The Sun. — 1862-09-09 (London, England)

MAN BITTEN BY A VIPER.—On Sunday last a man named Edwin Marsden went out on a moor near Chesterfield, to gather bog-bean. While so employed he felt a sharp sting on the hand, and looking down saw a viper of considerable size fast to his thumb. He instantly brushed it off and sucked the wound, but in a short time his hand and arm swelled tremendously. He went home, but strong feverish symptoms set in, and he was removed to Chesterfield in a cab for medical assistance. On arriving there the fever raged so high that it was not thought that he could survive. Under the care of Mr. Jones, surgeon, he became somewhat better, but is still in considerable danger. Soon after sucking the ',wound his mouth and tongue became very much swollen from the irritant na • ture of the poison, and it is with difficulty he eats. The private commercial letters by the Scotia fromNewYork yesterday do not harmonise with the cheerful financial reports of the newspapers. They are more dismal than at any period of the war. Trade in its true sense is almost stagnant, and the alarm and dissatisfaction felt by the more respectable classes at the social condition and prospects of the country have been greatly increased by the arrest of Mr. Charles Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, who has always been regarded as one of the most sound, temperate, and honourable men among the politicians of America. His offence was that he had at a public meeting stated an opinion that the Administration at Washington is corrupt, and that he had also remarked that, although they could imprison citizens at their pleasure, it was a satisfactory consideration in these hard times that they would also have to clothe and feed them. An arrest under such circumstances was held to indicate that neither character nor position will henceforth be any safeguard, and that even the pretence of any respect for public liberty is at an end. Shipments of grain continued on an active scale, but, nevertheless, bills on England were not abundant, and the quotation of exchange showed a firm tendency. The quantity during the week had been 83,500 quarters of wheat and 60,191 barrels of flour. The next steamers to depart were the Glasgow and Hansa from New York, on the 30th of August, both of which will probably bring gold, and the Anglo-Saxon, from Quebec, also on the 30th. A telegram with news by the latter may almost immediately be expected.  Tile Journal de Constantinople mentions a horrible crime recently committed in the village of Bebek. The Iman of the Mosque, who had ascended to the top of the minaret to summon the people to morning prayer, saw a dense mass of smoke rising from the roof of one of the houses. He hastily descended, and, accompanied by several persons whom he met, went to the house from which the flames were beginning to burst forth. A negro, servant to the proprietor, opened the door, and hastily ran off. On entering the house the Iman found the master lying dead, surrounded by a pool of blood, and in another room was the body of a negress, also in the same state. Both had been murdered by the negro, who had then eat fire to the house, in the hopes of concealing his crime. He was Afterwards sxrested and sent to prison,  men.