The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-01 00:00:00

KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS

" LIFE IN LONDON," OR THE ADVENTURES OF A
YOUNG SURGEON.—Yesterday George Eugene lligienzie,
a young medical student, dressed in the first style of fashion,
who was stated to be a son of the late Colonel M'Kenzie,
was brought before Mr. Minnow, the sitting Magistrate,
by police constable Dunbar, 'l' 155, charged with having
been drunk, and creating a disturbance in Scarsdale-terrace,
Kensington, on the previous night.
Mr. Mate, of No. 2, Scarsdale-terrace, stated that the
mother of the defendant had for some time resided at the
adjoining house, where the defendant had been almost
nightly in the practice of coming at a late hour in a state of
inebriation, demanding money from his mother, and, on her
refusing to encourage his extravagance, ill-treating her, and
threatening her life. On a recent occasion he declared he
would blow her brains out if she did not comply with his
demands, and so fearful was she that he would in his
drunken moments carry his threats into execution, that she
had, unknown to the defendant, on Wednesday, left the
house, locking it up, and proceeded no one knew whither.
About cloven o'cloek on that night the defendant came as
usual to thzt house in a state of intoxication, when, finding
it secured against him, he commenced a great disturbance,
descending into the area, and attempting to force an en-
trance by means of the kitchen windoW, the glass of which
he broke, when the neighbourhood becoming alarmed by
his violence he was given into the custody of the police.
Mr. Tucker, of South Molton-street, and the Terrace,
Kensington, stated that he was the owner of the houses in
Scarsdale-terrace, the inmates .of which had frequently
complained to him of the disturbances created by the de-
fendant. On Wednesday Mrs. M'Kenzie called on him,
and earnestly requested he would allow her immediately to
quit the house, her life being in danger from the prisoner's
violence, and she consequently had left, as had been stated
by Mr. Mate.
The defendant, who, during the statements of the wit-
nesses, stood carelessly smoothing his white hat, staring at
them all the time through his spectacles, said he was about
twenty years of age, an declared that what had been stated
against him was "'pun" his honour, " a lie? His mother
was very fond of him, and would let him have anything he

wanted.
Mr. BARLOW said he believed all that had been stated.
His conduct bad been most disgraceful.
He was also fined ss. for being drunk and the amount
of the damage done to the window.
Not being prepared with the cash, he was locked up.

It having been stated that the performers on stringed
instruments live to a greater age than those who play wind-
instruments, a correspondent draws our attention to the
late John Park, oboti-player, who lived to 82 ; his brother,
William Park, also an oboe-player, is still living among us,
and must have seen three score years and ten. Mr. Mar-
riotti, the celebrated trombone-player, is now in his 85th
year, and has not left off puffing yet. We also have,
" walking about in rude health," Mackintosh, the bassoon-
player, than whom no one has exercised his bellows more
and he is upwards of 70. Hyde, the trumpet-player, is
still alive, and very aged. Erskine, the northern oboe-
player, is 80 (or thereabouts), yet he took the oboe primo
part at the Yorkshire Amateur Concerts last year excel-
lently well. So it appears that it is not a little puff that
will blow the wind-instrument birds off their perch.—
MigiPa?
Mr, F, Wilding, of Shetton-fields, near this town,
now in his 105th year, has been actively engaged during
the hay and corn harvest in working in the fields, and taking
his part in all the labours of the harvest men. Few coun-
ties could show such a sample of extreme old age, accom-
panied by so much health, activity, and mental vigour.—
Shretusburty Chronicle,

THE CLOCKMAKE AI4D THE

POLICEMAN.

