The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-31 00:00:00

THE SMOKE NUISANCE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES'
Sir,-1 am afraid that my last letter to you, 0°
the Smoke question, has excited your bile, or it 01
be that of those who are privileged to inspire Yoti
in relation to the solving of a great social problm,
namely. the Suppression of the Smoke Nuisance.
and the,
For the interest you have all along taken.
publicity you have given to the various opinions I!'
those who have studied this question, the
ties and the public at large are your debtors. I)1,
I not know the purity of your motives, I might‘nr
justified in inferring, that the individual who has `•'l
the nonce been permitted to occupy the
chair was neither more nor less than some adve,i;
tising emperic of a smoke doctor, who, hY
blatent blarney, had succeeded in winning you nvin ,
to his views, and that he alone was the only olOthe
the world who possessed the true specific for
clearer
rem?dy, of this great public nuisance No the
proof could be evidenced of the weakness
ha i°
views you advocate than the vulgar abuse you le
at least authorised to be heaped upon me in the aruc
joie'
in question Let a few quo ations suffice : ,your
M'Donald, once your smoke inspector, or 70,
engineer.' as he was wont it; .!tyle himself,l (sv
by-the-bye, he never did) 4‘ filo libellous ehoailis
contained in the ex-inspector's epistle, (ZC. what
igno-ance of the claims of rival inventors, and 'r the
constitutes a patent right." " His ignorance 0,,'; g
mechanical appliances adopted by the conterle
parties, one of whom he loves most dearly, NOV 4,1
hates the other as the rude disturber of his otute
peace." "He knows nothing whatever of "„s
chemical portion of the question." '' It will be for
well fa. us to tell Mr. M'Donald, at once And .0
all, the public will not listen to him." "We ghlig
him the benefit. of his words, where we proclaim
ignorance " " This same person, Mr. M‘Donalse
saying, 'never mind the cost of fuel—econo°,
atither!d-
smoke, and let the coals take care of thernselves•_ut
" What does Mr. M'Donald know or care ablai
such matters?" " Men who assail the Edit,
brotherhood brotherhood [! ! need not mind about trifles "
Now, Mr. Editor, I have given you a few lfictv,
morceaux from your very formidable leader, in," not
tive. certainly, of strong language and feeling,
of gentlemanly courtesy and sound argument. bard
In the discussion of this grave question yon nto
pledged yourself that your columns shall be 0.13F91;05,
any reply I may have to make on your orit'cLoe,
a promise which, I trust, you witl at once reu',ke
After what I have quoted above, you must not Ile/
it amiss if I have, in what follows, given you that I
rather hard remarks—for I told you frankly ar
would endeavour to give you a Rowland for. r
Oliver I have made an effort to do so.
I am not, sir,'in the habit of perpetrating ""1"-not
on any subject, much less on that of sn3oice, at,
when you so pointedly alluded to a certain Pia",„'oo-
a certain railway station, and which Oa° of
describe as a perfect specific for the preven Prtilest.
this nuisance, I could not help entering nay ,eaot:
against such an assumption
named the quasi patentee, but you might just
True, yon b°:vrell.
have done so, frankly and boldly. In dealing "tlitt,
a great.question I can afford to " treat svithhoser
contempt which it merits" (your own favourite P:thio.
bear, in . mind.) The persouali'ies in Whic"„grelf
individual, be he who he may, has so 1106,
indulged—a man who bas the temerity to' grf*,aii•
with matters affecting the best interests ber
fellow men, and who exposes the tricks of col,
latans, ought to be able to smile at the Ott rba
waspishness of the vermin whom he may ,
compelled occasionally to smoke out
Now, sir, what are the simple facts in relationthlirie
this matter ? Some two .years ago, I had;
'
discharge of my duties, to complain frequelllian,
the negligence of the stokers at the Waterloo s'aiyir•
and on my exhibiting, an information befo realty
Mansfield, the company were mnlcted in the Pctio aa
and altliolfgh, like other chimneys in the.
of X 5, and costs. This, sir,
with the instra
given previously to the stokers, had the desired elf
p.
was narrowly watched, yet, for many months heflt
any patent plan was adopted, no smoke whatev.so
was emitted from it, and why should it have 13,,vd
otherwise, when I tell. you that, at the TranP7
s'c'ion, where there never has been any Pa,teo4
contrivance, there has not been a single conlinalo
made of smoke There, however, is a °red
stoker who knows his duties, and who attends to an
performs them. The mine remark bolds good icn,,o,
works of Messrs. M'Fie, Bancroft, Heap and orvi,,,
Farries, and hundreds of other extensive inano,at,
tories in the town, where there are no Pat'oa4
whatever. I have no wish to injure any aid
who may fancy himself an inventor, but as BT.sioll
policeman I cannot help having an inherent ave
to impostors. At the same time 'I have no " 11%0'
But on this subject I am egotist enough t?
"Having for
that I have some little experience 118rT'sold
several years had the entire management °,14.11 the
twenty or thirty furnaces, in connection w" don
most extensive water works in the killeani°
where seam power was employed, it '-merely
of importance to my employers, not feel
that smoke should he prevented, but also c"-ieatlY
should be' economised, and 'steam ett'co'f the
district,
maintained ; after experimenting with 01°st t-tonn
patent furnaces, and sometimes burning the h°
To,
-e
of my boilers, by the adoption of these nostr a .ory
found, at last, no specific equal to that of Al.s"ratber
Williams's simple and truly scientific plans/.°' cato's
plan—for what have all the pretended in the
achieved nottviths'anding all their gasconal,anlleil
contrary? why merely to pirate Mr. Wilhams'-
of '`l"
and useful invention. and by some modificatio° ince'
same, of no practical use. seethetnselves uP,,a,5,14ti°11,
t ors and patentees of a new plan. I have no "If that
in proclaiming myself a pupil and disciple of
gentleman, and am proud of having
master. You are at perfect liberty tO ‘cs of
my ignorance " on this or any other subjeettd-oog°4:
as you please. admit lam neither a Per Arata"
nor a quack, and, therefore, shall not Pebt.Prig, n‘i
latin quotations as you have done, thin in nee:
to
Withherd mr ye
goalrdd mtoothtehre' s
doubt, that a thundering leader stood intlen.'ve itn-t
of a few streaks of greased lightning tO o'l
telling finish with the ignorant. When I °
Greek and Latin—not so now, however.
comb e
shall at present say nothing, whatever MYl“tipssorti,.°llo
thiistprisoiennto
of the subject may be, knowing that, on tba
of the question, an abler. pen than Iniirri yo
°I)
Cchoewlns i sltrdyidokfnc°:la- ledgl
wit
called into requisition, in order to enlighle-
c V"
ugh for my; purpose to have'.,l: be t
nre•
done, sbewn to the world that smoke e—iy filers
vented—that fuel can be saved to a, :ed
extent—,' hat steam can be maintained' by
pro'ec ed from the injurious effect of snmerepos,e4", r
patent blow pipe. by the simple remerlYP'roYalltith%
Mr. Chas Wye Williams, who demands 00° said `t-le
fee for his advice or assistance. Ravi% u 1° -11
much, I must, for the present, bid a—e
subject and yourself, being still, yours, 14, ile.1000).
JAMES I%o'

