The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

BYLAUGH HALL, NORFOLK.

A spirited paragraph in the Atheneum has made
known the near completion of Bylaugh Hall amongst
hedge-rows and turnip-fields, and prepared the way for
the more complete information we were about to give
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architecture.
our readers. The style adopted is what is now generally
style which
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dicated in the notice referred to, and the engraved plan
will best show its arrangements for comfort and con-
vertier,co. The Chancery joke, too, of our able contem-
porary, unluckily falls to the ground, since, by the wish
of those who are interested, the inscription referred to,
" Ex jussu Curiae Cancellarite," has been cut out and
replaced by a frieze ornament. The building has been
erected from the design and under the superintendence
of Messrs. Banks and Barry, of London, by the Messrs.
Piper, of Bishopsgate-street, who have performed their
wo
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very creditable manner,
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the
completed, amounted to 29,3891., a sum below the
original estimate, and the work has been brought to a
conclusion without any extra expenditure. The ma-
terial
froisMa which
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Grissell,
been constructed, and, seen without the disadvantage of
London smoke and dirt, is of a warm and pleasing
colour. Messrs. Piper have just entered into a second
contract for the formation of the terraces, conservatories,
and enclosure walls and balustrades (which, it is under-
stood, are very complete), befitting a mansion of such
importance; and these works, as well as the enclosing of
the space appropriated to the park by means of a brick
wall, with lodges in the Norwich, Derehaw, and Faken-
ham Woods, will be at once commenced. The park and
pleasure grounds will be arranged and laid out from the
designs of Mr. W. A. Nesfield, the well-known landscape
artist, whose advice, it seems, was also followed in the
outset as to the precise position where the mansion
could best be placed, and whose choice in this respect
has met the approval of all the parties concerned.—
Builder.

MUTlLATlONoautlmutilation
i oAnN AND
andD E A
deathT
ever recorded
Saturday last a
DEATH:—One of the
most
lodrßenadinfuLl
I casesa of
has occurred in Leeds. It appears that o
man named Thomas Nicholson, aged 48, an
ngineman at
the brewery of Messrs. Spong, was tending the
grinding malt. During the morning he was mismseadchf machine for
hours ; it was not, however, supposed that anything or two
amiss until a person entering the grinding room(wh was
ceased had been employed alone), observed a portion eorfe des
body whirling round the shaft, and the • Ni-
room like a
slaughter house. The machine was as speedily as possible
stopped. It was then found that both Nicholson's feet had
been cut off, and that his left arm was torn from the body
by the shoulder-joint, and that his right arm, legs, and body
were frightfully mangled. It is unnecessary to add that he
was quite dead, and had been so for some time, it being pro-
bable that the mutilated remains had been whirling round
the shaft for two hours ! It is supposed he had been caught
by the jacket and got amongst the machinery. The coroner's
jury have returned a verdict of "Accidental Death."
NEW LINE OF OCEAN STEAMERS BETWEEN PORT-
LAND AND LIVERPOOL —Arrangements have been fully con-
summated, by which a line of ocean steamers is established
between
n Portland and Liverpool, in connexion with the Port-
arid Montreal Railroad, commencing in the autumn of
185'3,
The season for the fall and winter business of that year.
in contract is entered into with an eminent English house
boats Liverpool,tobe largely connected with ocean steamers; the
ere— -
propellers constructed of iron, equal or su-
perior to any thinof th kind
e afloat, of large tonnage, de-
signed for first,
for second,freight of
or third-class passengers, with a ca-
pacityßoston Atlas. of at least 1,000 tons measurement cargo.—

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE DIVIDEND.—At a
meeting of the Board of Directors held on Wednesday, it
was resolved to recommend the proprietors to declare a di-
vidend at the rate of three per cent, per annum.

SPECIMENS OF THE DELUGE.
A PROPHECY, BY LORD MUDSTONE.-IN LEAVES FROM

THE LOG.

