The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-16 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER.

CHARGE OF STEALING A FowL.—Alfred Pluck,
a respectable man, was charged with feloniously
stealing a tame fowl, value 55., the goods of ono
Henry Rose.
Mr. W. D. Smyth, the solicitors of Rochester-
row, defended.

Mr. Henry Rose, landlord of the Hope public-
house, Arthur-street, Gittlsea, said on Tuesday last
he went into his back yard to feed his fowls, and
about a minute after the prisoner, who had been
drinking in his house, went into the back to . the
urinal, and shortly after, when prisoner returned,
witness again went into the back yard and found
the head and neck of one of his fowls torn from the
body and lying in the yard quite warm. Lie im-
mediately sent for a constable, and upon searching
behind the yard door he found the body of the fowl.
In reply to the magistrate, witness was quite
positive that between the time of feeding the fowls
and finding the head no one had been out but the
prisoner; it was quite impossible, from the height
of the wall at the back, that any one could have
got over and committed the act.

In cross-examination, witness admitted there
were six or eight other men in the tap-room. Pri-
soner stated that one of the men went out after
him. There was a dog chained near where the body
was found.

The prosecutor's evidence was confirmed by a
little girl named Kingham, who swore that nobody
else but the prisoner came into the yard.
Giles, 287 B, the warrant officer, proved that he
went to Millman's-row on Saturday night and saw
the prisoner, who, when taken into custody, said,
I suppose you want me about a fowl. I was
going down to Mr. Rose to settle for it to-night."
Mr. Smyth called two witnesses to character, and
contended that even assuming if the prisoner was
the man who killed the fowl, there was no evidence,
and could be none, that he intended feloniously to
steal it and deprive the owner of the possession of
the property. The prisoner therefore was entitled
to be discharged.

Mr. Ingham remanded him till Saturday, and took
sureties in £4O for his reappearance.

AIARKETS—(This Day.)

CORN.
The trade is quiet in its general features, with ♦ery little
Variation in prices. A dull demand on the spot is counter-
balanced by the supplies ; and a good number of grain
cargoes off the coast is met by acontinuous steady demand,
partly for the continent.
At Mark-lane to-day the attendance was moderate, and
the trade dull.

English wheat of good quality and condition brought
late rates, but secondary sorts were cheaper to sell.
There wore good offers for foreign at a is decline, at
which factors were not free sellers, and b ut little was done
Barley brought late rates.
Flour moved off slowly, at rather easier rates.
Oats a dull sale, but not quotably altered in value.
Maize dull.
Linseed and Rapeseed quiet, at late rates.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN PRODUCE.
The declaration of supplies for public sale have been
enlarged, and the catalogues to be offered this week are
more numerous than for some time past, but although the
markets are better furnished, tho quantity to be offered is
not in any case heavy. The firmness of quotations is
therefore undisturbed.

SUGAR.—Floating cargoes continue to meet an inquiry
for out-port delivery, and rates are firm. On the spot there
is also a steady inquiry.

COFFEB.—Domand is dull, and, except for best qualities,
rates still tend in buyer's favour.

TEA.—Pending tho auctions to commence to-morrow,
there is little passing beyond the examination of samples
of teas in catalogue. _

Rim—For Bellam and Dacca grain inquiry continues
steady. Quotations are firm.
SALTPETRE.—Prices are quoted 19s Gd to 195 9d for
good and fine Bengal on the spot, with a firm market.
NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.
MEAT.—Supplies only very moderate, but the demand
dull, and prices less firm, although not quotably reduced.
Beef, best ox, 4s to 4s 2d ; good second qualities, 3s 8d to
38 10d; middling, 3s 4d; inferior, as to 3s 4d. First
quality, mutton, 4s 2d to 4s 4d ; second, 3s 10d to 4s ;
inferior, 3s 4d to 3s Bd. Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 3d. Pork, 3s
8d to 4s Bd. Lamb, 68 8d to 7s 4d per stone of 81bs. by
the carcase.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

The supply of stock at market this mor;ingw as in
excess of last week, and the accounts from the dead meat
markets being dull, trade opened 113t1y, with weaker
prices.

Of beasts, them were 382 from Scotland, 2,622 from the
various grazing grounds of England ; 53 from Ireland, and
MO from abroad, Trade was heavy, but quotations not
lowered.

