The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

SHIPPING—This Day.

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LONDON, Sept. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; light breeze, and cloudy weather, with rain
during the morning.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pieter,
from Akyab for Liverpool; Trio, from Cochin ; Carolina,
from Ravannah.
BELFAST, Sept. 7.—Wind N.W.--Arrived—Handy,
from Sulina.

RAMSGALE, Sept. 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Helena,
from Stockholm for Lisbon, assisted in here leaky, and is
discharging her cargo.
PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 8.--Wind S.W.—Arrived—Maria
Johanna, from London for Cardiff and Buenos Ayres;
Embla, from Gefle for Bilboa.

CLYRE, Sept. S.—Wind -S.W.—Sailed—The Channel
Fleet, for Belfast.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Havre, steamer, from Havre Purveyor, from
Swanage ; Courier, steamer, from Jersey.
Sailed—Queen, for Plymouth; Antelope, for Cardiff.
BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
GRAVESEND. Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Sept. B—Hannah Andrews, from Stettin; Frau
Marie, from Taganrog; John Bruster, from Prince Ed-
ward's Island.
Arrived, Sept. 9—Elkin, from Wykobing ; Pole Star,
from Calcutta; Albert, from Quebec; Four Ststers, from
Antwerp ; D. W. Pickering, from Pomeron ; Mellona, from
Guernsey ; Springbok, from Stanbey ; Margaret, from
Malmo; Rover, from Guernsey; Eliza, from Mazagan ;
Sarah King, from Guernsey. •
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Anchored—Minister, from London, for Sonswald ; John
Exeter, from north, for west.

A FRENCH WATERING PLACE.—It looks a
comical kind of decency to English eyes. The men
are dressed in a sort of trowsers and jersey all in one, which
differs from ordinary garments of that description chiefly
in being much toe short in the legs and arms. This ar-
rangement seems to be a compromise between the Govern-
ment's appreciation of decency and the natural human de-
sire to be as naked as possible in the water. But, to a
stranger, it looks as if all the male population of the place
had been seized with a sudden fancy for dressing in the
clothes of their little boys. But they ara not the oddest
figures of the scene. Tho Government having ascertained
the minimum of clothing that is respectable for men,
appears to have come, by a kind of mechanical logic, to
the conclusion that a similar quantity is abundant for
women. The result is, that the beach is peopled with a
number of nondescript looking figures, bearing much the
appearance of short, ill-made men, scantily dressed in cho-
colate-coloured serge—a sort of forked radish turned brown
from keeping—which
on the part of people who are not habituated to this Para•
disaical innocence of costume, to believe may possibly be
ladies. All these figures wander about in the aimless dila-
tory way which appears to be an integral portion of the
amusement. Some area pproaching the water with lazy
steps, wondering whether it is not rather cold, end, in the
agonies of deliberation, displaying the beauties of their cos-
fume to considerable advantage. Others, who have had
their dip, aro picking their steps wearily over the shingle,
looking in vain for the cabane where they may relieve
themselves of the dripping garments which cling to their
figures with a tenacity which gives rather a statuesque
effect. All this time, by way of contrast, the beach is full
of non-bathers--women dressed as only French women can
dresE—why are come to enjoy the opoctaelp,--§qtoriciay
I?eriew,