The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-23 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
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James 11P1Ifichael,faiea— clerk 111;;;;. Marks', coach-
makers, of Langham-place, was charged with embezzling
various sums of money paid to him on account of his employers.
Only one case was proved against the prisoner, that of re-
ceiving 1/. 6s.

He was remanded until Friday, when others cases will be
brought forward.

MARYLEBONE.

Five young men, of genteel appearance, were charged with
having broken the peace in the following ludicrous manner :
A police constable on duty in the Junction-road, about three
o'clock on the same morning was startled by loud and discor-
dant noises proceeding from Oxford-terrace, and, on going to
the spot found that the inhabitants had been aroused from their
slumbers by the prisoners, who were braying away in the true
donkey fashion, and so exact was the imitation that a multitude
of his Majesty's lieges were seen with their heads popped out
of window, imagining, no doubt, that all the costermongers'
donkeys in the neighbourhood had broken their tethers and
congregated on the spot. The constable having satisfied him-
self that the sounds did not proceed from any four-footed ani-
mals, but from the bipeds above named, put an end to the dis-
mal noises by carrying them to the station-house.
The prisoners, who attributed their penchant for braying to
the potency of the liquor they had been quaffing, were fined
one shilling each and discharged.

THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday Mr. W. Woolcombe, a respectable shipbroker in
the city, called the attention of Mr. BALLANTINE, the presi-
ding magistrate, to a case of a peculiarly distressing nature
regarding nearly one hundred foreigners, who had lately ar-
rived in this country, and who were then in a starving con-
dition
Mr. Woolcombe was passing over Milwall, on the banks of
the Thames at Poplar, when he was informed that a great
number of Saxons had just been landed from a Prussian ship,
which arrived a few days ago from Bremen, and that a majo-
rity of them were labouring under illness, and were entirely
destitute of every thing. He saw many of them on Millwall,
and their condition was most deplorable. There were several
children among them, and he was informed that a contagious
fever had broken out on board the ship, and that one person
had died, and others were in a dying state. He distributed a
few shillings among the most necessitous, and came away with
the determination of calling the attention of the proper autho-
rities to the circumstances.
Mr. BALLANTINE directed Mr. Evans, the principal surveyor
of Thames Police, to proceed to Millwall, and as there was
19s. in the office poor-box, he could distribute that sum among
the strangers.
Mr. Evans instantly proceeded to the ship, and afterwards
to Millwall, and at a late hour returned and stated the result
of his inquiries to the Magistrate. He said the emigrants
were eighty-four in number, and belonged to Hesse Cassel, in
Saxony, which place they left a short time ago with the in-
tention of emigrating to America. On reaching Bremen
they were unsuccessful in meeting a ship to convey
them to the United States ; but after remaining there a few
days they fell in with the Captain of a Prussian ship on the
point of sailing, with whom they entered into a nego-
tiation to convey them to England at the rate of 1/. for each
adult, and eighteen shillings for the children, with an under-
standing at the same time that he would, on his arrival in the
port of London, procure passages for them all to America at
the rate of 2/. per head. On the arrival of the ship in the
river the Captain took no pains to fulfil the latter part of his
agreement, and told them that he knew of no ship in Lon-
don which would convey them to America for 2/. each.
After four or five days had elapsed some of the parties
waited upon the Saxon Consul, and after represent-
ing to him their very distressed condition, requested
him to provide passages for them to America. The Consul,
however, refused to comply with this request, but had no ob-
jection to send them back to Saxony i s soon as possible. They
seemed reluctant to return, as their views were fixed on Ame-
rica, though all the money they had raised by the disposal of
their property for the purpose of emigrating to the United
States was' exhausted, and they had no other prospect before
them but starvation. The health of the foreigners had been
greatly affected by their confinement in a small space between
the decks of the vessel, which was not at all adapted for car-
rying passengers, and contained a cargo of wheat. He found
one child dead on board, and two others in a dying state, one
of whom could not possibly survive. He had taken the body
ashore and directed the beadle of the parish to give informa-
tion of the circumstances to Mr. Baker, the Coroner, who
would order a jury to be summoned. He considered that many
stood in need of surgical assistance.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked if any of the foreigners had been
left on the ship ?
Mr. Evans had taken them all ashore with the exception of
one woman, between whom and the Captain a good under-
standing seemed to exist, and she expressed her determination
to go back with him. A Mr. Schenrer, a ship biscuit-baker,
on Millwall, had behaved very kindly to the destitute foreigners,
and had not only given them food, but had also appropriated a
large warehouse for the reception of as many as he could ac-
commodate, while a neighbour had given up a loft for the same
purpose.
Mr. BALLANTINE inquired if the parish officers had inter-
fered, and given the foreigners any assistance ?
Mr. Evans said the parish officers had been with him during
the day, and intended to give them some relief if they had not
already done so. The poor foreigners were really objects of
pity, and they represented that if they went back to Hesse
Cassel they should have no means of supporting themselves,
and that great distress existed there. In answer to further
questions, Mr. Evans said that it appeared to him, from the
best information that he had been enabled to collect, that the
people had been deluded by the representations of the Captain,
who had brought them here under pretence of procuring them
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distressing case, and he had no doubt that on a proper repre-
sentation of the facts being made to his Majesty's Government,
somc means would be adopted to send home the foreigners. In
th6.meantirrie cars Must be taken that no contagious fever ,

