The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-19 00:00:00

MONDAY

since excited much surprise, but that was quickly dis-
pelled by a discovery being made by Mr. George Geary,
the secured clerk, that a sum of 461., consisting of one
101. Bank of England note, two of 51., and 261. in gold,
which he had tied up in a canvas bag, and in the pre-
sence of the prisoner deposited that morning in one of
the desk drawers of the counti; ag-house, bad been stolen.
Information of this robbery was at once given to the
witness, who suspects-3 that the prisoner might have
otherwise plundered him, and. therefore proceeded to
inspect the books and accounts intrusted to his manage-
ment, when he detected numerous defalcations in those
also, and gave immediate directions for his apprehension.
An active search had been ever since kept up after him
by the police, but he bad heard nothing of him till that
morning, when ho found him in custody at the Feather-
stone. street station.
Inspector Brennan stated, that while on duty at the
station at eleven o'clock on the preceding night, the
prisoner suddenly entered, ire much apparent mental
anxiety, saying that his name was Fletcher, expressed a
wish to give justice for a robbery at
Messrs. Ludgate mgahtei's selfP to
warehouse;u witness asked him it he
meant about the 464 but he denied that he had taken
more than 361., and intimated that he might have been
captured much sooner if they had only looked in the
proper place for him. Witness therefore detained him
he at Once identified him as his m
, and, on the prosecutor being
upocommunicatednhis o n
ab-
sconding clerk.
The charge of felony having been thus clearly esta-
blished, several cases of embezzlement were next pro-
ceeded with, in support of which three female witnesses,
named Iligge, Murphy, and Moberly, were celled, and
deposed to paying the prisoner, on account of his em-
ployer, various sums of money for goods they had par-
cw°inthf7
chased of him in the month of December last, and for
the whole of which they produced the receipts the prisoner
had given them.
The prosecutor* proved that it was the duty of the ac-
cused to enter these and all other SUMS received during
the day in a book kept for that purpose, accounting to
him for them the same evening, but that some of the
accounts had not been so entered, and where they had
had been falsified.
The prisoner, who exhibited extreme dejection, de-
clined offering a word in defence, and, the de-
positione having been taken, he was fully committed
to Newgate for trial upon the above charge of robbery
and three others of embezzlement.
CLERKENWELL.

Ellen Stevens, a remarkably pretty girl between 15
and 16 years old, was re-examined before Mr., Tyrwhitt
on the charge of stealing a quantity of apparel in the
dwelling-houso of Mr. Smith, 14, St. James's-buildings,
Spafields.
This painful, case has already been mentioned in our
ecr. The unfortunate
leu she was instieated by an
girl was in the aerNice of the
prosecutor
eel vagabond, in the service of a celebrated optician in
Lc r.q
the ill-
gotten property. She
was traced to Guy's Hospital,
e s ourialyr:toe day, wi
abseond and to take to him
where she, with another victim of the same dis-
gusting wretch, was - suffering from a . painful and
earneless.disease. •On the first examination of the Ite-
mised she stated that, she and many other children wore
'age' of twelve; that ho first of all tempted them to
otandrel'a house when of the. tender
that afterwards he seduced them and led them to worse
parlour iri for money, and
enticedtturn
~hienatao toll: 7114 w,
his
crimes. .
Oa the first inquiry the magistrate adjourned the
case, in ordereif possible to fix an offence punishable
by law on the-prineipal delinquen'; bat Mr. Tyrwhitt
now said; from all theinauiriee thnt bad been. privately
inetitatad, he regretted to say that he would, for the pre-
sent at least; eseipo punishment. Ho asked the unhappy
girl if she still persisted in her original defence? She
said all was true.
Mr. Trawnrre wished to know if she would like to
be tried for the robbery, or should he deal summarily
as he was by a recent Act empowered to do?
she woul3 rather it should be settled at once.
Sle hTthsieati MAGISTRATE (turning to the old man in gees-
Lion) told him that such an atrocious vagabond ought to
be spurned from society, and sincerely did he regret that
he wasnot within the pale of the law such as he could
administer. The unfortunate prisoner had admitted the
robbery; therefore he should sentence her to a month's
imprisonment.
The wretch.alluded to. who has been under the cur-
vLillance of Fisher, the detective officer of the G
since the first examination, then made a hasty retreat
from the court, and was kicked into the mud, amid the
execrations of the persons assembled.
HAMMERSMITH.
Augusta Heaton,
alias Mrs. Harper, a well-dressed
woman, described as a lodging'
honaekeeper of Norland
Nursery, Nutting-hill, and Harriet Augusta Heaton,
seventeen years-old, her daughter, were charged before
Mr. Paynter, the former with stealing six 5/. Bank of
England notes, and the daughter with paying one away
knowing it to• have been stolen, being the property of
Mr. John Durant, a solicitor, now living at No. 3, Cla-
rendon-terrace, Kensington-park, Notting-hill.
It appeared in evidence that Mr. Durant resided at
Poole, in. Dersetshire, and on the 3d of last month he
took furnished apartments at the house of the elder pri-
soner. On the 6th of that month he changed some bills
for bank-notes, and put six 5/. Bank of England notes in
the pocket of one of his portmanteaus, which he locked,
and two others of a similar amount he put into his own
pocket, with the key. On coming home on the following
Monday evening, after being out all day, he saw a key
lying on the table in his room, and was surprised at it,
as he thought the key of his trunk must have fallen from
the bunch without his knowledge; and, while he was
musing, the servant came into the room and asked him it
all his things were safe, as she was going to leave the
next morning, and, having found a koy in the room after
some of the children had been in it, she did not wish to
leave with a stain on her character. On examining his
keys ho found his trunk key safe on the hunch, and that
the key ou the table did not belong to him. He directly
opened the portmanteau, and found that the six 51. notes
had been stolen. There was in the same portmanteau a
pocketbook in which was between 601. and 701. in
country notes, which he supposed had been unobserved.
It further appeared that the key found on the table
opened the lock of the portmanteau, and that Mr. Durant
had received information of lour of the missing notes.
The prisoners were remanded.

