The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

Tho Prisoner—Were you not blind drunk last night ?

Complainant—No. You had been drinking.
The Chief Clerk (Mr. Nokes)—lim she over struck you
before ?

The Complainant—Oh, yes ; she stabbed me in the
shoulder once, four years ago.
Mr. Tyrwhitt—Have you any family ?
The Complainant—We lost ono child through her
drunkenness.

Mr. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoner)—You appear to have
cut your husband a good deal.
The Prisoner—That-was with a potato I throw at him
yesterday. He's a beast.
The Complainant—She cut my head with the shell.

Mr. Tyrwhitt—The prisoner will have to find one bai
to keep the peace towards her husband for three months.

THAMES.

DARING STREET ROBBERL—James King, a youth, well-
known to the police, and who has been convicted several
times, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with steal-
ing a bottle of port wine, valued at 4s. 6d., the property of
Mr. Christopher Hall, wine and spirit merchant? of Ro.
47, High-street, Aldgato.
William Jarvis, a porter in the employ of the prose-
cutor, stated that yesterday evening he was on his way to
the St. Peter's-road, Stepney, and carrying a wine cooper's
basket containing six bottles of port wine and a bottle of
pale brandy on his back. Ho suddenly felt the basket
was lighter, and on turning round saw the prisoner with
a bottle of port in his hand, and :running away as fast as
he was able. Ho asked a gentleman to look after the
basket and its remaining contents, and pursued the pri-
soner, who dodged him up and down several courts and
alleys in the Mile-end-road until he was stopped by a young
man named George Nadur, who turned him back, and he
was detained.

James Strew], a police constable, No. 656 A, Reserve,
stated that the prisoner was a notorious thief, and had
been convicted twice, once for stealing goods from a cart in
the Whitechapel-road, and upon another occasion for steal-
ing a piece of beef from a butcher's shop.
Mr. Paget committed the prisoner for trial, and directed
that the judge should be informed of the prisoner's con-
victions after the trial.

Stroud said the prisoner had been in custody at other
times, and stole his mother's bad linen off her bed and sold
it. The lad was ono of the most audacious thieves in the
district.

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Kerry \Varr and Stephen Fitzgerald,
Irish labourers, wore charged with violently assaulting
John Pales, a police-constable, No. 99 11, in Upper East
Smithfield, last night.

The prisoners were passing along the street intoxicated,
and meeting the police-constable they attacked him with-
out the semblance of provocation. One pulled off his coat
and knocked down the constable, and the other fell upon
him and beat him. Both prisoners and the wife of ono of
them kicked him, and when ho got up to defend himself with
his staff the woman took it from him. The constable,
who received 20 blows and kicks, was quite exhausted,
and some bystanders interfered and secured the ruffians.
Mr. John Hayden, of No. 1, Agnes-villas, Hibernia-road,
Hounslow, Middlesex, saw the outrage, which was a most
savage one. The constable was kicked and beaten for
nothing at all. He felt it his duty to come forward in the
cause of law and order.

The prisoners were each sentenced to one month's im.
prisonment and hard labour.

Liverpool Cotton Market. —TI is Day.

The market opens with a fair inquiry. Sales
probably 8,000 bales or more.

Launch of the Ross Winans Cigar-ship.

