The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

BANKING D:

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

counts) 5,912,113
Other Deposits 14,675,929
Seven Day and
other Bills

856,319

£39430,973
M. 111

Dated August 11,1859.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR,

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 9th day
of August, 1859, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great
Britain :
Per cwt.
From the British possessions in America 26s 3d
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius .. 20s 81d.

Muscovado; the Produce of the East Indies 32s 2d
Average price ot the foregoing 2ss lltd

• COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.—TiIia DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 15f 11 L 6

Antwerp
Brussels

25 25.
25 25

2.5 30
25 30

Hamburgh

Paris

Short.

2,5 10

25 15

Ditto
Marseilles -25 37±

25 40
25..42i

Frankfort on Maine
Vienna
Trieste

1171
11 90
11 90

117
11 95
12 95

491
50
30 124
25 721
40a
1224
123
52

Petersburgh —34 a
Madrid - 49
Cadiz — 49- -
Leghorn — 30 0
Genoa — 25 671
Naples
Palermo — 1221
Messina — 1221
Lisbon
Oporto
Rio Janeiro
New York — • •
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standsird).... per oz. £3 17 9
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) „ 0 5 11

THE CHEESE POISONING AT DARLINGTON.—It
will be remembered that a few weeks back great alarm was
created at Darlington by a number of persons being taken
suddenly ill after having eaten some cheese, purchased at
Mr. B. Thomson's shop, at the Bank Top, in that town.
On the application of the magistrates, the Home Secretary
ordered an analysis, and the report of Professor Taylor has
been received. He says—" The result of this analysis and
investigation may be thus stated. The cheese contained no
mineral or vegetable irritant poison. It contained traces of
lead and copper, derived probably from the vessels with
which the milk or curd may have been placed in contact.
The quantity of these metals was too small to affect the
health of a human being in any manner, and wholly insuf-
ficient to account for the symptoms of vomiting and purg-
ing which are described as having followed the eating of
this cheese. The experiment on the dog would appear
to show not only that there was nothing injurious in
the cheese, but that it was perfectly. wholesome. It
goes, however, only to the extent of showing that there was
no mineral or vegetable poison mixed with the cheese, by
accident or design, and thus corroborates the chemical
analysis. lam of opinion that the cause of the symptoms
in those who partook of the cheese was a noxious animal
substance, arising from the decomposition or decay of the
caseine or curd, which is the principal constituent of cheese.
This cheese is of poor quality and badly made. The curd
has not been originally sufficiently pressed to deprive it of
the acid whey, and the cheese is deficient in that excellent
preservative, common salt. The caseine has thus under-
gone a chemical change, which has given to the cheese its
unwholosom3 character. The product of decay acts like
irritant poison on the delicate mucous membrane of the
alimentary canal of a human being. It is difficult to point
out any special characters by which the cheese which is
unwholesome may be known from that which is whole-
some. A soft (and not mealy) fracture, with the presence,
of a strong acid liquid oozing from the broken parts—a
sour, disagreeable smell, with a sour taste, and the rapid
production of mould over the broken and exposed surfaces,
are the characters which generally accompany the unwhole-
some kind of cheese. One of the main causes of the noxious
decomposition of the casein of cheese is a deficiency of
common salt. I have never heard of any accident arising
from the use of Dutch cheeses, which are well dried, and
contain a large proportion of common salt."
MANNING THE NAVY.—The, following is an ex-
tract from a letter received from Calcutta, and which may
perhaps be of interest at the present time, when the clues*
tion as to manning the navy is under consideration. It
certainly bears out the statement that sailors are (with
reason) eth.contented with the manner in which they are
discharged from the navy :—" There is nothing doing
here. . . . As for sailors, they are going about the
streets in hundreds actually starving, and getting them-
selves into gaol for the sake of some rice and water. They
have been discharged from the Naval Brigade, and cannot
obtain employment."