The Sun.
London, England, 1862-07-15 00:00:00

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•D:uga7"-----, 26th . Lancashire, £35; Rowland, 51 ith
£3,
,' t 35.
Foot, sz.p.ups.—Cunlif re, 26th Cheshire, £5O ; Dines, 2: 3th
600 _ ,%, £5O; Moir. , 23d Stirling, £5O ; Wilson, es b 00l
Middles€ 'Ty, £5O ; G ill, 4th West York, £5O; Hiegoill,
of Musket hire, £5O; De Gendre, Swiss, £5O.
21st Lances. 5.....-11a1 sail, 21st Lancachire, Ist pr ize ;
THE OAK, '6 If estminster, second prize; J. Balker,
Starkie, Queen hind prize.
4th Gloucester, t _Th. ass,Carnbridg6, University, first ical:Zg;
RIFLE DERBY.- tO , second prize , ; Astley, Scho9l of
Halford, Ist Leices ~.

SE.---Ferguson,
Musketry, third priz,
ST. GEORGE'S VA l. lt Inverness, vase
and gold jewel of St. George; Leet, Que, '74 silver jewel
of St. George ; Herne% V, llth Middlesex, I;:ronze jewel off

St. George. 1110, 10th Stafford, Harol, 4 Cup''
HAROLD Cur.—Niche
-.5, Hogg., 12th Surrey; ‘ £l5 ;
Gibbs, Ist Gloucester, i 1
M‘Gibbon, 14th Edinburg.
PRIZE.—CoI uhuon 4th Draw
OF CAMBRIDGE'S , q
goon Guards, cup value £5O
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`, or money.
', Ist Leicester, £lOO cup, ?or
ALBERT PRIZE.—HEdfOrt.
money.
PRINCE OF WALES'S PRIZ E.—A. Smith, City of Eau"
burgh, £lOO cup, or money.
IST STAGE QUEEN'S.—Walt on, 17th West York, silver
medal and Whitworth rifle-1 ',25; Dougan, 26th Lan ca•
shire, Whitworth rifle ; Wyatt, Ist City of London, dit to ;
Williams, 19th Middlesex, ditto ; M. Ornith, Victt )ria
Rifles, ditto ; Edwards, 6th Stafford, ditto; Anders ;on,
Queen's Westminster, ditto ; I ?rench, Ist Warwick, dit to ;
Porter, Queen's Westmittater, ( lit to ; Sprott, Liverpool 1 1,010
Brigade, ditto ; Dines, 28t h Mi .dd lesex, ditto ; Cunuingb.; 'go,
18th Middlesex, ditto ; A, &mit] 1, Edinburgh City, dit to ;
Morris, 9th Middlesex, ditt o ; JO oe, Victoria Rifles, dit to ;
Norfolk, 13th Suffolk, ditto ; 114 ,Imer, 36th Stafford, ditto ;
Syme, Ist Lanark, ditto; Suliivei u, Liverpool Rifle Bri? ;ads,
1 ditto.

EXTRAORDINARY Pt 9ISONING NEO

.RUGB Y.

RUGBY, JULY I`G•'
A most melancholy occurrent e has just taken place in fl
farm-house at Ashby St. Ledger •s, a village on the borders
of Northamptonshire, not far frt an this town. It appears
that Mr. William Payne Cowley, a farmer, living in that
village with his mother (who is a widow) and his brothers,
had his sheep dipped or washed last week. The object of
this dipping or washing is the ext ermination of vermin, and
for this purpose a strong mix tare, of arsenic and soft soap
diluted with water is used. On Tuesday morning last Mr•
William Payne Cowley sent ,his brother, Mr. Edwin Cow-
ley, to the adjoining town of Vaventry, where he purchased
ai:,t pounds of white arsenic ,antl a barrel of soft soap weigh-
ing 30 pounds. It may be as well to state hero that the
act 40,1" Parliament which was passed in 1851 for the regUl
Lion of the sale of poisons, oro tered that arsenic should, for
ordinary
.Purposes, be colours Id with soot or indigo before
being sold. An exception, ht rwever, was made in favour
of the agricultural community, who are allowed to purchi
and to use uncoloured arsenic. On the following moral ng
Mr. W. P. Cowley and his x nether prepared the she, ar
dipping mixture, in which son re lambs were washed. In
this operation Mr. Cowley and several of his labourers w ere
employed. After. assisting her son in the preparation of
the soap and arscnie, Mrs. Cow ley proceeded to make
batter pudding for em dinner of heir family and the labourerS
and servants. By s ome means, as. yet unaccounted for, it
appears that some ars, Inic must • have been mixed with the
puddint, for the wholti of the persons who partook of it,
ten in number, became violently sick just after dinner, and
exhibited all the symptoms of being poisoned. The best
medical assistance in the neighbourhood was procured;
but one man has already died, and another is not expected
to survive. The others ere more or less affected.
The name of the deceased is Richard Smith, he was
agricultural labourer, and 53 years of age.
Mr. W. Terry, the Coroner for the Central District of
Nethamptonshire, held an inquest on the body of tJo
deceased, at Ashby St. Ledgers, this afternoon. Some
evidence was adduced, after which the inquiry was ado
journed;.

COUNTRY MA "IKE .7 S.

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GLOUCESTER—J-ULY 12.
Again a very small supply of wheat from the farmed
to- day, whicht sold at an advance of Is per qr on last week's
prices. Formign wheat in fair demand, and full rates.
Oats, beans, and peas unchanged. Grinding barley rather
dearer;