The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-18 00:00:00

CHANGE 1N COLOUR OF THE HAIR.

The changes which are produced by disturbances
of the heart upon the cutaneous capillaries are illus-
trated in a remarkable manner in persons where the
hair of the head has suddenly become white from a
disturbance in the heart caused by violent mental ex-
citement. A lady who was deeply grieved on re-
ceiving the intelligence of a great change in her
worldly condition, and who had a very remarkable
quantity of dark hair, found on the following morning
the whole of the hair had become of a silver white.
Some striking instances of this kind are narrated by
historians. " I was struck," says Madame Campan,
" with the astonishing change misfortune had wrought
upon Maria Antoinette's features; her whole head
of hair bad turned almost white during her transit
from Varennes to Paris." The Duchess of Luxem-
bourg, when caught making her escape during the
terrors of the French Revolution, and put in prison,
the next morning it was observed that her hair had
become white. A Spanish officer, distinguished for
his bravery, was in the Duke of Alva's camp, and an
experiment was made by one of the authorities to test
his courage. At midnight the provost-marshal, ac-
companied by his guard and a confessor, awoke him
from his sleep, informing him that, by order of the
viceroy, he was to be immediately executed, and had
only a quarter of an hour left to make his peace with
Heaven. After he had confessed, he said that he was
prepared for death, but declared his innocence. The
provost-marshal at this moment burst into a fit of
laughter, and told him that they merely wanted to
try bis courage. Placing his hand upon his heart,
and, with a ghastly paleness, he ordered the provost
out of his tent, observing that he had " done him an
evil office ;" and the next morning, to the wonder of
the whole army, the hair of his head, from having
been of a deep black colour, had become perfectly
white.—Dr. Wardrop on Diseases of the Heart.

TRADE IN PALM OIL.—By the entries in the
Liverpool Customs, it appears that during the eleven months
of the present year ending oa the Ist instant, no less than
23,180 tons of palm oil have been imported from Africa;
thus proving that the natives who formerly exported their
brethren as a matter of traffic, now find at least an equally
profitable trade in the exportation of the vegetable products
of their native soil. In addition to the quauity of
oil already received this year, the following vessels
are also shortly expected to arrive in Liverpool with
the same artic'e, viz. :—Hants, 700 tons; Lord Elgin,
400 tons ; Roe, 228 tone ; Ariel, 220 tons ; Dido,
204 tons ; Mediterranean, 145 tons ; Mercury, 140 tons ;
Huakisson, 388 tons; William Hutt, 285 tons; Golden
Eagle, 99 tons; Taplin, 459 tons; Magistrate, 518 tone;
Lydia, 362 tons; Juverna, 209 tons; Banshee, 145 tons;
Swiftsure, 208 tons; Ides, 125 tons; British Queen, 330
tons ; Cleopatra, 508 tons; America, 690 tons; Petrel, 132
tons; St. Lawrence, 860 tons; Cronin, 177 tons; Mary
G llespie, 264 tons; Vesta, 262 tons; Doucie Davis, 417 tons;
Mary, 545 tons; Scotland, 562 tons; Severn, 362 tons;
Ellen Jenkinson, 149 tons; Sarah Horn, 199 tons; Druid,
350 tons ; Belle, 499 tons ; Zephyr, 214 tons ; Princess
Royal, 612 tons; Abeona, 1,000 tone; Celicia, 922 tons;
Tipperary, 185 tons ; Adnaun, 285 tons.
YANKEE WlT.—Dau Russell, the Union candidate
for Auditor of Public Accounts in Mississippi, is an original
genius, besides being gifted with a ready and happy wit.
On Friday night last, at Jackson, he was suddenly called
upon for a speech by enthusiastic shouts from the audience.
Rising upon the speaker's stand, Dan thus commenced :
" Fellow-citizens, you have called on me for a ftw remarks.
I have none to make. I have no prep.red speech. Indeed,
lam no speaker. I do not desire to be a speaker; I only
want to bean auditor." We need hardly say that the well.
timed pun brought down the house.—Natchez Courier.

PIitTRSDAY EVENIN(3, DECI .I 3: , iS, 18!4.