The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-26 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
laustralla and Mauritius, via Southampton....... Jan. IS.
via Marseilles' .. Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British padiet. Jan. 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Dcc. 0.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southatupton.Jan. 2.
via Marseilles ...Dec. 27.

Falkland Islands
....
Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Dec. 27.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.. Jan. 2.
a arseilles....Dec,
India (Bombay), via Southampton .M. Dec. 27.
27.
via Marseilles Dec. 21.
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Dec. 27.
via Marseilles Dec. 21.
Newfoundland .. Jan. 2.
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Dec 29.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. Dec. 30.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe .... Jan. IU.
West Indies and Pacific . . ..Dec. 29.
Bahamas (via New York)
Bermuda (ditto)
Jan. 18.
Cuba and Mexico Dec. 29.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS the Field.Marehal Come
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on
Wednesday, January 4.—Army and Navy Gazette.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.
A donation of £lO5 from Mr William Crawshay, of
Caversham Park, Reading, and another of £25 from Mr
E. Crane, of Broom House, Kidderminster, were received
by the last weekly board of this charity. Two thousaud
nine hundred and fifty-two patients received relief during
last weet-, and seven hundred and ninety-six of these

were new cases.
THE LATE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL.—The friends
of the late Marquis of Bristol in Bury St. Edmuuds are
about to place a stained glass window to his memory in
the parish church of St. Mary, in that town. The late
marquis represented the borough for 38 years as Elsa
Jermyn.
The Figaro%Programme proposes that anyone
whose name shall stand in a subscription list in that jourr

nal as giving sfr. for the poor shall be considered to have
fulfilled all the duties of politeness required on New Year's
Day. and be relieved from the trouble of paying visits or
sending cards. The amount will be handed over to the
Bureaux of Public Assistance,

The Gazette de France has received a "comma*
!ideated" note contradicting a statement made by that jour-
nal to the effect that the Prefect of the Seine inte.nded to
propose to the Emperor, in a secret report, the nomina-
tion of a new municipal commission composed of 100
persons, of whom 30 would be members, ex-officio, and
the remaining 70 be appointed by Government.
THE KING OF PRUSSIA AND HIS HOTEL BILL.--0

The German newspapers have got hold of a shabby

transaction, in whichthe King of Prussia cuts a rather
undignified figure, while the King of Bavaria seems bent
on showing him up. The affair dates as far back as 1849,
when his present Majesty, as Crown Prince, marched into
Baden somewhatafter the late Schleswig-Holstein fashion.
To carry out his operations against the Federal Grand
Duchy, he had to cross the Rhine at the Bavarian village
of Gemersheim, where he halted with his suite on the 17th
and 18th of June, taxing to their utmost capabilities the
`cellar and larder of a local Uasthof. Ho ran up a little bill
of 200 thalers, which in the hurry of departure he forgot to
discharge, and the worthy Boniface has been ever since
seeking redress alternately at Munich and Berlin. This
summer he accosted his debtor personally during his visit
to Baden Baden, and was told to forward his account to the
Chancellor of the Household. The latter functionary has
had full time to take the royal order for payment, but in:
November he forwarded to the innkeeper a documemt
printed in all the Zeitungs along
the Rhine, and signed
Puckler," to the effict that as Crown Prince he was then
engaged in federal execution at the cost either of the Diet
or of Bavaria, to either of which paymasters the hotel bill
for wine, Kitchwassen cigars, Ite., was referred. "The
accounts of the Crown Prince have been long since closed"

—equivalent to pleadingtriest7tate of limitations.
It is said that her Majesty will open Parliament
in person. In consequence of the heavy fail of
snow in Sandringham, the Prince of Wales has had the
Royal sledges, presented to the Queen by the Emperor of
Russia, sent from Windsor to Sandringham. The Prince
of Wales and Princess of Wales intend to keep the birth-
day of their infant• Prince at Sandringham, and their return
to Frcgroore Lodge will be regulated according to the
state of the weather. If the frost should not put a stop to
hunting, the Prince will remain at Sandringham until the
end of the month, otherwise his Royal Highness will go to
Frogmore for the purpose of skating on Virginia Water.