Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-10-29
HONOR TO JUDGE MARSHALL


 HONOR TO JUDGE MARSHALL.
 At meeting ofthe bar of Philadelphia, held in the Circuit Court Room the Both September 1851, WILLIAM RAwLE Esq was appointed Chaiman and JOHN SERGEANT, Secretary. The following resolu- ton was unanimously adopted.
 Resolred That committee be appointed to wait upon Chief Justice Marshall, and expresso him the reverence ofthe bar for his pre-eminent character, talents and services and request him to Onor them with his company at dinner at such time IS may be convenient to him.
 The following members appointed the Com mittee, to witt William Rawle, John Sergeant, Ho- race Binney P. $. Duponceau, Josiah Randall, Geo. M Dallas, W. H. Todd R. Peters, C. J. Ingersoll. l Resolred, That the Hon. Judge Hopkinson be re- quested to unite with the committee to the carrying into effect the above resolution.
 | At an adjourned meeting at the same place on the first day of October, MT Rawe from the committee appointed yesterday reported that the committee, to- gether with Judge Hopllinson, who, in compliance with the wishes of he bar united himself with them, had waited upon Chief Justice Marshall, and by their Chairman communicated to him the resolution of the bar with the following address:
 Sir:-The Bar of Phadephi are much gratlfed by the opportunity which your visit to this city affords us of testying tfe high respect and profound vene- ration for your character felt by all. | We cannot but consider the whole nation indebted to who for long series of years has lllumina- ted its jurisprudence, and enforced with equal mild ness and frmness it's constitutional authority; who has never sought to enlarge the judicial power be- yond it's proper honnds nor feared to carry it to the full extent that duty required.
 In respect to many of us your exercise of the high office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court anterior to the commencement ot thelr professional existence. With some, the recollection of your ap poinment revives the sense of the satisfaction that it gave: with a there is perfect conviction. that the station never could be better filled. It has been noticed with infinite gratitude to the great Dispenser olal earthly bounties, that the hand of time, though il may affect the body has not dml nished those great powers by which the mind of the individual whom address, has been so long, so eminently distinguished.
 As a testimony Of the sentiments we entertain, the Bar respectfully socits the honor of your company to a dinner, any day you may think proper to name, ageeably to the foregoing resolution this day adopted. WILLIAM RAWLE,
 JOHN SERGEANT
 HORACE BINNEY
 PETER s. DUPONCEAU,
 WILLIAM II. TODD
 GEORGE NJ DALLAS,
 CHARLES j. INGERSOLL,
 RICHARD PETERS,
 JOSIAH RANDALL.
 To the Hon. JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ofthe United States.
 To which Chief Justice MARSHALL made the fol- lowing reply:
 It impossible for me- gentlemen, to do justice to lle Wlll WHICH feCelVeu your very HalIef- ing address nor shall make the attempt to have per formed the official duties assigned to me by my coun- try in such manner as to acquire the appreciation of so respectable and respected bar that of Phi adelphia affords me the highest qualification of which am capable, and Is more than ample ward for the labor which those duties impose. I dare not hope tha. my services ability to continue them entitle to the favorable sentiments which your kindness has expressed but shall always re- collect the expression of them with degree of pride and satisfaction which few occurrences of my life have inspired. Might be permitted to claim for myself, well for my associates, any portion of liberal consideration your partial favor bestows, it would be, that we "have sought to enlarge the judicial power beyond it's proper bounds nor feared to carry it to the full extent that duty required"
 My state of health does not permit to indulge in the pleasures of society, and kuow not how long may continue an invalid.
 l must therefore decline your polite invitation to dine with you and entreat you to believe that in do- ing so, submit, with infinite reluctance, to a prva- ton which cannot avoid
 With great and respectful esteem, l am, gentle men, your obedent and humble servant,
 J. MARSHALL. MT Rawle, from the committee, reported the following resolutions, which unanimously adopt ed
 Resol1ed, That the members of the Bar of Pha- delphia, will in body, wait Chief Justice Mar shall and that he be requested to receive them in the United States Court Room at such time as may suit his convenience: and that the Chairman take the ne- cessary steps to carry this resolution into effect Resotred, That the Chairman of thIs meeting be requested to wait Chief Justice Marshall and ex- press to him the request of the Bar, in Philadelphia that he will permit his portrait to be taken ResOtced, That a committee be appointed to obtun the survice of eminent artist of this city, to carry into execution the purpose of the foregoing resolution should Chief Justice Marshall assent thereunto
 Resotred, That these proceedings be published. l Birmingham paper says that patent has been obtained for manufacturing Illuminating gas from water, which IS to be afored at much cheaper rate than common gas, and to burn with more splendid flame. The hydrogen gas obtained from water is passed through some liquid procured during the dis tlllatlon of pit coa which it afterwards to give out brightlight in combustion. The appara- tus used to obtain this new gas is said to be very simple Thus the exploit of ''setting the river on hre," which ancestors in the simplicity of their hearts, reckoned among the number of impossbili- ties Is now in fair way of being performed The cold waters drawn from the bosom of the earth are to be distributed in currents of flame from habitation to habilaton, and the element to quench fires is to light up cities with brillancy scarcely to be surpassed by that of a conhagraon. When the an- lhracite mines of the country shall be exhausted, and our forests all hewn away posterity will be able to keep themselves warm by burning the lakes and rivers.
 | COnrersati0n dt distance. of the poets has put into the mouth of a madman, petition to the gods to "annihilate both time and space" But the object of the prayer almost to have realized in sober earnest the Liverpool rail road the mira culous powers of which now than ever unable to anticipate. It is proposed that tube shall be carried along the course of the rail road, through which conversation between Liverpool and Manchester may be carried on !-[ Monthly Re- view