The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-09 00:00:00

THAMES.

CUTTING AND WOUNDING.—NARROW ESCAPE OF
A PRISONER.—Auguste Guemal, aged 24 years, of
54, Pell-street, St. George's-in-the-East, was
brought up on remand, charged with feloniously
cutting and wounding Henri Benden, a tailor,
of No. 23, Arch-court, Bridgewater-square, Bar-
bican.

The parties are Germans, and it appears were
unknown to each other until a few days since. The
prosecutor and another young man were is
ti~ ell-
close-square, and the prisoner, without any Provo•
cation, came up to Benden and challenged him to
fight. The prosecutor refused and tried to get
away from him, on which the prisoner took a shoe-
maker's knife from his pocket and stabbed the pro-
secutor on Lis kft shoulder, inflicting a severe
wound, from which the blood flowed profusely.
Mr. Ashley William Barrett, house surgt.on, saw
the prisoner for the first time on Thursday last.
There was a wound on his left shoulder 31 inches
iu length, and the same in depth. He thought the
wound was inflicted with soma violence, and there
was a degree of clinger about it. The muscular
fibres were severed.

Hugh Andrews, a p )lice-constable, arres'ed the
prisoner, ycsterdny, nudEr very peculiar circum-
stances. lie h"ard ho was in a house in Well-
close-square, and went after him. The prisoner
fled, went over the roofs of three houses, and fell
from the roof of a three-storied house, more than
fifty feet high, in:o the yard below it. He thought
he would have been killed, but the prisoner's fall
was broken, and he went through theiroof of a wash-
house, acd alighted in safety on the ground within,
and without any injury except a few bruises.
The prisoner said he did strike the prusccutor,
but did not intend to hurt him—if ho had he should I
have killed him.

Mr. Lushiugton committed the prisoner for trial.

The murder of Mr. Voorhees by Chambers in
Brooklyn,following so close on the murder of Town-
send in New York, both singularly aimless and un-
provoked, has excited the greatest indignation, and
the New York papers are writing furiously on the
subject. The Citizen pronounces a death sentence
on Reynolds without further trial or reference to
any evidence, winding up with the statement that
Reynolds must die. The Evening Telegram does
the same kind office for Chambers, and will listen
to no extenuating circumstances. If the man be
mad, so much the greater necessity for hanging
him. That no injustice may be done the Evening
Telegram, we give its own words from its issue of
the 17th Feb. :—" One of the obscure city papers
is trying its best to prove that Chambers, tht.
scoundrel who so brutally murdered Mr. Voorhees,
in Brooklyn, on Sunday night, is a lunatic. If he
is a lunatic, the best way to get rid of him is to bang
him at once. These fellows, who are sane enough
every day in the week to carry on a lucrative busi-
ness and manage their affairs successfully, and
then become lunatics after drinking a few glasses
of wine on a .!-..unday, should be dealt with
far more rigorously than the common prow-
lers who would murder a man for a ten-cent stamp.
A person has some chance for his life when he
meets a man whose appearance betrays his brutal
instinct, but he has none whatever when a gen-
tleman' meets him as a friend to talk with him
pleasantly while sober, and murder him if rum
happens to get the best of him." •
AMERICAN II UMOUR.—Whittier being asked for
an autograph the other day, complied by penning:
"The name is but the shadow, which we rind
Too often larger than the man behind !

" JOHN J. WHITTIER."
—The death of another "Old Defender of Baltimore"
being announced, the Nets York Times says, " We surely
do not wish these ' old defenders any harm, but certainly
the supply seems equal to the severest demands which death
tan make upon them."—Brooklyn has a new Woman's Club.
A broomstick was the old one. Wilmington Commercial.—
The Boston Post thinks most of our American statesmen
could solve the Chinese puzzle, could they only get a
queue.—A Mrs. Norton, who danced with the Prince last
week, is described by a New York reporter as presenting
at the time a " panorama of smiles and flowers and dia-
monds."—The Boston Journal writes of a return to specie
payments that, "Economy, retrenchment, and the aboli-
tion of the income tax aro the three specifics which will
bring us back to 'mint drops.' "—The Wisconsin Legisla-
ture has enacted that pages shall not play leap-frog in the
Assembly Chamber, or throw wads of masticated paper
where they aro likely to bit the heads of members. Henry
Ward Beecher says: -"I heartily believe in judicious
flagellation ;" but he considers the rod a "choice dainty,
and, like kissing, to bo used rarely, and then heartily laid
on."—A lady of New York, to whom Mrs. Stowe sent her
"Vindication" with the compliments of the author,
returned the volume with the indorsement : Life is too
short—excuse mo."—A correspondent wants to know
when the "refuge for homeless dogs" is established in this
city whether "husbands who live a dog's life" will be
admitted.—The term " Hoo Duo" is given by the Montana
papers to the Legislature of that Territory, and the ques-
tion is raised whether the title is complimentary or other-
wise. From the eccentric proceedings of that Legislature
it is thought to be "otherwise."