The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

• MAILS DUE.
Amr.ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton ..June 18'
' -- via Marseilles
brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. July 5.
Cape of Good'Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June 29,
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18.
via Marseilles ...Jun° 12'
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton June 10.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton June 18.12.
--via Marseilles Julie ,n
.
India (Bombay), via Southampton
June
via Marseilles June 10.
Portugal.... June 29.
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton June 10.
. .. via Marseilles .. June 12.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U, S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 10.
....

. by U.S. 'packet
by Canadian packet June 12'
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe June 10
Bahamas, via New York July 2.
Mexico
All parta of West Indies, including Chili, Perui;.::: 2913:
California.'and British Columbia..

MR. BUCKLE, THE HISTORIAN, as described bi
Miss Power in her new work "Arabian Days and
Nights."—" At Cairo we had the good fortune to fall in
with one whose premature death a few weeks later noW
makes the souvenir of the encounter doubly interesting'
This was Buckle, who, in his researches for fresh materials
for his History of Civilization,' was now on his way back
from a journey up the Nile. He had, on his arrival in
Egypt, brought letters of introduction to the R—'s, so that
as they were already acquainted he came almost immedi-
ately to call, and was asked to dinner on an early day. I
have known most of the celebrated talkers of—l will not
say how many years back—of the time, in a word, will
Sydney Smith rejoiced in his green bright old age, an
Luttrell, and Rogers, and Tomthy Moore were still capable
of giving torth an occasional flash, and when the venerable
Lord Brougham, and. yet more, venerable Lord Lyndhurst,
delighted in friendly and brilliant sparring at dinner-tables,
whose hosts are now in their half• forgotten graves. I have
known some brilliant talkers Paris—Lamartine and
Dumas, and Cabarrus, and brightest, or at least most con-
stantly bright of all, th'e late Maclaine Emile de Girardin.
knew Douglas Jerrold ; and I am still happy enough to
claim acquaintance with certain men and women whose
names, though- welLknown, it were-perhaps invidious novl
to mention. But, for inexhaustibility, versatility, memory,
and self.confidence, I never met any to compete with
Buckle. Talking was meat, and drink, and sleep to hire;
he lived upon talk. He could keep pace with any given
number of interlocutors oh any given number of sub- •
jects, from the abstrusest point on the abstrusest science to
the lightest jeu d' esprit, and talk them all down, and be quite
ready to start fresh., Among the hundred and one anecdotes
with which he entertained us I may be permitted to give'
say the hundred and first. Wordsworth,' said Charles
Lamb, one day told me that he considered Shake'
speare greatly over-rated." There is an immensity
of trick in all Shakspeare wrote,' he said, and people are
taken in by it. Now if I had a mind I could write meal
like Shakspeare.'—' So you see,' proceeded Charles Lamb,
quietly, it was only the mind that was wanting!' We
met Buckle on several subsequent occasions, and his talk
and his spirits never flagged ; the same untiring energy
marked all he said, and did, and thought, and fatigue and
depression appeared to be, things unknown to him."
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