The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

NEW PATENTS.

Moses Poole, of Lincoln's Inn, in the county of Mid-
dlesex, gentleman, for improvements in anchors, and in fric-
tion rollers, to facilitate the lowering and raising such and
other anchors, which friction rollers are applicable to other
purposes. Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad ;
sealed Sept. 15,1836—5 ix months.
William Pringle Green, of Falmouth, in the county of
Cornwall, Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, fore improve-
ments on capstans applicable to ships and other purposes,
and for methods or contrivances to reduce manual labour
at capstans used at mines, which methods or contrivances
strengthening capstans, prevents them being overpowered,
and are improvements on the modes hitherto resorted to
for the performance of work, such capstans, methods, and
contrivances being used conjointly or separately, and for
raisin: ore and men from mines ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836
six months.

John Isaac Hawkins, of Chase Cottage, Hampstead-road,
in the county of Middlesex, civil engineer, for an improve-
ment in the blowing pipe of blast furnaces and forges. Com-
municated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Sept. 28,
1836—six months.

George Crane, of Yniscedywyn Iron Works, near Swan-
sea, Iron-master, for an improvement in the manufacture of
iron ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836—six months.
William Neal Clay, of West Bromwich, in the county of
Stafford, manufacturing chemist, for improvements in the
manufacture of sulphate of soda ; sealed Sept. 28, 1836
six months.

Richard Pearson, of Saint Giles, Oxford, organist of
Carfax Church, Oxford, for certain improvements in drags
or apparatus for retarding carriages ; sealed Sept. 28,
1836—six months.

John Ledyard Phillips, of Melksham, in the county of
Wilts, cloth manufacturer, for an improvement in the ma-
nufacture of woollen cloths ; sealed Oct. 4, 1836—two
months.

James White, of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, en-
gineer, for certain improvements on railways ; sealed Oct
4, 1836—six months.

Charles William Stone, of Finchley, in the county of
Middlesex, mechanic, for improvements in harness for weav-
ing purposes, and in the apparatus for making the same.
Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Oct.
4, 1836—six months. . .

Henry Huntly Mohun, of Walworth, in the county of
Surrey, doctor in medicine, for improvements in the manu-
facture of fuel ; sealed Oct. 4, 1836—six months.
Samuel Tonkin Jones, of Manchester, in the county Pa-
latine of Lancaster, merchant, for certain improvements in
the tanning of hides and skins ; sealed Oct. 6, 1836—six
months.

Miles Berry, of No. 66, Chancery-lane, in the parish of
St. Andrew, Holborn, in the county of Middlesex, mecha-
nical draftsmen, for certain improvements in machinery or
apparatus for making or manufacturing metal screws ; sealed
Oct. 6, 1836—six months.
John Sharp, of the borough of Dundee, in the county of
Forfar, in North Britain, flax-spinner, for certain machinery
for converting ropes into tow, and certain improvements in
certain machinery for preparing hemp or flax for spinning,
part of which improvements are also applicable to the pre-
paring of cotton, wool, and silk for spinning ; sealed Oct. 8,
1836—six months.

Henry Scott, junior, and Robert Stephen Oliver, hatters,
both of the city of Edinburgh, for a certain improvement or
improvements in the manufacture of hats, caps, and bonnets.
Communicated by a foreigner residing abrOad ; sealed Oct.
13, 1836—six months.
Frederick Benjamin Gesthner, of Birmingham, in the
county of Warwick, brass-founder, for improvements appli-
cable to the drawing or winding up of window and other
roller-blinds or maps, which improvements are also applicable
to other useful purposes ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months.
John Hemming, of Edward-street, Portman-square, in
the county of Middlesex, gentleman, for improvements in the
manufacture of white lead ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months.
Thomas Lutwyche, of Liverpool, in the county palatine
of Lancaster, manufacturing chemist, for certain improve-
ments in the construction of apparatus used in the decom-
position of common salt, and in the mode or method of work-
ing or using the same ; sealed Oct. 13, 1836—six months.
John Ruthven, of Edinburgh, for improvements in the
formation of rails or rods for making railways, and in the
method of fixing or joining them ; sealed Oct. 18, 1836
six months.
Charles Pierre Devaux, of Fenchurch-street, in the city
London, merchant, for a new or improved apparatus for pre-
venting the explosion of boilers or generators of steam.
Communicated by a foreigner residing abroad; sealed Oct.
13, 1836—six months.
John Joseph Charles Sheridan, of Peckham, in the county
of Surrey, chemist, for certain improvements in the several
processes of saccharine, vinous, and acetous fermentation ;
sealed Oct. 20, 1836—six months.

