The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MON OAT EVENiNGI AUGUST 26, 18t;r.

I hibition of poisons, poisons will be kept in
surgeries, and it should be remembered that it
was from a surgeon's assistant PALMER got the first
parcel of strychnia, and from a surgery DOVE got
' what sufficed of that deadly medicament to destroy
his wife. The druggist, however, must sell poison
unless the public are to be delivered over to the
dispensation of Dr. MORRISON or Professor HOL-
LOWAY. The great majority of people cannot
afford to call in the attendance of a doctor in every
case, or in anything like every case, in which the
use of drugs which, taken in excess provepoisonous,
is according to our present notions deemed neces-
sary. They must have these drugs, and, setting
the claims of the great body of druggists aside,
they will have them. The tyranny involved in
the prohibition would be intolerable. Of course,
when thus speaking, we confine ourselves to such
poisons as preparations of opiuin and the like, pro-
scribed in works on domestic medicine and by the
patticoated doctors, so to speak, of tradition. A
geoddeal most always be left to the druggist's care
anddiscretion. There can be no objection, however,
to making the sale of such powerful medicines as
strychnine, veratrine, morphia, (Sze., penal,
unless the party requiring any one of them pro•
duce a certificate of approval by a medical man.
So far as our knowledge extends, the public are
greatly indebted to the class of well-educated
druggists for the care and judgment they con-
stantly manifest for their protection. The great
drawback to confidence in the efficiency of such
discretion is the extensive sale of drugs by incom-
petent persons. Having thus cursorily noticed
this important subject, we pass on to another
immediately connected with it, viz., the necessity
there exists for the public being duly informed of
the measures to be adopted iu cases of poisoning,
supposed as well as real. The first thing that
should be done is to send for a doctor. As,
however, considerable delay, and that at the
most critical period, may take place before
his services can b 3 made available, the heads
of families should make themselves acquainted with
the symptoms produced by the various poisonous
drugs in use, and the most approved means of
counteraction. In most cases there will be little
difficulty in ascertaining what the poison taken
really is; so that, save in cases of secret poisoning
with intent to kill, there need be no delay in the
exhibition of an appropriate remedy. A broad-
sheet now lies before us which may be recom-
mended as furnishing much useful information,
both as to the symptoms produced by a number
of well-known poisons, including strychnine, ie.,
and the treatment to be adopted in each case with
the unfortunate patient, the object of the author
being not to supersede the employment of a
medical man, but to prevent that waste
of time and opportunity which render too
often his services comparatively valueless.
One caution he particularly enforces, and, as it
cannot be too extensively circulated, we repeat it
for the benefit of our readers. Until putre-
faction commences there is no absolute proof of
death—not even a cessation of the beating of the
heart. So long as the mus3ular irritability of
that organ is not exhausted there is ground for
hope ; and until the death of the patient is beyond
the reach of doubt, no effort for his restoration
should be given up in despair. The contents of
the broadsheet are enriched with notes by " an
eminent physician."

* Poisons : their Effacts and Antidotes. By E. A.
J. T►mothy. 11. 11. Calling and Co.

RE.VIEW OF THE OERIMAIV TROOPS AT
DROWNDOWN BY THE QUEEN.

I On Saturday afternoon her Majesty and
Prioca Albert, ace onpanied by the Prince of WaPes, the
Princess Royal, and a few more of the Royal family,
cr slid from Osborne to Browndown, to review the
troops of the British Foreign Legion, encamped there.
Her Majesty arrived at the beach at Browndown at about
half-past four o'clock, and was received by the Lieuten-
ant Governor, Major-General Breton, commandant of
the camp, Colonel Wooldridge, by a number of the offi-
cers of the staff and garrison, and a guard of honour
from the 22d Regiment, with its band. Two of the
r ,jal carriages were in waiting for her Majesty's use, in
one of which her Majesty and Prince Albert took their
seats, and in the other H.R 11. the Princess Royal took
hers. Her Majesty and H.R. U. Prince Albert were in
plain clothes. The road from the beach to the camp,
about three quarters of a mile in length, was guarded by
the 22d Regiment and a detachment of the Legion. The
troops to be reviewed were drawn up on the Down in
line, two deep, and presented a fine soldierly appearance.
They consisted of the Ist and 3d Regiments cf the Brie
ti-h German Legion, numbering about 2,000 men. Her
Majesty drove in front of the lino, accompanied by the
officers in attendance, the bond of each regiment playing
appropriate tunes. Afterwards the troops formed in
open column, and marched past the Queen in quick and
slow time, and no body of troops could have presented
a finer appearance. Some other evolution took place,
after which her Majesty and the Court went over the
cxnp, the troops being drawn up in companies in front
of their respective encampments ; her Majesty and suite
walking round the whole of the camp and entering some
of the tents to view the accommodation, &e. This be-
ing c)ncluded, the Queen, the Prince, and the Court
drove to the new forts constructing near Browndown
and made a lengthened inspection of them. The royal
party then returned to the beach, and re-embarked on
board the n'a'ry, at half-past six, under a salute from
the ships at Spithead.

