The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-06 00:00:00

NEW PATENT BRICK-MAKING MACHINE.

In these days of building societies, agricultural
improvements, and sanitary reform, there can be scarcely
say subject more praedeally interesting than the improve-
ment of brick and tUe making, and accordingly it has, for
two or three years, a considerable share of public
attention. At the =agricultural shows, at meetings
of farmers' clu and more especially at the Great Eshibi-
Pon, much pramiasmM has been given to new processes of
manufacture, mad meelsinee for making hollow bricks and
improved tiles k's 1111 Wig Bess extensively used. Of DOM
of the seders =Abu kit making hollow bricks and tiles
the report of the jurors ef the Exhibition spoke in
approving terms ; but as Imperils solid brick-making, the
ease was different. In fast. the machines constructed for
that purpose were natty and cumbrous A machine
has been recently invented' and patented by Mr. Clayton,
which undertakes to supply the confessed deficiency, and
to bring solid bricks within the range of e&derit
machine power. In a private view which was given yes-
terday, Mr. Clayton afforded to a large party of visitors an
opportunity of observing the action and capabilities of his
invention. It has already obtained the medal
el the Great
hapoaition of Industry at Amsterdam. The isimmivemeat
eon-lets in the construction of moulding Masa se dies,
having rotating sides formed by vertical rollers, imbed el
the tiled sides used heretofore, the fallen real*/ while
the clay is delivered through the die, end teasedEdneing
sad preserving a sharpness and neatams is4he of the
brickwhich had previously bees band in the
manufacture of bricks through dies. TIM machine pegs
or prepares the clay and maims the brisk' at one and
the same time. One of the isedilmg /Warn observed
is a continuous delivery. The aides of the blades as or-
dinarily set can produce only ea fatermittent delivery ; but
in this case there is an err a' t of blades by which
the clay is subjceted Is a sa timnsas lateral threat, effected
on either Bide of the ills themisli the moulding online.
The machine seen in epeeeden ysMaeday was worked by one
horse, a man to feed the mackfsy and two boys to clear off
the bricks at the sides. Four se lye revolutions were per-
formed in a minute, and in that time sufficient clay was
pen out to make 25 bricks. It should be added that the
clay, after timing out hnizontally in a solid oblong mese,
is Binh great precision rut up into bricks of the required
dimensions by means of equi-distant wires placed on one
side, and worked so as to divide the whole at one stroke.
A comparison of the productive powers of this machine
with those of hand-moulding is of course important; but it
cannot be very easily made, at least in a positive manner,
cosine to the fact that the daily performances of
hand•moulden appear to vary considerably. Something like
an approximation, however, may be arrived at. In the
London district, which in brickmaking, as in so many other
processes. sonars to take the lead, a pallet moulder will
turn out 5,000 bricks in a day, in doing which he requires
the assistance of a clot moulder and five other hands, and
also that of a hone. In the country districts, where the
clot moulder is dispensed with, 3,000 is the average. These,
restil•r, it should be ',nerved, are attained in a day,which is
far from being a fecory one ; the brickmaken commencing in
the best season at four or tin in the morning, and working
oa as long as the day holds out. Assuming 25 a minute as
the average production of the machine, the multiplication of
that number by 80, and r f the product eosin by 60, will
gave 15,000 in ten hours ; but from this will probably have
to he deducted two or three thousand for unavoidable stop-
pages, leaving, perhaps, a general average of 12,000 a day.
Such is the inventor's estimate. The cost of a machine of
one-hone power is stated to be about 1001. The inspection
yesterday was not confiried to the solid brickmaking
machines ; the processes of hollow brick and of tile making
being each sahibited.

THE WE.T INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS were
leaded at Falmouth on Saturday morning. In consequence
ethers being no railway between Falmouth and Plymouth,
the mails did not reach London any quicker than if they
had been taken onto Southampton.
SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—A committee of
shareholders has been formed at Liverpool in order to re-
ceive suggestions as to the filling up of the vacancies which
will be caused by the retirement by rotation of three mem-
bers of the board at the n•-at g I meeting.
