The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-10 00:00:00

HANOVER.

The Cabinet is in a state bordering on despair. The
late resolutions of the German Diet had held out the pros-
pact of an inquiry, ex-officio, into the King's conduct. This
rendered it imperative for his Majesty to make a last effort
to come to an understanding with his subjects. Under
these circumstances he bethought himself of the " rump" of
what he had been pleased to call his Chamber." Upon mus-
tering them he found they amounted to the number of 26.
Upon calculation he found that he only wanted 11 more,
in order to constitute "a House." Tho writs were issued
accordingly. Every effort was made, every defeat was
dissembled, every humiliation was sustained, in order to
procure 11 more elections. Fortune appeared to smila
upon him ; he procured, not only eleven, but fourteen ;
three more than he actually wanted. Upon this glorious
result, Scheele is despatched post-haste to Frankfort,
to inform the Diet that, if they would but wait a little
longer, they would witness a most affecting scene; for this
time the King would be sure "to do the thing genteelly,
and astonish the natives."

In the meantime Leist is removed from the Cabinet.
Leist is a bit of a lawyer ; and your lawyers are sad stick-
lers for formalities. They will do very well in a court of
law, " to make the worse appear the better reason ;" but
they are not fit for executing any grand design. So he
was told begone about his business, and to have an eye
upon the King's interests in the Supreme Tribunal of
Celle, which had exhibited symptoms of a refractory
spirit.

Forty members upon the list; the majority of them
ready to rush into the Ministers' arms, and to ask for-
giveness for the trespasses of their late colleagues—the
prospect was charming indeed. There was but one cloud
one little speck in the horizon. 'What if the 29 should re.
appear, who had protested, who had applied, to the Diet,
and who had threatened to return as soon as the "rump'
should presume to proceed business in their absence ?
Truly, the 29 were considered to have resigned their places.
Still it would be an awkward thing to have them knocking
at the door, and demanding entrance. They must be in-
timidated. Five of them—though the German papers
have named only one—five of them were given to under-
stand that measures had been taken to exclude them
efficiently, or, if they should present themselves, to disable
them from disturbing the placid aerenity of a Chamber of
iixßvuottehse ;
says l 5 ehleecwtoirlls
come
-
the King's choice. Besides, there was one consolation.
One of the 29 had ratted—even the famous Dr. Lana.
He has actually consented to be elected by a minority. Of
taesctoinngstiatgucailniseyt
to represent the interests of the six electors, and the i nte-
rests of the King and country, and heaven knows what
ot
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proceedings. he
lad s
interests besides. Some suspect that he will come to kick
up a row, but in this they wrong him grievously ; he will
mast probably come to say some very fine thinge, but not
to do anything, unless it be to spoil everything. Still,
there was greet rejoicing on the name of Dr. Lang ap-
pearing on this list.
The eventful day was approaching. It dawned upon
this city; the sun of the 28th of May was to shed its
beams on a Chamber of full forty Deputies. Were they
in their places? Oh, no—they don't come; alas, they
won't come. On the first day there were present 33 ;
on the second, 35; on the third and fourth day, 36.
Ara.tters are mending ; we have no doubt that there w ill
be a house one of these days, but still there have been
fur ineffectual meetings ; at one of them a protest was
presented from one of the twenty-nine (Dr. S:emens)
against the exclusion of those who hod applied to the
Diet; and what is worse, even Dr. Lang (et tu, jili Brute!)
was not come. Old Scheele is going round, scratching
his head, " dear, dear, what can the matter be ?"
And this at a time, when, on the one hand, the people
are cautioned against the payment of illegal taxes by Three
Faculties of Law, whose deliberate opinions have just been
put forth in a Second Edition, the first having been most
inadequate to the demand ; while, on the other band, Aus-
tria is known to have declared to the Diet, that this state
of things is not to be connived at much longer.
A

_LEPPO, MAy D.—Business is completely
suspended here, in consequence of the dread of a rupture
between the Sultan and Ibrahim Pasha. More than
seventeen regiments of infantry and cavalry have already
arrived here, besides two parks of artillery, and more arc
expected. The troops are lodged in the mosques and
coffee-houses. Bread and corn, and almost every descrip-
tion of provisioris, have disappeared from our markets, and
great distress and apprehension are very generally felt
throughout the country. Soliman Pasha (the French
Colonel Seve) and Aebmet Meneklis are hero, and hold.
daily conferences with Ibrahim, who declares his deterim.
nation to abstain from every
act' of hostility, unless pro-
voked by the enemy.
The Geographical Society has awarded one of
the Gold Medals two of which constitute the Royal pre-
mium for the advancement of Geographical Science, to Mr.
Thomas Simpson, of the Hudson's Bay Company, whose
adventurous journeys in 1837 and 1835, beyond the farthest
point reached by Sir John Franklin, were lately described
pelq, of Frankfort, for his improvements in
in our Journal. The other medal was
given to D. r. Rup-
graphy.
A NOVEL SUPPER.-A man and woman of
very equivocal character were last week held to bail by the
Magistrates of Lambeth-street for being drunk and
orderly. It appeared that on Wednesday night last a
physical geo.
fits-
raffle took place at a public-house in Past Smithfield, for
a bullock's head of more than ordinary size, and the vvinner
of the prize, it seemed, had made up his mind to give his
friends a sumptuous treat. With this object in view, he
procured half a hundred weight of potatoes, and having sent
them with the bullock's head to a neighbouring baker's, in.
vited nearly twenty common prostittees to be of the party
,to enjoy the sumptuous feast. The immense pan contain.
ing the baked head and the potatoes was borne on the
shoulders of four
men, and guarded by four others, with
large broom sticks in their hands, with adrummer and
fifer in front,
playing " The roast beef of Old England"
as they marched along. The prisoners were among.the
guests, and, on the principle, it was supposed, that good
eating deserving good drinking, imbibed more than they
ought, and this led to the present charge.

