The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-11 00:00:00

THAMES.

SINGULAR CHARGE OF STEALING A CASH-BOX.—Char-
lotte Cooper, a servant girl, aged 15, was brought before
Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a cash-box containing
sundry papers, the property of her master, George Wm.
Glenister, grocer and cheesemonger, 1, Spring-garden-
place, Stepney.
Mr. Glenister said the prisoner had been in his service
for a few weeks, and her conduct had not been so good as
it ought to have been. Last Saturday she stole a half-
sovereign, and he forgave her for that, and declined to turn
her out of doors. This morning the girl rose early and
went down stairs, for the purpose, it was supposed, of
lighting the fire and attending to her household duties. Soon
afterwards she was missed, and on looking for the cash-box
it was missing. Concluding she had absconded and taken
the cash-box with her, he went after her girl, and after
iquiring for her at various places, he found her in front of
the ruins of Messrs. Goodhart's sugar refinery, which was
destroyed by fire last night. The cash-box was under her
arm, and he took it from her, and gave her into custody.
There was no money in the cas.l3..box. He emptied it last
night.

The prisaner, in defence, said she received warning to
leave her master's service this day, and having no friends
and no place to go to, she did steal the cash-box for the
purpose of being given into custody.
Mr. Glenister believed that his wife did tell the prisoner
she was to leave this day. He received a good character
with her from Mrs. Meredith, cow-keeper, of No. 27,
Whiskin-street, Clerkenwell.

Mr. Selfe—Let inquiries be made about the girl. She is
remanded until Thursday next.

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER A 7 LEEDS.

Yesterday, at the Leeds Town Hall, John Ken-
worthy was charged with the determined and mur-
derous attack upon Mr. Stephen Lupton, grocer
and provision dealer, Armley Hall, of which we
have already furnished some particulars. The first
witness called was Mrs. Horner, a widow residing
in the adjoining house to that occupied by Mr. Lup-
ton, in Holdforth, New Wortley. She deposed to
responding to Mr. Lupton's calls for assistance, and
stated that she saw the prisoner leave the house.
She found the hatchet with which the wounds
had evidently been inflicted, and noticed that in
Mr. Lupton's bedroom the drawers and clothes
had all been disturbed. Mrs. Horner's evidence
was corroborated by several witnesses ; and a girl
named Shaw stated that she saw the prisoner near
his mother's house soon after the perpetration of
the outrage. He was very pale, and seemed agi-
tated, and turned his head repeatedly. Upon the
left knee of his trousers there was a great spot of
blood. Police Constable Scott, who apprehended the
prisoner, and afterwards secured the clothes worn
by him early in the morning, stated that he found
on the trousers a mark of blood.—George Gibbons
said : I live with the prisoner's mother, who is
my stepmother. About a quarter to six o'clock
on Monday morning the prisoner came in, and
went up stairs to his mother's room. Kenworthy
shortly after asked me to lend him my coat. I did
so. The hatchet, which is one ordinarily called a
" blocker," and used for chopping up firewood, was
identified by several persons as having been in the
possession of the prisoner.—Mr. Daniel Baxendale,
the employer of the prisoner, identified the chopper
as his property, and said it had been stolen
from his stable about six months ago.—Mr.
William Scott, surgeon, of Holbeck, said : I found
five scalp wounds on Mr. Lupton's head, a wound
on the left ear, another wound on the back, over
the fifth and sixth dorsal vertebras, another on
the left wrist, and a superficial wound on the nose.
There were also many scratches on the face.
The wound on the crown of the head was a com-
pound fracture, was nearly three inches in length,
cut down to the bone, and was the same trans-
versely. All the other wounds on the scalp also ex-
ppsed the bone more or less. The wound on the
wrist was a superficial wound about an inch in
length. The wound on the nose appeared to have
been occasioned by a bite. The wounds on the
head must have been inflicted by a blunt-edged
instrument, similar to the hatchet produced, and
the other wounds (that on the nose excepted) appear
to have been inflicted with a sharp instrument
like a knife. When I examined the hatchet in
Mr. Lupton's house, I saw that the blade was
bloody, and that there was some hair attached to it
which was of the same colour as Mr. Lupton's hair.
—Jane Blanchard, who assists in cleaning the
offices at the Leeds Town Hall, deposed that when
the prisoner was brought in he was placed within
the iron fencing until the charge was entered, and
when she afterward went to sweep that part of the
room she found on the floor an ordinary pocket
knife. The blade, which was open, was marked with
blood, and was nearly bent in two.
The case was further adjourned until this day
(Thursday) week. Mr. Lupton still remains in a
very critical position.

SUGAR AND THE TEETH—TEETH PARASITES.-
14. Larez, of France, has proved that sugar from either
cane or beet is injurious to healthy teeth, either by imme-
diate contact with them, or by the gas evolved owing to
its stoppage in the stomach. If a a tooth be macerated in
a saturated solution of sugar it becomes gelatinous and
its enamel opaque, spongy, and easily broken. This
modification is due, not to free acid, but to a tendency
of sugar to combine with the calcareous basis of the teeth.
Dr. J. H. Bowditch, of the United States, having exa-
mined with a microscope matter deposited on the teeth and
gums of more than 40 individuals, selected from different
classes of society and in every variety of bodily condition ;
in nearly every case he discovered animal and vegetable
parasites in great numbers ; in fact, the only persons whose
mouths were found to be entirely free from those parasites
cleaned their teeth four times daily, using soap once.
Among the various agents applied were tobacco juice and
smoke, which do not impair the vitality of the parasites ;
nor does chlorine tooth wash, pulverised bark, soda, ammo-
nia, &c. Soap, however, pure white soap, destroys the
parasites instantly.— Tintbs' s Curiosities of Science.
THE MIRACULOUS CABINET.—Last evening we
attended the private view at the Dudley Gallery, Piccadilly,
of the opening of the Miraculous Cabinet, and a more sur-
prising sight we never witnessed. The cabinet itself is
only five feet in height, three feet wide, and 18 inches deep,
and yet it contains 150 pieces of furniture of the same size
in most cases as ordinarily used in private houses. It
seemed to be in fact absolutely inexhaustible. Chairs,
tables, bedsteads, rich inlaid cabinets, massive can-
delabra, reading chairs, and rocking chairs, mirrors,
candlesticks, flower-pots, plates, dishes, knives and forks,
drinking cups, camp stools, with hundreds of other things
too numerous to mention, were taken out and set up in
endless succession and with magic celerity, until the whole
of the large platform was fully furnished. One small box,
of the ordinary size of a lady's workbox, contained all the
plates, knives, forks, &c., &c,, necessary for a dinner to 24
persons. After the whole was put together and arranged,
the ingenious inventor invited those present to come and
examine the furniture, in order to convince themselves that
no trick was played, and that everything was constructed
in the most solid and durable manner. The author of this
extraordinary work of art is Mons. H. Nadolsey, and from
the novelty of the exhibition.it will no doubt become highly
attractive.

DISCOVEI:Y Or A YOUNG GIRL'S BODY UNDER
AN ALTAR.—A horrible discovery has been made within
the last two or three days at the church of the village of
Boulogne. between Paris and St. Cloud, which is now under
repair. Underneath the altar of the Virgin there has been
found the body of a young girl of fourteen, who disap-
peared three years ago, and of whom her parents, inhabi-
tants of the place, have never since had any news. The
neighbourhood is in a state of great excitement on the sub-
ject. The girl is described as having been very beautiful.
She had been to her first CollftS49ll shortly before her die-
appearance,