The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVE.NING, APRIL 80, 1867.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Baron Channell and a
Common Jury.)

WARREN V. ELLIOTT.-TILE RESULT OF LOOKING AFTER

A HOUSE.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages
for an alleged false imprisonment.
Sir Geo. Honeyman, Q.C., and Mr. Thrupp represented
the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Robinson the defendant.
It appeared from the opening statement of Sir George
Honeyman that the plaintiff in this case had been house-
keeper in the service of the defendant, who kept a lodging
house at No. 4, Chapel-street West, Grosvenor-square, in
town, but who held a situation about the Court at Windsor
Castle. The plaintiff had been in the service of the wife
of defendant, but at her death she became manager of the
lodging-house, receiving all the rent from the lodgers. In
October last, in consequence of the defendant having got
some ideas into his head that he was losing some of his
property, he gave the plaintiff in charge, accusing her of
having stolen one towell, one chair-cover, one fall, and one
roll of embroidery, value 14s. She was taken to the Vine-
street station, and walked the next morning with the
charges to Marlborough-street. When she got there the
representative of Mr. Bear:l, solicitor, appeared and said
that in consequence of something that had occurred the
charge was withdrawn. Plaintiff was discharged. She
had not been able to obtain a situation since.
The Plaintiff, in cross-examination, said that the defen-
dant had allowed her to take the best of his wife's clothes.
Mr. Sergeant Robinson— Did not the defendant lose a
set of his wife's false teeth, value £l4?
Witness—No. When his wife died he said, "Put those
things away."

Mr. Sergeant Robinson—And you did put them away,
(Laughter.) But how about the gold nugget ?
Witness—The nugget was given to me by my brother
in Australia, and I had it made into a brooch and gave it
to Mrs. Elliott, and when she died I asked Mr. Elliott for
it back, and ho said he had lost it. All the things she was
accused of taking were found in her box. They were all
Mr. Elliott's with the exception of the veil,which was hers.
She considered that by the general gift of Mr. Elliott all
the best of his wife's things were hers. As the policeman
was taking her away she gave Elliott a push. The ser-
vant (Gaymer) wont down on hor knees, and protested she
was innocent ; witness could have done the same.
There were two lodgers in the house, gentlemen,
Mr. Miles and Mr. Sydney Joyce. Sh 3 was to have the
house for one year to see what she could do with it, and
she was £53 out of pocket.
Susan Gaymer said that in October last she was servant
at the house in Chapel-street, West. She had boon there
from the 12th October, 1865. There were only her and
Mrs. Warren there. Sho was in the kitchen shortly after
Mrs. Elliott's death, and the plaintiff and defendant were
there, and defendant said that Mrs. Warren was to have
the best of Mrs. Elliot's clothes, and the remainder were
to be sent to his sister in the country, and what she
could not wear herself she was to cut up for the
niece. Mrs. Warren said, " Thank you," and Mr. Elliott
said "Would Mrs. Warren do for him the same as sh•
had for his wife, for she was the only friend he had, and
if she left him he should have no ono." She remembered
Sunday, October 28. The defendant called the plaintiff
up stairs as well as witness. He asked the latter, " Did
she damage Mrs. Elliott's clothes?" and she answered,
"No." The policeman then asked for Mrs. Warren's keys.
She replied, "She had no keys to her box." She gave
him the key of the door. The latter was locked. The
police never opened the box. Ho did not take anything
then, but came back about two o'clock, and took the
things away.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGESCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CURIOUS CASE OF ROBBERY.—Caroline Williams, a well-
dressed young woman, an unfortunate, was charged before
Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing four sovereigns from the per-
son of Charles Finch, a cabinet porter, No. 10, Leicester-
square.
The prosecutor said that last night about 10 o'clock ho
had just left the station in the Portland-road when the
prisoner accosted him, and after some conversation he
agreed to treat her with a glass of ale, and did so. On
leaving the public-house he stood talking to her about ten
minutes when she immediately ran away. Thinking her
conduct rather suspicious he felt in his pocket and missed
four sovereigns. He went in the direction the prisoner
went, and spoke to a constable, giving him a description
of the prisoner and her dress, and some time after she was
seen by the constable coming out of a public-house and
taken into custody, when she denied having seen him
(prosecutor) before.
Police-constable Morrow, 135 E, said that last night the
prosecutor told him in Cirencester-place that he had been
robbed of four sovereigns by a female, and he described
the female as wearing a black and white striped dress, a
velvet jacket, and an oyster shell hat. While with the pro-
secutor he saw the prisoner come out of a public-house,
and directly the prosecutor saw her he said " That's her,"
and he (Morrow) then took her into custody. Observing
she had her hand down by her side he seized it, and found
a sovereign and a half sovereign and one shilling in it. As
she had entered the public-house with a cabman, he asked
the cabman if he was going to take her anywhere, and he
said he was not, but that she had treated him to some rum.
The prisoner afterwards asked him (Morrow) to put a word
in for her, and ho told her that he was neither for her nor
against her, but could only tell the truth, asking her what
it was possible he could do for her. She then said that
she would give him a sovereign if he would tell the
inspector at the station that the prosecutor had given a
different description of her, and that then the inspector
would refuse to take the charge. He told the prisoner
that he would do nothing of the sort.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said the constable could not have acted
better than he had done.
The prisoner said she would plead guilty, and asked the
Magistrate to settle the case.
Mr. Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for two months
with hard labour.

