The Sun. — London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

I GRAVESEiip STAR PACKET S. FURTHER REDUC rrox OF FARES. SIXPENCE AND *NINEPENCE, Boat and Blackwall Railway included. bz 7 a From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, " ut tlaYB included) at , Ten, Eleven Twelve, Three, Four, • Six, and Half-past Seven „ _ From the Terrace Pi e r, Gravesend, kt se, en, Ault -past Nine, Half-past Twelve, Two,* Four, Six, Seven, e Cab 'n o and Eight. tar ' •On Sundays at Five instead of Two. re • .., , an d Seam I-class Carriage, Sixpence ; Saloon and S•s t 0 — . First-class Carriage, Ninepence. • , ~rt,. ,aee, Gravesend, July 10, 1844. ~__, li c , T4 „ - - GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION nops---.iPA.NY'S splendid and powerful iiratclass STEAM liolit_e aPpointed to leave LONDON for— • s- P., uutill and ROTTERDAM, carrying' her Majesty's Mails tkerY,,,,„\Vcdnesday and Saturday Morning. „tx,r;re•:—Every Sunday, at Eight, Morning. 4 3', si EP l ev t e l : l Tlr rn om in ß g. i ruesw , ck Wharf, Biackwall—Every 'Thurs . 05,,, From London Bridge Wharf, for — /10311;",,,.,—Tuesday, Wednesday Saturda and Sunday. a air `4%1E —E ' Thursday,Saturday, and Sunday. ea, 5s YerY Wednesday, 4 1 , ,..,. . ant 45. tta ~,,."-Lc—Every Thursday , Friday,and Sunday Morning. Fares, ' ..... 4 8 —., l ila,:_ ttitarpery Tuesday and FrldaY, at Eight, Morning. /tAlis,„,Tß.—Every Saturday, at Six, Evening. 1)/10,.„.,'KE—Daay, at Half-past Nine. tad ev,,,,-ugGII---From Brown's Wharf, Poplar, every Saturday '''''•' alternate Wednesday, July 24, 27, and August 3, at Ten Art, , From Dovin's Wharf, Reduced Fares, for — tat, ~,`•*-STLE--Ever Wednesday and Saturday, at Eight, Eve.- gol4b,ares, 10s. and s y s. Itltlctr',ll,,LUD—Ev'ery Tuesday, at Seven, Evening.' ,neiwZiu.N . and ILA.I T RE—Everi Tuesday and Friday. 4 1 ,,, 31 RIGHTON' and DIEPPE, every Monday, Wednesday, 0017, and SaturdaY To DOVER and B OLILOGNE—The Magician, Daily, according to tide. %art; enl'e Be rt h °•-•., for Freiatt and for Bills, containing hours of iie gesa. t re i r ' fax ua es . , c., apply at the Offices, 69, Lombard-street ; 37, •--• al ld 35 , Leadenhall-street. rPERIAL AUSTRIAN LOAN of 30,000,000 Al, PLOt v . — cTli —4,48, authorised by his Majesty the EMPEROR of Oa ib lA r ; ,: n tEX., I I A of SEPTEMBER, 1844, there will take place . at ' 4 174 ' the D ISTRIBUTION' of 700 GAINS, amounting to abt, i „ • _aerlia czr - There being only 700 Bonds in all, each Bond must 54. 07 ° ) " e ffile abo ve 700 d ra i ns , the highest of which ard 23,00 W., „ A i•„,,' t;001., 1 ,0001. &c Brc , and the lowest SOL each. ib st4o i " r •onda can be had for 12.51. each, or with the deduction of - ‘l t ePOr wha n eli k.. tileY must' at least obtain, for 751. Halves and fifths lit7 - '„AX t n i t - „,"'elng a considerable reduction from the former price. - - , roisa.;,..i,e GRAND IDUKE of BADEN of 5,000,000 FLORINS, ,ahe gi.:;!;,.a) in the YEAR 1841. 'Alin ' ,NTII DISTRIBUTION will take place at Carlsrahe, Y and i 3 tl e Iv% rrcrocably ou the Ist of AUGUST, 1844, when 400 9, R.- . be obtained. Ode Gain of 35,000 florins, 10,000 , ii s o ,o rins oo, tree,,,,."k2 The lcaiest Gains. being 65 florins each ; and 12 I,l4,gaii to 1/ sterling. f e t 6 ii f ... 4 B bare, 1057; Eleven for 51. ; Twenty-thr a ee .i f y or to l m Ol e ., ssr &c s. . ~.4, st Particulars and Bonds of the above loans apply r' .. a l to ..,,Ilwarzschild, Bankers, Frankfort-on-Maine, or, to save u'scl, ii, a PPlications by letter can be addressed, Mr. A Schwarzs t-cou'------,............2t, Lom bard-street, London. o„,, ,p /N . GOVERNMENT SECURITIES k I a 4 I. I •OEI)ZTATE BONDS, RAILROAD SH f FraSil&foici-on-the i. ti,,e , res, e ,, ~", . .VOE,LCKER, ju !•"ar s ar i" ,: •1111 . 3' calls the publi n c " at ß ten an t k io er n , _tp ° his ,o _o o c whi cup g ati oo on ve as nl a . 1;17 Ste e i c ,' . gnitt in the Sale and Transfer of the . r u Ne r, Govern l''' 441)-41:11"A -unarian 500 Iforin Bonds of the Loan of 1834 1839 I. , ,, tt ara sc i , „ 250 ~ ” t , ~ , o.ieby of Baden 50 „ ~ „ 1840 4-;',4.'aill F.sterha ' ' 1836 11 4 7 1"(46 h zy 8 50 ~ 9 , Tie slay • et L ., - - - 500 ~ ~ P, 1835 l'ittsBiati';',.nnkfort Bonds „ „ 1844 kiki,,Daliy,_a aval Trade / 1832 50 dollar ~ ,P A k lethp:,, • 1' ' : orei Stock, Railroad,and Estate Shares, &c. " cau ar „ gn if?' nent, (pre-paid via. France) will meet with imme cluireran, and prospectuses and particulars will be forwarded S l' Ait.' ' LOAN OF HIS ROYAL HIGH 110b z , z tss 1 4 0(`S , TM' , 'GRAND DUKE OF BADEN OF. 5,000,000 ou t 7, 35 i lan 'e be reimbursed-with 9,034,055 fl. in lots of fl. 50,000, f(), '` e let',,f7: 3°,1.)0 &e:' &a. - GRAND PUBLIC DISTRIBU 1 lON t c, , i tea " 41 ' 1 (4 l in ' 4-incedinrsir tore i ' NX - , at . Carlsruhe • Official Bulletins thereof, Y Shareho ' lder. Price of the Certifi ftlisl'l, i Elev ae3 ' . l er- for 10/ • Sixty for 251. . 4 JT. 1,„ . en, for :il. ; Twenty-three .• , ,ly far"Yane by Money Orders or Remittances.. 14:, p fu ll Partientirs without delay, to 31oriz I. Stiebel 1,,, - . , e4 to l'anort-on.Sl able ' . To save Postages, all Letters a - 'NAV f(ll.ek,rs. Stiebel and Co.. 8, Lime-street, London, be wqrcted and attended to. . d • t llB pa, re fetching B o nded er rat es ' loing• ted by prl, disposed°trade Pu t " rions s nrts Lace on the 3. , ru led Ds 6d; in c l 2 i brown ", ) gre, d For Pin'. urcbssefs fivt. Tet ler bags " log hb 4 at 5 6 s t° s, to 70 fo e 64 bag* 1 ; 21 5 b p brig h 'ark Teased de. hasb ee f s are ws, rat: - , firm het l a t t° white 283 .0 0 le ost Sag° gs; co S it ' a i , Tana, per t j 5 od iS 111- ell 38 9 ;upP l e o co§ t. )s per, to at 4 m3 , 5 ` Un• s . pa t 0019 0 1 °4 r oc 8 0 ,il 38 3 P'ef er• or wife a k. 1,•‘ , . 4 TABLE. DESSERT. CARTERS. 4 1 Oh o , doz. doz. pair. birptA,les.•tesell'a'(,iizbilalanee hanlis 19.. Od. 14s. Od. 6s. 6d. t, t 1 ,.... .. ) argest and best 4, 1 , A14 , 11 IVa t .„ .. *, — • to 4 p ad NUM to silverAlbata Plate r , r22s. 6d. IBs. Od. Bs. 6d. 4, 1 4 ' t, atra,,, , 3 /;:rks half the rice. the Set ofT hree ; very richly ornament. ), A l e , li g i. r a f rt Tice e. • Il k ilt t of s toud made Bronze Tea-urn 355. up to 51. A, ,A,, ,. L ond o n m d 1c10N , •,. th e o _,made Dish Covers 18s. 6d. ; Imperial Raised t1tNt„.11!'ti!,,41,,,111:4'2, ° BA S It ix BICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE. win ch ~‘_. for Fifty Tears ranked pre-eminent for their ' 3 always exchanged, if not approved. Bend for his Catalogue. Ar s '. IV E Si id th e NGTON STATUE vii i ! . .mtzt City, where multitudes pass, The h ab its iington's monument, sculptured in brass. _appearance, a - d gladly we scan Pe r ll 'a'ne Iv whit e o : , ,tuch a remarkable man. ; ,"_tne work of the sculptor we gaze, e ie ,.;!.conducted to chivalrous days, ti 4t rar.d ist sl . ouhl be honoiled. Their acts should be told /l et ry f or " w t b' monuments bold. Let ikewise fir those should these be d:splay'd stat, ete s thri who . have risen in trade. d for MOSES and SON, " taqic A „1 oer,, in trade such achievements have won, L e r al, ssF i i _y the way we would beg to suggest tl i ,"‘lbs e CV we certainly think wouki be best. p4 r all i s i o r' h mos of one s ngle farthing be paid 114 he eintlgye. s s tron M OSES'S de : so i,reat d and the sum is tra so small A r a ""Y sh,",g might he done without trouble at all. Ol i !gre riter u': i i We wish to be signalis'd thus ? Rit h l anie i s „ Monument " rises for " us." hot ' 1 statue" which none can surpass i s ;snot wrought by a Chantrey in brass. bi t Ni glori, u ?.nument, equal l'd by none 44g1i 00 faro° of 1 , . MJSES and SON. 15, ;\ ... READY MADE. £ s. d. Gl e fitn te e .. **** 7 .... ...................... , from 0 8 6 „4ts with silk csllars, cuffs, and facings.... 