The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

CITY BETTING,—THIS DAY.
CESIREIVITCH.
sto 1 agst Mail Train (taken and offered)
sto 1 agst Gratitude (offered)
Bto 1 agst Calista colt (offered)
9to 1 agst Thalestris (offered)
100 to 6 agst Lady Hylda (wanted)
20 to 1 agst Cathedral (offered)
20 to 1 agst Suspicion (offered)
20 to 1 agst Planet (take 25 to 1)
25 to 1 agst Beatris (offered)
3) to 1 agst Charmian (offered)
40 to 1 agst Blackdown (offered, take 50 to 1)
40 to 1 agst Brewer (taken)
100 to 1 agst Dr Syntax (Taken and offered)
100 to 1 cgst Lady Travers ffly (offered)
100 to 1 agst Rol3 -Poly (offered)
SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, OA. B.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; strong breezy and fiae weather.
PLYMOUTH, Oe'. 7.—Wind E.—Sailed—Nimrod, for
Melbourne.

OFF CAPE CLEAR, Oct. 7.—Arrived—City of Man-
chester, screw steamer, from New York.

CARDIFF, Oct. 7.—Wind N.N.E,— Sailed—Jason, for
Singapore.

CFF THE EDDYSTONE, Oat. G.—Arrived—Her Majesty's
ship Vulture, from China.
DARTMOUTH, Sept. s.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Corea, for
Rangoon.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
FLTMORTH, Saturday, 10.30 a.m.

The wind continues strong 14 om.the eastward.

The paddlewheel steameloop Geyser (6), Commander
Arthur T. Thrupp, left the Sound suddenly yesterday even-
ing to relieve homeward-bound ships in the chops of the
Channel, and then to proceed to Qieenstown.
Two ships-of-war, supposed to be the Prince Consort and
the Hector, arrived in the Sound this morning,
(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRATEkEND, Saturday Morning.
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Arrived, Oct. 7—Anna, from Dantzic.
Sailed—Rolland, steamer, for Ostend—Triton, steamer,
for Boulogne—Emma, steamer, for Christiania—Velocity,
steamer, for Calais.

A new novel, of the highly sensational school, is
announced for immediate publication by Messrs. Trubner
and Co. It is from the pen of the author of Blackfriars,
and is entitled Superior to Adversity.
_ _ _

MADAME ROLAND.—Among the v:etims of the
French Revolution there is scarcely one who bas
excited such compassionate interest as Madame Roland.
Her beauty, her groat talents, her high character and pure
patriotism, the influence she exercised upon the more mo-
derate and respectable section of the republicans, the forti-
tude with which she bore the sorrows of her imprisonment,
and the intrepidity with which she met her tragic fate--
all have contributed to render her an object of attraction
and pity. She stands forth among her contemporaries as
a fair representative of what was best in the party that
overthrew the ancient monarchy. In the prejudices
of the party she fully shared, and her memoirs
speak of Louis XVI. and of his political intentions in terms
which history has certainly not ratified. But, in the gene-
rally noble aims of the Girondists, and in their utter
abhorrence of the excesses of Robespierre and his crew, she
also fully shared ; and when her friends fell before that
Nemesis of successful agitators—the necessity of governing
in the face of agitators more extreme than themselves—
their fall bore her with them in a common ruin. Able and,
for the most part, upright men, had they all possessed her
energy and courage, it is possible they might have made a
more effectual stand than they did. Be that as it may, few
nobler deaths than hers were the result of their want of
practical governing power.— The Reader.

MEDITERRANEAN Ht.,TEL COMPANY (LIMITED.)

