Sheriffs' Officers Superseded.
We hear that an ingenious mechanic at Ipswich has invented a machine to perform perpetual motion, which is described as "self-acting after being put in motion by a screw." So is a bailiff who acts on a usurer's writ. We wonder if the Ipswich automaton would arrest an insolvent?
Motto for the Electric Telegraph.—"Between you, me, and the Post."