Yesterday a policeman of the B division was summone«
before the CommissionCrs at the Westminster Court of 13:4-
quests, for the payment of 1/. 10s. for a clock. The plain-
tiff( Mr. Farrier) was an individual of the Sant Slick s2F-
ties, who seemed to think th et blue noses ablunde 1
Westminster as well as in Nova Scotia. Ile wore a to-
nation old blue colt, every button on which was as large to
a dollar, and the sleeves were duplicated as far back as th
cibo;vs. He had an eel-skin wuisicoat, the materials of h$
inexpr,ssibles were indescribable, the front of his shirt wail
done up like lettuces. There was an antarctic bald circle
on his head, and on the rest the hair was cropped like •a
hard brush. He had evidently practised much
the
" soft sawder and human natur ;" but in the present caw)
he had met with his match, for the defendant was Kerry
man, a clas -kid scholar, ,ml, moreover, a policeman. ,
COMNIISSIONIZRDid you get a clock from the pion'
tiff ?—1 did.
I'll never
CommissioNEß—And how will you pay him ?
pay him, your Worship. The clock I have is not the clock
he sold me, but a substitute, and it is worth nothing.
Clockmaker—l sold and delivered the clock on the
4th of July, Sir. It is true I never gave him the real
one, but I gave him the one he has now as a substitute,
to teach him to keep time, and the way to wind up ; end he
was to give me a shilling a week until he had paid down
305., and then I was to take the first clock and leave the
real one with him, which was worth 2/. at least ; but as
for the 30s. ono it was the most regler goer that ever I
seed nowhere.
Policeman—Why I could never get it to go.
Clockinaker WI you were always removing, and you
made the clock go with you whether you had
iy
paid the.reut
or no.—(Laughter.)
Policeman—But it would never strike the time punc-
tually.
Cloekmaker—Why, Lord bless me, I called three or
four times as you were sitting down to your wittles, and tt
looked as if it had just struck dinner time.—(Laughterq
Policeman—That's because 'twas dinner time when Yeti
brought it, and it never stirred hand nor foot since.
Clockmaker—Don't you remember you said you shoula
be glad to pay a shilling a week ?
Policeman—l did ; but you forget the elliptical English
I used upon
that occasion—that was, provided it wee
well, and required winding no more than twice a week.
g
Now, I used to wind your clock every night, and I
wa
none the wiser.
COMMISSIONER—How used you to know when the d"Y:
was approaching ? Policeman—The cock used to roost
and my wife of the fact in his native language.
over the head of my bed, Sir, and used to inform rnyse,_
is still sticking up right before the dresser, and if anY ene.„
of you gentlemen, or any tradesman in the street, shall sal
what it is worth, 1 will pay it on the nail, even if it were 55.,
The clockmaker here went into a long speech in praise or_
the machinery of his timepiece, and the painting outside of
it. He was afraid that the policeman had over-wound it:,
The policeman affirmed that winding was all useless. He
had the best of whip cord, but every time he wound it u?
the neiglits pulled it down again of their own accord. 111
fact it was only fit for the hens to roost on, or the sPiders
to build a rookery in, and whenever he wanted to regulate
it he was obliged to look at the sun first, and then push the
Moreover.
hour hand more or less toward the chimney. The clock
the clock he bought and had to pay for he had never see°
at all, and as for the one he had had u on trial the oviller
was welcome to fetch it away in a wheel-barrow anY ties
lie liked.
The Commissioners thought the Kerryman bad the beet
of the logic, and they decided that the plaintiff had no rig".
to the money. He was therefore left at liberty to fetch n
home in a wheelbarrow, or leave it as a keepsake with
.
defendant, if he thought proper. the

The discovery of a new application of water power'
which is likely to be attended with most imp in this tow.
ortant a
tradesman
conse-
quences, has been lately made by
Like all truly valuable discoveries, it is distinguished talked
for simplicity and efficiency. It consists of a cylinder 2,11'-c,
a piston similar to those employed in a steam-engine*
the cylinder there are two entrance and two discharge
..e
pipes, one of each on either side of the stuffing-box ef the_
piston. The same turn of the cock that admits the wilter
into the one part of the cylinder, opens the discharge PiPe
in the other, and thus a vacuum is formed. To work this,
advantage is taken of the pressure of the Shaw's Water, the
height of the reservoir of which gives it a force of 60Ibs• tO
the inch in the lower parts of the town. A short time Ago
we witnessed an experiment with a cylinder two inches ill
diameter worked with a jet of water of somewhat less than'
quarter of an inch in diameter, and the piston, although
loaded with 1- •,vt., rose and fell 16 times in the minute'
In this case the entrance and discharge pipes were equal :0
size, and the cylinder was placed in a vertical position.
Since then the discoverer has had another model made with
the cylinder laid horizontally, and with the discharge pipes
nearly three times as large as the entrance ones, and by
this means the motion was increased to 26 double strokes
in the minute.—Greenock Adverliser.

STOKUSHILL PL Ica.—This new novel of lqr•
Gore's is certain of becoming an universal favourte, if It•
i
Olt
were only on account of the character of Barnsleys r
Man of Business") daughter—as sweet and gracious !in('
lovely a being as over gave nature's own patent of nobility
to the family of a parvenu. To show the beauty of Iq'r.-
goret's character, it was necessary that she should paps/
through trial and suffering ; and accordingly she has to en-
dure slight—a disappointment in the first bestowal of
her
affections—vicissitudes of fortune, with all the heart-wearing
evils that follow in their train : but Mrs. Gore knows her
vocation too well to allow Margaret Barnsley's history t
end in adversity and spinsterhood ; the curtain does not
fall till we have seen her happy marriage.
We are informed by the owner of a Sr‘nderland
ship recently arrived here, that there were, at tiiis departure',
on the 10th of August, no less than eigl7,ty-two ships, °I
different sizes, building ; and that eve,:y Place at Sunder-
land, and also up the river, where a ship can be conve-
niently laid down and built, is already occupied. Such
a number of ships building at one time in that port wng;
it is said, never before known. It is not only a proof O'
the improvement in the build and qualities of their ships,
but also of an increase of commerce generally, since thesa
ships are not all for the coal, but for other trades also
Brighton Gazette.

_ .
SILVER WATCHES TWO GUINEAS E.
An Assortment of Second-hand Watches, all of them warranted',
and of various sizes, may be selected from, for th• above
T. COX SAVORY'S,
Working Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornbill,
London.
NAIL A pamphlet, containing a detailed list of the prices 'f
Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or
will be forwarded in answer to a,post-paid application.