The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-15 00:00:00

Torr" were clearly branded on both ends of the cask : " 230"
was scratched near the bung ; it was firmly bunged up, but
empty, and appearcd never to have contained oil; it was a
little chafed, as if with ice, on the bilge ; was greatly bleached
with the sea, and had many barnacles upon it, as if it had been
some time in the water. North-east winds had prevailed there
three weeks before it was picked up.—FJull Observer.
CURIOUS IMPROVEMENT IN CHRONOMETERS.
—Chronometers constructed with glass balance-springs, in-
stead of the old metallic ones, are now in course of trial at the
Royal Observatory. On comparing the glass with the metallic
springs, when the temperatures were raised from 32 deg. to 100
deg., it was found that while the loss in twenty-four hours
in the gold spring was eight minutes four seconds, that of
steel six minutes twenty-five seconds, and that of palladium
two minutes thirty-one seconds, that of a glass spring was only
forty seconds. These differences are described by the inven-
tors principally to the different degrees in which the substances
had their elasticity reduced by an increase of temperature.
As glass was thus found to suffer much smaller loss of elas-
ticity by this cause than metals, they proceeded to construct
a glass balance suited to the correction of the small error still
occasioned by this cause, employing a glass disc for this pur-
pose. The compensation being completed, they next tested
the isocronism (uniformity of movement) of the glass spring,
and it proved to be as perfect as any metallic spring. In com-
mon with all other instruments of the same kind they have
shown a disposition to progressive acceleration, the cause of
which is but little known, but which appears to be influenced
by the action of the air.
THE ST. SIMONIANS.—Letters from Alexandria
state that nearly all the St. Simonians who accompanied
Father Enfantin into Egypt have disappeared. There were
20 in number, of whom one has died of some ordinary disease,
five have been carried off. by the plague, four have turned Ma-
hometans, another has disappeared, nobody knows how, and
three have left Egypt for other parts of the East. One of
these last, although he cannot speak a word of Arabic, and has
not assumed the turban, has had the courage to put himself at
the head of a caravan of pilgrims from the West, and gone to
Mecca; but, as the caravan had net returned, his fate was not
known. The rest have found employment in superintending
the roads, the hospitals, and in giving public instruction. Fa-
ther Enfantin alone remains unoccupied ; he is sustained
be his brethren, and particularly by Solyrnan •Pacha (Colonel
S:2lves.)
AN EXPERIMENT DEFEATED.--The late Dr.
Beddoes had made the diseases of females his peculiar study,
and observed that nervous affections were a fruitful source of

illness. This nervousness, he was convinced, had its origin in
certain electrical changes, and that these changes were accele-
rated by a practice which in his day, and lie feared it had not
diminished, was very prevalent, that of drinking strong green
tea. To demonstrate this to his patients, and considering that
to preserve human life was an object that would excuse cruelty
to frogs, he determined upon keeping a number of frogs in a
pond of green tea, and exhibiting to his patients the nervous
symptoms tact would shortly be induced. To his friend, Mr.
Ashwell, of Colebrooke Dale, he wrote, requesting him to
procure 10,000 frogs; which was done: they were packed in
a sugar hogshead, and with other packages were forwarded
to Bristol. The other packages, containing ironmongery,
required to be raised by a crane, and as there was no differ-
ence in the appearance of the packages, when the hogshead
containing the frogs was hoisted, it flew up to the top of the
crane, broke, and out in a moment, upon the quay of Bristol,
leaped 10,000 frogs ! This was in the agitated period of the
French Revolution, and the Doctor had entered upon the
stormy discussions of the day with all the zeal of an interested
partisan. No sooner, then, had the frogs leaped out, than
the mob, little dreaming of the connection between frogs and
green tea, electricity and nervousness, jumped to the conclu-
sion that, because the Doctor wanted frogs, he must have
Frenchmen in his house, and that these Frenchmen were
bloody-minded revolutionary Jacobins, who had come over to
kill the King and upset the Government. They determined
to prevent that mischief by setting fire to Dr. Beddoes's house,
a determination which it required all the eloquence of another
physician to prevent.
The Russian Prince Sabanoff arrived at. Mivart's
Hotel yesterday morning, from Boulogne-sur Mer.
VIENNA, SEPTEMBER 3.—Letters from Bucharest
announce that the evacuation of Silistria by the Russians has
commenced, and will soon be completed.—Frankfort Paper,
Sept. 11.
Our Portsmouth Correspondent this morning com-
municates the following melancholy intelligence :—" We have
just received intelligence that the Lord- William Bentinck,
which, some time since, conveyed convicts to Sydney, and
there took in 400 troops we believe of the 4th Regiment of
Foot, for Bombay, is lost on her passage to that plr.ce, and we
fear few, if any, of those who were on board saved."—Salis-
bury Herald of Saturday.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—On account of the
sudden and early equinoctial gales, and the extreme coldness
of the mornings and evenings, the beasts and birds belonging
to the Zoological Gardens, in the Regent's Park, have been
removed from out of their cages, which were in the open space
of the gardens, and arc now placed for the winter season in
the extensive and commodious Menagerie, 'which is so pro-
perly heated according to the various animals' constitutions by
steam-pipes. The cleanly manner in which all the animals
are kept, is the universal admiration of the numerous visitors.
The stupendous giraffes are kept closely shut up by themselves
—these inoffensive animals being of the most delicate descrip-
tion. One of the giraffes belonging to the Surrey Zoological
Gardens is now exhibiting at Manchester, where it is likely to
reap a bountiful harvest for the proprietor. In imitation of
several other provincial towns, a project for establishing Zoo-
logical Gardens has been set on foot in that metropolis of the
manufacturing counties.
Mr. Webster, Superintendent of Factories under
the Act, preferred complaints before Coffin, Esq., Ma-
gistrate of Llandaff, on Tuesday last, against Thomas Evans,
occupier of the factory of Llandaff, for overworking children
employed by bins, for not keeping time books or registers, and
not having certificates of ages, when he was convicted; the
Magistrate intimating, that unless the defects be immediately
remedied, or in the event of a repetition of any of tho of-
fences, the utmost amount of penalties would be inflicted.—
Carnarvon Herald.