LATEST NEWS.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

This morning tho Royal mail steam-ship Ara-

bia, Captain Stone, arrived off Point Lynas.
She was to leave Boston on the 13th inst., with
the mails from the United States and British

North America.

BERLIN, Aua. 22.

The Indicateur Officiel of St. Petersburg an-
nounces that the Imperial Court will leave for
Moscow on the 26th, will make its solemn entry
on the 29th, and that the coronation will take
place on the 7th September.

HAMBURG, AUG 22.

The cholera has broken out with great severity
at Stockholm. It is said that General Bodisco,

the Russian military envoy, is one of its Bust

victims•

MADRID, Ana. 22.

Prince Adalbert arrived here yesterday evening,
and was received with great state. The nuptial
ceremony will take place on Monday next, the
25th. The Gazette publishes the decree defini-
tively disbanding the National Guard. The Go-
vernment will render an account of this measure
to the Cortes at its next session.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :
" With reference to M. Hubner's arrival at Na-
ples, whence it is said that he will proceed to
Gaeta, where the Court at present is, AO _Nord of
yesterday has a correspondence from Vienna, in
which is repeated the statement made some time
ago, that he is charged with a non-official mission—
its object, the amicable arrangement of the Neapo-
litan difficulty. The Belgian paper says that
Austria will certainly not press upon King Ferdi-
nand reforms whose concession would be the signal
for similar demands addressed to Austria herself
for her kingdom of Italy, and for the duchies at-
tached to her by dynastic ties. I think we may
fairly accept the natural inference from this that
the Italian subjects of Austria are not much better
off than those of Naples, and that reform is nearly
as much needed in the north as in the south. The
Nord proceeds to make the following highly pro-
bable estimate of the extent to which Austria is
disposed to interfere :
" All that our Cabinet (that of Vienna) desires, is that
King Ferdi❑and should make some conciliatory ad
vances, take some step calculated to efface the deplorable
(facleeuse) impression produced on the Western Cabinets
by the tone of the last reply to the notes of France and
England. In a word, it is an affair that must be stifled
as soon as possible, and without wounding the rights or
dignity of anybody. That is the substance of the mis-
sion which Baron Hubner is at this moment charged to
fulfil at the Court of Naples, and whose success no one
is better fitted to ensure.' "

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The Moniteur of yesterday has the following :
FUNDED CREDIT OF FRANCE-LOAN OF TWO HUNDRED

MILLIONS.

The third quarterly drawing for 1856 of the lots as-
signed to the funded bonds will take place on the 22d
of September next, at the company's office, Rue Neuve•
des-Capucines, No. 19.

The Ist prize will bo for 100,0001.
The 2d prize „ 50,000 f.
The 31 prize 20,000 f,
Thereupon will commence the drawing of the bonds
entitled to reimbursement.

The subscription to the bond of 100 C., with 4 per cent.
interest and with chances in the lottery, is opened in
Paris, at the office of the company, and i❑ the depart-
ments at the offices of the private and general receivers
of taxes.