016 0 0r.,7.7.ety of shapes, handsomely trimmed 1 0 from 0 3 6 ,X . T.t,ts pr e l !l s,T,,! e r ve sts 7. 'land and jean blouses !-1 5 7: 1 11 4 , 5 ....... riot _ •.!. ............ . from 02 6 Nt r i e tti, stit ....... cashmere and Persian vests, splendid A *lt ................ 3s. to 8 6 1) 4 5 141 11 " 4, 0 0 F rock 4t sa;:,d cin,;;:••••• • ...... from 0 9 0 d . . ................................ rom 0 11 6 rae 1 4 % edgc„,'Marner ...... ........................... 'f from 9 7 0 from 1 8 Char 'ozo. . ........... .................................... • ..... ..• 1 4 0 k th ° r . TO MEASURE. fi _ e , ....... ...... to silk, made in any shape, water. . ..... ....... from 018 0 sT„fi!st s e vie 2tlier light summer materials, from 1 5 0 DT l esi t iisl 'est s Yest 3 :7 s e "' tashion 1 0 6 lit N e _te Nich L . ach, or three for from 0 9 6 lit in g „' a " t -I le Ratterns 9 16 0 e tt v ariety i,aind wet. material s trousers • 17 6 tl• .....~Ur. England 1 2 9 .......... „ ..... t O err ..from ....................... • • ..................... from 1 12 1, o y extent Can b .. tt r itliOt t o ON% followinge a p d ri fi c t es fi , : 7l . l minutes' notice, at the t k, k2 4 i kket "a t, 'rest anid trousers ylk t t let ) v est and from 1 16 0 ny trousers from 0 18 0 titeatnrtiele p_ e ur - u c r hased or ordered, if not approved I RZ' l 'll 4 tO rs' Ve? S a4l r ONned, tailors, -fitter , : dßate Wholesale and Retail cit .' and General Wareh ousemen, 154, Mi 1111gt Y, opposite the Church. pc! or and Son arc obliged guard th kt ki i-l'lrettring connected learned that it's untradesmanlike rii la th ot tr, o tte4 ollected with them, or the same concern, Co_,esn.neinzioTari_y. instances, and for obvious reasons. Not;tlet t t tre ge " no rnatever with any other establishment, tSe ,„ _ rue (heap Clothing should (to prevent th. b oti ltre,h . or send to, 154, Minories, or 66, Aldgate, Zt a. ,ace on . " 71 ed at this Establishment from sunset on ' - ' 4 to day, when business is resumed till twelve 4 ,, ~ „,trt , ~t „„ ki()li-S T \ tA, \ ICTS IN CUTTING THEIR TEETH. 5 t , 1 , 1 '04.4 0 ,, 4 , PP. -'7,,'?"/SI'S AMERICAN SOOTHING th21, 4 4frk,3. •rh irt ma efßcacious Remedy has been in general use G I , he s„t frorn /. Ye ars, and has preserved numerous Children th tk i !en eo irup i, ranvulsions arising from painful Dentition. As irjit , t :Le c ! , an 1 . t 1 1 , :*(11 on the Gums, the Child will be relieved, „tll t i ,liii tt l: , in g to infl ammation reduced. It is as innocent as 8, 4 , rt , t , e ~,e • 'll r,.„ Produce the Teeth with ease; and so pleasant, th.i,ultlNl 4 , na sg e se , to let Its Gums be rubbed with it. Parents k,N lo . t ,Matu'it alar to ask for JOHNSON'S AMERICAN wttle.N.,..tnedonad to notice that the names of Barclay and 'e on thL.eet, London (to whom Mrs. Johnson has sold e Stamp affixed to ach Bottle. 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To this fact we can bear testimony—the swift; and sudden, and complete destruction of the ship ; and vie are ; authorised by Lord Ingestrie and Captains Dickeson and. Henderson to give their decided opinion, founded upon an: examination of the vessel and the facts displayed in the. course of the experiment, that the cause of destruction vas: exterior, and not intrinsic. The applicability of this terrific power to purposes of actual warfare must be tested by the competent and constituted authorities, but of its existence in the possession of an individual there is now such evidence that an omission on the part of Government to sift this' matter thoroughly would be culpable in a high degree. We' understand that since the accession of Sir Robert Peel to. power various negotiations have been instituted between Captain Warner and the Government, all which have gone. off or been suspended, on the ground that his experimentt] are too costly. We are always advocates of economy of the, public money, but parsimony is sometimes the worst cif_ economy, and whatever affects the maritime supremacy of Great Britain is of such stupendous importance, that no pecuniary consideration of an ordinary amount ought to . stand in the way of a proper investigation of any matters. affecting that supremacy. When Captain W:irner a few years ago announced that .be' could send a line of-battle ship or a whole fleet to perdition in a moment, annihilate a castle, a fort, or a town, with equal ease and expedition, the public thought he was drawing the long bow. " Mira fulminis opera aunt," said they, but really: this is too great a demand upon our credulity. Thereupon.. Captain Warner was compelled to make a demonstration of; the destructive power of his " invisible shell," or bottled lightning, but his experiments being conducted before few witnesses, and though successful, somewhat involved in.: mystery, he found the public mind to a great extent inacqs sible to conviction. Sir R. Peel, indeed, having witnessed tine - tearing to pieces of a strong boat filled up with timber, at Wanstead, in the spring of 1842, went so fax as to say that Captain Warner certainly did possess a fearful power of the easy and practical applicability of which he requited fur ther proof. It will be recollected, that shortly after the present Premier came into office, a commission was ap pointed to investigate and report upon the merit : of Captain Warner's discovery. That commission consisted origin- ally of Admiral Sir Byam Martin and Admiral iiir Edward Owen; but the latter being ordered to the Mediter ranean, Sir H. Douglas was appointed in his stead. S ome contrariety of opinion led to the retirement of both these commissioners, and they were succeeded by Colonel Chalmer and Captain Caffln. Meantime Captain Warner had urged upon the Government the purchase of his secret, and offered ; to exhibit its effects on a large scale, if the Government would defray the expense. He was then requested to send in an estimate of the expense, which he did, but ; the Go vernment offered no more than one-fourth of the required sum and the intended demonstration was therefore not made. No more was heard of the matter, and people put the " invisible shell" as being, beyond a doubt, an exploded affair, until the fact was reported that a London shipowner had presented Captain Warner with a large vessel with a polite request that he would do him the favour to blow her to atoms if he could. '- -~. I/ i -.• • John o'Gaunt was the the name of the devoted ship She was a barque of 300 tons burden, three-masted, tall, full* bowed, strong, and seaworthy. She had recently returned from the Levant, whither she had been with Government stores, and was, it was said, to have gone out again on a similar errand. By direction of Mr. Somes, the donor, she was given up to Captain Warner in the early part of the present month, and on the 10th instant sailed from the Thames, but on her arrival at Gravesend, the crew having learned her destination, most of them deserted, under an ap prehension that they might share her fate. After some delay, other men were procured, and she was piloted for Brighton, where, as will be recollected, it was announced that she was to be blown up on Saturday, tthe 13th instant, and several noblemen, officers, and gentlemen proceeded thither on that day only to be disappointed, an adverse wind having compelled her to anchor in the Downs. This cir cumstance revived public distrust to a certain extent, and many persons who had come from London returned with a lurking suspicion that they had been hoaxed, and that ouch was the only way in which the "invisible shell" would ever go 0ff.... ...