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

THAMES.

ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A CAT.--Inspector Turner,
of the K division, applied to Mr. Paget for a sul3l-
- against Mr. Hewett, the proprietor of 08
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 cage
containing a favourite bird and killed it, and that
Hewett cut the cat's tail off in three operations.

Mr. Paget—How was that done?

Mr. Turner said that flewett cut a small portion
of the tail off, and some timeafterwards 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 TILE MORNING.—Joseph
Monroe, a lal about seventeen years of age, Was
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with stealing
potatoes from a cart in the East India Dock-road•

Police sergeant Holston, No. 26 K, saw the Fri"
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 them•
Holston pounced upon him and discovered 25 PO'
tatoes in his pockets. _ _

The prisoner, a ruddy-faced, stout lad, said he
was starving.
Mr. Paget—You do not look like a starving per"
son, but the contrary.
The prisoner assured the magistrate he was
want of food. He was formerly employed at the
Millwall Ironworks. He had been out of worl
some time.

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

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

IIEALEVG OF WOUNDS BY LEAD.

The Journal des Connaissances Medicales of this
week contains a paper by Dr. Burggrieve, member
of the Academy of Medicine of Belgium, on the
new way of dressing wounds by means of a lamina
of lead, of the thickness of about half a millimcfret
and which therefore can be easily bent by On
fingers, and thus, by pressure, made to assume the
form of the injured part. Once applied, it is fixed
by means of strips of adhesive plaster, and once
or twice a day irrigations are effected on the limb.
The author of the paper states that one bun'
dred and sixty-five patients out of one hull'
dred and seventy-nine treated at the civic
hospital at Ghent for. 3 workshop or railway
accidents, most of which exceedingly seriotlef
were cured without undergoing any operation, the
only course followed being the treatment by lead
above described. The average duration of the cur°
was 31 days and a fraction. Only`l4, or eight PO
cent., died, including those who expired a few hour°
after the accident, and who may consequently 10
considered as having been mortally wounded. rer
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 topic'
Wounds by laceration or crushing are less dangerous
in their consequences than those by the knife, the
vessels in the former 'case being contracted arid
offering less chance of purulent absorption. About
50 per cent. of operations by the knife end in death,
owing to the general weakness increased by loss of
blood and by a strict diet. By the lead treatment
the patient is not deprived of his limb, and can use
it, though in a mutilated state. The lead remains
in its place for ten or twelve days, without any
other trouble but that of making a current of fresh
water pass between the lamina and the flesh, Of
keeping the limb in a bath. Any person, withon!
being a surgeon, can learn to apply the lead, alit'
this system therefore promises to be extremely'
useful on the fliAd of battle, where immediate ainpl;-
tation, frequently ending in death, may now be
.ntirely abandonei.

TILE BANKRUPTCY AMENDMENT BILL —YeSter;
day a deputation from Trade Protection Societies ('
London (three), Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Hull'
Edinburgh, Bristol, Glasgow, Nottingham, Leicester,
Sheffield, Penrith, Torquay, Preston, Rochdale, Blackbar9'
Swansea, Plymouth, Exeter, Grimsby, &c., waited on el°
Attorney-General, to urge the Government to support the
above-named bill, introduced by Mr. Moffatt. The &Pc'
Cation consisted of Messrs. Wells, Blakemen, Bissingt‘-)11'
Bathgate, Hardwick, and Mellors, accompanied by the Nl-
lowing members of Par:iarnent :—Slossrs. Graves, .13°.,,e'
croft, Moffatt, C. Turner, Clay, Tite, Ayrton, and T.
Potter, and were very courteously received.