The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-11 00:00:00

PERTH ELECTION.

PERTH, MONDAY EVENING.—The nomination of can-
didates for the representation of Perth, vacant by the
appointment of the Right Hon. Mr. Fox Maule to the
Presidency of the India Board, took place here to-day,
on a hustings erected in front of the County-buildings.
M. Maule Caine forward to ask for a renewal of the suf-
fiages of the electors of Perth, whom he had repre-
sented now for a period of upwards of ten years, and his
opponent was Mr. Charles Gilpin, of London, to whom
a number of the constituency had been previously
pledged. Each of the candidates was attended to the
hustings by a large body of supporters; but Mr. Gilpin
was decidly the favourite with the crowd in front, which
is supposed to have arisen chiefly from the broad con-
demnation given to the ballot by Mr. Fox Maule in his
address to the electors on Thursday evening last.
Sheriff CRA.WFORD appeared on the hustings precisely
at 12 o'clock. and read the writ and the Act against bri-
bery end corruption.
Mr. MAULE and Mr. GILPIN then addressed the
electors.
A show of hands having been taken, it was declared
to be in favour of Mr. Gilpin, when Mr. Maule demanded
a poll.
Mr. GILPIN said, although the show of hands was in
his favour, he considered it to be the most gentlemanly
and considerate course not to go to the poll at present.
On this announcement being made, the Sheriff declared
Mr. Menlo to be duly returned; and after a few words of
thanks from the Right Hon. Gentleman, the assemblage
broke up.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
BLACKWALL.—We are informed that the (lit idend will
be 2s. 60 a share, leaNing about 1,300/ to t 3 carried to
the c.' rent half-year's moon- The ditidend for the
year 1851 w;ll therefore be 4s. 6c' ,
2e. for the year 1850.
SOUTH-WESTERN.--The forthcorring report of the
as compared with
directors will contain the arnouncement, that 10,000/.
f..om the revenue account has been put to a reset ye
account, in order to pay for the extra cerriages
required for the extraordinary traffic of 1851,
and for such other wants as may arise; and also that
;attire additions to the main and completed liles, for
sicungs or stations, or any fat Cher expenditure ttiercou,
sPpa from the
shag be charged to revenue, and liqvidated in t1:0 awns
not be opened
way as has atready been established for the roPing stmii.
_Railway Times.
GREAT NORTHERN.--0 W. ing to Cal ta:l
EXETER.—The promoters of this
lat 3 wet weather, the Great Northern vv;"
ys
T,
Ei if they.
DORCHESTER beDfooreßclEa
I,ne have proposed to the South-West,
them 40 per cent. of the excess of -ra board to r"ow
traffic of 1852 brought on the South-Western I"affie over the
South-Western to give them 02e,„ Westein one, the
in Parliament for obtp'ning ea Actsupport and it-Alliance
shareholders individurli, to recommend their
, to take
aid to dovetail the working 'cA she-es in the said line,
coast line. of the; traits-
r

RAILWA
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SI
.LLS ON
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAlLWAY.—Yester-
day the standing ordersß were complied with in the case
opening, and workin
of this company's
Stour Valleyviniggattit=teaSptaittailoni Railway, Bi r m
andi
the use
lollf,
theto authotise the completion,h
t?n, and
o°flvethreaNmPa--
nitno sßtoircnlkinghau3'
NEWMARKET RAILWAY.—The standing orders were
declared and for convert-
not complied with in this case, to make altera-
t'-onst and to construct a new lino between Newmarket
and Bury St. Edmunds. The non-compliances were
slight miscalculations in the financial declaration of the 1
funds in the company's possession.
LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.—The
standing orders were complied with for the Bill to ex-
tend the line to Enniskillen, and other works, at a cat
of 152,0001.
LONDON AND COLERAINE RAILWAY—AIso in this
case, for subscription towards construction of bridge
over river Foyle, and other objects.
NEW RIVER COMPANY.—The standing orders were
complied with in the case of this company's Bill, for
proposed new works, and arrangements with the river
Lee trustees.
The following Bills also complied:—Londonderry
Bridg, Ulverstone Waterworks, Ikley Waterworks,
1 British' Empire Mutual Life Insurance, and Stockton
I Extension and Improvement.

