The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1861.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(nri Day)

Closing
I Price.

Paid.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

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(Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth,
Lord Wensleydale, Lord Chelmsford, and other peers.)
APPEAL.--JUDGMENT.-ALCHIBALD V. SCULLY.

93f 4 3/1

This was an appeal from :a decision of the Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland, dismissing the appellant's claim to one-
fourth undivided moiety or share of the lands of Carrick-
cavantry and Batty Kilninery, demised 'to him by
the will of the late Catherine Shee, under a lease
for 999 years and renewal thereof by the Marquis
of Waterford. Their lordships were unanimously
of opinion that the appellant's claim to a fourth share of
these demised lands, at a rent of £44 16s. ld., was not
barred by prescription, nor by lathes, nor by acquiescence ;
that his claim was good and should be sustained in equity.
The Lord Chancellor reversed the decision of the Court
of Chancery, and remitted the case back to the Court of
Chancery in Ireland to take an account of the rents due
with costs.

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A gentleman appeared at their lordships' bar, and
informed the Lord Chancellor that while coming to hear
the judgments of their lordships in this case he had been
taken into custody by an officer for contempt of the Court
in Ireland. As the arrest was illegal, and a breach of the
privilege of this house, he wanted to be discharged from
custody.

The Lord Chancellor said he could not interfere, and
that he (the applicant) must apply to the Court which
issued the writ, for redress, The parties executing it did it
at their own risk.

Mr. Tyrwhitt committed her for seven days.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said he could do nothing for her.

CR UST.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

CURIOUS CASE OF CHILD DESERTION.—AN Ihrcom-
mow "PLEDGE."—Susannah Renno was charged with
deserting her illegitimate child, Amelia Renno, aged 11
months, by leaving it at the shop of Mr. Fleming, pawn-
broker, St. Martin's-lane. _ _ _

Brennan, the porter of St. Martin's Workhouse, said the
prisoner was discharged on the 18th of this month at her
own request, and she afterwards came back and wanted to
be re-admitted, but was told that the case must go before
the board. She then went away and left her child at Mr.
Fleming's, the pawnbroker's, in St. Martin's-lane.
Mr. Bowman, relieving officer of St. Martin's, said there
were no witnesses from the pawnbroker's present.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said that they must attend. He could not
take hearsay evidence in parish cases any more than in
others.

George Hone, assistant to Mr, Fleming, pawnbroker, St.
Martin's-lane, having been sent for, said that on Tuesday
last hearing a child crying he went round and found a child
in one of the boxes. It was afterwards taken to the work-
house.

Sergeant Ward, 290 A, said prisoner came up to him last
night and said she wanted to give herself up for leaving her
child in a box at the pawnbroker's. She also said that she
had been very unhappy ever since.

The prisoner said she had nowhere to go with the child
and no shelter, and in her agitation she put the child in the
box (the prisoner seemed very affected).

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Mr. Bowman said that she was to have been a casual till
last Monday, and then she would have been admitted to
the house.

A HARD CASB.—A poor woman, with three little child-
ren, applied to know what she was to do. She had been
to St. Martin's Workhouse, and they admitted her last
night, and this morning she was turned out with hex
children, a piece of bread only being given to her on her
leaving.

Mr. Bowman, relieving officer, said she was now receiv-
ing casual relief, and she could go before the board next
Monday.

Applicant—l always thought the workhouse to be for
the poor. What am Ito do all day. I can't go back till
night, and they have only given me this piece• of brad for
me and my three children. _ _ _

The applicant, who of course has to wander about the
streets all day, her only support for her and her children
being a piece of bread she had in her hand, certainly less
than a pound in weight, then left the court, complaining
sadly.

