Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-28 00:00:00

ELECTRIC LIGHT.

We leern that the launch of the Great Eastern steam-
ship AM be dr cted uuler the brilliancy of the electric,
light, as far as the moving of this wo.elero IS iron monster
is done during the eight, and which must occupy, a con-
siderab'e porti n of the dark r hours seeing that it wit
require a period of sixteen from the moment'of her first
leaving the upper steers or cradle, until she quietly ricer in
her future element., It is:to be presumed, therefore, that
the commencement will b' during the night, that Ler final
g'ide into the river may be witnessed by thousared.s in the
clear light of day. The use of the electric light will,
therefore, be of great moment in this important operation,
in which, it sway b 3 said, the whole nautical world is
interested. OA the other_ hand, it will fully test the merits
of the various improvements made in this, system of remov-
ing darkness, for, if .the lights to be errec ed burn steadily
and brilliantly throughout tl-e night, they nil' meet the
requirementS of the Trinity House as respects the illumina-
ting power for lighthouses. The brilliancy of the electric
light has never been Ties ioned, and the great difficulty
hitherto has been in securing density and steadiness.
These points are overcome, we are,assured, by the applica-
tion of mercury instead of carbons, and that a lunar
light, pure, dense, steady, continuous, is now obtained.
This, as we have already said, will now be fully and
publicly tested. The point to be determieed is even of much
mere universal interest than the Great Eastern steam-s: ip
itself; for, if what is represented is established beyo ,d
controversy or dispute,a great national boon will be secured-
Nethiug can be of greater value to this c uatry than ate
efficient and powerful light for the toes'. Those now in
use are not etrffi,iently effective, and during fogs and severe
weather, are freq wrtly useless beyond the ienniediate
precincts of the lighthorees, whereas the r env light—the
mercurio-electeie we sup? se it may b 3 called—is tnechange-
able in colour, and is penetrating powers, in fog and rliele
weather are represented as perfectly extraordinary. Little
has been said or is known of this rew plan of overcoming
the diffieulties which carbon light presented, but the
diseoverere have been persevering iu their trills and tests,
so es to make every point vire.t before i's submission to
public eieplay. We understood that the discovery is due
'to Professor Way, bat the o her gentlemen identified with
the prosecution of the questioe of electric light have assis-
ted in bringing the matter to its present state of perfection,
The tart to which it is to be put is a bold one, an I is of
itself. an earnest of the sincerity of those who consioler it
perUct for all useful purpeso.s Wetrust their efforts will
htecrtre nerd with success as brilliant as their own light, not
onlron their accoun', but as- a matter of national import
and interest. It will be a grand ft-ature indeed in this
extraoreinary feat of launching this monster ship
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At LEWIS Az COMPANY'S, Rane!agh-street.
BOYS aro CLOJfHED from ttla Agel of Six to Tw.titty Yearn

A SLATS ru..rilumr.—Abnut seven o'clock on Satsrday
morning hts-t,. S.pi.ernber fflith, Mr. James T. Punts,
living about twelve miles north of this- place, and new.
Mount Zion meeting-hJusP, was murd-red by a negra man,
Joy, about Eighteen years old, belonging to Mr. William
_Robinson. M:r. Pants bad Joe in his employ for the year,.
end on Figiday had sent him lo the woods to make rails.
it 9 uroing in the evening he told Mr. P. he- had marie a
certain number. Next morning (2aturday) be went to the
w 4 with, the Et 01'0 and found that he had told him a
falsehood as to the number, whereupon Mr. P: expressed
his defermi- ation te ch stist him- Nothing of the kfnrt,
hoe ever, sr:a-attempted et the time, awl nothing more slid
who: ut it. Mr..P. proceed to assist the negro ill' splitting a
large log at which he was at work. After a time he
bum me fdtigned and sat down to rest. While in this
Posit Ton, the negro, picking his opportunity, struck Mr. P.
eo th i head with the pole of the ay.,-knocking him down.
lin a :short time he gave evidences of returning conscious-
ness„ whereupon the in irderer gave him a second blow
with the axe, killing him notriglit. He then pieced the
body :upon Mr.. P.'s saddle horse and took it half a mile
clistatt.t into the wo xis, and threw it under some brash
to eon teal it. Alter this he returned• to his work. Mr.
P. rott retorting at night, his family LEcarne uneasy,
and se me of the neigh') tars, suspecting foul play, at or ce
arrested Joe, who ry-,xt morning ennfessed his crime and
told where he had secrett d th tweljr. The murderer is
no in our county gaol awaiting his trial, which,. we sup-
pose, will be Tery-soott. His doom, is certain. —2issours
seciesmecn.

