The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

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Wife—One day last week he took up a knife to me.

A constable—l saw the prisoner throw a pail of water
over his wife and then threaten to knock her about with
the pail. Sho was lying on the pavement, and when she
got up, the prisoner made a rush at her.
Mr Tyrwhitt—l shall order the prisoner to find two sure-
ties in the sum of £2O each to ktep the peace for three
months, and as he takes nothing home for his family this
will not injure them.

ROBBING A CONTRACTOB.--Wlll. Cromwell, a labourer,
in the employment of Mr Docura, an extensive contrac-
tor for gas and water works, was charged before Mr
Tyrwhitt with stealing some lead pipe, the property of
his employer.
It appears that the pipe being missed yesterday from
the works going on in Wardour-strect, George Smith, a
ganger in Mr Docura's employ, gave a piece to a constable,
who traced that some lead had been sold at a marine store
dealer's in St. Anne's-court, which corresponded with the
piece; and on the marine store dealer, Mr Jelley, seeing
the prisoner he at once recognised him as the man ho had
twice bought lead pipe of yesterday. The prisoner was then
given into custody.

Mr Robert Drummond, foreman to Mr Docura, said the
works going on in Wardour-street were for the Chartered
lias Company, and that Mr Docura had thirty gangs of
men in different parts of London, and that they had had
numerous robberies of a similar kind of late by workmen.
It was the wish of Mr Docura, as an example to others,
that the case should go to a jury. The taking away the
pipe had caused a heavy claim for damage to be sent in to
Mr Docura.

Mr Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner, who pleaded guilty,
for two months with hard labour.

THAMES.

MR STANLEY ON THE FL RIOUS DRIVING NUISANCE

—Thomas Stanley and Francis Maria Stanley, man and
wife, were charged with being drunk, disorderly, and
furious driving.

Daniel Cole, a police-constable, No 237 K, said a large
number of persons were collected in the Mile End-road, to
witness the return of an amphibious vehicle, a boat rigged
like a ship, and mounted on a carriage, called the Fairlop.
The prisoners, a child, and two other persons were in a
cart drawn by a high-spirited horse. The prisoner, Thomas
Stanley was proceeding at the rata of thirteen or fourteen
miles an hour, and put many persons in danger. Ile
was mounted on horseback, and galloped after the
cart. He called upon the male prisoner to go slower, but
he continued at the same furious pace until be reached the
Earl Grey public-house, where he stopped him. Both pri-
soners were intoxicated. The woman attempted to rescue
her husband when he was in custody.
Tho prisoners expressed their regret for what had
happened, and said they had been to Chigwell and lost
their way. They followed another cart.
Mr Bowdler, the second clerk, said the practice of furious
driving in the Mile-end and Bow-roads was a dangerous
nuisance.

Mr Paget fined the male prisoner /Os., and discharged
Mrs Stanley.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market unchanged. Sales, probably 5,000 bales,

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Aug. 9.—Wind this day at noon—South.
West ; moderate breeze and cloudy weather, with some
rain.

CARDIFF, Aug, B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—John Cock-
rell, for Martinique.
BRISTOL, Aug. B,—Wind S,W,—Arrived—Newington,
from Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. B,—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Peter
Kraeft, from Demerara.

CLYDE, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Flowing Sea,
from Quebec.

NEWPORT, Aug. S.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Agrippine,
from Sierra Leone—Andromache, for Jamaica. Sailed—
R IP, for St Thomas.

HULL, Aug. B,—Wind NAV,—Arrived—Rapid, from
Rio Grande.

FALMOUTH, Aug. 9.—Wind S.—Arrived—Neptune,
from Akyab—Justa, from Havanuah—Amalie, from Ham-
burg for Rio Grande.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, August 9—Ansunian, from Trinadad—Albion,
from Kurraches—Jantje, from Christianstadt—Agida,
from Quebec—Alarm, from Smyrna—Caledonia, from
Archangel—Napoleon, from Gravelines—Georgiana, from
St. Petersburg—Avance from Sundswall—Lady Gordon,
from Archangel—Anna Gertrude, from Bandholm—Furet,
from Gravolines—Glory, from Jersey—Longo Mena from
Cronstadt—Devonshire, from St. Kitt's—Baron Holberg,
from Sundswall—Ann Casharine, from St. Lucia.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed.—Constantine, from Havannah, for London.
Sailed.—Leon Hayminde, for Valenoia—and most of the
outward bound.

