The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-29 00:00:00

NEW FUEL.

Among the list of patents in the journal of last
week is one granted to Mr. Alexander Speid Living
stone, engineer, for improvements in the manufacture
of fuel. This invention, we understand, is of a very
important character, both as regards the manipula-
tion and the machinery used in its manufacture—
the former being performed in a simple and
economical manner, while the latter, from its
cheapness and unerring accuracy, must render Mr.
Livingstone's system eminently successful. The chief
obstacle to the success of patent fuel works has been
in the large outlay of capital for the expensive and
delicate machinery, requiring constant attention and
repair, besides the absence of all proper economy in
labour employed, together with the uncertainty
of producing the same quality of fuel, which has
thrown it hitherto into disrepute, as no dependence
could be placed upon one cargo being equal to an-
other in quality, and this is well known to those who,
from experience, approve of fuel in blocks, from its
great facilities in stowage, and absence of decrepita-
tion in hot and frigid climates and of spontaneous com-
bustion (to say nothing of economy in evaporating
power, when properly manufactured). There are thou-
sands of tons of small coal lying useless at the coaling
stations abroad, the accumulation of years, arising
from the breakage of the large coal, which great loss,
both in the material and freight, would be saved by
fuel in blocks. 'We are happy to have it in our
power to state, that not only will one cargo be equal
to another in quality by Livingstone's process, but
every block, because the process through which
each is submitted ensures this object, while
the evaporating power of the fuel is increased
over and above that of the coal from which
it is made in the proportion of 15 to 25 per
cent.; and this concentration of evaporating force can
be fully appreciated in sea-going vessels when we es-
timate the saving of space required for stowage of
coal, by the use of fuel in regular shaped blocks,
while to the many companies and contractors for
carrying the foreign mails, block fuel holds out, when
properly made, these advantages in no ordinary de-
gree.—Mining Journal.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.—The twenty-third an-
nual general court of the governors of this institution was
held last evening at the Board-room, Gray's Inn-road; Mr.
W. Pritchard in the chair. The secretary read the report
for the past year, which stated that the receipts for that
period amounted to 5,018/. 14s. • the expenditure, includ-
ing abdut 1,1001. paid for old debts, to 4,874/. 13s. Ild.,
being a decrease of about 5501. (occasioned mainly by
a diminution in the amount of legacies) as compared with
the receipts of the previans year. The number of pa-
tients who have been relieved is 28,135, being a decrease
of about 50 upon the number relieved in 1849. Thus, while
the total number relieved is nearly equal to that of 1849,
the receipts have been less by between 5001. and 600/. The
number of beds ready for occupation is 134; but one
ward, containing 48 beds, is unfortunately closed from want
of funds. The total number of sufferers relieved by the
charity since its commencement is upwards of 310,000. The
motion for the adoption and circulation of the report was
then carried unanimously, after which the governors for the
withinensug year were balloted for, and the meeting terminated
a vote of thanks to the committee and officers, and h
chairman.
hrietening
EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DEATH FROM BRA
d and 3ENNEss.--A man, named Millard, had been to a s
ay
on Sunday last, at Wells, and was drinkinogsiasthouse, on
night ; is the afternoon of Monday
:_ bad dropping down
sat close to the fire and fell asleep, so coming in considered
the road to Bath, and after having hhaedgsootnite
close to the end of the grate. -
too s drink there, he
etboe fire the man would be
that in leaning down so close
to d wake him up; ankthe
hurt, and therefore attemPt°ce, when they raised the unfor-
landlord came to his assis!an
in doingain sleep, his neckcloth had been
so discovered that whilst his
thuenaadtehadm
k that drawsi-' out in some grates for the spit
caught by a book that
he bad been hung ! lie made but a
to rest on, by being raised up, and life could
baneenup:, rrodop ng
not be re-
single groan }after_
ffitri or.
MARKET—The quotation of gold at Paris is
14°NET discount, t 2 per mille which, at the English Mint
re-
stored. roan
of 34 17s. 100. per ounce for standardgold, •
price
an exchange of 25.12; and the exchange at Paris on Lon-
Bristo/
don at short being 24.97 i, it follows that gold is 0.58 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 422 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. loid. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.38; and the ex-
change at llamburgh on London at short being 13.41,
it follows that gold is 0.65 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in llamburgh. The course of exchange
at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sigh*
is 1101 per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it fol-
lows that the exchange is nominally 0.92 per cent. in
favour of England, and, after making allowance for
difference of interest and charges of transport, the
present rate leaves a profit on the importation of gold
from tile United *tate&

