The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

Political Duel in Belgium.

It may be added in explanation that M. Delaet is
opposed to the policy adopted by the Government

in permitting the formation of a Belgian legion for
Mexico, and that in the course of the debate he had

attacked the Ministers for exposing the country to
hostility of the United States by unnecessary inter-
vention in Mexican affairs.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
BRUSSELS, April 8.
A duel with pistols took place to-day between
Baron Chazal, the Minister of War, and M. Delaet,
the deputy for Antwerp, in consequence of language
used towards M. Delaet by Baron Chazal at the
sitting of the Chamber of Deputies on the sth inst.
General Chazal was very slightly wounded in the
side.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, April 10.—Wind this day at noon—South•
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.

LAMLASIc April B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Washing-
ton, from the Clyde for Quebec ; Prince of Wales, from
the Clyde for Bombay.
Slumps, April B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed--Hotspur, for
Shanghai ; Wenershaum, for Quebec.

CARDIFF, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Therese Asis-
tide, and Louise, from Bilboa. Sailed—Old Dominion, for
Nevi York.

OFF DOVER, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Patrician,
from Calcutta.

MUMBLES, April 7.—Wind S.W.—arrived—Georgiana
Grenfell, from Caldeira.

OFF DARTMOUTH, April 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
The Great Victoria, screw steamer, from Melbourne, for
London.

TORBAY, April 7.—*Wind,S.W.—Arrived—Mary Blake,
from London for Bermuda.

HOLYHEAD, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Coral Queen,
from Liverpool for Matanzas.
SUNDERLAND, April 7.—Wind
for Quebec.

CLYDE, April 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arri♦ed—Sydney,
from Demerara.

PILL, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Elizabeth
for the West of Africa.

PORTSMOUTH, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Fury, for London.

OFF MOUNT'S BAT, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Urania, from St. Domingo, and sailed for Hamburg; had
experienced heavy weather.

SOUTHAMPTON, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Gilmore,
for Quebec.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)

, Monda orning.
Arrived, April 9—Mont GRAVESEND
rose, from St. Vincent; Jessy,
from Guernsey.
Arrived, April 10—Mary Helen, from St. Michael's;
Admiral Nelson, from Guernsey.

DEL, aorning.
Passed—Amazon, screw steamerA,
forMond Lisbon; City (31
Hamilton, for Quebec—both from London.
Anchored—Douglass, from Shields, for Carthagena.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary closed their visit to the Duke of
Rutland at Belvoir Castle on Saturday last, having stayed
over the Croxton Park Races. Their Royal Highnesses,
attended by Lady Caroline Cust and Colonel ,Purves, passed
through town on Saturday to Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
where it is their intention to pass the Easter recess.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor leave town in
the course of the week for Stackpole Court, Wales, for the
Easter recess.
The Countess Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper
have arrived at Panshanger from visiting the Earl and
Countess Spencer at Althorp Hall. The countess and
family intend to remain at Panshanger during the Easter
recess.

•
The Earl de Grey and Viscount Goderich have
gone on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, at Sandringham.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter will
remain at Burleigh until after the Easter holidays, when
they come to London for the season.

The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., left their residence
in Carlton-gardens on Saturday for her ladyship's seat in
Somereetshire.

The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and family
are not expected to arrive in town till the first week in
May.