The bowls subscrited for before Sept. 15 will share
in the drawing of the 221.
Interest will be due to the subscribers from the actual
day of payment.
Paris, August 23.
The Governor, Count CR. DE GERMINY.
A decree in the Moniteur makes five promotions
to the rank of officer, and 12 nominations to that
of knight, in the Legion of Honour, among officers
of the army and gendarmery. Another decree
confers 19 military medals on as many non-com-
missioned officers and privates in the gendarmery.
The Moniteur publishes the official return of the
receipts of the customs for the month of July,
which amounted to 16,490,427 f., being a decrease
of 16,424,153 f. as compared with the corresponding
month of last year. The total amount of the re-
ceipts for the first seven months of the present year
was 100,522,394 f., or 20,698,989 f. less than in the
corresponding period of 1855. The articles which
have shown the greatest falling off, during the
portion of the year that has already expired, are
coffee for 4,964,693 f.; raw wool, 3,226,363 f.; foreign
sugar, 12,170,856 f.; and portable liquors, 994,319 f.;
those which mark an improvement are corn,
1,093,558 f. ; raw cotton, Q12,192f. ; bar iron,
732,300 f.; coal, 546 373.

. .
BOURSE, Aug. 23.—The following were tho last
quotations :

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
1.4 per Cents 95 10 —f. —c.
3 per Coats 7i) 75 70 75
New Loan 7O 80

Bank Shares 4,150 Roman
Credit Mobilier 1,620 Austrian
Belgian Five 5......,. Spanish Threes
Piedmentese(s)...... 91 -- Home Debt

ILLILWAYS-PCR CASH.

33
83
44i

_
fr. c. _
fr. e.
Orleans .....;,.. 1,412 50 Wostern 965
Northern .1,057 50 Strasburg
Lyons ...,.,1,422 5J New Ditto
neditorranean l,BlO Grand Central
Lyons Geneva BO5 Teste
Cette .. 791 25 Austrian Coin. B3O

SPAIN.

Our accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst.l

An officer of the staff had arrived the day before
at Madrid, who was said to be the bearer of im-
portant despatches from the Captain-General of
Barcelona. Catalonia was perfectly tranquil.
The Clamor Publico states that, before the close
of the month, the Government will have come to
an understanding on all the questions connected
with the political re-organisation of the country.
The Madrid Gazette publishes the following,
dated Lisbon, 12th inst. :
" During the recent riots, a great affluence of coun-
try people was observed in the capital. Emissaries had
been sent to different points, and it is now well known
that a revolutionary movement was cc ntemplated. The
rioters having announced that they would be joined by
the labourers employed on the railways and in the
manufactories, the Governor had caused certain posi-
tions to be occupied by the troops. The attitude of the
latter deterred many from joining the groups. The
Captain-General deserves the greatest praise ; by his
prudence and coup d'ail he defeated the designs of the
seditious. The re organisation of the Municipal Guard
and the dismissal of its Commander-in-chief were con-
sidered indispensable. That corps costs the State
4,347,826 reals per annum, and might be replaced by
the troops of the garrison by g,ranting the men a trifling
additional pay. The King is of opinion that regiments
should not remain more than one year in the same town.
All the corps of the army would accordingly in their
turn benefit by the measure."

The Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived.
The Gazette publishes a bando of the Civil Gover-
nor of the province of Madrid, depriving the al-
caldes of the power of delivering permissions to
carry arms, and declaring that the applications
for them must be transmitted to his office with de-
tails respecting the personal character of the appli-
cant; their mode of life, &ix. The Espana says
that the question of the recognition of the Queen
by Russia not being yet settled, it is probable that
no Spanish ambassador will be present at the coro-
nation of the Czar. New sergeants have been ap-
pointed to the regiments which took part in the
pronunciamento of Saragossa. At Saragossa, Ma-
laga, and on the Pyrenean frontier large seizures
of smuggled goods had been made. One of the
journals, in recording the seizurel, says that
smuggling is the great cause of insurrection in
many provincial towns. It was said that
Marshal Narvaez was about to receive a pass-
port authorising him to reside in any part of
Spain he might think fit. A deputation had ar-
rived from Barcelona to give the Government
an account of the state of the province of Cata-
lonia. Orders had been sent to the Governor
General of the Balearic islands, to dissolve the
national guard. It was reported, says the Espana,
that Mr. (Away, secretary of the English legation,

is abont to b© appointed minister plenipotentiary
in Mexico. The same journal states that the state
of Portugal is not satisfactory, and that there is
agitation in the army. A. letter announces the
departure of the ex-Minister of the Interior, M. P.
de la, Escosura, for France.

