The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-11 00:00:00

; We can merely note it, and wait to see whether
report is a liar or not. The North has taken
effectual precautions against fur hearing anything
but the most favourable version both of its defeats
and successes. This very cay a telegram from
New York tells us that M‘C.,ELLAN was about to
open trenches against Riclmond, and bring up
Parrott guns from Yorktown ; while an evening
telegram says that every inJrning there was " a
report " that the city was evacuated. The same
respectable informant mentims the evacuation of
Petersburg which lies 20 Jr 30 miles south of
Richmond. On the same authority we learn that
BANKS is returning to the south of the Potomac.
The information respecting General BUTLER'S
high-handed proceedings at New Orleans appears
to rest on better authority. There is no doubt, we
believe, of his infamous order respecting ladies
who offered feminine insults to the Federal
flag, and the last freaks of the general
seem likely to bring him iato collision with foreign
Powers. He has seized 100,000 dollars (i 20,000)
from the Dutch Consulate, the consul, of course,
protesting ; and is quarrelling with the British
Consul over the imprisonment of several per-
sons "formerly members of the British Guard at
New Orleans." All the consuls are protesting
against his conduct, but he probably considers them
to be guilty of Southern proclivities. As to the
inhabitants of New Orleans, they continue as hos-
tile and unmanageable as ever. While in Mary-
land itself, the Episcopal Church has contrived to
offer the Federal Government a bitter insult, which
it has no means of resenting.

ANAcitEeivilu.

BY THOMAS MOORE THE LITTLE,
(From Fun.)
In the heyday of youth, '%ith what folly unthinking,

We plunge into Pleasure's delirious stream—
For there's pleasure in eating and pleasure in drinking,
And as yet indigestion is only a dream.
We pierce not the Future, we live for the moment,
The Present is golden, and Youth is divine ;
Dishes ripe with Dyspepsia we taste without comment,
And quaff with impunity logwooded wine.
But, ah I when we find we've such organs as stomachs,
And learn, when a few fleeting years we've seen pass,
That French dinners will middle-aged temperaments
flummox,
And that panes in the head are produced by the glass;
Ah I then we admit that we slighted each warning,
That Life was swift-footed, and Pleasure but short,
And that headaches most likely will forow next morning
Indulgence too great in South African Port.
That Champagne from the duchy of famed Montebello,
Will old gooseberry play with the biliary ducts;
(And Jaundice, you know, with its rich golden yellow,
Supervenes when derangement those channels obstructs) ;
And that even the Claret of GLADSTONE'S own vintage,
If drunk to excess (and no matter how small),
Will conduce to that inward acidity's mintage,

Which people low-minded the " mulligrubs" call.
For, ah I there are demons that lurk in each bubble,
Which brightens the wine .cup, and winks at its brim,
They slip down your throat, your digestion to trouble,
To parch up your mouth and 3 our eyesight to dim.
Yet oft, when at night fast the mirth is careering,
E'en middle-aged Prudence grows careless awhile,
And you swallow the demons, unthinking, unfearing,—.
And remember the morrow with only a smile.
But oh ! when at daybreak your heads throbbing madly,
The Present's Distress blots the bygone Delight, •
While you look at your face in the glass and sigh sadly,
" That must have been very bad wine there last night I"

Then let from your revels excesses be banished,
And seek with a step somewhat steady your bed ;
Or you'll find in the morn Pleasure's gold has all vanished,
And left yon with only hot coppers instead I

The Austrian Government has, it is said, at the
instance of the Emperor Napoleon, consented to employ its
good daces towards effecting a reconciliation or an arrange-
ment between Montenegro and the Porte, and M. de Mou-
stier at Constantinople and the Duke do Gramont at
Vienna have received instructions to that effect.
The Minister of Marine, it appears, has asked for
a credit of some millions of francs for the Mexican expedi-
tion, and probably the War Minister will request similar
assistance. The reinforcements for General de Lorenpez

will go out in October.
OUR COTTON FIELDS.—The first experiment of
cotton. growing on a large scale is now commencing to bear
fruit. Four bales of cotton grown within one mile of the
centre of the town of Ipswich were yesterday shipped by
the steamer Ipswich to Brisbane, there to be transhipped
for Sydney, and from thence to London, This cotton has
been grown on a ten-acre block of land belottging to Mr.
Panton The land has been cleared, ploughed, aad weeded,
and the crop tended throughout by white labour, the pro-
cess of picking being carried on by children under the
direction of a grown-Op person. About one half of the
crop has already been gathered, and the proprietor estimates
the yield at about 400 lbs. of clean cotton to the acre,—
Queensland Times.

