The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-03 00:00:00

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Aug'ustralia and New Zealand, via Southampton .00,' 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug" 1
4 ~, 5.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet. ..... .. • •-..- 2
Ditto, by French packet .. Aug' 2
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St, Ilelena....Aub, ' 21.
China, Penang, and Singapore. via Southanipton—Aug ''.
Ditto, via Marstilics Aug" I'
Falkland Islands 3.
Gibraltar, via Southampton
3
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Aug'Southampton ~1
'"
Ditto, via Marseilles • ....... • .. •• • • Aug'— - I a
India (Bombay), via Southampton.
Ditto, via Marseilles .. . _Aug. 6
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 3;
Ditto, via Marseilles Aug "".
1.
ifauritius, via Southampton Aug.
Ditto, via Marseilles, Aug. 11
Newfoundland , Aug. 1.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon...
ITnited btates and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet . . Aug
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton ..

Ditto, via Cork
3.
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Auir•
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teueriffe „. „Aug'
West Indies and Pacific) (except Bahamas and 13.
Honduras) Auk
Cuba and Mexico
Bermuda, via Halifax

Bahamas, via New I 9rk..

..Auk 1'

EXTRAORDINARY VITALITY OF SEED
Three years ago Mr. John Hill, tailor, of Dulvertoo.
Somerset, received from his sister, who resides at P°l3tl:l
pool,in Wales, three single peas taken from a bottle found
buried in an old ruin near that town. The bottle conbtitid
a parchment from which it appeared that it had beell,:s
posited there 200 years before. Mr. Hill planted the r
and in his garden plet the,produco may now be seen,: b.
most luxuriant crop of gigantic peas, the stalks re
es
above the usual height, and covered with very light g of
semi-transparent pods of enormous dimensions, one
which measures 5j inches in length and three in eiretivi
ference, another being seven inches long and ior
LADVERTISEMENT.J—HoIIoway's Pills.— Health's ,If)elli-
tain.—lt cannot surely be necessary to remind aeY ef9
gent reader that the purity of the blood determines e„'beo
invalid's health and vigour. Holloway's medicine sea'- or
out the slightest taint in the vital fluid and neutralienst
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expels it, so that the circulation supports the sYsn sre
place of sowing the seeds of decay. When epidere'Ft" be,
advancing and disease is steadily on the increase iota
hoves every one to have a restorative like these pills reels,
sot right any irregularity in the stomach, liver, 13°.1r010
or kidneys ; and Holloway's treatment is especially sul,er
for the young, delicate, and nervous, who are most suZes-
tible of any prevailing sickness, and whom violent
sures would endanger little less than the epidemic.

Births.
„ toBERESPORD —On the let inst., at 32, Devonshire-place'
wife of Denis W. P. Beresford, Esq., M.P., of a deug ate
COBHAM—On the Ist inst., at Leighton Park, Berls't, of
wife of Capt. Alex. W. Cobham, late 44th Regime"„
a daughter. wife
LEACH—On the Ist inst., at Mattock, Somerset, the
of John Leach, Esq., of a son. ter,
WARBURTON— On the Ist inst., in The Close, Will--c
the Hon. Mrs. Wm. Warburton, of a son.
Marriages.
i;
DASHWOOD —PART—On the Ist inst., at the pans-
bil ,rC
of Chorley, Lancashire, George Lionel, only suriierts2
son of Lieut.-Col. Dashwood, of Shenely Grange, ravi
to Avice Frances Anne, eldest daughter of Tiles'
Esq., of Astley Chorley.
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WARNER—TAPSTER— On they. Ist instales
Upper Norwood, Alfred, youngest son., of the late dto
Warner, Esq., of Northumberland-street, She 0'
Mary Louisa Atherton, youngest daughter of ther,;,,or
E. Tapstor, Esq., of Craven-street, Strand, and
hill, Norwood.

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