The offices of Paymaster-General and Vi
dent of the Board of Trade have been offered to and accepted
by Lord Stanley of Alderley, who in the year 1841 filled the
office of Paymaster-General.
ce-Presi-

• , •
THE SIGNALS AND SIGiVALE; An important concession has lately teen made by &h -
South-Eastern Railway CL mpany on the ropresentaiiona
of the. Astronomer Roy a/, for the catablishnint of eft,e-
tricol communication between the Royal Obsetvatory at
Greenwiel,, and the London-bridge Railway Tereninus,;----t;';
Th.• subject has, for a considerable time. eng ed the at- 1.4 i
tendon of Mr. Airy and Mr. Charles Walker, the tele-
.
grAph engineer of the South-Eastern Railway Company.
and their plans are now matured.
The operation for erectiow the wires have commenced
this week, and will very rhut fly be • completed. Wires
are to be laid underground from the Roy al Observatory
to the Lewisham station by the Electric Telegraph
Company, and thence to Londo❑. along the line of rail-
way by the South-Eastern Railway Company. From
the London station wires will diverge to Westminster, to
the Royal Exchange, and to the Central Telegraph Sta-
tion at Lothbury.
The objects the promoters have at present in view
are—

I. To transmit Greenwich time and corrected time to
and from the clock at the New Houses of Parliament,
and the Royal Exchange.
2. To transmit Greenwich time throughout the king-
dom by the various lines of electric telegraph.
3. To compare the transits of stars at Greenwich with
the same at Paris.
The transmission of time signals will be automatic;
n ba
el t o
agreed
Shepherd's electric clocks will be placed in the Royal Ob-
servatory, in conjunction with an automatic apparatus to
certain
limoto the
willsig
be appended to the clocks at the various stations. With
respect
icluepwo n, Dousestil.l th of
adjustment Parliament,
a
Greenwich will be made accordingly. There will be a
permanent electric circuit maintained between West-
minster and Greenwich, broken only at the clock at
Greenwich, and in three places: one of these breaks is
completed every minute, ono every hour, and one every
twenty-four hours, at the time agreed upon, and,
as these three contacts will occur simultaneously
only once a day, at the precise hour, minute,
and second determined upon, tho signal which
then passes will be the true time required, and it will
be made accurate to 1-20th of a second. In the first in-
stance this signal will be made manifest at Westminster
by the motion of a needle. The pendulum there will be
furnished with two oscillating bars, one for " too fast,"
and the other for " too slow," and either this or that may
be made to act on the pendulum by the clock inspector,
as the case may require, and for a certain short time.
At the end of half an hour the Westminster clock will
automatically send its time to Greenwich to be ob-
served and recorded.
To distribute time throughout the kingdom, the clock
at the London terminus of the South-Eastern Railway
will bo provided with special Wheels and studs. A cer-
tain hour will be determined on for transmitting time to
Dover for example, and about fifty cr sixty seconds be-
fore this time the London clock will disconnect the
Dover telegraph wire from the telegraph instrument at
London, and will place it in connexion with the wire
that leads to Greenwich. Precisely at the last second
of the minute the Greenwich clock will place this
same wire in connexion with the voltaic batteries of the
Royal Observatory, and a signal will be visible at Dover
and at all other stations on the same wire. The Green-
wich contact will be instantaneous, but that at London
will remain a few seconds longer, always allowing a
margin for the variation ef the ordinary clocks. As the
Greenwich wire is taken off the Dover wire, it will be
placed in contact automatically with the Lothbury wire,
where a clock may be fitted with contacts corresponding
to such lines of railway and such towns or stations as
may require the time signals.
The transits of stars at the two observatories at
Greenwich and at Paris will be ocesoienally compared in
the following manner. The old mode of Doting the
time of the transit of stars was to take time from the
clock before applying the eye to the instrument, and
then while watching the stars with the eye to count the
seconds with the ear, and !Afterwards note the result. In
the present case an hour will be fixed upon, when the
telegraph wire can Most conveniently be spared. Tne
connexion will be either made by baud or by studs to be
pressed into the clock-wheel at any required time, and
arrangements will soon be completed so that as the eye
aces the star in contact with the wires in the transit in-
strument, the fingers Pia press a stud; and in another
room of the Observatory an clectro-magnetic record of
the time will have been accurately and permanently im-
pressed en a revolving cylinder.
Mr. Airy at Greenwich, and M. fir ge at Paris, will
thus be able to fix a time when the eye of cech shall be
directed to the same star at the same time; and signal to
each other us each wire is passed; the comparison of
times will give them the relative lonjtude of the re-
spective places, and will assist them in the solutkn of
other problems.
We can scarcely overrate the importance of these ar-
rangements, and especially that of transmitting Green-
wich mean time to all parts and to all ports of the king-
dom. The falling ball at the Reyai Observatory, so
long the standard of reference for mean time, w ill be
visible, so to speak, throughout the land; and the ma-
riner at the most distant parts of the coast—wherever,
indeed, the net work of telegraph wire has penetrated
—will be able to set and to rate his chronometers with-
out the expense and care that is at present incurred.
Railway companies will find the advantage of these
arrangements, for they will have Greenwich time " at
their fingers' ends," and will really be able to keep uni -
form time.

