The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1837.

registries a pure and perfect record of those legally
qualified for the franchise. They should see that
none are omitted who possess the requisite qualification
and that none are omitted on fraudulent pretences.
We address all manner of electors, without distinction
of political opinions, being willing that the question of
political amelioration should be decided even by those
at present eligible for the franchise, provided they be
allowed to exercise it conscientiously. The Tories
may recommend their minions to throw the utmost
embarrassment and annoyance in the way of the re-
gistration of those known to be of liberal politics ; we
care not to retaliate ; we are are only anxious that the
registries should be what they profess to be—a fair
list of those legally enfranchised—and we hove no fear
of the result. We can never think so meanly of the
electoral body of the United Kingdom as to suppose that
Tory sentiments could ever maintain a sentient existence
in it, unless by the exercise of most undue influence.
It is this influence which the Reformers are now called
upon to counteract. One-half of the activity and
combination employed by the Tories would effectually
secure in the House of Commons at least an irresisible
preponderance of the principles of Reform. Let the
registries be vigilantly attended to, and in the pext
general election, come when it may, and it may come
sooner than anticipated, not all the gold nor all the
threats, coercion, nor vindictive inflictions of the
Tories, will enable them to give anything like an
effective opposition to the sentiments of the British
people. Let this be done, and we shall have the inge-
nious calculator of the Times forming estimates of the
relative value of the Tory and Reform representatives
of England, ludicrously as amusing to those which he
is now making on the representatives of Scotland and
Ireland. Our surmises yesterday of the estimate which
this novel arithmetician would form of the value of the
Irish Liberal Members was entirely erroneous. In-
stead of being valued in the proportion of one-half or
one-fourth, as we supposed, the whole seventy-two Re-
form Members are rated against the thirty-three Tories
as so many " Birmingham halfpence" against " ster-
ling gold guineas." This is so far beyond our humble
powers of computation, that we shall merely venture
to suggest to the " Grand Apostate," when it medi-
tates another desertion, not to accept its purchase
money in such false coin—such raps—as the Tory
Members of Ireland, for we calculate that in such
an event not even the check of a Baring could make
up, as on the last occasion, the deficiency, and com-
pensate the worthlessness of the bribe.—Morning
Advertiser.

There is no sort of morbid and maudlin nonsense
more to be deprecated than the sympathy which some
persons feel, or affect to feel, with the political conduct
of the Irish Roman Catholics. If the conduct of the
Roman Catholic Members of the House of Commons,
who vote against the Protestant Church Establish-
ment, be what the Bishop of Exeter has described it to
be, viz.—" perjury, aggravated by treachery," how
much more certainly may we maintain that the conduct
of the Roman Catholic electors is gross 'treachery, ag-
gravated by base ingratitude ? They held meetings,
they petitioned, they speechified, they wrote pamphlets,
and the burden of the petitions, the speeches, and the
pamphlets was still the same—that they bore no en-
mity to the Protestant Establishment—that they only
wanted an opportunity to support the institutions of the
country in Parliament, like their Protestant brethren,
and that so far from their accession to political power
being likely to endanger the Protestant Church it would
remove an existing danger, by annihilating their enmity.
They know that this statement is true. They dare not
deny it. The records of the time are not destroyed.
Their printed speeches yet remain. Their sworn evi-
dence still appears in the sessional papers. Their de-
ceitful pamphlets have not all gone to the trunk-
makers. Compare the pledges, the promises, the pas-
sionate appeals, and the srcicus arguments of these
documents, with the open and insolent persecution of
everything Protestant which they now carry on, and
then let any man who has within him a sense of jus-
tice or fair play say whether the present conduct of the
Irish Roman Catholics is not a disgrace to human
nature. No, it is not the Irish Roman Catholics, but
those whom they unrelentingly oppress and persecute,
for whom the sympathy of Englishmen ought to be
evoked. The Romish Ecclesiastics in Ireland stalk
about, the representatives and the agents of the rudest
and most relentless tyranny that can be witnessed in
modern Europe. From Siberia to Sicily there is no-
thing so monstrous, nothing which so certainly marks
out whatever is most virtuous and most praiseworthy
for annoyance, torture, or death. Under most tyrannies
the man who is of a peaceable spirit, and submissive to
the existing law of the land, is pretty sure to escape ;
but in Ireland he is quite sure to suffer. Unless a man
joins with the turbulent—unless he enters into confe-
deracy with the treacherous, to work out the objects of
their treachery, he becomes a marked man, and, if he
be not more than usually fortunate, a doomed man.
The priestly persecutor has his eye upon him, and if
he continues contumacious, the midnight murderer is
as likely as not to neutralise his opposition. Think
what it must be for men of property who have a
crowded tenantry, that in mercy they have retained upon
their land, that have their estates eaten up by people
who cannot pay rent, and who yet find these people,
who owe their lives from day to day to their landlords'
liberality, voting against their landlords at the bidding
of the priest. If these people did so from a conviction
of their own judgment against the politics of their
landlord, there might be a good excuse for their not
voting for him, even though they lived upon his cha-
rity ; but it is not the case that they vote from their
own judgment. They vote in obedience to orders, and
the priest gives these orders. The landlord is openly
insulted by those whom he supports, for the priest's
dues are paid from the produce of his land, the rent of
which is not paid ; and then, if he resorts to his legal
right to take his land into his own hands again, he is
denounced as a tyrant and a persecutor, by those who
arc themselves the real tyrants, and the real persecutors!
The workers of such iniquity deserve not sympathy,
but punishment. If they will conspire with their
priests, let their priests support them. If they cannot
live without their landlords' bounty, let them not fly in
the faces of their landlords.—Morning Herald.
The Morning Chronicle, with its usual indifference
to facts, contradicts the statement which we made on

