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

WATT V. HAYLOCK.

Mr. Prendergast t;:clir.Worliedge were counsel for
the. platnuff; Air. O'Malley. and Mr. Crouch appeared
for the dwendant.

.The plaintiff in this ease is the gentleman alluded to
_in the last case, and the defendant is the brother of the
plaintiff, in that case.. This wit', an action of libel, the
plaintiff seeking tor damages frOm. she defendant on
the ground tbat he had, written with chalk, on his
own walls, . the kffsnsive words " Donkey Watts,
the railway .station jackass," and affixing thereon
and diaseminatieg through Ely printed handbills,
tiii-cting on. the character of the plaintiff, the
abject of which was. to tease and worry him into leaving
Ely, or to induce his empluyers to dismiss him from his
responsible situation. This production was couched in
the shape of .question arid answer.• In each case the
answer was " What," being evidently intended for a
play on-plaintiff's name; .as for •the former, their ten-
dency evidently was to bring the . plaintiff into ridicule
and contempt with his neighbours and employers. The
ease of the plaintiff went to show that if the defendant
did not write the handbill, he, at any rate, countenanced
it; for, when asked to remove it trom his premises by
the plaintiff, as a document r-fleoting on hid character,
be said, " I know it does,. and I won't have it touched; I
defy any one to take it down." At another time, when
asked to rub .out the offensive "mural literature," he re-
fused, saying. be had aright to write up " Donkey
Watts" as often as he pleased, and would do so."

• -The jury eventually found a verdict for the plaintiff,
with 40s. damages.
, • CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PARSE.)
Peter Taylor, aged 20, was indicted for the abduction
of Isab• Ile Prime, or. the 23d of July, she then being
under 16 years of age.
• • Mr. Naylor prosecuted, and Mr. Power defended the
prisoner. • •
It appeared from the evidence that Isabella Prime was
'living with -her grandfather, who was a farm balllff, re-
''siding at Little •Wilbrabace, in this county, and the pri-
soner was employed as a shepherd upon the same pro-
Party. The prisoner and the granddaughter had been in
'the habit of going to and returning from chapel toge-
ther, and it appeared from the cross-examieation of
'some of the -witnesses for the prosecution, that upon
one occasion, at • Ensham, they sat upon the same
enair, and drank out of the same cup, and that he had
'received many and -many a loveletter from her. How-
ever, the addresses of the prisoner were not acceptable
to the " old people," and one Sunday, after chapel,
the prisoner and' the granddaughter went away toge-
ther, and net return until some days after,
when they were brought home by the police, who
bad traced'them to a village in Hertfordshire, where
they were found living together as man and wife. After
that this prosecution was instituted, Bed the young lady
returned to her home, while her swain was confined to
durance vile, there to sigh for bis liberty and mistress.
Iu support of the 'prosecution, evidence was offered to
show- that the girl was under the statutable age at the
pericid of the elopement, and for this purpose the family
' Bible was prodtreed. On inspection, however, of this
document, it appeared that the figure 7, in the year
1837, had been tampered with, and on the production
'of the girt herself in the witness box her personal ap-
pearance was such as certainly to warrant the notion
'that she was a failgrown woman of seventeen or more,
as .we II as to justify the love of the prisoner, who
greeted the sight •of her with a smile of pleasurable re
cognition.
Mr. PowEe,•in addressing the jury, contended that
the proof 'ot the girl's age was not clear enough to war.'
rant a verdict of guil,y, while he suggeSted that the best,
course for the jury to take would be to acquit the lad,-
'll "-
and so to defeat the. Marplots who had hitherto
rupted his union with the girl,
which would
wedlock: •
most hkely,
lead to
Mr. Baron PARKE 'summed up the case
to the jury,
who, after some consideration, returned a verdict of Not.
Guilty.

