Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-27 00:00:00

THE GREAT BIRMINGHAM ASSAULT CASE.

At the Birmingham Quarter Sessions, on Wednesday,
the case of assault by Mr. E. H. Collis on Mr. T. R. r.
Hodgson was called. Thf;court was most densely crowded
during the trial. Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Cockle were for
the prosecution, and Mr. Spooner and Mr. Wills for the
defence. The circumstances which occasioned the assault
have been previously described in our columns. After the
speech of the counsel for the prosecution, Mr. Hodgson
was examined. He said: I am a magistrate of this
borough. I was present at the banquet given br the
Mayor on the visit of the Duke of Cambridge, and pre-
sided after the Mayor had retired. I received the letter
produced, and wrote the reply. (The two letters were
then put in, and read by Mr. Edmonds.) My reply was
sent on the 4th of June, about half-past one. In the
afternoon, whilst seated in my office, Mr. Collis was
shown up. I was writing at the time. Mr. Collis said.
on entering my room. " Hodgson, do you withdraw that
letter ? " I said, " No; but-" and before I could get
another word out Mr. Collis struck me on the right side of
the head. I said, " Collis, let me have assistance; don't
you know lam lame ?" In saying this I referred to a
broken arm, which has been almost useless to me for
20 years. I received another blow ou the nose. and a
third on the side of the head, and then turned round to
pick up the tongs, which brought the poker with them,
and Collis picked it up. I cried out loudly, and soon after
two of my clerks burst open the door. I received more
than eight or ten blows. I never struck Mr. Collis either
before or after he struck me. I had only one opportunity,
and that was when I first picked up the tones, when I
might have struck a fatal blow, but I refrained from doing
so. I then became insensible, not altogether from the
blows, but by them, coupled with the fact of the cruel
treatment I had received. Mr. Collis never said to me,
" Hodgson, when you wrote this letter, were you prepared
to take the consequences P" nor did I say to such observa-
tion, "Oh, Collis, I'll withdraw it, and make any apology
you may think proper." He never said to me, " Hodgson,
is not this letter a He from beginning to end ;" nor did I
ever say, "It is, I'll write you any apology." I did not
begin to write whilst he was there. Mr. Spooner
addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and contended
that his statement of the assault was the most correct one
of the two. He (the learned counsel) dirt not deny that a
common assault had been committed, but it was one of
those known as " common assaults," which was expressed
in the last count. of the indictment, and there was no
evidence to justify them in arriving at any other conclusion.
The Recorder having summed up the evidence, the jury
then-considered the evidence without retiring from the
box, and after hearing the last two counts read over they
immediately returned a verdict of " Guilty'. The
Recorder, after a brief pause, with apparent anxiety,
said, " I -ball postpone the judgment of the Court till to•
morrow morning at nine o'clock.
On Thursday the defendant was brought up to receive
sentence. The Recorder intimated that if Mr. Collis
retracted the imputation on Mr. Hodgson's veracity which
constituted the defence, he would be spared a painful part
of his duty ; if this was refused, the law would take ifs
course. Ultimately, Mr. Collis acted on the hint, and the
Recorder then simply fined him £5O.

ALDERSITOTT.—A. real camp is to be formed, and net
week a considerable portion of the sweltering troops wit
be under canvass.

PARIS, Thursthy Evening.—The council of the Bank of
France has reduced the rate of discount on commercial
bills, esconipte des effete de commerer, to 5f per cent. It
maintains the interest on advances at 6 per cent.

