Two very fine Arabian hor...
The Times, 1824-04-17T00:00:00

Twvo very fine Arabian horses, which had been purchased at Dongola, arrived lately in London, as presents to the Earl of Morton. They were escortet by a Mtaltese groom, accompanied by a native of Dongola. The various novelties of Europe completely rivetted the attention of the African a and after visiting Pans and London, hit veneration for Grand Cairo, which had hitherto been excessive, was so decreased, that he expressed himself in no mea- sured terms of contempt for that metropolis of Egypt, the once-famed residence of' the Saracenic Caliphs; and declared, that a single.shop in Regent.street would purchase all Cairo. He was particularly pleas. ed with the facilities in European traveUing, and enjoyed his nap in a close carriage. The poor fellow wPas sonmewhat dtsappointed in the reward attendantupon his trouble! he had anticipated a douceur of fifty dollars (ten ponnd,).no very unreasonable expectation; but he stated at Paris to an Englishman, that five pounds was the whole of his remineration._CamnbridFe Chroticie T'he Glas.gow Herald of ruesday says-" For some timne ,as a band of miscreants have been infesting this dity and neigh- oeurhood, who amuse themselves by knocking people down. Plun- der does not appear to be their object. as in several cases which have corne to our knowledge they made ofl whenever they had brought their victims to the ground. With an unmanliness quite in character with such atrocity, women haYe frequently been tVAe objects of their wssaults, even when they had children in their arns. On Sundav night last, about 11 o'clock, a party, consisting of several men and women, commenced operations of this kind in Gorbals, by assault- ing two dragoons, vhom they knocked down and beat severely. Two of the watcimen who went to rescue the soldiers were also severely bruised-and a quiet sober man in Mlalta-street, whom the noise ai(i cries of murder, v,hich some of the assaulted partiea uttered, brought out of bed, and who, with more gaallatry than prudence, went to re. monstrate with them, was knocked down, and very narrowly. escaped some serious injuries. Sonre more watchmen at lengrh arrived upon the spot, and some of the assailants were lodged in the Gorbals po. lice.office.' A sanguinary conRict took place at Tours, in Prance) on the 7th inst., between some journeyrien carpenters and several dragoons of the 9th regiment, in which one of the journeymen was killed by a blow from a sabre, and another wounded, and three dra. goons wounded, one of them mortally. The cause of this conflict is said to have been intoxication. Yesterday evening, about seven o'olock, an alarming fire broke out, in the second floor of a house in King's-Read.court Gough.square, Fleet-street, occupied by Mr. Sunk, an oilman ant tallow-chandler; but owing to tht timely arrival of the engines, and a plentiful suoply of water, it was got under without doing any ma- terial damage: PN5EAUJATXC APPAk:ATuS.-The Etoile translates from a Cadiz paper the following accounts of two discoveries of pneumatic apparatus, which are to forn a substitute for the power of steam as applied to navigation. There must be some mistakes iR the original account, or in the EBoile's translation; for in their present form- we cant atke inoting ofthe " discoveries." We shal, however, repeat the:oticein the hope that some scientific (Edipus may derive in. struction from it. The Cadiz Commercial Gazette contains the fol-. Jowi'n'g account of two new discoveries bv a M3r-. Crivelli :_" The first consists of two pneumatic machinei, which-are placed at the bottom of tne hold of a' vessel, and put into motion by fieaaut of a spring.. The powerful action of these machines havinK formed a vacuuni, the colutnns of atmospheric air, followingthe laws of pres- sure,-ft mwith all their weight -into the interior, nd, by the con- tintual motion of the machinen,receiving a fresh impetus from the co- lumns which succeed cach other with extraordinary rapidity, open a, channel for the action of the atmospnheic pessure. The compressed air is forced into two ppesa, and st'rikes againstan apparatus which is placed on the sices oftnievessel,and which,initsturi,mavestewolarge paddles,.pr6ducing the same effect as in steam-boats." The second discovery is as follows:-_" AfTer having extracted from s6a-water, by, meanis of evaporation, the oxygen and hvd6genxas`ses swkich it dontains, tbese gasses are ni*ed in proper prportions in-an insulated apparatus, where, by means of prusure, thby farnish:bn extrxordi. nary explosive power. Mtr. Crivelli is low sdesiVouring to di4over the means of applying this power withouftdingr;d -will communn. cate the result of his researches to the public a sooua _his labours are condluded!'