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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
[Oct. 22, 
tunder. A large quantity of the turpentine and cotton, 
ed. outbiteak, some 
shed, vine | to be 
go 
however, was destroy On the first 
hundreds of barrels of turpentine in the 
carted away, were saved. fire was 
Wednesday, although it is three we 
ut e following detailed 
f 9 hd tur- | ning conduc Hats, recently apie "by the Admiralty on his 
tine, 150 barrels rosin, 39 casks tallow, 60 tuns oil, | plan to the shi The importance of these 
178 tons sgt rit aya Rpts gril 3.904 he experiments is evel by i ie talk n . of vessels 
r, 800 sacks flour, 5 coffee, ces coffee, 57 | which have been destroyed by lightning, he se- 
casks tincal, a cases tincal, "108 cases quetcittdt bark, 60 | rious injury sustained annually by a classes of ie g 
casks horn tips, 37_tons logwood, 54 bales madder, | in n different. pits of the worl e purpose of t ne an 
ft: 
0 
aap ee rrels Indian corn, 6 packa ages Indian rubber, ae crates 
of the fate of the unfortunate gentleman ; but, in the pre- 
r sen stage of the proceedings, the details, of course, have 
nat transpire: 
Ports mouth. n Thursday of se he 9 pr ab 
eis Captains of t this station, and the officer - 
trian frigate Mayet sscembled in "the dock a 
w Harris with ‘he light. 
seems to leav 
Bank in this city, and w 
circles 
sported, were concerned in t iy 
em has recently confessed a 
ee They confess to a sditiery Gur: ‘ Bae there is 
t afte er bbee 4 
the Manchester fane 
large a numb 
n lost 
espected in commercial 
Tt appears that pete men, since convicted and 
e 
n the part 
the road into the 
gti g erie 
o this 
Within | from the jetty, m 
the eit week information has been received by | the police ba 
of cae fro 
and 
it 
e was placed, containing a carronade. 
om the positive side of a powerful eleottieat hattery in 
by | the Semaphore was attached a cup of gunpowder 
on ber mai : other wire leading from the 
negative side of the battery was atta to the gu 
hull into ived in the sea wa 
proved by the ignition of the iapteed over the touch- hole 
of the gun in setts the con 
the gun, because the only means by which this gunpowder 
could re e ignited was the eben ge of the electricity up the 
short ad son wire which connected the touch-hole of the 
ha 
the i of the powder at the pts ead, of 
has 
withstanding this, an  aatiokal call “of 21. thee shar the touch-hole of the gun, and the Fon of the gun itself, 
peed the purpose of makin anpened simultaneous, notwithst: mance | the Fag distance 
rsed by the electricity. Mr. Har explained 
Tt a the action of the electricity. It had, he ‘said, A gene- 
rally supposed that apa were attractive of lightning in 
virtue of some inhe ffinity for the electrical agency. 
pete! pe tae this ppositi nd showed that the 
s ey i rges were reducible to mere resist- 
for e year, snéet ey tn Oe i 2 ute te es I. 8s. aioe on Watasiee i ~ in fact, the rge, throngh 
Od. : gl hat items “ino : oss of | imperfect circuit condu ctor, an unprotected ship, 
800,887/. 1 The Dire oh condadel th i fepert merely picked - such pieces of metal as happened to lie 
~ by stating officially hit Mr. Tarde th. th é late manager in a line bs Bee east reaiathaie ce to its course. Thi 
had | is and ed the shstyehacn t of th s illustra pe) an electric shock over small 
bank to his own pur They admitted they have masse Sof got distributed fortuitously on paper ; some of 
expo: t ves everest animadvers ns, ese “w up, oth remained untouched. The 
having so fatally pre hence: pret fidence in a manag neg last experiment which rf » was with a vie 
committee ; and the only 0 prove e complet: haa eed rded by the 
ceived, 
ed, | discharge taking place. A model of a m 
e lace on metallic bodies 
thus practica 
during which man feet in length, bid ed in parts, _ an cucrripied line 
that Mr. Biirdekin’s flight m ved of metal placed in the heart of i Percussiow ao T, 
by er parties ; al daft crimination | which, it is well Kiowa, will fifa with the least spark of 
the report was adopted. In the course of the ak maep 8 electricity, p t On the 
the chairman informed the shareholders that he should be | outer surface of the mast a continuous or was 
ving them if he were to hold out the remotest te 2 | placed, the extremities of whieh were connect each 
that they Mcad sone te back any of ah end of the model of the mast with the extremities of the 
turned o 
expect 
"measly —We learn by the Pile ge Journal tha 
A ‘Darling, th 
ogether wi me! 
