Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-21
Rev. R. r. GURLEY.

STEPHEN A. BENSON.
Rev. R. r. GURLEY
FOREIGN ITEMS
The Taft Vale Railway has a branch from Nerthyr to
Dowlais More than mile of this is inclined plane
rising 400 feet in that distance. This worked bya sta
tionary engine The officials Wednesday neglected to
attach the rope to the midday passenger train before
starting it. 1t consequently dashed down the incline
with prodgious increasing velocity 1t neared the bot
tom. The guard leapt off the break after the
riages commenced their descent and was unnjured
None of the passengers however, enabled thus to
escape as they all locked in the compartments and
their shreks while passing along the bridges the
roads near the town were most appalling The branch
joins the main line at the bottom of the incline by
sharp The train abandoned the rail ut this spot
leapt clear up into the dir great height the carriages
separating into shred the passengers being thrown ont
and with the debris of the train falling like shower into
Taft river and the adjoining cinder tips Notwith
standing this extraordinary Violence Of the passen
gers enabled to walk away comparatively unhurt
others much injured, and two women were dying
having her back broken and the other fracture of
the skull besides which they fghully acerated and
torn almost to pieces. .".@ ,.
I'm the of the proceedings of the German Asso
citation for the Advancement of Science lately held Tu
bngen, Prof kARNAT announced that Germany had coal
enough supply herself and all the rest of the world for
the next five hundred years The great fact ELECTED at
the meeting the clearing of the mystery OF the
fossil human teeth found in the Swaan Alps in strata
of the mammoth period and doubts expressed to their
being human teeth man not believed to have
listed in the time Of the mammoth Since the meeting in
1852 number of perfect human skulls have been found
in the same locality with teeth in them, which discovery
if correctly reported would naturally lead to the concu
sion that q of human beings in existence
temporaneously with the mastodon and other of the
larger antediuyian animals. .,
On the field of Europe (ays the London Leader moth
ing interesting occurred than the opening OF the
church of the Waldenses Turin is that incident
the only mark Of the growth of public freedom, religions
as well POLITICAL in the sole constitutional state OF
Italy Correspondents mention the freedom of the peo-
pie in Genoa and the circulation of Bibles from Nice.
In short Sardinia is rapidly moving towards truly Eng
sh Of constitutional freedom There parts OF
Europe upon which this country may rely for sympathy
and cooperation, not only the of parchment
treaty bond but the of genuine feeling and COM
mon objects - ...
Mr. PRIDEAux, author of q work on the Economy of
Fuel has been permitted to try experiment at Ports
mouth dock yard in England with his invention for the
consumption Of smoke Theexperiment seems to have been
quite successful 1t consists of valve in the furnace
door, of simple character, nsurng intense heating
and minute subdivision of the air in its passage through
it," The door of the furnace remains COOL instead of
becoming red-hot; merely thin steam-colored vapor
arose from the chimney. ......
There is in the crypt of Hythe Church vast pile of
human bones which were gathered many years after
battle fought the seashore between the Danes and
Saxons about thousand years since, and amongst
teeth in many of which perfect, beautifully
sound and so firmly imbeded in the sockets that you
cannot move them. The owners Of those teeth wore
boards.
M BRE,yr of Paris left 10000 francs to the French
Institute to be by awarded dscoyerer the
of cholera for it. The interest of the money is
in the mean time to be used in rewardng encouraging
the authors of any lesser discoveries in medicine The
Emperor Napoleon has just signed the act permitting the
institute to accept the legacy and conditions under which
it is made. '..
The Paris Monieur publishes decree abo,ishing the
restrictions imposed by the rescrpt of February Sth
1885, on cotton imported into France from Great
Britain and the British possessions in Europe Accord
ing to the said rescrp the produce Of ASIA Africa and
America sent from England and her European posses
sons into French ports was to be admitted for reexport
tion only.
The arrangements for the French Industrial Congress
in 1856 are progressing satisfactorily. Around perma
nent central edee in the Champs Eyses will be grouped
the various buildings necessary for the display of the pro-
ductions The total will be fully equal that
pied by the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park
cannon loading at the breech has been invented by
DR.. CHURCH, of England. By this process of loading
heavy ship guns be fired five times in minute by
two men, and field piece six times in minute
Mr. swlTr, of Dublin, has an invention by which he
can progress through the in upright position
the rate of five miles hour The apparatus consists Of
two artight tin floats Of twenty feet long, tapering
narrow point each end and joined together by bars
OF iron Ihe mode Dy when IL is propeileu Is by dou-
be-baded oar eighteen feet in length which made to
ply windmill fashion by the occupant who stands in the
centre An experiment fully successful, and Mr..
Swift loudly applauded his arrival at Eden Quay
Some time this month the Society Of Arts and College
of Physicians bound award the Swiney prize of
silver goblet holding hundred sovereigns, to the
thor of the best published treatise on jurisprudence
latng to arts and sciences This prize is open works
in all languages which have been published during the
last FIVE years. and it is not necessary that the work
should have been produced especially for this purpose
A WuB's JEwELRY-By the English law these are
such articles of dress and ornament the husband has
specially appropriated the wife, and suitable to her
position in life The subject has been lately examined
in the English Court Of Chancery before the Master Of
the Rolls in the Of Jervose Jervose The plain
tiff is the widow Of Rev Sir Samuel G. Jervoise and the
defendants the trustees under her late husbands will
The deceased directed that his family jewels should de-
scend after his wifes death to his herlooms
The lady above mentioned is in her 10Th year. and
was married 50 years ago. She lays claim to the
family jewels, but only to pearl given to
her by aunt al the time Of her marriage and also TO
pair Of diamond bracelets given to her by her husband
since marriage and worth nearly gS00 The Master held
that the pearl and the bracelets were absolute
y subject to such disposition their owner chose to
make Of them.