The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-12 00:00:00

BURT'S MACHINERY.

(From the Exeter Alfred.)
Among_ the curiosities of art to be seen in this city, or
even in England, no one deserves more attention than that
extraordinary and magnificent piece of machinery, the pro-
perty of Mr. Burt, which is to be seen at his Repository,
Fore-street-hill. The following description of it nay nut
be uninteresting, and we' wonder the proprietor has aot
given it greater publicity than he has hitherto done :—lt is a
time-piece which strikes the hours, quarters, &c.—a perpe-
tual almanack,which has an exclusive movement for the leap
year, requiring to be regulated once only in one hundred
years, and the principal wheel in which revolves but once
in four years—on a plate, in the centre of the face, is seen
the Sun in his course through the, heavens, as he appears'
to us ; the circle which he makes is beautifully described in
the changes of the seasons, by the horizon receding or ad-
ys lengthen or sliorten,ithder the above
vancing as-the days
is seen the Moon, ',hewing her age and 'wane, as she ap-
pears to us in her different stages—in organ playing a
variety of pieces, and the figures of which tire brilliant
beyond any thing of modern composition—a belfry, in
which are six figures ringing the changes on six bells ; a
variety of other figures are also shown, in motion, playing
instruments, beating time, &c.—the whole of which is
contained in one splendid pile of cabinet work, ten feet
high, five feet wide, and weighs upwards of half a ton.
We cannot dwell longer on a description of this astonishing
piece of human ingenuity, the work of an obscure indivi-
dual, said to be a native of Exeter; nor will we attempt
to give an adequate idea of its merits, which can only be
appreciated by looking on it, and a careful examination
must enhance its value in the estimation of the spectator
beyond any ethirt of art that ever before came under his
observation. Mr. Burt's Repository is also furnished with
a vast collection of paintings, by some of the first Masters,
and various curiosities, so well deserving the notice of the
connoisseur and man of taste, that an hour spent among
them must be called so much time well spent.

PARMA MENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
NOTICICS OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY.

1. Mr. Hume—Bill to regullte the taking the Poll by

Ballot at Elections for Members of Parliament for

Counties, Cities, Cinque Ports, Boroughs, and Towns.
2. Sir James Mackintosh—;-Petition from the Merchants,
Traders, and other British Inhabitants of Calcutta,
praying for relief from grievances under which they
suffer, in consequence of certain measures of the
Government of India ; and to refer the said petition
to a Select Committee.
S. Mr. Portman—To discharge Committee on Friendly
Societies Bill from further proceedings.
4. Mr. Grattan•—Bill to amend so much of Act 58 Geo.
3, • as relates to advances from Government on Grand
Jury Presentments.
5. Mr. Kennedy—Petition from Presbyterians of Lower
Canada.
6. Sir John Newport—Copies of the Minutes of Evidence
taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire
into charges of malversation in the Police Establish-
ment of the Leiuster District, sitting during the last

winter in the Castle of Dublin. -
7. Mr. Spring Rice—Bill to facilitate the estiblishment
of schools for general instruction in Ireland.
8. Mr. O'Brien—Total amount of Duty received on Coals
imported into Ireland for each of the last three years.
ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR TDIS DAY.
1. Replevins.(lreland) Bill—Second reading.
2. Archbishop of Canterbury's Bill—Third reading.
3. Assessment of Lessors (Ireland) Bill—Second reading.
4. Bankers (Ireland) Composition Bill—Second reading.
5. General Turnpike Acts Amendment Bill—Committee.
6. Cities and Towns Improvement (Ireland) Bill—Com-

mittee.
7. Corporate Funds Bill—Second reading.

DEOPPED NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
1. Mr. Robert Gordon—To refer Petition relating to the
regulation of Smithfield Market to a Select Committee.
2. Mr. Fsyhe Palmer—Bill to alter and amend certain
part of an Act to encourage the consumption of Beer,
and to amend the Laws for securing the Excise Du-

ties thereon.
S. Mr. Brownlow—Drainage Bill for Ireland.—Also, Ge-
• neral Inelosure Bill, Ireland.
DROPPED ORDRRS OF THE DAY.
1. Liverpool Road Bill--Second reading.
2. County Bridges Bill—Committee.

S. Voters Registration Bill—L.B.mnd reading.
4. Alehouses Lieeusing.Bill—Committee.

5. Canada Company hill—Second reading.
6. Ways and Means--Co►nmittee.

7. Supply—Committee.
Real Property in India Bill—Third reading. •
9. Witnesses in Equity (Ireland) Rill—LThird reading.
10. Game Bill=SecOnd reading.
11. County Lunatic Asylums Bill—Committee.
12. Surplus Ways and Means Bill—Third reading.
13. Promissory Notes (Ireland) Bill—Committee.
14. Church Briefs Abolition Bill—Report.
15. Protection of Purchasers (Ireland) Bill—Third reading.
16. Cinque Ports Bill—Committee.

