The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, .844.

affecting only the inferior produce, had been emi-
nently serviceable to the poor without prejudicing the
farmer. Most of the charges which were originally
brought, with so much apparent good faith, against
the new tariff have successively vanished into
thin air, dissipated by facts which its assail-
ants have been wholly unable to contro-
vert ; and the mischief to the meaner order
of the opponents of the Government is, that the facts
evolved at every successive agricultural meeting is
sure to disturb one or other of their anti- ministerial
theories. Their towards agricultural associa-
tions, since the exclusion of political topics from their
discussions, is therefore easily to be accounted for.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 3i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6
Antwerp 25 85
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90
Frankfort on Maine

SGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar —

Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan —

Venice 47
Naples 39i
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres —
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia —

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 361
Cadiz
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 10
Silver in Bars 0 4 11/

Seville

THE LONDON GAZETTh
(THIS EVENING.)

CROWN-OFFICE, SErr. 24, 1844.

MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR-
LIAMENT.

County of Lancaster--Northern Division.—John Tal-
bot Clifton, Esq in the room of Edward Geoffrey Smith
Stanley, commonly called Lord Stanley, who has accep-
ted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding
of Yorkshire.

First West Yorkshire Yeolnanry Cavalry—Cornet
W. B. Naylor to be Lieutenant, vice Holdsworth, retired;
R. W. Drake, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Naylor, pro-
moted, Sept. 7.
NATIONAL DEBT OFFICE, SEPT. 21.
In pursuance of the Act 10th George IV., c. 24, the
Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have
approved and authorised the Commissioners for the Re-
duction of the National Debt to adopt, until further no-
tice, certain tables for granting, under the provisions of
the said Act, annuities upon the continuance of single
lives, and annuities for terms of years, when the price of
3/. per Cent. Stock (ex dividend) is 100 L 16s. 10d.' and
under 102/. I Is. 3d., and also when the price (ex divi-
dend) is 102/. 11s. 3d., and under 1041. 6s. Ild. And the
Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt
hereby give notice, that the said tables are ready for
delivery, and may be obtained (gratis) upon application
at the National Debt office. •
- S. Hrcuass, Comptroller-General.

INDIGO.—With the exception of small parcels of East
India taken for the Russian market, there has been little
business transacted ; prices however remain firm, and
there are no sellers but at priees equal to those of the
last quarterly sale.
TALLow.—lmporters of Russian are not inclined to
submit to lower rates, but at present there is only a
limited demand on the spot at 41s to 41s 3d for old,
and 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt for New P.Y. Candle.
For delivery in the last three months in the
year the price asked is 41s 9d per cwt, but few con-
Itracts hare been entered into. South American has
sustained its former worth, and 502 pkgs at auction
fetched 34a 6d to 40s for common to fine; and very dark
and soft 29s 6d per cwt. Of Town Tallow the market
has been again cleared at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett
cash; there is not a large quantity being produced.
Ons.—For common decriptions of Fish Oils prices
rule firm, and a good demand has prevailed by private
contract at 3415 s to 34/ 15s for pale Seal, and 331 lOs
to 341 for Cod ; 60 tuns of Southern at auction fetched
30/ lOs to 3215 s per tun. Sperm Oil is still wanted, and
previous high rates are well sustained.
Linseed Oil an extensive business was transacted at 24s
6d to 24s 9d per cwt on the spot, and the market has a
firm appearance. Rape Oil firm at 36s to 36s 6d for
pale, and 35s to 35s 6d per cwt for brown. Cocoa Nut Oil
at auction went at 261 15s to 27L Palm, good and fine,
at 26s to 27s 6d per cwt. Of Olive many parcels hare
been disposed of. Gallipoli at 441 to 454 Spanish 41/
to 431; the value of Barbary is 39/ to 401 per tun ;
but the quantity here is still small. Of American Lard
Oil some parcels sold, but not at better prices.

