The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-01 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Nov. I.—Wind this day at noon—North-
E3sterly ; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

KINSALE, Oct. 31.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—William,
from Demerara for Liverpool.

PLYAIOUTII, Oct. 31.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Oxford,
from Rangoon for Bremen—General Havelock, from Bas•
sein for Amsterdam.

CARDIFF, O. 30.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Albert the
Good, from Itio Janeiro.
TRooN, Nov. I.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Nlargaret,
from Matanzas.

Orr PLYMOUTE, Oct. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Scindia, from Calingapatam•

CLYDE, Oct. 31,—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sahti, from
Calcutta.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GIIIVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 31—Jan Freesmln, from Petersburg—
Niord, from Sundswall—Christina Maria, from Soderham
Recovery, from Cronstsdt—Naiad, from Dantzic.
Arrived, N v. I—Wheatsheaf, from Caen—Prospect,
Vichi, and Albana—all from Cronstadt—Uda, from S oder-
ham—Dunsdale and Thomas Rowell, both from Danizic—
Johnnes, from Rostock—Alice, from. Dunkirk—Thetis,
from;Sundswall—Sarpon, from G,flo—Swiitsure, from
Havre.

FUNERAL OP MR LEECH.—It has been arranged
that the funeral of Mr Leech shall take place on Friday
next at Mensal-green, where the hearse will arrive at half-
past one o'clock. Mr Leech's heart was in that cemetery,
where he buried his first child in 1819. There also his
friends have been able to secure for him a grave the next
but one to that of his friend and schoolfellow, Thackeray.
It may be right to mention that none will be invited to the
funeral b'it the members of his family and those who, like
Dr Quin, Mr Hutchinson, Mr Bradbury, and Mr Evans,
were more immediately connected with him, He had so
large a circle of friends that it is impossible to invite all.

COLONIAL BISHOPS ROUGHING IT.—We cannot
resist the temptation of relating the following anecdote of
the Apostolic Bishop of New Zealand, the scene of whose
adventures lies here. He had persuaded the Bishop cf New-
castle to start with him from Sidney on a missionary cruise
in his little yacht to New Caledonia, the Now Hebrides, the
Loyalty, and other islands in his then extens:ve diocese.
Like ourselves they put in at the Bay of Islands. The Bi-
shop of New Zealand wished to show his brother of New-
castle a little of the country, and for that purpose proposed
to take him to a distant station on the other side of this very
river. The ground was boggy, as wo had found it, and the
Bishop of Newcastle had never been accustomed to rough it
in such a country as this. Ho could ride his 50 mile a
day in his own diocese ; but his hardy brother always
walked, and besides there were no horses to be had here,
Always neat and spruce in his dress, looking " as it he had
just come out of a bandbox," and afraid like a cat to wet
his feet, ho picked his way most carefully and delicately,
unlike his brother bishop, who tramped on " through thick
and through thin," till at last they came to the river side.
The river was swollen with the heavy rain which had been
pouring down in torrents for some days previously, and he of
Newcastle looked awfully puzzled. wondering how they were
to cross—neither bridge nor ford beirg visible in any direct
tion. He was still further puzzled, when he saw the Bishop
of New Zealand, without a word, deliberately taking off shoes,
leggings, stockings, and, last of all, his breeches. In reply
to his brother Bishop's " Whatever next," ho coolly collected
his various articles of dress, and stepped into the river up to
his apron, calling out as he did so " Now then, Newcastle,
off with your breeks, and follow your leader I" There was
no help for it, as there was no other means of crossing the
river, and the good Bishop invariably refused to be carried
across by any of his Maori suite, on the ground that it was
not right to treat such noble fellows as beasts of burden.—
Once a Week.

