The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-28 00:00:00

IRISH.

OCTOBER.
Curragh l7 Maze 25

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, Sept. 28.—Wind this day at noon--North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy in the morning.

PLYMOUTH, Sept. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived—Bridge-
water, from China.

TROON, Sept. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Sailed—Glengall,
for Cuba.

LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2G.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Hertford-
shire, for San Francisco; M'Leod, for Rangoon; French-
man, for Bombay.

FALMOUTH, Sept. 27.—Wind W.—Arrived
from Trinidad de Cuba.

-Dresden,

CARDIFF, Sept. 27.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Europa, for
Hong Kong ; Eliza Jenkins, for St. Helena ; Veloce, for
Monte Video.

OFF FALMOUTH, Sept. 26.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Sin
gapore, from Singapore.

CLYDE, Sept. 27.—Wiud S.W.—Arrived—Virgiiiia,
from Mauritius.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.'
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.

No arrivals.
Sailed, Sept. 27.—Grandville, for Ceylon.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed, Sept.27.—Mercianus, from London, for Savannah
Passed, Sept.2B.—Koh-i-Noor, from London, for Madras

ABSCONDING SOLDIERS.—TWO private soldiers
belonging to the 83d Foot, named John Lyons and Henry
Unwiu, have absconded from the School of Musketry at
Fleetwood, where they were stationed, after plundering
the officers' quarters of about £2OO in cash, and a large
quantity of valuable jewellery. Major the Hon. C. H.
Tollemach• is the chief sufferer, as, in addition to his cash
and jewels, the thieves carried off his portmanteau and
uniforms, Ste. They have been traced to London.

CLOSE OF THE LONG VACATION AT ETON COLLEGE.
Yesterday the autumnal vacation at Eton terminated with
the return of the lower boys to the college, most of whom
arrived at the school towards evening. To-day the fifth
and to-morrow the sixth forms will return, by which time
the entire school, numbering some 800 boys, will have
assembled. The vacation just expired has been an
unusually long one, owing to the extra week given on
account of the recent royal birth.

AN ENERGETIC EXECUTIVE.—On Tuesday, before
Mr. Raffles, at Liverpool, Police-constable 280,
John Martin, charged two gentlemen with having assaulted
him. The two gentlemen were placed in the dock, each
with his head broken; and it turned out that while they
were talking near the house of a relative in Grove-street,
the latter having sent her servant to speak to them, iho
officer had said the girl was a prostitute and the house a,
house of call; and upon one of the gentlemen objecting to
this he broke both of their heads with his truncheon, and
had them locked up. Ha was ordered to change places
with his victims, and remanded, prior to committal for trial.

PILCHARDS.—The past week showed no improve.
meat in the Cornish pilchery fishery. Several seines were
put out of pay, and the number of drift boats was being
reduced It is feared that many families will he hardly
pressed during the coming winter. Some of the fishermen
have already found it necessary to dispose of their boats.
The stock of pilchards in the curing cellars is very small.
A FRENCH SHIP OF WAR AT BURNTISLAND.—
The French war frigate La Pandore anchored in the road-
stead at Burntisland on Monday. She has come from the
Norwegian coast, having made the passage to the Firth in
41 hours. Her horse-power is 220, and she carries 34 guns,
with a crew of 339, commanded by M. Favin Levque.
After remaining at her present anchorage about eight days
the Pandore will sail for Rochefort, in France.
THE LATE FATAL COLLISIONS IN THE FOYLE.
Since our issue on Friday last only two additional bodies
have been recovered. One was frightfully mutilated, the
front of the face, excepting the forehead and under jaw,
being entirely wanting. The body is that of a man named
3PLaughlin, from the Blies, 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,
Derry Sentinel.

TILE NEW PREBENDARY OF LINCOLN.—The Bis%op
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. lie
has no parochial charge, but is well known as author of a
history of Bonchurch, where he lives.

SERVE Hist 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."

THE CASE OF MADAME VALENTIN.—A good deal
of public interest appears to have been created in
the case of the unfortunate French woman, who was con-
victed of perjury last week at the Central Criminal Court.
The verdict was entirely unexpected, as the impression
produced upon the minds of almost every one in court,
from the nature of the evidence, and the favourable sum-
ming up of the Recorder, was, that a verdict of not guilty
would certainly have been returned. As the offence was
committed in the City of London, Mde. Valentin has been
removed to the City prison at Holloway ; but, although
she was sentenced to undergo hard labour, no degrading
punishment of the ordinary character has been in flicted
upon her, and she is employed in sewing articles for the
use of the prison. She has been in a most depressed state
of mind ever since her conviction, and appears to feel
her position most acutely. Mr. Laverson, the professional
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paring a statement of her case, to be submitted to the Horne
Secretary, and praying for a pardon on the ground
that there was no reliable evidence to support the
charge upon which she was convicted. It is usual in all
cases where an application of this kind is made to the
Secretary of State in behalf of a prisoner to submit the
matter to the judge who tried the case ; and as the feeling
of the Recorder upon the subject was apparent from his
summing up, although he felt bound to act upon the ver-
dict of the jury, there is very little doubt that his opinion
will be favourable to the prisoner, and therefore it is most
probable that Madame Valentin will receive a pardon.
THREE CENTURIES AND A HALF AGO.—" 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 an
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 " pAlectly remembered being employed,
when a boy, in carrying arrows up the hill at the battle of
Flodden."
It was fought in . •
Add Henry Jenkins's age
Less

A.D. 1513

Peter Garden
Less his ago when at York

The writer of this in 18G3, aged

A.D 1865

--:Edinburgh Courant.