The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-11 00:00:00

SHIPPINGTTIIISDAY,

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 10—Good Hope, from Archangel.
Arrived, Aug. 11—Lady Grey, Lyna, Kustine Maria,
Danneborg, and Princess Gyda all from Archangel.
Alfred. from Ri
from Thisted—Vrgouve -
a—aria, from Cronstadt— Catharina;
lonia, from Quebec. Dieu*, from Worcum—and Pei
Sailed, Aug. 21—Dilpussund for Bombay—Canopus, for
,
Bassorah—Mary Hayes, for Calcutta—Helena, steamer,
far
Hamburg, foroHamburg ncordia, steamer, for Boul)gnand City of
. e

DEAL. Thursday Morning.

No arrivals.
A barque was observed to go on shore this morning on.
the north part of the tindwin Sands ;assistance is with
her. Nothing further is known at present.
Sailed—All the outward bound.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Rather more doing. Sales, about 6,000 bales,

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton Aug. is
via Marseilles Aug. 12,
Brazil and Capo Yards, by British packet. Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 29.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. —.
via Marseilles Aug. 12.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton •Aug. —.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Aug. —.—
via Au 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Marseilles.... Aug.g, 10.
via Marseilles Aug. 20.
Portugal....
Sept. 4.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. —,
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
Newfoundland .............................
Oporto and Vigo .. .......
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Aug. 11.
by
by Canadian packet. Aug. 12.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Aug. California. and British Columbia.. .......... i ` 13,

Parker, who in a drunken rage some time since
shot his mother at Fisketton, and attempted also to murder
his father, was hanged yesterday morning at Nottingham.
The unhappy man persisted in denying that he had any in-
tention to kill, and no doubt the act was not deliberate.
The Home Secretary, however, would not interpose the
royal mercy. Parker died becomingly.
At the Liverpool assizes, yesterday, the two
young men, Brice and Scott, who made such a
murderous attack upon Dr Rowe at Liverpool some months
ago, were each sentenced to IS months' hard labour. At
the same assizes three men were tried for having, contrary
to the provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Act, hired
persons for service on board the Confederate cruiser Rappa-
hannock. They were all found guilty, but were liberated
on their own recognisance Lord Chief Justice, how-
ever, intimating to the defendants that a repetition of the
offence would be visited with greater severity.
ATTILA'S RING.—The Magyar Sajto states that
it has heard from Paris that a ring has been discovered in
the excavations now being made at the camp of Chalons,
which, it is believed, belonged to Attila, King of the Huns.
The ring is of copper, and has the name of Attila inscriL el
on it in Latin characters.
A LIFE OP MAJOR ANDRE, THE VICTIM OP
ARNOLD, THE SPY, including all that recently discovered
docutuenti have afforded concerning his military career, is
being prepared for the press by Mr Henry J. Morgan, of
Quebec.

MEYEBBEER'S " L'AFRICAINE" comes back every
year, says the Atheneum, as a topic of
curiosity. It is really now to be given, we ap-
prehend, at the Grand Opera ; but, to give " L'Airi-
caine" without the superintendence of its composer,
is no trifling responsibility. How Meyerbeer changed
his works, pulled them to pieces, cut out heaps of music
carefully prepared, and would invent this, that, and the
other passage at the last moment, on passing and insuffi-
cient suggestions, are so many matters of musical history,
which every green-room child knows by heart. L'Africaine
was altered for Madame Viardot ; re-made for Mdlle. Cru-
velli; and, possibly, during the quarter of a century in which
in which it has been talked about, it has undergone as many
modifications as there have been years. Now, we are told,that
the " cast" is giving cause of doubt and trouble to the
management. There is a chance of M. Naudin being
engaged. We had rated this gentleman as a Frenchsinger,
and as such, likely to succeed batter on the French than on
the Italian stage, but we were mistaken. Signor Naudin
belongs to Naples.

ONE•LEGGED SWIMMERS!—Captain Camp, of
the Brighton Swimming Club, proceeded (at a
recent swimming match at that queen of watering places)
to "prepare and partake of his breakfast, consisting of
coffee, ham, and eggs, all hot, 30 yards at sea." This (says
a humorous writer in the Spectator), the captain, a one-
legged man, managed successfully enough, on a small raft,
constructed on three cork belts, such as they keep on
passenger ships to throw out in case of a man
overboard. To him, when his cooking was nearly
finished, swam out two other one-legged men, one of whom
upset the raft, and the captain, and his kitchen apparatus,
into a great wave, and there was much rollicking in the
water between the one-legged. Presently, one of them
scrambled up into a boat, in which there were a party com-
prising two well-dressed young women, and sat for a
minute or two dripping on the gunwale within a few feet
of these damsels. This part of the performance also struck
us as objectionable, and ridiculously enough seemed to us
all the more so because the man had only one leg. We have
been unable to satisfy ourselves why it should be so, upon
thinking the matter over since, but cannot get rid of the
impression that so it was.