Taoors AND RAILWAYS.—The 2nd b'attalion of Rifles
t left Aldershott at five o'clock yesterday morning, and will
be present during the proceedings in Hyde Park, and will
then start by special trin to Liverpool en route for Dublin.
PRINCE ALBERT.—At the 'council held on Thursday,
an order was passed for publishing a letter patent, by
which the Queen grants to Prince Albert the title of Prince
Consort during their joint lives. No one can object to the
distinction which is thus conferred on the husband of the
Queen after seventeen years of married life. It makes
Prince Albert legally, as he already is actually, a member
of the British Royal Family. Hitherto the Prince has
had no British rank whatever. Philip, of Spain, was titu-
lar King of England, but the Consort of the present Qaeen
is only what he was prior to his marriage —a Prince of the
House of Saxe Coburg Gotha. He has not even received
a British peerage, although a naturalised subject of the
British crown. Prince Albert has hitherto borne only his
German title, and out of England takes, we believe accord-
ing to the code of court precedence, only his rank as a
younger brother of a ducal German house. Prince Albert
will now meet foreign royal families with the status of a
British Prince of the highest rank.
NATURALISATION IN FRANCE.—Art Englishman resident
in Paris, was ten days ago arrested on a warrant issued by
the President of the Civil Tribunal, for a debt of 35sr, due
to Mdlle. Cauca()ls, a dressmaker. On his demand he was
taken before the President of the Civil Tribunal, sitting
in chambers, and claimed to be released on the ground that,
having been authorised to establish his residence in France,
he was entitled to the privileges of a Frenchinan—that is
to say, to be exempt from arrest without due form of
process. But the president decided that authorsa'ion to
establish a domicile is not equivalent to naturalhaion ;
at:a that besides, when the applicant's furniture had been
seized by his landlord fur rent, he offered no guarantee for
the payment of the debt ; he therefore ordered him to be
sent to prison. Ida Monday, the Englislatnan appealed to
the Imperial Courfeigainst this decision. He maintained
that the authorisation to establish his residence in France
and to enjoy civil rights placed him in the eye of the law
in the same situation as a Frenchman; he also represented
that, as he was married in France and had a large family,
and as he was the Publisher of an English periodical in
Paris, be presented a sufficient guarantee. The court,
after bearing the counsel of the dressmaker, decided that
his objections were well founded in law, quashed the war-
rant for his arrest, and ordered him to he discharged from
custody.
CANADIAN EMMA TION.—A Quebec correspondent of a
London paper writes :—A large number of vessels still
keep arriving at Quebec. In three days alone of lest week
143 arrived-52 ships, 76 barques, and 15 brigs. Up to
the first of the month 144 vessels more had arrived this
year than up to the same period last. The railway cars
and steamers are daily loaded with emigrants going west.
Four thousand more have arrived this year titan at the
same time last. Some of the newspapers are complein-
ing that many young men—clerks and others,—unfit
for labourions and mechanical employments, have
been induced to leave home, to seek employ-
ment here that they are now unable to find.
This may be the case, as the market for that kind of
labour soon becomes overstocked ; but I am satisfied that
mechanic, agricultural labourers, servants (male and
female), can soon find employment. Take an instance
occurring a few days since—a young Englishman, a coach-
man and groom, came to me seeking a situation,
which he vt as informed I could direct him to. He had
ls3en forestalled, He seemed much disappointed, but
after examining his testimonials, which were excel-
lent, I encouraged him by the assurance that be would
not long wsnt employment. Next day I met hint in
Natrc Dame.street, proud and contented, driving a carriage
full of ladies. The charitable committees of the various
national societies are actively engaged ; many of them
have paid agents, who await the arrival of their emigrants
on the wharves, ready to assist them with inform stints or
advice. Few emigrants, of good character, sober and
industrious habits, of the class I mention, need want em-
ployment long, I am quite certain.
How TO SELL PENCILS TO ADVANTAGE.—The? moot
celebrated and tee most succeesful charlatan of Paris—
Mengin, the itinerant pencil seller—is just dead, and he
left behind him a fneanie of 400,000 fr. No on o can have
oassal many days in Paris within the last len years withal)+,
having observed on the Pies de la Bourse, the Piece dii
Chatelet, the Plhie de la Madeleine, or some other open
space. the conspicuous figure of a tall handsome man,
with a brass helmet and plumes, and a beard—the
very model of that Hudibras, "in shape and hue
most like a tile"—standina on the box of a light cart.,
and haranguing a crowd. He wore a costly mantle of
green velvet embroidered with gold, and on the fingers of
his white hands were many rings of great price. Behitie
him was a squire, who from time to time blew a trumpet
to attract public attention, and whose garments were only
less splendid than that of his master. The only end and
aim of all this porno and circronstares was the sale of lead
pencils at two sous a piece. Mengin possessed in a
high degree the art of corns-needing the attention
of his audience. The laughs be rised were
rare, but his face was fu' I of promise of
something good coming, and thus he kept alive
curiosity. Though his speeches took a long time in the
delivery, he was essentially a moo of few words. He made
long pauses, which were filled up ny pantomime, and
making grotesque sketches on a slate to show the quality
of his pencils, The substance of every one of his urses
was that he had originally set up in a quiet shop, hat finding
that he could not get a living in it, he had resolved to
become a quack, and that from the hour of his taking that
resolution he had done well. Why," he would say,
++ do I fig myself up in this ludicrous costume ? I will
tell )O2 candidly ; because going about in this dress I
sell a great many pencils, and it I stayed at home in ti
warehouse coat I should sell very few. lam a quack, I
admit, but I am an boast one, for I sell a good article,
and if you want a pencil I doubt whether you will get as
!poi a one any where else for the money." The speech was
always followed by namerous demands, which he supplied
from CBO packed in the body of the cart. Of late be was
wont to speak of the large fortune he had made, and be
would frequently turn out the contents of severs' rouleaus
of gold, and count them in the public view. Ile was a
remarkably healthy looking man, and could not have been
more than forty years old, but he was carried off by a fit of
apoplexy.

