The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-11 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, Nov. 10.—Wind at noon, North-west ; strong
breeze and fine.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 10.—Wind S.S.W. to W.— N rrived
—H.M.S. Phaeton, from Sheerness; Dover Castle, from
London ; Water Nymph, from London -both for Mel-
bourne, H.M.S. Firebrand, from Sheerness.

(Br ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning.
Arrived—The Portuguese steam corvette Bartholomew
Dias, from from Portsmouth ; Le Coq, from Cherbourg.
Sailed—John Clements, for Sunderland.
(BY SUBMARINE A,ND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 10—Nautilus, steamer, from Cronstadt.
Arrived, Nov. 11—Elizabeth, from Cronstadt; Dolphin,
steamer, from Antwerp.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—H.M.S.! Virago, from the river, for the west-
ward ; Ada, screw steamer, from the westward, for Lon-
don ; United Service, screw steamer, from the westward,
tor London; Esperia, from London, for New York.

THE MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER AT 0 TLEY.—
The inquest on the body of William Smith, the unfortunate
gamekeeper, lately in the employment of Mr. Timothy
Horsfall, near Otley, who was shot by a poacher on Tues-
day morning last, as detailed in our columns, was held on
Friday,"and a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against James
"Waller, the poacher, was returned. The jury suggested the
offer of a reward for the apprehension of the murderer.

A MAN AND Two HORSES DROWNED.-011
Tuesday night a young man named Abraham Walker, ser-
vant of Mr. Thomas Layfield, farmer, Hartwith, was
drowned in the River Nidd, and also two horses belonging
to his master. He was returning from Dorley corn mills,
and his nearest way home was to cross the river at a wath.
It being dark he was not aware that the river had swollen
with the heavy rains that had fallen during the day, and it
is supposed that when he was - crossing the wath the cart
wheels stuck fast against some stone steps. Calling for
help, and being close to Mr. Layfield's house, another ser-
vant went to assist him, but after yoking his horse he
found they were all going down the river, and he therefore
jumped off his horse into the water, and caught hold of
the bough of a tree. The other man (Walker) and the
two horses were carried down the stream, The body of
Walker had not been found on Wednesday.
How THE WORLD TREATS DISCOVERERS.—
Probably Lord Byron, smarting under the attacks of his
adversaries, really thought that all England was furiously
raging against him ; but the sale of his works, and the in-
fluence of his genius on contemporaries, suffice to keep us
from such an error. So far from its being true that the
world treats great men with injustice and ingratitude, wit
are of opinion that, on the whole, justice is meted out, and
gratitude is freely given, whenever it can reasonably be ex-
pected to exist. This last clause is added, because it is surely
preposterous to expect that a public, which feels no benefit,
should be grateful for that benefit which escapes its appre-
ciation. The profound thinker may detect a truth which will
hereafter benefit the human race ; but if his contemporaries
cannot see that truth, cannot realise the oenefit, how should
they be grateful for it ? The truth will be seen by a chosen
few ; they will be grateful for it; posterity will be grateful
when posterity has grown to fuller vision ; but so long as
the truth remains unappreciated, either through the igno-
rance of the publie, or the imperfect presentation to the
public which the thinker has given of his truth, there must
neeessarily be neglect, But this, if a reproach against the
intelligence, is none against the gratitude of the public.=
Blackwood's Magazine.
SlAM.—There is one peculiar feature which iso-
lates it from every other empire of the earth ; Siam has no
cities I No strong-built, well-fortified, elegantly-con-
structed towns and cities, with suburbs and suburban villas.
The pagan in liindostan rivalled in the architecture of hie
temple the most splendid efforts of Greece in her sunniest
days. The Taj Mahal was something exquisite in the con-
ception of the brain that first conceived its existence in
embryo. China and Japan have noble specimens also of
architectural beauty, and all Christendom and the Ottoman
Empire have something to show in the shape of what con-
stitutes a city. The tent of the Arab of the desert and the
floating-house of the Siamese are very much assimilated.
Now they are swallowed up in the vortex of some town or
city constituting an item either central or suburban. Now
they are isolated and lonesome. In fact, the Siamese may
be called the Bedouins of the river. Whilst the Arab's
faith clings tightly to his mare, on whose back he may
fleetly traverse the sandy wastes pursuing or pursued, the
Siamese relies upon the excellence and swiftness of his
canoe, which constitutes his all in all, whether for pleasure
or for flight, or for the remunerative services it renders him
in fishing or in the conveyance and vending of the produce
of the soil. As in the desert we may encounter the solitary
tent of an Arab, his spear stuck into the ground and his
well-beloved mare fastened thereto, so, in desolate portions
of the Menam are to be encountered single floating houses
with the indispensable canoe chained to the front, and here:
in fishing or some other occupation, the inhabitants pass
the time in undisturbed tranquillity. The capital of Siam.
Bangkok, is gothing more nor less than a congregation of
wooden huts or cabins floating upon strongly constructed
bamboo rafts, any score or two of which may at any given
moment be loosed from their moorings and shift the scene
of their future homes either farther up or lower down the
river, thus weakening the city in the number of its houses
and inhabitants. Or else, as is not unoften the case, some
thousand-ton ship or junk of huge proportions swings sud-
denly to the tide, carrying away a small colony of houses,
which drift away rapidly, to the astonishment and terror
of the yelling inmates. With the exception of a few palaces
and watts, and a few monumental pillars and European re-
sidences, Bangkok has nothing substantial about it, and
some unusual floodtides might any night sweep away the
greater mass of houses and population, and leave the
astonished inmates of the more solid fabrics on terra firma
positively alone in their glory.—Colburn's New Monthly
Magazine.
A gentleman collected a number of young people
around him, and began to teach them what was meant by
faith; and, to make it more clear, the gentleman had pro-
vided himself with an egg and a cup ; and, after talking for
a long time, he said to the children, "Look at me. What
is this in my hand ?" "An egg, sir," was the reply.
1 " What is this ?" he said, holding up the cup. " A cup,
sir," all cried out. "You see the egg, do you not ?"
" Yes, sir." He then placed the cup over the egg. "Do
you see it now ?" "No, sir." "But you believe it to be
there, although you do not see it. You believe it without
:seeing it, do you not f" " Yes, sir," " Very good, very
good. Now, my good children, tell me what faith is P"
"If you please, sir," they cried, " it is an egg under a tea-
cup."—The Quiver.
Count Alfred Lutteroth has left the Brunswick
Hotel, Jermyn-street, on a visit to Lady Georgians Cod-
, rington, at Doddingtort Park, Chippenham.