The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

ADVANCE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.

PARIS, OCT. 5.
The Bank of France has raised the rate of dis.
count from 3 to 4 per cent.

Pardon of Madame Valentin.

Oct. sth, 1865.

Mr. Leverson preSents his compliments to the
Editor of The Sun, and begs to inform him that he
had the pleasure of receiving the letter of which the
following is a copy, and in accordance therewith
Madame Valentin was liberated from prison at
eight o'clock this morning.

Whitehall, Oct. 4, 1865.
Sir,—The Secretary of State for the Home Department
having considered your application on behalf of Louise P.
Valentin, I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that he
has felt warranted under the circumstances in advising her
Majesty to grant the prisoner a Free Pardon.—l am, sir,
your obedient servant, T. G. BARING.
M. L6e6v,eßr
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psgEsga7e-street Within, E.C.

Bank of England Return,.—Last Evening.

An Account, pursuant to the Act ith and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending Wednesday, Oct. 5, 1865.
MOH DEP &EMMERT.

Notes issued ....a:27,000,2851

Government Debt £11,015.1c0
Other Securities' .. 3.1334.000
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,140.285
Silver Bullion ....

,090,285'.
BANKING DEPARTIMNT.

r'; oprietors' Capi-
tal 114.653.000
li;cst
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commie-

missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and

Dividend

counts) 6,895,910
Other Deposits 13,48,588
ieven Day and
other Bills 593,620

Oct. 5, 1865.

1.49.850,166
U.

4327,09..295

Government Secu-
rities (including
DeadWeightAn-
nuity) . £10,384.109
Other Securities .. :4,17e,260
Notes
Gold and Silver 743,534
coin

439,660,' 63

FORBES. Deputy Caillier.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Oct. 6.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly ; moderato breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy in the morning.

PORTSMOTJTII, OCt. s.—Wind S.E.—Arrived -Cordell;
from Rostock.

OFF SCILLY, Oct. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Henry
Spor, from China.

CLYDE, Oct. s.—Wind from
Trinidad de Cuba.

SWANSEA, Oct. s.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Enterprise, for
Valparaiso.

CARDIFF, Oct. S.E.—Sailed—fronsides, for
Shanghai.

PLYMOUTH, Oct. s.—Wind S.E.—Her Majesty's brig
Squirrel, which went ashore whilst beating out of Ha-
moaze yesterday, got off on the tide.
PILL, Oct. 4.—Wind WS.W.—Arrived—Juno, front
New York.

YARMOUTH, Oct. s.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Elizabeth
Ferguson, from Belize.
DOVER, Oct. s.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—The Concord,
from Cowes, for Shields.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.I
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrived, Oct. s—Crimea, Ocean, Integrity, Lady Have-
lock, Graces, Eugenio, and Erva, from Cronstadt ; Reck-
less, from Colberg.

Arrived, Oct. 6—Prima, from Sundswall ; Providence,
from Caen ; Wave, from Riga ; Spinner, from Windau ;
Azuline, from Quebec.

Dm, Faiday Morning.
Passed, Oct. s—Empress, baque, from Sunderland, for
Al exandria.

ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES EMBANK..
MENT, THIS DAY.—Another fatal accident occurred at the
Thames Embankment at Hungerford Pier. The poor fel-
19vi was engaged pile driving, and by some accident fell
in the water. It was three quarters of an hour before the
body was recovered from the Thames.