HEAVY GALE, AND EXTRAORDINARY

HIGH TIDE.

Yesterday morning it blew a very strong gale from
the N.N.E., accompanied with a driving snow-storm,
which, as the morning wore apace, increased in violence,
and was then attended with heavy showers of sleet, and
rain at intervals. At half-flood the immense volume of
water forcing its way upwards, between the banks of the
Thames, appeared to resemble more the overpowering
strength of the current that, at certain times during the
prevalence of the S.E. Monsoon, sweeps with rapidity
up the river Hoogley, than the natural flow of the tide
iu an European river. At this time the scene was ter-
rific, vessels frequently getting athwart hawse, and not
being able to clear each other without damage to spars
or rigging, and several that had anchored in bad
holding ground brought home their anchors, and
drove a considerable distance before they could be
brought up again, and not then in some cases without
letting go a second anchor. At three-quarters flood the
water had nearly attained the height ut ordinary spring
tides, and at high water was considerably above it,
overflowing the wharfs and banks in some places. The
accounts received from steam-boats state that in many
parts of Essex and Kent, but particularly up the river
Med.way, the sea beat over the embankments with such
violence as to inundate completely the marshes and other
low grounds in the vicinity. In London, more espe-
cially on the south bank of the river, a good deal of
damage has been sustained, in consequence of the base-
ments of several houses adjacent to
i the Thames being
and at low water lulled
overflowed; fortunately, however, t was nearly day-
l;gbt, or else the destruction of property must have been
itemense, as some streets ttiat he low weire. under water.
breeze,fel l t he
bguatl ea
ss ut bhsei daef
afternoon
tide made it had
again increased to a fresh gale, although not so violent
es that of the morning, and, ,
rnoon
notwithstanding that the
twithstanding
to As
a the
strong d
te
evening tide was unusually high, f;-, did not threaten
either destruction or damage to property:

THE CATASTROPHE AT HOLAIFIRTIL
On Mon-ad A v three other bodies, one that of a girl, end
•
the two others the bodies of youths, were discovered.
The [5.
7' - I was fOl•nd in a milldam at Holmfirth ; the two
other bodies were picked up at Dalton, Car.laer down the
river. They had not yet been identified. A me2t'ag
was held at Huddersfield the same evening, presided
over by Mr. Brook, of At mitage-mills, who had en
Saturday subscribed 5001, in a;cl of the surviving sufferers
by the calamity, end whose worltpeople have sub-
scribed 102/. At this meeting the sum of 1,6001.,
raised on Saturday, was increased to with'n
601. of 5,0001. A series of resolutions were
oassed, expressing s3Japathy with the sufferers,
out decluving that, while a subactiption might
be raised hero to relieve pressing necessities,any loci effort would be qu'te inadequate to meet tho
case.woud
lAenhdotpheeiwragsenthereroeufsoraeide.xpmrers.selvd
.tLhatuortohoekrvostot;statteeneds
tllat a young lady had been to the clothing
te4mfor clothing fur a family, who she said up
occur-
rence of this accident were worth upv_venredwt3oot
and Mr. Joseph Charlesworth, who k
that the EPrl
corroborated the statement It was statedbute,
and we P'so
of Dartmouth had promised to conti.rton,, Independent
fhelol,aol3ooil/y!
lenta that the Rev. John ?die d
ii,smcotongt:hee-
gati.en on Sunday, and sent
frfolmfirth. The subscription
li::v. Mr. Mactarlene, 0-
mir;ster at Huddersfield, rrisit
f2noorl. amongdstrih uht
at liolmfirth has been increased to 1,0501.