A VICTIM To SCIENCE.—George Cuthbert was
charged with being drunk at an untimely hour in the
streets. When asked by the policeman who he was ?
" A victim to science," hiccupped George ; " but I've
found it out." "Found out what ?" inquired the police-
constable. " Silence, and I'll tell you," murmured
George. "Don't you know, and if you don't you ought
—you ought, I say, to know, that I've been indeavour-
ing to hascertain the comparative strength of alcoholic
fluids for many years, and I've just found it out. It's
whisky, sir. Tell you how I did it. I takes three glasses
of brandy, no effect ; three of gin, no go ; three of
whisky, done in a minute. My grandmothr always
said I'd be a victim to my scientific thirst." " Very
well," said the constable ; "come with me aad study in
the watch-house."—Liverpool Journal.
Sir Robert. Pigot has announced to his tenantry his
intention of allowing them twenty per cent. in the pre-
sent year's rental, to meet the losses sustained by the
late unpropitious season.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
MARLBOROUGH-S 7 BEET.
Yesterday Adele Dupierre or Dupre, underwent a
second examination before Air. Maltby, on a charge
of having stolen and pawned a large quantity of shoes,
the property of Mr. Van Bever, shoemaker, Burling-
ton-arcade, with whom she lived as shopwoman.
Mr. Lumley, from the office of Mr. Flower, at-
tended for the prisoner, and a solicitor from the office
of Mr. Goatley for the prosecutor.
MCru
. Lumley .
He
said he had an application to make to
the proposed to cross-examine Mr. Van
Court.
Bever, and also Mr. 116ever's solicitor. Now he hoped
the Court would order that one party should not be
in Court while the examination of the other was pro-
ceeding with.
The solicitor expressed his surprise at this an-
nouncement. He had no evidence to give that he
was aware of. He was not a witness, and he was
only present as Mr. Van Bever's legal adviser.
Mr. MALTBY decided that the examination of the
solicitor, as proposed by Mr. Lumley, would be irre-
gular and unnecessary.
Mr. Van Bever was called, and the statement which
he made on the former occasion relative to the dis-
covery of the deficiency in his stock, the admission
of the prisoner Adele Dupierre that she had pawned
the property, and the steps he took both against the
prisoner and another young woman, formerly in his
service, in consequence of a statement, subsequently
disavowed, made to him by the prisoner, was read
over to him.
The solicitor then asked Mr. V. Bever various
questions, to which he replied that he had never, at
any time in his life, given the prisoner shoes to pawn
for him. On the 9th of August he left England to go
on the Continent, and he returned on the 24th of Au-
gust. The prisoner had money given to her for ex-
penses during his absence. During the time he was
out of England the prisoner had never received per-
mission to pawn any goods, nor was he aware that she
had pawned any until the robbery was discovered.
The solicitor here said he should produce a number
of duplicates relating to shoes and boots pawned by
the prisoner during the period of Mr. Van Bever's
absence.

Mr. Van Bever, in continuation, said as soon as he
returned to town he settled accounts with the pri-
soner, and at that time bad not discovered his loss. As
there was another young woman engaged for the shop
he made preparations to take stock, as was his custom
when he had a new hand. He intended to have taken
stock last Monday week, but was prevented in conse-
quence of a firs happening in the shop, which fire he
had reason to suspect the prisoner had caused.
Mr. Lumley said there had been nothing hitherto
said about any fire, and it was not correct for Mr.
Van Bever to make any allusion to it in the present
stage of the proceedings.
Mr. Van Bever replied the charge would be made
before the case ended, as he had instructed his solicitor
to do what was proper in the affair. Mr. Van Bever
urther said that after the stock was taken, and the
deficiency discovered, he charged the prisoner with
the offence, upon which she began to cry. He told
her it would be the best thingfor her to tell the truth,
and she then said she would work out the amount,
and
wouldporroeduabceoutht ethetimckaettiseri.f he would not say
anything morC
Mr.
Van Bever underwent a very long cross-
examination by Mr. Lumley.—Had been twenty-nine
years in England, and all that period in the service
of Mr. Erard, the harp-machinist. Kept a shoe shop
about eighteen years, but was a harp-machinist.
Worked piece-work for Mr. Erard. Had been in
partnership with Mr. Reynolds, in New Bond-street.
Had quarrelled with his wife, and had been two or
three times brought to that Court for alleged as-
saults. The prisoner bad been first engaged about
three years ago. She had left for nearly two years,
and had been e-engaged in consequence of his former
shopwoman leaving him. It was as false as —to
say, that at any time he had either given her shoes
i
to pawn, or had authorised her to pawn shoes. Had
never asked the prisoner to meet him at night. Had
given money to his wife the last time he was in
Paris. Was not in the receipt of thirty shillings a
week as wages from Mr. Erard. Found his earnings
enough for his expenses, without having occasion
to abstract money from the shoe business.
Here Mr. Van Bever's patience appeared to fail.
He said, what have my private actions and my do-
mestic affairs to do with the case ? I have been
robbed, and I come here for justice. I appeal to the
Court for protection against such nonsense as is going
forward.