THAMES.
STEALING WINE IN THE LONDON DOCK.—John Walter,
a cooper, about 30 years of age, was brought before Mr.
Selfe charged with stealing a sample bcttle of Sherry wine,
the property of the London Dock Company, from their
premises.
Mr. John George, a constable in the employ of the Dock
Company, said that yesterday afternoon he saw the pri-
soner leaving the dock at the west gate, and suspecting
him, he stopped him and asked him if he had anything
about him belonging to the company. The prisoner re•,
plied in the negative, He searched the prisoner and found
in his coat pocket a sample bottle of sherry. He asked the
prisoner where he obtained it, to which he answered that
he obtained it at the No. 3 vault, and that a
cooper named Wellbrook drew it for him. He
made inquiries and ascertained that no such per-
son was employed in No. 3 vault as Wellbrook. The
prisoner then said he found the bottle of wine secreted
behind some wood. On making inquiries he discovered
the bottle of sherry had been stolen from a truck which had
contained a large number of samples of wino for transmis-
sion to merchants in the city. One numbered 178 was
missing. The sample bottle taken from the prisoner was
No. 178 and labelled in the usual manner.

The prisoner, in defence, said ho found the sample bottle
of wine concealed in a dust bin.

Mr. Selfe—That won't do. You have taken that pint
sample of wine from a truck, or some one in the dock gave
it you to carry out. You are liable to two months impri-
sonment for this. You are fined 40s. for the unlawful pos-
session of the wine.

THE TEMPERATURE ')F THE EARTH'S

At a recent meeting of the Manchester Literary
and Philosophical Society a paper was read by Mr.
W. Fairbairn, LL.D., " On the Temperature of the
Earth's Crust, as exhibited by Thermometrical
Observations obtained during the sinking of the
Deep Mine at Dukinfield." He says :—" During
the prosecution of researches on the conductivity
and fusion of various substances, an opportunity
occurred of ascertaining by direct experiments,
under favourable circumstances, the increase of
temperature in the crust of the earth. This was
obtained by means of thermometers place in bore-
holes, at various depths, during the sinking of
one of the deepest mines in England—namely,
the coal mine belonging to Mr. F. D. Astley,
at Dukinfield, which has been sunk to a depth
of 700 yards. The increase'of temperature in de-
scending shown by these observations is irregular;
nor is this to be wondered at if we consider the
difficulties of the inquiry, and the resources of error
in assuming the temperature of a single bore-hole
as the mean temperature of the stratum. At
the same time, it is not probable that the tempera-
ture in the mine-shaft influenced the results. The
rate of increase has been shown in previous expe-
riments to be directly as the depth, and this is
confirmed by these experiments. The amount of
increase is from 51 deg. F to 571 deg., as the depth
increases from 5f deg. to 231 yards, or 1 deg. in 99
feet ; but, in this case, the higher temperature is
not very accurately determined. From 231 to 685'
yards, the temperature increases from 574 deg. F
to 754 deg. This is a mean increase of 1 deg. in
76'8 feet, which does not widely differ from the
results of other observers. Walferdin and Arago
found an increase of 1 deg. in 59 feet ; at Rehme,
in an Artesian well, 760 yards deep, the increase
was 1 deg. in 54.7 feet; Be La Rive and Marcet
found an increase of 1 deg. in 51 feet at Geneva.
Other experiments have given 1 deg. in 71 feet.
The observations are affected by the varying con-
ductivity of the rooks, and by the percolation of
water." The author has exhibited upon a diagram,
in which the ordinates are depths and the abscissas
temperatures, the results obtained between depths of
531 and 717 yards. The strata of the mine are
also shown in section. Additional to these, the
author gives a table of similar results in another
pit at the same colliery, taken between the depths
of 1674 and 467 yards, and showing an increase of
temperature of 1 deg. in 106 feet of descent. As-
suming, as an hypothesis, that the law thus found
for a depth of 790 yards continues to operate at
greater depths, we arrive at the conclusion that at
24 miles from the surface a 'temperature of 212
deg. would be reached, and at 40 miles a tempe-
rature of 3,000 deg., which we suppose sufficient to
melt the hardest rock.