The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

VICTORIA CLUB BETTING.—Tms DAY.
EBOR. HANDICAP.
4to 1 agst Tabouret (taken and offered)
9to 2 agst The Spy (offered—take sto 1)
6to 1 agst Fervacques (offered)
Bto 1 agst Mandrake (taken)
100 to 8 agst Taraban (offered—take 100 to 7)
100 to 7 agst Fairwind (offered)
100 to 40 agst Tabouret and Mandrake, coupled (t)
ST. LEGEIt.
2000 to 80 agst Green Sleeve (taken)

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1868.
AUGUST.
York August
Oxford
......... 2.5
Bridgewater aul West Weymouth ...............
iG
Somerset ........ Ipswich

20 I Ipswich
26
Dover
Scarborough 24 i Tuutridge - ............... 27
Canterbury

SEPTEMBER.
Baden
Warwick September ... 1 Monmouth ... A.L)Mgdou 3 Manchester .... ... .. .. 17
I
1S
Loicester
Dnmeaster September 8 Walsall .....................
hm 23
Brecon .. ll I Edinburgh ............... 3a
Ricond
litmytou Autumn
Eels(' 1... t uud Western M ...... 30
Bedford
°Ull.ll3NSEue,l,l:b.tiumryrkat,ntd
iiEtotlitg4t..... 14.
Bromley Autumn
Newmarket 2d October 5 : Harrow .................. .. 27
8 I Worcester Autup-
Lanark ..

..... 27
Chelmsford Autumn 13 Lincoln Autumu ......... 2,
CuolteuLtam
NOVEMBER.

Liverpool 3 I Leamington ............... 1.7
Shrewsbury 1 9

STEEPLECHASES.
OCTOBER.

Bromley 1 Ealing
15
DECEMBER.
St. Albans
Kingsbury 8 I - 26

ACCIDEN7S A 7 THE SEASIDE.-HOW 70
RESTORE TO LIFE THE DRO WAVED.

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TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—The frequent occurrence of accidents 'by
drowning at the seaside, which at present nearlf all
prove fatal, has given rise to much speculation as to
the best time for bathing, whether after or before
meals, &c., but it is curious how backward
all attempts have proved in resuscitating
those bodies rescued from the water. This is
mainly due to the fact that the apparently dead
body so rescued falls into the hands of ignorant,
innocent boatmen, or is surrounded by a crowd of
persons, frightened, alarmed, and knocked off their
balance in the event.

Another grave popular error prevails that it is
of no practical use to be in a hurry about an appa.
rently dead boiy that has been in the water
more than four minutes. Yet in this matter
science has been advancing for the last three or four
years, though brilliant leading articles and humane
societies seem not to be aware of it ; and there is
nothing to prevent a thorough recovery of such
patient (if we are to believe many extraordinary
cases treated in America and elsewhere) even after
the body has been one full hour in the water.

The mode of treating such cases requires no
little medical skill, but the chief remedy is a form
of electricity bequeathed to us by Mr. Faraday,
applied so as to set up artificial respinstion, applied
accurately to the phreuic nerves as they pass along
the neck. Electricity, as usually applied in such
cases to the heart, according to the stereotyped
rules of societies, only kills the patient more effec-
tually.—l am, &c.,

CHARLES KIDD, M.D.

Sackville-street, Aug. 13.