AVERY'S ROTATORY STEAM-

ENGINE.

(From the Scotsman.)
The wonderful simplicity of this engine led us to feel
an interest in it from the first ; and those made upon
its plan, with various improvements, by Mr. Ruthven,
of this city, have been noticed more than once in our
columns. Our last notice was about a year ago. Mr
Rutliven had one then working (and has it still) in
his workshop, turning several lathes, moving a tilt-
hammer and planing-machine, driving a grind-stone,
&c. Like many others we were extremely incredulous
as to the power of the machine when its structure was
first explained to us. Our incredulity was removed in
part when we saw it in operation in his shop. We
were then satisfied that it was capable of doing a cer-
tain amount of work, but the task it was put to was
not of that precise and definite kind to convince us that
it could bo profitable in any circumstances. On Sa-
turday week, we had the pleasure of seeing it at work
in this neighbourhood, on the farm of Mr. Allan, at
Pilton, and in a manner fairly calculated to test its
powers.
The engine is one of six horse power, according 0
the usual method of computation. The radius of the
revolving arm is two feet ; the length of the two arms,
of course, four feet ; and they make fully 3,000 revolu-
tions in a minute. The cast-iron box in which they
revolve is five feet in diameter, and about six inches
wide externally ; and this box, with the two revolving
arms within it, actually constitutes the whole machine,
except the boiler, and the pump which supplies the
boiler with wafer. The engine has neither beam,
piston, parallel-motion, apparatus, crank, nor valve. It
could be put with ease into a parlour book-case ! The
boiler is a cylinder, two feet in diameter, and ten feet
long. There are two small cylinders of twelve inches
diameter connected with it, filled with water, but no steam
is formed in them. Their use is to economise fuel. They
may be considered as enlarged portions of the pipe
which conveys water to the boiler, passed through the
lower and horizontal part pf the flue, that the waste
heat of the fire may be profitably employed in warming
the water before it gets into the boiler. A polished
iron cylinder, nine inches long and five in diameter, is
attached to the axis of the revolving arms ; and a
broad leather belt passing from it to a wheel, four feet
in diameter, conveys the motion to the thrashing-mill.
The motion of the arms, which constitutes the moving
power, is produced by the reaction of steam, rushing
from apertures about a quarter of an inch wide, in the
opposite sides of the arms, at their outer extremities.
The engine is worked with a pressure of four or five
atmospheres. Its price, including boiler and pump,
with the belt and wheel for communicating motion to
the thrashing-mill, is about 1201. We are thus parti-
cular, because many will have forgot, and some will
not have seen, the details we formerly gave.
We saw the fire lighted, the motion commence, and
the operation of thrashing and winnowing proceed for a
considerable time. The engine has been two months in
Mr. Allan's possession. He has been using it every
week, and has already thrashed upwards of 200 bolls
of grain with it. It has given him complete satisfaction ;
and the following is his account of its performance :
" Mr. Ruthven's engine thrashes from S to 10 bolls
(4 to 5 qrs. ) of grain per hour. with a consumption of less
than a hundred weight of coals. It is, besides, easily kept
and m maged, and there is a great saving of grease. In
addition to the thrashing-mill, it drives two sets of extra
fanners, a humbling-machine, and two sets of elevators."
Mr. Allan informed us that it required five horses to
work the same thrashing machine, before he procured
Mr. Ruthven's engine ; and neither the extra fanners,
elevators, nor humbling-machine were then attached to
it. With this addition, he reckons that the engine (of
six computed horse power) does the work of seven or
eight horses. With the apparatus in its present
state, he is able, not only to thrash, but to winnow,
clean, and send off to market, 50 bolls of grain in six
hours, with a great saving of manual labour. We may
add, for the information of persons at a distance, that
Mr. Allen is one of the most extensive and intelligent
farmers in the country.
Professor Low, with Mr. Finnic of S sanston, an
agriculturist of known ability, tested the performance
of the engine some weeks ago, in the most careful man-
ner. They brought an experienced person with them
to feed the thrashing-machine, witnessed all the parts of
the operation, and had the coals weighed at the begin-
ning, and the grain measured at the termination of an
hour's work. It would be improper in us to anticipate
their observations, which will no doubt be published in
due time ; but we believe we may safely say, that they
will confirm, in all respects, the account of the engine's
performance we have given on Mr. Allan's authority.
Books on the steam-engine of the common construc-
tion tell us how many pounds it will lift one foot high,
with a certain quantity of coals. But results in this
form are incapable of being brought into comparison
with those which we have given. We must, therefore,
leave it to farmers who use Watt's engines to say, whet
ther 4} quarters of grain, thrashed and cleaned in one
hour, by an engine costing one hundred and twenty
pounds, with a consumption of 1001bs. of coals, is, or
is not, good work. The performance, we humbly think,
is at all events sufficient to prove, that the principle on
which the engine is constructed is not a fallacy, as
some of our men of science have rashly asserted.
For some purposes it will, no doubt, be inferior to the
piston engine, but for others, there is no improbability
in supposing that it may be found decidedly superiors
We think, for instance, that if applied to locomotive.
or steam-boat., its direct method of producing a rota-
tory motion promises to economise power to some ex-
tent, and to produce a great diminution in the chances
of breakage, to say nothing of the saving in first cost
which would probably be two-thirds. The thing is a
least worthy of a trial.