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

INIPORTAI`tiT NAUTICAL lIVEN- CHILDREN ANNUALLY BURNT
TIONS. • TO DEATH.
Wootavicn, Nov. 10.—The Lords Comrissioners I • (From the Taunton Courier.)
of the Admiralty have been so satisfied wit the re- \ In a recent number we stated that there were more
port of the result of the recent experiments nade on children annually destroyed by accidental fire in this
board the Lightning steam-vessel with Mr. Cement's country, than there were Hindoo widows yearly int-
sillorneter, marine thermometer, and steam hermo- molated, until lately, on the flaming piles of a Suttee.
meter, that they have ordered that 2001. should be The appalling fact has been impressively felt, and the
paid to him in the meantime, and the snachiney has.! press, greatly to its credit, has given currency to the
been ordered to be deposited here. It is tlurefore I horror of sentiment necessarily awakened by so la-
probable this decided mark of their Lordships' aoro- mentable a truth, which addresses itself still more
bation of the inventions will shortly lead to then_ in- powerfully to our contemplation by the statement
troduction on board of all the vessels in her Majesty's above advanced, viz., that " upwards of one thou-
navy. sand children are annually burnt to death by
thou,-
navy. following details of the experiments is from! cident in England." To deplore this frightful
the official report, and may be relied upon as being mischief is irresistible, and to provide a remedy
correct:— against it has been hitherto deemed impracticable.
" Thursday, Oct. 13, 1842.—About one mile and a Thoughtlessness, no doubt, contributes much to swell
quarter below Gravesend commenced a trial between the melancholy 'catalogue, but the far wider sources cm-
Alassey's patent log and Mr. Clement's sillometen the evil will be found in the necessities of the humblf
After a run of two hours and a half (being off Steer- ,elass. The habiliments of the poor, and of their chill.
ness)—Distance given by Massey's log, 15 1-10 miles; dren, are mostly the eagerly sought for articles of
sillometer, 15 miles. Distance from Nore Light to dress bestowed on them from the discarded superflui-
Deal by sillometer, 42 miles ;by tables reckoning ties of the charitable. Cotton and other igni
e
from buoy to buoy, 414 miles.
nisterials are thus promiscuously supplied, the ready
"At 25 minutes past four o'clock, P.M., altered the Hammability of which, from the proximity of the
o
course four points, during which operation the silo- abed fire on the hearth, used in humble cookery, r
s
meter showed a diminution of speed, from eight 'tiles ' the attraction of warmth to hovering infants, hael to.
per hour to seven miles. most of the fatal cases requiring the Coroner's invest!.-
"At 50 minutes past eight o'clock P.M. off Scuth gation. The dreadful evil, happily for humanity, Is
tible
Foreland, commenced a trial between Massey's' log not unsusceptible of alleviation, and the process we
and the sillometer. On Friday morning took in Mai. take the liberty of suggesting, not only embraces the
sey's log, and found the distance from abreast tbe beet means of preventing such shocking catastrophes,
South Foreland to about seven miles to the eastwaid but at the same time, in an eminent degree, will im
of the Owers. By Massey's log, 844
.miles ; by el- part to that portion of the community among which
lometer, 82:12, miles; by tables, reckoning from buoy they chiefly occur, a most acceptable and very bene-
to buoy, 85 miles. volent boon.
" Moved sundry weights aft, viz., boat, brass gum, The least imflammable material for children's
anchors, oars, &c. • for an instant the speed, as shown dresses is that of woollen stuffs, and fortunately for
by the sillometer,'dimished to 7.4 miles per hour, bat the desired purpose, they are also the least, or nearhe
ly
it almost immediately increased to the former speed the least expensive. It is submitted, therefore,
to t
cif 8 miles per hour. Moved the same weights forward, humane public, that all the children of poor persons,
but could not perceive any sensible difference in the between the ages of two and seven, should be gratuit-
speed of the vessel. The speed, as shown by the sile ouslv provided with a stuff dress, the cost of which to
lometer, varied from 8.1 to 8.2 miles per lour. be defrayed by subscription. For 1001., a thousand
" Tried the speed of the vessel by the common log, children could be thus far clothed and defended from
which gave 81 miles; the sillometer Indicated exactly cold, and at the same time protected from-the chance
the same, viz., 81 miles per hour. of an agonising death. Every heart among our
vir_-
"At ten o'clock, A.M., on Friday, when about two tuous and benevolent countrywomen will leap
with
miles. past the Nab light, tried Massey's leg, and found joy at the opportunity of coming forward on so arni-
the distance to near the entrance of Portsmouth her- able a project. The tastefully ornate reticule, the ern-
bour—by Massey's log, 6 miles nearly ; by sillometer broidered screen, and ingeniously meshed purse, and
6 miles exactly. • even the thought-absorbing dove-token itself, will he
" During the passage round to Portsmouth the lain aside in laudable abeyance, for the less graceful'
speed of the vessel was purposely checked by blowing but more ennobling semstressy required to provide
off the steam, to see the effect on the sillometer. The protective apparel for the infant poor.
speed, as shown by that instrument, was gradually
reduced from eight miles per hour to fear miles, at
which point it stood steady. On the order being
given for full speed, the sillometer showed a gradual
increase of speed, till it came to eight miles per hoar,
as before. On the return of the Lightning from
Portsmouth to Woolwich, the distance performed was
found to be—By Massey's log, 119 miles; by the sir-
lometer, 118.6.4'
The sillometer has a dial upon deck. which con-
stantly shows the number of miles per hour the vessel
is going; consequently it is easy to discover, under all
circumstances, what is the best trim of the vessel, and
the most advantageous quantity and distribution of the
sails for obtaining the greatest speed. As the sillo-
meter shows immediately the effect which every alte-
ration in the sails or trim of the ship has on its velo-
city, it follows also that ships fitted with the sillometer
can constantly maintain the speed they may have agreed
upon, and so keep company together, and maintainthe
same relative position ; though, from the darkness of
the night, or thickness of the weather, they cannot
see each other. To ascertain the distance run after
any number of hours, it is simply to take the number
of minutes one of the watches of the sillometer has
gained over the other, and to multiply that number
by six, which gives the distance run in miles.
THE MARINE THERMOMETER.—The trials with
this instrument on hoard the Lightning, commenced
at eleven o'clock on Thursday morning, October 13.
Previous to leaving Woolwich harbour, and on taking
the centigrade it was found to be 12 deg. At twenty-
five minutes past three o'clock r.?.t., in five fathom
channel : Cant shoal, depth of water about 16 feet, it
indicated 13.25. In 23 feet depth of water as stated
by the pilot it indicated 15.25. Off Dover 16 deg.,
and in Portsmouth harbour 14.2.
From these indications it appears that the marine
thermometer, in its variations, followed the inequali-
ties of the bottom of the sea, so far as these inequali-
ties could be ascertained from the heaving of the lead.
or from the information of the pilot ; that is, on the
approach to shoal water the thermometer fell, and on
the approach to deep water it rose, and distinguished
the difference very distinctly and rapidly, according
to the transition from shallow to deep water, and vice
versa. It may therefore be inferred that the marine
thermometer would indicate the approach to rocks
and icebergs from the influence these bodies are known
to have on the temperature of the sea for a consider-
able distance. The dial of the marine thermometer is
also on deck, and shows, by inspection merely, the
exact depth of water in which the vessel may be sail-
ing at the time.
THE STEAM THERMOMETER.—The principal expe-
riments with this instrument were made in the Med-
way, and the observations taken show distinctly how
every variation in the temperature of the steam in the
boilers is indicated by Monsieur Clement's invention,
a centrigrade of 107 degrees, four degrees of Monsieur
Clement, being equal to 212 degrees of Fahrenheit.
This invention may be of value where high-pressure
engines are used, as it indicates the exact temperature
of the steam in the boilers ; but the engineers in the
British navy are so careful and fully qualified a body
of men that no fears need be apprehended by the com-
manders of vessels of their attention to their duty, so
tbat this invention may not be required.