William Bridges Adams, of Brecknock-crescent, Camden-
town, in the county of Middlesex, coach-maker, for certain
improvements in wheel carriages ; sealed Oct. 20, 1836
six months.

Christopher Nickels, of Guildford-street, Lambeth, in the
county of Surrey, manufacturer of caoutchouc, for improve-
ments in preparing and manufacturing caoutchouc, appli-
cable to various useful purposes. Communicated partly by
a foreigner residing abroad ; sealed Oct. 24, 1836—six
months.

An attempt at robbery took place at Sandon, Herts,
in the house of Mr. Adams, grocer, on Tuesday night, be-
tween twelve and one o'clock. Mr. Adams, some time
after he had been in-bed, indistinctly hearing some persons
softly moving in the house, and then trying to open his
sleeping-room door, got out of bed and opened it, suspect-
ing it was his daughter. Three ruffians stood on the stair-
case immediately opposite, one of whom he thought he
heard say, " D—n you, you are the villain we want," and
instantly struck him with a plough coulter, repeating the
blow ten times, chiefly on the head, as if their only inten-
tion was to murder him. He asked what they wanted?
" Your money," was the reply. He then said, "Do not
use me thus, and I will give what I have, but I paid it all
away in the evening except two half crowns and some six-
pences." " You lie," was the reply. He repeated that
what he had told them was true. " Have you any sove-
reigns ?" was the next question. " No, not one," replied
Mr. Adams, and repeated again what money he had. His
daughter entered the room in her night-dress, and the ap-
prentice rushed out of the house to procure assistance.
Miss Adams then laid hold of the man who had her father
down, and begged of him to desist, saying she would give
him all she had. Immediately she received a blow on the
face and arm, and the men knowing that one of the family
had escaped to give an alarm, and having obtained the
cash-box, they made off, but were met at the door by a
Mr. Cannon, whom the apprentice had fetched. " D--n
you," said one of them, " what do you mean ?" Cannon
said, " I will let you know," and immediately struck him
a blow on the temple, which occasioned a considerable
flow of blood. The cash-box was dropped in the struggle,
and the fellows escaped. Three men have since been ap-
prehended, one of them having a severe wound on the tem-
ple, is supposed to be the villiap struck by Cannon....
County Chronicle.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 7.
TAYLOR V. MAYO.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for a rule to show
cause why the verdict which bad been given for the plaintiff
in this case should not be set aside and a new trial granted.
The ground on which he rested his motion was, that the
damages were excessive. He had also affidavits relieving
the defendant from the censure which the trial bad appeared
to cast on his conduct. This was an action for criminal
conversation. It was tried before Mr. Justice Littledale
at Gloucester, when the plaintiff made out his case in a
way as little calling for large damages as could be con-
ceived. The marriage was proved to have taken place in
1832, the plaintiff being a traveller for a house at Chelten-
ham, and the only person to prove it and to identify the
parties was the parish clerk, whose evidence went to esta-
blish both points. Nothing, therefore, was known of the
parties before the marriage ; and as to the way in which
they lived after it had taken place the person in whose house
they had for some time lodged was the only Witness. The
husband and wife resided at Cheltenham ; the defendant
was proved to have had an acquaintance with the wife at a
town in the north of England. There was not one tittle of
evidence to show how he had become acquainted with her,
that he had violated any ties of friendship or hospitality, or
even that he knew the woman to have been a married
woman. There was, therefore, nothing which in the least
degree could justify the Jury in giving large damages ; yet
the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 1001.
damages.
The COURT would speak to Mr. Justice Littledale before
granting the rule.