Friday relative to the entrance of a Pedroite steamer
to the Douro, under the eve and with the cognizance
of the British fleet, then stationed outside the bar.
We now repeat that statement, and declare, on autho-
rity which cannot be questioned, that the outer squad-
ron of the Douro was a witness of the occurrence, and
that the commanding officer had it in his power to
prevent it, if he pleased. The pennant was hoisted by
the Pedroite steamer close to the flag-ship of the squad-
ron, and as that ship neither fired a shot to bring the
steamer to, nor signaled to Captain Glasscock to
communicate-to the batteries that she did not belong
to his Britannic Majesty's service, it is clear that
the commanding officer was a party to the fraud.
Indeed the transaction occasioned both surprise and
indignation on board the inner squadron, as every one
felt that the honour of the country was compromised;
that the word of honour of the officers under which
the communication was maintained between the two
divisions of the fleet was broken ; and it was only the
obedience so essential to British discipline which in-
duced Capt. Glasscock not to replace the steamer in
the position she occupied before the fraud was com-
mitted. The Morning Chronicle says " that our
facts are fiction." Let our contemporary take care
how it denies what we now assert lest we should push
our researches a little further, and show that the

steamer in question took in her cargo of ammunition
at the Tower of London. Let it not force us to

prove what the conduct of the British squadron was
with regard to the steamers of Don Pedro, not only
entering the Douro but going from it. We can point
out a case where a Pedroite steamer, afraid of the
Miguelite batteries which lined the shore, was piloted
out of the river in the dead of night by officers of his
Majesty': squadron, their companions leading the way
with boats having lanterns on board, covered towards
the Miguelite side, and open to the course which th e
steamer was threading through the difficult passage of
the bar. These are but two out of the many instances in
which the good faith of England was disregarded
by the persons employed in Portugal during the
Pedroite struggle, who sought to recommend themselves
at home by observing neutrality in the fashion most
pleasing to Lord Palmerston. With regard to the

particular case on which this controversy rests, we beg
leave to ask the Morning Chronicle would a Miguelite
steamer have been allowed to hoist the British pennant
under the eyes of the British squadron, for the purpose
of evading the Pedroite batteries ? No. The matter
is quite clear to all who wish to see and hear the truth.
An exception was made in favour of Don Pedro, and
everything inconsistent with the honour and character
of a great nation was at that time practised by the Bri-
tish Ministry, for the purpose of gratifying a blind
hatred against Don Miguel, and keeping up a show of
liberality abroad, for the purpose of gaining popularity
at home.--Morning Post.