The Countess of Listowel is shortly expected in
town from Connamore, Fermoy, county Cork.
The Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess
and Lady Georgiana Russell, has gone to his seat near
Stroud, Gloucestershire, where Viscount and Viscountess
Amberley and other members of the family are staying.
TEA IN A NUTSHELL—Dr. Attfiield, Director of
the Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain, has published a very interesting account of
the result of an examination which he has made of the Kola
nuts of Western Central Africa. A few ounces of dry hard
fragments of these nuts were placed in his hands by Dr.
Daniell, who stated that in the fresh state they were largely
used as an article of food and medicine by the natives of
Western Central Africa ; that he had once partaken of the
fresh nut, the effect being that ha was kept awake for
tea,
coffee, thinfaterwrehdichtheaxtistththereeyin
yfs must
fresh
coffee, &c., namely, theme ; and that he had, in fact, by a
resemblingr o ughchemical
theme
Asa in omedicine,binig
nut, Dr. Daniell said, was esteemed of great value in
diarrhoea and affections of the liver; and that indeed for
all purposes, it was in the fresh state that the nut was ge-
nerally employed, portions being chewed, the juice swal-
lowed, and the solid part ejected from the mouth. If the
nuts were allowed to become dry, they were considered to
have depreciated in value, and were then only chewed by
the lower classes of the natives. Dr. Attfield has deter-
' mined the presence of theine in dried Kola nut in the pro-
portion of about 2 per cent. Coffee contains from .5 to 2.0
and tea from .5 to 3.5 parts in 100. So that the Kola nut
really has a considerable food value. The discovery of
theine in the food materials of an African race of people is
highly interesting. It is well known that coffee, tea, cocoa,
matao, Paraguay tea, and guarana, which constitute the
beverage of the European, American, and Asiatic peoples,
have been selected by an unerring instinct, which has di-
vined in each plant the remarkable alkaloid, theine. Dif-
ferent in botanical characters, varied in genera, not very
unlike in flavour, they have been instinctively chosen as
containing this valuable active principle. The investiga-
tion of the food value of Kola nut is thus one of particular
interest, and which will, we hope, bo carried further.—
Lancet.;

The Journal de Charleroi contains the following
details of a *disagreement which occurred at a recent
sitting of the Belgian Chamber between M. Delaet,
the Member for Antwerp, and the Minister of War,
during a debate on the Mexican question. As will
be seen by the telegram which follows, a duel has
been the result--" A painful occurrence took place
at the sitting of the sth inst. In replying to M.
Delaet, who had given out that blanks had been left
in the orders of authorisation delivered to the Mexi-
can volunteers, in order that the power of proceed-
ing against them as deserters should be reserved in
case they made use of their leave of absence for
any other purpose than that of going to Mexico, the
Minister of War said that those only were capable
of committing such infamous acts who attributed to
others the thought of doing so. At the word in-
famous M. Delaet rose, and addressing the Presi-
dent in a deeply agitated voice, asked if the Cham-
ber meant to let such an expression pass without
censuring the speaker who had made use of it. To
the great astonishment of the tribunes the President
answered not one word, and M. Delaet was obliged
to sit down without having received from either
the right or the left benches the slightest indication
of sympathetic support. But no sooner had the
Minister of War concluded his speech than a
messenger of the chamber delivered a sealed note
to t him from the member for Antwerp (M.
Delaet), the contents of which I am ignorant of,
but which appeared to produce a deep impression
upon him, for immediately after receiving it, and
while M. Cooman was replying to his speech, I
saw him rise from his chair and go down into the
hemicycle, where some deputies, amongst others M.
Vriere and M. Rogier, at once joined him. What
took place at this little council I cannot say, but
conversation was extremely animated, and in the
tribunes it was generally thought there was a chal-
lenge to a duel. This supposition became still more
probable after Mr. Cooman's speech. M. Delaet
asked to speak, in order to repeat the question he
had in vain put to the President once before. Thus
brought to the point, M. Vandenpeereboom asked
the speaker to explain the sense he had attached
to the words he had uttered the previous day ; this
M. Delaet did, declaring that he not the slightest
intention of imputing any infamous act to
the Minister of War, but that if the Mini-
ster did not withdraw his words he should
have to consult him alone in order to obtain
reparation for the outrage which has jus
been committed against his dignity as a represen.
tative in Parliament. The Minister remained silent
So the matter stands."

SUN OFFICE, 7 O'CLOCK.

