Star. — London, England, 1829-09-28 00:00:00

MR. GURNEY'S IMPROVED STEAM CARRIAGE. Mr. Gurney, in perfecting this invention, has followed Dr. Franklin's advice—to tire and begin again. It is now four )esrs since be first commenced his ingenous enterprise. He began with a large boiler, but public prejudice was too strong for it ; .11441 knowing people talked of high pressure accidents ; the steam could not, of course, be altogether got rid of, so to divide the danger, Mr. Gurney made his boiler in forty welded iron pipes ; situ the steam ran in a main pipe beneath the whole of the car riage, and the evil was but modified. At length the inventor has .letached the engine and boiler, or localotive part of the appa l. stir..., which is now to be fastened • to the carriage, and may he .)11,1dt:fed as a STILA2I.IIOII3I, with no more danger than we should ,•Pitrthend from a restive animal, in whose veins the steam or mettle circulates with too high a'pressure. Fair trials have been made of the Improved Carriage on our common roads, the Premier has dscided the machine " to be of great national importance," from sundry experiments witnessed by his Grace, at Hounslow Bar racks ; and the coach is announced " really to start next month (the Ist) in working—not experimental journeys—for' travellers between London and Bath."• Crack upon crack will follow joke upon joke; and a journey to Bath and the Hot Wells by steam will suou he an every-day event. Descriptions of ?dr. Gurney's carriage have been so often he tore the public, that extended detail is unnecessary. The recent improvements have been perspicuously stated by Mr. He rapath of Cranford, in a letter in the Times newspaper, and we cannot do better than adopt and abridge a portion of his commu- 'deaden. " The present differs from the earlier carriage, in several im- ! provements in the machinery, suggested by experiment; also in having no propellers and in having only four wheels instead of six; the apparatus for guiding being applied immediately to the ' two fore wheels, bearing a part of the weight, instead of two extra leading wheels bearing little or none. No person can conceive the absolute controul this apparatus gives to the director of the car riage, unless he has had the same opportunities of observing it which I had in a ride with Mr. Gurney. Whilst the wheels obey the slightest motions of the hand, a trifling pressure of the foot keeps them inflexibly steady, however rough the ground. To the hind axle, which is very strong, and bent into cranks of nine inches radius, at right angles to each other, is applied the propelling power, by means of pistons from two horizontal cylinders. By this contrivance, and a peculiar mode of admitting the steam to the cylinders, Mr. Gurney has very ingeniously avoided that cum bersome appendage to steam-engines, the fly-wheel, and preserves uniformity of action, by constantly having one cylinder on full pressure, whilst the other is on the reduced expansive. The dead points—that is, those in which a piston has no effect from being in the same right line with its crank,—are also cleared by the same means. For, as the cranks are at right angles, when one piston Is at a dead point, the other has a position of maximum effect, and is then urged by full steam power ; but no sooner has the former passed the dead point, than an expansion valve opens on it with full steam, and closes on the latter. Firmly fixed to the extremities of the axle, and at right angles to it, are the two ' carriers'—(two strong irons extending each way to the felloes of the wheels). — These irons may be bolted to the felines of the wheels or not, or to the felines of one wheel only. Thus the power applied to the axle is carried at once to the parts of the wheels of least strtss—the cir cumferences. By this artifice the wheels are required to be of no greater strength and weight than ordinary carriage-wheels; and, like them, they turn freely and independently on the axle ; but one or both may be secured as part and parcel of the axle, as circum stances require. The carriage is consequently propelled by the friction or hold which either or both hind-wheels, according as the power is applied to them jointly or separately, have on the ground. Beneath the hind part drop two irons, with fi feet, called' shoe-drags.' A well-contrived apparatus, with a spindle pas sing up through a hollow cylinder, in which the guiding handle is af fixed, enables the director to force one or both drags tight on the road, so as to retard the progress in a descent, or, if be please, to raise the wheels off the ground. The propulsive power of the wheels being by this means destroyed, the carriage is arrested in a yard or two, though going at the rate of 18 or 20 miles an hour. On the right hand of the director lies the handle of the throttle. valve, by which he has the power of increasing or diminishing the supply of steam ad libitum, and hence of retarding or accelerating the carriage's velocity. The