P.S.—Medical science, or art, advances in this
and many other directions, though it has become a
sort of creed with a rising school " of the period"
that it stands still, and nothing can be done till
medicine has become as certain and inductive as the
multiplication table ; this inductive reasoning
always going back to one law that appears so
attractive. Yet this one law, or one remedy, ends
universally in quackery. All our common place
advances in the cure of the sick or
dying are met with ridicule at first. Vac-
cination, mesmerism, llarvey's idea of the cir-
culation, ovariotomy, even chloroform were all met
at first by bitter opposition and ridicule. Yet, to
mention the last two, chloroform and ovariotomy,
are now as well established blessings and facts as
any in the world. Wu cure, too, now by rule of
thumb nearly all skin diseases, and nearly all
cases of epilepsy. We delay the ravages of con-
sumption by cod liver oil, &c. ; but we should
postpone far into the period of the Greek Ealends
all such cures, or even these late attempts to resus-
citate the drowned, if we waited for our societies
and their jealousies, or the tortoise-like movements
of the amateurs (never practical men), who expect
induction to do everything, though I.nrd Bacon
himself says medicine is the least inductive of all
the sciences.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 12.—Batavier, steamer, from Rotterdam;
Nile, steamer, from Cronstadt ; Fairy, from Iquique ; Sped
et Fides, from Saint Jago de Cuba.
Arrived, Aug. 13. Warrior Queen, Camilla, and Ann,
from Guernsey; B izabeth Hampton, from St. tines;
Monarch, from Guernsey ; Hiawatha, from Odessa ; island
Home, from Boston; Village Maid, fron Genoa; Williams,
from Havre; Caroline, from Mogadore ; Onward, from
Guernsey ; Onega, steamer, from Si. Petersburg ; Saxon,
steamer, from Stettin ; Vlad,mar, steamer, from Konigs-
berg; Baron Osy, steamer, from Antwerp ; Scandea, from
Frederickstadt; Dryden, from Yoylulo ; Elfrida, from
Porto Rico; Sylvia and Castor, from Dram; Crusader,
from Tutocoriu ; FauLa, from Swarturch.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Wind S E., moderate.
Passed.—Sheaburne, screw steamer, of Sunderland,
from Sunderland, for Bordeaux ; Citizen, screw steamer,
from London, for Bordeaux ; Ocean Queen, ship, and
Ellen Vanuine, barque, from the west, for Loudon ; Her-
mod, from London, for Cardiff; Welcome, from London,
for Bermuda ; Alice, of Porto, from the west, for Lon-
don; Antagonist, of Dartmouth, from the west, for Lon-
don.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

&Distrait& and New Zealand, via doathamptos.....Ang. Is.
Ditto, via Unreellles

Ditto, via Panama A ,g. la.
Brazil. Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Sept. 3.
Ditto, by French packet ..... !2.
Cape Verde, by Brazil packet
gape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 13
China, Penang. and Singapore, via Southampton—Aug. 11
Jibraltar. via Southampton
India, Via, Southampton
vitt°, via Marseilled
Malta, Egypt, &o. ♦ug. 15.
Ditto, Marseilles Aug. :7
Mauritius, Cape et Good Hope, and Natal, via

Southamptou

Ditto, Marseilles , . Aug. 11.
Newfoundland ...... Aug. 12
Portugal . •... Sept. 3.
United States, aaada, California, &a, by British
packet .. _......•ug. 13.
Ditto, by Canadian packet Aug. 14.
Ditto, by 1. Lited .ntates paokot
Ditto (Litt( (Baltimore)
West Indies and Pa...iflo Lesteept Mexico and Baha-
mas)
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tense& Aug. 17.
Falkland Islands

Cabl. and gexino
grha:nae,viaNewr s
Bermula, via Ilalifax •. Aug 26.

A LILLIPUTIAN YACHT RACE.—An exciting
yacht race between Lilliputian craft took place in a timber
pond at Bootle, near Liverpool, on Monday. The largest
vessel was 50 inches long, and the prizes were a timepiece,
a mirror, and a poncil case. The second match was between
yachts, 54 inches long, the fleetest of which won a silver
tankard for her owner. Li the other matches, vessels 48,
42, and 36 iacties ling contested. There was a gentle
northerly breeze, which, however, was sufficient to cause
some swift sailing. The regatta was under the auspices
of the Model Yacht Club. _ _ _

The bulb growers of Holland have intimated
their intention of offering prizes, open to all growers, for
distinct kinds of hyacinths, at the first spring or hyacinth
show of the Royal Horticultural Society, in 1869. The
prizes intended to be offered amount to .415 3s.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at tO days' Fight was on the last date about 1101 per cent.
At this rate there is a profit on the importation of gold
from the United States.