On Monday last the remarkable structure known to tra-
vellers up and down the Thames as the cigar-ship was
launched from the yard of Mr. Hepworth, at Cubitt Town.
This singular-looking craft has been built for Messrs.
T. and W. L. Winans, from designs for which they
aro the patentees, being the fourth which they have
constructed upon the same principle. One was built
several years since for them at Baltimore, and from this,
which was propelled by a large screw in the centre of
the ship, they obtained a speed of fifteen knots per
hour. Two smaller ones, each about 70 feet in length
and 8 feet in breadth and height, have lately been
launched at St. Peterkburg and Havre. The present ship
is 256 feet in length and 16 feet in breadth, being of
the same breadth as that built in America, and 26ft. longer.
Her shape along the sides and bottom is that of two arcs
of a circle, the screw shaft running from end to end along
the centre, being the chord of both arcs, and she floats
exactly up to her centre in the water, as was proved on
her being launched. Up to the water line she is con-
structed of the finest iron plates tin. thick ; and above this
she is of steel plates 5-16iu. in thickness. She is divided
into twenty water-tight compartments, and 181 t. at each
end is fixed to the screw shaft and revolves with it.
This shaft is 7iin. in thickness in the centre, but near
the screws is 15in. thick. It is worked by three
upright cylinder high-pressure condensing engines,
supplied with superheated steam by four boilers, of
a construction similar to those of locomotive engines.
A fourth cylinder is added, whose work is to shift 20 tons
of lead to counteract the tendency to roll from the motion
of the screw. The engine-room is in the centre of the
vessel, and the boiler-room and furnaces aro below—the
first being 20ft. iu length and the other 25ft. In front of
the engine-room is a smoking saloon, handsomely fitted up
beside, 12ft. in length, and behind which are sundry state
rooms, with berths &c. Further forward is the cook's
galley, and yet further is the forecastle, where are the
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berths of the firemen and engineers. Abaft the engine-
room are the saloon, 26ft. in length, and several state rooms.
There is accommodation on board for 30 passengers. Pro-
ceeding further aft you come to the sleeping apartments of
the crew, where is the windlass, a long crank to be worked
by hand, and hero also are the anchors, which aro like
two great clock weights suspended in a couple of canisters,
which rise from the bottom of the ship, and are open below.
Through these tubes the anchors, weighing a ton each, are
lowered, and aro supposed to be quite strong enough to
hold a vessel giving so little resistance to tho water as this
vessel is expected to offer. The engines aro in all of about
250-horse power, nominal, but it is intended to work them
to from 1,500 to 1,800-horso power. The screws will pro-
trude beyond the widest part of the vessel 3ft. on each side,
being 22ft. in diameter, and are constructed with 9 blades.
Near the screws and 6ft. in towards the centre of the ship
aro the rudders, which aro -worked by machinery placed
between the funnels. Tho dock is 130 ft. in length by 10Ift.
in width, and from it rise two telescope masts. She was
launched just at 4 o'clock yesterday, and being built level
on the cradle she went into the water so that the centre of
the vessel touched the water first. Mrs. W. L. Winans
broke the bottle on her point, for it can hardly be called a
bow, and naming her the Ross Winans wished her success.
The idea of her inventors is that such vessels would bo
of the utmostr ave valuewithaillseavaend passengers ;
woulddaily mails to
anduin steadiness ; and that,
we speed
might were such vessels employed,
America. However events may justify these gentlemen's
expectations, travel
they have so far commenced an experiment
great for car r
upon an almost unexampled scale, and with an amount of
spirit and judgment worthy of American citizens, and
which will insure them the hearty good wishes of all.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This day.

LBY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. I
GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived,Three Anns, Secret,
and
; Augusta, from Dantzic.
Sailed, Feb. 21—Vigilant, screw steamer, fur Calais ;
opel ve l Fob.
i, f r 21—Pride —f)ruindkoiorkf Ipswich,
Belgium, screw steamer, for Ostend ; Earl of Southesk,
for Adelaide.

Wednesday Morning.
DEAL,
Passed, Feb. 20—Adonse, for Guernsey ; Modora, for
Cardiff ; Rio Grande, for Jamaica—all from London.
Passed, Feb. 21—Ems, screw steamer, from London, for
Caen.
Anchored—Patricia, from London, for America.

The Price of Gold.

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The quotation of gold at Paris is about per mille pm., and
the short exchange on London is 25.25 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
178. 10id. per ounce fbr standard geld, it appee.rs that gold is
nearly 3-iCths per cent. dearer in London than in Paris.
By advic,:s from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sttrlin -
Standard gold at the Englibli Mint price is, there.ore, at
about the same price in London and Hamburg.
The gourse of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is about 107 per cent. At these rates there
s no profit on the importation of go'd from the United
States.