The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS;DUB. , 19'
Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. ...... IN-'l3,
via Marseilles: pee.
5.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. De,,c' 29,
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena veL''' ,
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.MN' li,
__ via Marseilles Dee'

Falkland Islands _____
... •
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Deo' ?„
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. $
--. via Marseilles De'' 1/‘
India (Bombay), via Southampton Deo' 6.
Dee.
via Marseilles ........ 5.
Dec.
P0rtuga1..........

Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton ...... 6.
via Marseilles ........ 7.
Dee'
Newfoundland

Oporto -,,,,n
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.. • . -I'' 1
by U.S. racket..• •
by Canadian packet. D°°; 11,
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerife ...... Dec' 14'
West Indies and Pacific
Bahamas (via New Yurk) '
Bermuda (ditto) ....
Cuba and Mexico . . ........
ilpee.
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THE COLOSSAL STATUE OF HERCULES AT 11::‘,
does not, it seems, progress very rapidly t3warm-iloo
restoration. It is at present reclining on a green to 00
large room, where the process of drying it goes 0xic,..4
metal being saturated with damp in consequence of bil',l-11'
been so many ages in the water. A pan of charcoal
sertod into the hero's head every morning, and coolvitiott
cater a genial warmth to the whole body. The terfOrty
which the statue is to become the property of the O' °1 diel
ment are not yet arranged. The fortunate discoverer 1/J;:0
to have a good sum down, besides an annuity, and the Ghe
of Marquis. The Art Commissioners have value'
statue at 45,000 scudi (nearly £16,000.)
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MULLER'S CONFESSION.—The Church -Lleillt/
remarks on Muller's acknowledgment of his 80".000
" Only Protestantism could have produced a religl.o4
monster who dies in firm hope of his own salvatiolit
professedly at peace with God and man, and yet takes Wit,jo
ho believes to bo the sacrament' in corroboration old
daring perjury, carries a lie with him to the vet,* 0e,,k1.-61:
and dreams that he can repair his contumacious ww-dt a
noes by throe words uttered almost half in and half not'
the next world I His own remark that man callo°.hielst
give sins,' reveals the subtle influence of a system
with all its good intentions, destroys the souls tile,: 10
Divine Lord has sent gracious gifts of healing ul3°-
earth to save."

Births. A CPr
FARM"ER.—On the 2d inst , at 10, Lansdown-ro
haul, Mrs. Henry Farmer, of a son. , n il oon
GIRDLESTONE.—On the 2d inst, at Brent-britik o.
Hendon, the wife of Nelson" GirdleStOne, -DB°
daughter. Avillei of
MELVILLE.—On the Ist inst., Mrs. Alexander 34, Fitzroy-square, Fitzroy-square, of a daughter.

Marriages.
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CHARTERIS—KErpm—On the 30th ult., at 14—dese"
Church, the Hon. Frederick Wm. Charteris. rsti
R.N., youngest son of the Earl of Weraysa 151140„r1 t'S
to the Lady Louisa liePP el *
daughter of the .1--
Countess ot Albemarle. ow
WEBSTER—ALCOCK.— On tho Ist ins t., at Saiet,l:o4l4
Fsh
Dublin, Robert Charles Webster, q"" of Ga ke—piia°"
ltuabon, North Wales, to Dorothea'LY nn AIC
of Major Alcock, of Richmond House, Waterteill'

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