OUR DUST-BINS.—We find as dark a hole as we
can, and we call it a dust-bin. In small houses a
favourite place for this is under au internal staircase in utter
darkness, or if not a dark vault opening into an area at the
front or back of the house. By the word dust is meant the
ash, cinders, and unburnt particles of coal, which was for-
merly very valuable in brick-making, under the name of
breeze, probably a corruption from the French debris. This
matter mixed with brick-earth causes the heat to penetrate
easily. In fact, the bricks are burnt by internal heat. But
the contents of the dust-bin are by no means dust only,
which would be harmless enough ; they contain also waste
portions of food, positively more injurious to health than
the undigested food that has passed through our bodies.
In short, the dust-bin is the kitchen midden, a far worse
collection than the farmer's midden, which latter has the
advantage of being in the open air. It is composed of
bones of animals, damaged cooked meat, fish, wasted cooked
vegetables, cabbage leaves, wasted bread, and everythtng
that will not float in water or pass down a sink grating.
And when the bones do not get into the dust-bin, but are
kept separate for sale in some closed cupboard, they do not
therefore fail to give off their noxious vapour separately.
These kitchen middens festerand putrify, aud fill the house
with poisonous gas. It is supposed that the parish dustman
carries them off once a week, but these goods folks are by
no means so regular as our publication.—Once a Week.
ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHES.—The two
crack men from Ipswich and Bedford met at Peter-
borough on Tuesday, when Messrs. Howard's man, Pur-
ser, carried off the silver cup, against Messrs. Ransome's
man, Barker, thus beating the Ipswich man three times
out of five within a week. Ou the same day, at Wis-
beach, Ransome's new man, Dale, met Howard's man,
Brown, and, after a severe contest, Dale took the first
and Brown the second prize. At Sleaford, yesterday,
Howards, with their man Brown, once more carried off the
All England Prize. Another large gathering was held
yesterday, at Maidenhead, under the presidency of John
Walter, Esq., late M.P. for Berks. The All England prizes
were carried off by local men, with Howard's ploughs—
Mr. Gillett's man, J. Ryling, taking the first, and Mr. Mill's
man, W. Brothers, tho second ; the crack man of Ran-
some's, Barker, being placed third. Twelve competitors
contended for these prizes.

ARCHEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES.—In a report ad-
dressed to the Emperor, M. Millet, a member of
the Institute, gives an account of an important scientific
mission to Greece on which he was sent last year. Tho
island of Thasos, visible from Mount Athos, contains a
vast number of unexplored remains of towns, theatres, and
temples, and M. Millet was fortunate enough to find there
several work 3 of art which had escaped destruction at the
hands of the peasants, who, seeing Europeans so anxious
about large stones, imagine them to contain treasures,
and therefore not unfrequently break them into small
fragments, in the hope of finding some. This was
the case with a large and splendid bas-relief, repre-
senting a woman in a sitting posture, and holding a casket
in her hands. On the freeze the words—" Philis, daughter
of Cleomedes," were sculptured. The islanders had broken
this beautiful work of art into ten pieces, and then, having
found no treasure in it as they hoped, had fortunately
thrown them into a corner of a warehouse, where M
Millet had the good fortune to discover them. The frag-
ments, put together again, revealed the beauty of the com-
position, and the head having escaped all injury, the whole
was immediately shipped off to France, together with three
bas-reliefs, representing Apollo, Mercury, and eight of
the Muses, each bearing articles connected with the
toilet, and dressed in long robes with small folds, and
diadems of pearls on their heads, the pearls being
represented by grains of some metal. These bas-reliefs
are about three feet high and eight in length, and bear
inscriptions in the old lonian dialect. Besides these, M.
Millet has sent over five bas-reliefs, two of which repre-
sent funeral banquets, and the three others heroes on horse-
back, also forty marble slabs bearing inscriptions, many of
which are of the time of Alcibiades. The number of
hitherto unpublished inscriptions collected by our author
amounts to about 200, nearly three-foulths of which -were
found in the island of Thasos, the remainder being from
Larisha and Saloniki. The latter place was especially
remarkable for a large monument adorned with four groups
of statues which were daily threatened with destruction or
mutilation ; they they now safe at the Louvre, with a con-
siderable number of antiques of minor interest, such es two
lions, a marble seat, &c.
TILE REPRESENTATION OF BRECON. The an-
nouncement in our impression of Tuesday that Mr. Howell
Gwyn, who unsuccessfully contested Barnstaple at the last
general election, was a candidate for the representation of
Brecon, was, it appears, premature, Mr. Gwyn not having
yet issued an address. The Earl of Brecknock is the only
candidate actually before the electors, and his lordship is
highly popular iu the borough.
A PRUSSIAN PANIC. The Prussians are so
alarmed on account of the cattle plague that they will not
admit within their frontiers foreign animals of any kind,
and even the drovers and all persons suspected of having
come in contact with beasts
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change at New York on London for bills at
60 'eightys is Joel to I(,ifi per cent. At thesetates there
is no pro= on the importation of go d tr.au the United
tatte.