The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-21 00:00:00

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No, 17 338.] LONDON, FRIDAY
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nwswc,,VNlMMererelbar.". ja•ora.
AN APPEAL to the I
WIDOW of WILLIAM
commr

PUBLIC in behalf of the
THOM, I'oet of Inverury.
ITTEE.

'rovost Thorns Mr. John Watson
George GiMilan Mr. James A. Ower
Rev. .T. R. INl`Oavin Mr. William Boyack
Dr. Arrot Mr. William Bett
Mr. James Westland Mr. James Chalmers, Jun.
Mr. Patrick Watson Mr. Arthur Begg, jun.
Mr. Thomas Saunders.
TitEastraEa—Mr. Patrick Watson.
SECRETARY—Mr. William Boyack.
The Commit,ee appointed to raise a fund for the relief of the
Widow and Family of the late William Thom, the gifted but unfor-
tunate Poet of Inveritry, beg leave briefly but earnestly to appeal to
the Public, more especially to the Public of Scotland, in behalf of the
trust which has been confided to them.
The name and genius of Thom are well known and universally ac-
knowledged ; many of the feeling and pathetic effusions of his muse
have been breught before the public, not only in a combined form,
but in various periodicals. ills talents attracted the attention of the
ablest judges; and the Messrs. Chambers, in their Journal, have de-
eted a chapter to his autobiography, and to that favourable meed of
praise to which they considered his merits entitled.
The life of William Thom has, in teed, combined the vicissitudes of
a humble child of the Muses, having formed a scene of trials and dis-
appointments, accompanied by an overflowing share of poverty and
distress.
Many of his earliest and best years were passed at the Hawkhill
ef Dundee—the remembrance of which seemed deeply impressed on
his mind ; for thither, to use his own emphatic language, he wished
to return, like a bird that flutters round her forsaken nest, to spend
his latter days i❑ comparative peace and quiet.
His wishes were fulAlled, for not many months ago he did return
from his wanderings, debilitated ana impoverished, and breathed his
last on Monday, the 24th of February. He has left a widow and three
infant children, the youngest but five months old, totally unprovided
for ; and it has therefore been resolved to raise a fund, in order, if
possible, to afford them permanent assistance. A Committee has
been appointed, who have cheerfully undertaken this duty, and al-
ready they are happy to announce that their call has been responded
to in a prompt and liberal manner. Lord Kinnaird, Lord Jeffrey,
Messrs. Douglas Jerrold and Robert Chambers, and many others.
have spontaneously sent their contributions ; and it is earnestly
hoped that the charitable g.nd the admirers of native genius and un•
obtrusive merit will support and encourage the laudable object which
the Committee have in vier•.

Dundee, March 10, 1848.
Contributions will be received by any of the Members of Commit-
tee; and at the shops of Messrs. Chalmers, Shaw, and Middleton,
Booksellers, awl Mr. Mills, Perfumer, Dundee.

