The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-23 00:00:00

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ateurf-..,, and in the appendix gave the an ••, 0 • — ~.
kinds of water which had been sub itted , t 4,,,c1, %.0
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author professionally for his opinion. I diiiiii Ir-Isrisx
which ensued, Mr. Gooch demonstrate 111.0 ' ' -i'i-t..: •••1
of the subject to railway and steam-boat ~
stated that his attention had been called e' 's -
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vented by Dr. Ritterbandt, for preventin •
in boilers. That process consisted situp ants ienAtaile
dition of a small quantity of muriate of ammonia to
the water in the boiler. It had been found that this
process not only effected the object proposed, but that
it disintegrated and removed the incrustation already
formed. In all the locomotives in which it had been
used, the steam was much more readily generated,
so that the blast pipes of several engines had been en-
larged without diminishing this facility. There was,
therefore, no doubt of a great saving of fuel being
effected by the process, the expense of which was stated
to be about 3d. per hundred miles run of a locomotive
engine. In sea-going steamers, the success of the ex-
periment had not been less remarkable. In all these
cases the water had been tested by practical chemists, with-
out the slightest trace of iron or copper being detected,
showing that there was no injurious effect upon the
metal of the boiler, &c.; he looked upon the process as
perfect.
Dr. RITTERBANDT, in a concise and lucid manner,
stated the results of his investigations. It appeared
that carbonate of lime was the only substance which
formed a solid incrustation; the other substances being
merely mixed with, and cemented by, the carbonate.
That the muriate of ammonia acted as a perfect solvent
on the carbonate of lime, converting it into the
soluble muriate, without acting upon the boiler.
He gave a practical demonstration of the action of
the muriate of ammonia, calcareous water, to the satis-
faction of the President and members, who expressed
themselves in terms of approbation of the great practi-
cal utility of the invention, and of the manner in which
it had been brought before the Society.

SEDUCTION OF CHILDREN.

On Friday two men were charged by constable Phillips,
at Bow-street Police-court, with having harboured and co-
habited with several little girls in a wretched hovel, occupied
by them jointly, in Gilbert-street, Clare-market.
The constable informed the magistrate, that in consequence
of the representations made to him by a mechanic named
Walker, who had lost his daughter, aged thirteen years,
he went to the room occupied by the prisoners, and knocking
at the door, which was fastened, demanded admission. He
heard the voice et a child inside, and he woe asked by a man,
whom he heard getting out of bed, what he wanted. Wit-
ness insisted on being admitted, and the door was eventually
opened. He found one of the prisoners standing in the room,
in his shirt only, and saw three little girls, under fourteen
years of age, crouched together, completely naked, and having
no other covering than that of a dirty rug. The other pri-
soner was not undressed. Walker, who accompanied the
policeman, identified one of the children as his daughter,
whose absence from home he had been unable to account for.
The constable ordered the girls to put on the scanty clothing
which was lying about them, and, taking the prisoners into
custody, conducted them all to the police station.
MrAwyford observed that those disclosures were very
horrible. To think of men going about and decoying young
children like these to their dens of depravity was horrible In-
deed. But, as the children were more than ten years old,
no offence had been committed in the eye of the law, and it
was not in the power of the magistrate to interfere. There
was nothing to show that violent means had been used to get
*e children away from their parents, or that they had bee.
retained by the men contrary to their own wishes.
The constable remarked that the door of the room was
kept locked.
Mr. 'rwyford—Very likely; but it was no offence to lock a
door, and, although he wished to say nothing in faYonr of the
krisoners, it was only reasonable to suppose that the place was
ept locked by them from feelings of delicacy. His worship
wished to see one of the girls.
The three children were then brought into court, and one
of them, aged thirteen, was placed in the witness-box. •Pala,
thin, and consumptive in their appearance, barely covered with
ragged clothing, and dirty in the extreme, nothing •could
exceed the apparent wretchedness of these poor creatures.
The father of one of them (Walker), and the mother of
another, were well-dressed and respectable-looking people.
The third, who was put under examination, stated that her
father's name was Barrykin, and that he was a bricklayer's
labourer. She had not been living all the time with the
men at the bar, but, for a short period, with Lucy Roach (a
well-knewn prostitute), who lodged in the same house. She
said that she should be glad to go anywhere to be protected.
Phillips, the officer, said that the parents of a great many
other children were prepared with similar complaints against
the prisoners, if his Worship wished to hear them.
Mr. Twyford repeated that he could not punish the men,
and although he did not blame the officer for taking them
into custody, it was his duty to discharge them.
A gentleman here stepped forward, and begged his Wor-
ship to use his influence with some philanthropic institution,
in order, if possible, to rescue the children from the depra-
vity into which they had been plunged at so tender an age.
fay the direction of his Worship, however, they were
handed over to the constable to be taken back to their pa-
rents, and the two miscreants at the bar, whom, it seems, no
law could reach, were discharged.

