Star.
London, England, 1830-06-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEA

Tux Rau SZA.—When Napoleon was in r.gylit
Lod inspectlng the country, he took advantage of a low tide, tts•
versed the Red Sea, and gained the opposite aide. On his return,
night overtook him, and he ran the greatest danger of perishing,
precisely in the same manner u Pharoah. Napoleon afterwar;l,
gaily remarked, " If I had perished," said he, " it would have fur.
!jibed to all the preachers of Christianity a magnificent text ag.w..,
me."

ROYALTY FROM A BREWHOLTSR.—During the rei,•.l,
of Charles the First, a country girl came to London, in search ui
place as servant.maid, but not succeeding, she hired herself to can;
out beer from a brewhouse. The brewer, observing a good.lookidg
girl in his occupation, took het into his family as a servant, an:,
shortly after married her ; but he died while she was yet a yowl,'
woman, and left her the bulk of his fortune. The business of
brewerjr was dropped, and the young woman was recommended u
Mr.-Hde, as a skilful lawyer, to arrange her husband's Wile.
Hyde (who was afterwards the great Earl of Clarendon), findirfg
the widow's fortune considerable, married her. Of this marts .°
there was no other issue than a daughter, who was afterwards the
wife of James the Second, and mother of Mary and Anne, Queen,
of England.
WEALTH OF THE MERCHANTS OF ANTwERP
roam's' Triers,—The city of Antwerp is nearly a semi-circle t;
about seven miles round. It was defended by the citadel, built'ti)
the Duke of Alva, to overawe the inhabitants. The whole appear.
ance of its public buildings, streets, and houses, affords the most in.
contestible evidence of its former splendour. Many instances ath
immense wealth of its merchants are recorded : among others, it 1.
said that when Charles V. once dined with one or the chief magi,.
Votes, his host immediately after dinner threw into the fire a but,
for two millions of ducats, which he had recieved as security for
loan to that Monarch, saying that he was more than repaid by t! •
honour of being permitted to entertain his Sovereign.—De. Lan,.
nee. Principal Cities and Towns in the World.
On the 3rd inst. notices were stuck up in differen,
pans of the city, by the authority of the Lad Mayor, dentin
every to confine his dog, or to muzzle it, under pain of Lein,
ed against with all the severity of the law. Thew have row
reetT"issued- seven or eight days, and have produced very little
effect ; the number of dogs running the streets is still very great.
Why is not the law properly executed P The acting pollee mu,t
be to blame.

Tut PlL;.onY.—Upwards of twelve years Win:,
elapsed since the punishment of the pillory has been inflicted in th,
metropolis, it is probable many of our readers are unaware of it,
precise nature ; and the following description of the machine, there.
fore, (the old one being no where to be found), which has been cat.
strutted for the purpose of carrying that part of the sentence ink,
effect on the person of Bossy, convicted at the April Old Bailer
Sessions of perjury, may not be uninteresting :—The machine con.
lists of a large table, or platform, raised about six feet front the
ground, in the centre of which is a strong upright post, made to rt.
volve on a pivot ; to the side of this upright is fixed the boards
with the holes in which the head and hands are to be placed, an,!
which are supported at the extremity by another upright, differine.
from the former, inasmuch as it merely rests, by a small wheel.
upon the surface of the table. The boards are made to mete in
groove, so as to admit of being raised or depressed, according t,
the height of the person on whom the punishment is to be inflicted ;
and, u they separate in the centre of the neck and wrist holes.
these also can be accommodated to the girth of those respectit,
parts in the suffering individual, it not being intended they shoul,l
be fixed tighter than is necessary to prevent the neck or hand.
from being withdrawn out of them. After being fixed in the zr.a.
chine, the culprit will be kept walking round the table, within th,
circle of which the machine forms the radius, or half diameter
thus pushing the machine round, and exhibiting himself, in se,.
cession, to the persons assembled in every direction. Front
manner in which the machine is made to revolve, the labour o:
keeping it in motion will be very inconsiderable. It is saidjet,
place at present proposed for the execution of the sentence, is th.
open space where old Fleet-market stood.
SUSPENSION RAILWAY.—To persons ingenious
mechanics, and to those having a taste for this branch of science,
much gratification will be obtained from an inspection of the beau.
tifully-executed working-model of a Suspension Railway, invented
by Mr. Maxwell Dick. We will allow Mr. Dick to speak for him.
self in the following account of his invention :—ln consequence et
a very heavy fall of snow at the beginning of March, 1827, n:ech
inconvenience was occasioned to the commercial and general intatst
of the country. For several days the roads throughout the country
were completely blocked up, and travelling was wholly suspended.
Experiencing, with others, the disadvantages thus occasioned, I
thought of recommending to road trustees the trial of a snow-plough,
simple in construction, and trifling in expense. But the design do
railway, on the principle of suspension, occurred to me as the on.
most likely to overcome the whole difficulty ; besides it would af-
ford a safety in tepid communication with light carriages practicable
by no other means known to me. Being satisfied in my own mind
of the success of the plan, I erected a temporary railway in a pr,vate
apartment, and made my first experiments with a carrrisge some-
thing similar to those I now exhibit. The result of these expert.
meats seemed so favourable that I determined to try them on I
more extensive scale.—Accordingly, in the summer of 1829, 1
erected a line of poles, extending about two miles, on a farm, neat
Irvine, belonging to his Grace the Duke of Portland. From the
one end of this line I laid a rail of rope, about half an inch thick,
upon which I placed the carriage ; and taking the moving power to
the other end, I set it in motion, and the velocity gained exceed
the rate of thirty miles an hour. This was over a rope rail of reuo
surface ; the carriage was twelve pounds in weight, and the dimity:l
of :its wheels only two inches and a half. In order to ascertain th,
power of drag required, I attached a four-pcund weight to a line
passed over a pulley, screwed on the top of a high pole at the en.
end, and the following was the result:—The first quarter of a n.
required a force of four and a half pounds weight to raise the feet
pound weight to the top of the pole; the second quarter required a
force of five pounds weight—increasing a half pound (or as rear as
it could be ascertained) in each quarter of a mile. This experiment
was made with a spiral steelyard. The whole weight of line. ex.
tending two miles, was six pounds—the force required to drag eves
pulleys, the two miles of line, and to raise the four pound weight,
dwragas
geeigd.ht I..bouisndes,xpetorimtewnot
wpostsmidnsadleeuwiththanverytheimrpeeaclwteagrht.
peratus, or I am convinced the result would have been still rte%
favourable.

