The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-27 00:00:00

4 TINE BALL dr GLASGOW.

The North British Daily Mail gives the follow-
ing deerription of the time-ball which has been set up on the
tower of the Won' Home at Glasgow:
" Paasing to the roof we observe the bell itself, resting on
tumed moulding and meanies to have been • part of the
original design of the tower. Tide ball is made of the flutist
mebogony, and built of a series of circles crossing each other
at right angles and so stringed ss to form a sphere, which is
covered with zinc to protect it from the weather. A great
amount of care and labour has been bestowed on this part,
which ia the workmanship of Mr. Thomas Colquhout:' St.
Vincent•street, as &teethe base on which it rests. We will
now describe be: operation. On the ground floor of the
shipping office, farthest removed from the street, a very fine
satronomical clock is securely bolted to the wall, fitted with•
serial of wheel work which revolve respectively in 24 hours,
1 hour, and I minute. When the 24 hour wheel maker one
turn, • weighted lever falls into a notch on its edge, falling at
the mine time on the 1 hour wheel, which bar she • notch on
its edge. If the two notches are oipposite, the lever falls so
fm that a small gold spring covers the 60th record, and when
the second band touches it,, current of electricity passes frees
the clock to the upper storey of the tower. When the boll is
wound up to the top of the pillar two levers hook themeelves
into notches in the rod, and sustain the ball and eppendages.
A heavy weight hangs over them levers, but is prevented
from dropping by the keeper of an electro magnet, which is
fined on the squire pipes ; sad, when the electric current
passes from the clock, it circulates round this magnet, sad
attracts the keeper, which allowing the weight to drop un-
hooks the levers and the ball falls. To the lower end of the
end by which the bell is elevated is attached & piston, working
air-tight in a cylinder. When the ball drops, the air being
compressed res the of the piston, and by its else-
thity prevents the shock which would otherwise result from
the velocity and weight of the ball.
" It has been arranged that the ball is to be hoisted half-
meet Ligh et the nunutes before one p.m. • at two minutes
before oue it is to he raised to the top of the 'rod ; sod at one
, precisely it is to drop -showing the Greenwich mesa time to
within the tenth part of a second. As the ball era be seen
I distinctly for some miles' distance, it will prove of peat ad-
, mintage to captains of vessels., as they will thus be enabled
to check any error or variation in thew chronometers, without
removing them."

LOSS OF TWO LIFSS AT ST. JAMES'S BATHS.
Yesterday Mr. Wakley, coroner for West Middle-
held an inquest in the Midi/leer: Hospital on John
Rklton,gewell, aged 40, who, with the aseistent engineer, a young
man named White, on whom an inquest had been previously
held, perished through an unfortunate accident et the f3t.
Jameia'Bethe, in Marshall-street, Golden-square.
The dreamed, under the control of White, whore fathers
thief engineer at these bathe, nose with White end smother
man, engaged in clearing out a large boiler which had been
previously prepared for the peeve', when unfortunately by
some onforeeeen accident the steam from an upper boiler
rushed through a valve !placed at the top of the boiler in
which they were at work, and the condensation of the Mesas
speedily taking place, so ea to corm large body of water
to descend, the men, fearing that they would be drowned,
commenced en Foment through the man-hole at the
top by Mean! of a ladder placed under the boiler.
In doing eo they bad w pars the valve through which the
steam was rushing, end the deed men were fully welded,
the third man escaping with few severe, although not
serious Mimics.
George White, the engineer at the beam. could net account
for the valve being turned on, but it might have been OCCII
eioned by, the vim touching it in their decent. lied they
remained at the bottom of the boiler they would beer sox=
imbrue, es the waste pipes were open, and the water
out of the boiler as the steam became condensed and fell to
the bottom.
In reply to the Coronae, White said that the valves bad
been examined and properly guarded since the inquiet on hia
sea, but he had not considered it necessary to have any
guard placed over them to prevent the recurrenee of such an
acciden
It waround that such a guard wee quite necessary, and
The Coroner In emceeing up serinuely cautioned White
that he would be liable to a Murree of manslaughter if =-
cilia de.ith arose threngh the want of ouch a guard being
placed CAW the valves.
White promised to draw the attention of the Commissioners
of Darns to the matter, and
The Jury then returned a verdict of Accidental death."

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nit the morolug of the god September. Letters must IN
marked .. prr Ilyilid" or •• per TO iVAII slay," and must be
yanked iu :.onii. sod !der then the evrting of the Ist ReP-
tomb& ; those posted la Liverpool can be delayed natil bo•
foto 8 o'clock oxt., co the tad September.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27.

