The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-07 00:00:00

METHOD OF MAKING PLATE GLASS.

When the glass is melted, it is poured out upon a
table, which should be of metal perfectly level, and fur-
nished with iron ledges of the same thickness as the
plate of glass is intended to be ; the ledges are to con-
fine the fluid glass to the size proposed. A heavy
copper roller then passing over it, pushes the soft glass
before it, and presses it into a smooth, level surface.
The newly-formed plate, when sufficiently hardened by
cooling, is slid into a furnace, or kind of oven, where
it remains for a fortnight, care being taken that it
should cool very gradually. The plates thus formed
are afterwards ground to a more exact level with sand,
and then polished with emery, tripoli, and putty, till
they acquire that beautiful surface we are accustomed
to see. I have said that we are indebted to the inge-
nuity of the French for the art of casting plates of
glass. At Ravenhead, in Lancashite, they are now
cast in such perfection as to equal, in every respect,
those that are made in France. A number of persons
have formed themselves into a company, to defray the
great expense and share the profits of the undertaking.
They have an iron casting-table fifteen feet long, nine
feet wide, and six inches thick. This enormous table
is so heavy that it is supported on castors, for the con-
venience of moving it close to the mouth of the ovens,
in which the plates of glass are to be gradually cooled.
The room in which this great table stands is said to
be the largest under one roof that has ever been built
in England. It is even larger than Westminster Hall,
being 395 feet long, 155 feet wide, and proportionably
lofty. The melting furnaces are ranged down the
middle, and occupy about one-third of the apartment.
The ovens in which the glass plates are gradually
cooled, are placed in two rows along the side walls of
the room. Each of them is 16 wide deep and 40 deep.
Their floors are just level with the top of the great
casting-table ; so that when all is ready, the table may
be rolled up to the mouth of . the oven, and the plate
slipped in without delay. It is a great favour to obtain
admission to a plate-glass manufactory. Mr. Parkes,
who was permitted to witness the casting of a large
plate, describes it as a grand and interesting sight. A
vast body of melted glass, of the finest and purest ma-
terials, is poured out of an immense crucible ; when
the large copper roller has passed over it, the glass is
spread out into a sheet of uniform breadth and thick-
ness, and its surface exhibits a variety of colours. At
least twenty workmen are employed in the operation.
All are busy : but there must be no bustle—no dis-
turbance of any kind ; even the opening or shutting of
a door must be avoided till the glass is tolerably har-
dened, lest the motion of the air should cause a wave
or wrinkle on the surface, and thus lessen the value of
the plate.—Lectures at Home.

Mr. Rickards, the Factory Inspector, has aban-
doned the right which he claimed under the Factory Act, of
limiting the signing of children's certificates to surgeons ap-
pointed by himself.—Leeds Intelligencer,

REVISING BARRISTERS' COURT.

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.

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Mr. COVENTRY and Mr. KEENE, the Revising Barristers,
attended yesterday at the Marylebone Court House for the
revision of the lists.

