The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE-This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 16f
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45
Brussels
Hamburg
Paris Short 25 15
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 120}
Vienna — 11 30
Trieste — 11 30
Petersburgh
Berlin
Madrid — 47 471
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 25 52f 25 57
Naples — 25 52 25 57
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon — 514 blf
Oporto —51 f
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard) per 0z.... £3 17 9

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LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

r [We had not received any portion of the Gazette up to
the hour of going to press.]

THE LATE MR. COBDEN.—Among those present
at the funeral of Mr. Cobden was M. Auguste Visschers,
who postponed his departure from London in order to pay
a last tribute of respect to one admired and esteemed by so
many Belgians.

THE CONVICT HAMILTON.—It was reported to
the magistrates this (Monday) morning at the New Bailey
Quarter Sessions, that the sentence on William Hamilton,
condemned to death at the last assizes for murdering Mr.
Taylor Tilley, has been commuted to penal servitude for
life.—Manchester Examiner.

It is stated that no less than $100,000,000 have
been subscribed in Germany to the American Six per Cent.
Loan.

AN UNFORTUNATE CONSTITUENCY.—The London-
derry Journal draws attention to the continued
absence of Mr. Conolly, one of the members for Donegal
from his parliamentary duties, and sympathises with the
electors on the fact of their being represented by the
hon. member and Viscount Hamilton. Lord Hamilton, the
eldest son of the Marquis of Abercorn, was returned for
Donegal in 1860, when something over 21; and the news-
paper sarcastically remarks, that, notwithstanding all the
trumpeting of the noble lord's precocious ability, his
greatest feat since he became a member of Par-
liament was his going out to India on a shooting ex-
cursion with somebody else. Viscount Hamilton stayed
in the jungle a year or so, "attending to the interests of
his Donegal constituents." Shortly after his lordship
returned to Europe, Mr. Conolly, the other member,
"thought there was no way in which ho could serve the
Donegal people so much as by going out to America as a
blockade runner. He will soon be away a twelvemonth,
as.nearly as we can recollect. Nobody appears to be quito
sure of Mr. Conolly's whereabouts; and, in the meantime,
the free and independent county of Donegal mourns its
absent member." "To us," says the article, in conclusion,
"it seems a pity that the county of Donegal cannot afford
to grant both members permanent leave of absence."

ELOPEMENTS TO AMERICA.—III referring to the
emigration from Cork—during the past week it amounted
to fully a thousand persons—a local journal mentions a
new phase of the passenger trade. Elopements to Ame-
rica have become, it would seem, a leading feature of the
national "exodus." We are informed that this week's
emigration "includes a fair proportion of runaways, the
motive in most of these cases being of a tender nature.
Indeed, the increased facility for elopements which this
ready means of flight affords promises to become alarm-
ing. Three cases of the kind are known to have occurred
within a fortnight, and how many may have remained
undiscovered we can only surmise. The last of those re-
ferred to was a runaway match between a well-to-do
farmer's son and the fair daughter of another still bettor
off, both being from Maryborough. The young woman
had provided herself with the respectable sum of £BO of
her father's money, and brought a maid-servant with
her. The pair were traced to Queenstown by their
respective fathers, and were surprised in their preparations
for embarkation. Romeo had a sound thrashing from his
indignant parent; he was deprived of his passage ticket,
and was torn from the arms of his Juliet, the latter being
permitted to proceed with her female companion. Another
somewhat similar case, in which the parties were from
Tullamore, King's County, had a similar termination."
THE DUKE OF MORNY'S RACING STUD.—The rac-
ing stud of the late Duke of Morny was sold at Chantilly
on Saturday. There were in all 37 lots-13 two-yr-olds,
13 three-yr-olds, and six four-yr-olds. The 32 principal
lots brought 316,320 f., or an average of £395 each. The
two-yr-olds, a fine lot, sold badly ; they looked too
backward ; but Lo Sioulet, a magnificent colt by
West Australian, out of Silestrie, was good enough to
be bought for Baron Daru at £740. Of the three-yr-olds
the late Duke's favourite, Lelio, by West Australian, out of
a Launcelot mare, very heavily engaged, and as handsome
as a picture, brought the highest price of the day, a
Prussian sportsman (Baron Lansdoff) being the purchaser
at £2,000. Plutus, by West Australian, out of Partlet, was
bought by M. Chas. Lafitte. Of the four-yr-olds, Bayard,
by Newminster—Babette, was bought for a little over
£l,OOO.

The Wexford People announces a discovery of
treasure trove. Some children, playing on the sands at
Saline, coast of Wexford, found an earthenware vessel
which contained about 600 silver coins. The vessel was
embedded in a small declivity about a stone's throw from
the ancient ruins of Kilgorman Church. The coins are said
to be Roman. A local numismatist, however, has inferred
from the circumstanceof " Vlll."being discernible on seve-
ral of them, that the entire collection is English, and be-
longs to the period of Henry VIII.

SOUTH SHROPSHIRE.—The writ for the election of
a member for South Shropshire, in the room of
Viscount Newport, who is elevated to the Upper House,
through the death of his father, the Earl of Bradford, has
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.B.
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
necessary for the maintenance of our naval and military
establishments in a state of efficiency as one of the best
securities for peace. At the same time I shall be opposed to
extravagant and unnecessary expenditure."

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 ou
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. Popo 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 went 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 neighbourhood, and were never allowed out of the
grounds without a keeper.
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 id
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
ana3sthetics. At first there would appear to have been,
among scientific men, a suspicion that monkshood bad 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.