The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

ADELAIDE GALLERY.

One of the most curious philosophical toys of the
day is now exhibiting- at the Adelaide Gallery,
and is drawing crowded audiences every morning
and evening. We allude to the Automaton
Draftsman and Writer, recently exhibited at the
exposition in Paris, where it attracted the
marked attention of his Majesty the_ Sing of the
French, and which is now on a short visit to the
Adelaide Gallery. The automation is about eight
or ten inches high, and is attired in the cos-
tume of the Court of Louis XIV., he is
seated cross-legged in a fauteuil his arm'.
•-esting on a table—in his right hand he holds a pencil.
He nods his head to signify that he is ready to corn.
inence operations. A piece of paper is placed before
him—he steadies it with his left hand, and with his
right commences writing or drawing upon it. When
he has finished his work, he indicates its completion
by elevating his head and raising his hand from the
paper. He executed several drawings with great ac-
curacy while we were present, and wrote a variety,
of words. This automaton is certainly a very won-
derful fellow, and his performances appeared to afford
the greatest satisfaction to one of the most crowded
audiences we have ever seen in the Adelaide Gallery.

CAPT. WARNER'S EXPERIMENT.
(From the Brighton Herald.)
Certain reports having come to our ears calculated to
throw a suspicion upon the genuine character of the ex-
periment, we resolved, in justice to Captain Warner,
whose character these reports affect, to trace them to
their source, and having done so, we now place the result
without comment before the public:—
" Soon after the arrival of the John o'Gaunt in the
Shoreham roads, four pilots of that port, named Aus-
tin, Page, Merricks, and Parish, accompanied by a well-
known and respectable inhabitant of Shoreham Mr.
Young, went off to her. Mr. Young proceeded on
board, and being asked by a person, apparently in com-
mand, what they wanted, replied that the men in the
boat were pilots who had come out to offer their ser-
vices, should they be required. Having stated this, he
soon afterwards returned on board the pilot-boat. At
this time they remarked, as a very unusual circum-
stance, some ratlin lines between the fore and main
mast, down the ship's starboard aide (her head then ly-
ing to the westward), and passing through an eye-bolt,
which was about three inches in circumference. Mr.
Young also remarked on board the ship a quantity of new
warp (a rope about three inches round) lying on the
deck, and wondered what the rope could be for. On the
arboard side he had an opportunity of seeing also a rat-
io down the ship's side.
" The day that the vessel was destroyed, Parish and
other pilots went off towards the ship again, and be
states that he then saw three ropes of the size of the warp
passing from one point under the bulwark down the
ship's but separated, as they descended, by two of
them passing through the eye-bolts, leaving the centre
one in a perpendicular lino between them. The eye
bolts were below the water mark, but could be clearly
discerned through the water. The ropes could be
traced under the bottom of the vessel ; and there were
similar ropes fixed ih the same way on the larboard
side. The steps were thrown over on the larboard side.
Beside the ropes already described, there was a guy
rope passing from the stem down the ship's side, dipping
beneath the eye-bolts, and ascending afterwards to the
stern."
Such are the statements made by Mr. Parish and Mr.
Young. It is for Captain Warner to deny. or admit
the allegations, and, if it is admitted, to explain the use
or intention of the above apparatus, which,' to say the
least, will appear to all nautical men unusual and ex-
traordinary.

ANOTHER FATAL CASE. tN THE SERPENTINE.—
Orr Saturday evening Mr. Higgs, Deputy Coroner,
held an - inquest Ed the Life Guardsman, High-row,
Knightsbridge, on the body, of Mr. W. Jackson, aged
seventeen years, a me ;ical pupil of Mr. York, of
Maida-hill, St, John's-wood. who was drowned in the
Serpentine, Hyde-park. Several witne,ses ,h-Glared
that if proper activi y had been used by the boatmen
of the Humane Society. the We of the deceased m;ght
have been saved. A Juror.—May I ask whether any
of the men of the Royal Hum-me Society are entitled to
any pecuniary reward for saving the life of a fellow-crea-
ture ? Mr. Williams.- the superintendent—Nothing
whatever. The Juror—Then are they allowed anything
for picking up a dead persmt ? Mr. Williams—Only
what the Coroner allows. The Juror—What may that
be ? The Coroner—l generally allow 3s. for picking up
the body, and another shilling fur giving evidence. After
a short consultation, the jury returned a verdict of " Ac-
cidental Death."
ANOTHER BODY FOUND IN THE TfjpiEs.—On
Saturday an inquest was held on a body, greatly decom-
posed, of a young man, about eighteen years of age, at
the York Hotel, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, which was
taken out of the river Thames on Thursday evening.
The body was discovered in the mud, opposite the
wharf of Messrs. Edwards and Bennett, Commercial-
road, Lambeth. The Coroner, during the investigation,
remarked that it was distressing to mention the
- number of cases of a like nature to the present ; and,
couldd
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'hstending An, the beadle of Lambeth, had
the friends relatives of the de-
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ceased could not be trace ,47 of
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a acti
_Oxonian sh blue ockethandker-
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man silver watch-guard, and containingwoleft
fingerwo sixpences
and a fourpenny-piece. On his third
gilt or brass ring, with the word 4, Love" inlid was
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