The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-10 00:00:00

LONDON SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 10 1849

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.

did so. The other formalities having been gone
through, the Recorder invited the Judges to the
banquet in the Guildhall this evenirg.
The Lord Mayor, the late Lord Mayor, the
Recorder, and the officers of the City then withdrew;
and passing through the Courts, the Lord Mayor,
through the Recorder, invited the Judges to the
banquet.
The procession then returned to the City in the
same order as in its coming.

in the midst of which his Excellency resumed his seat.)
The LORD MAYOR gave " Lord John Russell and
her Majesty's Ministers."—(Cheers.)
Lord JoliN RUSSELL rose, in the name of his col-
leagues and himself, to thank;the Lord Mayor andthat
distinguished company for the honour which had just
been conferred upon them. It would be, as it always
had been, their endeavour to show themselves worthy
of the confidence of their country, by meeting with
vigour every difficulty in which they might be placed,
and combatting it at least with resolution and honest
intentions, if not with superior ability.—(Hear,
hear.) He felt happy that it was his let to serve his
country during a period of profound peace; and he
trusted that the expressions of friendship and sympa-
thy they had just heard from the Ambassador of
the French Republic would prove an augury of
the prolonged continuance of that peace.—(Loud
cheering.) They had also the honour of hav-
ing present that evening the Minister of the
United States, and he should only further say, in the
words of the toastmaster, that he pledged him and
the other Foreign Ministers, in " a loving cup and a
hearty welcome."—(Loud cheers.) It was but right
that the force and energy of the young Republic
should, in the cause of peace and of civilisation,
work side by side with the solidity and vigour of
the ancient monarchy.—(Loud cheering.) With
respect to domestic affairs, they had undergone aftlic-
tions, but he trusted that even from those afflictions
they would derive all the advantages with which
Almighty Providence tempered great calamities.—
(Hear, hear) He was happy to say that in many
respects the prospects of the country were improving;
and what with a growing revenue and other favour-
able circumstances, he trusted that many of the diffi-
culties they had to surmount would prove only of a
temporary nature, and that the new mayoralty would,
before its termination, see a wide-spread and general
prosperity.—(Cheers.) They might be assured that,
not only as a Minister, but as having the honour of
representing that great city in Parliament, he felt
deep and lasting gratitude for the manner in which they
had been pleased to receive him.—(Cheers.) Before
resuming his seat, the Noble Lord proposed " The
health of the Lord Mayor," which was drank with
loud plaudits. _ _

The LORD MAYOR briefly returned thanks, and
gave " The Marquis of Salisbury and the House of
Lords."

The Marquis of SALISBURY acknowledged the
compliment.
The next toast was " The Chief Baron and her
Majesty's Judges."
The CHIEF BARON returned thanks.
The LORD MAyoa then proposed, " Lord Palmers-
ton and the House of Commons."—(Loud cheers.)
Lord PALmErtszoN, in acknowledging the toast,
said he thanked the company, in his own name and
in that of one of the noblest assemblies in the world,
for the honour witch had just been conferred upon
them. He could assure them that much as he valued
the good opinion of every class of his fellow-country-
men, there was none which he more highly esteemed
than that of the citizens of this great metropolis. It
must, indeed, be a proud satisfaction to the Members
of the House of Commons to know that they had the
respect and confidence of the great commercial com-
munities of their country.—(Hear, hear.) They
were proud to know that commerce had not in this
country, as in others, had the effect of lowering and
degrading the minds of men with the grovelling
spirit of gain ; but, on the contrary, that it had reno-
vated the character of the nation—(Loud cheers)—
and that our commercial men were foremost in manly
enterprise, high minded patriotism, and splendid
generosity.—(Cheering.) It was this spirit which
had always marked the conduct of the city of Lon-
don, which had made its citizens, whenever danger
approached, equal to the occasion and the emergency,
and which had earned for it the approbation, not only
of their own country, but of the whole civilised
world.—(Cheers.) In conclusion, the Noble Viscount
again thanked the Lord Mayor and the company for
the honour they had conferred upon the great as-
sembly of which he was a member.
Lord PALMERSTON, soon after, again rose, and in
highly complimentary terms g " The health of
the Lady Mayoress," for which the LORD MAYOR
returned thanks.