• On Wednesday last, however, the John o'Gaunt was towed by a steamer to Shoreham-roads, off Brighton, and moored there, the knowledge of which fact, and the renewed assurances of Captain Warner that he would fulfil his pro mise, excited the public curiosity afresh, and on Saturday, the day appointed for the explosion, all the world seemed to be at Brighton. The beach, the cliffs, the houses facing the sea, the chain pier, the steine, in fact the whole range of the coast from Shoreham to the upper extremity of Brighton, soon after noon presented a truly gay and animated appear ance, being lined with crowds of persons, who were flanked by a row of carriages and other vehicles. There was an at tractive attendance of ladies, whose - generally fashionable attire, as they were seated at the windows and in the coaches, coupled with the elegant equipages interspersed, greatly en livened the scene; and the weather was extremely fine. Among other distinguished persons present were, Earl Man vers, Lord Brougham Lord Combermere, 'Viscount Ingestr e , M.P.; Lord Ranelagh , Marquis of Douro, Lord J. Beresford, Lord W. Cowper, Lord Southampton, Marquis of Exeley, the Marquis of Lorne, Lord Alford, M.P. ; Lord Hungerford, Lord Loyaine, Lord Aylmer, Lord Templetown, the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Tadcaster, Mr. M. Gore, M.P., Mr. Mac kinnon, M.l'., Mr. Tomline, M.P., Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. Neville ' M.P., Mr. R. Yorke, M.P., H on . M r. Fitzroy, M.P., Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Cole, M.P., Mr. Eaton, M.r., Captain Boldero, M.P., Mr. E. Tennent, M.P., Hon. Captain Murray, 'R.N., Colonel Dundas, Captain 11. Burton, R.N., Hon. Sydney Pierrepoint, Chevalier Benkhausen ( the Rus. ian Consul), Captain E. Lloyd, R.N., Sir M. Cholmondeley, Sir T. Whicheote, Captain Henderson, R.N., Captain Dicke son, R.N., Captain Stevens (Marine Artillery), Hcn. General Upton, Captain Britten, Colonel Sykes, -Mr. W. Peel, /gr. Somes, &c., including several Directors of the East India COmpany. . The battery, which is' about the centre of the steine, was the grand position ; there most of the elite of the nobles, pro fessionals, and fashiouables took up their position ; and it was curious to observe them leaning across the long guns, with their telescopes pointed towards Shoreham roads, where the devoted barque was lying, and whither two steamers, the Sir William Wallace (on hoard of which was Captain Warner) and the Tees had gone. It was expected that the explosion' would take place at three o'clock, but it did not until three hours after that time, and the delay produced considerable dissatisfae tick), and doubts were audibly expressed that, after all, there would be no explosion but of popular fury. More than an hour was passed in the removing from the ship cordage and other stores which were not necessary tin- the experiment, and in raising and detaching the anchor and cables. This w4s a slow process, an d un i nte lli g ib le to the majority of the spOetators, who resolutely held up their glasses, which gl4amed in the sunshine dik e fil es o f musketry, until they bename fatigued, and impatiently wondered what iu the world C4tain Warner and Isis people could be about. Lord Brougham undisguisedly expressed his suspicion that the afibir would end in nothing but smoke, and there would be n&explosion. " You never intended to do it," said he to one T of ( Captain Warner's f r iend s . "I s it no t extraordinav," he as ed, " that with a fair wi n d an d t wo s t eam -b oats, they ca not bring the ship up that short distance?" But every one is not so rapid in his movements as the Noble and Learned Lokd ; who, it must be admitted, was only giving utterance to the general feeling. But the fact was that there were not hands' enough employed t o d o th e wor k qu i c kl y. L ord Brbughtun said he should go, and he would have gone, but just then Lord Ingestre called out that the ship was in mo tion. This was about five o'clock ; but the tow-line had not yet been attached, and the vessel swung round and was drifting away with the tide towards Shoreham. Shortly afterwards, however, her retrograde movement was observed to receive a check, and the immediate appearance of a rope reaching from her bow to the Sir William Wallace, which was ahead, indicated that at last her tardineee in going to the place of execution would be overcome. Meanwhile some of the few men who had been left in charge of her descended into a boat and rowed off, as if for their lives, to the Tees, which followed astern for the purpose of keeping off any persons who might be influenced by their curiosity to come within range of danger. The tide, as is obvious from what was said before of her drifting, was against her, and the distance she was to be brought between four and five miles, so that it was nearly six o'clock before she was fairly towed to the position she was to occupy, about a mile and a quarter from the battery. Now two men who had remained on board to manage her helm, or do anything else that might be necessary, hurried out of her, and went off in a boat with greater expedition, if possible, than their shipmates had previously. It had been agreed between Lord Ingestre and other offi cers and Captain Warner, that he should hoist a Union Jack at the mast-head of the steamer when he was ready to ope rate, and keep that signal flying until those on shore should hoist a Union Jack from the flagstaff on:the battery, at any time they chose to select, which would be replied to by Cap tain Warner hauling down his signal, and then immediately the operation would take place. The Sir William Wallace having let go the tow line returned abreast of the John o' Gaunt for a few moments, but for what purpose we could not discover; she then took up her position about a quarter of a mile ahead of the ship, while the Thes went rather fur ther astern. Captain Warner's signal had been flying some time before it was answered from the battery, and then arose another delay in consequence of sonic adventurous persons in a small cutter, in spite of the presence of the Tees, and of two armed revenue cutters besides, to keep off intruders, going close alongside the ship. C a pt a i n W arner h au l e d t h e Union Jack half-way down only until the cutter and its fool hardy occupants were out of danger. The Union Jack was then hauled down entirely. Every one now felt that the grand crisis had arrived. Every eye was directed towards the scene of operations, and in less than five minutes after wards the explosion took place. The instrument of destruc tion, whatever it was, seemed to strike the vessel midships, for, from that point a huge column of water, in which was intermingled some of the shingle of which her ballast was composed, shot up perpendicularly into the air higher than her highest topmast ; her mizen went by the board, her main mast, a new care, was shot clean out of her like a rocket ; she heeled over to port to an angle of 45 degrees, and ker main hatchway being open, daylight was visible through her bot tom timbers on her starboard side, and probably her loarboard also, having been blown away, and she seemed to part asun der as she went down, leaving nothing perceptible but the top of her foremast. The time which passed from her being struck and her sinking could not have exceeded two mi nutes and a half. Some few of the more enthusiastic spec tators, chiefly professional men, raised a cheer, but with the mass all was mute astonishment. The eyes were rivetted can the last observable fragment of the large object