Mr. MALrur wished to know what bearing the
questions had on the case which the solicitor was
putting. to Mr. Van Bever ?
Mr. Lumley said he should presently show that
the probable solution of the deficiency in the stock
was, that Mr. 'Van Bever had taken the property and
caused it to be pawned for his QWI3 private ends,

SPlol9.—Prices are net so firm for Jamaica Ginger,
and the public sales of 185 pkgs went at a decline on
former rates of 5s to lOs per cwt, low to fine quality
selling at 31 lOs to 11/ 135 per cwt This afternoon
sales of Cassia Lignea were made privately at is to 2s
per cwt advance on the rates of the last public
sales. Of Cinnamon small parcels have been
sold at prices rather abo►e those that prevailed
towards the close of the last quarterly auctions.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDB.—For Jamaica pre-
vious improved retell are fully sustained, and a good
business has been transacted to supply home and export
orders ; the operations are three hundred puns, at
3s 10d to 4s 6d for mid to good quality 30 to
36 per cent 0. P.: of fine and high flavoured
sorts there are scarcely any in the market at present,
and they ate much wanted. Leewards at 2s 5d to 2s sid
proof strength, and good brown ditto 2s 6d per gallon.
Calcutta at 2s 3d to 2s 31- proof with certificate. Deme-
rara 3s 2d to 3s 6d for good and fine. Of Jamaica the
arrivals are large since this day week, but of
Leeward Island small. For common sorts of
Brandy prices are kept up by the short supply.
Cognac best Wands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d,
puns 5s ; 1839, hhds 69, puns 4s 10d ; 1840, hhds 4s I Id,
puns 4s 6d ; 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds
4s 7d, puns 4s sd, and mid to good mid 3s 4d to 4s per
gallon. Geneva is not so much wanted for shipping,
ls 10d is the value ; of fine fit for duty prices are steady at
2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits lOs 4d per gall, cash.
To-day asliod demand existed for Leeward Island and
Calcutta Rum ; sales of the former were made at 2s 5d
proof, and the latter at 2s 3d per gallon. Jamaica was
not so much in request, and there is a large quantity of
mid qualities on the market ; however, holders generally
are not inclined to take lower rates, as arrivals are nearly
all in for the season.

RlCE.—Holders of Bengal show firmness, and have
refrained from offering any at auction ; by private con-
tract there has been a much better demand, and the
rates paid are rather above those previously quoted.
To-day a good demand prevailed by private contract for
Bengal and middling white was not to be purchased
under lis per cwt ; but at auction the sound of 1,000
bags was taken in at 12s to 12s 6d for fine bold clean
white being above the value ; a few lots of sea damaged
were however sold at lls for first class, lOs for second
ditto ; and 8s per cwt for third ditto.
FRUIT.-44s to 47s is the value of Patras and 38s to
41s per cwt for Zante and Cephalonia. New Muscatel
Raisins have been sold, boxes in layers at 955, half-
ditto 100 s, and quarter-ditto 120 s per cwt. Valentia
Raisins are much wanted. In other sorts of Fruit
scarcely anything has been done.
SALTPETRE.—lroporters of rough are not inclined to
submit to any further reduction in prices, and none has
been offerd at auction ; privately, however, there has not
been much business transacted ; we quote low 23s 6d to
245, middling 24s 6d to 255, good 25s 6d to 265, and fine
26s 6d to 27s per cwt ; rather under these rates,
.there
are, however, some orders in the market . English
Refined is not much wanted, 29s to 29s 6d per cwt is the
value.

•
Mr. MALTBY said he had not heard such a state-
ment made by the prisoner, nor had he seen it in any
of the public journals.
The solicitor said the prisoner, had certainly made
such a statement in open Court, in the hearing of se-
veral of the residents in Burlington-arcade, and he
supposed it was owing to the reports of those parties
that the rumour had gained publicity. Mr. Van
Bever had been greatly prejudiced by the report,
and it was but an act of justice to him to show that
the prisoner's story did not contain a single word
of truth.