The LORD MAYoR then proposed " The Attorney-
General and the Bar of England."
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL returned thanks.

The LORD MAYOR next gave " The Representa-
tives of the City of London in the House of Com-
mons."

Mr. MASTERMAN acknowledged the compliment.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed " The Health of Mr.
Alderman and Sheriff Lawrence, and Mr. Sheriff
Nicoll."—(Cheers.) _ _

Mr. Alderman and Sheriff LAWRENCE returned
;hanks.

The LORD MAYOR gave " The Health of Alderman
Sir John Key and the Magistrates of the City of
London."
Sir Jolts KEY returned thanks.

The company then retired to the Council•chamber
and other apartments, where coffee was served, and
where a dance closed the festivities.

The banquet was supplied by Messrs. Younghus-
band, of Gerard's-hall Tavern, Basing-lane. There
were some complaints made now and then with regard
to the arrangements, but it must, doubtless, be difficult
to meet immediately and at every point the demands
of so vast a company.
Mr. Harker made an efficient toastmaster.

STANZAS TO AN OLD FRIEND.
(From Eliza Cook's Journal)
Old Ocean, once again, thou mayst hear thy lover's
strain
Come mingling with the music of thy deep and fitful
surge;
And my heart could gaily swell, like a merry "marriage-
bell,"
But thy mighty voice subdues it to a low and whis-
pered dirge.
Oh, 'tie thus I ever stand beside thee, dreaming of the
hand
That " holds thee in its hollow," as I look upon thy
breast;
But the thought that makes me dumb, as thy headlong
billows come,
Is a mystery that links me to the Infinite and Blest.
Old Ocean, could I choose, not for sceptres would I lot()
The holy spirit-charm that e'er abideth in thy waves;
Not the fairy dream that tells of amber rocks and rosy
shells,
And dolphin sprites, and mermaid fags, that play in
coral caves.
I woo'd thee long and well ere a worldly shadow fell
Upon this heart, whose lot hath been to feel and know
too much;
As I bent before thy shrine, the strings that were divine
Poured melody of prayer to God upon thy sacred touch.
Dark storms have troubled thee, and care has come to me,
Yet here we are together with affection tried and true;
The same glad flush of red upon my cheek is spread.
And thy unchanging bosom is as bounding and as blue.
Oh, I'll set an emblem up on Devotion's nectar cup,
But it shall not be that ever soft and gentle bird the
dove;
The white gull with its shriek, and its billow-kissing beak,
Shall bo my type of constancy, of purity and love.
Old Ocean, thou hast yet all the beauty that was set
About thee, when I made thee first my worshipped
altar-place;
The pearls upon thy brow are as thick and gleaming now,
As when they dashed in dripping light upon my baby
face.
The murmur of thy notes, around the fishers' boats,
Tells just the same strange ditty that it sung to me of
yore;
The perfume of thy breath, and thy wild and weedy
wreath,
Are flung as fresh as ever on thy pebble-covered shore
And years shall come and go, and thou shalt ebb and
flow
As broad, as deep, as fetterless, as mighty and as
pure ;
Thy waves will still be seen in rich snow-crested sheen,
Ages shall die, but thou and thy proud beauty will
endure.
But she who loves thee so, let few years come and go,
And where will be this thinking brow and warm and
grasping hand?
" Gone, gone," I hear thee say, " forgotten, passed
away ;
And now toil on for Fame, and write thy name upon
my sand."
Lowestoft, September, 1849.

ELIZ.k COOL

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS'
SCHOOLS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—I think that on the day of General Thanks-
giving for the cessation of cholera in this country it
is the especial duty of the class to which I belong,
" commercial travellers," to express our gratitude to
Almighty God for our safe deliverance from that
dire pestilence, exposed as we have been in every
county to its influence, and I think the best way we
can do so is by relieving the children left fatherless
by its ravages, many of whom are now candidates
for admission into this school. Let us then make a
general subscription, throughout the kingdom, to the
funds of the Commercial Travellers' School at the
dinner table on that day in every-commercial room,
and transmit the amount of each room's subscription
to the secretary, to form a " Cholera Thanksgiving
Fund." We shall thus greatly extend the means of that
institution, and receive in return the " thanks of the
fatherless and widow in their affliction." If you will
kindly suggest this in the columns of your paper you
will greatly oblige
AN OLD COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.