SPORTING IN TELL IGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.--YEsrERDAY.
Business yesterday afternoon was too flat to rorlice
more than a statement of the bets actually laid.
8 to 1 agst Mr. Blakcloc'fs A British Yeonlau
1400 to 100 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken
1400 to 45 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour—ditto
1000 to 25 agst Duke of Grafton's Oxygen colt--1.
1000 to 20 agst Mr. R. Wood's Eli—taken
400 to 10 agst Mr. Bowes's Cotherstone—ditto
400 to 10 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Arnorino—talon
400 to 10 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Sirikol—ditto
HEDNESFORD RACES.—TeESDAY. A2O
The Great Welter Stakes of 5 soya. each, 2 ft, ann,
added. Gentlemen riders, 12st each. Two Inues*
(7 subs.)
Mr. Painter's Ernest the First, 6 yrs (Mr. Dawson) la
Mr. Milner's Humphrey, aged ........................ •
°
Mr. Saunders's Miss Kitty Cockle, aged ...............
The Anglesey Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 15 added'
one mile and a half. (5 subs.) 1
Mr. Cowley's Adrian, aged
2 3
Mr. Pilkington's Isabella, G yrs
Mr. Arthur's The Star, 4 yrs 1 2 dr
Mr. Fox's Nix my Dolly, 3 yrs 3 dr
The Cannock Stakes of 3 sows. each. with 15 added.
One mile. (10 Subszribers.)
Mr. Hotham's Little Nell, 5 yrs
Mr. Skerrett's Sidrophel, 4 yrs ....................
...............
Mr. Flintoff's Intruder, 6 yrs ..............................
Several others
an. A good race.
Handicap of 5 sovs. each, 2Z. with 20 added. neat's'
Mr. Raworth's Chance, list
................ " 2 `.),
Mr. Flintoff's Intruder, lOst ...........................
5
Mr. Milner's Humphrey, 1 Ist 61b .... ....
This race is disputed. . .

