The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-03 00:00:00

Total for the six months $2,743,586.61.

BALTIMORE.

July
August 856,663.86
September
October 190,700.53
November
December 190,694.81

Total for the six months 51,683,839.95
Grand total of the receipts at the four principal
ports since the 30th of June last, $77,850,844.19
in gold.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DIIE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Feb. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British packet Feb. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. —Feb. 22.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton—Feb. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton . Feb. 2.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Feb. 2
Ditto, via Marseilles .......... ....Feb. 13
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 7.
Mauritius, via Southampton Feb 13

Ditto, via Marseil!e3
Feb. i:
, Newfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tiah packet
Feb. 8.
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton ...... ... ......................
Ditto, via Cork ....... •
Ditto, by Canadian packec, and
Londonderry.. Feb. 2.
West Coast of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 11.
West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico
F. b. 13
Cuba and Mexico Feb. 28.
Bahamas, via New York. Feb. 8.
Bermuda, ditto Feb. 14.

NINE DAYS WITHOUT FOOD.—Mr. Daniel Thwaite
of Rock Ferry, has a small handsome dog, of the
King Charles breed, scarcely 12 months old. Last Friday
week the dog was missed. It appears that on that day
two men from the Birkenhead Gasworks were doing some
repairs at the gaspipes in Mr. Thwaite's house. In order
to get to their work they had to lift a board in the floor
of the bedroom. Whilst they were repairing the pipes
the little dog was
playing about the room. Before be-
ginning to work at the pipes the men turned the gas off
at the meter, and after they had finished, but before they
had replaced the board in the floor, they went down-
stairs to turn on the gas again. It is supposed that
during the absence of the men on this errand the dog
made its way through the opening in the floor, and that
the gasfitters on their return replaced the board without
being aware that they had made the little fellow a prisoner.
This was about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, soon after which
the dog was missed. The family began to be troubled with
strange noises in the house, especially at night, after they
had retired to bed. So incessant did the noises become, and
so alarmed were the children—as the scratchings were very
loud under their bed—that Mrs. Thwaite determined to re-
move the bed to another room. On Sunday last the lady
went upstairs for the purpose of making arrangements for
the removal of the sleeping-place of the children, when,
addition to the dreaded scratchings, she thought she hear
a sort of whining noise. The idea now struck
Thwaite that her lost favourite might be the cau3e of
their annoyance. The board in the floor was again ra
moved, and there was found the poor poodle, worn almos
to a skeleton, after a confinement of nine days and.
hour without food or drink of any kind. On Monday
little stowaway appeared quite lively, and, with careful
nursing, is expected soon to be quite in a convalescent state
—Liverpool Mercury.
THE COTTON TAX.—A large cotton shipper in
the South recently addressed a letter to the United States
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in which he stated
that he had paid the tax of two cents per pound gross
weight, and asked that the amount included in the weight
of the bagging and rope in which the cotton was baled be
refunded him. The Commissioner, in reply, decided that
though the sums thus paid cannot be refunded, as tho de-
cision is not intended to be retrospective, there will be
hereafter a " reasonable allowance " for bagging and rope.
The assessors, in consequence, have fixed twenty pounds
per bale as the reasonable allowance.
A petition for the speedy trial of Jefferson
Davis has been sent to Washington, signed by 20,000
citizens of Indiana, headed by the Governor and State
officers.