The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-27 00:00:00

August 27, 1844.

Gateshead Iv
-lies were. returning from the
and two
- in a dog-cart, the vehicle was °"
gattaer
to Newcastle, d lithe
the latter town, an...a
turned at Mufgray...'-terrace, in
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ACCIDENTS.—On Friday week, as a gentlere.
party thrown out, by ars ail:df
rrieclf)
• to have been ma ,
and gentleman, (who were shortly
the hors'
don, was killed.—On Monm3y
were riding in a gig from Pelton to Newcastle, lop
a Miss Henderson,,
took fright, and the vehicle came in contact with t,,,00
post aid was overturned, by which the lady PlissiT.,,;el
of Gateshead) was thrown out, and received such • 17030
(yesterday) week
that she only lingered about an hour. The gen.tLe:o
sustained little harm. Both accidents happened with
short distance from the same spot.—On Saturday
as the mail coach from Whitehaven was proceedingio
English-street, Carlisle, the coachman, to avoid a to
which was obstructing the thoroughfare, drove clog,
the wall, and a gentleman (Mr. Bonner, surgeon' 30
Brighton) who was an outside passenger, had his Poe.
frightfully crushed, that amputation was immediateyotei,
cessary, and on Monday he expired at the Royal Ael
To render this affliction more severe, the decease d%O
upon his wedding tour, his bride being inside of thee"
at the time of the accident.
; Wartiet
CAPTAIN WARNER'S CHALLENGE.—Captain orf
has published the following offer in the morning PP: it
—" If the government will anchor a line-of-battle-ship
the back of the Goodwin Sands, out of the ship tra,oftrops
that no harm may happen to passing vessels, I will, five
on board another ship destroy her at a distance of
miles. lam willing to take on board the vessel in °not
I opera'e, General Sir George Murray, Captain V„is,c'tsio
Ingestrie, R.N., Captain Dickinson, R.N., and u".Pt,of
Henderson, R.N., who shall have every opportalleinv
inspecting my mode of operation, and satisfying kind
selves that on this occasion I use a projectile. Tue,ne&
liberality of my friends enables me to exhibit this e'r tce
ment without asking the government for a shilling e,
wards it. If I fail I am to receive nothing but ricilewsble
of which I have received enough to satisfy any reasloro
man already. But previously, I require a guarantee
her Majesty's government for its purchase of al! Sod
for £300,000 in the event of my destroying the abJ.Pbiliti
satisfying the four above named officers of the fear o4'
and practicability of my plans." The gallant captain Ad
eludes with an invitation to Sir Howard Douglas:l;i,
three other equally eminent officers, to witness the °P„
tion, that they may he assured that the destructiarto
caused by a projectile. The son of the inventor old
" Shapnell Shell" has addressed a letter to the Ti'se
answer to this, in which he says,—
" I am not aware of the method of Captain warner's op
range fire,' but from important experiments at 111ount''"
where near 300,060 rounds were fired to ascertain correctio
and elevations, I am prepared to prove beyond a doubt tha'ty
greater the distance at which the object or target is piscedA, re,
more difficulty the position assumes, from the density solfr
fraction of the atmosphere so constantly changing the ewpol
ture of the line of sight. Perhaps some of your readers are po
aware that we do not see through the atmosphere (as throtir
,
vacuum) in a direct or straight line, but that of a curve, r
lated by distance, refraction, and density of the atraosPo
1
Place a gun-barrel in a vice, so that it cannot be moved, re"col
1
the breech, and place an object a mile off, so that you eauded
through the barrel and see that object, you will find that 00,
constantly changed in position; sometimes not to be see° seri
from its being visually moved on one side, and at another ty
of the day it will be seen in another position, 501e1Y..,11,10
changes and density of the atmosphere. How Captain 7091
has overcome this difficulty lamat a loss to account. 111,
have overcome the effects of ever-changing atmosPhe"o- 01,
sistance and the errors occasioned by incorrect centr.bot
gravity, which hitherto have been an evil from the ' dust!..ol
up to a 68-pounder, and the reason why no two shots P;Ace
alike; the projectile must be projected from a piece of ordebool
not, troubled with windage rr angles of aispart, and the 1440,
of our artillery as to practice must consequently be ho-,te
with a terminus. I have had the honour to state the effect of
my invention to Sir Rotert Peel—viz , that lam ready to deseyfi
at any distance from our shores an enemy's fleet, in the
and 011
est sea, in the darkest night, and without any noise, aniesor
expose my bombproof bark to the heaviest fire from batter 01
a fleet, and shall have much pleasure to chase or attack CaP,itr
Warner, and will defy any one to destroy my bark with 0,0
visible shell', or with such a much more invisible range as
miles' "