The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-06 00:00:00

S I'EAM MOTIVE POWER IN 1700.

The discoveries which are from time to time made in
the Egyptian tombs authorise the belief that many of
the inventions and machines .of the present day were
known to the ancients, and used by them. A gentle-
man who is curious in such things, says the Baltim)re
Patriot, sends us the subjoined extract from the History
of China, by Peri du Halde, which was published in
1741 (folio edition). It is certainly nothing less than a
miniature locomotive and steamboat which was here
noticed. The extract is taken from a description given
by du Heide of the various inventions made by the
Jesuit missionaries in Chine, for the instruction and
amusement of the Emperor Kanghi, who died in 1722.
'The inventions there described were made about the he.
ginning of the 18th century:—" The pneumatic engines
did no less excite his Majesty's curiosity. They caused
a waggon to be made of light wood, about two feet long,
in the middle whereof they placed a brazen vessel full
of live coals, and upon them an eolipile, the wind of
which issued through a little pipe upon a sort of wheel.
made like the sail of a windmill. This little wheel
turned another with an' axletree, and by that means the
waggon was set a running for two hours together; but,
for fear there should nut be room enough for it to pro-
ceed constantly forwards, it was contrived to move cir-
cularly in the following manner:—to the axletree of the
two hind wheels was fixed a small beam, and at the end
of this beam another axletree passed through the stock
of abother wheel, somewhat larger then the rest; and
accordingly as this wheel was nearer or further from the
wagon it described a greatA. or a lesser circle. The
same contrivance was likewise applied to a little ship
with four wheels: the eolipile was hidden in the middle
of the ship, and the wind issuing out of two small pipes
filled the little sails and made them turn around a long
time. The artifice being concealed, there was nothing
heard but a nn se like wind. nr that which water makes
about. a vessel."—Boston (American) Journal, Oct. 24.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec 5.
;Sittings at Nisi Pt IUR, at Weeitminsier. before Lard
CAMPBELL nnd a Speci.l Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. ANN LAVEY.
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This was an indiettre nt for peij cry against-Ann Lavey,
a Jewish widow, she having, en the 9th April last,
sworn, when examined before Mr. Sergeant Manniug, at
the Whitechapel County Court, in a suit in which she
was plaintiff and on,. Robert Hannah defendant, that she
h“d never been tried at the Central Criminal Court for
forgery or any other offence; and, further, that she bad
never been in custody at the Thames police-station, or
any other station, which was false.
Mr. Prendergast, Q C., and Mr. Macnamara, were
counsel for the prosecution; and the defendant was re-
presented by Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Huddlestone.
Mr. John Hodgson, the attorney fir the prosecution,
produced certified copies of the proceedings in the. W bite-
chape-1 County Court, in the case of " Lavey v. Hannah,"
and proved that Ann Lavey was plaintiff in that action,
and that it was heard on the 9th April last. Witness
appear( d for the defendant, and Ann Lavey was called as a
w itnf ss and duly sworn. She was examined by Mr. Felhatn,
her attorney, and swore that the debt, amounting to
161 16a. 6d.. was justly owing from Mr. Hannah, the de-
fe_idisnt, to her. Witness cross-exemined Ann Lavey,
and asked her when she was last at the bar of the Old
Bailey ? She replied, " Never." Witness said, " What,
never for uttering a forged endorsement to a seaman's
advance-note ?" She answered, " Newer ; I am
surprised at your question and your insolence."
Witness then asked her, if she had not
been tried three years ago at the Old Bailey
for some such offence? She replied. that she
was. Witness then asked if she had
never been tried at the Old Bailey for any
offence whatever? She said never, and she would swear
that on the oath she had taken. She also stated she
was never in custody at the Thames police station,
or any other police-station, and that witness knew it.
Witness now produced an examined copy of the record
of an indictment preferred against Ann Lavey, at the
Old Bailey, for forgery.
Cross examined by Mr. BALLANTINE—Wrote out the
notes be had taken of Ann Lavey's evidence at the
Whitechapel County Court the same evening. Had since
endeavoured to have the case of Lavey v. Hannah tried
again, but he had been unsuccessful.

