The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-01 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Nov. I.—Wind this day at Noon, S.S.W. ;
light, with dense fog.
PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 31.—Wind, S.E. to S.W. Arrived
—H.M.S. Hecla, from the Baltic ; Palestine, London, for
New York ; Robert Small, do., for the Black Sea. Sailed
—Louise, for Sydney, N.S.W.
SOUTHAMPTON, Oct. 31.—Wind, S.E. Arrived--Atrato
(s), from the West Indies.
COWES, Oct. 31.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Alfred, from
Callao, and sailed for Antwerp ; Thomas Arbuthnot, from
Callao ; Sourabaya, do. ; Cesar Godfrey, do. ; Christina,
do., cud both mailed fur Antwerp.
RAMSGATE, Oct. 31.—Wind, W.S.N. Sailed—Rafae-
lite, from Bilboa ; Great Britain, Dundalk.
OFF SHOREHAM, Oct. 13.—Francis Ilenty, from Port
Philip.
BRIDGEwATER, Oct. 31.—Wind, W. Arrived—Clarissa,
from Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Oct. 31.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Miceli,
from Constantinople ; Wikingen, St. Uhe's, for Gefle, with
sails split; Duke of Cornwall (s), from London, and left
for Dublin ; Tamar, Pentuan, for Liverpool, with damage ;
Tallinga Aurelia, Leghorn ; Brodre Tyrer, Schien, for
Truro, with damage,
having had her deck cargo thrown
overboard ; John, Poole, for Fogo, also with damage. Off
Port—Cornhill, Hobart Town ; Dorothea (of London), for
Jamaica.
LOWESTOFT, Oct. 31.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Naviga-
tionen, from Kalix ; Lykkens, Mandahl.
HULL, Oct. 31.—Wind, Arrived—Augusta,
from Miramichi • Paul Ketschew. Bathurst, N.S. ; Cam-
bria, Quebec; 'Seagull (s), Rotterdam. Sailed—Aegir,
from Umea.
NEWPORT, Oct. 30.—Wind, N. Arrived—Orpheus, from
Mirainichi. Sailed—Alabama, for Callao.
Oct. 31.—Wind, S.V. Arrived—Mary Coles,
from France ; Commerce, Christiania. Sailed—William,
;or Newfoundland.
SHIELDS, Oct. 31.—Wind, S. Arrived—Ludovic, from
St. hialo ; Albert, Fccamp ; Earl Douglas (s s), Rotter-
dam ; Watson, St. Mary's.
GLOUCESTER, Oct. 30.—Arrived—Bonnie Marie, from
Aiquillon.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.8 a.m.
Wind, calm ; tido 5?; hours flood ; fine.
Arrived, Oct. 31.—Itubens, from Mauritius; Adelaide,
Boston.
Arrived, November I—Albion (steamer) from Boulogne.
DEAL, Wednesday, 9.30 a.m.

Wind, calm ; weather, fog.
Auchorod—Matilda, from. London, for Brest; Eastern
Queen. London, Charlestown.
The fog has been so very thick since daylight that
nothing is to be observed.

SUICIDE OF A COIII3IERCIAL TRAVELLER.—Mr. W,
Payne yesterday held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hoe.
pital, on the body of William Hurlon, a commercial
traveller. It appeared that deceased, who resided at Brad-
ley-terrace, Wandsworth-road, was out of employment,
and this circumstance preyed upon his mind, although
his pecuniary means were good ; he was, in fact, a man of
property, but did not like to be unemployed. On the
12th ult. he got out of bed, and was seen by his wife
with a razor in his hand. She wrested it from him, and
hid it between the bed and the mattress, and got him to
go to bed again. Shortly afterwards he slipped out again
very quietly, and his wife found that he had obtained
another razor, and his looks were so terrible that she
ber:rune frightened and screamed for assistance, but ere
any one came he had cut his throat, and died on the-
29th ult. His father, grandfather, and an uncle had
all committed suicide. Verdict, "Temporary insanity."
THE FRENCH SOLDIER.—The Constitutionnel, in the
course of an article in which it passes in review the ma-
teriA ameliorations introduced into the French army
which were rendered necessary by the operations in
Africa, and which have been found so advantageous in
the Ea'-t, says :—" Necessity is a good counsellor, and
to it we owe the improvements in the equipment and
mainer of feeding the soldiers, which have produced
such good results in the East, and which will produce
important consequences if ever a conflict should break
out in Europe. Experience has shown how strengthen-
ing food can be supplied with diminution of weight.
During the expeditions biscuit was substituted for bread,
rice was employed in rations, coffee was substituted for
wine, aid the biscuit broken into the coffee gave the sol-
diers strength to support the most painful fatigues. Such
was, with meat, the basis of the food in Africa. The
small volume occupied by it enabled six and even eight
days' rations to be placed in the knapsacks, and that di-
minished the embarrassments of the baggage train.
Blankets were found to be only a slight protection
against the pernicious effects of damp in the night, and
the hospitals were encumbered with patients labouring
under Ilene, until the tente-abri was discovered. That
was almost the salvation of the army. The tente-abri
is three feet high, four and a half long, and is composed
of three pieces of canvas, attached by buttons or strings.
Two sticks placed at each extremity serve to support it,
and it is fixed by wooden pins to the earth. Three minutes
suffice to set it up, and two to take it down. Each tent
accommodates three inen ; each of the three carries a piece
of the canvas, and they divide the sticks and pins among
them, and so they march. The first thing the
to y dcarr o on
arriving is to fix the tent, and to (1!g a trench y
off the water in case of rain. At night they sleep
wrapped in blankets, and with their knapsacks for pil-
lows. They are thus preserved from damp or rain.
The tente-abri permits an army always to bivouac in the
open fields, and does away with the necessity of dividing
it among different villages, so that it is always united.
A guarantee for discipline, and a protection for health,
it preserves the effective free, and assures the duration
of an army. It is, without contradiction, one of the
great benefits from Africa, and ono of the things which
will have the greatest influence on the state of our
arrinee, whatever may be the field into which they may
be called to combat. With his six days' provisions, his
camping effects, his equipment, the piece of canvass for
his tent, his blanket, and 60 ball cartridges, the soldier
bears a heavy weight ; but experience proves that it is
not too much for men of average strength, and that it is
better for the man to carry more, and to recruit his
strength by good repose. The blanket and the little
tent Assure to the soldier refreshing sleep,"

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