The Sun. — London, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The authorized organ of the Tories in Ireland, the Dublin Evening Mail, assures its readers that Mr. O'Loghlen was most reluctant to accept a seat on the judicial bench, and would gladly have remained in his office of Attorney-General ; which statement, by the way, is in direct contradiction to a previous assertion by the same journal, that his acceptance of promotion manifested a want of confidence in the stability of the Government. The fact, we believe, is true, that Mr. O'Loghlen would have preferred to retain the situation which he filled, had he consulted his own convenience or advantage only. But we are sure there is no foun dation for the reason assigned by the Evening Mail for the Government pressing him to take the seat on the bench—namely, that if Mr. Richards should be advanced to it, there would be an insuperable obstacle thrown in the way of subsequent ar rangements ; inasmuch as Mr. Woulfe, the new Solicitor-General, and Mr. O'Loghlen, being both Catholics, it would be impossible to commit the two highest law offices under the Crown to them. Why should it be so ?or how could such a notion cross the mind of any Member of the present Government ? The law and the Constitution recog nise no distinction between Protestant and Catholic in civil life ; nor was any jealousy felt or expressed dur ing the years which elapsed since the passing of the Emancipation Act, in which the principal law officers of the Crown were Protestants, and all the promotions to the judicial bench were conferred upon lawyers of that persuasion exclusively. A Government has no no right to look to any thing but personal and profes sional capability in the disposal of such offices. The mere accident of creed should not influence it one way or the other ; and we are confident that it is a gross libel upon Lord Mulgrave to insinuate that he would feel in the slightest degree embarrassed or impeded in the arrangements which appeared to him calculated to serve the country, by any narrow prejudices of the kind alluded to. Indeed we are quite con vinced of it. His whole conduct, from the day that he set foot in Ireland, purposing to administer the affairs of that country without partiality or distinction, manifests the determination of his mind to know nei ther Protestant, Catholic, nor Dissenter in the ap pointments he should make, but to place his confidence in, and bestow his favours upon, the best Irishmen, without any other consideration. Of Lord Melbourne and his colleagues in the Government the same thing may be affirmed. Not an individual amongst them would listen to the silly objection, which the Tories themselves would in their private hours laugh at as a plausible nothing, against the da nger ar i sing t o t h e State from a Catholic Solicitor-General being ap pointed to act under a Catholic Attorney-General. In a country where seven-eighths of the people are Ca tholics, those who are employed to administer the laws may belong to the Church of the majority, we pre sume, without detriment. No Government, professing the enlightened and liberal principles which constitute the strength of the present Administration, could per mit such a shadowy and offensive scruple to obstruct their fair intentions for a inoment.—Morning Chron. We have yet another example to add to those over which the country has already rejoiced, of Conservative Associations springing up where they had hitherto been unheard of. In truth, they burst out from the pressure of a new emergency, which will have its way, and carries everything before it. At Devonport, on Friday last, there was a Conservative meeting and dinner. The Revolutionists, if they please, may laugh at dinners, but that cause must be at a loss for merri ment which tries to extract it from such a source. Dinners in this country constitute facilities of re.. union, and furnish opportunities for the expression of sentiment, as well as for the reciprocation of political pledges, among those who feel a sympathetic interest in the course or tendency of our national affairs, which custom has firmly established, which ages in deed may be said to have consecrated, and to have so embodied with both the public and individual character of Englishmen, that it is not the feigned and lugubrious levity of a set of mortified grumblers now to eradicate the taste for such meetings, or to impair their usefulness where great and substantial ends ars. promoted, by making the spirit of conviviality instru mental to harmony, energy, and manliness of action. The Devonport meeting was one of these. It was an inaugurative meeting—not commemorative—like that at Liverpool. It was the birth of the Devon port Conservative Association —net, as elsewhere, the anniversary of such an institution. The respectable and able Chairman of the Liverpool meeting announced to the company of 1,100 Conservatives who sat around him, that at its origin, only one twelvemonth before, the Liverpool Association had consisted of no more than 70 persons. What, then, is the case at Devonport ? There is, indeed, no twelvemonths' growth, but the 'babe comes into life a giant—with more arms than Briarens--with more heads than the hydra—stron : , enough, we di re say, before it h as , b een cra dl e d a week,to choke a w h o l e legion of the hissing serpents of democracy. Four hundreri, and seventy gentlemen sat down to this first constitutional banquet of the Devon port Association. How many may we not reckon on for the return of that day ? which was itself the anni versary ofK.,rig William' s l an di ng — t h e f at h er o f t h ose civil seem Ales and of those religious liberties which it is the grand object of a different set of beings fmm our great deliverer and his illustrious Whig aCI - of that period to sweep away for ever. The Devonport meeting was characterized by a display of spirit and talent not inferior to those of the Conservative meetings which have gone before, and doubtless assisted in producing it. The noblemen who attended ; Lords Eliot and Valletort, true to their station, their principles, and their duty, stood forward, like waters of their own high rank, and showed that the British nobility of these times are no sleepers at their post, nor members of a sinecure Aristocracy. Their language and sentiments were such as befit all Englishmen, alive at once to their birthright, and to the obligations it imposes : they defended the national Church as the inheritance of rich and poor, but em phatically as that Church which alone does not debar the destitute from the consolations and blessings of re ligion. They vindicated the civil institutions of the realm as the most efficient protectors of those portions of the people of England who otherwise would have been helpless, against the despotism of democratic tyrants. Lord Valletort made a pertinent allusion to the monstrous ingratitude, and worse than barbarous brutality, of the rabble, in their treatment a few years ago of the greatest man this empire has produced for a century, when they attacked with ruffian fierceness the house of the Duke of Wellington—of him who had warded off from the home and fireside of every man in England that destruction before which the rest of the inhabited world stood appalled—and