The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-30 00:00:00

''FItA.TRICIDE.

- A cottage in WeaVering-street, near,3faidstone, was
inhabited by an aged widow, named Weeks, her daugh-
ter, and two sons, John and Edward. The former son
was a drunken and ferocious man, about 30 years of age,
and the other of a more steady and mild disposition,
three or four years younger, who has lately been work-
ing for the neighbouring farmers. On Saturday night
Edward, having purchased some provisions at Maidstone,
returned home with his mother and sister, and went to
bed, perfectly sober, at about ten o'clock. The two bro-
thers usually slept together, and John came home drunk
at about one or two o clock on Sunday morning, quarrel-
some and abusive, .Threw himself on the bed with his
clothes on, awoke his brother, and even alarmed the
neighbours by shouting and abusing Edward, whom he
tried to provoke in every possible way. John went
down stairs once or twice after this, still continuing his
abuse,' and preventing Edward from going to sleep. The
sister, 'fearing that some mischief would be done, pro-
cured a light, partly dressed herself, and went down
stairs.' John having again laid down and continued to
incense his brother, the latter, who it appears had hi-
therto done everything he possibly could to avoid a
quarrel, at length rose, put on a part of his clothes, and
went down stairs,- saying, " Well, if you've a mind for a
row; come down stairs and have it." John directly fol-
lowed him down, and having got into the kitchen, Ed-
ward turned round and met him with a view to a fight.
Scarcely had he thine so, when he felt a knife enter the
lower part"of the abdomen, and cried out that he was
killed. He seized the hand of John, and held'it whilst the
sister *reached the knife from him, cutting her own hand
in theict. Edward then exclaimed, " Oh, you rascal, you
have killed me—l shill die, I shall die," and having reached
the outside of the_door. he fell from exhaustion. John
replied,;" Serve you right, 3 °lf deserved it;" but went to
the next cottage and called up a labourer named Good •
yer, telling him that he was afraid he had killed his
brother. • John then got Edward some water, and Good-
yer ran for Mr. Power, a surgeon, who promptly arrivd.
and at 'once declared that there was scarcely a chance of
the wounded man's-recovery, as the bowels protruded,
and it was feared that the knife had entered the bladder.'
Every available remedy was,
latter
the
hozverti resorted to, and
Mr. Power and his assistant,
Jones,
of e99visited him
several times during the day,.agony.The b
part which he
appeared to be in most dreadful
John, after waiting till about the period when. Mr.
Power arrived, was, strange as it may appear, permitted
to pack up his clothes in a basket, and to go atlarge.
He called on a person at Gid's-pond at about six o'clock
in the morning, and as his person is well-known to the
police, there is little doubt that he will soon be appre-
hended. Or.e of his hands, it is believed the right
'one, was cut. Mr. Merrill, the constable of Boxley, was
on Sunday and yesterday actively engaged in endea-
soaring to trace out the offender, but unfortunately with-
out Success. It appears that he left the house at about
-the tithe when Mr. Power arrived, and went up the
street., When he returned ho asked anxiously fur the
knife, and Goodyer told him that he had thrown it away
and it is now in his sister's possession. It is a common
-sharp-pointed pocket•;knife, the blade being about four
-inches long. The unfortunate victim has frequently
•expreased a wish that his " poor brother " should not be
'burt.c—Muidstone Gazette.

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. A GOOD SHOT.—On the first day of the grouse
shooting season, A. Baker Cresswell, Esq., shot, on
the Moors, Inverness-shire, the. property of Sir
GordonCuntnaing, Bart., fifty-five brace, the next
day, forty brace, and the third day, thirty - roe ;
making, in all. two...hundted apd fitty-t. T e
Mercury.

