S.E. ; two hours' ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived, March 19.—Northumberland, from New York.
Arrived, March 20.—Azorian, from St. Michael's ;
Wave and Crescent, Guernsey ; Creole, . Drobak ; Fides,
Vela; Amity, Ostend ; Catherine Charlotte, Harlingen ;
Creol, Demerara ; Tadea, Emden; Schom ;
John Bunyan, Mauritius ; Mystery, Rotterdam.
Sailed, March 20—Magdalen, for Messina; Soho, steamer,
Havre; Paris and London, Paris:
- - _ DEAL, Friday, 9.45 a.m.

Wind S.E. moderate.
Passed, 19th—Earl Mulgrave, for Cardiff; Eleanor, Sal-
combo ; Unity, Algoa. Bay ; Liverpool—all from
London ; Maitland, from Sunderland, for Melbourne.
Passed—Viscount Lampton, screw steamer, from west-
ward ; England, screw steamer, Dartmouth ; Winscales,
barque, westward ; Albyn; Alexandria—all for London ;
Dolphin, from Bahia, fur Landscrona.

(8,513
mrT.—slid is certainly
ARCHITECTURE IN ANCIENT EGYPT.—It
well worthy of observation
ourne y
art,S m i i
andlie)
how soon men perceived the capabilities
s't .
ni
acquired the science of so piling up
duce a powerful effect on men's minds. "sGoas to
pro-
the rebellious descendants of Noah, e,x,ullettinogstion"tshaelidr
newly-acquired arts of construction •
city and a tower, the top of which' shall reach buildu a
heaven ;" and from that day to the present. time,nt°
throughout the world, one of the chief exponentsentue
of 4 country's pride, or its opulence, has been
greatness of its architecture. I leave to the antiquary
the consideration of the style and character of the build..
ings of these pre-historic times. But Egypt, the reputed
cradle of the worlds civilisation, demands of me some
„hart notice. However deficient the early architecture
d this remarkatle country may have been in that grace
and elegance which were reserved for another people
and a later period, it is yet certain that the art here ac-
quired much of the character of a fine art ' • and lers think
we must adroit that the Egyptian bu
dated works works !narked by a dignity of conception
has been scarcely ex-
which in the lapse of 3,000 years,
ment of Egyptian art is found
ceeded,The earliest develop
about the delta of the Nile and its chronological
is up up that ricer, for the ruins about the catar-
gross
acts are of later dates. It is naturals indeed, that those
most acceJ3ible and moot reaily ultivated districts
should be the iir4 ,-e`;ll,Ad and that there communi-
ties would be ' .'
' ' '
first founded, As populat.ou iii,reaed
and cities , , '
multiplied, the human tide ran up-
wards towards the t' ~ Abundant architec-
moun mountain..
tural remains attest this fact, and show that Egypt
oflcrs no exce
sp
tion
to what I hold to be the rule, that
our art afford
a safe index of the progreo of civilization.
' 7-The Luader.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool-
sack at 5 o'clock.
Lord DONOUGHMORE presented a number of
petitions from several places in Ireland in favour of the
total abolition of the income Utz, and also praying that
the snlAries of medical officers, in connection with the
poor law's, might be paid out of the Consolidated Fund,
instead of, as at present, out of the poor rates.
The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition
from the Society for the Protection of Trade, praying for
an extension of county courts in Liverpool, and also for
the appointment of an additional judge.
PERSIA.

The Earl of EGLINTON said that the noble earl
the Secretary for For:•ign Affairs the other night in•
formed the house that, by the treaty lately signed with
Persia, the Government were about to give up the right
of protection to all Persian subjects except in respect
to those employed in British consulates and missions
in this country, provided all other nations agreed to
do the same. He wished to ask the noble earl whether
our protection would not extend to the wives and families
of those employis It would be recollected that the
late war 'was caused through the imprisonment of
the wife of a Persian employd. While he was on
his legs, he begged to ask whether there was any truth
in a paragrapb which he had seen in an evening paper,
taken from a Dutch journal, which stated there had been
a conflict between two English ships and a Japanese
naval force?
The Earl of CLARENDON said it was understood
by the treaty that the wives and families of our em-
pley4s, as well as the ernploy63 themselves, would have
the right of protection. With respect to the other ques-
tion asked by the noble earl the Government had re-
ceived no intimation on the subject.