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

MARLBOROUGH •STREET, THIS DAY,

THE ORGAN GRINDING NUlSANCE.—Bartholomew
Tulle, an Italian organ grinder, living in Short's Gardens,
was charged with playing an organ in front of No. 11,
Langham-place, and annoying Mr. Newton Edward Jen-
nings, architect and engineer.
Mr. Jennings said that on the previous evening about 8
o'clock the prisoner was playing an organ in front of his
father's house, No. 11, Langham-place. He went out by
his father's orders, and sent his brother to tell the prisoner
to go away, his mother being being very ill, and her condi-
tion being made very much worse by the prisoner's play-
ing. The prisoner refusing to go away his brother went for
a constable, and one came up, but refused to interfere. The
prisoner had been playing for a quarter of an hour before
he was ordered to leave, and continued for a quarter of an
hour after, and was a great annoyance.
The brother of Mr. Jennings said he told the prisoner to
go away, but ho refused, and as the first constable refused
to interfere, he followed the prisoner till he saw another
constable,:when he gave him in charge,
A constable said the prisoner told him in English that he
had only been three weeks in London, and that it was the
first time he went there.

Prisoner, through an interpreter, begged the complain-
ant's pardon.
Mr. Jennings said he did not wish, as the man had been
locked up all night, to press the case severely, only the
nuisance must be stopped, as it seriously increased his
mother's illness.

Mr. Knox said he was bound to pay attention to the re-
quest of the complainant. He wail aware of the nuisance
suffered in consequence of the organ playing of these men,
but at the same time he did not mish to stop all street music.
He did not think, at the same time, that it would do to let
the prisoner go and say to all his companions—the grinders
of barral organs—that they could stop opposite the house
where some person was ill, and at the request of the com-
plaining person, who might be very humane when brought
before a magistrate, get off with a slight punishment. But
for the intercession of the complainant he should have
passed a severe sentence, as the nuisance to students and
professional men was intolerable, and still more so to per-
sons who were ill. He should fine the prisoner 55., or seven
days ; and he wished it to be understood that it was only
at the request of the complainant that he passed such a
sentence.

CARD-SHARPING.—A Frenchman named Delobe, was
charged before Mr. Knox with obtaining, by means of
card-sharping, the sum of £2O from Mr. Michael Komerde,
a Russian gentleman, of 4, Leicester place, Leicester-
square, at the Angel and Crown, Seddon-street.
Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough .street, said
the prosecutor was a Russian gentleman on a visit to the
Exhibition.

The evidence of the prosecutor was of the usual descrip-
tion, the " three card trick" being the mode adopted by the
prisoner and two others.
Prisoner was remanded.

MARKETS---THIS DAY.

SOUTII-TIEST ERN RAILWAY.

SPECIAL MEETING-(THIS DAY.)

A special general meeting e f the proprietors in this com-
pany was held this day at the Waterloo Station, for the
purpose cf approving of the Metropolitan and Thames
Valley Railway.
Captain MANGLES, the chairman, said the bill, as it
stood, was to empower the construction of a line of railway
from Twickenham to Shepperton, which was only about
eight miles in length.
The SOLICITOR explained the nature of the bill as it
affected the South-Western Railway.

The CHAIRMAN moved the following resolution :—" That
this meeting having considered the bill now pending in
Parliament, entituled an Act for making railways from the
London and South-Western Railway to Hampton and
Shepperton, in the county of Middlesex, approves of the
clause and provisions therein, by which powers are pro-
posed to be conferred en the London and South-Western
Railway, with such modification as Parliament may require
or permit, and as the directors shall approve."
The resolution was carried unanimously.
The proceedings then terminated.

THE GREAT FEN _DELUGE.

LYNN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The actual works in progress for stopping the
flow of water are as follows :—First in importance
is the coffer-dam. A number of piles about 58 feet
in length are being driven about seven feet apart,
the piles being driven doubly, and a space left
between them. When the whole of this kind of
framework is complete, and the neap tide comes, it
is proposed to drop perpendicularly sheets of wood
encased in iron ; the iron plates are about an inch
in thickness, and the wooden sheets about five or
six inches, so that it is hoped they will be able to
repel the force of the current. It is hoped to be
able to raise this obstruction about three feet at each
tide, that is, after they get the framework com-
plete, which will not be for at least another week.
There are ten engines, but at no time are more than
four of them. at once ; and there being but one gang
of men, who of course have to take their rest and
meals, little more than 12 hours a day is made. The
abandonment of Mr. Muller's dam, by orders of Mr.
Hawkshaw, has led to a slip of a great portion of
the bank 20 or 30 yards in length, and about 12 or
14 yards in width, and about 50 men are employed
in filling up this hole with clunel, which has been
obtained from the Humber, and brought here in
small vessels of a light draft, which can get under
the bridge, and come up to the north of the cut,
where we saw several lying this afternoon. We
understand that about 20 of these vessels, of 100
tons burden, are chartered with Yorkshire stone for
these works. Respecting the whole which was se-
cured in the east banks there is much diversity of
opinion amongst the engineers. Local engineers
have taken soundings, and state that there is no
improvement, whilst the engineer in charge of the
works, Mr. Smith, announced in the morning that
he had every reason to believe that it was being
filled up as quickly as possible. Meantime the
wide waters swell and surge by the motion of the
tide and the wind, and all is desolation over the
vast extent of the deluge.

ALLEGED DEATH FROM THE ADMINISTRA-

TIO.N OF CHLOROFORM.

Yesterday morning much excitement prevailed at
the east end of the metropolis, in consequence of
the exhumation of the body of a Frenchman, named
Pierre Peicher, aged 35 years, from the burial
ground of the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, Bow-road,
by the warrant of Mr. John Humphreys, the
coroner. _ _ _ . . .

It appears that the deceased, about a fortnight
since, had been in the service of Sir Anthony
Rothschild, the proprietor of the extensive refinery,
situated in Royal Mint-street, Tower-hill, where he
had been engaged in the manufacture of new coin
for the Government. He was afflicted with a
painful disease, although he followed his daily
avocation. On Monday week, the 19th instant,
he wished to have an operation performed on
him, and he was persuaded to have the assist-
ance of two French physicians, who were
sent for, in conjunction with Dr. Marshall,
of Great Titchbourn,- street, Leicester -square.
The three gentlemen arrived at the residence of
the deceased in Royal Mint-street, where measures
were adopted to perform the operation. They
then proceeded to administer chloroform in the
usual way, when one of the attendants discovered
that pulsation had suddenly ceased, and the patient
was dead before the operation could be performed.
The gentlemen became alarmed, and the friends of
the deceased sent for Dr. Cook of the Minories, and
his assistant promptly attended, and found life to
be extinct. He endeavoured to restore animation,
but his efforts were in vain.

The deceased expired on the Monday morning,
and was buried two days afterwards at the cemetery
above-named, and it seems that the registrar of the
death received a certificate from a medical gentle-
men to the effect that the deceased had died a na-
tural death. These facts came under the notice of
Mr. Humphreys, who at once issued an order to
have the body exhumed, and it was removed in a
hearse yesterday to the parish dead-house to await
an inquest. The coroner has issued an order for a
post-mortem examination, and Dr. Letheby, of the
London Hospital, has been directed to
.make an
analysis of the contents of the stomach.