LIST OF THE MINOR.
OF THIRTEEN WHO NOTED ON MR. IHAIR's MI
OF TUB CIVIL LIST, SO FAR AS RECIARDti PR
TO REDUCING THE SAME.
Brougham, James Martin, J.
Cradock, Col. Marshall, J.
Dawson, A. Monck, J. B.
Easthope, J. Webb, Col.
Guest, J. Williams, Sir It.
Guise, Sir W. Warburton, H.

lOTION FOR A RENI3ION
?AMON% WITH A VIEW

Wood, Ald.

MLR us.
Hume; Joseph
Wood, J.

PAIRED OFF.
Thomson, C. l',

A letter from South Devon says,—" The
prospects of the farmers in this county are any thing but
promising. Bullocks are now sold fat at nearly the same
pi ices as they cost lean some mouths since. Potatoes
can hardly be got rid of at very low prices. Wool is a
complete drug ; very few have any corn left to sell ; and
there is every reason to; suppose that the withdrawal of
one pound notes from circulation will have a bad effect on
prices, and add to the distresses of all classes."— Taunton
Courier.

In an account of attempt at burglary at the
back of Walcot-terrace, Lambeth, which appeared on
'Friday last, it is erroneously stated that the robber was
pursued and taken by a Mr. Dixim. We understand that
the capture was made by a Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, 70 years
of age, whose account we insert :----" I occupy a piece of
ground, and a ground-floor cottage (no stairs), adjoining
Mr. -SLADE'S, at the baCk of Walcot-terrace, Lambeth.
T Thursday, June sth, at half-past three, I
wasiawoorkning
awoke by the noise of some person breaking in at my
bed-room window. I had recourse to my pistols, and with
one in my hand stood listening a few seconds, and saw the
shutter open, and discovered a man in the act of breaking
the under panel or weather boards, in order to effect an
entry. I could have shot him, as there was now nothing
but the glass between us; but I did not ; I went out and
called to him; lie went through to Mr. SLADE'S ground ;
I then called up a neighbour, Mr. TUBB, and with a pistol
we pursued him, discovered and took him in Mr. BLADE'S
cow-house.

On Sunday morning about eight. o'clock, the
neighbourhood of New-cross was thrown into a state of
great alarm by the discovery that the house of a baker
named RICHARDSON, which adjoined an extensive timber-
yard, in the occupation of a Mr. BURGESS, was in flames.
Assistance of course speedily arrived, when Rlcita tins
was perceived in the midst of the conflagration with a
piece of blazing wood in his hand, exclaiming, " the
Lord has given me this torch wherewith to burn the evil
one. 1 know very well where the devil is, and I will
burn him by and d
-I* ; but in the mean time I have set fire
to my house to destroy the bugs and vermin which it con-
tains, and not one of which shall escape my vengeance."
The unfortunate man, who was soon ascertained to be la-
bouring under a paroxysm. of madness, after great difficulty
was dragged frotn the ruins, handcuffed, and conveyed to
Deptford. workhouse, where he is now confined completely
bereft of reason. He was a verydevout man, and a mem-
ber of a dissenting congregation, and it is conjectured that
his religious fervour and the loss of a wife to whom he
was much attached, have been the causes which reduced
him to his present pitiable condition. No exertions were
capable of arresting the progress of the destructive element.
Happily, however, no other injury was done than that sus-
the house of the poor maniac.
tained by

G a HA MP THE MURDERER.—The following
literal extract is from a letter addressed by the criminal to
his friends at Taplow :—" I entreat you not to grieve for
me, for I am not worthy for you to trouble about, for my
sufferings are not half bad enough for me—they are no-
thing compared to my sins, which are great. I feel I can't
pray enough : oh ! what could have possessed my worldly
heart? I own that I justly deserve the dreadful curse de-
nounced against every sinner ; and now I see the evil of
sin and wickedness, for our sins are sure to A ~nA o us out une
time or another; it is a feaifill thing to fall into the
hands of the living Con. Oh ! my time is but very short
before that fatal cord must be placed around my neck ; my
'eyes must be covered never more to behold the cheering
light, or the face of man. Oli ! the signal is given—toy
standing gives way—I drop—l agonize—l die—and
.in a
moment, appear before au offended Gon."—Tutttod
Courier,

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday at
Guildhall.

The Courts of Conservancy for the Counties of
Essex and Kent, were appointed to be held on the
25th instead of the 19th inst.

The thanks of the Court were unanimously voted
to the. Rev. Mr. Lancaster, Chaplain to the Lord
Mayor, for his Sermon preached before his Lord-
ship, the Judges, Sergeants at Law, Aldermen,
Sheriffs, and City Officers, at St. Paul's, on Sun-
day last, wing the first Sunday in Trinity Term.
Presentments were made of a very considerable
number of persons carrying on trade in the City, not
being free in the Wards of Aldgate, Broad-street,
Dowgate,- Farringdon Within and Farringdon With
.out, which were referred to the Chamberlain.

The Court were ocenpied at some length in an
Appeal against the Watch Rate for the Ward of
Bread-street, and after hearing the Appellants and
the Deputy and Common Council, the Appeal was
dismissed.

The Sheriffs made a communication respecting
the business of a Coppersmith being about to be
established near the Sessions-house and the Gaol of
Newgate, which it was apprehended might create
some ineonveniencies. Referred to the Gaol Com-
mittee.