The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

Tidbits from ~ Punch."

ONE WAY OF RISING IN THE NAVY.—Being mast-
headed.
A STRINGED DUET.—The Brothers Davenport.
A REGULAR MAKE SHIFT.—The Sewing Machine.

LEECH'S LITTLE FRIEND. We have said that
Mr, Leech's life and character are in his own
"Sketches of Life and Character.'l Any anecdote that can
be told of him has its double in his own works. Suppo,e wo
give this
anecdote in the words of Mr Charles Dickens.
He was very fond of a boy known to Mr Dickens, an extra-
ordinarily small buy, but of great spirit, who was a mid-
shipman in the navy. " Whenever this boy came home
from a cruise," says Mr Dickens, "he and Leech, and
never anybody else, used to go out in great state, and dine
at the Garrick Club, and go to the play,
and finish in an
exemplary way with kidneys and harmony. On the first
of these occasions, the officer came so frightfully small,
that, Leech told ua afterwards, he was filled
with horror when ho saw
him eating his dinner at the
Garrick with a large knife. On the other hand, he felt that
to suggest a small knife to an officer and a gentleman would
be an unpardonable affront. So after meditating for some
time, ho felt that his course was to object to the club knives
as enormous and
on their huge proportions, and with a grim dissatisfaction
to demand small ones. After which, he and the officergigantic—to remonstrate with the servant
messed with groat satisfaction, and agreed that things in
general were running too large in England." But incidents
precisely what we find pictured in his pages ;
pointing to sketch after sketch, can say,
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THE FRENCH WINE TRADE.—The quantity of
gins ordinaires exported from France in the first nine
months of 1864 was 1,707,777 hectolitres, against 1,414,411
hectolitres in the corresponding period of 1863, and
1,415,310 hectolitres in the corresponding period of 1862
The exports to England were 93,111 hectolitres, against
71.715 hectolitres in the corresponding poriod of 1863—
Belgium, 83,277 hectolitres, against 106,096 hecto-
litres---to the German Association, 31,312 hectolitres,
against 48,826 hectolitres—to the }Luise Towns, 97,675
hectolitres, against 76,079 hectolitres—to the King-
dom of Italy, 253,233 hectolitres, against 100,535 hecto-
litres—to Switzerland, 192,819 hectolitres, against 180,746
, 113,665 hectolitres,
78,993 hectolitres,
ia,
884 hectolitres. On the whole
224,453 hectolitres,
against 197,927 hectolitres—and to other countries, 534,239
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England is the largest consumer, having taken 125,634
hectolitres to Sept. 30 this year, against 81,056 hectolitres
to the corresponding date of 1863, and 66,550 hectolitres to
the corresponding date of 1862.

A young lady of aristocratic birth, who eloped
not long since from the county Limerick with her father's
groom, has been discovered residing with him in the city of
Cork. fShe stubbornly refuses, however, to return to her
family, who are in great aLitietion, lier fortune, when she
comes of age, will be £lO,OOO.

A disturbance (says the Union) took place at the
Ecole de Droit yesterday, on the occasion of the
inauguration of the new chair of political economy.
Long before the hour at which the business was
to commence the amphitheatre was filled with
students, who amused themselves by singing the Mar-
seillaise, the Parisicnne, and Lampions, mingled with
all sorts of cries. When the new professor, M. Bathie,
appeared, accompanied by a number of official personages,
among whom the assembly thought M. Duruy was present,
the noise from the songs and cries immediately increased to
such an extent that the professor could not obtain a hear-
ing, and retired. He, however, shortly after returned, and
silence having been for a moment procured, he spoke of the
professorship established by the initiative of a generous and
liberal Minister. At those words fhe cries, protests, and
hisses broke out afresh, and M Batbie again left the aulphi.
theatre. The students waited fcr him outside, and escorted
him home with cries of " Viva Batbie 1" He announced
to them that he should resume Lis lecture on Friday.