The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-27 00:00:00

JUNE,

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EDINBURGH COURT OF SESSION.--COUNT
PrA IT DE PFAFFEN lIOFFEN v. CIIA It LES X.—The
evidence and pleading in this case have been cor,clu•ted,
and the Lord Ordinary has pronounced the following
interlocutor :—" The Lord Ordinary, having heard the
Counsel for the parties on the closed record and whole
process, appoints them to prepare mutual cases, arguing
the whole cause, to be given in on the first box-day in the
ensuing vacation; to be seen and interchanged, adjusted
and re-lodged by the second box.thy ; and then to he
transmitted by the Clerk to the Lord Ordinary to be
advised."

COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS.---Tile
Second Monthly Set of this new Library of Modern Fic-
tion (for March) will consist of Mr. BULWER'S celebrated
novel of " Pelham." This collection will comprise the
most sterling and admired works by the most distinguidied
authors of the last twenty years; and as the copyritita
are the exclusive property of Mr. COEBURN, they cannot
appear, as erroneously reported, in any other collection
whatsoever. They are issued forth at about one-third of
the original price, and are, in fact, cheaper than the
Waverley Novels, being handsomely printed in post Svo,,
and bound in morocco cloth, at only 4'. per volume.
AMERICAN NAVAL ETIQUETTE.—AII
boas that approach the ship at night, are hailed by one of
the gangway sentries—" Boat, ahoy !" the answer indi.
cates the rank, and the reception is regulated accordingly.
A Commodore replies, " Fleet !" a Captain repeats the
name of his ship; a Lieutenant answers, " Ay ! ay !" all
Officers of an inferior grade, " No, no," anti a ',ea..
man, " Halloo !" The sentry reports the answer to the
quartermaster, and he to the officer of the (leek, who
is bound to see that the officer is properly received,
according to his rank. Captain W. once came off to
the ship at night, in a shore-boat. lie replied, " No,
no," to the challenge of the sentry, and was received by
a ,nidshipman. Ludicrous mistakes sometimes occur.
have heard a drunken sailor answer, Ay !ay !" and
when all the " pomp and circumstance," wiqa which a
Lieutenant is received bad been prepared, who should
appear but a tottering devotee of Bacchus, his clothes half
tern from his back, and he bluVeting out his words
thr,ugh tips thick as the bulwarks to which tie clung for
support.— Two Years and a holfin the American .IVaezi.
RESTORING WALLS TO THEIR PERPEN-
DICtiLARITV.—The weight of the roof of the large gal.
iery of the Conservatoire des Arts et Meters pressed the
sides outwards so as to endanger the building; acd it was
requisite to find means by which the wall should be
through
thew building from, wall
o u wee been
propped so as to sustain the roof. M. MoLAatt contrived.
the following ingenious plan for the
purposeatlls, :a—ndAst,' eeireie'se(4..
d
t rotiagbarsng re carriedtioles acrossathen the outside. In this state they would
leave
s
s sufficient to have prevented the farther sepia; a-
ets
byi iconp
Ia .
ti tis o
„ion of the walls by the weight of the roof, but it was
desirable to restore the walls to their original state by
diawing them together. This was effected in the follow.
.ng manner :...Alternate bars were heated by lamps fixed
beneath them. They expanded; and conequent!s., the
nuts, which were previously in contact with lie walls were
no longer so. These nuts were then screwed up so as to
be again in close contact with the waifs.- The lamps were
equal to that.
against the.
withdrawn, and the bars now allowed to ctohoel L, cooling,
they gradually contracted, and resumed i.r former di.
windeio:,iondsre;
wcooni theesemquteongteltyh,ert h
ronuugtsl:
ap
8r
pesasei g
through which they had been screwed up. Meanwhile,
the intermediate bars were heated and expanded, atiJ the
nuts screwed up as before. The /amps bang again with.
drawn, they contracted in cooling, and the walla were
further drawn together. This process was continualv
,
repeated, until, at length, the walls were restored to their
perpendicular position. The gallery may still be seenwith
the bars extending across it, and blushing together its walk
...Cabinet cyclopadia.