TAT TERSALL'S.---Th's Evening,

CITY AND SUBURBAN.
Btc 1 agst Grinder (taken)
100 to 12 agst Mail Train (offered)
20 to 1 agst Perfumer (taken freely)
50 to 1 agst Moulsey (taken)
CHESTER CUP
11 to 1 on the field (offered)
100 to 7 agst Mcestissima filly (taken);
100 to 6 agst La Toucques (taken freely)
40 to 1 agst Thalestris (taken)
40 to 1 agst Tiollyfox (offered)

TWO THOUSAND.
7 to 4 agst Liddingtou (taken and offered)
7to 2 agst Breadalbane (taken freely)
16 to 1 agst Bedminster (taken)
16 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered)
33 to 1 agst Rifle (offered)

THE DERBY,
11 to 2 agst Liddington (taken and offered)
6to 1 agst Breadalbane (taken)
17 to 2 agst Tho Duke (offered—take 9to 1)
20 to 1 agst Zambesi (taken)
22 to 1 agst Oppressor (taken)
'lOO to G agst Archimedes (taken)
100 to 6 agst Bedminster (taken)
40 to 1 agst Wild Charley (taken)
40 to 1 agst Chattanooga (offered)
40 to 1 agst Christmas Carrol (taken)
50 to 1 agst Grappler (taken)
50 to 1 agst Joker (taken),
50 to 1 agst Ariel (offered)
66 to 1 agst Rifle (offered)

[ADVERTISEMENTS.]
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Commissions executed.

The accounts from the manufacturing districts
during the past week have, in some instances, been
unsatisfactory. At Manchester there has been a
ery limited business transacted in tablecloths and
yarns, and prices have, in some instances, shown
increased depression. The woollen trade of Leeds,
Bradford, and Huddersfield, however, has slightly
improved, consequent upon the fine weather, while
in the hosiery and lace departments of Leicester and
Nottingham there has been no material alteration.
In the hardware districts of Birmingham, Sheffield,
and Wolverhampton, a more favourable tone has
also prevailed.
FRENCH VIEW OF THE OXFORD AND CASK-
BRIDGE BOAT RACE.—The following remarks of
the Siecle respecting the Oxford and Cambridge boat-race
may afford some:amusement :—" The great question that
agitates the English mind just at the present moment is
this—will the students of Oxford or those of Cambridge be
the conquerors in the approaching regatta on the Thames ?
For several years Oxford has been victorious, and Cam-
bridge on this particular occasion is determined to make,
unheard-of efforts to carry off the prize-cup (coupe d'hcii-
neur.) The two crews that are about to compete are
already housed in two separate hotels in the vile age of
Putney, where the regatta is to come off. Placerl under a
most severe system of training, sent to bed at 4.wilight and
made to rise at dawn, drinking neither beet nor any spi-
rituous liquor, bent over their oars twice every day, gain-
ing little by little in the rapidity of their stroke, in gaug-
ing their strength, and in recovevAng their wind, these
young men are going through a novitiate which in all re-
spects, save the religious ceremony, recalls to memory the
ordeal of the wrestlers in +Ale games of ancient Greece. Le
Sport, in this sense, celitributes essentially to the strength
of a nation. It is not in this way that we practise it in
France—it is not very likely that the boating men of the
Seine and Marne, even in the hope of winning the most
splendid of cups, will ever submit to the training of the
boating men of Cambridge and Oxford.
THE PRITCHARD CASE.—From all we can learn
amid the close secrecy preserved it would appear that
the quantitative analysis in the case of Mrs. Pritchard is
nearly, if not quite, completed, with the result, we hear, of
showing that exceptionally large quantities of tarter emetic
or tartarized antimony were lodged in the tissues, espe-
cially of the stomach. The extent to which the body ap-
pears saturated with the drug would seem to indicate that
its administration had extended over a long period. In ex-
planation of the erroneous rumour regarding the deceased
! lady, to the effect that she was in the habit of using wine, we
may mention that it may not impossibly be shown that
during her fatal illness, the delirium of an apparant fever
was induced by administration of sparkling wines and
aniesthetics. At first there would appear to have been,
among scientific men, a suspicion that monkshood had been
an agent in the death of Mrs. Pritchard ; but it is understood
that this suspicion has not been supported by the analysis.
On Friday Professor Penny, of theAndersonian University,
Glasgow, visited Edinburgh, having been called in by the
authorities to aid in the investigation, with the view, if
required, to corroborative evidence. With regard to the
inquiry into the causes of the death of Mrs. Taylor, the
authorities in Glasgow have received a communication
from Edinburgh, to the effect, we believe, that the appear-
ances presented in the body of the deceased lady were not
of the nature that might have been expected had death re-
sulted from paralysis or apoplexy, as certified by Dr.
Pritchard when he registered the death. This report,
of course, has no application to the chemical analysis of
the organs of the late Mrs. Taylor, which is now only in
process.—Scotsman.