DARING BURGLARY NEAR
LEAMINGTON.
During the course of Friday morning last inf„,r.
mation was received by Mr. Roby, superintendent of police,
that a burglarious entry had been made into the residence of
H. E. Landor, Esq., a gentleman living at Teitehbroke,
It appears that about two o'clock in the morning, two of
Mr. Landor's servants who slept in a bed-room over the
kitchen, in the rear of the premises, were awoke by the
breaking of glass, and the entrance through the window of
the apartment of three men successively, whose faces were
covered with black crape. A scuffle ensued, and one of the
servants made his escape into the dining-room, the window
of which opened into a front garden, and as he was about to
retreat in that direction, in order to give an alarm in the
village, he caught sight of a man who was standing sentinel,
armed with a bludgeon. He immediately proceeded up a
back staircase to Mr. Landor's bedchamber, to inform that
gentleman of what had taken place ; and, having done se,
retreated into the kitchen, where he secreted himself in the
chimney, and there remained until all chance of danger had
passed away. From this hiding-place, however, he heard
the burglars making search for him, and, in foul language,
expressing their regret that he had escaped them.
Returning to the other servant (Morley), who was left
scuffling with three of the thieves, we ascertained that, after
some considerable resistance, during which time he was
fbrced from room to room, and struck a most serious blow
on the forehead, he was finally overcome, and compelled to
lead the robbers to the bed-room of his master, who had
been previously aroused by Cleaver, and had been looking
for fire-arms, one of which he held in his hand as the
plunderers entered his chamber. One of them, addressing
him, said—" Now, old fellow, we've found you, have we ?'
and commenced wrestling with him for the blunderbuss
with which he had armed himself. The party ultimately
forced him to the floor, exclaiming, "Your money er your
life." Mr. Landor, with great self-possession, to this threat
replied, " Here, then, as you are masters now,' at the
same time handing over his pulse, in which there were six
or seven pounds, principally in geld. The thieves, according
to Mr. Landor's own statement, shook the purse, evidently
surprised and disappointed at the trifling booty they had
gained. At this period both Mr. Lander and his occasions 1
servant (Morley), seeing that all further resistance
would be useless, abstained from offering any, and
seated themselves by the bed. The perpetrators of this
violent attack upon life and property next wantonly forced
open a small cabinet by the bedside, and took out four
watches. These, together with the money above mentioned,
appear to be the whole of the property carried off by the
thieves, who, however, compelled Mr. Landor to go with
them to the dining-room, there to deliver up the key of his
plate-chest.. On unlocking this iron safe, they (turned suit
all the plate,as if money only was their object, anit at length,
pounced upon a pocket-book which they eagerly took to the
wax lights whict, they had ignited, and examinee the con-
tents minutely, which consisted of bankers accointable bills
upon Messrs. Taylor and Loyd, of the Birmingham Old
Bank, for between 6,0001. and 7,000/. They turned them on
one side as of no importance whatever; and from this fact, as
well as from that of not a single article of plate being taken
away, it may fairly be presumed that their only object of
plunder was money.
The servant-man, who is wounded, lies in a very precari-
ous state ; and we regret to state, that up to the moment of
our account leaving Leamington, at eight o'clock last night,
the police had been unable to gain any listelhgence of the
thieves.

THE FATE OF MUNtiO PARR.
At the Geographical Society's meeting, London, last week,
a letter from Mr. Duncau was read, dated Cape Coast, Oct.
4, 1845. Mr. Duncan states, that though the King of
Ashantee had refused him permission to pass through his
dominions, ke had been enabled to penetrate into the interior
by another route. Being at Whyddah he had ingratiated
himself into the favour of Senhor Don Francisco de Buz*, a
Portuguese slave-dealer, who had been established there be-
tween 40 and 50 years, and whose influence with the King
of Dahomey was paramount. This gentleman obtained for
Mr. Duncan an invitation from the King to visit him, and a
promise of his protection. He accordingly prepared suitable
presents for the King and his cabareers, and started on the
6th June. Having arrived on the 10th, he presented himself to
the King in his Life Guard uniform, and was most graci-
ously received. At the Kiag's desire he went through the
sword exercise at gallop, which greatly astonished and
interested the monarch, who in return, next day, showed
him a review of 6,000 female troops, whose arms, accoutre-
ments, and performance, the traveller says, were try
surprising. Mr. Duncan remained at Abomey, tie capffod
of Dahomey, until the 17th, when the King, having had
the road cleared for him for more than a hundred
gave him an escort of a hundred men, and permission to
travel over any part of his dominions he pleased. Every-
where the traveller found provisions in abundance, all
ready provided for him, and ready cooked. Mr. Duncan
having been informed of the existence, in the interior, of
persons who could give him information respecting
Mungo Park, proceeded to a large town, named Adofoodie,
in thirteen degrees six minutes north, and one degree
three minutes east. Here was a large market, with artiolee
from the Mediterranean, and others from Bomon. At this
place he found a fine-looking Bornouese, who spoke Span*,
and who told him he had been twenty-one years a slave in
Bahia, to the firm of Busby and Johnson, of Liverpool.Ee
also met a Tripoli merchant he had seen at Eggs, wnenth"'s
the Niger expedition. Amali Fatuma was, ith:pP_
nod to the
principal cause of Park's death. Having
• terrogated upon
out paying him his full wages, Park w
"denied the charge.
King or chief of Yaouri that Park had dischccuLPg
the subject, and, of course, indignantly
detain the canoe,
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where they remained a very long
.time. This priesrbed
been more than twenty times to Timbuctoo, l'hich he de-
scribed as not so large as Adofoodia, and famed only as a
great exchange mart for goods, in consequence of the facili-
ties for transport afforded by thirty-six tributary strelfbas,
which enter the Niger within one league of Timbuctoo. Roes.
Adofoodia Mr. Duncan, was obliged to return. He recoiipdp
on his way back, the same kind attentions from the KiArot
Dahomey.

•
'IKIE AGITATORS.—Certain of the landholders may
new fairly claim the title of being "the great agitators." They have
long and loudly exclaimed against agitation, but whoa it, suite their
intermt and ends, can blow the storm of agitation strongly. They
have had things "all their own way" se very long, that, to put theta
uut of their course, is alitioat like taking their life.