The Sun.
London, England, 1863-07-15 00:00:00

Four ran.

ARRIVALS AT STAMFORD-TUrCOS, Aurelia, Sauterelkl,
Neophyte, Midnight Mass, ItevolvEr, Alliance, Procella,
Lady Maud, Tippler, Trap, Bohemia, Lady Abbess, Bal-
ham, Confession, and Grimstone.

It is officially stated that the rumour of M.
Hubert Delisle having been entrusted with a mission to
Mexico is unfounded,
WASHINGTON IRVING's characteristic was quiet
humour ; mild enough, but quaint ; as when he said
to a gentleman who, in a thunder-storm, declined to take
shelter under a tree, having promised to his father, who had
been once hit, never to do so,—" Oh, that makes all the
difference in the world, If it is hereditary, and lightning
runs in your family, you are wise."
ROGERS'S ANECDOTE ABOUT LORD ABERDEEN'S
SEA-SICIiNESS.—WhiIe I was in Paris, in driving
out, one day, with my niece in the Champs Elysees, we
I nearly ran over my old friend Rogers. We stoppid and
took him in. He was in one of his yearly epicurean visits to
Paris, to enjoy the Italian opera and other refined sources
of pleasure. The hand of age begins to bow him down, but
his intellect is clear as ever, and his talents and taste for
breakfasted with us several
society in full vigour. Be
times, and I have never known him more delightful. He
would sit for two or three hours continually conversing,
and giving anecdotes of all the conspicuous persons who
have figured within the last sixty years, with most
of whom he has been on terms of intimacy. He has
and where every word has its
refined upon the art of telling a story, until he has
brought it to the most perfect simplicity, where there is not
:a: little,tcoaonbe
imagined. I was very much
a word
His wanner, too, is the most quiet, natural, and
unpre
effect.tent::
amused by an anecdote he gave us of little
Queen Victoria
and her nautical vagaries. Lord
Aberdeen has had to
attend her in her cruisings, very
much against his will, or,
at least, against his stomach. You know he is one of the
gravest and most laconic men in the world, The Queen,
one day, undertook to reconcile him to his fate. ' I believe,
my lord,' said she, graciously,
—` Always, madam,' s'you are not often sea-sick.'
was the e grave reply.—' But,' still
more graciously, ' not
gravity, - very sea-sick.'—With profounder
'VERY, madam l'—Lord
if her Majesty Aberdeen declares, that
persists
resign." in her cruisings, he will have to

CHASING A HPPPOTAMIIS. —A hippaptomen
which was being conveyed in a steamer on the
Derttrboiet
srbivoerer.a fAewbwoaetekwsas loagowjue d overboard and swam
to
n ean d started
nid calling
eu
ei
en pursuit.
Ali, the Egyptian keeper of the brute, c
him by familiar names, and at the soundoin of his voice the
monster stopped, looked around, and seemed to wait for the
boat
to near him ; but just as he approached within reach-
ing distance the hippopotamus gave a plunge and once
more disappeared, leaving a whirlpool of seething water to
mark the spot where he had gone down. Nothing Was
seen of him now for a long time, and they were about
giving him up for lost when he suddenly made his appear-
ance about 100 yards off, but nearer the chore than at
first. Ali again rowed towards him, calling to him as be-
fore, but again the Least dodged him, and dived to the
bottom of the river. Ali now made a large circuit with his
boat, in hopes of taking him by surprise as he came up to
breathe ; but, as if aware of his intentions, the hippopotamus
rose at a long distance off. For the third time Ali started in
pursuit with a re:ult similar to that which had attended his
other attempts to re-capture his pet. When ho went down
the third time Ali paused, evidently completely nonp ussed,
and seemingly overcome by grief and despair. In a second,
however, he seized the oars and rowed toward the steamer.
" Try de tog I" he shouted, as he came alongside ; " gib me
de tog I" A large mastiff, which has been trained to sleep in
the cage of the hippopotamus, and for whom he had evinced
much affection,had beenkeeping up a continued howling from
the time his companion had escaped, was now loosened, and
he instantls plunged into the river and swam after Ali as he
moved uff. In about a minute the hippopotamus again
stuck his huge head out of the water, ard, on seeing him,
the dog gave a wild bark and swam in his direction very
rapidly, Ali accompanying him in the boat. At last the
dog reached the monster, and, with a series of barks, com-
menced swimming round the animal, and finally stiuca out
for the shore the hippopotamus tollowing. he interest
excited by this scene was intense, which continued to in-
L crease until the dog and the hippopotamus reached the
American shore in safety. Ali was not long after, and the
animal was no sooner on tort a firma than the Egyptian,
armed with a small rawhide, which ha had taken with him,
jumped on the beach, and, going to the animal, spoke a few
• words, gave him a few smarts cuts over his ponderous rump
with e rawhide, and drove him without further difficulty
• to a place of safety, where he was at once secured.
HEALTH OF LONDON.—The deaths in Lends :in
he week that ended on Saturday were 1,287. Tnis
return exhibits an increase of 100 deaths on that of the pre.
vious week; and it is also higher than ally weekly raLuber
returned since the end of Mayo