The Sun.
London, England, 1858-01-12 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 15.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.;
light breeze and fine.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 11.—Wind W.—Arrived—Western
Sea, from Liverpool for Messina ; Hebden, from Troon for
Demerara.
PORTSMOUTH,_ Jan. 11.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived

Nagaden, from Havana.
SCILLY, Jan, 10.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Susannah,
from New York for Santander. Sailed—Volante, for Va-
lencia.
WEST HARTLEPOOL, Jan. 11.—Wind S.W.—Saiied—
George and Leidvig, for Havannah ; Christian, ditto ;
jerville, Genoa.
OFF DARTMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Arrived—Fire Somer,
from Shields for Callao.
BEAUMARIS, Jan. 11.—Wind N.W.—Arrived----James
bi'llenry, from New Orleans.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning,

Calm and frosty.
Arrived—Dundonald, from Newport ; Despatch (a.),
Jersey ; Havre (9.), Havre ; Flora (s.), Dublin ; Atlas,
Alexandria.
Sailed— Empress (a.), for Jersey; Alliance (a.), Havre ;
Flora, London.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.S.W.
An iv ed —Gratitude, from Macao; Martha, St. Domingo ;
Leucothia, New Orleans.
Sailed—Orontes, s.-s., for Salonica; Dorcas Prince, New
Orleans ; G3merion, Naples ; Albatross, Aden.
Off—Constellation, Moonlight, and John Potter.
The Frank Pierce, which put back yesterday, has lost
both anchors.
QIIEENSTOWN, Jan. 10.

A ri ived—Pepi, from Taganrog.
The Trimonntain, from Liverpool, for Bombay, which
put in here on the Gth of January, is leaky, and has gone
into dock for repair.
HOLYHEAD, Jan. 11.
The Charles Souchay, from Mazagan, for Newry, arrived
here with loss of stanchions, gangways, boats, skylight,
and cargo shifted, having been struck off Heads by a
sea last night.

RI SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRATII.
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind W.N.W. ; tide four hour's flood; weathor fresh
and flue.
Arrived, 11th—Venus, from Seville ; Henry Cur wen,
Port August ; Providence, and Furet, Gravesend; Simon',
Toredos ; Ann Isabel!, Caton.
Arrived, 12th—Druid, from Callao ; Washington,
Rangoon; Maria Bacheri, Odessa; /Etna, Cherbourg;
Britannia, Havre ; Stefano, Ibrail ; William Pitt,
Guernsey.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Anchored—Aveireuse, from London, for Lisbon.
Passed, Jan. 11.—Vests, screw steamer, from London,
for Oporto ; Bellvne, from London, for Newport ; Anna,
from Sunderland, for Rio Janeiro.

THE NEW PROPERTY OF CAMOMILE.—Camomile
(Antiltemis nolnlis) is described in all treatises of
materia medica as emollient, digestive, fortifying, &0.,
but none point out a most precious virtue, just
announced as pertaining to it by M. Ozatiam, whose
paper on the subject was presented to the Academy
of Beiences of its last sitting by M. Cloquet. This
virtue consists in preventing suppuration when the
local disease is not too far advanced, and in gradually
stopping it when it has existed for a long time.
For this purpose it is administered in powerful ClO5OB of
5, 10, and even 80 grams es of the fewer in a litre of
water, the infusion to be drunk in the course of the
day, and to be continued until the cure be effected.
Compresses moistened with the infusion may be
toca]ly applied ; they aid in the cure, but are u, •
necessary—the infusion alone, taken internally, being
quite sufficient. In support of his assertion M.
Osanam quotes the case of a "man, aged n, labour-
ing under a phlegmonous erysipelas of the face and
head, with five enormous tumours ; the skin was
separated from the skull by a vast quantity of pus ;
a sixth tumour was being formed at the corner of the
lower jaw. The patient bad a violent fever, accom-
panied with unceasing delirium. On the 28th
day camomile was administered in doses of 30
grammes per day. During the first days the
suppuration increased, whereupon the doses were
reduced to 15 grammes ; the suppuration rapidly
diminished, and on the 20th day after the commence-
ment of the treatment the patient went away in
perfect hea!th. Three other cases, all worse than
the former, are mentioned by M. Ozinam ; in one,
the amputation of the thigh was avoided by ern} boy-
ing camomile in doses of 30 grammes per day. The
cure lasted siz weeks. In another, an abscess of
the size of a child's bead was first opened by incision,
and eamonde administered as before. The cure lasted
three weeks. The last case presents such a complication
of diseases, the least of which seems to have been a
typhus fever, that we will Hot disgust our readers with
the description. Camomile was administered in
doses of five grammes per day, owing to the weaknes,
of the patient, and this cure was effected in 25 days.
When, as in the first case, the remedy produces an appa-
rent aggravation, it is a sign that the dose is too strong
for the patient, and requires dicolieV4on.