SOUTH WALES .ClRCUJT.—.Cardiff, Jul 21.
• (orer. Justice CRuDIPTori.) Y
• • DAVIEs v.REEg.
tried here.
This was a breach of protnise case, and was the last
M r.
MrA. JeL. Grove andfor Mthe r.. Gifford were for the plaintiff; and
kin detundant.
The plaintiff is 22 years of age, and the daughter of
Mr. J. Davies,' formerly of the Great House, Bed way
Ho was till recent)-
y a farmer movin in a sphere of life, font was ruined by the failure of the .111c9"
mouth and Glamorgan Bank, of which he was s, fiber::
holder. The defendant is. a substantial farmer and ire
espectable
holder of Monmouthshire, resident at
Caerphilly. lie is 40 years of age.: Ile
was
icording
to the plaintiff in 1850, and, by May, 1851, F
d °ripened into.
the lady's witnesses, 'the acquaintance
Ile excursions
TYrennteroi'duced
tiffiction: They went together on e
Pi ar:s lovers." The
and behaved. towards each other :
_,
some personal
young lady, who, it appears, possei,gPu
to ive symptoms tshhaei
attractions, holever;''soon'bPgani-i-od
the intimacy had been too ()lose,
solicitations of
it appears thheart
ad.
had yielded her virtue to theeot, under a .
.pledge
mirer, ' a
and, according
to
tfior his conduct.
eßm' amber broth.erein-law,
of marrige .Afret he! ciohne
but • '. Mr. Roberts, reproved
o marry her snor .37,never
No Jotters had assed between
and he then promised t adefeuda.nt
promise. d, lived near to each other.
redeemed his P
the parties, who, it feweilyn, a friend of the lady's,
Miss Catherin
, eco,iipanie4 her and the defendant to,
prov« &that sPe "ia
a excursion; that the gentlemen psis
bridge "il that- thy defendant behaved to Miss Davieb
Ne v' Dd
the fare, 8' gr. Jackson. who accompanied them, acting
as a iaper,att
cv
a i towards her (the witness). The wit-
m a lik°k: Po several occasions when the defendant and
nest' 81'. -ty had been seen "courting" together. In
lain" •.
the P
r- last, when Miss Davies was in the familyway,
FebraeJ
witness met the defendant at Caerphilly. He asked her
how Ann (tbo plaintiff) was, and witness asked him
-why ho did not marry her at once.. He replied, " I
thought to marry her, and you and Thomas Jackson to
be at the wedding," He named a day after an expected
sale as the day for the wedding.
Cross-examined—Never saw the plaintiff dressed in
man's clothes. '
Henry Davis, the plaintiff's brother, deposed that the
deteudant kept complyy with his sister for a consider-
able time, and that in December last be was going to a
multhouse for some hay, when he saw his sister and the
defendant go into the tualthowie. %V iteess went into an
adjoining room, welt elf his shoes, and listened at a
dour of the room in which they were. Defendant asked
his.aister if.eite was sure she was in the fatnilyway. She
cried bit erly, and said, " You need not ask; you kuow
it too well." and added she should be lef., in shame and
disgrace. 'The defendant said he would surely morn'
her, on which She asked him when, telling him that he

had made a fe3l of her already. He said he wculd marry
hersoon ; that he could get a license frail Concellor Wil-
liams; And that she should be mAried after Newport
slate _
Cross -examir,ca—Xpiei. Tani siervant na32Cd
Gibbba: Or iiny-aithemiailti, tamp Ater.
Another of he plaintiff's brothers deposed to the inti-
macy between his states aild -the defendant, and to the
latter telling him upon one occasion that he would soon
be his brother-in-law.

W. Roberts, lamer, of St. Melions, also deputed
to conversations with the defendant, in Which he had
expressed his intention of marrying the plaintiff.
..
, For the defence Mr. PULLlNGachiresSed die-jerk, con-
tending that thelctioti was the: 'result of a.conspiracy
:got up to ruin the defendatitYthat there'wtis no atilistan-
tial Courtship; and thia deleiidant was only one of ntt-
,merous followers of the plaintiff, Who, after -Many
chatikes, had at-last fixed upon a 'man from whom she
expected to get something.
ThC Learned "Supotthought Were were no grounds
for ifiese imputititms.—
yerdict for the plaintiff—Pamliges 4004

EFFECT_ S— OF
tyCßc7-702t8Pa.rJe
notUS mTlorCeE.re.-
The effects corm mark*
Ole in the .
diminution of the number Of eases in West&
miuster than in the diMinution of the number of
inmates iu the Queen's Bench Prison. Till the Opeiation
the average number of of the County Courts Act, i
pri-
soners was upwards of three hundred; at present there
is scarcely a third of that number, and a full half of
these have been in confinement from a period antecedent
to the passing of the Act referred to. OneXuan has
been iu prison for the space of forty years. He entered
a hale and strong man of 35; he. is now in his dotage.
Two have been there for thirty-one years; four for
t4eniy years, and a considerable number for upwards
of ten years. Eery advanbe made by our Legislature
in providing-cheep justice for the people must hems-
eerily have the effect of diminishing the number of
prisoners for debt all' over the kingdom. Not un-
frecAently,.persons have been kept in confinement for
ll:Muy years for the' mere costs in, an action, irre-
spective of; the alleged debt altogether, as for example
ie a case where' the judge had ordered that each party
should pay his own costs. Cheap jastice will render
such caries rare; 'it being mote difficult to run upa large
bill of costs forproceedings in the robots
reourttahnacntyn
the superior ones. Areforni in the e
will also have the effect nt diminishine tEo"."'""^f
prisoners in the'Queeh't;Prieon. Many of the Chancery
prisoners are committed for contempt; that is, they may
have chanced not to 'appear to some Summons at the
Master's or It.ghtrar'e Offiee, or otherwise, as the case
may be, during the progress of the suit, which may have
been.prolenged to a lediotia* duration. The costs con-
nected with such ennie'mpts* are enormons.. If the pro-
c-ediegs in the cause had been More speedy, no contempt
in the shape of non-tattendince would have been com-
mitted, and tte poor litigant
,would not have beedput in
confinement for a debt wholly irrespective Of and apart
from the costs in the suit.

