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

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.
The iron screw steam troopship Megeara, 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 Geelong; 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 Taraguna ; Phanet and
Royal Diadem, from Colombo; Lady Melville, from Cal-
cutta—all for London. -
The Prudence, of Wilderwank, 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.

Liverpool Cotton Market —lhis Day.

Market rather firmer. Sales probably 8,000
bales.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton .Aug. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao et Sept. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and zt Ilelena Aug. 21.
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Sou hamptun A ug. Is.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via SQuthamptcm.... Aug. 18
Ditto, via Mar.,eilics
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Aug. 25.
Ditto, via ilarseiiles ..
Mauritius, via Southampton . Sept. AO.
Ditto, via Marseil e
Newfoundland
Portugal

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 pipo 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."
HEAT 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 shad©. 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 1542. He saved the
Lawrences and many others, and for his humanity forfeited
his property and his country. He held a large 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, where they crm 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 :—" Au 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
letter rate of postage of 4d. the half ounce.