In the former examination some mention was made
of the interest taken in the proceedings by a Colonel
Loftus. On the authority of a highly-respectable
legal firm in Lincoln's Inn-fields, we have to state
that the individual in question was not Colonel Per-
rers Loftus.

. HAMMERSMITH
Henry Janes, John Hill, William Benson, Henry
Key, and James Foreman, labourers, were charged
with causing the (loath of a man named George Ben-
son, in a fight, which took place on Sunday morning,
near the Basin of the Kensington Canal. The first
was charged as a principal, and the rest as aiders and
abettors in acting as seconds. After the hearing of
the evidence relative to the fight, and the death of the
deceased from the injuries he had received, the priso-
ners were remanded till Thursday.

CURIOUS FACTS REGARDING
FILTRATION.
(From the Chester Chronicle.)
%%r5 believe that to our noble neighbour, the Mar-
quis of Westminster, is indirectly owing the existence
of the system of filtering large bodies of water, which
our neighbours, the manufacturers of Lancashire, are
adopting. The Noble Marquis gave notice,
about
four years ago, that he should revive the Committee
for inquiring into the supply of water for London.
This notice was seen in St. Petersburgh by a young
engineer, born in Tartary, of English parents, who
having been deeply injured by the corrupt and arbi-
trary conduct of the Russian Government, panted to
get away to the land of his ancestors. His father and
brother had built the greater part of the Russian
navy, and the latter had been ennobled by the Em-
peror Alexander for his great services. A new
reign, that of the present Emperor, produced
men "who knew not Joseph" or his family. The
author of the modern system of filtration, the late
W. H. Stuckey, civil engineer, invented it in Russia,
and offered a plan for providing St. Petersburgh with
pure water. The Governor, Count Essen, highly ap-
proved of this plan and granted his permission. A
large building was erected and pipes laid down. A
contract was entered into which it was thought by a
relation of one of the Ministers would be, very profit-
able. As everything goes by favour or bribery in
Russia, there was little difficulty in obtaining an
order to supersede the original contractor; poor
Stuckey was commanded to take down the building
which he had erected. Stuckey refused until a reason
could be assigned—" you have no right to ask imper-
tinent questions but to obey" was the reply, and the
order was repeated with threats—he still refused;
200 men of the Fire Brigade were then directed to
take the building down by force in the dead of the
night. The next morning not a stone was standing.
The foundation of the disease of which Stuckey died
was the result. He recovered—came to England—
offered his invention to Parliament—exhibited his
filter at work—Lord Brougham saw it in opera-
tion, and spoke of it twice in the House of Peers,
strongly counselling the Government to adopt it for
the benefit of the nation at large. Lord Radnor
did the same, and resented Stuckey's petition
to the Lords. Sir F. Trench and Mr. Mackin-
non presented similar petitions to the House of
Commons. All was of no avail. The invention
was merely for the public good, and did not con-
tribute to any party objects for which cause it was
clearly ufireasonable to expect that public money
should be expended upon it. Poor Stuckey, after
dancing attendance for a whole session, found the only
result to be, attempts to discover his secret. Con-
trary to his intention, he was obliged to take out a
patent. Fortified with a letter of recommendation
from Lord Brougham to the celebrated Arago, he also
obtained a patent in France and another in Holland.
All these were matters of difficulty, but they were ac-
complished. This year the Emperor of Russia ar
rived, and the Marquis ofNorthampton, as President
of the Royal Society, called upon the English nation
to treat the Autocrat with kindness on the ground of
the encouragement given by the Russian Govern-
ment to Englishmen of science. Poor Stuckey
had petitioned that very Government seventeen
times for redress, and could not even get an
answer. He was much excited his father-in-
law, Mr. Northhouse, (he having married in
England) addressed a large body in London, stating
the foregoing circumstances, which appeared in
a popular London newspaper of the ensuing Sunday,
on which day the Emperor suddenly and unexpec-
tedly left our shores. Intensity of feeling had how-
ever secured its victim--Stuckey died at the early
age of 35, just in time to behold the voluntary appli-
cation of his system of filtration by several of the
leading manufacturers of Lancashire to their works,
and also by the engineer of the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests in making the fountain in Tra-
falgar-square, and the Aid-de-Camp of King Louis
Phillippe and his partners, to the fountains of Paris.
Such is the fate of genius ! Such is the simple nar-
rative of one of the most useful discoveries of modern
times! Well might Moore say,—
In the land of the north there are insects that prey
On the brain of the Elk, till its very last sigh ;
Oh I genius, thy patrons more cruel than they,
First feed on thy brains and then leave thee to die