Tnz anticipatory telegraph of the Bombay Man
confirms the disastrous intelligence teethed some
days ago rio Cagliari. If anything, it deepens the
'bade. It alludes to fresh massacres in the North.
West Provinces; it speaks explicitly of • rising at
Hydrahad, and of a mutiny at Stalkote ; it men-

times an action between the garrison of Agra and the
eantineers from Neemach ; and it gives a painful
secoant of the ?ate of the brave Sir Ikon WHEELER
and the former garrison of Cawnpore, through the
miscreant NENA BAIIIII.O breach of faith. It is true
that the insurgents everywhere give way ultimately
before the English soldiers ; but even victories will
be wearing out the few who are struggling against
such terrible odds. The brilliant recapture by
General HAVELOCK of Cawnpore contrasts with
these evil tidings u the brightness of the rainbow
is enhanced by the darkness of the cloud in which
it appears, and is the only encouraging feature.
The question suggested to every man by the
depressiog tidings from India is—How woe can
reinforcements reach our gallant countrymen? By
the Cape route the first instalments may begin to
drop dribbling in about November ; when the whole
of the force now scattered over the ocean may
reach the thratre of war none but an inspired
prophet could tell. Will our Ministers, even at this
the eleventh hour, awaken to the necessity of making
at least an effort to forward a detaehment

through Egypt? Will they for once disregard
their own petty reputations so far as to risk re-
proach or ridicule for a failure, to obtain a chance of
sending speedier relief to the few thousands who
are contending against myriads of incarnate fiends?
Is there no member of the House of Commons who
will avail himself of the few minutes he can snatch
on Friday to tell Ministers in the plainest terms
what the country thinks of their callous dilatorinem
sod frivolous mums ?

AMID all that is depressing in the present state of
stain in Ilindostan, there may still be discerned
hopeful indications. At Meerut, for instance, the people
are extremely dejected, and as humble as possible.
The traders tremble before every white face; the
agriculturists see that they are rained; the Mtwaul-
noun lose no opportunity of echoing the prayer of
the Delhi people that the city may be spared. They
see their countrymen hanged by the half-dozen
every evening at a single station ; and they dare not
hold communication with each other, for fcar of the
halter. It is true the same apprehension—that of

the gibbet--renders the mutineers desperate; and
they are everywhere ten to one of the British: but
they are scared by discouragement' at every turn.
Five of them move upon a single English rifle-
man, mud he kills four in a mysterious manner,

—by the same sorcery by which the British make
the mutineers drop at an incredible distance,
Nothing disheartens them more than the Mina.
Nay, the old bayonet which they themselves use
seem a new weapon in the hands of English
soldiers nerved by vengeance. One of oor men pins
two of theirs to the wall with one thrust, and drives
in a foot of the barrel to boot : the barrel comes out
twisted like a corkscrew ; and the bayonet sticks
because it is bent double. At a bridge where guns
are deliberately posted, indwell worked and backed,
ten of our men to a hundred of theirs take the guns
and kill and disperse ten times their own number. Ten
men, again, cow and beat tics thousand villagers in
the audit of their manading. The mutineers are not
likely to gain courage by learning the cause of the
preternatural strength of their foe. Their hearts
will not be stoats" when they hear the battle-
cry when oar ragmen charge—" Remember the
" Ladies ! Remenabre the babies!" They do not yet
knew what fetes theyhave put into us by wearing the
miniatures of oar coantrywomen round their necks
when they light. If them peetsits are a spell, they
me a spell spinet sack wearers. The mutineers
are disseasegoi, again, by the disgust they encounter
where they looked far sympathy. The British
retro to call them • the enemy :" that is
risenral, esenidming that they an our own aid.
Ors turned treacherous • but they meet with
ottani contempt and hatred whichever way they
him They see a party of Bikini eooking—they lay
aside their arms and say, " Come to us : we are

6. year brothers :" they 'draw sear, and and the
MN anything bat brotherly. Every &pay is

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dedireyed i and the Sikhs say this is pnyment far
their countrymen slain in Delhi. The entiesers

My tie Ghc'arkas, calling oat to them, " We respect
" yes s yea are oar brothers : come es." "We are
" eesdag," is the reply s and their oust is that of
the lies ea its prey. The mutineers have ergs seen
eirmethiag el what becomes of deserters, after making
terms w itk thew Tye deserters are heard dr and we
Crest there are so mare. One of them had dyed his
hco, sad was sot saspeeted till be asked mercy in
The ant isomers be was cat to shreds by
"mesh words The greatest diseoeragemess of all

'Wm7et be tbo high beart-ot the British-reldiers. As
VI @Men say, "Our am on jolly." So ire the
Skis s so ars the Oboarka• ; sad so are Hill-sses of
other tribes. Ews the Mobs tremble@ wbes he
thinks whet algid be the otemequescs of the

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 27, 1857.