The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-20 00:00:00

THAMES.

ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A CAT.-IRSp2CtOr
of the K division, applied to Mr. Paget for a soy
no ns against Mr. llewett, the proprietor of the
Hayfield coffee-house, near the Hayfield public'
house, Mile-end-road, for cruelty to a cat.
Mr. Turner said that a cat jumped up at a cag(lt
containing a favourite bird and killed it, and
Hewett cut the cat's tail off in three operations-
Mr. Paget—How was that done ?

Mr. Turner said that Hewett cut a small portio°
of the tail off, and some time afterwards took another
joint away with a knife, and on a third operation
cut off the remainder of the tail.

Mr. Paget--Is the cat alive ?
Mr. Turner—lt is, sir, and in a state of great
torture.

Mr. Paget—Take a summons.

FRESH VEGETABLES IN TIIE MORNlNG.—joseph
Monroe, a lad about seventeen years of age, vls"e
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing
potatoes from a cart in the East India Dock-road.
Police sergeant llolston, No. 26 K, saw the pri"
soner following a market gardener's cart, in the
East India Dock-road at three o'clock this morning.
The prisoner took new potatoes outof a sieve at the
back of the cart, and filled his pockets with theta.
Holston pounced upon him and discovered 25 Pc"
tatoes in his pockets.
The prisoner, a ruddy-faced, stout lad, said he
was starving.

Mr. Paget—You do not look like a starving PO'
son, but the contrary.
The prisoner assured the magistrate he was ix/
want of food. He was formerly employed at the
Ironworks. He had been out of svorl4
some time.

Holston said the market gardeners' carts had been
extensively plundered of all descriptions of vege-
tables lately, greens, cauliflowers, peas, and carrot 4
had been taken out of the carts.

Several offenders had been punished.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to 14 dais
imprisonment and hard labour.

HEALING OF WOUNDS BY LEAD.

The Journal des Connaissances Medicales of thie
week contains a paper by Dr. Burggraeve, member
of the Academy of Medicine of Belgium, on the
new way of dressing wounds by means of a laming
of lead, of the thickness of about half a millimetre'
and which therefore can be easily bent by the
fingers, and thus, by pressure, made to assume the
form
of the injured part. Once applied, it is JUG('
by means of strips of adhesive plaster, and once
or twice a day irrigations are effected on the limb.
Che author of the paper states that one Wl'
dred and sixty-five patients out of one buf3:-
dred and seventy-nine treated at the civic
hospital at Ghent for j workshop or railivAl
accidents, most of which exceedingly seriouSt
were cured without undergoing any operation, the
only course followed being the treatment by lead
above described. The average duration of the cafe
was 31 days and a fraction. Only 14, or eight Per
cent., died, including those who expired a few boar°
after the accident, and who may consequently he
considered as having been mortally wounded. Far
the last five years not a single operation has taken
place by the knife at the Ghent Hospital in the
cases alluded to. Nature alone performs the cure;
all the surgeon has to do being merely to second
her and avoid the application of irritating topice'
Wounds by laceration or crushing are less dangeroog
in their consequences than those by the knife, the
vessels in the former case being contracted and
offering less chance of purulent absorption. .00'
50 per cent. of operations by the knife end in death'
owing to the general weakness increased by loss
blood and by a strict diet. By the lead treatmee
the patient is not deprived of his limb, and can o°e
it, though in a mutilated state. The lead reins°0
in its place for ten or twelve days, without and
other trouble but that of making a current of fresh
vater pass between the lamina and the flesh, et
keeping the limb in a bath. Any person, witbee.,
being a surgeon, can learn to apply the lead, 313,`;
.his system therefore promises to be extrcele''
iseful on the field of battle, where immediate angel;
,ation, frequently ending in death, may now
,:ntirely abandoned.

THE BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT BILL.--YeSter.i
lay a deputation from Trade Protection Societies °I
London (three), Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, °1;
Eclinbugh, Bristol, Glasgow, Nottingham, LLANO.'
ihofliold, Penrith, Tdrquay, Preston, Rochdale, Blackber°'
Swansea, Plymouth, Exeter, Grimsby, &c., waited on the
kttorney-General, to urge the Government to support tu.,
tbove-named bill, introduced by Mr. Moffatt. The deet.
tation consisted of Messrs. Wells, Blakemen, Bissing°lll;
Bathgate, Hardwick, and Mellors, accompanied by the f° ,
lowing members of Parliament :—Messrs. Graves, 13°136.
croft, Moffatt, C. Turner, Clay, Tito, Ayrton, and ll'
Potter, and wore very courteously received.