The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-27 00:00:00

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A ease of great importance to the Proprietors of Steam
Vessels was decided on Thnrsday, in the First Division.
The Supervisor of Excise at Glasgow lately commenced
prosecutions against the masters an 4 stewards of many of
the vessels which sail from Glasgow and other parts in
the Clyde, for selling exciseable commodities to the pas.
sengers on hoard without licenses, and the Justices of the
Peace convicted several in the penalties. These indivi-
duals then applied to the Justices for licenses, but they re-
fdsed to grant them, on the ground that they did not come
under the description of persons pointed out by the Sta-
tutes to whom licenses could be granted.
The effect of this ju ltment, theref was to prevent
any ex. iseable liquors being 3,1 d on Ward of any vessel to
the passengers.

The Excise officer continued his prosecutions, and the
masters and stewards of each of the steam boats, Argyll.
Britannia, Comet, Toward Castle, !literary Castle. Nrp-
tone, Eclipse, and Rothesay Castle, were fined in Hr.
Sterling, and those of the Caledonia, Highland Chieftain,
Highlander, Large, Albion, Glasgow, Greenock, Oscar,
Marquess of Bute, Robert Burns, and Waterloo, were fined
in 71. Sterling each.

The question was then brought by Bill of-. Suspension
before the Court of Session, and Lord Alloway ordered
informations to the First Division.

The superintendent argued—lst, That the s►atutes
foondvi on by the Excise did not apply to vessels for the
conveyance of passengers, bnt to persons in the situation
of innkeepers retailing spirits, Ste., aid that they could not
be liable in the penalties imposed by the Act for not having
a licence, when the Justices had declared that they were
has empowered to grant thew one ; and.
211y.—They contended, that the Justices lied no juris-
diction over a vessel navigating the Frith and seas on the
coast.

The Excise Officer, in support of the conviction, urged
the loss that would accrue to the Revenue, if steam-vessels
a ere to be exempt from licenses, As they were used chiefly
as a kind of Roaring tavern, where individuals went to
drink in plaseof the ale-house ; and that the word "• place,"
used in the Statutes, included •tram-boats, and any other
spot where liquors were sold.
'fur COURT unanimous'y adopted the reasoning of the
suspenders, and quashed all the convictions that bad taken
place before the Justices.—(Edinburgh Courant.)

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.
(tS0)1 THE WEST BRITON)

At Polgonth Mine, near St. Austell, about seven o'clock
on Thursday evening last, two of the hollers belon.ing to
the steam-engine exploded with a terrific noise, and a con-
cussion which was felt to a considerable distance. The
devastation produced by the expansive force of the stream
is astunisiting.—The hollers, which were quite new, and
formed of wrought iron plates of fibs, and inch in
thickness, were rent into fragments, and, with the materials
of the builtiutg erected over them, were scattered in dif-
ferent directions. The lofty pyramidal stack connected
with the fire places was rent from tile base to the summit ;
and the windows of the adjoining engine house were en-
tirely demolished. It is with feelings of deep regret we
have to record the loss of two lives on this lamentable oc-
casion.—The men had just come from under ground, and
were near the hollers shifting their clothes when the ex-
plosion tojk plans. They were thrown In a great distance
and taken np in a dreadfully mangled condition. One
expired almost immediately, and the other on the follow-
ing thy. flail the boilers burst a little sooner, thirty or
Iforty men who were then working at the capstan, would
most probably have fallen a sacrifice. The cause of the
accident has not ben fully ascertained; but as it occurred
while the motion of the engine was for a short time sus-
pended, during which the means was arcumnlatisig, it is
supposed, that by some means, the•action of the safety
valve, through which the superfluous steam should have
found vent, was impeded; and in consequence, the elastic
vapour forced itself a passage, by the totil disruption of the
vessels it, which it had been compressed.
On the subject of the melancholy accident, a corresp
dent wri.es:—

" We hie gerat pleasnre in stating that the accident
;Odds happened here on Thursday last, was not attended
with all the disastrous consequences reported—the damage
bring in a great measure confined to the destruction of our
of the boilers, and the demolition of tne boiler house, and
no houses in the neighbourhood having been torn down
or otherwise injured, except by a brick which passed
through the roof of one of them—hut happily did no fur-
ther mischief. We have however to regret the loss of the
lives of two miners who were imprudently changing their
clothes in the boiler house.—Tire exertions of the Agent,
on the mine have been unremitting sine, the Accident, and
the engine has been at work, and sinkingllfe water as
usual since Tuesday last."

A few days sine, a young woman who had been on boa►d
a brig in Rye harbour to visit her sweetheart. who was one
of the crew, unfortunately fell overboard, while in the act
of stepping from the above brig to another vessel, when the
object of her visit, at the risk of his own tire, plunged into
the waves and rescuel her how her perilous situation.

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