The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-09 00:00:00

LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.

At an early hour this morning, the numerous
streets leading to the Mansion-house were crowded
with pedestrians all wending their way to the start-
ing-point of the Lord Mayor's procession. No vehicle
of any kind was allowed to pass further into the City
than the end of Farringdon-street, where there was,
of course, occasionally a little. confusion. Ludgate-
hill, in consequence of this 'arrangement, appeared
quite a different place to Ludgate-hill of yesterday ;
and Cheapside looked like a race-course without the
turf. 'Wandering musicians were congregated in it,
and several open air exhibitions were put forth, doubt-
less to the gratification of many of the holiday folks.
Not a little stir was caused in Cheapside by the ap-
pearance of Freemen, the "great" American pugilist,
who is generally called " the American giant," to
which title he certainly has a just right, as he is up-
wards of seven feet high. It was not a little amusing
to hear the various remarks passed upon him as he
walked through the streets, with a posse of boys and
women at his heels, which, like a snow-ball, increased
in size as it rolled along. The prevailing re-
marks were, " Oh, my gracious ! there's a man." " Oh,
he is on stilts," said one man ; and one group
of individuals who had got it into their heads that he
was the new Lord Mayor Walking about to show
himself, were canvassing amongst themselves the pro-
bable amount of good things he would eat at the
dinner. The giant eventually took up his station on
Waterloo Bridge to view the procession on the water.
The procession commenced forming as early as ten
o'clock in King-street, Cheapside, and by eleven there
were a great number of carriages, the coachmen and
footmen all adorned with rosettes in their hats, of
the colours of the new Lord Mayor—blue and white.
The arrangements of the police during the early part
of the morning were extremely well managed, and
deserve the highest praise.
The procession in passing through Cornhill and
the Poultry proceeded over London-bridge to the
stairs on the Southwark. side, in which locality the
present Chief Magistrate holds a very large property.
In consequence of its being nearly low water at
the period of embarkation, with a tide running down,
it was determined that the various City Companies'
barges should be towed up, and four steamers were in
readiness for that purpose. The Lord Mayor's barge,
with that of the Goldsmiths' Company, was taken in
tow by one of the 'Waterman steamers, and the Fish-
mongers' and Grocers' by another boat belonging to
the same Company. The barges of the Merchant
Tailors, the Stationers, the Skinners' the Tallow
Melters, and two other Companies, also joined the
procession.
On arriving at Westminster the Lord Mayor pro-
ceeded to the Court of Exchequer, where the usual
ceremony of swearing in was gone through before the
Cursitor Baron. His Lordship afterwards proceeded
to th 6 Court of Chancery to invite the Lord Chancel-
lor to the banquet at Guildhall this evening, and to
the several other Courts fur the same purpose.
The banks of the river and the various bridges were
crowded with spectators, and guns were fired from
the various wharfs and other exposed situations.
The present is, we believe, the first occasion of a
Lord Mayor taking water on the Surrey side of the
river, and it has originated through a desire on the
part of
district.
hdiisLriocrd ship to gratify his numerous tenantry
in that

PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The first meeting for
the winter session was held on Monday evening at
the rooms of the Society in Exeter Hall, Dr. Elliot-
son, F.R.S. President, in the chair. Mr. Wood pre-
sented to the meeting casts of the heads of the two in-
dividuals who were executed at the last Spring As-
sizes at York for the murder of their wives. The head