HEALTH OFLONDON DURING THEW EEK.
(From the Registrar-General's Return.)
The present return exhibits a decrease in the mor-
tality of the metropolitan districts during the- week
(
that ended last Saturday ; the deaths, which in the
two preceding weeks were 1,023 and 1,037, having
now fallen to 956. Taking corresponding weeks of
the ten years (1841-50), the lowest return was made
in 1846, when the deaths registered were only 908,
in a week of unusually high temperature, the mean
of which rose about 10 degrees above the average :
and the highest occurred in 1848—namely, 1,457
deaths, when influenza had not disappeared, when
other epi i epdemcs abounded, and
faanlidenthneemarely aantaemm
be-
lowas singularly low,theaverageos in 1846 it had been above it.
The average number of deaths in the ten correspond-
ing
weeks was 1,104, compared with which (without
any correction for supposed increase of population)
the account for last week presents a favourable
result. But an inspection of the Table of Ages and
Fatal Diseases shows that, though there is a mat ked
diminution of mortality trom broechi is, which had
previously thinned the ranks of the aged, who are
the greatest sufferers by it; and though the number
who die from what is rather vaguely described as'
" old age" has declined from 46 in the preceding week
to 35 in the last, and in some complaints cornrow] to
the young there is also a decrease, yet pneumonia,
which i 5 principally fatal to children, has actually in-
creased, and in the epidemic class smallpox end fever
exhibit a considerable advance. Zymotic or epidemic
diseases in the aggregate have risen from 196 in the
tpnr e3vi2 o. u sowf e
these
he
sto e
3221
dl
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btsh, e
ninelast;
ntin
owns!
rl peodx a fbroo
vme 211
years of age ; and in only two cases, out of the whole
number from smallpox, does it appear probable that
vaccination had been properly performed.
Eight of the deaths from smallpox occurred between
the 18th and 25th of January in the hospital for this
disease, which was recently removed to Holloway ;
and with-the exception of a child aged 16 months,
which bad been brought from Rosemary-lane, the
ages of the patients ranged from 16 to 23 years. Two
were seamen brought from the Dreadnought Hos-
pital-ship; three female servants from Mortlake
and Marylebone; a married woman from Clerken-
well ; and a pbrter from St. Giles. All the cases are
described as " confluent, unprotected," excepting that
of the sailor, who is stated to have died from " small-
pox, confluent, unmodified (nine days), dysentery
(several months), vaccinated when young; no cica-
trix."

The registrars again report various families which
have been fatally visited by this disease, and where
vaccination is neglected from "prejudice entertained
against it." A house in St. Giles is mentioned, in
which a child has died, and six persons are now suf-
fering from the same complaint, and the medical at-
tendant adds, that the only child that has escaped is
one of two months which had been vaccinated in the
workhouse. In Boswell-court (St. George-the-Mar-
tyr), where a child had died without vaccination, the
mother and four children are now labouring under
smallpox.
In the returns of the week a child of two years is
stated in the medical certificate to have died of " ex-
haustion from ptyalism." Two men died from in-
temperance.

SINGULAR AND DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—A travel-
ling company of epeatrians have lately been giving a few
entertainments in the amphitheatre erected for Mr. Cook's
company, in Sheet-street. One night last week, during the
performance of Disk Turpin's Ride to York, the mimiehigh-
wayman, in discharging a pistol at Tom Bing, not only killed
hie colleague theatrically, but severely wounded the drum-
major of the Coldstream Guards, who was present as one of
the audience in the pit. We hear that the pistol, in order to
make a sharper explosion, was wadded with tin-foil, and a
portion of this entered the right-eye of the dram-major,
causing the most excruciating agony, and resulting in the
complete loss of the sight of that eye, with a well-grounded.
fear, on the part of the regimental surgeon, that the other
may be injuriously affected. The drum-major is a fine active
man, and much respected in the regiment. By this unfore-
seen accident he may lose his present appointment and future
pension. We believe the sufferer has a legal remedy. by
action for damages, against the manager, but the equestrian
troupe have since left the town, and the chances of success
in that experiment would be extremely problematical.—
Windsor Express.