an edifying specimen indeed it was, of the wise and virtuous con sistency of that populace which is held up by modern Whig Ministers as a fit repository of privilege and power, when Lord Valletort described it as only three years ago forcing the saviour of the country to barri cade his door, and within these few months, in hap pier, though possibly not more stable, mood, cheering and extolling him as their idol. That order of the community which in Holland, seized with diabolical fury, massacred De Witt, than whom a more illus trious statesman or patriot has seldom, if ever, existed, are worthy candidates, it must be confessed, for su preme power over the educated and affluent classes anywhere ! Eminent judges of the qualification s of public men ! Wise and upright in the discharge of important trusts, and temperate in the exercise of con stitutional functions I We are happy to see 'Mr. Daw son once more in the field, and in a disposition to speak ont his whole mind on the trying questions by which England is now agitated, but on which it gratifies all honest men to know that she is no longer, if ever she was, anything like equally divided. The constituency of Devonport, we are sure, cannot have a representa tive at such a crisis more strenuous or efficient for the crushing of revolutionary madness than Mr. George Dawson. It cannot be repeated too earnestly, or too importunately impressed upon the people of Eng land, that the question at issue is constitutional freedom, or a species and degree of tyranny which the Constitution of England has never known. A faction raised by the caprice of fortune to a transient and giddy power, assumes the styl e , titl e , an d di gn i ty of the " people. To indulge its own rapacious and deadly passions it seeks to destroy the Church ; and , because the House of Lords has rallied round that citadel of English civilization, the persecutor of the Church becomes the assailant of the Peerage. Well, then, the matter comes in one word to this—is it bet ter for the British empire that Lord Melbourne, with afew hacks o f P opery f or hi s co ll eagues, s h ou ld b e dismissed from office for the sake of preserving the most ancient and noblest of our national institutions, viz., the House of Lords ?—or that the House of Lords itself should be abolished, root and branch, for the sake of retaining Lord Melbourne and his dozen of wretched Whigs for so many months longer in Downing-street as the Irish Papists and English Re publicans may choose to leave them there ? For, be it recollected, that Mr. Sheil, who is a lawyer and a man of business, and could scarcely mistake the terms of so plain a bargain, thus described the terms on which he and his associates permitted the Whigs to remain in office :—" We" (the Papists), said the learned gen tleman, " lend the Ministers" (lend, be it recollected) " Downing-stceet, and they (the Ministers) surrender to us (not lend, but give up) the Irish Church." What, then, we ask, do the British nation say to this? What will our posterity say, or how will they answer the question—whether Lord Melbourne, Lord Dun cannon, and Mr. Spring Rice, as a Ministry, or the House of Lords as a Legislative Assembly, were of more permanent value to the rights, the liberties, the enduring interests, and the constitutional monarchy of Great Britain ?—Times. A Tory mastication, or, as the Conservative prints delight to call such exhibitions, a " Conservative mani festation," has just taken place at Devonport. It is a curious fact, that no one ever hears of a " manifesta tion" of Tory feeling unconnected with a substantial dinner. The inference, therefore, could not be objected to by the most severe logician, that the " well-supplied table" has at least qu it e as muc h t o d o i n calling forth the Tories from the privacy of their respective fire sides, as any surpassing fervency of attachment to Con servatism. 'Who ever heard of the Tories calling a public meeting—public in the true acceptation of the term—for the sole purpose of giving a " manifestation" of feeling on any of the engrossing topics of the day ? That, indeed, would be a memorable epoch in the an nals of Toryism. But we fear, that as we have not hitherto had the good fortune to witness so singular a display of Tory feeling, so we are doomed to be denied the gratification during the remainder of our lives. Mr. Dawson, the Tory Member for Devonport—the Hon. Gentleman to whom the dinner, on this occasion, was given—was placed in a most distressing condition, be cause he was unable to decide how far the muster of Tories was from pure attachment to Conservatism, or how far from personal friendship for himself. It grieves us to think the Hon. Gentleman should have so wofully vexed himself on the subject, especially as neither of the conclusions to which he pointed was the correct one. We are pretty confident that nobody but Mr. Dawson puzzled or perplexed themselves about the matter. We take it that all present must have had a hearty laugh, in their own minds, at their representa tive, while they saw him philosophizing so profoundly, with the view of ascertaining the comparative influence which personal considerations towards himself and ge nuine attachment to Tory principles had in bringing the Conservatives together. One and all of the gor mandizing assemblage knew full well, that the grand source of attraction was the magical words " Dinner on the table at six o'clock precisely." Does Mr. Dawson doubt this? Are his perplexities yet un solved ? Let him, in that case, call a public meet ing of Tories without the appendage of a dinner, and sec what the attendance will be. Mr. Dawson, we observe, complains in most dolorous terms of the attacks which are made on the House of Lords. This is an edifying specimen of Tory disingenuousness. These Conservative orators take special care to pre serve an unbroken silence as to the circumstances under which these " attacks," as they are called, are made. Who, we beg to ask the Conservatives, are the aggressors in this case ?—the Lords or the people ? Who struck the first blow ? Why, beyond all question, the Peers thems e l ves . U n til t h at body—the Tory part of them we mean—set themselves up in avowed and bitter hostility to the people, the lattar never dreamt of even uttering so much as a word of dissatisfaction with them. It is only 'within the last few months that the question of Peerage Reform has been mooted at all. Long did the people silently submit to see their just expectations disappointed by the Tory Lords, and had those persons only mangled or mutilated two or three popular measures every session, we should not, 111 all probability, have heard a whisper about Peerage Reform for some years to come. It was the fact of butchering all the popular measures sent up to them last session, coupled with their declared determination to resist every further reform of any importance—it was this that aroused the spirit of the people against the House of Lords, and forced them to the conclusion that the safety of the country, and that House, as now con stituted, are incompatible with each other. If, there fore, the nation have at last turned assailants of the Peers, that body have themselves to thank for it. The attitude of attack has become necessary on the part of the people in their own self-defence.