The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-10 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LONDON, April 10.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather.
LAMLASIL April B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived.—Washing-
ton, from the. Clyde for Quebec ; Prince of Wales, from
the Clyde for Bombay.
SHIELDS, April B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Hotspur, for
Shanghai ; Wenershaum, for Quebec.
CARDIFF, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Therese Asis-
tide, and Louise, from Bilboa. Sailed—Old Dominion, for
New York.
OFF DOVER, April 7.—Wind. S.W.—Arrived—Patrician,
from Calcutta.
MUMBLES, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Georgiana
Grenfell, from Caldoira.
Orr DARTMOUTH, April 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—
The Great Victoria, screw steamer, from Melbourne, for
London.

TORBAY, April 7.—WindkS.W.—Arrived-31m7 Blake,
from London for Bermuda.
HOLYHEAD, April 7.—Wind S.—Arrived—Coral Queen,
from Liverpool for Matanzas.
SUNDERLAND, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Mina,
for Quebec.
CLYDE, April 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived—Sydney,
from Demerara.
Prix, April 7.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Elizabeth
for the West of Africa.
PORTSMOUTH, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Her Ma-
jesty's ship Fury, for London.
OFF MOUNT'S BAY, April 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived--
Urania, from St. Domingo, and sailed for Hamburg; had
experienced heavy weather.
SOUTHAMPTON, April 7.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Gilmore,
for Quebec.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday Morning.
Arrived, April 9—Montrose, from St. Vincent ;• Jessy,
from Guernsey.
Arrived, April 10—Mary Helen, from St. Michael's;
Admiral Nelson, from Guernsey.

DEAL, Monday Morning.
Passed—Amazon, • screw steamer, for Lisbon ; City o.
Hamilton, for Quebec—both from London.
Anchored—Douglass, from Shields, for Carthagena.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and Princess Mary closed their visit to the Duke of
Rutland at Belvoir Castle on Saturday last, having stayed
over the Croxton Park Races. Their Royal Highnesses,
attended byLadyCaroline Cust and Colonel :Purves, passed
through town on Saturday to Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
where it is their intention to pass the Easter recess.
The Earl and Countess of Cawdor leave town in
the course of the week for Stackpole Court, Wales, for the
Easter recess.

The Countess Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper
have arrived at Panshanger from visiting the Earl and
Countess Spencer at Althorp Hall. The countess and
family intend to remain at Panshanger during the Easter
recess.

The Earl de Grey and Viscount Goderich have
gone on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales, at Sandringham.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter will
remain at Burleigh until after the Easter holidays, when
they come to London for the season.

The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., left their residence
in Carlton-gardens on Saturday for her ladyship's seat in
Somersefshire.

The Earl and CauntesB Fitzwilliam and family
are not expected to arrive in town till the first week in
May.

The Countess of Listowel is shortly expected in
town from Connamore, Fermoy, county Cork.
The Earl. Russell, accompanied by the Countess
and Lady Georgiana Russell, has gone to his seat near
Stroud, Gloucestershire, where Viscount and Viscountess
Amberley and other members of the family are staying.
TEA IN A NUTSHELL.—Dr. Attfiield, Director of
the Laboratories of the Pharmaceutical Society of
Great Britain, has published a very interesting account of
the result of an examination which he has made of the Kola
nuts of Western Central Africa. A few ounces of dry hard
fragments of these nuts were placed in his hands by Dr.
Daniell, who stated that in the fresh state they were largely
used as an article of food and medicine by the natives of
Western Central Africa ; that he had once partaken of the
fresh nut, the effect being that he was kept awake for
many hours ; that he therefore inferred that they. must
contain a principle similar to that which exists tea,
coffee, &c., namely, theine ; and that he had,ta iinn fact,m by a
rough chemical process, succeeded in obtaining
the fresh
crystals
resembling theine in appearance. Asa m
nut, Dr. Daniell said, was esteemed of medicine,
great value in
diarrhoea and affections of the liver;thanatdtthhe nat indeed d
e wased ge-
nerally or
all purposes, it was in the fresh state
employed, portions being chewed, the juice swal-
lowed, and the solid part ejected from the mouth. If the
nuts were allowed to become dry, they were considered to
have depreciated in value, and were then only chewed by
the lower classes of the natives. Dr. Attfield has deter-
mined the presence of theine in dried Kola nut in the pro-
portion of about 2 per cent. Coffee contains from .5 to 2.0
and tea from .5 to 3.5 parts in 100. So that the Kola nut
really has a considerable food value. The discovery of
theine in the food materials of an African race of people is
highly interesting. It is well known that coffee, tea, cocoa,
matao, Paraguay tea, and guarana, which constitute the
beverage of the European, American, and Asiatic peoples,
have been selected by an unerring instinct, which has di-
vined in each plant the remarkable alkaloid, theine. Dif-
ferent in botanical characters, varied in genera, not very
unlike in flavour, they have been instinctively chosen as
containing this valuable active principle. The investiga-
tion of the food value of Kola nut is thus one of particular
interest, and which will, we hope, be carried further.—
Lancet.