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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1360.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.)
IN RE WOLYSORN.

The bankrupt was described as an umbrella maker, of
Portland-place. To-day an application was made to annul
the bankruptcy. It appeared that there had been an ar-
rangement under which a compromise was to have been
paid. Certain costs, however, were not paid; and his
Honour remarked that to-day was fixed for the last exami-
nation and order of discharge, and as certain forms had not
been complied with, the case must be adjourned. The
debts were £14,700, and a meeting of creditors had been
held, but the accounts were not properly on the filo.
Mr. Linklater contended that the bankrupt had done all
in his power, and therefore he was entitled to his orders.
His Honour said ho should adjourn the case.

P3LICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A WRETCHED PAIL— Jane Elizabeth Chard, of No. 2,
Cross-street, Carnaby-street, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with assaulting her husband.
The Complainant said—My wife having been out all
Monday night, I spoke to her last night on her coming
home, and this morning the threw a shell at my head, cut-
ting it as you see, and the took up a knife to me.

The Prisoner—Were you not blind drunk last night ?
Complainant—No. You had boon drinking.
The Chief Clerk (Mr. Nokes)—Has she ever struck you
before ?

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

11r. Tyrwhitt (to the prisoner)—You appear to have
cut your husband a good deal.
The Prisoner—That was with a potato I threw at him
yesterday. He's a beast.
The Complainant—She cut my head with the shell.

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

THAMES.

DARING STREET ROBBERY.—James King, a youth, well-
known to the police, and who has boon convicted several
times, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with steal-
ing a bottle of port wine, valued at 4s. Gd., the property of
Mr. Christopher Hall, wine and spirit merchant, of No.
47, High-street, Aldgate.

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 wino cooper's
basket containing six bottles of port wino 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 Strand, 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.

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

SAVAGE ASSAULT.—Kerry Warr and Stephen Fitzgerald,
Irish labourers, were charged with violently assaulting
John Pales, a police-constable, No. 99 11, in Upper East
Smithfield, last night.
The prisoners wore passing along the street intoxicated,
and meeting the police-constable they attacked him with-
out the semblance of provocation. Ono pulled off his coat
and knocked down the constable, and the other fell upon
him and beat him. Both prisoners and the wife of one of
them kicked him, and when he 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, —Tlis Day.

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

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Launch of the Boss 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 beet 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, eleia about 70 feet in length
and 8 feet in breadth and height, have lately been
launched at St. Petersburg 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 d both arcs, and she floats
exactly up to her centre in tee water, as was proved on
her being launched. Up to the water lino she is con-
structed of the finestiron plates sin, thick ; and above this
she is of steel plates 5-16 in. is thickness. She is divided
into twenty water-tight compartments, and 18ft. at each
end is fixed to the screw shaft and revolves with it.
This shaft is 71in. 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 are below—the
first being 20ft. in 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 aro sundry state
rooms, with berths
&c. Further forward is the cook's
galley, and yet further is the forecastle, where aro the
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 here also are the anchors, which are like
two great clock weights suspended in a couple of canisters,
which rise from the bottom of the ship, and aro open below.
Through these tubes the anchors, weighing a ton each, are
lowered, and are supposed to be quite strong enough to
hold a vessel giving so little resistance to the water as this
vessel is expected to offer. The engines are in all of at out
250-horse power, nominal, but it :s intended to work them
to from 1,500 to 1,800-horse 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 Oft. in towards the centre of the ship
aro the rudders, which are worked by machinery placed
between the funnels. The deck is 130 ft. in length by 101 ft.
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.
Tho idea of her inventors is that such vessels would be
of the utmost value for carrying' mails and passengers ;
would travel with great speed and steadiness ; and that,
were we might have daily mails to
America. justify these gentlemen's
expectations, they have so far commenced an experiment
upon an almost unexampled scale, and with an amount of
such vesselswe
vemployed,
events
may
spirit and judgment worthy of American citizens, and
which will insure them the hearty good wishes of all.
However