was spread abroad. After some directions were given to Mr.
Evans, the conversation terminated.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-UOUSE, JULT 22.
Waterloo, Stranack, from Rotterdam ; Emma, Lissnyder,
Ostend ; Hoffnung, Horstman, Brake ; John Pirie, Adam,
Guernsey; States- Quiller, Singapore; Constance, Lavet-
relois, Cherbourg ; Latona, Carter, Quebec ; Betsey, Nelson,
Guernsey; Ann, Free, Sydney, New South Wales; Amity,,
Jefferson, Laguna de Terminos ; Lord Hawkesbury, Overton,
Ostend ; Lima, Lord, New Orleans ; Waterloo, Dodds,
Bombay ; John M'Cullen, Baker, St. Lucia ; Romulus,
Fisher, Jamaica; Troh Ghbroeders, Bear, Worcum ; Neva,
Pritchie, Quebec ; Beeswing, Smith, Lisbon ; Fanny, Weal,
Quebec ; Walker, Irvine, Restigouche ; Rambler, Anderson,
Mauritius and St. Helena ; Snaresbrook, Partridge, Ham-
burg ; Baothick, Horsley, Cuxhaven and Newfoundland ;
Wansbeck, Case, Tobago ; Sceptre, Reed, Cumberland,
Nova Scotia ; Arethusa, Wakefield, Rio de Janeiro ; Briton,
Handford, Palermo ; Cara Brea, Mitchell, Falmouth ;
Giraffe, Denys, Ostend, Bruges, and Ghent ; London Mer-
chant, Mowll, Hamburg ; Perseverance, Margolle, Calais ;
Sir John Rae Reid, Haig, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land;
Countess Dunmore, Small, Constantinople and Odessa;
Lotus, Wilson, Launceston and Van Diemen's Land; Mon-
trose, Alexander, St. John's, New Brunswick.

♦ESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Lord Ravensworth, of Sunderland, from Memel, the
3d inst., in lat. 45. long. 46. ; the Hadohouse, Tindall, of
Sunderland, the sth, in lat. 46. long. 44. ; the Usk, of
Dartmouth, for Quebec, the same day, by the Sun, arrived off
Cork. The Season, Cox, bound to Sunderland, in lat. 52.
long. 52. by the Wellington, arrived in Yarmouth Roads.

DISCOVERY of the PROPERTIES of STEAM.

The person who first considered the properties of steam
philosophically was Papin, a physician born at Blois, who
visited England in 1680, and became curator to the Royal
Society. The Digester, which he constructed next year,
exemplified the enormous elastic force that steam acquires
when heated and confined. As a source of power he pro-
posed atmospheric pressure, by forming a vacuum either by
the inflammation of gunpowder or the condensation of
steam. Precluded by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes
from returning to France, he accepted, in 1687, an invita-
tion from the Prince of Hesse to the chair in the Univer-
sity of Marburg. There he extended his plans, but found
no helps to carry them into execution. The superior skill
of English artists transferred the palm of invention. New-
comen, a blacksmith, and Cawley, a glazier, natives of
Dartmouth, by their united studies and labours, produced
the atmospheric or fire-engine in 1705 ; but, to prevent
opposition, they associated in their patent a naval officer,
Savery, who had a few years before contrived a very imper-
fect machine, which acted, however, by alternate expansion
and condensation. Accident suggested the injection of cold
water within the steam-vessel, instead of external effusion.
Beighton simplified the mode of opening and shutting the
valves, and improved the whole system of machinery ; and
in the course of half a century, the fire-engine was adopted
for raising water in all the coal-mines. At this epoch the
genius of Watt, guided by sound judgment, and urged by
unremitting application, effected, in less than forty years, a
complete change in the powers of mechanism. His steady
purpose was to reform the principles of the steam-engine,
and reduce its composition to mathematical precision. He
began with performing the condensation in a vessel distinct
from the working cylinder ; and he next excluded atmo-
spheric pressure, and merely employed the alternate action
of expanding and contracting steam. But to pursue his
career of invention might demand a separate disquisition.—
Enc.yclopcedia Britannica, new edition; Professor Leslie's
Dissertation.