THE LATE FIRE AT THE WHITECHArEL BATHS
AND WASH-HOUSES.—The Honourable the East India
Company have contributed 100 guineas in aid of the
funds of the Committee for Promoting the Establish-
ment of Baths and Wash-houses for the Labouring
Classes, towards the completion of the model establish•
meat, Goulston-square, Whitechapel, which building,
unfortunately, was greatly damaged by fire on the night
Of the 29th ultimo.

• A NOVEL PROPOSITION IN
AERONAUTICS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Mr. Gypson, the aeronaut, delivered a lecture on
the above interesting subject at tha Assembly
Rooms, Bedford, on Tuesday evening last. The
lecture was undertaken by Mr. Gypson at the
express solicitation of a number of distin-
guished families of Bedford and its vicinity,
I among whom are no less than six gentlemen
who have ascended with the above celebrated aeronaut
on different occasions. The discourse of the night
was of an entirely historical character, on the origin,
progress, and supposed stationary and permanent
ccnditionality of the science of aerostation. Mr. G.,
in the most eloquent and elaborate style, proceeded to
observe that aerostation, originally derived from the
Greek language, according to the learned Abraham
Rees, D.D., signifit s " I weigh." The science
of weights, in its primary:and proper sense, denotes
the science of weights suspended in the air, but in the
modern application of the term it signifies the art of
navigation through the air, both in the principles and
practice of it. Allusion was then made to the first
rarefied air balloon of Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier
thus :—An organized body, in a state of ignition,
decomposes air, and furnishes chalky (ertrieu3),
mephitic, and inflammable gases. The state of ig-
nition facilitates the union of the electric fluid with
this body of vapour. The heat arising from combus-
tion is concentrated so as by itself to dilate
the heaviest of the gases, and make it spe-
cifically lighter than common air—therefore the
balloon rises. It afterwards falls to the earth,
because the heat is dissipated, the vapours are con-
centrated, and lose a part of their electricity. Mr.
Gypson then entered into a very minute and scientific
detail of the introduction of the first inflammable air
balloons in this country, and the generation of
pure hydrogen gas for the purpose of obtaining the
necessary ascending power. The rationale of the
process, the lecturer observed, seems to be this :
The metals have a strong affinity for oxygen, but not
equally so for hydrogen ; they are not of themselves
sufficiently powerful to effect an union with the
oxygen and a detachment of the hydrogen, but, by the
aid of the acid, they can accomplish it, and the acid
afterwards unites with the new compound, or oxide,
forming a salt called a sulphate. Hence the hydrogen
is derived from the water. Another method of ob-
taining hydrogen was then referred to, by sending
steam over red hot iron shavings in a gun-barrel.
In this case, the learned gentleman stated, the iron
unites with the oxygen, and the hydrogen is liberated
in the gaseous form. Then came the comprehensive
and startling " proposition" alluded to in the heading
of this report ; it was this :—Mr. Gypson contended
that all the balloons of the present day were mere
toys to accomplish any great end ; his own machine,
that was second to none in capacity except the
Nassau balloon, and even that, giant and monster
as it is called, was clearly demonstrated to be
but a fourth the size necessary for the
aeronaut's scientific purposes and experiments—
not a vain, visionary, theoretical course of experiments
to try the why and wherefore of any unknown prob-
lem, but a direct setting about of the work, just in
the way that the Admiralty orders the construction of
a 120-gun ship, with the perfect :conviction that a
vessel of 30 guns cannot supply its place. Mr.
Gypson urged and argued the actual necessity for a
' machine of such immense dimensions: thus, in ten
out of eighteen ascents made by him this season, he had
purposely reached very unusual elevations, there in-
variably an absence of uncontrollable currents was
found to exist, so much so that the mere working of
a very small machinery caused an agitation from
which the isolated globe (to which the aeronaut and
his machinery was suspended) quickly recedes away,
and that in any direction at the will of the aeronaut,
by the mere shifting of the apparatus to his mind.
Now a balloon of 340, or 360 thousand cubic feet
capacity, would enable an aeronaut to avail himself
of steam-power ; and here, observed Mr. Gypson, let
not the hearer be startled, having in a great number
of night ascents taken up from forty to sixty lbs.
weight of fireworks, and that with perfect safety—
steam is to be generated, and a working power
obtained with the same ease and safety, certainly not
with an ordinarily constructed car, but with a com-
modious gallery of sufficient length, in which the
steam engine could be removed to a distance from
the balloon. With such a machine and apparatus
aerostation might march with rapid strides to
perfection, or at least to an utility hitherto
conceived to he impossible ; and the once much
talked-of journey from New York to Europe across
the Atlantic as a thing easily to be accomplished, and
some, said the intrepid lecturer (who discoursed like
a philosopher), would ask what could or would be the
utily of that ? " Why, that I reply would be a
means to an end." All aeronauts of the least practi-
cal experience must affirm that at considerable alti-
tudes there are very rare exceptions to a perfect calm,
and at altitudes still higher, what few exceptions there
are cease to exist. With such an aerostatic vehicle
as the above an aeronaut's disposable weight would
be truly immense. The possession of capacity realises
power, and power is the mainspring of disposable
weight; disposable weight is the Archiniedean lever to
move the silken globe to the unheard of ends of the
earth, at least to those ends of the earth where
the balloon, or its real utility, is unknown. Mr.
Gypson then entered into a luminous and de-
tailed account of various aerial voyages in the early
days of aerostation, and particularly eulogised the
father of English aeronauts, Mr. Sadler. He stated
that he was free to admit that it was at high altitudes
where progress was to be made, where a given course
or route must be pursued, and the aeronaut, with his
compass and chart, working his way in undisturbed
serenity in the heavenly altitudes of 12 or 15 thousand
feet, would not, in effecting his landing, find himself
much inconvenienced if a breeze near the earth cat ried
him 30 or even 50 miles from his former course,
when above the existence of various currents of air.
Mr. Gypson then concluded amidst the reiterated and
unbounded applause of a crowded audience.