A SCENE IN THE IRISH COURT OF CHANCERY.

On Tuesday, shortly aftor the Master of the Rolls had taken his seat
on the bench, Mr. Richard Major Hassard, whose presence in the
courts ever betokens, like that of the stormy petrel, an impend-
ing tempest, addressed his Honour is an unusually dulcet tone, in
ref ren:e to an order made in the case of Young o. Hassard. His
Honour intimated to the gentleman that he hod made his order, an
if he were dissatfttied with it he might appeal. Mr. Hassard observed
that the case was out of court. inasmuch as all the parties were out of
the world, having died. His Honour repeated that the public busi-
ness should not be interrupted, no withstanding which Mr. Hassard
was importunate, and interrupted counsel learned in the law. Again
was Mr. Hassard informod that if he persevered the official fingers of
a policeman shell I be laid upon him ; and Mr. Hassard said
that his Lordship might give him into custody if he pleased.
The tipstaff was directed to procure one of the civic guardians '
in blue and " dack,," an 1 he brought within the precincts
of equity two of that highly useful fraternity. Mr. Hassard
continued undaunted; he even advanced to the table at which
the solicitors sit; the business of the court was suspended; the court
was crowded; the policemen could not get near the refractory liti-
gant. but they had the r eyes upon him as setters fix their gaze upon
a pirtrilge. Once mare he essayed to address h's lordship in inco-
herent eloquence, and complained that gross injustice had been done
him ; the cause had abated ; all the parties ware dead. His Honour
repeated that he had made his order. that it had been transmitted to
the once of the Registrar, and a copy had been sent to the Lord
Chancellor for t'e purpose of enabling Mr. Hassard to appeal to the
Court of Appeal which was that day sitting. Mr. Hassard renewed
his oration. He would not appeal—he called upon the bar to hear
him—gross injtisti,:o had been done him. The Master of the Rolls
was at length obliged to direet the policeman to remove Mr. Hassard.
These worthies advanced towards the offender; his eyes glared at
them like a tiger in his den, but then he tried to parley with them.
[hey had not as yet laid hands on h'm, and in a moment the old gen-
t'eman, with the dexterity of Harlequin, or the flexibility of a sprite,
dived or vanished under the tab 'e on which are ranged the venerable
tomes of law and equity, and at which sit the august counsel of her
Majesty. The policeman .re men of gigantic stature, Patagonians in
their own way ; still ditty was to be performed, and they endeavoured
to squeeze their proportions into the limited spice between the table
and the do sr, but th's was impossible. The eal-like or puff n-like
form of this element of discord hid f sand it easy, and, to the horror
of a distinguished equity lawyer at the oppos;te side of the table, the
wild bird before him cams up again, ana seized him by his legs We
must sometimes stoop to conquer, and the policemen were compelled
to creep on all fours, and crawl after the disturber under the table,
amidst the most inconceivable merriment. The incident has no
parallel in its intense ludicrousness. The court was adjourned for a
time, the judges left the beach, and Sir. Hassard after some time left
the court with the p olicemee, who, at the hazard of their limbs, had
in vain pursued him. He continued to ejaculate that gross injustice
had been done him, and when he rea :tied he hall he was snrr ,unded
by crowds of people. He per =imitated the hall for a long while, and
it was not till evening that this eccentric occurrence ceased to excite
laughter and astonishment.

CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.—On Thursday, at the
council at Buckingham Palace, Mr. Henry Arthur Herbert,
Chief Secretary for Ireland, was sworn one of Her
Majesty's most honourable privy council by command of
the Queen, and took his place at the board.
MR. BRIGHT.—This gentleman arrived at his Rochdale
home on Saturday morning. Mr. Bright, it is said, wishes
fir a twelvem inths' domestic seclusion from public life.
He has, however, intimated that, if called upon, he shall
not hesitate to resume his parliamentary position, though
he would prefer that Mr. M. Gibson should precede him
in parliament.

IRISH LABOURERS FOR ENGLAND.-011 Monday evening
over one thousand agricultural labourers embarked on
board the steamer which left the North-wall, Dublin,
for Liverpool and Holyhead, for the purpose, of cutting
he harvest in different parts of England. About four hun-
dred m re were too late to obtain tickets, and had to remain
until next day, when they were to embark.—Freeman's
Journal.

A NEWLY INVENTED Honsesune.—Apatent has recently
been granted to a mechanic of Philadelphia for an improve-
ment in the method of fastening horseshoes. The inven-
tion consists in the construction of flanges or lips rising
from the frost and sides of the hoof, against which they
are made to bear, separate, and fastened by sliding into a
recess in the side of the shoe, and secured by means" of a
screw, thus entirely dispensing with the use of nails, and
avoiding, any liability to injury by pricking.
WILLS OF BRITISH SUBJECTS ABEOAD.—A. Bill has been
• prepared and brought in by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr.
Nfillins, and Lord Stanley, to amend the law relaing to the
wills and to the granting of administration of the personal
estate of British subjects resident Or domiciled elsewhere
than in England. The Bill in question enacts that every
will, codicil, or other testamentary paper executed and
attested according to the law of England for the time
being by any British subject shall be valid and effectual,
a-•d admitted to probate, notwithstanding such subjsct
shall at the time of his death, or at amp other time, be or
have been resident or domiciled elsewhere than in England,
and shall operate in all respects as if such subject had died
domiciled in England. Clause 2 enacte that adrninistratinu
of the goads of British subjects dying intestate, shall he
granted to the persons entitled to the same by the law of
England for the time being, notwithstanding such subjects
shall, at the time of their deaths, or at any other time, be
or have been resident or donaiciled elsewhere than in Eng-
land, in like manner as if such subjects had died domiciled
'in England. This-Act will not apply-to any will, codicil,
or testamentary paper, or to the grant of administration of
the goods, of any psrson who shall be dead a' the time of
the passing thereof—This Act will not apply to Scotland.
A LADY SWINDLEn.—A short title since the rector of
one of the Cork city parishes, received a message from a
lady who was stopping at an hotel, begging of him to call
upon her as she needed his assistance under circum-
staances of perplexi y in which she was involved, The
clergyman lost na time. in c tiling, when ho was ushered
into the presence cf en elegantly attired lady, who occu-
pied private apartments in the hotel. Having apolo-
gized for the trouble she hid occasioned to a geutleman
whom, though personally a stranger to her, she had often
heard extolled for his kindness and liberality, she, with
well-acted coalusion, revealed to him the delicate circarn-
stancei which occassioned her seeking his assistance.
She stated that on her way from the Dublin train hir
purse had been filch-•d, and she was left in the awk-
ward predicament of being without the necessary cash
to d -fray her expenses hack to the metropolis. The
clergyman, with a reaediness which did more honour
to his heart than to his head, handed to her from his
own private resources a sum sufficient to meet her
requirements, which, with a profusion of thenlas end
apologies, she accspted, peimising repeatedly that the
mer•ey should be returned the moment she arrived in
Scarcely had the rector quitted the hotel than
the "lads" sent a similar message to the Rev.—, parish
priest of parish, and having told him the same
tale of the lost purse, she odtained from him a suffi-
cient sum to discharge her hotel bill, promising to repay
she money immediately on her return home. However,
although representing herself to he highly connected in
Dublin, she has not since communieated with either of
the clergymen ; but it is stated that one of gm reverend
gee-ft-men, having since been there, had the pleaseire of
seeing tier driving through the streets in a handseme car-
rieeie, but -.sot of receiving a reeognitirin. —Cork. Consti-
tution.