The number of sheep on sale was good, and included
3,790 from abroad. The market '..11.3 dull, and prices
easier for shorn sheep, but good wools maintained their
value.

The number of calves on sale was 113, of wh'ch 107
were foreign. The demand was good and rates steady.
Pork met a brisk demand at higher rates.
Total at market: Beasts, 3,720 ; sheep, 22,780 ; calves,
113 ; and pigs, 360.

Quotations: Beef, 3s 4d to 5s ; mutton, 3s 4d 58 4d ;
veal, 3s 4d to Gd : and pork, 4s to 4s 2d.

COTTON.

LIVERPOOL, March 16.—The market opens firm, at full
rates of Saturday. Sales probably 12,000 bales or more.

NG, MARCH 16, 1868.

THE Llitili

The Dun tee papers report some important- experi-
ments which have lately taken place at Perth NNith the
lime light, " the new substitute for gas." It appears that
in consequence of the refusal of the Perth Gas Company
to reduce the prices at which they supplied the barracks
with gas, the Government accepted a contract for the
supply of the barracks with the lime light. Several ex-
hibitions of the illuminating power of the light has taken
place, when a day or two ago a deputation from the
Dundee Chamber of Commerce paid a visit to Perth to
witness the experiments. These were shewn by the
Government contractor'; and gave the highest satisfac-
tion. The following description of the light will be found
interesting :

The lime light is produced from substances capable of
emitting light during ignition, and is entirely independent
of, and unaffected by, atmospheric air, or any other
medium capable of, or necessary to support, oombustion.
All other practical artificial lights are produced by the
combustion of wax, tallow, oil, car-Thine, coal, and other
compounds, known to the chemia., as hydro-carbons— so
called because they are composed of hydrogen and
carbon. In their combustion, ;n every case, without
exception, the oxygen, or life-supporting air of the at-
mosphere, unites itself with their hydrogen and with
their carbon to form carbonic acid, which is a deadly
poison, and in it neither combustion nor life can be
supported. It is thus clear that in every case where light
is obtained by combustion a portion of oxygen is ab-
stracted from the atmosphere, and a quantity of nitrogen,
four times as bulky, is set free. Seeing, therefore, that by
the present method of obtaining light we not only de-
teriorate the atmosphere of a room, by abstracting from it
the vital air, but in addition pour into it one deadly
poison and set another free, but little stress need be laid
upon the immense advantage that must accrue by the
adoption of the lime light, produced by ignition, and from
which no poison is evolved, no vital air abstracted. With
regard to the nature and quality of the lime light,
three substances are concerned in its production, viz., two
visible gases and a white solid. The first of the two gases
is the pure hydrogen ; the second gas is oxygen ; and the
third substance is the white solid lime. The mode in
which these three substances—hydrogen, oxygen, and
lime—are used for the evolution of light is as follows
jet of hydrogen being lighted, a jet of oxygen is turned
on so as to mix with the jet of hydrogen, and
the solid incombustible lime being so arranged with
regard to the oxy-hydrogen flame as to expose it instan-
taneously to its intense heat, it emits a light so pure and
so powerful, that it is only rivalled by the light of
the sun. Lieutenant Drummond, who was appointed to
conduct the Ordnance Survey in Ireland and Scotland in
1826, connected Ben Lomond in Scotland and Knock Lad
in Ireland, a distance of ninety-five miles, by placing the
lime light in the focus of a paraboloid. It is important to
observe that this combustion of the two gases is entirely
independent of the atmosphere, and that there are, there-
fore, no products of a deleterious character. The method
of using and lighting the jet ia precisely the same
as with a common gas burner : so that no special
knowledge or instruction is requisite for its management.
Where the consumption of the lime light gases does not
exceed 1i feet per hour, the light produced is equal to four
gas lights, each burning five feet per hour. Three feet
per hour gives a light equal to fifteen gas lights, each
burning five feet per hour. Six feet per hour gives a light
equal to sixty gas lights, so that six feet are equal to 300
feet of gas. The advantages of the lime light may be
thus briefly stated:—lt is perfectly pure in every sense
of the word. An abundance of light may be obtained
without heating or deteriorating the atmosphere,
and without injury to the most delicate colours, or the
slightest tarnish to gilding or other ornamental work.
Where an exact recognition of tint, of colour is requisite,
the lime light in the absence of the sun' stands alone. By
it paintings may be appreciated, the mast delicately-tinted
goods examined in their true colours,'and distinguished or
matched as easily and as certainly as by daylight. It
is as easily distributed through a glass globe as any other
light.
The barrack square, in which the experiments were
made, was crowded with spectators. As soon as darkness
set in the gases were ignited, and the light evolved was
brilliant in the extreme. It had more the appearance
of an intensely bright moonlight than an illumination
produced by artificial means. The great square was
lighted up in every corner ; the features of the specta-
tors were as clearly distinguishable as at noon. At the
distance of 300 feet it was possible to read small
print. The visitors from Dundee were evidently struck
with the unexpected brilliancy of this " new light," and
were not slow to express their admiration. Some rain fell,
and the wind blew pretty strongly while the exhibition
continued, but the light burned clearly and steadily,
though quite unprotected from the atmosphere. Neither
wind nor rain appeared to have the slightest effect upon it.
Subsequent experiments with the light were made within
the building, and these also were thoroughly successful.
All who witnessed them, even the most sceptical as to the
adaptability of the light to general purposes, were loud in
their praises and free in their predictions as to its ultimate
general adoption.