—Morning Ad vertiser. The civic patriots and sages of the Corporation of London have, we see, again met in solemn conclave, not to discuss their once favourite topic of reform, and of dictating to the King's Ministers how the State shall be governed, but in rehearsing the, to them, much more agreeable farce of " Where shall we dine ?" In other words, the Court of Common Council, shamed a little by the notice which the Press has taken of its gormandizing propensities, has thought it pru dent at least, however disagreeable, to review this in teresting topic, and, after a long debate, and three di visions, resolved to reduce the former tavern allowances to the following sums : The City Lands Corn- Corn Meters inTrust so mittee £soo London Bridge Bridge House 2ooi Blackfriars Bridge lOO Gresham 25 Nightly Watch _ _ 50 Commissioners of Sewers 300' Library Navigation and Po r t 3OO ~" ity of London School ... 100 Coal and Corn General Purposes The Court also resolved that no further or additional al lowance should be made to any Committee for a summer ex- cursion. Matters of figures, when drawn in comparison with each other, are always best understood when placed in juxta position ; and as these several sums, amounting together to 2,5001., are put forth as constituting a reduced scale of allowance, it would have been as well if the original expenditure under this head had been put side by side with this honourable specimen of self-denial; that the public, and more especially that part of it of whom the members of the Common Council are the representatives and trustees, should see how their funds have hitherto been disposed of under this head, and the extent of their obligations to those who, for the future propose to expend only the paltry sum of 2,5001. in this manner. Besides being very zealous reformers and tinkerers of the State, the Com mon Council of London has, we believe, more than once given a token of its desire for annual Parliaments and universal suffrage. There is nothing like trying your professing patriots by their own standard ; and here we have not only their theory, but a practical instance to appeal to. It is true that the suffrage which elects the City Parliament is far from being universal ; the Parliament itself, however, is annual. On each Saint Thomas's Day the representatives return to their constituents to render an account of their stewardship, and to renew or lose the pledge of confi dence. Now, whether the fault be in the electors or the elected, certain it is that annual Parliaments have been but of little use to the citizens of London. The latter have probably, in the course of the year talked a great deal about reform, but their debates have been full of sound and fury, signifying nothing ;" for when the reform which should begin at home is looked to, we see the City House of Commons, its own annual Parliament, in the year 1836, openly telling their con stituents that without the prospect of a dinner mem bers cannot be got together to attend to business, and that without 2,500/. per annum, besides their share of the greater heads of City feasting, it is perfectly use less to have a Common Council or annual Parliaments at all. We admire the candour of all this, however we may despise its profligacy. , It rem a i ns to b e seen, now that another St. Thomas s day is approaching, how the electors will deal with such constituents. How they deal with them, probably, matters but little ; nor does it concern the public at large much more than as af. fording, both in the one instance and in the other, a tolerable test and standard by which to value noisy pro fessing Reformers.—Morning Herald. The accounts from every part of England and Scot land show a very remarkable difference between the re cent elections of the town councils in the various cor porate towns and the elections which took place last year soon after the passing of the Corporation Bill. In the elections of last year the Whig-Radicals had upon the whole a decided ascendancy. They had been cla morous in urging, the necessity of the measure. Their local lead ers , who became candidates for office, had— with very few exceptions—been diligent and unscru pulous calumniators of all former depositories or agents of local authority. They had mainly assisted the scandal-collectors sent round the country at the public expense by the Whig Government in making out a case in favour of the intended Whig Reform. They had succeeded in convincing a considerable portion of the people in their respective neighbourhoods that the corporation affairs had heretofore been injudiciously or corruptly managed, and that nothing more was require l d than to transfer those affairs to their hands in order to insure that never-failing wisdom and immaculate purity should thenceforth characterise all corporation proceed ings. It was natural in such circumstances that the noisy and bustling pretenders should obtain a trial. They have been tried, and the result evidently is that the community have not discovered, in their con duct, quite so much either of wisdom or of purity as was expected from their loud professions of both, and their extraordinary aptitude to detect or imagine defects in other men. The course which the munici pal elections have taken this year warrants the asser tion, that, had the whole of the seats in the several town councils of Great Britain been vacated, and a re election of the whole of these bodies thus been ren dered necessary, we should have had for the ensuing year a majority of Conservatives in the far greater part of the corporations of the kingdom. But the Corpo ration Reform Bill did not so provide. The Whigs have an instinctive notion of what is good for their own party. They guessed very accurately that the first elections must go in their favour--of a second election they could not be quite so sure. They determined accordingly that a small proportion only of each town council should annually vacate their seats, thus pro longing to the latest possible moment the influence and power which their party were likely to derive' from the circumstances, in all respects favourable to them, in which the first elections under the new mea sure were carried on. It is now . clear that the Whig Ministers, when they framed their measure, took by no means an inaccurate view of the qualifications of their partisans to retain the confidence of the people of Great Britain. The second election under the Corporation Reform Bill has been much less fa vourable to the Whig-Radical party than the first. The tide has turned more strongly even than could have been anticipated. The Whig-Radicals have lost ground almost every where. There is scarcely a town- Council in England, in which the recent elections have not increased the number of Conservative mem bers, and diminished that of the Whigs and Radicals. In several instances, all the retiring Whigs and Radi cals have been re-placed by Conservatives. In very few have these parties been enabled to keep up their former number. In many cases the actual majority of the whole Councils has passed, in virtue of the new elections, from the Whig-Radical to the Conservative party. In not a single instance of which we have heard, has the previous majority changed sides in the