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ELECTROTYPE, CALOTYPE,
DAGUERREOTYPE.
Mr. Vaughan Palmer, electrotypist to the Poly-
technic Institution and the Art-Union, has just pub-
blished a small volume, descriptive of the three valu-
able applications of modern science to the arts, of
which the titles are prefixed to these remarks. He
clearly details all the processes and the materials em-
ployed, so that, with ordinary attention, the reader
may be enabled to exercise, for his profit and amuse-
ment, each of those important arts. Perhaps very
few are aware of their whole importance—for instance,
that of electrotype. It may be appreciated from one
example, thus :—Suppose an engraved plate, executed
by one of our first engravers, should be given into
hands of another equally skilful, with directions to
engrave a similar plate, mathematically correct, line
for line, point for point, each to be of the same abso-
lute length, breadth, and thickness, such a command,
we know at once, if even a whole life were to be devoted
to the task, could not be complied with. But there
is not a touch of the graver, no flower of the hedge
or meadow, nor cultivated ornament of the garden,
whose intricacies of form are not transferable to metal
by this interesting process. As a mode by which any
number of duplicate plates may be obtained
with unerring certainty, it is a subject of deep
interest to the lovers of the fine arts, and espe-
cially to the societies denominated Art-Unions,
which could not by any possibility supply,
through any other means (as does the London Art-
Union), so many as 12,000 copies of the same plate,
all equal to proof!
The electrotyped plants, flowers, fruits, and insects,
deposited by Mr. Cox and Captain Ibbotson, in the
theatre of the Polytechnic Institution, are beautiful
specimens, which cannot be beheld without admiration.
The,calOtype, for transferring pictorial objects to
paper, is next described in a brief but satisfactory
manner. Mr. Talbot, the, inventor, has changed the
name to .a compound from his own, and now calls
the art the " Talbptype." He certainly seems to
ha•fe'-niare right to do so than M. Daguerre can
claitn
.(as Mr. Palmer shows) to call the photogra-
phie,"or light-delineating, art, in its present perfec-
tion, after his name. The little work of Mr. Palmer
places the question as regards the claims of Mr.
Beard, of the Polytechnic Institution, who holds the
English patent, is a light in which they are not ge-
nerally understood, and shows that M. Daguerre,
notwithstanding all his honours and rewards, lists
after all done no more than assist in promoting the
art a step beyond the advance at which he found it.
In 1802 Sir H. Davy and Mr. Wedgwood made ex-
periments in photography, but could not fix the pic-
tures they obtained. In 1814 M. Niepce, of Chalons,.
took up the subject, and made considerable progress.
Subsequently he and
,M. Daguerre who had been
some time similarly engaged, united their labours,
which led to the beautiful discovery, " absurdly,"
says Mr. Palmer, " called the Daguerreotype." - The
author tells us that Daguerre was not very successful
in taking portraits from life, in consequence of the
tediousness of the process, and the necessity for the
sitter to be fixed for a long time in one position, with
one expression, and without moving a muscle. The
first next step towards the practicability of taking'
portraits from life, by the agency of light, was made by
Mr. Woolcott, an American. But it was not until
Mr. Beard, assisted by Mr. Goddard, expended large
sums of money and much, time in endeavouring to
make his patent under Daguerre pradically available,,
that the art was brought to its present state of perfection,
beauty; Those exetnisite
,specimens of
Mr. Beard's skill, with which the public are now fa-
miliar, are produced in a few seconds. The original
process of Daguerre required hours of irksome sitting
for an imperfect production. The pamphlet says
nothing of Mr. Beard's last improvement as to giving
colours to his portraits, which seems to be a great
omission. Yet, if the author had gone much, further
in his details, we could not, as the interest of The sub-
ject has drawn out these 'remarks already to a great
length.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.--WQOLWICII, AUG. 28.
The Black Eagle steam-vessel, 'Master-Commander S. B.
Cook, 14ft Woolwich yesttitgoa,y for Portsmouth. The
name of.the vessel built unikthe title of the Infernal
has been changed to Eclair,luid she has been commis-
sioned by Commander W. G. B. Estcourt, and the fol-
lowing offieers.have beee appointed to her :—Lieutenant
P. A. Halket; master, H. D. Burney; paymaster and
purser, T. R. Hallett; gunner, William Hust; boatswain,
John Warren; acting carpenter, Evan Crowther; and
master's assistant, John Gowan. The Volcano steatite
vessel, Captain Sir William Dickson, is expected ,at
Woolwich from the coast of Ireland to have her defects
made good. The Princess Alice steam-vessel, Master-
Commander L. Smithett, arrived at Woolwich on Sunday
from Dover, and will leave early next week for Ports-
mouth to join the Royal squadron.
HARBOUR DuEs.--A return being required in
pursuance of an address of the House of Commons to her
Majesty for " a copy of the receipts of every harbour in
the united kingdom for each of the last three years,
stating the several heads of income, the authority by
which the same are levied.; and of the expenditure fur
each of the same years, stating the several heads of ex-
penditure, and the amount of each head in each of those
years;" orders have been issued to the collectors and
controllers at all the ports of the kingdom, in pursuance
of directions to that effect from Sir James Graham,
Secretary for the Home Department, to furnish a list of
the several harbours in the United Kingdom to which the
above address will apply, with the parties from whom
the information called fur by the House of Commons
can be obtained with respect to each harbour (so far as
they have the means of procuring this information), in
order that measures may be taken for obtaining the re-
turn required.
THE FIXING OF THE LONGITUDE.—The observa-
tions connected with this most interesting subject are
proceeding with the greatest success at Valencia, in this
county. The actual_ observations at Valencia are Doff
conducted by Lieutenant Gossett, of the Royal En-
gineers, and it is gratifying to know that the scientific
part of this most interesting and long-looked-for opera-
tion is conducted with the utmost diligence and accuracy.
The greatest interest has been exercised in the adjoining
country by these scientiffc operations, and numbers
flock to the heights upon which they are conducted.
Lieutenant Gossett entertained a select party of the
neighbouring gentry on the 21st instaut, at a sumptuous
banquet on the summit of his mountain, where there was
supplied every luxury which could be furnished from the
county, and from the cities of Limerick and Cork.
This singular feast, at a height of nearly 900 feet above
the level of the sea, created extraordinary interest, asso-
ciated as it was with the display of the magnificent, if
not unequalled panorama of mountain scenery which is
commanded from the position on which this astrono-
mical encampment is placed.—Kerry Evening Post.
THE NEW BANE CHARTER ACT.—In The Sun of
Wednesday the several clauses of the Bank Charter Act
which will come into operation on Saturday next were
mentioned. There are other provisions, which came
into force on the 19th of July last, when the Act re-
ceived the Royal assent, and there are others to which
future periods are fixed, so that the entire Act cannot
be in actual motion until January next. By the 23d
section it appears that there are forty-three bankers
who have ceased to issue their own' bank-notes under
certain agreements with the. Bank of England, and it-is
provided that on the 31st of December next such bankers
are to receive a composition by way of compensation,
which is by the Act to continue until August, 1856, -if
not previously determined.. In January in every year a
return of the number of partners, &c., in every banking
establishment is to be made to the Commissioners of
Stamps, under a penalty of 501., and the Commissioners
are required, on or before the Ist of March every year,
to publish in some newspaper circulating within each
town or county respectively, 'a copy of the return so made
by every banker, company, or partnership carrying on
the business of bankers, within such town or county re-
spectively, as the ease may be.