Huntingdon town, arid the immediate neighbour-
hood, were visited by a very heavy storm of thunder, light-
ning, hail, and rain, from two to three o'clock on Thursday
morning, and the atmosphere continued heavy and sulphe-
rous until nearly one o'clock in the afternoon, when the
most frightful tempest ever remembered here broke upon
the place, which, for the space of an hour, was enshrouded
in a gloom, approaching to darkness. During that time
the lightning burst from the Clouds in continuous flashes
almost without intermission, and the thunder rolled in awful
and uninterrupted grandeur, whilst the rain came down in
torrents, quickly deluging the streets, and finding ingress
into the shops an cellars. In the tempest Mr. Ladds,
jun., of Ellington, had three sheep destroyed by the light-
ning. They were all laid in a heap, with the mark of the
burn down the neck, where the wool was entirely struck
off and turned back.
At a meeting of the Liberal electors of the county,
held in the Salutation hall, on Friday last, it was proposed
to Mr. Fox Maule with a public testimonial of the high
respest and esteem which the Reformers of the county en-
tertain of his exertions in their cause, and the manner in
which he has discharged his public duties. This is a well-
timed, and certainly a well-merited compliment to Mr.
Maule, who has exerted himself so honourably in the cause
of constitutionol amelioration in Parliament, and whose de-
feat has been brought about in the late contest by means
which no honourable mind could have ever employed. We
have no doubt that the gift of gratitude will be in every
respect worthy of the donors, the occasion, and the high
attainments and public character of the gentleman to whom
it is to be proffered.—Perthshire Advertiser.
On Tuesday night last one of those dastardly acts
of wilful fire-raising, which are unfortunately of common
occurrence in Ireland, and some years ago in several of
the agricultural districts of England, was perpetrated on a
farm-steading of the parish of Cadder, near Kilvindock, by
which seven stacks of hay were totally consumed. The
farmer, whose property has been destroyed, is an individual
of unquestionable respectability, and much esteemed by all
in the neighbourhood in which he resides.—Glasgow Courier.
Music.—The published fact of the female who
died from bearing too much music we do not imagine to be
well known in this country ; we therefore give a sketch of
it, taken from the Surgical Repertory of Turin. A wo-
man, 23 years of age, who had never left her village or
heard a concert, was present at a three days' fete in 1834,
and dancing was carried on to the sounds of a brilliant or-
chestra. She entered into the amusement with ardour,
and was delighted ; but the fete once finished, she could
not get rid of the impression which the music had made
upon her. Whether she ate, drank, walked, sat still, lay
down, was occupied or unoccupied, the different airs which
she had heard were always present, succeeded each other
in the same order as that in which they were executed.
Sleep was out of the question, and the whole body being
deranged in consequence of this, medical art was called
in, but nothing availed, and in six months the, person died
without havinc, for one moment lost the strange sensation ;
even in her last moments she heard the first violin give
some discordant notes, when, holding her head with both
hands, she cried, " Oh ! what a false note, it tears my
head." We have heard of another instance of this in an
aged person, who, from the year 1829, has the greatest
difficulty in going to sleep, because he every evening feels
an irresistible desire to hear an air which belongs to the
mountains of Auvergne. He has tried reading aloud,
thinking deeply, and several other means to get rid of it,
but it is of no use—he is invariably forced, mechanically,
to utter the words in the idiom of Auvergne. We our-
selves have seen the most alarming eff,'cts produced upon
children by music to which they were unaccustomed, and
fevers ensue in consequence.—iltienceuni.
ArictrEß.Y.—The Robin Hood and Albion clubs,
together with Messrs. Betty and Heath, met at Brixton on
Wednesday, at two o'clock, to contend for the prizes
offered by those societies. The shooting was carried on
with the greatest spirit throughout the whole of the day.
Mr. Heath, who was spoken so highly of in the public
journals last week, did, on this occasion, ample justice to
the reports. When the shooting at 100 yards was finished,
he was found to have scored the highest number, but his
opponents gained upon him at 80 and 60 yards. Mr. Betty's
style of shooting was also truly beautiful. The first prize
was carried off by Mr. Dodd, and the second (we believe)
by Mr. Gouldaborough, a member of the Albion. Messrs.
Heath and Betty were both successful in gaining prizes,
although they were of small value.
Saturday an inquest was held at the sign of the
Lord Liverpool, in Dempsey-street, Stepney, before Mr.
Baker, on the body of Captain John Thompson, who re-
sided in that neighbourhood, and who committed a most
determined act of suicide. From the evidence it appeared
that the deceased, who was Captain of a West Indiaman,
had lost his vessel, and for some reason or other the insu-
rance-money on the ship was not paid. This was the cause
of his not getting another vessel, and the circumstance
preyed very severely on his mind. Added to this, he, a short
time since, was attacked with paralysis, which deprived him
of the use of one side, and this considerably heightened his
misery. On Friday morning Mrs. Thompson got up at
eight o'clock, leaving the deceased in bed, and hearing
something heavy fall upon the floor, she fancied her husband
had been a second time seized with fits, and she in conse-
quence went for the assistance of her sister and a neighbour.
On entering the room she found the deceased on the floor,
surrounded with a quantity of blood, and a razor clenched
in his hand, with his head nearly severed from his body.
Surgical aid was resorted to, but such was the determined
manner in which the act was committed, that death must
have been instantaneous. A verdict of " Temporary in-
sanity" was returned. The deceased has left a wife and six
children to deplore his unfortunate fate.