whole carriage and machinery weigh about 16 cwt. and with the full complement of water and tote 22 eat. of which, I am informed, about 16 cwt. lie on the bind- wheels." • • Mr. H. then enumerates the principle of the improvements:- " That troublesome appendage the fiy-wheel, as I have observed, Mr. Gurney has rendered unnecessary. The danger to be appre- Lended in going over rough pitching, from too rapid a generation of steam, he .voids by a curious application of springs; and should these be insufficient, one or two safety valves afford the ultimatums cf security. He ensures an easy descent down the steepest decli vity by his • shoe-drags,' and the power of reversing the action of the engines. His hands direct, and his foot literally pinches obe dience to the course over the roughest and most refractory ground. The dreadful consequences of boiler-bursting are annihilated by a judicious application of tubular boilers. Should, indeed, a tube burst, a hiss about equal to that of a hot nail plunged into water, contains the sum total of alarm, while a few strokes with a ham mer will set all to rights again. Lastly, he has so contrived his • carriers,' that they shall act without confining the wheels, by which means there is none of that sliding and consequent cutting up of the road, which, in sharp turnings, would result trom inflexi ble constraint. " Hills and loose slippery ground, are well known to be the res adverse of steam-carriages ; on ordinary level roads they roll along with rapid facility. in every ascent there are two additional cir cumstances inimical to progressive motion. One is, that carriages pre.. less on the ground of a hill than on that of a plain, thus giv ing the wheels a less forcible grasp or bite. But this may be easily remedied in the structure of a carriage, and is not of very material consequence in the steepest bills that we have. The other is more serious. When a carriage ascends a hill, the weight or gravity of the whole is decomposable into two—one perpendicular. and the other parallel to the road. The former constitutes the pressure on the road, the latter the additional work the engine has to per form. Universally this is the same part of the whole carriage and its load together which the perpendicular ascent of the hill is of iti length. With these principles, if we knew the bite of the wheels on the road, we could at once subject the powers of Mr. Gurney's carriage to calculation. " Now, from one of the experiments made in the barrack-yard at HoUrislow, I find we can approximate towards it. For in stance, with one wheel only fixed to the • carriers,' the carriage drew itself and load of water and coke (about one ton); with three men on it, and a waggon behind of 16 cwt. containing 27 soldiers. This, at the rate of 14 cwt. to a man, in round numbers is 4 tons. Estimating the force of traction of opting carriages at a twelfth of the total weight, it consequently gives a hold or bite on the road of 142 of 4 tons, or 6 2-3rda cwt. per wheel, or 13 1-3rd cwt. for the two wheels. This is likewise the propelling force of the carriage. Supposing, therefore, we were ascending a hill of 1 foot rise in 8, which I am assured exceeds in steepness any bill we have, we should be able to draw a load behind of 2 tons 2 cwt., or between 3 and 4 tons altogether. ... •• On a go od level road I think it not improbable it might draw, instead of 7 tons which our experiment would give, Irons 10 tc 11, besides its own weight, or 100 ordinary men, exclusive of .' or 5 tons for carriages ; said up one of our steepest hills, 3 , 10ns besides itself, or 25 men besides a ton for a carriage. This it would do at a rate of 8,9, or 10 miles an hour. Fee it is a singular feature in this carriage, and which was remarked by many at the time, that it maintained very nearly the same speed with a waggon and 27 men, that it did with the carriage and only five or six persons. But there is a fact connected with this machine still more extraordinary. For instance, every additional cwt. we shift on the hind or working wheels, will Increase the power of traction in our steepest hills upwards of 4 cwt. and on the level road half a ton. Such, then, is the paradoxical nature of steam-carriages, that the very circumstance which in animal exertion would weaken and retard, will here multiply their strength and accelerate. This, no doubt, Mr. Gurney's ingenuity will soon turn to profitable ac count. •• It has often been asserted that carriages of this sort could not go above six or seven miles an hour. I can see no reasonable ob jection to 20. The following fact, decided before a large company in the barrack-yard, will best speak for itself :—At eighteen mi nutes after three I ascended the carriage with Mr. Gurney. After we had gone about half way round, • Now,' said Mr. Gurney, • I will show you her speed.' He did, and we completed seven turns round the outside of the road by twenty-eight minutes after three. If, therefore, as I was there