SUSPECTED ATTEMPT OF POISONING A
FAMILY ON THE PENN-ROAD.

An occurrence, which might have been attended
with fatal consequences to several individuals, took
place on Saturday last at the residence of Mr. retty,
on the Penn road, near this town. It appears that
Mr. Pretty, who lately lived at Tettenhall wood, and
his two nephews and nieces, who reside with him,
had breakfasted together on Saturday morning, and
in the course of the forenoon the two young ladies
were attacked with vomiting and violent pain
in the stomach. Mr. Henry Pretty, who is
a solicitor at Bilston, was also seized in a
similar way on his road to that town. Mr. Pretty,
sen. after dining, came to Wolverhampton for
medical assistance, and was likewise taken very ill.
He forthwith returned home, and Mr. Fowke, a sur-
geon, who was immediately in attendance, rendered
every assistance to the sufferers, and remained in the
house a considerable portion of the night. From the
symptoms presented no doubt existed in the mind of
Mr. Fowke that his patients were labouring under the
effects of poison, and therefore an analysis of some new
bread, which had been used at breakfast and dinner,
and partaken of by those parties only who afterwards
became ill, was directed to be made. The bread was
accordingly analysed by Mr. Jullion, of.this town, who
discovered the presence of a considerable quantity of
white arsenic. Suspicion immediately fell on Eliza
Madely, a girl about fifteen or sixteen years of age,
who had lived in the family a few months, and who
had only been discharged from her service on the
same day. On Sunday morning information of the
circumstance was given to Colonel Hogg, chief con-
stable of Wolverhampton, who, after considerable
search, found the girl at Compton, and imme-
diately apprehended her on the charge of having
attempted to poison the members of the family in
which she had lately lived. The girl denied the
charge, saying that she had done nothing to the barm or
flour, that it was the other servant who made the
last quantity of bread, and that she was up stairs at
the time, attending to her work in the bedrooms.
She also said that she would not put poison in food
on any account. The prisoner was then removed to the
police station in this town, and was brought before
the magistrates on Monday, when, on the applica-
tion of Mr. Pretty, solicitor, she was remanded until
this day (Wednesday), to afford time for the production
of evidence. We hear that a portion of the packet
of white arsenic, which had been purchased by Mr.
Pretty for the purpose of destroying mice, is supposed
to have been mixed by the girl with some barm,
which had been procured from a neighbour, and
which was afterwards used in making the new bread.
We may mention that Mr. F. Pretty had fortunately
not eaten any of the new bread, and thereby escaped.
The other members of the family were for some time
in great danger, but are now, we are happy to state,
in a fair way of recovery.— Wolverhampton Chronicle.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CHEST.—Yesterday
meeting was held in the Board-
room for the transaction of general
business connected
with the charity; E. Gurney, Esq., in the chair.
From the report it appeared that the committee ex-
pected shortly to complete the arrangt meats for taking
e of ground for the erection of the proposed
a space
Since the opening
new hospital. of the present insti-
tution in June, 1848, nearly 4,700 individuals have
been treated for diseases of the heart and lungs. The
number of patients has progressively increased,
an average of 35 new cases at present being received
each week, while the aggregate attendance varies from
450 to 500. J. R. Bennett, Esq., M.D., and E. L.
Birkett, Esq., M.D., were elected physicians to the hos-
