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 MARE smyr.—The Sewing Machine.

LEECH'S LITTLE FRIEND.—We have said that
Mr, Leech's life
and character are in his own
gc sketches of Life and Character." Any anecdote that can
be told of him has its double in his own works. Suppose we
give this anecdote in the words of Mr Charles Dickens.
He was very fond of a boy known to Mr Dickene, an extra-
ord;narily small boy, but of great spirit, who was a mid-
shipman in the navy. " Whenever this boy came home
from a cruise," Says Mr Diokens, "he and Leech, and
never anybody else, used to go out in groat 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 us afterwards, ho was filled
with horror when he saw him eating his dinner at the
Garrick with a large knife, On the other hand, ho felt that
to suggest a small knife to an officer and a gentleman would
be an unpardonable affront. So after meditating for some
time, he felt that his course was to object n;
the
club knives
as enormous and gigantic—to remonstrate with tee: servant
on their huge
1 e the
sprecisely great
proportions, and with a grim dissatisfactto,.
to demand small ones,
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" and his friend e, pointing to. sketch after sketch, can say,
I told him that
" This happened to himself;" " I
was present when he same upon so and so."--" Cornh ill
Magazine" for December,
THE FRENCH
WINE TRADE.—The quantity of
rims 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 1853, and
1,415,310 hectolitres in the corresponding period of 1862
The exports to England were 93,111 hectolitres, against
74,715 hectolitres in the corresponding poriod of 1863-.
Belgium, 88,277 hectolitres, against '106,096 hecto-
litres—to the German Association, 31,312 hectolitres,
against 48,826 hectolitres—to the Hanse Towns, 97,673
hectolitres, against 70,070 hectolitres—to tho King-
dom of Italy, 253,233 hectolitres, against 100,535 hecto-
litres—to Switzerlandt 194819 hectolitres, against 180,746
hectolitres--to the United States, 113,665 hectolitres,
against 83,322 hectolitres—to Brazil, 78,993 hectolitres,
and to other countries, 634,239
againsta in s t 61987, 3;
91217 hhe
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to
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es s —to Algeria, 224,453 hectolitres,
a
hectolitres, against 477,884 hectolitres. On the whole
export of vine ordinaires to Englund appears to be expand-
ing ; but it is of French brandies and pure alcohol that
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 56,550 hectolitres to
the corresponding date of 1862.
A young lady of aristocratic birth, who eloped
notroo
county
Limerick with her father's
m
Cork. She stubbornly refuses, however, to return to her
glon,ghas since
been from
discovered the
residing
with him in the city of
family, who are in great as lotion. Her 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 Paresienne, and tampions, 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 wordrf he cries, protests, and
hisses broke out afresh, and M Batbie again left the amphi.,
theatre. The students waited fer him outside, and escorted
him home with cries of " Vive Batbie 1" He announced
to them that he should resume his lecture on Friday.

been carried off through the effects of chloroform
which was given them in their sleep by parties who
succeeded in entering their rooms through the win-
dows. Some of these narrowly escaped death from
the Effects of the drug. Houses had been frequently
broken into and the inmates carried off by force.
Several parties had been attacked on the highway
by gangs of men and taken away. In one instance
a man was taken out of a waggon from the side of
his wife, and was threatened with a revolver if she
attempted to make the least alarm. The husband
was carried off, and has not been heard of since.
The writer goes on to multiply outrages of this
nature, saying, others have been gagged and
put out of the way, and others still have had
sacks thrown over their heads to prevent them
shouting, and in this manner thrown into a cart and
driven off. Some have been decoyed to the vici-
nity of the lines, where the ingenious dodge of
slipping something into their pockets, and then
bringing a charge of robbery against them, with
the alternative of enlisting or going to prison, is
practised on them.' Previous to the stationing of
detectives in this locality hundreds of substitutes
passed through weekly by the cars, but since pre-
cautions have been taken by the authorities to pre-
vent the practice, the route has been abandoned
altogether. The writer here remarks It may
appear strange that we have not apprehended more
of these parties than we have done ; but the reason
of it is, that so soon as one of these substitutes
makes his way back, and before he can be brought
before a magistrate, he is either taken again or
receives money to leave our way, the parties in
the kidnapping business being in regular co-
partnership with one another.' He then goes on
to say that he had been informed by a M. Car-
tier, a merchant of the locality, that fifty French
Canadians, exclusive of other British subjects
and strangers, had been taken eut of the village of
Coaticook alone. In conclusion, the writer states
that there are other places in which the inhuman
traffic is siill carried on to the same extent as in
Coaticook previous to the arrival of the detectives
there, and adds that since the date of his last report
his own party have captured four of the villains,
and the party stationed at Stanstead seven more.
" It is now evident, notwithstanding the praise.
worthy measures adopted by the authorities to secure
an abatement of this inhuman traffic of kidnapping
for the Federal service, and the vigilance of the
detectives stationed at the lines, the practice is stall
carried on with great audacity, and is likely to be
carried on with a greater still during the coming
winter, unless more stringent measures are taken.
We think the party at the lines should, under the
circumstances, be increased and maintained there
the approaching season."

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. —.Wheat, 3Ss 8d ;
barley, 29s ; oats, 20s Od ; rye, 40s Od ; beans, 37s 10d ;
and peas, 35s Id.

T Six WEEKS' ATEIIiGES. Wheat, 38s 9d ;
barley, 29s lld ; oats, 19s lld ; rye,.32sod ; beans, 37s lld ;
peas, 35s 2d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 107,836 ;
barley, 105,840 ; oats, 10,576 ; rye, 4 ; beans, 3,651; peas,
1,638 qrs,