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t certain establishments. THE MEANS OP KNOWLEDGE IN PARIF.--1-8. MI '' I
pctlirtly so ; and the greater
Tnihinambeer arre-e.selnsi!,etilYre :roll,
about 300,000 pamphlets, and 'BO ' tintisevr 3irl
Bibliotheq
;
Genevieve, 150,000 volumes,
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bonne, 80,000 volumes ; the City •. P 4a'
about 120 0110 4uo
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,000 volumes and 5,000 manuscripts ; pale'
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300 ' 40,000 11;56
manuscripts ; the Ecole de Medecine,
talielpvrees":olsel,,stuiTe,no. ,
the Museum of Natural History at the isrdin des ,be CA'
35,0005e1 volumes ; theinvalidne of,Or00:s, •hi ,I
et ire des Arts-et-Metiers 20,000 volameo ;
the
Conservatoire de Musique, 8,000 voluraes.
rust in „,
Yesterday, several influential gentlemen glenni'Pl.;
Tontine Hotel for the purpose of- presenting
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Esq., late merchant and agent for the City of alaeg ies° ‘.6
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sti ep;°dl.l9lo(l°oollitti,:i 1,6,
few friends to Alan Ker, .k squire, as a token obtecr 0,11
on the occasion of his- leaving Greenock —Dec° oltsti°,ll;
1856." Thomas Hinilin, Esq ,in making the friends for ''
valuable services rendered by his family to the cc' nroPri„ile
Mr. Ker expressed his thanks in feeling and aPorwl Cill'al
language. The company then partook of vf...tl!, Oer ii
' and separated after enthusiastically toasting Dar''
family.— Greenock Advertiser.,
sphere,rew iBhaensd otfasiltelfru.llKy earl'lsudferdietnoc:thojeuranistriftl;

TRE BOMBARDMENT OF CANTON.

