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

£35; Dougan, 26th Lancashire, £35; Rowland, 55th
Foot, £35.
600 YARDS.—Cunliffe, 26th Cheshire, £5O ; Dines, 28th
Middlesex, £5O; Moir, 23d Stirling, £5O ; Wilson, School
of Musketry, £5O; Gill, 4th West York. LOO ; Helsel!,
21st Lancashire, £5O ; De Gendre, Swiss, £5O.
THE OAKS.—Halsall, 21st Lancaehire, Ist prize;
Starkie, Queen's Westminster, second prize; J. Baker,
4th Gloucester, third prize.
RIFLE DERBY.—Ross, Cambridge University, first prize;
Halford, Ist Leicester, second prize ; Astley, School of
Musketry, third prize.
ST. GEORGE'S VASE.—Ferguson, Ist Inverness, vase
and gold jewel of St. George; Lcet, Queen's, silver jewel
of St. George ; Hemery, 11th Middlesex, bronze jewel of
St. George. _ .

HAROLD Cur.—Nicholls, 10th Stafford, Harold Cup ;
Gibbs, Ist Gloucester, £25; Hogg, 12th Surrey, £l5;
M‘Gibbon, 14th Edinburgh, £lO.
DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE'S PRlZE.—Colquhuon, 4th Dra"
goon Guards, cup value £5O, or money.
ALBERT PRlZE.—Halford, Ist Leicester, £lOO cup, or
money.

PRINCE OF WALES'S PRIZE.—A. Smith, City of Edin-
burgh, £lOO cup, or money.
IsT STAGE QUEEN'S.— Walton, 17th West York, silver
medal and Whitworth rifle—£2s; Dougan, 26th Lance:
shire, Whitworth rifle ; Wyatt, Ist City of London, ditto ,
Williams, 19th Middlesex, ditto; M. Smith, Victor's
Rifles, ditto ; Edwards, 6th Stafford, ditto; Anderson!
Queen's Westminster, ditto ; French. Ist Warwick, ditto
Porter, Queen's Westminster, ditto ; Sprott, Liverpool Rifle
Brigade, ditto ; Dines, 28th Middlesex, ditto ; Cunningharn9
18th Middlesex, ditto ; A, Smith, Edinburgh City, ditto
Morris, 9th Middlesex, ditto ; Doe, Victoria Rifles, ditto ;
Norfolk, 13th Suffolk, ditto ; Palmer, 36th Stafford. ditto ;
Syme, Ist Lanark, ditto; Su"livan, Liverpool Rifle Brigade,
ditto.

EXTRAORDINARY POISONING NEAR

RUGBY.

RUGBY, JULY 12.
A most melancholy occurrence has just taken place in a
farm. house at Ashby St. Ledgers, a village on the borders
of Northamptonshire, not far from this town. It appears
that Mr. William Payne Cowley, a farmer, liying 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 extermination of vermin, and
for this purpose a strong mixture 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 Daventry, where he purchased
six pounds of white arsenic and a barrel of soft soap weigh-
ing 30 pounds. It may be as well to state here that the
act of Parliament which was passed in 1851 for the regula-
tion of the sale of poisons, ordered that arsenic should, for
ordinary purposes, be coloured with soot or indigo before
being sold. • An exception, however, was made in favour
of the agricultural community, who are allowed to purchase
and to use uncoloured arsenic. On the following morning
Mr. W. P. Cowley and his mother prepared the sheep-
dipping mixture, in which some lambs were washed. In
this operation Mr. Cowley and several of his labourers were
employed. After assisting her son in the preparation of
the soap and arsenic, Mrs. Cowley proceeded to make a
batter pudding for the dinner of her family and the labourers
and servants. By some means, as Set unaccounted for, it
appears that some arsenic must have been mixed with the
pudding, for the whole 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 are more or less affected.

The name of the deceased is Richard Smith, he was an
agricultural labourer, and 53 years of age.
Mr. W. Terry, the Coroner for the Central District of
Northamptonshire, held an inquest on the body of the
deceased, at Ashby St. Ledgers, this afternoon. Some
evidence was adduced, after which the inquiry was ad-
journed.

COUNTRY MA RILL 2 S.

.10.

GLOUCESTER-JULY 12.

Again a very small supply of wheat from the farmers
to-day, which sold at an advance of is per qr on last week's
prices. Foreign wheat in fair demand, and full rates.
Oats, beans, and peas unchanged. Grinding barley rather
dearer.