The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-26 00:00:00

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Yarra Yarra

Ten ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

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Merry Harp

Eight ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SON'S.

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Antidote
Five ran.
MATCHES.
Birch Broom beat Rapid Rhone.
Catalogue beat Money Spinner.
Jupiter beat Foxholes.
Brahma beat Sister to A.scham.
Lady Valentine beat Arkansas.
Cadeau beat Zora.
Prosperity beat Nebula.

Mr Henry Buller, 11, King's Bench.walk, has
been appointed recorder of Poole, in room of Mr Jamcs
Stephen, resigned.
Viscount des Meloizes Fresnoy, the new French
Minister to the Court of Bavaria, has arrived at Munich to
occupy his post.

The Mexican schooner Angela, which has just
arrived at Havre, came in with one of her crew in irons, for
the murder of the second mate by stabbing, while off the
Az3reF. The captain, in attempting to protect the officer,
received a wound in the breast, and another in the hand,
by which he has lost a joint of his forefinger.
A fatal accident occurred in the Rue de Lille, at
Montpellier, two days back. The walls of an unfinished
house, belonging to a M. Vasserot-Chaffrcy, suddenly 101
in and buried a mason under the ruins. Immediate steps
were taken for rescuing the unfortunate man, but as the
remaining walls were in a very dangerous state the opera-
tion was likely to occupy too much time to leave any hope
of finding him alive.
A TORNADO.—Another of those terrible tornadoes
from which Illinois is noted has lately passed over
a portion of the State, sweeping all before it. A correspon-
dent, who writes from Mattoon, states that the tornado was
heralded by a dense black cloud rising rapidly in the west,
and rushing with fearful velocity over the prairie, accom-
, panied by discharges of electricity so intense that they shook
the earth like an earthquake. It struck the Central Rail-
road at Mattoon, unroofing and blowing down buildings
and carrying away every moveable thing in its path. Some
of the cars were smashed to splinters, and one was carried
half a mile away. Fortunately no lives were lost in that
vicinity. ican paper.

AMERICAN ELECTIONEERING AMENITIES.—The
New York Tribune, while it occupies half its space
with abuse of Gen, M'Clellan, complains that the adherents
of that candid Ate vilify Mr Lincoln. It asks—" What aro
we to say of the patriotism of men who, in this hour of the
nation's peril, bestow upon its constitutional head the fol-
lowing epithets : Filthy storyteller, despot, big Secessionist,
liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus
Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, fiend,
butcher, land pirate, Bsc." This is tolerably well to begin
with.

A case of self•destruction, singular at least as to
its cause, occurred in the suburbs of Paris the day
before yesterday. The unfortunate suicide was a stone-
digger, named Ferdinand P--, aged 24, a naiive of Lyons,
who was afflicted with what:medical men call bulzus, or
insatiable hunger. His earnings being altogether insufficient
to satisfy his enormous appetite, though he ate scarcely
anything bat bread, his fellow-workmen used to contri-
bute towards his support ; but, wearied with thus bur-
dening his friends. and worn out by his sufferings from
the presence of lonia, which aggravated his hunger, he at
lest came to the desperate resolution of hanging him-
self, and succeeded in effecting his purpose. The annals
of medicine reeords many instances of this disease, both in
ancient and modern times, but the most remarkable case of
late years was that of a woman named Anne Denise, who
died in Paris only a few years since. This unfortunate
person was afflicted with bulimy from her infancy, and
while still a young girl used to devour as much as ten
pounds of bread daily. Though not in indigent circum•
stances, she was twice arrested for stealing bread to
satisfy her hunger. She was at length admitted int) the
Salpetriere, and p'aced under the treatment of Drs.
Esquirol and Amussat, but to no purpose, for she
left the Salpetriere as voracious as ever. Her bun.
get varied its intensity ; at ordinary times she could
manage with 121bs. of bread per day for three or four months
of the year she would eat from 201bs. to 241b5.; and for 10
consecutive years her appetite was greatly aggravated in
spring. On one occasion, when she had thought of keeping
Good Friday as a fast-day, she ate more than 30Ibs. of food
in 24 hours. As she advanced in years her appetite became
depraved, and she took a liking to grass and flowers, espe-
cially buutter-cups, of which she would eat an immes.nse
quantity. To relieve the colics caused by this unnatural
food she used to drink brandy, of which she became very
fond, :and at last died a few hours after taking a whole
litre at once. When on her death-bed and unable to take

food, she begged her sister to come and eat near her, and
her last words were :—" Since it pleases God that I shall
eat no more, let me at last have the pleasure of seeing you
eat." It is a remarkable fact that on a post mortem exa-
mination her stomach was found to be exceedingly small,
while her liver was unusually large, and all her other
viscera quite sound and of normal size.
EITRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY OF

£loo.—On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named
Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied a respectable po-
sition at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two £5O
Bank of England notes belonging to the Now Fylde Timber
Company. The circumstances of the case were of a very
singular character. It appeared from the evidence that on
1 the 6th of October, 1860, a man named John Walkden, re-
siding at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid
two £5O Bank of England notes to a young man named
Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde Timber
Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in the
presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in
his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up
his accounts, for the purpose of handing over his cash to the
company, missed the two £5O notes, and as he could give no
account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty.
He was apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and
afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool.
Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evidence against him
—but nothing verypositive could be elicited, and eventually
Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to
heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty
party; but he vas conscious of his innocence, and the fact
that others could not feel the same so preyed upon his mind
that his health gradually gave way, and from a strong,
stalwart young man ho became a paralysed, bed-ridden in-
valid. About two months ago a new phase in the case tran-
spired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected
with the premises of the New Flyde Timber Company at
Fleetwood, found a pocketbook. On examining it he shouted
ant " Notes!" Another boy then came up, and afterwards
an official cf the company, who was passing, took charge of
the book, opened it, and at once saw that its contents were
two £5O Bank of England notes, and several settled bills,
sec., which had been made out to Bond who at that time
was officiating as the company's salesman. Suspicion then
fell upon Bond, and ho was apprehended. On being
charged with stealing the notes, he made a star ement to
the effect that ho lost his pocketbook a few months be-
fore ; that the book which had been found was Ilea ; but
that when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some
one must have put those found in it. Evidence was given
showing that the notes found in the pocket-book were tbe
same as those paid over to Mayor by Walkden ; that aft,sr
they were paid Mayor placed them in a bag, that he weer
then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to
an cffice in Fleetwood ; that both he and Bond went out of
the company's office at the same time; that Mayor wasi
absent about five minutes and missed the notes,
named ; that Bond as well as Mayor had a key which w°1;e11.(10
open the office door and give access to the apartment
the each bag containing the notes were
defence, it was contended by
there was no evidence to show
committed by Bond ; that he was no.
and had never been ,uspec
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prisoner's counsel that
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the robbery had been
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seen to take the money
The prisoner was acquitted
ted of doing so, and that ho had