The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-21 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.

The Hon. F. H. F. Berkeley, M.P., Director of the Eastern Steam
Navigation Company.
A. D Bottomiey, Esq., 62, Gracechnrch-street.
Robert Ford, Esq., shipowner, Brooklands, Battersea.
W. V. L. Foster, Esq., Director of the Melbourne Dock and Railway
Company,
J. G. B. LawrelL Esq., Gloster-place, Portman-square.
Richard A. Robinson, Esq., 53, St. George's-road, Eccleston-square.
John Yates, Esq., 13, Gresham-street.
(With power to add to their number.)
BANRERS—Messrs. Currie and Co., Comhill.
SOLICITOR—F. P. Chappell, Esq., Golden-square.
STOCKBRORIR—F. A. Helps, Esq., 21, Finch-lane, Comhiß,
SEcitrrAny—George Angus, Esq.
Office, 22, Moorgate-street.

This Company has been formed for the purpose of Manufacturing
and Supplying Steam Fuel of the best quality and upon tile most
economical terms.
The advantage of steam fttel over coal are :-
1. Freedom from spontaneous combustion.
2. Economy of space in stowage.
3. Less waste, either by friction or decomposition.
4. Saving in the wear of boilers and fire bars.
None of the existing Steam Fuel Companies possess the advantage
of being entirely supplied from their own collieries with coal specially
adapted for the manufacture of the fuel.
It has hitherto been the practice to manufacture the small coal
or refuse only into steam fuel, and the heavy royalties paid to the
patentees. and the expensive machinery employed, have left a com-
paratively small sum available for the purchase of even small coal of
the requisite quality, without a material reduction in the profits.
With a view to meet these objections, this Company has secured,
upon advantageous terms, the right of using an economical patent
process, and the patentee has entered into an agreement that the cost
of the fuel, tree on board (Inclusivebf the cost and transit of the coal)
shall not exceed Ss. 9d. per ton. The present price of the fuel at
Swansea is 145.: thus leaving a nett profit of ss. 3d. per ton to the
Company.
The patentee has engaged that the first works, capable of produc-
.

Mg 100 tons a day, shall be completed within four months from their

commencement. The works will be enlarged with the increasing de-
mand for the fuel. As the enlargement of the works will not cause
any addition to the expenses of management and other fixed charges,
it is fair to presume that this will result in a considerable augmenta-

tion of the divisible profits.
The Company has also secured the lease of a valuable colliery of
500 acres in extent, with an unexpired term of 94 years, and subject
to a royalty of 6d. per ton. There are five seams of bituminous and
free burning coal, agregiting about 20 feet in thickness ; one seam
has been already opened by level. The coal field is situated 300
yards from the Port Tennant Canal, which communicates with Brit-
ton Ferry, the shipping port of Neath, and the eastern side of wan-
sea harbour. These two ports nearly approximate the lines of the
South Wales and Vale of Neath Railways. The coal on this property
is peculiarly adapted, from its purity and strength, to the purpose
for which it is intended; and it cin be easily won and worked as
may be seen by reference to the geological map of the district, and
the reports of two engineers and colliery viewers.
Considering the very large quantity of coal which the colliery is
capable of supplying beyond that which is requisite for the manufac-
ture of the patent fuel, the surplus can be sold for steam, manufac-
turing, or household purposes ; and from this source alone a large re-
venue will arise to the Company. Two levels can be opened in six
weeks ; and the coal can be sold in any quantity and at a very remu-
nerative price, in Swansea and the contiguous markets.
The Patent Fuel has been subjected to frequent trials, of which
the most recent was made in the course of the month of June last,
in the Wave Queen Steamer, and the very favourable result is
detailed in the annexed reports by Messrs. Dickson and Graves.
The long experience which each of them has had in the testing of
various kinds of steam fuel, and the careful manner in which the
trial was made, impress a peculiar value upon the unanimity of their
opinion.
The characteristics of this fuel are--its being well condensed and
carbonised; its showing a clean fracture when broken, and being free
from slag or other impure matter. It rapidly generates heat, brings
out a clear fire under the boilers (which Mr. Graves designates as
"brilliant"), with little smoke, cinder or clinker, and can be easily
stoked. The economic value over coal consists in the fuel being free
from decomposition and waste during a long voyage ; whilst it effects
a saving equal to thirty-five per cent. in stow4e.

