The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

THE SCN, LO.N.DO.N, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1866.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.
IN RE FRAZER-A COLLEGIAN'S HORSE BILL.

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done.

This bankrupt was described as a gentleman, of Mag-
dalene Hall, Oxford ; then of Portland-place, Brighton ;
then of St. Aiden's College, Birkenhead ; then of St.
Peter's College, Cambridge ; then of Haversham ; and now
a prisoner for debt in the County Gaol, Bucks ; and to-
day he applied for his release from custody. Amongst the
creditors are Mr. Eli Elphick, 77, Rose Hill-terrace,
Brighton, £2,109, and many Brighton tradesmen. The
total amount of the liabilities is about £2,500. The cause
of the failure was the bankrupt's inability to meet two bills
of Exchange to the amount of £2,200 given for certain
horses which Mr. Frazer had purchased.
Mr. Linklater opposed the application.
Mr. Munns, on the part of the bankrupt, said there were
a number of horses which required looking after, and if
the bankrupt were kept in prison they might be lost to the
estate.

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His Honour saw no reason to depart from the ordinary
course, and declined to entertain the application until an
assignee was chosen.
Application refused.

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SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
(Before Mr. Dasent.)

TIIE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. RICHARDS.
This was an action to recover £l5 18s., money paid to
the defendant twice over.

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Mr. Horace Earle (Ashley and Earle, solicitors to the
company, Charles-square, Hoxton), for the plaintiff, said
the claim was admitted, but the defendant wished to pay
the debt by instalments. He (Mr. Earle) could not con-
sent to this, nor did he think that his honour would make
any such order when he heard the facts. The defendant
had sued the Groat Eastern Railway Company for damage
sustained to certain goods on transit. He received a ver-
dict, and the company handed over a cheque to Mr. Apps,
his attorney, in November 1864. The company appa-
rently forgot this payment, for on the 24th January, 1865,
they handed to Mr. Richards a second cheque for the
amount, and defendant kept it. It was rather hard of the
defendant, after having been paid his debt twice over to
come forward now and ask to be allowed to pay back the
money by instalments.
Mr. Boydell, for the defendant, said that the company
had allowed the matter to stand over for a long time.
His Honour asked when Mr. Apps had paid over the first
cheque to the defendant ?
Mr. Apps—Next day.
His Honour thought that he should only be acting fairly
by making an order that defendant should repay the
money in a month, but if he failed to pay, and were brought
before the Court under a judgment summons, he would
certainly be sent to prison. He must pay full coste.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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SERI OUSLY WOUNDING A HUSBAND AND WIFE. -William
Hill, of 4, Hanover-place, Oxford-street, tailor, was charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently assaulting Matthew
Dwyer and Ellen Dwyer with a poker and shovel.
Matthew Dwyer, whose left hand was badly cut, and
right arm bandaged from the wrist to the shoulder, it
being badly wounded, said—The prisoner is the landlord
of the house I live in, No. 4, Hanover-place. About 10
o'clock last night, while in company of my wife, I knocked
at the street door waiting to be admitted. The prisoner's
wife said I was a nuisance. I said I should not be if they
would give me a latch key ; and I then asked to see
the prisoner, so that I might ask: him for a key, when
the prisoner came into the passage, and said, "You had
better go upstairs, or I'll use the -- poker, the same as 1
have done to others." I said, " You had better not, or
perhaps you will get more than you bargain for." The
prisoner then gave me three blows on the back with a
poker. My brother-in-law seized the poker from the pri-
soner, and the prisoner then ran into the parlour and took
up the fire-shovel and cut my left hand with it, and after-
wards gave me three severe cuts on the right arm. My
wife was also injured. I was taken to the hospital, as also
was my wife, and the prisoner was taken into custody. I
have four children and plenty of work to do, but can't do
it owLig to the injuries I have received.

Prisoner—Did you not knock your arm through the
glass ? .

Prosecutor—No.
Prisoner—l did not have a shovel.

