The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-19 00:00:00

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COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 1,8,
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25. 52}
Brussels
Hamburgl3 94
Paris Short 25 20
Ditto 3 Months. 25 421-
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —120 k
Vienna — Il lif
Trieste — 11 20
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Berlin
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Cadiz
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Iran
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Messina
Genoa
Naples — 25 574-
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Palermo
Oporto — 511
Lisbon 511

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51

To Farmers and Cowkeepers,

Gentlemen,—l invite you to peruse the report of the
discussion on Cattle Condiments at the meeting of the
Royal Agricultural Society of England, held in Hanover-
square Rooms, believing that the facts then brought to
light by gentlemen of reputation and position as farmers,
and entirely unconnected with me or my works, will con-
vince you that the value I attach to my discovery is by no
means exaggerated. _ _

The disCussion to which I now invite your attention
was originated by Mr. Beale Browne, a gentleman well
known among you for his devotion to agricultural progress,
and who had been accidentally induced to try my condi-
ment, some of the ingredients of which he had used for pre-
vious years. Having from domestic affliction to give up
farming for a time, he sold off thebulk of his flock of sheep
:retaining only a few favourities. Duringlis absence these
animals got reduced to a very low ebb—indeed, half-a-
dozen of them died, some were broken mouthed, and some
lost their teeth. Though in a fine piece of clover, they
were a mere bag of bones, and oilcake and corn had no
good effect on them. He tried my condiment, as he tells
you, and the result was that in three or four weeks he
hardly knew them again. After one hundredweight of
condiment, said Mr. Browne, they went to grass, did re-
markably well, and the condiment seemed to have entirely
renovated the whole constitution of the animals.
Mr. Henry Cotton, who also took part in this discussion,
illustrated the value of my condiment to horses, dogs,
cows, and pigs. His mare had been quite set up by it, and
restored to hunting condition. For his dog, he found
nothing better after a day's work in the stubble or turnips.
With his cows it improved the flesh and the milk ; and,
with his pigs, he found a marked improvement in those
that were treated with it over those not thus fed.

Major Munn's testimony is even more decisive. His
lambs on his farm in the Isle of Sheppy were terribly
afflicted with thread-like worms in the air vessels. Their
recovery was despaired of. His bailiff proposed trying
my condiment. The major, in despair, consented, and now
bears his testimony to the results. In his bailiff's own
words, "he saved 'the whole flock." This was in 1859.
Again, in October, 1860, he had 118 lambs thrown on his
hands by the incoming tenant of his farm, and not worth,
in their then condition, more than from six to ten shillings
a head. He tried my condiment again, and the result was
that he lost only five of the 118, and he sold the remainder
for from forty-five to forty-six shillings a head. He tells
us that ho was equally successful with his horses, and is
satisfied that, apart from every other cause, the recovery
of his sheep and lambs was due to the use of the condi-
ment.

I may be permitted to add that, after this discussion, the
Major tried the effect of the condiment on an Alderney
cow, under very special circumstances. Her third calf was
calved on the 23d of February, and weaned on the 2d of
March, and from then to the 7th of April she continued to
give cream enough tomake 7ilbs. of butter per week on the
usual diet of grass, mangold, and turnips. On the 7th of
April the condiment was commenced, and the first week
after gave an increase of 6oz. of butter; the second gave
an increase of rather more than a pound of butter; and
the third week 91bs. of butter, Such facts speak for them-
selves, and need no explanation.
The Mayor's testimony is equally decisive as to the effect
of the condiment on horses and dogs. He is also very
plain spoken offa point on which it is difficult for me
speak with any patience—the reckless imitations
deerosf
and
condiment foisted on the farmer by the retail dealers
hawkers,vihih and
invention my with the failures andssa often terribleueffnteicltsthoet
fraudulent imitations and equally
fraudulent
fromu imposing on
shams can be prosecuted and prevented
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up in
and
the public, I feel I have no remedy bti making
and my signa-
ture packets, in blue paper with buff labels,
penn.dy
to any
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in an iron-bound case, carriage pa
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makers of condiment. I only complain
gcluinareretlhwe
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under
of those who foist onyouan
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and often destructive
composition
as
composition my condiment,
reputation by its deleterious results, at the same time that
they re
duce my profits by the sale of their imposture.
You will notice that in the discussion the practical value
of my condiment as a restorer of animals out of condition,
and as a fattening food, is mainly proved. I have, how-
ever, good reason to recommend it to you as a preventive
of infection and an antidote to disease—keeping the sto-
mach and digestive organs in a natural healthy tone, and
thus fortifying the animal against the insidious inroads of
disease. From this quality it is especially valuable to stock
farmers of the present day, when the system of forcing
nature; especially in the case of grasses and green crops,
by the use of chemical manures, has tended to increase the
quantity of food at the cost of its quality, and to render it
not only far less nutritive, but in many cases deleterious
to the animal.