How GIRLS WILL NOT BS EDUCATED.—Take a
town case. In a large, old-fashioned, but growing
town, there seems to be no such thing as a school appro-
priate to the wants of the small ehopkeeping and superior
artizen class. * * Their houses are not well kept—the
rooms are untidy and not even clean—the ways aro un-
punctual—the meals are badly cooked—the clothes aro
badly got up ; and if there is a servant, there is endless
turmoil with her. The mistress says the maid does not do
her work; the maid finds the mistress unreasonable and
harsh; and the master and the children fool that both the
charges are true. There has been so much crying out, all
over the country, for something which shall be to this order
of society what our regulated and asAsted schools are to the
labouring class, that many good citizens and sensible
women bestir themselves to see what they can do among
their neighbours. Of these, one lady has an experiment
of her own. She fits up and opens a convenient house,
in an easily accessible situation, settles in it a mistress
of high qualifications, and a housekeeper who has risen
through the ranks of domestic service to be fit for
the present business. Under her, the girls are to learn
household work in the best style,— cleaning, cooking, lay-
ing the table, and so on, while the proper school-learning
is of a better quality than can be found anywhere else
within reach. When the plans are got fairly to work,
there will be a regular dinner provided for the smallest
payment, for girls from a distance ; meantime, the lesson
of laying the cloth, coo, goes on, for the sake of those
who bring their dinners. This lesson is rather baulked,
however, and the superiors are much vexed, by the
sort of dinners disclosed, viz., stale pastry, bought with
money given at home for the girls to spend as they
like. This phenomenon hastens the plan for the good hot
dinner at the school—the roast leg of mutton or sirloin
with vegetables, the Irish stew, and other good things, to
be cooked by the girls in turn, in view of the table to
be kept in the future home of each. But the girls have
no mind for the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, or the
stew, or anything else that sensible people like—they go on
buying stale pastry on their way to school, and pay more
for it than for the comfortable dinner at their command.
In a little while diflleulty arises about the indus-
trial part of the schooling. Strange to say, the
motheri do not like that their daughters should learn
to wash china properly, to clean furniture, rub up silver,
and spread a table; and even the fathers object to
any time being given to the art of cookery. On the
whole, the very superior school learning is graciously ac-
cepted, if not appreciated; but the industrial element is
fetch The pawnbroker's daughter is absent on those days
when it is her turn to sweep a room or make the bread ;
the cabinetmaker's girls aro always miesing on ironing
days ; the linendraper's girls cannot come any more unless
they are excused from all but book, and map, and pen work ;
and thus the scheme is brought to an end, the school is
closed, and the husbands and children of these unhappy
pupils will have to go through the wretched old experience
of domestic discomfort and wrangling, because the wife
and mother does not know how to keep house.—disc Mar•
iineau in the anthill Magazine. _ _

ANECDOTES OF ABERNETHY. A foxhunter,
somewhat stricken in years, consulted Abernethy.
The man's digestion was not so good as it had been. He
had lost his appetite; man delighted him not, nor woman
either. "Sir," said Abernethy, " you drink a great deal."
" Now," said the foxhunter, when relating the interview,
" now, supposing I do drink a great deal, what the devil
was that to him ?" A literary gentleman called upon
him. He, too, had a disordered stomach. "Of course
you have," said Abernethy, "a half-blind man could tell
that by your nose." He used to have his wine of a mer-
chant whose name was Loyd. He one day called to pay
for a pipe, and thrust a handful of papers containing fees
into the wine merchant's hand. " Stop, stop, doctor,"
said Loyd. " There may be much more here than you
have to pay I" " Never mind, Loyd, I can't stop. You
have them as I had them." Ho was very careless of
money. He would receive a hasty fee, place the money
on the table, and forget all about it, "Lead me not into
temptation" is the holiest, because the humblest prayer.
Some few of his pupils were led into temptation. The
loss of money Was so considerable that the surgeon
determined to who
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missed. He was one day about to perform an operation—
s painful one. As was his custom he took care to see him-
self that all the required instruments v., ere at hand, and in
first-rate order. " I think everythiing is. all right," said
one of the assistants, " No, sir, everything is not all
right," replied Alr Abernethy. " a napkin to conceal
those terLifyiug instruments. The man need nut be hor-
rified by the sight." Abernethy was eihred a baronetcy
by the Earl of Liverpool. Ha announced the plo-
p sal to his family by saying, as they were about to sit down
to dinner, "Lady Abernethy, permit me to hand you to
your seat." li© afterwards explained that he had been
offered the title, but, for cogent reasons, declined the
honour. The memory of Mr Abernethy was singularly
actiue and tenacious. A friend, of a poetical turn of
mind, composed some verses complimentary of Mrs Aber-
nethy, which he recited after dinner on her natal day.
Abernethy listened attentively, and immediately the
reading terminated exclaimed, "Come, that is a good
joke to attempt to pass those verses off as your own original
composition. I know them by heart ;" and Abernethy at
once repeated them without the mistake of a word. Tho
"poet" was astounded, mystified, angry I The amused
host explained, and offered to repeat verb.tinz any piece of
about the same length which any ore in the company would
recite,— Ececneric rei sonages, by Irdltant Russell, LL.D.