The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-15 00:00:00

THAMES.

GROSS OUTRAGE IN A PUBLICHOUSE.--John Stone,
Michael Tatton, and Michael Hayes, labourers, were
brought before Mr. Partridge, charged with committing a
violent assault and outrage in the Brunswick Arms pub-
lic-house in Harper-square, Whitechapel.
Mr. Henry Ralph Hazelbrook, the landlord of the Bruns-
wick Arms, said the prisoners came into his house on
Thursday night at ten o'clock and called for a pot of beer,
which he served them with. They drank half of it, and
then demanded rum in exchange for the beer. He would
not comply with their wishes, and they then asked for
gin. He refused to let them have any, and then they
sbused him and demanded cigars. He requested them to
leave his house, and they throw the beer on the floor and
interfered with and insulted the customers. Stone then
threw the quart pewter pot at his head. It missed him and
struck the beer engine. He succeeded in turning them out
of his house. All three came in again and renewed the
disturbance. Tatton assailed him and tore his coat. He
got them out again, and Tatton and Hayes kicked at him
and attempted to injure him in a vital part. The police-
men then called out, and the prisoners were taken into
custody.

John Henry Burges, a cab-proprietor, of No. 153,
Regent-street, Lambeth, confirmed the statement of the
last witness, and said the prisoners took up his ale and
drank it. Tatton hit him on the nose and caused him to
bleed copiously. Hayes made three or four kicks at him.

Police-sergeant Davey, No. 3H, said he was called to
Harper-square on Thursday night. He heard the pri-
soners say " We will go back and clear the b-y house."
He procured assistance, and took all the prisoners into
custody. The prisoners were most disorderly ruffians.
Hayes had been 18 months' in prison for breaking
a police-constable's nose with a stone sling, and
had also' been four times convicted of assaults
on policemen and landlords of publichouses since that
time. Tatton had also been in custody several times. All
the prisoners had been in the practice of going to various
publichouses, drinking other persons' beer and liquors, and
making disturbances. Tatton and Hayes were in custody
last week for stealing a sovereign.

Mr. Partridge—l am not inquiring about that. The pri-
soners are each sentenced to one month's imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction.

Absorption of Heat by Gases.
-.•—.--

For several years past Professor Tyndall, of the
Royal Institution, hAs been engaged in experiments
for the purpose of determining the power
of absorbing the heat possessed by various
gaseous substances. The apparatus employed for
the purpose consisted of a tube Aof tin polished
inside, four feet long and 2.4 inches in diameter.
The ends of this tube were closed with plates of
rock-salt, a substance of diathermanous power, that
is capable of transmitting a large proportion of the
heat to which it is exposed. To this tube was
attached a T piece, that is, a small two-branched
tube, establishing a communication with an
air-pump by one branch, and with the gas
to . be experimented on by the other. Thus,
after the tube A had been exhausted by the air-
pump, the gas was admitted into it by merely
turning a stop-cock. A source of heat, a Leslie's
cube, for instance, with hot water in it, was placed
at one end of the tube A, and a thermo-electric pile
at the other. The latter apparatus consists of two
series of plates of different metals, bismuth and anti-
mony for instance, soldered together alternately ;
if heat be applied to one point of junction and a
different temperature to the next, and so on alter-
nately, an electric current will be obtained.
In the present case this apparatus received the
heat which passed through the tube A, and the
current it produced was detected by the needle
of a galvometer. In this manner Professor
Tyndall was enabled to measure both the heat
emitted by the cube, and that transmitted
through A, the difference of the two temperatures
denoting the quantity of heat absorbed by the gas.
Some of the results obtained in this way are quite
surprising. Thus a small proportion of ozone (elec-
trified oxygen) added to common oxygen will treble
its power of absorbing heat. Olefiant gas, or bicar-
bureted hydrogen, will absorb about 81 per cent. of
the heat transmitted, though it is extremely trans-
p,gra
er
ae
tnets t
eaans de t
Thehere
aobr
se
rtransmits e
rlightis
30
e wn3goitaqueousph
timesw ether
g ry a
epaore r
tchoannt attetd
ofi nd r tyh
air. e a t
If
atmospheres earbes
takenroefprair
:sebnetedby 7
as,oaoo u, ntibta,
tthnaftnioeffiaanmt mgaosnibay 7,950
lsboe
and that of sulphurous acid by 8,800. And
gene-
rally, for small quantities of gas, the absortion.
exactly proportional to the density.

A VOLUNTEER COMMITTED TO PRISON.-A case
affecting volunteers was decided by the Mayor of Grant-
ham and other Magistrates on Monday. Colton, a member
of the volunteer rifle corps, a short time ago appeared be-
fore the bench and was ordered to pay his subscription of
10s. and Bs. costs, or to be committed for 28 days' hard
labour. Captain Commandant Burbidge consented at the
time to the money being paid in 2s. 6d. instalment; but
now informed the bench that no payment had boon made.
The magistrates said the sentence must be carried out and
the defaulter undergo his term of imprisonment.