that but the moment before floated gallant ly on the waters "'like a thing of life." The expression on the countenances of the multitude generally seemed to say —Wh at was it? An illusion? A dream ? A magical trick ? A work of destruction so sudden, so frightful, so stupendous, appeared impossible for a moment even to the thousand and tens of thousands that witnessed it. It was like an awful mystery. There were none of the ordi nary circumstances which accompany similar catastrophes. There was no smoke, there was no fire, there was no noi se , save the low gr o a n f the rending timbers, and the succeed ing hush of the waters as they rolled over the instantaneous wreck, and then arose a melancholy feeling, for it was im possible to prevent the imagination depicting the terrific effects of such an explosion on a peopled ship, thus silently and suddenly perishing. To convey the effect in words is difficult—extremely difficult. Language is inadequate for the description ; it cannot flow fast enough, and a single sen tence is too long to tell the tale. It was like a dissolving view. At one instant you see the tall ship riding proudly on the waves; at the next she is enveloped in the elements of her perdition ; another moment only, and her shattered limbs are engulfed in the deep ! Many a one loitered on the shore pondering overl a sight more wonderful than any they had beheld before, however strange. It was the only topic of conversation with high and low, gentle and rude. Several persons went off in boats, to have rrhe •agments of the debris, which th e y s c p k e e c d ti u o p n o fi f the grav'o of the luckless v e s se l. boatmen a c t! i o n s e e nr inspection of the grav'O of the luckless vessel, The boatmen pi hawked about the town, and sold as relics to the miaow. 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Which will render them perfect for the rest of their lives. " London, Jane, 1844." " CHARLES DICKENS. • The following' is the dedication :—This little book is tffectionately dedicated to Dr. Elliotson, by one who has felt his kindness to those who have no other claim upon him (and on such, a man can have no higher claim) than sickness and obscure condition. CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERIMENT AT BRIGHTON WITH THE NEW DESTRUC- TIDE POWER. It being generally understood that Capt. Warner was on Saturday to put to the test, off the beach of Brigh ton, his alleged power of destroying ships at sea, com pletely and instantaneously, immense numbers of per sons proceeded from London to witness the experiment. By the train which left town at half-past eight the num ber of passengers could not have been less than 500, while the several succeeding trains were also crowded to an unusual extent. As early as twelve o'clock the Steine, which, as many of our readers are aware, extends nearly two miles along the sea-side, presented a scene of unwonted animation and bustle. Thousands of pedestrians were seen walking about, and eagerly looking in the direction of Shoreham —five or six miles off—for the vessel on which the interesting experi ment was to be made. The beach was also crowded with fashionable equipages, while all the vehicles which were to be let in Brighton seemed to have been engaged for the occasion. The crowd increased until two o'clock, at which time many expected that the ex periment would be made. Never, we will venture to say, did Brighton before present so exciting an appear ance as it did at that hour. Let the reader only ima gine that he sees along the beach one continuous stream of persons, among whom were a very large number of elegantly attired ladies, while the outside of the foot pathway was crowded with carriages, &0., and he will form some idea of the very imposing scene which Brighton presented on the occasion. The windows too, it ought to be mentioned, of the houses along the beach, were all occupied, as was indeed every spot whence couli be commanded a view of the extraordinary occur rence which was expected to take place. The numbers were variously estimated. Some supposed there could not have been less than 40,000 persons present. We feel convinced the number must have been upwards of 30,000. The day was exceedingly fine, which gave additional interest to the scene. Though the impression was that the experiment would be made by half past three o'clock, the immense concourse of spectators exhibitedno signs of impatience up till four, but a fear then began to be expressed that some accident had taken place, or that some circumstance would, after all,'occur to prevent their receiving the gratification which they had been promised, and which they were so anxious to obtain. Another hour and upwards passed away, and still no symptom of preparation for the important experiment were perceptible. The ship was still to be seen lying in her mo orings,while neither of the two steam vessels, which it was known were to accompany her, exhibited the least appearance of motion. A little after five, however, the ship, the name of which was the John of Gaunt, was seen to leave her place off Shoreham, towed by one of the steamers, and followed by the . other. A feeling o f delight was now visible in every countenance, inspired by the gratification which they were about to receive. The progress of the ship, which, it ought to be mentioned, is three-masted, strongly built, and of 300 tons burden, was watched with the most intense interest. About fif teea minutes before six, the steamer which had towed the ship from Shoreham was seen to make a pause, and then return to the ship about to be destroyed The other steamer was about a quarter of a mile behind the John'of Gaunt. The first steamer having returned for a few seconds to the vessel, quitted her, and proceeded in the same course as before. The vessel and the steamer were soon about a mile out in the sea, as near as might be opposite to the Old Ship Tavern. A little farther to the westward is the battery, where Lord Ingestre, Cap tain Henderson, R.N., Captain Breton, R.N., and Captain Dickinson, R.N., had stationed themselves for the purpose of giving the signal when the ship should be blown up. This they distinctly declared was left entirely to themselves, without having had any concert or understanding with Captain Warner. When tho first steamer bad got about fifty yards ahead of the vessel, the Noble Lord and the three Gallant Officers whose names have just been men tiened, gave the signal, which was the hoisting of the Union Jack. In a moment afterwards an immense quantity of smoke of an unusually white complexion, and evidently very thin, was seen to ascend from the vessel. In a few seconds . indeed, she seemed to be en veloped in a cloud of smoke, the only part of her visible being her mainmast. In a moment more, for it was li terally the work of a moment, the main and mizen-masts were seen to fall over the vessel into the sea. A few se conds snore, and a rumbling sort of noise, which it is dif ficult to describe, was heard to proceed from the ship, and ere yet the sound had died on the ear, the vessel was a complete wreck. She went almost in stantaneously to pieces, no trace of her being visible but the top of her foremast. The spectators were not only astonished but astounded at what they saw. They could scarce believe the evidence of their eyes, that so fine a vessel—one which but ten or twelve seconds before was riding majestically on the waves—should have been totally destroyed. The in stantaneous completeness of the destruction seemed to indicate something magical. Under other circumstances, loud cheers would have doubtless burst from the vast