opposite direction. The above we believe to be a cor rect general description of what has taken place in England, while in Scotland the re-action appears to be still more decided. Even in Glasgow, that most Radical of Scottish cities, the Conservatives have made a clear gain of three votes. In Edinburgh, also, they have obtained an accession of strength. At Jed burgh the whole Whig-Radical list of candidates is rejected to a man. Inverness has elected six Con servatives, the number of vacancies being eight. These triumphs are not without value on their own account, but they are chiefly to be prized as an earnest of greater and more important triumphs to the Conserva tive cause. The state of public opinion which has led to such results as we have mentioned in the election of Town-councillors cannot be without its correspondent effect in other elections of deeper and more general importance. It would be an impeachment of the un derstanding,_ the consistency, and the integrity o f the people of England and Scotland to suppose that, while they manifest at their local elections so great an anxiety to strengthen the Conservative party in their municipal councils, they would neglect the oppor tunity, if it were afforded them by a general election, to reinforce the same party in the great council of the nation.—Morning Post. Attached to the new copper-works, belonging to Messrs. Vigors and Co., in Cwm Avon, is a tunnel for con suming and conveying copper smoke, 1,100 yards in length, from the smelting furnaces to the top of the high hill towards the north -went, called Mol-y-Mynyddau. In this elevated spot the small quantity, if any, that will escape precipitation ,will find its way into the air. Few persons, probably, are aware of the immense quantity of copper thus saved to the proprietors, which in former times was deposited on the neighbouring lands, subjecting them to most expensive ac tions. In a tunnel not long made by Messrs. Williams and and Co., in their works on the Swansea river, 200 tons of copper were taken out, which had been precipitated in the short sr ace of one year. The value of this was 2,0001.! and much was still left in the tunnel. Chambers are made in the tunnel for attracting the smoke, which is further pro moted by the use of steam, so that little of it is allowed to reach the place of exit till it has deposited in transitu all its substance. This material, therefore, which not only was formerly lost, but did serious mischief to the adjoining lands, thereby entailing law-suits and ruinous expense, becomes now a matter of profit.—Merthyr Paper. A TRICK UPON THE LEARNED ACADIEMICIANS. —The Journa General de Fiance contains an amusing account of of a trick played by a sailor, named Burnett Burns, upon that very scientific body, the Paris Academy. This individual, who, it appears, belongs to a whale ship, at Havre, tattooed his face in a very skilful and ingenious manner, and so deceived M. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, that that learned academician himself presented him to the Academy as King of Zealand. M. St. Hilaire, in doing so, begged the members to note the skill with which the man had been tattooed, and spoke of the operation as one of the most beautiful specimens of the art. The pretended King made his entree with very great form, accompanied by an inter preter, bearing a scalp and a wooden figure, which it was said was the God worshiped by th eaatives, of which the Zealander was King. M. Magendie directed the atten tion of the Academy to this object of adoration, and told the attendants to pass the God round. " The " God" of course excited considerable attention. Various were the speculations among the Academy, as to the origin of the monarch. One member thought him a beautiful specimen of the Zealander race, while another considered that he more resembled the nations of Mount Caucasus. At length, M. Payen, who spoke English, addressed the pretended King in that language, who being off his guard, immediately answered. The mystery was cleared up, and the King hur ried out of the Academy, leaving the scientific body in high dudgeon at the idea, that a trick should be attempted upon such distinguished learning. VERY ELIGIBLE CURACY.—(From the Record of Aug. 15.) —The Rector of a country parish wishes to resign the whole charge of it into the hands of an expe rienced Curate. The parish contains 1,700 inhabitants. Many families of distinction reside in it ; therefore it is es sential that the curate should be an accomplished gentle man, educated at Eton, Westminster, or Winchester, and that his name be found amongst the highest honours at Cambridge or Oxford. He must be of sound Church-of- England principles, decided piety, and moderate in politics. He must possess a strong, clear, well-toned voice, and a graceful delivery ;,' and be qualified to preach either with or without his MS. He must have been no less than seven years in priest's orders. He must be bold and decisive in opposing Dissent and Popery, yet charitable and conciliat ing. He must not belong to any secret society. The ser vices required of him are two full services on Sundays, and a full church service on Wednesday evenings, three weekly cottage meetings, daily attendance at the school, and a de votedness to pastoral duties ; also to read three hours every day with the Rector's two sons durine , their holidays. The highest testi mon i a l s w ill b e required.° Remuneration—an unfurnished house, the produce of a small garden well stocked with potatoes, cabbages, and onions ; half the pro fits of an Alderney milch cow, and the services of the gar dener and his wife. The man is competent to look after a poney, and his wife is a very fair plain cook. They are obliging people, and as they will receive their regular wages, they will not expect for waiting upon a strang er more th an a small douceur of ss. p er wee k, with all the spare vegetables. Address (post-paid) to the Rev. S. P—yw-11, Post-offiee, York. N.B. The preference will be given to a married man, with a truly Christian wife. PATENT INVENTIONS. (From The Repertory of Patent Inventions.) EXPIRED PATENTS. Pierre Erard, of Great Marlborough-street, Middlesex, musical instrument maker, for certain improvements on pianofortes, and other keyed musical instruments. Com municated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Dec. 22, 1821. (The term of this patent has been extended under the Act of 5 and 6 W. 4, c. 83, for seven years.) George Linton, of Gloucester-street, Queen-square, Middlesex, mechanist, for a method of impelling machinery without the aid of steam, water, wind, air, or fire ; sealed Dec. 22, 1821. Richard Ormrod, of Manchester, Lancashire, ironfoun der, for an improvement in the mode of heating liquids in boilers, and thereby accelerating and increasing the produc tion of steam. Communicated by a person residing abroad ; sealed Jan. 7, 1822. Richard Summers Harford, of Ebbw Vale Ironworks, Aberystwith, Monmouthshire, Ironmaster, for an improve ment in that department of manufacture of iron commonly called puddling ; sealed Jan. 9. 