NEW CARRIAGE 01' GERERAL TOM THUMB.—The
equipage of General Tom Thumb is unequalled in point
of magnificence. It is the chariot style, and is made
to correspond in size with the General. The body
of the chariot is but twenty inches in height, and eleven
inches in width. The arms arc Britannia and Liberty,
supported by the British lion and American eagle, sur-
mounted by the rising sun, with the British and Ame,-
rican flags crossed. The motto, " Go-ahead." The
carriage is by Mr. S. Beaton, 16, Denmark-street, Soho.
The harness, which is heavily mounted, and of the
most perfect finish, was manufactured by Mr. Filling-
ham, 278, Whitechapel, and 78, Fenchurch-street. The
ponies are only twenty-eight inches in height, and were
purchased from Mr. Batty, of Astley's Royal Amphi •
theatre. The coachman and footman, two lads, are
dressed in livery, appropriate to such a magnificent
turn-out. The equipage will be sent to the General at
Birmingham, on Monday next, and can be seen on Sa-
turday evening next, Aug. 31, at Astley's Royal Am-
phitheatre, in the course of the performances.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEIRANCJI OF • LADY.—The
police have since Sunday last been most actively engaged
in endeavouring to discover the retreat of a lady whose
connexions are of the highest respectability, and reside
in the neighbourhood of Hanover-square. The lady in
question, who is Mary Jackson, thirty years of age, had,
it appears, been for some time in a low, desponding state
mind,of and at the recommendation of Dr. Sutherland,
she was, a short time since, placed under the care of Mr.
South, No. 1, Alpha-road, Regent's-park. On the
morning of Sunday last, about a quarter past ten o'clock
she was suddenly missed from the house, and all inquiry
as to where she was gone has, up to the present time,
been fruitless, beyond the fact, which has been ascer-
tained, that immediately on leaving the house she took
the cab No. 1,000, in the Alpha-road, in which she. was
driven to the terminus of the Dover Railway, where she
known.
changed aW. Bank of England note. She then, it is
believed, drove away
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suicide.

Gonnoi CArms.—Since the Duke and Duchess of
Richmond's arrival, his Grace has been entertaining a ,
number of noble and distinguished friends. Among
those at present enjoying the Noble Duke's hospitality
are the Earl of Uxbridge, the Ladies Paget, Lord and ._
Lady Templemore, Colonel Richardson and Colonel ,
Smith of the Royal Horse Guards, Colonel Rotton,
Major Udny, Mr. Cox, of London, Mr. Baillie, Mr.
Russell, Mr. Roby, Mr. Ricardo. Of his Geacerelemily,
the Earl of March, the Lords Henry, Alexander, Mott
George Lennox, the Ladies Caroline, Augusta, and
Cecilia Lennox, are also At tipa Castle.