DEATH OF WILLIAM THOM, THE INVERITRY POET.
(To the Editor of the "Dundee Courier.")
Dundee, February 29, 1548.
Sir,--The painful task has been deputed to me of announcing to
the public the death of William Thom, the Inverury poet. For
some time past he had been in delicate and declining health ; and
his diseased state of body was doubtless aggravated by the uncer-
tainty of his circumstances, and the consequent anguish of his
honourable and sensitive mind. Yesterday, in our city, at half-,
past elevat a.m., he departed this lite. Ile has left behind him
something more than a name—some true and beautiful strains.
which, as " a thing of beauty is a joy for ever," the world will not
willingly suffer, like the inscription on the coffin, to he buried in
the tomb. He has loft behind him, alas! something of yet ten-
derer anti more mournful interest—a widow and three children,
thi eldest of whom is only four years, and the youngest but a few
months old. These are " utterly destitute," and but for the kind-
ness of one or two private friends, might have been cast out ere
this to the charity of the streets. I make no appeal in behalf of
the poet himself; " after life's fitful fever he sleeps well." He has
found what the most troubled and tempest-tossed wanderer will at
last find, and which to him was peculiarly grateful—rest. Nor will
I indulge or express any vindictive feelings as to the treatment
which he received while yet alive. A true poet, he met with truly
poetic usage. He was caressed, but not fed ; as if one could sup
on incense, or as if one public dinner could keep a man alive for
years : But I would bespeak general sympathy in behalf of his
destitute family. I would implore every lover of literature—
every one who has derived pleasure from the departed poet's
lyrics, or from the simple story of his life—to prove their pleasure
and their gratitude true by some more substantial evidence than ex-
clamations or tears. I would call especially upon those who saw
him at our late Watt Festival, and heard almost his latest breath
given forth In those brief, broken, but thrilling accents—accents how
far superior to the measured cadences of rhetoric—to testify by
generous deeds their sense of inelancholy satisfaction that theirs was
the privilege of meeting with and hearing him for the last time.
No time ought to he lost. Indeed, no time has been lost. Intim-
tions to the above effect either have been, or are immediately to be,
dispatched to Douglas Jerrold, Charles Dickens, Lord Jeffrey, and
others. But as Dundee has had the honour of containing his death-
bed, let us follow the start we have accidentally gained by instant,
active, strenuous efforts in behalf of his widow and his fatherless
bairns.

Messrs. Chalmers, Middleton, and Shaw, Booksellers, and Mr
Mills, Perfumer, have kindly undertaken to receive donations.

The smallest sums will be welcomed

I am, Sir, yours truly,
GEORGE GILFILLAX.
The last verses of the late William Thom, written shortly betbre
his death :

SONG OF THE DWELLERS IN DEAN VALE.
Tune—" Miller o' Dee."
While we laugh amid sing, in this happy ring,
With a bright and a brotherly glee,
May we never forget that the sun hath set
On the homes of misery.
For oh 1 it may be that this chill night wind
Sweeps round some fireless hearth,
Freezing the heart of the homeless sue,
With never a friend on earth.

Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee ;
Yet never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

Man was not made for this world alone,
The world was lent to man ;
'Tie a debt we owe to Heaven, yon know,
Then pay it as well as you can.

Now winter rides mad in his carriage of snow,
ith his pelting rain and his hail ;
May it never be said that hunger and woe
Held abiding in bonny Dean Vale.

Then aye, as we sing, may we closer cling,
In our bright and brotherly glee,
And never forget that the sun may set
On the homes of misery.

