The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-28 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

JUVINILE BBGGARS.—A GREAT WANT.—Ann Mullins,
Mary Mullins, and Bridget Mom, three little girls, whose
heads only just peered above the dock, wore charged with
begging and annoying persons in the street.
The children and other members of their families have
been brought to this court times out of number. The father
of the girl Moran is now undergoing three months for pot
stealing, and the mother is also in prison for begging. The
whole of them have been for a long time past a perfect pest
in the neighbourhood of Leicester-square and the club-
houses.

Jarvis, a constable of the C division, having proved see-
ing the girls begging in Leicester-square, and having had
his attention called to them by some ladies who were an-
noyed by them, watched them, and seeing them step up to
a young female, and because she refused to relieve them,
nearly pull off her cloak, he took them into custody. He
believed two of the girls had been at the court several
times. _

Mr. Beadon said the whole of them had, and it was pas,
endurance.

Welsh, the gaoler of the court, said the mother of
Moran was coming out of prison that day.
Mr. Beadon said it was no use leaving children, like
those at the bar, about the streets. He wished there
was an asylum where he could send them for three years;
but at present there was none for girls, though there
was for boys. At present he should send them for a
month's imprisonment each.

James Small, merchant, 11, Vincent-terrace, Isling-
ton, was fined £3 for an assault on a constable named
Portch, 317 A, in the Haymarket.

THE MAILS.

MAILS DUE.
Australia, Ceylon, and Mauritius (via South-
ampton) .. .. Oct. 19.
Do. (via Marseilles) Oct. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds .. • . .. Oct. 5.
Buenos Ayres, Monte Video, &c. .. Oct. 5.
Bahamas and Havana (via New York) .. Sept. 27.
Canada, &c. (via Galway) , Oct. 5.
Cape of Good Hope, &c. .. Oct. 1.
China, Penang, and Singapore (via S'ampton) Oct. 1.!
Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 26.
Gibraltar (via Southampton) .. Oct. 2.
India (Calcutta), Ceylon, &c. (via Southampton) Oct 2.
Do. (via Marseilles) Sept. 26.
India (Bombay), (via Southampton) .. .. Oct. 10.
Do. (via Marseilles)
.. Oct. 4.
Lisbon .. • • • • .. Oct. 1.
Cuba and Mexic)
Malta, Egypt, and Aden (via ..................Sept.ut,.. ct. 2.
o. (via Marseilles) .. Sept. 26.
Vigo, and Oporto .. • • • . .. Oct. 1.
United States, California, &c. Oct. 3.
Western Coast of Africa, Madeira, Teneriffe .. Overdue.
West Indies and Pacific, Carthagena, Cuba, &c. Sept. 28.

SAVED BY A DRUM.—The drummer boy of the
Milwaukee Light Giiard in the Lady Elgin was saved by
means of his drum. He had presence of mind sufficient to
whittle a plug and close the air vent; then, lashing the drum
to his shoulders, he trusted himself to the waves. The
drum supported him, and also four others, who seized hold
of it; but those, one after the other, dropped off. The drum
carried the boy nearly ashore, when by some means one
head was burst in, and it filled with water. The boy aban-
doned it, and seizing a fragment of the wreck succeeded in
reaching the shore. The drum afterwards came ashore,
and Was returned to the PoY w119§9 life it Ji,ad med.

WEATHER.

A correspondent, in a letter to a contemporary,
says:--

Since I last wrote on the subject of reaping
machines, constructed on the principle of cutting
off the ears as well as cutting down the straw of
standing corn, I have, through the courtesy of a
gentleman some time resident in South Australia,
been made acquainted with the fact that an imple-
ment has, for some years past, been in general use
in that part of the Australian colony, capable of
cutting off the ears of corn and of thrashing them
by one and the same operation. Previous to the
receipt of this communication, I had been under the
impression that I was the first to think of and de-
vise a plan for the construction of an ear-reaping
machine, but it is now very evident that in this I
have been anticipated, for although the primary
object of the Australian implement is the thrashing
of corn, the ears are cut off by the same imple-
ment before being thrashed, and the cutting
off is well and readily done. The question as to the
possibility of constructing an efficient implement
upon the plan I advocated is thus, I think, now en-
tirely set at rest.