Weather hazy in the bay. Wind: Downing-street by
Somerset House. Took soundings in the hold.* No
water; or should have sent ferries to the pumps. Ordered
Malmesbury aloft to look out: reported that be could see
nothing betoro him: didn't expect ho would. Ship rides
like a duck—sounded again, and not a drop of water;
but then, as Pakington says, we pitched it so very strong.
Hazy weather, with scudding fogs. At 12 P.lll.
bumped against something: took soundings, with a piece
of butter at the end of lead : brought up a bit of stone,
which, the B—p of L—n—n, bursting into tears, iden-
tified as a piece of Fulham Palace. Fog very thick in-
deed. At noon, Dizzy takes an observation. Swears ho
sees, &c. &c. Sec. in distance: nobody believes him—
laughs, and says he doesn't believe it himself.
Wind, the Bank by Exchange-Change East. Noon :
Dizzy protests that, &c., &c., &a. This time, others
protest so, too—somebody floating in the distance. We
put up the helm, and shake out all red tape-1 mean all
reefs Approach the man in the water. Make him out
with our glasses—and to he proves to be—Palmerston
in his Windsor uniform, with his hair curled. What
can he float on? We put the helm up again and near
him. The B—p insists we shall take him aboard;
Malmesbury opposes, swearing he'd take the ship from
us. We hail him through speaking trumpet. " Pam.,
will you come aboard?" "See you drowned first."
" But, Pam., what do you float on?" Whereupon, Pam.
held up for a minute the cork—the single one cork—of
the bottle which, before the deluge, he judiciously held.
We put up the helm, and run aforo the wind, Pam.
singing the " Bay of Biscay," and floating towards
Windsor.
_

Wind variable, in all places at once. Dreadful to see
everywhere the bodies of Freetraders—even Dizzy
nearly wept! Colonel Sibthorp counted two hundred,
entering their names in his own pocket-book of ass's
skin. Again put the helm up to get rid of the spec-
tacle. Wind light. Called upon Walpole to make a
joke; and mast•headed him for disobeying orders.
Wind anyhow. Freetraders' bodies still float by our
gallant craft. Walpole swears he sees a man alive.
Boatswain Beresford declares he's only one of the rabble.
Man nears us, and proves to be the venerable and vera-
cious editor of the Standard. He calla for a life-buoy,
when Dizzy—(that Chancellor in the human shape)—
throws him over, but he declares in mistake—a file of
the sinking man's own paper: both instantly disappear.
Wind gone to bed. Ship answers everything but her
rudder; Dizzy says he's ready to answer for even that.
What a fellow ho is! Swears he sees next week in the
distance. Took an observation; found we were just
over Manchester. At 1 P.M. John Bright, floating in
his own hat, passed us. Sibthorp wanted to bring a
howitzer to bear upon him, but B—p interposed. Again
called upon Walpole for a joke: still obstinate, and
threatened him with irons.
Wind, worst and by worst. Found we were directly
over Free Trade Hall. Saw the top of one chimney at
least, with Cobden distinctly upon it, waving a flag of
distress, a Manchester bird's-eye. Saw the Agitator
through telescope; but remembered Nelson's blind eye
and the signal, and—though the B—p suggested some-
thing—would not see him.
Wind, squally. Passed Gladstone on a cotton bag.
Light airs. Saw Manners, whom we forgot to take
up when the deluge began, astride a dolphin.
Blowing a gale. Passed Joe Hume in a patent life-
belt. Going straight to the Exchequer. Dizzy wanted
to have a shot at him: B—p benevolently interfered.
Wind got down. Took soundings. Found we were
just over the Victoria Tower of the Houses of Parlia-
ment. Thought we were sinking; to lighten the ship,
threw Malmesbury overboard. •
Foundered on the House of Commons.

• •
•
•
•
(Here the log becomes broken and fragmentary,)

" Only a shower." and no deluge alter all! -
" Mr. Punch need not observe, even to the most ladylike
readers of even nautical novels, that the ship-knowledge of
the keeper of the log seems a good deal at sea.—Punch.

THE ELECTRIC TIME BALL IN THE

STRAND.

