The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-17 00:00:00

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 16.—Evangeline, from Port Natal , Lis-
bones, from Badagry.
Arrived, Oet. 17.—Kate Sweetland, from Montevideo ;
Ariel, from Stettin; Flying Fish, from Pomaron ; St. Fer-
gus, from Dantzic ; Comet, from Gottenburg ; Pursuit,
from Havre ; William Walker, from Archangel ; Cuba,
from Lisbon ; Night Watch, from Colombo ; Haabet, from
Amsterdam; Dahlia, from Alexandria; Alice, from Dieppe;
Bethesda, from lielsingborg.
Sailed, Oct. 17—Queen of India, for Sydney; Isabella,
for Mauritius.

DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Majestic, from Mityline, for Hull ; Heroine,
barque, from the westward, for London ; Rowena, from
London, for Algoa Bay.

Ben. Terry, the well-known prize-fighter, died
at Birmingham on Monday. Lately he had given way to
intemperate habits, which hastened his death. The verdict
of the coroner's inquest was, "That the deceased died by
the visitation of God from acute bronchitis, with delirium
tremens, in a constitution broken by previous habits of in-
temperance."
MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—The
usual meeting of magistrates of Middlesex was held yes-
terday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell. With reference
to the memorial of Dr. Lankester, coroner of the central
district of the county, asking for an increase of salary, the
bench, after consideration, were of opinion that £1,218
17s. 6d. should be the remuneration fof the office.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.—The
stock of this company has fallen in the market during the
last two days from £B5 tl £Bo—namely, 5 per cent., equal
in the aggregate to a loss of £llO,OOO.

The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress are
expected to proceed to Compiegne on Monday next. Grand
hunting parties are organized to take place in the forest,
and fetes will be given at the palace. There are to be four
series of guests, each remaining a week.

Of all short cuts, though, protect us from epi-
tome, abbreviation, or analysis of a book. It is sad to
think how numerous they are. Crams are the curses of
education. If a book is so diffuse that it can be cut down
to one-fourth of its size without loss of influence, the re-
sidue is sure not to be worth the trouble bestowed upon it.
Reading the analysis of a good book, instead of the book
itself, is like swallowing a meal without mastication or
dec nt delay, The facts are there, inside you, no doubt ;
but the genius of the interior can make nothing of them.
They are too solid. They have come in too sud-
denly. They are dry, tasteless, and unmanageable.
Suppose we had doors to us—like patent stoves—
and could put in our dinners, all at once, as we do
coats on a fire with a scoop; do you think we should save
either time or digestion ? But this is what the cram does.
He pops a shovelful of dates, conclusions, formulas and
likely facts into the pupil's head just where he thinks the
examiner will dip in his net. They no more belong to the
pupil than the goods which are brought over night by train
and are carried away next morning by the van to the goods
station do to the porter. The pupil is no better then he. He
is not so good, he is not so honest. The porter transfers the
parcel from one man to another ; the pupil is encouraged to
put a new direction on the hamper and make the receiver
believe that it came from him,—that it was his ; that he
packed it full of his own honest property ; that it is a sample
of his own possessions. In fact, the tutor sends a load of
learning to the examiner, with instructions for the bearer to
cheat the latter if he can. Of course the examiner can say
nothing if the right answer is given to the question he puts,
though he may feel sure that it no more comes from the
examinee than a telegram does from the sparrow which sits
upon the wire. The reply passes under the pert little
animal's claw or hand while his empty head has no con-
ception of the reservoirs of intelligence and learning at
either end of the course on which he is perched. He flies
off, when it is all over, in conceited ignorance of the
whose science machinery he has grasped for a minute.—
Once aiWeek.
FRENCH WINES IN SCOTLAND.—The difficulty in
getting the French wines introduced into Scotland was the
subject of discussion at the Edinburgh Chamber of Cam-
memo on Tuesday. The chairman (Mr. Richardson) said
he had had a conversation with Mr. Cobden, when in Edin-
burgh a few days ago, on the subject, and that gentleman
had since expressed his views to him in a letter. Mr. Cob-
den wrote The only way in which the consumptioisn
French wines can be greatly promoted in this country is by
their being generally introduced at moderate prices intoing
hotels. In the long run more money is made
bny selling
low-priced than high-priced articles. This has
in Rowland
good in
be taken
Hill's po.qage reform. I wish some measures
sale
of genuine
by the site of penny newspapers, although ihde trade is only
in its infancy. The same rule has held
to tempt or shame the innkeepers i
done." Mr. M 'Laren
t g
'it of cheap wine was to be
ni
French wines, at moderate prices.
T
said that while a pint or half-ai-pint
b
urgh hotelkeepers seemed
rather to desire small sales an
had in the London hotels the Edd
logo prsfits. If the cheap
more
largely
into the hotels the
hnet°success of the French
treaty greatly depends on this be
wines were not introduced
xis
of getting acquainted with
pa
public would have 2'o In" 8. He believed much good
l
would be done by
them, unless in
their'n own housetroducing cheap wines for use, in pre-
ferenceden
spirits, and that these wines would be more
popular when the
to ardent Psyeww
generation grew up, and that then
bene of.
the tie grench treaty in this respect would
be
fits
fully re4o4