The somewhat oppressive manner in which the rate-
paying clauses of the new Reform Act are at present
operating in the case of the poorer classes of house occupiers
resident in the various metropolitan parishes, espe-
cially those at the East-end, appears to have engaged
the earnest attention of the Government, the Poor-law
Board now being actively engaged in making close inquiry
respecting the effects of the abolition of the compound
householder system. This inquiry is not confined merely
to the metropolitan parishes, but will include Manchester,
Birmingham, and other provincial cities and towns. It is
hoped that the. authorities will be successful in applying a
remedy to one of the greatest defects in the new Reform
Act.

In addition to Sir John Trollope, M.P., whose approach-
ing elevation to the peerage has been already announced,
it is stated that Sir Brook Bridges, Bart., M.P., is about
to be raised to the Upper House. Sir Brook has already
established before the House of Lords that he is one of
the co-heirs, and in all probability the sole heir, to the
barony of Fitzwalter, which has been in abeyance since
175 G.

No sooner has one Liberal candidate withdrawn from
the contest at Huddersfield than another makes his appear
ance. It is now rumoured that Mr. Mitchell Henry, who
made such a poor fight at Manchester some months ago,
is coming forward in the " moderate Liberal " interest.
Mr. Campbell Sleigh has addressed the constituency as a
Conservative. Mr. Sleigh appeared as a Liberal at
Plymouth and at Lambeth six years ago. The rapid pro-
motion of Conservative lawyers has educated the Old
Bailey advocate. Tho nomination will take place on
Wednesday.

The town of Todmorden was on Sunday thronged by
crowds of visitors who inspected the scene of the tragedy
with an interest that seemed never to tire. Every par-
ticular connected with the fearful crime is eagerly sought
for. The late vicar was the eldest son of the Rev. Henry
A. Plow, rector of Bradley, near Winchester. He was a
graduate of Queen's College, Cambridge, and held respec-
tively the curacies of Staines, near London ; Wickham,
near Winchester; Cosham, Dover, and Rochdale, whence
he was appointed to Todmorden, in 1864, by the vicar
of Rochdale. While at Rochdale he held the caracy of
St. James's under the late incumbent, Mr. Ffarrington,
and his labours during that memorable " cotton famine"
will not be readily forgotten by the working classes of St.
James's, Rochdale. The rev. gentleman has left two
children, who are both of tender years. On Sunday even-
ing there was a very large congregation in Todmorden
Church. The sermon was preached by the Rev. H. A.
Plow, father of the murdered clergyman. Before the
sermon was delivered, the prayers of the congregation
were earnestly requested on behalf of the culprit, Miles
Weatherill, " now lying under sentence of death," and for
Mrs. Plow, "now in great distress of mind and body." It
was understood that during the day Mrs. Plow's illness had
taken a more serious turn.

THE BISHOP or WINCHESTER.—The bulletins
from Farnham Castle are all of a favourable character,
announcing, as they do, that the bishop is slowly reco-

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—Tins EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN
ENGLAND.

The Duke of MARLBOROUGH gave notice that be
hould :call attention to public elementary education in
England, atd bring in a bill on that subject en Tuesday
week next.