assured, two and a half turns measured one mile, we went Y.B mils% in ten minutes; that is, at the rate of 16.8, or nearly 17 miles per hour. But as Mr. Gurney slackened its motion once or twice In the course of trial, to speak to some one and did not go at an equal rate all the way round for fear of accident in the crowd, it is clear that sometimes we must have proceeded at the rate of upwards of twenty miles Engraving will furnish the reader with a correct' idea of Mr. Gurney's improvements as are most interesting to the The present arrangement is certainly very prefetab.e to • h.gler and engine in immediate contact with tbe car is to convey goods and 'istieengers. M e n of science much divided on the practical economy of Using steam an hoer. Literary Gazette. Sept. 19, 1899. propellers I am informed, are not abselutely discarded. now sot filed. but movable. and reserved for extreme emergencies, or for certain military purposes. The Engrg such of bk. public. The placing the b which are still mue • Literal" t Ihe pru They are nue potable emu instead of horses as a travelling agent ; bat we hope, like all great contemporaries, they may whet and midways each other till the I desired object is attained. One of them, As writer in the Alas, ob serves, that " if ultimately (owed capable of being brought into public use, it would probably be most convenient and desirable t that several locomotive engines should be employed on one line of road, in order that they might be exchanged at certain stages for tbe purposes of examination, tightening of screws, and other ad justments, which the joking on passing over the road might under necessary, and for the supply of Mel and water." SINGULAR CASE respecting a UNDER SENTENCE OF Ey VIC: An investigation has just been concluded, in which Sheriff Copeland has been most anxiously engaged for the last few days. A ma., who says his name is Harris, was, some short time ago, apprehended by two police-officers, and charged, under the name of Tisley, with having returned from transportation. He was tried at the Old Bailey, and the officers baying sworn that he was the transport Tisley, be was convicted and sentenced to be executed. Soon after his conviction, some circumstances took place which convinced the Sheriffs that he was not the person be had been represented to be. He had, himself, from the moment of his apprehenston, most loudly and solemnly de clared that he was mat Inky ; and witnesses were examined, who made affidavit that he was perfectly correct in denying that he was. The unfortunate man soon became delirious, from, it is supposed, the apprehension of death, and he now lies in the In firmary of Newgate, quite destitute of reason. A drover of Smithfield was one of the persons examined on the occasion. He swore that Harris was quite a different man, even In external ap. !pearance ; that he (the drover) knew Tisley well, and that Tisley was certainly a lag (a returned convict), and sow in this country. There was expressed a strong desire to know where Tisley ' was to be found; but the drover said," No, I'll not tell you a word about him ; be is now a respectable man; and most industriously and honestly supporting himself and his family; if I was to tell, I'd deserve to be locked up in Newpte again." " Again !" said his examiner; why, have you been in Newgater " Yes, I was locked up there fora robbery, and I deterred it; but I'd deserve to be Imaged if I'd peach upon a man who has turned away from his bad courses." This merit was found to be too strong to be meddled with, even if the Sheriffs bad felt any disposition to pursue the inquiry about Tilley. A representation was made to Mr. Peel, who proceeded to inquire into the facts. The Secretary found, we are given to understand, that Harris was not Miley ; but the Right Hon. Gentleman made, in the course of the investiga tion, a very important discovery—namely, that Harris was a person who bad been transported for life, and bad returned without the Royal pardon. This discovery will prevent a par don from being granted, but of course execution cannot follow such a conviction. CORONER'S INQUEST& Saturday night, an inquiry was held at the Canning's Head, Sidney-street, Commercial-toad, to ascertain the drum stances leading to the death of J. 11. 