The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRa'II.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.
The iron screw steam troopship Mega3ra, 6, Captain
Montague B. Dunn, arrived in the Sound last night. She
left RiO Janeiro June 6th, touched at Ascension, and brings
some invalids and time-expired men.
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Aug. 16.—Cologne, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Rhine, steamer, from Ostend.

Sailed, Aug.l6.—lnternational, for Canaries; Red Rover,
for Goelong ; Maria, for Buenos Ayres.
DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed, Aug. 15.—Joan Taylor, barque, from Trieste ;
Island Queen, steamer, from Marsala ; Corsair, ship, and
Persia, from Quebec; Rival, from 'Paragon& ; I'hanet and
Royal Diadem, from Colombo; Lady Melville, from Cal-
cutta—all for London.

The Prudence, of IVilderwank, from St. Valerie, for
Runcorn, with a cargo of stones, having sprung a leak,
was put ashore at Dungeness, and has since become a
wreck. Crew saved and landed here.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton... Aug. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug.
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British patuet Sept. 4.
Ditto, by French packet Aug. 22.-
Cape of• Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21.
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton Aug. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 18
Ditto, via Marseilles . . Aug. 19
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. 25
Ditto, via Marseilles ..
Mauritius, via Southampton Sept. 10.
Ditto, via Marseil e+. Sept. 4.
Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
United btates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, Pia Cork

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Aug. 25
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Sept. 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
_ _

and Mexico Aug. 28
Bahamas, via New York. Sept. 13
Bermuda, ditto Aug. 30.
Cuba and Mexico Aug. z 9.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening•

Amsterdam
Ditto Short. 11 18
3 Months. 12 1
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 171
Ditto 3 Months. 25 421
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maiuo 1201
Vienna, — 11 221
Trieste — 11 221
Petersburgh - 30f
Berlin
Madrid — 471
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Messina ............. ..
Genoa —
Naples —
Palermo
Oporto
Lisbon

11 19,
12 1-
12 1.1

25 57
25 57
13 10-
25 25'

25 47
25 47-

1211
11 25
11 27
301

47/
47/
25 62k
25 60
25 60
25 62
25 62
25 62f
51k
511

25 55
25 571
25 571
25 571
511
511

Voss' Gazette of Berlin publishes the following
letter from Dr. Geist, of Dresden :—" I have in my
possession the pipe which Prince Blucher smoked at the
disastrous battle of lena, having received it from my late
father, to whom it was given by my uncle, a trumpeter in
Blucher's Hussars. When the Prussians were retreating
to Auerstadt, my uncle saw the pipe fall from Blucher's
sabretaehe, as the general was leaping over a ditch. My
uncle immediately alighted, picked up the pipe, and carried
it to the general, who refused to take it, testily replying,
Since the battle is lost the pipe may go to the devil. You
may keep it, Geist.'The pipe is a small meerschaum, well
browned, with a very short stem. A silver chain which
attached the bowl to the tube has been lost."

BEAT IN INDIA.—The heat in part of 'June was
extraordinary. At Lucknow such heat had not been
experienced for years ; at 7 in the morning of Midsummer-
day the thermometer marked 96 deg. At Delhi for two
weeks it ranged from 106 to 109 deg. At Umballa it reached
120 deg. in the shade. Even natives succumbed in scores
to the intense heat. At Lahore it proved fatal to Nuwab
Alli Reza Khan, who will be remembered as the guardian
of the lives of the Cabul prisoners in 1842. He saved the
Lawronces and many others, and for his humanity forfeited
hie property and his country. He held a largo jaghir from
the Government in acknowledgment of his invaluable ser-
vices.—Delhi Gazette.
The GREAT WESTERN CARRIAGE WORKS.—The
Great Western Railway Board have, it is stated, resolved,
after all, not to go to Oxford, but to select some station
near it, whore they can find suitable accommodation for
their workmen and works. The Town Council of Abing-
don, in reply to an application from the company, have
stated that they will seek the consent of her Majesty's
Treasury to a loan of £20,000 for building purposes.
THE CAPE.—The following notice was issued
from• the General Post-office yesterday :—" An extra mail
for the Cape of Good Hope will be made up at the General
Post-office on the morning of the 20th instant for convey-
ance from Southampton by the steamship Mauritius. Let-
ters forwarded by this extra mail will be liable to the ship
utter rate of postage of id. the half ounce,