The Sun.
London, England, 1848-09-11 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER ii, 1818.

A woRD WITH THE " GOODIES" AND A
GLANCE AT DONCASTER.
BY GEORGE WIZARD, ESQ.

111 blows the wind that profits noboly."—Shalespere.
Oh never saw I promise yet of such a glorious fray."
Macaulay.

TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING•
QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK.
No business doing.

The fiery steeds bound through the air,
Each rider site erect and fair,
'Then like a bolt from steel cross-bow
Forth launched, along the plain they go."
The Lady of the Lake.

To all those members of the " world sedate,"
Who fancy virtue reigns but in their pate,
And so dispense their censures on what they
Themselves but practice in a different way.
I first would ♦enture a remark or two,
So Chisei'em Anstey I'll begin with you.
Now dolt thou think, howe'er our hopes may fall,
That we as men are speculators all?
For if you do, then wherefore should you blame
Those who through choice prefer the " sporting game,"
Your tastes and theirs may differ, yet they tend
In the long run, precisely to one end;
For rest assured this natural love of gain
In every human breast is found the same;
Though some there be who'd strip one altogether,
And, like attorneys, pluck off ev'ry feather.

Yet the rich merchant hasi
ihckeocoshseht nousepifht
efs:suoesoeti
riclhehareresk:h.
tbpukhai,'
ngsewsieme, gain,sbasksgiaibbnuasntanoeutendusorfrdttdr:anlrpr;
syiii
sros:mt)i
we.gzi
s h m
ThinksTlcA\Nrvn:
,hhnnai seodtutolu crinmt
Though
dheaees
hsffatkrsoyt
ldeepoehwlymeternr
mieamaytveduri eoayrmeenuererhkedt: uhrae,
wp,rstartheswosot,
nufiohosvepnrtl
eaaeoosfircr, taunnte, he trackless main;
I
10)bosIernvoenddhelinsnfatth'oius?ritne
e
TAhnadt
shineland awhichnaids
amidst
the speculates,iiat
Whose glorious lights reflected from afar. •
And Albion's sun will set in endless night
When speculation from her shore takes flight.
For what is all this wondrous speculation,
But only hope in active operation.
Hope! that's the monarch of the immortal mind,
Who, by her influence, sways all human kind,
Leading us ever by her varying will,
Through devious avenues, to fortune still,
And pointing out upon her own bright chart,
The path best suited to each mind and heart.
Then Anstey pluck this hope from out our breast,
Ere you would stop our speculative zest,
Or, being unable to accomplish that,
Do kindly, pray, next session "hold your chat."
But it is no wonder that each racing " sweep"
Should by its soubriquet well nigh make you weep,
When you remember what you've said and done,
And the " foul sweep" you made 'gainst Palmerston.
But to my task—now I have " had my say,,,
I'll try a " sweep" at Fortune, come what may;
And, as to her I always yield my thanks,
I'm sure I'll draw more prizes out than blanks:
First on my card the " Cleveland" comes in view,
I see Miss Sarah with her jacket blue;
While after that the " Champagne" foaming bright,
Reveals The Flying Dutchman to my sight;
And for the " Hundred Sovereigns," it is clear,
Nought can compare with noble Montpensier.
Hal 'tis the great " St. Leger" race I draw,
Which I, while slumb'ring, most m distctly saw,
Careering o'er my fancy, and which now
I see as clearly as I did, I vow.
Oh! 'Os a glorious struggle for the prize,
y esyi side,
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AAnsdonwethllenyigruhiphl_ucwkisiitiehee,v,irs3i,onnefrrvonmism strung,
Come,But Erin'sor
tJu
nu set, incoembey,
ka
ehe epandl
nhsaesl y
bo; y
And let me clasp thee as I would my bride.
Methinks I hear the whispering unto me,
For the " Great Yorkshire, !mud, back Keleshea,
And for the "Foal Stakes" 'tis the " time of day"
(Though out of season) to have Queen of May.
As for the " Scarborough" 'tis a.lready over,
And Master Flatcatcher is quite m." clover;"
" And for the " Cup" on Friday, it is clear
The gallant Tromp cannot beat Chanticleer,
Who o'er them all, I tell it unto you
Will have the cry of " cock a-doodle-do."

