The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

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DORCHEBTER—Loenon AND 9017TH-SYNNTIMIN
R•iLwAr.—The directors of this company have re-
solved to recommend to the promoters, at the
half-yearly general meeting on the 12* proximo,
that the dividend for the half-year ending the 31st
of December, 1E162, be at the toga otitcrir cent.
per annum on the ordinary capital of the
company,
%Voltam Men'. Ixorrrots.—The eighth annual
report of this most useful society bee been issued.
From it we glean that the trifling balance of ite. 94d.
remains in the hands of the treasurer. A slight
Increase has taken pings in the number of members
of the reeding-room, es well as in that of the she.
dente of the several classes ; the former, incleding
howair, wog 64, and the lathier 19, of
whom fi, being too young for membership, are ad.
milted to the climes only. But as ample accommo-
dation is provided for a still larger number,the com-
mitt. again nip the advantages of the reading and
clam on upon those young men of the town who
have their evenings at leisure. From the few addl.
tams made to the number of members as the result
of the appeal which the committee thought fit to
issue in the early part of the winter, it would seem
that the benefits of • useful education, though to be
obtained at the exposes of only • shilling a quarter,
fail in being duly appreciated. The maintenance of
classes hawing been one of the chief objects of the
institute front its commencement, it is satisfactory
to know that they continue their operations unim-
peded by the difficulty eo often experienced by kin-
trod -societies of providing tutors. Not only have
several members willingly offered their services, to
whom the society is much indebted, but gentlemen,
unconnected with the institution, have also most
kindly bestowed their valuable time and labour upon
the students. To the Rev. I'. R. &Whew, and to
M. Canton, for the kind sanstenos rendered in this
respect, the committee feel themselves under great
Obb4ation.
roolorr Conte Pam —We ars informed tibia an
Order has been received from the Treeoury by the
regietrare of the County Court, directing them to
rebus to ell plaintiffs wbo shell apply at the office
the fee of one shilling paid by them since the let of
May last in causes above 40a, and whits ha, not
been treated as cods in the cause. la Ritmo the gems
fee will be payable cm the entry of • plaint, bet will
be treated as costa in the maw An raciness has
been made in the fee payable under the Judgment
Debtors' Act, 8 and 9 Vic., c. 127.
I.WCIIMASE OW TER EPISCOPATIL—In anticipation
of the debates in Convocation (which opens on the
10th) on this subject, the following memorial of
noblemen and gentlemen has been circulated :
" We, the undersigned laymen of the Church,
having learnt that the Mercy of the provinces of
Canterbury and York, in Convocation, have ex-
pressed themselvee favounable to the extension of
the home epreoopete, and feeling strongly the
importance of inch an extension, beg leave to
commend the subject to the consideration of the
archbishops and bishops." The memorial already i
beers many distinguished names.
WETIfOt7TH.—A New Lienr.—Not only to theft
who live in Weymouth, where the pe is proverbially
tad, Mat to the people Ls au parts of the =entry it is
most import-sot to know that cod gee is bow superseded.
aay rate it is no longer a seeemity. Seery man may
make his own gas with safety and at small expense;
and vibes it Is made it will be vastly raperior to the
orticie which the gas companies supply. Whether
thcrefore we look at the subject as to the general ino
purity of gee, or the high prios charged for it, the new
Invention Ss at the present nine • decided phi to the
public. Indeed it would have been that at any time ;
but like fact will be brought more convincingly home to
commoners jest now. By • course ol treatment as
simple as it is effectual, atmospheric sir may be con-
verted into an olellant gas, which will give Ire times
the light of ccal gas at very ninth less ttpense. Both
them advantages are likely to be appreciated. But the
invention has others which are scarcely less in value.
the light prodused has nothing like the same
amount of beat as en ordinary gas-light gives; next, it
is • pure white light which will not injuriously affect
the sight if limes who use it; and. &Wain, the ff.s is
wholly devoid of those impurities with which coal gas
is loaded. Librarians can tell how snook the hooka
'nudge their care suffer from the selpharrats acid which
is Oven out from the ordinary gm burner.- bindings
are rotted by it, sad in many eases, wholly destroyed.
Jewellers and silveramiths find their wares moat
initiregisly affected by the same cause; and indeed there
scarcely a tradesman who would not willingly change
his mode of lighting if by doing so be could get rid
of the damaging ominousness which ensue from
the um of gas, and obtain • means at illumination as
easy of application. The Photogenic Gus Company
yorione to simply bin, with what be requires, with the
additional recommendation that the gam they endile
him to snake is leas costly, and at the same time is
aliselenly free from all danger of explosion. The in.
vration which the company has been formed to pro-
mote is that of M. Iloogruel, a French gentleman, and
olr•:;•dy been extensively adopted in France. Its
geiv:ral character we have already indicated when we
'aid that It convert. atmospheric air into on oil-bearing
I
H that is accomplished, and the result, en
lolly captained to • large and influential audience at
Bishopegate-street Within, on Saturday evening
last. The material with which the affair is car-
burettod is a highly refined extract of petroleum oil,
the secret of the preparation of which is K. Moo-
gruel's. He does not, however, affect to consider that
the eroret is difficult of detection, and he loaves it to
the chemists and the public who are welcome to find
it out and manufacture the article if they can. To the
company it can be supplied in any quaotity at a cost
not exceeding 3s. per gallon, and any additional charge
above that price will be the profit they will have to
make the public pay. It is, however, the apparatus
be which this liquid is applied that is patented,
-mil which in truth constitutes M. oogruel's
Invention. Many efforts have been made t
carburate gas and atmospheric air, and these
have been partially moraraful—but only partially.