THE MARKETS.
COUNTRY CORN MARKETS,

Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. ' Deans.

j'e t
_'t

Per Quarter
Boston
Bratnttee
6,ighton

1. to R.
44 50
52 60
51 62
46 52
44 52
43 54
46 55
50 60
66 62
50 67
41 52
51 60
50 58
59 to
51 58
57 64
52 58
50 56
61 64
52 56
44 54
50 55
IV ERPOO
ish, White,
Red
:it, Welch,
, White
Red
ign
. Welsh, ar

s. to r.
22 38

s. to s.
18 22

t F-
350 38
33 38
36 41
32
40 42
03 36
b 6
30 40
30 34
34 45
27 34
CO 30
30 :15
3s 40
32 34
39 40
26 34
32 33
40 44
31 39
30
38 40

39. 46
95 34
95 qg
4.
:16 22
96 32

L-7 rl

22 26

Cambridge
Chichester
Dunmow
Grantham
Grimsby
Hailsham
Hitchin
Ipswich
Lewcs
Lynn
Maidstone
Norwich
Petworth
Romford
Sandwich
Thetford
Wisbech
Witham
Yarmouth
LI
Wiir AT, Engli

no 1
24 32
:4 27
28 33
28 3:
27 34
20 25
24 28
23 27
38 39
27 £9
28 30
26 30
E 0 33
32 36
28 24
23 VS
So 32
L CORN
per 7019.

W 22
22 :18
21 28
is 21
19 21
20 30
19 22
19 22
18 2t
28 32
24 28
21 24
17 I'4
21 24'
24 2S
18 21
21 26
24 30
iIAftKET.

28 .6
32 '33
31
11 '53
3':
30 40
23 it
31 zt;
34 Itt
523 83

—Nov. 8 Si nt
Ns, 063° 7 9
7 6 0
0 0 7 9
69 7 0
6 6 ,- 10
---- Forel
OA's, English, id Scotch, per 451 b 2
2 1 4 6
g
Irish ••••
Foreign 2 g, a •
g
94
BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter .....
----- Scotch and Irish, pet 691hs.
3 3 9 4
3 0
Feeding aig 41
BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 34 0 34 0
Irish, &c. .
4 0
Foreign 2O 0 •
30
PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 32 0 0
.-- 0 4
Foreign
FLOUR, SO 1 A
Fs, English, per 2601 b. 99 0 gg 0
---- Irish
OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs . ,2 0
0
172 1 0 a 0
INDIAN CORN, per 4801 b. •Manoes., • 26
... lio 0 ;4 •
RYE, per Imperial quarter
MALT, per Imperial quarter ......... ............ ...... 40

