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

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

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

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Andras and Mauritius, via
via
isSioauratheiml;43nto.n...
............... 128
.
brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet........ Sept. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. Aug.
chm, penang, and Singapore, viavia
MarseillesSoutba ..
Southampton.

Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Aug. —.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. —.
via 'Marseilles Aug, 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Aug. 10.
via Marseilles Aug. 20,
Portuga1....
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. —,
via Marseilles Aug. 12.
Newfoundland „Aug. 17.
Cporto and Vigo ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Aug. 11.
by U.S. packet....
by packet. Aug. 12.
AU parts of West Indies, including Canadian Chili, Peru, I Aug. 13,
California. and British Colombia.

Parker, who in a drunken rage some time since
shot his mother at Fiskez ton, and attempted also to murder
his father, was hanged yesterday morning at Nottingham.
The unhappy man persistel 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 1S months' hard labour. At
the same assins three men were tried for having, contrary
to the provisions cf 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 recogniaances—the 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 inserited
on it in Latin characters.

A LIFE OF MAJOR ANDRE, THE VICTIM OF
ARNOLD, THE SPY, including all that recently discovered
documents have afforded concerning his military career, is
being prepared for the press by Mr Henry J. Morgan, of
Quebec.

MEYERBEER'B "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'Afri-
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 eo 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 miss of doubt and trouble to the
management. There is a chance of M. Naudin being
engaged. We had rated this gentleman as a French singer,
and as such, likely to succeed better on the French than on
the Italian stage, bat we were mistaken. Signor Naudin
belongs to Naples.

ONE-LEGGED SWIMMERS!—Captain Camp, of
the Brighton Swimming Club, proceeded (&t et
recent swimming match at that queen of watering places)
to "prepare and partakq 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-drassed 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
AND DRINK.—M. Soyer rose almost to sublintity when he
contemplated the enormous amount, , and in his Modern
_Housewife chews the picture of an epicurein h!s. tenth year
troubles
u
contemplating the future sustenance of his life, and the
luxuries he will hereafter devour. The serious picture of
Adam in a contemplatingpropheticvisipolna,gues,
of
all t
h thee u
wars,
tre
miseries, murders, thefts,
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, 200 sheep, 100
calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs, 1,200 fowls, 300 tur-
keys, 150 geese, 400 ducklings, 203 pigeons, 1,400 par-
tridges, pheasants, and grouse, 450 plovers, ruffs,
and reeves, SOO 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, 100,00 d whitebait, 30,000
oysters, 20 turtles, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, 300,000
shrimps, sardines, and anchovies. We will not fol-
low M. Soyer in his description ; he gives his gourmand
5,4751 b. weight of all kinds of vegetables, not in-
cluding fruit, and 21,000 eggs, and 21,000 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.-44bout 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 cubs
were gambolling 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 pear animal
and tare it to pieces, in spite of all the efforts of the keepers
to deter them.