The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-24 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton May 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles May 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pao. et May 4.
Ditto, by French packet
April 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena April 23.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—May 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles ... April 28.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton ..... April
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... May
226..
Ditto, via Marseilles
....April 26.
India (Bombay), via Southampton.
April 26.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 20.
Mauritius, via Southampton .......
May 12.
Ditto, via Marseilles
May 6.
Newfoundland May 10.
Portugal ••.•
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Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
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Ditto, via C.Ak

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 21.
West Ccast of Africa, Madeira, and Ttneriffe. April
West Indies and Pacific (except Baba Las, Cuba,
and Mexico April 23.
Bahamas, via New York. May 4.
Bermuda, ditto
. .
Cuba and Mexico May 10
April 23.

THE ENGLISH BALLAD OPERA REDIVIVUS AT
ASTLEVEL—Mr. E. T. Smith's next move announced is the
engagement of Miss L. Pyne and her sister, with a view
of reviving the ballad operas in which a Stephens, a
Braham, an Incledon, delighted the generation of play-
goers before " Mazeppa," the poem, was thought of.
A JOKE ABOUT A COUPLE OF SOVEREIGNS !
In an old French caricature, dated 1814—A John Bull
appears on all fours, with the head of Louis XVIII., and
the subscription :—" Un gros cochon, dlevi en Angleterre,
qui passe pour dix-huit Louis, mais qui ne vaut pas un
Napoleon."

DANIEL DANCER THE MISER.—The readers of
" Our Mutual Friend" may be interested to read
agngdhdliciheidie
ep
the following particulars in regard to one of the chief
objects of Mr. Boffin's admiration :—Daniel Dancer was
the son of a miser, and seems to have fully followed out
his example. His sister was quite of a congenial cha-
racter. On Sunday they boiled a sticking of beef with
14 hard dumplings, which lasted for a whole week.
But once he found on the common (Harrow Weald) a
sheep which had died of disease. This Miss Dancer cut
up and made into pies, on which they feasted
ifnor
which,
as time. When his sister died, an elder brother claimed
her fortune, £2,000, but Dancer sot up a claim at law
for her board and lodging during thirty years, at £3O
pera e
bannum,
said,
sahnedha-Cdlronefonr
otthheinlgastbuttwbueoatytbweaeoanursclni.dl
On this claim he recovered £1,040. Ho
scarcely ever
changed his linen or cleansed his skin. When he performed
nigeeavi nepri
pinch.
his ablutions, he used sandt
this
insteadig e cheap
ofp
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bt,
oapn. and would
llived
aexucitheaanlgoenef,robbed
tbbethe
any, him-
self in
contenting the su n .
himselfH e was
with fond
occasionallyo f snuff,
Nor would he always use
oarnda
luxury,lruasswhol ifgtelant
by burglars, who forced him to point out his hoards byd
great cruelty, sometimes suspending him by the neck before
chandler'sin a g al
1i
he would make confessions where he kept his money. Lady
Temple had been very kind to hi
his whole property. An ebime,etien and to her
her he left
to his will, because he had made
noprovision
taken
for
~ his brothers, he replied, If I were of an
ancient family I would not disinherit the male heirs, it
would be unjust; but I have long meant to leave my pro-
perty to a stranger, who is ranger,
brothers are old, have more than they can spend or use
properly, and they have no children. I am ashamed of
myself, and of them. I have not even improved my pro-
perty, and were I to live my time over again I would not
do as I have done." In his house, after his death, bowls
were found buried in the garden, filled with guineas and
half-guineas, parcels of bank-notes were stuffed under
the covers of old chairs, jugs of dollars and shillings
were found in the stables ; the cow-house dungheap
contained £2,500, a tattered jacket, nailed to the
manger, was padded with £5OO in gold ; in the chimney
£2OO was hidden, a cracked teapot contained £6OO, and it
was labelled "not to be hastily looked over." He died in
1794. He passed the greater portion of his life at Harrow,
but frequently spent a few days in London, when his usual
associate was Mr. Taylor. They were both well known in
and about the Bank of England, the Exchange, and Stock
Market. Business brought them together at short inter-
vals, but it was a source of much pleasure to both to feast
their eyes on the heaps of coins constantly changing hands
on the counters of the Rotunda. They were frequently
the prey of pickpockets, who knew and waylaid them, but
quite as often being mistaken for mendicants, they would
receive even pence from the charitable.—City Press.