The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

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certain supply of material. The Gieat Britain was a good
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iron vessels; for, although she lay stranded in Dandruin
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Bay for nearly 12 months, and subjected to a severe strain,
she was ultimately drawn off in safety, and found capable
of efficient repair. Mr. Vernon next drew attention to the
importance of iron in the construction of the screw colliers
which had recently come into use, and which were fur-
nished with a chamber throughout the entire bottom of the
hull for the carrying of water ballast, which could be
pumped in and out, and which was a most economical sub-
stitute for ordinary ballast, He then descried the uses
of iron for flat-bottomed boats intended for river na-vigation,
and particularly the system called " Bourne's Indian
river train," employed on the Ganges sad Indus, where
by convex bows and concave sterns an articulated train
was formed by barges. It was not, however, found
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of ships. Steel would bear a strain of 40 tons per inch, and
the best iron only 20 tons. In practice, however it was not
considered advisable to reduce the
proportion' of steel lower
than two thirds the weight of the iron. There was no ob.
jection in a mechanical point of view to steel when it came
up to the professed standard, but in a commercial point of
view steel was found to be much more costly. The use of
steel was not of course accompanied by any increased in-
ternal, capacity. Mr. Vernon states that the objection to
iron ships, on the ground of fouling at the bottom, and the
derangement of the compasses by the local metallic' attrac-
tion, might be gradually overcome by improved inventions
for coating, and by improved knowledge of appliances to
correct the deviation, Some discussion followed, after
which a vote of thanks was awarded to Mr. Vernon. The
papers which followed were, " On the effects of surface con-
densers on steam boilers,"hyMr,Tek ie
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pool; and "On the meehthaneimcaelmvbenertsilaoteicounpaiendd wo2aerinmsienigveos
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some of the principal engineering
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GENERAL M'CLELLAN.—An admirable life-size
model of this distinguished General, late commander-in-
chief
_af the Federal army, in military costume, has, within
the last few days, been added to Madame Tussaud's Ex-
hibition, in Baker-street, and we doubt not but that most
of the Americans now resid ng in this country will avail
themselves of the opportunity thus afforded to pay a
visit to the historiQal gallery on such an interesting occa-
sion, where likewise is to be seen a model of President
Lincoln,

WESTMINSTER.
TAVERNKEEPERS, AND SINGULAR NOTION OF A Ctrs-
TOMER.—Mr. Benjamin Sims, of 11, Brunswick-street
Clerkenwell, coachbuilder, was charged with wilfully break-
ing a drinking glass, value 6d., at the hous9. of Mr. Foster ,
the Crown Tavern, Tufton-street, Westminster.
John Elbey, a plumber, said he was in the house this
morning at about 7 o'clock, when he heard a glass of porter
called for by the defendant, who then said he would test it.
Immediately after which he heard a smash, and found the
glass broken. He heard defendant admit that he had
broken it. He was not sober at the time.
A policeman proved that he was called to take defendant
and locked him up.
Mr. Am Id—Did he give his name and address?
Policeman—Yes ; correctly, I believe.
Mr. Arnold—Then why lock him up. You ought not to
have done that.

Mr. Foster—He is a perfect stranger to me.
Mr. Arnold—He gave his name and address, and as there
is nothing to show that this was not an accident, he had no
right to be locked up.
Inspector Humphreys, of the B Division—He admitted
to me that he had been guilty of wilful damage under pecu-
liar circumstances.
Mr. Arnold--That is a different matter. What did he
say ?
Inspector Humphreys—On the charge being made, he
said he considered he had a right to break the glass, and
although recommended to pay the amount of damage, he
positively refused, maintaining that he had done no wrong.
Mr. Arnold—What right could he possibly have in
breaking this man's glass ?
Inspector Humphreys—Because it did not hold an im-
perial half pint.
Defendant—lt did not hold even three parts of a half pint.
Some friends of mine had had some ale in similar glasses.
I pointed out to the policeman that it did not hold near the
measure. I was excited, and through that I dropped the
glass. I thought it would abolish the offence if I at once
admitted it.

Inspector Humphreys—I told him that shortness of
measure, even if it were so, would not justify his breaking
up the glass, but he insisted it would.

Mr. Arnold (to defendant)—You are fined Is. and the
value of the glass, or you must suffer three days' imprison-
ment.

Defendant, who said he would not pay, was lacked up.

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THAm E S.