My informant tells me that the machine was in-
vented by a gentleman named Ridley, and has been
of the utmost service to the colonists of Southern
Australia ; moreover, he says that every farmer
there considers it as indispensable to his farm
operations as the plough itself, and that as a rule,
with this machine, a single farm labourer can har-
vest all the grain grown upon the land he can cul-
tivate with a well-appointed team.
The implement is, as I have before remarked, in
fact a thrashing machine, and of simple construc-
tion; it is mounted on a pair of ordinary-sized cart
wheels, having attached to the side of one of them
a cog wheel by which motion is given (as the ma-
chine is drawn over the corn to be harvested) by
the aid of multiplying wheels to the ordinary
drum of a thrashing mill placed across the front of
the carriage, which is mounted upon wheels; this
carriage being, in fact, a large box calculated to re-
ceive doe grain, chaff, and heads as they are struck
off by the rapidly-revolving beaters of the drum.
In order to bring the heads of the standing corn
under the influence of the beaters a comb is placed
immediately under the drum; this comb is com-
posed of bayonet-shaped iron teeth, so formed and
placed that as the machine is drawn over the stand-
ing corn the heads pass between the teeth, and as
they—i.e. the teeth—from their form, nearly touch
each other where the drum revolves over them, the
head of grain is held in a favourable position for
being struck by the beaters.
The carriage is preserved in equilibrium by a
strong pole or beam that projects diagonally from its
side near the front part of it, and rests upon a
small wheel; upon this beam machinery is placed
for lowering or raising the front of the carriage so
as to suit the position of the comb to the height
of the corn ; there is also placed upon it a seat for
the conductor, who, by means of the aforesaid
im
plement
with can direct the course of the
with the greatest exactitude. The draught is also
attached to the end of this beam, so that the horses
travel upon ground that has been already operated
upon by the implement. The current of air caused
by the velocity with which the drum revolves is
found to be quite sufficiently powerful to project
all that is severed into the body of the machine. I
have described the construction of the machine
almost in my informant's own words. My informant
rightly remarks that, although the machine is perfect
in its performance in the dry climate of South Aus-
tralia, where with it six or seven acres of wheat
are constantly thrashed and got together during
the day, it would not be found to answer in a moist
climate like our own, so far as the thrashing is
concerned; in England wheat must, we are all
aware, be much drier than it is when first cut, be-
fore it can be thrashed ; still the machine might,
with some slight modification, be rendered capable
of performing the work of severing the heads from
the straw and collecting them. In respect of the
comb the Australian implement resembles in con-
struction the one I had proposed to myself; it was
by such a contrivance that I had hoped to meet the
difficulty of corn varying in its inclination in diffe-
rent parts of the same field, and I feel persuaded
that this difficulty may be met. I hope before long
to be in possesion of a plan of the Australian ma-
chine, and trust that before the harvest of next year
arrives a serviceable ear-collecting reaping machine
will be in existence.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING.

eAltnies
1. -.,l7.arOoeorlPnlilNCE NAPOLEON;
The Jerome
yacht, with Prince Napo-
leon on board, arrived in. Kingstown harbour yes-
terday a little before noon, but his Highness .will
not disembark till this morning, when he will pro-
ceed to town by rail. The visit of his Imperial
Highness is said to be purely one of recreation, and
he travels as unostentatiously as possible. The
approach of the yacht was announced on herheaving
in sight at about a quarter to 12 o'clock yesterday,
and at half-past 12 she entered the harbour, bear-
ing the French tricolour on the flag-staff at her
taffrail. Her Majesty's ship Ajax lowered her flag
in salute, which was returned by the yacht as she
steamed up to her moorings at the jetty. 'Founders
of this morning gives the following account of the
Prince's arrival :
Yesterday considerable excitement pervaded the
jetty during the performance of the band, in con-
sequence of the presence of the French steamer
screw ship, having Prince Napoleon on board. The
vessel arrived at the harbour's mouth at a quarter
past 12 o'clock, having passed Bray-head half an
hour before, under canvas and steam, going at a
good speed before a fresh breeze from the south-
east. At one o'clock the Prince entered a six-oared
gig, which pulled across the harbour, the club-
houses and yachts firing a salute, and the splendid
band of the 2d Dragoons striking up the favourite
national air, " Partant pour la Syrie," the crowd
promenading the jetty lining the edge to catch a
glimpse of the Prince. An enthusiastic gentleman
stood up on one of the pillars of the jetty and
announced three cheers for "Ireland's friend," and
also " Louis Napoleon." A small steam screw boat,
about the size of an ordinary ship's cutter, put off
from the French ship, and steamed about the har-
bour, to the great delight of the beholders, espe-
cially to the juvenile portion.