The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-15 00:00:00

SHIPPING---THIS DAY.

LONDON, Sept. 15.--Wind this day at noon— North 4
East; light breeze, and fine weather.
CHATHAM, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Enighe•
den, from Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Powerful, from Sheerness.
BRIDGEWATER, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—. Charente, from Montreal.
CLYDE, Sept. 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna Maria,
from Iquique; Passing Cloud, from Montreal, Lord Sid-
mouth, from Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 13.—Arrived—Mary Garland, from
Montreal.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
SOUTHA Mond Morning.
Arrived— M PTON,
William Henry, from Carnarvo ay
n; Argyll,
steamer, from Carent in.
Sailed—Effort, and Eleanor, for Britonferry.
(By MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Monday Morning,
Arrived, Sept. 14.—Finland, from Skelftea ; Useful,
from Taganrog; Caton, from Bassein; Werle, from Nor-
koping ; Tyne, from Lanvag ; Marco Polo, from 'St. Valery ;
Dundee, from Jamaica; Ocean Bride, from Quebec ; Jesusa,
from Havannah ; Providence, from Tobago ; Frangen,
from Matanzas; Schyayd, from Guernsey; Calliope, from
Taganrog • Vectis and Reward, from Guernsey ,• E. W.
Wilderfarfey, from Boston ; British Lady, from Gergenti.
_ Arrived, Sept. 15—Friendship, from Havre; Lucy, from
Nykjobing ; Piereuo and Amphitrite, from New York;
Condor, from Rouen; Arlon, from Archangel; Freedom,
from Guernsey; _
langeen, from Jamaica; Lionne, from
Gravelines.
Sailed, Sept. 14—Linton, for Rio Janeiro; Seine et
Tamise, steamer, for Paris.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed, Sept. 14— Sangeen, from Jamaica; Coast Pilot,
from Montevideo--both for London.
Passed, Sept. 15.—Triton, of Cowes, :from the north, for
the west ; Barbara Campbell, from London, for Glasgow ;
Colgrain, from London, for Bombay; Express of India,
from London, for Otago; Fewrechina, from London, from
Constantinople ; Seine et Tamise, from London, for Rouen ;
Bobtail Nag, from London for Port Royal ;I Cornega, from
Sunderland, for Calcutta; Adelaide, from Shields for Rio
Grande ; Mary Anne, from Shields, for Genoao
Sailed—All the outward bound.

THE ARCHDEACONRY OF DORSET.--This im-
portant piece of ecclesiastical preferment has been conferred
upon the Hon. and Rev. Win. H. Scott, M.A., formerly of
St. John's College, Cambridge, rector of Maiden Newton,
near Dorchester. The new archdeacon is son of the fourth
Baron Polwarth, and was married in 1833 to the daughter
of the Rev. C. B. Hamilton. He graduated at Cambridge in
1821, in the same year with the Rev. Dr. Canon Melvin, 8.D.,
Dr. bi@hop of Llandaff, and Professor Key, of the
London University, but his name does not appear in the
list of honours. He was appointed in 1848 to the Pre-
bendal stall of Wilsford and Woodford, in Salisbury
and holds that preferment, with the rectory of
Maiden Newton, at the present time.
Cathedra l+
1
MARKING OF SOLDIERS.—His Royal Highness
the General Commanding-in-Chief, with the concurrence
of the Secretary of State for War, has directed that soldiers
sentenced to be discharged with ignominy and marked with
the letters B.C, shall be so marked by the hospital sergeant
of the regiment or depot to which the offender belongs,
under the direction of a medical officer; the marking to be
effected prior to the man's committal to a civil prison, and
to be carried out after thepresent mode of marking with the
letter D.

THE USES OF ALCOHOL.—Dr. Brinton, who is
by no means unreasonably prejudiced in favour of alcohol,
has given it as the result of his very large experience, that
persons who abstain altogether frcm alcohol break down,
almost invariably, after a certain number of years, if they
are constantly employed in any severe intellectual or phy.-
sical labour. Either their minds or their bodies give way
suddenly, and the mischief once done is very- hard to repair.
This is quite in accordance with what I have myself ob-
served, and with what I can gather from other medical
men: and it speaks volumes concerning the way in which
we ought to regard alcohol. If indeed it be a fact that in
aholcertainveell
high state of civilisation men require to take alco-
day, in some shape or other, under penalty of
breaking down prematurely in their work, it is idle to ap-
peal to a set of imperfect chemical or physiological experi-
ments, and to decide, on their evidence, that we ought to
call alcohol a medicine or a poison, but not a food. In name
of common sense, why should we retain these ridiculous
distinctions for any other purpose than to avoid catas-
trophes ? If it be well understood that a glass of good
wine will relieve a man's depression and fatigue sufficiently
to enable him to digest his dinner, and that a pint of gin
taken at once will probably kill him stone dead, why
haggle about words ? On the part of the medical profes-
sion, I think I may say that we have long since begun to
believe that those medicines which really do benefit our.
patients act in one way or another as foods, and that some
of the most decidedly poisonous substances are those which
offer, in the form of small doses, the strongest example of
a true food action. On the part of alcohol, then, I ven-
ture to claim that though we all acknowledge it to be a
poison, if taken during health in any but quite restricted
doses ; it is also a most valuable medicine-food. I am
obliged to declare that the chemical evidence:is as yet in-
sufficient to give any complete explanation of its exact
manner of action upon the system ; but that the practical
facts are as striking as they could well be, and that thaLe
.
can be not mistake about them.—" Cornhill Magazini 1
September.
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The Newcastle Chronicle learns that
stone cannot make it convenient to visit Gates
his brief sojourn on the Tyne.
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General Pope that he had "great brains,
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and great want of veracity."
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b.l3en collected in Victoria on
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hilt exertions at the wreck of NIS
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