The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-01 00:00:00

lifE LATE MR. JOHN BBATFARD, ENGLYIAL

Another of the notabilities of the scientific itsl
engineering world has been recently removed by the head
the above -awned gentleman, which took place on Friday*,
the 26th of March, at his residence at Camden Tom
Although not generally known to the unprofessional pa*
his merits were much appreciated by the members of bier.
&aeon. Educated as an architect and surveyor, he hide
gashed himself by various papers and communications
subjects (manacled with engineering, chemistry, he., by
which he was early brought into connexion with &
Humphry Davy, Thomas Telford, Davie, Gilbert, mi
other eminent men of the day. lie attracted attention at a
time by an original design for the new London-bridge, sai
soon afterwards became extensively engaged in the drip
and constructioneof iron bridges and docks, also in the dew

lopment of lead mining in Wales, and enteequently is Os
extension of gas lighting on the contineat. In the year ltli
he establiahed, in conjunction with his brother, Iha hum
manufactory foe steam engines at Limehouse, Imown as tia
Canal Iron Weeks, at which an immense number elan*
of the largest aim have been produced to the prowl
time. Space will not permit a detail of the vatioW
inventions of Mr. John Seaward, for the

marine engine; but the most important will .
considered hie celebrated design for superseding
beam engine (as left by Watt, and up to that time the
kind need in large ships), by • plan of direct•acting
which having been fitted into a government vessel _
Gorgon, originated the now universally known title cl
"Gorgon Engine," and Mr. &•ward, in'.

became extensively engaged in the design -
numerous engines on his new plan for the British navy.
His improvements in the detail of the steam engine an
roust amongst them are an improved paddle, wheel
steamers, the telescopio funnel for ships of war, the
connecting crank, the hydraulic lifting appoint'
the propeller, the cheese coupling for &um
marine tubular boiler, &a. In private life
amiable and unostentatious. The few who bad the

of knowing him were deeply impressed with
his knowledge, sad his excellent judgment
Peculiarly kind and considerate to all, he we
!shad of the suffering and the poor ; to them
sympathy were ever accessible, even amid the
we of his munaotui avocations. We think it may

Emoted, that the lose of few men Ina private
will be more generally or more 'lineally

of the late Mr. John Seaward.

DEATH OP THE KARL OF MORTON.—WO
to Announce the amnia* at the Earl of Mr
ehordy before 3 o'clock sm., yesterday, at
deuce in Brook-street, after a abort illness.
George Sholto Douglas, Earl of Merton, Lord
Aberdour in the peerage of Scotland, of which
was a representative peer is parliament, was cia
the Hon. John Douglas, by Lady Frances He
daughter of Edward, first Earl Hsrewood. He
Dec. 23, 1789, end married, July 3,1817, Frau,
Wm* daughter of the late Rt Hon. Barr
G.C.H., and sister at the gallant officer r
Bombay army in India. Oa the death of
the fourteenth earl, in July, 1827, be .
the family honours. The decered earl was
the minion in Spain in 1811, end was
secretary of legation at Stockholm in July the
year. Subsequently, in 1814 and 1816, he S
capacity at the Courts of Florence and Berlin;
he filled up to January, 1826, when he *Mt
matic pension. The noble earl was • lord in-
Queen from September, 1841, to January, It
ember, 1856, be was appointed viorlieutenant
of Mid-Lothian, of which county he was r
lieutenant in 1849. He is succeeded in the
and estates by his eldest son, Lord Aberdour,
Apt 3, 1818 sad formerly in the 71st Foot. nu
married in 1844 Mire Watson, daughter of Mr,
of fienghtcm, Mid-Lothfan, who died in 1810 •
El 1853, lady Alice Lembion, third -
of the bits Berl of Durham.

THR 4170TCH HsitintUPTCY
continue to be made of the ease with which
England escape their creditor, by availing
the Soot& bankruptcy law. A respectable I
previously mired in a similar manner, hemp—
fatted in an attempt to oonnteract a movanot
kind. The debtor was a London attorney, •
they obtained a judgment. He claimed, Immo
tected by virtue of a sequestration obtained •
previoaely in Scotland, and which he bad
manage without opposition, since, while
pies of business was Bucklarabnry, he was
in the official notices es of Stornoway, in the
Roo, without may natation of his profession
The English omit was accerdingly applied to
=reap@ ground that he had not been fitly
, but the result was unfavourable.
that be had obtained his final discharge, and,
demo will be given to that nummons clan
who cultivate a knowledge of tin low to avail
the solloos twain it airs iromottor imam
and loadollos those who, for the asks et pool --
tnq
motsavoor to being Ulm to doh deosto.—!Mw

the improvement of llt
et
will undoubtedly
r superseding the brat,
t to tat time the only
of directitcting engtee,
•nment vessel calledthi
Uy known title at 111
rd, in consequence,
eign and construed.*
or the British navy, M.
*team engine are
paddle. wheel far
ships of war, the
lifting apposes'
disconnecting dide,
te life be ww
ow who had the
eyed with the Writ
adgment on all
11, he wee repetWly
; to than lb pone
amid the greeted
re think it may I. mil
n a private path et*
4 rely deplored thin.
lorros.—We
rl of Mouton, who
day, at the bay
Ulner Tbs
lion, Lord DAIS
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mut, was eldest en
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arewood. gnaw
1817, Frances
Mat. Sir Garr
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oath of his •
827, be saweadrl
of earl Iwo
and was
,in
July the
18113, he filled the
La Berlin; the hater
he obtained his di
a lord in.waitiag
ranuary, 1849. M
-lieutenant of the
he was made s
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I and youngest •
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obtained a 11.
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