SANGUINARY AFFRAY,—Catherine Sullivan, an Irish-
woman, about 30 years of ago, was brought before Mr.
Leigh, charged with assaulting and w, unding Ellen
Desmond, a young woman, in Blue Anchor-yard, Rose
mary-lane, on the night of Tuesday, the 28th ult.
The husband and son of the prisoner are in custody, and
have been remanded by Mr. Partridge until Wednesday
next. The woman Ellen Desmond was savagely beaten
by the Sullivan family, and struck on the head with a stone
several times. She was grievously wounded, and carried to
the London Hospital, where she has ever since remained.
A certificate of the dangerous condition of the woman
Desmond 14,113 handed to the magistrate.
Francis Kelly, 130 H, said he met with the prisoner last
night, and charged her with being concerned in the outrage
on Mrs. Desmond. She ran away from him, and he pursued
her and took her into custody.
Evidence was given that the Sullivan family beat Mrs.
Desmond in a savage manner, and while the son held her
by the hair of the head, Mrs. Sullivan beat the woman over
the head with a large stone, which Kelly produced.

Mr. Leigh remanded the prisoner.
DEAD DKUNIC ON JAMAICA RIIM.—An. Irish labourer,
who gave the name of John Howard, but who called him-
self Michael Donovan, last night was brought before Mr.
Leigh, charged with being drunk and incapable.
Payne, a constable in the service of the East and West
India Dock Company, said the prisoner was engaged in de-
livering a cargo of rum from a West Indian ship yesterday.
Some of the casks were leaky, and the prisoner and other
labourers drank immoderately of new Jamaica rum, of great
strength, and fell dead drunk at half-past eleven o'clock in
the morning. The prisoner was taken to the station-house
in a state of complete insensibility, and was attended by a
medical man. The prisoner dislodged a quantity of rum
from his stomach, and was nearly dead.
Mr. Leigh—Where has the prisoner been all night ?
Payne —ln the station-house.
Mr. Leigh—He must not be employed again in the dock.
Payne—No sir, he will not.
The prisoner—The rhum, yer honour, took an effect upon
me ; shure, the smell of it kilt ma quite.
Mr. Leigh said the prisoner had suffered for his folly,
and dismissed him.

FRIGHTFUL DEATH BY FALLING DOWN A COAL
PIT.—On Mon±,y last Mr. Coroner Swanu bell an
inquest at New Eastwood, Notts, on the body of a youth
named Nillard Taylor, who was employed in one of Messrs.
Barber and Walker's coal pits. Oa Friday evening he was
riding down an incline with two companions. The works
had been stopped for the night, and it was supposed that
the pit shaft was protected by an iron fence. It appeared,
however, that the banksman had neglected his duty, and
as the train arrived at the end of the gangway the waggon
in which the deceased was riding was thrown down the
shaft. His two companions managed to save theinselvhe
es
of
by jumping out, but the deceased fell to the bottom
pit and was picked up in a shocking condition. The juryt
returned a verdict of accidental death.

"Agreeably to our rules, the body ought to be
burnt and the ashes given to the Ganges. The
thing is simple enough in itself, and, as it in-
fringes no moral or physical law, we certainly can-
not believe the wisdom and intelligence of the land
would oppose our acting as our religion directs.
"Besides, the belief dal) religionists is that no
funeral is hallowed unless a priest, or, in his ab-
sence, a layman of the religion of the deceased
officiates at his obsequies. Now, it is not competent
to a Christian minister to afford the rights of burial
to her Highness, and we, on our part, cannot render
any assistance if the remains are to be buried, It
is hard, then, her Highness should be deprived of
the offices the meanest claim and receive through-
out the civilised globe, and that we should be re-
fused the consolation of discharging the Etst sad
duty for our mistress that is the right of all, and
that is not in the power of his Highness the Maha-
rajah, or any other Christian, to pay.
" Her Highness was particularly careful about
everything relating to caste; indeed, so much so,
that up to her demise she refused to eat when his
Highness the Maharajah happened to be on the
same carpet with herself, and, so that she might
not be compromised, had a separate establishment
of Indians, who attended to her table end every-
thing connected with it.
In asking to dispose of her Highness's remains
according to our religion, then, we feel we are ful-
filling her Highness's wishes, and are satisfied, had
she known her dissolution was at hand, she would
have left definite instructions for the disposal of
her body after the forms of the Sikh religion.
" Reiterating our protest in the name of the
friends and relations of her Highness the Maha-
ranee, of the Sikhs in general, both here and abroad,
and in the interests of civil and religions liberty,
" We have the honour to be, sir,
" Your very obedient servants,
"UTCHEEL SINGH, Sageerdar,
"KISHEN SINGH, Khutry.
" 16, Craven-terrace, Lancaster-gate,
Bayswater, Aug. 4."