The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-21 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam ~. Short ... 11 19i ... 12
Do
Rotterdam — ... 12 2 ... 12 2h
Antwerp — ... 2.5 40 ... 25 4j
Brussels — ... 25 40 ... 25 4j
liamburgh — ... 13 11 ... 13 11*
Paris Short ... 25 121 ... 25 22*
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-the-Main ... 120} ... 121
Vienna — ... 12 571 ... 12 62}
Trieste — ... 12 57* ... 12 62*
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ~. 9 20 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid..
48
Cadiz — ... 48i ... 9
Leghorn — ... 26 721 .., 26 80

HOT AM TO BE SOLD AS GAS IS SoLD.--Experi-
meats are being made in Springfield, Massachusetts, by a
gentleman formerly engaged in the United States Arsenal
in that place, to test the practicability of supplying a city
with hot air, as gas or rater is now supplied, by pipes.
The plan is to pass a great number of large iron tubes
through furnaces, much after the manner of arranging
the hot air blast for iron furnaces. These metal tubes
will be connected with mains, constructed of a pecu-
liar cement or fire-clay, which will be made of the
most perfect nonconductor attainable for such pur-
pose, and thus led through the main street of a
city, and delivered by service pipes whenever required. It
is proposed to lay the main pipes in a brick arch, lined
with the same non-conducting material as that from which
the pipes are to be constructed. It is claimed by the pro-
jector, that if the plan succeeds as well as it now promises,
the cost of heating dwellings in cities can be greatly re-
duced, and if required can be furnished hot enough for
cooking purposes. It is proposed that the air shall leave
the furnaces at a temperature of 600 deg. Fah. Baking,
which requires the highest temperature of any cooking
operation, can be carded on in an atmosphere of from 250
deg. to 360 deg,

THE .RECOVEBY OF THE STOLEN CHILD.

The following facts, *which 'have been obtained from the
most authentic source, will complete the story, hitherto
imperfectly related, of the restoration of Colonel Hickie's
child, and the capture of the woman Barry. She had been
in the service of Colonel Hickie for about two months,
and was under notice to leave, on account, as she
imagined, of complaints which were the subject of
hints with the other servants of the house. During
the last six or seven years she had been in as many
different situations ; but usually referred to one lady
for a character. It has been ascertained since she stele
the little girl that she had,, in two or three cases of dismis-
sal from employment, threatened to be revenged. The
simple cause of her being discharged from Colonel Hickie's
service was that she was found unsuitable for the duties
of her position in his household. It may be mentioned,
as a curious incident, that, within the past twelvemonth,
she has been in the service of a well-known detective
and principal of en "inquiry office." When Elizabeth
Barry left Colenel Hickie's house, at throe o'clock in
the afternoon of October the Bth, with the child entrusted
to her care, she went to the Taplow Park Station, where
she had to wait nearly half an hour for a train to London.
None of the officials noticed hcr; but it , happened
that a young woman, who was her fellow-pas-
senger, did so, and, afterwards remembering the cir-
cumstance, wrote Colonel Hickie a letter, which he re-
ceived last Sunday. On the night of the same day on
which Barry left Kidwells Park, the residence of Colonel
Hickie, she proceeded by the North-Western Railway to
Liverpool, and took lodgings in St. Jude's-place. A little
girl who lived in the same house read in one of the local
papers a description given of Barry, and in particular
was struck by the fact that the strange woman had a mole
On the right upper lip. The girl told her father; who com-
municated with the police; and a detective, assuming the
character of a lodging-house inspector, went to the house
and asked the new lodger her name. She said it was Tay-
lor; and the office; who had been informed of her maiden
name, asked whether it was not Fox. She answered that
it was, and on being further interrogated she confessed that
her name was Barry, and that she was the person who had
taken away the child. "I am looking for you," said the
detective, " and you are in my custody." Barry, so
far from having taken affectionate care of tho
little girl, had cropped its hair close, pawned its clothes,
and, for some days at least, neglected and half-starved it.
Indeed, for a week previous to her discovery the
woman had given way to drunkenness. She is supposed
to have had £2 10s. in her pocket when she left; and the
little that was left of this, after paying hee railway fare,
had been spent in drink. The child was in such robust
health when taken froni its home, that a few days'
deprivation of proper and sufficient nourishment had had
no seriously ill effects on ifs physical condition. Barry
had no means, as we have shown, of paying her passage to
America ; and her assertion that she did not intend to
snake the voyage may therefore be credited. She
states that she had proposed supporting herself and the
child by needlework. Too obvious for any elaborate
comment is the simple truth that a little girl, aided by a
newspaper, was practically the " detective" who arrested
Elizabeth Barry, and that the police had but a secondary
part to play in the business. At the same time, the
earnest desire of every member of the force, whether in
Liverpool or in London, to ,aid Colonel Hickie's pursuit
of the woman who had stolen his child, may be acknow-
ledged.
A telegram received from Maidenhead on Wednes-
day night, says :—The prisoner, Elizabeth Barry, in
the custody of Constable Holdway, arrived at Taplow
riation at nine o'clock. She stepped lightly out of the
carriage, and was promptly placed in a cab that was
in waiting, and driven off rapidly to Maidenhead. On the
cab drawing up at the police-station, there was a great
rush cf excited people to gain a sight of the
prisoner, but she was so speedily and cleverly
taken from the cab and conducted to the cell, that no
time was given for any display of public indignation.
Barry was respectably attired in a black dress, black Astra-
chan jacket, and black bonnet. She is a sharp-featured
woman, of dark complexion, black hair, moderate
height, and of middle age. The constable reports that he
got his prisoner away from Liverpool without marked
observation. At Paddington they were recognised, and a
crowd of two or three hundred persons quickly gathered
round. The woman was securely transferred to the local
train, and taken on to Taplow. To ensure the safe keeping
of his prisoner, Mr. Superintendent M`Grath has arranged
that an attendant shall remain with her during the night
in the ward of the prison.