1822. James Harris, of St. Mildred's-court, London, tea dealer, for an improvement in the manufacture of shoes for horses and other cattle ; sealed Jan. 9, 1822. William Ravenscroft, of Serle-street, Lincoln's-Inn- Fields, St. Clement Danes, Middlesex, peruke-maker, for a forensic wig, the curls whereof are constructed on a principle to supersede the necessity of frizzing, curling, or using hard.pomatum, and for the forming the curls in a way not to be uncurled; and also for the tails of the wig not to require tying in dressing, and further, the impossi bility of any person untying them ; sealed Jan. 14, 1822. David Loescham, of Newman-street, Oxford-street, Middlesex, musical-instrument-maker, and James Allwright, of Little Newport-street, Middlesex, cheesemonger, for an improved keyed musical instrument, comprising in itself many qualities never hitherto produced in one instrument, and possessing those qualities in clearness of sound, qua lity, distinctness, forte-piano, delicacy of touch, and shake on the keys or notes, by increasing to forte and decreasir , to piano at the will of the performer. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Jan. 14, 1822. Alexander Gordon, of London, and David Gordon, of Edinburgh, Esquires, for certain improvements and addi tions in the construction of lamps, and of compositions and materials to be burned in the lamps, and which may also be burned in other lamps, sealed Jan. 14, 1822. David Gordon, of Edinburgh, Esquire, for certain im provements and additions to steam-packets, and other ves sels ; part of which improvements are applicable to other naval and marine purposes ; sealed Jan. 14,1822. NEW PATENTS. Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Mid dlesex, gentleman, for improvements in anchors, and in fric tion rollers, to facilitate the lowering and raising such and other anchors, which friction rollers are applicable to other purposes. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Sept. 15,1836—5 ix months. William Pringle Green, of Falmouth, in the county of Cornwall, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, fore improve ments on capstans applicable to ships and other purposes, and for methods or contrivances to reduce manual labour at capstans used at mines, which methods or contrivances strengthening capstans, prevents them being overpowered, and are improvements on the modes hitherto resorted to for the performance of work, such capstans, methods, and contrivances being used conjointly or separately, and for raisin: ore and men from mines ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836 six months. John Isaac Hawkins, of Chase Cottage, Hampstead-road, in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, for an improve ment in the blowing pipe of blast furnaces and forges. Com municated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836—six months. George Crane, of Yniscedywyn Iron Works, near Swan sea, Iron -master, for an improvement in the manufacture of iron ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836—six months. William Neal Clay, of West Bromwich, in the county of Stafford, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the manufacture of sulphate of soda ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836 six months. Richard Pearson, of Saint Giles, Oxford, organist of Carfax Church, Oxford, for certain improvements in drags or apparatus for retarding carriages ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836—six months. John Ledyard Phillips, of Melksham, in the county of Wilts, cloth manufacturer, for an improvement in the ma nufacture of woollen cloths ; sealed Oct. 4, 1836—two months. James White, of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, en gineer, for certain improvements on railways ; sealed Oct 4, 1836—six months. Charles William Stone, of Finchley, in the county of Middlesex, mechanic, for improvements in harness for weav ing purposes, and in the apparatus for making the same. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Oct. 4, 1836—six months. . . Henry Huntly Mohun, of Walworth, in the county of Surrey, doctor in medicine, for improvements in the manu facture of fuel ; sealed Oct. 4, 1836—six months. Samuel Tonkin Jones, of Manchester, in the county Pa latine of Lancaster, merchant, for certain improvements in the tanning of hides and skins ; sealed Oct. 6, 1836—six months. Miles Berry, of No. 66, Chancery-lane, in the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, mecha nical draftsmen, for certain improvements in machinery or apparatus for making or manufacturing metal screws ; sealed Oct. 6, 1836—six months. John Sharp, of the borough of Dundee, in the county of Forfar, in North Britain, flax-spinner, for certain machinery for converting ropes into tow, and certain improvements in certain machinery for preparing hemp or flax for spinning, part of which improvements are also applicable to the pre paring of cotton, wool, and silk for spinning ; sealed Oct. 8, 1836—six months. Henry Scott, junior, and Robert Stephen Oliver, hatters, both of the city of Edinburgh, for a certain improvement or improvements in the manufacture of hats, caps, and bonnets. Communicated by a foreigner residing abrOad ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months. Frederick Benjamin Gesthner, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, brass-founder, for improvements appli cable to the drawing or winding up of window and other roller-blinds or maps, which improvements are also applicable to other useful purposes ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months. John Hemming, of Edward-street, Portman-square, in the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in the manufacture of white lead ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months. Thomas Lutwyche, of Liverpool, in the county palatine of Lancaster, manufacturing chemist, for certain improve ments in the construction of apparatus used in the decom position of common salt, and in the mode or method of work ing or using the same ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months. John Ruthven, of Edinburgh, for improvements in the formation of rails or rods for making railways, and in the method of fixing or joining them ; sealed Oct. 18, 1836 six months. Charles Pierre Devaux, of Fenchurch-street, in the city London, merchant, for a new or improved apparatus for pre venting the explosion of boilers or generators of steam. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months. John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Peckham, in the county of Surrey, chemist, for certain improvements in the several processes of saccharine, vinous, and acetous fermentation ; sealed Oct. 20, 1836—six months. William Bridges Adams, of Brecknock-crescent, Camden town, in the county of Middlesex, coach-maker, for certain improvements in wheel carriages ; sealed Oct. 20, 1836 six months. Christopher Nickels, of Guildford-street, Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, manufacturer of caoutchouc, for improve ments in preparing and manufacturing caoutchouc, appli cable to various useful purposes. Communicated partly by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Oct. 24, 1836—six months. An attempt at robbery took place at Sandon, Herts, in the house of Mr. Adams, grocer, on Tuesday night, be tween twelve and one o'clock. Mr. Adams, some time after he had been in - bed, indistinctly hearing some persons softly moving in the house, and then trying to open his sleeping-room door, got out of bed and opened it, suspect ing it was his daughter. Three ruffians stood on the stair case immediately opposite, one of whom he thought he heard say, " D—n you, you are the villain we want," and instantly struck him with a plough coulter, repeating the blow ten times, chiefly on the head, as if their only inten tion was to murder him. He asked what they wanted? " Your money," was the reply. He then said, "Do not use me thus, and I will give what I have, but I paid it all away in the evening except two half crowns and some six pences." " You lie," was the reply. He repeated that what he had told them was true. " Have you any sove reigns ?" was the next question. " No, not one," replied Mr. Adams, and repeated again what money he had. His daughter entered the room in her night-dress, and the ap prentice rushed out of the house to procure assistance. Miss Adams then laid hold of the man who had her father down, and begged of him to desist, saying she would give him all she had. Immediately she received a blow on the face and arm, and the men knowing that one of the family had escaped to give an alarm, and having obtained the cash-box, they made off, but were met at the door by a Mr. Cannon, whom the apprentice had fetched. " D--n you," said one of them, " what do you mean ?" Cannon said, " I will let you know," and immediately struck him a blow on the temple, which occasioned a considerable flow of blood. The cash-box was dropped in the struggle, and the fellows escaped. Three men have since been ap prehended, one of them having a severe wound on the tem ple, is supposed to be the villiap struck by Cannon.... County Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 7. TAYLOR V. MAYO. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict which bad been given for the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside and a new trial granted. The ground on which he rested his motion was, that the damages were excessive. He had also affidavits relieving the defendant from the censure which the trial bad appeared to cast on his conduct. This was an action for criminal conversation. It was tried before Mr. Justice Littledale at Gloucester, when the plaintiff made out his case in a way as little calling for large damages as could be con ceived. The marriage was proved to have taken place in 1832, the plaintiff being a traveller for a house at Chelten ham, and the only person to prove it and to identify the parties was the parish clerk, whose evidence went to esta blish both points. Nothing, therefore, was known of the parties before the marriage ; and as to the way in which they lived after it had taken place the person in whose house they had for some time lodged was the only Witness. The husband and wife resided at Cheltenham ; the defendant was proved to have had an acquaintance with the wife at a town in the north of England. There was not one tittle of evidence to show how he had become acquainted with her, that he had violated any ties of friendship or hospitality, or even that he knew the woman to have been a married woman. There was, therefore, nothing which in the least degree could justify the Jury in giving large damages ; yet the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1001. damages. The COURT would speak to Mr. Justice Littledale before granting the rule. DOE DEM. NEALE V. EOSTLETHWAITE. Mr. BLACKBURN stated that this was an action of eject ment, in which the Jury had returned a verdict for the plaintiff. He now applied to set aside that verdict and have a new trial. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Coleridge at Lancaster, when it appeared that the plaintiff was the heir-at-law of the testator, and that the defendant defended his title to the property, which was the subject of the action, under the authority of a will.—Rule refused. COURT OF REQUESTS, KINGscATB-STREET. HIS MAJESTY'S CONSUL FOR MEXICO SUMMONED BY A SWEEP ! Yesterday Mr. Parkinson, the newly-ap pointed British Consul for Mexico, was summoned by a swarthy-looking sweep, named Wiggins, for the sum of 2s. for labour performed in sweeping two parlour chimneys belonging to his Majesty's Mexican Representative, while residing in Connaught-terrace, Regent's Park. Mr. Chummy, the sweep, stated his case to Mr. Commissioner Dußois, in the following classical style : My Lord, I vos sent for to serveep these ear chimbleys, and I went in coorse, not thinking as how nanny bob stickle whatsomedever would have been thrown in my way. Well, I sets my boy to vork, and he done it like a trump, and arter that I natterally auxed for my money. How much, says Muster Parkinson ? Two bob, says I, making him a werry perlite bow. Oh, says he, I never pays no more nor sixpence.—(Laughter.) Ah, but, says I, it won't suit me to do em for that ear price. It may do werry veil for Mexico, where they arn't got no chimbleys at all .—(Laughter.) You'll reckerlect I'm a Lunnan serveep ; and since that precious Hact as been passed, what makes it felony to sing out in the streets, vy were obligated to have full price when we does get into a ouse. —(Considerable laughter.) Mr. DUBOIS—Is Mr. Parkinson in Court? Here a curious looking personage stepped forward, and said he had attended for Mr. Parkinson, who would leave town to-morrow for Mexico. He earnestly assured the Learned Commissioner that Mr. Parkinson had never paid more than sixpence in his life for sweeping a chim ney ; and he hoped that for the good of the public— ( Laughter)—the Court would not compel Mr. Parkinson to pay the amount. Mr. DUBOlS—Really, Sir, Mr. Parkinson has been very ill-advised in coming hither, and I do not 'see how the paltry claim can be disputed. Pray, Mr. Sweep, do you always charge a shilling for sweeping a chimney ? Plaintiff—'Pon my vord and onner I does, ven its a long'n, and cheap too. Lord, Sir, you don't know wot it is to serweep a chimley.—(Laughter.) Mr. DUBOIS—You are perfectly right ; Mr. Parkinson must pay the debt and costs immediately. Plaintiff—That's vot I calls out-and-out jestice ; and the sooty applicant made his exit, every one most cour teously making way for him. AN OLD AND A MODERN WIG.—A tall old dame was summoned by a querulous little barber of the party-coloured poll school, for the sum of 1/. 