With those few remarks, I again invite your careful
perusal of the discussion, and have to request all those who
may be tempted to make a trial to favour me with the re-
sults, be they good or bad, at their earliest convenience.—
I remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
JOSEPH THORLEY.
Spice Mills and Office—Thornhill Bridge,
Caledonian-road, K in g's-cross.
London, 12th August, 1863.

The Earl of Dunmore has left Dunmore Park for
his seat in the Isle of Harris, for the shooting season.
THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF EMERY has hitherto been
drawn almost exclusively from two localities: Cape Emeri,
in the island of Naxos, and the neighbourhood of the an-
cient city of Smyrna. Two new sources of this commo-
dity have recently been discovered, however, Professor
Crace Calvert, of Manchester, having found a valuable de-
posit of it in North Wales a few years ago, and a still more
valuable bed having been lighted upon, about twelve
months since, near Chester, in the State of Massachusetts,
U.S. The latter is of very great extent, and is so situated
that the emery may be mined at a cost not exceeding $2
per ton. The emery is said to be superior in quality to
the very best hitherto known, and to be capable of doing
one-third more work than the finest samples from Smyrna
or Naxos.—Mechanics' Magazine.
STEAM VESSELS.—The annual return of steam
vessels registered in the United Kingdom shows that at the
beginning of th 3 present year the number was 2,401, the
registered tonnage 676,247, the gross tonnage 992,550.
Five years before the number of vessels was but 1,863 and
the tonnage 429,474, exclusive of engine room, and 666,513
gross tonnage.

THE LATE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE.—The fol-
lowing sad communication has been addressed to
our
leading contemporary
:„ Knowing_ by air.
r.thatyou Osgood ll
have
a n b ur y,
often Jun.,
of Lombard-street
befriended the unfortunate, would you kindly insert the
following deserving case, which I feel sure only wants to
be made public to secure sympathy ? Tho Rev. John
Davis, the most exemplary chaplain of Newgate Prison
for nearly 30 years, died suddenly a few months ago, in au
omnibus, on his road to his duty, leaving a widow (who
is suffering from cancer), one son, and five daughters
almost entirely destitute of any means of support. The
Corporation have kindly contributed £5OO ; the same
amount has been subscribed among their private friends.
My fraternity in this street and others have added. £2OO ;
but the interest of £1,200 is very little to support so largo
a family. lam anxious to increase the amount so that the
interest should be sufficient to maintain them in a proper
manner. Anybody who would feel disposed to contribute
towards this good object would be kind enough to pay to
Messrs. Barnett's and Co., 60 and 62, Lombard-street, on.
account of Mrs. Davis's fund."
QUEEN ANNE'S COMMISSION.—An active move-
ment has been set on foot among the beneficed clergy
of the diocese of Lincoln in opposition to Queen Anne's
Commission, and a petition signed by upwards of 700
clergymen, beneficed under £2OO a year, will shortly be
presented to the Queen, as the successor of the royal donor
of the fund. The petitioners allege that an injustice is done
to the incumbents of those livings which stand most in need
of assistance, being wretchedly small in value, and with a
poor population, by the condition which requires that every
grant from the fund shall be met by a benefaction of corres-
ponding amount. They object to this rule being inflexibly
acted upon in cases where it is known to be utterly impos-
sible to raise any money from private sources, those being
generally the cases in which there exists the strongest claim
for relief. They complain that the governors of Queen
Anne's Bounty repudiate altogether extreme poverty as a
'ground of claim, inasmuch as in some instances they have
refused to make a grant even where a benefaction has been
offered because the living has been too small.

