The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS,

The Messageries Imperiales steamer Said, with
the outward mails, arrived at Alexandria on the
25th inst.

The Cambridge, with the homeward mailF, 134
paEsengers, and 680 packages of merchandise, ar-
rived at Su;z also on the 25th inst.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day,

EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRAND STAND STAKES.

Welbeck
Alabama

Ten ran,
ARRIVED.—Tippler and Teneriffe.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1864.

JUNE

Wye 4400 1
Maidstone 3
Ascot
Hampton l5
Newton
Odiham
Bibury
Ju:

Newmarket July
Carlisle
Pontefract
Abingdon
Cambridge
Liverpool July
Stamford

Brighton.. .. 2
Brighton Club ... ..... 4
Lewes 5
Huntingdon .. 9
Wolverhampton , 9
Reading
Egham
Oxford lB

SEPTE:

Weymouth 1
Warwick September 6
Leicester 8
Bridgwater
Doncaster

Beverley .......... 22
Stockbridge .......... 93
Chelmsford ........ 98
New Forest Hunt ...... 28
Ne tveastle-on-Iyne .. • • 28
Woreest.r (Summer) .. 80
Ipswich
'LT.

Nottingham
Winchester l9
Southampton .. 2O
Chesterfield
King's Lynn 2l
Goodwood . 26

Dover
York August 9,s
Yarmouth .. 23
Plymouth
Lichfield
Stocktcu
Devon and Exeter
Derby
imBER.

Bre3on .. 19
Richmond
Monmouth 92
Manchester Autumn
Newmarket First October 27

Railway Traffic Returns,

The last week's raiLway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are, in round figures, as under:—

1864. 1563.
Great Western
North-Western 110,926 95,226
South- Western
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 53,202 34,330
North .Eastern 64,154 53,562
Bristol and Exeter
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 20,111 15,443
These returns, with one or two exceptions, are of
a very favourable character compared with those of
the same period of last year. On the Great
Western the increase is £3,313; North Western,
£15,700; Midland, £8,105 ; South Eastern, £4,435;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, £18,872 ; North Eastern,
£10,592; Bristol and Exeter, £BlB ; Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, £4,668. The South Western,
however, shows a decrease of £2,014; Brighton,
£503; and the Great Northern, £268.

SHIPPING—INTELLIGENCE—(This Days)

LONDON, May 23.—Wind this day at noon—North-
West; moderate breeze and fins weather, but a little
cloudy.

PLTMOUTH, May 25.—Wind B,E ,—Sailed—Zehore,
for Singapore.
SWANSEA, May 24.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Samson, for

Rio J aneiro.

NEWPORT, May 25.—Wind N.—Sailed—Henry Clark,
for New York.

BRISTOL, May 25.—Wini N.W.—Arrived—Queen,
of the Sea, from Pernuwbuco.

SHIELDs,May 25.—Wind N.W,—Sailed—Melancthon,

for Jamaica.

CARDIFF, May 26.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Charles De-
yontosh, for Rio Grande.

The Price of Gold.

By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 426 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.6 i per £1 stcrlin-:.
standard gold at the English Mipt price is, therefore, about
3-10ths per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburg.
The course of exchange at New York on London for bills a
60 days' sight is about 200 per cent., and the premium on
gold is about 82 per cent. At these rates there is a profit
on the importation of gold from the United States.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.171 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of E 3
17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
nearly 1-IGth per cent. dearer in Paris than London.

THE DERBY.—The time of running the Derby,
as taken by Benson's chronograph, was as follows :-1862,
2.45 5-10; 1863, 2.52 2-10; 1864, 2.44.

GREAT NORTIIERN HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-
ROAD, IsLINGITON, N.—The number of patients for the
week ending May 21,was 604; of which 250 were new cases.

The Dowager Countess Amherst has arrived at
the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood,

After much delay Meyerbecr's will has been
opened at Berlin. All that has yet transpired of its contents
is that the rumour of his having prohibited the performance
of his great unpublished work "L'Africaine" was unfounded.
The will desires that it shall be played, but subject to cer-
tain conditions which may perhaps create difficulties.
A letter from Bourgtheroulde (Eure), in the
Nouvelliste of Rouen says, " The corn crops present
a remarkable fine appearance in this neighbourhood, and if
the weather continues favourable for the earing and flower-
ing, the harvest will undoubtedly be quite as abundant as
last year's. The ears are beginning to appear, and will be
out full in a few days. The colsa crop is not so good as it
was last year. Spring corn of all kinds looks promising.

. _
A fire broke out three days ego in the village of
Saint-011e (Nord), by which, in less than an hour, 19 cot-
tages, 14 barns, and 14 stables, were destroyed. The con-
fi4gration began in the dwelling of a day-labourer named
Isorez, whose wife was engaged in heating the oven, when,
having thrown in a fresh lot of fuel, the flames escaped by
some fissure and communicated to the thatched roof, and,
then with great rapidity to the adjoining houses.
A tremendous storm burst three days ago over
the town and neighbourhood of Bouchain (Pas-de-Calais).
A torrent of rain and hail fell for nearly two hours, and
violent claps of thunder succeeded each other, almost with-
out interruption. Four persons who were at work in the
fields were knocked down by the lightning. One was kilied
on the spot; another has been ever since suffering from a
violent nervous affection of the limbs; the other two
escaped with trifling injury.
NEW ANTIDOTES.—A few years, M. Herron,
French Consul-General at Salvador, discovered it
sort of bean, the Sinoba cab on, which is a specific against
the bites of venomous reptiles. While on an impor-
tant mission across the mountains, one of the Indians
of his suite was stung by an equis, one of the most
dangerous of the snake tribe. Another Indian, how-
ever, at once administered a powder, which the patient
swallowed, and a perfect cure ensued. M. Herren
immediately purchased the secret, which was simply the
above-mentioned bean reduced to powder. A quantity of
this bean is nos on its way to France. But for venom of a,
less deadly nature, such as the sting of the bee or wasp,
phonic acid is an excellent antidote. This acid is obtained
by the decomposition of spyroilic acid, salicine and coal, by
heat. It is solid, colourless, and crystallizable; it melts at
35 degrees centigrade,
boils at 188 degrees, and has
a peculiar odour and a pungent taste. It is scarcely soluble
in water, but very much so in ether and alcohol. This
acid, applied to the place, will stop the inflammation, and.
Pommerais trial is:
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arrest in this city has caused considerable emotion. The
parties are M. Hem mann Demme, a young professor of
medicine at the University of Berne, and the widow of a
banker named Trumpy, the charge against them being to
have poisoned the latter. M. Demme, as medioal atten-
dant to the Trumpy family had been at different times
called in to effect a reconciliation between the hue.
band and wife, who did not live very happily toge-
ther. M. Demme thus became a friend of the family,
and, in 1869, accompanied them in a tour in the East. M.
'frumpy died some months since, and in consequence of
different rumours which became current, an inquiry was
instituted, the body of the deceased was disinterred, and on
examination death was found to have been caused by strych-
nine. No idea was at first entertained of a crime, but rather
of suicide caused by unfortunate speculations on the
Bourse. M. Demme was, however, suspected of having
furnished the poison. The judicial authorities on continu-
ing their inquiries have now formed a different opinion, and
the widow and M, Demme have both been arrested."
LIFE SAVED BY A DOG.--At the late wreck at
Sasday, a Newfoundland dog, belonging to the vessel,
set ing a poor fellow struggling among the breakers, leaped
into the sea, and having seized in his mouth the upper part
of the man's jacket bore his head up, and swam ashore with
him.—Orimdiati.