7s, the price of a wig supplied to her. The defence set up by the elderly lady was, that she had had a better wig made for 10s. Both wigs were produced i❑ Court, and the little barber thus stated the difference : " My lord, I've been a wig maker and a wig dresser, man and boy, a matter of sixty years ; but of all the old women I've ever clapped hair on, this 'ear's the worst— (laughter). This 'ear wig as I've made is a real good article ; its got the natteral curl—its one of the reg'lar old sort—its a good colour—it sticks tight on the head—it dont change colour—it dont. shuffle about—it dont— Mr. COMNISSIONER—Pray stop that list of negative virtues—(laughter). Plaintiff—Well, then, my Lord, its a wig what is a whig —now just compare the two. The defendant here produced the 10s. wig wrapped up in a portion of the Morning chronicle. Both wigs were examined by-the Jury, one of whom said that both were good for nothing, but of the two the old one was the best. Mr. Dußois—What is the matter with this new wig that the difference in so great ? Plaintiff—This ere new wig, Sir, is what I calls a werry promersing one ; but it won't stand to it—there's no wear in it, and all these ere curls are hartificial—(Laughter)— there's nothin natteral about it ; besides, nobody carnt make sich a wig as mine now-a-days ; and I'm werry happy (though I say it myself) there goin right out—people's a getting sick on 'em—the're nasty, troublesome, expensive, and deceitful—(Laughter)—and a good deal more expen sive than people takes 'em to be. Lord, Sir, I can remem ber when these ere wigs first--- COMMISSIONER—Pray, silence that man. Is there any barber in Court ? Here a fashionable tonsor stepped forward. COAIMISSIONER—Are you a judge of wigs, Sir ? Wit ness—Capital, my Lord. COMMISSIONER—Just favour me with your opinion of those wigs. Witness (after scrutinising them some minutes) —Really, my Lord, the're both good for nothing, but the old one is the best. You'll observe, my Lord, they are not both of one colour, and I'll tell you how that happens.—(Laughter.) COMMISSIONER—Don't trouble yourself, Sir, I'm satis fied. We shall award 10s. enough in all conscience for such a wig, and the defendant must pay the costs. On hearing this decision the plaintiff made a face as me lancholy as a Wandero baboon ; and, wiping a tear from his little twinkling eye, he breathed a curse " not loud but deep," against all wigs, from the common scalp to the na tural scratch. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance, who said that his name was Charles Jacobs, was brought before Alderman PIRIE, charged with two robberies. Webb, a policeman, stated that a few minutes before the prisoner was brought into the justice-room he (prisoner) snatched at a gentleman's fob, and succeeded in breaking away a gold seal and chain from the ring to which a watch was attached. The young man did not attempt to escape, and was taken at once into custody. Mr. P. Hinde, proprietor of the Crown public-house, Blackfriars-road, stated that as he was passing by the gate of the Mansion House the prisoner made a grab at his seal and chain. Witness got hold of the chain and struggled with the prisoner, who, by an effort, wrenched it from the ring, and said " He would have it." Upon being taken into custody the prisoner said that he committed the offence in order to be transported. Alderman PIRIE—Have you any friends ?—Prisoner— I have, and they are very respectable, but I shall not say who they are. Alderman PIRIE—But why did you adopt this plan of disposing of yourself ? Could you not get out of the country except by means of a robbery ?—Prisoner—Some thing in my bosom prompted me to take that way. I have lost my situation in consequence of my propensity to drink. I have got out of all my situations from that unfortunate habit, and I wish to be sent away from this country. I have eommitted a robbery, but am no thief. The prisoner was searched, and eight shillings and a small memorandum book (in which he had, while standing among the other prisoners, before he was put to the bar for examination, been seen writing) were found upon him. In the memorandum book was found the following note : " November 7th, 1836, robbed a gentleman of a seal and ring." Alderman PIRIE—I shall remand you to Friday next, and in the meantime the officer shall make inquiry about you. The prisoner walked quietly out of the Justice room with the policeman, who did not think it all necessary to put handcuffs upon him. The moment they got into the street, however, the prisoner made a snatch at the chain and seals of a gentleman who was passing along, and wrenched them from the ring which attached them to the owner's watch. As upon the form,er occasion, he made no attempt to get away, and he said that he was determined upon being sent out of the country. Alderman PIRIE thought he might have been satisfied with the first outrage. The prisoner was of opinion that the &ft case might prove to be too weak, and he was determined to fortify it by another, iL9,t there might be no mistake. Mr. Henry Pliii;;;:) , s , of No. 20 , Budge -row, was the per: son attacked on the seco2d occ asion. The prisoner said he was aware of the desperate : lature of his conduct ; but he was no thief. He had drank himself out of place, out of money, out of friends, out of charactei; and, in fact, out of his mind ; and he was resolve d not to disgrace those. knew him. Alderman PIXIE ordered that the unfortunate man should be brought before him on Friday. Upon leaving the Mansion-house the prisoner said the policeman that nothing fiOher need be a pprehended frOlo him. He believed that he had acco m p lished the business, and was content. He said that the n ame he had given in a cu was a fictitious one, but he would give no more acrate con in- formation than he bad already given, and had firm, each fidence in his expectation to' be sent abroad . Upon r ing the Compter in a coach with the policeman be pa. id the coachman, and very contentedly took up h is abode In the prison. A young man, named John Gun, who was in the emple.Y" ment of Mr. Darling, a printer, was charged with having plundered the premises of Mr. Newman, the bookseller and publisher of Leadenhall-strcot, of a vast quantity of books. Mr. Darling is, we believe, the printer employed by Mted r. Newman, and the prisoner had constant and uninterrup access to the premises of the prosecutor. So immensely large was Mr. Newman's stock of Prayer-books, Testa ments, and Mrs. Holland's celebrated Mora l Tales, that, although the plunder committed by the priso ner was, whole sale, it was not discovered till a pawnbroker , named Bur gess, sent to inform him that a great number of his books were in pledge. The prisoner said that it was his intention to have re.. leased all the books from pawn, and to restore them to the owner.—He as remanded, and the pawnbrokers were ordered to be summoned to attend the next examination. HATTON-GARDEiY.in Yesterday numerous persons attended at this office consequence of the report of Mutch's case in the new s " papers, they having been swindled by him under the cir cumstances already detailed. Mrs. Ross, the landlady of the house in which the pri soner carried on his delinquencies, No. 41, Devonshire' street, Queen-square, where he took a couple of parlours: under the representation that he was a conveyancer, called the at the office to state that ever since the apprehension o f primer, her house had b , en besieged by individuals who had been duped by him. Mr. Lipscombe, fruiterer, and filterer, of Regent-streeto gave information that his son advertised in the Times for & situation, when he was applied to by the prisoner, requesting an interview, when he represented himself as G. S. Mu te "' Esq., conveyancer, 41, Devonshire -street, Queen-squ are ; and agreed to procure for him a situation as land waiter 8 Liverpool, and obtained 151. from him as a deposit; but he never obtained the situation, and the imposition wa s P ? discovered until the report of his examination appeared 10 the newspapers. Another individual advertised in the Morning Herald for stat mercantile situation, wheu he received a letter, signed GS Mutch, Esq., 41, Devonshire -street, Queen-square, iog that he could procure him