and Manx

Scotc
Irish,

REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF
HUMAN SKELETONS IN CHESHIRE.
Considerable sensation has been excited in Bickerton,
and the adjoining villages, by the discovery of two
human skeletons, and the remains of a third, under
the following circumstances :—lt appears that one
day last week, two women, and their two children
(little boys), one of whose name is Seville, went on
the Bickerton Hills, in the neighbourhood of Fuller's
Moor, for the purpose of gatherings what is com-
monly in the country called " greg, and of which
besoms are made. They had not been thus occupied
long, before the boy Seville picked up what he at
first thought to be a stone; but, on looking at it
more closely, he found he was mistaken, and imme-
diately ran off to his mother, calling out, "Heigh,
mother, I've found an old man's head !" The women
were of course alarmed, and directly left the hills, and
leaving also their " greg" behind them. Meeting with
Morwick, the police-officer for that district, they com-
municated to him what had occurred, and he then re-
paired
to the spot, and on searching it, discovered the
heads, thigh bones, arm bones, and other portions of two '
human skeletons, the whole of which were in a very ex-
cellent state ofpreservation. Inform ation of the affair was
then given to Mr. Stewardson, special high constable
of the hundred of Broxton, who, on the following
morning, accompanied by R. B. Orton, Esq., one of
the county Magistrates, went to make further exa-
minations of the ground, but discovered nothing
more except a few of the ribs and finger joints of
the skeletons found on the previous day. Several
conjectures have been started as to the means by
which these men could have been buried in this ap-
parently isolated spoi, as the oldest inhabitants of
the neighbourhood have no rt3i!ollection of any persons
being missed from that vicinii.;'• Some distance
from the hill, we understand that a i;Ymber of men
were hung for rebellion during the period of the
Commonwealth, but there appears to be no reast;:o why
their bodies should have been taken so far from tirf
place of execution for burial. We understandthat many
years :Igo, previous to the road being made as at pre-
sent, there was a lodging-house where travellers of all
classes used to domicile, and as these hills have from
time immemorial been celebrated for the number of
bad characters who infested them, it is supposed by
some that the skeletons are those of men who have
stayed at the lodging-house, and been murdered for
the sake of their property.

BIRTHS.
On the 9th inst., at Kensington, the lady of the ftel• D'.
Re
Addison, of a daughter. e the 110' 1.
On the 10th inst., at Leamington, the wife 0.
Lincoln Galton, of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Stockwell, .Mrs. J. J. V.• Gliteb' 41
daughter. opeotreett
On the 10th inst., at the Steel-yarti, Upper Tb
Mrs. Cousens, of a daughter.
MARRIED.
On the Bth inst., at Sunning-hill, Geer
of the late LUIG.
of Calcutta, to Katherine, eldest d " aught.:
Forbes, Esq., of Sillwood-park, Berks son of
Mr. F. Car '
On the 9th inst., at Milton-on-Tha.mrs,
ife, Ashburnerv.,sl4._4
Elm Cottage, West Ham, to Miss Leigh. of Hackney' valiant
EsOgn,
othfeN9etwhtionnst.,at Scarborgough, the Be
Theu3 Ste
Robson, M.A., to Anne, dau hter of the lrito Jen'es
Stewart. Tyrone, Ireland. ..._ venry pie,
On the 9th inst., at Bishopsgate Church. ,ur• "'ace.
of Ware, Ilerts, to Miss A. E. Collins, of the E lani,.ard 130-
On the 10th inst., at St. Mark's, leenningto ale 8p,,1,7c0u , second
Hard, Esq., of Bruen Ash, Norfolk, to Franc !As '
daughter of Mr. Deputy Hicks, of Stockwell, .... urrey.

PaormEss CUSTOMEII.—In the good town of
Shrewsbury there were, and still are, very probably,
three inns—called the Lion, the Talbot, -and the
Paten, whereat were weekly holden the market ordi-
naries, the charge for dinner being eighteen-pence
il'hoad, beer included. A frequenter of the market
and its table] it hate was one Mr. David Williams, a
dealer in Welsh flatinel by profession, of whom his
friends were wont to say lie was blessed with an ex-
cellent appetite, the Englmii 9f which was, that when
he dined at home he ate as much fls six ploughmen,
and when be dined abroad as much as siZeen. The
I?aven was David's favourite ordinary, and, for'PanY,
a long year, the landlord put up with the flannel
merchant's custom with a resignation worthy a more
distinguished martyrdom. At last, when bankruptcy
began to stare him in the face, on receiving the accus-
tomed eighteen-pence for dinner, his natural polite-
ness forsook him, and he spice thus :—" Mr. Wil-
liams, I have no desire any longer to monopolise all
your favours. lam quite satisfied of your wish to
serve me. Why don't you give the Lion a turn ?"
fortnight ago, we mentioned a
case of supposed poisoning of a husband by his wife,
that a medical examination of the body had been taken,
and that the woman was in custody. Since then, sus-
picions have been afloat that a neighbour woman, who
died three months before, and to whom the prisoner
had administered some drink, had not been fairly dealt
with. In consequence of these rumours, the Prom-
rotor Fiscal ordered an, inspection of the body, and on
Saturday last it was exhumed for that purpose. The
medical report will be reserved to be produced in evi-
dence, but its tenor has not transpired.—Faift Ad-
,
vertiser.