Ai CIDENT ON HOLBORN-HlLL—Yesterday morn-
ing. shortly before twelve o'clock, an accident occurred
which it is feared will prove fatal to a gentleman named
Mr. John Grant, apparently between sixty and seventy
years of age, and re,iding near St James's Church, Clerk-
enwell-green It appears that Mr. Grant was about to
cross the road opposite Ely-place, and after he had stepped
from the kerto.stone into the roadway he turned roood to
speak to a lady with whom he had just parted. At that
moment a Hansom's cob was coming at a slow pace towards
St. Andrew's Church, snd the unfortunate gentleman,
turning suddenly round, came in contact with the horse.
He was knocked down, and the horse's bind feet several
times struck him on the head, Ile was picked up bleeding
profusely and almoet insensible, and was taken to St. Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, where every attention was paid to
him. but he still lies in a very precarious condition.
EXTE.NoIt E PLUE NOttliEEY.—During the night
of Saturday a burglarious entrance was etteved into the
house of Mr. W. S. Wyndowe, No. 6, St. George's-road,
Ecriestoo-square, Pimlico, and plate, jewellery, and other
property to a very considerable amount was carried off.

(hew: the BeiWawa son.)
The sentence of the law was duly executed on
Thomas Connor yesterday, within the gaol-yard. At an
early hour persons began to assemble in the vicinity of the
gaol, and by noon, the hour of the execution, thousands
were congregated on every available prominent position,
embracing both sexes, and every age, hue, and colour.
The scaffold was erected in the northern part of the gaol
yarit, is the usual forte, most of the timbers being those
lades gaseions similar occasions. The scaffold was 27 feet
S MAN 1141 b, with 9 feet by 8 feet, 18 feet above the
rasa The fall of the rope was two.and-athalf feet. The
rope was tried duriag the week, and bore a half ton in
weight, to insure that no mishap should occur through any
weakness or flaw. It was manufactured especially for the
marpo“.
At 10 o'clock persons who had received tickets of
admission to the gaol yard were admitted, and were nearly
IMO in number. At 20 minutes past 10 o'clock, John
Hayes, Esq., high sheriff, and hie deputies, proceeded to
the cell rf the convict, who was duly transferred to his
custody by Mr. Myers, the warden. He appeared very
ads, with very slight signs of trepidation about him. On
• table in his cell stood • small cross, and • bouquet of
blooming roam placed there that morning. The prisoner
said but little, and on the Rev. Father Hickey speaking to
him words of consolation and hope, he did not shed a tear—
s= so with others, Mr. Foley, his spiritual adviser, weeping
freely. Connor bore the ordeal with great nerve. At 25
mi-
mamm le 11 o'clock, the sheriff and his deputies proceeded to
*se the white shroud of muslin on the prisoner, bat
he
At • quarter past eleven o'clock Connor engaged in de- st.
vest prayer with Messrs. Foley and Hickey. At half-put m
eleven the officen proceeded to bind his mos and hands
preparatory to leaving the cell for the scaffold. At • lel
quarter to twelve o'clock the whits cap was placed on his 11,
bead, and the sheriff and his officers, clergymen, members se
of the press, and physicians, who alone were admitted to et.
bb cell, started for the scaffold, the warden and his depts• at.
ties, together with others who had attended on him,
having bid him farewell. On the way to the scaffold the .„••
ministers chanted an appropriate psalm, the crowd in the
yard standing uncovered as they passed through, • lane
being formed by the police. At ten minutes to twelve IS
o'clock they arrived at the scaffold, and without halting, le
the prisoner, together with the clergy, sheriff, and two of le
his deputies, and warden, proceeded at ones on the plat- V*,
form. Coonor walked up with a great degree of firmness, st
holding kis head down, his eyes fired on his crucifix, as he R.
had done from the time be bad left the cell. tt
The sheriff and hie assistants having fixed the rope on his If
seek, a short prayer was offered by the elergy, and the last e
absolution given. At five minutes of 12 o'clock the cap '
was pulled over his eyes, and all having left the scaffold,
the trigger was touched and the trap fell. Previous to
haelag the platform, at the request of the Rev. Mr.
