The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-29 00:00:00

top of the rib. The first that took place was, Dris-
coll said to the prisoner, who was there working,
" Get out of this and let us do our work. We can do
it; can't we, mate ?" I said " Yes, the foreman has
sent us up." The prisoner told Driscoll he should do
no more there, and Driscoll told the prisoner he was
a fool, and that he was to get out of it. Prisoner
then knocked Driscoll's cap off, and said, " I will
hit you," following it up with several blows with
his fist in the face. I believe Driscoll said, " If you
hit me again I will crack your eye out with the
podger," meaning the piece of iron he had in his
hand. The prisoner then struck him again, and I
believe :Driscoll struck him with the podger, but
where I cannot say, although I saw blood on the
prisoner's face as well as Driscoll's. I afterwards
saw the prisoner's head was cut ; I then got between
them. I saw that Driscoll was getting weak, and I
saw him try to catch at the purlin. I made a knot
and threw over him. They scuffled again, and then
Driscoll slipped off the rib leo the cutting.
Mr. J. D. Hill, house surgeon to the Royal Free
Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, said Driscoll was brought
to the hospital an Monday evening. He died last
night. The cause of his death was shock to the
system and the injuries he had received.
By Mr. Barker—The cause of the death was shock
to the system, which might arise from the fall of
I have heard described. I have an order to make
a post-mortem examination, so that I shall be able
to state exactly the cause of death.
Ann Driscoll—l reside at 4, El y -place, Kingsland-
road, the deceased is my brother, and his name was
James Driscoll.
Police-constable Holloway, 52 G, said--I took the
prisoner into custody, and he tried to make his escape.
On the way to the station he said Driscoll struck me
first, and I afterwards struck him. If you had struck
me I should strike you again, or anybody else.
Inspector Brennan, G division, said that when he
told prisoner the charge he said the deceased would
not obey his orders, and he smacked him in the face.
The prisoner, who never said a word during the
whole of the proceedings, under the advice of Mr.
Layton, reserved his defence.
Mr. Barker said he should remand the prisoner
until Tuesday next.
Mr. Layton applied that bail might be taken for
his client's appearance.
Mr. Barker refused the application.

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THE DOCTOR IN THE PATH CHAIR,

" Sedet se ternumque sedebit 1"

Dover has narrowly escaped being thrown itito
hysterics by a scene at the bench the other day,
when a certain John Collyer applied for assistance
to regain possession of his Bath chair. He said
that at three o'clock on the previous afternoon an
order came to the chair stand for a gentleman to be
taken up from a street at the back of St. Mary's
Church; he took the chair round, and found Dr.
Standen upon the door steps waiting for him. Not
knowing that the people of the house had shut him
out, and so got rid of a troublesome lodger, ho
assisted him into the chair, and had been driving
him about ever since.

Magistrate—What, ever since three yesterday
afternoon—all night ?
Applicant—Yes, sir, except for a little while. I
can't get him out of the chair anyhow. I was
wheeling him about from three in the afternoon until
half-past two o'clock in the morning. (Laughter.)
Magistrate—l can't see how lam to help you ;
he has got possession of your chair. Where is
he now ?

Applicant—He doesn't know I've come here. I
left him and the chair opposite Mr. Elgar's, the
butcher, St. James's-street.
Magistrate—But has he had any refreshment all
this time ?

Applicant—Lor bless ye ! Why I've druv
him to nearly every public-house in the town—
'specially the Pier-end; he calls for something to
drink, and then gives the best part of it away—
(laughter)—'cept what he puts in a little square
bottle he carries with him. (Loud laughter.)
Magistrate—Where did you drive him first ?
Applicant—To the Burlington. After that he
went to the Lord Nelson, the Bell, Bachelors' Lib-
rary, the Skylark, the Brussels, the Terminus, the
Sceptre, and from there to the Druid's Head, and
two or three houses up at East Cliff.
Magistrate—And he didn't get out of the chair
the whole of that time?
Applicant—No, sir ; and. he hasn't got out of it
yet. Oh, dear; I don't know what I shall do, as a
lady wants it when I can get it again. (Laughter.)
After driving him to all these places, I was tired,
so I said to him, " When do you mean to go home
again, sir ?" " That's my business," says he, "you
mind yours, and drive me to the Pier-end." (Laugh-
ter.) And there, sir, we went from one house to
the other until it was twelve o'clock, and he
couldn't get anything else served. Then I druv
him about the town. (Laughter.)
Superintendent Coram raised a new roar of
laughter by adding that at one o'clock in the morn-
ing he saw the chair pulled up close to one of the
public lamps, by the light of which the doctor was
reading. (Renewed laughter.)