AT KISSINGEN.
TEE GREAT ARTESIAN SALT
•SPRING
•
To .THE EDIT,It OF THE TINES;
. .
Sir,—Referrtug to my letter dekertrive of the first
public opening of this extraordinary work, and of its
still morwextraordinary results, which- you did me the
honour of publishina. in your journal of the 23d of
August, 1850,1 think your readers will not
_peruse
without interest my present cummuoication, in- which,
with your leave, I will proceed to complete my former
account, now that the whole work is approachinF com-
pletion, and the boring, having nearly reached the in-
tended depth of 2,ooo.feet, is .
about to cease. ln the course of last 3 ear an elegant square' tower,
with bevelled angles, • • .the • h of
•rising to height 100 feet, on
a square area of 900-teet bad been erected
over the arte-
sian well, with five series of galleries around its interior,
to-which- easy - access •
whereby the ishad by short flights of steps,
there to spectators
eontei.t cani ascend to various elevations,
whenever it is. iruff
.ri,ci ,teat leisure
lizro this wonderful fountain
I stated in my former lette.'n "Li".
efninent engineer of this ,Rork, Inspeotor Kniirr, the
alto-
gether the flow-of the jet by a
simple
at once check
own devising, which he recommewr.x.
pisetenntrivance of his
all hydraulic • engineers engaged in to attention of
This contrivance consists• in. 44.3
operations.
mouth of the bore, by forcingmeans ;lowa the
irons, aid in'the qnickest-manner possible,° a
bag
taitiing clay. By getting
.wet the clay becomes peatyl con-
plastic, swells, and applies itself equally all round atfilde
sides of the bore, so' as hermetically to atop, at pleasure,
the. ejection a the water.
On the 231 ult. the numerous visitors at this place,
among whom 'ate maby from England, were invited to
see the artesian fouhtain At work. Oa our admission
the interior of the tower presented the spectacle-at some
hundreds of well-dressed ladies, and a crowd of-gentle-
men of all nations, distributed in various parts of the
galleries, who had dome to witness the promised jet d'eau
of which, however, nothing then visible on tbe floor of
the building be- tokened the approaching realization.
_ .

At length, the inspectOr• hat;ing given the signal, two
workmen placed in tne second gallery drew each a slen-
dar rope, by which the clay•bag frame was raised, when
up shot a foaming column of water, which in one second
of time by the watch reached nearly to the roof of the
tower, at an elevation of 76 feet, being 24 feet higher
than it had risen on the occasion described in my first
letter. ,
The column, 15. inchei in circumference, instead of
12 as formerly, is at first compact. It soon, however,
splits into a thousand perpendicular branches, gently
curving outwardly, as they ascend, like graceful palm-
leaves' and by the time it has reached its highest point
it has forme() a spreading head, like a weeping willow,
as white as driven snow, and sparkling with diamond
lustre.

