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

MON DAY

sence excited much surprise, but that was quickly dis-
pelled by a discovery being made by Mr. George Geary,
the second 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 counting-house, had been stolen.
Information of this robbery was at once given to the
witness, who suspected 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 ho had heard nothing of him till that
morning, when he 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, in much apparent mental
anxiety, saying that his name was Fletcher, expressed a
wish to justice for a robbery at
to iv
Messrs. Lgudegato's himselfwareuP houw; witness asked him it he
meant about the 464, but he denied that he had taken
more than 36/., and intimated that he might have been
captured much sooner if they had only looked is the
proper place for him. Witn«,ss therefore detained him
upon his own confession, and, on the prosecutor being
communicated with, he at once identified him as his ab-
sconding clerk.
The charge of felony having been thus clearly esta-
blished, several cases of embezzlement wero next pro-
ceeded with, in support of which three female witnesses,
named Higgs, Murphy, and Maberley, were called, and
deposedloyr, to
money for goods they had pur-
chased of him in the month of December last, and for
peva
the whole of which they produced the receipts the prisoner
rpioauysinsgums of the prisoner, on account of his em-
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-
positions having been taken, he was fully committed
to Newgate for trial upon the above charge of robbery
and three others of embezzlement.
CLEEKEN WELL.

Ellen Stevens, a remarkably pretty girl between 15
and 16g
yearsonar ole' d was re-examined before Mr. Tyrwhitt
of stealing a quantity of apparel in the
on
the
dwelling-house of Mr. Smith, 14, St. James's-buildings,
Spafields.
This painful case has already been mentioned in our
paper. The unfortunate girl was in the service of the
prosecutor only one day, when she was instigated by an
old vagabond, in the service of a celebrated optician in
Leicester-square, to abscond and to take to him the ill-
gotten property, She was traced to Guy's Hospital,
where she, with another victim of the same dis-
gusting wretch, was suffering from a painful and
nameless disease. On the first examination of the ac-
cused she stated that she and many other children were
enticed into the scoundrel's house when of the tender
age of twelve; that he first of all tempted them to
turn "head over heels" in his parlour for money, and
that afterwards he seduced them and led them to worse
crimes.
On the first
inquiry the magistrate adjourned the
case, in order,
possible, to fix an offellee punishable
by law on the principal delinquent; but Mr. Tyrwhitt
now said, from all the inquiries that had been privately
instituted, he regretted to day that he would, for the pre-
cent at least, escape punishment. He asked the unhappy
girl if she still persisted in her original defence? She
said all was true.
Mr. TYRWRITT wished to know if she would like to
be tried fur the robbery, or should he deal summarily
with it, as
-- ho was by a recent Act empowered to do?
She said she would rather it should be settled at once.
The MAGISTRATE (turning to the old man in ques-
tion) told him that such an atrocious vagabond ought to
be spurned from society, and sincerely did he regret that
he was not within the pale of the law such as be 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 sur-
veillance of Fisher, the detective officer of the G division,
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.
HAMMER SMITH.
Augusta Heaton, altos Mrs. Harper, a well-dressed
woman, described as a lodging-housekeeper of Norland
Nursery, Notting-hill, and Harriet Auyusta Beaton,
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 Dorsetshire, 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,
end 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 ho was
musing, the servant came into the room and asked him if
al his things wore safe, as she was going to leave the
next morning, and, having found a key 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 he found his trunk-key safe on the hunch, and that
the key on the table die not belong to bine. He directly
opened the portmanteau, and found that the six 5/. notes
had been stolen. Thsre was in the same portmanteau a
pp
pocketbook in which wthi between GO/, and 701. in
lock
that the key found on the table
of the portmanteau; and that Mr. Durant
opened oek
country notes, which he supposed had been unobserved.
It further
the
had received information of four of the missing notes.
The prisoners were remanded.

TRIAL OFPRADIVDALLEI-iiIvIHPIEWEIzi
SA:
On Saturday an interesting experiment was made on
the
the river, for the purpose of testing LENTS IN
relative merits
of two new inventions for improving the construction of
paddle-wheels, which may be destined to exercise an
important influence on steam navigation generally. The
competing inventions were Mr. Lee Stevena's fan paddle-
wheel, and Mr. Richard Chatterton's " Coburg" double
screw propeller. The trial was made with two of the
Iron Steam-boat Company's vesaels, the Twilight and
the Bridegroom,' the former being temporarily fitted
with Mr. Stevens s invention, and the latter with that of
Mr. Chatterton. The boats are twin craft, being pre-
ciselyof the same build, tonnage,
and p ewer; and the
course adopted in the experiment was to test their speed
in a race from C3dogan
pier, Chelsea, down to London-
bridge, and back again to the starting point. To give the
reader some idea of the nature of the respective inveu-
ventions, 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
fee, 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 less
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 fLats, and adjusted to the pre-
vious framework of the common paddle-wheels, a cir-
cumstance considered not so well calculated to display
the superiority of the fan paddle-wheels as when the
inventor's ideas are more thoroughly carried out by
having them constructed of iron.
With respect to Chatterton'a 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 hurizentally and at intervals, with
violent successive concu-sion 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 wheel; 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• in its transit through
resistance
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. Aitcbeson, and other scientific
and nautical men, witnessed the match on board of either
vessel. The boats started well from Cadogan-pier at
eleven minutes past 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 in`making the turn, and shot nearly
two lengths ahead of her competitor. This dif-
ference was accounted for from the fact that the
Twilight had %eked, 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 Ilungerford-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 daring the remainder of the race there
was not the variation of a quarter's length—and the twe
boats reached the starting point exactly at the same
moment.' The race was concluded at twelve minutes past
three, having occupied an hour and one minute both
ways. The average revolutions per minute on board the
Bridegroom were 44k, and those of the Twilight 43. We
were informed that the extent of propelling surface im-
mersed by the fan-paddle is 221 square feet, and by Mr.
1 Chatterton's propeller 30 feet, the average of the CCM-
! mon wheel being 27 feet. There Was scarcely any per-

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