BURGLARY.—Yesterday information was received
at the Metropolitan Police-office, Whitehall, that the pre-
mises of Mr. J. Stokes, situated in the Old Fenn, Uggmere-
drove, in the parish of Itemsey, Hants, had been feloniously
broken open by four men armed with guns and horse-pistols.
One of the men is described as being 5 feet fi; or 9 inches
high, 28 or 29 years of age, dressed in light coat and trou-
sers, drab " wide-awake' hat, a red handkerchief tied over
his face, and a single-barrelled gun in• his hand. Two of
them were short men, dressed in dark clothes and caps, and
had masks over their faces. They stood over Mr. and Mrs.
Stokes at their bedside, with two horse-pistols pointed at
their heads, and threatened to shoot them if they made any
alarm ; whilst the fourth, a man about 5 feet 7 inches high,
22 or 23 years of age, broke open the drawers and boxes with
a plank-hook taken from a lodge near the stables, which the
burglars left behind them. They then took possession of the
following property, which they carried away:-71. Bs. in
gold and silver, an old shilling with a cross on it, a four-
penny-piece, a threepenny-piece, a small snuff-box with the
name of " Strong" in silver letters on it, a wedding-ring
broken across, &c. The burglars are supposed to be the
same persons who broke into Lucy Watts's house, at Orton,
in Hants, a few weeks since.

The Tay, the Tweed, the Teviot, and several other
Scotch rivers, were greatly flooded during the greater part
of last week, owing to the melting of the snow in the High-
lands and strong westerly gales. No particular damage,
however, resulted.

THE FIRE IN HOUNDSDITCH.—The fire which
bloke out, on Monday morning last, in the warehouses be•
longing to Messrs. Bousefield and Co., 12(3 and 127, Hounds-
ditch, was attended with much greater destruction of pro-
perty than was at first expected. Notwithstanding the ex-
ertions of the firemen, the flames were not wholly extin-
guished until late yesterday afternoon. The salvage that
will be recovered, it is expected, will be considerable, and,
no doubt, will realise a large sum ; the firm, however, will be
serious losers by the disaster, as the sums insured on the pro-
perty are nothing near its value. Although a diligent in-
quiry has been made, nothing likely to throw the least
light on the origin of the fire can be gleaned. The unfor-
tunate fireman who fell from one of the windows upon the
iron spikes of some railings still remains in a very danger-
ous condition. The lungs have received some injury, and
in the event of inflammation supervening his recovery will
be hopeless.
THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—A rustic 100 table has
been constructed by a labourer of St. Alban's. It is com-
posed of 3.400 pieces of wood, exclusive of the frame. These
are all let in so as to form various designs without the aid
of glue or any desciption of cement.

A FORSAKEN WIFE kND MOTHER. 0n Saturday
Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an inquest on the body of Mary
Ann Matthew', of 10, Taylor's-row, Clerkenwell, aged 61.
The unfortunate deceased was found by a policeman, who
broke into her room by orders, dead, and stretched out on the
sacking of a bedstead, the bed from which had been sold by
one of the witnesses. The poor woman had married a second
time, about four months previously ; her husband hat
deserted her and her sons refused to render her any assis-
tance, and thus she died of starvation. A witness heard her
a few days ago pray that the Almighty would, in his mercy,
take her from her state of desolation.

