The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-23 00:00:00

THE JEWS IN THE EAST

AND AT HOME.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Having seen a paragraph in The Sun of
the 18th inst. I read, with the deepest regret, the
barefaced atrocities about to be practised by Ibra-
him Paella, of the Egyptian Government, on the
Jews in Syria. You will, theieiore, greatly oblige
me by the insertion of the following in your va-
luable Journal :

With regret I learn that seven individuals of
the Jewish persuasion have been put to the rack
to confess that which perhaps they never did, the
murder of a priest, and tortured to such a degree
as to comply with their wily persecutor's wishes.
For this supposed crime thirty of the more promi-
nent individuals in Dainas,:us were ordered for im-
mediate execution, and were only saved (thank
God) by the timely interference and good feelings
of the French Consul there."

I call on all the Jews in the United Kingdom,
as a duty I owe to my brethren in a distant land,
to an.emble, call meetings, and petition---for you
have all a voice in the welfare of the nation, and
why not in that of distress ? Surely an English
society like our own is not void of feeling. We
cannot see our fellow-creatures slaughtered like the
beasts of the field—nay, their shrieks and cries
for aid will not be unheard by the British Legis-
lature. Are we not loyal to our Sovereign? Are
we not taxed as well as any other sect or party ?
As such I trust her Majesty's Government will
hear my prayer. Once more I would exhort the
Jewish community to aid our brethren in distress.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,

AN ISRAELITE,
Manchester, April 21, 1840.

THE LATE JOHN ROBERTS.

The death of this ingenious man, the inventor of the
" safety-hood," is thus announced in a Lancashire paper :
" On Saturday, the 14th ult., at (Bilston, Stafford-
shire, aged 49, Mr. John Roberts, a native of Saint
Helen's, lie was the inventor of the flre-escape-hood,
or the miner's hood, and greatly improved by Sir H.
Davy's safety lamps."
About twenty years ago, when Roberts invented his
admirable safety-hood, he was a common miner in the
Whitehaven collieries, and inhabited one of those
small cottages adjoining the gates of the Glass-house-
yard, Arians. His first experiment was made in a
building in the yard, the floor of which was covered
with a quantity of straw, thickly strewn with sul-
phur. The straw was set on fire, and when the
atmosphere was so oppressive as to drive the by-
standers from the door-way, Roberts, equipped in his
hood, entered, and the door being closed, remained up-
wards of twenty minutes without inconvenience in a
place where no living creature could have existed one
fourth of the time. By those, however (to their
shame be it spoken), who ought to have duly appre-
ciated the merits of his invention, Roberts and his
hood were treated with neglect, and had not the
editor of the Whitehaven Gazette interested himself
in his behalf, he might have remained unnoticed and
unknown. He was introduced to the notice of the
late J. C. Curwen, Esq., who, we believe, was the
means of bringing the invention under the inspection of
different scientific bodies in London, Dublin, and Paris,
before whom Roberts put the powers of his hood to
the test in many severe experimental trials. He was
warmly applauded by the gentlemen who witnessed these
trials, and was rewarded in a handsome manner for his
invention. The Society of Arts
presented him with a
gold medal. As a means of preserving
n fiervin
on
in mines
after an explosion, and buildings when re—siindaers--
much as it enables the wearer to remain for a
able time in safety in situations where it would
RUiaTei
possible to breathe an instant without such a safe-
—the safety-hood is unquestionably entitled torank
amongst the most useful inventions of modern times,Carlisle Journal.

. .
Sir William and Lady Maria Oglander have
Ibsen placed in mourning by the demise of Sir William's sur-
viving sister, Mrs. Glynn, relict of the Rev. William Glynn,
was died at her Marine Villa, Parry Hill, Isle of Wight, on
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