MENTING OF Coeeizes.--On Tuesday evening, a meet-
ing of miners, chiefly employed at Len and the
neighbouring collieries, was held at Wombwell, for the
purpose of taking steps for the formation of a permanent
fund for the prevention of colliery accidents and for the,
relief of sufferers by such occurrences. Mr. James Green
of Elscar, was called to the chair, He said, the ohj.mt
troy had in view had been Suggested by- Joseph Locke,
Esq., M.P., and had the approval of people generaly, and
he was sure would meet rk-h great encouragement; and
if the energies of the mines were only exercised, such a
fund would soon he es'- Viied. The miner often left his
home in the morning in the heyday of- his strength and
never returned, but was swept into eternity by a fell of
coal, or one of the numerous class of accidents which pre-
vail in coal mines. In these cases a provision needed to
be made as well as in accidents of a more serious nature
—Henry Davis saiO that the movement was one which
ought to receive the hearty co-operation of every miner.
The mining engineers had deputed Josh. Locke. Esq., and
Mr. N. Wood to wait upon Sir G. Grey with regard to
the firtnation of a mining college, and it was high time
that the miners bestirred themselves, and applied to par-
liament for protection to life, and for the enforcement of
meastirea to prevent accidents. If a tax of ld. each were
vied weekly, the miners would be able to send out 220
practiesl miners in the shape of suhenTecters—that
would be one inapector for every 1,000 man. Witn slch
a system of ant-inspection, he questioned whether the
Gymmer, or Wigan explosions would have
enured. Alter some remarks from various speakers
the following resolution was proposed and carried un
mously :—" That this meeting pettion parliament for a
small amount of fixation, to be levied on coal miners.
That we send out praetieal miners, as sub-insvctors, one
rub-inspector to inspect every 1,000 men. That the sub-
inpectors report daily to the government in.pectors. That
there be a general board for nel, in the centre of the
dine kingdoms, to control the same ; and that they be
controlled similar to the police force ; and that sub-
iospectors be sent a few months to one place and a few
months to another. And should any sub-inspector find a
pit in a dangerous state, and be a means of improving it,
or any way distinguish himself, he shall receive such
advancement or reward as his services may merit." The
further consideration of the subject was then adjourned
till Monday, July 7.

