Widnes Examiner. — 1881-02-12 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

OOO. countries where wood fuel is used. One scheme has been A murder has been committed at the little town of Kidproposed and ably advocated by Mr. Scott Moncrieff, but welly, Calmarthenehire. A lad had been miming from home, this demands corporate action, which will be a great advan- and his body was found beneath a garden hedge in the town. tage where capable corporations exist,bat is not so hopefulin The skull had been fractured, and the left cheek cut away. our metropolis, the government of which is so complex and The body was covered with loose grass, but the absence of indefinite. A few preliminary explanations are desirable in blood proved that the murder could not have been cornorder to render Mr. Moncrieff's scheme fully intelligible. 1 mitted there. The coroner's jury, on Saturday, returned a When ordinary coal is heated in a closed vessel like a gas verdict of "Wilful murder" against some person or persons retort, " destructive distillation" occars, a distillation unlike unknown. that which takes place when water is similarly heated. The At Liverpool Assizes, on Monday, William Hesketh, water is simply converted into vapour of water,which when collector, and Frederick Langdon, barman, were sentenced cooled returns to its former condition of liquid water. The to five years' penal servitude each for obtaining from the vapours or gases given off by the distillation of coal are not Prudential Assurance Company £147, and uttering a forged vapours of coal, though Vapours from' coal; they have a receipt for the same. Hesketh was an agent of the corndifferent composition from coal, and cannot by any artificial pany, and on the death of a young fellow named Santer, effort be restored to the con i condition of coal. They are very who was employed n the same house as Langdon, they various' and not exactly alike for any two successive knewing he was insured for £lfO,plotted to obtain the periods during the distillation. First of all comes vapour of money. water, mingled with more or less of ammoniacal and tarry Replying to a resolution of confidence in the Geverzment matters. These vary with the temperature. Then comes passed by the Wolverhampton Liberal Association, Mr. H. inflammable gas and tarry or napthalic vapours, with less 11. Fowler, M P., writes that the House of Commons has water and ammonia; a mixture that barns with a lurid been engaged in a grave struggle for its own freedom, honsmoky flame, depositing great quantities of soot. As the our, and power. The leaders of the Opposition have distillation proceeds, the quantity of water and ammonia rendered a gallant and unflinching support to the diminishes, and the gaseous products become less carbona- Ministers of the Crown. All who value representative insticeous ; the tarry and napthalic products also ailiminiash, and tutions and who reverence the House of Commons as the finally cease to come over, the gas becomes lighter, still less chief representative body in the world are under a lasting carburetted, and has much smaller illuminating power wheh debt of obligation to the Speaker for the patience, wisdom, refined. If the process is continued long enough, and the and courage he displayed in this unexampled crisis. temperature is sufficiently high, a gas is at last obtained 'Ns