The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

EXTBNSIVB BZIEURE OP BBTIGOLSD
TOBACCO.

Yesterday, before the =girt:Mee at York,
Leopold Lowenthal, of Edinburgh. traecharpd with un-
shipping, or being concerned in **hipping, or otherwise
dealing in 4421 b. of cigars and 1781 h. of- manufactured
tobacco, whereby he had forfeited • penalty 1,5781. 6s. 3d.
Mr. Beverley, of London, appeared for the down ; and Mr.
Mann, of York, for the defendant. These proceedings
were instituted by the Board of Custom, and the *for-
mation was laid under the 734th section of the Oustoms
Consolidation Act. On Tuesday, the 13th indent, the
wont to the °Moe of the North Eastern Railway
Compare y at York. and requested that • conveyance
might be sad to his lodgiap, His. Gill's, North-
street, to remove .nine maks, for the purpose of
being forwarded to Edinburgh. On being asked
what the casks contained he said Nacklesd. On
the following morning • rally was sent to his lodg-
, lap, and the prided misted in *deg the casks upon
the vehicle. They were then conveyed to the railway
station, stilt them being addressed to Hr. J. LowentWil4
63, Booth a, Edinburgh, and the other to Mr. T. Wilson,
to be left at t e Edinburgh goods station. Prom informs-
tioo which Mr. Haley, the chief mutable at York, had re-
ceived, he bad plated are of his officer, Sergeant Duke,
to watch the premises where the prisoner was lodging.
After the casks had been removed to the railway da-
tion, the chief constable prooseded thither, and, having
caused one of the casks to be broken open, he found It to
contain cigars. He at once saw Mr. White, the supervisor
of inland revenue, who seized the nine casks. Eight
of them were found to contain cigars, and the other
cask manufactured tobacco. Oa proceeding to the pri
soner's lodgings, along with the chief wadable, they
found 381 b. of tobacco and some civics. They also dis-
covered behind the premises 17 sofas, in which it was be-
lieved the cigar and tobacco bad been introduced into this
country. On the sth instant an importation of furniture
took plaoe at Hull, and that furniture was removed to
York and delivered at the prisoner's lodgings. In that city
he had gone by the name of Patterson. Besides the sofas
there were found is the warehouse a number of foreign
newspapers, as well as • quantity of sea-weed, which ap-
peared to have been used ia peeking, and there was • very
strong smell of tobacco. The prisoner had purchased nine
=admits, and they were proved to be those which
the tobacco. He admitted that the property woe
his, and mid he bad bought it, bat the Um he said about it
the better. Mr. Pretty, a surveyor riding at Hull, esti-
mated the treble value of the cigars and tobacco found in
the mike at 1,5781.65. 33. The magistrates convicted the
accused in a penalty of that amount, together with the
ow* He was then further charged with unshipping, or
otherwise dealing* 381 b. of manufactured tobacco foxed
at his lodgings. He pleaded " Guilty," and in this case
was fined 100 t. and tU cods. He was committed to prison
until the penalties shall be paid.