a situation under Governlnell; upon payment of 80/., on his appointment, and a deposit a lOl. to be paid down immediately. He paid the 10/., ap signed an agreement to pay the 80/. when he received the situation. He asked the prisoner where his private rek dence was, on which he affected to be insulted, and toll him if he suspected his honour to take back his money ; a n d from his manners and the appearance of the office his was divested of all suspicion, and he quitted the place. r called several times on the prisoner, and a couple of days De fore his apprehension he called, and saw his clerk, wh o P i t duced a long petition, addressed to the Lords of his Majes t i c Treasury, and praying for a situation in the Treasury. ea subsequently called at 41, Devonshire-street, and ascer tain that the prisoner had been given into custody for defratic li l Mr. Baker, upon whose charge he stauds committed fo r tris It appears that during the last mot;th the prisoner icei visited by numerous parties, from whom be must have r ceived a considerable sum of money ; but, after his first Cr amination, on his road to the New Prison, he was neces sitated to pledge his green spectacles to procure someth'l s to drink, and he appeared at the bar without them at 11l last examination. - A dirty, mean-looking woman, in a state of intoxicatib: who was pointed out as Mrs. Mutch, his wife, 14/ 36 ° ,. 6 served lurking about the office, when she was brought helfe",, Mr. LAING, and questioned. She said that the prisoe: lodged in Bid-street, but would not tell where. She scribed him as a house agent. Mr. LAING was satisfied that the prisoner had carried oS his practices to a considerable extent, and told the Par, tie v that he was remanded until Thursday next, when they 111_1g, b attend and exhibit their various charges against him , vvw c they promised to do. It is a singular fact, that the parish of Chulmie i g li e alone, containing about two thousand inhabitants, there afe no less than 61 old maidens, 53 marriageable, and it widows, and only 15 widowers, and 31 bachelors, so that, Po will be f oun d by a f ew fi gures th ere are 110 females ig e apparently have but a sli g ht chance of ever being led to o hymeneal alter in this place. It is indeed a pity WI government would grant a free passage to ail young fem ale : who are disposed to t ra v e l t o th e new wor ld--or other 1r do what would, in my o pi n i on , b e f ar better, grant Eng lis men the invaluable privilege of having a couple of of dearly bel ove d sorrow - soo thi ng c o mpanions, instead 13. solitary one.—Western Times. On Saturday, at the Middlesex Sessions, the C• 11.1r ,! sat for a short time to finish the appeal list. Mr. Pre ade. ; gast appeared for the overseers of St. Pancras, again st/ young man named Mills, as the father of a child. beth Gale, aged 18, stated that the child in her arms "'",r longed to the defendant, and it was " nobody else s• 0 Mills, " That's a falsity ; it hasn't the cut of my la, e ,:k Mother.—" Oh, how can you say so, Mister Mills ; l e " 0 t at it."—(Laughter.) Mills.—" No, I won't ; it's 0, mine." The Court said the girl had sworn it, and the de' fendant must pay 3s. a week. Another defendant el s sented to pay 2s. 6d. a week, stating " but I think it is mine. to The inhabitants of the Cornish fishing towns begun to despair of the success of the pilchird fishery I °' the present year. To their great joy the last week has P,.. r° ": ‘ duced extraordinary fine catches ; indeed, every seane irt been successful. Whilst Sir Astley Cooper was at P tL. ," Ives, he declared the pilchard to contain three time nourishment that the herring affords. An enterprisies gentleman of Bristol has, in consequence of the Lear n d e , Baronet's observation, bought several hundred thousar to for the purpose of introducing them for the first. time to the London market.—North Devon Journal. LADIES' GOLD WATCH- y-4 'oa A variety of excellent and carefully finished Ladies' Secnclibastes Gold Watches, many of them in accordance with the lat s !_ e from with Gold Dials, Jewelled, &c., are offered for selection, ri iff c lit er Six to Eight Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY maker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange' B IR THS. Oa 1 e• On the 2d inst., at Birmingham, the lady of the Re v- Craven, M.A., of a'son. On the 6th inst., at Leamington, Mrs. Trant, of a daugh, te S On the sth in s t., a t G errar d' s C ross , Bucks, ties 15( 1 1 °I • Bulkeley,ywell 'House, H Esq. of a daug an hter. hter• At Holts, Lady Henry Thynne of a datigu. On the 27th inst., at Curzon-street, May-fair, the wife Of Walker, Esq., of a son. o f the On the sth inst., at the Rectory, Widford, Herts, the lad y Rev. H. Hammond, of a daughter. Rev. On the 6th inst., in Bloomsbury-square, the lady of t he Edwards, of a son. MARRIED. E qs '' On the sth inst., at St. Marylebone Frederick Huth, .jun . to Francis Caroline, only daughter of ' Sir Chapman late i c h ;i :; '• -T w o! , On the 22d ult., at Nevis, Charles Kenny, Esq. the 52d Light Infantry, to Mary, eldest daughter of R. td Eiq., Collector of Customs at St. Christopher. DIED. On the sth inst., in St. James's-place Du dale Stratford pug' dale, Esq., of Merevale House Warwickslire ter On the 6th inst., at Twickenham, Emm Clara, infant daugh of Captain J. Sharp, aged 6 weeks Y urvo e, On the sth inst., Jane second daughter of C. IV. G. Esq., of Voelas, Denbighshire. s e torl On the 7th inst, at Sydenham, Kent, aged 73, Richard Fr Prichard, Esq., Justice of the Peace for the above county. A G o. On the 2d inst., at Walton Priory, near Liverpool , aged 87' Case, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Brighton, aged 81, Win. Wig ne P Egg. d 5 On the sth inst., at King-street, Covent-garden, • St r e le of Hammersmith, aged 64.America' On the 4th inst., Charles Webster Gergnes , Esq., of -- square, aged 51. we, On the 4th inst., Miss Elizabeth Warwick, of Brudenell-P New North-road, formerly of Kew-green, aged 76. eb* On the 2d inst., at Rotherfield, Sussex, aged SO, the Rev. Crawley, Rector f Rotherfield, and of St. Mildred's, Lon d r . s on. On the 29th ult, in Dingwall, Ross-shire, Jean SI t he daughter of the late Rev. T. Simpson, Minister of Avocb, 1 same county, aged 72. Wm.On the inst., Purdy,f i o n rm G e r r a l c y e o ch f u 3 r i ch ark - s - t l r a e n e e t : aJgaende,Bw2.idow of t he Is:: On the 28th ult., at Hampstead, Miss Mary Ann Rivers , 11 . - daughter of the late R. Hooper, Esq., of Limpsfield, Surrel* On the 3d inst., at Dalston, Miss Jane Fletcher. )3 y es On the 3d inst., at Esher, Mrs. Ann Bye , widow a Jobn Esq., aged 83. On the sth inst., at Boley-hill, Rochester, S a muel Baker, 04 11 ag T ed 75. P g. On the 2d inst., at Dov er , a ged 70, St. Andre w St. .0 9 St. D.C.L., of Gayton, Norfolk, son of the Hon. and Very fte" A. St. John, late Dean of Worcester. On the 31st ult., at Bath, Wm. Lan slow, Esq. , aged ßat" On the 28th ult. in Ledbury, Herefordshire, age d 63, 0 ° cliffe, Esq., late of Dockfield House, Warwickshire. London 1•' • . Printed and Published by MURDO YOU co G 9 t ot! 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strata , is to of Middlesex.—Tuesday, November 8, 1110. THE SUN. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1836.