EXEMPTION OF FARMING STOCK PROM AUCTION
DuTv.---Many questions having arisen as to the extent
of this exemption, we have made inquiry, and the result
is that it does not apply to cider, butter, cheese, flour,
&c. ; neither does it extend to all property which may
belong to a farmer, but only to such things as belong to,
and are used on, the land. Green-houses, hot-houses,
nurserymen's stock, &c., are not considered to come
aL
within the exemption.— Wiltshire Independent.
The arrangements for carrying out the Act of Par-
liament constituting Manchester a port for warehousing.
goods, &c., under the Board of Customs, are now com-
pleted. The establishment is to consist of a collector,
comptroller, six clerks, and two landing waiters. Mr.
Powell, at present comptroller of Newcastle, has been
appointed collector ; and Mr. Shelley, comptroller of ac-
counts at Liverpool, the comptroller. The principal
officers will take their seats on the Bth of October, for
the purpose of arranging the routine ; the clerks, &c.,
will join on the lOth, and public business will commence
on the ilth.

Mr. Van Beyer emphatically repeated that he had
never authorised at any time the pawning of shoes or
boots.

Cross-examination continued—The receipts in the
shop had fallen off very much within the last week or
two. This he attributed to a conspiracy between the
prisoner and his former shopwoman. He had received
information that the prisoner had sent customers to
another shop in the arcade. Had never expressed a
determination to any one to get Miss Cook out of the
arcade. After the prisoner and Miss Cook were in
custody, did not say to his solicitor that he only
wanted to punish Miss Cook, and not to hurt the pri-
soner. What he said was, that from what Dupierre
had told him, Cook had been his ruin. Had never
promised to give 501. if Miss Cook were got out of her
shop. On taking stock had found about 105 pairs of
shoes and boots deficient, but from the quantity in the
hands of the pawnbrokers which he knew to be his pro-
perty, his loss was much larger.
Thomas Wood, shopman to Mr. Wood, pawnbroker,
65, High-street, produced samples of 74 pairs of shoes,
which the prisoner had pledged at the shop since
August. The witness said that the prisoner had been
in the habit of pawning shoes at his employers shop
for some years. He had a list of pledges of this sort
made in 1841 and 1842, at a period when the prisoner
was not in Mr. Van Bever's employ.
A shopman in the employ of Mr. Young, pawn-
broker, Princes-street, said the prisoner had pledged
between thirty and forty pairs of shoes since August
last. The prisoner had pledged shoes at the shop for
a considerable period.
The prisoner, when called upon for her defence, in
broken English said she had never known anything
about pawning shoes until sent by Mr. Van Bever.
Mr. Van Bever wanted to get Miss Cook out of her
shop, because since she had opened a shoe shop for
herself, he had not done so much business.
Mr. Lumley, for the prisoner, said he should only
urge the great improbability that the prisoner could
have pawned so large a quantity of shoes, and in her
own name, without the knowledge or consent of Mr.
Van Bever. There was a great deal of animosity on
the part of Mr. Van Bever towards Miss Cook, and
this was the foundation of the present charge. The
pawnbrokers also proved that the prisoner had for
years been in the of pledging shoes with them,
and this afforded strong presumption that the prose-
cutor must have supplied her with shoes, at least
during that period when she was not in his service.
Mr. MALTBY said there was not proof before him
that these shoes were Mr. Van Bever's property.
From the evidence which had been produced, he felt
it to be his duty to send the case to a jury.
The depositions were then ordered to be taken, and
the prisoner to be brought up again the next day in
order to be fully committed.
Mr. Van Bever's solicitor said he now had to make
a charge which, as it had got publicity, he felt it was
due to Mr. Van Bever that it should have investiga-
tion. Mr. Van Bever's shop was set on fire on Mon-
day week, and this act he believed to have been com-
mitted by the prisoner, who was alarmed at the pros-
pect of detection which Mr. Van Bever's proposal to
take stock held out. The prisoner, however, had as-
serted that she had been told to set the shop on fire
by Mr. Van Bever, and this statement had gone forth
to the public, and had seriously injured Mr. Van
Bever's business.

