The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-25 00:00:00

Course of the Exchange.—Yesterday.

Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam .. 12 01 12 Of
Antwerp.. .. 25 60 25 64
Brussels — 25 60 25 62t
Hamburgh — 13 81 13 9
Paris
Ditto .. 3 Months, 25 55 25 62t
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine - 120 1201
Vienna
1 riesto .. 11 90 11 95
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid ... ••• 48 4SI
Cadiz
_ _

Leghorn — 25 ii9 -I 25 70
Milan — 25 62t 25 70
Genoa .— 25 621 25 67i
Naples - 25 65 25 70
Palermo .. . 25 65 25 70
Messina — 25 65 25 70
Lisbon — 511; 62
Oporto...- . —51 k
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard), per 0z.... £3 17 9
Mexicans Dollars
Slyer inßars ( Standard) .... • • 0 0 0

NORTH DURHAM ELECTION.—The High Sheriff
of Durham has appointed Tuesday next for the elec-
tion of a member for the northern division of the county of
Durham, to serve in Parliament in place of the late Lord
A. V. Tempest. There is no opposition to Sir liedworth
Williamson, the Liberal candidate, and it is officially an-
nounced that his return will not be contested,

"The steamvessel Yeddo," says the Gironde,
" which has just been constructed in the building
yard of M. Arman, of this city (Bordeaux), and which is
supposed to belong to the Confederate Government, left the
roadstead yesterday morning. She had made a trial trip on
Monday last, and compkted her preparations on the follow-
ing day. The Yeddo measures 682 tons, and has a crew
(entirely Frencl:)
01 6,5 men. She is commanded by Captain
Pater, who is a Lativk-; of France also, and was fur a lung
time master of v,:ssels behmging to Bordeaux. Sue is
freighted with different kinds of goods, and is despatched
by M. Arman himself through M. Cansse, shipbroker.
The Yeddo is bound for Amsterdam ; but everything con-
cerning her departure and the object and aim of her voyage
remained a profound mystery. To the last moment the
freighters, officers, and seamen maiutainci an absolute
silence to all the questions put to them."

HOSPITAL FOR. CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
(Tpl:oEvid (BEST,
BRUMPION.—The pretty little chapel
through the beneficence of the chairman of the
committee, some 14 years ago, for the use of the patients
and, others connected with this institution), will be thrown
open to the public on Sunday morning nest, on the occa-
sion of the anniversary sermon, which will b preached by
the Bishop of Ossory (the Right Rev Dr O'Brien.) The
a
chapel is fitted up with the utmost regard to the comforts
of,tho congregation; and a very pleasing effect is imparted
to the interior, by the numerous stained glass windows,
which, with the ornamental carving, were designed by Mr
E. 13. Lamb, the architect of the chapel. The approach to
the chapel is through tha lodge gates, in. the Fulham-road.
THE HOWLINGDOG.—In the office assigned to the
dog of the Aryans, as a messenger from the world of the
dead, we see the origin of that very wide-spread super-
stition which recognises a death-omen in the howling of
a dog. An intelligent Londoner tells me he has often
seen the omen given, and verified its fulfilment. The
dog's mode of proceeding on such cccasions, he says, is
this--Tho animal tries to get under the doomed person's
window; but if the house stands within an enclosure, and
it cannot get in, it runs round the promises very uneasily,
or paces up and down them like a sentry. If the deg
succeeds in making an entry, it stops under the window,
howls horribly, finishes With three tremendous barks, and
hurries away. Tho same superstition prevails in France
and in (-jell...tally. In the latter country, a dog howling
before a house portends either a death or a fire. if it
howls along the highway, that i 3 hold in Westphalia to
be a sure token. that a funeral will soon pass that way.
In the German, as in the Aryan mythology, the dog is en
embodiment of the wind, and also nu attendant on the
dead. It appears in both characters in Odin's wild hunt.
Dogs see ghosts, and when Hel, the goddess el death, goes
about, invisible to human eyes, she is seen by the dog.s.—
Killy Indo-European Tradition and Falk-Lore.
LIE LADY OF LYONS AS Ali OPERA !—The words
of an opera, says a weekly contemporary, have been pro.
pared by Mr, John Oaenford for a leading musical pub-
-1 fisher, en the subject of " The Lady of Lyons," and it new
only
theH eartii,,,
waits for a musical composer.
THE LAUREATE'S
of
NEW VOLUME OF POEMS,
" Idylls is announced for publication
in July.

VIENNA, June 23.---4..uthentie advises from Lon-
:ton sure that Austria arid Prussia have accepted
the mediation, but without tue clause of arbittatiou.
Denur.uk positis.ely refuses.