The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-23 00:00:00

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1 "adL made. a fool of her already. He said he would/marry
I he rsoon; that he could get a license from CC ar calor Wir..
lien /s; aiad that she should be mulled after ;Newport
caulk 3 ahoy.
.. .
Cr ass-e7Famir,ed—Never knew a farm servant it named
Gibb Oii, or any other man, romp with his sister,
At other of the plaintiff's bro hers deposed to the inli-
macy' between' his sister and the defendant, and to the
latter telling him upon ono occasion that he would soon
be hit t brother-in-law. • • - - -
Mr . W. Roberts, farmer, of St. Mellons, also deposed
to cot ivereationti with the defendant, in which ho had
expra ssed his intention of marrying the plaintiff.
Put ' the defence Mr. PULLING addressed the jury, con-
tentliia g that the action was • the result of a conspiracy
got up to ruin the defendant; that there was no zubstan-
tial 'do urtiship;• and that defendant was only one of nu-
met./ ma fiAlowers of the plaintiff
than ges, had Mt last fixed , who, after many
upon a man from whom she
expe cited to gf,t something.
TI Le Learned 'JUDGE thought there were no grounds'
or t k eae Imputations. • '
V !Indict for the platntiff—Damsges 4001.

EFFECTSCEEAp
OF JUSTICE.
able :If the diminution of the number of oases W
'll'4. effects of the county courts are not more
nrebi remark-
able
minW Hall; than in the diminution of the number of
jams. es in the Queen's Bench Prison. Till the operation
of tho Ccunty Courts Act, tho average number of
boner! was upwards of. three hundred; at present three
these sea rcely third of that number, and a full half of
these
,have been in confinement from a period antecedent
passing of the. Act. referred to. One man has
he. is now in his dotage.
prison for the space of ,forty years.. Ile entered
btoeetnUeii
tmhae;lei'fft?3rs;thirty-one years; four for
Two
whnaleliaenvde sbtreoenng
t xenty Nears, and a considerable number for Upwardsof ten yoars. Every advance made by our Legislature
prceviding chew p justice for 'the people must neces-
.ariiy have the•i,fft.ct of diminishing the number of
prisoners for debt all over the kingdom. Not frequen tai..
tly, pers.iis have been keptin confinement for
many years for the mere costs in cia faction, me-
'P'etive of the alleged' debt altogether, as for example
ia a ease wkiere the judge bad ordered that each party
should'pay him own costs. Cheap pence will render
such eai,es rare, it being more difficult to TIM up a large
uf costs, for proceedings in the county courts than in
the 31Vorio r ones; A'reform in the Court of Chancery
will also hi lye the effect of dimioishing the number of
prisoners in the Queen's Prison. Many of the Chancery
prisoners :are c,mruit:cd for nave eirafioed not to Contiunot; that is, they may
appear
Master's or giatrar'a Office, 'or otherwi.,e, as the case
to some summons et the
progress Of the suit, which may have
may
be bper;:ljeunrgileidg to a tedious' dueation. The costs con-
nected 'with such: dentempts are enormous. If the pro-
ceedint ;s in the gauss had been more speedy, no contempt
in the shape of non-at..tendance would have been Corn' milted; and the peer litigant would
. not have been
confinement for a debt wholly irrespective of apart
put in
from the costs in the suit.

'HE GREAT ARTESIAN SALT SPRING
AT KISSINGEN.
To THE EDIT. ,E OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Referring to my letter descriptive of the fieSt
public opening of this extraordinary work, and of its
still more extraordinary results, which you did me the
honour of publishing in your journal of the 23d of
August, 1850, I. think your readers will not peruse
withwithout interest my present communication, in which,
ich, your leave, I will proceed to complete my former
tpaectcdtoituodztd,
acnpnodt
hwt
oh t. that2b,.oootrohine whole work is approaching com-
pletion,
the course of last
feet, is
aisvianbgountetaorlcyearseea.ched the in-
a square area of 900 feet had year an elegant square tower,
with bevelled angles, • • to the height of 100 feet, on
to which easy access is had .
le
ins
usidrs:beyn
ds.
thoo
variousshort fl i flights ioi„alleries around its interior,
afd been erected over the arte-
sian well, with five series.
contemplatee e ta tc
ar st
. c a
there whereby
to
o
to
be
in -athis wonderful fountain
tseleovfastiteonpss,
iitnismByUfff redformer er letter that Inspector pector Knorr, the
whenever
I stated
eminent engineer of this, worle.couldnast
dnivnatiotnhse..
gether the flow of the jet by a aia3Ple contrivance check
alto-
own devising, which he recommends to theivatn°e'of his
all hydraulic engineers engaged in like attention
of
This contrivance consists in fording
mouth of the bore, by means of suitable irons, and in the quickest manner possible, a bag con_
taining clay. By getting wet the clay becomes pasty and
plastic, swells, and applies itself equally all round the
sides of the bore, so as hermetically to stop, at pleasure,
the ejection of the water.
On the 23d ult. the numerous visitors at this place,
among whom are many from England, were invited to
see the artesian fountain at work. On • our admission
the interior of the tower presented the spectacle of some
hundreds of well-dressed ladies, and a crowd of gentle•
men of ell nations; • distributed • in various - parts of the
gallt.rie ' who had come to witness the promised jet d'eau
of which, however, nothing then visible on the floor of
the betiding he- tokened the approaching realization.
At length, the inspector having given the signal, two
workmen placed in the second gallery drew each a slen-
der rope, by which the clay-bag frame was raised, when
up shot a foaming column of water, which in one second_
or time by the watch reached nearly to the roof of the
tower, at an elevation of 76 feet, being 24 feet higher
than it bad risen on the occasion described in my first
ILtr,r.

The column, 15 inches in circumference, instead of
12 as formurly. is at first compact. It soon, however,
splits lilt() a tr,c wand perpcnclicular f:ranchev, gently
eurvio t g ouwardl.,, as they tocend, like graceful pow.
ler..ves:' and t/y the time it has reuchtd irs highest point
it 13;:s fpra:o.k. a spr. ading Load, like a weeping willow,
es white es drivin snow, and spsrlditog with diamond
lustre.