The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-16 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Aug. 16.—Wind this day at noon—South;
light breezes and cloudy weather.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 15.—Wind S.S.W. to S.E.—Arrived
—Prince of Orange, from Batavia; Henry Duncan, from
Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 15.—Wind E.S.E.—Sailed—Forest
King, for Porto Torres.
NEWPOHT.—Sailed—Ferdinand and Louis, for Singa-
pore.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 15.—Wind S.E.—Arrived--Solace,
from Monta Video.

(BT ELECTRIC TELEORAPH.)
SouTulnirTort, Thursday Morning.

Wind W.

Arrived, Aug. 15—Commodore, from Waterford ; Le-
Coq, from Cherbourg; Courier, steamer, from Jersey ;
Clara, from Newport.
Arrived, Aug. 16—Jessie, from Sunderland ; Alliance,
steamer, from Havre.

Sailed:-Fanny Selfeld, for Dantzic ; Atalanta, steamer,
for Jersey ; Havre, steamer, for Jersey.
(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind S. •, tide first hour's flood ; weather fine.
Arrived, Aug. 15—Emily, from Havre ; Minerva, from
Demerara; Hilda, from Noskow ; Thea, from Gravelines;
Eclipse, from Riga; Zenobia, from Cronstadt ; Topina,
from Berdianski ; Fortuna, from Riga.
Sailed—Adler, steamer, for Bremen; Frances Henty,
for Table Bay ; Jane, for New Orleans; Diana, for
Archangel.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Wind S.W.; moderate.

Passed.—Miss Nightingale, from Colombo, for London ;
Surprise (of Bridport), from west, for north ; Catharine
Pemberton, for Cardiff; Paulina, for Genoa - Regas Ferois,
for Smyrna ; Panama, for Rio Janeiro—all from London.
The brig Bradford, of London, from Southampton, for
the north, was on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but
was got off without assistance, and proceeded.

Advices from Alexandria announce that the
Egyptian Government, which has for some time past been
in pecuniary straits, has just obtained a loan of £BOO,OOO
from Paris, to be advanced through the house of Lafitte.
The rate of interest is to be 6 per cent., and the fact that
the loan is given without any security whatever has
strengthened an opinion which arose the moment the nego-
tiation commenced that the supply is obtained from the
Emperor Napoleon, who will thus, to a certain extent,
increase a power over the Viceroy which had already become
censiderable, owing to the indiscreet commitments of his
Highness to the Suez Canal.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris
is about at par, and the short exchange on London
is 25.121 per £1 sterling. On comparing these rates with the
English Mint price of £3 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard
gold, it appears that gold is nearly 2-10ths per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburg the price of gold is 423 per mark, and the short
exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sterling. Standard gold
at the English Mint price is therefore nearly 1-10th per
cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of ex-
change at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight
is 1094 to 110 per cent., which, when compared with the
Mint par between the two countries, shows that the ex-
change is in favour of England ; but, after making allow-
ance for charges of transport and difference of interest,
the present rate leaves a small profit on the importation of
gold from the United States.
GOTTENBURG, Aug. 11.—A schooner belonging to Aland,
and bound from Newcastle to Stockholm, coal laden, was
passed on the 6th Aug. in lat. 67 N. and long. 5 E., with
loss of masts, bowsprit, and starboard bulwarks, by the
Hazard, arrived here from Newcastle. The crew, it is sup-
osed, had been taken off by a Dutch fishing craft, that had
jot loft ths ffrsok,

" There aro anecdotes and stories which, though not ex-
ceptionable in themselves, become so when told in certain
companies, and within earshot of certain individuals. It is
not permissible to tell an anecdote reflecting on a party
when members of it are present ; or illustrative of the bad
manners, morals, or condition of a country when a native
of it is one of the company ; in a word, it is always unsafe,
when we are thrown among strangers, to speak to the pre-
judice of any nation, party, or person. It is a Spanish pro-
verb, often, though not too often, quoted, ' that we should
not talk of halters in the house of a man whose fatter was
hanged.' Accordingly, we should not describe a death-
bed scene to one who is sick or bereaved; nor talk of bank-
rupts with those who have failed ; nor of family quarrels
with those who are not happy in their domestic connexions.
Full many a story that is told in society is pointed with a
moral which secretly pierces some heart that has already
bled too freely. 'We know Solomon has said, The words
of the wise are as nails and as goads--they have point ;
but at the same time the wise are wary, lest their words
wound where they were designed only to excite.' "

The Art of Precis-Writing. By the Rev. J.
Hunter, M.A., Instructor of Candidates for the
Military and Civil Service Examinations. Long-

man.