WORRIED BY DOGS.—A few mornings since a
shocking affair, which terminated almost fatally,
occurred to a man named Etherington,who keeps the post-
office at St. Catherine's, a village situated a short distance
from Guildford. It appears that shortly after 7 o'clock on
the morning in question Etherington started to deliver
letters at the various houses in the village, and on entering
a yard adjoining the residence of Mrs. Pope he was attacked
by a large mastiff, aided by a retriever, which knocked
him down and lacerated his hands, arms, and other portions
of his body in a frightful manner. In addition to other in-
juries the poor fellow received a compound fracture of the
right leg, which was attended with very serious symptoms.
Several of the female servants wont to the assistance of the
unfortunate postman, and with great difficulty succeeded in
beating the dogs off; but had they been left to themselves
a few moments longer the animals would most certainly
have killed their victim. The services of Messrs. Butler
and Schollick, surgeons, were obtained, but in spite of every
attention the poor fellow is not yet out of danger. The ex-
planation given is that it was usual to allow these large dogs
to wander about the premises during the night, and that
the boy whose duty it was to fasten them up had not
arrived when the postman called. The dogs were notorious
in the neighbouthood, and were never allowed out of the
grounds without a keeper.
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been received, and the election will take place next week.
At present there are no indications of a contest, the only
candidate being Colonel the Hon. Percy E. Herbert, C. 8.,
formerly M.P. for Ludlow. The hon. candidate in his ad-
dress to the electors refers them to his votes When member
for Ludlow as the best indication of the general line of
politics which he should pursue if elected. He adds :
« should you favour me with your confidence I shall en-
deavour to secure for the agricultural interest a fairer share
than has of late been allotted to it in the remission and re-
duction of taxation. I shall support such measures as are
securities for
establishments
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extravagant and unnecessary expenditure."
RECOVERY OF A BODY ON A WELSH MOUNTAIN.*---
In the month of January, it was stated in the Guar-
dian that two men were lost in attempting to cross a huge
off-shoot of Carnedd Llewellyn mountain, on their journey
from Bangor to Cwm Eigia Slate Quarry, on one side of
the hill which flanks the Vale of Conway. Since then one
of the bodies has been found ; but that of Owen Jones was
not discovered until last week, by reason of the snow which
lay so deep on that elevated part of the mountain, and then
only by an apparent accident. A shepherd, accompanied
by a lad and his dogs, was on the hill looking after the
sheep, when his attention was drawn by the dogs to a cer-
tain snowdrift, where, upon searching, he discovered a
portion of a jacket projecting above the snow, and he was
not long in perceiving that a human body was lying there.
The shepherd informed the relations of Jones of his dis-
covery, and a sufficient number of men was procured. They
took with them spades and a pickaxe, and were upwards of
an hour releasing the body from the frozen mass of ice
which surrounded it. The man's features were but little
altered, and the whole body was in a marvellous state of
preservation, so much so that it was instantly recognised.
The men proceeded to search his pockets ; but, in order to
get at his watch, which was only slightly the worse, they
had to use an adze. The watch looked quite bright out-
side, with only a very little rust upon it.
The quotation of gold at Paris is about 2 per mine pm., and
the short exchange on London is 2.5.222 per .£l. sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
i7s. 10 d. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
at about the same price in London and Paris.

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