. It is calculated that the water is ejected (by the sub-
jacent stratum of carbonic acid gas, alluded to in my
previous description) with a force of 260 horse power.
The quantity of water thrown out is at the rate of
from 96 to 100 cubic fiat per minute, and with it
there escapes simultaneously 110 cubic feet of the
2,,5. The temperature of the wat
haseris7o
not
tgryeees
,-,t
.1 Fahrenheit. Its completeanalysis
been made, except as far as it concerns the presence of
salt, which is the thing required. Fifty-eight rod:, each
34 feet long, have been employed in the operation of
boring, many, of which are of wood of sufficient strength,
and with the advantage of being lighter than the rest,
which are of iron.
But now the most ingenious part of Inspector Knorr's
Contrivances in this complicated, yet perfect work, re-
mains to be described. The boring having discovered,
as previously mentioned, a bed of rock salt at the depth
of from 1,740 to 2,000 feet, with great reason for think-
.jog that the stratum itself is not less than 1,000 feet in
.thickuess, the question which the inspector propounded
.to himself was, " now shall I avail myself of this abun-
dant source of wealth and bring it to the surface? We
have found at the depth of 1,200 feet water with three
. per cent. of salt, which a subjacent stratum of 440 feet
in depth of carbonic acid gas forces up out of the earth
to a height of 76. feet, and this I can easily convey to
the evaporating shades.(gradiren hausen), in, order to
concknoe it, as in reality Is now done. But if this water,
after condensation, could be brought into contact with
with the rocksalt stratum below the gas; and then raised
again to the surface, we might obtain water charged
with nearly, times the original quantity of salt, and thus
add half a million of florins to the saline revenue of the
Crown." • And this problem Inspwill
have Knorr hasmostsuccessfully resolved, as the visitors at Kissinger tit
have an opportunity of witnessing before the close of
the season.
are sunk at various
nice series of concentric tubes
lengths into the bore, Withcorresponeinfhe
.5 inches
salt-water strata to be
dealt
withban 330 .dat; and serve*
largest, tt the depths of
in diameter, descends not lower
tensions, as well as to - maintainoecentric tube descends to
to keep out all.superfici3l watettrhseoefidel:doefrtshaelibnuerperoer-
walls intact. The
ni!nlLihecwater which lies over the
1,740 feet, immersed .-. hdiclesc,tehnedsthtiordthoor
rinonekeramslot
immersed actually into,the stratum
depth of 1,900 .ft;et,Dii-ed length of these tubes is 3,970
of rocksalt. Toe united of wrought plates of brass one-
feet. They
incharem,abie. p
Chia turned up, dovetailed at their
'stantudb tube, 32
i inchesnes the
i 1 'n diameter, diameter,
w
eighth of an
soldered; and, having been subjected to e•
d
edges, and
atmospheres perpendicularly,,and to that - f 50
prtssure 0L
weight longitudinally, they have resisted
a 10,010t0.01e!'s.
both without giving way. These tubes were
manufacturedby Klett, ot Ntiremberg, and are very
creditablebytliao ntdh et-hset a:
ee'Dotrf
aindustrial
L,l c
They have cost 15,000 florins (1,2501.).
Germany,weelesignate the larges,t tubw.eebsyhatihiebl:tatbelreAto,
fol-
lowthe nestthe practical
ls,lwmhpilye that of A is larger. It is
that the water upheaved by the car-
.
solved
raonudgghChe is
tsi
his problem,
cr
looa-bt
eltq
ejectedmruequal,
and rece i v e d at its fall in a suitable
sbtqounaicre basin or resevoir around the bore.' Thence it is
pumped.by waterwheel pumps to the top of the gradiren
hausen, which stand Much higher and extend to a con-
siderable distance, as described at length in my volume
on Kissingen. By being made to fail from the top of
these hausen several times through many series of thorn
bushes, the water not only becomes conantrated to 9
per cent..of salt, but is likewise freed from all impurities.
In this new condition the water has acquirdd the highest
solvent power for acting on the rocksalt; and, accord-
ingly, by means of
,a powerful horizontal hydraulic
press, it is forced 'down the tube B till it reaches the
region of the.roeksalt, which it dissolves, charging it-
self with 27 per cent, of salt (that is with, 271 b. of 811,.1
in:every 100 pints ot water), and then ascends through
the the innermost tube C, in virtue of the same Ares
only
eXerted continuously ever:the said tube B, and not
from
ascends to the surface, but even as high at sours. fall, it
the surface into a reservoir, whence, by a natural 'for im
goes to feed the saltpans in the boiling-houses
mediate crystallization, and the result
exquisitely
pure, white, and crystalline salt.
In conclusioo, I have to observe
which the water, with,3 per cent.
action by day and
by the.gas, will be in continuousq
tie:l;st,
of
I?, e iAs ,u through
uantity of water for
by night to supplY
cideelscribed;" bin that the jet
admiration of all beholders, will
of the numerous visitors,
scraelat-un,awkhinleghiln'trhmelmtt.'takbenenerrleaCe now and tfien during the
gen has the honour of
onlyaea 80 bne,,
fo r allowed
the to
at aaci,P,
ik,
ni 8 s i 0
year
beads and ministers or diplo-
ilscr
h to constitute a political con-
gress;raemeoknogninwghosmevetrab
the fairer part of tie Regozi wor-
not 1 s
° "hose head stands preeminently the truly
diplo-
matic notabilities
shippers, at I popular, and gracious Queen of the
amiable, high!
Kissingen A. B. GRANVILLE, y... 0., F.B.S.
country. eestinerug
Baths, July 8,

A letter from Pesth states that the
Austria has commuted the punishment of Count Ladish/
Cz,oki,. who. had been Emperor of
condemned to death by a court'
taking Part in the rebelhOn of °g" rl'•
martial, for