Magistrate--llow long- did ho keep reading
Applicant—Not long, sir. Soon afterwards he
lit his pipe. (Laughter.) I was very cold, and
he said I might keep him "moving," so I pulled the
chair until between two and three, and we'd been
all over the town ; and then I says to him, quite
worn out, " Where are you going now ?" " Where
are you going to ? " says he. (Loud laughter.)
" Home, says I. Then he told me he hadn't any
home to go to, and he asked me where I was going
to put the chair ? I told him in the coachhouse,
where I kept it. " Ah," says he, " that'll do very
well; put me with it. I shall be just as well in
this chair as in bed !" And so you know he would,
sir. (Loud laughter.) •
Magistrate—And so you locked him up in the
coachhouse all night ?
Applicant—l left him there about three, and
looked in about five to see whether he was all right,
and then he told me he had never slept more com-
fortably in all his life. At half-past six I took him
a cup of coffee, part of which he drank, and told me
he was quite ready to begin his morning visits
when I was. But I ain't agoing to draw him about
the town all day to-day. (A laugh.) The chair
comes to 7s. for last night, and there's ever since
seven o'clock this morning to add to it.
Magistrate—Well, he can't make you draw him
about; that's optional. What was he doing when
you left him just now
Applicant—Reading, writing, or smoking.
Magistrate—Really his friends ought to to some-
thing for him ; perhaps I had better call upon them.
Can't you drive him to the union ?
Applicant—lf I ask him if he wants to go there
he'll want to call at some other place first.
(Laughter.)
Sergeant Bailey was directed to accompany
applicant to the chair, and try the effect of his
uniform and authority upon the occupant, A small
crowd accompanied them, and in due time the chair
was found where Collyer had left it. He received
orders from the doctor to call at the Druid's Head,
and after a craftily qualified cup at this hostelrie
the doctor was " caught napping." Collyer then
procured the services of a sturdy butcher, and the
key of an empty room attached to the Temperance
Hall having been obtained, Dr. Standen was lifted
from the seat ho had stuck to for twenty-two hours
out of twenty-four, and deposited on the floor to
awaken to the realities of his novel situation, his
call at the Temperance Hall being certainly the first
to that spot.—Sussex Express.

ADAM'S BRIDGE.—On Monday morning was
issued the following report of the select committee appointed
to inquire into the practicability of shortening the voyage to
India :—lt appears in evidence that a passage between the
Island of Ramiseram and Point Tonitory, on the coast of
Madura, in the Presidency of Madras, has long existed.
Since the year 1837, when operations were commenced by
the Madras Government, under the superintendence of
Colonel (now Lieutenant General) William Monteith, the
channel has been deepened from 31 to its present depth of
11 to 12ft low water, spring tides, at a cost little exceeding
£40,000. It is stated in evidence that the depth can be in-
creased to 15ft. without an excessive outlay. The channel
is largely used at all seasons by the coasting trade of India
and the trade between India and Ceylon. From the Ist of
May, 1860, to the 30th of April, 1861, 2,447 vessels passed
through, having an aggregate tonnage of 205,529 tons, as
against 146,565 tons in 1859-60, in which latter year 21
English vessels and one French vessel made use of the
channel, one of the former, the Blue Rock, a ship of 666
tons, drawing 13ft. water in ballast. The report says :
" The evidence does not enable your committee to offer an
opinion of the cost of deepening the channel to the extent
rewired to accommodate the general trade for large vessels ;
but it is clear that great beneficial commercial results have
been already obtained at a very moderate cost. They are
therefore of opinion that the question of deepening the
channel and improving the approaches is deserving the
early attention of her Majesty's Government; and they
suggest that further inquiries should be prosecuted on the
spot as soon as possible to ascertain with certainty whether
the passage between Ceylon and the mainland of India can
be made safe and practicable for the general trade at a mo-
derate expense.f
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