THE ATLANTIC STEAMER.—The Cork Constitution
. mbwcati°n
e!lrfd
aee
bPwle:
odlisetalenncgel
of
says :—" The requisites for repairing the injury which this
magnificent vessel has sustained consist of an intermediate
shaft, whose dimensions may be inferred from ' the fact that
its weight must be no less than twelve tons, and two cas tinge
Lecky and Beale,, this
best quality by the firm of Messrs. _ _
of twenty tons each- The latter could be supplied of the
ofnumber of email pore
houses in the empire, as it consists a
city, but the former could only be constructed by two or three
tions of iron welded together, in order to ensure the requisite
strength and durability."
A REMEDY FOR CHILBLAINS AND TOOTHAtIII.--
At this season few diseases are so general as chilblains, and
the plans that are generally employed for their removal are
seldom attended with more than very slight advantage to the
sufferers. It is a disease that attacks most generally females
and delicate children, and those of a languid circulation.
The very numerous and various medicines which have been
from time to time employed, prove very clearly that no very
effective or successful plan of treatment has 'hitherto bee!
found. Such is the present state of treatment both of chil-
blains and toothache. My plan of treatment is simply. to
saturate a piece of sponge or flannel with the concentrated
tincture
tingling or electrical
relief will be expe-
tincture of capsicum, and to rub well over the seat i
chilblains, until such time as a strong
an extraordi-
cfcbo:errtiti:::::tehnadlni!cf sPlPipe;la.ceT:n"
feeling is produced. This medicine pow - by its action upon the
nary power in removing congestit
nerves and circulation. ThisP
upon removed:
ll tion ought to be eonti-
-first thaPeP disease after the seco d r
the severity of the
new sand until the disease
is lication, and frequently there
lepgrot sgwucessyesxa-
c:not broken. The manner of using it
.ri
jub.bed, never
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he
ed a o
total n t the e
removal
°fsykiputting a drop or two of the tincture on
othnulehlo,e2:nthe
"e applying it to the part affected—the relief ill
case. This
TThilisies,
rthenolysuitdonly one of the workmen was injured'
—On Monday an alarming
coujnar ExPLosioit.
Eastwood coal-pits, which
explosion .
and burst open the
but he is burnt in a most serious manner, so that there
tsivahaitpyhited.aoordFr
otahrttrunoau
seems but little hope of his- recovery ; his sight at present ie
gone, and the use of both arms.—Notts Guardian.
A LADY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The late
Duchess of Gordon had so ardent a desire to hear Mr. Pitt
speak in the House that she was induced to adopt the expe-
dient of entering the gallery habited as amen. The Duchess
had not, unfortunately, made a secret of her design, and
scarcely was she comfortably seated in expectation of the
Minister's speech, when the sergeant-at-arms appeared, and
very politely whispered to her Grace that her sex
wisf the
dis-
covered, and that there existed a standing order n
house against the admission of any females into gallery.theeether
" Pray inform me, Sir," inquired the Duchess,.
female out who
there exists any standing order for turning
aually posed Mr.
has once got in ?"—a question that so eilect
the advents.
Coleman that he effected his retreat, leaving
'• y s NeWil.
rous lady in quiet enjoyment of her pi.o,—Lad

FEEDING Idl3llllreasfnicrdine
paper.
The Rev. Mr. Brodie, second son of Siro
Brodie, has been appointed by the Bishop of Winchester'
New Alresford, but whether as its incumbent, or only to
ae
curate to the Rev. George Sumner, rector of
is not, as yet, certainly known in the parish.
ON WHIAT.
—On the night of Wednesday week, owin t h
of his servant man, four hors-es belonging to Mr. Joseph
into the barn and fed on the wheat, farm is at Risely, got
floor. The man never informed his which was lying on the
stance till Thursday evening
week, master of the circum-
taken ill. The most powerful eek, when the horses were
unfortunately, it Was to,t, remedies were applied; but,
late to
of two of them, as they died be of any avail in the case
after suffering great agony,-i the next day. The other two,
died were valuable an are recovering. The two wilds
mare._zradford
Times als, one losing as excellent brood

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QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE QUEEN AT THE INSTANCE OF THE EARL OF DART.

MOUTH V. HARTSELL.

A rule had been recently obtained in this case, calling
on the defendant, the proprietor of the Kentish Mercury,
to show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against him for an alleged libel against the plaintiff,
in imputing to him the non-payment of a stipend to the
vicar of Lewisham, for reading prayers in a chapel at
Blackheath, with the payment of which the Earl of
Dartmouth was charged.
Mr. CHAXBERi, this afternoon, on the part of the de-
fendant expressed his regret that the alleged libel in
question should have appeared in his newspaper, and
that it was written and published on an imperfect informa-
tion of the facts.

Sir F. TESSIGER, on behalf of the Earl of Dartmouth,
expressed his entire satisfaction with the retractation
which had been made by the defendant, and consented
to the rule being discharged.
Lord CAMPBELL was glad that the matter had been
so satisfactorily arranged, and ordered the rule to be
discharged.—Rule discharged accordingly.