W. THOM.

OHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
A_J" EIGHTH CALL of 51. PER SHARE, making the amount
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SPEED AND POWER OF THE
LOCOMOTIVE.
We have recently availed ourselves of opportunities of
testing the running of two classes of broad gauge
engines, with ordinary passenger trains. The working
of locomotives with these trains is a much better indica-
Lien of speed and power, and of the accommodation
afforded to the public, than anything that can be ga-
thered from a thousand experimental trips. The engine
by which we down from Paddington to Swindon, on one
day, was the " Elk "—one of a broad gauge class of
engines having 7-feet driving-wheels, 15. inch cylinders,
and 24-inch stroke. They are somewhat heavier than
the class to which belongs the" Ixion," so celebrated
for her performances in the experiments instituted under
the superintendence of the gauge Commissioners. It will
be recollected that the fastest-recorded trip ever made
with a passenger train was from Paddington to Didcot
(53 miles). It was given by
us about a fortnight since.
The train taken was 50 tons weight, and the time 51 min.
38 secs. The engine used was the " Lightning," one
of the eight-wheel engines, with 8 feet driving-wheels,
18 inch cylinders and 24 inch stroke. On another day
the lighter engine, the " Elk," driven by Thomas
Simpson, a very careful and experienced man, left Pad-
dington at 10.50.30, with the usual morning express
train, weighing 50 tons, and reached Didcot at 11.45.25,
performing the 53 miles therefore—from a state of rest
to a state of rest—in 54
minutes 55 seconds; very ex-
cellent work indeed for this class of engine. Again on
another day we went down by the twelve o'clock train.
The trip was an. extraordinary one. The train con-
sisted of six carriages, two luggage vans, two carriage
trucks, and one horse box, together about 95 tons. The
engine employed was the " Bright Star," with 7 feet
driving wheels, 16 inch cylinder, and 18 inch stroke.
She is a lighter engine than the " Elk," and was built
by the Messrs. Stephenson. Her original consumption
of coke was between forty and fifty pounds per mile,
but she has been almost completely altered in her
proportions. Her boiler has been lengthened, dif-
ferent cylinders put into her, the fire-box enlarged,
the lap of the valve altered, in fact she has been
made quite another engine at Swindon, and her con-
sumption of coke now averages from 28 to 321 b. per
mile. With a train of 95 tons, the " Bright Star,"
driven by Robert Patterson, one of the oldest and best
drivers on the line, left Paddington at 12.3.10, and
passed West Drayton (14 miles) at 12.20.27, having,
therefore, got into speed with this heavy train, and run
the 13 miles in 17 minutes 17 seconds. At the West
Drayton station the " caution" signal was on, and the
same signal was given by the policemen along the line
till we came in sight of the Langley Marsh station (16
miles), where the "red" or " danger" signal was against
the driver. As we approached the station the third
class down train was seen about half a mile a-head.
This
hiswe followed
a t at a reduced rate of speed, and arrived
Sloughl2.2B 47. The 18 miles were, therefore,
cone over in 25 minutes 37 seconds, although we were
ford, Reading,
kept back at a snail's pace for the couple of miles
between Langley Marsh and Slough. The 13 miles
from Slough to Twytord were—from station to station
Withsx
—performed in 17 minutes 2 5 seconds.
stoppages, the train reached
.Swindon at 2.19.20, so that
hours, minutes, 30
and Dtd cot, was 24
seconds. The time lost while the train was at a state of
the 77 miles were performed in 2 l6
Slough,. Twy
minutes,
r4GeB,s,
Goring,
ienacgot
.nFtdhsae.r
isni
The
dhs
oet stations, ivroeonrasad,g, vei st., ,d
pee-, including all the stop-
pages, was 34 miles per hour. We believe there are
not to be found on the narrow-gunge lines
any two
engines that would together equal this performance of
the " Bright Star." .
the four
7-feet-wheel narrow. gauge engine, built by Messrs. Wil-
We are looking anxiously for a trip with
son, of Leeds. We perceive in one of the railway papers
that her asserted rate of 74 or 75 miles per hour is stated
to have been attained with three carriages only . We
doubt that she ever maintained even 64 or 65 miles per
__
she has,
as is asserted by what ought to
If
be considered competent
per
hour without any carriage attached to her.
authority, maintained 75 miles hour with six car-
riages, or 30 tons, she can take 12 carriages at a high
velocity. If "gentlemen" are not joking
about this
new engine, the best interests of the narrow gauge
re quire that her speed and power should be tested forth-
with.—Herald.

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itslheanndah of
natives of Barclay
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THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.—By intelligence from
the Sandwich Islands we learn that there h
Pauma as been ,
a
bbleoloondyginegnctoougntueereninpoomne re one of
hthe re
and Tolly massacred Captain Ricardi and the crew of a
French galliot. On receiving this intelligence,•a steamer
awe
was directed to the spot, and twenty of the natives, who
appeared to be implicated in the crime, were taken to
Otaheite to be tried. Of this number ten have been ac.
quitted, four condemned to the public works for life, and
six to the penalty of death. The capital punishment of
three of them is, however, suspended till the Government
should decide upon the petition for a respite. The other
three have been sent back to their native island, where
summary punishment will be at once executed Journal
de la Raye, April 18.