assemblage. But they were too much confounded by what had so rapidly passed before their eyes, to give a single shout. It was some time before many of them could exchange words with the friends who stood be side them. We conversed with gentlemen of great naval experience —men who had seen ships blown up and destroyed under all circumstances, and by every variety of means and all of them concurred in saying, that no agency ever brought to bear in this way can stand a moment's comparison with that of Captain Warner; which, after what they witnessed, they could not but regard as possessing, in some respects, an almost omnipotent power. Nothing, certainly, ever constructed by the hand of man, could resist the agency which on Saturday produced such destructive effects. The fact to be illustrated in the experiment of Satur day is the power which a vessel containing the projec tiles of Captain Warner could have over other ships which might be chasing her. Captain Warner wished to prove that if a ship of war were nearly falling into the hands of the enemy, either be cause no t a sufficiently fast sailer, or not able to defend herself, she would only have to use his projectiles to insure the immediate de struction of that ship, or of several ships. If what he did on Saturday could always be done with infallible certainty, there cannot be a doubt that all that Capt. Warner says of his discovery is true. On this point, however, we express no opinion. We have no idea how far Captain Warner's agency could be made available in actual warfare with a rival power. That must he left to the decision of competent judges after due inquiry. The question in every body's mouth is, by what agency Captain Warner produces such won derftil results. That, we believe, is known only, to Captain Warner himself, and if he be wise he will keep the secret until he has the reward of his genius in his pocket. But though nothing definite is known as to the mode of operation, there is no lack of conjectures on the subject. Some persons fancied they could dis cover, by means of a glass, a rope which communicated the steam-vessel in which Captain Warner and his friends were to the ship destined to destruction. We cannot contradict this, because we had no glass ; but certainly nothing of the kind was visible to the naked eye. The prevailing opinion among scientific men was, that the work of destruction had been done by means of an electrical battery. Others contend that the ship was destroyed by means of a line connected with a trig ger, and that when this trigger is pulled, a concussion takes place which shakes the ship to pieces. There is a third class of persons who are equally confident that a case, about three feet square, containing the materials by which such wonderful results are produced, is placed along the ship, and that the contents being by some means or other exploded, instantaneously shivers the vessel in pieces. But all this, as already remarked, is mere conjecture. The experiment of Saturday is only one of a series which Captain Warner means to make, having for their object to prove that he possesses the knowledge of a source of naval power which would destroy an entire fleet at once. The present experiment has been made at his own and his private friends' expense ; but he is now to apply to Government for the necessary means to enable him to make the experiments. The mail train, which left London at half-past ten, brought down a perfect host of visitors. Amongst those travelling by it we observed—Lord Brougham, the Earl of Manvers, Lord Ranelagh, Viscount Ingestre, Hon. Captain Murray, R.N., Colonel Dundas, Captain Ryder Burton. R.N., Mr. Mackinnon, M.P.. Mr. Montagu Gore, M.P., Mr. Somes, the ship-owner, Mr. G. Tomlin, M.P., Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. H. Neville, M.P., lion. Sydney Pierrepoint, Chevalier Benkhausen, Captain E. Lloyd, R.N., Mr. Redhead Yorke, M.P.. Sir Montagu Chohnonde ley, Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P., Viscount Alford, M.P., Captain Bolder°, M.P., Mr. Emerson Tennent, AI.P., Lord Tadcaster, Captain Henderson, R.N., Mr. William Peel, Nlr. J. Sheppard (the Chairman), and the follow ing Directors of the East India Company—Mr. Robin son, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Tucker, Mr. Warden, and Mi. Cotton, &c. Upon arriving at Brighton most of the company pro ceeded to the chain-pier, from which point the vessel destined to be destroyed was seen riding at anchor off Shoreham harbour. The greatest excitement prevailed in the town, and nearly the whole population seemed to be collected on the cliffs and upon the pier. Three o'clock was the time appointed for the experiment to be made, and, long before that hour the pier head, the bat tery, and every other point commanding a good view of the sea, was crowded with gentlemen and fashionably dressed ladies, whose observation was anxiously directed towards Shoreham. Among those present we observed the Maiquis of Exeter, Lord Aylmer, Lord Cornbermere, Lord Templetown, Hon. General Upton, the Marquis of Lorne, the Marquis of Douro, Lord Lovaine, the Bishop of Oxford, and a great many others whose names we cannot now particularise. The above hour passed without any apparent mevementon hioardthe ship, which still rode at anchor gallantly, with two attendant steamers within a short diitance of her. Pour o'clock arrived, and still the anchor remained fast, and some feeling of impatience was manifested by the spectators. Before five, however, the crew on board were observed, by the aid of a powerful glass, to be busy weighing An chor ; and shortly afterwards the vessel was taken in tow by one of the steamers, and hove down towards Brighton. There was something in the appearance of the gallant barque, riding proudly on to its destruction, which created a feeling of deep interest among the spec tators ; and, although another hour elapsed before the experiment was made, no further impatience was mani fested. The John of Gaunt arrived off the battery at 20 minutes to six o'clock, and in a few moments the two sailors who had remained on board of her up to this time were taken off by a small boat from the steamer. The most intense anxiety now prevailed among the spectators on shore, and every movement of those on board the tug-boat was watched with the greatest interest. Capt. Warner was himself on board the tug, and it had been arranged that when the signal was given from the battery the crew of that vessel should go below, leaving no other persons on deck but the captain and the mate. This arrangement was observed ; and immediately afterwards the steamer, which had hitherto been towing the ship by a hawser, put back, and came abreast of her—a position which she maintained for a very few moments, and then again pro ceeded to her former situation, about a quarter of a mile eastward of the John of Gaunt. At five minutes to six o'clock, Captain Warner answered the signal from the battery, by lowering the flag at the mast- he a d o f th e steamer ; and this Ling generally understood as the immediate prelude to the explosion every eye was zi vetted on the ship, which, it should be stated, was at this time exactly opposite the battery on the west cliff, about two miles distant from the shore. A little delay, how ever, took place—five minutes only—and at six o'clock precisely (the vessel being at the time bearing down channel to the eastward), and still (as it is believed) in tow of the steamer, the explosion took place, effecting the wreck of the ship in the most complete and perfect manner, not a vestige of her hull being visible above the water within about two minutes