The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-04 00:00:00

NEW INVENTION IN LITLIGGRAPIII".

Messrs. M'Clore and Co. haw eery recently in-
troduced a new machine for lithographic printing. which
will probably produce a revolution not only in that hut in
many kindred arts. It is the inventian of a Prussian
mechanician (Sigel), and hoe for some time been in active
operation in the government printing-offices r Vienna,
Path, and Berlin, but was not 'mown in this country until
introduced by Messrs. M'Clure and Co., wh 3 have secured
the exclusive patent right for the United Kingdom. To
understand its importance, its necessary to take into ac-
count that, by the present mode of printing by hand, not
more than 250 copies of any draft can be obtained in a day
by an expert workman, whereas by the new machine the
patentees have already realised a production of rafeo in the hour.
It will easily be seen then, how valuable pitch ..n invention
would be in rapidly getting up an illustrated journal, as
the event of the moment might he drawn, engrased. and
shuck off almost in a moment, whereas at vesent, la con-
sequence of the inevitable tediousness of wood engraving,
the mint stirring transactions are always at least a week
old before they can be pictorially presented to the public.
A still mere important use, to which the invention wilt pro-
bably ultimately be put, is the indefinite multiplication of
newspapers. It is already known that the whole of a news-
paper form in type may be transferred to the stone in about
half an hour, and thus duplicate or triplicate ferns might
easily be obtained from one composition, and three or
four printing machines kept going together. Sj far
a greater speed than one thousand an hour is not
attainable in the new machine, but it is easy to see
that to raise it to the speed of the ordinary printing
machine, is merely a qmestion of time and detail. The
main principle of the invention is, that in place of manipu-
lation the stone traverses the machine, which is similar in
form to the Napier press, running beneath a damping
roller of ingenious construction, and subsequently coming
in contact with the inking rollers. The pressure raising
from this contact makes the impreseion complete, and the
perfected work is delivered at the rate we base already
mentioned. The machine has excited the greatest interest
in the trade, many of the members of which visited the
workshop yesterday, and satisfied themselves by ocular de-
monstration as to the number of impressions per hour that
might be obtained.

LINARES LEAD MINING COMPANY.—TESTIMO-
NIAL TU MR. Ileatut Tritumas.—Yesterday evening be-
tween thirty and forty shareholders iu tiles eomt any gave a
dinner at the Loadon Tavern, to Mr. Thomas, thii manager
of its mining affairs in Spain. After the dinner, the chair-
man, Mr. W. Tunes, presented to Mr. Thomas a testimo-
nial, consisting of a handsome silver tea and coif, e service,
provided by the suiiseriptions of individual shay-:.olo.era in
acknowledgment of his valuable services to the company ;
and in doing so he paid a high tribute to that gent:cman
for his zeal, fidelity, cud perseverance rind.; c .reumstances
peculiarly requiring those qualities. Mr. Thomas, in reply-
ing, observed that tt.e mine which bad been entrusted to
his care was of very ancient origin, having, in fact, been
worked by the Romans and the Carthaginian?, and there
was every prospect of its continuing to yield a most satis-
factory return. The proceedings, which were protracted
to a late hour, were of a mast harmonious character.
Tim Puss or TONALE.—The Austria of Vienna
announces that the new road, commenced this year, which
is to connect Lombardy with the Tyrol, through the defile
of Tomsk, situ eta at 6,10 feet shave the 1-vel of the sea, is
in active progress. It is to superseder the old road over
the Stilts, which is upwaris of 8,000 feet above the level of
the sea, and is often impassable far mouths Souther on ac-
count of the snows.

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