The Press.
London, England, 1855-01-27 00:00:00

Obituarz

GENERAL CARPENTER, the oldest general in the
service, died at his residence in Great Cumberland-
street, on Tuesday week, at the advanced age cf
ninety-one. The deceased survived his son, the late
Colonel George Carpenter, of the 41st, who fell
gallantly at the head of his regiment in the san-
guinary conflict at Inkermann, in the Crimea, only
two months.

MR. MUMS, for many years the foreign editor of
Galifsant's Messenger, expired on the 111th instant
at his house, iu the Rue Chauveau Lagarde, Pari
after an illness of three or four days. The deceased
gentleman was the Nestor of English journalists in
Paris. Many years ago he was editor of the Courier
and subsequently of other journals in London. He
was also for a long while the London correspondent
of the Journal des Debate. For more than a quarter
of a century he has been attached to Galignani, and
during the same period was Paris correspondent of
the Globe. He was one of the very few men in the
world who oould speak and write the French and
English languages equally well. He bad great con-
versational powers, an extraordinary memory, and a
sound political judgment. His mind was a perfect
museum of anecdote, and he was ever the best autho-
rity on the subject of the " latest news " of the hour.
His appearance in Gatignani's little conversation-
chamber was always the signal for a rush from the
reading-room adjoining. There, surrounded by nu-
merous friends of various nations, who put down
their newspapers to listen to the result of his morn
ing's reading, his fine countenance might be seen
suffused with good humour, while for a few moments
be playfully parried the eager questions addressed to
him in various accents and languages. When silence
was obtained be was wont in fluent speeoh to give
a succinct, and invariably accurate, account of the
most important intelligence arrived by the morning
mails from different parts of the world, and to add
his own opinion of the bearing of the new facts upon
the political situation. He was as good a listener as
a talker, always lending a candid ear to every sug-
gestion, and treating opinions adverse to his own
with goodnatured deference and respect. Mr. Merle
was greatly esteemed by all wbo knew him, and his
loss will be regretted by a large circle of friends both
in France and England. Among his personal friends
were Lord Palmerston and General Sir De Lacy
Evans, both of whom sought interviews with him
when they were lately, in Paris.
Tux RIGHT HON. THOMAS FRANPILAND LIWIS,BART.,
M.P., a gentleman who has for nearly forty years
filled various offices of trust and honour, died on the
22nd inst., in the 74th year of his age. He was a
Commissioner of Inquiry into the Irish Revenue in
1821, and into that of Great Britain and Ireland from
1822 to 1825 ; Secretary to the Treasury in 1827,
Vice-President of the Board of Trade in 1828, Trea-
surer of the Navy in 1830, Chairman of tbe Poor Law
Commission from 1884 to 1839, and a Commissioner
to Inquire into the Turnpike Outrages in 1843. Sir
Frankland Lewis represented Beaumaris in Parlia-
ment from 1812 till 1826, Ennis from 1826 till 1828,
Radnorshire from 1828 till 1895, and Radnor since
1847. His decease occasions a vacancy in the repro
sentation of the last-named borough. Sir Thomas is
succeeded in the title by his son, Mr. George Come-
wall Lewis, formerly Secretary to the Treasury, and
now editor of the Edinburgh Review.

THE CONSUMPTION OF SMOKE.
Bins the six thousand and odd chimney shafts of the
metropolis have been put under the surveillante of in-
formers and policemen, who watch their tops as a terrier
would a rat-hole, the air has become sensibly purer on the
south side of the river. It cannot be supposed, however,
that the total suppression f smoke in all manufacturers'
chimneys will have more than a 'partial effect in freeing the
town from floating carbon. We have still left the reeking
chimneys of the 390,000 and odd houses of the metropolis
to keep up the dismal cloud for ever hanging over us. The
question naturally arises—Can we put oat the smoke of
the domestic hearth? Dr. Arnott has attempted to solve
this question by the introduction of his improvement upon
Cutley's smoke-consuming Ere grate. In this apparatus the
grate is the ordinary fireplace, having underneath it, in lieu
of the under bars, a square iron coalbox, which has a move-
able bottom. In the morning this box is filled with coal,
and the fire is then built and lit in the ordinary manner.
As it consumes, instead of replenishing it with coals placed
Avon the top, by means of a 'bent poker, which acts as a
lever, the bottom of the coalbox is pressed up, and u much
fuel as may be requisite supplied to the fire from below.
The grate will burn for fourteen hours with 401 h. of coal.
An ordinary Are is generally allowed a medium-sized
scuttle a day, which must weigh from 281 b. to 80Ib. The
saving of fuel, according to this calculation, is between forty
and fifty per sent. Of °ours*, if there is no smoke or soot
produced, there is no fees of chimneys 01a.biail fir!,
their inevitpse results, with
Amenities end <Amu policemen,
who oblige householders on such occasions to pay at about
the rate of ss. per spark.

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