The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-18 00:00:00

THIRD EDI noN.

SUN OFFICE, SIX O'CLOCK.

FRANCE.

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La Presse has the following
Despatches from Saigon, of the 18th of August, bring
excellent news from Cochin China. The health of our
troops is satisfactory. The lands belonging to the Govern-
ment had been sold at good prices. The security which
prevails in that portion of the country, which is occupied by
French troops, is such that a great number of strangers
:English, Spaniards, Dutch have established houses of busi-
-ness or taken land for agricultural purposes."
A S

TORY OF A STOCKING.—SOIne twenty years
Wil
ago, there flourished in our good town of Dundee l
Boniface, landlord of one of our most comfortable hotels,
an active good-tempered man, with a spice of humour, and
very fond of a joke. In the evenings, say towards ten
o'clock, the time of night for those who take their ease at
their inn, some one of a happy coterie would say, " Come,
Will, man, sit down and take a glass of punch with ua."
Nothing loth, down he sat, and after he had had his glass,
soma one would 5%y, "Well, 'Will, what's uppermost wi'
you the nicht, for ye ha'e aye something." " Well, gentle-
men, I've made a discovery, and"—looking round mys-
teriously and knowingly—" as I see we are all married
folks (if the half of them were bachelors the joke told the
better) did you ever notice a peculiarity of married ladies,
when going to bed that they take off the left stocking last ?"
" No—nonsense--you don't say so," &c. "I do; and I
assure you, from my own personal experience, it's invari-
ably the case. I cannot account for it, but so it is."
" Well," says one, " I'm always in bed first, but I'll watch."
Wagers followed ; and meeting again—" Aha, landlord, I
have you now ; I would not go to bed ; and my wife thought
1 was crazy; but, man, ye've lost, for she took the stock-
ing off her left leg first, so you've lost, Will, my boy."
" Stop a bit," says Will, " didn't you say she took off her
loft stocking first 2" "Yes." " Well, was there net one
left on 2" " Yes." " Well, didn't I say they always took
off the left stocking last 2" Laughter universal. " Who's
the dupe now—Come pay up," &c.—Advertiser.

SERIOUS CONDITION OF GARIBALDI.—The fol-
lowing is a private letter from Spezzia, datel Oct. 12:-
" After the letter I sent you the other day I feel you will,
be anxious for further news of the poor General, and I have
collected every scrap of news I can about him in the hope°
arriving tolerably near the truth, and I regret to say that
all the reports which can be relied on agree in representing
him as very ill, suffering much pain, and being very much
depressed, both mentally and physically, and quite bent on
his scheme of going to America, with all his followers and
sons, and fighting in the cause of liberty. I fear it is but
too likely he may never leave Varignano. After all I have
heard, I despair myself of his recovery. lie is evidently
very weak and low, and they seem to allow him to get worse
by not prescribing wine and the stimulants which I feel
convinced in England would be recommended in such
a case. He never does drink wine, I am told, when in
health, and will not touch it now. Zanetti thought ill of
his general health when he last saw him, though he did not
think the wound in a state which would render amputation
necessary. The sea air is considered so bad for him that the
doctors talk of removing him whenever he is well enough
to bear being carried by men a short distance. I got him
asked whether he would like to see an English surgeon
again, and his answer was that on no aceount would he
east such a slur on his countrymen again ; he had accepted,
once, but nothing now would induce him to show such
want of confidence in his present doctors; and indeed I
believe they are very good ones, and certainly most disin-
terested, as they never receive a farthing for their services,
and Prandina has left a large practice to attend upon. him.
But I wish I knew whether he ought not to take port wine
regularly I am as much as ever anxious that some
money should be placed somewhere to supply the wants
that may arise from day to day, that there may be no fear
of Garibaldl's suffering from want of funds. I am told
Basso, his secretary (Ineed not say an unpaid functionary)
is quite to be trusted to spend money rationally for him.
He might be empowered to draw it. Prandina has gone
away for the present, and I don't know what day he re-
turns. Two other young doctors are there. I have not
attempted to see him, as I am convinced it must be verg
bad for him to see so many people when he ought to 100
kept quiet.

