The Press. — London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

f SEPTEMBER 2, 1854. ptlant. Chief Baron Pigot was attacked with a severe cold last week, and was not able to attend in court at the Cork Assizes, which were in consequence brought to a close, the important case of " Godfrey and Cross " being postponed till October, The latest accounts received from Cork represent his lordship as being much better, but still confined to his chamber. TEE extra police stationed in the county Armagh for some time past are about to be withdrawn in con sequence of the decrease of agrarian outrages there. The services of the men are more particularly re• quired in Dublin. PEOPLE in Ireland begin to calculate with certainty upon an abundant harvest throughout the country, and the effects are observable at the Share Market as well as at the Corn Exchange. The prices of cereal produce are descending, whilst Government securities and share property are looking up. NOTICES are now serving preparatory to the levy of the supplemental income tax of sevenpence in the pound, which will be in course of collection in Ire land within the next six weeks. THE Dublin Commercial Journal was sold by auc tion on Tuesday, as part of the estate of Mr. Henry Shaw, an insolvent. This was one of the papers re cently prosecuted by the Crown for being printed without the required stamp. An edition is published with the stamp, to secure its circulation through tae Post-office, but another edition on plain paper is printed for Dublin circulation. The cost of publica tion was estimated at about 351. per week. The in solvent's right, title, and interest in and to the journal, with the type and other plant, were sold subject to about 351. subscriptions paid, which the purchaser should either refund or supply the paper to the subscribers until such time as their term of subscription would expire. The bidding% com menced at 501., and after a short competition Mr. Robert M. Chamney became the purchaser in trust at 1001. THOMAS GARRATT, in the United States, aged 70 years, was lately tried for having aided the escape of fifteen slaves at one time, and was fined 5,000 dollars, while his entire property was estimated at 5,500 dollars. After the action, the sheriff said, " Well, now, Garrett, we have made you a beggar in your old age, and 1 think you had better learn to mind your own business, and let other people alone." " Yes," said Garrett, " in my old age ye have made a beg gar of me ; but, old as I am, I have not lived altogether in vale, for I have the names of fourteen hundred slaves that I have aided to escape ; and, if thee knows of any poor fugitive that wants a friend to-night, send him to old Thomas Garrett." THE Braitleborough (United States) Eagle gives some singular circumstances in connection with the attack by an enraged horse on Mr. Brigham, of St. Johnsbury, showing that the breaking of the neck does not of necessity cause immediate death. The fracture of the neck compressed the spinal marrow an violently as wholly to prevent it from affording any communication between the brain and the body. As a consequence the whole body below the fracture was paralysed, deprived alike of sensation and the power of motion. But he retained the full possession of his mental faculties, and conversed intelligently. Not only this, but by means of the nerves not involved in the calamity of the spinal marrow the brain kept up its communication with the vital organs and maintained the exercise of their func tions for nearly two hours. But the manner in which those functions were exercised was very unusual, especially with regard to respiration. Ordinarily this is carried on mainly by the action of the intercostal muscles upon the ribs, and as these rise and subside inspiration and expira tion take place. By the injury of the spinal marrow those muscles were deprived of their ordinary nervous stimulus, and consequet.tly were wholly inactive. The whole labour of respiration was then assumed by the diaphragm , which faithfully performed its duty, while the internal walls of the chest remained motionless. In this manner he continued to breathe during the brief remainder of his life. AN INGENIOUS APPARATUS for indicating the times of departure and destinations of trains at different stations has been invented by Mr. John Sinclair, of the Waterloo station on the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport line. The invention consists of an index for showing at a glance the times of the departure of the successive trains throughout the day, and the towns to which passengers may go ; and above this is a signal bell, to be rung whiii the trains ought to start. The index, after the departure of each train, is set to the proper time for the next, through moving a small cylinder by means of a key or winch; and the ! runes of the towns are shown by raising and fixing an arm" on which they are painted, and which is done by a contrivance upon the principle of a lever. One of these indexes is now exhibited at the Liverpool Exchange News room, and the invention is also in operation at the Tithe barn-street station of the Lancashire and East Lancashire Railways. THE Detroit Advertiser says that a large proportion of the ladies in that city make their own hoots. When visiting a lady