after she was struck. The first intimation which the spectators had of the destruction of the ship wag by a low dull sound, immediately succeed e d br a column of white smoke, which appeared to rise from be neath the vessel. This smoke cleared away in a very few moments, and left the wreck exposed to view. The mainmast was broken off quite short, within a very few feet of the deck, the mizen mast being almost wholly gone, and the foremast alone remaining entire. The bulwarks on both sides the ship were blown completely away, the greatest injury appearing to have been effected on the larboard side, as the vessel immediately heeled over in that direction, and gradually went down. A s h er h u ll disappeared, the success of the experiment was greeted with the most enthusiastic cheering from the crowds as sembled on the battery and the pier. She sunk in about thirty-five feet water, and when her keel touched the bottom about half the fore-topmast was visible above the water. Several officers interested in the experiment im mediately put off to make an examination of the wreck, and the Sir William Wallace, the steamer in which Capt Warner had been, remained in the vicinity for some time. The masts, and other large portions of the wreck, were clearly observed from the shore, floating about in the water. And now a few words as to the modus operondi. It is not to be supposed, after hearing all the statements cir culated as to the destructive power of Captain Warner's invention, that even the anxiety of a reporter to obtain the most accurate information would carry him within ordinary shot distance of the ship about to be shattered by the supposed new element, and, in common with many thousand others, the writer confesses to a weakness which kept him safely ensconced on the'battery height. Hence, through a powerful telescope, an excellent view of both the steamer and the John of Gaunt was obtained, and the appearance of the wreck after the explosion as certained with tolerable distinctness. The distance from the shore (nearly two miles) was far too great, however, to discern whether the instrument of destruction was propelled by any machine on the steamer to the ship, or whether the destruction of the vessel was accomplished by some hidden power beneath the surface of the water placed exactly in the track of the vessel. In this dilemma, as to the real facts, the opinions and statements of various scientific and other individuals who have long been curious as to the means employed, will be read with interest. From an extended conversa tion among this class of persons, the writer obtained opi nions at variance with each other on many points ; but the prevailing impression certainly was, that no " pro. jectile force" is adopted by Capt. Warner in carrying out his discovery. The difficulty of controlling any power possessing sufficient force to destroy a ship instan taneously with such a degree of accuracy as to ensure its explosion at a given moment, and at the same time to prevent its bursting by the aft of propulsion, may have induced many to come to this conclusion, and there is some show of reason in it. The prevailing impression is, that two " detonating shells " secured together by means of a chain or rope, are suspended at a certain distance beneath the surface of the water, directly in the track of the vessel, which upon meeting with the obstruction offered by the chain or rope, forces it forward, a motion which inevitably draws the " shells " against the sides of the ship, upon coming in contact with which- they are so constructed as to explode instantaneously, and by such explosion de stroy the vessel. A close observation of the whole proceeding this day led the writer to believe that some such mode of pro ceeding must be adopted. There certainly was no ap pearance of an explosion from the hold of the vessel, and, so far as could be ascertained, the injury the ship sustained appeared to be about the centre on the lar board and starboard sides. It is true that two of her masts were destroyed, and that her back appeared to be broken, but this might have very well arisen in the manner described. A few individuals were of opinion that a galvanic communication existed between the steam tug and the vessel destroyed, and they backed their opinion by the fact that Captain Warner had declined to allow any person to go on board the ship immediately before the experiment. It was very generally urged that this latter arrangement was not quite satisfactory, but Captain Warner met the objection by stating, that if he allowed one individual he should be overwhelmed by applica tions. The result of the examination of the wreck will be looked forward to with the greatest interest by all parties. 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This is the title of a little work on the point of pub lication, stated to be the result of. the occupation of th e scanty loi.sura of the-uuthor—Solin Overs, a working man. Mr. Charles Dickens has contributed the following preface to the volume ; and it is hard which to admire most—the modest intelligent spirit of the unknown writer, struggling with difficulty and clinging to litera ture, as alike Use hope and the charm of his life ; or the generous and kindly encouragement afforded by the successful and celebrated author to his humble compe titor : " The indulgent reader of - this little book—not called indulgent, I may hope, by courtesy alone. but with some reference also to its title and pretensions —may very naturally inquire how it comes to have a preface to which my name is attached ; nor is the reader's right or inclination to be satisfied on this head likely to be much diminished, when I state, in the outset, that I do not recommend it as a book of surprising originality or transcendant merit. That Ido not claim to have dis covered, in humble life, an extraordinary and brilliant genius. That I cannot charge mankind in general with having entered into a conspiracy to neglect the author of this volume, or to leave him pining in obscurity. That I have not the smallest intention of comparing him with Burns, the exciseman ; or with Bloomfield, the shoemaker ; or with Ebenezer Elliott, a worker in iron ; or with James Hogg, the shepherd. That I see no rea son to be hot, or bitter, or lowering, or sarcastic, or in dignant, or fierce, or sour, or sharp, in his behalf. That I have nothing to rail at ; nothing to exalt ; nothing to flourish in the face of a stony-hearted world ; and have but a very short and simple tale to tell. " But, such as it is, it has interested me; and I hope it may inierest,the reader too, if I state it, unaffectedly and plainly. " John Overs, the writer of the following pages, is, as is set forth on the title-page, a working man. A man who earns his weekly wages (or who did when he was strong enough) by plying of the hammer, plane, and chisel. He became known to me, to the best of my re collection, nearly six years ago, when he sent me some songs, appropriate to the different montha of the year, with a letter, stating under what circumstances they had been composed, and in what manner he was occu pied from morning until night. I was, just then, relin quishing the conduct of a monthly periodical; or I would gladly have published them. As it was, I returned them to him, with a private expression of the interest I felt in such productions. They were afterwards accepted, with much readiness and consideration, by Mr. Tait, of Edin burgh; and were printed in his magazine.. "Finding, after some further correspondence with my new friend, that his authorship had not ceased with these verses, but that he still