The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-10 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles int. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British pa:. et Sept_ 1.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good [Lope, Ascension, and •t, lit lena Aug. zl.
China, Penang. and Singspure. via Sou !tampion Aug.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. 12
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Sz;uthamdtou....Aug. —.
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (ikanbay), via Southampton.
Ditto, via Marseilles
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Mansell ei... ..
Newfoundland ., . ....Aug. 16.
Portugal . Sept.
.
Ditter,rby private ship to Lisbon
United states and British North America, ty Bri-
tish packet Aug. 10.
- Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ten .

Ditto. Aria Cork
•Ditto, by Canadian packet, via I,,,ndunderry Aug. 11.
West Ccast of Africa. Madeira, and T. uerilre due, 10.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico
Bahamas, via New York. Aug. 16
Bermuda, ditto Aug. 30
Cuba and Mexico

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE —This day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRATIL

GRAVESEND, TillMiday Morning.
Arrived, Aug.9.—lsabella Blyth, from Mauritius; British
Trident, from Calcutta; Crutchless, from Antigua; Maiden
Bower, from Smyrna; Cedar, from Jamaica.
Arrived, Aug. 10.—Activo,hofrnoipnsionD, Dunkirk; Kingston,
Phillip;ko; Kingston,
from Bathurst.
Sailed, August 9 —Geo. T
Dunbar Castle, for Calcutta.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed.—Ticto, for Kurrachee ; Stella, screw steamer,
for Bordeaux; Hellonis, screw steamer, for Malta—all from
London.
Passed, in tow.—Countess Russell, for Bombay; Dunbar
Castle, for Calcutta—both from London.

GOLD MINES OF VIRGINIA.—A Richmond paper
publishes the following extract of a letter from
Goochland county :—" Those who returned from the wars
too late to put in crops, are very busy washing gold from
the branches and mines. I suppose there are 2,000 miners
at work getting gold in Goochland and Louisa counties.
They average two pennyweights a day to each miner. I
have heard that they are working in Buckingham, Cul-
pepper, Fluvanna, and other counties. The gold mines
have never been fully developed. Tho quartz mines aro
large and vory rich, and would pay well, but not a singlo
quartz mill is working in the gold districts. In a few
places some are working with stones and iron mortars,
and in that rude way are doing very well. There will be
a brighter dawn upon the mining districts of Virginia be-
fore fall."

THE MATTERHORN.—It may be roughly described
as an irregular five-sided pyramid, crowned by a
block like an oblong ridge-roof cottage. It stands at an
angle in the lino of the watershed of the Pennine Alps,
and is the sixth summit in Europe, being 14,705 feet above
the sea. On the west it is buttressed by a huge
ridge, which joins it, like a curtain wall between
two towers, to the peak of the Dont d'Herens
(13,714 feet); on the north it overhangs the Zmutt
glacier, and the valley of Zermatt (Nicolai Thal) ; on the
south of the head of the Val Tournanche ; on the east is
the great plateau, from 10 to 11 thousand feet in height,
connecting it with the•Breithom and the rest of the Monte
Rosa range. Of the five edges, or aretes, as they aro tech-
nically called, of the pyramid, ono falls rapidly down
to the ridge running towards the Dont d'Horens ; the
next (going northwards) soon terminates in tremendous
precipices over the Zmutt glacier ; the end of the third
is the Hornli, a well-known excursion for visitors from
Zermatt ; the fourth comes down to the plateau in the
direction of the St. Theodule Bass ; and the fifth, the least
defined, is an offshoot from the first, a little below the foot
of the groat house like block, and falls down towards the
Val Tournanche.—Oace a Week.
A letter from Zermatt of the 2d, in the Courrier
de Lyon, says :—,, The brother of Lord Francis Douglas
(the Marquis of Queensberry probably is meant) has come
here for the purpose of discovering his remains ; he has
offered a large sum to any one who can find the body.
Last night he started alone for the Matterhorn, and would
probably have been killed had not two guides been sent in
quest of him."

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A Two HEADED CAT.—A remarkable case of
lusus nature' occurred last week. A cat belonging
to Mr: Walker, cooper, Drysdale-street, gave birth to five
kittens. One of them had two heads closely joined together,
there being, however, only three eyes. Two were in their
natural places of both respective heads, and the third was
situated at the juncture of the heads. The poor creature
had the usual number of feet, and was sent off to be stuffed
for preservation shortly after the birth.—Alloa Advertiser.
The journals of Rome mention•that three manu-
factories of base coin have been discovered in that city, and
that 17 men have been arrested as implicated in the mat-
ter. A large number of counterfeit Spanish Viastres heti
previously been 31 eirculAiou.