The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

TDE SVIN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

INFRINGING THE REFRESHMENT lIOVISE ACT.—John
James Weedy appeared to answer a summons taken out
against him at the instance of the Excise for keeping an
unlicensed refreshment house.

Mr. Dwelley, the solicitor to the Excise Office, said the
defendant kept a refreshment house, No. 249, Pentonville-
road, and he should prove that on the 29th of February, he
supplied certain refreshments atter the hour laid down in the
act for the closing of unlicensed refreshment houses.
John Chapel, an officer in th• Excise, said on Feb. 29
he was passing the chop-house kept by the defendant in
Pentonville-road, and seeing some mutton chops in the
window ho went and asked to be served with one, and
also some tea and bread and butter. It was at about half-
past 10 at night, and as the house was unlicensed it ought
to have closed at nine o'clock.

Defendant—When you came in did I not tell you the fire
was out ?

Witness—Yes, but you afterwards said there was enoueh
remaining, and the chop was cooked and served. You had
previously brought me the tea, bread, end butter.
Defendant—l took the licence out three days after, viz.,
on the of March, and at the time I served the officer I
did not know I was doing wrong.

Mr. Dwelley said he believed the defendant had been
cautioned previous to information being taken out about his
mode of carrying on his business.
The defendant—l don't deny that I served the officer,
but at the time I told him the fire was going out, and I was
just closing.
Mr. Vaughan—That is, in fact, pleading guilty. All I
have to do is to administer the law. The act sets down the
find for keeping an unlicensed refreshment house at £2O,
but p }wer is given to the magistrate to mitigate the amount,
and I therefore fins you £5 for the infringement of the act,
which you have done. You can memorialise the Excise
Commissioners fur a reduction of the penalty, but I have
no power to inflict a lower fine than I have done.

LITERATURE.

Ninimo' s Shckspere.

The first of a series of seven " shilling parts,"
(each part, judging from ttis one, of more than
250 pages, seven parts, which are intended to
comprise within them the vhole of the works of
William Shakspere)—has hero made its appearance.
The initial instalment of the work now before us
contains (for u shilling) The Tempest, The Two
Gentlemen of Verona, Tie Merry Wives of
Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of
Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, and Love's
Labour Lost—all or these complete, and together
with these the opening scenes n Midsummer Night's
Dream. Th 9 edition (notwithstanding its many
rivals just now) is so good aid so cheap that it is
tolzrably certain, we should think, of a large, and
therefore remunerative, circulation.

Minchnzoor. By D:. John Blown. Edmonstone and
D,)ughs.

Another of those relishing little essays by which
Dr. John Brown has built ul for himself within the
last few years so delightful a reputation. Minch-
moor, however, is hardly "up" to the last of its
predecessors, It is certainy not to be mentioned
in the same breath with "Rai) and his Friends"—
the best of the whole bunch.

Post-office London Directory for the Counties of
Northanyton, Huntingdo4, Bedford, Bucking-
ham, Berks, and Oxforc. Kelly and Co., Old

Boswell-court.

The third edition of the ' Post-office Directory
for the six counties above enumerated, produced
under the editorship of E.R.Kelly, M.A., is muchin
advance of its predecessors, and, as far as we have
been enabled to test it, is a marvel of correctness.
Several important additions have been made to the
information usually contained in directories, while in
the volume under notice hats of Hundreds and Poor
Law Unions have been included in the topo-
graphy of each county, and it is stated under each
parish in what Hundred, Union, and County Court
District it is situated. The Post-office Savings
Banks have been noticed, th 3 names of the parish
clerks are given under each parish, lists of farm
bailiffs of gentlemen farming their own land, have
been added, and the new lines of railway have been
laid down in the county maps attached to each
division of the lo)ok, corrected down to the present
date. In order to guard against any inaccuracy,
prouf sheets of the work have been submitted to all
the prominent persons in the respective places men-
tioned, and thus, while we have a volume that adds
much to the reputation of the Messrs. Kelly, we
have one that can be implicitly relied upon.

The Universal Newspaper and Periodical List,
This very useful little volume has just been
published by Mr. Watson, of Brydges-street. It
contains a list of all the newspapers, with their
politics, prices, etc., published throughout the king-
dom, also a similar catalogue of all the weekly,
monthly, quarterly, magazines and periodicals,
together with a list of all the foreign and colonial
newspapers. To those requiring information of the
above description the book will be found exceedingly
useful.

Consumption Arrested by the Turkish Bath.

liardwicke, Piccadilly.

This is a reprint of the report of Dr. Leared, first
published in the Lancet, preceded by directions and
observations for the construction of Turkish Baths
for medical purposes by David Urquhart, Eq.
No one, it will be admitted on all hands, has stood
up so valiantly or more successfully in defence of
the Turkish Bath, both as a curative and a luxury,
than Mr. Urquhart, and the pleasure of seeing the
blind prejudices which formally existed against it
melting away, must be heightened by the fact that
heat, administered as he directed, has been found
remarkably successful in conquering one of the
direst foes to the human frame, viz , consumption.
The little volume now before us gives plain direc.
tions for the economical construction of hot air
baths similar to those which at present exist in
Jermyn-street, but of course not in so costly a style.
speaking of consumption, Mr. Urquhart remarks
in his introduction—

Consumption is a modern disease. It was no more known
formerly in England than it is known to-day in countries
whose habits resemble those of England formerly, even
when there is no bath.
There can be, therefore, no greater error than to suppose
that the lungs are wasted by climate,—nor, consequently,
that change of climate is a remedy for consumption. After
the disease has made progress, relief may be so afforded.
It is a chance, an incident, and no more. Such relief is,
however, within the reach of a fraction only of the sufferers.
lhose who are so favoured by fortune as to be able to
change their abodes, are at the present moment only flying
from effective means of restoration which are now to be
found at home.

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The report of Dr. Leared contains many very start-
ling instances in which the bath has been pecu-
liarly successful in arresting the ravages of con-
sumption, and the eminent physician concludes his
paper with the following remarks :
In a disease which condemns so many to prolonged suf-
fering and death, aad in which we have been powerless to
save, a treatment cannot fail to be welcome which as an
agent of cure promises so well, and which has been at
least proved greatly to alleviate suffering. If it, unfortu-
nately, fell to my lot to be affected by phthisis, I should
give the hot-air bath the fullest trial.