PRINTING BY MILIOSAPIL—Yeeterday some inte-
resting experiments, designed to prove the practicability of
printing by telegraph, or, in other words, to chow how •
telegraphic apparatus can register simultaneously is type
amesages of which its the medium, were mode in the oro-
gen* of the Lord Mayor and other mtplinemen at the °Moss
of the United Kingdom Telegraph y, Old Broad.
street, where • =Mix the purpose, ea invented
and patented by Framer Hughes, is now In operation,
communication with Birmingham sod other large towns.
The instrument was first introduced in America, and has
liaise been brought into practical me la Frame, and more
reeentl7 in Italy, with, it is said, amplete wooer. It is
now being tried on the lines of the United Kingdom Tole-
graph Company with the view to its adoption by them.
The machine is fixed to a platform or table not larger than
an ordinary chess board, and is altogether very neat and
compact. the electric waves are transmitted by • revolving
arm which arts in concert with a typewheeL On the face of
theinstrument are 28 keys, arranged like those of a piano,
I but occupying lees thaa • third of the spare. These our-
' respond with an equal number of metal plates working
upwards through dote formed all round • circular disc, on
the top of which, but not in manorial with it, the arm
end what is called " contact-make?' revolve. The type-
wheel and this arm
the revolvitther, and when • key is de-
pressed by operator,
and
a plate corresponding with the
letter touched is raiseda letter is printed, while at
the same instent by • graduated movement the paper is
carried on • space read to receive the next impression.
The instrument is worked chiefly by women, sad vary much
after the manlier of • piano, bat with a heavier touch. It
prints at both ends of the wire simultaneously and in clear
type, so that the operator sees the memo which is being
transmitted as it proceeds, and no copying or translation
being required the chance of error is avoided. The speed
secured in France and in America by highly-trained opera-
tors is said to have reached from 40 to 50 words • minute.
At this rate the instrument would print matter equal to •
column of the Tines in • few minutes lees than an hour,
assuming there was no break in the operatics, which pro-
bably would be too much to assume. It was brought into
use in transmitting • report of the recent speech of Mr.
Bright at Birmingham. re
TERRIBLE DRATE.-011 81111dRy evening, at about
to o'clock, • man named John Wiliam, living in Salter-
street, Preston, and employed at the gas works in that tows
as foremen of the firemen, aid night attendant to the am-
mosia still, met his death under the following circum-
stances :-11 was his duty to supply the dill when emiessary
, with vitriol, which is largely used in the manufacture of
ammonia, and which he had to pour into the still from
large carboys, holding about 10 gallons each. In order to
do this be had to emceed a platform raised about 7ft.
above the ground. and on • level with the mouth of the
retort. It a conjectured that he went to the top of the
platform about 10 o'clock for the purpose of Siting the re-
tort, and then, while holding the carboy, which was half
full of vitriol, he stepped back incautiously and dipped at
the platform,which was not railed round or defended in any
way. In his fell he must hays dragged the carboy with
him, and the burning liquid poured down upon his face sod
the front of his body. About half-past 10 o'clock a person
going past the gas works heard some one moaning inside.
Assistance was procured, and the still room was entered,
when the unfortunate man was found lying on the ground
just under the platform in a pool of vitriol, which was gra.
dually consuming his body and clothing, the glass vessel
that had held the vitriol being close to him, smashed into
pieces by its fall. Medinal aid was greedily procured, but it
was of no avail, for the unfortunate creature, who never
spoke from the time he wsv found up to his death, expired
at 4 o'clock yesterday mcroing in the greatest sgooy. Hs
had been employed at the gas walla for many years.
ALLEGED BARBAROUS TREATER/4T OF • CHILD.—
A very painful feeling hie been created at Wootton, near
Liverpool, by the death of • child (Evelyn Wells) about
two years of ago, from the effects of burns caused by being
set on a hot iron stool. The person against whom suspicion
has been directed is a Mr. Bagot, a shopkeeper, who re-
sides at Woolton, and in whose house the child wag living
during the dimes of one of its parents. On Satur-
day an inquiry was held by the coroner tato the circum-
stances of the case, and it was shown that at the time
the child sustained the injuries Mr. Begot was upon
the promisee, though it was also attempted to be shown,
by evidence adduced on his behalf, that the injuries
to the child might have been caused by its having been
overthrown by • dog on to the stool. It appears that the
child was very severely injured, and that a portion of it,
flesh adhered to the stool. Mr. Dal (surgeon) stated that
the child could not have mated herself on the stool, and
that she must have been placed there by some one. Ulti-
mately the jury returned a verdict to the effect that the de-
ceased was placed upon an iroo stool, and that she thereby
sustained such injuries as caused her death, but by whom
she was placed there did not appear. The evidence also
showed that the child, after its wounds were clamed. AP*
peered much bettor sad more comfortable, and that before
Ideath convulsions took place.