The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day,

LONDON, Nov. 22.—Wind this day at noon—South.
Easterly ; strong breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

OARDLFF, Nov.
from Quebec.

21.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Nile,

OFF ROCHE'S Pow; Nov. 21.—Arrived—City of Boston,
steamer, from New York.

COWES, Nov. 20.—Wind W.—Arrived.—Elephat Greely,
from Callao.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Espoir,
from Rio Grande.

WATERFORD, Nov. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Eliza-
beth M'Lean, from St. John's, Newfoundland.
GRIMSBY, Nov. 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Edward
Hunkens, screw steamer, for New Orleans.
DIY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 21.—William and Clara, steamer, from
Dordt.

Arrived, Nov. 22.—Holland, steamer, from Ostend ; Leo,
steamer, from Dordt ; Batavier and Cologne, steamers,
from Rotterdam ; Velocity, steamer, from Calais ; Volga,
steamer, from St. Petersburg.

DEAL, Wednesday Morning.
Passed.—Her Majesty's ship Pox, from Woolwich for
the westward.

An amount of gold, representing £162,000, was
reeeivedrit the Bank yesterday.
COLONEL STODARE AT WINDSOR CASTLE.—CoI.
Stodare had last night the distinguished honour to
appear, by command, at Windsor Castle, in his entertain-
ment of magic and ventriloquism, on the occasion of the
birthday of her Royal Highness tho Princess Royal. Her
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Majesty the Queen graciously honoured Colonel Stodare
with her presence during the performance, and was at-
tended by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Frederick William of Prussia, the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, Princess Helena, Prince Arthur, Prince.
Leopold, and all the members of the Royal family and
Court present at the Castle. A portion of the programme,
consisting of the Sphinx, the Indian basket trick, and a
ventriloquial sketch, was performed twice, in 'compliance
with a spacial desire that it should be repeated.
DEATH OF ADMIRAL O'BRlEN.—Admiral Joseph
O'Brien's death is announced. He was a flag officer on
reserved half-pay, and had achieved considerable distinc-
tion in his profession. He was 73 years of ago at the time
of his aAnth

ACCEPTANCE OF THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—On Monday afternoon, at a meet-
ing of Conservative students held in the College, it was
reported that a deputation of students had waited upon the
Lord Justice Clerk at Edinburgh, and that his lordship
expressed the pleasure which it afforded him to accept the
honour conferred upon him by his election to the office of
lord rector.—Courant.

GRACEFUL AND GRATEFUL.—We cut the follow-
ing letter from the Dublin Evening Mail, signed
"A Conservative :"--" The peerages of two of her Ma-
jesty's premiers—their country's friends—are extinct—
Melbourne and Palmerston. Could a more graceful and
grateful act bo done than to revive them 2—the Melbourne
and Beauvais titles in Lady Palmerston's heirs, and the
Palmerston and Mount Temple Peerages in the Right Hon.
Laurence Sullivan's family, who are heirs to the Irish
estates of the deceased premier; the properties of both
being ample to support the dignity without any pecuniary
call on the country. Sir William Temple, the friend and
patron of Dean Swift, and Sir John Temple, aro historic
names in Irish history."

MEXICAN FROGS.—In a paper read last week to
the Academy of Sciences, M. Auguste Dumeril de-
scribes a series of observations made by him on certain
Mexican batracians or frogs, called Axolotl (Sireclon Mexi-
eanus or a Humboldtii), born at the Garden of Plants, their
Mexican parents being still living. Between the 17th of
April, the date of their birth, and the beginning of Sep-
tember, the young had attained the length of 21 centi-
metres, very nearly that of the old ones, which is 25
centim. At the latter period M. Dumeril remarked
considerable changes in one of them : tho branchial
appendages had disappeared, or left only a few
faint traces ; the membranous crests of the back and
tail were gone; the form of the head was somewhat modi-
fied, and numerous little specks of a whitish yellow were
perceptible all over the body, strongly contrasting with
the general black tint. The other individuals of the brood
also gradually underwent the same transformation; whence
M. Dumeril concludes that the Axolotl, instead of being a
species by itself, with perennial branchia3, or gills, is
nothing else but the larva of another species capable of
transformation and deprived of branchite; and if so,
then the parents which have boon at the museum for
upwards of two years are only larva, notwith-
standing their power of reproduction. And if this be ad-
mitted, how can it be explained that the small fry born in
April should in so short a time have undergone the trans-
formation just described, when the parents, brought over
from Mexico to France at the end of 1863, have under-
gone no such change, and have only increased in size
Again, have the Azolotls in their new state, which ex-
cludes them from all known species of unrodelous batra-
cians, at length arrived at a permanent form, or are they
likely to undergo another metamorphosis ? These ques-
tions, of the highest interest to zoologists, 11.Dumdril hopes
to solve by continuing his observation.s.

THE HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT ON RAILWAYS.
Yesterday Dr. Lankester opened an inquiry at the
University College Hospital as to the death of J. Clark, a
shunter, employed on the London and North Western Rail-
way, which occurred accidentally on the 16th inst , while
passing a truck from one line to another by means of a
turntable. One of the witnesses (a lad of about 16 years
of ago) stated that deceased, himself, and the other men
worked from six one evening to seven the following morn.
ing. The accident happened during the last hour of work-
That morning they had one hour and a half's rest in
the stables. Some mornings they had three hours and a
half's rest. Emma Reeves, a young woman, who appeared
on behalf of deceased's wife, who was ill now, created a
great sensation in court by declaring that for two nights
and one day before the accident, deceased had been at work
on the railway without intermission. Witness wont with
deceased's wife to get the week's salary, and there were
two and a half days' overtime credited on the bill. Several
of the jurymen expressed themselves warmly on what they
considered the monstrous conduct of the company, in allow-
ing a man to work two days and one night without inter-
mission. The ordinary hours they considered disgraceful
for night work, and would not return a verdict until the
statement as to the number of hours deceased had worked,
was proved or disproved. It had been said that the accident
happened through deceased scotching the wheels of his
truck before it was fairly on the turn-table ; if that was the
case they (the jury) were not surprised, after the manner
in which the man had been overworked. The coroner said
the jury had nothing whatever to do with the number of
hours during which the man worked. If a man worked for
a great number of hours it was at his own option, and he
was sure that they as Englishmen would be the first to re-
ject with indignation any law for compelling a man to only
work for a certain number of hours. The jury still refused
to return a verdict, and, after a lengthened conversation,
the coroner adjourned the inquiry for the production of the
evidence they required.

A frightful attack of neuralgia in the face and
mouth cured by a few doses of Monisox's PILLS, the vege-
table universal medicine of the British College of Heal h,
Euston-road, London, after other means had failed. Sold
by the hygelan agents and all medicine vendors,