The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-11 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day.

Market firm. Sales, probably 4,000 bales or
more. Import, 2,74 o—previously, 1,160.

ACCIDENT TO A HORSE IN A TURKISH BATH
—A WARNING.—A correspondent in a Dublin
contemporary says :—On Wednesday last the coachman at
Carysfort House, hearing a disturbance in the bath, in
which there was a horse, opened the door. The animal
showed great uneasiness, and with difficulty was got out,
on which be was seized with violent convulsions, threw
himself down in stall and stable, and, in this way, rolling
himself over and over, made his way into the yard, where
he was secured and prevented from destroying himself by the
combined efforts of about a dozen men. The impression which
was produced was that he was seized with madness. Mr.
Urquhart, happening to be there at the time, and being sum-
moned, pronounced at once the case to be one of asphyxia.
On inspecting the bath this was confirmed,the air entering
only under the door, and co reaching the furnace below.
The horse had been in 2t hours, at a temperature from 180
to 190 deg. This was the first bath for horses constructed
on Mr. Urquhart's plan of a furnace with the draught from
within, so as to ventilate by suction, and which, conse-
quently, requires that there should be an air passage from
the highest point, and that it should be hermetically sealed
below. A cow had been in the bath some days before for a
much longer time without injury, probably in consequence
of carrying her head lower. This accident may prove a
warning against such oversight in future. This form of
bath combines so much economy, both in structure and fuel,
and is at the same time so much more efficacious, that it
must come into use. The cost of turning a loose box into
this sort of bath does not exceed £1 10s. for labour, and £2
12s. for laundry stove and sheet-iron pipes.
MR. DYGE's SHAKESPEARE.—The new edition,
we are assured, differs from the former as much in
the notes as in the text. Such a bold and brave confession
from Mr. Dyce, almost takes away one's breath. It is like
an announcement that the earth is unsphered, that the tides
have ceased flowing, that the Astronomer Royal entertains
doubts on the laws of gravitation. It is the very last thing
we should have expected to hear of Mr. Dyce. If Lord
Palmerston had joined the Peace Society; if Earl Russell
had ceased to believe in the Great Charter and to quote the
Bill of Rights; if Mr. Dickens had made a speech against
novel-reading, or Lord Westbury had laid a Bill on the
table against Law Reform, we should have wonderad less,
But there can bo no mistake as to Mr. Dyce's confession of
previous error and present amendment.
Some females suspected of smuggling goods into
Dixie were recently searched by the provost-marshal
of Memphis, Tennessee. One wore a bale of fine linen as
a bustle. Her corset was filled with gold coin, quilted in,
to the amount of 1,200 dole. Another had her form rounded
out with padding made of dress silks. Her hose were found
to conceal a quantity of gentleman's cravats, which were
swathed carefully about her legs. The third lady's ample
bust was filled out by a museum of articles, consisting
mainly of jewellery, silk thread, needles, and medicines,—
American paper.