BIRTHS.

The lady of W. J. Newton,Esq.;t Argyll-street, of a daughter.
—The lady of J. Chitty, jun. Esq. of Great Coram.street, Bruns.
wick.square, of a daughter.—At Hampstead, Mrs. E. Toiler, of J
daughter.— Mrs. R. Aylwin, of Nelson-squaze, of a daughter.—.Th:
lady of J. Harding, Esq. of Matgaret.street, of a daughter.

MARRIED,_

At Edmonton Church, J. R. Soden, Esq. of Southgate. to 31:m.
Darling, eldest daughter of the late S. Thomas Goad, F.l. of t!...
Bengal Civil Service.—At Southwell, on the Ist inst. Mr. W. Jal.
lands, town-crier, aged 60, placed a ring on the finger of his Wk.
Miu A. Walker, of Norwell, a buxom damsel of 23.—At Erg.
ham, on Thursday, Mr. J. Priest, of Newark, to Miss S. Picker:l:g.
Newark. on Wednesday, Mr. J. Sladen, aged 73, to I:iss E.
Malt, aged 191 The bride was given away by a son of the youth.
ful bridegroom.

DIED.
At Bath, Lieut. Col. W. Haverfiell, late commanding the 43d
Regiment.—June 6, in Berkeley-square General 31epick.—ally
30, at Ridley, Kent, Marian Norton, wife of the Rev. J. F. Cole.
—On Sunday the 6th inst. Mr. John Bury, of Queen.street, Dub.
lire.—At Himley, near Dudley, the Rev. John Dudley, I.A. Rec.
tor of Himley.—At Stapleford, the Rev. Wm. Atkinson, B.D.
low of Christ college. He was formerly Fellow and Tutor of C
therine Hall, B.A. 1781, B.A. 1881, B.D. 1792.—0 n Sunday
i morning, at Newark, after a protracted illness of nearly two yer.D.
Mr. J. Hage.—On Sunday morning, suddenly, at his residence.
Chureh.street, Southwell, aged 68, Mr. Cheatam. He had not er.•
joyed very good health for some time past, but rose as well as 115113..
and upon going down stairs complained to his wife of pain--was
the act of sitting on a chair, and fell down dead.—On Wedno,:Y
last, at his mansion, in the Park, near Nottingham, That. Maltby.
Esq. aged 79. On the invention of the point net lace, he commenced
lace manufacturer, and by his assiduity, he soon realised sr.
ample fortene ; in 1802, commenced the banking establishment. o:
which he was second partner, under the firm of Moore, 3laltby,
Evans, and Middlemore which, in 1816, was changed by the Jest',
of his three partners, within a very short period of each other...llJ
of the two latter being only two days apart. The present firm 0!
Moore, Maltby, and Robinson, was then formed. In 1893. by
" concurtent jurisdiction bill," Mr. Maltby became a county 31.1.
gistrate, in which capacity he continued to act till his death:— 0:
Thursday, in the 73d year of her age, Mrs. Massey, relict of the
Mr. Massey, of Swarkstone, Derbyshire.—On the 27th tile. in
George's, Stamford, Mr. John Perkins, printer, aged 27,10/916'
apprentice to Messrs. Newcomb of the Stamford Mercury. and lat.
terly overseer of the Newark Tian. He was a young man of ec:.
aiderable ability, and of the most mild and unassuming nianre7;•
pining the respect and confidence of both his employer and th. se
employed with him. He suffered considerably for some morths
while at Newark, and very unwillingly gave up the duties he ."
no longer able to perform. His less has occasioned they severest
affliction to his mother, and his early death will be regrett by alt
who knew him.

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