REPORTS.
Mr. J. DICKSON, Mechanical Engineer at the Millwall Iron Works,
(late Engineer to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company).
Atiliwall Iron Works, London, June 16, 1853

Gentlemen,—ln reply to your application for the result of the
Patent Fuel you sent to the Millwall Iron works, I have tried it for
four days, against four days of West Hartley, one day of Patent Fuel
and one day r•f W. H. alternate, and made each evaporate the same
quantity of water, and the result is as follows :—Patent Fuel,
1.58815. ; West Thirties., 1,7921 b. I have trb>clit twice on board the
Wave Queh steamer, and it gave me every satisfaction for steam
and nu appearance of choking the tubes. I have used some hundreds
of tons of fuel on board steam-ships, but yours is superior to any I
have used.

I remain, yours truly,

J. DicasoN.

Mr. JOHN GRAVES, Acting Captain to the Wave Qneen steamer.

June 11, 1853.

Gentlemen,—ln reply to your note, requesting me to give you a
report of your Fuel tried on board the Wave Queen, I have much
pleasure to forward you the following.

Having had five years' experience in the consuming and manage-
ment of Steam Fuel, I can with great safety state the fuel used on
board the Wave Queen on her trial trip is certainly the best that has
come under my notice. _ .

First. Your-blocks are much larger than any I have seen, each
weighing 211 b.: the other company's fuel weigh but 161 b. If your
blocks could be made to weigh 601 b. you would have still greater ad-
vantage. as each man would carry and break his 601 b. block as easy
as the 211 b.

Secondly. I our fuel is much harder than any I have seen, that
being a great advantage for long voyages in sailing ships, as most
fuel is found to be wasted from ten to twenty per cent, by the heat
of the ship's hold. I have known sixty tons to be shipped for the
West Indies ; when it was unshipped, the slack weighed six ton•.
Your fuel might, with safety be shipped to any part of the world.
I feel convinced it will not soften. I placed a portion of the fuel
under the ashpits : it remained there one hour ; and I found on in-
spection it was as hard as when I placed it there.
Thirdly. The Wave Queen steamed fourteen miles and a half per
hour on her trial trip, having plenty of steam blowing off; her fires
were brilli+nt ; the fuel when thrown into the furnace swelled out
to, I may say, twice the size it was when put on. I can say nothing
about ashes, as I left the vessel before they were cleared out.

(Signed) JOHN GRAVES.
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DR. SAMUEL
.)octor of Medicine, MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF
1,2:017TH AND MATURITY.
sort etY. Licentiateag
Edinburgh,
11/Milted
ERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
rand Matriculated Member of the University of
rtme°.disorde
Member of the London Hospital Medical
1-tl-IYe vbearioCu°,
resulting from juvenile irregularities ofa the
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &C.
, personally, or by letter, on
nervous and generative system,
in youth, degradation
lure decay at all stages of life, and excesses, which have pro-
, than
in manhood, and prema-
ture more misery
perhaps any other class of dis-
eases iill(1331 to modern pathologists, Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has has.prrved that there are in exist-
pernithe)ases and disappointed hopes in
Constitutional habits, to which Nervous
mice secret onuses of self-acquired
and Unfruitful Marri-
ages,eakness, and their
existence, traceable to certain
know that there are
Dehlll7m, cariousrtenc
Impotency,
, formsoEdo f
alnuis Insanity,
endless eisss
absolutelym odlfieti modifications
aerythtehi almostratjel
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a entire.homodriv,.
principles of personal management which cannot be violated without
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and egret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, howthese penalties
may be mitigated, bow the sting of their bitterness may be removed,
and how the evil and its comequenc es may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure
DOCTOR LA'MEIIT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate corn_
plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless
of the taunts and envy of thehypocritical and mock-modest, has had
the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct
attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society 18
free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply
rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the
treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the
care of unqualified and ignorant empirles, who, with their pirated
publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues
of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who
Inv° been induced to place faith in their pretensions.
At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from
six till Eight. All letters must contain the fee of 1/., and advice and
medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address.
It is desirable that patients wishing to consult D. LA
'AIERT
should first obtain a copy of his work on
SELF-PRESERVATION.
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty-coloured engravings, and des-
cribing
in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
txcesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
ieseription of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper
brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street;
Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Stolle, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free
by post for forty-two stamps, to any address Prom the A.uthor'o red.
4 euse,7o. Exproav-eqvala LOi ox.

GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY 'DI
CANADA.—Notice is Hereby Given, That the Directors have
made a CALL of 2/. 10s. on each and every share of the A series of
the company, and a CALL of 10 per cent. on each class of the De-
llotures of the company, payable at the Bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mills,
and Co., Lombard-street, London.
The said Calls are due on Monday, the 6th February, 1854. If not
paid on or before that date, interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per
annum will be charged on those in arrear.

