The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-17 00:00:00

insurrection took place, without surrendering
their title to independence as a nation. And it
looks as if the words put into the mouth of the
KING were designed to avoid the possibility of
negotiation, or foreign interference between the
two Powers. Prussia, then, must either alter her
imperative tone, or the Swiss must take up arms
and prepare to resist an attack upon their rights
as an independent nation.
FREDERICK WILLIAM may not have been aware
of the dangers of the times which he was en-
countering, when he decided to accept nothing
less than an unqualified release of a number of
rebels, who had dared to shed Swiss blood on the
national hearth. More distinct and unwarrant-
able acts of rebellion were never recorded against
any set of blind enthusiasts, than those set down
to the account of the Prussians concerned in the
Neufchatel insurrection; and to give up those
men on the bidding of any foreign government,
would be a most dangerous precedent for France
to suffer Prussia to establish. The frontiers of
most Continental States have undergone some
changes within the last half century ; and small
slices of territory, which once belonged to this
Kingdom, has become a part of that Empire.
And are we to be told that, when a few " restless
spirits" chose to take the law into their own
hands, and endeavour to overthrow a recognised
government in the name of their discomfitted
KING, that they should be allowed to escape the
punishment the law they have offended awards
to their treason ? This doctrine is not altogether
new ; but it is, nevertheless, a most dangerous
one, and the PALMERSTON Cabinet view it, no
doubt, in this light. As a reactionist movement,
it may answer its purpose. It leaves nothing for
Congresses to deal with ; and if war should be
the result of Prussian arrogance, it will show us
that there are two currents of diplomatic intrigue,
both equally threatening, running through the
Courts of Europe.

SOME of our largest steam employers have been
fined heavily for neglecting :what our Liverpool
officials say is sufficient to satisfy the require-
ments of the Smoke Nuisance Act, namely,
" careful stoking, and keeping furnace doors
" open." The extravagant waste of fuel, as
shown in the excessive loss of steam power which
this system of smoke prevention entails on those
who use a large amount of power, will not do for
practical men outside of this borough. The
magistrates of Manchester, Bolton, and some
other large manufacturing towns have not been
so ready to levy penalties for an offence which
could only be obviated at a ruinous cost to the
mill owner and others using large furnaces.
Every street urchin knows that letting the cold
air into a fireplace will lower the temperature
and check the generation of steam ; yet our
smoke authorities say, " keep your furnace doors
" open, and put your green coals on lightly."
And this childish rubbish is swallowed by the
Liverpool Bench, and men are fined for not
adopting advice which would render nine-tenths
of the engines in the town perfectly worthless
for the work for which they were designed.
Lord PALMERSTON never intended to do 'so much
injustice to the steam owner when he took upon
himself to carry the Smoke Nuisance Act through
Parliament

The PREMIER was satisfied that a practical
remedy for the sanitary evils complained of had
been found, and one which would do a vast deal
for the country in economising fuel, before he
took the matter up. That the noble viscount
was right has been proved after several months'
trial, and on the largest scale, in this town.
The manager of the goods department at the
Waterloo Station of the London and North
Western Railway Company states, in an official
letter, dated August last, that the plan adopted
by his company has realised all that was promised
before it was tried ; and he adds—" the man
" who has charge of the engine reports that,
" notwithstandsng the reduction of one-half Of
" the superficial area of the furnace, as compared
" with the old one, the steam can be got up in
" much less time than was required by the old

" furnace, and that there is now no difficulty in
" keeping it up to our ordinary pressure of 45 lb.
" per square inch. We are now consuming, on an
" average, 101 tons of coals per week, our former
" consumption being 15 tons, thus effecting a
" saving of 44 tons per week. In compliance
" with your request, I hand you the following
" dimensions and other particulars connected
" with our Waterloo engine and boiler, viz. :
Diameter of cylinder 243 inches

Length of stroke
Number of strokes 19 per minute
Pressure 45 lb. per sq. inch
Length of boiler 30 feet
Diameter of do.
Superficial area of old furnace 36 „
Of patent do. lB
Working hours per week 84
Consumption of coals per week, loi tons
Here we have something to rely upon—some
thing which shows that there is a known principle
which steam employers may be compelled to
adopt with profit to themselves.
The facts brought to light by the report to
which Mr. CARTER'S name is attached, justify the
magistrates' fining all those who suffer their
chimnies to smoke ; but not for neglecting to
keep their furnace doors open and their fires
down to a point at which they become almost
useless for steam purposes. The saving of fuel
mentioned by Mr. CARTER, is an immense national
advantage ; and we are glad to learn from the

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Manchester papers, that the same furnace has
been adopted with complete success by the emi-
nent engineering firm of HICKS & COMPANY, of
Bolton. Flere, the plan adopted by the London
and North Western Railway Company, at their
Liverpool Station, has been tested on the
premises of one of the most distinguished
engineering firms in the world, and found to
fulfil all that was promised before it was used.
The invention is simple and inexpensive, and
since, it is said, that the Government are about
to emyloy it in their steamers and stationary
boilers, the Liverpool magistrates need not