The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

ROGUES IN GRAIN.--SCANDALOUS ROBBERY.—Thomas
Clark, George Owen, and George Wilton, were brought
before Mr Paget, charged with being concerned in stealing
three sacks of oats, the property of Messrs. Sewell and Co.,
farmers, of Carbury, near Woodford-bridge, in Essex.
Yesterday, in consequence of information received, a
police-constable named Louis Lambert, 311 K, received
instructions from Inspector Kenessey, of the K division, to
watch Messrs Sewell's vans and carts on their way to
LondoL, as it was believed some of their men were robbing
them of corn to a great extent, Lambert saw a van drawn
by three horses belonging to Messrs Sewell, and in charge of
Clark, drive up to the Bird-in-Hand publichouse in Bow
.
in the afternoon. The team stopped there. Owen, who is
employed at the stables atttched to the Bird-in-Hand, took
a sack of oats off the van, carried his load down the yard of
the Bird-in .Hand, and was joined by Wilton, who is the
ostler to another publican named Flowers, who is also a
contractor, and lives nearly opposite Wilton, opened a
padlock which secured the stable door, brought out another
sack, and held it wide open while Owen discharged the
sack of oats he took from the van into it. Lambert then
made his appearance and at once captured the two ostlers,
who seemed thunderstruck. Lambert also made a prisoner
of Clark. There were two more sacks of oats in the van,
and Lambert believed they would have been taken into the
stables of the Bird in• Hand if ho had not been pre-
sent. The prisoners begged most earnestly of Lambert
to release them, and offered him money. Wilton said,
"I'll give you anything to let me go."
In answer to Mr. Paget, the constable said Clark was
present when 0 wen took the sack of oats off the van, and
while it was being taken into the stable he stood in the
road close to his horses.

Mr. Henry Sewell, solicitor, and in partnership with his
brother as a farmer, in Essex, said the three sacks of oats
belonged to him and his brother. He looked at the samples
of black oats taken from the sacks, and a sample taken
from a building on his farm. The samples were all alike.
He had a manufactory in London. The van ought to
have come up empty yesterday. The horses were fed
with a mixture of chaff and oats in nosebags.
There ought not to have been any oats in sacks in the van.
Clark had been carter and foreman in his employ at the
faint for three years.

Lambert said that two other men in Messrs. Sewell's
employ had been engaged in stealing their corn, and asked
for a remand.

Mr. Paget remanded the prisoners for a week.

The Constitution of the Sun,

Since the discovery of spectrum analysis much has been
done to ascertain the nature of the sun's substance from the
colour of the bands of the spectrum ; but whether the pho•
tosphere, that is, the luminous surface present to our eyes,
and supposed to envelop a dark inner nucleus, is gaseous
or not, it has not been hitherto so easy to determine. Ac-
cording to Arago, the photosphere itself is surrounded
by a transparent atmosphere. Herschel considered the
photosphere to consist of luminous clouds. This question is
ably treated by Dr. Magnus in a late number of Pogg en-
dorf s Annalen. He observes that is difficult to suppose
that 'the photosphere, which souls out the heat of the sun,
should not radiate internally as well, and thereby raise the
supposed solid nucleus to a temperature of ignition since
the reflecting atmosphere, held to be interposed between
the nucleus and the photosphere, though it may prevent the
illumination of the nucleus, cannot hinder the heat from
passing. He is, therefore, inclined to adopt Kirchhoff's
theory, according to which the sun is composed
of a solid and liquid nucleus in the highest state
of ignition, and surrounded by a transparent atmo-
sphere of somewhat lower temperature; Kirchhoff reject.
ing altogether the idea of a dark nucleus which has hitherto
met with such favour on account of the easy explanation it
affords of the suu's spots. M. Magnus, having instituted
some experiments on the radiation of heat, applies them to
the subject in question in support of M. Kirchoff's views.
Ho states that having introduced some soda into the
flame of a gaslight, whereby, as is well known, it be-
comes much brighter, he found that notwithstanding the
diminution of temperature, which was necessarily caused
thereby, the flame radiated abaut a third more heat than
before. When platinum, abstracting still more heat than
soda, was introduced into the flame, the quantity of heat
radiated was still greater. These experiments, accord-
gaseous bodies radiate very
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therefore hardly be maintained that a gaseous photosphere
is the sent of the solar heat. Further, ignited soda has
much more radiating power than platinum heated to an
equal temperature ; a circumstance of some importance,
since seldom has been ascertained to be of one of the con-
stituents of the solar mass.