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

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SEPTEMBER 2, 1854.

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Chief Baron Pigot was attacked with a severe cold
last week, and was not able to attend in court at the
Cork Assizes, which were in consequence brought to
a close, the important case of " Godfrey and Cross "
being postponed till October, The latest accounts
received from Cork represent his lordship as being
much better, but still confined to his chamber.
TEE extra police stationed in the county Armagh
for some time past are about to be withdrawn in con-
sequence of the decrease of agrarian outrages there.
The services of the men are more particularly re•
quired in Dublin.
PEOPLE in Ireland begin to calculate with certainty
upon an abundant harvest throughout the country,
and the effects are observable at the Share Market
as well as at the Corn Exchange. The prices of
cereal produce are descending, whilst Government
securities and share property are looking up.
NOTICES are now serving preparatory to the levy of
the supplemental income tax of sevenpence in the
pound, which will be in course of collection in Ire-
land within the next six weeks.
THE Dublin Commercial Journal was sold by auc-
tion on Tuesday, as part of the estate of Mr. Henry
Shaw, an insolvent. This was one of the papers re-
cently prosecuted by the Crown for being printed
without the required stamp. An edition is published
with the stamp, to secure its circulation through tae
Post-office, but another edition on plain paper is
printed for Dublin circulation. The cost of publica-
tion was estimated at about 351. per week. The in
solvent's right, title, and interest in and to the
journal, with the type and other plant, were sold
subject to about 351. subscriptions paid, which the
purchaser should either refund or supply the paper
to the subscribers until such time as their term of
subscription would expire. The bidding% com-
menced at 501., and after a short competition Mr.
Robert M. Chamney became the purchaser in trust
at 1001.

THOMAS GARRATT, in the United States, aged 70 years,
was lately tried for having aided the escape of fifteen slaves
at one time, and was fined 5,000 dollars, while his entire
property was estimated at 5,500 dollars. After the action,
the sheriff said, " Well, now, Garrett, we have made you a
beggar in your old age, and 1 think you had better learn to
mind your own business, and let other people alone."
" Yes," said Garrett, " in my old age ye have made a beg-
gar of me ; but, old as I am, I have not lived altogether in
vale, for I have the names of fourteen hundred slaves that
I have aided to escape ; and, if thee knows of any poor
fugitive that wants a friend to-night, send him to old
Thomas Garrett."
THE Braitleborough (United States) Eagle gives some
singular circumstances in connection with the attack by an
enraged horse on Mr. Brigham, of St. Johnsbury, showing
that the breaking of the neck does not of necessity cause
immediate death. The fracture of the neck compressed
the spinal marrow an violently as wholly to prevent it from
affording any communication between the brain and the
body. As a consequence the whole body below the fracture
was paralysed, deprived alike of sensation and the power of
motion. But he retained the full possession of his mental
faculties, and conversed intelligently. Not only this, but
by means of the nerves not involved in the calamity of the
spinal marrow the brain kept up its communication with
the vital organs and maintained the exercise of their func-
tions for nearly two hours. But the manner in which
those functions were exercised was very unusual, especially
with regard to respiration. Ordinarily this is carried on
mainly by the action of the intercostal muscles upon the
ribs, and as these rise and subside inspiration and expira-
tion take place. By the injury of the spinal marrow those
muscles were deprived of their ordinary nervous stimulus,
and consequet.tly were wholly inactive. The whole labour
of respiration was then assumed by the diaphragm, which
faithfully performed its duty, while the internal walls of the
chest remained motionless. In this manner he continued
to breathe during the brief remainder of his life.
AN INGENIOUS APPARATUS for indicating the times of
departure and destinations of trains at different stations
has been invented by Mr. John Sinclair, of the Waterloo
station on the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport line. The
invention consists of an index for showing at a glance the
times of the departure of the successive trains throughout
the day, and the towns to which passengers may go ; and
above this is a signal bell, to be rung whiii the trains
ought to start. The index, after the departure of each
train, is set to the proper time for the next, through moving
a small cylinder by means of a key or winch; and the
! runes of the towns are shown by raising and fixing an
arm" on which they are painted, and which is done by a
contrivance upon the principle of a lever. One of these
indexes is now exhibited at the Liverpool Exchange News-
room, and the invention is also in operation at the Tithe-
barn-street station of the Lancashire and East Lancashire
Railways.
THE Detroit Advertiser says that a large proportion of the
ladies in that city make their own hoots. When visiting a
lady of the ton, it is a very common thing to find her busy
with. last, awl, waxed ends, pincers, and all the etceteras
which compose the kit of the bootmaker. Two or three
pairs of boots may be made in a day, and about two dollars
husbanded on each pair. In most cases, however, it is
fashion rather than economy which induces the employ
ment. The result is, that the fair sex of Detroit will soon
be proverbial for wearing the most elegant boots and
having the prettiest feet iu the Union.