Palestine Exploiation Fund.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

have received a third, report from C aptain
Wilson, Royal Engineers, in charge of the first ex-
ploring party of this association. The pai dy ar-
rived at Tell Hum (N.E. end of the Lake of Cralilee)
on January 20, moved to Khan Minyeh on the
25th, and to Mejdel (centre of west side- of lake)
on 27th, at which date the report was despatched.
Your obedient servant,

GEORQE GROVE, Hon. Soc.
Sydenham, Feb. 20.

" Topography.—Astronomical observations have
been made at Tel el Lady, Hunin, Kedeg, Safed,
Tel Hum, and Khan Minyeh. A reconnoissance
sketch has been made of the district around Banias

down to the junction of the Banias and Hasbany
rivers, across the valley to Mtelleh, and thence fol-
lowing the dividing ridge between the waters of
the Litany and Mediterranean and those of the
Jordan down to Safed, embracing also a large por-
tion of the country on either side. The bad state
of the weather, cold and wet, drove the party from
Kefr Birim, but they have to return to investigate
the ruins there and at Meiron and Yarun, and other
places not previously described, and willhave an
opportunity of getting in the topography of Jebel
Jurmuk, and connecting it with the former work.
A reconnoissance has been commenced of the coun-
try bordering on the lake, and this Captain Wilson
hopes to carry right round, and also to trace out the
whole of the wadys running into the western side
of the lake.

Archaeology.—A sketch has been made of the
Castle of Hunin, the northern portion of which is
surrounded by a ditch cut in the solid rock to a
depth of, in some places, 20ft., a work apparently
of great antiquity. At Kedes some excavations
were made on the site of the ruins ; the western
building is a tomb containing 11 loculi ; the eastern
one is a temple of the sun, of about the same date
as Baalbeck ; the richly-worked lintel over the main
entrance was dug up. Close to the temple, and
evidently belonging to it, an altar with a Greek in-
scription was found, which has been squeezed and
copied ; a finely-worked buried sarcophagus was
• dug up, in better repair than those exposed to the
air. Detailed plans have been made of the mould-
ings, &c., on both the buildings and the sarcophagi
sufficient to reconstruct the former with great ac-
curacy. On the same hill some curious tombs were
found, of one of which a plan was made. A little
more than two miles south-east of Kedes, on an
isolated hill called Ter Harah, were found the re-
mains of a large of very ancient date ; the walls of
the citadel and a portion of the city wall could be
traced. This Captain Wilson regards as the long-
sought-for Hazor, in preference to Tel Khureibeh.
At Tel Hum the White Synagogue had been so far
excavated and its plan and ornaments carefully re-
corded, but nothing else had been found. The ruins
of Chorazin at Kerazeh turn out to be far more im-
portant than was suspected ; they cover a much
larger extent of ground than Tel Hum, and many
of the private houses are almost perfect with the
exception of the roofs, the opening for doors and
windows remaining in some cases. All the buildings,
including a synagogue or church, are of basalt, and
it is not till one is right in amongst them that one
sees clearly what they are ; 50 or 100 yards off they
look nothing more than the rough heaps of basaltic
stones so common in this country, Drawings have
been made of the mouldings, &c., and a plan of the
large building as far as can be made out.
" Photographs—Two views of niches and foun-
tain of Banias, seven views of castle of Banias, three
views of town and citadel of Banias, one view of
Hazor, Oak Grove, three views of sarcophagi at
Kedes, one view of large tomb at Kedes, seven
views of temple at Kedes, four views of rains at
Kerazeh, and five views of ruins at Tel Hum.
The broad cutting in the rock above Ain et Tin
proves to be a portion of a large aqueduct which
formerly conveyed the whole of the fountain at
Tabighah into the plain of Gennesareth for irriga-
tion. The water was raised in a tank and carried
round the contour of the Tabighah valley to the
plain. The aqueduct still stands in small portions
at several points, and can be easily traced the
whole way by the number of stones with cement
adhering to them lying on the surface of the
ploughed fields. Specimens of the waters of the
fountains have been kept, and their temperatures
taken. 1

