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

THAMES.

HIGIEWAYRoBBERY.—Catherine Harley, a woman
of the town, and Joseph Silvery, labourer, were
brought before Mr. Paget charged with assaulting
and robbing Romeo Gomez, a man 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 mm took his
watch out of his pocket an 1 ran away with it. He
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 H, 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 Harley 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 mouths' imprisonment
for assaulting a woman.

Roche (the gaoler of the Courr)—Yes, and some-
thing more than that.
Mr. Paget committed Harley for trial, and re-
manded Silvery on the charge of assault only, in
conscquen3e of his stating that he had witnesses
to call.

A NEW POWER.--So there arc hopes of our
gating a now source of power to work before the coal-
fields are quite exhausted. The sun—•the ultimate source
of all power —is to be male 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 aro im-
pelled by direct solar heat, collected and concen-
trated. He has found that the heating power of
the sun on an area of one 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 aro not all alike. One
is impelled by steam generated in a sun-heated boiler, the
others aro driven by hot air. They have worked so far
satisfactorily that possibly, by this time, bread 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 IS6I, 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 and would not shine, and the
machine stood still. It was like a windmill

in a calm, or a wat,rmill 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-boa
blackened inside, and covered with a glass-lid.—Orace a
lVeek.

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 Henry
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 grace
of Bedford, being subsequently 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 au 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, iu two volumes, iu the year 1426, to the Jaco-
bine 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-
petaitatem,' 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 Tear 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 gass- fitter, who was passing along the footpath
with a basket of tools in his hand. He endeavoured in
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 he expired.
Inspector Gee, of the K division, who was within a few
feet of the deceased when he was forced under the dray,
says that no blame whatever can be attached to the dray-
mau 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 Cottiugham, with the Hon. Ads
Coate, was solemnised at St. George's Church, Ihnover-
square, yesterday morning, by the Rev. Wingfield Digby,
M.A., in the presence of a large number of their relatives
and friends.

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