The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-24 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL AT THE INTERNATIONAL SEEL

BITION

(From the Lirerpoof Albion of to-day.)
Many of our leading fines in various branches of
the mechanical arts have bee allotted suns in which to
display the results of their skill and labour. Con-
spicuous among those, the Merry Steel and Iron
Company, will occupy on important place. Already
they have forwarded two gigantic forging. in wrought
iron, in the shape of crank shafts for marine engines.
Or of them will be exhibited in the finished state by
Messrs. Penn and Son, of London, in connexion with
one of their propeller engines for One of our iron-cued
frigates ; the other is a shaft in the rough—in other words,
just as it was left by the hammer. This gigantic piece of
iron work was despatched from Liverpool by the Loudon
and North-Western Railway on Friday. It was 30 'feet in
length, by 20 Were in diameter, and had two clash blanks.
Each of these measured 5 feet on the shaft, sad vO4 ft. 4 in.
is depth ; the distance from centre to centre of the
mask spades or blanks 10 feet ; the blanks to be so cut out
rto give a 4 feet 4 inch stroke. The weight of this ear-
moss forgiug was fully 25 tons; yet such are the powerful
sad happily adapted mechanical appliances of the Mersey
Steel end Ironworks, that it was worked with the most
regulated and perfect certainty, and the whole fabrication
and forging of the stupendous nos, which was strictly a
synthetical process of manufacture, was completed in
between five and six weeks. Brides the two crank shafts
referred to, it is also understood that this company will be
represented at the " World's Exhibition and Competitiou
by one or more of their far-famed piers of wrought iron
ordnance.
The firm of Messrs. George Forrester and Co., of the
Vauxhall Foundry and Engineering Works, which was
scarcely represented at all in the Exhibition of 1851, will
this year exhibit one of their marvellous triumphs. It is
• sugar-boiling apparatus on the most improved principle,
which,when released from duty et the Greet Exhibition will
be removed to its ultimate destination in UppfillEgypt. This
is known to err manufacturers as "In triple ?feet" Patent
Sir-making.aratns. It is a huge sad complicated 55
Weil as exceedingly ingenious gram of engineering manu-
facture. It may be briefly, although imperfectly, described
as consisting chiefly of two cylindrical vertical pans, each
7 feet in diameter, surrounded by a hemispherical copper
dome, and having a truncated spherical bottom, under whirl
the fires are pleas& Each of these pans is 11 feet high, and
up to about half their height they are filled each with 170
vertical copper tubes, each 4 inches in diameter and 4 feet in
length. Into the first of these pans the juice of the bruised
ere is introduced, and there it is boiled for a considerable
time, the vapour being passed over fend condensed in a con-
denser. The liquid then passes over into a wooed pan,
where it is farther boiled, and purified by passing through
filters composed of animal charcoal. From this last process
it is passed by pumping into a vacuum pan, where it is
crystallised into sugar. This apparatus, which occupies a
large spree, is surrounded by a platform at the height of
9 feet 7 inches from the ground. The platform is 50 feet
long by 22 feet wide • is approached
steam-en by two stain ; and the
apparatus has a 20-honene power gine attached to
it for working. The whole of this very complicated machine
is beautifully made, its various parts displaying a nice har-
mony of proportion and a high degree of elegant com-

pleteuess.
Besides the firms named, applications for space bare also
been favourably answered to Mears. Fawcett, Preston, and
Co.; to theirs. Johnson and Co. ; to Neurs. B. B. Law-
roues and Co.; to Means. B. and J. Rankin ; to Mears.
Vicars and Co.;_ to Messrs. Grayson, Meagre. Underwood,
sod to Mr. W. Fr. Walker, besides many other gentlemen or
firms connected with engineering, shipbuilding and other
staple manufactures of the port of Liverpool. From what ban
beau already stated, it must be apparent that the ingenuity
of Liverpool and the enterprise cud imelligence of her eons
will be much more creditably, as well as much more ade-
quately, represented in the coming than they were in the
past Great Intonational Blitibition.

