The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN THEATRICALS.

Mlle. Marie Battu has signed an engagornent with tho
Grand Opera, and will make her debut next week in Ros,
eini's " Melee."

Mms. Penco has accepted an engagement for the Opera
at Cadiz and Seville for a limited number of nights.
Mmes. Plessy and Bressant have returned to their posts
at the Frangais after a brilliant tour.

Mile. Vaneri, who was so favourably received last year in
London at the Italian Opera, has declined all engagements
here, and has left Paris for Italy, where she has accepted
the offers made her by the managers of some of the largest
theatres.

Ernest Depas, a Belgian composer, whose performance of
some trios for the pianoforte, the violin, and violoncello se-
cured fur him so much admiration last year, and whose
original and graceful productions made a great impression,
revisits Paris early in the season.
An instance of remarkable musical precocity, equalled
only in the instance of Mozart, is the theme of general con-
versation in Paris. A boy of ten years of age, aged 16, has
composed a mass which has been executed with great suc-
cess. The young composer consented to allow the mass
to be performed at the end of the month in one of the
largest churches for the benefit of the Poles- These young
persons are the grandchildren of Biagioli, the commentator
of Dante and Petrarch, who so long resided in London,
and was so highly esteemed by the English aristocracy.
At a recent performance of "Faust" at Pesth, Madllc.
Carina, who played the part of Marguerite, was not a little
embarrassed on opening the casket containing the jewels
left by Mephistophiles, to find it empty. They had been
placed in the box as usual, but had been stolen before being
brought on the stage. The thief, who has not been disco-
vered, must have been greatly disappointed on finding that
the value of Satan's present did not exceed a few florins

Lord Stanley of Alderley arrived at his house
in Dover-street yesterday evening from Alderley Park,
Cheshire. _ _ _

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left his seat,
Fallodon, Northumberland, yesterday, for Scotland, to at.
tend the Queen.
Col. and Lady Caroline Towneley are receiving
a succession of visitors at Towneley Hall, Lancashire.
The marriage of the daughter of Victor Hugo
with an English officer of distinction is announced. Tha
poet has lived for the last 14 years at Jersey.
The Right Hon. Sir C. Wool Bart., M.P., has
arrived in town from his seat, Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire.
A FOREST GIANT.—A tree has recently been cut
down in California, the circumference of which was 90 feet,
and its height 325 feet. The bark was in some places 4 feet
thick. The tree contained 250,000 feet of solid timber. Its
age was 3,100 years. The wood was sound and solid.
A RIDDLE OF THE SPHINX.—Being a wonder-
fully enigmatic sentence taken from a second edition of a
recently published book called " The Rosicrucian."--The
absorbed (however materially) Londoner hurries by in as
equal unconsciousness as, perhaps, the very imitative Bel-
zoni complacently fixed it, who sculptured deep, as his
" forehead-mark," because he found it dominant (although
in secret) upon the freizes of Egypt, upon his Piccadilly
" Egyptian" Hall, a " symbol" which the quicker-eyed and
thoughtful adept, taught in his great experience, passes
not—in its unutterable mystery as a possibility—without 11
shudder I

THE COAL TRADE TO LONDON.—During the
month of September last 442,562 tons of coal and coke were
entered at the Coal Exchange as having been conveyed to
London by rail, sea, and canal. Of this immense tonnage,
which exceeds that of the corresponding month of 1862 by
36,591 tons 2 cwt, and 274,187 tons were seaborne, 167,496
tons were conveyed by railways having access to the metro-
polis, and 887 tons by canal. The railway traffic was in
the following proportions :—London and North-Western
Railway, 85,781 tong 12 cwt; Great Northern, 49,208 tons
1 cwt; Great Eastern, 12,701 tons 2 cwt; Midland, 10,782
tons 19 cwt ; Great Western, 6,714 tons; South -Western,
1,722 tons; Chatham and Dover, 535 tons 12 cwt ; and Til-
bury and Southend, 53 tons. The supply in September,
1862, was 145,173 tons, 8 cwt, so that last month's entry
was 22,324 tons 12 cwt in excess. Of the 274,187 tons of
seaborne, 91,770 tons came from Newcastle in 232 ships,
84,747 tons from Sunderland in 204 ships, 53,964 tons from
Hartlepool and West Hartlepool in 197 ships, 19,688 toss
from Seaham in 82 ships, 6,509 tons from Middlesboroagobi
in 21 ships, 569 tons from Blyth in 2 ships, 7,659 to pe,
Welsh in 18 ships, 2,583 tons from Yorkshire ill_2B_2lDuff
2,341 tons from Scotland in 12 ships, 1,364 tons
tior:Zonait
in 5 ships, 1,661 tons cinders in 8 ships, and
I,3toes over tha
coal, in 2 ships. This is an increase of 13,98sSept. 30, 1863,
month of September, 1862. From San.
1t324 tons 18 cwt,
the total supply from all sources was 21same period of
or 100,387 tons 12 cwt more than for ta°
„QT tope 6
cwt. As COM-
-1862, when the tonnage was 3,520:_. ear the seaborne
ear 1,237,153 to
18
84,3201 tons (2,467,611
pared with the first nine months
tonnage has decreased 501 ships and
interesting
hilo on the other
i„..,tB63ioNyw
tons against 2,383,291 tons
tb
hand the railways have brougue'lt in 1862, or an increase of
cwt, against 1,052,224 tons Id w
184,929 tons 2 cwt. -- An
prscoVERY•
INTERESTING
ry has just been made
at
arch re alogical discosvßeains
(Arige)
• On taking down
Omolac, near Ussa!-lea
repairs in the steepleof
a bell to make certain
of
1079,
and the church, it
was found to bear the date
must consequently
be one of the oldest bells in Christendom. There is indeed a
boll at Larroque-d'Olmes bearing the data CCCLXXXV,
supposed
tho letter M isto have been accidentally
but of bells was •
mated, as the use only introduced in the sixth
The bell above
century The at Ornolac is the only
one left of three which the church possessed before the first
revolution, when the other two were destroyed. Ornolac
is undoubtedly a place of great antiquity, as numerous an
cient medals and coins have been Lund there. Not long
since M. Bonne], the cure of the village, found a medal
with Hannibal on horseback on the obverse, and an inscrip-
tion in Punic characters on the reverse.
14,, Arroyo, Under-Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Govern-
ment of Mexico, has addressed a circular to
all the European Cabinets. The document
recapitulates the events which have taken
place since the occupation of the capital, the
meeting of the Assembly of Notables, and
the decision come to with regard to the future
form of government for the country, mc., and COn;
eludes by expressing a firm reliance on the moral
co-operation of the various Governments friendly o
Mexico.