BARNET FAlR.—There was an immense quantity
of cattle at this fair-10,000 beasts from Scotland, 6,000
from North and South Wales, 2,000 Devorts and Herefords,
and 2,000 other sorts. Business was done on the first day at

1/. in 101. higher than last year, and it is considered that two-
thirds were sold. The second day was wet, and dealers were
obliged to take from 10 to 15 per cent. leas. There were some
pens of sheep, but few were sold. The horses were of a mid-
dling sort, and the Welch dealers asked high prices for any-
thing useful.
THE MURDER AT WOODHOUSE, LINCOLN.
An inquest was held on Monday last, at Woodhouse, before
Mr. John Gregory, on the body of Thomas Burtou. James
Angrave examined :—I, Wm. Johnson, Thomas Biggs, and
deceased, were mowing in a field of barley belonging to my
father on Saturday, Sept. 2, and after we had partaken of bread
and cheese and ale together, John said he wanted more ale,
it well
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backe as
There, you may and would go and fetch some. I advised him not to do so, but
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to go on with his work ; he, however, went, and after an hour's
said,
absence, returned quitethink tipsy,
have—you are such a d—d fellow for work." He then at-
tempted t
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ing, finding that lie was still very tipsy, and using his scythe
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very unskilfully, I told him to stand back. Immediately after
I heard him say to Biggs (a youth of 17) " Mow it up clean,"
to which Biggs replied, " You don't point your's so well." In
a moment
Johnson flew at Biggs, knocked hag down, and
throwing himself upon him said. " I)—n your eyes I I'll do
you now !" Deceased went up to them, and, trying to pull
Johnson off, was pulled down by him close to Biggs, when John-
son, who was a powerful man, beat them both most violently about
the head and face. Being afraid he would have killed them,
I rot►t
up and struck Johnson on the head with the scythe-
stick; I then pulled him off Biggs, and held him down. On
his promising to behave well, I let him get up, but, as soon as
he was up, he sprang towards Biggs's scythe, seized it, and
immediately struck deceased with it again with all his might
on the back of his left thigh. Burton said, " Will, you have
killed me ; I shall die l" He got up and walked to the hedge
sick, where lie fell, the blood flowing in a stream. I said to
Johnson, " You've killed Burton." He replied, " D—n
you I I'll do for you al!, or else I'll fetch my brother Harry
and kill you all together." Johnson then struck at me with
the scythe, which would have cut both my legs had not Biggs
laid hold of his arms. Biggs let to of him and ran away.
lie immediately struck at me with the scythe, but I at the
same moment struck him on the head, which knocked him
down, and in falling he drew the scythe across my hip, which
inflicted a wound in the flesh. Johnson lived with my father
some time since last Martlernas, and, when sober, was a good
workman, and conducted himself with propriety, but when
drunk, quarrelsome and revengeful. Verdict—. Wilful mur-
der against William Johnson."—Lincoln Gazette.
The Tories have lately been at considerable pains to
get up an agitation in different parts of the country, among
the working. classes. It is remarkable, however, that they
never venture to call a public meeting, for the discussion of
any p
olirical question of interest. They collect at the most
two or three hundred persons in a room ; the ale and tobacco
circulate, and sometimes a dinner is provided. There are
only one or to o topics on which the Tory orators at these
meetings venture to be eloquent—the cruelty of the New Poor
Law, which, supposing to be had, they dishonestly attribute
to the Whigs alone.—and abuse of 111 r. O'Connell. This is
the mode in which the Tories play their favourite game of
humbuy,