An extraordinary sleep-walker, named Alfred Hut -
chinson, a young man, married, and the father of three
dtildren, is living at New Snenton. His last ezplot was
performed a few minutes past twelve on the morning of
Friday last. He is a lacemaker, but, being unable to main-
tain his family at that trade, he has eked out latterly by
fishing. At the time above named he was at Fiskerton,
near Newark, sleeping, by permission, with a young man in
a room on the second floor of an uninhabited house. Pre-
vious to retiring for the night, Hutchinson communicated to
his associate that he was addicted to walk in his sleep. At
midnight the somnambulist aroused his bedfellow by a ter-
rific shout, and rushed towards the window, the upper case-
ment of which he unfastened, and proceeded to let down.
His alarmed bedfellow instantly resorted to the most vio-
lent means to awaken him and prevent him precipitating
himself from the window. All was of no avail, out he
rushed, and fell to the ground. The noise roused the
neighbours in an adjoining house, who were spectators of
the latter part of the exploit. Hutchinson then bounded
over a brick wall, and leaped upon the top of another,
along which he ran some yards, and jumped off. The torpor
of his mental powers at that moment left him, and he called
out to his friend, and those who were observing him, that
they need not be alarmed, he had only been dreaming. He
came limping into our office this week to narrate the painful
injuries he had received from the fall. He states that he
dreamed a large serpent had laid hold of his right arm, and
that the efforts of the young man to restrain him, on the
night in question, only increased the violent and dangerous
means he used to escape from his illusive pursuer. A deep
incised wound in one of his feet, and numerous bruises,
were the injuries he received. He is rendered incapable of
following his precarious method of winning his bread for a
short time ; but we hope he will find friends, as he appears
to be a sober man. At various periods of his life we under-
stand this nocturnal habit has been the source of great un-
easiness to his family, and of personal injury to himself.--
-Vottinyhant Review.

The following letter from Warsaw, dated 2d inst., is
given by the Constitutionnel :—" In obedience to an Impe-
rial Ukase, the authorities in the rural districts of the an-
cient provinces of Poland, now incorporated with Russia,
have made a levy of )oung women, to be sent to the camp
at Wosnesensk, to serve as cooks and washerwomen to the
soldiers. The Ukraine and Podolia have furnished 200.
The exasperation of the parents of these victims is, as may
well be believed, raised to a high pitch, as they cannot but
foresee that their innocent children will be converted into
prostitutes. We know from a certain source that the Em-
peror Nicholas had the intention of restoring to Poland her
ancient institutions, and of placing the kingdom upon the
footing agreed upon at the Congress of Vienna ; but finding
that the Cabinets of France and England did not protest
against the transformation of the palatinates into govern-
ments, he determined to leave matters as they are at pre-
sent. Field Marshal Paskewitsch lately gave a ball on a
day which is observed by the Poles as a strict fast. Remark-
ing the absence of several Polish talks, and being told the
reason, he said, thinking of the Greek Calendar, which is
twelve days behind the Gregorian used by the Poles :
But this is not a fast. We must alter these customs. The
time is not far distant when Russians end the Poles will be
guided by the same Calendar.' This clearly shows the dis-
position of the Emperor to infringe upon the religious free-
dom of the Poles."

FRACAS AT MAIDSTONE.