of the ton, it is a very common thing to find her busy with . last, awl, waxed ends, pincers, and all the etceteras which compose the kit of the bootmaker. Two or three pairs of boots may be made in a day, and about two dollars husbanded on each pair. In most cases, however, it is fashion rather than economy which induces the employ ment. The result is, that the fair sex of Detroit will soon be proverbial for wearing the most elegant boots and having the prettiest feet iu the Union. THE PRESS. Obituarg. CHEVALIER MACEDONIO MELLONI, the celebrated natural philosopher, died at Portici, near Naples, on the 11th ult., in consequence of a severe attack of cholera. M. Melloni was only fifty-three years of age. He was born at Parma, and bad been appointed in 1839 director of the Meteorological Observatory on the summit of Mount Vesuvius by the King of the Two Sicilies, to whom he had been recommended by Arago and Baron von Humboldt. Although he never interfered in Neapolitan politics, in 1850 he was suddenly dismissed, and ordered to leave the country. The latter part of the sentence was remitted on the application of Count Brokausen (the Prussian Minister at the Neapolitan Court at that time); and when M. Melloni demanded from the chief of public instruction, Canonico d'Apuzzo—the author of the famous " Catecbismo," with which Mr. Gladstone made the English public so well acquainted—on what grounds he was dismissed, the " Canonic° " answered that there was no accusation against him, but that be must recollect be was "an Italian celebrity "! M. Melloni is deeply regretted through out the whole of the Italian peninsula, both on account of his great scientific genius and of his noble heart. He was well known by all scientific men in England, and was on intimate terms with Professor Faraday and Dr. Brewster. The London Royal Society con ferred upon him more than once the gold Rumford medal. We regret to announce the death of the REV. CHARLES COLEBY ROBERTS, M.A., after a short illness, while on a visit at the Isle of Wight. He was one of the masters of St. Paul's School, and curate of the united parishes of St. Olave, Old Jewry, and St. Martin's Pomeroy, where he was universally beloved and respected. EDWARD TRUMAN Gmr, ESQ., of Jamaica, died at his residence in Spanish-town, an the 12th f August, after a lingering illness. Mr. Guy for twenty five years represented the several parishes of St. Catharine, St. George, and Metcalfe in the Hon. House of Assembly, and was for thirty years a justice of the peace for the precinct, and at the date of his death clerk of the peace for the parish of St. Mary, in Jamaica. The well-known veteran Hanoverian diplomatist, BARON VON OMTEDA, died at Celle on the 26th, in the 87th year of his age. The deceased baron, as well known among men of the old school for his amiable social qualities and saroir vivre as for his merits as a diplomatist, was among the few survivors of the Vienna Conference of 1814-15. M. de Omteda suc ceed Count Munster as Hanoverian Envoy in London under William IV. When the two crowns were separated he retired from public affairs, and has lived in honourable privacy since that period. MR. RALPH BERNAL, father of Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., died on Saturday last after a few days' illness. The deceased represented Rochester for many years previous to the general election of 1852, ard, during several Parliaments, was Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons, the onerous and delicate duties of which office he discharged in a manner that earned for him the respect of all classes of poli ticians. He himself was a consistent Liberal. In matters of art and taste Mr. Bernal's judgment was justly esteemed as one of the best in England. MAJOR-GENERAL BUSH, K.H., died from the pre vailing epidemic, at his residence in Sloane-street, on Monday evening. General Bush was at the head of the London recruiting district, and was promoted to the rank of major-general in the last brevet. We regret to announce the death of another dis tinguished officer, LIEUTENANT•GENERAL THOMAS DALMER, C. 8., Colonel of the 47th Regiment, which took place suddenly at Hawkhurst, Kent, on Satur day. General Delmer had been fifty-seven years in the army, and took part in most of our warlike opera tions from the close of' the last century to Waterloo, having served with the expeditions to Ostend in 1798, to Holland in the following year, and to Ferrol, Vigo Bay, and Cadiz in 1800. He was in Egypt with Sir Ralph Abercromby, in the expedition to Hanover in 1805, and that to Copenhagen in 1807. The follow ing year found him at Corunna, and in the Penin sular campaigns of 1811-12-13 he shared in the actions of El Bodon and Aldea de Ponte, and the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria. General Delmer also was present at Waterloo, where he had a horse killed under him : he himself was severely wounded at Salamanca. For his distinguished services he re ceived a gold and three silver medals. His death places the colunelcy of the 47th in the gift of Lord Hardinge. A Ni:w CHURCH for the densely-populated district of King's-cross is to be commenced as soon cir cumstances will permit. Some handsome contribu tions are expected from the proprietors of the Great Northern Railway, whose