Yesterday, consequent upon an announcement to the
effect that the electric apparatus, desigod for distribut-
ing mean Greenwich time throughout London and the
provinces, would be in active operation at one o'clock,
when the ball would fall simultaneously, by electrical
sympathy, with the Observatory Ball at Greenwich, a
considerable concourse of people assembled in the Strand
and at the Electric Telegraph Company's station to
witness the novel experiment, but were doomed to be
disappointed. The announcement that the experiment
would come off on the occasion was; we are requested to
observe, not only premature, but erroneous and unautho-
rised, the fact being that the arrangements were not com-
plete for the purpose, the necessary wires, forming a por-
tion of the circuit, in connexion with the South-Eastern
Railway Company's wire to Greenwich, not being con-
nected. This, however, will be done immediately,
we understand, by Mr. Edwin Clark, the company's en-
gineer, and a given day will bo fixed for the first re-
gular falling of the ball. It may be interesting to state
that although the experiment of causing the ball to fall
at the same hour with the ball at Greenwich (the great
object of the apparatus) has not yet been accomplished,
the ball of 186 ►bs. weight has been liberated by a bat-
tery of two plates at Greenwich, that power being found
sufficient for the purpose. Yesterday the electrical dial
in the centre of the five thoroughfares opposite Hunger-
ford Market was fixed upon its ornamented bronze pillar,
and at night, on being illuminated, presented a very
elegant appearance; the four dial plates being formed of
enamelled glass, with the hours and minutes marked in
stained glass upon the base, and the pillar surmounted
by a gilt ball. The appearance of the great ball or re-
gulator, of a bright vermilion, sashed with a gilt circle,
presented, from its prominent position, a novel and im-
posing appearance, and was the subject of much admira-
tion during the day.

ADULTERATION OF COFFEE.
The following opinion from Dr. tire has been ob-
tained
by parties interested in the coffee trade, with a
view to its circulation among the retail dealers previously
to its coming into force. It will be recollected that it
was maintained by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer
that there was no reliable method of detecting the adul-
teration of coffee with chicory. The error of this state-
known :
state-
ment was demonstrated by the Lancet, but it has been
thought advisable to take further steps to make a simple
processp
y
URE'S OPINION ON THE POWER OF DIS-
COVERING THE ADMIXTURE OF CHICORY WITH COF-
FEE, FORWARDED TO CHARLES H. BURTON, 27,
cogenerally perally
MINCING-LANE.
"No problem in science is simpler or more certain
than the detection of chicory, or of similar substances,
a pale sherry colour, whereas when it is
in coffee powder. Ground roasted coffee imparts to cold
water merely
nto
adulterated with ground roasted chicory it communicates
3, of coffee
a brown colour, of greater or less intensity, to cold
water. If three glass tubes, set upright, be charged re-
spectively with a few grains' weight of-1, pure coffee;
2m,
ioxfe
dpurwei
tcho ffeme
umehixect
icwoirtyh salnidttleifehiicorye;ach of these
,
tubes a like quantity of cold watFr be poured, and if
after agitation the tubes be set upright at rest, the solid
particles will soon fall to the bottom, and the transparent
liquid in the stems of the tubes will show, by the variable
depths of the tinetures,the presence and proportion of coffee
and chicory in each of them. An apparatus for making
this experiment may be had for one shilling, and would
give test results of sufficient precision.
M D., F.R S &
(Signed) " ANDREW URE,

THE CHINESE RATrEATERS.—The Chinese, who
are emigrating to California on a large scale, are, it is found,
amongst the most ingenious, laborious, economical, and
docile labourers among the mines. They demand less
wages, and California is so abundantly supplied with rats,
that they can live like Celestial Emperors and pay very
little for their board. The rats of California exceed the rats
of our older states, just as nature on that side of the conti-
nent excels in bountifulness of mineral wealth. The Ca-
lifornian rats are incredibly large, highly flavoured, and
very abundant. The most refined Chinese in California
have no hesitation in publicly expressing their opinion of
" them rats."

