The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-26 00:00:00

home, and it would take about three to fire minutes to
walk the distance.

Cross-examined—He did not know that the 7 43 train
arrived at 7 39 on the night of the 11th.
By Mr. Wontner—At whatever time a train arrives at
the station it is never started until the proper hour set
down in the time table.
Mr. May, the surgeon, here repeated the evidence he has
already given, with respect to the condition in which he
found the deceased woman on the 11th April.
Mr. Wontner said that was all the evidence he had to
produce that day. lie had to ask for another remand.
Mr. Scarth said ho had eight or ten witnesses ready to
give their evidence that the prisoner was in Eton the whole
of the day and night of Wednesday, the 11th of April.
The Lord Mayor said, as he bad already been asked by
the prosecution to remand the prisoner, he should certainly
do so.

Mr. Scarth said his witnesses bad all been cross-exa
mined by the police, which he thought unfair.

The Lord Mayor thought it would be far better for
prisoner's adviser to hear the whole of the case Against
the prisoner before he commenced his defence.

Mr. Scarth said his client was an entirely innocent
man. He would adopt the suggestion of the Lord Mayor,
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

Bank of England Returns.•--This Evening.

An Account, pursuant to
cap. 32, for tho week ending

tho Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, April 23, 1866.

ISSUE DE]
Notes issued .....C28,005,320

'ARTMENT.

Governmt. Debt.£ll,ols,loo
Other Securities.. 3,984,904
Gold Coin and

Bullion — 13,005,320
Silver Bullion ....

£28,005,320

X 28,00.5,32-0

BANKING D:

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 4,417,147
Other Deposits 13,294,671
Seven Day and
other bills 427,129

:PARTMENT.
Governmt. Secu-
rities(ineluding
Dead Weight
Annuity) Z10,697,2,64
Other Securities 18,507851
Notes 5,8''A,205
Gold and Silver
Coin .. 850,456

1866.435'896,769
April 26,

.£35,896,76a
V. MILLER, Chief Cashier.

Liverpool Cotton Market. —This Day.
_ _

The Market opens quiet, and prices are in favou
fi
of buyers. Sales probably 6,000 or 7,000 bales.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton,.., May 20.
Ditto, via Marseilles May
Brazil and Cape Yards, by British packet 4,
Ditto. by French packet Map
Cape of Goad Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena May 25.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton May 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 27.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton April 2!.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton May 3.

Aitto. via Marseilles
1.010,,(Bombay), via Southampton.
Ito, via Marseilles
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton April 28.
Ditto, via Marseilles April 27.
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseille3
Newfoundland , May 9.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. April 27.

THE PRINCESS ALICE'S BlRTHDAT.—Yesterday
was the anniversary of the birthday of the Princess Alice.
Her Royal Highness was born on the 25th of April, 1843,
and was married on the Ist of July, 1862, to his Royal
Highness Prince Louis of Hesse, K.G. At Windsor and
London the usual loyal demonstrations were made.

PIPER TO PRINCE ALFRED.—Mr. Colin Cameron,
at present piper to Mr. Wm. Malcolm, of Glenmoraig, Ar-
gyllshire, has been appointed piper to Prince Alfred, and
enters upon his duties next month at Windsor Castle,
where he has already played before her Majesty. Mr.
Cameron is a nephew of the champion piper of Scotland,
Mr. Alexander Cameron.

PUBLIC-HOUSE POLITICIANS.-1A Costermonger:
Veil, I calls this ere Reform Bill a half-and-half measure.
—2(.1 Costermonger: Sitch half-and-half as I never heeed
on.-Ist Costermonger : Didn't yer ?-2d Costermonger :
No. All the half-and-half as ever I drinked was mixed
together. I never know'd nobody drink his half-and-half
swallerin' one half first and the tother arterwards. - Punch.