property runs into the dis trict, and grants will be made by the church socie ties. The new church will be dedicated to St. Luke, and the Rev. H. C. Radcliffe, MA., will be the first incumbent. imilmosi•lm•milmoimmimmommimsommilimilikiNlMlllMlMMl PROPOSED NEW ENGLISH BISHOPRICS. ARRANGEMENTS are in progress for preparing a scheme, which will be submitted to Parliament early next session, for the erection of two new English dioceses, by the subdivision of the sees of Lincoln and St. David's. lc is proposed to divide the diocese of Lincoln by the appointment of a Bishop of South well, who will have episcopal jurisdiction over the whole of the archdeacoury of Nottingham, containing the important towns of Nottingham, Normanton, Mansfield, Newark, Retford, Tatton, Worksop, South well, &c., together with a portion of the archdeaconry of Lincoln, including probably Stamford and the ad jacent district. The new bishopric will consist of about 300 benefices, leaving cons►derably more than that number under the jurisdiction of the present Bishop of Lincoln. The Bishop of Southwell will have a large amount of patronage in his hands, Bishop Jackson being willing to transfer all the livings which are at present in his gift in the new see to its first incumbent. The second bishopric proposed to be formed is that of Brecon, by a division of the present large diocese of St. David's. The bishopric of Brecon will include the towns of Brecknock, Dwyn nock, Crickhowell, Hay, Glasbury, Oldcastle, Salgart, Nantmel, Desserth, Glandestry, Glascombe, New church, Carmarthen, Egremont, Kidwelly, Llanelly, Bishopton, Chereton, Nicholaston, Oystermouth, and Swansea, leaving the present Bishop of St. David's jurisdiction over Fishguard, Haverfordwest, Milford, Pembroke, Tenby, Newcastle Emlyn, Cardigan, New port, &c. Under the proposed arrangement the dio cese of Brecon would consist of about 200 benefices, and the diocese of St. David's of about 250. Both Brecon and Southwell have handsome collegiate churches, with chapters attached, so that there are no difficulties in the way of the erection of the new dioceses. A scheme for the erection of a new bishopric for Cornwall is also at present under the consideration of the cathedral commissioners, the plan having been warmly recommended by the Bishop of Exeter. For this bishopric a handsome endow ment, has already been provided through the munifi cence of a private individual. A TELEGRAPH WITHOUT WIRES. SOME experiments have within the past fortnight been made at Portsmouth with the electric telegraph of a most important and remarkable character, and which would appear to open up and promise to lead to further triumphs in electricity, equal to any that already have been achieved. The experiments in question were for the purpose of ascertaining the possibility of sending electric telegraph messages across or through a body of water without the aid of the submarine wires. The place selected for the experiment was the Milldam at its widest part, and where it is some 500 feet across. Two portions of the apparatus were placed on the opposite sides of the Milldam, and directly facing each other. An electric wire from each was submerged on their respective sides of the water, and terminating in a plate constructed for the purpose, and several messages were actually conveyed across, or rather through, the entire width of the Milldam with accuracy and instantaneous rapidity. The local journal, in giving a narrative of these experiments, adds that it is not permitted to explain even cursorily the apparatus employed, its only duty being to narrate the fact of communications being sent through the water a distance of 500 feet without the aid of wires, and that there appeared every possi bility that this could be done as easily with regard to the British Channel as the Milldam at Portsmouth. Tho inventor is a gentleman of scientific attainments, residing at Edinburgh, and who has been described as an original inventor of the electric telegraph, but who, from circumstances, was unable to turn the invention to his own advantage. The experiments at the Milldam were of a strictly private character, although they were carried out. by Captain Beatty and other engineering officers belonging to Ports mouth, but who have no interest of their own in the result. As a noteworthy tact, it may be added that in the Milldam, and close to where the experiments were made, are two large iron drains, which dis• charge themselves in its centre, and that the presence of so large a body of metal had no influence on the success of the operations by producing counteracting influences. A Critica; AND IMPORTANT CIRCUMSTANCE is said to have come to light at Bomarsund, namely, the discovery of plans for the formation of a second Cronstadt or Sweaborg at and around Lumparby. These plans and the estimates are reported to b e complete and minute, and would have been put jut o execution by Russia this year, bad not the arrival of our fleet in the Gulf interfered. If this work were to be carried out, Sweden would lie almost helpless at the mercy of Russian guns ; Prussia her self would be menaced; and during the season of navigation the Russian fleet would be able to run i and out with facility, and avoid all the dangers an fi difficulties of the Finland Gulf, .~' 831