The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-20 00:00:00

ME RECENT'S

The proof by the Company in support of the Pre-
amble their Bill, tas been closed since our last in-
sertion on this subjeet. In addition to the strong•
case we then stated, Mr. S. JONES, the Engineer,
has . been called, and his evidence not only cor-
roborated the preceding testimony,- as to the practi-
cability of the Canal, the whole line of which he
had surveyed, but disclosed the following important
faCts:—

He had calculated the expense of freightage,
lighterage, cartage, loading and unloading of coals,t
and other heavy goods as now paid, and the expense
that would attend abeir delivery by the proposed
Catial, and the saving that would thoreby be made,
he explained- to certain points, and the pares Un-*
mediately adjacent, as thus-from " Likehouse to
Hackney, coals are at present delivered at 12s.
per chaldron ; by the new canal 'they would cosy'
7s. Bd. saving 3s. 4d. Ditto at Islington, present ex-
pence 1 Is. ; by the Canal, Bs. 6M. swing 2s. sdi,
To Kentish Town ,s now, 12s. 6d. ; by the Canal,
Bs. 7id, saving 3s. 100. To Alpha Cottages, &c.
now is.; by Canal, Bs. saving 29. Id. To
Paddington the same, and to Aske Terrace, &c.
now gi.; by Canal 73. Id. saving i slid:Mg and
pence. Thus it appears that every consumer of
coals on the South of the Canal from Ai.keTerr.ce
to Finsbury-squire, from Islington to the Charter
House, from Pentonville to Brunswick-square, from
the Alpha Cottages to two-thirds -of the distance of
the New-road to Nieman-square, and all ar.iund
these parts and Paddington, will be enabled to save
from 2s. to 4s. on' every chaldron of coals they`pur-
chase. On the north of the'Catial,,Highgate, Hamp-
stead, &c. the saving-will be itifinitely greater, viz,
on coals, at the wharf at Islington, Bs. 4d. per chat.
dron ; at, Kentish Town, Bs. l odd. ; at Paddington,
6s. ; Aske Terrace, ss. sd. and all die liVest
ern 'extremity of Mary-le-bonne Park, 6s. td.
Generally speaking,. the delii"Tery from the Ca-
nal towards, the Thames, will benefit the Pub-
lic to a longer distance than a line drawn ex-
atily beta een the two, •as three horses down
hill will be able to do the -work of four up
front the river, •and consequently the coals may be
delvered to the purchaser, from the wharfs on the
Canal; at a cheaper rate. The same gentleman
slated, that equal advantage would arise on the tran-'
sport of all building materials, paving-stones, tim-
ber, lime, and t very- species of heavy goods. As an
example of this, he instanced the expense of pav-
ing, and from a plain calculation, shelved; that
when the canal was navigable, streets on the north-
ern parts of the Metropolis' of 30 feet wide, might
be ;paved with seven inch pavement at 183. 4d: per
yard, carriage by water; whereas they now cost
11. gs. 4d. carriage by land and lighterage on
Thames, and thus a saving of ios. Bd. per yard, or
about g60l: per mile, would be made. , He hirther
stated, that he had bad great experience in the car-
ri:-Ige of such goods in town and country, and spoke
from his own knowledge do these matters.
George Liftle„ a carman' to the Gland Junelion
Canal, who is in the habit of delivering a great
quantity of goods daily, proved the expense there-
of to be from Paddington to the East India Docks,
• 13s. 4d. per ton-to the West India Docks, tos. and
to Cheapside, &c. 6s. sd. ; a considerable portion
of which would be saved by the new Canal, and the
goods sustain less injury from not being so often un-
loaded.

Tlhe number of carts or waggons (loaded to the
weight of two tons, and daily cutting up the best
streei.s of the Metropolis, which a &lid be rendered
unnecessary by the canal, wool(' be 323, and not
223, as stated in our last.

FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.

Two witnesses were heard on the part of the
Sewers, but their evidence amounted to nothing
new.

A new Petition from Mr. Porienan having been
presented to the House, complaining that their
-Standing Orders had not been 'coMplied, with, ths
same was referyd to a Special Committee. They
met, arid on a motion that Counsel should be heard
in support of the Petition, they decided that they
should 'not. The Petitiyn was then read, and corn-
plaitied generally that the Standing Orders of the
House had not beer. complied with, but witho'ut
specifying any particularcase. Upon this the Com-
mittee, after a short delibefation, came to the fol.'
lowing resolution :
" It was moved, that it was highly improper for
the Agents (.f any Petitioner to deliver in after so
many weeks hive elapsed since the Committee on
the Bill have been sitting, any Petition containing
a general allegation that the House has been imposed
upon, without stating in what particular the circum-
stance has taken place; and that the extraordinary-
assertion that this -House has been impose) upon,
has not in any respeet been substantiated.".
Upon which the question king put, it passed
unanimously, in the atlirMative.