. _
THE NAVAL CLUB, OR REMINISCENCES Or -II
praill
VlCE.—Narratives of personal adventure are gen.--ress
considered the most entertaining reading the press
produces, and those in which the heroes of our "the
times are brought before us, cannot fail to interest
most indifferent reader, From this cause
be co doubt of the attraction of a forthcoming byt' 3f,
cation under the title of " The Naval Club," ,inr"
H. Barker, Esq. (better known as " The Old sailor,
author of " Tough Yarns," &c.), which, It i 5
iiiio
will contain the most strikng pictures of the I),!cays•
williumihrotilogril.
scenes and incidents which come under thetile'r,Ts-nbilted,
tion of members of this popular branch of the '-'te-r et
Services. The author's experience as a deline°odr
naval life, is a guarantee that his work will bed
.t litis
ful representation of our doings at sea; anul;ffhly
been rumoured that his pages contain manYrr'e. of
interesting particulars, not to be found else
the last war, and some of its chief actors, incla
among others, his late Majesty King
1 The Manchester and Leeds Railway Passes
wns, between which there werees:ery
or near fifteen to •
merly sevefal carts, waggons, and vans, Passin,go. ttna
hour of the day and night, with mayinfacturTiliera-
market produce, of which the poor could $Ol sider•
selves, at a trifling expense of money and °1:
tiretr
able sacrifice of time. These are now ah entire
able
O
0.5 a. or
swept away, and the market people load
of the railway trucks amongst them, Psiillg:,,, non,le,
4d. per ton per mile for their goods, and, - 'l'L''
instances, less than ld. per mile for thereselve,_s;h, •Anti
effect has been to bring a supply of fruit, 31' ~er
id lie
vegetables within the reach of those who ecnit. sail 11"
obtain them formerly, and to afford very grea"
tages to the market people and towns. livaYs in
The number of persons who travelled by rill , to ale
the United Kingdom from the Ist of Janu3tri'le gross
Ist of July, in 1841, was 8,901,916, al'lf-year wal-
smo paid for their fares during that h
a
1,14.5,546/. 15s. 4d.
_.........t.'----------

DIED.
On ;„he 28th ult., at Brampton, Rosins Sarah, eecond ditoe:
ter of the late Captain Heyman, formerly of thAs 13th LigPo
Dragoons.
On the 30th ult. at Letford Cottage, Norbury-iaork•
Elizabeth, relict of J. C, ouch, Esq., aged 7. Sts
Wog,
On the Ist inst., at Ruette BrAyeA:Guernsey, P inlay
Esq., late Quartermaster of the 42d Roval Highlan derolo
Go the 6th inst., at Great Chart, tent, the Rt V. ."
Waite, D. C. L., Rector of that place.
On the 6th inst. in Bedford-square, Mrs. Crosbond,
of the late J. Crosland, Esq., formerly of Nottinghszt I.
Jeatherine,
On tl.c 7th inst., at Bitten, Gloucestershire,
relict of Robert Barker, Esq.
On the Bth inst., at the Green Dragon Hotel, Bi isoret.-
street, Mr. fiarauel Perry, aged 49. we third
On the 9th inst., at Thames Ditton, Catherine MI -..,
daughter of lhomas Style, Esq. ..settara
On the 9th inst., at Vernon-place, 13loornsbnry
Emily, the B+, ife of William John Whyte, Esq., aged 29. _,
'Tidos'
On the 10th inst., at Great Corarn-street, T. .Abell, r-Ol•
of
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