CAPTAIN SEMMES ON THE WARRlOR.—Visited
the Warrior. The Governor and suite, and a num-
ber of naval and other officers, civilians, and ladies, visited
her by appointment at the same time. The Warrior is a
marvel of modern naval architecture, and for a first experi-
ment may be pronounced a success. She is a monstrous
impregnable floating fortress, and will work a revolution in
shipbuilding. Wooden ships, as battleships, must go out
of use. With this single ship I could destroy the entire
Yankee fleet blockading our coast, and this is the best illus-
tration I can give for the necessity of this revolution in
shipbuilding.—Cruise of the Alabama; and Sumter by
captain Semmes.

OUTRAGE IN A RAILWAY CARRIAGE.--. 011 Fridays
in Wolverhampton, two men from Liverpool, who
said their names were John O'Malley and Richard Han-
bury, and were travelling drapers, were each convicted
of insulting a respectable married woman, the wife of Mr
George Thompson, a clerk in the service of the Great
Western Railway Company in Wolverhampton, and using
obscene and blasphemous language in a -railway train on
that company's line on the previous night. Mr Spooner,
the stipendiary magistrate, in addressing the prisoners,
said :—" If it was not that I wish to spare the lady whom
your have so grossly insulted from hating to appear again
in court and repeat her tale, your conduct has been so
Lad that I would send you for trial. As it is I will give
you the highest penalty in my power. You are each fined
£5 and costs, In default, you will be imprisoned three
months with hard labour." The complainant was travel-
ling in the same carriage with the prisoners, whose con-
duct was the most gross short of actual assault.—Shef-
field Daily Telegraph. .

CHLOROFORM ACCIDENTS.—The heart's action is
stopped, and its right cavities engorged, not on
account of the action of chloroform on the heart, but the
action of chloroform on the lungs. If, in one hundred ex•,
periments on dogs, rabbits, &0., poisoned by this agent, wo
find this remarkable fulness of the right cavities, an anteeior
or antecedent condition has been overlooked, viz,, that this
gorging of these cavities and the cavas, is only a species of
back current or retnora, caused by the lungs (in a state of
paralysis) not receiving or transmitting this blood. The
heart, as a matter of every day observation in animals, so far
from being narcotised, is dilated, and strives actively, but
in vain, to push forward the large volumes of blood arriving
through the veins of the system. The heart is decidedly
ultitnum mortens In these cases—indeed, tome good conti-
nental physiologists explain the deaths from chloroform by
saying there is over-stimulation of the heart I This is
probably not true, however, Comparing rather, one group
of facts with other groups of facts (systematising our experi-
ence), the error of the hasty generalisation that paralysis of
the heart is the cause of death, is now at once made obviens.
These coincidences in practice illustrate best some of the
popular errors of watching the pulse, adopting as infallible
some sort of balloon or inhaler—giving heed to every idle
fancy, but forgetting the cardinal point to watch the
breathing. We now have learned to cure pneumonia
without bleeding, which bleedings previously were
considered the sine qua non remedy—but they
were only the most striking or showy of, a; series of
remedies. We used to pass a red-hot iron round the hip
joint in " morbus moo," then set it straight and place it
in a splint. The red-hot iron got the credit of the cure; it
was the most feeling, showy, and important measure, but
the undoubted cure is due rather to the splint and readjust-
ment of the parts, These:ooiucidences, that have so misled
some practitioners, abound in practice and the entire
theory of chloroform, or ar aesthetics, and till they shall
have been discountenanced no advance can be made.—
Dr .47icid's IVork on Chloroform.

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