EAST INDUR, RAE/MAT Comn.s.mme—The twenty-second
report of this Company, to be submitted at the haiLyearly
general meeting on Monday nix', states that the mutiny
cnused the company some loos, both in life and damage
to i's iperrye Teo wo les on the South Beerhhom district,
aboet 45 miles-, have not been retarded, and it is antinipa ci
that about 2hmiles wilt be opened in March, 1853, and the
remain ler in 1859 e En the next sueceeding leagth, about
33 miles, the contraors Lot havinsmirriA on the woks
.with due vigour, the pcobehility is that the whole will fall
into the hands of the Company's engineers. From to end
of this division. to Rairathel, aboce 511 mile*, the works
have made Mir procress, but the unselled state of the
eoantry is new interfering- with theme With the erection
of interrup.ioas ineicintaral to the circumstances of the
country, the works on the next:so miles are making reason-
able pnegresse On IQ elehyr and Pertna Districts,. about
ES3 miles, the weeks are entirely stopped, but tbese will be
pushed forwarelelireetly the country becomes a litre more
settled. On the Soa.ne District, the outlyeak at Dinapore
caused a stoppage of the works and loss 0/property. Feom
the tearer Kerumnassa to Delhi, the country being more or
less in the hands of the rebels, the works have neeessarily
been brougheto..a standstill. Measures will be taken for
tree resumptit neer se ivs op rations, and. the most vigoraus
prosecution,of the works at the earliest pesdble ansment.
The whole cf:the works and permanent way on the opened
lines are ie exc&ient condition,. and the traffin has been
carried on, with regularity, Tie number of passeneers,
carried between theist of January and 31st Jude, 1857,
was 548,547 i stowing an increase air this traffic, over the
preceding half-year of 83,426,_ or as comp-red with the
earrespondinghelf-yeer of 116,226-paeseogers. Tee goods
traffic gives an increase of 19,033,t0us over the pretending
half-year, or of 30,740 tons over the corresponding half-
year , 1 1856: The traffii receipts for the half-year ending
30,.hJsne, 1857, ware 63,4531:45. 3.1., showing an increase
of 14,831/- Is. 6d. over the proceeding half-yew, or
16,9024.17;a, .54.1. over the corresponding half year of 1838;
while the workir g exeenszehave been reduced from
per cent to 36.721 per cent. The report corc'udes by notic-
ing ineeems of high c ommendation, the cendact of Messra.
Boyle, and Kelly, engineers of tee company, in the gallant
eefence at Arrah, and in expressing undiminished one&
eencie in the value of thge undertaking aal the sa;id basis of
setter;ty on which it rests.
Aceneneer T l " Ban Been".—Our readers will hear with
'egret that an accident has occurred to " Big Bern." which
has deprived him of that voice end tone to whrch they
bad already bee ome familiar, and whicleit was hoped
would be heard for many years, hem the lofty clock tower
of the new palace at Wesminster. For carne time past
'it has been the custom to toll the bell a short time at one
e'elock on Saturdays. On Saturday the proceedings were
commenced as usual, a rd after ;he hemmer had re ruck the
third time it was found that the sound was net the. old
familiar E nenerale but a cracked and uncertain sound.
The superiaten lent of the works immediately save orders
foe the suspension or the performance, and a close exami-
nation of the bell took pl ce. No place could, however,
be niscever:d in the first iaatariae The search was
renewed, and a lighted can ale was taken inside the bell,
and while beiog rem, d slowly round, the outside was
carefully watched ; at leogth. is the dismay of nll the
pecans prosect, light shone !It rough the thick metal, and
there eves no further room for doubt that the bell was
crack,rd, T‘e ‘: clack" iu the. 'bell rises perpendicularly
from the rim, or lower lip, to abet)... half way up the side,
and it is directly opposite to, tto spot on which the bell
was struck by the large hammer. For some time past
grass doubts have been expressed es to the propriety of
continuing the Si urday perfortnaucei on the bel in the
paiition iu which it was hone. Situated at the foot of the
chick tower, and surrounded by a close hoarding, the
friends of Big Ben' complaiced strongly of the unfair
tee fitment to which he was subj eted by being s'r ick in a
positi n where he had no room to dsvAope his p)wer, and
not a fey have corsAcred that he was not struck fairly by
the blows of the huge spare and &newsy hammer which
fell upon his ta- tal a ie. Whether it be true or not that
"Big Bee" was unfairly hung, or struck unfairly. the
fact untertunfely is that his voice is for ever silenced, mud
not until he has been broken up, again mel'ed and east,
may we i'apeet to hear " his once familiar voice." - Toe
accident occurring at the present moment is the more to
be regretted, •inasmuch as it was expected that a short
time only wculd elai before he wou'd be pl cod ie. the
belfry for which he was destined. Everything had been
prepared for his reception in the lofty eminence of the
"Clock Tower," the "cradle" for carrying him up, and
the chrdne for hinging him, were all ready, and Sir Chas.
Barry waited only, the arrival of the four mall bells for
striking the Varier hours, when the clock, which in the
fectory of. Mr. Dent has for months past been Ittepeg the
mos: r 'cid time, wc uld be pat in its place, and "Big Ben"
wcu'al be elevand to those regions, where the boom of his
tn7ghty voice could be heard over the whole metropolis to
t
ciutatnrtgerofbepllaslre.ed. Several months
areiamert cast;
the whole
sail it was
Pa'relr expectedeam. viehna,nts tt,abge.
wouldy
must now elapse before the bell can be re-ca t and placed
in its position.—Cbserver.
IhTehhae meeting
been comp

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