0. Sullivan, Esq. Mr. Henry Johnson stated, that on Friday night, about nine o'clock, he was passing by the unfinished buildings opposite to this house, and heard a noise coming from the pool of water in front of them ; he procured a light, and with the assistance of another person, extricated the deceased from the water, and brought him to this house; he appeared to be quite dead ; he observed no marks of external injury on his person, with the exception of a bruise on the right temple; his clothes, with the exception of his bat, were on him. Juror—ls not this place in a most dangerous condition, and might not even the most sober man fall into it? Witness Nothing can be more dangerous, and accidents, I have heard, have occurre3 even to persons living in its immediate neigh bourhood. The articles found upon the deceased were produced by Bartley the constable. A gentleman—The deceased was Mr.O.Sullivan, the proprietor of extensive paper-factories in Ireland ; in the course of business, he has had property pass through his hands to more than the amount of 500 00W. Mr. T. A. Cleve—l am a surgeon, and reside at No. 15, Bed ford-square East. I was called on to attend the deceased last evening; I found him lying at the brink of the pool, out of which I understood he had only been just removed; by my directions be was brought to this house, and, from the examination I have made, I am convinced he died from drowning. The wound on the temple was newly inflicted, and could not have produced death. I took the papers produced by the constable from bin person. Juror—Another wound besides that on the temple appears near the eye? Witness—That I made myself, to ascertain the injuries, and whether or not any other circumstance could have led to his death, save that of drowning. This terminated the evidence, and at its conclusion many of the Jurors censured the owner of the premises in front of which the unfortunate deceased had lost his life, for his culpable neglect in allowing a most intolerable nuisance. A verdict of—" Accidental Death " was returned. Saturday, an inquest was held at the Beaumont, Shep herd's Busk; on the body of John Mills, aged 48. The deceased held a situation under Government, and was at the Hat and Fea thers, Kensington Gore, on the evening of Friday week. with ano ther person named Creswell. On leaving the house, the deceased and Mr. Cresswell got into the gig belonging to the former, to pro ceed to Shepherd's Bush. the gig came in contact with a cart, and the deceased and Mr. Creswell were thrown into the road. The deceased, who was very severely injury, died a day or two ago. A verdict of Accidental Death was returned. Sunday morning the American ship Camillus sailed from Greenock for blew York, having on board 104 passengers, she greater part of whom were artisans from Renfrewahire and Lanarkshire. ANOTHER AGITATION SOCIETY.—We copy the fol lowing announcement from the Freeman's Journal :—A letter has (we are credibly informed) been received within the last week by a member of the Mk Catholic Association, from Mr. O'Connell, in which the Hon. Gentleman states his intention immediately after his arrival in Dublin, to propose the pion of a society, whose object will be, a repeal 4' the Union. In the letter to which we refer, Mr. O'Connell expresses a sanguine confidence in the co-operation of all Irishmen of ail parties. Tuesday evening the Sheriffs of Bath (J. F. Gunning and It. Savage, Esqrs.) gave a sumptuous entertainment to the Grand Jury, the Body Corporate and a numerous company, in the grand banqueting room at the Guildhall. The cloth being removed, the King's health was proposed by J. F. Gunning, Esq. the. presiding Sheriff, and drank with the greatest enthusiasm. Then followed the toasts of the Duke of Clarence and the Navy ; Lord Hill and the Army, &c. The evening was spent with the most perfect hilarity and good humour. PUGILISTIC ExcouNTEß.—Saturday an Inquest was held at the Half Moon, Half Moon-street, 13Ishopsgate, be fore William Lewis Newman, Iraq . the City Coroner, pro femme, .to inquire touching the deat h of Nancy Johns, aged seven years, who was killed in Sun-street on Thursday. by the wheel of a wag gon passing over her holy during a attic encounter between two fellows of the name of Lewis, well known about Bishoptgate street for their pugilistic propensities. It was proved that one of the combatants reeled against the deceased, in consequence of which she fell, and a waggon passing at the time went over her.— The Jury; after a sh i rt consultation, returned a verdict of " Man slaughter against Daniel and George Lewis, brothers," and the Co ronet issued a warrant to commit them to Newgate, and bound over the several witnesses to prosecute.—The Coroner and Jury made a subscription to enable the poor mother to bury her de ceased child with decency. OUTRAGE COMMITTED BY A YOUTH ON lIIS COM raxioxs —Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, a number of ,bays were assembled together in a field adjoining Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge, where, after amusing themselves some time with jumping, and other diversions, they commenced what is Called " tasking" with each other, when one of the party, a youth gen teelly dressed, about IS years of age, whose name we understood -to be Archer, took umbrage at his hat being knocked cff by a buy, named Gorman, and taking his penknife out of his pocket, instantly plunged the blade into Gorman's right breast ; the sufferer called out that he was stabbed, when the party surrounded Archer, for the purpose of making him a prisoner; this he vigorously rehiated, and striking at his assailants with the knife, a boy named Whittle received