The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-02 00:00:00

➢TAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Dec, 19.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Dec. 4.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena . , Dec. 2.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.Dcc. 2.
via Marseilles .. .Dec. 13.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Dec. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 13.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Dec 11.
via Marseilles Dec. 5.
Lisbon Dec. 1.
Malta, Egypt, and Men, via Southampton Dec. 2.
via Marseilles Dec. 5.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .. Dec. 5.
by U.S. packet
by Canadian packet, Dec. —.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Dec. 10.
Bahamas, via New York Dec. 19.
Mexico . ....Dec. 30.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili,Peru, Dec. 14.
California,and British Columbia.. l j

In a case recently brought before the Chief Jus-
tice of Newfoundland, be decided that telegr .ph operators,
when compelled to attend a judicial proceeding, aro bound
to disclose the contents of messages, and that in so doing
they do not at all violate the oath they have taken,
that they will not " wilfully divulge" the contents of
messages.

The Journal tie Constantinople publishes a letter
from Castamouni, which says :—" The commerce of this
district is beginning to be more active, and the communica-
tions with the interior more frequent. The principal pro-
duction of the environs of the town is tiftik or hair of the
famous Angora goats ; all the district supplies about 150,000
okes a year (the oke is about 211b5.) Some farmers of the
villages near the town cultivate salep, and at a short dis-
tance from the place are rich copper mines, which were for-
merly worked, but which have for some time past been aban-
doned. Castamouni, which is called by the Turks Castombol,
was the capital of ancient Paphlagonia. It is situated in a
valley surrounded by high mountains, and was the cradle of
the Comnene family, who formerly resided at Byzantium.
The climate is agreeable, and the population amounts to
about 15,000 souls. Almost all the Greeks of Catamouni,
like the rest of their countrymen in Asia Minor, speak no-
thing but Turkish; their education is neglected, and there
is a great need hero of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses."
—ln the same journal is a letter from Broussa, of the 10th,
which announces that for a week preceding a fire had been
raging in the fine forests of Mount Olympus, and was ex-
tending in those of the valleys: On the mountain, from the
measures taken, the conflagration was likely to be ex-
tinguished, but in the valleys nothing could be done, and a
heavy fall of rain was consequently hoped for. At one
moment the town of Broussa was in danger from the
flames, but fortunately a change of wind turned them in a
different direction.
The Civil Tribunal of Strasburg has this week
been engaged for three days in hearing a cause in which
M. Beige, director of the Strasburg theatre, was defendant?
and M. Dulaurens, his ex-tenor, at present of the Grande
Opera in Paris, was plaintiff. It appcars that some time
back M. Dulaurens had entered into an engagemedntetfo
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ga,rement should be cancelled. M. Boige refused to accede
on the ground that the sum offered was in-
sufficient, as persons, to whom M. Dulaurens was
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the validity of his offers. After hearing long pleadings on
both sides, the Tribunal decided that the offers made by
Dulaurens were valid, and that he was entitled to demand
the revocation of his contract, but that he must make good
to M. Beige any deficiency caused by the claims of his cre-
ditors on the 23,500 fr, deposited t).t the Caisse deqszots.