... DECEMBER 26, opened, for which pumping machinery of improved kind was introduced. Among the new appliances was one of Newcomen’s atmospheric engines, which, when it was set to work, excited much wonder among the workpeople. The would appear have been of a very construction. The boiler consisted of a box of cast iron one inch in thickness, and the piston was •* packed with leather. As the ...

... SON CF M P Ma Francis John Rogers Sheridan, lately holding* comtniaaion tbe army, appeared at Bow Street Saturday, in discharge of recognisances, upon charge «>f having obtained L.200 by false pretences. Mr Serjeant and Mr Montagu Williams conducted the prosecution. Mr George Lewis, jjn., of Lewis and Lewis, Ely Place, defended the accused. It appeared that in the early part of January last an ...