The Sun.
London, England, 1839-02-25 00:00:00

M DAGUERRE'S DISCOVERY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.
Si-,—Reading in a newspaper last week that a German
had found out M. Daguerre's secret, I was so impressed
with that testimony to the possibility of seizing a shadow,
that I thought over all the little I knew of light, colours,
an 1 chemistry ; the next day, the 15th inst., I tock a piece
of writing paper, hast;ly prepared by myself, placed it be-
hind the lens of a camera obscura made on the spur of the
moment, and obtained a satisfactory result, for the trees in
front of my house were produced, but not the parts agi-
tated by the wind. Since that, I have obtained, progres-
sively improving, several landscapes, which may be called
most appositely "lucigraphs." I mention this; my humble
effort, as corroborative of the reality or feasibility of M.
Daguerre's lx.autifel discovery; and I can readily conceive
that in a very short time the traveller's portmanteau will
not be complae without the very portable means of pro-
curing a lueigroph at pleasure.
I remain your obedient Servant,
Welney, \Visbcach, Feb. 18 CLERICUS.

SHOCKING DEPRAVITY.-A case of monstrous
cruelty and cold-blooded depravity was Investigated at the Deptford
Police Office yesterday. It appeared that Mr. Barton occupies a
farm, called Cold Blow Farm, situate between Deptford and New
Cross, and as a number of the excavators employed on the Croydon
Railroad ',sip in Deptford, they have been in the habit of tres-
passing on Mr. Barton's meadows, as a nearer cut to their work, and
when the crops were on the ground Mr. Barton ordered his men to
turn them back, which, if it caused the excavators to be a minute
late at their destination, they would lose a quarter of a day. On
Tuesday morning, Charles Pollen, Henry Harris, and James Slak,
were seen to cross a field in which there was a valuable colt, rising
four years old, and in less than an hour afterwards, viz., between
six and seven o'clock, the foreman of Mr: Barton discovered that the
back sinews of the foreleg had been completely severed with some
sharp instrument, and the poor animal almost exhausted from loss
of blood, and so completely maimed, that it was destroyed to prevent
its further suffering. After a patient investigation, the excavators
were discharged. A reward of thirty pounds has been offered for
the discovery of the perpetrator.
ARREST OF A MAN ON SUSPICION FOR LORD
NORBURY'S Muaoert.—A man, named Job's Wilson, was transmit.
ted from Mitchelstown to Clonmel gaol, on suspicion of being the
murderer of the late Lord Norbury. He is a man of slender make,
rather sallow complexion, and about five feet seven inches in height.
When arrested he wore a cap, barragon jacket, snuf coloured
trousers, and Wellington boots. Ile states that hs is originally from
Dungarvan, that he had been at one time in the army, and
that he worked in the stores in Clonmel as a labourer, up to'about a
month before Christmas last. It is needless to add, that he denies
the least knowledge of the crime of which he. is guspectrd.
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Mr. Labouchere has resigned the Vice-Presi-
dency of the Board of Trade, and accepted the situation of Under-
Secretary for the Colonies.