The Sun. — 1864-10-26 (London, England)

AMERICAN ELECTIONEERING AMENITIES.—The New York Tribune, while it occupies half its space with abuse of Gen, M'Clellan, complains that the adherents of that candid Ate vilify Mr Lincoln. It asks—" What aro we to say of the patriotism of men who, in this hour of the nation's peril, bestow upon its constitutional head the following epithets : Filthy storyteller, despot, big Secessionist, liar, thief, braggart, buffoon, usurper, monster, ignoramus Abe, old scoundrel, perjurer, robber, swindler, tyrant, fiend, butcher, land pirate, Bsc." This is tolerably well to begin with.  A case of self•destruction, singular at least as to its cause, occurred in the suburbs of Paris the day before yesterday. The unfortunate suicide was a stonedigger, named Ferdinand P--, aged 24, a naiive of Lyons, who was afflicted with what:medical men call bulzus, or insatiable hunger. His earnings being altogether insufficient to satisfy his enormous appetite, though he ate scarcely anything bat bread, his fellow-workmen used to contribute towards his support ; but, wearied with thus burdening his friends. and worn out by his sufferings from the presence of lonia, which aggravated his hunger, he at lest came to the desperate resolution of hanging himself, and succeeded in effecting his purpose. The annals of medicine reeords many instances of this disease, both in ancient and modern times, but the most remarkable case of late years was that of a woman named Anne Denise, who died in Paris only a few years since. This unfortunate person was afflicted with bulimy from her infancy, and while still a young girl used to devour as much as ten pounds of bread daily. Though not in indigent circum• stances, she was twice arrested for stealing bread to satisfy her hunger. She was at length admitted int) the Salpetriere, and p'aced under the treatment of Drs. Esquirol and Amussat, but to no purpose, for she left the Salpetriere as voracious as ever. Her bun. get varied its intensity ; at ordinary times she could manage with 121bs. of bread per day for three or four months of the year she would eat from 201bs. to 241b5.; and for 10 consecutive years her appetite was greatly aggravated in spring. On one occasion, when she had thought of keeping Good Friday as a fast-day, she ate more than 30Ibs. of food in 24 hours. As she advanced in years her appetite became depraved, and she took a liking to grass and flowers, especially buutter-cups, of which she would eat an immes.nse quantity. To relieve the colics caused by this unnatural food she used to drink brandy, of which she became very fond, :and at last died a few hours after taking a whole litre at once. When on her death-bed and unable to take  food, she begged her sister to come and eat near her, and her last words were :—" Since it pleases God that I shall eat no more, let me at last have the pleasure of seeing you eat." It is a remarkable fact that on a post mortem examination her stomach was found to be exceedingly small, while her liver was unusually large, and all her other viscera quite sound and of normal size. EITRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY OF  £loo.—On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied a respectable position at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two £5O Bank of England notes belonging to the Now Fylde Timber Company. The circumstances of the case were of a very singular character. It appeared from the evidence that on 1 the 6th of October, 1860, a man named John Walkden, residing at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid two £5O Bank of England notes to a young man named Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde Timber Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in the presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up his accounts, for the purpose of handing over his cash to the company, missed the two £5O notes, and as he could give no account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty. He was apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool. Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evidence against him —but nothing verypositive could be elicited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty party; but he vas conscious of his innocence, and the fact that others could not feel the same so preyed upon his mind that his health gradually gave way, and from a strong, stalwart young man ho became a paralysed, bed-ridden invalid. About two months ago a new phase in the case transpired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected with the premises of the New Flyde Timber Company at Fleetwood, found a pocketbook. On examining it he shouted ant " Notes!" Another boy then came up, and afterwards an official cf the company, who was passing, took charge of the book, opened it, and at once saw that its contents were two £5O Bank of England notes, and several settled bills, sec., which had been made out to Bond who at that time was officiating as the company's salesman. Suspicion then fell upon Bond, and ho was apprehended. On being charged with stealing the notes, he made a star ement to the effect that ho lost his pocketbook a few months before ; that the book which had been found was Ilea ; but that when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some one must have put those found in it. Evidence was given showing that the notes found in the pocket-book were tbe same as those paid over to Mayor by Walkden ; that aft,sr they were paid Mayor placed them in a bag, that he weer then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to an cffice in Fleetwood ; that both he and Bond went out of the company's office at the same time; that Mayor wasi absent about five minutes and missed the notes, named ; that Bond as well as Mayor had a key which w°1;e11.(10 open the office door and give access to the apartment the each bag containing the notes were defence, it was contended by there was no evidence to show committed by Bond ; that he was no. and had never been ,uspec always borne a good character. p placed. F For th et as previous_ y_ prisoner's counsel that the the robbery had been that tt seen to take the money The prisoner was acquitted ted of doing so, and that ho had