The Phare de la Loire says :—" About five
hundred soldiers of all arms, artillery, infantry of the line,
and engineers, have just passed from Nantes to St. Nazairo
on their way to Mexico to complete the French regiments
there."

SURGEON'S FEES.--It is known that the eminent
French surgeon, M. Nellaton, 'received 400,000 f. (.£16,000)
for his professional visit to the late Czarewitch. It is
not so well known, we believe, that this fee was asked,
not as has been stated, because the famous surgeon
was too rich and two old to make the journey, and that
he therefore set a prohibitory tariff, but because M. Nella-
ton avoids all utterly hopeless cases, as this was known to
be, and thus does not endanger his just reputation for
saving his patients—where thero is a gleam of hcpe.
The fee demanded by the French surgeon whom Queen
Amalie recommended to King Leopold, without successful
result amounted, it is now said, to 150,000 f. (.£6,000).
The English surgeon who operated successfully on the royal
patient (Mr. Henry Thompson) left the honorarium to his
Majesty's good will and pleasure, and ieceived £4,000 and
an order of Belgian chivalry.—Athenteum.

THE SIAMESE TWINS.—The following letter
appears in the New York Times of August 2 :
" To the Editor of the New York Ti,nes.—Grateful for past
favours at your hands, we beg again to trespass upon your
kindness and liberality. Our names are not entirely un-
known to the American public. In former years we wero
received everywhere with flattering and substantial com-
pliments, and after several most successful tours through
the cities of the United States, we retired to the privacy of
our country home, where we had hoped to spend the re-
mainder of our days in the quiet enjoyment of domestic
felicity, blessed as wo then were with ample fortunes for
ourselves and our families. But time has wrought a sad
change. The ravages of civil war have swept away our
fortunes, and we aro again forced to appear in public.
Rembering, as we do, with the profoundest gratitude, the
liberality of our adopted country, we have arranged to
appear on public exhibition in the ,Northern cities, com-
mencing early in August next, accompanied by several of
our children, and we shall hope to meet then thousands of
our old friends of lang syne. With sincere regard, wo
subscribe ourselves your obedient servants, CHANG and ENG,
Siamese Twins, Surrey County, N.C., July 25, 1865."
HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY COMPANY
—Yesterday, at the Leeds Assizes, Miss Cheethani,
a young lady of Lancaster, a teacher of music and sing-
ing, brought an action against the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway Company, to recover damages
for an injury sustained ins, collision on the company's line,
by which an engine and three carriages were thrown off
the metals. Defendants admitted the negligence, and had
paid into court £2OO as sufficient compensation. Plaintiff
is the daughter of a Doncaster builder, and is 24 years of
age. At the time of the accident she taught music and
singing, and had a large number of pupils. She was also
the organist at Arksey Church. On the 17th Jan. she left
Doncaster for Mexborough, intending to visit a friend who
resides at Adwick-le-street, and at Womersley Cliff the
accident occurred. Plaintiff received a violent blow on the
back of thehread againstd,wasthrowthnefowrweanrddwaourdktheef nthbeaceakwrriaargdes:
striking her
and she became insensible. She had to be restored by sti-
mulants, and was conveyed by the next train to Mex-
borough, where she was observed to be so indisposed that
the station-master took her to his own house, supplied her
with tea, and with a conveyance to take her on to Adwick.
She passed a restless night. and had to return to Doncaster
next day. A surgeon was then sent for, and by him she
had been attended up to the present time. The pain from
which she suffered was first in the legs, and afterwards in
the back of the head, attended with numbness of the
joints. She was unable to sleep at nights; her feet wero
cold—she was unable to walk without assistance ; was
very
subject s u
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evidence
was
to the effect that plaintiff was suffering from slight con-
cussion of the spinal cord, and inflammation of certain
parts of the spinal column, and that a length of time
must elapse before she would recover. Mr. Manisty, for
the defence, called Dr. Fletcher and Mr. Teale, of Leeds,
who stated that plaintiff had apparently been very much
frightened and excited by the accident, that she was suf-
fering from nervous excitement, which had deranged the
stomach, and which induced vomiting after meals; and that
there was no symptom to indicate concussion of the brain
or spine. Dr. Fletcher considered that plaintiff's feeble
state was due to the effect of emotional excitement, which
disturbed the general condition of the body. The pain of
which she complained was the result of an exhausted state
of the nervous system ; but he saw no reason to doubt her
recovery within a few months. Mr. Teale came to the
same conclusion, stating that there was a non-existence of
spinal or cerebral concussion, and of any sprain ; and ho
also expressed himself confidently as to her speedy reco-
very. After an eloquent speech from Mr. Seymour, the
jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £l,lOO.

ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last sitting, M.
Dumas read a letter from M. Matteucci, announcing
the death of M. Pivia, the distinguished chemist, at the
ago of fifty. M. Dumas briefly stated some of the dis-
coveries of M. Pivia, among others the various metamor-
phoses of salicine. When deprived of its water by cold
nitric acid, it is transformed into helicine ; under the in-
fluence of non-oxidising acids, it yields grape sugar and
salicetine. By synaptasis it again yields grape sugar, but
accompanied with saligenine. Boiling nitric acid trans-
forms it into oxalic and carbozotic acids. Chromate of
potash will transform it into formic acid and into oil of
Spircen ultaaria ; and this, treated with potash, produces
salicylic acid. M. Dumas concluded with a warm enco-
nium of the lamented chemist.—Dr. Guyon, alluding to
M. Aucapitaine's paper on the origin of the Kabyles, in
which he had said that Bruce, Dureau de la Malle, and
Dr. Guyon considered the Kabyles of the Aoures Moun-
tains to be the descendants of the Vandals, contradicted his
statement, explaining that among those Kabyles there
were some white-skinned and blue-eyed individuals who
were considered to be the descendants of the Vandals
Hence, it was not the tribe itself, but only ;certain indivi-
duals mixed up with it that had been alluded tn.—A
paper was received from M. Hebert about the num
mulltic formations of Northern Italy, which he con-
siders, with Marquis Pareto, to belong to the Eocene
series, while many authors, on the contrary, place it in the
inferior Miocene period, on a level with the sands of Fon-
tainebleau. M. Isaac Pereyre wrote to inform the Aca-
demy that a statue of Francois Arago would be erected on
the diet of this month, at Estagel, near Perpignan. The
letter concluded with an invitation to the Academy to ap-
pointßertrandletierwwasasacaclaoordriencgaliLddeshi.gonmatmed.
Ltaorpeti
one of its members to represent it at the ceremony.
office.y
M. J .
A
gurfeormon theth
storm of the 17th ult. in the departments of the Aisne and
e
Nerd. All tho telegraphic apparatus along the Northern
Railway line were affected by this hail storm, which broke
upwards of 3,000 panes of glass at the Gambrel station
alone. Some of the hailstones weighed between 220 to 250
grammes (half a pound). The hailstorm lasted, according
to localities, from five to 20 minutes, and was followed by
a deluge of rain which lasted about two hours.— Galtynat.
A Dundalk:paper states that on Sunday, a womanl
named Murphy, residing in that town, gave birth to four
children—two boys and two girls. Two of them have since
died—one of each sex. " The mother and the remaining
two are doing well."