On Tuesday last an investigation was gone into before
Mr. Pybus, the Mayor, and Messrs. Ellis and Collis, rela-
tive to an assault alleged to have been committed by Cor-
net Routh, of the 16th Lancers, now stationed at the bar-
racks in that town. The circumstances, as detailed in the
evidence of the complainant, Mr. Scherman, of the Maid-
stone bazaar, were as follow :—On Thursday evening, the
10th inst., Cornet Routh and his brother attended the
bazaar, and after remaining for some time and behaving
themselves uncivilly, they were asked either to buy some-
thing or put a sixpence in the retie. This they refused,
and went to the door, where they took up their post,
calling out " Walk in, ladies and gentlemen ; only
one shilling each." They were then requested to leave,
on which a scuffle ensued between the parties, in the
course of which Cornet Routh and his brother seized
several fancy tables, and hurled them against the heads
of their opponents. The police were sent for, but be-
fore their arrival the young gentlemen made their exit.
Application was made at the barrack-gates to see the
officer in command to state the case, for the purpose of de-
taining Cornet Routh, who was to embark for India the
following morning ; but the application was treated with
contempt by the sentry at the gate and others, who threat-
ened to make use of their bayonets in case of its being in-
sisted on. A letter from the Mayor, it is understood, was
similarly treated. A warrant was granted on Friday for
the apprehension of Cornet Routh, who had in the mean-
time embarked on board the Thomas Granville, then lying
off Gravesend. The policeman into whose hands it was
put was informed on presenting it that it was totally useless,
as unless he had a " silver oar" no one could be delivered
up. A second application, backed with the authority of
Mayor of Gravesend, was attended with no better suc-
cess. An application at the Horse Guards had, how-
ever the effect of producing the defendant, who received
an order to appear after the ship had arrived in the
Downs. On the part of Cornet Routh it was stated,
that Mr. Scherman and his assistants were the first as-
sailants—that the damage done to the complainant's pro-
perty was done by himself and his men, and that the appli-
cation made at the barrack-gate was made, as applicants
themselves stated, merely to get at Cornet Routh that they
might " serve him out." Mr. Monckton, on the part of
the complainants, animadverted in severe terms on the evi-
dence given by the soldiers stationed at the barrack-gates,
which he contended was influenced by their officers, in whose
presence they dared not speak otherwise than as they wished
them. This assertion called forth, as may be conceived, a
burst of indignation from the officers present. Ultimately
the Magistrates dismissed the case, on the ground of the
very contradictory nature of the evidence for the parties ;
but Cornet Routh was, on leaving the Court, detained on a
warrant for an assault against a Mr. Whitley, whose wife
is connected with Mr. Scherman's establishment. The case
was heard on the following morning, when the defendant
was fined 20s. and 10s. costs.

THE KING'S FOOL AT ADDAPAII.—In the course
of the time we lay at Addapah, the drummer of the King
of Callum-Curaffee came on board. He played on the
drum, which he held under his left arm, by beating it with
a stick in his right hand. Stones, or something of that
nature, were inside the drum, and imparted a sort of hoarse,
buzzing tioise. He accompanied his music with all kinds
of antics and grimaces, and continued uttering in a shrill
voice, " Baturee suffree, baturee suffree, baturee suffree ;
batura yazakei, hatura yazakie—yazakei, yazakei ;" which,
when interpreted, we found meant, " white men go, white
men go, white men go ; white men come, white men come—
they arc come, they are come." We were completely con-
vulsed with laughter at this man's drolleries, and in truth
lie would have proved a very dangerous rival to any Merry-
Andrew at Bartholomew fair. His expression of counte-
nance was extremely ridiculous. His mouth extended from
ear to ear, his lips were much thicker than those of any
other native I had seen, and his eyes appeared to be of an
unequal size ; whlst his nose resembled a bridge, stretching
from one cheek-hone to the other. An automaton soldier
was suddenly shown to him in the midst of his merriment,;
and had a thunderbolt fallen at his feet, he could not have
been more terrified. When the arms and legs of the figure
were put in motion, he fell prostrate on the deck ; sweeping
it with his hands, and then putting them over his head, as if
in the act of throwing sand on it, in token of submission
and respect to the wooden figure before him : and so great
was his terror, that it was some time before he could be
prevaile'l on to rise from his respectful position.—Laird's
Narrative if the last Expedition into Central Afriaa.
IVIISFORTUNE OF HAVING A SALLOW COAI-
rLExioN.—" The French show a marked distinction in
their treatment of us and our good allies," said O'Brien.
"It was strongly instanced this morning. While we
were forcing tho road, a company bad scaled the rocks
above it to dislodge the tirallcurs, who were firing at us
from the heights. A poor fellow of mine, whose com-
plexion is uncommonly swarthy, was wounded in the leg
and fell. Unfortunately two or three retreating French-
men passed accidentally the spot where he was lying, and
mistaking him for a Portuguese sharpshooter, stabbed him
in several places, and flung him over the precipice ; while
they raised his comrade from the ground, placed a knap-
sack under his head, and gave him a drink from a leathern
bottle of excellent tinta, which one of them had slung
across his shoulder. On coming up we found the sufferer
upon the road, and with difficulty he told us how he had
been treated. We of course rendered him some assist-
ance, but Sergeant Corrigan's remarks, as he was binding a
cloth round his fractured leg, turned our condolence into
laughter. "Fhere now,' said he, as he propped the wounded
man against a rock, there you are as snug as if you
were in the barracks of Kilkenny. Didn't I always tell
ye, that yalla face of yours would bring ye into trouble ?
No wonder the French mistook ye for a Portagee. It's
yourself that could travel from Badajos to Giberralthus,
and you're so like a native, the devil a dog would bark
at you the whole way. If you get better, Barney dear,
write for the priest's lines, that you were born at Shannon-
bridge, and ye can paste it on the back of yir knapsack:"..._
The Bivouac, by the author of " Stories of Waterloo."
AGED BEECH.—The great beech-tree in Windsor
Forest is evidently of very great antiquity. It is supposed
to have existed before the Norman Conquest, and is men-
tioned by Camden as " standing on a high hill (Sunning-
hill), and overlooking a vale lying out far and wide, gar-
nished with corn-fields, flourishing with meadows decked
with groves on either side, and watered with the Thames."
According to Jesse, the trunk of this tree measures, at six

