The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-07 00:00:00

AIVOTIIER CASPAR HA USER STORY.

The departures from the Port of London for the Aus-
tralian colonies during the past week have comprised 12
vessels-5 to Port Philip, 2to Adelaide, 2to New
Zealand, Ito Portland-bay, Ito Sydney, and Ito
Hobart Town, with an aggregate capacity of 7,000
tons. The rates of freight still exhibit great flatness.
FLOODS IN THE TEES.—The heavy rains which hare
recently fallen have caused heavy floods in the Tees dur-
ing the past week. On Sunday week great quantities of
wheat, &c., came down the river at Stockton, an&
amongst other things an entire stock of corn, on the top.
of which a man was observed sitting.
LADY GRANVILLE'S LOSS AT TEE CORONATICAV,'-.
Tne
lowin Moscow correspondent of Le N tine !ford gives e fol-
g curious story :—" On the day of the coronatima
and at the moment when the cortege was entering the
Kremlin, a magnificent pearl necklace worn by Lady
Graz-iv:lle broke, and the pearls, each of which was of
great value, were scattered at her feet. Her ladyship
did not evince the slightest emotion at the circumstance,
but proceeded on her way, leaving behind her the rem-
nants of an ornament which would be a fortune to any
one less wealthy than the lady of the English Ambas-
sador."

AN ANTI-VEGETARIAN VIRGIN.—One of our north.
country pitmen, who had turned vegetarian, went a-
" peq. " ~
courting to a plucky lass in the colliery village, and
witopph you d !the
Do ou uestion
y thin" k I'm Obg " said she, "go along
oing to be flesh of your
flesh, and you living on cabbages ? Get a vegetable.
.narrow, man ; I'm not an animal of your sort.' Andi
off she
Gateshead Observer. bounced—leaving him, like Lord Ullin, "lament.
THE FATAL CASE OF PRACTICAL JOKING. Joseph
Francis, the man remanded last week, as reported in
The Saes, was trought up again on Saturday before the
county magistrates sitting at Bath, on a charge of
having killed Thomas Burridge, a labourer with whom
he was at work at Charterhouse Hinton, a village about
four miles from that city, by throwing a barley-fork at
assizes on a charge of
him. He was committed to take hid trial at the next
returned a similar verdict.
manslaughter. The coroner's jury
ECLIPSE OF TIIE MOON.—There will be a nearly total
eclipse of the moon on Monday next, the 13th inst. It
will commence at 21 minutes past 9
p.m., and end at 27'nwich..
Siam
minutes past midnight. It will be visible at
Greenwich.
PRESENTS FOR QUEEN VICTORIA.—A letter dated
, July 13, says, " the British ship China is loading
here with presents for the Queen of England from the
King of Siam. Amongst them is an elephant of a re-
markable colour, and which will, no doubt, on its arrival
in England, cause some little excitement."
THE GREAT BELL OF WESTMINSTER.—WEST HARTLE.
POOL, Sunday, Oct. s.—The schooner Wave, Moncrief.
master, of Wisbeach, which was chartered for the cow-
veyanca of the great bell for tko Westminster clock to
London, was taken out of Mr. Pile's graving dock on.
Tue3day last. Having taken on board the remaining
of pig iron and coke—
insgt i nf
ogr her destination, here
:lis—ineevt°ehnnesi course of the ensuing week.
stphlo'eerAtr‘iicay‘,v\orbeßfeihslszer:KxiripLeceEdaerttAgheßOUT TUE ,AGE OF HORSES.--A few
(Tays ago we met a gentleman from Alabama, who gave
us a piece of information in regard to ascertaining the
age t, f a horse, after he or she has passed the ninth
year, which was new to us, and will be, we are sure,
to most of our readers. It is this :—After the horse is
nine years old, a wrinkle conies on tl:e eyelid at the
upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter
ha has one well defined wrinkle for each year of his age
oier nine. If, fur instance, a horse bus three wrinkles,
ho is twelve; if four, he is thirteen. Add the number
, and you will always get it. So
thesoafyLls-ri nklegsertitoiermit ;
and he is confident it will never
fad. As a good many people have horses over nine, it is
easily tried. If true, the horse dentist must give up his
trade,--Southern Planter.

A letter in the Allgenzeinc Zcitung tells a most roman-
' tic story of a girl who was found in November, 1853,
wandering about near the village of Weiskirchen, in the
Banat, almost in a savage state, unable to speak intel-
ligibly, though she was full grown. The girl has been
carefully educated since that time, by Friedrich Eck,
the teacher to whom she was confided by the municipal
authorities of Offenbach. She is now able to give some
account of herself, and the result has been published by
Herr Eck in a pamphlet just printed at Frankfort.
What can be collected from her is that before she was &
years old she was seized and carried away from her
'ether, who lived, according to her description, in a
Hungary. For some 15
large house, like a castle, with three towers, and pro-
ewheresihee lived in a place under
oimdst of a forest, where she was tended.
ground,
oh
tillyn6ds
yt
in
naa
cars
seh de
afterwards
midst
by an old woman called Bertha, and a man named
Eleazar used to bring food and clothes for both of them.
About seven years after her arrival there, a little baby,
two or three months old, named Adolf, was brought to
the subterranean dwelling, and remained there from that
time. No instruction was given to either of the children,
but they were kindly treated. In October, 1853, their
foster-mother Eertha took the girl out of the cavern, put
ether into a carriage drawn by two horses, and conveyed
o the place where she was abandoned, near Aschaf-
nburg, whence she wandered about until she was found.
by the country people. The little boy was left behind
in the underground abode. Such is the story which
Herr Eck has been able to gather from the girl's broken
recollections. The Austrian Government has directed
all possible researches to be made by the local authori-
ties to clear up this mysterious affair.