Advice% from Alexandria beyond those published yesterday
from Trieste, render it possible to obtain a tolerably complete
and connected view of the recent occurrences at Canton. It
has more than once been mentioned by our correspondent at
t7„e.ng gong that the intercourse between the British authori-
and the Governor of Canton has for some time been
embarrassed with growing difficulties, the result of the unre-
dressed grievances of British merchants. On the Bth of
• October the Chinese authorities consummated their career of
arbitrary violence by seizing a lorcha under British colours,
41'1 making prisoners of the crow. It is stated on good
e
authority that they cut off the heads of four of the crew. The
fir nsnl, Mr. Parkes, the British agent on the spot, proceeded
st on beard the lorcha, and afterwards endeavoured to obtain
an interview with the mandarins. On board the lorcha he was
menaced, and the mandarins refused to give any kind of
~/Planation of the proceeding. The Consul immediately
despatched intelligence of these events to Sir John Bowring,
St
%.a Hong Kong, and also to Sir Michael Seymour, who
on the spot, and reprisals were commenced in a
r°d form by the seizure of a mandarin junk, which
t 'll Moder° the Hon. C. G. J. B: Elliot, of the Sybille,
1
°°K and sent into Hong Kong. Meanwhile the Consul
citent in a strong remonstrance to Yeh, the governor of the
y,
to which no answer was returned. Finding all his efforts
i,atnt Consul Parkes renounced further attempts at coucilia-
Tn, and a naval force soon appeared on the scene. On the
,
h of October, Sir Michael Seymour despatched from Hong
sloe g, the screw corvette Encounter, 14 guns ; and the steam
uite"anlPson, 6 guns, for Whampoa in the first instance,
sloel a large force of marines and blue jackets ; and the steam
P Barracouta followed, with further detachments. Ad-
t lv,alSeymour himself then proceeded to Canton, and under-
.°°'t the direction of the operations. The British and other
traders were officially warned of the posture of affairs, and
iitndinercial transactions, which for a week before had been
Ifo more than nominal, were suspended. The river in front .1
riCanton, is rather broader than the Thames at London
dge but the depth of water does not exceed two fathoms,
While the narrow passage by which access is gained to it on the
e
eaxstern side of the Island of Whampoa, has a depth not
"'ding a fathom and a half. The city is externally guarded
Pearl
five forts, of which two are on the land side, and two on
earl River. These were attacked and taken by our country-
ttc.ciza
iori
n the 24th of October. An attempt was then made by
Seymour to terminate the difficulty without further
hostthltes, but the Chinese Governor would neither give
satisfaction, nor grant an interview to the British Commander.
Admiralt. • Seymour then determined to attack the
Yb itself. A wall, composed partly of sandstone and partly
fo,ricK, surrounds Canton ; it is about 30 feet high and 25
thick, and is mounted with cannon. Against this wall a
krritecw.as opened on the 27th of October, and by the 29th a
ePootricable breach had been opened through which the troops
Part
old. The Governor's palace, situate in the south western
a the new city, was gaiued, but appears not to have proved
oePosition worth holding, for the troops were withdrawn in the
• f-u.,„,Teagr with a loss of only three killed and 12 wounded. A
and
r attempt which was now made to negotiate proved vain,
hosu,,tt was then resolved to attack the old, inner, or Mantchou
ji't,',!'oll of the city, divided from the southern by a high massive
~..ofuttl: Wall, and containiug -the garrison of Canton. This part
• sh,, citY
a was bombarded on the 3rd awl 4th
th ree of Nov., and on
oth the Barracoudta destroyed twenty war junks.
.40:ther interval of reflection wasthen granted to the Chinese
ernor, but at the date of the last accounts from Canton
:enr_ieceliciihsaederrneaibicihee.d Hong Kong no signs of an accommodation
The Imperialist garrison of Canton. was in
RrY weakened state. The governor had raised the
a °f common soldiers from six to eight dollars a month..
~,:_we.ilen.foo, the capital of the adjoining province of ICwangs
invested by the insurgents, who, it was thou ebt
e
,
„left'. probably attack the Mantchou governor as soon as his
14'7, embarrassments became known. Our fleet of war ships
see
he Chinese seas is at this particular time large, as will bo
by the following list :
/ t„.
1•12.5. Calcutta AT HONG KONG.
84 ...Captain Hall.
Winchester
Coromandel
. 3 ...Lieutenant Nares.
Hercules
Minden
AT WHAMPOA.
• • Encounter
14 ... Captain O'Callaghan.
. Bittern ...... l2. —.Captain B ite.
. Sampson
Conlin
AT CANTON.
13arracouta
11, sa AT WOOSUNG.
4 'CI" ...
Hornet . 36 , Capt. Sir F W Nicolson
The 17.... Captain Forsyth.
s sloe Coning has lost eight of her guns, which her come
mender was compelled to throw overboard in a tempest in the
xor
onnin4o Channel. Admiral Seymour only arrived at Hong
g from his northern cruise ten days before the commission
tne outrage in which he is engaged in avenging.