Prosecutor—You did. You took it out of the fender.
Ellen Dwyer (wife of the last witness, here stepped into
the witness-box, her right arm bandaged and badly injured)
—I saw the prisoner with a poker in his hand trying to
strike my husband, and in trying to pull my husband
away the prisoner gave me several blows on the right arm,
but I cannot say whether it was done with a poker or
shovel. I afterwards went to the hospital, and the doctor
says he is afraid that I shall lose my arm. There are three
wounds, and a large piece of the flesh cut out.

After some further evidence in corroboration, Police-
constable Redford, 842 A, said —After taking the prisoner
into custody, and the injured persons to the hospital, I
went back, and in the prisoner's room I found a shovel and
poker, and found blood on thorn.
Certificates were handed to the magistrate from tho Mid-
dlesex Hospital, describing the injuries the persons had
received.
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WESTMINSTER.

CHARGE OF WOUNDING AN OLD MAN. —Ann Robinson
and Mary Jane Robinson, two stout women, were charged
with seriously assaulting and wounding John Canfield, an
old man, whose head was wrapped in a linen bandage, and
whose head was frightfully disfigured by lacerations.
He said he lived in Hooper's-court, in the same house as
the prisoners. He came home at nine last night, and was
about to enter his room when Ann Robinson struck him
with her fist and violently assaulted him, and her sister
came out with a poker in her hand and inflicted a severe
wound upon his head.

The police proved finding him bleeding profusely from
his wounds and taking the prisoners into custody. Ann
Robinson was under the influence of liquor. The prose-
cutor was perfectly sober.

The prisoners said that the prosecutor interfered with
them and drew a knife, with which he attempted to stab
Ann Robinson, and then in a subsequent struggle fell and
hurt himself as he now appeared. It was declared that ho
was drunk, and that no poker was used or seen, upon which
point there was a conflict of evidence.

Prisoners were remanded upon bail for further evidence.

AQUATICS.

THE INTERNATIONAL SCULLING MATCH.

We are happy to announce that the preliminaries
of this long talked of affair have been at last most
amicably settled. On Saturday evening last, Mr.
W. Bray, the representative of the New York
Clipper, accompanied by John Hamill, the brother
of the American champion, and old Harry Clasper,
of Newcastle, met by appointment a number of
Kellye's friends at the:Bells, Putney, where, after
some little discussion, the articles were duly drawn
up and ratified, the whole affair passing off most
pleasantly.

The matches are to take place during the week
ending July 7, and it is expected that the Tyne will
be the scene of action, though Hamill has not yet
definitely announced his selection.

We append a copy of the articles :
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Articles of agreement entered into this day, the 12th of
May, between Harry Kelley, of Putney, England, and
James Hamill, of Pittsburg, United States of America, who
hereby agree to row two sculling races of five miles each
in England. The place of the said races to be named by
Hamill after his arrival in that country. Each race to be
for the sum of £250 a-side, Hamill to receive £lOO
as an equivalent for coming b :England to row the
said races. The distance in each race to be five miles, or
as near so as it may be possible to arrive at, on a suitable
course. The first race shall be a straight away sculler's
lace, as usually rowed in England. The distance in the
second race to be two miles and a half round stake-boats,
returning to the place of starting, each man to turn his
own stake-boat from left to right. The stake-boats to'be
moored to the satisfaction of the referee, and the stations
to be tossed for by the men before starting.
The men to be at the starting place in each race
one hour before high water. The said races to be
rowed on two days following each other, during the week
ending July 7, 1866, Kelley to have a clear calendar
month's notice of the days and course selected by Hamill.
A first deposit of £250 a side has been made good this, the
12th day of May, and a sum of £5O has been paid to
Hamill, being half the amount allowed for expenses for
coming to England. The second deposit of £250 a side to
be made good on the 25th of June, 1866, on which day the
referee shall been chosen, and a further sum of £5O paid
over to Hamill for expenses. Both races to be rowed, if
possible, on a smooth course, on which point both men
shall agree, and, in the event of any dispute, that question
shall be submitted to the referee, whose decision shall be
final, but in any case both races shall be rowed during the
week ending July 7, as above specified. The cutters to
keep astern of the hindermost man. The stakes to be de-
posited on the days above named with the proprietor of the
Sportsman, who shall be final stakeholder. Either party
failing to comply with these conditions to forfeit all the
money down.

