The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-25 00:00:00

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Oa the motion of Mr. J.
was appointed to consider the cheapeit, most ezpeditioas,
cad most efilci,nt mode of providiog for the priatng
mutated for the houses of parliament and the public service.
The house adjourned at hall-put twelve.

SOCIETY OF ARTS.

At the ordinary weekly meeting of the Society
of Arts last mates, Joint BI4DY, Esq., M.P., la the chair,
the paper read by Mr. Loagmaid was oho " Put, sad other
vegetable charcoals." It is a subject of the greatest import-
woe to the manufaistaren of the United Kingdom. If the
bogs of Ireland can be converted by say cheap proems into
tharead, our iron misses will become immensely more valu-
able. Oar iron is met fit to be converted into steel, because
we use coke for smelting. Coke evolves sulphur, which,
eseabining with the iron, renders it unfit for eselaisg steeL
Mew charcoal is cheap on the continent, boner wood is
sheep ; it is dear here bemuse wood is seam. Ina It for
steel is therefore for the most part impinted.
The lecturer introduced to the meeting a mew au*sl of
aissisfacture. Ile explained that "Weed user
teem vegetalle substances, by seperraiing hem =lll
elassate of water which they oesiehmiL The residuum
' trio ehereoal. Fire was the ego* away employed, but
the methods by this ptsesw wets meads. end wasteful.
The lessimer had ebleiei a patent les assidegebseeeal,
whisk depended *tripe, upon the cones e 1
eel-
phurie NIL To drew the dhow of the proem, be peered
nee sulpha* add and water upon two lamps el sugar,
which woes soca esaverted into charcoal. He then
mad* similar importunate demonstrating the prin.
Weis he had laid deem. Powdered peat satu-
rated with solpharie acid was placed ever a spirit
lamp, that the moisture might evaporate, sad the
result was:chancel. The peat superiority of this teethed
was, that by it • larger per centime of charcoal was ebbed
from • given quantity of vegetable matter that by wither
process, and eta cheaper rate. By the okays premems in
the wood resettles about 181 to. of dsil are Obleimed
from every 1001 be. of dry wood. By other mtshels, Is
which Klein* is brought in to aid the mansilmenser Saba
sr 261ba. per cent. ere obtained. By Mr. pee-
um from 401 be. to 84114. of charcoal an be pi hem every
100 lbs. of dry rational. The saving in the umetteelmee
wee at the rate of about Si. per ton.
The lecturer then drew attention to the vast debts whisk
would be developed in Ireland should the peat whisk is now
semparatively neglected, be capable of beteg made lato
eimemal by a cheap presses. He drew an eleggent *Me
of the colossal prosperity which would attend enit a awe-
lomat et the natural veminrees of the ideal. lbw leg
and the beg-trotter wen peseenlisi Se imegisades of
bin bodiless in most glowing celeste. the galled= of the
tee wad the sags of the ether chanting rapidly into tithes
and mognilisemee. The begs of Ireland have been ling
messed ell bias near mutable, aid fir frost solid. The
lesesserMled us SIUMINIS hie endienee that there weld be
se feamistion MOS MUM on which to build op the pr
'parity of the potpie. He concluded a very clover nature
by pelted', eatthe He
uses to which shamed is now
applied.
Ia the dimmed/a which ousted some attempt was mule
to dispute the 'sweetness of the lecturer's infamous. Tin
gnat point of tented was whether the' reduction
of price in the manufacture was asfilitiast to giro
EMU& for SoINVI Cbarcoal could ever be sold is Bug.
land at • price telt would allow of its us for various
=, particularly that of ensuring land. It wee con-
that the redaction mentioned by the lecturer was
mot safilident for this: no satisfactory conclusion was arrived
et as to this point. It is bat fair to say, however, that
little doubt seemed to exist is the salads of must of the
audisace that, by the prune deseribed by the kagarar,
charcoal could be made so cheap se le anew of met atlas-
dye nes for purposes of locomotion and sesmaiestares in
Ireland. It could be manufactured so cheaply, odd the
lecturer, u to make it more profitable to employ is Mess
Panacea than sok'. There were large peat-Imps is the
neighbourhood of iron stifles. The east of tread we'll
be nothing, and the saucier kind of the feel would enable
the anaufactarer to make iron adapted for being esaverted
ism steel.
No use who listened to the lecture and the dimwits last
tight would fail to perceive that ecittatille and meld qua-
tioca are much advanced by the way in which they are
treated at the Society of Arts. The announcement of •
Waters ea a certain subject brings together $ number of
rwho are interested in Its discussion, and US% Si
e:satiori is elicited which weld be obtained by me ~r
meas.k&san The Society of Arta is doing the publie fowl

Tin asset btu= Exituariotr.—The Sseretaly
of the hap Mel Comaldea of the tleiversal bas
addressed a amiss to the peskiest, of sash departmental
sesstaitteee u hese not yet tertaiasted the esledioa of sr-
skies to be ealthitemk• tawniest then that the Petial
elfewed Ise sash eeleetka has expired, and that they Ala
complete *air eperettese without aay Clutha delay