Mr. KEENE, in adverting to the decision pronounced at
Brentford on Saturday relative to the claim to the elective
franchise by remainder-men, said the case involved the right
of a very numerous class of persons in respect of the county
franchise. The case was this :—A gentleman from Shep-
perton claimed in respect of a reversionary interest in cer-
tain freehold estates devised by his father to the claimant's
mother for her life, with remainder to the claimant and his
heirs. The claimant had been brought up by, and conti-
nued to reside with, his mother in the same house, part of
the devised premises, and there was a clause in the will
providing for his maintenance and education during his mi-
nority out of the rents and profits of the devised estates.
Now the 25th section of the Reform Act provided that no
person shall be registered in any one year in respect to his
estate and interest in any freehold except he shall be in the
actual possession of, in respect of the rents and profits
thereof for six months, before the last day of July in each
year. Upon this clause the first question that arose was, how
could a person claiming a future interest satisfy the condition
of six months' actual possession or receipt of the rents and
profits. The claimant, with considerable ingenuity, had
contended that his residence in the same house with his
mother was a sufficient possession within the meaning of the
Act ; that he shared in the rents and profits during his
minority, under the express direction of the will, and that
he had continued to do so since he attained his age, and he
further relied upon his interest being vested, and upon his
capacity to dispose of it. It appeared to him (Mr. Keene)
that there was no weight in any of these arguments. As
to its being a vested interest, the question was not whether
it was vested, but whether it was vested in possession ; and
the claimant's power of selling a future interest, subject to a
prior interest in possession, proved nothing as to his capacity
to exercise a right incident to that prior interest. It occurred
to him (Mr. Keene), however, that the rule of law which de-
clared that the possession of the tenant for life is the posses-
sion of the tenant in remainder might have been brought in
in aid of the claim ; but, upon considering the effect of that
rule, he was of opinion that the possession of the tenant for
life was considered the possession of the remainder-man, for
the purpose of protecting and supporting the rights of the
latter, and not for the purpose of giving him any present
interest. Thus the tenant in possession defends the re-
mainder-man's as well as his own rights in the action of
ejectment. If the tenant in possession had been a male,
the claimant could have had no pretence for claiming the
right of voting ; and it could not be for an instant con-
tended that the sex of the tenant for life would make any
difference in the rights of the remainder-man. It might be
said, and said truly, that the effect of this decision would
be to leave unrepresented a very considerable portion of
property, namely, wherever the tenant for life in possession
was a female, but that observation applied to all cases where
females, sui juris, were in possession, whether for life, in fee,
or for any lesser interest, which but for their sex would
confer the elective franchise. After having given the fullest
consideration to the present case, he was of opinion that a
claim to vote made in respect of an estate in remainder, in
lands and tenements (the tenant for life being in posses-
sion, and in the receipt of the rents and profits) conic' not
be sustained.

Mr. COVENTRY concurred in the decision expressed by
his Learned Colleague.

WESTMINSTER.
IMPORTANT DECISION.

Mr. Caleb Elisha, of Piccadilly, claimed to have his
name placed on the list as an inhabitant householder, pay-
ing scot and lot. _ _ _

-In answer to questions put to him by Mr. TAMLYN, he
stated that he had for upwards of twenty years rented and
occupied a house in Duke-street, St. James's, and which he
held on lease. He left that house in February last, and
took another house in Piccadilly ; but although he had let
the house in Duke-street for one year, he continued to pay
the rates, and it still stood in his name in the parish books.
This he did in order to continue his right to vote in respect
of such house ; but should the barristers think that his not
continuing to occupy it deprived him of his vote, then he
claimed to vote for the other house in Piccadilly, his re-
moval there constituting a " continued occupation" of a
house within the city and liberties of Westminster.
Mr. TAMLYN—You clearly have no vote for the house
in Duke-street, it not being occupied by you. Have you
paid the rates of your house in Piccadilly ?
Mr. Elisha—l have not, and for this reason. I did not
take possession of it until the 25th of February, yet I was
called upon last quarter to pay the poor rates from the sth
of January. I requested that some deduction might be
made on account of the six weeks prior to my taking pos
session, and offered to pay for a quarter and a half. The
collector refused to take this. My objection was to being
taxed retrospectively. The question is still pending -be-
tween me and the parochial authorities. lam willing to
pay whatever is just and reasonable.
Mr. THOMPSON—The question here is whether your re-
fusal to pay the rate demanded of you was one that you
were justified in making. If the parish authorities insist
upon your paying the whole of their demand, will you do so?
Mr. Elisha—Most certainly ; but they doubt themselves
whether I am liable or not ; and until they decide, the col-
lector acting under their advice declines taking my money.

Mr. THOMPSON.—I cannot think that under these cir-
cumstances you can be considered as having refused to pay
the rates, or, rather, that your refusal is such a one as
comes within the meaning of the Act of Parliament. This
is not a case of a formal demand of a payment of rates and
a refusal.

