The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-08-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ARCHIMEDES SCREW ON THE GLASGOW AND PAISLEY CANAL.—Mr. M`Dowall, engineer, Johnstone, who is about teee the va iddeea. ~anto to apply the Archimedean screw to canal plated the plan so far back as 1834, Wliowall abandoned, in Consequence ,of the increasede,i rived from the use of Mr. Houston's light gigs. ley Advertiser says—" The new demand for increased speeda excited by railway operations, has caused the idea a be taken up, and it is just the same plan which Mr. brought into operation in 1834, that he now proposes to carry more fully out. The engine to be applied on this occasion is one of ten horse power; but neither it nor the boat are very well adapted to the experiment; nor are they suited to each other ; but they will serve to give a fair trial on a full working scale, and, if found to answer, boats and engines will be made suited to each other. The space of the boat occupied by this trial will be somewhere about twenty feet, but with engines properly suited for the purpose not more than fifteen will be required. With respect to speed, we may state that a rate of from thirteen to fourteen miles an hour is confidently Johnstone Glasgown , wh t 0 Abiell emnaadbel e withinthe hour,between including all stoppages. '  ontem  It would appear, that " on the arrival of the Archduke Charles in that town there was a general illumination ordered, which attracted many peasants from the neighbouring villages ; amongst others was a fine young woman, who wore a handkerchief round her head. She was accosted by a Jew, who pulled off the handkerchief and ran away with it. She followed him, whom she considered a thief, to the Jews' quarter, where she suddenly found herself surrounded by a number of Jews, and from that time she was not heard of for some weeks, nor indeed until she appeared before the commissary of police to make a complaint, which had been transmitted to the superior court at Lemberg." " This is the young woman's account. She has identified the Jewish surgeon who bled her, and the young woman who examined her person, and the cicatrice where she was bled is visible. The criminal court has not yet decided on the case. The young woman has no witnesses, and the accused declare that the charge is false." We have before us the details of a somewhat similar occurrence at Iwaniska, in the palatinate of Sandemir, in Poland, some years since, and transmitted to us with the foregoing, in which, however, the alleged victim was a Christian boy, three years old, and who had been murdered. The narrator, however, states a circumstance irreconcilable with the story given in the Leipsic Gazette, namely, that the parties guilty of or accessory to the murder required that the victim should be of the male sex. _ _  She states, that " when she was surrounded by the Jews, she was dragged into a house, and thence into the cellar, where she was bathed in a vat. A Jewish surgeon then came, and having carefully examined her person, he bled her in the arm, and preserved the blood in a vase. This operation was repeated on several days. The young woman, having observed that she was carefully examined by a female to see whether she had any wound, or stain, or blemish on her person, before the surgeon bled her, determined to cause one, which she did by rubbing her knee against the bathing tub in which they placed her. The next time the surgeon carne he saw the wound, and declared (according to the Jewish phraseology) that she was unclean, and on the same night she was carried to, and left n, the churchyerd; where she was found the following day. —Times.