the blade in his knee, from which the blood gashed in a stream ; another lad bad his thumb laid open to the bone; and Ar cher having effectually cut his way through them,. ran drat. full speed, pursued by several of the party, who cried, " Stop him, be has murdered a boy" . He was accordingly stopped in Maiden lane, by a countryman, and effectually secured. By this time, 'Gorman, who was first stabbed, was led into the lane, which he had no sooner reached than he - faintid, from low of ' bl ood ! flte toy, now began I.a summary putdsinwat on the I:tender, whom they'beat with their fists severely, when. an 'Ater coming he was given into custody. On searching him, the knife, stained with blood. Was found in his pocket, the patient which waa'brokett off. The prisoner was then conveyed to .the'lesfeb; 'hoe .e, and the . wounded boy, Garman, was carried by two ewe to the:shop of M. Tik, surgeon, of Ilattle-bridge, who, aftetexantin dog the wound, pronounced it to be deep and dangerous, and re coaunetled his removal to the hospital. Shortly afteriiitill'the boy 'Wilt* war trotiglitintsi Mr. Tilt's shop, km d his would 'WM' dressed; he is likely to do well. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. Some Arszanoom.—The arrivals as yet are few, not is it expected that 'there will be many till night ; the following No blemen are either here or will arive in the course of the even ing : Duke of Grafton, Duke of Richmond, Duke of Portland, Duke of Rutland, Marquis of Worcester, Marquis of Exeter, Lords Clifton, Vertilam, Jersey, Southampton, Anion, Low ther, Cavendish, Bentinck, J. Fitzroy, Orford, and most of the regular visitors. The meeting will be confined to four days, and is not likely to be remarkable either for the number of visi tors or the quantity of the sport. The most valuable and im portant races will be the Grand Duke Michael and St. Leger Stakes ; the interest, however, generally existing on them is, in a great degree, destroyed, by the manner in which the horses engaged in them came out in the Spring Meetings. Patron is in both, and from his public running, compared with that of his opponents, it is not too much to expect that he will make an easy prey of them. In the first named he has nothing opposed to him that is likely to have a chance, and in the St. Leger. the only horses likely to start are Lord Jersy's Will-o'-tbe Wisp,Lord Grosvenor 's Ebury,Lord Sefton's Morris Dancer, and Lord G. Cavendish's Espagnolle colt, all of them beaten horses. It is not at all unlikely that Patron will walk over for the Grand Duke 31Ichael Stakes. Green Mantle is in a 100 soy. Stakes on Wednesday, and Varna in one of a similar kind un Thursday, the one having 6 subscribers, and the other 8, neither of them affording the slightest chance of these famous mares meeting with a competent opponent. The Lilly-Hon is the only two-yr old Stakes in the list, and with the exception of Cetus, who has been winning in Wiltshire and the neighbourhood, they are of an inferior kind, so that the Derby and Oaks are not likely to come into any thing like regular betting till after the Clearwell and Prendergast Stakes have brought out some of the right sort. Most of the betting men are here, not so much from an expecta tion that there will be any great business done, as from the hope of getting sonic of their great St. Leger accounts settled, it being un derstood that those gentlemen who are not In the habit of attending Doncautr, will meet their engagements in the First October Meet ing. Several were on the ground to have a look at the horses out at exercise, but no ring was formed, nor were the few engagements entered into on the Derby and St. Leger of sufficient importance to justify a quotation. The question arising out of the disputed race for the Somersetshire Stakes at Bath, is expected to be do. cided in the course of the week—it seems to be the general opinion that the stakes will be given to Liston, and that the bets will go with Rauch,. The Races in the list for to-morrow are as follow : The Grand Duke Michael Stakes of 50 sows. each, for 3-year old Colts, Bst 71b, and Fillies, Sat 31b. At F. Duke of Grafton 's br c Ronald, by Centaur. br a Burman, brother to Bolero. Lord Exeter's c by Phantom, out of Ada. e Patron, by Partisan—Augusta's dam. Lord Grosvenor's b e Ebury, by Master Henry. Lord Lowther's Verdeter, by Tiresiu—Landscape. Lord G. H. Cavendisles c by Woful, out of Miracle. Mr. Irby's b e by Orville, dam by Suothuyer. Mr. Payne's b f Pauline, by Moses. Sweepstakes of 100 toys each, Is ft ; Colts Sat Mb. and Fillies Bst 21b. T.Y.C. Lord Lowther's b. c. Envoy, by Corms, out of Aline. Duke of Grafton's b. c. Orbit, by Centaur—Whisgig. General Grosvenor's ch. c. lied Rover, by Nicolo, dam by Be ningburgh. General Grosvenor's b. e. Senior, by Wrangler—Georgina. Mr. Goddard's b. c. by Rubens's dam, by Caleb Quot'em, out of Scotia's dam. The Lilly-Hoo Stakes of 30 sovs. each ; 20 ft. • for two year old colts, est Slb ; and fillies, Bst 21 b ; T.Y.C. 