The Sun.
London, England, 1835-01-31 00:00:00

BRISCOE V. ROBERTS.

The defendant in this cese had obtained a rule nisi for reernevillg
the venue in this ease from Surrey to London or Middlese,,,
To-day, cause was shown against the rule by Mr. 7,,,Essiosa,
after which, the Court said there was no pretence fo:, saving, that
because the action involved the rights of the plair:,:df as Lord of the
Manor of the Epsom Race-course, and ":nat he had made
allusions to it in his speeches upon his late canvass for the Easter°
div,sion of the county, there could not be a fair trial had. They
did not think the defendant would mend his case by taking it to
the places named, nor would Ix be removed from all influence°
even if he was to carry it t•:, Cumberland.—Rule discharged.

Percival Banks, Esq., M.A., and J. B. Ferrevvest?
Esq., were yesterday called to the bar by the Hon. Society ‘:,
Gray's Inn.
The case of the frail one, the action in connecti9ll
with whom caused so much sensation, and gave rise to no 41011
quantity of scandal in the county of Dorset nearly tw,,, yeah
ago, will shortly, we believe, be brought again into a. Court
Law; but under circumstances, we understand, e,iat will e°'
able the unfortunate husband to attain that object which, COn'
dering all things, is now most desirable for br,th parties.
The price of Consols is now nearly double the
amount which it was in 1798, when it was so low as 47. Ford
that year there was a general rising tlr:eatened in Ireland, as
the French, to the amount of 1,800 men, landed in that coup'
try, who afterwards surrendered. On Mr. Pitt introducil
the income tax, 1799, Consols rose in, that year to 54, a°
have risen gradually since, till they 'touched 93.
Mr. John. Greene, the proprietor of the Warfeirg
Independent, was sentenced on Wednesday last, in the flublll
Court of King's Bench, to tree months' imprisonment, for
libel on Henry Lambert, Esq„ late M. P. for the county °
Wexford.—The was contained in the speech of a Terl
young persop, delivered at a repeal meeting in' one of the Ps'
rish a.sson:.'olies of Wexford in the course of last year. •
..42M ER IC A N WHALE FISHERY.—It appears 14
documents presented to the Congress, that there are noiv
gaged in the whale fishery 132,000 tons of shipping, 1 J,Vu'r
seamen, and that more than one-tenth of the whole A.,nerictif
navigation was engaged in it, with a capital in.,rested °
12,000,000 dollars.

A contemporary gives the following to
the character and habits of M. Seguin, 0.,e- Arm contractor;
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whose death we have announced:—" ;de has left one of the
largest private fortunes in France,
five millions of francs by M. Ouvcard, who got rid of the clai;i
byremaining five years in psi
,on. He was the owner of sever
magnificent housrs and est motes in P 'notwithstanding his lossaris and the environs, aig°a
,e
'
which is the chateau or Jouy, which he left uninhabited, sea
suffered to go toaltin turning into the parks and garde It
horses of great v-
alue, which he thenceforth abandoned to the.
fate. The gr and inaction in which he lived, in the Rue oe
Varennes,
Vies a heap of ruins. The gardens, and even 9;0
of the ma
'gelicent saloons on the ground floor, were filled Wile
horses,
w-r,ch he suffered to run at, liberty over them. io
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_gave Li'. daughter in marriage to an English horse-deBl,o,
eruse he furnished him with the finest stallion, Smoleaci
r7.at had ever been seen in France. He founded, de o,:
the Empire, a tannery upon an improved principle, 00
island above the bridge of S6vres, but for many years
yi
suffered all the buildings to go to decay till some few IneTilei
ago, when the formation of a rail-road from Paris to Versau
was in contemplation, and was to have run across his islas
He determined, if possible, to defeat the undertaking ;
therefore, in order to render the purchase of the necess"rl
i?
quantity of his land the more burdensome, he covered ,
island with new buildings."
A workman belonging to a manufactori in t:
Fauxbourg du Temple, in Paris, having remained absent We
his work for a week, during which time he gave himself gild
drink, his companions, by way of punishment, agreed t 0.,, e
b 7,
him in effigy, and afterwards to perform a mock funeral. l
obtained a sufficient quantity of his clothes to dress up is'
nikin, which, after having been suspended the proper
was carried to a house of entertainment outside the bar its
where the ceremony of the interment was to be arrangert• Itd
the mean time, one of the party accidentally met the d'efsu m,
himself, and informed him of all that was passing. rfher,,et
munication affected him so much; that, feeling Ire should 'tile
afterwards be the object of their jeers, he rem-Ived tct
travesty into reality, and actually went and 'hanged hig1;01
On returning from the barrier, his eompan:.ons found g_Ai
corpse in the room of the supposititious cue they had ear''
with them.
QUICKSILVER VERSUS STEAM POWER. ,
Earl of Dundonald (better known as Lord Cochrane) oe
examined, last Session, before the Commons' Committee;A
steam navigation to India. His Lordship, among, other 0,01
ters, said he had projected " a substitute for steam ;" fOr
as " a new mode of propelling vessels." The substitute."
steam is quicksilver; and he employs it " to produce Petb,o
by exhausting one vessel and compressing air in anoe,,cr,, ~ro'
forming an atmospheric plenum and a vacuum, whic;a %Vlll
duce the same effect as the plenum and vacuum ,owned Vier
generation of steam and its condensation." This p1ag,;641
perseding the necessity of' carrying coals), he added, is roof
liarly adapted to agitated water, like tl',e
be wholly worked without fuel. The, evidence and par;i4e
too long for extract, but his Lor;,shi- sea. The pit% sei
concludes this rksv
p
his evidence with stating, that vessels filled with quic darl!
apparatus might be proviAo wk
ith sails of the 'aina, % be ;IL'
there would be no sin e;kt tior any fire, and there gee" ~,
indication fro 4,eik• external appearance that rhe'm to
equipped ;4 a,uy other manner than as sailing vessel& ',Wig'
;1:»- labthod of propelling without paddle-wheels (his -I:4°r Or°
says), I should be happy to lay it ber:ate tkr,n Committee'
my patent right secured."