Mr. Buzzard did not object to Mr. Elisha's name being
placed on the list, but as there were other claimants under
precisely similar circumstances, he felt it his duty to take
the opinion of the Revising Barristers upon the subject.
Mr. THomrsori.—From whathas been stated I am bound
to assume that Mr. Elisha is willing to pay whatever sum
the Commissioners may decide he is liable for, and I there-
fore think that he is entitled to have his name placed on
the list, not for the house in Duke-street, but for the one
he now occupies in Piccadilly, his removal there being a
" continued occupation," within the meaning of the Act.
Mr. Tamlyn was of the same opinion, and the claim was
consequently allowed.
Messrs. John and James Oliver claimed to have their
names inserted on the list as the owners of a house in
Duke-street, St. James's.
Mr. Buzzard did not object to the claim, but in this
case also there was a question on which he wished to take
the opinion of the Revising Barristers. The claimants had
not paid the poor rates, and there not doing so arose from
the following circumstances :—" At Christmas last their
house was pulled down for the purpose of being rebuilt, and
when the parish rate was made the house was omitted, it
being at the time nearly pulled down, consequently no de-
mand for the poor rates was made on the claimants, but as
soon as it was rebuilt the claim would be made as before,
and lie had no doubt it would be paid.
Mr. Tnowsox—We must consider this house as extra-
parochial for the time being.—Claim allowed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE. -r

MANSION-HO USE.

A young man of respectable appearance; just arrived
from the country, appeared at the Justice-room to complain
against the gentleman who sells goods by auction in a shop
in Cornhill, where a voice behind a counter is constantly
inviting strangers who are fond of getting bargains with the
words " Going, going, going." The applicant was first in-
duced to purchase a penknife, and then some other trifling
article which he considered very cheap. Afterwards, how-
ever, be began to bid for other goods, until the amount
rose up to several pounds. He remarked one person at
the auction, who, at the same time that he praised the
articles very much, bid for them too, so that he (the appli-
cant) might have had them much cheaper if it had not been
for the conduct of this intermeddling customer. At last
the auctioneer began to put down to him articles which he
did not at all want, and which he had not bid for. At this
time the applicant bad put down a deposit of 71., and the
bargains were soon sent home to him with a bill for 17/. ;
but a friend, who is a man of experience in London, called
upon him, and told him that he had been regularly
humbugged.
The LORD MAYOR desired that an officer should give an
intelligible hint at the auction rooms about which numerous
complaints have been made, and the auctioneer attended to
explain.
The LORD MAYOR asked why the Gentleman who com-
plained had been subjected to such a fraud ?—The auctio-
neer laughed, and said that he did no more than other auc-
tioneers did. He got off the goods he was intrusted with
as well as he could.
The LORD MAYOR—You keep a person to bid, and as
soon as you can take in any inexperienced person, you
knock down the goods, as you call them, to him.
Auctioneer (laughing)—That's the way it's always done,
my Lord. There is always somebody to buy in if we auc-
tioneers can't get a proper price.
The LORD MAYOR—I shall do all I can to make the
Excise interfere to prevent you from committing those acts
of fraud.

Auctioneer—lf I don't do what is required of me, that's
a question between me and the Excise.
The LORD MAYOR---In the meantime I shall send two
officers to caution the public against your place of sale.
Auctioneer—Ay, ay ! Then I will bring
an action
against you. .
The LORD MAYoft—l shall commit you too if you are
insolent.

Auctioneer—l humbly beg pardon, my Lord.

The LORD MAYOR then ordered that officers should be
stationed at the door of the auction-room.

BO W-STREET.

Yesterday a well-dressed boy, named William Rayner,
was brought up charged with stealinc, a silver snuff-box
from the person of a gentleman named6Thermott.
The prisoner said he bought the box from a boy in the
street for 2s.

The story was not believed, and he was fully committed
to Newgate for trial.

A young female of most distressing appearance, was
brought before Mr. HALLS, charged by the police with
having created a disturbance on Saturday evening.
In answer to a question from the Magistrate,
The defendant said that she had two children by a young
man who had deserted her, and on her meeting him on
Saturday evening, she asked him to give her a trifle to sup-
port them, which he refused, and she was certainly very
much exasperated in consequence.
MAGISTRATE-Ah, we shall have plenty of this soon.
The prisoner was then ordered to be discharged.

