The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Nov. 25.—Wind this day at noon—North;
moderate breeze and fine weather.
LEITH, Nov. 22.—Wind N,—Sailed—Neptune, for Ma-
tanzas.
CLYDE, Nov. 23.—Arrived—City of New York, steamer,
from Liverpool to Havre.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—ner
Majesty's ship Geyser, from sheerness, and left Plymouth;
her Majesty's ship Medusa, froth a cruise. Sailed--K
Majesty's ship Spitfire, for Bermuda.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 24.—Wind N.—Sailed—Clementinof
for New York.
NEIVPORT, Nov. 24.—Wind E.—Arrived—Albion, frog!
Gloucester, for Grenada ; Raleigh, from Gloucester, P. 3"
H avannah.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
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GRAVESEND, Tuesday D.l.Ornix-r,
Arrived—Achilles, from Stralsund ; Treaty, from 'tone',
Haken Adelsteen, from Christiana.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning'
Passed—Francisca, from London, for Leghorn.

ACTION OF BUTTER ON COPPER.—M. Lancel°t,
a chemist, of Chantillon (Indre), has just published a n'rg,,,
fact in toxicology of considerable importance. Some gra",
ago, an inhabitant of that town caused a pump with a copPe`
pipe to be set up in his yard. The pipe was not tinned?
that precaution being considered unnecessary. The 01°,1r
from this pump was freely used for household purposes, a"
nothing seemed to warrant a suspicion of its containing a:I,Y,
hurtful ingredient. One day, however, the lady 44 '—
house remarked to her husband that a quantity of butter
which had remained several days in that water renewed
or six times, had become green outside. Upon this t 7
husband, by way of an experiment, divided a pound of bit";
ter into three parts, one of which he put into the Water °
the pump drawn from the pipe, another into the sarao
umpumpblui
bluish
ing re hisen
but taken direct from the reservoir, and the third into Nraon
-
from
aoarass
woodened a
tint after
tTwheedfiayrsat,
by
sion, and was delivered to M. Lancelot to be analyse'.
him. A solution of hydrosulphuric acid immediatelY pro
duced a black spot on the outer surface, and the hYdr;
ferrocyanate of potash a crimson one, so that the presell...,
of copper could not be denied. But the most
thecuriouscibr,
cumstance is, that M. Lancelot, wishing to analY Ol,
jactionable water itself, tried in vain to detect copper inoil'ed
As the above-mentioned tests produced no effect, he b •
down 13 litres of water to a glassful, which oast filteret.'?„.
the filter appeared covered with acalcareous dei, but tin
tests were again applied in vain. The residue was at lergws
dissolved in nitric acid, then neutralised, but the resultW.ar
still negative. Hence M. Lancelot concludes that butter
has the property of revealing particles of copper so naioll,„
as to escape the action of the most delicate tests hitherw
known. Of
PROFESSOR WILSON.—Every one has heard
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Professor Wilson; of that largo-souled, passionate, 10
ose
man who fainted from emotion at his father's funeral,
love was a storm and whose hate was a tempest, and
political passions, uncompromising Tory and Jacobite a.9'
e;
was, were as wild in growth and as deep in root as et"of
men's personal passions, and bore as full a barveet
anguish and delight. Every one has heard of his grandebt-
of form and look ; of the blue eyes that flashed like
lik ligr
11
ning in their wrath, yet were so limpid and teudeisir:s
their love ; of the waving fell of yellow
over hair r pia
up from his brow, and falling in long masses never,
shoulders e a lion's tawny mane of the strong and Pr tio
ful frame, tall, mascular, and yet so simple' ° „rat.
sweet voice, so sympathetic and so sonorous, die
ing with passion and tremulous with feeling, ofr,er
quick word and the quicker hand; of the ager :Jew,
against cruelty to dumb animals or oppressioa ot.otis
,e for an'
weaker in any form; of the intense IoN
_tieness
and children, and the marvellous patience and.goe;
pool
with them—marvellous especially in one wilssnd.,ard-
graces were not of the meeker kind ; of the thoudirritably
one eccentricities which marked, not the vain a:u rici
man, who by very weakness cannot conform,
lute tusv'tiicu
and abounding life, the strength and luxubrei•conea to
flows out and over on all sides, and cannot
the narrow channels cut by society and trodden
• For years his name was a 'led
timid and gregarious.
dun-coloured Miwa sh°w„ +bat
hold word" wherever old
t for e"
f • a tower of strength and a rallying-poin
ace, tb Dickens' s 411 the Year 1(0'
Tory school of the Nor • a forbiadest
The diocesan authorit:es of Milan hay _
say
Father Passaglia to continue his Advent sermons lm
Carices