The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-27 00:00:00

EMIGRANT'S FLOUR MILL.

Tho ordinary notion entertained of an emigrant, we
believe to be, that he is a man with a wife and four or
five children, setting out for a distant part of the world
where ho can get land for next to nothing, be lord of all
he surveys within the range of a hundred acres, more
or less, cut down the trees that grow upon his domain
in order to build a house, grub up the roots for firewood
and sow corn in their place. Few, however, but those
who actually intend to emigrate trouble themselves to
consider what is to be done with the crop of corn when
it cornea. The first impression would be—to eat it—but
then arises the, question, in what form? Its conversion
into flour will be a necessary preliminary; but not a
very easy one to accomplish, unless he and those who
accompany him as fellow-adventurers, take the machinery
for grinding it with thorn. They will find no facilities
for sending it to the parish mill, among the red Indians
in the hack 30,6, m.:nts of America, or the flesh-loving
natives cf the South Ste Islands. The only course
appears to he to take a mill with them; and the selec-
tion of ono must, we apprehend, be a very important
matter with the emigrant. Of course we are speaking of
a hand-mill. The chief points to be kept in view in
purchasing one will necessarily be simplicity of ma-
chinery, so that it may be easily kept in order, and that
it may act with the least expenditure of power. The
latter point seems to have received much attention by
Messrs. Iluxhams and Brown, founders and engineers,
at Exeter; who have registered a mill which is kept in
action by a lateral motion, similar to that of a rower in
a boat, and not by the old laborious rotatory motion
which involves so great a waste of power. In the de-
scription given of this mill by its inventors it is stated
that "a bushel of wheat may be ground by it in an hour,
to make fine flour; that the corn can be ground and
dressed at the same time, or separately; and that the
mill is not liable to get out of repair."—Kentish Mercury

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM.

The works of this line are progressing in the im-
mediate neighbourhood of Leamington with consider-
able rapidity—so much so that confident expectations
are entertained that they will be finished in March
next. The canal and road in the Saltiaford, Warwick,
have been crossed by a bridge of four openings, two
large iron girders of fifty-five feet span, and two
smaller openings of arches. The line there intersects
the Pigwells, crossing the road to the Cape at about
a level ; the road will be raised over the railway by
embanked approaches, and in passing through the
Priory Park the line will be constructed over the
pools by a timber viaduct of about thirty openings,
with brick abutments. The embankments across the
Priory grounds, and on the Coventry road, will, we
are informed, be about fifteen feet high ; and the
turnpike road be crossed by a brick bridge, with
flat iron top, of forty feet span. Thence the line
will be formed through Lord Warwick's stone-
quarries, just touching the surface at the top of the
hill, and crossing the Drawbridge-lane, leading to
Nelson's saw-mills, by a bridge of similar construc-
tion to that which is intended to be thrown over the
Coventry-road. The lane itself will be lowered some
five or six feet, but the Emscote-road, over which the
railway then passes, will remain unaltered, and be
crossed by a bridge of 115 feet span, supported by
light iron columns. The line then crosses the river
Avon by another timber viaduct of six openings, en-
ters a cutting near Myton, and passes under the War-
wick and Napton Canal, which will be carried over
the railway by an iron aqueduct resting on brick
piers. After leaving the My ton cutting, the em-
bankment, as may now be seen, rises till it reaches the
brick viaduct through Leamington, where, we are
informed, all the streets will be crossed by iron girders
of the same height and span as the present viaduct—
a centre pier being placed at the corner of Clemens-
street and High-street, and the girders also being
supported by iron columns. On passing this viaduct
the line again crosses the canal by a bridge of one
span, and pursuing its course along a shallow bank,
enters the large cutting at Whitnash. So rapidly are
the works proceeding that it is expected the bridge
over the Emscote-road, and the embankments leading
to it from the river side, will be completed in about a
fortnight from this date.—Leamington Courier.
WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY.—The di-
rectors of this company have completed arrangements
with the landowners, and have entered into possession
of 18 miles of the line between Jerpoint station and
Dunkit, which is within a mile-and-a-half of Water-
ford. The directors and landed proprietors and farmers
have fixed the compensation to be paid without
the intervention of either jury or arbitration, which
is a novelty in railway affairs. The contractors
engage to have this portion of the line open for traffic
in the month of April next, and have at present nearly
1,000 navvies on the line between Jerpoint and *Mut-
linavat. On Friday last Mr. Barnes, solicitor of the
Public Works Loan Commissioners, inspected the
works, accompanied by some of the directors, and
Mr. Nixon, engineer-in-chief.— Corh Constitution.

MONDAY EVENING-, OCTOBER, 271 1651.

come forward to give evidence for the prosecution—
Mr. Pankhurst, a gardener, and the coachman to Mr.
Bass, the brewer. They, however, would not under-
take to say that the prisoner actually struck the
sufferer.

The worthy MAGISTRATE said it was a sad affair,
and adjourned it for a further investigation, hoping
the ruffians, who ought to be identified, would be
brought to that punishment they so richly deserved.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Mr. John Robert Ellis, a middle-aged man of
respectable appearance, was charged with the com-
mission of wilful and corrupt perjury. _

The prisoner expressed his intention to reserve his
answer to the charge for another occasion, and, the
depositions being completed, he was fully committed
for trial ; but the Magistrate in the meantime con-
sented to accept substantial bail for his appearance in
answer to the charge, in an amount, with the pri-
soner's own recognizance, of 1201.,
THA ME S.

On Saturday Cornelius Carley, an Irish labourer,
was brought up on remand before Mr. Yardley,
charged with wounding Ellen Quin, a girl 13 years
of age, with an iron poker, and also with assaulting a
youth named James Conolly, by striking him with
the same instrument, and also biting his cheek in a
very savage manner.
The prisoner being called on for his defence said,
" Oeh, nothing, Sir ; sure it was the little dhrop of
drink did it all."

Mr. YARDLEY said he would give the prisoner time
to reflect by inflicting a fine of 51. for the assault on
the girl, and sentencing him to two months' impri-
sonment in default of payment.