HATTON-GARDEN.
NUISANCE IN SOUTHAMPTON-STREET, PENTONVILLE.
—THE LATE MURDERS.—Yesterday several respectable
inhabitants of Southampton-street, Pentonville, attended at
this Office to complain of a gross nuisance which had
existed during the last week in the above street, and to
solicit the advice of the Magistrates under the following
circumstances :

One of the applicants resided with his family in a house
adjacent to thattin which Steinberg murdered Mrs. Lefevre
and her children. Some cunning individual had taken the
house of Mr. Cuthbert, the landlord, and had got up wax
effigies of the murdered persons, which were laid out in the
various apartments in the same postures as they were found
when discovered, and the public were admitted to view
them and the house at so much per head. The consequence
was that immense crowds of persons daily assembled in the
neighbourhood, and the respectable part of the inhabitants
were so extremely annoyed that many of them had quitted
their residences, and others were about to do so unless the
nuisance could be checked. Applicant here handed a letter
to Mr. Rogers, which stated that the inhabitants were an-
noyed and disgusted by the gross and indecent exhibition of
the figures of the murdered persons, and having the awful
circumstance revived in their memory by such proceeding.
The letter assured the Magistrate that it would do great
injury to persons holding house property in the neighbour-
hood, and was truly horrible and disgusting to the respect-
able portion of the inhabitants, especially the ladies. The
letter was signed by Mr. Leevor, of Southampton-street.
Mr. ROGERS conceived, with the applicants, that it was
annoying and disgusting, but he could not see how he could
interfere as a Magistrate, although he conceived it to be a
very fit subject for the interference of the parish authorities.
He advised that the housekeepers should make their formal
complaint to the parish officers, and cause the parties be-
longing to the exhibition and house to be indicted for the
nuisance.

Applicant—The housekeepers did complain to the parish
officers, and on Sunday morning the overseer or church-
warden attended and took down their names, but I am sur-
prised not to see him here, or more of the inhabitants.
Inspector Thompson, of G division, here stated that on
Saturday evening last Inspector Miller, of N division,
attended to ask the advice of Mr. Sergeant Sellon upon the
subject, when he stated that the proprietor of the exhibition
intended to exhibit the house and figures on the Sunday.
Mr. Sergeant Sellon then expressed his indignation, and
said that it would be a disgraceful proceeding, and the par-
ties ought to be indicted for the nuisance.
It was here stated that parties were actually admitted
into the house on Sunday, aad that the, proprietor had
bought a knife, which was represented to be the instrument
with which the awful tragedy was perpetrated, and for the
purpose of effect had steeped the blade in blood, whereas
the identical knife is still in the safe keeping of Bugg, the
beadle, in the event of any legal proceedings being insti-
tuted by the Steinberg family.
Waddington, the gaoler, on Sunday morning last passed
by the house where the figures are exhibited, when he saw
a crowd round the house, and a constable named Atkinson,
who is an inspector of police, standing in an upright posi-
tion, with a large brass staff in his han, before the door to
attract the attention of the passengers, he saw several per-
sons admitted into the house, and he cautioned the constable,
who said that there was no exhibition.
Mr. RouEas advised if he caused a mob to assemble to
take him into custody.
The Applicants waited for some time under the expec-
tation that the parish authorities would meet them ; but
they eventually quitted the office.
Mr. Garland, the churchwarden, ultimately arrived at
the office, where he was informed f the applications that
had been made. Mr. Garland said that he had been de-
tained on parish business, and expressed his surprise that
more of the inhabitants had not attended to meet him, as he
had taken down the names of several complaining of the nui-
sance, which he had witnessed himself ; but he would not
interfere further unless the inhabitants more generally came
forward to put down the nuisance.
It has been stated that the figures exhibited have on the
identical clothes worn by the deceased. Such is not the
fact. Steinberg was buried in the same clothes in which he
was found on the morning that the murders were discovered.
Edward Barratt, a young man of very distressed appear-
ance, was charged by Josiah Dean, who represents himself
as inspector of Hawkers' Licenses, with having sold and of-
fered for sale the unstamped publications called the Weekly
Police Gazette and the Hue and Cry.
Dear stated that on Sunday morning he saw the pri-
soner in Liquorpond-street, Gray's Inn-lane, offering the
publications for sale. He sold some.
Mr. RoGEas(looking over one of the publications)—Oh,
I see there has been a meeting of newsvenders. Here is a
long account.

_
Dean—Yes, your Worship, they have had a meeting,
and they have passed resolutions putting the Government
and the law at defiance.

Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner what he had to say for
himself ? Prisoner—l was out of employ, your Worship,
and could get nothing to do. I was distressed. I tried to
sell those papers to get something to eat.
Mr. ROGERS—You have offended against the law, and
you are now committed to the House of Correction for
fourteen days.
The papers (very few) were detained.