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Evening Star, Issue 2986, 13 September 1872, Page 4

Several interesting trials have just taken place on the Thames of a new floating steam lire engine, built by Messrs Merrywtather and Sons, of London, and have bean very successful. The vessel is only 45 feet long, with two and a-half feet draught of water, and is propelled at the rate of 12 miles an hour. The fire pumps are very powerful, throwing one thousand gallons of water per minute to the height of two hundred feet, and as many as eight streams of water can be thrown on to a lire at once. Such powerful machines as these in so small a compass will be highly valuable for the protection of waterside property and shipping. Mr Justice Keogh was not alone in condemning the means used by the clerical party iu the Galway election. When the case reserved by udge Keogh wont before the Irish Court of Common Pleas, of the four judges who heard it, three pronounced m favor of Captain Trench, but Chief Justice Mona-" han dissented, with some hesitation, and, in his own words, “ with regret,” for lie declared that he had no doubt as to tne truth of the ade.ovi'tiii! of undue influence, “ Not only.’’ soul Mr Justice bawson. “does the law of our country condemn the exercise of such spiritual influence as had been tmp! yed iu Galway, H is contrary to the moral lay, and the best instincts of our *naturo revolt against it. It is an application to foul purposes of an influence given for a pure and holy purpose. It it be forbidden when txerciced - a rho private affairs of men, what judgment should the law pronounce when a minister of religion, standing upon the altar robed in the sacred vestmeirs of his order, surrounded by the more sacred mysteries of Ins faith, makes use of that position to denounce anil hold up to public odium those who dare to exercise their civil right and franchises in a way that he disapproves, and threatens them with temporal injury and spiritual punishment ?’’