_ , ..... ... ~....
aity was the only living head of the Church, and they
were bound to resist all movements which had a ten- SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JO URINALS
cieacy to subvert that supremacy from her Majesty to DAILY NEWS.—Toe Church of England was
the clergy of the Church.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously,
never teamed or fitted for a state of religious war. It
Mr. CHILDRRS, M.P., moved the second resolution,
is
one of those vessels that ride powerfuLy and majes-
as follow.:
tically in a calm, but the very hulk of which renders
" That this meeting is also compelled to express its it the sport anti victim of rough seas of controversy.
conviction' confirmed oy the recent testimony of several The Church of England, like the coostitution, is a
bishops of our Church, that the Court of Rime would compromise ; and the nature and condition of a cem-
never have attempted such an act of aggression, hati promise is, that extreme parties-shall submit to it, not
not encouraeenaente been held out to that encroach- as the exact solution that each should desire, but as
ing power by many of the clergy of our own the best and most pacified result they cart hope to oh-
Church, who hare, for several years past. tain. It has, however, been now for some years evi-
shown a desire to assimilate the doctiines and dent that a Church which is a compromise does not
services of the Church of England to those of satisfy the ardent aspirations and devout Zeal of many
the Roman ,Communion. While we would cheerfully of its sons. The idea began to prevail, that religious
contend for the principles of the Reformation against all
faith without enthusiasm
open enemies, we have to lament that our most dange-
it was scarcely was of little worth, and that
'
rous foes are those of our own household; and hence we deserving of the name, unless it per-
feel that it is to little purpose to repel the aggresaions of varied and con
trolled the thoughts and feelings of the
the foreigner, unless those principles and practices, which whole community and of each individual in it; nay,
have tempted him to such aggressions, be publicly and unless it was the universal motive not only of
universally repudiated." man's serious resolves and actions, but even of the
He had always been a friend of toleration; but resisting minutest circumstance and observance of his life.
oppression was not an act of intolerance. The Tracte• It is the striving after this, which has rent
Hans had good cause to cry " Heaven save me from my
fhrrite)nagdhs ;t"
tfaur
ltighehtshainincgcoafoerhtihagoferthehidßdoemhavnipstu,rn
that
the Church in twain, and that it will succeed in corn
pletely destroying it,
_is at least one of the eventuali-
lurked in the Established Church, and he, for one, ties towards which reflecting men should look. The
hoped shortly to see cast out. The Tractarians were present moment, and the circumstances of the tiny?,
now beginning to be held in contempt by oven those fully reveal the importance of the crisis; and we
whom they looked upon as their friends, and nothing must confess we can perceive no power that has as yet
would more clearly prove this than a boa snot he heard been brought to bear upon these opposite tendencies
the other7day. A Roman Catholic priest was asked if and dissensions that is either capable of combating
he had been to St. Barnabas', and his reply was very or likely to appease them. Whenever by chance one
significant. He said he did not like mock turtle.— of the impartial public contemplates the anarchy of
(Cheers and laughter.) the Church, his first burst ,of resentment is directed
The Earl of CHICHESTER seconded the resolution, against the bishops. But after all do we not heap too
giving ii as his opinion that the conduct of the Trac- much blame upon them individually ? Are they not,
tarian clergy had not only been erroneous but culpable, like drivers of mingled and heterogeneous flocks, un-
and the
and they had a right to demand of the beads of the
Church if their practices were in accordance with the able to keep and tend together
wander the sheep that wish to
laws of the Church.—(Hear, hear.) If they were,led
,d
crook cannot
it was their duty to endeavour to get those laws climb
altered, and the Church purified from such evils.— reach both, and the pastor infallibly abandons either
the into
barren fat
episcopal
Th
goats that would
.
(Hear, hear.) But in his view no such alteration was one-half of the flock or the other, or el-e in despair of
needed —(Hear.) He had always been favourable to controlling either, flings himself at full length to slum-
extending toleration in matters of religious belief as far ber. If the authority of the bishops has failed, and if
as it eluld go consistently with the due safety of the the bishop's office itself has become more a stumbling
Constitution, and it was because he still entertained that block and a derision than an active, efficient, and use-
opinion tbat he was averse to Popery; for whenever
Popery gained the ascendant toleration was at an end. I y, .
Lord CammEs RUSSELL supported the resolution, But the State is even more ignored than the prelacy
ful author't shall wa look to the State for help ?
Rome had always been insolent and insidious—insolent
by both the extreme parties. Its interference has
t aim of the State
in her day of power, insidious in her penury; but he given rise to serious resentmen •
The
would defy all her insolence and all her insidiousness, has been no doubt to trim the vessel of the episcopacy
if they bad not enemies to contend against within, With and the Church as to keep the balance even, nor allow
the doings of those enemies before their eyes they must it to vary so much on one side, or to let water in.
be convinced that the time had arrived when the Popish Bat at every movement of the kind, the unruly and
aggression ought to be met by a great lay domonstra- mistrustful crew fling themselves alternately, from
tion.—(Cheers.) one tide to the other, so that it is in truth a miracle that
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously,
Mr. BAXTER moved the next resolution, as follows: the Church is yet above water. What happy Church
" That, while this meeting feels deeply conscious that
dof b 1 . or trimming, All went
ahnadd
nSetaateeepilots were Pitt and Lord Liverpool ! They
the true and effectual remedy for the dangers which .
beset our Protestant Church belongs to no human straight in those right Tory days. But now it is far
power, but only to the Supreme Head of the Church, different. The Churc a has
Prime Minister,
power of
whose Almighty aid is to be sought by humble, per. Bishops to control, or of a Minister, with
severing prayer, it is thankful that, by the British his official authority alone, to manage. The re
Constitution and the existiug laws, there is vested in her is, in truth, but ore remedy. Call in the
Majesty, as the earthly head of our Church, a laity. Let net the Church be carried away and
wholesome power of interposition—which power we divided by purely eccl„ip;tical schismsi and merely
entreat her Majesty now to exercise. The records sacerdotal views. Correct the idioeyncrecy of the
,f the reigns of her Nl,jesty's illustrious predecesso,s,
clergy
by the good and piein ,enee of rho laity. It i,
bnanothy bexamples ofef ,re and :incethe thmanne glo
errio in us Re
ahvolutiolch then,m t
sc urti
hie ien
the litter that pay for the Church ; let them h-tve a
i
and abuses which a.. various times hove sprune up in the voice in i;, And then, when there is a public ,a lay
I Thumb, have been
,i,
nit
with, by
the,
ex...reis,
tit. th, opinion, 'early aid conwitottooaii expre,yo, on
Cowell !oat ers, the toinister CHCI lean upon that, in-
noral authority; and it appease to this meeting, that on
-,.. 1.,: n2pr occasion has a more urgent need existed for stead of being compdled to go ~ut of his way, and
. us-, an interposition." mike nn extraordinary appoul to the. public ~entirnent,
iThis eggres:ien of the Pope would not have been sue- which, however powerful and dt,ci-ive in the answer
fere(' in Austria or other Roman Catholic dopuibions, that it prov,,kis, is still 4 it:rog4t6ry to the dignity and
Church reform:;
where Roman Catholicism not only existed but was cc- calm of hie b ‘tic•-,as web as ..flensa:e to those A' t)0 flef.in
tebliehed; and why should they sir quietly down and themselves the ohjf-cts, not of loot rePre'''s'i"n, but ofC,OU,I4T OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 5.
individual and irregular pereecutien. The time is one, (sitlix,o'
~,t, Nisi guts, atier Term, before Lord Caitf
gs7—(ebeers.) Nothing short
could have betraed the which demands a 'large measure of gusticp, JERVIS and a Special Jury.)
,;oflc-retatebtlihnedse
ipzeatdit.
Pope ' into attempting the ' inva4on .of Eng- .
land ;. but it was fetid. •• the ' eltotnatt ' Church , , P,, . , , ,
and if a,e fespilt, outburst of religious zeal 'SSA to. ' Arlie~t, ntieuine'of the Conti this' morning the crave
of such a result as that, it will e one of the mos se u- iof .z c Jar , e ,
..
could not exist without bishops. Well, the people le t. 1 •'"
I:•"t''t - J'lectitor; v: Bradshaw and others," was
England had no objection to their having them, but theywould pray a tales. Ills Lordship
tors,
• as neither party
Lary movements that ever stirred the. British mind, I withdrawn, owing to the non-attendance of special jue
must be congregational and not territorial bishops. We see. indeed, that this movement is scouted, and
These demonatations must be followed by acts. The 1 we read that Mr. Roebuck, amongst others, has come i thereup
ham©,
fined every special juror who did not answer
law had been broken and her Majesty's prerogative set forward to decounce it as intolerant. In what is 'to his 'name'

