The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-10 00:00:00

F RANCE.

M. Adorn, Councillor of Logation, has arrived
in Paris to resume his functions as first secretary
of the Italian Embassy. Considered one of the
most rising diplomatists of Italy, he was called to
Turin on the accession of the Minghetti Cabinet to
fill the post of Chef de Cabinet of the Minister of
Foreign AffAire. M. Albert Blanc, who was pri-
vate secretary to M. Visconti-Venosta, has been
appointed Chef de Cabinet of General de Lamar.
mora. This gentleman had distinguished himself
in Fretch literature before he entered on Italian
diplomatic life.

The Imperial exegaatur has been granted in the
following cases ;—Consul General—M. Thirion, for
Schaumburg-Lippe, at Paris. Consuls—M, Kre.
linger, for Belgium, at Havre; M. Alvarez, for
Peru, at Bordeaux; M. Garcia de Isla, for Nicar-
agua, at Bayonne; M. Gauthier, for the Argentine
Republic at Cette ; M. Popoff, for Russia, at Havre,
Rouen, and adjacent ports; M. Bardot, for Bremen,
at Nantes. Vice-Consuls—M. Braceschi, for Italy,
at La Calle ; Count Gori Savani, for Italy, at Port-
de-Boue ; M. Derot, for Italy, at Calais; M. Ker-
roe, for Spain, at Brest; and M. Wagner, for
Prussia, at Hodieur.

The Moniteur publishes an Imprial decree
making the following diplomatic appointments :
Baron de Talleyrand-Perigord, ambassador in
Prussia, to go to St. Petersburg in the same capa-
city; M. Benedetti, minister plenipotentiary of the
first class, to be ambassador in Prussia ; M. Mercier,
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to
the United States of America, to be ambassador at
Madrid; Ccuit de Reculot, envoy extraordinary
and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal, to be
envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary
to the Germanic Diet, and minister plenipotentiary
to the free city of Frankfort ; M. Boole minister
plenipotentiary in Gre'.'ce, to be envoy txtraor-
dinarj and minister pleniptentie.ry in Portugal;
M. de Gobineau, minister plenipotentiary in Persia,
to go to Greece in the same capacity; the Marquis
de Chateaurenard, minister plenipotentiary in
Hesse, to be envoy extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary to the United States of America;
Count de Massignac, secretary of the first-class, to
be minister plenipotentiary in Persia ; Count de
Bondy, secretary of the first-class, to be minister
plenipotentiary in Hesse. To be secretaries of the
first-class—M. Lefebvre de Behaine and M.
Armand, precis-writers in the department of
Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Massignac
and Count de Bondy.

Count de Chasseloup.Lanbat, who, as stated, is
now at Brest, has visited, in company with Vice-
Admiral Gueydon, the school for mechaniciaus on
board the Vulcain ; the school line of battle ship
Breda, the gunnery ship Louis XIV., the Inflexible,
on board of which 800 boys are assembled, and the
Ville de Lyon, also a school ship for naval appren-
tices. The Minister has also inspected in detail the
arsenal, the different docks, the workyards,
BOURSE, Oct. B.—The retrograde movement still
continues. Threes, for the Account declined at the
opening to 65f. 45c., but have since slightly rallied,
and are now at 85f. 50e. Mobi:ier have receded
to 025 f. iilway Shares have been also offered,
and prices show a further fall. The market con-
tinued heavy to the close,
11 per Cents. . . 92 40

, and left off as follows :
Italian Loan C6 31
Do. end month 66 45
Ditto Threes ..
New Mexican .... if/
Russian
Austrian .. Bl
Spani,h Threes —
Dome Debt
Deferred

10. eR

naont.

3 per Cents
Do. end month 65 40

Credit 920
Do. end month.... 915

Bank Shares 3390

Credit 1 oncier llBO
Roman

BAIL

Orloanti• • **** •. • .
Northern ....
Lyons and lt-leditorranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
San, inian
Austrian
Low bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

AY%
Cash. Account.
830 .. 835
075 982 50
900 .. 903 75
605 612 50
497 60 "-
491 25 .. 492 50
315
430 —43 G
510 513 75
380 385
470 472 50

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POLAND.

The Moscow Gazette publishes the eighth list of
persons brought before the military tritunale and
condemned, within the limits of the general governs
ment of Kiew, for having taken part in the Polish
insurrection. This series contains the names of 343
persons whose sentences have been confirmed by
General Annenkoff. The Invalide Busse also con-
tains a list of 19 condemnations pronounced by a
military commission sitting at Niemirow, in Pocolia,
and confirmed by General Annenkoff, against Poles
accusad of having taken part in the late insurrection.

THE SCORPION.—The Academy of Sciences has
received a viper from Dr
Guyon on the mortal
effects of the African scorpion's sting. Its scientific name
(Androctonus funestus) indeed expresses that it is fatal to
man, and yet Dr Guyon states that perhaps out of 100 per-
sons stung there is scarcely one that dies of it. The ancients,
who under the name of scorpion certainly mean the same
insect, since it is found represented on Egyptian monuments
and even engraved on precious stones, had a much stronger
opinion of its deadly effects. Lucan, in his " Pharsali,t,"
B. IX., says, " Who would believe, on seeing the scorpion,
that it has the power of canting such a sudden death ?" Leo
Africanus states that the houses of Biskra are infested wiih
scorpions, which are so venomous that death ensues imme-
diately after the sting. Abd-Allatif, an Arabian physician
end traveller, says,
"At Koos abundance of scorpions aro
found, whose sting is frequently mortal." Dr Guyon knows
of eight cases in which the sting of the African scorpion was
followed by death ; three of the sufferers were men, two
were women, and three children, Two of the latter cases
of a boy
occurred in 1856, near Laghouat, in Algeria. One was that
nine years old, who was stung on the forefinger of
the left hand by
on the
violenta scorpion, which was seen and crushed on
the spot. This occurred at 8 o'clock a m., and before noon
iit:l:ae swelling ex-
tendedfollowing day the patient died. The sting had caused
pain increasing
considerably, iThen swelling was as
vomitedgreat measure
to the arm. The boy had cried a long time, and then
owing to the ligature which the Arabs always effect above
the wound in such cases. The other case was nearly similar.
Dr. Guyon states that children arc more liable to die front
the effects of the sting than adults, and that a.neng the
latter those who are stung somewhere on the head are most
likely to die of it.