LAUNCH OF ANOTHER STEAItI-SHIP.
The rapid progress wbich has taken place of late
rani in ocean steam net igation was strikingly illus-
trated yeiterday in the launch f:om Mr. Patterson's yard,
at Bristol, of tne fine steam-ship America, originally in-
tended to have been called the Witch. This beautiful
vessel was plrined and designed by Mr. William Mot-
gan,of Clifton, many yeas the csinsult;ng engineer and
naval archioct to the Austrian Lloyd's Staam Company.
She was bc;lt by Mr. Patterson (whose renown as a
ulti-
mately is well known), under the e alive superinten-
dence of Captain Morgan, originally -
a s the
likewise firer of
a
pmaantye I,yofqWwaheiedhble tihset the con-
tracted for Mr. G. Braine,Rv;iNth"tehnedviveiss:orifgigatitiliegoin:g
Eastern Steam
a line of steamers intended to accelerate the communica-
tion between Europe and the East. riCCP,lltly the vessel
Navigation Company, by
has been treTißforred to Mr, Joseph Dimon,
director of the Eastern Steam Schtea9irtumea4
whom she will be held for the purposes either of the
same company or those of the Austrian Lloyd's, as oc-
casion may require. The America has been visited
during her construction by n?anycnem• ent engineers.
khipbuiltlers, end otbehraswqellt m .tcharacters and
seimen, by whom she been uni uniformly awarded
the palm for beauty of modtl and for a rata
strength
combination of great
..and corapi.ra-
five lightness. These quali,les, combined with
her unusually even lines, make all parties interested in
look forward with confidence to her proving unri-
hercd
among sea-going . steamers for speed and other
good qualities.
.._lot.r engines have oscillatingconstructed by
Miller, Revenhill, and Salkeld on the prin
ciple, with the feathering paddle-wheels, known as
Morgan's paddle-wh-ell," and they will 'erected
be in
the vessel in the floating hart: ir at Bristol. — i The vessel
was named by Miss Edlesan, and the launch was wit-
,
i nessed by many thousands of sp'c:a:ors.

On Saturday Lord Cranworth'h Bill was printed to
amend the Municipal Corporations Act, wish respect to pro-
prietors of
newspapers insertino•
corporations. They are to be saved penalties, and not to be
disqualified from corporation offices by reason of such adver-
tisements.

NOW ,
IRD EDITION oFREADY MR. DISRAELI'S
POLITIC ,L BIOGR ‘THY OF
LORD GEORGE BENTINCK.
In 1 val. Bvo., 15s. bound.
" This biography cannot tail to attract the deep attention of the
public. We have rarely, if ever, met with a work more replete with
interest." —Blackwood.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
VV LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
The Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors will be held at
this Offlce, on Tircasnat, the 4th day of March next, at One o'clock
precisely, at which meeting Four Directors will be elected.
Any Proprietor desirous of proposing a Candidate for the office of
Director, must forward the name of such Candidate to the Secretary
at least feurteen days previous to the day of Election.
The Ballot will commence at Eleven and close at Two o'clock.
THE BONUS REPORT,
just printed, giving full details of the FIFTH DIVISION OF PRO-
FITS,
and the New Prospectus, can now be obtained of any of the
Society's Agents, or by addressing a.line to
GEO. H. PINCKARD, Resident Seeretary.
99, Great Ru.ssell-street, Bloomsbury, London,
February 10, 1952.

RaYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE,
ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND.
Continuous Novelties—Continuous Success--Continuons Applause—
and Overflowing Audiences.
Great Hit of the Bottle Imp.
The performances Tali EVENING and during the week will
commence with a new GRATULATORY ADDRESS, written and
delivered by Mr. Albany Brown.
After which, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'S
ROOM, with Signor Bari Tone's new Scena, The French Commenta-
tor °a Shakspere.

With anew Infinitesimal Operetta, entitled THE UNITED SEE-
VICES, written expressly for the Marionettes, by Hugo Vamp, Esq.
To be followed by a new Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement,
entitled ARLEUHINO FORTUNATO, with the surprising
teurs de
force of ;•altarello.

And the grand romantic Spectacle of THE BOTTLE IMP.
A Mornx
g Juvenile Performance on Saturday next, at Three
o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Two.
Doors open at Halt-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock.
Private Boxes, 1/. Is.; Balconl Stalls, 35.; Lower Stalls, 2a. ;
Balcony, 25.; Amphitheatre, is.
Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal
Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St.
James's-street ; Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond-street ; at all the pria-
cipal libraries; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Adelaide..
street, West Strand.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed Merorleei;s grand Opera of ROBERT THE
DEVIL. Robert, Mr. Fedor; Bertram. Mr. Drayton; Raimbaut,
Mr. Manvers ; Alberti, Mr. Dehaga ; the Princess. Miss Crichton ;
Alice, Madlle. Evelina Garcia.
After which the new Parisian Ballet-Pantomime, entitled VERT-
VERT ; or, The Pet Parrot. Characters by Messrs. W. H. Payne,
U. Marshall, Chapin°, J. Marshall, and H. Payne ; Madlles. Plun-
kett, De La Vecchi, Louise, and Annette ; Misses Honey, Browne,
Crceney, and Palser.
Box-office open daily from 10 to 4.
PRICES OF ADMISSION.

The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rata of admission
adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society:—
Dr.ss Circle •• •• .. .. •. 6s.
Upper Boxes
Pit .. • •
Amphitheatre
Gallery

.. 2s. 641.
.. 23.