Shareholders have the power of paying up the whole or a portion
of their shares in full, and interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per an-
num will be allowed on all sums paid in anticipation of Calls.
The Directors further give notice, that by a recent Order in Council
to the Government of Canada, the Debentures of the Province will
be issued in January next to those shareholders who shall pay to
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co 5/. per share (that is, 2/. 10s. per share
in addition to the Call now advertised) on each o: their shares, and
in full on the Debentures of the Province to which such shares are
entitled.

By order of the Board. •
2, Leadenhall-street, London,llL
VDecLI3A,IIIIBCS3I!APMAN, Secretary.

CONTRACT FOR WELSH COALS FOR THE COAST OF AFRICA.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 20th Jan., 1854.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 7th February next, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with such persons as may be willing to contract for supplying and
delivering into Store, at the undermentioned places, the following
quantities of

SOUTII WALES COALS,
fit for the service of her Majesty's steam-vessels :
Sierra Leone, .... 2,001 tons.
Fernando Po ....... • • .... 500 „
St. Paul de Loando 1,500 „
Ascension • • • • • 1,000
A Form of the Tender may bR seen at the said Office. No Tender
will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will
any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly
authorised in writing.

Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Coals,"
and must also be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by
a Letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound
with the person tendering, in the sum of 4,0001. for the due perform-
ance of the Contrict.

"BETTER LATE TIT kN NEVER."

LEWIS'S ALTERATIVE PILLS will be found
on trial, after every other means has failed, to cure the most

inveterate cases of Bilious disorder, indigestion, and every derange-
ment of the liver, Stomach, Kidneys, or Secretory system. They
are entirely vegetable, and, while removing obstructions, purify the
hood, clear, the complexion, relieve the chest of phlegm, strengthen
the nerves, and restore tone to the whole system Prepared and
sold by BINGSTON, 11 CUSH, and Co., lA, Old Bond-street, price
Is. 1 16d., 2s. 9c1., 4s. 6d., Sec , retail by all medicine vendors. Sent
by post on receipt of postage stamps.

THE HIGH PRICE of COALS and PRO-
VISIONS.
Memorable winter this—excessively cold—extraordinarily wet and
damp—high prices charted far everything but the CLOTHING ma-
nufactured by E. MOSES and SON.
Coals are "Black Diamonds" now, as far as price is concerned,
and the law of corn is " higher and higher." Under these circum-
stances, Economy is a desideratum—a good set-off against the high
price of coals and provisions is superior Clothing at a very low price.
It is as impossible to dispense with Attire as with coals and pro-
visions ; but it is a great advantage when the very best Dress can be
had for a very small sum.
The high prices charged for coals and provisions directly or indi-
rectly affect all classes; and it is right they should apply the only
remedy at present within their reach. For every class the principle
of cheapness and superior quality is applied by E. MosEs and Sort,
and the perfections of Art are associated with a completeness of
Experience and Skill.
The Bespoke Department is available for every one, inasmuch as
the most distinguished talent, British and Foreign, and the most ac-
complished workmanship, are associated with the most moderate
charges which can be made.
E. Moms and SON offer advantages in the Hat, Cap, Hosiery, Shirt,
and Boot and Shoe Departments, which cannot be obtained at any
other house.
Their immense Wholesale Branch secures to Merchants, Captains,
Shippers, and Emigrants a selection from the Best, most Suitable,
and the Largest Stock in the World.
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
falsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for
obvious reasons, they beg to state that they have
No CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OPT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establishment, 154, 155. 156, and 157, Minories, 83,
44,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating,
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36. Fargate.
Colonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia.
Merchant Tailor Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price, from which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset
on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain-
ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c.,
may be MAI on application, or post-free.
A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had, gratis
on application.
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Slier suricht man Deatach•

Qui si parla Italiano.
Aqua se habla Espano

RAILWAY DEPOSlTS.—Yesterday a sale of articles,
which it is likely were not contemplated among their
profits by railway speculators, took place by auction, by
order of the directors of the Great Northern Railway
Company. They consisted of a miscellaneous collection
of property, which had been left by passengers in rail-
way trains, and comprised trinkets, carpet bags, um-
brellas, parasols, sticks, shawls, furs, books, &c. There
were above 100 walking-sticks, above 20 silver-mounted
whips, 83 parasols, 161 umbrellas, 38 shawls, 380
gloves, &c. There were altogether 153 lots.
INTENSE FROST.—The Forces Gazette says that the
frost was so intense in Elgin during some days of last
week that all liquors, even in bedrooms, were frozen.
Several merchants had also to use candles in their shops,
in consequence of the gas meters being frozen up.