Victoria Station, Sept. 14.
Your note on the subject of the recent accident
near this station has been received. In the present
case I cannot, I think, do better than inclose the fol-
lowing paragraph from the Guardian, which contains
the substance of the coroner's inquest :—" On the 4th
inst. a fatality occurred on the Manchester and Leeds
Railway, near the Hunt's Bank station, to a porter
in the service of the company, named Samuel Mil-
lington. It appears that when the six o'clock passenger
train started the deceased was standing on the foot-
board of the second carriage, on the near side ; and
after the train had proceeded about 300 yards he
jumped off, but unfortunately fell, both his legs lying
across the rail on that side. The near wheels of five
carriages passed over his thighs, fracturing them
severely, and he died from the effects of the injuries
about two hours afterwards. On Friday, the 6th inst.,
Mr. Chapman held an inquest on the body of the
deceased at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, when it
was stated that he had been frequently cautioned
against standing on the foot-boards after the trains
had started, and that he was liable to be discharged
for disobeying such order. A verdict of ' accidental
death' was returned." In addition I have only to
say that every precaution is used to prevent the ser-
vants of the company and others from recklessly
endangering their lives by such very imprudent and
totally unnecessary exposure.
GEORGE HALL, Chief Inspector.
MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM.
Manchester, Sept. 16.
I am directed to hand you the following particulars
of the accident on this line at Alderley Edge. On Mon-
day the 9th inst. there was a cheap trip from Manches-
ter to Alderley Edge and back. About half-past 10 in
the morning a train was dispatched from Manchester,
which, in consequence of the number being so large
upwards of 2,000, consisted principally of box wag-
gons, opening behind. On arriving at Alderley, the
fore part of the train being required to go forward,
the carriages were unshackled, and directly after an
order given for that part of the train to proceed for-
ward. After the usual signal by the engine whistle
had been twice given, the train started, when it was
found that some person, without any authority, had
reshackled the train, in consequence of which a
woman, of the name of Mary Bealey, who was in the
act of getting out of the waggon, was thrown down
under the wheel, which passed over the lower part of
her head. An inquest was held on the following day,
and a verdict of " accidental death," returned, no
blame being in• any manner attached to the servants
of the company.
I beg also to observe that the Directors had taken
great pains to prevent any accident occurring, two of
the chief officers of this Company being in attendance,
and directing the movements of the other servants at
the time of the melancholy accident. With a view,
however, of preventing any accident arising from the
same cause, the Directors have resolved that this de-
scription of vehicle, opening at the end, shall not be
again used in the conveyance of passengers, and are
ordering carriages of a superior description for the
accommodation of parties supporting their cheap
trips. THOMAS FROGGATT.
—Railway Chronicle.

NEW REAPING MACHINE.
The following account of a new machine for cut-
mg, or rather gathering wheat, which has just been
Invented in Australia, is very curious, and the results
of the invention may be most important. It is com-
municated by Governor Grey, of South Australia, to
the Royal Society of England, under the date of
December 13, 1843. He says :
" The colony continues to prosper; and the only
event which has created any sensation is the complete
success which has attended the operations of a
newly-invented reaping machine, invented in this
colony. This machine reaps, thrashes, and win-
nows, all at the same time, and this at the rate of
nearly an acre an hour; the machine requiring to be
attended by two men, and to be pushed by two horses.
The corn is at once taken from the machine (which
is stopped for the purpose when it is filled), and put
into bags for exportation. The total sum charged for
this operation is 10s. per acre ; the sowing, saving of
corn, time, and labour, and consequently of expense,
is very great. The inventor of the machine antici-
pates that, next year, the whole of these operations
will cost much less than 10s. an acre. I have seen
this machine at work, and was quite satisfied as to its
success. You will say, But we shall soon make such
a machine in England, when the principle is known.'
It is, however, based upon a peculiarity is this climate,
and could, I think, only succeed in a similar very dry
climate. I must now give you a description of this
invention. It is something like a cart pushed forward
loy two-horses, instead of being drawn. In front of
the machine is a very large steel comb, which is
pushed forward and seizes the straw of the wheat, as
an ordinary comb seizes hair. As the machine is
moved forward, the straws are by the motion drawn
through the comb, and dragged upwards towards the
mouth of the machine. From the peculiar dryness of the
climate, the wheat sheds very easily—that is, the corn
or grain falls very readily out of the husk ; indeed, so
much so, that wheat cannot be reaped here in the usual
manner without considerable loss from shedding. As
soon,therefore, as the head of the wheatis caught in the
comb, the grain is, as it were, combed out, and falls
down the comb to the mouth of the machine. That
part of the head of the wheat which does not go
through (which is too fine to admit it, until the grain
has fallen out), is ultimately dragged up to the mouth
of the machine, where it is knocked off by an appara-
tus like that of the ordinary thrashing machine, and
the wheat is then thrashed in the same manner as in
other thrashing machines; whilst the rapid advance
of the machine creates a strong draft, by aid of which
the corn is winnowed. The straw is left standing. So
much of it as is required for manure, &c., is mown,
and the remainder is burnt."

