The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market opened very strong. Sales, probably
2,000 bales.

A letter from Larissa, in Thessaly, states that
a band of brigands, commanded by Ghalio, and coneisting
of about 4S individuals, attacked the village of Chamaco
while the male population were absent. The women were
seized, and boiling oil poured on them to force them to de-
clare where their money and jewels of value were concealed.
The ruffians made off carrying a large quantity of booty.
An explosion at a firework manufactory, followed
by the burning of the building, occurred the day
before yesterday at Havre. The stock of combustibles being
small when the disaster took place, the consequences were
not so serious as they might have been. No one was
injured; the proprietor, M. Guerard, was uninsured. This
is the fourth time that M. Guerard has buffered front
explosion.

The Brest journals state that a heavy tempest
prevailed three nights back off the coast, accompanied with
a heavy sea and gusts of wind of extraordinary violence.'
EX-COUNCILLOR MACNISH AGAIN IN TROUBLE.
—On Monday a letter was received from the police
in London by the authorities in Glasgow, requiring them,

if i.ossible, to apprehend Neil Macnish, at one time a Town
Councilier of the City of Edinbnrgh, on a charge of fraud
or embezzlement. Steps were at once taken to secure the
alleged criminal, the result of which was that the detectives
were successful in securing him the same evening in a
house in town, from which he was conveyed to the Central
Police-office. Of course nathing could be done until morn
definite information was received ; and consequently he lay
all Tuesday in a cell in South Albion-Krect. About
one o'clock on Wednesday morning, Sergeant Huggett, of
the London detective force, arrived in Glasgow with a war-
rant, in accordance with the terns of which Macnish will
now be formally handed over to the custody of the metro-
politan officer. The warrant sets forth that the accused has
been guilty of embezzling three different sums—the largest
of which is bets een £2O and £3O, belonging to his employer,
Gustave Gech, merchant, London. Though the above sum
is the largest of the three mentioned in the warrant, it does
not follow that they are the only charges which will be
made against the accused.—Norih British Mail.
A Belgian journal announces that the use of
horse flesh as butcher's meat is becoming common at Yer.
viers in Belgium.
SHOOTING THE MOON.—An officer down in
Georgia tells the following story :—" One night General
was out on the line, and observed a light on the moun-
tain opposite. Thinking It was a signal light of the enemy,
he remarked to his artillery officer that a hole could easily
be put through it. Whereupon the officer, turning to the
corporal in charge of ,the gun, said, ' Corporal, do you sea
that light?' Yes, sir,' Put a hole through it,' ordered
the captain. The corporal sighted the gun, and when al
was ready he looked up and said, ' Captain, that's the
response,'
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parting a terrible shock to the nerves of a lady
belonging to the exceedingly comfortable classes. She had
been denouncing that filthy and abominable practice of
smoking, and boasted that she had just got the parent of a
large family dismissed from his employment because she
had caught him indulging in a furtive pipe. I asked her if
she had ever herself committed the act of eating turbot with
lobster sauce. The imputation was not denied, since the
empty platter which had contained that attractive but per-
nicious mixture was just giving place to another laden with
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cigar or a pipe of latakia with much less prejudice to the
digestive functions.-131ackwootts Magazine for November.

LARGE WHALES ON THE FRENCH COAST.—The
steamer Ville de Malaga, on its passage from Brest to
Havre a few days back, sighted off Barflcur, at about three
miles from the French coast, two enormous whales. One
was of such 4111401160 biz, that it might have Leen taken for
a small