The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TIM RSDA.Y EVENING, APRIL 17, 1862.

were freely accessible, and the ship with contra-
band on board could not be seized st sea, of course,
the power which wanted her cargo would not con-
fiscate it. For the rest, we must leave his arguments
to the decision of public opinion. Undoubtedly
the right of blockade, if our power at sea be already
greater than that of other countries, does enable us
to use it in a way which makes them sensible that
" Brittania rules the waves." Mr. COBDEN replies,
true, but we make ourselves sensibla also that we rule
them at a fearful sacrifice to ourselves. The whole
question is—do we think the sacrifice too great ?
If not, let us retain the right, and submit without
murmuring to the sacrifice. But if it be too great,
then we must show our supremacy in the direct
mode only—the mode of beating all that dares to
resist us.

The Duchess of Sotomayor has arrived at Mau-
rig,y's Hotel fiom Blackburn.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Donegall will
leave Grosvenoresquare early next week for Brighton.
The Earl and Countess of Craven are entertain-
ing a select party at Ashdowne Park. Amongst the com•
pany are Sir Robert Brownrigg, Sir- Frederick Johnstone,
Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. George Johnstone, Mr. Percy
Doyle, the Misses Oswald, &c.
The Earl and Countess Amherst will entertain a
select party at their seat, Knowle Park, during the recess.
The Countess Fitzwilliam gave birth to a son at
Wentworth Woodhouse on Sunday last.
The Countess of Fife's evening party, announced
for Saturday next, is unavoidably postponed.
Lord and Lady Harry Vane have left Grosve-
nor-place for their seat at Battle, for the holidays.
Lord and Lady Harriet Ashley leave town on
Monday for Brighton, for the Easter recess.
The Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man,
accompanied by Mrs. Pigott and his daughters, left town
on Friday last for Government House, Douglas. His ex-
cellency had been detained in England some weeks from
indisposition.
THE HEALTH OF MR. WAKLEY.—Mr. Wakley,
the coroner, has written from Madeira to state that he hopes
in a few weeks to be sufficiently restored to health to return
to Middlesex and resume his official duties.
FOREIGN POLICE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
EXHIRITION.—Yesterday morning the first of the Parisian
detectives to be employed at theopening of the International
Exhibition arrived in the metropolis, and they will be fol-
lowel by some of the most experienced officers of the
Berlin, Brussels, and Vienna police, to assist the metropo-
litan force in the detection of offenders and the protection
of the public from plunder—numerous of the most expert
thieves having already made their way to the metropolis
from the chief Continental cities in expectation of reaping
a plentiful harvest at this great gathering of the people of
all nations.
THE ST. PAUL'S SPECIAL SERVICES.—The series
of special services under the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral
is to be brought to a close next Sunday night, on which
occasion the sermon will be preached by the Right Rev. Dr.
W. Thomson, the recently appointed Bishop of Glecester
and Bristol. It appears that each service costs at least £2O,
that there are no capitular revenues out of which to defray
the expenses, and that the public have not responded to re-
cent appeals in so generous a manner as to induce the Dean
and Chapter to continue these popular and exceedingly
attractive services for any longer term.
Two of the railway companies, viz., the London
and North Western and Great Western, have consented to
modify the arrangements which they had previously made
for the conveyance of visitors to London during the first
week in May. The London and North Western Railway
Company have made arrangements for extending return
tickets by the ordinary trains between all stations north of
Rugby from the 30th of April to the 3d of May inclusive,
and also for running excursion trains with tickets available
from the 30th Apr,l to the sth of May. On the Great
Western Railway the directors have agreed to make the
return tickets to London on the 30th of April available for
the return journey up to the 3d of May.
THE WEATHER.—The weather, which had been
cold and dry, with a cutting north-east wind, fir above a
week on the Northumberlani coast, got round to the south
on Monday, and there was a considerable improvement in
the temperature, though the change of wind brought rain,
which continued falling on Monday night. The North Sea
was extremely rough and stormy on Sunday, and it broke
with tremendous force on the North Tyne pier and across
the bar of the Tyne, out it did no harm, except detain ves-
sels in the harbour. In consequence of the condition of
the weather last week, and the winds preventing light ves-
sels from getting down, there was a scarcity of tonnage in
the Tyne for the London market on Monday, and freights
ran up to Os 6d and 6s 9d per ton. Nottingham, Tuesday.
—The weather since Friday has been extremely severe.
The nights have been frosty, with a keen north-west
wind. It is impossible to say at present what damage has
been done to the fruit-trees. A heavy fall of snow fell on
Saturday evening, with a very keen frost at night. The
spring-sown corn will feel the effects of the frost and cold.
To-day the the temperature is rather milder.
ROYAL BOTANIC SOClETY.—Yesterday a flower-
show at the exhibition-ground of this society, in their gar-
dens in the Regent's-park, was numerously attended. The
weather was most favourable, and a large number of choice
plants were exhibited. First prizes were awarded for six
azalias, to Mr. J. Brass, gardener to Sir F. H. Goldsmidt,
M.P., St. John's-lodge; for six azalias, to Mr. C. Turner,
nurseryman, Slough, Bucks ; for 12 auriculas, to Rev. H.