MANUFACTURE OF IRON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sint,—ln your valuable paper of the Gth inst., you
notice some of the objects of the `.‘ Irish Amelioration
Society," especially that of reclaiming bog land and
purchasing turf, to give employment to, and improve
the condition of, the Irish peasant.
As many years ago I received great kindness and
hospitality in Ireland from several gentlemen to whom
I was a perfect stranger, I have always felt an interest
in that land, and as, perhaps, I am in possession of in-
formation which may not generally be known, and
which may be the indirect means of benefitting many,
I beg to submit the folloiving observations through
your medium ;
I have for many years taken a considerable interest
in, and seen the use of, peat as a fuel, for the manu-
facture of iron ; and therefore do not feel diffident in
offering these remarks to those who may be interested
in its consumption.
In the south of Europe, peat is not only used for
smelting iron from the ore, but refining, puddling,
welding, and converting pig iron into finished bars
and rods ; in fact, I have seen all the operations of a
rolling mill carried on with peat alone as a fuel, un-
prepared in any way except being thoroughly dried,
the construction of the furnaces and mode of firing
differing slightly from the common method with coal;
these operations were not as experimental, but in
daily use in an establishment of many years' standing,
the quantity of peat required to puddle a tons of bars
being about 18 cwt. In another establishment (a
large foundry) I have seen peat used in reverbratory
furnaces to remelt iron for casting cannon of large
calibre. I have also seen peat charcoal used in a loco-
motive, but not with a good effect. It is well known,
from all the experiments that have been tried in
England, that steel forged with peat charcoal is im-
proved in quality. There is from the foregoing,
therefore, no doubt that peat can be used for manu-
facturing iron instead of coal and coke.
The quantity of hammered bar iron made with
charcoal imported into England from Russia and
Sweden exceeds 20,000 tons yearly, and a large quan-
tity of this is sold for making steel at 38/. per ton,
whilst the English bar iron is sold at about 61.!
With these facts one may ask, why cannot iron be
made in Ireland with peat charcoal to a profit ? as
there is but little doubt but that the quality may be,
made equal to Russian iron. From the many years
practice I have myself had at home and abroad with
a variety of fuels, I am satisfied that most metallur-
gical operations may be carried on equallye to as well
with peat as with coal, and there appears to mbe
no reason but the want of capital and enterprise, why
manufactories should not be established in Ireland in
favourable localities, where peat could be used as a
fuel, to produce as great an effect as coal in England,
and at a much less cost ; but I will not farther treat
pass pass on your space but to say, it would give me
pleasure if any of the foregoing observations sh. ould be
the means of introducing a new branch of
industry
into Ireland. Ido not suggest the establishment of
large iron-works as in England, but many small ones,
to manufacture hammered iron of the best quahty,
which would always ensure a ready sale at a high
price, and give employment, in many parts of the
country, to a multitude of workmen.
antember 9, 1848.

Q. E. D.

te„. He read a while in the Bible and Prayer Book, and
71' '*%rir/ir 11 Ito z-xiaiott ton then, looking at the preparaticus being made, said,
" Give toe slack rope enough, Mr. Arnold. I
don't think I have enough." By this he meant
that he might have as much fall as possible, that
he might be the sooner out of pain. In two
or three minutes he said again, " I don't
want to be particular, but I want more slack
rope." The cap was then pulled down over his face,
when he remarked that it was tied too tight. The
fifteen iniuutes were now expired, and he was now to
thrown off, when he said, " I thought you were to
tell me five minutes before the time expired." The
sheriff said, " We will give you five minutes more."
One of the officers then called out each minute as it
expired—one, two, three, &c. He here remarked
that the rope was not properly fixed, and that the
knot ought to be nearer to his chin. As the time
now rapidly approached he exclaimed—" Oh, dear !
I bid you farewell." " Four" was now called, which
told him he had but one minute to live. Just before
the last minute expired, he exclaimed, " Oh! dear me!
God Almighty have mercy on me." These were the
last words he gave utterance to. The rope was cut, the
platform fell, and, with a single exclamation of " Oh!"
his spirit was released from the tenement in which it had
been defiled. His remains were delivered to those who
stood by him as friends. The crowd outside the prison
had now increased to about 2,000, all anxious to see him,
as they could not be present at the execution. His
friends took the coffin out into the middle of the street,
laid it on chairs, and the crowd passed by between the
ranks of the military to gaze upon the face of the mur-
derer. Even ladies were there from a distance.