THE PRESS.

Obituarg.

CHEVALIER MACEDONIO MELLONI, the celebrated
natural philosopher, died at Portici, near Naples, on
the 11th ult., in consequence of a severe attack of
cholera. M. Melloni was only fifty-three years of age.
He was born at Parma, and bad been appointed in
1839 director of the Meteorological Observatory on

the summit of Mount Vesuvius by the King of the
Two Sicilies, to whom he had been recommended by
Arago and Baron von Humboldt. Although he never
interfered in Neapolitan politics, in 1850 he was
suddenly dismissed, and ordered to leave the country.
The latter part of the sentence was remitted on the
application of Count Brokausen (the Prussian
Minister at the Neapolitan Court at that time); and
when M. Melloni demanded from the chief of public
instruction, Canonico d'Apuzzo—the author of the
famous " Catecbismo," with which Mr. Gladstone
made the English public so well acquainted—on
what grounds he was dismissed, the " Canonic° "
answered that there was no accusation against him,
but that be must recollect be was "an Italian
celebrity "! M. Melloni is deeply regretted through-
out the whole of the Italian peninsula, both on account
of his great scientific genius and of his noble heart.
He was well known by all scientific men in England,
and was on intimate terms with Professor Faraday
and Dr. Brewster. The London Royal Society con
ferred upon him more than once the gold Rumford
medal.
We regret to announce the death of the REV.
CHARLES COLEBY ROBERTS, M.A., after a short illness,
while on a visit at the Isle of Wight. He was one of
the masters of St. Paul's School, and curate of the
united parishes of St. Olave, Old Jewry, and St.
Martin's Pomeroy, where he was universally beloved
and respected.
EDWARD TRUMAN Gmr, ESQ., of Jamaica, died at
his residence in Spanish-town, an the 12th f August,
after a lingering illness. Mr. Guy for twenty five
years represented the several parishes of St. Catharine,
St. George, and Metcalfe in the Hon. House of
Assembly, and was for thirty years a justice of the
peace for the precinct, and at the date of his death
clerk of the peace for the parish of St. Mary, in
Jamaica.
The well-known veteran Hanoverian diplomatist,
BARON VON OMTEDA, died at Celle on the 26th, in the
87th year of his age. The deceased baron, as well
known among men of the old school for his amiable
social qualities and saroir vivre as for his merits as a
diplomatist, was among the few survivors of the
Vienna Conference of 1814-15. M. de Omteda suc-
ceed Count Munster as Hanoverian Envoy in London
under William IV. When the two crowns were
separated he retired from public affairs, and has
lived in honourable privacy since that period.
MR. RALPH BERNAL, father of Mr. Bernal Osborne,
M.P., died on Saturday last after a few days' illness.
The deceased represented Rochester for many years
previous to the general election of 1852, ard, during
several Parliaments, was Chairman of Committees of
the House of Commons, the onerous and delicate
duties of which office he discharged in a manner
that earned for him the respect of all classes of poli-
ticians. He himself was a consistent Liberal. In
matters of art and taste Mr. Bernal's judgment was
justly esteemed as one of the best in England.
MAJOR-GENERAL BUSH, K.H., died from the pre-
vailing epidemic, at his residence in Sloane-street,
on Monday evening. General Bush was at the head
of the London recruiting district, and was promoted
to the rank of major-general in the last brevet.
We regret to announce the death of another dis-
tinguished officer, LIEUTENANT•GENERAL THOMAS
DALMER, C. 8., Colonel of the 47th Regiment, which
took place suddenly at Hawkhurst, Kent, on Satur-
day. General Delmer had been fifty-seven years in
the army, and took part in most of our warlike opera-
tions from the close of' the last century to Waterloo,
having served with the expeditions to Ostend in 1798,
to Holland in the following year, and to Ferrol, Vigo
Bay, and Cadiz in 1800. He was in Egypt with Sir
Ralph Abercromby, in the expedition to Hanover in
1805, and that to Copenhagen in 1807. The follow-
ing year found him at Corunna, and in the Penin-
sular campaigns of 1811-12-13 he shared in the
actions of El Bodon and Aldea de Ponte, and the
battles of Salamanca and Vittoria. General Delmer
also was present at Waterloo, where he had a horse
killed under him : he himself was severely wounded
at Salamanca. For his distinguished services he re-
ceived a gold and three silver medals. His death
places the colunelcy of the 47th in the gift of Lord
Hardinge.

A Ni:w CHURCH for the densely-populated district
of King's-cross is to be commenced as soon cir-
cumstances will permit. Some handsome contribu-
tions are expected from the proprietors of the Great
Northern Railway, whose property runs into the dis
trict, and grants will be made by the church socie-
ties. The new church will be dedicated to St. Luke,
and the Rev. H. C. Radcliffe, MA., will be the first
incumbent.