The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-18 00:00:00

ThIAMES.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.--Catherine Harley, a woman
of the town, and Joseph Silvery, labourer, were
brought before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting
and robbing Romeo Gomez, aman of colour.
The prosecutor, a seaman, stated that be was
leaving the Red Lion publichouse in Ratcliffe-high-
way last night, and the woman, who was accompa-
nied by a man not in custody, came up to him and
hustled him, and the woman laid hold of him by
the coat, and held him while the nun took his
watch out of his pocket and rau away with it. lie
called out for the police and ran after the man, and
while he was in pursuit of him Silvery struck him
and knocked him down. A policeman came up and
took the prisoner into custody.
Mr. Paget—What is your watch worth ?
Witness—£3 10s., sir.

Domingo Castos, a Spanish sailor, confirmed
the evidence of his shipmate, and was sure that
Harley was the woman who laid hold of the prose-
cutor's coat.

A police-constable named Charles Hoskins, No.
107 11, said that after he took Harley into custody
Silvery knocked down the prosecutor.
Gomez was recalled, and said that Silvery was
was not present when his watch was snatched from
him.

Former convictions against llarley wero proved.
She was known to the police as red-headed Irish
Kato, and was the terror of the district.
llarley—l only had two months' imprisonment
for assaulting a woman.
Roche (the gaoler of the Court) —Yes, and some-
thing more than that.
Mr. Paget committed Harley for trial, and re-
manded Silvery on the charge of assault only, in
consequence of, his stating that he had witnesses
to call.

A NEW PowErt.—So there are hopes of our
getting a new source of power to work before the coal-
fields are quite exhausted. The sun—the ultimate source
of all power —is to be made to drive engines and turn
mills without its energy being first converted into fuel.
Ericsson, whose name in connection with the caloric
engine was a few years back a household word, has
devised and made three prime movers which are im-
pelled by direct solar heat, collected and concen -
trated. lie has found that the heating power of
the sun on an area of ono hundred square feet is more
than equivalent to the mechanical work derivable from a
single horse ; it is not, however, stated to what latitude
this estimate refers ; obviously different countries will
give different results. The engines are not all alike. One
is impelled by steam generated in a sun-heated boiler, the
others are driven by hot air. They have worked so far
satisfactorily that possibly, by this time, broad has been
made from flour ground in a solar mill. Ericsson, how-
ever, is not the only occupant of this field of invention.
M. Mouchot claims to have spent many years in perfect-
ing solar machines, to have patented one in 1861, and
to have submitted another to the Emperor in 1866.
His Majesty could not see it work though, for the
weak point of such engines showed itself. The wea-
ther was bad; the sud would not shine, and the
machine stood still. It was like a windmill
in a calm, or a watermill in a drought, and no worse than
either ; so we must not despise solar machines because
they won't keep working at the will of man without inter-
ruption. The utilisation of solar heat is a matter well
worth thinking about, and it is high time to think about
it when when we hearof a steak and potatoes being cooked
by the sun—a culinary fact actually accomplished on the
22d of last July, with the help of an empty cigar-box
blackened inside, and covered with a glass-lid.—Once a
Week.

HIGH PRICES.— A copy of the Roman de la
Rose, by Guillaume de Lorris, given by the Duke of Here-
ford (afterwards Henry the Fourth) to Mary Bohun, his
wife, cost four hundred crowns of gold, something equi-
valent to seven hundred pounds of our money. The
Prayer•book given in 1412 by Charles the Sixth of
France to the Duchess of Burgundy, cost six hundred
crowns of gold, and the Viscounty of Bayeux was specially
taxed to pay for it. In 1430, at the coronation of floury
the Sixth of England as King of France, at Notre
Dame, the regent Bedford was presented with three works
of chivalry, and the youn4 monarch with five, by a de-
putation of the citizens of Paris. The eight volumes
together were valued at two thousand four hundred
crowns ; and it may be instructive to add that his graca
of Bedford, being subsequimtly in need of cash, disposed
of them all for about a third of that sum. A scroll of
music, purchased in 1441 for the abbey church of St.
Stephen's, at Caen, necessitated an outlay of twenty-
two sols (or silver pence), the value of ten bushels of
wheat." And, as a final instance, the Bishop of Poictiers,
Simon de Gramand, having presented a Latin and French
dictionary, in two volumes, in the year 1426, to the Jaco-
bin° monastery of the town, it was resolved, in a council
of the order, "that as a token of kindness for so munifi-
cent a gift prayers should be recited for him daily ' ad per-
petuitatem,' and that after his death, masses for the sancti-
fication of his soul should be offered up on the first Sun-
day of each month, in the chapel of the convent."—
Dickens's "All the Year Round."

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON STEPNEY GREEN.—On
Monday afternoon, a few minutes after the nomination of
the candidates at the hustings on Stepney-green, Mr.
Beales retired to a private house near the polling place,
and presented himself to his followers at the first-floor
window. A tremendous rush took place, and many per-
sons were thrown down. Among them was a Mr. Tett-
man, a Bass• fitter, who was passing along the footpath
with a basket of tools in his hand. Ho endeavoured i❑
vain to get out of the way, and he was thrown under one
of Barclay and Perkins's drays then proceeding down the
road towards Mile-end, and the wheels passed over his
body and crushed him in a frightful manner. He was con-
veyed by the police to the London Hospital, and lingered
in great agony until yesterday morning, when ho expired.
Inspector Gee, of the K division, who was within a few
feet of the deceased when ho was forced under the dray,
says that no blame whatever can be attached to the dray-
man in charge of the vehicle and horses, and that several
other persons narrowly escaped.

The marriage of the Hon. Henry Leslie Pepys,
brother to the Earl of Cottingham, with the Hon. Ada
Coate, was solemnised at St. George's Church, Hanover-
square, yesterday morning, by the Rev. WVingHeld Digby,
M.A., in the presence of a large number of their relatives
and friends.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, Nov. 17.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice,
went out this morning.
The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia (Prin-
cess Royal), went to London this morning, and left
in the afternoon for Woodnorton, on a visit to the
Duke and Duchess d'Aumale.