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required were registered upon a large scale on the
same roll of paper, thus exhibiting at one view
and in the same period of time the tractive power
exerted upon the train, and the force and direction
of the wind; the registration of the results was made
upon the paper at every sixteenth part of a mile, and
the time was registered in correspondence with the
distance traversed during every filth part of a second.
The dynamometer spring used was seven feet
six inches long, and very carefully arranged. It was
only necessary to count the number of seconds, or
fractions of a second, in one or more of the distance
divisions, and the speed was accurately ascertained.
The force and direction of the wind was ascertained
by, a wind gauge, placed five feet above the top of
the carriage, with the connexions brought down
to pencils which indicated on the same sheet all
the results. Indicator cards were also taken si-
multaneously from the steam cylinders as frequently
as was practicable, but not continuously, as it was
a service of some danger, the experimentor being
obliged to sit on the buffer beam of the engine at a
velocity of sixty miles per hour, and in that windy
position to take off four sets of cards in three-quarters
of a minute. The spot selected for performing the
experiments was one mile of railway perfectly
straight and level, and nearly on the surface of the
ground, and in the plan the height of the trees,
hedges, and every intervening object which could
affect the influence of the wind is clearly marked.
The experimental train consisted of first and second-
class carriages, each on six wheels, four feet diameter,
taken indiscriminately from the working stock, and
loaded with iron to represent a fair load of pas-
sengers, giving a gross weight for each of ten Ws.
The experiments were tried with various weights
and speeds up to one hundred tons, and to sixty-
twa miles per hour, and the results were classified
and arranged in a tabular form, with copious expla-
natory headings, so as to render reference to them
exceedingly easy. The author first reviewed the
whic h
deductions of Mr. Wyndham Harding's formula,
was given at the discussion at the institution in
1846, and gave his reasons for dissenting from the for-
mula. He then examined critically several experi-
ments recorded in the tables,statingcandidly
all the
exceptions that could be taken to ' them • showing,
also, that although there was a difference of as much
as fifty-two per -cent. shown between the resistance
as calculated by Mr.
r.
might be accounted periments made b
by Mr. Harding, which were i‘arding's formula and the ex-
Gooch, that difference
by the methods employed
were objected to as cal-
culated to produce erroneous results—viz., allowing
in
carriages to run down by their own gravity,
using wheels of three feet diameter
l instead of four
feet, having a much greater length of train for
the wind to act upon, Scc. He
tin reviewed the great
effect of a side wind against a train
flanches of the wheels against the rails- and the
that the length of a train of carriages was much
hrgued
more
important than its weight. The author did not
offer any formula that should be applicable for calcu-
lating the resistance of all railway trains, but his
tables gave examples of almost every case that could
occur, and thence data could be supplied for those
who wished to carry the investigation further, and
make a formula for themselves. He arrived at the
conclusion that in practice the friction of the axle
journals was not a constant quantity at all speeds,
and thought that the number and diameter of
the wheels in a train, in proportion to the weight,
should form elements in any general formula.
He showed by experiments that the total atmos-
pheric resistance to a train weighing 50 tons differed
but slightly from that to a train of 100 tons weight,
if the carriages were small and the train long in the
one case, and the reverse in the other case. The
general result of the diagram of resistance with trains
of one hundred tons and with fifty tons, showed that
the resistance calculated by the narrow gauge formula
with a fifty ton train, at sixty-two miles and a half
per hour, was thirty-seven pounds. With a train of
one hundred tons, by the same formula, at sixty-one
miles, it was thirty-one pounds and a halt'. The
broad gauge resistance, with a train weighing fifty
tons, at sixty-two miles and a half per hour, was
under twenty-three pounds, and with a train weigh-
ing one hundred tons, at sixty-one miles arid a half
per hour, was twenty-two pounds and a half.
We cannot, of course, give fully
in a comprehensive form, but
such
were the general
results.

The author then concluded his paper by saying that
it appeared to him necessary, before any general
formula for calculating the resistance to railway trains
could be made, that the value of the following ele-
ments, necessary in such formula, should be deter-
mined by experiments.
1. The axle journal friction, at different velocities
and with different weights, per square inch of journal

surface.
2. The resistance to the rotation of the wheels and
axles per pair, at different velocities and with different
diameters.
3. The resistance due to the rolling of the wheels
upon the rails with different weights upon them, and
with different diameters.

