The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-28 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, March 28.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Liver-
pool, Captain R. W. Evans, arrived this morning, at seven
o'clock, bringing the following mails :—Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon,
Cadiz, and Gibraltar.

Her dates of departure are as follow :—Gibraltar, Sunday,
17th ; Cadiz, Monday, 18th ; Lisbon, Thursday, 21st ;
Oporto, Saturday, 23d ; Vigo, Sunday, 24th.
Ships of War -lying at Gibraltar—Her Britannic Majesty's
ships Malabar and Scout, American sloop Fairfield, French
steamer Crocodile, and her Britannic Majesty's steamer
Locust.

At Lisbon—Her Britannic Majesty's ship Albion, French
steamer Gomer, and brig Volage.
Vessels passed off—The Danish barque Auchinthor, of
Arendal, in lat. 47 N., long. 7 W.
Specie on board 22 packages, and 13 passengers.
The Little Liverpool is later home than usual ; she was
24 hours beyond her time at Vigo. She brings a full cargo
of fruit, principally oranges.

MR. BUNN'S BENEFIT.—This evening Mr. Bunn
takes his benefit at Drury-lane Theatre. Every preparation
has been made to gratify the public taste, some of the best
singers on the stage have been engaged, and a new divertisse-
ment, highly spoken of, will be produced on the occasion.
Mr. Bunn is one of the best theatrical managers of the day,
and we, therefore, hope that he will meet with cordial support
from the play-going public.
DRURY-LANE THEATRICAL FUND DIATIVPP —Yes-
terday the anniversary dinner of the Drury-lane Theatrical
Fund, took place at the Freemasons' Tavern. The Marquis
of Clanricarde, owing to the indisposition of the Duke of
Cambridge, took the chair at six o'clock, supported by Mon •
tague Gore, Esq., M.P., B. B. Cabbell, Esq., &c. The sub-
scriptions were announced by Mr. Harley ; amongst others
were the following :—The Queen, 100 guineas ; the Duke of
Cambridge, 201.; the Duke of Bedford, 501.; Lord Francis
Egerton, 10/. • Miss Burdett Coutts, 50/. ; B. B. Cabbell, Esq.,
10 guineas ; dharles Kean, Esq , 201.; M. Duprez, 10/. ; F.
Ellis, Esq., 6 guineas; Anonymous, 50/. ; and from the au-
thor, as a share of the profits of the " Religion of Shak-
speare," 50/. The subscnptions amounted to 8861. ss.
LLOYD'S.—A general meeting of the members of
this Establishment was held yesterday, at the temporary
offices, South Sea House, G. R. Robinson, Esq., in the chair,
when, afrer certain internal arrangements of the house had
been concluded, the following votes were proposed and un •
animously passed, viz :—A medal in bronze, and 21., to Mar-
tyn Byrn ; a vote of 2/., to Patrick Carberry; a vote of 101.,
to ten men who went off with Martyn Byrn in his boat; and
a vote of 71., to the- crew, seven in number, of another boat,
for their humane and praiseworthy exertions in rescuing the
survivors of the crew of the Neapolitan vessel Salvatore,
wrecked on the Black Water Bank, 25th December last.

NAPLES, MARCH 14.—We have to inform you of
a circumstance which has just taken place, and will have no
slight influence in heightening our exchanges, and thus
render them still worse in favour of paper. u the II th
inst. a decree was given out, permitting the introduction of
foreign corn into the kingdom, without exacting the duty. of
importation, which amounted almost to a prohibition. This
measure has been adopted by the Government in consequence
of the urgent wants of the people, the last crop having proved
very deficient both here and iu Sicily. A great many cargoes
are exported from the neighbouring ports of Genoa, Leghorn,
and. Marseilles.

A DISTRACTED JOURNALIST. -- The Stockport
Advertiser of last week, in speaking of the division on the
Factory Bill, with much simplicity confesses its utter inability
to take either one side or the other on the short-time question
in
no
will expect from us an adherence either to one party
or the other, and also an explanation of the grounds upon
athoeubti
following ludicrous passage ;--u Many of our readers,
which such an adherence is justified. But, when every cir-
cumstance is taken into account, we feel assured that our
friends will excuse us in withholding, upon this occasion, our
judgment altogether. We find the Government itself dis-
agreeing in this complex and difficult matter ; we find our
county Members divided—one voting one way, and the
other the other; we find our borough Representatives so
puzzled, that they have absented themselves altogether ; and
surely we, who have friends upon both sides of the ques-
tion, cannot be expected to treat this matter of trading
interest, in the same way that we should treat a political