—Tho poll demanded by Mrs. Parr on the question, as to
the passing of the accounts of the la►te directors, took place
to-day, when there were recorded, in favour of the resolu-
tion that these accounts be passed, 616 votes; and in favour
of Mrs. Parr's amendment, 33 votes. The accounts were
therefore passed by a majority of 583 votes,
The Brest journals announce the departure from
that part of the frigate Sybille, with a convoy of
emigrants for the French colony of New Caledonia, in the
Pacific. The Sybille has already made three voyages with
emigrants, many of whom have since married young wo-
men brought up by public charity in France, and who had
voluntarily gone out. Those females received dowries from
the Empress, and are so well satisfied with their lot that
several have written to Paris to induce their former com-
panions to follow. Regular communications have been
established between Port-de-France, the chief town of the
colony, and Sydney in Australia.
MINERAL WATERS.—The beneficial effects of
mineral waters are generally admitted, but the
cause of their efficiency is declared by the best practitioners
to:be unknown. The only means as yet employed to solve
the mystery has been chemical analysis ; and when a
chemist has discovered a milligram of iodine or some other
substance in a spring, its efficacy is immediately attributed
to that substance, althouzh it has been hundreds of times
administered in much larger doses without any visible
effect. In a paper addressed to tho Academy of Sciences,
Dr. Scoutetten endeavours to show that the real activity
of mineral waters is owing to their electricity. Imbued
with this idea he at first attempted to discover traces of elec-
tricity in mineral springs by means of a gold-leaf electro-
scope, but without success. Continuing his experiments,he
found the confirmation of Becquerel's theory, viz., that the
earth in contact with a sheet of water manifests electricity ;
and also that when the latter is impregnated with air, it
takes a quantity of positive electricity, while the earth is
negative. The same is the case with sea water, but all
mineral springs are negative with regard to the earth. By
the aid of Nobili's galvano-meter, which is founded on the
principle of the deviation of the needle under the influence
of a galvanic current, Dr Scoutetten found that, if a mineral
water be brought into imperfect contact with common *rated
water by means of a porous diaphragm, and if platinum elec-
trodes be used a regular pile is formed, and the galvano-meter
shows the mineral water to be negative, and the common one
positive. Extending these experiments to the human body
he found that mineral waters determine a current always
passing from the water to the patient ; they are therefore
negative with respect to the latter, and the galvanometer in
their case marks 70, 80, and as much as 90 degrees. Hence
Dr Seoutettin explains the efficacy of mineral springs by the
three following propositions-1. That mineral waters all
determine phenomena of excitation owing to the electricity
they develop in cents& with the human body ; 2. That they
exercise a therapeutic action, which varies according to the
nature of the mineralising elements; and 3. That they oc-
casion a topical action which provokes eruptions on the skin.

REGENERATION OF BONE.—In a paper addressed

to the Academy of Sciences, Dr. Sedillot examines
the influence of the vital functions on the structure and
form of the organs. Without entering into the strictly
professional part of the paper, we will glean a few parti-
culars which may appear interesting to the general reader.
Dr Sedillot states that if, of the two bones which constitute
the leg or the arm, one of them be partly cut away, and not
afterwards reproduced by the periesteum, the other bone
increases in size so as to acquire a volume equal to that of
the two bones taken together. This phenomenon is parti-
cularly evident in the case of dogs whose tibia has been cut
away. In these animals the peronioas is almost filiform,
and scarcely measures the fifth part of the thickness of the
other bone, and yet it soon acquires the volume of the lat-
ter, and may awn exceed it. In one of Dr Sedillot's expo•
riments the peronsous xhich, in its normal stato, had a
diameter not exceeding three millimetres, increased to ten
at the point where the tibia had been cut away, and the
same is observable in the cubitus and radius
when one of those bones has been partially removed.
These facts, however singular, are easily explained.
Whenever our locomotive organs are kept in great activity
they acquire greater size and strength. Thus the right side
of the body is generally more developed than the opposite
one, and in left-handed persons the reverse is the case.
Boxing and fencing masters have their right arms much
more voluminous than the left. Motion, in fact, accelerates

innervation and circulation, and renders nutrition more
active. The density of the osseous tissue is equally im-
portant. All animals that have to support considerable and
prolonged efforts have very compact bones, nearly approach-
ing to the density of ivory—an observation which is con-
firmed on inspecting the skeletons of several horses cele-
brated for their swiftness, which are preserved at the Ana-
tomical Museum of Alfort. All perforations and other
operations on the living bone cause the formation of new
strata of bone.

