The Sun.
London, England, 1832-08-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

A PAUPER OF REAL INDEPENDENCE..—A female
pauper, nearly 60 years of age, named Sarah Stokes,
was charged before Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL with having
frequently insulted Kinnersley, the beadle of Aldgate, and
threatened to beat him. The defendant is one of that
crowd of paupers who have been cheating various parishes
by pretending to belong to them, without having the
slighest claim. She had contrived to get about 30s. a
week by her facility of telling lies, and was at last detected
and punished, just after having levied contributions upon
four parishes.
Kinnersley stated that the defendant, after having col-
lected a mob about his house, let fly a volley of the gross-
est abuse against him and his family, and followed him
about swearing that she would do for him and all who be-
longed to him.
The defendant, in a very mild manner, assured the Al-
derman that she had used no threats towards the beadle,
but she had found it necessary to say something to his
son, who had struck her and dragged her along the street
for no offence. For the sake of the public she thought it
would be proper to chastise such a fellow, and she had
accordingly given him notice of a right good topper.—
(Laughter.)
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL—Oh, then you meant to
punish him?
Defendant—l did, s'elp me God, your Worship ; and,
as sure as I am poor but honest, I'll pitch it into him the
first opportunity.
The beadle of an adjoining parish said that Mrs. Stokes
was the terror of that part of the city. No matter how
kindly she was treated, her fancy lay in abusing and beat-
ing people, and it was all the same to her whether she had
to fight with man or woman. She had, at the same time,
a strong fancy for gin, which she drank, when she could
get it, until it stretched her in the mud ; and on Sunday
last she was dragged out of the puddle to the watch-house.
Defendant-I'N all true about the gin. I was " mops
and brooms" on Sunday, sure enough ; but that's no rea-
son I'm to be keelhawled and floored like a bullock a
going to be slaughtered. Blessed if I don't give it your
son, Kinnersley, for that 'ere shopping. I'll fetch him a
right down jolly good topper.
Kinnersley had no doubt of the woman's intention.
Defendant—Aye, and I'm blessed if I don't make you
sing out too, if I catch you some day. I have a long
score against you, you hard-hearted old willain. I'll give
it you where you cupboard your grub, blessed if I don't,
and no mistake.--(A laugh.)
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL said that the defendant's
conduct at that moment confirmed the truth of the beadle's
statement.

Defendant—Oh, please your Worsbip, I don't say
" I'll pitch it into Mr. Kinnersley;" I only 83y " I'll
fetch his son a wipe or two for sarving out my body just
as if it was a bullock's."
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL—Khmersley, do you swear
that you are in fear of this woman? Kinnersley—Cer.
tainly I do, Sir. She is most ferocious.
Defendant—Afeard of me! afeard of a poor old woman's
tongue! there's a dung cock for you. Well, I'm blow'd
if you an't a fellow of spirit. Why I say, my master,
blessed if I'd lower myself by raising my hand to you ;
for what are you arter all but a poor insignificant old ras-
cal of a beadle.
Sir CHAPMAN MARSHALL-.—Yon must procure bail.
You are a most incorrigible woman ; your whole conduct
here proves it. Defendant—Bail! me find bail! hlow'd
if I find bail. I don't care how long you stow me in the

crib. And I'll tell you what, Kinnersiey, keep your body
up till I comes out, and then we'll see which is the best
man, you or me—(Laughter)—for I'm blessed if I don't
pitch it into you in your wittling apartment, and no mis-
take.—Mrs. Stokes was then conveyed to the Compter in
default of bail.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TAT TER SALL' S.

The attendance yesterday was very limited, and very
little doing, most of the subscribers being absent at
Brighton. We subjoin the closing state of the odds :

INVENTIONS AND DISCOVERIES.