HENRY KELLEY,
JAMES HAMILL.

Petroleum as Steam Fuel.

When the duration of our coal supply excites so
much apprehension and discussion, it is pleasant to
turn round and consider the prospect, day by day
becoming brighter, of being able in a great degree
to dispense with its use in stationary and marine
engines—for nothing less is aimed at and promised
by Mr. Charles J. Richardson, at Woolwich, and
Mr. Simon Stevens, at New York. That the
prospect is brightening we think will be admitted
by even the most cursory reader--after perusing
the particulars, illustrated appropriately, in an-
other column, concerning Mr. Stevens' scheme,
and those which we are about to give here, re-
ating to that of Mr. Richardson. It is claimed
by the American that he can raise steam, rapidly,
to a given pressure, without any loss of fuel power,
with reduced dimensions of boiler and furnace ;
that the firing is continuous by feeding the fuel
through a pipe into the furnace—loss of heat in
opening the doors being prevented ; with freedom
from smoke, cinder, ash, or in fact any refuse; that
he can command a forced fire almost instantly with-
out a forced draught; furthermore, as a consequence,
coalheavers and stokers on board ship can be dis-
pensed with, and there will be neither ash nor clin-
kers to be removed from the furnace room, over the
gangway; lastly, less space required for stowage of
fuel. Such a list of advantages is perfectly startling
—the locomotive itself was scarcely a greater inno-
vation.

We will now turn to Woolwich Dockyard and
Mr. Richardson. Here the experimental boiler is
in full blast. Instead of the usual fire-box and
ash-pit there are employed four rectangular cham-
bers, about a foot in width, and rather less than four
times that in length—a perforated fire-door being
provided for each, in front. These chambers are
divided into two—the lower half forming the petro-
leum trough, the upper the combustion chamber.
Separation is effected between the two by means of
a diaphragm, through which the petroleum perco-
lates to be burnt on the upper side. Mr. Richardson
contemplates effecting certain modifications which,
when completed, will enable him to evaporate 161bs
of water with a pound of petroleum ; the average
evaporation with good anthracite coal being about
Bilbs of water to the pound of coal. There is some dis-
similarity in economic results, as compared with Mr.
Stevens' experiment, but we refrain from making
any remarks thereon until Mr. Richardson has com-
pleted his trials. The boiler does not yet work to
Mr. Richardson's complete satisfaction, but he is
confident that the introduction of the steam beyond
the flame will overcome the difficulties now remain-
ing, its introduction below the flame, as announced,
having a tendency to force the oil and vapour over
the bridge, and cool the flame to a material degree,
though it must certainly get rid of the smoke nui-
sance, so very disheartening at an earlier stage. The
endeavour to make the steam more efficacious when
introduced over the flame is now being proceeded
with. When the steam is mixed over and with
the petroleum vapour the superfluous carbon of the
oil is absorbed by the oxygen in the steam, and
forms a gas which burns along with the oxygen—
or, to put it another way, not only carbu retted
hydrogen is burnt, but large quantities of carbonic
acid gas in addition. The economy is obvious, and
when the highly inflammable nature of these last
mentioned gases is considered, the importance of
the modification will be at once seen. The reduction
by the temperature of the flame may be obviated
by introducing the gases in a highly heated state
'into the combustion chamber—excluding cold air
altogether, if possible ; this would necessitate an
addition to, or alteration in, the existing apparatus,
but no doubt Mr. Richardson could easily get over
that little difficulty.
We see no reason whatever for doubt as to the
results, on the part of Mr. Richardson—rather,
every reason for congratulation, and we are not
inclined to think with him that the petroleum fuel
can only be economically employed on certain
ocean routes. The area of supply is gradually ex-
tending ; and doubtless in course of time our high
class geologists will as readily pronounce on
the probable localities of petroleum as they have
done on those of gold and silver, and quite as suc-
cessfully.
On the whole we think we are correct in stating
that the prospects of petroleum are very flattering.
It is impossible to reckon how much the use of coal
as fuel has lightened the labours of the men of this
generation ; who, looking closely into the subject,
can estimate how much more the use of petroleum
will tend to the same all-wise end !—English Me-
chanic and Mirror of Science and Art.