A NEW USE FOR RAILWAY ARCHES.—The Duke
of Wellington, colonel of the Victoria Rifles, has approved
the use of an arch at the Ludgate-hill Station, which has
been lent by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway
Company, and parades of the carps now take place there
every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday night.
WHEN THE WORLD WILL END.—M. Delaunay,
at the last meeting of the Academy of Sciences, Paris,
read a communication on the nocturnal growth of plants,
in the course of which certain facts were advanced tending
to prove that the earth's motion is gradually slackening.
M. Delaunay's facts show this by proving that the days are
insensibly lengthening to the extent of a second in 100,000
years, and that at this rate in eight thousand six hundred
and forty millions of years it will stop altogether, sup--
posing its destruction not to have been brought about
before that period has elapsed.—EngliA Mechanic and
Mirror of Science.
PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE SUN.—Father
Secchi of Rome hauing offered some objections to the re-
sults at which 11. Raye has arrived by calculation in the
question of the physical constitution of the sun, M. Faye
replied at last week's sitting of the Academy of Sciences.
As the nature of the objections may be guessed from the
answers,he will at once proceed toM.Faye's communication.
He denies that the measures taken by D.Z. Carrington (of
whose long and patient observations of the sun our readers
are well aware) are in any way insufficient, M. Faye hav-
ing been quite surprised at their general precision. Ho
states that, far from believing them to be anything but
mere approximations to truth, he had treated them as such,
until he became convinced of their exactness by a more
minute scrutiny ; and it was thus he was enabled to dis-
cover the existence of two periodical inequalities which,
added to the diurnal variation of velocity from one parallel
of the sun to another, complete the theory of the motion of
the spots, from which alone the rotation of the photosphere
can be determined. In speaking of the deformation of the
image, Father Secchi must mean the Kew photographs
and not Mr. Carrington's methods. When the sun is pro-
jected on a sensitive plate through an objective only,
there is no deformation but an enormous focal length is
necessary in order to get at once proofs of large dimensions
uAsted,Key, on the
some
addeitoinotnraar he
e,
nwl
argree a
me veryn t hmsusotr t
be
telescopeobtained
by means of the eye-piece, and then there may be some
suspicion of a defect of proportionality between the en-
larged image and the focal one. But this cause of error
cannot have influenced Mr. Carrington's results. Father
Secchi thinks that M. Faye attributes to the photosphere
a depth three times greater than it has. To this M. FeYe
replies that the learned Jesuit has measured the thicke
of the penumbra of a spot when the latter had reachedtreme
the margin of the solar disc ; but that in such an e z
one
of
position, in which the effect of perspective reduces
ths dimensions enormously,
visible, and to
be
quiteeen the
inrgeaodnerbs eittiv.were an:e6l-1
cer-
tain that the bottom of the
to the same conse-
quentlyuncer-
the measure obtained ieliathe
contrary, are based
tainty. Al. Faye's calculations, onposions, and therefore
on the exclusion of those extreme
istpiostimisposbralsesiibl.e
in his opinion more reliable. .
ETHER.—The dispute
.e_
of Fans and Lyons as to
Academies of Medicine
choloroform and ether as
the relative
andadvantage
'long:.
. es peculiar interest to
acquainted with, gives Dr. ichardson's
producing local
thetic
new apparatus for
The apparatus is ex anesthesia by means
of either. exceedingly
y simple. An
India rubber ball attached to a tube of the same
material communicating with the interior of a bottle con-
taining ether, will, by a squeeze of the hand, force air
enough into the bottle to exercise a strong pressure on
the ether, which is consequently ejected from a thin tube
tapered off at the outer end. The jet of ether thus
formed will, on being directed to the particular spot
to be rendered insensible, produce that effect by
means of the intense cold occai-ioned by the
rapid evaporation of the ether. On this subject
the Revue Medicale says :—"At a recent sitting of the
Societe do Chirurgie a discussion arose touching the in-
convenience arising from the vaporisation of etlier in thed
place where the operation is conducted, it being urged
that both the patient and physician were liable to
awhicBhti
be seized with a very inconvenient feeling of
English
intoxi-
cation. Knowing that Mr. George, an
dentist long settled in Paris, and alwaiyosto
his art, was in
with all the improvements introduced,spparatus, we
the habit of using Dr. Richardsoltelasmt
from him that ho
con-
sulted him on the subject, and
had often extracted teeth without giving pain, by means
and had never
of local anaesthesia induced
be)r a' ether,l
anaesthesia was caused
met with any
case
in
whichgoenn whother chloroform could
be used with equal safety by that process.
We
q -y
ueiti n such operations. Mr. George's
experience on this esubjectt is certainly of considerable
• - with laudable
liberality, he operates gra-
weight, since,
and has therefore ample opportunity
tuitously on the poor,
and diaadvalataget, of the prQcobs.,
of testipth, ficll-autBg au