We extract the following from an article
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under this head, in the present number of the
Monthly Magazine. It is illustrative of the
exhibition in Adelaide-street :

" But, what have we here ?—.the dulce crept into our
note-book of the utile ?—Even so; and, for the sake of
our fair readers, the increase to whose number we sh
0, happiest of pleasurable tasks'—try hard to deserve,
we will give it a place. Nor need we apologise to our

readers of the ' sterner sex,' for Day's 2E;!oplion is mecha-
nical, as well as musical. The lEolophon is a keyed, six-
octave instrument; to all outward appearance a cabinet
piano-forte, but capable of yielding' a volume of sweet

sounds,' such as cannot be produced with the most scien-
tific touch, from either the piano-forte or the organ. The
music is elicited from walian springs, which are acted upon

by currents of air, whose volume and force are regulated
with a nicety that appears to keep pace with conception.
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We have examined this beautiful combination of mecha-

nical skill and philosophical research ; for both were ne-
cessary to its perfection : we have been delighted by a de.
monstration of its unequalled powers of melody, under the
tasteful display of a fairy-fingered lady ; and we feel war-
ranted in declaring our opinion, that the rapidity of touch,
and rich variety of tone and effect, which may be produced
by any player of the piano-forte or organ, after a very little
practice, on the iEolophon, the notes being the same, will

be sufficient recommendation for this splendid addition to
the music-room, to all admirers of the enchanting att.—
Whilst, on the score of economy and convenience, no bad
adjuncts even to those who love the music score, it offers
the novel advantages of continuing in tune under every
change of climate.
" Now turn we from mechanics, to the most interesting

discoveries of the day. Of these, we shall mention two
in the present number :—the production of electric, or

magnetic sparks, from the common magnet; and Perkirs'
new process for generating steam; commencing with the
most attractive.