pital; the former in the place of the late Dr. Allen Wil-
hams, and the latter as a requisite addition to the medi-
cal staff. Mr. John Hilton having been elected surgeon
in the room of Mr. Erichson (who was compelled re-
luctantly to resign), the munificent donation of 1001. was
announced from the Earl of Onslow, after which the
meeting adjourned, with a vote of thanks to the worthy
chairman.

THE COURTS-MARTIAL AT
NOTTINGHAM.

NOTTINGHAM, Nov. 9.—Last evening, contrary to
expectation, the district courts martial sittings since
Tuesday, completed their labours, the last prisoner
tried being private Ball. The President, Colonel
Arbuthnot, informed the reporters that he was re-
luctantly compelled for a day or two to forbid the
publication of the evidence in the three cases that had
been brought before him, as the decisions, when
revised by the Commander in Chief and Judge-
Advocate-General, would have to be laid before the
Queen ; but that it might be published on Monday
next, whether or not the sentence passed may have
been communicated to the prisoners by that time.
At rather a late hour last evening, the confirmation
was announced of last Monday's proceedings in dis-
trict court-martial upon Sergeant John Newman,
tried for allowing prisoner Moffatt to escape.
The Court consisted of Brevet-Major Splaine, 81st
Foot, who officiated as president ; Captain Dyson,
Captain Barron, Lieutenant Turton, Cornet Lawson,
Cornet redder, and Cornet Hunt, all belonging to the
regiment.
The following is a brief outline of the case :
Corporal Richard linarson said, I was corporal of
the regimental guard at Nottingham Barracks, of
which Sergeant Newman had charge. About seven
o'clock on the morning of the 26th of October several
prisoners were brought into the guard-room out of one
of the troop rooms. Private 'Moffatt was one of them.
On account of the blackholes being so crowded
with prisoners, two of them, Moffat and another,
were obliged to sleep on the guard bed. I saw two
prisoners on the bed at one o'clock on the following
morning when I was parading my relief, but cannot
say, in consequence of it being dark, that Moffat was
one of them. Every two hours, when I paraded the
relief, I fancied I saw the prisoners all right. Ser-
geant Newman laid apparently asleep on the bed all
the time. About a quarter before six o'clock the
sergeant got up and dismissed the reinforement. He
then looked over the prisoners, and found that Moffat
was gone. He immediately reported the circum-
stance, and made the sentries prisoners.
By the COURT—The prisoner paraded the relief at
nine o'clock on the night of the 26th, and not again
until seven o'clock on the morning of the 27th.
The prisoner, in his defence, endeavoured to
throw the blame upon the corporal for parading the
relief at eleven, one, three, and five without him. On
the night of the escape he felt very ill, and was afraid
he should have to go to the hospital, but at the same
time he wished to do his duty. Ile laid down on the
guard bed, not to sleep, but he did so ; and the cor-
poral did not call him as he ought to have done.
When he awoke, about six o'clock, he looked for the
prisoners, and found that private John Moffatt was
absent. With a sentry inside, and one outside the
door, it; could only be by their "connivance that he
could have escaped; and it had since been ascertained
that the prisoner had gone out of the guard-room in
one of the sentry's cloaks, which was found the next
morning in a ditch. lie then threw himself upon
the mercy of the Court.
Adjutant Robinson, Major Dyson, and Lieutenant-
Colonel Arthur gave the prisoner a good character.
Prisoner (to Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur)—What
is my general character as a non-commissioned
officer since I have held that rank in the 3d Dragoon
Guards ?