A HOUSEBREAKER SHOT AT BIRMINGHAM.—
Yesterday, at tilt, Public Office, Birmingham, a man
named John smith, was charged with breaking into the
warehouse of Mr J. Randall, jeweller, Hukley-street, and
stealing 14oz. of gold and 5s worth of postage stamps;
total value, £2B. The prisoner was suffering from the
effects of a gunshot wrund, and had to be brought from the
General Hospital where he had lain some days, to appear
before the magistrates. A few nights ago the prisoner
and three other suspicious-looking fellows were seen

loitering about the prosecutor's premises ; and Mr. Green,
the landlord of a neighbouring publichouse, and
his man Grice, set themselves to watch their movements.
Grice armed himself with a gun loaded with blank cartridge,
but did not perceive in the hurry that the ramrod was left
in the barrel. Alter watching the men for some time they
saw the prisoner coming out of the warehouse. They called
upon him to slop, but he made off at the top of his speed.
Gr:ce pursued him, threatened to shoot him if he did not
stop. The prisoner did not heed the threat, and at last Grice
fired. The ramrod struck the prisoner and passed through
his thigh, but fortunately the wound i. flitted was not of a
dangerous charaettr. The prisoner iminediat: ly rose and
showed fight and was only secured alter being knocked
down with the gun. The prisoner's companions escaped.
The quotation or gold at rails is about 3 per milli; pm., and
the short exchange on Loudon is 25.32; per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appe...rs that gold is
about 3-letha per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.

The Last Scene in the Windsor Tragedy

Yesterday morning, at 9 o'clock, the funeral of the mur-
derer and suicide, John Richard Cook, and the four mur-
dered children, Mary Ann, Agnes Josephine, Eugenie, and
Louisa Elz ibeth, took place at Old Windsor. The dreadful
nature of the circumstances in connexion with the deaths of
the suffer rs atti acted a large number of persons, notwith-
standing the early hour fixed for the performance of the sad
and mournful ceremony.

The bodies of the father and children were placed in neat
elm coffins, bearing plates with suitable inscriptions, and
were furnished by the parish, at the expense of which the
funeral was carried out. The friends and relatives of Cook
and his children having assembled at the cottage at Old
Windsor• green, the scene of the murder and suicide, a fune-
ral procession was farmed, the body of Cook, with the coffin
covered with the usual pall, being carried first, on the
shoulders of four of the undertaker's men, Next came the
four little coffins containing the corpses of the poor children,
each covered with a snow white cloth and borne on the
shoulders of eight young men, selected from the village.
These were followed by the relatives of the deceased, in
black, the police-constable George Lovell, who discovered
the murder, also taking part in the procession, which was
followed by a large number of the villagers and spectators.
It was a sad and touching spectacle which the mournful
procession presented as it wound along the road in the bright
autumn morning, on its way from the cottage so lately the
scene of such an accumulation of horrors to the Old Windsor
churchyard,where the remains of Cook and his children were
to be interred. The churchyard is about a mile from the
house of Cook, and was reached about half-past nine, when
the body of the murderer, by the kindness of the amiable
vicar, the Rev J. Blunt, whose Christian feeling of charity
prompted him to do all that a minister of the Gospel could
to spare the feelings of the refativele was taken through the
west door into the body of the church; the coffin contain-
ing the bodies of the murdered children being taken round
the church to the great door on the south side of the sacred
building, where the Rev. J. Bluat,having previously met the
procession, commenced reading the Burial Service,the coffins
being also placed in the body of the church, while the service
was continued. On leaving the church the coffin containing
the body of Cook was taken to and placed in a grave or hole
which had been dug in an obscure corner at the west ex-
tremity of the churchyard near the wall which separates the
graveyard from the road. There it was deposited without
any ceremony, while the four little elm coffins of the girls
were placed in one common grave, over which the remainder
of the service was performed by the vicar, the relatives and
crowd standing round and listening most attentively to this
beautiful and touching service, while many an eye was wet
at the remembrance of the shocking fate which had cut short
the tender and innocent lives of these four poor innocents.
Towards the conclusion of the service the vicar briefly but
earnestly addressed the crowd around the grave, and in doing
so remarked that though he did not wish to say anything to
blacken the dreadful deed, he would exhort them to pray
earnestly to God, who, of His great mercy, would grant
them true repentance for their past sins, and ho begged the
young men whom he saw around him not to play with sin,
for if persisted in it would lead them to the depths of hell;
and finally concluded the ceremony in the usual manner,
atter which the crowd of villagers and spectators left the
churchyard, evidently much impressed with the very fervea
address they had just listened to.