211 E LIQUEFACTION OF STONE.

'rhe dissolving of quartz and flint in water is the
subject (says the Day) of a curious paper lately read
before a Boston Scientific Society, by Professor
Fleury, of New York. The object of all processes
of this kind is to produce by economical means a
colourless liquid possessing permanent petrefying
qualities, and holding fluid in solution. The uses to
which such a liquid, supposing it to be perfect, could
be applied are numerous. It may be used like the
so-called water-glass invented by Professor Fuchs,
of Munich, in producing fresh and durable frescoes,
and, indeed, this experiment has been tried with
some success in our Houses of Parliament. Arti-
ficial stones and cornices for building purposes
might be made if this petrifying liquid could only
be produced cheaply enough, and it might also, of
course, be used in cementing stones together. Cast
statuary, tombstones, baths, tables, mantelpieces,
and ornaments of every description, could be
made far cheaper from this flint-marble than by
the present laborious processes. The liquid might
also be used to render wood non-inflammable
and waterproof by impregnating it with pro-
perly prepared solution ; and railway sleepers, tele-
graph posts, and all wood in exposed places, could
be rendered weather-proof, and much more durable.
It could be mixed with paper pulp and various
vegetable fibres, and a variety of useful and orna-
mental articles could be manufactured from it. Old
monuments, and buildings where the stone was
decaying, could easily be restored by liquid silica ;
and it is possible even that it might be made to
serve for the preservation of fruit, meat, eggs,
vegetables, &c. Metallurgy would gain much, as
Professor Fleury points out, by a process by which
quartz could be cheaply and speedily dissolved in
water, for gold quartz could then be taken, and
the gold obtained as a precipitate from the solu-
tion of the quartz. The liquid silica_ s ob-
tained- would, of course, have a distinct and fixed
market value ; and the price paid for extract-
ing the gold would be more than covered by the
profit arising from its sale. Many eminent scientific
men have tried their hands at making this liquid
stone, and with varied success. Experiments have
been made in which a solution has been procured
that could be cast cold without pressure, and har-
dening from the centre outwards became a snow-
white flint of greater hardness and durability even
than natural marble. Professor Fuchs, of Munich,
Kuhlman, of Lille, Fresny, of Paris, Graham, of
London, Hardinge, of New York, and Mr. Ran-
some, of Ipswich, have all applied themselves to this
interesting problem; and it is most likely that we
shall soon be familiar with the qualities and uses of
this liquid stone.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.

Arrived, April 29.—City of London, from Colombo;
Virulam, from Adelaide ; Knight Errant, from Calcutta ;
Elida Sarah, from Warberg ; Naparimo, from Trinidad;
Vera, from Jamaica; John Kendal, from Cape of Good
Hope ; Love Bird, steamer, from Ibrail.
Arrived, April 30.—Rhine, steamer, from Boulogne
Forth, steamer, from Hamburg ; Agnes Banfield, from
Sydney.
Sailed, April 30.—Marquis of Argyle, from Adelaide
Constantine, for Soderham.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed.—Mosquito and Flora, Prussian brigs-of-war,
from Toulon, for Kiel ; H.M. yacht Enchantress, from
West, for River ; Bridgetown, from S wan River, for Lon-
don ; Jano Frances, from Alexandria, for London ; Austra-
lian, from Sydney, for London; Georgetown, ship, from
Barbadoes, for London; George, schooner, from Cardiff
for Drammen.

On the 27th of April, 1667, exactly 200 years
ago, Milton received £5 for the poem of " Paradise
Lost." This curious little fact may be interesting
to our literary readers.

