The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN HAIL PACKET LIST.

MAILS DUE.
AuKralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Oct. 19.
Marseilles Oct, 13.
drazil and Cape Verds, byvia British packet. Nov. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Nov. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Oct. 19.
Falkland Islands via Marseilles ...Oct. 13.
Nov. 4.
Gibraltar, via Southampton .... Oct. 15.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Oct. 19.
via Marseilles Oct. 13.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Oct. 15
via Marseilles Oct. 20.
Lisbon Nov. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 15.
Newfoundland via Marseilles Oct. —.
Oct. 15.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 15.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Oct. 17.
W,C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ..
Bahamas, via New York Oct. 23.
-
Nlexico Oct. 29. • • ' •
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru,
California, and British Columbia.. j Oct. 29.

La Presse has the following
:
"Despatches from Saigon, of the 18th of August/ bring
excellent news from Cochin China. The health
troops is satisfactory. The lands belonging to the of our
Govern-
ment.. had been sold at good prices. The security which
prevails in that portion of the country, which
French troops, is such that a great number is occupied by
ber of strangers,
English, Spaniards, Dutch have established houses, of busi-
ness or taken land for agricultural purr
s.
Edinburgh the
SABBATARIAN ASSERTION.--A
enemies
of
other day, a meeting was held by numerous
u
re-
ligious liberty. The Lord Provost,al;coofrdbiniggottos the Times,
presided over them, and the b
the leading members of the Presbyterian and other sects
including adherents of the Ftee e
objectK of these fanaticsirk desirous of abridg-
ing the freedom of others. The
br
dys
ofl4 ,tohoeo
Tof r
etahs
ue
rwnor king-
classes, askingi g-
classes, and addressed to the
neidx
Botanical Gardens shall be open on
that the Edinburgh
of Sabbatarians was harangued
Sunday. This concourse of
Thomson, and Begg, and by
by Doctors Muir,
some sanctimoniosuGs:and stupid bailies, They had the folly
Expressing regret and alarm that the
to vote resolultdionbe
sought to be opened on the Lord's
gardens Should
setting forth that such a proposal was
Day, • •
opposed not only to the Divine commandment, but to the
lawd usages of Scotland, and the convictions and
feelings
and usages the great majority of the Scottish people ;
and that setting aside the authority of the Sabbath as a
Divine institution would remove the only efficient barrier
which protects the working man from uninterrupted
labour." The only truth which the foregoing statement
contains, if it contains any, is the assertion that a tyran-
nical Scotch majority is desirous of shutting the minority
of Scotchmen ont of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens on
a Sunday. We trust, however, that not even this is true,
and that the population of Scotland does not chiefly consist
of fools no better than real thistle-eating asses. The
last of the above queted assertions is one of such a nature
that those who concured in it would vree in saying any-
thing, regardle, sof veracity. Why, Kew Gardens have
long been open to the English public on a Sunday. Does
the English workman, then, lead a life of uninterrupted
lsbour ? Perhaps the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and
the gentlemen whose names we had rather not repeat, and
the stupid unscrupulous zealots who constituted their
audience, would not hesitate to say that he does.—Punch.
BRIGHTON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAYS.—
It is expected that at the board meetings of these companies,
on Thursday, a method will be devised to rub out the cause
of the difference between them out Of which so much noise
has arisen respecting the Caterham branch. It is to b
lamented that any misunderstanding should exist between
companies who severally perform their services so well
and have heretofore worked together with praiseworthy,
hannonye•-acrapath.