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

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Oct, 20.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; blowing a strong breeze, with cloudy weather.
Last night there was a very heavy storm of wind and
rain.

PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Magssra, from St. John's, N.B.
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning,
Arrived, Oct. 19—Maud, from Taganrog ; Melina, from
St. Joan's, Newfoundland; Phcenix, from Alicante;
Viking and Carolina, from Archangel; Rapid, from Wes-
terwick.
Arrived, Oct. 20—Gazehound and Hartetene, from Non
York ; Uruguay, from Tuticorin ; Town of Liverpool, from
Bahia; Volta, from Accra; Priscilla, from New Bedford ;
Hortensia, from Konigsberg.
Sailed—Frances, from Cape Town.
DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, in tow—Charlotte, schooner, from Oporto, for
London ; with loss of captain, washed overboard.
Anchored—Alfred Passero, from Montevideo, for Ant-
werp; with loss of foretopmast and bowsprit.
The Wellington, for Bombay, and Ambrosine, for New
York, have each lost foremast and bowsprit in collision.
Several collisions have taken place during the night, par-
ticulars at present unknown.
Two vessels sunk at anchor; names unknown.
The Helen, Capt. Rambling, has lost jibboom and fore •
topmast through collision, and will go to Ramsgate for
repairs.

SABBATARIAN ASSERTION.—At Edinburgh the
other day, a meeting was held by numerous enemies of re-
ligious liberty. The Lord Provost, according to the Time;
presided over them, and the assembly of bigots comprised
and other sects
the leading members of the Presbyitrekri
' desirous of abridg-
including adherents of the F
ing the freedom of others.
was to oppose a petition sign ri:hebeeyoh.blj4e,coto 0° of ft h
theese working-
classes, and addressed to theldrodasrodfenthse
sThraelalsubreyo,pa.esnkionng
that the Edinburgh BotanicaloSabbatarians was harangued
Sunday. This concourse,
• Thomson, and Begz, and by
by Doctors Muir,
some sanctimoniouGs:aEtniFserteuspsiindgbareilgier:.t
aTnhdeyahl theaardm th follyat t
he
to vote resolutions
sougPlit to be opened on the Lord's
gardens should
Day, andbesetting forth that such a proposal was
to
the Divine commandment, but to the
opposed not only
law and usages of Scotland, and the convictions and
the great majority of the Scottish people ;
and
dthgs of
at getting 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 out 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 (incited assertions is one of such a nature
that those who concured in it would agree in saying any-
thing, regardles of 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 wilt be devised to rub out the cause
of the difference between them out cf 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,
harmony,—llerapath,