LORD PALMERSTON AND TEE SOUTHAMPTON

ELECTION.

n
Andrews,
A curious circumstance has transpired in reference to Mr.
andrews, one of the Liberal candidates for the represents'
,°f Southampton. .We l'n a Governor of the Bank of
England, is, as oar u
readerse lare aware, the rival Liberal
candidate, and it appears that Mr. Weguelin boasts a very
lt() partisan in a Mr. William Lankester, an ironmonger of
Southampton, and chairman of his committee. Mr. Lankester
recently had the honour of an interview with no loss a personage
than Lord Palmerston, and the noble viscount, in the course
oi
alt ho the conversation that took place, expressed an opinion that
ugh Mr. Andrews was " a good sort of fellow, he was
' bath for a seat in the Rouse of Commons, either by education
tPosition." Mr. Lankester, big with importance at this
ank avowal of his lordship, hurried back to Southampton,
on the folliewing evening, at a meeting of Mr. Weguelin's
°lnPporters at the Royal Victoria Rooms, without even consult•
lug his brother committee men, communicated this somewhat
Startling intelligence. As may be supposed, it caused a great
cooar, many of Mr. Andrew's friends being present, and the
ftduct of Mr. Lankester, in retailing what to all intents and
Purposea was a confidential opinion,
was pretty freely animad-
, craned upon, not only by the supporters of Mr. Andrews, but
reu by his own party. On the following morning, the facts
ng come to the knowledge of Mr. Andrews, ho immediately
84,dressed a note to Lord Palmerston, who was at Broadlands.
lotting for an explanation. Three gentlemen waited upon his
i°irdship with the letter, but upon their arrival at Broadlands
was,found that the Premier was in London and would not
rotarti
71)PUntil late in the evening. Strange, however, as it may
eaY'r no notice was taken of Mr. Andrew's letter until
diaiturdaY morning, his lordship no doubt pondering over the
,14 11eturna he had got himself into. By post Lord Palmerston
e
til4lll Mr. Andrews with his reply, in which he admits using
Wrds imputed to him, " but that their publication by Mr.
4-4itrltlera ikeo
ster Was a gross violation of confidence, and that he had
e
_ to Mr. Lankester upon the subject." We leave our
re4d!rß tn--, gues what sort of a trimming Mr. Lankester
(rein his lordship. No one knows, or will know,
gentleman declares that " as it is a private communwcysii;
Telnuot disclose the contents of his lordship's note." D
Yraph.

Riketed ri5R LOAN.—The Ottoman Government has con-
covsa loan for 35,000,000 of piastres.
Were VIAL CHABGES.—Last year the colonial charges
Ueleieell,432, of which £14,776 was on account of St.
Tat it
in the .1"4.• DR. LIVINGSTONE —.A meeting is to be held
for the—gYPtian Hall, London, on Monday, sth January,
Af respectP+rrao
f
of offeri a tetionial of admittion d
"r• Livingston,ng the in intrepid explorer aoSouth
BULLION ROBBERY AND THE GREAT NORTH ERN
AI FRAUD CASEB.—Arrangements similar to those
ten eratWere made in the Palmer case, and which gave such
told satisfaction to the
, are to be adopted with respect
Great dust robbery cue and the trial of Redpath for the
sends Northern Railway frauds. An application has been
• Whose 137 Mr. Bodkin on the subject to Baron. Martin, by
are direction it is understood that the Grand Jury, who
Coutfsl meet at the next session of the Central Criminal
till tin" on the sth of January, will be adjourned on the 6th
Will e following Monday (the 12th of January), when they
reassemble for the consideration of those two important
taay tosi i.and the trials will take place on Tuesday. the 13th.
comf,lB acrrengement the numerous witnesses' will have the _
chr,,t °` being accommodated in one of the courts, and
i,"tesn ,-,",,empted from the serious inconvenience which . has
l'ent frequently and justly complained of, that of being
T:44.111g in the different lobbies of the courts.
4, o
the ONE MAN RULE IN ENGLAND.—A correspondent of
*as `to York Herald says :—lt is well known that England
Patnever before so ruled by one man as she is at this hour.
1%41,1176t0n rules by his "will" or his "caprice" as tho-
YouyY as did Cromwell, the great Protector. Thus, when
feetior,odies
to, find the Times asserting that "it (the foreign policy)
.
the national will—it represents the national
kleeg'',:„l must beg you will not believe anything of the
'lets of the
people of England may occasionally endorse the
gen the government, but it is false to say that the
haveral foreign policy of England is that of the people's
was Will, or that it represents the national feeling.
;28 the r
'eatr Pc' which sanctioned the murder of Poland, the
epri„-u,e°n of Hungary, the enthralment of Italy, one
1, -ging from the national will or one representing our
—atieo
to_s al feeling ? Never. The fact that the British people
ont to a system of secret government not tolerated by
,l
iatother nation on the face of the earth, must at once
e the assertion that her foreign policy is not a policy
tatiLbeot " will" or " caprice" of a midster,`end prove that it
be national either in will or feeling, because to the
People it is absolutely unknown.