of one of these, aged 60, displayed a great deal of in-
genuity and secretiveness, and the crime was not so
much remarkable for atrocity, as it was for premedita-
tion and concealment, the head having been laid across
the hearth after it been struck, so as to lead to the
supposition that his unfortunate victim had killed her-
self by falling upon the fire. This person, having left his
wife, had kept a beer-house of a very low description,
and cohabited with another female. The other cast
was that of Robert Knoll, a man, 30 years of age,
also for the murder of his wife, who had been coha-
biting with another person. . The skull exhibited
marks of several previous injuries, and displayed the
organs of attachment and love of offspring very,
largely developed. This was exhibited by the repent-
ance of the unhappy man, who surrendered himself di-
rectly after the act. Mr. Booth explained some phreno-
logical developments in the unfortunate female
who was left for execution on Saturday last, at
Mold, in Flintshire, for the murder of her husband.
In this case the organs of cunning and acquisitive-
ness were very largely developed, which were consi-
dered quite sufficient motives to account for the crime,
tehxecefeedmeadle7.
beingo The butnelx9t,
casehi was of a still more lst the age of her hushand
pain-
ful description, being that of a female, 22 years of
age, for the murder of an illegitimate child 10 months
old, to whom she had always displayed the utmost
degree of maternal affection. In this female, who was
sentenced to death at the last Chester Assizes, but
whose sentence was commuted to transportation for
life, the chief predominant organs were benevolence
and the love of children, which were very largely de-
veloped. An interesting conversation ensued, and the
meeting adjourned till the 21st of November.
FATAL COLLISIONS AT SEA.-011 Sunday after-
noon last the Caledonia steamer, from Hamhurgh, ar-
rived off Gravesend, having in tow a vessel called the
Louisa, belonging to St. Petersburgh, which had been
met with disabled, and no person on board, while on
the steamer's homeward passage, drifting about the
German Ocean. The supposition entertained by
the Caledonia's crew upon coming up with the
vessel was that she had been in collision, for her bul-
warks were stove in, and altogether she was seriously
injured about the hull and rigging: Since then it has
been ascertained that such was really the case. It hap-
pened on the night of the 30th of last month, during a
violent gale from the S.W.,
about seven miles off
the coast of Orfordness, and the other vessel proved
to be the Swedish brig Revanche, belonging to Mar-
seilles. The crew, expecting the vessel would go
down, jumped into the long-boat, and made for the
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have been received of the total loss of the bark Jack-
son, Captain Caithmer, belonging to Dundee, which
is said to have resulted in consequence of her coming
into collision with another vessel on the night of the
consistedtgfe twelve
29th of October, near the east coast of Gothland,
while
from Liverpool to Dundee.
i individuals, of whom five
met with a watery grave, namely, the mate, two sea-
men, and two boys. The rest saved themselves by the
ship's boat. On Friday last, the 4th instant, a dread-
ful collision occurred in
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the Channel, occasioned by
the darkness of the night. It took place about eleven
o'clock, near the Sherries, between the Reform, a
schooner, from Tralee to Liverpool, and another
schooner, name at present unknown. Such was its
violence, that the former commenced filling rapidly,
and there was scarcely time for the crew to save
themselves before
,she went down in sixteen fathoms
water. She is insured for 8001. On the same day
another schooner, named the Hope, was run down at
the entrance of North Shields harbour by the Union,
a brig belonging to that port. The latter was driven
into the harbour under stress of weather, and it is
described to have been entirely accidental. There is
some chance of her being raised if the weather mode-

rates.
AN IMPROVED CIIA.MDER-LIGHT.--We extract the
following account of an improved and economical
chamber-light from the " Annals of Chemistry," to
which excellent periodical it was communicated by a
Correspondent who thus desdribes his invention.—l
employ a common cylindrical ointment pot, a two oz.
size in the winter; in the summer a smaller one.
This is filled with any kind of fat. I usually have it
filled .the kitchen. This is
wick sold at the tallow-chandler's, being simply stuck
trimmed withby thaebowuatshtealffat an from
,the
of the common wax
into a thin slice of a wine-bottle cork, upon which I
first place a strip of stout filtering paper •
half the diameter of the cork in bread this is about
breadth, and a dia-
meter and a half in length. It need not be quite so
broad, but it must be at least the length stated. The
reason paper is, that it feeds
the wick c
properlyth;e
using
without
it,s
or some such contriv-
ance, it will not burn. I remove with the handle of a
fko r
tea spoon sufficient of the fat to allow the cork to be
a little below the surface, and then place the fat so re-
moved over the cork and paper, neatly spreading it,
to make an even surface. The light is now prepared.
I think the plan might be improved, for the conve-
nience of those who are not early risers, by having an
aperture at the bottom of the pit, and placing it in
water, which would rise to the level when the fat is
melted, and extinguish the wick when it is exhausted.
If not extinguished when the fat is burned up, the
cork, &c. will be consumed, and occasion an un-
pleasant smell.
SINGULAR TRICK.
—On Friday evening, about a
quarter past seven o'clock, a man, attired as a water-
man, went into the shop No. 68, Kirkgate, and or-
dered eleven yards of striped calico, for shirts, to be
taken to No. 2, Duke-street, together with the neces-
sary change for a sovereign, and he would then pay
for the calico. The purchaser Immediately left the
shop, and shortly afterwards met the boy carrying
the goods and change, and told him he was to take
them to 52, Off-street, to which place he accompanied
him. As soon as they entered the house he asked the
boy for the 12s. Bd., which he tendered, being the
difference in the price of the calico and the sovereign,
when the villain suddenly bolted out of the door,
leaving the youth in utter amazement at the rogue's
manoeuvre. lie was an unknown lodger at the house,
and the probability is that he has left the town.—
Leeds Mercury.
A wood pigeon was shot the other day at Rozelle,
in the maw of which were found 117 beans, one acorn,
and 105 pickles of grain.--Glasgow Constiutitonel.