The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-30 00:00:00

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton... —Oct. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet Oct. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Ilelena Oct. 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Son:hamptou—Oot. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles Oct. —.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Oct. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bumbay), via Southampton. Oct. —.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseil e 4 Oct 5.
Newfoundland
Portugal
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Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via C.,rk
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry Oct. 6
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Tcneriffe Oct. 11.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico ...Oct. 14.
Bahamas, via New York. Oct. 19
Bermuda, ditto Oct. 25.
Cuba and Mexico

NEW LEGAL APPOINT3IENT.—The Lord Chancellor
has appointed Mr. George Lake Russell, of the Chancery
Bar, to be the Judge of the Bloomsbury County Court, in
the place of Mr. D. D. Heath, who has resigned.—The Law
Times of to-day.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—
The friends of Sir Charles Eastlake, who may have heard
of his long and dangerous illness at Milan, will bo glad to
learn that the President, chiefly through the fortunate
arrival and altered treatment of his nephew, Dr. Eastlake,
is rapidly advancing towards recovery.
By advic:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 428 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.61 per £1
Standard gold at the English Mint price is, therefore, rather
more than 1-10th per cent. dearer in London than in Ham-
burg.

ELECTION EXPENSES.—The liberal expenses at the
late Liverpool election are published this (Tuesday) morn-
ing. Mr. Evart lost his seat at a cost of £2,765 17s. 11d.
and Messrs. liorsfall and Graves(Conservatives)won theirs
at a cost of £3,237 3s. 6d. We have not yet been able to
LaucazLiao, but the
Conservative spent about £B,OOO. At Birkenhead Mr. Laird
won his seat with an expenditure of £1,274; and Mr. Jack-
son lost at a cost of £1,968.

THE LATE FATAL COLLISIONS IN THE FOYLE.—,
Since our issue on Friday last only two additional bodies
have been recovered. One was frightfully mutilated, tho
front of the face, excepting the forehead and under jaw,
being entirely wanting. The body is that of a man named
M'Laughlin, from the Mies, near Buncrana ; the other has
not been identified. This makes the number of bodies re-
covered, up to the present, 15, and two killed—in all, 17.
Derry Sentinel.

• THENEW PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN.—The Bishop
of Lincoln has nominated his chaplain, the Rev. Edmund
Venables, of Pembroke College, Cambridge, to the pre-
bendal stall of Carlton-with-Thurlby in Lincoln Cathedral.
Mr. Venables was a wrangler and second-class man in
classics in 1842, M.A. in 1845, and is chaplain to the
Bishop of London as well as to the Bishop of Lincoln. Ho
has no parochial charge, but is well known as author of a.
history of Bonchurch, where he lives.

A BEE INVASION.—A good deal of amusement
has been afforded to the people of Oban during the
last eight days by an extraordinary exhibition of the
thievish propensities of the bees of the neighbourhood. It
appears that on Thursday week a newly-hived flock of Dr.
Cummin's friends, headed by their queen, mitered the shop
of Mr. Black, fruiterer, where they proceeded to regale
themselves on the dainties lying so temptingly exposed.
With a total disregard to the laws of mum, et tuum, they
sucked the sweets of all that was suckable, and spoiled a
good deal more than they sucked. Mr Black, however,
anxious to have a select and numerous custom, had not
bargained for a queen and a few thousands of subjects,
and did not appreciate the free and easy way in which
his goods were hrndled, and more especially as "no
returns " was an axiom upon which his customers
faithfully acted. The art of coaxing was brought into
requisition but without producing any effect. Ready-made
honey was lying lying before them, and the bees appre-
ciated to the full the delightful delicacy. The boxes were
covered, hidden, removed to the most secret recesses of the
shop, but in vain. The bees found them out, and tucked
in with the most extraordinary avidity. They defied all
efforts to eject them, and at the same time prevented more
honest customers from entering the shop. At length
when it was seen that there was no probability of the
flock leaving of their own accord, stringent measures were
adopted. The services of two men were called in, who
commenced to remove the goods out of the shop. Not-
withstanding this, the queen and her followers continued
to cling to the spot hallowed by such sweet recollections ;
and it was only when that fatal enemy of the bee tribe, the
dreaded brimstone, mingled with chloroform, was intro-
duced, that the marauders succumbed—the queen bravely
dying amid her devoted followers. The bees, however,
had held possession for 36 hours, and bad shown an ex-
ample which others were not slow to fellow. The fore-
noon after the suffocation, a fresh relay of bees paid Mr.
Black a visit during the warm hours of the day, leaving in
the evening, or whenever they had filled their honey bags.
Others succeeded_ as soon as the first visitors
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to have received the hint, and particular directions as to
the locality of Mr. Black's premises, which still continue
to be the favourite resort of all the bees about Oban. The
wasps have oven discovered the scent, and have put in a
most respectable appearance, mingling with their more
valuable sisters as though they were bees of the most un-
impeachable character. It is duo to the thieves, however,
to state that they keep their stings faithfully sheathed,
and have never lost their amiable temper.—Glasoozo
Morning Journal.

SERVE HIM RIGHT.—The Moniteur of yesterday
has the following announcement at the head of its sum-
mary of news :—" M. Billok, commissary of police at
Marseilles, having abandoned his post to avoid the cholera
epidemic, an imperial decree of 26th September has dis-
missed him from his office."

THREE CENTURIES AND A HALF Ac o.—" I have
seen a man who conversed with a man who fought at
Flodden Field," may be said by a venerable octogenarian
gentleman to whom we are indebted for the following most
interesting memorandum :—The writer of this, when au
infant, saw Peter Garden, who died at the age of 126.
When 12 years old, on a journey to London about the year
1670, in the capacity of page in the family of Garden of
Troup, he became acquainted with the venerable Henry
Jenkins, and heard him give evidence in a court of justice
at York, that he "perfectly remembered being employed,
when a boy, in carrying arrows up the hill at the battle of
Flodden."

It was fought in 11,6
Add Henry Jenkins's age
Less ...

A.D. 1513

Peter Garden

Less his ago whou at York ... 12

The writer of this ill 1865, aged

—Edinburgh Courant.

A.D 180