'the winner of the July Stakes to carry 71b extra; those by untried stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner, before the end of the Hough. ton Meeting, in 1827, to be allowed 31b. Mr. Sowerby's b f by Reveller, out of Lady Henry (31b) br f by Abjer, dam by &inch° (31b) Lord Orford's c by Anticipation, out of Addy Doke of Grafton's b e Paradox, brother to Problem Mr. Rogers's b f Verdict by Nicolo, out of Black Diamond (31b) • ch c by Nicolo, out of a Walton none, sister to Fanny (wrong age, named by mistake) Mr. Meynell's cis f. by Gulliver, out of Historia (31b) b e by Gulliver, d by ,Cessario (31b) Mr. Dilly's Cetus, brother to Pandarus b f Trinket, by Tramp, out of Tiara (31b) Mr. Perkins's cb f by Nicolo, out of sister to Miss Fanny (Sib) Match, 100 sou h ft—Lo rd: Verulam's Brocard, Sat 91b, apt Sir Mark Wood's John de Bart, Bst 21b ; The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs each, for three year olds and upwards, A.F. Several horses are entered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Daniel Holloway was re-examined on suspicion of having stolen 961. in gold, the property of Joseph Wilson. The prosecutor said that he had not been able to discover any clue to the money he had lost, but stated some particulars which , induced the Magistrate to remand the prisoner for final mantilla: tion till Saturday next. A genteelly-dressed young man, named George Progiyi 'who mud; himself to be the son of a corn-merchant at Bury St. Edmund's, was charged with running up a score of from four pounds to five pounds at the Belle Sauvage Inn, for the board and lodging of bun self and a prostitute, whom be introduced as his wife, and then sneaking off, leaving her to settle the reckoning, which of course she was unable to do. This affair, the waiter said, happened three weeks ago, but early on Saturday morning be received a notice from the female that the prisoner was lodging' at a house of evil repute in George street, Adelphi, and there he apprehended him. He had given hint as a security a bill drawn by himself on a Mr. Mahoney, a builder, for not. Mr. Mahoney was a bankrupt, and the bill had been proved under the commission, the expected dividend being about Ws. la the pound. He was afraid holding this would not entitle him ex. elusively to receive that dividend. He considered his claim hope less, and br bad brought the prisoner forward to expose him, at a, caution to ether innkeepers. The prisoner said his case was a very hard one. He was not much acquainted with the ways of London, and bad been (not ishly prevailed upon by ►be girl to take her to the Inn, where be found himself unable to pay the bill. He then went 'into the country, and returned to London on Friday night. He called at the girl's lodgings, and the landlady had brought him up a stifnp, insisting be should give her a bill for— Here his story was broken off by the waiter, who explained that the landlady bad beets a sufferer by him, he having incurred& debt of IS/. for board and lodging. Prisoner made no observation upon this, but passing to the waiter's complaint, reminded him he bad left hint his lUggage. Ay," said the waiter, " that is true, but what is it worth ? I have examined it. The valise in which it is contained may be worth a shilling, and the contents are only a ragged shirt, a comb, a brush, the lady's night-cap, and her night-gown. Sir Persa Lanais advised the waiter to keep the bill, and gave notice to the Assignees of the transfer. He bad no cognizance over this matter, and the prisoner must therefore be discharged ; but the waiter had done well in taking care that his character should be exposed.—Dismissed . BOW STREET. Saturday, Banks, Smith, Ca Well, and Entery, alias II) Us, the four men who were charged with having been concerned in the burglary at West Idoulsey, and also in the robbery at t o Louse of Mr. Campion, of Waltham-truss, were brought' up for re examination. The evidence in the latter case having been read over, Sir It. Brawls asked Mr. Isaacs, the solicitor, if he had any ad ditional evidence to offer, and being answered in the negative, • The Magistrate said he should commit Banks for thir robbery, and discharge Cottrell and Emery, as the evidence was not nib ciently strong to warrant their tottimittal. Cottrell and Emery were accordingly discharged. Banks and Smith were then removed to the private office to undergo a final examination respecting the West Moulsey burglary. Bath prisoner's *ere heavily ironed by order of Alm •Gevernor of the 'House of Correctionotho received intimation from fire watch man of the prison (who overheard them conversing together on Thursday night) that they proposed effecting their escape. They had calculated, it appeared, that they - should be fully denuhitted felt trial On Saturday to Iforsentorger-lane gail; and supposing ' that Ford and. Diidd (the twolraolers) would walk them to the prison, their plan was to• attack them on the way -it a particular spot, and, aided by a strong party 'of their confederates, effect their escape. It is said, that they . had also intended to attack the gablers in the took-up4Odm of the prison, Murder them with their knives. end •ipeape; :tither by scaling the adjoining walls or forcing their *ay through the trout door. Fortunately, however, their plans were discovered in lime tube prevented, and Ithe heavy irons with which dub' legs Were confined rebders'any 'MONO/ft eitsp'perfeetly heirless. 