M. LOUIS KOSSUTH ON NAPLES AND
SICILY.

The other evening, M. Louis Kossuth delivered
a lecture on the subject of Naples and Sicily at the
Beaumont Institution, Beaumont-square, London.
The attendance was both large and respectable.
The chair was occupied by Mr. Ayrton, M.P. M.
Louis Kossuth was very warmly received on com-
ing forward, After a few preliminary remarks, he
proceeded to say that the tragedy of Neapolitan
inisgovernmeet was familiar to the public, and he
would not dwell upon it minutely. He would deal
with the subjects as it regarded international
policy, and particularly in reference to Eng-
land and France. After all the promises of
assistance made by these Powers, he felt that
there was a desire to hush up the affairs
of Naples and Sicily, though both Powers
had been treated with contempt by the King A
new Parliament had assembled, and there had been
a royal speech in which trivial subjects had been
alluded to, but there was not a word about Naples
and Sicily. (Hear) After a long review of the
affairs of Europe, he asked with what propriety it
had been stated in the Royal Speech that there
was a well-founded hope for continued peace ?
There was peace, but it was peace in the grave-
yard of slaughtered liberty. (Cheers) Having
glanced at the condition of Sicily, and given a brief
history of the country, he stated that the people
were now the most miserable within the pale
of Christian civilisation. The Sicilian Court
had been faithless to the English ; but the
Sicilian people had been true to them. (Hear,
hear.) The Sicilian Constitution of 1812, was the
work of Great Britain, and Great Britain should
have saved that constitution from annihilation.
(Hear, hear.) But faith had not been kept; and
Sicily had become a more province, though, if
necessary, she should have been protected by
British bayonets, (Cheers) Lord Castlereagh
said that England was pledged in honour and good
faith to Sicily, and Lord Palmerston had acknow-
ledged the obligation ; yet what had been done
by British diplomatists for that unhappy land?
But the present state of things in Sicily
could not continue ; liberty could not be always
trodden out there ; and the day of its triumph
would come. fCheers.) The road to liberty
lay through revolution. The battle of freedom
against oppression must be fought (cheers) ; de-
layed it might be ; unsuccessful it could not
always be. ,r (Cheers.) No modification •of the
present system would satisfy the people. All must
be forgotten before Italy could forget her destiny ;
and his desire was to see England made instru-
mental in accomplishing her freedom. In conclu-
sion, M. Kossuth declared his belief that there was
an understanding between England and France to
prevent the establishment of republicaninstitu-
tions in Southern Italy. A cordial vote of thanks
was given to the lecturer, and the meeting
separated.

An epidemic is making fearful ravages in Vallavieja.
A eipsy died lately in Carnar►onshire who was the
father of 26 children!

It appears that the construction of an artificial port in
the Bay of Cadiz is decided upon.

THE NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY have held
their twenty-first annual meeting, when the following
figures were presented : —The new premiums ob`ained
upon 514 new policies are £9,814 lls. 2d., and the re-
newal., £58,148 7e. ld. ; making the total revenue
£67,962 18s. 31. The claims have been £14,966 63.
101. ; the fire premiums have amounted to £91,306 3s.
61. ; and, after payment of losses and expenses, a profit
of £l4 572 15!. 61. remain.. The Society now has
accumulated funds to the extent of £342,535 Os. 2c1.,
result which must be regarded as highly satisfactory.
TICKETS OF LEAVE —A new system has been adopted
relative to the granting of tickets of leave to convicts.
Aciording to the new arrangement the convict is bound to
report himself at the constabulary barrack of the district
to which he proceeds after leaving tho convict stltion, and
an accurate description is there taken of him, such as would
be given of a party whom it might be necessary to gazette
in the Hue-and-Cry. In the event of the convict
desiring so remove to another district, he is to report the
same to the police barrack, and again report himself at• the
barrack of the new district to which he removes Belfast
News Letter.

AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—Walter Seymour, Esq., of Bally-
more Castle, County Gilwav, was brought, on Tuesday
evening, to College-street Police Station, Dublin, in
custody of Acting-Inspector Ryan and Sergeant Meyers,
arrested on a warrant granted by the sitting magistrate at
College-street Office. The informations stated that there
were reason able grounds for apprehending that a breach of
the peace would occur if Mr. Seymour was not arrested, as
a serious dispute hid arisen between him and Thomas
N ught en, Esq., of Thomastown Park, C mnty Roscommon.
Mr. Seymour was admitted to bail in his own recogaizanees
of £soo.—Freeman.