A STRANGE LUNATIC.—The attention of persons
passing along the Boulevard de la Chopinette was attracted
the day before yesterday by a man dressed in a braided
costume, and indulging in strange gesticulations. All of
a sudden he stopped short, jumped on a seat by the way-
side, and exclaimed to the crowd which had gathered
round him— lam Bismark, and I have come here to give
utterance to the voice of nationalities. People, you are
deceived, but you shall soon know the truth ! I alone,
Bismark, can enlighten you !" He was here taken posses-
sion of by a sergent-de-ville, and led off to a police sta-
tion. The unfortunate man has been identified as a trades-
man of the Quartier Bourdonnais, who had become insane
in consequence of losing a
,considerable fortune by un-
lucky speculations. He has now been placed in a lunatic
asylum.
GLASGOW, May 12.—Cotton.—The cotton mar-
ket has been very distressed during the week, and little
business has been transacted. Goods and Yarns—Business
has been nearly suspended this week in-consequence of the
continued fall in cotton. Iron—The market has been in a
depressed state during the week. On Monday transactions
took place at from 655. to 60s. cash ; closing quotation
60s. cash, rather sellers. Prices gradually dropped till
Thursday, when business was done in warrants at 555. 9d.
to 565. cash. On Friday, in consequence of the panic in
London, it was resolved to suspend business in the iron
market till Monday.

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SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

EPSOM RACES—THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
CRAVEN STAKES.
Marquis of Hastings' The Duke (Cannon) 1
Lord Glasgow's Rapid Rhone dam c ...... (Parry) 2
Mr. J. Johnstone's Rococo (Morris) 3
Won easily; bad third.
The following also ran :—Brother to Guerilla,
Leybourne, Breadalbane, Hurunui, and The Clown.
Betting-3 to lon The Duke, 7to 1 agst
Breadalbane, 10 to 1 agst others.
MATCH.
Colleen (Deacon) 1
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Gambler (Elphickj 2
Won by a neck.
ROUS STAKES.
Baron Rothschild's Tourmalin 1
Mr. W. Bevill's Ostregor (Grimshaw) 2
Count Batthyany's Eing Charming (Daley) 3
The following also ran :—Sundeelah, Brahma,
Gardevisure, Wild Agnes, Jack o'Lantern, Siberia,
Primate, Holstein, Kukuheva, Endsleigh, Caustic,
Cutaway, Sylph, Wild Parsley, Cecrops, Stinger,
and Sweet Anne.
HORTON STAKES.

Vidi
Gulnara
WOOD C OTE STAKES
Achievement
Hermit ..,
Premier

ITEATHCOTE PLATE.

Cranbury
Problem
Verulam

Ten ran.
BRIGHTON STAKES.

Applecross
Warrior
Valeria

Twelve ran.

LATEST BETLING ON THE COURSE.

TILE DERBY.
6 to 4 agst Lord Lyon (taken)
4to 1 agst Rustic (taken)
100 to 8 agst Blue Riband (taken)
100 to 8 agst Redan (taken)
100 to 8 agst Toxophilite colt (taken)
25 to 1 agst Abergeldie (taken)
25 to 1 agst Vespasian (taken)
25 to 1 agst Bribery colt (taken)
50 to 1 agst Strathconan (taken)
Arrived—Lord Lyon, Rustic, and Blue Riband.