The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-01 00:00:00

Per Quarter.
Abingdon....--.

S. to S.
22 30

E. to 11.

Ando-ver

Birmingham--.
Bridport

16 22
26 30
20 25
26 30
20 30
23 26
22 29
28 34
20 26
22 29
20 27
20 28
28 32
20 24
32 32
17 28
20 25
22 26
21 22
30 32

- 33

Cirencester
Faringdon-
Guildford
Hereford •

32 io
- 46
- 46

- 40

Highwortli
Maidenhead
Monmouth—„,
Reading
Salisbury

- 56
34 44
3t 40
:33 42
41 46
- 42
- 46
- 40

34 39

35 -

Southampton
Stroud .

Tewkesbury .—.—
Uxbridge . _
Wantage---.
Warminster
Windsor--

40 44
32 52
30 40

28 12
24 34
27 34

- 42

33 42
36 40

33 48

Worcester,-...

53 56

32 :',6

40 48

THE RIVER.—The thaw has now lasted three
days, but the weather is so cold, and the ice on the river so
thick, that there is very little diminution in quantity, and the
navigation still remains almost entirely suspended. One ship
was hauled out of the London Dock on Tuesday morning ;
with great difficulty she made her way through the ice as far
as Barking, in twenty. four hours, and by great exertion was
enabled to leave the river yesterday. Title Albion steamer,
after being locked up in the ice at Lireehouse for three days,
came up the pool about the period of low water, when the
stream was comparatively clear. The flood-tide brought up in
the afternoon large masses of floating ice and snow ; some-
times blocking up the river from side to side. A few vessels,
and among others two Irish traders, shifted from the lower
to the upper pool, when the tide first began to make up,
and were frequently exposed to great danger, the fields
of ice pressing against them, and driving them towards
the tiers. One vessel, a schooner, imbedded in ice, with her
sails backing and filling, was driven against the outside vessel
of a tier of colliers, lying near Prince's stairs, Rotherhithe, and
some damage was done to both vessels. One ship, in endea
vouring to bring up with her anchors, was unable to do so,
owing to their sticking fast in the ice, and it was oily by the
seamen getting into the ship's boat, and breaking the ice,
when the anchors went down, that the vessel was saved from
being carried against London-bridge. There are so many
vessels waiting to go out, and others to discharge, that the
owners, masters, and seamen are all anxious to get under weigh,
although the risk of doing so, in the present state of the River,
is very great. The Thames, below Greenwich, presents a
dreadful appearance ; enormous blocks of ice and snow are
floating about, doing much injury to the shipping. The damage
done to the numerous tiers of vessels and steamers going adrift
at Deptford, yesterday week, is estimated at 40,0001.
A hostile meeting took place a few days ago be-
tween two young English officers at St. Omer, and the ball
of one of the combatants penetrated the thigh of the other.
A judicial investigation has been commenced with regard to
this affair of honour, which, however, is said to have been con-
ducted quite en regle. One of the seconds has been arrested.
—Gallignani.

A very strong apprehension of serious accidents
was yesterday excited in the Clapham-road, but all mischief
was prevented by the intrepid conduct of an individual. As
Mrs. Ball's (of Fire-proof house, Clapham-road) carriage
was waiting for her at her door, the spirited horses took
fright, and ran off at full speed towards Kennington-common.
As they were passing Mr. Tullet's, the respected landlord of
the Greyhound, at Kennington, the hostler, who was standing
near the door, with great intrepidity seized the rein of the
near horse and succeeded in stopping the carriage without any
injury having been done. Mrs. Ball, who was within a minute
of stepping into the carriage when the horses ran off, on being
informed of the manner in which all damage had been pre-
vented, rewarded the hostler with a sovereign.
As a proof of the extreme cold produced by miming
snow and salt together, and its injurious effect on animal life,
we may mention a circumstance which happened within our
own observation. A young man who was ignorant of the very
low temperature produced by what chemists call the "freezing
mixture," undertook for a trifling wager to hold his hand in a
basin full of snow and salt for fifteen minutes. He won the
wager, but at the expense of his hand. It was so paralysed
as to remain powerless ever after.—Bolton Free Press.
MUSICAL INVENTION.-Mr. Chipp, the eminent
performer on the kettle-drums, has recently introduced an in-
vention by which those powerful auxiliaries to a full orchestra
are rendered much more manageable to the player, and
brought nearer to musical accuracy. The improvement con-
sists in a series of ribs of iron, extending from the screws by
which the drum-head was heretofore tightened, to the bottom
of the copper vessel forming the drum. These ribs, whiCh
do not touch the drum, and consequently cause no un-
pleasant vibration, are attached at the bottom to a ring of
iron, connected with the tripod that supports the drum.
The ring is acted upon in a way we have not room to
explain, by a lever worked by an endless screw and
universal joint. The performer by this contrivance has
the power, by turning a handle, to bring into tension,
or to slacken, at one operation, the parchment-head of
the drum, and thus with facility arid dispatch, to change his
drums from one key to another. Should the inequalities of
the parchment, or any other cause, render it necessary, he
still can tune his drums by screws on the old principle, which
remain attached to the ribs of iron, and can be used to tighten
or slacken the skins at any point. One great merit of the
invention is, that while the player is afforded the means of
adjusting his instrument with promptitude and certainty, what-
ever change of key the composer may hare directed, the
audience are not annoyed by hearing the rattling of the
spanners. by which the screws were turned, nor the pounding
which drummers frequently amuse themselves with before the
commencement of an overture, while trying whether they
have succeeded inattaining the key-note of the compoition.
The tone of the drums is improved by the invention, from the
nuts to receive the screws not being attached to the circum-
ference of the drum.
There are at present 193 daily and weekly News-
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of 900,000, so that one periodical is published there for every
3,765 inhabitants.