The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-23 00:00:00

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND

THE ENGLISH PRESS.
we have received a copy of the following desPetch
from M. Guizot to Lord Cowley : •
M. l'Ambassadeur—l had transmitted to the 'ha
nister of Finance, and recommended to his partieuhe
attention the reclamations which you have done Me t
honour to address to me on the part of the proprie.ttebi,
of the prinCipal journals of London, on the subject "1 by
obstacles to the conveyance of their correspondence
couriers through France.
lt
" The Minister of Finance persists in thinking Olnay
the laws relative to the privilege of the Post-office et
him under the obligation to prevent the despate'len-ar
couriers, which the proprietors of the English j?°r-fi ;-
demand to be authorised, to continue ; and he nialase-01f.
observe, that-the last seizures efrected to the prejudicayi
the reclaimers being to be brought before the tribu,ers
the question of the legality of these measures may
1"
be freely debated.
" I beg your Excellency to have the goodness to `:
this observation to the knowledge of the partieq.
rested. Accept, &c., (Signed') '6 GUM'
" Paris, April 19, 1842."

EXPERIMENT IN WOOLWICEI
MARSHES. .rade!
Woomvlctr, APRIL 22.—Lord Bloomfield, 13rliteer/
Major Cuppage, Captain Grant, and a number de, ill
of the Royal Artillery, assembled yesterday after° the
the marshes, and made further experiments to noin'
strength of and adhesive qualities of the cement terinalet,
ing wood, invented by Mr. Jeffrey. Two 12-P°4oo
shells, 6+ inches diameter each, were sunk into pot the-
of the
,wood on wl,i:th the experiments were made plain'
previous day, and wedged tight in the centre of the;;,ited
ings, and matches having been attached awl ',boo('
with port tire, on the explosions talciag place th'rocats,,,
was torn asunder, many pieces into very small 1.14001 a 01
affording the most convincing and satisfactory PT Lad"
the complete success of the invention, and to his
ship's entire satisfaction. WO; tc!
The pieces of the target have been removet-fibtarY
the dockyard, nod from the high opinion of the'
, with
Board, and the approbation the invention has nil' cirri'
from practical men, there is every probability it witcan be
mediately applied to all purposes for %ilki dock;
made available in the Royal Navy and her AtoJesr-somposy'
yards. The substances of which the cemet?t is ebber (I.lS'
are simple, being merely shell lac and India rinbeieg
solved in naphtha in certain proportions, and.. be illy'
soluble in water, the purposes to which it riAeut 111
plied are numerous, and its value being onlY4 cauotr)..
the expense of common glue,
beeth saving to inas the
by its universal adoption will incaleulable,vith it for
ventor has been employed in eXperimeos the a
ups% ands of two years, and has found that, Inbie. Vieed
of great friction, it is in a manner itnperi.sk4 substitu
can no doubt of its beinin
g, in a short oraeo'f a eerin s
for sheathing vessels, as, by the mixttli not sdhent
portion of noxious materials, barnacles 'cid, not afr.ecr,
to the ships' sides, and these substances ompoidn);
the adhesive and valuable qualities of the cwhick show;
Au experiment Was tried in the dockyard,.
„els whie
ni!iy be damaged at sea. Eight
the value a supply of the cement will be toolfea..-ood were
pieces I a
joined together in the form of a mast, on ieeo of woJdt:
plied to them, aril to another mast of one Pi broke after
the latter gave way first, and the oth,e.ratit?oYn of „ rather
strain nR;
is
being considerably bent, and the PP'
therefor, greater strain. By this substance,a
difficulty iner-
_it,
certain the ship' carpenters can hope
not be
done end
could °I"
fecting repairs at sea, which
any other circumstance.

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-- —xTERMA N• --
INTING SYSTI. MITIWEIL or
THE P,
PEPPARD ROBERTS, Esa. On Sunday evening, at twilight!
as Mi. Roberts and a lady of the name of Mrs. Carry, were 01:
their way from Cloglijordan, where they had been at a religion
blunderbuss was find at Mr. Roberts, gun or
meeting, to Mcnerall, where Mr. ll,,berts resided, a
of which..
shattered his bead to pieces, and produced instantaneous deatu.
Mrs. Carry, who was at the other side of the cat ou
which she and the ill-fated gentleman were travelling, re,
ceiycd a few slugs in the neck, but the wounds are protiounc..o
the contents .
not to be dangerous. The assassin ran off the moment be
found his horrible mission executed. Mr. Hobert', it seem', w."
brother-in-law and agent of Mr. Garvey, of Laughten, '4
which capacity his conduct was extremely severe and cruel to
the tenants on that property. It is only of short tittle
since he dispossessed three families of the bar"
of O'Donoughue, who held a farm at Mote, and a •
widow ofthe name of Corcoran and her three helpless •
daugh-
ter-, whose small portion of wound he took into his own pos-
session. We have no desire to palliate this tremendous crimeh,
perpetrated in a cowardly and revolting manner, and
whic
was well nigh involving the life of an innocent and unotfonding
atrocities loudly
lady ; tut we would demand does not the recurrence of these
and imperatively call for the prompt and there
atrocities
of the Legislature ?It is idle to talk of suP-
Fresoing such crimes by coercive measures. —Limerick Reporter.
The General Steam Navigation Company's mail•
packet, John Bull, Captain J. P. Corbin, arrived yesterdal.
morning with the Hamburgh mail.

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