TRIAL OF RIVAL IMPROVEMENTS IN

PADDLE-WHEELS.

On an interesting experimentt was made on
the river,
or the Pnrpose of testing the relative merits
of two new inventions for improving the construction of
paddle-wheels, which may be destined to exercise an
entions were Mr. Lee Stevens's fan paddle-
c
wheel, and M. Richard Chatterton's imompoprettainngt iinfifivuenee on steam navigation generally. The
screw propeller. The trial was made with two of the
Iron Steam-boat Company's vessels, the Twilight and
the Bridegroo, "Coburg" double
she former being temporarily fitted
with Mr. Stevens's invention, and ,
the latter with that of
Mr. Chatter ten- The boats are twin craft, being pre-
cisely of the same build, tonnage, and peSver; and the
coarse adopted in the experiment was to test their speed
in a race from Cadogan pier, Chelsea, down to London-
bridge, and back again to the starting point. To give the
reactor some idea of the nature of the Teepeccive 'riven-
veetions, we may mention first, with regard to Mr.
Stevens's fan paddle, that the inventor has designed it
to consist of fixed oblique floats joined endwise,- and
diminishing in surface towards the centre like a lady's
fate which floats, or segments, press against the water,
right and left, in a continuous and perfectly balanced
action, and so as materially to diminish the back-
water—to give greater speed
to the steamer with the
same expenditure of power, or the same speed with loss
power—and entirely to prevent the vibration caused by
the use of any other paddle-wheels. The effect, too, is
uniformly alike, whether the motion be ahead or astern
On board the Twilight, however, it should
be stated
that the invention was economically modified with
wooden instead of iron floats, and adjusted to the p1:0-
violas frame Work of the common paddle-wheels, a cir-
cumstance conaidered not so well calculated to display
the superiority of the fan paddlo-wheels as when the
inventor's. ideas are more thoroughly carried out by
having them constructed of iron,
With respect to Chatterton's double screw propeller
—the rival invention—it is applied like the ordinary
paddle-wheel, at each side of the vessel, the distinction
being, that whereas in the common paddle the floats enter
and leave the water horizontally y and at intervals, with
violent successive concussion and consequent disadvan-
tage of downward pressure, unpleasant vibration, and
back lift, in the: case of Mr. Chatterton's propeller
they pass into and emerge from the sphere of re-
sistance quietly and continuously as a screw, without
disturbing in front or lifting the water behind; at
the same time, being
perfectly balanced at all points,
half of each float being precisely opposite a correspon-
ding half on the other side, and forming together, as
it were, a succession of
wedges in their action upon
the water, the pressure on the shaft is quite as square
as in the common wheal;
while, the displacement being
the same, with a larger surface of friction exposed to the
surrounding water, and the shape of the float being
spiral, the propelling effect below is proportionately in-
creased, on the well. known principle that a body wedge-
shaped offers greater resistance in its transit through
water with the point of the wedge foremost than it would
do if reversed, because it is more easily drawn from than
driven against the friction on its sides.
The weather was beautifully fine, and a party of gen-
tlemen, including the inventors, a director of the Iron
Steam Company, Lieut. Aitobeson, and other scientific
and nautical men, witnessed the match on board of either
vessel. The boats started well from Cadogan-pier at
eleven minutes peat two o'clock, the run down the river
being with the tide. They passed through Westminster-
bridge stem and stem, keeping close up with each other
until they reached Southwark- bridge, when the Twilight
was half a length ahead of her opponent. In passing
under London-bridge, however (which they did in 21.
minutes from the time of starting), the Bridegroom
had the advantage iremaking the turn, and shot nearly
two lengths ahead .of her competitor. This dif-
ference was accounted for from the fact that the
Twilight bad a keel, the Bridegroom having none, thereby
rendering the latter better able to make the turn.
The return run was against tide, and the contest now be-
came more exciting. The Twilight speedily began to
recover her lost ground, and had diminished her rival's
advantage to only half a length at Hungerford-bridge.
In a minute or two more they were both paddle- box and
paddle-box. Every nerve appeared to be strained by the
competitors, but during the remainder of the race there
was not the variation of a quarter's length—and the two
boats reached the starting point exactly at the same
moment. The race was concluded at twelve minutes past
LEI.' o, hasilg occueied an hour and one minute both
ways. Tho average revolutions per minute on board the
Bridegroom were 444., and those of the Twilight 43. We
a ere informed that toe extent of propelling surface im-
mersed by the fan-paddle is 22i square feet, and by Mr.
Chatterton's propeller 30 feet, the average of the com-
mon wheel being 27 feet. There was scarcely any per-

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