The Sun. — 1864-08-11 (London, England)

ATTILA'S RING.—The Magyar Sajto states that it has heard from Paris that a ring has been discovered in the excavations now being made at the camp of Chalons, which, it is believed, belonged to Attila, King of the Huns. The ring is of copper, and has the name of Attila inscriL el on it in Latin characters. A LIFE OP MAJOR ANDRE, THE VICTIM OP ARNOLD, THE SPY, including all that recently discovered docutuenti have afforded concerning his military career, is being prepared for the press by Mr Henry J. Morgan, of Quebec.  MEYEBBEER'S " L'AFRICAINE" comes back every year, says the Atheneum, as a topic of curiosity. It is really now to be given, we apprehend, at the Grand Opera ; but, to give " L'Airicaine" without the superintendence of its composer, is no trifling responsibility. How Meyerbeer changed his works, pulled them to pieces, cut out heaps of music carefully prepared, and would invent this, that, and the other passage at the last moment, on passing and insufficient suggestions, are so many matters of musical history, which every green-room child knows by heart. L'Africaine was altered for Madame Viardot ; re-made for Mdlle. Cruvelli; and, possibly, during the quarter of a century in which in which it has been talked about, it has undergone as many modifications as there have been years. Now, we are told,that the " cast" is giving cause of doubt and trouble to the management. There is a chance of M. Naudin being engaged. We had rated this gentleman as a Frenchsinger, and as such, likely to succeed batter on the French than on the Italian stage, but we were mistaken. Signor Naudin belongs to Naples.  ONE•LEGGED SWIMMERS!—Captain Camp, of the Brighton Swimming Club, proceeded (at a recent swimming match at that queen of watering places) to "prepare and partake of his breakfast, consisting of coffee, ham, and eggs, all hot, 30 yards at sea." This (says a humorous writer in the Spectator), the captain, a onelegged man, managed successfully enough, on a small raft, constructed on three cork belts, such as they keep on passenger ships to throw out in case of a man overboard. To him, when his cooking was nearly finished, swam out two other one-legged men, one of whom upset the raft, and the captain, and his kitchen apparatus, into a great wave, and there was much rollicking in the water between the one-legged. Presently, one of them scrambled up into a boat, in which there were a party comprising two well-dressed young women, and sat for a minute or two dripping on the gunwale within a few feet of these damsels. This part of the performance also struck us as objectionable, and ridiculously enough seemed to us all the more so because the man had only one leg. We have been unable to satisfy ourselves why it should be so, upon thinking the matter over since, but cannot get rid of the impression that so it was.  APPALLING CALCULATION OF WHAT WE EAT Soyer rose almost to sublimity when he contemplated the enormous amount, and in his Modern _Housewife thaws the picture of an epicure in his tenth year contemplating the future sustenance of his life, and the luxuries he will hereafter devour. The serious picture of Adam in a prophetic vision, contemplating all the wars, miseries, murders, thefts, plagues, troubles of the. future man, and all the thieves, robbers, soldiers, and murderers who would proceed from his loins, is the only parallel picture which we know of. " Fancy ," wrote M. Soyer, "a youthlin his tenth year, on the top of Primrose Hill, surrounded by the recherche provision claimed by the rank and wealth of a gourmand. He would be surrounded and gazed at by the following animals, which would eventually be his victims :-30 oxen, 450 200 pi sheep,vers 0 r ulffoso, calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs,. I,2oofooownlsst 1,40 , 300 par turkeys,tridgeBl,s pheasants, 4 O 0 oodgrouse, ducklings, 263 pig and reeves, 500 quails, 500 hares and rabbits, 40 deer, 120 guineafowl, and 360 wild fowl. In the way of fish, 120 turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 800 soles and flounders, 200 eels, 150 haddocks, 400 red mullet, 400 herrings, 4,000 smelt, 100,000 Whitebait, 30,000 oysters, 20 turtles, 1,500 lobsters or crabs, 300,000 rump.s,Sosyaredriinnes bisadnedscarinpethioonvi;es he gives his gourmand 1\ will not followeshri 5,4751 b. weight of all kinds of vegetables, not including fruit, and 21,000 eggs, and 21,030 eggs, and 41 tons of bread, with 49 hogsheads of wine; 2,736 gallons of water, with enormous quantities of spirits and other liquors, go to moisten these repasts.-41bout in the World  .• A BEAR AND His