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

FRANCE.

M. Artom, Councillor of Legation, has arrived
in Paris to resume his functions as first secretary
of the Italian Embassy. Considered one of the
most rising diplomatists of Italy, ha 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-
morn. This gentleman had distinguished himself
in Free ch literature before he entered on Italian
diplomatic life.

The Imperial exequatur 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. Bracesohi, for Italy,
at La Calle ; Count Gori Savani, for Italy, at Port-
de-Bone; M. Derot, for Italy, at Calais; M. Ker.
ros, for Spain, at Brest; and M. Wagner, for
Prussia, at Honfleur.

The Moniteur publishes an Imperial 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; Count 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. Boute-3, minister
plenipotentiary in Grezce, to be envoy extraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary in Portugal;
M. de Gobineau, minister plenipotentiary in Persia,
to go to Greece in the same capacity; the Marquis
do 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, preois- writers in the department of
Foreign Affairs, in the place of Count Massignac
and Count de Bondy.

Count de ChasseloupLaubat, who, as stated, is
now at Brest, has visited, in company with Vice-
Admiral Gueydon, the school fur 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. 500. Mobilier have receded
to 925 f. Railway Shares have been also offered,
and prices show a further fall. The market con-
tinued heavy to the close, and left off as follows
11 per Cents. . . 92 40

Italian Loan 66 3
Do. end month 66 45
Ditto Threes
New Mexican
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes —
Rome Debt
Deferrel

monl

3 per Cents - 65 25

DO. end month.... 65 40

Credit Mobilier..., 920
Do. end month.... 915

Bank Shares - 3390

Credit k oncier llBO
Roman

RAIL WAYS.

Orleans ....
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lon, bard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

Cash. Account.
830 .. 835
975 952 60
900 , 903 75
605 612 60

497 60 -
491 25 .. 492 60
315 - -
430 - 436 25
510 „, 513 70
380 - 385 --
470 472 50

POLAND.

The Moscow Gazette publishes the eighth list of
persons brought before the military tribunals and
condemned, within the limits of the general governs
went 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 Invalids 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
accused of having taken part in the late insurrection.

THE SCORPION.—The Academy of Sciences has
received a parer from Dr Guyon on the mortal
effects of the African scorpion's sting. Its seientifl?. 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 ono that dies of it. The ancients,
who under the na.xte of scorpion certainly mean the same
insect, since it is found represented on Egyptian monuments
and even engraved on precious stoves, had a much stronger
opinion of its deadly effects. Lucan, in his " Pharealia,"
B. IX., says, " Who would believe, on seeing the scorpion,
that it has the power of causing such a sudden death ?” Leo
Africanus states that the houses of Biskra are infested with
scorpions, which are so venomous that death ensues imme-
diately after the sting. Abd-Allatif, an Arabian physician
and traveller, says,
"At Koos abundance of scorpions are
found, whose sting is frequently mortal." Dr Guyon knows
of eight cases in which the sting of the African scorpion wa.,
followed by death ; three of the sufferers were men, two
were women, and three children, Two of the latter cases
occurred in 1856, near Laghouat, in Algeria. One was that
of a boy nine years old, who was stung on the forefinger of
the left hand by a scorpion, which was seen and crushed on
the spot. This occurred at 8 o'clock a.m., and before noon
on the following day the patient died. The sting had caused
violent pain, increasing in proportion as the swelling ex-
tended to the arm. The boy bad cried a long time, and then
vomited considerably, The swelling was in a great measure
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 are more liable to die from
the effects of the sting than adults, and that a.nong the
latter those who are stung somewhere on the head aro most
likely to die of it.