The result has been sought to be accomplished either
by the amass-once of heat, or by allowing the gas or air
to pea through or over the mess of the liquid contain-
ing the oirbon. The effect of this was that the
volatile and valuable parts of the liquid were the first
to escape, so that the remainder was improverished.
The light grew gradually less and lese, until it timidly
disappeoreil, while • considerable quantity of the liquid
stilt rarnidned in the apparatus, This is entirely obviated
by K. 1111oegruel's patent Cold Generator. This Gene-
"'tn. In of iron and in shape like a drum. The
car-
bonising liquid is enclosed hermetically in an upper
chamber. whence it descends by a small tube into • 1
lower chamber, to be the re-applied. This tube, which
is not larger than a small quill, descends to within an '
eighth of an inch of the bottom of the lower chamber,
no that no greater thickness of the liquid can be laid
there. Acroes tbe top of the liquid thin raid and just
touching it, wicks are placed with attract the liquid,
and taking it up present • large carboaraing surface
to the air passing through the chamber Into the pipes
which are to feed the burners. The Mr may be forced
through in various ways. An ordinary elastic bag of
caoutchouc will hold enough for one light for • con-
rider-able time. When the bag is inflated, and con•
ueoted with the Generator by means of • pipe, • weight
may be laid upon it to give the necessary pressure. and
the appartus is complete Of course, where more lights
are required, a larger airholder must be provided. The
one at the company's offices was made exactly like an
ordinary gaoholder. It can be placed in an outhouse
or collar, or anywhere in fact; and may be filled in a
few minutes by any one with great ease. One
thousand cubic feet of air will barn as long
as seen thousand cubic feet of ordinary oral
gas. and give a light at lerat five times as
brilliant. This was most convincingly shown
on Saturday by the Lid of a photometer,
and by experiments carefully made, To pro.
perly meliorate 1,000 cubic feet of air seven yearn of
the liquid are tequired, to that the saving in expense
may he easily calculated. Taking the selling price of
the liquid to the public at 4s. • gallon, it follows that
the coot of the thouseed sable feet of photogenic gas
would be 7s. ; but, as we have said, It will burn an
long as 7,000 cubic feet of coal gss, which at meant
Weymouth price would eon £2 Is Ikl., and at the same
time give a outly better and purer light. It is not at
all necessary that the Generator should be Mow to the
lights. The gas was made to pass on Saturday through
misty yard• of ordinary piping before reaching the
homers without any appreciable efferain the diminution
of the light. We need not point out of how much
eervioe this invention mint be in country houses and
in small towns. The Generator is free from all oomph.
oiled machinery, and indeed it is of the wet perfectly
simple construction. It is, therefore, not easily put

out if order—an advantage Cominen;ll4 itself to-lkomi
who have hithorto been at the mercy of lamps which
never arc in perfect order. Bet it has another
reemosuesdation. It is sbeolately safe. If by any
accident the gas were allowed to escape an explosion
wooldhe impossible ; the air would rapidly free itself
frost the carbon it carried, which, feon the
Boor, would remain there until fresh bring
admitted to the room, it would be by it wholly takes
up. But it is not alone to atmospheric air that the
invention of M. Hommel ern be applied. Coal ps
may he by it improved and economised. Any one who
has gas laid in to hie premises con mis it with • imp
saving in his consumption. get • light Ave times greater
than the one he now obtain., and as absolute freedom
from Mime impurities which, ae has been mid, make
the use of coal gas se objectionable. No disturbance of
the pipes is necessary to insure Ws. The Generator is
plow so as to receive the gee after it has passed
through the meter, and from the Generator, being then
earburated, it flows along the ordinary pipes to the
humeri. By a simple contrivance the pa can he made
to proceed at once from the meter to the pipes without
paging through the Generator, should the consumer at
any time prefer it. Some interesting experiments were
made on Saturday with gss carburatod by means of the
Cenerator. It was shown most conclusively that while
ten feet of gas nnearburetted passed through the
meter in • certain time only six feet ponied through
in the same time when the Generator was brought
into use. There was thus a direct saving of 40 per
cent. But the hurn.ri were neormsrily consider&MY
less than those in ordinary use, which would give oat
more light than would in the majority of cases be de-
sirable. By this cause an additional caving at least 90
percent. was effected. Add that the t was ch mu
better than any ordinarily obtai from gas'
that it was pure and whits, and perfectly free from the
sulphurous particles with which gas, after the surmise
of the utmost mare in its menufsieture, is heavily loaded,
and the direct advantages may be seen at once. About
• quart of the liquid is used in carburating one thou-
..s,g cubic feet of pss, and debt. coat of that be added
to the gas bill, it will be perceived that there is • Del
saving, amounting to over 33 per cent That is • fast
which will not fail to command itself to eonsumers.
The question of the coat of the Generator is of 00071.11
important. At present they are only mad* in Frame,
and one to carburato gas or sir for between twt 'irl. tad
twenty lights cost. about A. Very shortly, however,
there son be no doubt that the company will he able
to have them manafactured.iii England at a legs wick
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