APPALLING CALCULATION OF WHAT WE EAT
Soyer rose almost to sublimity when he
contemplated the enormous amount, and in his Modern
_Housewife thaws the picture of an epicure in his tenth year
contemplating the future sustenance of his life, and the
luxuries he will hereafter devour. The serious picture of
Adam in a prophetic vision, contemplating all the wars,
miseries, murders, thefts, plagues, troubles of the. future
man, and all the thieves, robbers, soldiers, and murderers
who would proceed from his loins, is the only parallel pic-
ture which we know of. " Fancy ," wrote M. Soyer, "a
youthlin his tenth year, on the top of Primrose Hill, sur-
rounded by the recherche provision claimed by the rank
and wealth of a gourmand. He would be surrounded
and gazed at by the following animals, which would
eventually be his victims :-30 oxen,
450 200 pi sheep,vers 0
r ulffoso,
calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs,. I,2oofooownlsst 1,40
, 300
par
tur-
keys,tridgeBl,s
pheasants,
4 O 0
oodgrouse,
ducklings, 263 pig
and reeves, 500 quails, 500 hares and rabbits, 40 deer, 120
guineafowl, and 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120
turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 800
soles and flounders, 200 eels, 150 haddocks, 400 red mullet,
400 herrings, 4,000 smelt, 100,000 Whitebait, 30,000
oysters, 20 turtles, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, 300,000
rump.s,Sosyaredriinnes bisadnedscarinpethioonvi;es he gives his gourmand
1\ will not fol-
loweshri
5,4751 b. weight of all kinds of vegetables, not in-
cluding fruit, and 21,000 eggs, and 21,030 eggs, and 41
tons of bread, with 49 hogsheads of wine; 2,736 gallons of
water, with enormous quantities of spirits and other liquors,
go to moisten these repasts.-41bout in the World

.•
A BEAR AND His BROTHERS.—The visitors to
the place where the town bears of Berne are kept
witnessed an unpleasant spectacle last week. Three cube
were gamhollitg in a tree placed there for them to climb,
when one of them fell from the highest branch and was so
much hurt that it bled profusely. Two bears a year old,
which happened to be at the foot of the tree, infuriated by
the sight of the blood, immediately fell on the poor animal
and tore it to pieces, in spite of all the efforts of the keepers
to deter them.

ELECTION OF A COMMON CouNcILmAN.--Yester.
day morning Mr John W. Ellis, of Old Broad-street, was
elected a common councilman for the Ward of Broad-street,
in the place of Dr Thomas Abraham, deceased. The voting
was —Mr Ellis, 60; and Mr Wm. Clarke, of Loudon-
wall, 52.

THE LATE ADMIRAL HERCULES ROBINSON.—An
elegant monumental tablet, in the form of a Latin
cross, in white veined marble, has just been erected at Port-
sea Cemetery, in memory of the late Admiral Robinson.
The tomb is the work of Messrs Baker and Co., and bears
the following inscription—" Admiral Hercules Robinson,
died May 15, 1561, aged 73, Erected by his chiidren,".

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,—This Da.

READING RACES—This DAY.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRA.PR.)
EASTHAMPSTEAD PARK STAKES.
Dem loot .......................................... 1
Gunner
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LONDON, Aug. 11.—Wind this day at noon—North-
West; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.
NEWPORT, Aug. 10.--Wind N.W.—Arrived—Turnbull,
from Antwerp tor Rio Janeiro—Reliance, from St, Iva_
zarro for Havannah.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived-11er
Majesty's ship Orentes, from Bermuda.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 10.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Her
Majesty's ship Racer, from Plymouth,
Hurl, Aug. N.W.---Arrived—Christine,
from Quebec.
CARDIFF, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—He!ena, for
Matanzas.

yacht Osborne, 2, Staff (BY ELECTRIC ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
PLYMOUTH. Thursday Morning.
tßeaomwer, from Ireland, with his Grace
and the other Lords of tho Admi-
ralty, arrived in the Sound at 8 o'clock this morning, and
proceeded immediately into }lemon°, where their lord_
ships received tho customary salute from the flag-ship
Royal Adelaide.