Hickey, the fall of the rope had been increased from 2i
feet to near 6 feet, and the weight of the body coming on it
at that distance (Connor weighing over 1801bs.), the rope
broke in twain and he fell to the ground. A uninnal
thrill of horror ran through the crowd within the enclaare
—outside it was greeted with shouts and clapping of hands,
and, as he soak ism their view, the multitude, as if by
mmines emus% mail their way towards the gate of the
*beesemsething from the inside. About
Lit " i
.f the "artlliwi left theirs:shoe for their homes.
The rope on his meek which was suffocating him was in-
stantly cut, and be soca revived, being very little injured,
se bones being broken, and only • few alight bruises per-
asplible. A small red rirg, caused by the rope, the akin
Mfsp abrased in very few places, was to be seen around his
meek. His first exclamation was: " Well, gentlemen, 1
em Innocent of murder in the first degree !" The excite-
ment occasioned by the mishap was soon allayed, and,
water being brought, his face was bathed in it by Mr.
Foley, and he lay down under the scaffold, pleading to his
God for mercy.
Sheriff Hayes immediately despatched the following note
to G Lowe, who was reported to be within • short
distance, at the residence of • relative :
"To his Excellency Governor Lowe :—Dear Sir—l have
met with an accident in the execution of Thomas Connor,
the rope having broke, and he declares his innocence of
'outside in the tint degree. Yours very respectfully,
" Joux HATES, Sheriff.
" Baltimore, Aug. 6, 1853."
Mr. Jeffers is the beater of this note to your Excel-
lency.
Connor, in the meantime, continued his supplications to
hie Maker for mercy—to take him out of this world;
Messrs. Foley and Hickey did what they could to comfort
him. He finally get himself in quite a nervous emotion,
crying loudly, asseverating that he bad seen his God—got
• glimpse of hie Saviour, and he wished to go on the scaf-
fold again to be hung, Minder that he might have the same
=Mos over—that his Saviour was just is the act of catching
him in his arms, sad was going to present him to his
Father. He remarked, " I have been a very bad boy, and
I du not want any boy to take pattern by me," and
repeated several time that he was not guilty of murder in
the first degree—he killed the man, but did sot intend to
do it.
The journeyman carpenters who bad put up the scaffold
refused to Dome forward and rep's*. the trap again, and
their employer, assisted by the sheriff's officers, put it in
proper order, re-rifting the same rope over the cross-
beam, which caused great apprehension that it would again
break.
Mr. M. Jeffers, who bad been despatched with the note
to Governor Lowe, returned and reported that his excel-
lency had gone eat of town during the morning. Them
was no chance, therefore, for a farther reprieve. At half-
past 12 o'clock, the scaffold being spAn prepared, the
prisoner was raised on his feet and started for the
platform, accompanied by Rev. Mr. Foley, the sheriff, and
assistants. Connor appeared extremely anxious to die, and
actually walked up the steps a-head of the others with
quite a rapid stride. The rope was men re-adjusted, all
left the platform, and at Meaty-sena minutes to one
o'clock the trigger was again palled, the trap fell, and the
poor wretch hung suspended in the air. The fall this time
was made only about twenty inches, and it proved amply
sufficient for the purpose. He struggled very little, and
in less than five minutes all, save a slight muscular motion,
had ceased.
At two misotes te 11111111 the body, having hong twenty-
five minutes, was lowered down and examined by Dr. E.
P. Duvall, the Oriel* of the gaol, Dr. E. C. Thomas,
Dr. Charles A. Prick sad Dr. C. A. lass, who were in at-
tendance, and lib proasuased to be extinct.
The body was Mos pima is the coffin and removed to a
room of the building. _wbere Dr. Duvall and others made
an examination and ha that the neck was not dislocated,
and that death bail resulted from suffocation. His mother
took charge of the body last smoke end had it privately
interred.
The arewd "abide seassaled te perhaps twenty thousand
perms% a begs poopetim et wham new women and chil-
dren ; saMber wry is percales was boys of all ages.
Every emismmme. iadadiag the bolas tops in the victim'',
was ooverai wltk the mamas, who seemed not to be im-
pressed with the eekmalty el the occasion, but apparently
regarded the whole es a frolic.
The prisoners I. the penitentiary were permitted to wit-
ness the same hem the tops of two of the buildings, and
they oat in the braille, ma looking on, the apparently most
interested spectators.