i 4 At Irbid some progress had been made in ex-
cavating the synagogue. Two additional photo-
graphs had been taken, one of an aqueduct hewn
in rock, and one of the plain from above Khan
Minyeh. The reconnoissance had been advanced
to Mejdel, and observations made at Khan Minyeh.
The maps are greatly in error in this district.
The whole of the ancient system for irrigating the
Ghuweir has been traced—though on a smaller
scale, it was as perfect as that of the Damascus
plain. The mounds at Khan Minyeh had been ex-
cavated for two days, but without much result.
The pottery and masonry appear to be compa-
ratively modern. The maps promise to be a valu-
able addition to the topography of Palestine."

election Petitions.

The list of disputed returns has been augmented
by the following petitions recently presented to the
'House of Commons :
BARNSTAPLE.—The return of Mr. Cave for this
borough has been petitioned against by two elec-
tors, who impute bribery, corruption, treating, and
intimidation as having been practised by Mr. Cave
and his agents and friends, upon which grounds the
petitioners pray that the return of that gentleman
may be declared null and void.

CARLOW BOROUGII.—A petition has been pre-
sented by two electors, who pray the house to annul
the return of Mr. Stock, to whom by himself and
agents they impute bribery, corruption, treating,
intimidation, abduction of voters, undue influence,
and other illegal practices.
DEVONPORT.—SeveraI electors have presented a
petition against the return of Mr. Ferrand and Mr.
Fleming, whose majorities over the competing can-
didates at the general election—Mr. Phinn, Q.C.,
and Mr. Brassey, jun., they declare to be but col-
ourable, and consisting of the votes of disqualified
persons. They also allege that many good votes
were tendered for Messrs. Phinn and Brassey which
were not received, which, if duly counted, would
give those gentlemen the highest positions on the
poll. It is also alleged that the sitting members by
themselves and agents were guilty of bribery, treat-
ing, and undue influence, and the petitioners con-
clude by praying that the return may be amended
by substituting tho names of Mr. Phinn and Mr.
Brassey for those of Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Fleming.
HEREFORD CITY.—In the cam of this city a second
and, we presume, a counter petition has been pre-
sented, impugning the return of Mr. G. Clive, who,
with Mr. Baggallay, also petitioned against, was
returned at the general election. The petitioners
allege against Mr. Clive the usual charges of bribery,
corruption, and intimidation, which they submit
make the return of that gentleman illegal, where-
fore they pray that it may be annulled.

SANDWICH.—Two members of the Government,
Lord C. Paget and Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, are
attacked by a petition from two electors, who allege
that the return of the sitting members is invalid,
such return having been obtained by corrupt and
illegal practices. It is averred in the petition that
Lord C. Paget and Mr. Kuatchbull-Hugessen, by
themselves and agents, made promises of money and
other valuable considerations in order to induce
electors to vote for them, and not for the opposing
candidate, Mr. C. Capper.
WAREHA.II.—The return of Mr. Caleraft for this
borough is disputed by two electors, who in their
petition declare that the sitting member owes his ma-
jority over Mr. Drax, his opponent, to the use of
illegal means, and therefore they pray the House of
Commons to annul such return.

THE IRISH SECRETARY.—At the last moment a
petition has been presented, the requisite recognisances
being entered into, against the return of Mr. Chichester
Fortescue for Louth. It is not believed that there are the
slightest grounds for this proceeding, the object of which
is to prevent the immediate issue of a new writ consequent
upon Mr. Fortescue's acceptance of the appointment of
Irish Secretary,' and so keep him ottt of the houso for
soy oral was,