Palmam qui meruit ferat,' has always been a favou-
rite motto of ours; and whilst we are ready to award the
highest praise to Mr. Faraday, for h:s assiduous, inde-
fatigable, philosopher-like pursuit of the subtle principle
and peculiarity of electricity, and of his proofs of the
affinity (or identity ?) between it and magnetism, and
whilst we are equally prompt to bestow our meed of appro-
bation on Dr. Ritchie, for his advancement of the same
object, we must offer the plan of perfect success to Mr.
Saxton, an ingenious native of Philadelphia, now residing
in London, as the original demonstrator of the capabi:ity
of eliciting a spark from the common magnet. To c'o
this, we must refer to the Minutes of the Royal Institution.
" On the I 1 th of May, Dr. Ritchie, Professor of Na-
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tural Philosophy, stated to the institution, that he had
followed in the track of Mr. Faraday, in his late brilliant
discoveries, and was happy to say that he had uniformly
arrived at the same conclusions. He had also succeeded in
making the spark, which had been obtained by Mr. Fa-
raday in breaking the magneto-electric circle, visible to a
large assembly. This was done by placing an explosive
mixture of oxygen and hydrogen in the course of the
spark, which immediately produced a loud report and a
flash of light. He employed a horse-shoe magnet, between
the ends of which were placed a couple of tubes ; a wire
was introduced into each, and their connexion maintained
by a conducting medium. The wires were connected to
the magnet by the folds of copper ribbon. The gas was
introduced by a bladder and a stop-cock ; the contact sud-
denly broken, and the spark made evident by an explosion.
Dr. Ritchie declared his belief that no such spark could be
I elicited from any but a temporary magnet.
' "At this time Mr. Faraday came forward, and stated that
he had succeeded in obtaining a spark from a natural
magnet. Mr. Faraday had borrowed Brown's magnet
from the Academy at Woolwich. A small bar of iron,
about six inches long, was used in contact with the extre-
mities of the magnet. Two connecting wires were raised
from each end of this small bar, and being bent at right
angles, overlapped each other. The undermost terminated
in a disc, about the size of half-a-crown. By a rapid per-
cussion of the bar against the magnet, the disc and wire
broke, in contact by their elasticity, and a beautiful
blueish spark was produced.
" Now, dates are very important to the identification
of a discovery, and it is upon these, and upon concurrent
testimony, that we rely in support of our conceding to Mr.
Saxton the merit of the earliest demonstration of these
interesting phenomena in England. It was on the second
day of May that Mr. Saxton first produced an electric ( ?)
spark from a common magnet, of very great power, which
he was then constructing for exhibition, at the New Gal-
lery, in Adelaide-street, Strand ; and on that, or the fol-
lowing day, the experiment was repeated in the presence
of Dr. Ritchie, who declared it to be the only one he had
witnessed. After some trifling improvements had been
made by Mr. Saxton in the apparatus used for breaking
the continuity of the subtle fluid, he succeeded in causing
the explosion of gunpowder, a much less inflammable ma-
terial than that used by Dr. Ritchie, from ignition by the
spark ; which we have, since then, seen him repeatedly
perform. Does Dr. Ritchie call Mr. Saxton's magnet one
of the temporary ?
" We subjoin a description of the magnet constructed by
Mr. Saxton. It is called a horse-shoe magnet, (very
elongated,) and is formed of eight shear steel plates,
twenty-eight inches in length from the poles to the centre
edge, three inches wide, and forming together a thickness
of two inches and a half; at the greatest width of the
curvature it measures nine inches, and at the poles seven
inches across ; the poles have a return inwards, towards
each other, and are there separated by a space or one inch.
and a half. The keeper, or lifter, which is made of the
purest soft iron, is four inches long, one inch and a
quarter wide, and one inch thick. Around the middle of the
keeper, and occupying, with its lower section, the space
between the poles, is a wooden winder, hiving about one
hundred bards of common bonnet-wire, threaded, from
which the two ends, composed of four lengths of the wire
twisted together, are carried out, with a vertical curve
of about three-fourths of a circle, one of these twisted ends
passing beyond each end of the keeper, and resting upon
the respective poles of the magnet. A tenall wooden lever
is so fixed to the winder and keeper as to admit of the
whole being suddenly forced up from the magnet by a
smart stroke ; and a very beautiful and brilliant spark is
invariably elicited, at whichever end of the wire is first se-
parated from the magnet.
" It is Mr. Sexton's intention to add several plates to
his magnet, and to ascertain, by a series of experiments,
the best size for the keeper—the best description of wire
to be used—the easiest mode of causing an instantaneous
separation of the wire from the magnet, and other inte-
resting consequences, the result of which we shall take oc-
casion to communicate to our readers.
" Perkins' newly invented process for generating steam,
is accomplished by so placing a lining within the boiler,
that a thin sheet of the fluid which it contains, may be
carried constantly over those portions of the side of the
vessel which are in immediate contact with the heat from
the fire, formed upon the discovery of the circulation of
the fluid, under the operation of heat, from that part of
the boiler subjected to the immediate action of the fire
upwards.
" It is found that, as the heat is increased, the ascend-
ing current becomes more rapid, that the agitation is more
violent, and a relatively augmented proportion of steam is
produced ; whilst the metal, of which the boiler is com-
posed, is preserved from that destruction to which it is
subjected in the common process, wherever the fire hap.
pens to act upon it with more than ordinary violence.
" A receiver is also placed in the centre of the boiler,
into which, by the circulation of the heated fluid from the
bottom and sides of the boiler, all dirt or other sediment is
thrown ; by which another cause of the destruction of the
boiler is removed.
" In this article we omit the mention of other invert.
tions and discoveries, because we will not weary the
reader. Our present object is to excite attention to these
interesting and useful speculations of creative genius and
scientific research; out future aim shall be to continue to
fix that attention, and we hope to a good end."

The Duke of RICHMOND had an interview
this morning with Lord ALTIIORr.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.—An amusing trifle, in
one act, entitled Call Again To•morrow, was played here
for the first time last night. The subject is not very new
to the stage, and consists chiefly of the difficulties occa-
sioned by the procrastinating propensities of the hero,
Dick 2Veverpay (Mr. WRENCH, and the consequen
anger of his creditors. For so unpretending an affair, we
have seldom seen a happier : it kept the audience in good
humour, and went off with all possible success.
Mr. COOPER'S new Romance of t 4 The Hei-
demtnauer," is, we perceive, built on a tradition connected
with the neighbouring ruins of an abbey and a baronial
castle near Duerckbeirn in Germany. Two remarkable
spots are also in the vicinity, namely, the Heidenmauer
(or Heathen's Wall) and the Teufelstein (or D,wil's Stone).
The stories connected with these places were so tempting
to the novelist when travelling in the country some little
time ago, as to have induced him to exercise on them the
vivid powers of his itnagination. Hence the present addi-
tion to his claims on popular favour.
A life of contemplation is not unfrequently a
miserable one ; a man should be active, think less, and not
watch life too closely....4lfiratmates Letters,