1. t The Rev.' iMe.Varrlngten:'andi his Lady arrivedittsblt Moir earlyin thellay. ..414 Rev. °Oilman' was broUght up ppm W Benchiprisoss , by habeas, which was granted, by Lord l'ea4 ' terden. The two prisoners having been placed fully *.in vievii-of the Rev. 011ialbslita whorl wiertiworns the former proceedetatetsistaibithe tarenutstsmv• sof the,burglasys place at his bosbeim Ms •aigOvot.4be bio!. laft, :The My. ' Crentientanelds-ladyrOs4:two female servant% Ranand 'Mar-. garet, retired toreet- about one o'clock. In '464 a mour alter, witness and Mrs. Warrington were aroused by the voices of men at their chamber door. They demanded admittance, and swore they would break it open. Witness sprang from his bed, and had just time to seize his pistols, which were lying on the mantel. piece, when the door was burst in, and four men entered the room. Witness immediately presented the pistol which he held in Isis right band and fired, but without effect. He was then seized, and threatened with instant death if he did not remain per fectly quiet. Three of the robbers then went to plunder the house, and witness and his wife were left in the bed-room guarded by a man whom witness knew to be the prisoner Banks. The robbers, in the meanwhile, had plundered the house •by breaking open the drawers, chests, &c. They took several watches, a brooch, and neck. lace, to the value of about 601. Witness and his wife were both tied. While Banks was guarding them, he said, " We have been sent to do this robbery by those who know the house as well as you yourself." Banks also said, that two of the robbers who had gone up stairs were desperate fellows. Banks was the only man who spoke. The prisoner Smith appeared very like one of the robbers, but witness would not undertake to swear dis tinctly to him. One of the robbers said, in a familiar tone, to one of the servant girls, " Come, Fanny, we must now tie you." The rubbers having tied witness, Mrs. Warrington, and the two girls, dragged them down stairs, and pushed them into a cold dark cellar. Witness expostulated with them, and represented that as they had nothing on but their night clothes, they would perish. Some of the robbers said, " D—n them, let them lie there • but the prisoner Banks went up stairs, and brought down a feather bed, and some sheets and blankets, which he threw Into the cellar, and then closed the door, and witness supposed that they remained in the cellar foe more than three hours. Witness and his servant Margaret were fastened together back to back, when it occurred to him that he might unfasten the cords which bound them. After some diffi culty, he succeeded in doing so, and they finally released each other. The Rev. Gentleman then stated, that, finding a poker iu the cellar, he forced the door with it, and found that the robbers had escaped through a back window, by means of a ladder taken from the premises of his neighbour Mr. Jane. Besides the pro perty taken from the dwelling-house, be found that his stable had been broken open, and his horse and chaise stolen. The witness concluded by stating, that he was quite positive u ap the identity of the prisoner Banks. Mrs. Warrington corroborated the foregoing statement In every particular ; the was quite sure that Banks was one of the robbers; she could not be mistaken in his person ; he behaved with great kindness, and interfered in their behalf when violence was offered by one of the other men ; she could not swear positively to the person of Smith, although his appearance was very like that of one of the robbers. Mrs. Barnett, wife of the convict now in Newgate, deposed, that a brooch and other articles were sold to her husband a few days after the robbery by the prisoner Banks. The brooch, /Ise. were identified by the Rev. Prosecutor as part of the property which had been stolen from his premises on the night in question. The prisoners were then fully committed for trial to Newgate until the next Assizes for the county of Surrey, when they will be transmitted to blaidstone. The solicitor appointed by the parish authorities of Findley to conduct the investigation relative to the circumstances connected with the mysterious death of Mrs. Phillips, applied for and ob• tained several summonses to procure the attendance of witnesses, to give evidence at the ensuing examination. Several persons, not examined by the Coroner, are summonsed. HATTON-GARDEN. Aldine, a driver of a hackney or glass coach, was fined 40s. and cults, for driving against and