A letter from Vienna, in the Cologne Gazelle,
rays :—" We ]earn from a good source that Russia
will not consent on any condition whatever to the
cession of Bolgrad."

The Military Gazette of Vienna says :—" The
officers charged with the mission of examining the
improvements effected. in England, Belgium, and
France in engineering and artillery arms have re-
turned here, and it would appear from their report
that the superiority in these arms is on the side
of Austria."

The German Journal of Frankfort, of the 21st,
says :—" Baron d'Ostensacken, Count Pallor', and
the young Count do Nesselrode, have arrived here
from St. Petersburg."

General Count de Kielmansegge, formerly Mi-
nister of War at Hanover, has just expired in thr t
city, aged 79.

The King of Greece arrived at Darmstadt on the
19th, from Ludevigshov, iu company with the
Empress-Dowager Caroline of‘ Austria. Their
Majesties are on a visit to the Court of Hesse.

The Fadrelandet of Copenhagen, of the 18%,
says :—" Mr. Buchanan, the English Minister
at our Court, who had been summoned
to England to give some information to his
government on the subject of the Sound dues, re-
turned to his post the day before yesterday. We
are informed that ho has brought with him the
pleasing intelligence that the British Government
is disposed to accept the proposition of capitalisa-
tion made by Denmark. Mr ' Buchanan, who in
returning to Copenhagen passed through Berlin,
states that the Prussian Government also adheres to
the proposal of our Cabinet. The powers most
interested in the question—Russia, Sweden and
Norway, England, and Prussia—are thus agreed
on the point of accepting the Danish proposition ;
if to this it be added that the United States have
made offers to the same effect, there is every reason
to hope that the commerce of the world will be
soon relieved of one of its most heavy charges."

THE PENINSULAR MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.

By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship Tagus, Captain Cristian, we have dates
from Gibraltar, 16th ; Cadiz, 17th ; Lisbon, 19th ;
Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo 21st inst. The Tagus
brings 29 passengers, 450 boxes of oranges, a cargo
of fruit, and a small quantity of specie.
Accounts from Gibraltar state that Prince Wil-
liam Adalbert of Prussia was rapidly improving.
The wounded officers and men were in a favourable
way to recovery. Exchange on London at 90 days
was quoted 51k. Spanish pillared dollars, per
cent. premium.
Her Majesty's steamers Cyclops and Vesuvius
left Gibraltar on the 16th. Her Majesty's ship
Leander arrived on the same day. .J he French
steamers of war Prince Jerome and Magellan were
at Lisbon on the 19th.

Bills on London continued scarce upon the Lis-
bon Exchange, and the transactions were conse-
quently trifling at 54j for three months.
Bills on Paris were quoted 5.28 , Amsterdam,
401 ; Hamburg, 48 • and Genoa, 5 to 6 2 ; Portu-
guese Three per Cents. were again looking up,
and the demand appeared greater than the supply
at 45 to 45i ; Bank of Portugal Shares, 495 to 497
milreis each ; and Oporto Bank Stock, 18 to 20
per cent. premium.

The following is extracted from our Lislion letter
of the 19th :

" I am.happy to say several Sundays and holydays
have now gone by without any renewal of the bread
riots, although the bakers still keep away from the corn-
market, business must therefore resume its usual course,
as the stock of flour in the hands of millers and bakers
is nearly exhausted. Among other classes confidence
has fully revived, and n 3 one fears a repetition of the
riots, now that the authorities have shown themselves
resolved to put them down. Cases of cholera have
greatly decreased here, and accounts from Madeira, of
the 14th, are also more encouraging. At Cintra several
cases have appeared, and three deaths are reported
among the royal servants at the palace where the King
is residing. Nothing particular has yet resulted from
the police examination of the late riots. Twelve of the
artil!crymen are to be tried by a court-martial on ac-
count of the occurrences at Beleem."