The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

We read in the Message?. de Bayonne of the 28th ul

—" On Sunday morning the first column of the 35th
Regiment of the line left Bayonne for the camp of
Lyons. The brave soldiers of that regiment, whose
excellent spirit and exact discipline have been appre-
ciated for the last three years by our population,
marched out of the town crying, 'To Sebastopol!'
The day before our military authorities were directed
by a telegraphic despatch to select from each
company, among the best marksmen, ten volunteers, who
are to be conveyed in five days by railway to Marseilles,
and there immediately embarked for the Crimea, where
they are to form a company of francs-tireurs.' To the
appeal addressed to the ten volunteers the entire com-
panies responded. A great number of non-commissioned
officers and corporals belonging to the depot battalion
begged as a favour to be incorporated as common soldiers
in the war battalions."

THZ "ENTENTE CORDIALE " AT GEELONG.—A. French
phalanx marched in the procession of the inhabitants of
Geelong, when On the 15th of August last they went
out to meet Sir Charles Hotham the new Lieutenant-

Governorof Victoria. M. Prceschel, a leading French
esicent, in an address issued a few days before the event,
had
requested the attendance of his compatriots in order
that the French flag might on this occasion float by the side
of the British banner, as it does at this moment in other
lands, and thus, in pod and sincere friendship, unite in
saluting the representative of her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain.
SUICIDE BY STRYCHNIICE.—On Tuesday, at the Bell
Hotel, Bristol, Mr. Henry S. Parker, an innkeeper, re-
siding in Birmingham, terminated his life by the means
of strychnine. The deceased was well known on the turf
and in betting circles. It was understood that he had
recently become much embarrassed in his circumstances.
Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon an inquest was held
upon the body before Mr. J. B. Grindon, the city coro-
ner, and a respectable jury, and a verdict of "Temporary
insanity " was returned.
A SHOAL OF WHALES IN THA RIVER.—Ab about 12
o'clock yesterday the people on the waterside and in the
vessels lying off Gravesend were surprised by the ap-
pearance of a shoal of between 40 and 50 young whales,
some of them apparently 30 or 40 feet in length, dis•
porting themselves in the middle of the river, between
the town and Tilbury Fort. They proceeded up as far
as off Rosherville, then reversed their course, having
come in contact with two steamers coining down
the river. They were of that class of whales called by
the fishermen " finners '—a name, judging from the im-
mense dorsal fin, which, when they rose to the surface,
appeared to be from 8 to 10 feet in length, most ap-
propriate to them. The appearance of these "monsters
of the deep" in the river so high up as Gravesend created
the greatest surprise, as a similar one, as the watermen
and fishermen averred, had never before been observed.
One of the largest of them, from his plunges out of and
on the surface of the water and the constant lashing of
his tail after one of the steamers passed through the
shoal, was supposed to have been struck by one of the
steamer's paddles. He, however, contrived to overtake
his companions, and, followed by a couple of boats that
put off, he joined them, and all took their departure
' dna the river.