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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1868.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
RE LEOPOLD REDPATIL)

This bankrupt was the well-known convict, whose
forgeries upon the Great Northern Railway Co.,
by whom he was employed as a clerk, created such
an intense degree of excitement some 13 years ago.
The extent of these forgeries was about £200,000,
or at least so it was said at the time ; and the
bankrupt being convicted, was sentenced to a long
term of penal servitude, be being now known as the
" good convict." The private estate of the bank-
rupt has been in this Court ever since the convic-
tion, and from time to time various small dividends
have been paid. To-day was appointed for the de-
claration of the last dividend, but the proceedings
were of a formal character, and the amount of the
dividend, which will be advertised in due course,
was not made known.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-TIRS DAI'.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

CHARGE OF FURIOUS DRIVING AND INJURING A
FEMALE.—Henry Garey, a young man in the em-
ploy of Mr. Taylor, linendraper, at the corner of
Rathbone-place, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt
with furiously driving a pony and cart, and knock-
ing down a female named Sarah Taylor and break-
ing her collar bone

Mr. G. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street,
appeared for the defence.

Police-constable Waugh, 184 E, said that be-
t% eon half-past 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday
night he was on duty in Mortimer-street, when he
saw the prisoner driving a pony in a cart as fast as
the pony could gallop.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the constable whether the
prisoner was doing anything to the pony ?
The constable said the prisoner appeared to be
trying to stop the pony, but he did not succeed till
he got to the corner of Regent-street, and he then
said that the pony had bolted, and that the female
was injured by accident.

Mr. Lewis- said that he was prepared to show
that the injury the female had received was the re-
sult of au accident.

Mr. Tyrwhitt (tbe female not having been called)
said it appeared to have been an accident, and the
prisoner must be discharged. The injured woman
had her remedy in another court, but he would
suggest that compensation should be made her.
THREE DEAF AND DUMB PERSONS CHARGED WITH
DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—Henry Pope, Eliza Pope,
and Peter Moyer, all deaf and dumb, were charged
with being drunk and fighting together.
A constable proved seeing the defendants drunk
and fighting together, and screaming in a very pe-
culiar fashion, and after trying for a quarter of an
hour to get them to go away he took them into
custody.

The evidence having been explained to the defen-
dants by a sister of one of them, by means of signs,
they denied being drunk.
The sister said she believed that some children
had been teasing the defendants, and that they then
got in a rage, as persons so afflicted generally did.
Mr. Tyrwhitt ordered the defendants to enter
into their own recognisances to keep the peace.

THE LIME LIGHT.

The Dundee papers report some important experi-
ments which have lately taken place at Perth with 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 :

Tho 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, combustion.
All other practical artificial lights are produced by the
combustion of wax, tallow, oil, camphine, coal, and other
compounds, known to tho cheinis, as hydro-carbons—so
called because they are composed of hydrogen and
carbon. In their combustion, in 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 :—A
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 is precisely the same
as with a common gas burners so that no special
knowledge or instruction is requisite for its management.
Where the consumption of the lime light gases does not
exceed 1 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 tints of colour is requisite,
the lime light in the absence of the sun stands alone. By
it paintings may be appreciated, the most 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 ram 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
1756.

•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. The 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 earacy 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 OF WINCHESTER,. —Tho bulletins
from Farnham Castle are all of a favourable character,
announcing, as they do, that the bishop is slowly reco-
vering.

RESPITE.—The convict George Nuttall, who lay
in Lancaster Prison under sentence of death for stabbing
a man in a drunken street brawl has been respited during
her Majesty's pleasure.

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning, as
three Brighton labourers, named William Tullett, Edward
Tullett, and George Isaacs, were passing along the Upper
Shoreham road on their way to the little village of Port-
Blade, which is about three miles from Brighton, on a bank
at the corner of a by-road leading to Blachington they found
the body of a gentleman apparently about 23 years of age.
He was dressed in a light brown coat with velvet collar,
and in his pocket he had a hunting watch attached to a
gold Albert chain, from which were suspended several
coins and charms, and in his left hand he held a seven-
chambered revolver. Ho was quite dead, cold, and stiff.
William Tullett immediately reported the discovery to the
Hove police, and, with the assistance of Police-constable
Aldridge, the body was removed to the Windmill Inn,
Preston, where it now awaits a coroner's inquest. On the
body being exampled, it was discovered that the deceased
had discharged the whole of the seven chambers of the
revolver against the left breast, the whole of the charges
having entered the body within the radius of three inches,
In the course of the morning the body was indentified is
that of Mr. Dalrymple, son of Sir Adolphus Dalryi4le,
who from 1837 to 1841 was one of the members of_ the
ig,roug.h of 13riahton.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS-THIS EVENING.
The Loitn CHANCELLOR took his siat on the Woolsack
at five o'clock.

PUBLIC ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN
ENGLANI).

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