The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-04 00:00:00

Mr. Paget—He was jealous of the other black mau ?
_ _ _

M'Kay—He was, sir; he was raving mad, and said he
would kill the woman and the ugly black nigger who was
with her. (Loud laughter.)
The prisoner, in a few words of broken English, said he
came home in the ship Norma yesterday, and he knew the
woman who played him false three years ago.
Mr. Paget—That is a long time. You must not make
these disturbances and beat the woman for preferring the
attraction of the other black man.
The Prisoner—l will kill her.

Mr. Paget—No; you must not touch her. I shall coin.
mit you to prison for seven days.

The Prisoner—Then I shall lose my clothes, my money,
everything.

Mr. Paget—No ; the police will look after your clothes ;
your ship will be paid off to-morrow (Tuesday), and your
wages will be found at the shipping office.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 2.
Joseph Cummins, the brave fellow who so nearly
lost his life in resisting the attempts of an Irish-
American rowdy to murder and rob him on the
Finglas road on Tuesday night, lies still in hospital
in a precarious state. As the man is very poor and
has a large family depending on his daily labour,
subscriptions are being actively collected, and
already upwards of £5O have been subscribed for
their support. It is believed that had it not been
for the interference of the injured man's son, who
furiously attacked the highwayman with a whip-
handle, Cummins must have been killed, as the
ruffian was able to fire one shot at the son,
which happily missed him. An examination of
the wounds has been made by Mr. Fleming, which
was attended with satisfactory results. The wound in
the eye was examined with a porcelain probe, on
Nelaton's principle, and the fact of the bullet being
lodged in the skull, close to the brain, ascertained
beyond a doubt. This probe was invented by the
celebrated French surgeon Nelaton, and first suc-
cessfully applied in the discovery of the bullet in the
ancle of Garibaldi. It consists simply of a rough
point of porcelain. If the wound contain a lodgment
of lead, contact with it will impart a black mark to the
porcelain ; if the body lodged be iron, the mark will
be of a red colour. The Nelaton probe was exten-
sively used in the American war. Mr. Fleming
made his examination in the presence of Professor
Houghton, M.D., Dr. Butcher, and other gentle-
men, together with the surgical class of the hospital.
What he used was not a specially constructed
appliance, but merely a few inches of slender por-
celain, which had formed part of an ornament. The
brain of the sufferer has not been injured by the
shot. He is at present going on well, and there is
every hope of saving his life.

The Evening Freeman says :—" We are happy to
state that the operation of extracting the bullet from
the eye of poor Cummins was carried out this morn-
ing, at the Richmond Hospital, with partial suc-
cess. Surgeon Fleming undertook the operation,
at which Surgeon Gordon and other medical
gentlemen were present. After the surgeon had
probed the wound, he ascertained that the
bullet had flattened, and that it had broken into
two or three pieces. It struck, it appears, against
the wall of the orbit, and was thus prevented from
reaching the brain. Surgeon Fleming succeeded in
extricating about half of the bullet, and he hopes to
find the remaining portion to-morrow morning.
No attempt has yet been made to extract the bullet
from the thigh, the wound in that region not yet
being in a condition to be operated on."
The highwayman, O'Flynn, is in rather a dan-
gerous state in prison, the punishment he received
on the head threatening to produce erysipelas. He
has been identified by Mr. Taylor, of the Dunsink
Observatory, as having attempted to plunder him
on the same evening at Finglas. The prisoner fired
at him, and Mr. Taylor had a narrow escape, as
there is a bullet-hole in the tail of his coat.

Capt. Knollys, author of " Misses and Matri-
mony," has a new novel in the press.
THE AMERICAN POET, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT,
has purchased the homestead in his native town of Cum-
mington, Hampshire county, Mass., and is refitting it for a
summer residence.

THE CONCLUDING VOLUMES OF MR. GRANTLEY
F. BERKELEY'S " LIFE AND RECOLLECTIONS" are announced
for publication in the autumn.

MR. HARRISON, THE SINGER, iS Seriously ill
with a brain-attack ; but hopes are entertained of his
recovery.

DRURY LANE will be opened in about three weeks
with " Macbeth" and " Comus."

PRINCE ALBERT'S PETS.—Prince Albert" was in-
tensely fond of animals, and especially of birds.
Few gardens have been so densely peopled by the feathered
songsters as those attached to the palace at Pimlico, for it
was a place of privilege to them ; not a nest was ever
knowingly disturbed, and it was the constant aim of the
Royal father to teach his children to show tenderness to
helpless creatures. The Princes and Princesses had each
their little garden ; nests were often watched--not to ter-
rify the parent birds, but to guard them from accidental
disturbance, so that every family of fledglings had from the
moment of their birth a guarded home on sacred ground.
On one occasion one of the children found in the garden a
blind sparrow. This member of a great pugilistic com-
munity hsad had its eyes scratched out in a fight, and when
found was quite helpless. The child was much concerned
about its fate, and secured the good services of Mrs.
Wyness, the gardener's wife, begging of her to nurse it
while the family were away at Osborne. On their return
to Pimlico, the child, who had never forgotten the blind
sparrow, hastened to inquire of Mrs. Wyness respecting it,
and was deeply grieved to hear that it had died in spite of
themost careful tending.—Hibberd's Gardener's Magazine.