t | the mast itself and touch the internal line A 
of | intense shock of electricity was allowed to fall As the 
een made ae 
Od tes 
sequent discharge o of | 
py be 
The vessel was decked uf aoe and ae naval 
insignia, an ns. A 
and everg 
dm iat ‘presided 
P the 
other ships in ‘issue ith the 
ston.—It will be es iene that a woman named 
Eliza Bailey, anda byte 
examined on several aueasie 
charge of robbing Mr. John Masyuis of Accringt 
notes to the amount of 2,000/. daring the lat 
guild. The police reports state that she has recen 
uarter Aébtons at Birkinhead, 
7 years 
up at the Police Court of 
a 
“—S 
ancis Eg sley ppeared that 
ro ae been pei ees to the act by certain gghted n Sal- 
The nation lasted for several hours, and 
pia the e iv prisoner was remande 
Silchester.—The Berkshire papers have recently given 
o this town, so long its Roman ruins, the title 
6 nti-mattimonial parish. They state that it is worthy 
of being made celebrated for the nu helors and 
spinsters it con ince, at a vestry Cheney 
d on a recent occasion, when a ene man fro 
a 
nday Peninsular prt 
ar, Lisbob, 8 d Vigo, with a large 
nt fruit, and another rsp st cattle in better 
condition than those last imported. ailing vessel has 
with a cargo i 
expen to 41. ; 
wverage ws to 16/. etch, some as much a nat in 
field M ket.—Letters wires New York mention that the 
New 
iy for our, Re ers on 
the Atlant, donate that they never experien 
dreadful m. E ex yee that ” 
ship pani ‘koonaee 
voya - to this country, and ‘ts expected here shiek 
the 25th. 
—We learn from the Standard that Dr. 
as well as food, &c. &c. The party s 
parated about two — having derived the puis 
satisfaction from their 
_— cmieqnene of the fatal cases an ert 
e, her M esty 
Clarenion 
etermine on paying a visit to Brighton before, i stead of 
after, Christmas, as h een previously intended. The 
period mentioned for the departure of the Court is the Ist 
November. es ats is expected to remain at Brighton 
about a mo r. G. nson, treasurer to Prince 
Albert, m met with an accident on y morning, 
ir E. ter 
the Prince’s beagles, and before he 
al residence, his horse 
Z 
ee eh ee 
e mast where both lines of meta d threw him, injuring his right hip eo cine that some 
njunction, with the view of discovering (since | time is expected to elapse before he will recover its effects. 
the electric matter had thus, it may be said, the choice of | —The new stables and riding-house, for defray: g the ex 
pass upon the metal within, | pense of whic rliament voted the sam of 70,0004 
ould be dispersed between the two lines, | shortly after her mers accession, have just been com~ 
= or whether it would onl own | pleted. The sum ane ed was brought within the amount 
hether, in passing down that line, | of the liamentar ant. T uildings were con- 
it could cause a bieral discharge to enter the mast, or in | structed from the original designs of the Wyat- 
interior. Dee a severe test, pres under the superintendence of Mr. Ashton, his sue- 
ae gant natur the per — essor. 
ceeded ectly. he long as the hoe ~The pp epi are the returns of railways 
ondu i - emained perfect, the - ais for the past week :—Hul Selby, 1,122. 5 Edinburgh 
electricity were innoxious. When, however, | and Glasgow, 1] “OVE § sec Counties, 1,073/.; North 
cto emoved and a efwvilur charge Basterti; q; 4541, $ London an ingham, 
was thrown over the model, the mast was blown to pieces vie eis Birminghara a loucester, 2,036/. ; ‘South- 
by the ignition of the percussion powder, oo a Western, 6,701/.; Midland Counties, 3,285/. 5 Brighton, 
if $ discharges had in any way, or | 4,636/.; N h Midland, ,7071.; Grand Junction, 7,862.5 
form. the interior, this _— weua Blackwall, 6527. ; oe and Derby, 1,499/.; York. 
have resulted in the very first i ce. A r. Har- | and North Midland, 1,946/.; Great Western, 14, 188%. ee 
Luigi dosed Cod ii gton | Greenwich, 840/.—At a meeting of the Durham 8 
: that he had witnessed, he thought be but | derl nore aH a dividend of 10s. per share was 
P y to observe that he felt ectly fared; the traffic had been much affected by the depr 
of the efficacy of the ¢ r. Harris's pao state of the trading copra: but the difficulties are ie 
which, after the con ad | dually decreasing, and oncern promises a progressive 
that day undergone, w outa no focnr ra nerally improvement.— Th Cenanee company, as we mentio ioned 
—Yentartiy being the anniversary of the victory ob’ by|in a Number, has got into difficulties with the 
Lord Nelson over the combined of pee and | Exchequer Loan Commissioners, who have seized upon 
Spin, off Cape Trafalgar, on the 2ist Ist of October, 1805, | the railway, and announced it for —— sale in the course 
the Victory, lying in this harbour as the ordinary guard. | of the of the ong A 
ship exhibited upon the occasion a scene of extieane in- | borrowed os aa interest, to 
= skennnarberep ate 
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