4. The resistance due to the passage of the train
through the atmosphere, at different velocities with
different proportions of weight, and length and
breadth of train.

5. The resistance due to the oscillation or unsteady
motion of the train at various speeds.
The author considers that all these values might be
determined, with a considerable degree of accuracy,
by careful experiment.
It was announced that there would be no meeting
on Tuesday April 25 (being Easter Tuesday) ; and
the meeting was, therefore, adjourned till Tuesday,
May 2, when the monthly ballot for members would
take place.

FATAL ACCIDENT TO LADY
MARY FITZROY.
The Sydney pipers, which reached town yester-
day, bring intelligence of a most lamentable accident,
terminating fatally to the above Noble Lady, the
wife of the Governor of New South Wales, and also
to Lieutenant Masters, one of his Excellency's aides-
de-camp. The melancholy details are briefly as
follow :—On the 7th of December last his Excel-
lency and Lady Mary, accompanied by Lieutenant
Masters, left the Government House at Paramatta, in
a carriage and four, for Sydney. Lady Mary was
in the carriage, and his Excellency rode on the
box, driving himself, Lieutenant Masters sitting by
his , side. His Excellency had scarcely taken his
seat before the horses started off at a brisk pace ;
the grooms ran with them a short distance,
keeping hold of the horses, and did not
loose their hold until ordered to do so. Directly
afterwards the animal 3 darted off at a furious rate,
taking the main road from the Government domain
to the town, his Excellency using every effort in his
power to keep the centre of the road. However, on
approaching an oak avenue, the carriage came in con-
tact with one of the trees with tremendous force,
throwing it completely over, and causing its destruc-
tion. The occupants were dashed out with great
violence. Lady Mary Fitaroy, we regret to
say, fell upon her head, fracturing the base of
the skull, and causing blood to flow rapidly
from her mouth and ears. His Excellency es-
caped with trifling injuries. The fate of Lieutenant
Masters was unfortunately otherwise—he pitched
on his head, and was completely insensible when
picked up. Lady Mary Fitzroy expired in a few
minutes, and Lieutenant Masters died at six o'clock
the same evening. On the following day an inquest
was held on the bodies, at Government House, when
a verdict of" Accidental death" was agreed to. Her
Lady ship was in her fifty-seventh year. Lieutenant
Masters was in his twenty-seventh. Their remains
were consigned to the grave at Sydney, the funeral
solemnities being attended by nearly the whole of the
Government officers and ministers of the colony.
Upwards of 5,000 persons were present, including
her Majesty's 90th Regiment, which lined the route
from the Government House to the place of inter-
ment. The event has east a perfect gloom through-
out the colony.

THE CRESCENT AND TAB Cuoss.—Wre observe with
pleasure. as an evidence of the great popularity of Mr.
Eliot Warburton's " Crescent and the Cross,' that a
seventh edition has just appeared. The extraordinary
success of the work is not, however, surprising, for it
has attractions for all classes of readers. The realities
of Eastern travel are described with a vividness which
invests them with deep and enduring interest; while the
romantic adventures which the enterprising tourist met
with are narrated with infinite spirit. Warburton':Mr.de
route lay through the countries most endeared
with those
to the
associations of the classical and biblical scholar. His
descriptions and reflections will call up scenes and cir-
cumstances to the recollection of such with fresh
light. To the reader but partially a
countries, sources of interesting ilnl befor derived.—Evening
up which cannot fail to create an appetite for research
are opened
from which lasting advantages

Paper.
ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS. WOOLWICH,
APRIL 20.—Captain Webb, Lieutenant Wilkinson, and
Lieutenant Farrell, Royal Engineers, one colour-ser-
g• eant two sergeants, two first corporals, and three
second corporals, Royal Sappers and Miners, left the
garrison to fill up the 17th company at present under a
course of instruction at Chatham in mining on field
works, that company having received orders to hold
themselves in readineks to embark at Gravesend in the
early part of next month for service at the Mauritius.