The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-04-15 00:00:00

J.V NOXIOUS.

Mr. Henry Tiathergill, or Kennel! Colliery, in glatumberl
has lately invented a simple and ingenious mode dawning ttilo
chandlers' boilers, by which the offensive cfilwria so much cons-
plaioed of h those in their neighbottrhouil is completely de-
stroyed; tbe workshop, being sotar.lg gl-wi of the vapour,
Ana la she aleiNlmilitzTra&imar ftnfortable. 'The
ardt
boiler Is erect In such a way, that the lire. is made to surround
it equally no the outside, beneath the surface, and the lire is sup.
plied with atmospheric rr wily from shove, the ash-pit being
wholly closed up by an iron moveable plate. The tube ut chimney
is so constructed as to make the fitul vapour pass downwards. and
through the fire, wh-rc it is conint.tely consumed. The proud-
' noul advairages of 11r. Fetoeig ll's voluahle invention are —lst,
a saving of about no:-lisi of the fuel usnd en the old plan:;-2d.
• considerable saving of time in the melting proce-a, and also in
the hanlet.ing of tin. dips, it wo-kshop bring, on this plan,
cleared of the heated vapour : ant: 33, Ridding the neighbourhood
of these meltingAuwes of the !nuisance continually COMpkilled
111., arising from the ofilmsive effluvia, told fur which the proprietors
arc always liable to he indicted.
31r. kothergill has already erected peseta! bnile.a In Newcastle
and the neighbourhool fit. s line of the principal tallow-chandlers,
who have expressed gr-at sat sfaction at the lII3IIy advantages they
derive from the invention.—.lf:dionic'l .11apr.thic.

On Widnesday last a host belonging to his Majesty's
cutter Basilisk was iipset hi Harwich harbour, but prompt
assistance being rendered, the livcs of the crew were saved ;
and upon their return to the cutter, they also were the
means of Raving one of their shipmates, whJ had fallen
overboard, and was struggling with the waves unknown to
those on board.

Mr. Beim, of Blackhow, mar Cleator, a few days ago,
*hot a heifer talon:jog to Mr. Jame* Bell, of the latter
place, which showed :Artmg rabid symptoms; bcllowing in
afrigrhtful manner, and running furiously at ..very person
it saw. Thi) animal was bitten by a mad .1.3;4 about ten
weeks ago.

ITT OP till If AN TLICTII.—A gentleman whoac
curiosity led him to view the hum .11 bones which hail bent
thrown up from the old burying-ground of St. Peter's
paris:), in chi, town, as noticed in our last, soon Mund his
attention caught by a very limdsome row of teeth, which
occupied the wilier jaw of on:of the tkeletons, and perhaps,
it he might fancy, once ormolu laud the mouth of some
pretty female cut ott' in the blown of life. Be that. how-
ever, as it may, the teeth are of the mid Ile fiZf.., of regular
growth, finely enamelled, fait in their itocket», ar.d without
the least symptom of decay, which, considering that th:•
skdeton had lain buried between two and three hundred
years, greatly surprised the gentleman ; but in fact there
was nothing surpritiig in it, as we have seen skulls), after
having been iultutue7l from six hundred to a thousand
years, exhibit full sets of teeth, equally unmarked by de-
cay, and, as it wme, bidding defiance to the lime.—
Mime: Allrerlistr.

Lloyd, the celebrated pedestrian, started OD Tuesday morn-
ing at six o'clock, to perform 19 miler, fair heel and t, in
three successive hours; he did six miles in 55 minutes, and
at the end of the sicond hour Mu' dune twelve miles and
three quarters, when it began to be perceivable he lost
ground which he could not repiii, and lie lost the match
by upwards of a quarter of a mile; it was for YS sovereigns.
The pedestrian is for so sown i..s to stand twelve
bouts on one leg next Monday, on %hien a large sutra is
depending. _ _ _

A quarrel arose, on Monday week, in the afternoon, be-
tween two men who had been drinking wethir ut a pub-
lic-Bonze, in behind, wle.n on. imn, with a tuost savage
ferocity, seized the other with his te,th by the lower lip,
and completely bit it Al The wretch was immediately
taken into custetly, and lo.lged iti ,he New Iladev.
Sk•L SIIMITING.--Last week a fisherman oti the Tav,
who had been caronsing with some boon coripanions, in
passing along the beach to his cottage, in the tiusk of the
evening, 55111, chow upon the river, what he imaginAl was
* seal. The fisherman—an old hand at seal-shooting—
immediately stole home, and having loaded his gun with
a due proportion of slug, returned with all possible rape-
dition, cre.•ping cautiously on his hands and ►sues till he
aptroached witlfin a proper distance, and having taken
better aim than might have been expected front the
wa-
veriug state of his optics, shot the animal dead upon the
spot. I llorying in Ins achievement, he boldly ran forward,
and seizing his prize, with sonic exertion, dragged it home
to his abode, and, with evident taarks of exultation, dis-
played to the wondering eyes of his worthy helpmate, not
the oily and sleek-skintied phoca, but the grisly, and now
gory, carcase of—their only pig, which having escaped
from its " durance vile," had wandered to the beach in
search of food, and thus met its untimely end. Our in-
' formant adds a portion of the agerable conversation that
prised lietween the luckless fisherman and his wife en the
above catastrophe ; but this we leave to be filled up by the
inuagination of the reader.—fife Het a.V.