feet from the ground, 36 feet round. "It is now," he says,
" protected from injury, and nature seems to be doing her
best towards repairing the damage which its exposure to the
attacks of man and beast had produced. It must once
have been almost hollow ; but the vacuity has now been
nearly filled up. One might almost fancy that liquid wood,
which had afterwards hardened, had been poured into the
tree. The twistings and distortings of this huge substance
have a curious and striking effect ; and one might almost
imagine them to have been produced by a convulsive throe
of nature. There is no bark on this extraneous substance ;
but the surface is smooth, hard, and without any appearance
of decay."
The ancient bell called the " Edward of Westmin-
ster," and afterwards the " Great Tom of Westminster,"
is, it appears, from a very curious article in the Druid's
Magatine, still occasionally heard in this metropolis, for
the identical metal which formed the bell set up by Edward
the First in 1288 in the bell-tower or clock-house fronting.
Westminster Hall, exists in the bell of St. Paul's Cathe-
dral, which is tolled for the death of any member of th•
Royal Family. This appears to have been the gift to St.
Paul's of King William the Third, as The Flying Post of
July 16, 1698, contains the following announcement r—
" His Majesty has been pleased to give the great bell in
th• old steeple opposite to Westminster Hall Gate, to the
Cathedral of St. Paul, and given liberty to the parish to
pull down that ancient steeple which seems to endanger the
neighbouring houses." It appears, however, though stated
to be given, the metal was paid for at the rate of tenpence
per lb., and cost 3851. 17s. 6d. It was removed to St.
Paul's, January 1, 1699, and was re-cast in 1700 and in
1908.

Last week an experimental trial was made in the
river of a newly-invented apparatus for the purpose of
preventing incrustation on the bottoms of the boilers used
in steam-navigation. It is well known that in sea-going
vessels this incrustation is frequently so thick as to prevent
the water from exerting any effect on the bottom of the
boiler, which consequently becomes red hot, and explodes
with great violence. Even when this is not the case the
tear and wear of the boiler, occasioned by the removing
of the incrusting substance, which is often as hard and
compact as stone, tend greatly to increase the expense of
working a steam-vessel. The new invention consists in
placing pipes outside the vessel, under the surface of the
sea, that shall act as reservoirs for the condensed steam,
which is thus cooled by the action of the external water,
and returned to the boiler ; so that, in point of fact, the
contents of the boiler become in a very short period dis-
tilled water. The inventor of this plan is Mr. Syming-
ton, son of the originator of steam-navigation, and well
known for a variety of ingenious discoveries. The vessel
fitted up for the experiment was the City of Londonderry,
belonging to the Dublin Steam-Navigation Company. This
experiment proved the complete success of Mr. Sytnington's
apparatus, and gave great satisfaction to a number of sci-
entific gentlemen and others interested in steam-navigation
who witnessed it.

It is stated, as a proof of the distress of the working
classes in Paris, that the pledges at one of the branch esta-
blishments of the Monte de Piete have, within a few
months, increased from sixty thousand francs a month, the
usual average, to one hundred thousand francs ; and that
the central establishment is obliged to add to its warehouses
in consequence of the immense increase of its deposits.