The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-04 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Oct. 4.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy in the morning.
PLYMOUTH, Oct. 3.—Wind E.—Sailed—Gosforth, for
Melbourne.

CLYDE, Oct. 3.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Camdoc, for Ma.
tanzas.

OFF PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind N.W.—Arrived- -
Gloria, from Hamburg for Porto Cabello ; Fleur de Lis,
from London for Negapatam.
CARDIFF, Oct. 3.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—fronsides, for
Shanghai

QUEENSTOWN, OCt. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Anna,
from Month Video

PILL, Oct. 3.—Wind WS.W.—Arrived—Juno, from
New York.

YARMOUTH, Oct. 2.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Crawford,
from Sulina.

OFF SCILLY, Oct. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—llenry
Spor, from China.

SWANSEA, OCt. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Contest, from
Caldera.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.'
GRAVESEND, Wediesday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 3.—Christiana, from Lokken ; Aron and
Eaton, from Cronstadt.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.

Passed, Oct. 3—Hem, from London, for Corfu ; Planet
from London, for Bombay; Grenadier,: from London, for
lianagawe ; Centurion and Duke of Sutherland, from Lon-
don, for Sydney ; Black Case, from London, for Colombo.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. Oct. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oot. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Oct. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Oct. 22.
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Oct. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —,
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.— Oat. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —.
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Oct —.

Ditto, via Marseilles .
Mauritius, via Southampton Oct. 11.

Ditto, via litaraeil'ei. Oct.' 5.
Newfoundland GI 0ct.25.
Portugal OCt. 4.
. . . _

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Oct. 6.
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton.........
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry—Pct. 6.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico Oct. 14.
Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19
Oct. 26. Bermuda, ditto

Cuba and Mexico

GUSTAVE DORE'S great masterpiece viz., the
Illustrated Bible—upon which he has been engaged for
the last four years, is now on the eve of completion.
Messrs. Cassell, Potter, and Galpin have purchased the
engravings for their sole and exclusive use in the English
language, and their edition of this great work, for England
and America, will be shortly announced. The illustrations
will consist of 230 large page drawinv, the cost of their
production being upwards of £15,000.
WHAT IS CHOLERA.—For the last 30 years people
have been asking, What is cholera ? Whence comes
it ? How can its return be prevented ? What is the best
defence against its attacks ? When occurring, how can
they be cured ? We may fairly pass with slight conside-
ration any hypothetical, dreamy, or superstitious notions
respecting its final causes. We cannot believe it to be the
hand of Providence punishing us for our evil deeds. Be-
cause Providence is just ; and so many honest folk have
died of the cholera, and so many rogues have escaped or
survived it, that that pious supposition must be discarded.
Nor can we believe the cholera to be a natural means of
keeping down a superabundant population. Mon have
been foolish enough to say, " We want a good war; wo
shall soon not know where to stow ourselves ; Europe is
too thickly inhabited." But there is no good war. War
is one of the most senseless acts which our infant
humanity commits. Moreover, there aro not too many
inhabitants, neither in the United Kingdom, nor in
France, nor in Europe, nor elsewhere. We cultivate only
one-tenth part of the habitable globe, and we set-to to cut
each others throats instead of cultivating the remainder.
Truly, mankind is an intelligent race ! It is poverty, and
the weakness which it engenders ; it is debauchery and
selfishness, which undertake the task of limiting the popu-
lation. There is no need for either war or the cholera to
give them a helping hand. War is quite a thing of human
invention ; and " the God of Battles," if not a scrap of
heathen mythology, is certainly an abominable and absurd
piece of blasphemy. It is now held that the cholera is an
evil due to the same initiation ; that the cholera, like the
plague, is the consequence of human stupidity and folly;
that, although we cannot exactly say what the cholera is,
at least we know whence it comes. And, when once wo
know the cause, can we not avert its consequences by the
effectual suppression of that eause.—Dickens's "All the
Year Roane