The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-18 00:00:00

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed.—James R. Bailey of Ipswich, and Osborn and
Elizabeth, from West, for London.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton April 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles May 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pacLet May 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and at. Helena April 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 18.
.Ditto, via Marseilles April 26.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton April 18.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton...„April 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. April 26.
Ditto, via M ars ei lles ....April 20.
Mauritius, via Southampton May 12.
Ditto, via Marseilles May 6.
Newfoundland May 10.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet .. • April 26
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton
Ditto, via Cork . • • • .
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 21.
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe April 12.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico April 13.
Bahamas, via New York. Apri 28.
Bermuda, ditto May 10.
Cuba and Mexico Apr.l 23.

THE NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND..—Amongst the
artists who have kindly promised their valuable aid
at the banquet on tho 20th of May—Mr. Charles Dickens
in the chair—aro Miss Louisa Pyne, Madlie. Enoquist
(the Swedish vocalist), Madame Weiss, Miss Emily Sol.-
dens, Madame Sainton-Dolby, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. G
Perrin, Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Sims Reeves, with M. Benedict
as conductor.

RIOT AT THE ROCHDALE ELECTlON.—Yesterday
two Irishmen, named Patrick Hoy and Richard
Moran, were brought up at the Rochdale Police-court,
charged with rioting, with about 150 other persons, and
assaulting Superintendent Pickering, of the county consta-
bulary; Inspector Richmond, of Manchester ; and Inspector
Bent of Prestwich. Chief Constable Sylvester said that
on Saturday morning, between twelve and one o'clock,
information was received at the police-office that there
was a riot in John-street. Superintendent Pickering, ac-
companied by Inspectors Richmond and Bent, wont to
the scene and found there a mob of about 150 persons ;
and they were about to break open the door of the Tal-
bot Inn, which was one of Mr. Potter's committee-rooms.
Mr. Pickering remonstrated with them, and requested
them to desist. Hoy struck Mr. Pickering over the
head with a large stick, which stunned him for a few
minutes ; but on recovering he wrested a staff from a per-.
son who was beating him, and defended himself from
the attack of the crowd. The prisoners also assaulted In-
spectors Richmond and Bent. The chief constable, at this
stage, laid on the table a formidable life preserver, a very
large poker, and a couple of blackthorn shillelahs, which
had been taken from the prisoners and other persons not
yet in custody. Mr. Pickering was unable to attend the
court, and is suffering severely from the ill-treatment he
received. The prisoners were remanded.
A case: just heard before the French Imperial
Court of Rouen disclosed some curious details as to
how the oyster trade at Fecamp is carried on. The owners
of, oyster boats there form a community for the sale of
the yield, and each year, in the month of August, the
produce of the coming season, which lasts from the Ist
of September to the 80th of April is put up to auction.
In August last a merchant at Fecamp named
Martin purchased the whole at 24f. the 1,000 (by
usage consisting of 1,200) during the month of September,
and 2Gfr. for the rest of the season. Martin in his turn
engaged to supply a merchant at Dunkirk named Lievon
with 150,000 oysters in September at 39fr. the 1,000, and
for the remainder of the season as many as Lieven pleased
at 32fr. the 1,000, engaging to load them on board boats
for Dunkirk, after having kept them in a park for a week.
A lot of 172,000 were sent off, but they arrived in bad con-
dition, and Lieven having suffered a loss of 5,000 fr., did
not order any more during the winter months. As, how-
ever, the oysters which were purchased by contract in
August at 32fr. the 1,000 were iu March worth 50fr., Lieven,
on the 25th March, gave notice that he would take the
whole produce from that time until the end of the sea-
son. Considering that the oysters had before suffered frons
remaining in the park, and from being heated in the hold
of the boats by which they were carried to Dunkirk, he in-
and refused to de..
formed Martin that he would for the future take possession
of the fish on the quay at Fecamp. The latter, however,
liverw i wished ed
the
fish t o asvho iads fulfilling
required, theon contract,
the
ptext re that they were
only to be delivered on board boats for Dunkirk, and after
remaining a week
in park. The affair was brought before
the Tribunal of Commerce at Fecamp, when Martin was
condemned to deliver all the fish to Lieven, at the ordinary
under a penalty of 15fr. per thousand.
Martin appealed to the Imperial Court of Rouen against
tlhanaatidliijnniglgm place,
ent, but the first decision was confirmed and
the penalty raised to 20fr.