Of all short cuts, though, protect us from ripi.
torae, 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
decent 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-
lenly. They aro 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
coals on a fire with a scoop; do you think we should save
either time or digestion ? But this is what the cram does.
fie 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 tha
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

p trcel 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 hint,—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
at:lintel's claw or hand while his empty head has no con-
ception of the reservoirs of intelligence and learning at
either old of the course on which he is perched. Ho flies
eft', when it is all over, in conceited ignorance of the
whose science machinery he has grasped for a minute.—
Once a] Week.
The Atlantic and Great Western Railway having
completed the Titusville branch to within three or four
miles of the oil wells, is beginning to derive the expected.
advantages. The traffic for the third week in September ie
9,484 dols, being over £3O per mile, making, with 12,101
,101 l for first two wee'is, 21,588 dole against 13,450 dols for
the whole month last year.

FRENCH WINES IN SCOTLAND.—The difficulty in
getting the French wines introduced into Scotland was the
sal ject of discussion at the Edinburgh Chamber of Com-
werce on Tuesday. The chairman (Mr. Richardson) said
be 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 a letter. Mr. Cob-
den wrote :—" The only way in which the onsumption of
French wines can be greatly promoted in this. country is by
their being generally introduced at moderate p 'ices into the
hotels. In the long run more money is made by selling
low-priced than high-priced articles. This has bea.l proved
by the sale of penny newspapers, although the track is only
in its infancy. The same rule has held good in Rowland
Hill's postage reform. I wish some measures could be t 1 ikon
to tempt or shame the innkeepers into the sale of germ n°
French wines, at moderato prices. The success of the French
treaty greatly depends on this being done." Mr. M'Larem
said that while a pint or half-a-pint of cheap wino was to bsa
had in the London hotels the Edinburgh hotelkeepers seemed
rather to desire small sales and large prafits. If the cheap
wines were not introduced more largely into the hotels the

public would have no means of getting acquainted with
them, unless in their own houses. He believed much good
would be done by introducing cheap wines for use, in pre-
ference to ardent spirits, and that these WiMS would be more
popular when the young generation
grew up, and that then
the benefits of the French ireaty in this respect would be
fully realised.

The Milan Gazette announces that six schools are
to be opened there for the purpose of teaching on Sundays
young women, obliged to work during the week, the rudi-
ments of arithmetic, geography, history, reading and
writing, and needlework. The item of religion ie not men-
tioned.

A letter from Clermont (Herault) of the 13th
inst. says :—" Two afternoons back a waterspout burst
over the commune of Brignac, in the canton of Clermont-
l'Herault. In less than ten minutes the plain of Salamane
was transformed into an extensive lake, the waters rising
to a height of more than a meter. The carts occupied is
the vintage had great difficulty in returning to the village;
happily, no accident occurred. Several persons, surprised
by the fall of this diluvial torrent, were compelled to take
refuge in trees and upon the walls which border the road&
and private pr• perties. Within the memory of man no
such event had taken place in the neighbourhood—conse-
quently all the inhabitants of the commune assembled after
the storm on the read from Brignac to Clermont to discuss
th© effects of the waterspout, which may be considered as. a
reall remarkable meteorological phenomenon."
AFFAIRS AT NEW ORLEANS.—NEW ORLEANS,
Sept. 22.—The Essex is still detained here. Gen. Butler
has ordered that 10 packages of silver plate and bullion
shipped by her shall be landed. Wright and Allen, who
shipped some of the plate, have been arrested and sentenced
to imprisonment. Hoghton Rankin drew a cheque on a
bank, which was refused payment, unless Mr. Bunnas,who
represents the house, took the oath of allegiance to the
United States, which ho, being a British subject, refused to
do. Mr. Robinson's stables were seized on Saturday, and
four of his horses taken, which he was forced to redeem at
700 dols. All these things take place because we have no
protection hero. The screws are being
every day.
MI the streets are in a stir to-day, this being the last day
for registering subjects, in ac-
cordance with th© Acts of Congress. Many are taking
the oath, and there are more British, or
people claim-
ing to be such, than we had any idea that New Orleans
pooewed."