This a very excellent little work, adapted for the
general instruction of youth no less than for the use
of civil service candidates. It explains the art of
precis-writing, or making digests and abstracts.
There are chapters on the reduction of compound
sentences, the omission of the lees important ideas,
the removal of tautology, pleonasm, and superfluous
ornament, all of which furnish excellent instruc-
tion in composition. A good clear style of writing
is of great importance to every man of business,
and should assuredly be looked upon as one of the
first requisites of a sound English education. Any
one who has had occasion for a large mixed corres-
pondence must have been surprised at the confu-
sion of words and ideas, the entanglement of
phrases, the sentences without proper beginning or
end, and even the orthographical blunders which
are not uncommon among the respectable classes.
This little compendium is admirably qualified to
remedy such deficiencies, and we trust will soon be
in exteni,ive circulation.

flow I Won the Victoria cross. By T. Henry
Kavanagh. Ward and Lock.
Mr. Kavanagh, of Lucknow celebrity, has thought
fit to present the public with an account of How
he won the Victoria Cross, as if the fame of his
gallant conduct at Lucknow was not world wide.
That the Government were slow to acknowledge
his services, and that the Victoria Cross, the grand
object of his ambition, was at first withheld from
hun on certain regulation grounds by mighty red
tape authorities, is much to be regretted, but it is
nothing new or unnatural in our free and en-
lightened military authorities. Merit such as Mr.
Kavanagh's is not to be rewarded by pecuniary
emolument. He has received the much coveted Cross,
although given with a bad grace,• to which the
reverse of the proverb Qui cito (fat, bis dat may be
be applied, viz., a grudged gift loses half its value,
and his daring service in India is acknowledged by
all to have been one of the boldest, if not the
boldest act of bravery and devotion of a campaign
in which gallantry was so general. In the little
work before us the author briefly sketches the
history of his adventures during the mutiny, speak-
ing in high terms of the different commanders. He
gives some amusing anecdotes in one of which we
have a sample of Lord Clyde's fiery temper at his
own expense. Mr. Kavanagh does not profess to
be an author, but he has told !du tale in a straight
forward way, and to his blunt style we may attri-
bute some passages and expressions of discontent,
unworthy of the author, which we wish had never
been written.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S-CROSS.--
Number of patients for the week ending 11th August, 805,
of which 337 were new cases.

The number of patients treated at the Samaritan
Free Hospital for Women and Children, Edwards-street,
Portman-square, during the week ending Aug. 11, was 723,
of which 154 were new cases.
SINGULAR JUDICIAL PENALTIES.--In some parts
of Switzerland singular 'judicial penalties are still in. force.
A few days ago, one Hug, of Stanz, was convicted by the
'
Tribunal of Unterwald, for having, when in a state of
intoxication in a public-house, employed offensive language
resgecting the Pope, and he was condemned to 20 blows
with a stick to be administered in private, a fortnight's
imprisonment in the hospital, a week s retirement to b 4
passed in religious exercises in the monastery of file
Capuchins, to occupy a separate place at church for the
that time to attend • space of two years, and during morning
and evening service and the class of catechism, to be deprived
for an indefinite period of his civil rights, and finally to pay
all the costs.

THE DANGERS OF FLIRTATION.---An incident oc-
curred on Wednesday evening, not a hundred miles from
shaw's-brow, which produced hearty amusement to every-
body but the principal person concerned. This was a young
gentleman, who has of late been flirting with two ladies,
one of whom having been told of him that his attachment
to her was only a little nonsense, resolved to give him a
little nonsense in return. her notion of nonsense was pecu-
liar, for she took a stout riding-whip and soundly beat the
faithless swain about the head and face. He was so stung
by the pain that he raised his fist with the intentron of strik-
ing his fair assailant. This was perceived by a bystander,
who, to prevent anything of that kind, knocked him down,
A sympathising young lady, seeing ties blood flowing from
the young man's nose, and learning the cause of the distur-
bance, kindly procured a handful of flour and. another of
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