members
of
the
College COLLEGESURGEONS.OFwera admitted
If,
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pg,
—to Tthhee
under the provisions of the recent charter, at the last meet-
ing of the council :—Messrs. J. R. Atkins, Stoke Ne ' 2
ton ; H. W. Bailey, Thetford, Norfolk ; H. Blath wle-'
Louth, Lincolnshire; G. E. Blenkins, Whitehead's wayte,
Chelsea ;T. L. aundell, New Broad-street ;P. B-grevye'
Woolwich; R. Brown, Preston, Lancashire; P. H. Chavesasses-a'
Birmingham; R. R. Cheyne, lerners-street ; T. F. C,hiive;
New Burlington-street; J. Courteney, Artillery-place; -'
Curling, Ramsgate; J. S. Daniel, Ramsgate; E. Do a
Double-
day, Blackfriars-road ; A. W. Dumville, Manchester
Dunkerley, Oldham ;R. Gasquet, Euston-place ;C. N. brii;
son, Norwich; H. Greenwood, Horselydown-lane ; J. Hain;
worth, late of Lincoln; S. Hare, Langham-place • W. 'flar-
ris, Clapham-road ;W. Heane, Bury St. Edmund's ;F. i
Hicks, Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square; C. Hogg, Pin E.
Fins-
bury-place, South; W. B. Hutchinson, Guildford-streets;
H. D. Jones, Soho-square •W. Jones, Weston-super-Mare ;
U? Nelson, Sevenoaks; E. Lacy, Poole; J. Lavies, Great
George-street; W. Lloyd, Army and Navy Club ; C. J.
ton, Upper Seymour-street; M. Marley, Cork-street; T. L.
Matthews, Orsett-terrace, Hyde-park ;T. Mellor, man
-
chester ;J. Nichols, Saville-row ;G. Ord, Brixton-bill .
J. Phillips, Bethnal-green; L. Powell, John-street, Berke'
ley,,quare ; D. Price, Margate ; T. Radford, Manchester ; G.
Rawbone. Chelsea ; G. S. Snowden, Ramsgate ; W. Sole, St.
Neot's ; C. T. Staunton, Royal Artillery, Woolwich ; T.
Stevenson, Upper Grosvenor-street; R. Stokoe, Peckham_
rye ;F. Symonds, Oxford; W. Thomas, Pembroke-dock ;
C. Sunaley, Millbrook.place; T. Ward, Southgate;
11.1",
son, Halfmoon-street ; G. Webster, Sussex-gardens; and W.
C. West, Great Malvern.
ALTERATION OF MAILS FROM CHESTER.--We are
informed that the Liverpool mail, which has hitherto
been
dispatched at noon, and at four o'clock P.m. will in future be
dispatched at ten o'clock A.M. and 2.40 r.at. The reason as.
signed for this alteration is that the letters dispatched at ten
a.m. will be in time at Liverpool for the midday delivery,
and those dispatched at 2.40 net. for the afternoon delivery;
but we conceive that, however advantageous such alteration
may be for Liverpool letters, some consideration should have
been had for those parties who have correspondents in the
north, and which the late noon post gave; unless the Post..
master-General will allow two more letter-carriers to effect
an early delivery, and thus enable those parties to receive
their letters in time to answer by the mail at ten o'clock.--
Chester Courant.
mth..s.x ELECTION—A tabular statement has
just been issued from the Middlesex Reform Registration-
office, showing the state of the poll in this
at count
the y
late at every
district of each hour on the days of polling elec-
tion, corrected by the sheriff's returns, gto ether with the
number of electorsandthe total number
who
polled in each district,
the register,
election in 1847. From
and also the close of the poll at the
this statement it appears_ that
number of electors is 4 610. the
these 8,761 voted atill the register in 1852 _. Of
for Lord R. Grosvenotr, e late election, the numbers39boeing—.
for the Marquis of Bia,nsd,c2ll ; for Mr. Osborne,lB 4
In 1847 the nu' and
of persons who voted was 7,514,
4,258. i
7,514, the numbers being—for
Grosvenor, 4,944, Osborne,
4,175; Wood, 3,458. It that ap-
pear' that 1,247 more votes were in 1559 than in
given ..- ~ 1847,