The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

CHANGE IN COLOUR OF THE HAIR.

The changes which are produced by disturbances
of the heart upon the cutaneous capillaries are illus-
trated in a remarkable manner in persons where the
hair of the head has suddenly become white from a
disturbance in the heart caused by violent mental ex-
citement. A lady who was deeply grieved on re-
ceiving the intelligence of a great change in her
worldly condition, and who had a very remarkable
quantity of dark hair, found on the following morning
the whole of the hair had become of a silver white.
Some striking instances of this kind are narrated by
historians. " I was struck," says Madame Campan,
" with the astonishing change misfortune had wrought
upon Maria Antoinette's features; her whole head
of hair bad turned almost white during her transit
from Varennes to Paris." The Duchess of Luxem-
bourg, when caught making her escape during the
terrors of the French Revolution, and put in prison,
the next morning it was observed that her hair had
become white. A Spanish officer, distinguished for
his bravery, was in the Duke of Alva's camp, and an
experiment was made by one of the authorities to test
his courage. At midnight the provost-marshal, ac-
companied by his guard and a confessor, awoke him
from his sleep, informing him that, by order of the
viceroy, he was to be immediately executed, and had
only a quarter of an hour left to make his peace with
Heaven. After he had confessed, he said that he was
prepared for death, but declared his innocence. The
provost-marshal at this moment burst into a fit of
laughter, and told him that they merely wanted to
try his courage. Placing his hand upon his heart,
and, with a ghastly paleness, he ordered the provost
out of his tent, observing that he had " done him an
evil office ;" and the next morning, to the wonder of
the whole army, the hair of his head, from having
been of a deep black colour, had become perfectly
white.—Dr. Wardrop on Diseases of the Heart.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 18.
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN RE E. CHURTON.

The bankrupt was a bookseller in Holles-street,
Cavendish-square. This was a last examination meet-
ing. The bankrupt's accounts extended from July 1,
1849, to November, 1851. They contri❑ the follow-
ing figures :—Dr.: Capital, 300/. ; creditors, 9,534/. ;
liabilities, 5,7301.; profits, 4,6211. Cr.: Gocd
debtors, 1,2861. ; property, 6,7561.; cash given up,
72/. ; losses, 1,195/. ; bad and doubtful debtors, 6891.;
trade expenses, 4,060/. ; domestic expenses, 973/. ;
liabilities per contra, 5,7301.
Mr. LINKLATER, for the assignees, said the bank.
rupt had prepared his own accounts. They were
very voluminous, and the assignees had no complaint
to make. A short adjournment was, however, desired,
in order that the bankrupt might make out his debtors'
accounts.

Mr. Churton concurred. If there were an adjourn-
ment he should be better able, at the next meeting, to
furnish information respecting some books that had
not been returned to his library by the parties to
whom they had been lent.—Adjournment ordered ac-
cordingly.

ASSIZE IN'T'ELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 16.

CROWN COUR T.—(l3L4re Mr. Justice MAULE )
William Graham, aged 29, was charged with night
poaching on certain lands in the occupation of Wm.
It. C. Stanfield, Eiq , at Esholt.
It appeared that on the night of the 9th of Nov.
last Mr. Stanfield's gamekeeper, accompanied by
three watchers, were in a preserve at Esholt, and
whilst there, hearing the report of guns and men con-
versing, they went towards them, and came upon
twenty men, who asked if they wanted to fight, to
which Holmes, the keeper, replied that if they
wanted to fight they should come out into the field,
and fight like men. A man then got over the wall,
whom the keeper stated he believed to be the prisoner,
and presented his gun at him, upon which he said,
" Don't shoot. There is no occasion to shoot." The
men in the preserve then cried out, "D—n him ;
shoot his dog ;" and then the prisoner shot at the
dog. The keeper and watchers then ran away, and
the prisoner and ten other men, with two lurcher
dogs, followed them. The keeper and his watchers
escaped. The prisoner was subsequently appre-
headed, together with seven other men on suspicion,
and one of the watchers spoke positively to the pri-
soner as being one of the poachers out or the night in
question.
In his defence the prisoner stated positively that, so
far from being out on the night mentioned, he was at
home in bed, laid up with a sprained foot.
The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Emmanuel Hunt, 38, and William Johnsen, 24, were
indicted for having, on the night of the 22d of Sep-
tember last, committed a burglary in the dwelling-
hbuse of Mr. John Mason, a farmer, at Dishforth.
It appeared that on the night in question the dairy
window of Mr. Mason's house was broken open, and
the burglars having entered, took away a ham, a hare,
a brace of partridges, and a quantity of eggs, which
had been tied up in some stockings, in order that they
might be hung up, first by one end of the stockings
and then by the other, so that they might be turned
and kept fresh. The next day some men were
thatching some corn stacks belonging to a Mr. Gil-
ling, and at the foot of one of them they found four
stockings filled with eggs, which they took to Mr.
Gilling, who informed the police, and by their direc-
tions the eggs were taken back to the ricks, and two
officers placed to watch, and at about eight o'clock
at night the two prisoners came and took away the
eggs, upon which they were taken into custody ; the
stockings in which the eggs were were identified as
those taken from the prosecutor's house, and, upon
the police going to the prisoners' house they found
there a red and white dog, similar to the one which
bad been seen at Mr. Mason's house on the evening
of the robbery.

In their defence the prisoners said, that they went
to the stacks to lie down, as one of them way lame
from bis shoes hurting him, and that on io doing they
found the eggs.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury re-
turned a verdict of Guilty.
Sentence—one year's imprisonment, with hard
labour.

York, Dec. 17.
NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron
PLATT.)

Thonuss Linley, 27, was charged with having, at
Sheffield, in the West Riding, on the Ist of August
last killed and slain one William Raistrick.

Mr. Boothby and Mr. Philippa appeared for the
prosecution ; and Mr. Price defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the night of the 28th July the
deceased, who was a labourer on the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, had been drink-
ing at several public-houses, and being intoxicated, in
proceeding on his road home, he went into the Green
Dragon, in Fargate, between eight and nine o'clock,
and sat down in the tap-room. On the opposite side of
the room sat three persons, namely, William Lee
George Holland, and the prisoner. After the deceased
had been there a few minutes he commenced inter-
fering in the conversation with the other men in a
noisy manner, and something having passed between
the prisoner and the deceased, the former got up and
pulled the latter by the brim of his hat, and he sud-
denly jerking his head back, hit his head against the
wall. Upon this he immediately got up and seized
the prisoner by the collar of his coat, and a scufil-3
ensued, in the course of which they both fell down,
the prisoner being undermost. After a little time
the prisoner got on the top of the deceased, who was
on his back. The prisoner then got astride of the
deceased, whom he lifted up several feet from the
ground by the coat collar, and then struck him seven
or eight times on the bead against the floor, which
was denominated "jowling," in doing which the de-
ceased got hold of the prisoner's neckerchief, which he
convulsively grasped, and caused the prisoner to cry
out that he was strangled. One of the men
then untied the prisoner's neckkercbief, and the land-