The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-18 00:00:00

THE JUVENILE SCRAP-BOOK.

This is a beautiful Christmas present for the young,
and will be a welcome addition to many a juvenile
library. Edited by Mrs. Ellis, it combines instruction
with amusement, and will be found not only interesting,
but useful. The frontispiece is a likeness of Mehemet
Ali; the other engravings generally illustrate the stories.
There are many tales in prose and verse, the principal of
which are the " Rich and Poor," the " Independent
Bees," and "Maggie Mayflower." It is splendidly
bound in crimson and gold, and will doubtless afford
much satisfaction to the youthful readers.

MEDICAL MISSIONS.—If the mission stations, now
so numerous in India, had each a medical missionary at-
tached, with the means of dispensing extensively medical
and surgical aid to the natives around, more might be done
by this instrumentality to break through their ill customs,
and introduce right views as to the bodily constitution, true
character, and social position of women, than by any or all
the other means that could be named. Within the last few
years medical missions have been tried by the Americans in
China, and with a success (so far, at least, as gaining the at-
tention, confidence, and gratitude of that suspicious
people) which has never been equalled. In India
the same experiment has not, to any extent, been
tried ; but there can hardly be a doubt that it
would equally succeed. The prevalence there of eye, skin,
and other kind of surgical ailments, as well as of diseases in
general, affords a field fur medical missionary exertion which,
it is to be hoped, will not be overlooked by those who have
the direction of missions. The scheme has this great recom-
mendation, that while it would propitiate the favour of the
deeply-prejudiced Hindu, and open his heart to receive the
Missionary's religious instructions, it would, from the very
outset, confer those valuable temporal benefits which Chris-
tian benevolence, armed with European medical science, is
so well able to dispense ; and which, moreover, after the
example of Him who ' went about doing good," ought ever
to be held second only in importance to the office of impart-
ing the truths of our holy faith.-31edica IGazette.
JOINT-STOCK FACTORIES —On this subject Mr.
W. Hewitt, the celebrated author, writes to the Leeds
Times :—" What reason is there, that railways, and steam-
packets, and gas-works, and joint-stock banks, and all sorts
of trade and mosey incorporations should thrive, and that
joint-stock factories should not ? There is none. The million
may have their shares in such companies, which shall be
regularly managed by paid agents as these other investments
are, and thus receive their fair share of profit, over and
above the mere price of their labour. If this principle could
be brought to bear, and worked into practice, it would con-
fer on this country, and on the world, the greatest possible
blessing."
' ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETINGS. Free trade meet-
ings, which will be attended by Messrs. Cobden and Bright,
are to be held at Sheffield, on Monday, the 24th; at
Leeds, on Tuesday, the 25th ; and at Bradford, on Friday,
the 28th instant. During the same week other meetings,
which it is expected will be attended by Colonel Thompson
and Mr. Falvy, will also be held at Wakefield, Barnsley, and
Doneaster.—Leeds Mercury.
MANSLAUGHTER BY A POLICE-INSPECTOR.—The
town of Chipping-Norton has been thrown into the greatest
excitement in consequence of the police-inspector, named
Nott, having, on Wednesday last, struck a prisoner whom he
was conveying to the lockup-house on a charge of felony,
from which blow the poor man died on the following morning
So great was the excitement during the holding of the in-
quest, that the Mayor issued handbills calling upon the
people to keep the peace, and stating that the fullest investi-
gation should take place. This document appeased the minds
of the populace, who before had shown symptoms of adminis-
tering Lynch law upon the inspector, and who had paraded
the streets in large crowds, demanding vengeance on him. An
inquest was held on Thursday before Mr. Westall, coroner for
Oxfordshire, when the following particulars were elicited :
The deceased, William Slatter, it appears, kept a horse in a
stable near to that of Mr. Hall, and that the latter having
lost a quantity of chaff, charged the deceased with having
stolen it ; this he denied, but eventually Nott, the police-in-
spector, was sent for, and in the deceased's stable there was
a quantity of chaff, which Mr. Hall said he could swear to
as being part of that stolen. Upon the latter trying to get
the chaff out of the manger, the deceased prevented him as
much as he could, saying that the chaff was his own, and
never belonged to Mr. Hall, and that he should not have
it. Nott, the inspector, said they should have the chaff,
and added these words—" I'll soon settle you ;" and
as if by magic, as one of the witnesses stated it, he drew from
his right pocket a thick stick and struck deceased a violent
blow with it on the side of his head, which caused him to
stagger, and deceased said, " You have done a fine thing now
for me." Nott was about repeating the blow, when Mr. Hall
pulled his arm back, and said, " For God's sake don't strike
him any more ; there are plenty of people here to assist you,
if it is required." The handcuffs were then placed on the
deceased, and he was conveyed to the lockup-house. On his
way there he complained how bad his head was. This was
about eight o'clock in the evening; the next morning, on
Nott going to the lockup-house, he found his prisoner dead.
In consequence of the great excitement prevailing in the
town it was thought proper that a post mortem examination
should be made by a non-resident surgeon, and, consequently,
the inquest was adjourned until Saturday, in order that the
jury might avail themselves of the services of Mr. Wingfield,
the eminent surgeon of Oxford, who promptly attended; and
after making a post mortem examination, stated to the jury
that he had no doubt that death was caused by the blow
riven deceased on the head by Nott, and the jury without
hesitation returned a verdict of " Manslaughter," and Nott
was the same evening committed, and sent to Oxford Castle
to take his trial at the next assizes.

SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.--A case was lately brought
before the Metropolitan Buildings Act Commissioners, as to
whether a small slaughter-house, at Crouch- end, llornsey,
was a building (if such a nature as that, in accordance with
the 55th section of the Act, no structure could be erected
nearer to it than fifty feet, the referees decided, " that if the
slaughter-house be used for the slaughtering of animals for
human food only, and be not used for the business of a
gewol Araug,litger, but in connexion wit 4 the trade of a re-
taillintChei, and- particularly with the trade of a -Mitchel's-
shop thereto adjoining, then the said slaughter-house is not
to be deemed to be a building used for the business of a
slaughterer, or for a business noxious or offensive within the
meaning of said Act.".—The Builder.