CHEss.—The Palamide of the present month con-
tains a correspondence between Mr. Staunton and M. St.
Amant, by which it appears that a new chess-match is
to take place on October 15, at Paris, for the same stake
(100/ a side) as that played for last year. The condi-
tions will be, in the main, the same as those agreed to for
the former match ; there are, however, one or two points
which are at present under consideration, and which may
be modified. One of those is a proposition of Mr.
Staunton's to play the king's pawn two squares by both
players, whether for attack or defence, at the commence-
ment of each:party ; another point proposed by the gen-
tleman is to limit the match to thirteen games in place
of twenty-one--the winner of the first seven games
being the conqueror. The object of this latter change is
to lessen the time which the match will cause him to re-
main in Paris. As there is no doubt from the tenour of
the two champions' letters that these matters will be
arranged, the match may be leeked 011 s nettled.

H FRAGMENTS OF A CHINESE
ELEGY.
In the fourth moon, at the season called Mang-
' tchong, the air is pure, the sun shines in all its splen-
dour. How many ungrateful husbands give them-
selves up to pleasure, and forget her whom they have
lost. The husband and wife are like two birds in one
forest. When the fatal time comes they fly off each
its own way. This so accomplished beauty, this ten-
derness without bounds, they have vanished in a
morning. Why, alas, two spouses so closely united,
why should not they have lived and grown old toge-
ther ? I am like a man whom an enchanting dream
has cradled in a sweet delusion. When he awakes he
seeks the young immortal who charmed his ears and
his eyes; and he finds around him void, solitude,
silence.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, when the
disk shines in all her splendour, they offer to the gods
melons and cakes, of a form round as the lamp of
night. Men and women go two and two, to walk in
the country, and enjoy the sweet clearness of the
moon. But the rounded disk would but recal to me
the wife whom I have lost. Sometimes, to dissipate
my grief, I pour into my cup generous wine; some-
times I take my guitar, but it scarcely gives out a
sound under my languishing hand. My relations
and friends come in turn to invite me ; but my heart,
filled with bitterness, refuses to partake of their plea-
sures.
In the ninth moon, at the time called Tchong-yang,
the chrysanthemums open their cups of gold, and all
the gardens give out a fragrant odour. I would wish
to cull a nosegay of newly-opened flowers if I had a
wife with whose hair to adorn them. My eyes
moisten with tears; my hands contract with grief,
and strike my fleshless bosom. Igo once more into
the shining chamber which my wife inhabited. My
two children follow me, and come in sorrow to em-
brace my knees. They draw me by the hand, and
call me in a stifled voice. They ask me of their mo-
ther, by their tears, their gestures, and their sobs.—
From an " Elegy on the Death of a Wife," in Capt.
Pidding's Chinese Olio and Tea Talk, No. 21.

RAIL WAY CASUALTIES.
So much is done to circulate exaggerated accounts
of accidents on railways, tending to prejudice the pub-
lic mind against the system and management, that we
have thought it our duty to exclude from our columns
all such statements as are not vouched for by offi-
cial authority. None but practical men can possibly
conceive the extreme thoughtlessness with which mul-
titudes are ready to expose their lives ; it is scarcely
possible for the strictest vigilance to prevent men
from throwing themselves in the way of danger, and
nearly all the accidents which occur on railways may
be directly traced to individual perversity or reck-
lessness. It is desirable, where this is the case,
that it should be publicly known, in order that the
management may be acquitted in public opinion, and
also that precautions may be taken on other lines
against the recurrence of similar danger. In this
view an authentic register of accidents may be useful
both to railway property and railway management.
We have great pleasure in referring to the two fol-
lowing statements.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.