THE EXHIBMON BUIEDING.—The information
which lint obtained circulation as to the term' cm which the
building for the International Exhibition has been insured
with the Norwich Union Fire-office was not quit* cornet
in all its detail. ; but the following puticulars which are
derived from an official source may be relied oil. Boon after
the contractor., Messrs. Lucas Brothers and Mr. Kelk,
commenced operations, they took out • policy is the Nor-
wich Union for 40,0001., the previsional insuramse being is-
creased °am moathluotil the total stood at 175,000 k Oa
the structure being handed over to the Boyal Commis-
rimier* they opened negotiations with the Norwich Union,
and the result was that it was agreed to insure the building
for • year for 450,0001., at 10s. 6d. per cent. mem., subject
to the conditions of average. Thu sate of premium in-
volved the payment of 2.3821. 106., to which must be added
tie duty (3e. per cant.), 6751, making the total sum paid to
the aloe 3,037 k 10s. The Norwich LW** has sines treas.
lGeed a portion o/ its weighty respoasibilities to the
PUNA'. Guardian, Atlas, Imperial, sad Globe cam.
There is now • motion el the Landon Fire Brigade cos-
Mostly as duly in the Wilding. and fire minim and way
neeemary appliance are ready to Asir band.

The coffins were furnished by the proprietor of the col-
liery, and the Linen& were of • meet respectable character.
Hymns were sing by large choirs, as is customary at
Welsh funerals, and the towline strains, as they peeled
forth upon the murky air, imparted an awful solemnity to
the dismal trainee one after another its sapid succession
moved onward to the places of interment. Never did the
People of Merthyr behold such a fearful spectacle. Heaven
grant that they never may see such a scene again, for this
has been an overwhelming catastrophe, leaving a vast amount
earthen" end destitution behind, to be alleviated and amelio-
vital by the Christian charity of a benevolent public.
TIM stisgskarla of the mishap at Hartley roused the
oyeepatlty of the entire nation, and offerings poured
into the eases opened for the reception of
contrilrationi. Isolated aims of accidental death occurne-
rfuently in the mining districts of the iron metropolis,iodeed,
so frequently, that scarcely any notice is taken of one half
of them beyond the circle of the bereaved family and
their relations, bat the disaster at Cethin has roused the
spirit of the entire district. By a singular coincidence,
about • fortnight ago, the high constable of Merthyr con-
vened • public meeting for the purpose of expressing
sympathy with the sufferers at Hartley, and
contributing towards the fund. Two days after the
notice concerning the meeting had been posted about
the town, the Lord Mayor of London announced to the
cation that an amount sufficient for the purpose of relieving
the widows and orphans at Hartley bad been sabeeribed.
This announcement, however, had not the effect of putting
off the meeting, which was held at the time stated—last
Wednesday week —exactly • week before the calamitous
explosion at Cetbin. The object of the meeting
was thee changed, sad the leading gentlemen present
proposed and farmed the nude= of the " Merthyr
Tydvil Accidentel Relief Fwd.' Several handsome
sums of mosey were subscribed and promised, and
now the society it in hoped will be well supported,
so that it may go on free and unfettered, with ample re-
sources at band, in the good cause which it so nobly and
eoungeosuly commenced. The ironmasters and coal pro-
prietors of Merthyr are a wealthy set of gentlemen, and
have powerful influence in the whole district. It is incum-
bent upon them now to give this newly-formed society
their support.
That there is a vast under-current of sympathy for the
widows and orphans thus thrown upon the world is evident.
On Thursday last the Lady Charlotte lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, held a
meeting at their lodge room, at which the P.Prov.G.M.
W. F. O'Neil proposed resolutions embodying sympathy with
the distressed parties, which were startled by acclamation;
and at the next quarterly inciting of delegates from the
lodges of the entire district, numbering nearly 8,000 mem-
bers, a proposal will be made for presenting the relief
society with a large donation in aid of the sufferers by this
calamity, or of contributing • handsome sum annually, with
• view to support and assist to ensure the permanence of
the fund. The Lady Charlotte lodge is the wealthiest mid
most influential for miles around, and such an initiation
is likely to be followed .by the other societies in the
neighbourhood. All honour to those noble fellows who
suggested such a line of action in the path of benevolence and
charity. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows will, it is
believed, give ample proof of their consistency by acting
up to their motto. And relief is wanted. Some of the
dead colliers, by temperate and sober habits, and • long
course of continued labour, bad provided some little
savings for a dark day, cad their homes are left provisioned
and comfortable ; others by a protracted period of idle-
ness, with • day's work here and two days' somewhere
else, had become so wretched and impoverished that their
born es presented the most shocking appearance,many of them
without furniture and food. it is a well-known fact
that some of the poor fellows who were killed on Wednes-
day went down into the workings with empty stomachs. A
father and son were killed. The father was gaunt and
emaciated from a long period of send-starvation through
lack of work. The morning of the accidect he went to
work without food, and the lest crust is the house was
given to the little boy. Six mothers have lost their
sous, by whom they were supported, about 18 wives their
husbands, and 60 children their fathers. It is for these
poor creatures that we desire to enlist the sympathy of the
public—sympathy expressed in bard coin, and capable of
bringing solid comforts to the hearts of those who have
lost their chief support.
The coroner will re-open the iuqucet on Tuesday, the
4th proximo, when the strictest it quiry into the calamity
will take place, though we doubt, in the absence of a sur-
vivor, that the exact cause of the accident will ever be
arrived at with certainty.

ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR MOLD.—
Three more lives have been lost by an accident which
occurred at one of the pit. belonging to the Menus. Darling-
ton, between Hawarden and King's Ferry. Three men,
named Prime, Jones, and Weigh, were engaged in repair
hog the pit, standing on a suspended stage, when one of
the connecting ropes broke, and the uufortueete men
were precipitated down the pit into water about 10 yards
deep and were drowned. Two of the bodies have beet' re-
covered.
THE HARTLEY COLLIERY Ft'ND. —The total
amount received at the Mansion-house, by the Lord
Mavor, in aid of the fund for the relief of the widows and
orphans of the sufferers by the accident at the Hartley
Colliery, up to Saturday evening, woad about 18,330 f. of
which more than 2101. came to heed uring Friday and
Saturday.
SPECIAL Caraca Szavicae.—Arrangements are
in progress for holding special services during the time of
the approaching Great Interoatiorial Exhibition in many
of the principal churches of the metropolis. The services
will be held under the direction of the Bishop of London,
with the assistance of the archbishops and bishops cod other
dignitaries of the Church of Englaud. many of whom wiß
preach. The services will take place daily under circum-
stances which, it is hoped, will render them attractive to
large numbers of persons visiting the metropolis. Several
dignitaries of the churches abroad will iu all probability
take part in them.
INTERNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC CONGRESS. --
The International Philanthropic Congress, wbleh has for
I its object the rational and progressive improvement of the
physical, intellectual, and moral condition of the working
classes and of the poor, is to hold its next iession in London,
in conjunction with the sixth animal meeting of the Mi-
lkmaid Assisiatioe for the Promotion of Social Science.
The general committee includes the Duke of Marlborough,
the hart of Shaftesbury, Lord Brougham, Lord Ehary, the
Right Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., the Hon. Arthur Kinnainl,
M.P., Sir Stalked Northoute, Bare, M.P., and the leading
members of the Society of Arts. The use of Burlington-
house having beau granted to the Loudon meeting of the
National Association and the Congre,s, an office has been
established at 12, Old Boodstreet, where the members of
the congress will enter their names on arriving in London.
The session will be iaanguatted on the 4th of June. Six
days will probably be devoted to busiums. Arraoxementa
will be made for visits to the Great Exhibition and other
risciof special interest in or near the metropolis. Care
she taken to give to the deliberations of the congress •
character of practical utility, and to ederd to every mem-
ber an opportunity of fully a:pussies the results of his
arransace.
CITY DUIPINSARY, 76, QUEEN-STREET, B.C.—.
This charity, in response to the 'peed of the comudftee for
Increased support,. has received from the Comport, ci Geld.
sena' 601; the Flehnsompere Company, 10 Rangel sad
the loaners'Oompeay, 10 Omar.