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 ra;u.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed.—
Azof, for Mogadore; Irene, Cape of Good Hope.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 12.—Wind S.—Arrived—Lady
Douglas, from Rangoon; Caractacus, Akyab ; Cbader
Born bay.
OFF PYLMOUTII, Sept. I?.—Arrived—Burmah, from
Demerara.
PLYMOUTH, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Power-
ful (s s ), from London for Africa.
CARDIFF, Sept. 13.—Wind W.—Sailed—Pauline, for
Bombay.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGR &PH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday, 10 A.M.

Wind S.W.W., rain.
Arrived—Le Coq, from Ckarborrg; Charles and Mar•
tha, Cardiff.
Sailed—Britanria, for Liverpool.
LivEnron, Monday Morning.

Wind S.W.
Arrived—Spray of the Ocean and Glenalvon, from Born
bay
Off—lfy. Holmat, from Smyrna.
QUEENSTOWN, September V,.

Wind S.
Arrival—Margaret Dundaq' film Odessa.
Sailod—Dahomy, for Hamburg ; Black Swan, for Ant-
werp.

(BY SUBMA.BINE AND BEULAH TELYGBAPH.)
GILIVESEND, Monday, 9.30 a.m.
Wind S. by E. ;: nearly high water; raining.
Arrived—Dorothea Christine, from Groningen; Pen
lopo, Trinidad.

DEAL, Monday, 9 a".m.

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

The French squa,lrou of evolution, under commend
of Vice-Admird Trehouart, and consisting of the
steamships of
.the line Bretagne, Ulm, Tourville, Aus-
terlitz, Algeciras, Arcole, Prince Jerome, the steam-
frigate Isly, and, &ram-corvette Duchayla, cast anchor
on the 31st of August off Tunis, proceeding 2i.mm
A jaccio. „
ATTENDANCE OF METROPOLITAN MEMBERS.—The Re-
form Association in Cannon-,treet keeps a register of
the attendance of members of the House of Commons,
extracted from which we have lately seen 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 16 representatives of
the metropolitan constituencies. A glance at the table
shows bow deceptive as an index to a member's effici ,ncy
and usefulness is the frequency of his attendances cr the
number of his votes. The best metropolitan member by
the test of attendance is Mr. Cox, of Finsbury ; tl o
worst, Sir De Lacy Evans, of Wfstmioster. Mr. C.,x's
number is 119, while Sir De Lacy Evans'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 Ebringtou figure no higher than 29. Mr. Wit.
limns, of Lambeth, 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 be desirable that they should be ; but it is
no less certain that a man may be as regular in his at-
tendance as the Speaker himself, without having any
other merit or recommendation,--,Exornincr.