LIFEBOATS FOR FRANCE.—The Emperor of the
French has nominated a commission consisting of the Mi-
nisters of Marine and Finance and the Engineer inChief, to
organise a complete system of lifeboats on the French coast
similar to that now so efficiently in operation on the English
coast, chiefly under the control of the National Lifeboat
Institution. France has a seaboard of nearly 900 miles.
Hitherto the means of saving life from shipwreck on it has
been lamentably deficient. Some engineer officers are now
on the French coast gathering every information they can
on this important subject. It is expected that they will
shortly cross the channel and visit some of the English
lifeboat stations.

GREAT FIRE NEAR BRUSSELS.—On Saturday
night a terrible fire broke out in an immense wax-candle
factory at Anderlecht, near Brussels. The buildings were
close to the gasworks, and, as it was known that an explo-
sion from the gasometer would destroy all that part (.f the
faubourg, the outbreak of the fire created a complete
panic ; but fortunately individuals possessing more courage
and presence of mind scon showed themselves, and the pipes
being cut the gas was allowed to escape into the fields, and
the gasometer was soon empty. The buildings were
burned to the ground, and merchandise estimated at
600,000 f. was destroyed. The loss, however, both of
buildings and goods, is believed to be ' covered by the
insurance, which amounts
the
u.ntsinuarlilto 1,016,000f'
No HllSBsession at Wake-
field a witness was asked if he was not a husbandman, when
he hesitated for a moment, then coolly replied, amid the
laughter of the court—" No, sir, I'se not married."
A FERTILE PARISH.—A few days the wife of
Mr. Henry Graham, of Mitcham, was safely delivered of
three fine children—two boys and a girl. There was one
More child, making fanr in all, but it was stillborn. The
correspondent who sends us this intelligence remarks that
during the last three months there have been seven births
of twins in the parish.—Sussex Advertiser.
THE GREATEST PHENOMENON IN THE WORLD.
—lt may interest some of our readers to hear that William
Champi, the largest living giant, and David Napoleon, the
smallest and handsomest dwarf living, will visit England
next October for the purpose of being exhibited. William
Champi was born at Stockholm, and is 22 years of age.
He is eight feet high, and weighs 364 pounds. He mea-
sures 56 inches round the chest; the length of his arms are
40 inches, and his hands 11 inches; the length of his legs
to the knees are 34 inches, and 21 inches thick ; the length
of his feet 16 inches, and measures round the waist 44
inches. David Napoleon, who was born at Dresden, is
24 years of age, his size being 24 inches, and weighs only
26 pounds. The breadth of his chest is seven inches, the
length of his arms 10 inches, his hands 3} inches, his legs
eight inches, his feet four inches, and measu- es round the
body 171 inches. William Champi, in 1860, while at Riga,
was invited by a Grand Duke to visit Russia, so that he
may attract a great number to Visit him when he arrives
here.

FEMALE ADULT PAUPERS.—Yesterday morning
the following curious return was issued of the female adult
paupers in the workhouses of the several unions and
parishes of England and Wales, classified according to
character :—Single women pregnant with their first child,
669; single women who have had one bastard child, 2,847;
single women who have had one bastard child and are preg-
nant again, 292; single women who have had two bastard
children, 1,711; single women who have had three bastard
children, 877; single women who have had four or more
bastard children, 782 ; idiotic or weak-minded single women
wi h one or more bastard children, 470 ; women whose out-
relief has been taken off on account of misconduct, 327 ;
women, incapable, from syphilis, of getting their own liv-
ing, 543; prostitutes, 790; girls who have been out at ser-
vice, but do not keep their places on account of misconduct,
383; girls brought up in the workhouse, and who have
been out at service, but have returned on account of mis-
conduct, 373 ; widows who have had one or more bastard
children during their widowhood, 680; married women
with husbands in the workhouse, 1,698 ; married women
with husbands transported or in gaol, 258 ; married women
deserted by their husbands, 2,131; imbecile, idiotic, or
weak-minded women and girls, 5,160; respectable women
and girls incapable of getting their living on account of
illness or other bodily defect or infirmity, 5,300; respectable
able-bodied women and girls, 2,267; respectable aged
women, 11,615. Total, 39,073,