The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-29 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS-
TOM-HOUSE, DEC. 28.
The Wharfinger, Cosens, from Rotterdam; London, Pear-
son, Rotterdam; Caledonia, Whittingham, Ilamburgh ; Alk-
maar, Heath, Rotterdam; Paley, Embleton, Rotterdam;
Osprey, Berry, Amsterdam.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.
The Manchester, M'Leod, for Lisbon ; Abel Gower, Hen-
derson, Gibraltar; Breadalbane, Morris, St. Andrew's; Hus.
kisson, Marr, Jamaica; Calpe, Wrightson, Lisbon, Cadiz,
and Gibraltar ; President, Chadwick, New York.
CLEARED. OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.
The Queen Adelaide, Murray, for Havre ; Adrina, Jones,
Berbice; Manchester, M'Leod, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar.

On Friday last, at a meeting of the church-wardens
and :overseers of the borough of Kidderminster, held in
the vestry, a rate for the relief of the poor was made at Bs.
in the pound. This is the first rate under the new Poor-
law Act.—Worcester Herald, _

Mr. O'Connell arrived in Limerick on Thursday
evening in a chaise and four, stopped to change horses, and
then proceeded to Rathkeale, where he remained same night
with his son-in-law, Mr. French, Stipendiary Magistrate,
and arrived at Darrynane yesterday.—Limerick Chronicle,
of Saturday.
Miss Cottell, of Bath, who a few days ago died of
a fever at Wells, took a dislike to food early in life, and
took no nourishment for the last twenty years before her
death, but a small quantity of milk and water twice a-day.

LONGFORD ELECTION.—There is, we repeat it,
no ground whatever for the vaunting of the Orangemen.
We have made the most minute inquiries into the circum-
stances of the election, and we have not the slightest hesita-
tion in announcing the approaching victory. The people of
Longford have resolved to emancipate themselves from the
Orange Oligarchy of the County ; and we shall be much
surprised, indeed, to find that the Edgeworthstown people
will be found wanting to themselves on this occasion. On
Tuesday we shall have the first day's triumph to record, and
this day week we shall have to declare the return of Luke
White, Lieutenant of Longford, as the Member for that
county.—Dublin Evening Post.
Yesterday morning, about ten minutes after eight, a
fire broke out in the workshops of Mr. Robert Anderson,
carpenter, George's-place, Copenhagen-fields ; and such was
its fury, that before the flames were extinguished, although
the engines were soon on the ground, anda good supply of
water obtained, a great portion of the building was con-
sumed, and all the contents destroyed.
If, instead of the dangerous practice of throwing the
snow (sometimes accompanied by pieces of slates and tiles)
into the streets, persons would merely clear the gutters, and
lay their contents upon the shelving roofs of their houses, the
whole would gradually thaw without any inconvenience.
The Commissioners of Police have made arrange-
ments for the purpose of warming the cells of the various
station-houses by'steam apparatus—that of the G division in
Rosoman-street, Clerkenwell, has already been completed.
A Liverpool Paper has made the following curious
estimate of the votes of the licensed victuallers of that bo-
rough at the last general election :—Out of 1,240 of that
body 206 voted for Tories, and 194 for Reformers ; whilst
102, who were qualified, did not vote owing to absence,
sickness, &c., and 738 were disqualified. It was further
found that 24 publicans who voted for Reformers in 1835
voted for Tories in 1836, and that the 13 who voted for
Tories in 1835 gave their suffrages to Reformers in 1836.
MANGLING A FRENCIIM AN.—A very testy-looking
Frenchman, bearing a most sinister-looking squint, and an
"os frontis" that Lawrence would certainly have classed
with that of the Pongo of Southern Africa, summoned a
poor old dame named Harrison for 10s. 3d. It almost
required an interpreter to make out what the French-
man spluttered forth.—Commissioner : What have you
summoned this poor woman for, Sir ?—Plaintiff Ah, ah
—I shall so tell you next presently—she mangle me, mangle
me long time.—(Laughter.) Ver-good--she mangle and a
mangle, Monsieur, till me have no back left to my
clothes. Attendez, Monsieur—me send de Madame my
mangle for de clothes—yen me go for clothes de Madame
say—" Oh, oh, Monsieur, all a'your clothes been a
fetch from my mangle." Peste me say, where your
mangle take my clothes—what for de dcbble—ah, ah—
where my clothes you Madame ?—(Considerable laugh-
ter.)—Commissioner : Do stop, Sir. Mrs. Harrison, we
must trouble you to explain this matter, or we shall be kept
here all the day.—Defendant : Sir, the plaintiff washed his
own linen, and was in the habit of bringing it to me to be
mangled. It so happened that the last parcel he brought
to me was, by accident, delivered to some 'person in mis-
take, and I never could trace where the things went to.
After a vast deal of annoyance, he sent me :bill which I
have. Commissioner—Hand it up. • The following items
were read :—" three shirts, 24d., six caps for de night, 36d.
—(Laughter)—two coats for de waiste, 24d., and 20 feet
for de stockers, 39d.—a1l a' which make a 123 d." You
admit you lost these valuable commodities then, said Mr.
Dubois, addressing the defendant?—Yes, Sir, she replied,
but they were all rags, and not fit to be seen ; he has
charged too much. The Jury, after a short consideration,
decided that the Frenchman's claim was good, and adjudg-
ing the old mangler to pay Is. per month. On learning
the length of time allowed to the defendant, the plaintiff
wcn:: into a most magnificent rage—the chattering of his
teeth, and the terrible obliquity of vision, which rendered
it impossible to say who he was addressing, formed a scene
of the most awfully ludicrous character. On quitting the
Court lie said, " Ah, ab, I be revenge—l be revenge ; me
take a you Defeat de In cuirasse ;'" but whether this
threat was addressed to the Commissioners, the Jury, or
the reporter, not even the Court of Conscience could divine.

LIGHT.—The Italian natural philosopher Melloni
has recently invented a mode of depriving the rays of light
of caloric, which seems to open the way to great discove-
ries respecting the nature of light, when thus insulated.
his method is very simple : he passes the sun's rays thronli
a combination of transparent bodies (water, and a particular
sort of glass-coloured green with oxide of copper), which
bodies absorb all the caloric, and but little of the light.
The light thus separated from its caloric is very yellow,
with a green tinge ; and when so concentrated by lenses as
to be as bright as the direct ray, the most delicate ther-
mometer does not show the smallest degree of warmth. It
has long been known that the prism, besides dividing the
ray into its several pencils of colours, separated at one end
of the spectrum a pencil of heat-makinc, rays, and the other
a pencil of chemically-acting rays, both perceptible only by
their effect; but this mode of severing the heat from. the
light offered little means of experimenting upon the una-
dulterated light, of which Melloni's discovery seems to give
the philosopher as complete command as he has of the gasses,
&c.—.4thenalan.