H. Dombrain, Deal, Kent; for 12 auriculas, to Mr. C.
Turner, nurseryman, Slough, Bucks ; for six variegated
plants, to Mr. A. Lakeman, gardener to Mr. J. Campbell,
Grove-house, Hendon; and for six variegated plants, nur-
serymen to Mr. B. S. Williams, nurseryman, Holloway;
small bronze medal, to Mr. J. James, for 24 cut pansies;
ditto to Mr. Wm. Bragg, for two boxes of pansies ; first
class certificate of merit to Messrs. F. and A. Smith, for
primula simensis var. ; ditto to Mr. C. Turner, for Rose
Catherine Guilot ; ditto for Cineraria Artist.
A SPECIFIC AGAINST SMALL-PDX.—Vaccination
is now so generally practised in Europe that the want of a
new specific for the small-pox is hardly felt; still the fol-
lowing remedy, stated by Mr. H. Chalmers Miles, army
surgeon at Halifax, to be aced by the North American
Indians, may be valuable on the actual breaking out of
the disease. This remedy consists of an infusion of the
root of Saracenia purpurea, a plant nearly allied to the
family of Papaveraceta, and is administered as follows :
When a person is threatened with small-pox, the
eruption not having yet appeared, a large glassful
of the infusion is taken, the effect of which is
to hasten tho eruption, making it appear in the course of
four or five hours. A second is then administered, and a
third after the lapse of another period of from four to six
hours, when the pustules sink down, having lost all vitality.
If the patient is already labouring under small-pox before
taking the remedy, one or two dozes of the latter will be
sufficient to efface the pustules and allay the fever. In the
course of two or three days all the morbid phenomena dis-
appear, but the patient is nevertheless kept in his tent until
the ninth day. Ths eruption leaves no trace behind. The
Indians not only use this as a remedy, when the disease has
broken out, but also as a prophylactic ; they always keep a
weak solution of the plant ready, and drink some from time
to time. The Epidemiolegical Society of London has re-
quested Mr. Chalmers Miles to send over a quantity of
saracenia, that it may be tried in England. It is not easy
to explain how it comes that the Indians, possessing this
plant, and aware of its virtues, should have been so fright-
fully decimated by small-pox as historians describe ; and
we are therefore led to the conclusion either that the virtues
of this plant have been greatly exaggerated, or that small-
pox cannot have committed among the Indians the exten-
sive ravages we read of. It is net the least remarkable fact
in this matter that this new remedy has been so long kept
from our knowledge, notwithstanding the long intercourse
between Indians and Europeans.—Galignani.
THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY.—A meeting of
the governors of this society was held yesterday at the
offices, Trafalgar-square, Mr. T. E. Baker, the treasurer, in
the chair. Mr. Young, the secretary, submitted the follow-
ing cases, in which persons had risked their own lives in
rescuing others from drowning, to the committee, who re-
commended Lieut. A. B. Brooke, R.N., of her Majesty's
ship Lapwing, for saving the master and crew of the barque
Grosse Furstein Catherine, which was wrecked in the bay
of Gibraltar on the 29th of Dec.-last, for the award of the
society's silver medal. The bronze medal of the society was
given to John Schofield, for saving John Lippett, who
accidentally fell into the sea at Neyland, South Wales, on
the 6th February ; to Samuel B. Jackson, for saving J.
Harris, who fell into the Loughborough Canal, at Leicester,
on the 4th ult. ; to Lieut. Pearse, of the 76th Regiment, for
saving Charles Tassard, who fell into the harbour at Bou-
logne on the 10th ult. ; to David Buckler, for saving Win.
Millwood, a little boy, who fell into the river Anker, at
Nuneaton, on the 28th ult. ; to Antonius do Itycker, mari-
ner, for saving a man, name unknown, who fell into the
harbour at Dover on the 7th February; and to Thomas
Twiss, clerk, for saving George Reeve, who fell into the
Soho Pool, at Birmingham, on the 3d inst. Thanks on
parchment were voted to Win. Bennett, steward of the
steamer Cornnbia, for saving Jams Campbell, who acci-
dentally fell into the docks at Leith on the 16th ult. ; to
Police-con ,tables James King and Alex. Keely, fur saving
Daniel Dickson, who fell into the river Bann, at Bain-
bridge, county of Down, on the 24th ult. ; and a pecuniary
reward to 'Win. Watts, pierman, for saving Wm. Allen,
clerk, who attempted suicide by jumping into the river
Thames, Waterloo bridge, on the 26th ult. The secretary
read a letter from Mr. W. Rees, of Toronto, Canada West,
stating that a Humane Society was about to be founded 111
that province, and requesting information as to the means
employed for saving life by the Royal Humane Society.
Mr. J. A. Hallett was then elected auditor in the place of
Mr. Woolsey, and, some further business having been dis-
posed of, the Court adjourned,