never

-Mr: Thomas Vesey, as attorney, corroborated the
preceding witness.
James Ham, a police-sergeant (21 K) said on the 21st
August, 1843; he arrestud Ann Levey at her own house,
and she was locked up all night a, the Thames police-
station. Took her into cust-:dy on a charge of forging
a seaman's advance note for 255. The seaman who
chargedther was nairod Yates, and was present on the
occasion. She was take❑ to the Mansion-house before
the Lord Mayor, and was then let out on bail. On the
following Thursday "she was brought up again and com-
mitted for trial. She was afterwards tried before Mr.
Baron Rolfe at the Old B•siley.
By Mr. BALLANTINE—The judge stopped the case on
the ground that as she) was indicted for forgery, and as
corgery could not be proved, she ought to have been
indicted fur obtaining the money by means of a forged
order.

A copy of the record of the indictment of the defend-
ant at the Old as,ilPy was then put in and read, and this
closed the arse for the prosecution.
Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury for the defendant,
complaining that the prosecution had not ventured to
question her testimony at the Whitechapel County
Court, so far as it respected any of the matters really in
issue in the suit there, but had brought this charge
against her on a thing wholly irrelevant and immaterial
to that issue. He submitted that the extreme probability
was, that her statement, alleged to he perjury, was meant
to convey, not that she had never been triel at ihe Old
Bailey, but that she had never been convicted there on
any charge whatever, and had never been in a station-
house upon any charge whatever on which she was con-
victed.

1,,,rd CAMPBELL surruvd up the case. If tbe jury
were of opinion that the (hi ntliut was que,tioned at
Whi', chapel County Court, upon a matter wh,eh
there as reason ko think ahe had forgotten, or even
ir they thought aho was interrogated upon a thing wholly
initnwori•tl, it would be their duty to acquit her.
Tile jury found a verdict of Guilty, with a recommt-n-
-datit.n to En' my. and
Lerd CAMPBELL sentenced her to be confined for
tweive ::alettur tnonth3.