AN ACT FOR REGULATING THE SALE OF
BEER AND OTHER LIQUORS ON THE
LORD'S DAY.
PASSED AUGUST 14, 1848.
All publicans will do well to read attentively the fol-
lowing short Act of Parliament, which has come into
operation :
" Whereas the provisions in force within the Metro-
politan Police district, and in some other places in Eng-
land, against the sale of fermented and distilled liquors
in the morning of the Lord's Day have been found to be
attended with great benefits; be it enacted by the
Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by
the authority of the same, that no licensed victualler or
person licensed to sell beer by retail to be drunk on the
premises, or not to be drunk on the premises, or other
person, in any part of Great Britain, shall open his house
for the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other fermented or
distilled liquors, or sell the same on Sunday, before half-
past twelve o'clock in the afternoon, or, where the morn-
ing Divine service in the church, chapel, kirk, or princi-
pal place of worship, of the parish or place shall not
usually terminate by that time, before the time of the
termination of such service, and that no licensed victu-
aller or other person in England shall open his house for
the sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other fermented or dis-
tilled liquors, or sell the same, on Christmas Day or Good
Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or thanks-
giving, before the respective times aforesaid, except, in
all the cases aforesaid, as refreshment for travellers;
provided always, that nothing herein contained shall
authorise the opening of any house for the sale of wine,
spirits, beer, or other fermented or distilled liquors
within the Metropolitan Police district, or any city,
town, or place, at an earlier hour or time than is now al-
lowed by law, where the opening of such house or such
sale is now specially prohibited before any later hour or
time than that hereinbeforc mentioned.
" 2. And be it enacted, that so much of an Act passed
in the fourth year of her present Majesty, intituled An
Act to amend the Acts relating to the general sale of
Beer and Cider by retail in England,' as provides that no
person licensed to sell beer or cider by retail as therein
mentioned, should have or keep his house open for the
sale of beer or eider, nor should sell or retail beer or
cider, nor should suffer any beer or cider to be drunk
or consumed in or at such house, at any hour before
one of the clock in the afternoon on any Sunday, Good
Friday, Chrismas Day, or any day appointed for a
public fast or thanksgiving, shall, without prejudice to
any pending proceeding for breach of such enactment,
be repealed.
3. And be it enacted, that it shall nut be lawful for
any licensed victualler, or person licensed to sell beer
by retail to be drunk on the premises, or not to be
drunk on the premises, or any person licensed or autho-
rised to sell any fermented or distilled liquors, or any
person who, by reason of the freedom of the mystery
or craft of Vintners of the city of London, or of any
right or privilege, shall claim to be entitled to sell wine
by retail to be drunk or consumed on tho premises, to
open his house for the sale of any other articles what-
soever within the respective times during which the
sale of wine, spirits, beer, or other fermented or dis-
tilled liquors is hereinbeforc prohibited, except as re-
freshment for travellers.
" 4. And be it enacted, that no person shall open any
house or place of public resort for the sale of fermented
or distilled liquors, or sell therein such liquors, in Eng-
land or Scotland, before the hour of half-past twelve of
the clock in the afternoon, or where the morning Divine
service in the church, chapel, kirk, or principal place of
worship shall not usually terminate by that time, before
the time of the termination of such service on Sunday,
or in England before the like hour on Christmas-day or
Good Friday, or any day appointed for a public fast or
thanksgiving, except as refreshment for travellers.
" 5. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for any
constable at any time to enter into any house or place of
public resort for the sale of wine, spirits, or other fer-
mented liquors; and every person who shall refuse to
admit or shall not admit such constable into such house
or place, shall be deemed guilty of an offence against
this Act.
" 6. And be it enacted, that every person offending
against this Act shall be liable, upon summary convic-
tion for the same before any justice of the peace for the
county, ridirig, division, liberty, city, borough, or place
where the offence shall bo committed, or in Scotland
before any justice of the peace, or sheriff, or magistrate
having jurisdiction in the place where the offence shall
be committed, to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for
every such offence; and every separate sale shall be
deemed a separate offence.
" 7. And be it enacted, that this Act may be repealed
or amended in this present session of Parliament."

EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.—A return made to Par-
liament has just been printed, showing the amount of
exports to and imports from the British West India co-
lonies, the East Indies, Ceylon, China, &c., for the year
ending sth January, 1848; also the number of ships that
have entered and cleared for the above places during
the same period. The aggregate value of British and
Irish produce and manufactures exported to the West
India colonies in the year 1847 was 2,273,0411.; the value
of exports to the East India Company's territories and
Ceylon was 5,470,1051.; to China, 1,503,9691. The quan-
ti;y of tea imported was 55,355,5901b5., of which
46,045,5201b5. were retained for home consumption.
The duty thereon was 2s. 21d. per lb. ; to the
Mauritius the exports were 223,563/. ; to the Bri-
tish North American colonies, 3,231,4801. ; to .New
South \Vales and Australian colonies the exports in
the year amounted to 1,644,1701. ; to the United
States of America 10,974,1611. ; to Cuba 896,5401. ; to
Brazil 2,568,804/. ; and to Mexico, &c., 2,486,5511.
These exports relate only to British and Irish produce
and manufactures. The average prices of sugar per cwt.,
exclusive of duty, in the year ending the sth of January
last, were as follows : 28s. 3d. on British plantation ; ou
Mauritius 30s. 4d. ; and on East India 275. In the year
a great number of ships entered inwards and cleared out-
wards : their tonnage was very great.
THREE MEN AND FOUR WOMEN DROWNED OFF
THE DONEGAL COAST.—A fatal accident (says a corre-
spondent, writing from the Cross-roads near Den-
fanagliy) took place at Ballinass Pierhead, within a mile
of this, on Tuesday. A number of poor starving crea-
tures went to the strand, for the purpose of searching the
sand for a kind of fish called sand eels, with a hick to
appease the pangs of ravenous hunger. A small channel
lay between these creatures and the sand bank in wh
ic
they expected to gat the fish. One of the hands of a
craft that lay at the Pierhead took the ship's boat
to ferry them over. It was blowing a heavy gale at the
time. The boat being small, was not able to resist its
viulence. It sank, and the women so clung to the men
that all in the boat, with the exception of one little boy,
perished, including the kind-hearted sailor who volun-
teered the boat to carry these ill-fated victims within the
each of food. All the bodies kayo not yet been found;
some of the women were the wives of poor men who had
gone to England to labour at the harvest.—Freeman's
Journal.

DISCOVERY OF A FOSSIL TREE.—A few days ago
workmen employed in the cutting near the Coalbourn
brook viaduct, on the line of the railway, discovered an
interesting curiosity, viz., a tree in a perpendicular po-
sition, and in a perfect state of petrifaction. It was im-
bedded in the strata of lime and ironstone, called
" clunch," and measured about sixty inches in circum-
ference, the diameter being nearly twenty inches, and the
(patter girth sixteen inches. The length has not yet
been ascertained, as the lower portion of it is still undis-
turbed. A part of it, measuring four feet, perfectly pre-
served, has seen presented to Earl Stamford, and for•
warded to Envile Hall for his Lordship's museum. By
the kindness of Mr. Gabb, the gentleman superintend-
ing the portion of the works referred to above, we were
favoured with an inspection of the tree, the shell of
which is perfectly preserved, and very apparent; the
heart of the tree having the appearance and being of the
ponderable nature of ironstone. The boughs seem to
have been some time removed, as the top of
the trunk
appears to have been sawed oft; being quite square.—
Tby the en Towns' Messenger. 1
FRIGHTFUL EMERGENCY.—A passenger
Ocean Monarch, Mary Ann Taylor, of No.
H husband,
place, Leeds, has given the following:
ewer looms, is
James Taylor, who is overlooker
°fchildren,
now settled in America, and she, with
her two h
was roug outside
el;
was going going to join him. As the water
she became sea-sick, and lay down, but was roused from
her bed by the alarm of fire. She
having astertaincd that the
r
into her berth for her children.um oEurvean upon deck, and
rwn'astbte raue the et
smoke
was so thick down below _ thts hree wastur n
enearlyo
as udfie'eokc a,
and te d .
She, however, got her children,
o y eaabr
so about
afoguer)
no longer. She fell'.
there she remained until, like
ckostchoerresh,insgheheeorufledetr.emsahine
years old, an b(one
nae littlely t girlw•
her own andker-
picked up, and let herself down into the
body, by means of a rope and a h
then tied her
dtwthoecotihtlderrean
LO
v. chiefwhich
erhO ld inshgeher offspring on her back with one hand,
and'at letting herself down with the other. She got hold
of the rigging, which, she said, was literally covered
with human beings, and clung to it; but the water,
which was rough, dashed over her and her children, and
soon suffocated them. As the dead bodies were weigh-
ing her down an Irishman loosed the rope, and they fell
into the water.