The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-24 00:00:00

CORN WALL RAILWAY.

PLYMOUTH, MAY 20.—We learn with pleasure that a
meeting of the directors of this railway has been hell at
Plymouth during the past week, at which it has been
resolved to continue the progress of the works of this
line, so as to be prepared for the extension of the opera-
tions immediately that such a course may be deemed
advisable. We are enabled to state that the experiment
with the iron cylinder at Saltash has fully answered the
most sanguine expectations of the superintendent engi-
neer. it will be recollected that a cylinder made of
boiler plate was some time since moored in the centre of
the river, the object being to ascertain whether, by its
sinking in the mud, it would not prove water-tight, and
thus answer the purpose of an ordinary coffer-dam, to
construct which in so great a depth of water would be
impracticable. This experimental cylinder is 6 feet in
diameter, and 85 in length. When moored in its proper
position it sank at once 10 feet into the mud, the depth
of the water at high tide being about 70 feet. On
Tuesday evening the water within the cylinder was
lowered 36 feet under high water mark, and at the end
of 16 hours it had only risen again to the extent of 51
inches. Yesterday the water was further lowered
feet 9 inches, and in a day or two the remainder will be
drawn out, when by excavating the mud the full nature
of the fourdation Hill be discovered. The rise of the
51 inches within the tube is fully accounted for by the
heavy rain which fell on Wednesday, and a slight leakage
in the j..iints of the boiler plates

LITERARY NEWS —The public will be glad to
hear that a new work of fiction, from the pen of Sir Ed-
ward Bulwer Lytton, entitled " Jlarold, the last of the
Saxon Kings," is in the press, and will be shortly pub-
lished by Mr. Bentley.
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ROBBERY OF NEARLY Two HUNDRED POUNDS.—
WORCESTER, MONDAY EVENING.—For some time past
this city has been infested with a gang of pickpockets,
who avail themselves of the crowded markets to ease
the pockets of the citizens and their wives of their loose
cash. To-day a suspected rogue of this class under-
went an examination before Mr. Sidebottom, police ma-
gistrate, on a charge of picking the pocket of a lady on
Saturday last, of gold and notes to the value of about
801., and a banker's draft fur 100/. The robbery was
effected on Saturday last in the market-house, at mid-
day. The lady had been to her banker and obtained
the money, and thence went to the market house,
where she was bustled and robbed. The prisoner was
taken as he was leaving the city by railway for Birm-
ingham. A large sum of money was found upon him.
He stands remanded for the present.
IMPROPER BURIAL OF THE DEAD.— Quite an army
of sextons took possession of ;the Liverpool Police-court
on Saturday, having been summoned, under the Sanitary
Act, for infraction of the law in the mode of conducting
interments. The informations were laid by the direction
of Mr. Fresh; they were for non-compliance with that
clause which requires that two feet six inches of earth
shall be placed on every coffin immediately after inter-
ment. D. Mulligan, the sexton of St. Anthony's Ca-
tholic Chapel, appeared, in answer to one complaint,
but contended that the Act had been complied with,
which transpired to be literally true. It was explained
that after a coffin was lowered to its bed of rest, by
means of a machine contrived for the purpose, a body of
earth, of the thickness of two feet six inches, was set
down, but only to be raised, en masse, when the next in-
terment took place. J. Kirkham, sexton of the Wesleyan
chapel, admitted that after two interments in separate
graves, no soil except a small quantity, just sufficient to
cover the plate of the coffin,i which was uppermost, was
thrown down; but showed that this was owing to a
misunderstaning on his part, the trustees of the chapel
having instructed him to comply with the Act. J. Ash-
croft, sexton of St. Mary's, Kirkdale, was also summoned.
Mr. Rushton, at the conclusion, said the Act was of pe-
culiar construction, and believing they had sinned from
ignorance, dismissed the cases; but warned them to
comply in future with the exact conditions of the law,
which was, that after each interment earth to the thick-
ness of two feet six inches be placed over the coffin, to
remain undistui bed: until the grave be wanted again.
The defendants promised obedience and departed.
The musical world has lost an important member
in the late .mr. Julian Kench, who expired, after a few
days' illness, on Monday last, at the premature age of
hisly
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THE 72D HIGHLANDERS.-011 Thursday the depot
of this regiment, nearly 500 strong, under the command
of Major Maclean, recently stationed in Paisley and
Hamilton, passed through this city, and was conveyed
from Granton- pier to the Belleisle, and proceeded to
Sheeross.—Rdinburgh Witness.