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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), A. (search)
e time trips the shield to which it belongs, and causes it to oscillate from before the opening and expose the number to which it belongs. A crank operated by the hotel clerk restores the normal condition after the number has been observed. Horsfall, October 4, 1853, and Hale, April 22, 1856, are among the earlier inventors. In Horsfall's, the wire from the room operates a rod whose horizontal lifting and tripping arm extends beneath its appropriate swinging index-plate. The rod and armHorsfall's, the wire from the room operates a rod whose horizontal lifting and tripping arm extends beneath its appropriate swinging index-plate. The rod and arm are arranged in such relation to the rocking-frame which carries the alarm-bell, that, as either of the rods is raised for the purpose of tripping one of the index-plates and exposing its number to view, the frame and bell will be also raised, and the pendulous hammer allowed to descend some distance. When the rod descends after tripping the index-plate, the rocking frame and bell also descend, and the contact of the short arm of the hammer with a lever causes the hammer to sound the alarm, su
The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Belligerent rights at sea. (search)
Belligerent rights at sea. In the British House of Commons, on the 18th instant, Mr. Horsfall asked the noble Lord, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether any step had been taken by her Majesty's Government with the view of carrying out the recommendations of the Shipping Committee of last year, on the subject of belligerent rights at sea. Lord John Russell--No steps have been taken by her Majesty's Government with a view of carrying out the recommendations of the Shipping Committee of last year, on the subject of the belligerent rights at sea, and perhaps the House will allow me to state the reasons for which I have not taken any such steps. I found that when the matter was under discussion with the American Government the opinion of Lord Clarendon seems to have been unfavorable to the proposal that private property at sea should be respected during war. No final decision was come to, and no official communication was made, and the American Government expresse
The Daily Dispatch: June 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
hat constituted a blockade, that definition would avail nothing, unless it was accepted as a correct definition of law by the American Prize Courts. To seek to define what is the law of nations in a royal proclamation would be, instead of a safeguard, a snare for the unlearned reader, since it would lead him to rely on an interpretation of that law which would not be binding on the court before which his case is to be decided. We note a trace of this common error in the case proposed by Mr. Horsfall to Lord Palmerston. That question asks whether merchant ships, chartered by the United States prior to the proclamation, will be liable to its penalties? We apprehend, whatever those liabilities may be, the proclamation, which is only a warning not to break the law of England and the law of nations, could in nowise alter them. The answer that can be given to Lord Ellenborough is that a blockade must be, on the one hand, a great deal more than a mere paper prohibition. A hen may be ind
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Europe. (search)
r a certain day no person shall set foot in a certain district, that all houses, hovels and cabins of every description are to be levelled to the ground, and that the inhabitants of every farm house in which ors than a day's food is found, shall be treated as brigands, and immediately shot. Earl Russeil--I had received no information from the English Minister at Turin or the Consul at Naples, and asked for a copy of the proclamation. In the House of Commons on the same evening, Mr. Horsfall gave notice that on the 11th of March he would move that the present state of international maritime law, as it concerns belligerents and nentials, is undefined, unsatisfactory, and calls for the early attention of her Majesty's Government. France. The discussion on the address war resumed in the Senate on the 24th ultimo, M Troplong exhorted the Senators to preserve a conciliatory and moderate tone in the debates. M. de Boissy regretted that France had assisted England in reveng
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
Alabama affair. But unless his efforts are supported by public opinion they will be unavailing. And certainly unless the temper of the country alters, it is difficult to see how it can be avoided." In the House of Commons, on the 16th, Mr. Horsfall gave notice of his intention to call attention to the seizure of the gunboat Alexandria at Liverpool. Lord R. Cecil asked if it was true that spies had been sent to Liverpool to watch the dockyards and the Confederate agents? Sir G. med that the head constable of Liverpool had made inquiries, and that neither the Mayor nor the Watch Committee had raised any objection. In the House of Commons on the 17th inst., Mr. Cobden gave notice of the following motion, to follow Mr. Horsfall's, which is to come up on the 24th, in reference to the seizure of the Alexandria: "To invite the attention of the House, from motives of national self-interest and obligations of implied international engagements, by which the British G