smashing a little phaetten belonging to a Mr. Spitler, of Upper Holloway. Mr. S. was thrown out, and his mother. who accompanied him, was likewise thrown ont, and bad her leg broken. The fine, the Magistrate stated, was 101 l for the driver being on his wrong side ; Mr. Spitler bad still kis ground of action the same for damages. UNION—HALL A man named Jones was charged with robbing a Mrs. aarksoe, on Friday night, in the pit of the Surrey Theatre. The com plainant stated, that while sitting in the back row of the plto.the prisoner, who sat next to bar, pressed very hard against her, so much so as particularly to draw her attention towards him. He still kept pushing nearer and nearer to her, although she requested him to desist, until at length she felt something pressingagainst her side, and, putting down her band, found that her gown, petticoat, and pocket, were cut through ; and 'that her purse, Which con tained three sovereigns and fifteen shillings, was abstnieted from the pocket,, but had become entangled in such a enumser, at the opening made in the gown, as to prevent the thief from obtaining possession of it. On this discovery the prisoner attempted to leave his seat, but the complainant fearleiody seized bite by the collar. and held him bratty in her grasp,-OSM a constable came to bee assistance. In the interval, however, the prisoner was observed to drop something, and when he warsecured a small penknife, well sharpened at-the point, was-found at biefeets.-.-Hewas tommitted, Monday, Philip Webster and' Daniel Dutch, police officers belonging to High-street, Morris-bonnet apptebended Thomas Beaky, of Oxford, against• whom a true bill was found at the last Assizes, for the wilful murder of John Barrett, of Wel vercott, in Port Meadow, on the 3d of July last. He was found by the officers at e private house at the back of Hatfield-street, Blackfriare-road, was brought to Oxford, mid lownedittely taken to the county gaol for trial at the neitsAmizes. We lament to say that Were Hunt, of Cappagh, Esq. was dangerously wounded on Monday, while on a shooting excur sion. The contents of hii fowliog-piece went off by accident, and lodged in vital part of his person, and he died yesterday. He had just before gone into a farm-bonne front a shower of rain, saeliers the sad accident occurred.—Limerick, sr,g. '23. H EBDOM ADA RY. Tuts Day.—New Moon 3 minutes past 2 morning. Sun eclipsed, Invisible. This is New Year's Day with the Jews, when theear 3590 begins, reckoning front the creation of the world . The Jews Pound trumpets of rams horns in memory of Abraham offering 'up his son Isaac on the mount Moriab, numbers sex. 1. It will be a treat to walk about the vicinity of Duke's place for half an hour. To•MOKßOW.—Holiday at the Bank—St. Michael. Second day of the Feast of Trumpets with the Jews. Warninaay.—Jt. Jerome. He was the most emin:nt biblical scholar of the 4th century. The Jews keep this day as a fast for the murder of Gedalielt —see Jerem. :iv. The second month lia ble begins with the Mahometans. Set your watch 10 minutes slower than the time by the sun dial. This was the Meditrinalia of the Ancient Romans. when they mingled new and rild swine. and drank it by way of medicine, saying, " I drink oid sad new wine, and I cure my old and new disorders." OCTOBER. TUVRSDAY, OCT. I.—ltemigius—he was the great Apostib of the French, and was chosen Arthbishop of RhOltns at 92 years of age; born in 439. Pheasant shooting begins. Day decreased 5 hours. Faimay.—The Feast of Guardian Angels with the Reman Ca tholics. These Guardians, it is believed, accompany us wherever we go, and guide and govern us by interior inspirations If you doubt this, see Psalm xci. Matt. xvlll. 10. Saturn vises 5 Minutes past 1, morning. SATURDAT.--Witla the Jews this is the " Sabbath betwees- - that is, between New Year's Day and the Great Day of the Es piation. It is the Sabbath of Penitence, because the doctrine repentance was the subject of the sermons on ►bis day. Jupiter sets 4 minutes past 8, afternoon. BIRTHS. At Gloucester. the Lady of Major-General McNair.) daughter. At Bath. the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel W. Swinton. I son. 11ARRIED. In 4klbasty-street, Edinburgh, William Watson, Esq. W. S. Sheriff-Substitute of Aberdeenshire, to Marion, second daughter of the late Sohn Weir, Esq: writer, in Edinburgh. DIED. .liargate, Sir Robert Page, Knt. of the Island of Madeira, tail UPS of the late Rev. Charks Page, of Northfiach, Glouces tanhlre ''Lately, of inflammation in the bowels, with which be was .elzed otiWoodstoet; while of hiarroad to , •lanchester, aged 25. Mr. 1 Joseph Wood, of ,lanclaester. • After a lingering mid most painful illness., aged 71, Jas. Adams, I Esci one of the Aldermen and senior Metnben of the Corporation of 'Oxford. At ;Charles Fort, Ireland, Jane Cuttningham,danghier of Lieut.- colonel Johhtton:lßlth ReglMent. ' At Callender, the •t H. PAster, F.sq. 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