The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-09 00:00:00

OVERLAND M &ILS•

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
GIBRALTAR, May 7.
The Ceylon leaves at 7 p.m. for Southampton
where she may be expected on the 12th inst.
MALTA, May 8.
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The Delta, from Southampton, April 27th,
arrived on the 6th at 9 a.m., and left at 6 p.m. for
Alexandria.

The Massilia, from Marseilles on the sth inst.
arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday, and left at 5 a.m. to
day for Alexandria.

►HIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

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GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, May 9—Glenbrook, from Jamaica ; Ganger
Rolat, from Terra Nova; Cattafield, from Table Bay;
Hilkeline Gerherdine, and Hendrik and L bbo, from Nor-
den ; Priscilla, from Gothenburg ; Baron Osy, steamer,
from Antwerp. •

Sailed—Seine, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.--
Passed, May 9.—Quartus, for Cardiff ; Neptune, for New
York—both from London ; Marion, from Sunderland, for
Rio Grande.

Passed in tow.—Talbot, from Littleton, for Loudon.

THE FLOWERS IN lITDE-PARK.—One of the most
brilliant displays of tulips that has been made in any of
the public parks in _London is now to be seen in Hyde-
park. About 20,000 bulbs of every variety were supplied
iu the early part of the year by Messrs. Gibbs, of Down-
street, Piccadilly, with a view of producing a scene of un-
rivalled beauty, and the result in bedding out such an
enormous number of tulips has been the production of a
mass of florid bloom perfectly enchanting. The spot
selected in the park for this great display is from Stanhope-
gate to the Marble-arch; and persons visiting will not fail
to admire the exquisite manner in which the colours have
been blended. The same experiment, although on a smaller
scale, has been tried by Mr. Broome at the Temple-gardens
with the greatest success ; and celebrated as that locality
is for its splendid show of chrysanthemums iu the autumn,
it will now for the future become noted for its brilliant ad-
ditional spring exhibition of hyacinths and tulips.
A RECOLLECTION OF MENDELSSOHN.—With all
his strength, and health, and remarkable vigour, so
cheerful, so fortunate in all his relations, and so ready
to acknowledge his good fortune, Mendelssohn was
often a prey to the fear of death. At the time of the per-
formance of " St. Paul" at Weiml, we were sitting toge-
ther after one of the rehearsals, in his room at the " Erb

Prinz," and in answer to a remark of mine (I myself

being a martyr to hypochondria), that I should not live to
enjoy many of his later works, he said : "0, my dear fellow
you'll long outlive ma." I was going to make a joke
of the idea, when ho said, with the strongest emphasis:—

"I shall not be old." But then, as if regretting the words,
his countenance lighted up with a peculiarly happy ex-
pressicEl, and began amain about the recent rehearsal,
and praised particularly the readiness and cordiality with
which he was met by all concerned. Ilow was it pos-
sible for me to toll that the man who was then
sitting before me, comparatively young and in
all the fulness of life, would in a very few years,
fulfil his own prediction. I had bean in Leipzig in
184 G, and found him fresh and cheerful, and untiringly
busy in every direction. At this time I had the pleasure
of many intellectual and instructive conversations with
him, one of which I have described at length in my
"Fliegende Blatter fur Musik." Only a twelvemonth
later, on the 7th of November, 1847, in his thirty-eighth
year—six-and-twenty years after my first encounter with
the bright and beautiful boy at Goethe's, thegreat musician
was borne to his last home in the Pauliner Kircbe at
Berlin.- Once a Week. •

STEALING A RAT.—A street showman had trained
a number of white rats which might be seen on the outer
boulevards of Paris going through their performance of the
taking of Sebastopol, the Russians and French being dis-
tinguished respectively by green and red collars. The most
intelligent actor of the four-footed company was a large old
rat named Barbaro, and a few days back he had just termi-
nated the combat before a numerous audience at Gros
Caillou, by planting the tricoloured flag on the Malakoff
tower, when, in the moment of victory, he was suddenly
seized by a woman who bad witnessed the exhibition with
great admiration, and who thrust him into her pocket and
started off with her prize along the Rue St. Dominique.
The proprietor, who had been going round with his hat,
soon missed his premier sujet, and very naturally made
inquiries from the parsons around. Having obtained some
indications as to what had occurred, he rushed off after

the WORMI), and having soon overtaken her demanded his
property. She denied all knowledge of the matter, and it
was only on a police agent coming up that she at last and
very unwillingly gave the rat back to its owner. She was
taken into custody.

THE TAILORS' STRIKE.—The men have again
notified to the masters' committee that they are still pre-
pared to close the strike if the committee will agree to refer
the dispute to arbitration ; but are equally prepared to con-
tinue the struggle until their offer of arbitration is accepted
or the time-log sent in conceded. Last evening a deputa-
tion from the central committee of the Tailors' Association
waited upon the officers of the London Working Meu's
Association, to request that body to call an aggregate moot-
ing of the London trades, that the case of the tailors might
be fully and fairly laid before them. The request was at
once complied with, and a special meeting of the com-
mittee of the Working Men's Association has been called
to carry out the arrangement. As at present arranged, the
meeting will take place in one of the large London halls
next Wednesday evening.
COAL ExPours.—Return of the quantity of coal
exported from the port
.of Grimsby, April, 1867 :—To
Canada, 418 tons; Denmark, 2,916 tons; France, 4,786
tons; Hanseatic Towns, 1,358 tons: Holland, 495 tons;
Moldavia and Wallachia, 297 tons; Norway, 821 tons;
Prussia, 1,903 tons; Russia, 1,393 tons; Spain, 1,158 tons;
Sweden, 106 tons-- total foreign, 13,702 tons ; coastwise,
1866—Foreign, /6,542 lona ; coastwise, 3,166 tijui
3,364 tons—grand total, 19,066 tons. Corresponding-
period,
19170$ tons; decrease? 156; 642 tone.