FACTION FIGHTING.--At the fair of Borrisoleigh, two
parties—the Magpies and the Blackhens—mustered in
great strenghth, and before the market had terminated the
old spirit of faction feuds became revived.; relative was
arrayed against relative, neighbour against neighbour, in
deadly conflict, and merely because they bore those un-
mlaning soubriquets. The fight commenced at the fair
with such severity that the few constables available were
altogether unable to resist it or quell the rioting. The
town was kept in a continual state of ferment, the plac?s
of trade were closed, and the blows of thick stout " alpeens"
were freely interchanged. The fight was resumed on the
next day, being a kind of half fair; and again, on the
following day, which was a holiday—three days' continued
riot- and excitement ! The scene was a painful and a
terrible one; but returning prosperity and the hopes of a
plentiful harvest, are, unhappily, evoking the spirit of
fiction and drunkenness, -vith all their attending miseries
and crime. Numerous arrests have since been made, and
a few parties whose heads were fractured, and who re.
ceived other severe injuries, now lie in a precarilus state.
No informations have as yet been returned for trial, as the
authorities are awaiting the result of the medical treat-
ment ; it is thought that in one or two instances life cannot
be saved.— Saunders's News-Letter.

EXPERIMENT IN B'ITLER BURSTING.—On Thursday
morning, pursuant to invitation, several members of the
institution of the engineers, including Professor Rankine, of
Glasgow ; Messrs. Woodcock and Dixon, from Low Moor,
visited the Windsor Bridge !roe Works, of Messrs. Dann,
Ilattersley, and Co., to observe experiments upon two
cylindrical boilers, constructed by welding, there
being no rivets used, The company inspected the retort
boiler in operation; were then conducted through the works
to a shed where two tubes were placed in conjunction with
as hydralic pump. The 5-m are seeking to avoid boiler
explosions by making their boilers of very small diameter.
Those now experimented upon were tubes four feet long,
etch composed of a 7-16th plate, welded at the sides and
the ends. The outside diameter was 161 in. There were
fitted to the tabe of the pump one of Burdon's pressure
guages, which would register up to 3,0001 b to the square
inch, and also a lever guage, which corresponded to it.
Both the small boilers were tested up to 1,5001 b on the
inch, when one of them, on being carefully measured,
showed a slight expansion in the centre portion. It was
determined to burst this one, and the pump was gradually
forced until the pressure guage indicated 2,0501 b to the
inch. Toe lever guage has been weighed at 2,0001 b, and
was beginning to move, when the iron tore at the welding.
A. small quantity of water was-ejected upwards with great
force, and a loud rushing noise. Surprise was expressed
by several of the visi'ors that the boiler should have
sustained such an immense preeure. The experiment was
regarded with much in'erest„
A COOL AVENGER.—A certain English gentleman, who
was a regular freventer of the green-roorn of Drury-lane
Theatre in the days of Lord Byron's committee, and who
always stood quietly on the hearthrug there with his back
to the fire, was in his usual place one night when a narra-
tive was related by another gentleman newly returned
from the Continent, of a barrier•duel that had taken place
in Paris. A young Englishman—a mere boy—had been
despoiled in a gaming-house in the Palais-Roval, had
charged a certain gaming Cnint with cheating him, had
gene out with the Count, had wasted his fire, and had
been slain by the count under the frightful circumstances
of the count's walking up to him, laying his hand on his
heart, saying " You are a brave fellow—have you a
mother ?' and on his replying in the affirmative, remarked
coolly, " I am sorry for her," and blowing his victim's
brains out. The gentleman on the hearthrug paused in
taking a pinch of snuff to hear this story, and observed
with great p!agidity. " I am afraid I must kill that rascal."
A few nights elapsed, during which the green-room hearth-
rug was without him, and then he re-appeare.d precisely
as before, and only incidentally mentioned in the course
of the evening, `6 Gentlemen—l killed that rascal !" He
had gone over to Paris ou purpose, had tracked the Count
to the same gamine-house, nad thrown a glass of wine in
his face in the presence of ail the company assembled there,
had told him that he was come to avenge his young cm_
patriot—and had done it by putting the Omit out of this
world and coming back to the hearthrng as if nothing hid
happened.—Dickens's Household Words.