Saturday the Lord Mayor went in. his private
coach and 'six horses, preceded by, a party of the
London Militia, and attended by the. Governors of
the Bethlenl and ,Biidewell Hospitals, Abe two
Sheriffi,, Aldermen Sir J. Perring and. Sir R. C.
Glynn, and laid, at three o'clock, the first stone, of
the new Bethletn Hospital; on the site of the well-
known public- house formerly the DOg and Duck,
in Si. George's-Fields. The procession passed over
stacktriar's•bridge, and returned over Westminster-
bridge, and through Parliament-strvet and the S rar•J
to the City. The Bishop of Carlisle was present
and assisted at the ceremony. Sir Richatd'Carr
Glynn preeicedi the busintss with an appropriate
address, and after the stone was laid, the Chaplain
of the Bride,Aell read
_a player composed tor the
occasion.

A machine for cutting files with accuracy and
dispatch has been made in the United States; it will
pet form the labour of six or eight hands, and cut
any description, from the coarsest to the finest, by
changing one wheel or pinion.

C;oioner'g inquest, in the case of Mrs. Mur.:
ray and her servant for the murder of her husband,
have returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder." The
servant i committed to Chester Gaol; but Mrs.
iViiirrav is not sufficiently- recovered from_ the wound,
ititlided in the attempt which she made on her own
,Efe,- fur removal.

MkitNit rd" Vtdkgitthit.-.Littotc.itior h*.
we understand, succe- ded in a very important etpe-
riment-7-lhat of freezing quicksilver. A wide
motneter tube, viii li a large-bulb', was filled with
mercury, and
,attached to.a rod passing through st
collar of leathers, from the top of a cylindrical re-.
ceiver. This receiver, which was seven inches wild
covered a deep flat ba.in of nearly the same .width,
and containing. sulphuric acid, in the midst of whit h
wag placed an egg-cup half full- of water. The en-
closed air being re,!uced.by the working of the puns
to the both Part, the bulb was repeatedly dipped lit
the water, and again exposed to evaporation, till it
became incrusted with a coat of ice about the t fveng
tieth part of an inch thick. The cup, with its watet
still unfrozen, was hen removed, and the appa
rants replaced, the coated bulb being pushed down.
to less than an inch from the surface of the sulphurid
acid. On exhausting the receiver again, and conti
nuing the onerafiou, tip.! icy crust at length started-
into divided fissures, owing probed), to its being
• more contra Cit-d by the intense cold than the glarli•
which it invested ; and the mercury having gradu-
ally descended in the thermom,te... tube, till it reach;
ed the point of congelation, suddenly -sunk almost
into the bulb, the gage standing at the twentieth.
part of an inchi and the included air being -limy
ratified about six hundred times. After a few mi•
notes, theappariltus being removed, and the bulb
broken, the' quicksilver appeared a solid mass, winch
bore the stroke of a hammer. 'The temperature of
the apartment was theu 54 degrees of Fahrenheit.i
In another experiment,
.wrth a small spirits of wine
thermometer, under the same circumstance! and
the same degree of rarefaction, the cold produced
was found to be 'seventy degrees and a half below
nothing, or more that) thirty degrees • below the
,point which is: usually assigned fur the congelation
of mercury..

The bgl or winter "pear, according to an Ameri-
can journal, rmiy be brought to great perfeotion, and
grow to Winches-in circumference, by wrapping up
the fruit and branch in cloth, so as to ptOted theta
horn the early frosts of Oaober and November.

FATAL EFFECTS FROM HOAXING.--At Beccle
Sessions, a melancholy circumstance was witness-
ed.---A young man, named Hubbard, from D-beri-
ham, had been committed to Woodbridge 13tide-
welLupon suspkion of having stolen a saddle from
Mr. Thomas Darl?y, of Keaton, which in fad had
been taken off Mr. Darby'i horse by some other
person in a joke, thrown into a rivulet, and afier-,
wards taken up and carried 'home by this young
man, who willingly restored it as soon as soon as he
knew the owner. Upon his commitment, his young
wife, who was far advanced in pregnancy, was
taken very ill, and remained during his confine-
ment, in a wretched state of mind, continually
calling out for her husband. Alas !. she never iinvi -
him more. On the night previous to these Sessions, .
at which an indiainent was to have been preferred
against him, she died in a slate of distraaion, leav-
ing her disconsolate husband in 'prison to bewail her
loss. As soon as the affair was made known to the
Magistrates, they humanely tiireaed the recogni-
zances to ptoseeute to be withdrawn, and tiro young
man to be immediately restored to his disConsolate
friends.
An extraordinary spfjcies of robbery. was lately /
praaised in the neighbourhood of Haddington;A.
woman, who travels the country under the pretence.
of selling peppermint water,. called at a house where
there was only an aged , woman, and having sat
down to warm herself, as she said she was very col 3,
prevailed on her to take a glass of her cordial, noon r
which she immediately fell asleep. The travelling
woman then opened a chest, twin width she teak
about five ptunds in money, and ,several articles of
wearing apparel, and went oti, locking the door, and
putting the key under it. The poor woman conti-
nued to 'sleep till her son came home in the- evening
from his work, when she was then with difficulty
awakend, and the robbery was discovered. The.
robber was traced to and apprehended at Edinburgh, '
and is now lodged in Hudderstone Gaol. •