occupied his leisure mo ments in writing, I took occasion to remonstrate with him seriously against his pursuing that course. I pointed out to him a few of the uncertainties, anxieties, and difficulties of such a life, at the best. I entreated him to remember the position of heavy disadvantage in which he stood, by reason of his self-education and im perfect attainments; and I besought him to consider whether, having one or two of his pieces accepted occa sionally, here and there, after long suspense and many refusals, it was probable that he would-find himself, in tho ond, a happior or a more contented man. On all these grounds, I told him his persistance in his new call ing made me uneasy; and I advised him to abandon it as strongly as I could. " In answer to this dissuasion of mine, he wrote me as manly and straightforward, but withal as modest a letter, as ever I read in my life. lie explained to me how limited his ambition was, soaring no higher than the establishment of his wife in some light business, and the better education of his children. He set before me the difference between his evening and holiday studies, such as they were: and the having no better resource than an alehouse or a skittleground. He told me, how every small addition to his stock of knowledge made his Sun day; the hedge flowers sweeter ; interest and meaning to him. He every walks sg the more plefaalslanofter assured me, that his daily work was not neglected for his self-imposed pursuits; but was faithfully and honestly performed ; and, so, indeed, it was. He hinted to me, that his greatest self-respect was some inducement and reward: Fupposing every other to elude his grasp ; and showed me, how the fancy that he would turn this or that acquisition from his books to account, by-and-bye, in writing, made him more fresh and eager to peruse and profit by them, when his long day's work was done. "I would not, if I could, have offered one solitary ob jection more, to arguments so unpretending and so true. " From that time to the present I have seen him fre quently. It has been a pleasure to me to put a few books in his way ; to give him a word or two of counsel in his little projects and difficulties ; and to read his compositions with him, when he has had an hour or so to spare. I have never altered them, otherwise than by re commending condensation now and then; nor have I, in looking over these sheets, made any emendation in them, beyond the ordinary corrections of the press: desiring them to be his genuine work, as they have been his sober and rational amusement. " The latter observation brings me to the origin of the present volume, and of this my slight share in it. The reader will soon comprehend why I touch the subject lightly, and with a sorrowful and faultering hand. "In all the knowledge I have had of John Overs, and in all the many conversations I have held with him, I have invariably found him, in every essential particu lar, but one, the same. I have found him from first to last his a s ssimple, steady, upright, honourable man ; es pecially to be noted for th e uno b trus i ve i n d e p en d ence of his character ; the instinctive propriety of his manner, and the perfect neatness of his a pp earanc e. The extent o information —regard b e i ng ha d to hi s opportuni le, frugal, ties of acquiring it—is very remarkable ; and the dis crimination with which he has risen superior to the mere prejudices of the class with which he is associated, with out losing his sympathy for all their real wrongs and grievances—they have a few—impressed me, in the be ginning of our acquaintance, strongly in his favour. "The one respect - in which he is not what he was, is in his hold on "He is very ill ; the faintest shadow of the man who came into my little study for the first time half a dozen years ago, after the correspondence I have mentioned. He has been very ill for a long, long period ; his disease is a severe and wasting affection of the lungs, which has incapacitated him, these many months, for every kind of occupation. If I could only do a hard day's work,' he said to me the other day, hov.- happy I should be !' " Having these papers by him, amongst others, he bethought himself that if ho could get a bookseller to purchase them for publication in a volume, they would enable him to make some temporary provision for his sick wife and very young family. We talked the matter over together ; and that it might be easy of acco.nplish ment, promised him that I would write an introduction to his book. " I would to Heaven that I could do him better ser vice! I would to Heaven it were an introduction to a long, and vigorous, and useful life ! But Hope will not trim her lamp the less brightly for him and his, because of this impulse to their struggling fortunes; and trust me, reader, they deserve her light, and need it sorely. "He has inscribed this'book to one whose skill will help him, under Providence, in all that human skill can do.* To one who never could have recognised in any potentate on earth, a higher claim to constant kindness and attention, than he has recognised in him. " I have little more to say of it. While Ido not corn mend it, on the one hand, as a prodigy, I do sincerely believe it, on the other, to possess some points of real interest, however considered; but which, if considered with reference to its title and origin, are of great in terest. " If- any delicate readers should approach the perusal of these Evenings of a Working Man,' with a genteel distaste to the principle of a working man turning yswamp any author at all, I may perhaps be permitted to suggest that the best protection against such an offence will be in evffnelgetaural to the l minds, found in the universal education of the people ; for the interest enlightenment that may o f the m now attach, a ny will few among them who are enabled , in any degree, to overcome the great difficulties of their position. 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The subject of the supposed new destructive power, invented by Captain Warner, has recently been revived in the public mind by an announcement that an experi ment upon a grand scale would take place off Brighton, the inventor undertaking to destroy and sink a ship of between 300 and 400 tons burden by the simple force of one discharge (so to speak) of his " invisible shell," as the invention has been termed. Saturday, the 13th inst., as our readers are aware, was the day originally ap pointed for the experiment to be made, and, as stated in the journal of last week, the extraordinary nature of the undertaking had the effect of attracting a very large number of ,naval and military officers, noblemen and Others, froth London, for the purpose of witnessing it. 'Adverse winds, and other accidental circumstances com bined,'however, prevented the ship from reaching Brigh ton on the 13th, and the " curious" were disap pointed, at any rate for a time ; but all concurred in re lieving Captain Warner from the charge of intentional neglect. On Wednesday, the ship intended to be experimenta lised upon, a fine barque of between 300 and 400 tons burden, named the John of Gaunt, and belonging to Mr. Somes, of London, who liberally granted it for the pur pose, arrived off Shoreham, and the necessary arrange ments having been completed, Saturday was fixed as the most convenient day for the trial to come off, principally to allow the attendance of the Members of the House of Commons, many of whom had expressed a wish to be present. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. (From the Times.) When the John o'Gaunt came abreast the battery, being at a distance of about a mile and a-half from shore, a Union Jack. the signal agreed upon, was hoisted on the flagstaff, to intimate to Captain Warner that ho was now to destroy the ship in the wake of the Sir 'William 'Wallace, on board of which he himself was, with his implements of destruction. A short delay took place, and the Union Jack on the steamer's mast, which it was arranged should be hauled (lowa previous to the destruction of the pursuing ship, was re-hoisted half mast high. to indicate, as we understood, that some informed that was in Captain Warner's way. We have been since that a cutter kept hovering in the John o'Gaunt's track, in a direction very dangerous to herself, and this pre ven t e d Captain Warner's immediate operation. At last the Union Jack was fairly lowered, the steamer's head was turned somewhat towards the shore, and the devoted John o'Gaunt followed in her wake. We may say without exaggeration, that the suspense of all present was painful—the silence was deep and unbroken. A smoke seemed suddenly to envelope the John o'Gaunt, her mainmast shoe up perpendicular from her deck, no noise save that of the rending of timbers was heard, and on the apparent smoke's clearing away, the smitten ship heeled over to port and sank. We say appa rent smoke because we have si nce ascerta i ned that what we, and a majority of those present, apprehended to be smoke, was in reality displaced water sent u p i n a h uge column into the air. A similar phenomenon was reported to have been exhibited in an experime n t per f ormed by Captain Warner before Sir Robert Peel, Sir George Murray, Sir henry Hardinge, and others, in the year 1842. When the John o'Gaunt heeled over on her larboard side, we saw through a powerful telescope, and Captain Dickeson stated to us that he saw the same, through the main hatchway, the ~_ . - e ll ij ° ,l N' is EY. , , alnoiinting LCL t UC .o ß . B9 ADEN* LOAN, to be drawn at ,450 Florins, will be N re khe -I !: . _lt_ed in the ROYAL tso _are ,„ , n Ist a Awast, , guaranteed. 3ooo b , y 47 4 1 b e of of M,0 . 9 , , 10,000,5,00 „ &c., ille the Government.l owes lowest in Rritish money. l''Jiecjt(oSillia,rcs, 10s. each, 11 for 5/., 23 for Prospectuses may t us and Co. tOt•r, laimediate anplication) of Messrs. A. J. S .'l l Post: f,`,.cr,i:nd itece ivers-General Frankfort ; or by remitting a 0'' , 1te,.,, i. to their offi-e, 211, Bo'uverie-street, uverie-street, Fleet-street, London. '4eoho‘Mlliit lists of the siawints will be sent to each purchaser. ~,.....i . .....1 ............._re ri•oria. Twelve to Three. • htv.,,, • t's'Al SU RGERY.-EXTRACTION SUPERSEDED. ta x ,,.. a „, 5 „,, 4 8. AIOSELEY, Surgeon-Dentists (by lit tiali•sik,k6eeintfnent to his Majesty the King of Hanove l f), e 3 o 2 , o l a t L• 44, as ~,,,6t.Janies's, in announcing that they e may thod ( e peculiar to Se el 'lvo ior " a a ,. l , • heg to invite attention to their Teeth, m however badly pati o *, or 4 t lec) of filling decayed Teeth. God enabling the 4,,, Ilt t ol nwever large the cavity, filled - . ski. nasticate with perfect ease, and rondoring extraction un •tb 3' \'•,.,,„ 11. •re,, Itri,i's.....nr,4-,,,,,•11 EOUS ARTIFICIAL TEETH fixed without quite Jude tio.;•,6ls ~, kind, or extraction of stumps, are not only 16', to t,,,, Une hann•ea.ble in colour, but being the of every q s ut hade un 147,qest ni l': or ' may he worn from one to a set, without .st4 fes ` 4l. ence li ' shape lour • Loose Teeth fastened without 4lttld rencl er i eciperfe e c r tl e y e flrm . .-Observe, 32, Haymarket, . cl e G th il IFIe E N T DAMASK TABLE 15s. Od. i,;:' , ' isz, - ... HS, 5 yards long, each C3 11 ,1 )1 9 1 18 to match, v•,rd square, the dozen to /' ','' clo2,:te handkerchiefs, equal to the finest French,...,_ . 6d. Tho r , r , . i .......... • .... , ... • ...................................... ••••_ 1.1 pertdo ~'grl Handkerchiefs, :3s. fid. per dozen ; very good, 6.. 6d. ~, ,d r 'en „;,. (.4,4 I ri sh : ......... tz,r,,4).llearl Linen Sheetings, very per'superior pf r pair 1152:: Od d : , tatte I ~, 3 yards wide without a seam. .F i 4 i ' i r,,,,, ~neo Sheetings ' from as. 9d. per pair ; and very 05. ed. 11.1..4,'„4?r servants' use, p'' , * P air • bi; t r.„ ....... , stout and free from dress, the piece of 21 3ards, 2l.. od. `o, 4 ‘4 4 . ?.l sfo ce r lYe.n tnnality, 26 yards for 255. ; and very fines 26.305. Od. ~,,,ide •,;,,.. Ti; „, for . ..s u , ee the purest flax and finest , texture, 26 4.25. od. 15...! birsCtors of NATIONAL LINEN CO 1 1 PANY, in illiilit,Pti'ili,•ity to h t e he prices they are selling their MANVyAC- f ~,Ntao r t , 4 at, and fe ' •l' . nfident, from the increased facility o t;o -Nni-n;c0•10,1 Lad fr r i i r isi e .. :; - hc a i i i e f , ac , tor ' ies they can offer unprecedented c hia,Zes t o 99 i I . !. household linens, &c., will •fot werd t o,,eif' l-imdics rraloing r either hi town or country, for approval k liq , a 1 , 16 to the payment, and any articie sent not giving the most , 41 ,4 01 ' ed anprohatio.i can be returned. 3he Company are also ke. „!'rs of long clotka, cllicoes, counterpanes, muslins, dimities, 6,,,, a hey respectfully sot cit inuiries of the numerous families, 411, 11 In town and country, who halve patronised their establishment, s o ' who can it not only to the advantag • ,- riority of their manuttetures and bleacheeas prices, the particulars ef ki rospectuses contaiaing full eern a e t r t e h f e t : but to ,e, with lists of p ices can 1)2 hadgoods for !tl%stall entrance 105, l• le et , o.n:.ss various aig.:te-hile Zr at r rh i e n eh g e d i. • ' tr e e r et i , ' bo y bottom ILITEI-t, SUPFI/--------------. I. -, •SEDED, and those corrosive pantedn teens me' by vi e . • metals called Nickel and German Silver sup- A lt. - In troduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA. WATS.O\T aspen L , , ai ,,,,,, , . , d 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOL si,,n_p3: son of science In the amalgamation of metals, e....4-44(.4.)70..uersteitu bringing to public notke the most beautiful article 4lth all its tie, possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance 17..,,,,,,i,,, ..-rability and haniness-with its perfect sweetness in ~4 4s ee,oe ' • -; :e0 11: la:, tla it does, a chemical process, by which all that is tan b e ci ' e 'l Mixed metals is entirely extracted--resisting all acids ' The . an ' d as sneer, and is manufactured into every article for , and Sideboard. 41,1 e p„,, L , Fiddle. Threade . d King's. I•',ett alit end Forks, per doz.. 16s. 6d. -30 s. Od. .. 3.55. Od. 1 3:1 1 5; 1 , 001a 5 ° ' P" (I °- 1 ••• •• ••• •• •• 12s. 6d. • • 255. Od. • • 295. ()d. Wl' T o . Per doz. .• .. ........ ss. 6d. .• 12s. 13s. 6d. Ism its, each . ...... .. a 'ntard Spoons, eveli ...• 6s. Od. • . 13s. 6(1. • • 1-s• 6d. . lila Batson 1 , Cominnulon Services, & c . }, k 3s hi s -egs the Pu l,l lo will unde rs t an d t h a t thi s me t a l is peen t,„nistoi i 577 . 1, and th at Silver Is not more different from Gold, than 1 1 ,": te,,, , i tr am all others ; on Its intrinsic merit alone he wishes it 'tl., n, "iar...: a nd from the daily increasing eulogiums he receives,. k . al ~,,,,-a'nr that nothing can prevent its becoming an article of um.: iii)' ats.,,, Ilio,,'' , p,,,,i; s handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Current t•P kt l rl i 1,,, ',hed, and families who regard economy and elegance, Wratkik's thernmees of this useful hook, which may be had ht 21)./.4r, St.free, from the above address d k 11•. l''knlYes, lls. per dozen, Dessert, 9s. ; Carvers, 3e. 6 . .. - 5) : s'" to; er ',;rlt).lst. c,e)r o , 04/ 10 144f° 11, gr°. eh°~ o ugP o 171° c q • hsh Oef'd K 00''' ltY °