Lieutenant• Colonel Arthur—Very good, and I
consider zealous; and particularly so on a late
occasion, when you prevented a number of prisoners
from making their escape, by discovering that they
had raised a flagstone in the room in which they were
confined, for the purpose of descending into the stable
and thereby getting away. I think you a clean
soldier and a well conducted man, and I never before
had occasion to find fault with you for any neglect
of duty.
Sentence—That Sergeant John Newman be
reduced to the rank and pay of a private soldier.

THE METROPOLITAN SEWERS

COMMISSION.

Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, a general Court of
Sewers was held at No. 1, Greek street, Soho;
present—Viscount Ebrington, in the chair ; Sir G.
Burgoyne, Sir Henry de la Bache, Mr. P. Hardwicke,
Mr. Peto, M.P., Mr. R. Stephenson, Mr. T. Hawes,
Mr. Lawes, Captain Dawson, and Captain Harness.
Viscount ERRING TON complained of the practice of
addressing letters, connected with the business of the
commission, to him personally. The regular course
was to forward them to the secretary, who would
deal with them according to the established rule. Any
communications which he received he would hand
over to Mr. Woolrych.
Mr. PETO made a similar camplaint, and stated that
his practice was to consign such letters to the waste-
paper basket.
The following among other resolutionshaving been
recommended by the general committee, were car-
ried unanimously NA About discussion :
" 1. That it appears that the plan submitted by
Mr. Cubitt to the Commissioners for Westminster in
November, 1847, and on the recommendation of their
surveyor, Mr. Phillips, approved by them, which pro-
vided an escape fur the sewage through the outtal there
shown into et. George's sewer, was not executed.
'Chat the officers of the Commissioners charged w ith the
superintendence of the work allowed the said plan to be
materially deviated from ; that they allowed the
sewer to be blocked up with a wall, in what was
there described as the direction of its outfal, and an
outtal to be opened into Warwick-street sewer, where
none was described in the said plan. That for these
alterations and deviations no authority is to be found
in the records of the court.

" 2. That the IR-st thanks of the Court be given to
Professor Lyon Playfair for his very valuable ser-
vices, rendered gratuitously, to the Commissioners in
the chemical examination he made with so much skill
and judgment, in reference to the lamentable acci-
dent that occurred in the sewer in Kenilworth-
street.

" 8. That though the Commissioners have not
sanctioned, and do not sanction, the application
made to Dr. Ure for his opinion on the subject of
the accident in the Kenilworth-street sewer, Pimlico,
yet, as it appears that one of their officers did,
during the interval which elapsed between the
termination of the old commission and the first
meeting of the present, apply to him and request a
chymical examination of the contents of the sewer,
they under the circumstances will not object to pay
Dr. Ure some reasonable remuneration lot. this first
analysis so requested by their officer on his own
responsibility.
" That the Commissioners be summoned, and the
City Commissioners be requested to attend the next
court, for the purpose of taking into consideration
the plans sent in for the drainage of the metropolis."
The second resolution was moved by Mr. STEPHEN-
sox and seconded by Mr. HARDWICKE.
The Court at its rising adjourned to that day
fortnight.