ADMIRAL BENBOW'S PROVISIONS.—Benbow is
first heard of in command of a well-armed merchantman
in the Mediterranean, and the earliest anecdote we have
of him would hardly be credible on any loss authority
than that of his son-in-law, Paul Calton, Esq., who lived
to tell it to Campbell, author of "Lives of the Admirals."
It seems that Benbow was attacked by a Sallee rover,
which he captured; and that he cut off the Moors' heads
and put them into a tub of pork-pickle. Going ashore at
Cadiz, with a man following him who carried these
pickled heads in a sack, ho naturally attracted the atten-
tion of a- customs' officer, who demanded a sight of the
sack's contents. This Benbow would not grant: so he
was taken b3fore the magistrates of the city, where,
having described his property as " provisions for my own
use," ho sternly exposed it to view on the table. Tho
astonishment of the Spaniards was accompanied by keen
admiration. The story was carried to the King of Spain,
who recommended Benbow to the attention of James IL ;
and the grim nautical wag got the command of a man-of-
war.—British Admirals and their Biographers, in the " Corn-
hill Magazine" for May.
THE FOOD OF HUMMING-BIRDS.—The following
interesting account of the food of humming-birds appeared
a short time since in Wilkes' Spirit, a New York paper :
"In June I happened to be visiting at a house in Pleasant
Valley, Erie county, Pa. One fine morning I was sitting
in his doorway, looking out upon a neat flower-garden
when I noticed a number of beautiful humming-birds,
flitting from flower to flower, busy at their breakfast.
Calling my host's attention to them, I remarked that I
bad seen the question of their food made a disputed point
somewhere in print. It was denied that they took
honey from the flowers, and asserted that they found
in them minute insects, on which they fed. My friend,
though a close observer, was not certain on the point, and
it was proposed to satisfy ourselves, if possible, by offering
them honey. Ho stated that he had caught humming-
birds often, and thought he could do eo again. It may be
well to observe that the morning is still, and that a heavy
dew lay upon the ground. Some honey was taken
upon, a case-knife, and we walked out upon the
boarded paths between the flower-beds. Very soon
one of the little fellows, a perfect beauty, one
of those with the many-coloured, changeable throat,
which sparkles so like a jewel, perched himself upon a
board's edge, seemed much fatigued. My friend observed
that he was wet and hoary with the dew, andcould not fly
so long at a time as usual. We neared him once or twice,
when he flew away, but at last ho suffered us to get near
enough to thrust the honey into his face. His bill
touched it, but he was apparently perfectly ignorant of
the nature of the substance. Again and again did
we press our kind attentions ; his little eye was
seemingly on the coast of Greenland,' and a very
speculative eye it was too, clear and knowing.
His black and shining bill was shaped like a cobbler's
pegging-awl. We wore about to acknowledge that a hum-
ming-bird did not know or care anything about honey,
when it occurred to ono or the other of us to offer him
some on a stick, instead of a knife. We had scarcely done
so when' his eye changed its far off look, and running out
from his bill something which looked like an exceedingly
fine and narrow piece of white tape, he inserted it
into the tempting fluid, and sucked away more
like a hungry little pig than anything else we could
think of. The tongue was put out from the bill
nearly, if not quite, the length of the bill itself. It was a
pretty sight. The little fellow worked with a will, and
seemed perfectly at home. He satisfied himself, and
assuming an air of comfort that would have done credit to
an alderman, spent a few seconds in composing
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thoughts, then away he wont without so much as a h
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you. We went into the house perfectly convinced t
humming birds do feed on honey."
MARINE DISASTERS.—The Bureau Veritas,ostf
Paris, shows that the total number of ships reported lo
during the month of March was 257, of which 134 were
English, 42 American, 33 French, 11 Norwegian, 7
Prussian, 4 Dutch, 4 Italian, 4 Russian, and 18 bearing va-
rious flags. The total number of vessels lost during the
first three months of the present year is 902, a decrease of
45, as compared with the disasters of the corresponding
period of 1866.
Aux CAYES, March .20.—0 n the sth inst. the
French brig Cassard, Captain Cholet, bound from Jutcmel
for Havre, with 3,300 bags of coffee, struck on the Folli
reefs, and was totally lost. On the 7th the. British bf or
rig
Progress, of Newport, from St. Thomas, in baas
Manzanilla de Cuba, struck close to the same t
autspo her,l)
the Cassard was lost, and has likewise proved ta
wreck, only a few sails being saved.
SISTERLY AFFECTION.—Two maiden ladies named
Hinde, one aged 70, the other 75, daughters of the late
Major II hide, were last week buried in one grave at Epping.
One of them died a few years ago, and the other had the
body enclosed in a leaden coffin and kept it in the house
till her own decease. She was accustomed every day to
place fresh flowers on the coffin.
THE VOLUNTEERS.---Vll Saturday the Ist Ad-
ministrative Brigade of West Riding of Yorkshire Artil-
lery Volunteers dined together iu celebration of the open-
ing of the Volunteer Artillery Barracks at Heckmondwike.
The founder of the feast and the donor of the building was
Lieutenant Colonel Firth. He had upon this occasion 600
guests, including the Lord-Lieutenant (Earl Fitzwilliam),
Lord F. Cavendish, M.P., Inspector-General Erskine, and
Sir H. Edwards, M.P.
the course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 100 per cent. At this rate there is
no profit on the importation of gold from the United Stt.ter.