The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-29 00:00:00

SaIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Sept. 29.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy in the morning.
CARDIFF, Sept. 28.—Wind S.L.—Sailed—Tornado, for
Rio Janeiro.

PLY:uovrn, Sept. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Bridge-
water, from China.
SUNDERLAND, Sept.• 28.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dol-
phin, from —.
CLYDE, Sept. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Virginia,
from Mauritius.

QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 28.—Wind E.—Arrived—Alexia,
from Mazagan. Sailed—Earl Russell, and Bayswater, for
Moreton Bay.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived -Dresden,
from Trinidad de Cuba.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM]
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrived, Sept. 28.—St. Johanna, from Skelfeftea ; Valen-
cia, from Denia ; Constantia, from Renneby ; Carrier, from
Antwerp.
Arrived, Sept. 29.—Serist, from Dunkirk; Traveller,
from Cronstadt ; Margaret Matilda, from Groningen ;
Nelson, Anniversary, and Plato, from Cronstadt ; Comet,
from Engelhohn ; Jane MacDonald, from Sunds wall ;
Norden, from Gefle ; Tiger, from Topping.
Sailed, Sept. 29—Velasquez, steamer, for Bilboa,.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

Passed.—Seaton, from Sunderland, for Bordeaux; Gloria,
Russian bark, from the North, for the West; Atlanta,
from Shields for Alexandria.

The progress of business in the Mincing-lane
markets during the past few days has been ani-
mated. Sugars have been largely dealt in at en-
hanced prices, for coffee there has been a fair in-
quiry at full prices ; but rice, fruit, and spices have
been depressed. Tallow has continued on moderate
demand at steady rates for both present and for-
ward delivery.

The election of Lord Mayor for the ensuing year
took place to-day in the Guildhall, when Alderman Phillips
was selected for the office.
A WORD ABOUT GEORGE CnmsnANK.--Political
caricature, indeed, George Cruikshank practised
but a few years; perhaps he had hardly gall enough in his
nature to relish even the harmless personalities of such an
art ; though the changes and extravagances, or, as he
named them, the " monstrosities " of fashion supplied him
with subjects for some time longer. It is impossible to
have been happier than he was in his portrayal of the
rapid and fantastic alterations of dress that milliners and
tailors devised for the perplexity of their customers in his
early manhood ; from long waists to short waists, from tight
sleeves to gigots, which might well have held a leg of
mutton, or bishop sleeves, which by themselves might have
furnished materials for a chapter ; from Oldenburg bonnets,
like a kitchen coal-scuttle, to flat-brimmed hats, which
looked as if their model had been fanned in the frying-pan.
It must be added that, as we may judge from other pro-
ducts of his pencil, if the male sex are, as they are wont to
boast, less whimsical in their changes of attire, it is since
Cruikshank's day that they have learnt that wisdom. Cer-
tainly, unless the artist allowed himself an, unusual license
of exaggeration, man, with his head firmly held in its posi-
tion by his buckram cravat six inches high, cut almost in
two at the waist by stays, with padded hips, and padded
shoulders, tightly laced up, tightly strapped down, had
but little cause to laugh at his fair sister.—Once a Week.
ATTEMPT TO UPSET TRAINS.—On Thursday an
attempt was made to upset trains on the Market Drayton
line by depositing two large stones on the rails. The
Great Western Company have offered a reward of £lO for
the detection of the offender.
SHOOTING IN THE MIDLANDS.—Lord Chesterfield
and party, in lour days' shooting in Nottinghamshire, killed
627 partridges, 460 hares, and 14 rabbits. •